Re: FW: video editing

2014-12-12 Thread Israel
Hi Marc, for simple stuff Openshot is really easy to use and has been pretty stable for me. I think some years ago Pitivi was very buggy and crashed a lot. For major things KDEnlive is very nice, but uses a lot of KDE dependencies. This site is a good place for your teachers and students to

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 36

2014-12-12 Thread Israel
On 12/12/2014 07:03 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: Hi Israel. The links you were providing me dealing with removing catalyst drivers and last message on the terminal during the boot is 'virtual Ethernet', so I guess problem with VMware. I just tried to make a log file

Re: AW: Can't boot after an update

2014-12-11 Thread Israel
On 12/11/2014 06:09 PM, leszek.les...@web.de wrote: Hit escape right after bios and that should give you the grub boot menu so you can choose the older kernel. Originalnachricht Von: German Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Dezember 2014 01:08 An: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Betreff: Can't

Re: Can't boot after an update

2014-12-11 Thread Israel
On 12/11/2014 07:00 PM, German wrote: Just realised I was sending my answers to people personally and not to the list. I figured it now, using android and it is quite new to me. OK. I got to the grub menu and I tried to boot older kernels with the same result, I am stuck at boot logo with

Re: Bug report fixed--now looking at suspend in Lu 14.04 PPC

2014-12-10 Thread Israel
On 12/10/2014 12:54 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: Lu users: The bug report brought fast service, but seems like Manfred H got the fix off to me before the bug triager . . . got the user account back into service. No need to like my bug . . . . I'll be working on the suspend problem now. Suspend

Re: Using Shockwave with Lubuntu

2014-12-10 Thread Israel
Hi Marc, I am not sure about Shockwave. Adobe has fully dropped support for Linux. There is no pdf reader. No flash after the current version. Shockwave will never be native. That said... there may be some way to do it in Wine, but I have no idea. It is unfortunate that there are so many

Re: hardware - audio aux in vs mic

2014-12-10 Thread Israel
On 12/10/2014 07:18 AM, Barry Titterton wrote: On 10/12/14 06:42, Lars Noodén wrote: Can the mic port be safely used for audio in or must I stay with the machine with aux in? I will probably be digitizing some analog audio cassette tapes early next year. I have an old ghettoblaster with a

Re: How old is your computer - the sequel.

2014-12-09 Thread Israel
+1 :) On 12/09/2014 10:34 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: You may also want to look at ToriOS[1] which is a respin of ubuntu. Regards, Phill. 1. http://torios.org/ On 9 December 2014 at 16:27, Nio Wiklund nio.wikl...@gmail.com mailto:nio.wikl...@gmail.com wrote: Den 2014-12-09 14:57,

Re: Hide boot on-screen errors, or get TV-out working on ATI Radeon X300

2014-12-07 Thread Israel
On 12/07/2014 01:31 PM, John Hupp wrote: Victory! I created /etc/sysctl.d/20-quiet-printk.conf with content: kernel.printk = 3 3 3 3 I hit Return at the end, since an End-Of-Line character may be required to make the line effective. This overrides the default behavior established

Re: Hide boot on-screen errors, or get TV-out working on ATI Radeon X300

2014-12-06 Thread Israel
On 12/06/2014 06:27 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 12/6/2014 6:59 PM, John Hupp wrote: This started out as a quest to get rid of inelegant and troubling on-screen messages appearing during boot before the Plymouth splash. I have seen this on some number of PC's over time. Initially I thought that

Re: Color management

2014-12-06 Thread Israel
Hi Star Man, I am not entirely sure what it is that you specifically mean. Are you asking about changing the look of the applications? Are you instead asking about how the colors appear on your monitor (i.e. does red look RED and green look GREEN) or have I totally missed what it is you mean. On

Re: How old is your computer?

