Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Unity
On 07/10/12 16:45, Michael Pavling wrote: In Unity, I open the home folder, click "file | connect to server", then enter my authentication details. Once done, and the share (or whatever sub-folder I want to have quick access to) is shown, I press "crtl-d" to bookmark it, and then next time I can skip the whole "connect to server" stage and go straight to it in my bookmarks. Kindof like a much more sensible "map network drive" approach. Yup, that works for me. You can right-click the mounted drive and make the bookmark that way, too. Gordon. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu Unity .. some more progress
I've made some progress on the following, though it's a bit patchy... On 27/09/12 19:27, Gordon Scott wrote: How can I get stuff grouped in a context-related way? In the recent past, as an example, I have a menu from the toolbar with top-level headings like "Graphics", "Programming" and so on. Right now I find nothing like that on Unity, but I feel sure there must be a way .. dedicated lens or something? How to tidy the launcher? I've minimized the of icons on the launcher so I can see a fair percentage of them, but I'd like to remove most of the clutter. It's too full even before I open any applications. That's compounded somewhat, also, by the tooltip hovers vanishing after scanning just a couple of icons, and at present many icons are unfamiliar. There are (Gnome I think) .desktop files in /usr/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications and I've devised a few that allow something like what I need, though I have some reservations. For the moment, I have one called DAW.desktop with some appropriate stuff in it, that runs a bash script, which changes to the working directory and starts related applications. In this case just to ~/Documents and audacity to demonstrate the principle. I have another called Programming.desktop that opens a directory ~/Programming in which I can presumably set up a bunch of links or scripts to location-switch and start applications as appropriate. I guess they too can be done as .desktop files. I guess this will mean that rather than just following a menu and opening the workspace I want, I'll have to open he directory, run the workspace, then close the directory again, which is clumsy but workable. Disappearing hovers seem not to happen when the launcher is still 2D. When it goes 3D, the problems start. Hopefully I can manage that by keeping the launcher tidy as per my question. There seems to be another oddity with the launcher in that if I run applications from the command-line, rather than from the Launcher, I get a second icon on the launcher for that application, which again means the launcher clutters very quickly. The apparently handy feature to show previews of open applications via Alt-tab, or double-click a Launcher Item, or Special-W only really seems works sensibly for low use desktops. Once there are a few dozen applications open, it becomes hard to tell one from another, particularly if they're mostly editor windows or nautilus windows or similar (I try to have one nautilus window with many tabs to help reduce clutter). A dozen little previews showing illegible program snippets is not wholly helpful. Hopefully sometime this can have the filename in the hover. OK, granted that doesn't help much if several files are all called main.c, but it's a start. Kind regards, Gordon. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] [ADMIN] Chairman's intro and November meeting
Hi everyone! As Adam has already informed you, I am the new chairman. Hopefully you'll think that's a good thing! I would like to thank Adam for doing a heoric job through a time of adversity, with many other pressures on his time. My thanks also to the rest of the comittee for enabling the LUG to run smoothly under his direction. For those who don't know me, I'm 27, I live in Gosport, and earn my living as a software engineer. I studied Naval Architecture (specialising in small craft design) at both Southampton University and the Solent University. My interests include boats, aircraft and electronics. At some point this week, I will post an overview of what I will be concentrating on during my term in office. This was discussed in some detail at the last meeting, and the feedback recieved was generally positive. I think it is important to remember that everyone can participate in the LUG to some degree (in fact, to whatever degree they wish) and I will be making as many of the new iniatives open to everyone as possible. I would particularly like to encourage people to give talks at our monthly meetings. Talks don't have to be long, they can be about anything linux or FOSS related, you can even do a talk to demonstrate a problem and ask for help. If you are willing to give a talk, just let me know and I'll make sure you get to give your talk. Our next meeting will be held from 10am (until about 4pm) on Saturday 3rd November at Southampton University, in the ECS building. I would like to thank Chris Malton for securing our normal room well into next year. I hope to see many of you at the next meeting! Tim Brocklehurst -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Chairman's intro and November meeting
I know replying to your own mailing list post is quite sad, but I thought it would be less confusing than including it in the main post. I will be giving a talk entitled: Using an Android phone for motion logging (and making some sense of the data afterwards) Which will be the first of a series of talks as I develop a telemetry system for model aircraft. Cheers, Tim B. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Chairman's intro and November meeting
Hi Tim, On 08/10/12 22:03, Tim Brocklehurst wrote: As Adam has already informed you, I am the new chairman. Hopefully you'll think that's a good thing! I would like to thank Adam for doing a heoric job through a time of adversity, with many other pressures on his time. My thanks also to the rest of the comittee for enabling the LUG to run smoothly under his direction. Apologies for not making the AGM, family comes first. I wish you a following wind in your new role on the good ship HantsLUG on the choppy Linux waters. Enough of that. Good luck! Cheers, -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
