Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
On 11/12/2011 12:04 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I recently installed Ubuntu 11.xx on an old IBM server. 11.04 stated that I did not have the resources to run Unity, so it was good. Then when I allowed it to upgrade to 11.10, that version was able to use my system's resources to install and use Unity. Also, during that upgrade to 11.10, the system decided that I did not need any of my KDE packages anymore and got rid of them - without even asking me first. I discovered one major thing. I hate Unity. It will not keep some monitor packages visible in my desktop, like I want/need. I could not even find half of the things I wanted to use that was part of Ubuntu's package. I did not like the way the system changed the look and feel of LibreOffice. So I went to Linux Mint 11. Works nice, except I cannot get any videos to play correctly - sound OK but no visuals. Looks like I will have to try Kubuntu 11.xx and see how that works. At least with the IBM server's PCI video card, my monitor can handle the highest resolution of 1152 by 864, though I never have seen that number before. Thanks friends. Now I know that I do not want anything to do with Unity. Also the articles currently state GNOME 3 is not ready [by a long shot] for use even thought it was stated that GNOME 3 was available for download and use. Check webup8 at http://www.webupd8.org/ for information about installing GNOME 3 On 11/12/2011 11:31 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) For the last several releases of Ubuntu, ever since the 9.10, i have found that the Try it option does NOT work on any machine that i have tried. What does seem to work is to 1st click on install but at one of the first screens there start clicking on the Back button until you get back to the screen that offers the Try it option. Then Try it works without hanging the system. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 19/10/11, Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 17:59 Hi, All cd's and burners are not created equal. I've had several instances where a live Ubuntu cd would not work on one computer, but worked perfectly on another. If you burned it the computer you are trying to boot it on, it should work. If you have both a burner and a player, try it in both. If it was burned on a different player, please burn one on the computer you are trying to boot from, and then try booting from the burner drive. Don On 10/19/2011 08:22 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 10/18/2011 09:33 PM, Don Myers wrote: In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10. It was that way before I went to a dual boot system. It still set for that. Don On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. On 10/18/2011 05:18 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.xx on an old IBM server. 11.04 stated that I did not have the resources to run Unity, so it was good. Then when I allowed it to upgrade to 11.10, that version was able to use my system's resources to install and use Unity. Also, during that upgrade to 11.10, the system decided that I did not need any of my KDE packages anymore and got rid of them - without even asking me first. I discovered one major thing. I hate Unity. It will not keep some monitor packages visible in my desktop, like I want/need. I could not even find half of the things I wanted to use that was part of Ubuntu's package. I did not like the way the system changed the look and feel of LibreOffice. So I went to Linux Mint 11. Works nice, except I cannot get any videos to play correctly - sound OK but no visuals. Looks like I will have to try Kubuntu 11.xx and see how that works. At least with the IBM server's PCI video card, my monitor can handle the highest resolution of 1152 by 864, though I never have seen that number before. Thanks friends. Now I know that I do not want anything to do with Unity. Also the articles currently state GNOME 3 is not ready [by a long shot] for use even thought it was stated that GNOME 3 was available for download and use. On 11/12/2011 11:31 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) For the last several releases of Ubuntu, ever since the 9.10, i have found that the Try it option does NOT work on any machine that i have tried. What does seem to work is to 1st click on install but at one of the first screens there start clicking on the Back button until you get back to the screen that offers the Try it option. Then Try it works without hanging the system. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 19/10/11, Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 17:59 Hi, All cd's and burners are not created equal. I've had several instances where a live Ubuntu cd would not work on one computer, but worked perfectly on another. If you burned it the computer you are trying to boot it on, it should work. If you have both a burner and a player, try it in both. If it was burned on a different player, please burn one on the computer you are trying to boot from, and then try booting from the burner drive. Don On 10/19/2011 08:22 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 10/18/2011 09:33 PM, Don Myers wrote: In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10. It was that way before I went to a dual boot system. It still set for that. Don On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. On 10/18/2011 05:18 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