2014-12-04 Thread Israel
On 12/04/2014 09:26 AM, Barry Titterton wrote: Hi All, How old is the oldest computer that you have in regular use? I was prompted to ask this question by a comment that I over heard while doing some Linux advocacy at my local community centre. They run beginners computer courses (Windows

Re: stop dbus, new user account

2014-12-03 Thread Israel
On 12/03/2014 11:16 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:46 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Fritz, It might be worth trying to add a new user. Check if the new user has the same issues. If the

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 4

2014-12-03 Thread Israel
your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Lubuntu-users digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Stop dbus. startx, update/upgrade errors? (Fritz Hudnut) 2. Re: Stop dbus. startx, update/upgrade errors? (Israel) 3. Re: donate (Rafael Laguna

Re: Lubuntu : One month later

2014-12-03 Thread Israel
On 12/03/2014 03:41 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 12/03/2014 01:30 PM, Florian Coste wrote: In fact, it's just a suggestion. I know that many people recommend the LTS version for beginners. In the french unbutu website, after some discuss, we had put foward the LTS version Ubuntu 14.04 for

Re: running speedtest-cli automatically?

2014-12-03 Thread Israel
On 12/03/2014 08:04 AM, Mark MacKenzie wrote: Good morning. I live in an area (northern New Mexico) where the internet service is decent during the day but falls off miserably during the evening when of course everyone around me is using it. However, the local provider (Windstream) insists

Re: Stop dbus. startx, update/upgrade errors?

2014-12-02 Thread Israel
On 12/02/2014 11:36 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: @Is: Tried the various options . . . from the -f install command it showed 0 upgraded, 0 newly install, 0 to remove, 11 not upgraded . . . so I ran the fuser command and the prompt just returned very quickly . . . I rebooted, same problem. Ran

Re: Stop dbus. startx, update/upgrade errors?

2014-12-01 Thread Israel
On 11/30/2014 12:02 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: From: Israel israeld...@gmail.com mailto:israeld...@gmail.com To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Stop dbus. startx, or self sabotage? Message-ID: 5478b45b.6070...@gmail.com

Re: Lubuntu : One month later

2014-12-01 Thread Israel
Hi again, (inline replies) On 12/01/2014 04:10 PM, Florian Coste wrote: Thank you for the Microsoft fonts. I have install lubuntu-restricted-extras but after trying to print again this pdf, my printer give me back a white paper... In properties the pdf reader says me that the font Arial Bold

Re: Stop dbus. startx, update/upgrade errors?

2014-12-01 Thread Israel
Hi Fritz, actionparsnip has been around the Ubuntu neighborhood for quite a while, And those seem like very good suggestions. sudo apt-get -f install is a good idea incase you have some sort of problem from things not being fully downloaded... but the other seems better, as you can log in as a

Re: Stop dbus. startx, or self sabotage?

2014-11-28 Thread Israel
Hi On 11/27/2014 01:47 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: Folks: [this account wasn't working this am, used another addy which bounced . . . sorry if it gets posted twice . . . .] Working with 14.04.1 on iBook G4 this am . . . hibernate is not really working, restarted the computer to get into GUI, did

Re: Stop dbus. startx, or self sabotage?

2014-11-28 Thread Israel
Hi again Fritz, The other solution I use a lot for these types of issues is to move my ~/.config directory to a backup mv ~/.config ~/configOLD (or whatever name you like) you can also move the .cache directory in the same way... then copy things back that you need (like mozilla folder) Hope this

Re: Trouble printing TuxPaint files in Lubuntu computer lab

2014-11-24 Thread Israel
LPR protocol. The only thing I did is to set the printer as my default, because tuxpaint prints without asking you what printer to use... So, did you check if your printer supports LPR/LPD? What printer are you using? 2014-11-19 20:20 GMT-02:00 Israel

Re: Trouble printing TuxPaint files in Lubuntu computer lab

2014-11-24 Thread Israel
Yay!! I am always so glad that people have their issues fixed!! This is what makes this community so amazing!! On 11/24/2014 02:01 PM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: I'm very happy you found the solution! Count on us if you need something else! Cheers! 2014-11-24 16:15 GMT-02:00 Marc Tremblay

Re: the 6 ways Experts show themselves

2014-11-23 Thread Israel
On 11/23/2014 08:14 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Den 2014-11-23 15:04, Israel skrev: On 11/23/2014 05:40 AM, sd wrote: This is indeed a good read to learn how to improve yourself. However, the author(s) oversimplify human interaction when they claim one can distinguish fake from real expert based

