Re: LxRandr 0.3.0

2014-09-30 Thread Artemgy
On Lubuntu 14.10 Beta 2, LXRandR About displays 0.1.2 This beta is not yet a release candidate, but (my opinion) the chance of the new LXRandR breaking the Feature Freeze now seems somewhat unlikely (FWIW) xrandr --version displays: xrandr program version 1.4.1 Server reports RandR

Putting website shortcuts on the desktop in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-09-30 Thread Marc Tremblay
Good morning, I work for a school board in Montreal and we are finally shifting over to open source software for our older computer labs using Lubuntu 14.04 instead of windows 7. The performance between the two is incomparable and schools are saving up to 15 000$ by converting to Lubuntu

RE: LxRandr 0.3.0

2014-09-30 Thread Dale Visser
I thought that might be the case. Likely in 15.04, though, right? -- Sent from my phone. Please forgive brevity. From: Artemgymailto:launch...@artmg.org Sent: ‎9/‎30/‎2014 8:28 AM To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.commailto:lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re:

Re: Putting website shortcuts on the desktop in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-09-30 Thread Pierre Gobin
Hi, It can be done with a custom .desktop file. To do it easily with the GUI : * Go in Lubuntu Menu, right click on Firefox (or an other web browser), and click on « Create a shortcut on the desktop » ; * Right click on your new shortcut, and choose « Shortcut Editor » (I am not sure

Re: Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 2 released!

2014-09-30 Thread Henk Terhell
∅ schreef op 26-9-2014 om 06:07: I'm pleased to report that the final beta of Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn is released. No reason for me now to retain 14.04 since 14.10 final beta proves to be very stable and fast on my old PC (AMD 3400+). 14.10 is a pleasure to work with. Boot time is

Re: Putting website shortcuts on the desktop in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-09-30 Thread Andre Rodovalho
Yes, this is it! - To do it manually, you can open Leafpad: Menu - Aces. - Leafpad - Then paste this content: *[Desktop Entry]Version=1.0Name=My WebsiteExec=firefox %u http://website_address.com

Re: Putting website shortcuts on the desktop in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-09-30 Thread Israel
Hi, You can also simplify this As, Pierre said, you can make the simple desktop file. The command can be: firefox yourwebsite.com But, if you want to do it manually, this line in the desktop file is Name=Firefox Exec=firefox %u And if you want to write a script... the script to do this would

Re: Putting website shortcuts on the desktop in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS

2014-09-30 Thread Israel
For everyone else here, this is a copy of a script I sent in a private e-mail to Pierre... #!/bin/bash WEBSITE=(torios.org duckduckgo.com) NAME=(ToriOS duckduckgo) ICON=(www-browser firefox) for ((i=0;i2;++i));do echo -e [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Exec=firefox ${WEBSITE[i]} Icon=${ICON[i]}