Re: [SLUG] Re: network manager over writes resolv.conf

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = Daniel Bush ;
 
 If it comes to that, there must be a way to disable network manager?

There is!

Install 'wicd' 

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

cheers
marty

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Re: [SLUG] Re: network manager over writes resolv.conf

[Jan Newmarch]

My wireless AP uses WEP with 10 hex digit key, and I never managed to
connect to it under NM since it wouldn't accept the key. Wicd works fine
and I am very happy with it.

Jan
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On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 20:25 +1100, Martin Barry wrote:
 $quoted_author = Daniel Bush ;
  
  If it comes to that, there must be a way to disable network manager?
 
 There is!
 
 Install 'wicd' 
 
 http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
 
 cheers
 marty
 

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Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex - annoying flashing in Firefox

[Sonia Hamilton]

jam wrote:

On Monday 24 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex).

I've noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of automagically
going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Alt-Tab to flash nastily
whenever Firefox is selected or passed over. Anyone having this problem?
Anyone know of a fix?

A quick fix seems to be to take Firefox to proper fullscreen and back to
normal window mode using F11 F11. But after a while Firefox reverts to
semi-fullscreen mode.



url:about:config
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

I didit, but stuffed up other stuff, so no howto.
James
  
Thanks Jam. I didn't have time to work it out; I've had other annoyances 
with 8.04  8.10 that I haven't had time to fix so have reinstalled 7.10 
- not too big a deal as I usually have /home as a separate partition on 
my desktops/laptops.


Also, +1 for other comments about how annoying Network Manager is. What 
I find annoying (as others have mentioned) is that the internals aren't 
visible, the manpage sucks, and there's no text conf file (it uses some 
gconf nastiness, reminiscent of Windoze 95).


Sonia.

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