Re: donate

2014-11-20 Thread Israel
On 11/20/2014 10:36 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Fran, the greedy page that takes your money is at http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute On there you get to say which area(s) it goes to. (Lubuntu comes under the banner 'community projects') But, as you will have read from

Re: Trouble printing TuxPaint files in Lubuntu computer lab

2014-11-19 Thread Israel
On 11/19/2014 03:22 PM, Marc Tremblay wrote: Thanks Andre, The teachers would like to print directly from the application. I found a workaround where I have TuxPaint save the files in the pictures folder and then if I right click and select open with Firefox or Abiword , I am the able

Re: Request help respinning 14.10 w/Black Lab Image Creator

2014-11-17 Thread Israel
Hi all, On 11/17/2014 09:39 AM, John Hupp wrote: On 11/16/2014 11:10 PM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: [snip] added a line to blacklabimager to get all the files from the bios directory including the boot.cat http://boot.cat one I had added into it; cp /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/*

Re: mkusb PPAs for vivid (Phill Whiteside)

2014-11-17 Thread Israel
HAHAHA :D On 11/17/2014 07:09 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: Hi, On 17 November 2014 13:04, Phill Whiteside phi...@phillw.net mailto:phi...@phillw.net wrote: I take it that this is an attempt to blow my brain up? :P In the words of Jon Luc Piccard make it so... aka, get it done

Re: mkusb PPAs for vivid (Phill Whiteside)

2014-11-17 Thread Israel
Hey, Oh wait... maybe you meant: make it.so :) On 11/17/2014 07:09 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: Hi, On 17 November 2014 13:04, Phill Whiteside phi...@phillw.net mailto:phi...@phillw.net wrote: I take it that this is an attempt to blow my brain up? :P In the words of Jon Luc

Re: Good news - Dell Dimension 2400 - Intel Graphics (also Dell DX-1100 Intel Graphics)

2014-11-15 Thread Israel
On 11/15/2014 04:02 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 11/15/2014 11:53 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: Hi, I'm refurbishing an old Dell Dimension 2400. Whilst it has other, non-lubuntu, issues, I can confirm that the GUI is fine. Details:- Dell Dimension 2400 768MiB RAM Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz

Re: Request help respinning 14.10 w/Black Lab Image Creator

2014-11-14 Thread Israel
On 11/14/2014 07:49 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: .. Oh, silly me. I forgot about OBI until after I'd already send my last post. I was going to add it this morning, but Israel beat me to it. Since the creator of OBI frequents this mail list, that may be the best route for you John. He's gotten

Re: Request help respinning 14.10 w/Black Lab Image Creator

2014-11-14 Thread Israel
that you'll know how to do it). Best regards Nio Den 2014-11-14 23:09, Israel skrev: On 11/14/2014 07:49 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: .. Oh, silly me. I forgot about OBI until after I'd already send my last post. I was going to add it this morning, but Israel beat me to it. Since the creator

Re: Request help respinning 14.10 w/Black Lab Image Creator

2014-11-13 Thread Israel
On 11/13/2014 06:55 PM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: On 11/13/2014 05:07 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 11/13/2014 4:53 PM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: To whomever may be able to provide some insight; Black Lab Image Creator (BLIC) 1.5 has NOT been tested with Lubuntu 14.10, but I'd like to continue using it to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Israel
On 11/01/2014 04:50 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 11/01/2014 03:24 PM, Boris Reinhard wrote: Almost there Fritz, you will need to run firmware-b43-installer the legacy one is for oder cards, yours is one of the newer Airport extreme cards. You might need to remove the legacy installer,

Re: Roadmap proposal for Lubuntu 15.04

2014-10-28 Thread Israel
On 10/28/2014 12:28 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Nio Wiklund nio.wikl...@gmail.com wrote: Den 2014-10-28 18:21, Lars Noodén skrev: On 28.10.2014 19:15, Pierre Gobin wrote: Let's take advantage of our 14.04 LTS version, and accept regressions in a short term,

