Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] artwork

2011-01-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
I'm not sure, but it could have an impact on the resource needed for running the theme Time ago, i tried several themes and I can confirm you that those engines have a considerably negative impact on system resources. -- jpxsat Lubuntu 10.04 ___

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] pcmanfm seriously broken

2011-01-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/1/14 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com Julien: The mentioned package is broken at synaptic, but the OS is working perfectly so far after a few restarts... Everything goes a little faster too :) Now i'm waiting for orders chief! 2011/1/14 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] pcmanfm seriously broken

2011-01-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Julien: I just uploaded a pcmanfm2 0.9.8 that should work better for lucid users. I've tested the PPA on my freshly installed Lubuntu 10.04 (correctly updated). Now the problem is that pcmanfm 0.9.8 can't replace /usr/share/pcmanfm/uidesktop-pref.ui wich belongs too to package pcmanfm2 Hope

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] pcmanfm seriously broken

2011-01-13 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Julien: The mentioned package is broken at synaptic, but the OS is working perfectly so far after a few restarts... Everything goes a little faster too :) Now i'm waiting for orders chief! 2011/1/14 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com Julien: I just uploaded a pcmanfm2 0.9.8

[Lubuntu-desktop] pcmanfm seriously broken

2011-01-11 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi Team: Today i finally upgraded my 10.04 packages with the LXDE PPA released a time ago. So far so good (and faster) but when i tried to right click a file pcmanfm crashed... maybe it's because i open files with one single click i thought, so i go to preferences and pcmanfm crashed again!

[Lubuntu-desktop] 3G Modems + Happy New Year

2010-12-31 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi people! Tomorrow will be another year, so i wanted to say to all of you Happy New Year :) and take the opportunity to say a BIG thank you to the Lubuntu team... you're making a big distro... the best from where i'm standing ;) Also, wanted to ask if someone has any information about the

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Removing abiword in Synaptic removes lubuntu-desktop

2010-12-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
It would be nice if no message came at all, a few weeks ago i wanted to remove something and that message came and i scared a lot. For newbies and for a lot of people it's just something that they won't understand and they'll leave it like that. Plus, if it's not necessary it shouldn't even be

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Applications by default : control-center

2010-11-28 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Just tried this: pcmanfm menu://applications/DesktopSettings If the layout is not good, we can have a specialized menu file for it. Personally, i find it perfect, fast clean, with no aditional programs, no aditional anything. It reminds me the no-fancy control center of wxp. The shortcut should

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Deadbeef in Lubuntu PPA

2010-11-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hiyas everybody: I picked another PC to see how is the resource consumption changing depending on the hardware, and the result is this: On a new machine (AMD Turion Dual Core M520, 3GB RAM ~ Lubuntu 10.10) Aqualung 4%CPU 32RAM Deadbeef 4%CPU 25RAM Audacious 4%CPU 17RAM On my old laptop (P3

[Lubuntu-desktop] Power Mangers

2010-11-23 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: I was wondering if someone tried xfce-power-manager on Lubuntu and how it behaves? i don't do it myself since i don't feel like i have the skills for it... And could someone tell me why is gnome-power-manager default on Lubuntu? Thought Gnome in general was the heavy option... Thanks a lot!

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Applications by default: Replace xarchiver by file-roller

2010-11-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
I would like to know if people tested it on a small configuration, to see if the behavior is also good enough. Running Lubuntu 10.04 at 760mhz 256Ram File-Roller runs perfect. -- jpxsat Ubuntu user #29.157 (Lubuntu 10.04) Linux user #522.597 ___

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Deadbeef in Lubuntu PPA

2010-11-15 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
In my machine: Aqualung:28%CPU / 28 Mb Ram Deadbeef:15-17%CPU / 24 Mb Ram Audacious: 9%CPU / 19 Mb Ram (my favourite) For others: Less RAM consumption scenario: Deadbeef 80% CPU usage 23 MB RAM Aqualung50% CPU usage 26 MB RAM Less CPU consumption

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Deadbeef in Lubuntu PPA

2010-11-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Sorry, last line was: System without Audacious running: 86MB System with Audacious running: 93MB -- jpxsat ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

[Lubuntu-desktop] Xscreensaver Power Manager

2010-11-11 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi People: Few days ago, i came to realize that i can't shut down xscreensaver. Actually, i don't use it at all since i only want mi screen to go black when a time has past... Well, the thing is that in the options in xscreensaver, i can kill the daemon BUT when i restart mi pc, xcreensaver is

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu 10.10 RMX

2010-11-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
*Good idea. But we don't have the ability to manage the theme globally in* *LXDE. The concept of Theme (like in GNOME) doesn't exist. But, that* *should not stop us to add some good extra artworks in an -extra* *packages.* I remembered the program that used to control the theme in win98... how

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu 10.10 and PCmanFM on default install

2010-10-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
So what I'm mailing about is that what if gvfs-backends is a default part of the .iso -image of Lubuntu 10.10? Maybe we could see it in next stable release? I've seen lots of users who can't google as much as I can (and I'm not even that good in it ;) and there fore they're a little lost why

[Lubuntu-desktop] Performance in 10.10?

