Re: [lubuntu-users] I've Lost My Desktop Menus

2016-09-10 Thread Mark F
I'm sure there are better suggestions. But, if it were me I would boot from your install media, mount the hard drive, and work with it that way? If I didn't have my install media, I would create a new one by downloading an ISO and use unetbootin to write (burn) it to USB. But, that environment

[lubuntu-users] I've Lost My Desktop Menus

2016-09-10 Thread Pat Brand
At boot up today, I received a system error message. My desktop looked ok, but I had no menu along the left side of the screen. I googled the problem, found some solutions, but have two issues at this point: 1) I need to get into a terminal screen to write the relevant commands, because

Re: [lubuntu-users] Keyboard shortcuts (for touchpad enable/disable)

2016-09-10 Thread Mark F
Israel, I had the same reaction to Basil's suggestion. But, I overlooked how he said a value of zero means "touchpad off." I think that would satisfy resource sensitive people (the target audience of Lubuntu?). If I'm not using a real mouse (and needed the touchpad), reducing its sensitivity

Re: [lubuntu-users] Keyboard shortcuts (for touchpad enable/disable)

2016-09-10 Thread Israel
On 09/07/2016 04:24 PM, Basil Fernie wrote: This is beginning to sound rather easy to implement: have a little listener process monitoring keyboard activity.. whenever a key is pressed, the touchpad is automatically set "off" for say 500-600ms, after which it is set "on" again. No need to