Re: [ubuntu-uk] have to start gnome-panel manualy after upgrade to jaunty
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:00:42 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: Tried to run [gnome-panel ] but it still dies when I close the terminal. Sorry, my bad. The above is definitely less then clear. Here is what I meant to say. I wanted to run the gnome-terminal process at the background, then close all programs and restart the session. Before doing this, I selected Automatically remember running application when logging out in Startup Application applet. The idea was to fix the problem by forcing the system remembering its state. Well, all it remembered was the terminal being run, but not its child process certainly. So, this did not work. And BTW, ask me why I mentioned this at all? I do not know. :-) Now, I see that it just obscures the matter. Sorry, again. You could try creating a new user on the machine and see if that works. If so, try deleting/renaming the .gnome2 and .gnome2_private hidden directories in your home directory, then logging back in. This will lose any customisations you've made to Gnome, but should also get rid of the bad setting that is preventing the panel from running. Well, I did not try creating a new user but I did tried deleting the folders you suggest, and some others too. E.g. I tried deleting .conf and .gconf too. I did not helped. So, for now, as I already mentioned, the problem is fixed by explicitly entering gnome-panel in the list of Startup Applications applet. This way I am happy Jaunty user (though I'm not really much excited by it). The only thing that bothers me is a question:Why? What's the heck is wrong?. The gnome-panel has been starting in Hardy, it started just fine after intermediate upgrade to Intrepid and then all at a sudden it stopped starting after, without this rather smooth, upgrade to Jaunty. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:43:27 +0100, doug livesey wrote: Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? Just something I can quickly easily set reminders in that will pop up annoy me until I deal with them. Take a look at remind in Synaptic. It is extremely powerful. You'll need to learn it but it shouldn't be very difficult. In case you do not want to dill with remind and prefer a GUI tool, take a look here http://www.alarm-clock.pl. The last is the best GNOME alarm GUI app known to me today. It is also in quite active development (but by one person if I'm not wrong). Pay attention - there are 2 version of it. One is written in Python another is a complete re-write in C and thus is supposed to be better but it is still in beta. An Ubuntu deb package exist for the Python version (the link is provided on the author's site). The C version you'll have to install from the source (not a big deal). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:52:23 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox lately (freezing during general use, lagging during Flash video playback, etc.). I'm using FF on 2 machines with Ubuntu 8.04. Yes, starting at the first time FF does it damn slow. Sometimes it takes it from 6 to 10 seconds to appear. Otherwise it runs just fine, no complaints. So I've been using Swiftweasel 3.0.3 lately and didn't notice much difference I've tried Swiftweasel 3.0.3 PGO myself and did not notice much difference comparing with FF either. If it starts a little faster the difference might be in a second or two, if any. There was one website that did not work with FF but surprisingly worked with Swiftweasel. So, FF lost on that. But for me it was not a big deal, so I prefered to keep FF as my default browser. BTW, I actually liked Swiftweasel but... It's pretty hard to favour Swiftweasel more then FF considering the developer's support depends of his OS preferences. E.g. he used to provide deb packages for Ubuntu and then stopped just because he switched from Ubuntu to Arch. So, currently and further on the only option to install the latest would be a tarball. But keeping that thing up to date would be then a permanent job. Especially considering that starting from version 3.0 Swiftweasel does not support importing FF profile. Thus in addition to manual install new/remove old one would have to take care of manual profiles moving too. Well, after a thought I decided that using it would require to much of effort. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] VirtualBox
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:54:40 +0100, David King wrote: I am now using the Synaptic Package Manager to remove the old version and install the new version. However, I still do not understand why the update manager still offered me an older 2.0 version, even though the 2.1.4 version is now in the repositories. David King David King wrote: I tried installing it again, and realise that the installation failed, without the installer giving me any reason why. David King wrote: I use Virtual Box on Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64. It is version 2.0.6, but the Ubuntu package manager keeps telling me there is an updated version available, which is version 2.0. I downloaded 2.1.4 from the Virtual Box website, and installed that, but when I run Virtual Box all I get is the old 2.0.6 version again. Where would the new version be installed? I currently run it from the icon that is the menus, which just has the command VirtualBox. looks like you are talking to yourself here?.. :-) you are generating your question way too fast, give us a chance to digest them. :-) i think what you are prompted with is a major version number. and it is version 2. if you leave it to synaptic it will install correctly the latest version. at least it was always the case with my virtualbox. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
