Re: [xubuntu-users] Scroll bar behavior?

2016-11-19 Thread Lee Gold
In my opinion the complication that (is it GTK3 or Xfce that's doing it ?) with the scrolling in new versions of Xubuntu is nuts. There's also the scheme they do now were they hide the scroll bar till you mouse over it - I turn that off whenever I can. So try RIGHT clicking in the scrollbar space

[xubuntu-users] Stop Panel Menus from Scrolling

2016-11-14 Thread Lee Gold
hi using 16.04 If i hit the Network Manager in the panel it only shows a part of the "dropup" menu and I have to hit an arrow at the top to see the rest. I want it show all...everything, no scrolling, all the info . How to I do this for all panel menus? Thanks -- http://www.fastmail.com - Acce

Re: [xubuntu-users] Search for files and Folders on a Mounted USB devive?

2016-11-11 Thread Lee Gold
Thanks, I was interested in searching for a particular file. There's no problem mounting, that works OK. I've since realized that Catfish can do what I want. On Fri, Nov 11, 2016, at 11:48 AM, fred roller wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Lee Gold wrote: > > > H

[xubuntu-users] Search for files and Folders on a Mounted USB devive?

2016-11-11 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, using 14.04 and 16.04. How to I search for files and /or folders on a USB device like a flash drive or a USB connected and mounted Android phone? Googled it but cannot find a definitive answer. Thanks -- http://www.fastmail.com - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- xubuntu-user

[xubuntu-users] Why is Changing Desktop Background So Difficult?

2016-11-04 Thread Lee Gold
Using 14.04. Why are all image choices grayed out? Why are "they" making this "rocket science" when it should be stone cold simple??? Why the unnecessary complication? -- http://www.fastmail.com - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.

[xubuntu-users] Disable Images on Desktop Icons

2016-10-22 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, Using 16.04. If I have for example a .png file on my desktop the icon will be a thumbnail of the actual image. What I want is to have just a generic icon that's the same for all image files. So I know from looking at it it's an image, but I do not want a thumbnail of that particular image fi

Re: [xubuntu-users] Switching from Xubuntu

2016-09-19 Thread Lee Gold
the > delete option. > > Yes, I saw your later post about having found the "deleted" item - good. > > On September 18, 2016 10:13:52 PM EDT, Lee Gold > wrote: > >Hi, > > > >As the title indicates. There's just too many things happening to Xfce &

Re: [xubuntu-users] Switching from Xubuntu

2016-09-18 Thread Lee Gold
Ignore me. Somehow I dragged my main Win7 profile to another folder while browsing my dual boot Win7 from Xubuntu, which I found eventually. I thought I had deleted it somehow. There's still nothing better then Xubuntu... On Sun, Sep 18, 2016, at 07:13 PM, Lee Gold wrote: > Hi, >

[xubuntu-users] Switching from Xubuntu

2016-09-18 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, As the title indicates. There's just too many things happening to Xfce that I don't like. One being the delete option in the drop down menu. Who decided to make that appear by default? I just deleted valuable information. It's too tricky for me. -- http://www.fastmail.com - Faster than the

Re: [xubuntu-users] Three icons for same USB device

2016-09-18 Thread Lee Gold
No, just one as I said in my previous post. On Sun, Sep 18, 2016, at 10:54 AM, wcj9...@frontier.com wrote: > Lee: > > Are there three partitions on the SD chip? > > walt > > On 09/17/2016 07:48 PM, Lee Gold wrote: > > using 16.04 > > > > i have a

[xubuntu-users] Three icons for same USB device

2016-09-17 Thread Lee Gold
using 16.04 i have a usb device, it's a camera SD type card plugged into a card reading usb device. One partition and one SD "chip" but three identical icons for it appear on the desktop. Otherwise it seems to work OK. If I unmount via any one icon they all dissappear/unmount. Wondered if there's

[xubuntu-users] Wish for a way to Turn Off Scroll Bar Warp

2016-09-01 Thread Lee Gold
Everything I try after Googling it does not work. In Synaptics package manager for example I can not turn off scrollbar warp. I can't stand it! Major usability issue for me. Would be nice if there was a check box for it. How the heck do I turn it off and scroll one page at a time? Thanks, 16.04

[xubuntu-users] Wifi Problems

2016-08-01 Thread Lee Gold
Using 16.04 I thought restarting NM was the fix, but the wifi connectivity is still acting up. I'm going back to 14.04, I need it to "just work". I think the problem is on the firmware level, just a hunch... -- http://www.fastmail.com - Send your email first class -- xubuntu-users mailing li

[xubuntu-users] Solved: Re: Correction to Title: Xubuntu 16.04 WiFi Not Working

2016-07-26 Thread Lee Gold
$ service NetworkManager restart fixes it. It's a know bug, being worked on. - - - - - On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, at 06:13 PM, Lee Gold wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, at 05:57 PM, Lee Gold wrote: > > Hi > > > > Using 16.04. WiFi does not work. > > &g

[xubuntu-users] Correction to Title: Xubuntu 16.04 WiFi Not Working

2016-07-26 Thread Lee Gold
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, at 05:57 PM, Lee Gold wrote: > Hi > > Using 16.04. WiFi does not work. > > Network Manager...NM-Applet does not list the available wifi networks. > Wicd does not work either. > > I have no idea how to fix. Tried sudo service network-manager resta

Re: [xubuntu-users] Recommend Video Editing Software

2016-07-26 Thread Lee Gold
Hi Using 16.04. WiFi does not work. Network Manager...NM-Applet does not list the available wifi networks. Wicd does not work either. I have no idea how to fix. Tried sudo service network-manager restart and sudo systemctl restart network-manager.service . did not fix it. Works OK in Windows

