Re: [opensuse-gnome] Disabling touchpad while typing?

2016-05-22 Thread Richard Brown
On 22 May 2016 at 21:40, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On the other hand, xf86-input-synaptics _is_ installed and when > I manually invoke syndaemon, that addresses the problem. > > > Manually invoking syndaemon does not strike me as an approach we > want to force on our users (and I

Re: [opensuse-gnome] black background with TW20160105

2016-01-09 Thread Richard Brown
On 9 January 2016 at 17:27, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote: > >> That does not sound intentional at all, no.. and the openQA tests show >> that they have a valid background set. > > openQA works with fresh installs. It also works with

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Question re GNOME' future as it applies to Tumbleweed/openSUSE 42.x

2015-07-19 Thread Richard Brown
On 19 July 2015 at 12:43, Patrick Shanahan ptilopt...@gmail.com wrote: * Basil Chupin blchu...@iinet.net.au [07-19-15 03:10]: Perhaps this question could be best asked in openSUSE Factory but I think that it is more relevant for this list. I selected Gnome as the preferred desktop environment

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Re: How to avoid GNOME shutting down due to battery (allegedly) running low?

2014-06-27 Thread Richard Brown
On 27 June 2014 18:08, Marco Calistri marco.calis...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Dear Richard, I opened a bug some time ago but I am sure nobody have take it to verify: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880869 BIG SNIP! You're wrong to think that no one has paid attention to this issue.

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Re: How to avoid GNOME shutting down due to battery (allegedly) running low?

2014-05-30 Thread Richard Brown
@Marco - power-management in openSUSE 13.1 is really inefficient and unreliable. I read your email, but I never responded to it as I have personal experience with over half a dozen laptops which behave differently (in fact, exactly as you request). For example, on the x220 I'm using to write

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Using Yast with QT GUI

2014-05-15 Thread Richard Brown
On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 22:24 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote: Il 14/05/2014 11:55, Marco Calistri ha scritto: Il 13/05/2014 19:43, Richard Brown ha scritto: On 13 May 2014 22:22, Marco Calistri marco.calis...@yahoo.com.br wrote: I will provide a screenshot as soon I will be in my home

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Using Yast with QT GUI

2014-05-13 Thread Richard Brown
On Tue, 2014-05-13 at 12:08 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote: Hi list, Wonder if are there any hopes to have back the QT Yast GUI working in current and next openSUSE releases, as it was before. In my humble opinion the actual Yast GUI (which if I'm not wrong is gtk based) looks uglier in

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Alacarte 13.1

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 14:03 -0200, Marco Calistri wrote: Please review Alacarte for openSUSE 13.1 because it results being no more working to setting up new app/icons in main Menu and we must proceed by hand making custom /usr/share/ .desktop entries. Thanks. Cheers, -- Marco

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Alacarte 13.1

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
On 15 January 2014 10:41, Richard Brown rbrown...@opensuse.org wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 14:03 -0200, Marco Calistri wrote: Please review Alacarte for openSUSE 13.1 because it results being no more working to setting up new app/icons in main Menu and we must proceed by hand making custom

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Alacarte 13.1

2014-01-15 Thread Richard Brown
On 15 January 2014 12:52, Marco Calistri marco.calis...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Il 15/01/2014 07:46, Richard Brown ha scritto: On 15 January 2014 10:41, Richard Brown rbrown...@opensuse.org wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 14:03 -0200, Marco Calistri wrote: Please review Alacarte for openSUSE 13.1

[opensuse-gnome] Unable to click anything/gnome shell freezing - looking for people with the same symptom

2013-05-05 Thread Richard Brown
I'm having a very weird problem with one of my machines The Symptom - shortly after logging in, gnome-shell will be 'non-responsive' with the hot corners, Super/Windows Key, etc all failing to do anything. Clicking on the Activities or User Menu gets no response However, the machine is otherwise

Re: [opensuse-gnome] gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu not working?

2013-02-11 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Aj! I've just tested this - it looks like the problem was a miss-match between the Extension version and the gnome-shell version on the RC1 DVD If you update to the latest packages in the 12.3 repositories, you'll see the issue is resolved, so I'm going to close your bug Thanks for the report

Re: [opensuse-gnome] gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu not working?

2013-02-11 Thread Richard Brown
On 11 February 2013 13:16, Andreas Jaeger a...@suse.com wrote: Is this a missing recompilation or is something missing here? I'll test later today... Cheers, Andreas We've had this happen quite a bit in the past with our extensions packages (which is why this is the last one left) -

Re: [opensuse-gnome] Any interest in a green Adwaita theme?

2012-12-03 Thread Richard Brown
Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar dims...@opensuse.org 03/12/2012 09:02 Quoting Michael Catanzaro mike.catanz...@gmail.com: 1) Am I nuts for wanting this? Anyone else interested? Could something similar happen for 12.3? Not at all! Not to long ago, I was approached by Richard Brown

[opensuse-gnome] Re: [opensuse-project] stupid 12.1

2011-12-21 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Albert, As your email focuses very much on gnome, I'm CC'ing this reply to the opensuse-gnome mailinglist so my fellow gnomers can read your feedback. 1. Differences: In my opinion, the responsibility of a project like ours, producing Linux distributions, is to provide a solid, stable,

[opensuse-gnome] How does Nautilus detect 'remote' file systems?

2011-11-20 Thread Richard Brown
I'm curious as to how Nautilus is meant to detect 'remote' file systems, for the purpose of the 'Local Files Only' option in Nautilus's Preferences Preview Tab Does anyone know how it's meant to work? I have a machine with a number of mounts to remote NCP volumes Unfortunately nautilus

Re: [opensuse-gnome] 12.1 is done, what's next? :-)

2011-11-17 Thread Richard Brown
something better for all openSUSE users, not just GNOMErs) I think I've got a few other things bubbling away that I'd like us to think about but those are the top 4 that spring to mind.. Richard Brown Systems Engineering Team Leader City College Brighton and Hove Vincent Untz 11/17/11 1:16 PM