Re: [xubuntu-users] Just to say THANK YOU to all for the help

2024-09-08 Thread Alex Johns
On 9/9/24 05:45, Chris Green wrote: On Sun, Sep 08, 2024 at 09:39:05AM -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 6:02 PM Steven Mainor wrote: I have to agree. I no longer use ubuntu because of snap. I personally left the windows/mac ecosystems behind decades ago in order to get away from

Re: [xubuntu-users] Just to say THANK YOU to all for the help

2024-09-08 Thread Alex Johns
stro da kiwi On Sun, 8 Sept 2024, 17:13 Alex Johns, wrote: On 9/8/24 20:19, Joao Monteiro wrote: I think it's getting to everybody, to one degree or another... I went through many distros before settling for xubuntu when I moved away from windows many moons ago... and al

Re: [xubuntu-users] Just to say THANK YOU to all for the help

2024-09-08 Thread Alex Johns
I too will be moving away 😪 On Sun, 8 Sept 2024, 01:01 Alex Johns, wrote: On 9/8/24 10:14, Eddie wrote: I have appreciated this mail list and its members but the SNAPPING finally got to me and I have migrated to Debian 12.7. My best to all of you!! Eddie As it has to

Re: [xubuntu-users] Just to say THANK YOU to all for the help

2024-09-07 Thread Alex Johns
On 9/8/24 10:14, Eddie wrote: I have appreciated this mail list and its members but the SNAPPING finally got to me and I have migrated to Debian 12.7. My best to all of you!! Eddie As it has to a lot of us Cheers  da kiwi -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: [xubuntu-users] Any problems upgrading from 22.04 to 24.04.1?

2024-09-03 Thread Alex Johns
On 9/4/24 09:48, Jeffery Small wrote: Victor Forberger writes: The switch to mostly snaps could be smoother This raises a big issue. I want to avoid snap packages. Is there a way to ensure that this will be the case and force the use of deb packages? Is there a list of packages that are bei

Re: [xubuntu-users] No display on boot-up

2024-06-17 Thread Alex Johns
On 6/17/24 20:21, David Wright wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 at 08:42, Alex Johns wrote: Can I suggest then that you try editing the line I suggested and removing quiet splash and adding nomodset noacpi  in the past that has solved many boot issues for me  good luck cheers Chris Hi Chris

Re: [xubuntu-users] No display on boot-up

2024-06-17 Thread Alex Johns
On 6/17/24 18:23, David Wright wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 at 19:28, Alex Johns wrote: On 6/16/24 03:15, David Wright wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 at 02:12, Phil wrote: On 6/14/24 22:00, David Wright wrote: > Hi all > > On Saturday 8th June,

Re: [xubuntu-users] No display on boot-up

2024-06-15 Thread Alex Johns
On 6/16/24 03:15, David Wright wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 at 02:12, Phil wrote: On 6/14/24 22:00, David Wright wrote: > Hi all > > On Saturday 8th June, I booted up my PC and it was fine for the couple > of hours of use. > > Next boot-up on Monday 10th June, th

Re: [xubuntu-users] Login fails on Xubuntu 24.04 VirtualBox VM

2024-06-06 Thread Alex Johns
On 6/7/24 14:16, MR ZenWiz wrote: I tried installing xubuntu 24.04 in a virtualbox VM, and it installed fine. However, after installation, I cannot login. I enter my password, it accepts this, starts to bring up the main window, and drops back to the login screen. It never gets logged in for rea

Re: [xubuntu-users] Software & Updates > Download > Other > Select Best Server

2023-12-22 Thread Alex Johns
On 23/12/23 05:25, Charles M wrote: Software & Updates lets you specify a particular server to pull from if you choose: Software & Updates > Download > Other We are in Southern Ontario, Canada, one city away from Waterloo, Ontario. By default, Xubuntu shows "Server for Canada" in this field. W

Re: [xubuntu-users] Partition problem!