On 10/18/2011 09:33 PM, Don Myers wrote: In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10. It was that way before I went to a dual boot system. It still set for that. Don On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. On 10/18/2011 05:18 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
For some reason, when I went to a dual boot system, my laptop's wireless stopped working, and booting from a CD stopped as well. All I get is the GRUB screen to choose between Ubuntu and Vista. With OSs on the system, I do not have more than 15 gig for Ubuntu 10.xx and 30 gig for Vista. My bios is set for CD/DVD before hard drive booting. Now all I need to do is find out how to make sure Ubuntu/Kubuntu would boot to my monitors resolution [1368x768] instead of the maximum that the on board nVidia graphics can do [1920x1080]. I may just wait till I get my new monitor, in a few months. Before I had to make the Vista laptop dual boot, I had no problems with seeing the live CD/DVDs. That is how I first chose Ubuntu out of the pack. It was the only one that worked in live mode with the old HP laptop's sound card. That was version 9.xx. Hopefully I will get that one back from a loan out soon. Then I can just dump the dual booting on the Vista machine. It is due for a wipe and re-install. Now that I do not use it to store my data on, I can do that with ease. As for Unity 3D, I think my on board video can handle it, but I will not want to use Unity. After the monitor purchase, I will be buying a GPU video card, ATI 4850 or better. It will be about the same cost as the monitor, but give me GPU computing for my BOINC number crunching and do about 100 times the amount of crunching as my Phenom 9650 quad CPU gives me. On 10/19/2011 12:52 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) This guide might help https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD Even though it is written for Ubuntu it is almost identical for other distros as usual ;) When you try to boot an Ubuntu Cd it gives you a pop=-up screen with a language selector and 2 buttons 1. Try Ubuntu (this often doesn't work and just hangs the system) 2. Install Ubuntu (has lots of Back buttons) Soi click on the Install and then at click on the Back buttons until i get back to that screen with the language selector and the 2 options. Now the Try Ubuntu button works! I keep forgetting to post a bug-report about it. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 19/10/11, Don Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 2:33 In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10. Don On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
Hi, All cd's and burners are not created equal. I've had several instances where a live Ubuntu cd would not work on one computer, but worked perfectly on another. If you burned it the computer you are trying to boot it on, it should work. If you have both a burner and a player, try it in both. If it was burned on a different player, please burn one on the computer you are trying to boot from, and then try booting from the burner drive. Don On 10/19/2011 08:22 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 10/18/2011 09:33 PM, Don Myers wrote: In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10. It was that way before I went to a dual boot system. It still set for that. Don On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. On 10/18/2011 05:18 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) -- * *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
Hi, I installed lo-menubar from the Ubuntu Software Center which is said to provide a Global Menu rather than a program-specific one. While the installation is successful and the extension works as stated, I would like to disable or remove it because I now realise that it does have *Windows* as part of the Global Menu. There's File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Help ... but no *Windows*. I'm used to relying on *Windows* and then opening a new window of the same document. Additionally, LibreOffice would remember how I arrange two Windows and open the second window just the way I like it. Since Windows is missing, I have to work around by going to File, New Document which I don't like. When I look in Tools, Extension Manager, I see three extensions listed: Copy Visible cells (which I had installed on LibreOffice 3.3 / Natty and which has been retained during the upgrade to 11.10) menubar (installed via Ubuntu Software Center) Script Provider for Python 3.3.0 (which seems to have been there by default since I didn't install it) The last two, menubar and Script Provider have little locks next to them. While the first, Copy visible cells has a disable/remove option, the two with locks next to them don't. So it looks like I cannot disable or remove menubar unless someone helps me! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-3-4-3-on-Ubuntu-11-10-Unity-3D-tp3431366p3431366.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