Re: WIFI connectivity issues with WPA2 enterprise and Lubuntu 13.10 and up

2014-10-24 Thread Israel
it has to be some elusive small issue that is easy to overlook but we shall see :) On 10/24/2014 08:13 AM, Marc Tremblay wrote: Hi Israel, I will try launching the nm-applet to resolve the issue of not seeing the network indicator and who knows maybe I will then be able to get

Re: WIFI connectivity issues with WPA2 enterprise and Lubuntu 13.10 and up

2014-10-24 Thread Israel
Hey, Andre has a really good idea. You can set one computer up fully. Then you can use Nio's great program mktbl and use his OBI installer to dd the image onto the other computers. It is extremely fast to install from OBI (about 1 minute on an old computer). And you will have identical systems

Re: OT: Survey on Still running PPC?--ToriOS for PPC!!???

2014-10-22 Thread Israel
Hi Fritz, as you may recall I have an iBook, so I have a vested interest in making a PPC version available. The only issue (currently) is that making a PPA for PPC is not possible. So, I would need to remake the packages by hand for each update for JWM or the settings manager or the scripts, and

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu oversize

2014-10-20 Thread Israel
On 10/20/2014 10:01 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 10/19/2014 11:03 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Dear Lubuntu testers, release manager and everybody else with an opinion, * If you think it is important with a desktop ISO file within CD size, please tell us here and now! * If you think it is enough

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu oversize

2014-10-20 Thread Israel
we discuss things for 15.04 :) Israel, keeping lubntu CD sized is a task. My proposal for 15.04 and beyond is that desktop can 'grow' but that alternate stays CD size. With the options of minimal[1] lubuntu keeps it small, mean, lean and green :) Regards, Phill. 1. https://help.ubuntu.com

Re: AW: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Israel
Hi, My experience has been 512MB is on the edge for installing Lubuntu. I agree with the statement that running the installer ONLY, rather than the Live desktop AND installer will be the best thing for that little RAM. The Live System is a great way to test a computer! But when you have 512 RAM,

Re: How to reconstruct GRUB for 14.04 on MBPro?

2014-10-13 Thread Israel
On 10/13/2014 10:25 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:00 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Yes you can reinstall GRUB2... You boot a LiveCD and can reinstall GRUB2 from there the command grub-install

Re: How to reconstruct GRUB for 14.04 on MBPro?

2014-10-12 Thread Israel
On 10/12/2014 12:26 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: Peeps: Wondering if anybody could give me some hints to help get normal booting of my 14.04 system? Have a triple boot set up with two versions of OSX in front of 14.04, which I access using rEFInd, which then loads GRUB. Did a system upgrade of

Re: Problems to start LUBUNTO

2014-10-11 Thread Israel
On 11 October 2014 15:59, Israel israeld...@gmail.com mailto:israeld...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, If I understand you correctly, you installed Lubuntu to the hard drive, but it will not boot? Is this correct? If this correct, what does the computer do? Does it get stuck

Re: New Lenovo Netbook (broadcom wireless)

2014-10-09 Thread Israel
On 10/09/2014 11:31 AM, J. Van Brimmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Israel israeld...@gmail.com mailto:israeld...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jerry, I forgot about the option of using ethernet during install to detect and install the needed drivers :) I have had issues where

Re: New Lenovo Netbook (broadcom wireless)

2014-10-05 Thread Israel
On 10/04/2014 08:51 PM, J. Van Brimmer wrote: Yes, I have just started recording the first DVD+R disc. I'm using the Lenovo tool called Create Recovery Media. It did not tell me how many discs it's going to take. The first disc just finished. It was the boot disc. Data disc1

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

2014-10-05 Thread Israel
Hi Andre, B43 has usually been very easy to install for me sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer On 10/05/2014 08:40 AM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: Aere, if you don't want to mess user configurations with different linux distros using a single /home, you can simply use different

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

2014-10-03 Thread Israel
Hi, I'd like to add something here... You can image the entire drive to a compressed tarball if you have a device with enough storage space. So irregardless of what happens, you could always re-image your computer. I have never done it with Windows, but it should work just fine. The xz format will