2023-11-24 Thread Alex Johns
On 25/11/23 10:03, Gérald Jean wrote: Hello everyone, I am stuck in some sort of a mess! I mostly run Xubuntu 22.04, it's in dual boot with Debian 10. Both are installed on the same SSD, 250 GB. It ran well for a few years, before 22.04, I had 20.04.  But about a month ago Xubuntu wouldn

Re: [xubuntu-users] unable to install grub

2023-02-01 Thread Alex Johns
On 2/02/23 08:29, Clarence Fender wrote: Yes, this is an install from a USB. If it's supposed to install GRUB by itself, it's doing a very poor job :)   I have a 500M EFI partition. It fails. sda   - all primary partitions 1M (appears by itself, no format) 500M  EFI 50G  ext4  / 16M swap remai

Re: [xubuntu-users] file system window read-only

2022-11-05 Thread Alex Johns
On 6/11/22 07:43, Alessandro Lin wrote: Hallo, I have a problem with read-only filesystem. I describe neatly: I installed XUBUNTU 22 on a new desktop. Windows 10 already pre-installed. Before: I created a partition for xubuntu. I turned off Windows 10 quick start I disabled Bitlocker and d

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 20.04 Install Issue

2022-09-20 Thread Alex Johns
On 21/09/22 10:51, Dick Steffens wrote: On 9/20/22 15:49, Alex Johns wrote: On 21/09/22 05:17, Dick Steffens wrote: I am trying to install Xubuntu 20.04 on a Lenovo Ideapad 330. The base install worked fine. It asked me if I wanted to install updates. I said yes. It proceeded to do that for a

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu 20.04 Install Issue

2022-09-20 Thread Alex Johns
On 21/09/22 05:17, Dick Steffens wrote: I am trying to install Xubuntu 20.04 on a Lenovo Ideapad 330. The base install worked fine. It asked me if I wanted to install updates. I said yes. It proceeded to do that for a lot of minutes (I was reading news on another computer, so I don't know exact

Re: [xubuntu-users] gimp-helping "not available" ...in Firefox 104.0.1

2022-09-05 Thread Alex Johns
On 5/09/22 22:07, Hans Schneidhofer wrote: Hi, I think my next distribution for all my work will be even debian. Because there are no needs for snap or flatpak. My other PC with debian 11 works now for years with soundstudio - without aany problems. I think I will also convert my current an

Re: [xubuntu-users] Please help

2022-06-20 Thread Alex Johns
Try Ubuntu Mate 22.04 Have had trouble with an early Toshiba. but Mate sorted it -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users

Re: [xubuntu-users] Please help

2022-06-19 Thread Alex Johns
On 20/06/22 05:20, Donny Turang wrote: hi, can anyone help? I have many times installed xubuntu 20.04 LTS on acer aspire 4750 laptop. What happens is that it boots very slowly. Likewise for shutdown. In addition, the wifi on the laptop cannot be connected. This is my brief explanation. Hopefull

Re: [xubuntu-users] Cursor frozen after switch to console and back

2022-04-30 Thread Alex Johns
On 1/05/22 09:05, Chris Green wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 08:16:25AM +1200, Alex Johns wrote: On 1/05/22 04:08, Chris Green wrote: If I switch to a console login by using CTRL+ALT+Fn (where n is 1 to 6) and then return to the GUI with CTRL+ALT+F7 my cursor is frozen, I can no longer

Re: [xubuntu-users] Cursor frozen after switch to console and back

2022-04-30 Thread Alex Johns
On 1/05/22 04:08, Chris Green wrote: If I switch to a console login by using CTRL+ALT+Fn (where n is 1 to 6) and then return to the GUI with CTRL+ALT+F7 my cursor is frozen, I can no longer move it. This is on a Lenovo T470 running xubuntu 21.10. I've not noticed this problem before but it's no

Re: [xubuntu-users] Webcam w/Cheese problems;

2022-04-29 Thread Alex Johns
On 30/04/22 02:13, Ted Pomeroy wrote: Xubuntu friends, It seems that the Preview in Cheese is indeed black and white and striated, but photos taken are in color and clear. Also camera with web conferencing is clear and accurate. So, I can wait for resolution of this issue and will also keep tra

Re: [xubuntu-users] Ubuntu 20.04 and Firefox 90.0.2

2021-08-12 Thread Alex Johns
On 13/08/21 8:09 am, Hund wrote: On August 12, 2021 9:22:27 PM GMT+02:00, Alex Johns wrote: So use palemoon a geko based browser with very good security There is a deb package put up by Steve Purser. da kiwi That's another web browser I cannot recommend. The persons behind it are r