Unity looks good, sometimes, so I have been told. But for people use to GNOME or KDE, I would make sure those desktops are installed and set them as the default. Everything I have read, and heard, makes me fee that will be my only choice, once I get my monitor issues fixed so I can install 11.xx. It may be worse with Win 8 and its Ribbon style of desktop. Good for touch pads but not of desktops. That menu form is what many of my MSO users would not go beyond MSO 2003 or switched to OOo and then LO. On 10/18/2011 11:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Which version of Ubuntu are you using? It might be easier to try to uninstall things using the package manager while LibreOffice is closed. Perhaps the lock is due to LibreOffice being open? In Ubuntu 10.10 and earlier try the top taskbar and click on System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager I don't know how to do that in Ubuntu 11.10 or 11.04. If you are using one of them then perhaps open a command-line / terminal-console and try gksu synaptic to open Synaptic? Either way once open the sesarhc tools should help you find the extensions. I would search for libreoffice and then click the top of the column that has the green splodges in it that indicate packages that are installed. Hopefully that will get all the installed packages, extensions and all to the top so you can just scroll down to find the one you want. The package manager ususally searches in descriptions as well as titles so a straight-forwards search might just give you the right thing straight away but i'm a bit pessimistic about that sort of thing ;) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 18/10/11, chimak111chimak...@gmail.com wrote: From: chimak111chimak...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 18 October, 2011, 15:13 Hi, I installed lo-menubar from the Ubuntu Software Center which is said to provide a Global Menu rather than a program-specific one. While the installation is successful and the extension works as stated, I would like to disable or remove it because I now realise that it does have *Windows* as part of the Global Menu. There's File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Help ... but no *Windows*. I'm used to relying on *Windows* and then opening a new window of the same document. Additionally, LibreOffice would remember how I arrange two Windows and open the second window just the way I like it. Since Windows is missing, I have to work around by going to File, New Document which I don't like. When I look in Tools, Extension Manager, I see three extensions listed: Copy Visible cells (which I had installed on LibreOffice 3.3 / Natty and which has been retained during the upgrade to 11.10) menubar (installed via Ubuntu Software Center) Script Provider for Python 3.3.0 (which seems to have been there by default since I didn't install it) The last two, menubar and Script Provider have little locks next to them. While the first, Copy visible cells has a disable/remove option, the two with locks next to them don't. So it looks like I cannot disable or remove menubar unless someone helps me! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-3-4-3-on-Ubuntu-11-10-Unity-3D-tp3431366p3431366.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
On Ubuntu 11.10 synaptic is not installed by default. So if doing a clean install, simply get it from the software center. If you are doing any upgrade from 11.04, it should be there. To open it in 11.10, click on the Dash button and type in syn and it will be there to run. You could add it to the launcher. When 11.04 came out, I was reluctant to move it from 10.10 because of all of then negative things I had read. But I decided to since if I was going to be continuing to use Ubuntu, that is what I would need to learn. The Unity had some quirks, but over all wasn't too bad. I learned to really like the launcher bar. When I would go back to a machine with the old desktop on 10.10 after several months, it felt antiquated and old fashioned. 11.10 is smoother, works fast, and I am most pleased with it. It isn't perfect, but significant progress has been made over 11.04. On 10/18/2011 12:32 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Unity looks good, sometimes, so I have been told. But for people use to GNOME or KDE, I would make sure those desktops are installed and set them as the default. Everything I have read, and heard, makes me fee that will be my only choice, once I get my monitor issues fixed so I can install 11.xx. It may be worse with Win 8 and its Ribbon style of desktop. Good for touch pads but not of desktops. That menu form is what many of my MSO users would not go beyond MSO 2003 or switched to OOo and then LO. On 10/18/2011 11:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Which version of Ubuntu are you using? It might be easier to try to uninstall things using the package manager while LibreOffice is closed. Perhaps the lock is due to LibreOffice being open? In Ubuntu 10.10 and earlier try the top taskbar and click on System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager I don't know how to do that in Ubuntu 11.10 or 11.04. If you are using one of them then perhaps open a command-line / terminal-console and try gksu synaptic to open Synaptic? Either way once open the sesarhc tools should help you find the extensions. I would search for libreoffice and then click the top of the column that has the green splodges in it that indicate packages that are installed. Hopefully that will get all the installed packages, extensions and all to the top so you can just scroll down to find the one you want. The package manager ususally searches in descriptions as well as titles so a straight-forwards search might just give you the right thing straight away but i'm a bit pessimistic about that sort of thing ;) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 18/10/11, chimak111chimak...