Re: New Lenovo Netbook

2014-10-03 Thread Israel
Hi, Every so often I get a computer with windows on it, and I resize the windows partition for the person, so they can run their Windows only apps. I have never once had an issue. But really, most of the time, I only use Windows to update the BIOS. And then the next thing I do is install a

Re: Live DVD (14.04) works fine but problems after install

2014-10-02 Thread Israel
Hi Andre, I have used HTML5 in firefox with those 3 missing. Just try it. :) On 10/02/2014 05:29 PM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: I'm using HTML5 with Chrome. But I would love to get rid of Flash Player on FireFox too... This page (https://www.youtube.com/html5) points that I need to solve: -

Re: broken sound in one of user's account

2014-10-02 Thread Israel
in alsamixer to make sure everything is not muted... You can open is by typing alsamixer in a terminal. Just look to see if any have MM at the base rather than 00 On 10/02/2014 04:50 PM, Michal Šíma wrote: Hi Israel, audio is there listed, but the sound is still not available. Michal Dne

Re: Live DVD (14.04) works fine but problems after install

2014-10-02 Thread Israel
Hi Andre, :) Great that is works for you! On 10/02/2014 08:52 PM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: Yes Israel, I tried.. Now it is working, I just needed to click to use always as possible! I tought that was standard... 2014-10-02 20:14 GMT-03:00 Israel israeld...@gmail.com mailto:israeld...@gmail.com

Re: broken sound in one of user's account

2014-10-01 Thread Israel
Hi Michal, Is that user a member of the audio group? I am sure there is a graphical tool to do it, but you open a terminal in their session and type groups You should see audio listed If not use your account that has administrative rights usermod -a -G audio /ACTUAL_USER//_NAME/ Where

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]}

Re: LibreOffice under Lubuntu

2014-09-28 Thread Israel
Hi Peter, test it with the Nvidia drivers and see if that fixes it. For me, the Nvidia drivers have weird graphical issues while the nouveau do not. However, nouveau drivers no longer let me suspend in 14.04, so I am stuck with occasional graphical oddities. On 09/28/2014 10:20 AM, Peter

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 2 released!

2014-09-27 Thread Israel
Hi, What type of graphics card do you have? running this from a terminal: lspci | grep VGA should give a fairly good idea I assume QuadG5 is PPC Mac, right? There have been some issues with Macs lately On 09/27/2014 02:44 AM, Luigi Burdo wrote: Like the previus on QuadG5 efl64 and 7800gtx

Re: Error initializing camera: -53: Could not claim the USB device

2014-09-26 Thread Israel
, Israel wrote: Hi John, It seems that this *may* be a bug in PCManFM. You might point the developers to this bug. Here is their mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pcmanfm-develop My reasoning is, if Shotwell can find it correctly, then the backend MUST work (except

Re: Error initializing camera: -53: Could not claim the USB device

2014-09-25 Thread Israel
! All the same, I hope someone pursues and fixes this. I prefer Lubuntu's initial default of using PCManFM for camera downloads -- it's just not working well now. --John On 9/23/2014 10:18 PM, Israel wrote: Hi John! I would

Re: LibreOffice under Lubuntu

2014-09-24 Thread Israel
On 09/24/2014 03:18 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 9/24/2014 3:57 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Hello All, I've encountered a problem with running LibreOffice (4.4.0.x) on a fresh installation of Lubuntu 14.04, in that text only paints as the mouse moves over it and mainly, but not always

Re: LibreOffice under Lubuntu

2014-09-24 Thread Israel
On 09/24/2014 04:38 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 24/09/14 21:56, Israel wrote: On 09/24/2014 03:18 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 9/24/2014 3:57 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Hello All, I've encountered a problem with running LibreOffice (4.4.0.x) on a fresh installation of Lubuntu 14.04

Re: Error initializing camera: -53: Could not claim the USB device

2014-09-23 Thread Israel
Hi John! I would check out some of the documentation on the gvfs... However you can try gvfs-mount --unmount /location/ where location is the actual location. You can also use gvfs-mount -o to watch what it is dong when you plug it in. (it monitors the output) man gvfs-mount will give you more