2010-10-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi list: I'm just wondering if 10.10 will be faster and less ram consuming than 10.04. I readed a bit around and someones tell it'll be better and others the opposite, so i don't really know who to believe. I have limited internet conection and an old piece of hardware, so downloading an ISO

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Video Problem

2010-10-06 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Yeah, i know it's old... but only now i've get it to work I did what Julien told me to: *You can try to use the last development iso of Ubuntu, and see if the situation is better.* *You can also try using the last code from upstream using the xorg-edgers PPA (https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers)

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] plymouth

2010-10-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Since Lubuntu is intended for low specs machines, 'splashscreen' could be just a text saying 'Lubuntu' and in the line under that one, 5 'o' appearing in a set of time, so it makes consistence with the idea of the distro (and trully think that this would me a lot easier to do and time saving to

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] plymouth

2010-10-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
First: Isn't there a way to get a text based splashcreen without plymouth?? it would result a faster boot! (and less complicated?) Second: a text based installer seems to me an excellent idea to make the installation fast, since many of us and the rest of the possible users of lubuntu would

[Lubuntu-desktop] Strange Behaviour in lxmenu

2010-09-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi people: Since a couple of weeks, when i do (win logo)+d , lxmenu disapears from screen. Normal behaviour earlier was that it stays in screen and every window were minimized... even in some ocasions (it has happened to me 3 times yet) lxmenu disapears with no apparent reason! A problem that

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Evince?

2010-09-10 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi Andrew Lubuntu team: It's the same for the others pdf viewers such as adobe, foxit, etc... in computers with a more powerful video card as mine (8mb) scrolling seems just fine (i have another pc with 128mb and it works perfect), but since Lubuntu it's made for low pcs we must think that

[Lubuntu-desktop] Evince?

2010-09-08 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: Reading the lubuntu news, i've found that the new pdf reader is evince... i thought we wanted to get a fast and independent OS, how is it working adding a gnome based application? It's faster than epdf and/or uses less ram than epdf? Just asking :) -- jpxsat Ubuntu user #29.157

[Lubuntu-desktop] Idea for lxde menu

2010-09-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi guys: I've always wondered way in all the distros i've tried the button 'windows' (i think it's 'super') isn't used. I think that maybe there's a way to get it to work, but i think it would be a good idea to use this touch by * default* to show the lxde menu when pressed. What do you think?

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Idea for lxde menu

2010-09-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
To solve it that way... maybe we could suggest an enhancement to openbox? -- jpxsat Ubuntu user #29.157 ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Video Problem

2010-08-27 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: Thanks for helping me. Andrew, the output of: sudo lshw -C display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Radeon Mobility M6 LY vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0 bus info: p...@:01:00.0 version: 00 width:

[Lubuntu-desktop] Video Problem

2010-08-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi everybody: Since ubuntu 9.10 i have problems with the driver for my video card. It's an old Ati radeon mobility m6 and the way it works is with the open driver provided by ubuntu for those cards 'cause the pivative driver doesn't work for me at all. Well, back in 9.10 the problem was that

[Lubuntu-desktop] Boot problem on Lubuntu 10.04

2010-08-18 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: Today when i turned on my pc, this screen appeared http://picasaweb.google.com/jpxsat/PublicStuff#5506840995428130354 I've done nothing weird lately (or ever). When i type 'help', 40 commands appear, but don't know what to use... Hope somebody can help me! Ps: i tried to report this on

[Lubuntu-desktop] modem 3g

2010-08-03 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi I've looked to several pages (the most complete is http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1472896) and there's no way to get my 3g modem to work... is there something that i'm missing? As i've said in the forum (that shows as Solved) i tried the solution and nothing happens. My modem is a

[Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
The following text is in Spanish... Estimados: Primero los quiero felicitar por su excelente trabajo con Lubuntu, todo funciona bastante bien. Les quiero comentar que uso éste sistema operativo en un Compaq 1700 (1000mhz, 256...@100mhz) y me surgen los siguientes problemas: 1. Chromium es

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: First of all, i'm not complaining, i'm just saying that a program is better than another, but the reasons to use abiword and gnumeric are quite solid so i wont say anything else about that. Second, i've found WICD, an app that could replace network manager in lubuntu 10.10 to be far

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