@gmail.com wrote: From: chimak111chimak...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 18 October, 2011, 15:13 Hi, I installed lo-menubar from the Ubuntu Software Center which is said to provide a Global Menu rather than a program-specific one. While the installation is successful and the extension works as stated, I would like to disable or remove it because I now realise that it does have *Windows* as part of the Global Menu. There's File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Help ... but no *Windows*. I'm used to relying on *Windows* and then opening a new window of the same document. Additionally, LibreOffice would remember how I arrange two Windows and open the second window just the way I like it. Since Windows is missing, I have to work around by going to File, New Document which I don't like. When I look in Tools, Extension Manager, I see three extensions listed: Copy Visible cells (which I had installed on LibreOffice 3.3 / Natty and which has been retained during the upgrade to 11.10) menubar (installed via Ubuntu Software Center) Script Provider for Python 3.3.0 (which seems to have been there by default since I didn't install it) The last two, menubar and Script Provider have little locks next to them. While the first, Copy visible cells has a disable/remove option, the two with locks next to them don't. So it looks like I cannot disable or remove menubar unless someone helps me! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-3-4-3-on-Ubuntu-11-10-Unity-3D-tp3431366p3431366.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
On 10/18/2011 01:52 PM, planas wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 12:32 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Unity looks good, sometimes, so I have been told. But for people use to GNOME or KDE, I would make sure those desktops are installed and set them as the default. Everything I have read, and heard, makes me fee that will be my only choice, once I get my monitor issues fixed so I can install 11.xx. It may be worse with Win 8 and its Ribbon style of desktop. Good for touch pads but not of desktops. That menu form is what many of my MSO users would not go beyond MSO 2003 or switched to OOo and then LO. Lubuntu, Xubuntu, and Kubuntu do not install Unity at all. These have a similar look and feel to Windows for most users. I believe you can change the desktop at log in with 11.10 Ubuntu to Gnome 3.X Running 10.04, I use GNOME by default, but I have the whole KDE package installed so I can run some of them under GNOME. There are just some things that I do not like about KDE's desktop, but I do like some of their system packages and other software. I just wish it did not change my monitor resolution during boot to 1920x1080, which my monitor cannot do. I installed 11.04 not knowing that, and I had to wipe the install while keeping my data. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) and Base/Java on 11.10
I've been enjoying it. With respect to the LibreOffice/Base issue, I did one clean install of the 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10, and three upgrades from 11.04. On the clean install, Sun (Oracle) Java is not installed nor is it available in the repository nor is it available from a partner. If you really have to have it it can be installed if you look hard. What I read said Ubuntu felt that the Open JDK had progressed far enough and was secure, and that it would take care of almost anybody's needs. I just left things the way the default install did it and didn't install Sun Java. I uninstalled the packaged LibreOffice that came with Ubuntu, and then installed the 3.4.3 that is directly from LibreOffice. I then tried Base. It was TERRIBLY slow. I checked what it said the Java was, and it said it was Sun Microsystems, Inc. Version 1.6.0_23. With a clean install, where did it come from??? Maybe it read the OpenJDK as being 1.6.0_23 as being the Sun Version. I don't know. So the I installed 1.6.0_21 and Base was very happy again!!! In Synaptic there is no evidence that Sun Java 1.6.0_23 is installed, nor does 1.6.0_21 show up the way we are installing it. Could it have been shipped with Base? Don Original Message Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:18:27 +0100 (BST) From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Hi :) I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 18/10/11, Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don C. Myersdonmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 18 October, 2011, 18:10 On Ubuntu 11.10 synaptic is not installed by default. So if doing a clean install, simply get it from the software center. If you are doing any upgrade from 11.04, it should be there. To open it in 11.10, click on the Dash button and type in syn and it will be there to run. You could add it to the launcher. When 11.04 came out, I was reluctant to move it from 10.10 because of all of then negative things I had read. But I decided to since if I was going to be continuing to use Ubuntu, that is what I would need to learn. The Unity had some quirks, but over all wasn't too bad. I learned to really like the launcher bar. When I would go back to a machine with the old desktop on 10.10 after several months, it felt antiquated and old fashioned. 