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 16

2014-09-16 Thread Israel
Hi all, I am glad someone got a chuckle out of it :) yes, man is the built in MANUAL. You can use it to find out information about virtually everything. There are lots of other really useful commands, such as locate If you want lots of streaming info across your screen try locate man locate cat

Re: manual please

2014-09-15 Thread Israel
On 09/15/2014 01:14 PM, Yvonne Bamford wrote: man man? -- Regards -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users

Re: manual please

2014-09-15 Thread Israel
Hi Yvonne, my last e-mail was meant to be somewhat humourous, however I suppose I am not very funny sometimes, as only a nerd would get that joke. What is it that you are actually needing? The terminal command man Will give you information about virtually every program that is on your computer

Re: USB installing

2014-09-14 Thread Israel
Hi Phill, I'd like to add mkusb to this list. https://launchpad.net/~mkusb/+archive/ubuntu/ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa # and press Enter to accept it sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mkusb and for screen shots: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/pictures This is very

Re: Basil's question (move home to separate partition and restore working system)

2014-09-13 Thread Israel
Israel, No problem with the new thread, Just wasn't expecting to see my name up in lights so soon in life... Your suggestions were probably good, but I had this problem with 20GB spare to hold 3 versions of a 30GB folder... I followed up the links which were again addressing a slightly different

Re: Failure to wake from suspend in iBook w/14.04PPC

2014-09-13 Thread Israel
Fritz, I am sorry to hear about this... I wish PPC was more supported, but I am not entirely sure what else you can do. There is of course the kernel bisection route... but that is a LONG process of checking many builds of the kernel to see where the problem started... You'd have to talk to the

Re: Failure to wake from suspend in iBook w/14.04PPC

2014-09-12 Thread Israel
Hi Fritz, you cannot install 386 or 64 bit on PPC... you may have to install a kernel by compiling it if you really want the new kernel. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BuildYourOwnKernel https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#How_can_I_configure_and_compile_my_own_kernel_under_PowerPC_Linux.3F

Basil's question (move home to separate partition and restore working system)

2014-09-10 Thread Israel
Hi Basil, I wanted to move this to a new thread, so it would be easier to spot in people's inbox :) OS/2 eh? I remember using that for a while. Unfortunately that was during the time of MS' big move to control the market. And well, they did. They are still trying to, however the advent of the

Re: Lost my GUI in 14.10

2014-09-09 Thread Israel
probably should too unless you understand what the other types are and why you want to use them. I hope that explained what I meant much better On 09/09/2014 11:36 AM, Basil Fernie wrote: Hi Israel, Thanks for the as always considerate response. 1. I tried the sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get

Re: Lost my GUI in 14.10

2014-09-08 Thread Israel
there is no sound problem at all) Henk Israel schreef op 6-9-2014 om 20:25: Great Henk! So everything works for both L(X)ubuntu? This issue shouldn't be present then in the daily builds, is this correct? You say there is a sound problem now? Is this for Lubuntu or Xubuntu? Maybe testing

Re: Lost my GUI in 14.10

2014-09-06 Thread Israel
to this driver was received. Very strange there is still a sound problem in this distro. In Lubuntu 14.10 I did therefore also an upgrade sudo upgrade nvidia-304 and got the desktop back! Henk Israel schreef op 5-9-2014 om 22:33: Hi Henk, So, if I understand you Lubuntu cannot enter the Destkop

Re: Lost my GUI in 14.10

2014-09-05 Thread Israel
Hi Henk, What packages were upgraded on your system? Something like this command: awk '$3~/^upgrade$/ {print $4;}' /var/log/dpkg.log can get that info. On 09/05/2014 03:52 AM, Henk Terhell wrote: The GUI has gone again after upgrades this week ... Henk Henk Terhell schreef op 2-9-2014 om

Re: Lost my GUI in 14.10

2014-09-05 Thread Israel
issue when you update. Hope this is fully fixed before release! On 09/05/2014 08:34 AM, Henk Terhell wrote: Hi Israel If I recall correctly I got two times upgrades of 14.10 in last two days, 3 sept. and today. Lost my desktop again with the first one. The output of your command is below

Re: Lost my GUI in 14.10

2014-09-05 Thread Israel
and worked for me out-of-the-box. In Xubuntu 14.10 I haven't yet figured out how to get sound as Pulseaudio cannot find there my built-in monitor speakers. Henk Henk Terhell schreef op 5-9-2014 om 17:12: Thanks Israel I had filed a bug report #1363919 in the nvidia drivers section some

Re: [Off-Topic] ToriOS Alpha is here!