Re: [xubuntu-users] Wine is not in Menu

2016-07-23 Thread Lee Gold
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016, at 04:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 01:18:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:47:43 -0700, Lee Gold wrote: > >>Using Xubuntu 16.04. I installed Wine but it is not in the menu. How > >>do I fix this? &g

Re: [xubuntu-users] Wine is not in Menu

2016-07-22 Thread Lee Gold
we're not top posting I guess - please see below... On Fri, Jul 22, 2016, at 04:02 PM, fred roller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Lee Gold wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Using Xubuntu 16.04. I installed Wine but it is not in the menu. How do &

[xubuntu-users] Wine is not in Menu

2016-07-22 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, Using Xubuntu 16.04. I installed Wine but it is not in the menu. How do I fix this? Thanks -- http://www.fastmail.com - The way an email service should be -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/

[xubuntu-users] Recommend Video Editing Software

2016-07-20 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, Using 16.04. Is there any video editing software that can do this: I watch the video, and as I watch it I talk into a microphone and it will add the sound WHILE I'm watching the video. Is there one application that can do all of this? I know I can add a sound track to a video from a file. B

[xubuntu-users] Scroll bars jump ahead too far

2016-07-16 Thread Lee Gold
Using 16.04 Might have asked this before. In the old days when you clicked the empty area of the scroll bar it would jump either 1 page ahead or back from the current position you were at. The new action seems to be to jump a proportional amount depending on were you click in the empty scroll bar

Re: [xubuntu-users] adobe-flash always takes an hour to update

2016-05-17 Thread Lee Gold
rt for > Chromium, (pepperflashplugin doesn't work on Ubuntu 32 bit anymore). > > I'm not sure if adobe-flashplugin works in 14.04. But give it a shot! > > -Gio > > > On 2016-05-17 04:28 PM, Lee Gold wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Xubuntu 14.04. When I'

[xubuntu-users] adobe-flash always takes an hour to update

2016-05-17 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, Xubuntu 14.04. When I'm updating, adobe-flash always takes an hour to update and holds the whole process up. Is there a fix? Thanks -- http://www.fastmail.com - Same, same, but different... -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

[xubuntu-users] Thunar Does Not Remember

2016-04-27 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, Using 14.04. Thunar never remembers last used views. I set the columns to certain widths and Thunar never remembers. Is there a fix? Thanks -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

[xubuntu-users] Icons show content - not usable for me

2016-04-15 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, Using Xunbuntu 14.04 For example, a pdf document icon shows a minuscule replica of the content vs, showing the red and white pdf logo which easily identifies it as a pdf. By default icons show a little picture or microscopic replica of content - I do not want that. I want the application or

Re: [xubuntu-users] menu editor

2016-04-10 Thread Lee Gold
Xubuntu 14.04 Can anyone recommend a good menu editor? I tried menulibre and it wrecked my Xfce menu - looking for some besides that. Thanks -- http://www.fastmail.com - The way an email service should be -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubs

[xubuntu-users] See desktop Icons with File Type

2016-02-19 Thread Lee Gold
Using 14.04. The desktop icons show the document content instead of the file type. So in a small desktop icon I see a white launcher/icon for a PDF document with tiny back specs - not what I want. I want to see the PDF logo. This was in the past the standard way I'd see desktop items and much

Re: [xubuntu-users] Fwd: More Difficult to Dual-Boot Now

2016-01-14 Thread Lee Gold
sorry for top posting... -- http://www.fastmail.com - IMAP accessible web-mail -- 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] Fwd: More Difficult to Dual-Boot Now

2016-01-14 Thread Lee Gold
ated panel antenna). It don't work - a total mystery since the chip's supported etc... so then try using it with a POWERED USB hub - it'll work... just an aside here... On Wed, Jan 13, 2016, at 11:43 PM, Patrice ARNAL wrote: > Le 14/01/2016 07:28, Michael Höhne a écrit :

Re: [xubuntu-users] Fwd: More Difficult to Dual-Boot Now

2016-01-14 Thread Lee Gold
, then in that increasingly rare case you could get job done. But there's Pipeline now and Hal can be used on Linux... On Wed, Jan 13, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Michael Höhne wrote: > Hello Tong Sun, Lee Gold, * > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Lee Gold - leeg...@operam

Re: [xubuntu-users] Fwd: More Difficult to Dual-Boot Now

2016-01-14 Thread Lee Gold
: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Lee Gold - leeg...@operamail.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Just tried to dual boot windows 10 and Xubuntu on HP Pavillion 15 > > laptop. So I'm a bit behind the times - there's a new bios system, > > something called UE

[xubuntu-users] More Difficult to Dual-Boot Now

2016-01-05 Thread Lee Gold
Hi, Just tried to dual boot windows 10 and Xubuntu on HP Pavillion 15 laptop. So I'm a bit behind the times - there's a new bios system, something called UEFI and this laptop along with Windows 10 seems to do everything to prevent being extensible and more useful by preventing a dual boot. Tried e

Re: [xubuntu-users] No Wine in Menu

2015-12-07 Thread Lee Gold
Reinstalled it and it shows. Sorry to bother... On Mon, Dec 7, 2015, at 08:25 PM, Lee Gold wrote: > using xfce 4.12 and Xubuntu 14.04 > > I don't like whisker menu (it's backwards). So am using application > menu. > > There is no Wine entry. How do I get Wine

[xubuntu-users] No Wine in Menu

2015-12-07 Thread Lee Gold
using xfce 4.12 and Xubuntu 14.04 I don't like whisker menu (it's backwards). So am using application menu. There is no Wine entry. How do I get Wine to show up? It's a bug. But what's the fix? Thanks. -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access all of your messages and folders