Re: [PLUG] Firefox themes

2010-11-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 21:20:02 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I killed Firefox. I didn't like its appearance, so I downloaded several >themes, intending to try them out one at a time. Of course, you have to >restart Firefox to see the new theme. So I selected one of the themes >and told Firefox to r

[PLUG] Firefox themes

2010-11-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
I killed Firefox. I didn't like its appearance, so I downloaded several themes, intending to try them out one at a time. Of course, you have to restart Firefox to see the new theme. So I selected one of the themes and told Firefox to restart. It did not restart. Clicking on the launch menu item, it

Re: [PLUG] (SOLVED) Python questions

2010-11-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:12:21 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: First, I managed to update python-mako, and then I discovered the problem with: gnome-python2-applet (x86_64) gnome-python2-desktop (x86_64) gnome-python2-gnomekeyring (x86_64) It turns out that there was a gnome-python2 package to creat

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu jumping off the X bandwagon?

2010-11-05 Thread Darren Couch
And here I am, chasing my way backwards towards a more minimalist desktop... I suppose its inevitable to want more eyecandy and a better platform to provide it, but until openGL starts beating DirectX in every possible way and hardware manufacturers cough up current stable 3d enabled drivers it see

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu jumping off the X bandwagon?

2010-11-05 Thread nathan
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:19:25 -0700, Matt McKenzie wrote: > Shuttleworth blog: > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 > > And of course the inevitable /. story and comments: > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/137212/Ubuntu-Dumps-X-For-Unity-On-Wayland?from=fb > >>From what it sound

[PLUG] Python questions

2010-11-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have four python files that Fedora 13 thinks need to be updated: gnome-python2-applet (x86_64) gnome-python2-desktop (x86_64) gnome-python2-gnomekeyring (x86_64) python-mako (noarch) Yumex will not update any of them because it complains that they are incompatible with other packages. So I deci

[PLUG] Ubuntu jumping off the X bandwagon?

2010-11-05 Thread Matt McKenzie
Shuttleworth blog: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 And of course the inevitable /. story and comments: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/137212/Ubuntu-Dumps-X-For-Unity-On-Wayland?from=fb >From what it sounds like, he wants to make a more aggressive move for "mobile devices",

Re: [PLUG] Clean OS install instead of upgrade

2010-11-05 Thread Russell Senior
> "Rich" == Rich Shepard writes: >> This is what /usr/local and /opt are for, and that's why I have >> both of them on separate partitions. Installing non-distribution >> stuff into /usr is just tempting fate. Rich>I've had this discussion with the slackbuilds.org folks and Rich> they in

Re: [PLUG] Clean OS install instead of upgrade (was Authentication denied: User doesn't exist 521)

2010-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Galen Seitz wrote: > This is what /usr/local and /opt are for, and that's why I have both of > them on separate partitions. Installing non-distribution stuff into /usr > is just tempting fate. galen, I've had this discussion with the slackbuilds.org folks and they insist t

Re: [PLUG] Clean OS install instead of upgrade (was Authentication denied: User doesn't exist 521)

2010-11-05 Thread Galen Seitz
Rich Shepard wrote: >This assumes that you do not install any applications in /usr/ other than > what comes on the distribution disks. For many of us, that's not the case. "It hurts when I do that." "Don't do that." This is what /usr/local and /opt are for, and that's why I have both of them

Re: [PLUG] Clean OS install instead of upgrade (was Authentication denied: User doesn't exist 521)

2010-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Matt McKenzie wrote: > One of the best ways to go, is to keep a separate partition for /home, > this way when you do a clean install of the newer version, all your user > data remains intact. Plus, you can backup your important /etc config > files to a subdirectory in /home (l

Re: [PLUG] Clean OS install instead of upgrade

2010-11-05 Thread Matt McKenzie
-- Matt M. LinuxKnight On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:21 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:28:02 -0700 > Russell Senior dijo: > > >> "Matt" == Matt McKenzie writes: > > > >Matt> IMHO, you get this response because it is the preferred method, > >Matt> especially if yo

Re: [PLUG] Clean OS install instead of upgrade

2010-11-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:28:02 -0700 Russell Senior dijo: >> "Matt" == Matt McKenzie writes: > >Matt> IMHO, you get this response because it is the preferred method, >Matt> especially if you are more than 2 versions distant from current. >Matt> Doing an upgrade from N-2 or earlier almost invar