2014-09-01 Thread Israel
Projects, the lack of manpower is the main reason why this is not a full option project :) nothing is prefect and we have had defeated lots of challenges. Our developers got busy with real life and Israel had to take the burden of learning development and help. So, you see, having a PPC image

Re: Lost my GUI in 14.10

2014-09-01 Thread Israel
304 driver, the blank screen problem persists and thereafter I can only enter terminal mode after alt-F1. Henk Henk Terhell schreef op 29-8-2014 om 20:58: Hi Israel the output is: lightdm is already the newest version (no upgrade or install done) I recall that I had to install all versions

Re: Testing report: Did the 14.04 upgrade . . . how do I fix it?

2014-08-31 Thread Israel
Hi Fritz, AFAIK suspend is directly tied to the graphics card. Not sure how you can go about fixing this though. Maybe someone else has the same graphics card... you can always duckduckgo-ogle it On 08/31/2014 03:17 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: @Israel, et al: Yeah, tested suspend or rather revive

Re: Testing report: Did the 14.04 upgrade . . . how do I fix it?

2014-08-31 Thread Israel
also be due to the built-in drivers being updated to target newer hardware, rather than older... :( I do hope you can find out a solution for it. If you do, please add it to the PPC wiki page!! On 08/31/2014 03:56 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: @Israel: Thanks for the reply, appreciate the time

Re: Working Power Manager in Lubuntu 14.04?

2014-08-30 Thread Israel
and is marked as confirmed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-power-manager/+bug/1307545. The newer bug seams to be the problem. On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:53:51 -0500 Israel israeld...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Juraj, I don't know a lot about those specific cards. I have a similar one

Re: Lubuntu on acer ferrari 4000

2014-08-29 Thread Israel
Hi Nikolaos, The best way to know what issues you may face is to download the ISO, and make a CD (or USB if your computer supports that) and try it out. A quick look at your specs shows that you may have some issues with the graphics card, but you may not :) So try out the Live version and let

Re: Lost my GUI in 14.10

2014-08-29 Thread Israel
On 08/29/2014 12:09 PM, Henk Terhell wrote: The output file on startx is attached. Henk Brendan Perrine schreef op 29-8-2014 om 18:38: On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:30:16 +0200 Henk Terhell hterh...@chello.nl wrote: for which a patch is underway). However, with the update of 14.10 today It may

Re: tester Lubuntu

2014-08-28 Thread Israel
Hi Mr. the Tank, (replies inline) On 08/28/2014 05:59 PM, Frank A. Abraham wrote: I'm a novice with Linuxs but I like Lubuntu. We do too!!! as far as I can tell the os needs work. It is migrating to Qt (LXQt) so the GTK version is in maintenance mode right now (the current Lubuntu, as well as

Re: Testing report: Did the 14.04 upgrade . . . how do I fix it?

2014-08-24 Thread Israel
Hi Fritz! The fix for the colors was a fairly simple one for me on my iBook. I just went to: http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-files grabbed the xorg matching my iBook, saved it as /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then restarted the display manager. You can restart it from a TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F1) Then simply

Re: Testing report: Did the 14.04 upgrade . . . how do I fix it?

2014-08-24 Thread Israel
for a model that has the same graphics card. On 08/24/2014 04:43 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: Israel: Thanks for the reply, so I need an xorg conf file, OK. But none of those listed iBooks looks exactly like mine, I've got a 933 MHz G4, with a radeon driver, should I pick one and then would I have

Re: 7 problems (-1) (+1)

2014-08-21 Thread Israel
Hi! (inline replies) On 08/21/2014 03:44 AM, spir wrote: 7 problems Hello, I just switched to lubuntu 10.04 and have 7 problems (minus 1 solved, mentionned to help others) (plus 1 time-honoured, see PS). === system versions === System installation was very problematic: Normal upgrade

Re: Leaving no trace on the web or in life . . . .

