Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

2014-11-05 Thread King Beowulf
On 11/04/2014 07:43 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >The Slackware devs released an upgrade for Firefox from 28.n to 31.n. > There are two display changes in the new version that I would like to have > work as they did in earlier versions but I cannot find a way to do this > within Firefox, and Web sea

Re: [PLUG] Agentx - what is it?

2014-11-05 Thread Dale Snell
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:00:56 -0800 website reader wrote: > I just now discovered a symbolic link in my /var folder area called > "agentx" which links to the /run/agentx executable (which is not > there) > > Should I be concerned about this? Just a quick glance seems to > reveal that it is both a

[PLUG] Junque Mail

2014-11-05 Thread Tim Wescott
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[PLUG] Agentx - what is it?

2014-11-05 Thread website reader
I just now discovered a symbolic link in my /var folder area called "agentx" which links to the /run/agentx executable (which is not there) Should I be concerned about this? Just a quick glance seems to reveal that it is both a monitoring program and controller for the Linux kernel. It appears t

Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

2014-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Quite often I download something only to discover that I failed to note > the name of the file and now I can't find it. John, It's been written that memory loss occurs as one senesces. Be warned! :-) Rich ___

Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

2014-11-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:30:37 -0800 Roderick Anderson dijo: >I'm running FF 32.0.x on Linux Mint 17. The downloads "window?" seems >to auto hide. Can't remember if that happens because of a >configuration decision I made but to get a listing of current/ongoing >downloads I click on a little (bu

[PLUG] On the subject of changing UIs ...

2014-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
Google Maps changed their UI very recently. The new interface lost the navigation arrows (or hid them so well I could not find them) and added street views for the entire neighborhood. However, ... There is a tiny icon in the lower right of the window that allows one to return to 'classic' g

Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

2014-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Roderick Anderson wrote: > I'm running FF 32.0.x on Linux Mint 17. The downloads "window?" seems to > auto hide. Can't remember if that happens because of a configuration > decision I made but to get a listing of current/ongoing downloads I click > on a little (but fat-ish) do

Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

2014-11-05 Thread Roderick Anderson
On 11/05/2014 08:46 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, James Bertelson wrote: > >> FWIW, I'm running the beta version (34.0) with the aforementioned classic >> theme and still have the downloads window (ctrl+j). Your install sounds >> wonky -- maybe blow away the profile and start fresh,

Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

2014-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, James Bertelson wrote: > FWIW, I'm running the beta version (34.0) with the aforementioned classic > theme and still have the downloads window (ctrl+j). Your install sounds > wonky -- maybe blow away the profile and start fresh, or grab the latest > stable from Mozilla's site r

Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

2014-11-05 Thread James Bertelson
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: >And the file download window seems to have disappeard too in -31.2. I > guess the developers have adopted the philosophy of 'if it works, break > it.' FWIW, I'm running the beta version (34.0) with the aforementioned classic theme and still have the d

Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

2014-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Rich Shepard wrote: > Regardless of how often I look at the choices in each category I do not > see that. Went looking specifically for that without success. More searching discovered an Arch Linux page that shows the solution, but it applies to only firefox-32.x, not -31.

Re: [PLUG] Re-arranging Firefox Display

2014-11-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 4 Nov 2014, Galen Seitz wrote: > No, sorry, I didn't take it any further. I didn't even bother with the > add-on. Looks like the theme restorer has a Icons + text / text only mode. > Did you try that? galen, Regardless of how often I look at the choices in each category I do not see