Re: [xubuntu-users] Ubuntu 20.04 and Firefox 90.0.2

2021-08-12 Thread Alex Johns
On 13/08/21 3:33 am, Hund wrote: On August 12, 2021 4:16:31 PM GMT+02:00, Kaj Haulrich wrote: So what? - Chrome is made by Google, Edge by Microsoft and Firefox by Mozilla. Choose the one that works best. Kaj Haulrich. Gab are "free speech extremists", but perhaps you're okay supporting some

Re: [xubuntu-users] Ubuntu 20.04 and Firefox 90.0.2

2021-08-12 Thread Alex Johns
On 12/08/21 10:09 pm, Hund wrote: On August 11, 2021 9:25:48 PM GMT+02:00, Karel P Coors wrote: That sounds like a great tip. Downloaded Dissenter Browser and enjoying it Cheers Are you aware of the fact that the Dissenter Browser is made by Gab? -- Hund Which means what exactly? da kiwi

Re: [xubuntu-users] Error in .xsession-errors after upgrade to 21.04 - due to Wayland?

2021-05-15 Thread Alex Johns
On 16/05/21 8:19 am, Chris Green wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 06:36:27AM +1200, Alex Johns wrote: On 15/05/21 11:07 pm, Chris Green wrote: I'm seeing the following errors in .xsession-errors on my recently upgraded to 21.04 xubuntu system:- dbus-update-activation-environment: se

Re: [xubuntu-users] Error in .xsession-errors after upgrade to 21.04 - due to Wayland?

2021-05-15 Thread Alex Johns
On 15/05/21 11:07 pm, Chris Green wrote: I'm seeing the following errors in .xsession-errors on my recently upgraded to 21.04 xubuntu system:- dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus dbus-update-activation-environment: setting

Re: [xubuntu-users] How to undo 21.04's reverse video for pasted text?

2021-05-14 Thread Alex Johns
On 15/05/21 8:54 am, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 07:45:44AM +1200, Alex Johns wrote: On 15/05/21 4:38 am, Chris Green wrote: I have just upgraded my laptop from 20.10 to 21.04 and pasted text now appears in reverse video in my terminal windows, how do I undo this unwanted change

Re: [xubuntu-users] When will 21.04 get out of development?

2021-05-04 Thread Alex Johns
On 5/05/21 8:01 am, Clarence Fender wrote: I read there was a problem serious enough to hold things back. I'm content to wait. ymmv On 5/4/21 3:58 PM, Chris Green wrote: Version 21.04 has been released for just about two weeks now but I'm still getting "No new release found." when I try do-r

Re: [xubuntu-users] MFP aus hplip installieren

2020-12-10 Thread Alex Johns
On 11/12/20 2:29 am, Dr. Heiko Pollmeier wrote: I have the Problem to install the appropriate printer driver for my hp laserjet MFPrinter M28a in xubuntu 20.04 Printing works out of the box, but no scanning ist possible. I tried several version of hplip 3.20 and hplip 3.19. They all told me tha

Re: [xubuntu-users] VLC 3.0.9.2 and .mkv-Files

2020-10-04 Thread Alex Johns
On 5/10/20 8:31 am, Hans Schneidhofer wrote: hi list, I can hear the tone (music) but can NOT see the Video. How can I see the pictures i.e the Video ? Do I have to make some settings in VLC, so I can see the pictures ? My installed linux is : Linux 5.4.0-48-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10

Re: [xubuntu-users] Problem dialog on every start?

2020-04-30 Thread Alex Johns
On 30/04/20 4:53 pm, Michael Höhne wrote: Hello Uninstalling "apport" will end these Messages. The Job of "apport" is to send a message to the Ubuntu-developers if a system-error occurs. Often there are errors which cause no _real_problems_ but "apport" tries to send a message every time. Unin

Re: [xubuntu-users] Problem dialog on every start?

2020-04-29 Thread Alex Johns
On 30/04/20 1:21 pm, Alex Johns wrote: On 30/04/20 12:31 pm, Knute Johnson wrote: I get a dialog on every start.  It says "System program problem detected - Do you want to report the problem now?"  It doesn't do anything else if I click Cancel or Report problem...  This is a

Re: [xubuntu-users] Problem dialog on every start?

2020-04-29 Thread Alex Johns
On 30/04/20 12:31 pm, Knute Johnson wrote: I get a dialog on every start.  It says "System program problem detected - Do you want to report the problem now?"  It doesn't do anything else if I click Cancel or Report problem...  This is a new install of Xubuntu 19.10.  I've seen this before.  I h