2014-08-21 Thread Israel
Hi all, The first time I used the internet was back in the early nineties, before that we used a BBS. For all of you who don't know what a BBS is, you should check it out. When I used a BBS, I would call a person's house with my modem to connect to their computer. I understood that by choosing

Re: Which themes do you use?

2014-08-20 Thread Israel
On 08/20/2014 03:02 AM, Juraj Fiala wrote: Which GTK/Openbox/icon themes do you use? Been looking around for some new look for my desktop, but I wasn't really succesful with Lubuntu ready themes. Hi, I use Numix Circle Numix GTK themes in JWM, but I usually use the dark Lubuntu theme with

Re: Problem with minimize

2014-08-19 Thread Israel
On 08/19/2014 03:03 AM, fari...@arcor.de wrote: I was not on my computer for a month. Back home, i upgraded what there was new and now i encounter the following problem: When i minimize a program it quits instead (which is annoying ;) ). I'm underway to read all the digests of the last weeks

Re: problem with minimize

2014-08-19 Thread Israel
Hi, I would try to use the default configuration file and see if the problem persists. This will give us a better idea of where to start looking. It could be some small change somewhere has effected this. I know there have been some changes (in non lubuntu specific things) that have caused other

Re: Too big CD image (Lubuntu 14.04.1, 64-bit)

2014-08-17 Thread Israel
On 08/17/2014 07:25 AM, Vesa Paatero wrote: Hi, I downloaded the CD (supposedly CD...) image for Lubuntu 14.04.1, 64-bit, but it turned out that the file is too big for a standard 700MB CD. This is the file I got: Name: lubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso Size: 740294656 bytes MD5

Re: Working Power Manager in Lubuntu 14.04?

2014-08-17 Thread Israel
Hi Juraj, I have had no trouble with the xfce4-power-manager putting my computer to sleep. The graphics card is usually the main issue with Suspend. What kind of card do you have? you can use something like lspci | grep VGA to get the exact model. This might help us figure out how to help you

Re: Working Power Manager in Lubuntu 14.04?

2014-08-17 Thread Israel
to check out your issue on the internet, but I am very busy these days... On 08/17/2014 11:55 AM, Juraj Fiala wrote: Hi Israel, thanks for the reply. lspci | grep VGA outputs: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780M [Mobility Radeon HD 3200] It's

Re: disks utility

2014-08-16 Thread Israel
On 08/16/2014 06:41 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: On 16/08/14 12:15, Leszek Lesner wrote: Am Samstag, 16. August 2014, 12:13:36 schrieb Paul Sutton: Hi Any idea what the application is called for managing file systems on disks is called please

Re: Lubuntu-users flashdrive

2014-08-16 Thread Israel
On 08/16/2014 09:48 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:00 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: I install a different Linux version about every 3-4 days. I want to see them all. My favorite method is to

Re: Getting ready for mkusb

2014-08-13 Thread Israel
Hi Aere, I haven't tested it using two partitions, but from how I understand it it rewrites the entire drive. It uses the program dd to image the device completely with another image. It is very fast and has made some of the best bootable USBs I have used. It has consistently made a working

Re: a 30 seconds answer to exit button

2014-08-04 Thread Israel
On 08/04/2014 10:46 AM, txtmania wrote: Hi there, I just installed the 14.04.1 in a Acer latop Inspire. I noticed the the ibus package known issue, which has a work-around. However, I was surprised by a 30 seconds answer when pushing the exit button. Do you think this delay should be in

Re: wifi

2014-08-01 Thread Israel
Hi, do you use 14.10 or 14.04? There may (at present) be some bugs in 14.10, since it is not released until October. Also, what wireless tool are you using? If you are using network monitor it should generally work fine, but you can try some of the alternatives, like wicd it should automatically

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