11.10 is smoother, works fast, and I am most pleased with it. It isn't perfect, but significant progress has been made over 11.04. On 10/18/2011 12:32 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: Unity looks good, sometimes, so I have been told. But for people use to GNOME or KDE, I would make sure those desktops are installed and set them as the default. Everything I have read, and heard, makes me fee that will be my only choice, once I get my monitor issues fixed so I can install 11.xx. It may be worse with Win 8 and its Ribbon style of desktop. Good for touch pads but not of desktops. That menu form is what many of my MSO users would not go beyond MSO 2003 or switched to OOo and then LO. On 10/18/2011 11:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Which version of Ubuntu are you using? It might be easier to try to uninstall things using the package manager while LibreOffice is closed. Perhaps the lock is due to LibreOffice being open? In Ubuntu 10.10 and earlier try the top taskbar and click on System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager I don't know how to do that in Ubuntu 11.10 or 11.04. If you are using one of them then perhaps open a command-line / terminal-console and try gksu synaptic to open Synaptic? Either way once open the sesarhc tools should help you find the extensions. I would search for libreoffice and then click the top of the column that has the green splodges in it that indicate packages that are installed. Hopefully that will get all the installed packages, extensions and all to the top so you can just scroll down to find the one you want. The package manager ususally searches in descriptions as well as titles so a straight-forwards search might just give you the right thing straight away but i'm a bit pessimistic about that sort of thing ;) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 18/10/11, chimak111chimak...@gmail.com wrote: From: chimak111chimak
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. On 10/18/2011 05:18 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10. Don On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. On 10/18/2011 05:18 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I really quite like the 11.10. When i tried the 11.04 i really hated it but the 11.10 is a big improvement. I still prefer traditional menus such as KDE or Gnome or any of the others but i get the feeling Unity is worth getting to know. I like the way the top-taskbar becomes the title-bar when you hover the mouse arrow over it and i really like the way that accessing LibreOffice and Firefox is so easy! ;) Regards from Tom :) -- * *** -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
Hi :) This guide might help https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD Even though it is written for Ubuntu it is almost identical for other distros as usual ;) When you try to boot an Ubuntu Cd it gives you a pop=-up screen with a language selector and 2 buttons 1. Try Ubuntu (this often doesn't work and just hangs the system) 2. Install Ubuntu (has lots of Back buttons) Soi click on the Install and then at click on the Back buttons until i get back to that screen with the language selector and the 2 options. Now the Try Ubuntu button works! I keep forgetting to post a bug-report about it. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 19/10/11, Don Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com wrote: From: Don Myers donmy...@myersfarm.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 2:33 In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10. Don On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D)
Hi :) Ouch, i hadn't noticed that it was a screen-resolution issue. I think the easiest option is to try using a virtual machine. Then you can use the iso-file without even needing a physical Cd.m On virtual box when it's higher resolution than my screen is set for i get scroll-bars and only see part of the desktop real-estate. Inside the vm then move the mouse arrow to the far left to get the dock and move down to the bottom so it scrolls down and then click on the Setting gear-wheel at the bottom. Then Display allows you to reset the resolution. I tend to go for 800by600 and then the vm window reduces in size to fit within my screen. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 19/10/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 1:18 I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a live demo on a Ubuntu system. My only Windows machine I have working is dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, it does not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems. I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop and packages. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
