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Re: Presentation w/o covering panels

2011-03-02 Thread Dazed_75
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > The basic reason for wanting the panels to show is for doing a presentation > to newer users where you might want some instructions to still be visible on > the slide while you demonstrate the subject. It works reasonably well to > shift workspac

Re: Presentation w/o covering panels

2011-03-02 Thread der.hans
Am 02. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Ted Gould so: I'm not sure on that one, it usually comes from stacking issues in the WM... shouldn't ever happen really. Yeah, I figured it was a bug, but I had a presentation to give, so ignored it. Guess it's a feature for Larry :). ciao, der.hans -- # http://w

Re: Presentation w/o covering panels

2011-03-02 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 12:09 -0700, der.hans wrote: > Am 02. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: > > Thanks Hans, that works most of the time. I was wanting to use the > > menus/panels while the audience could still see the slide (and I do not like > > the windowed view). I'll try on a meerkat machin

Re: Presentation w/o covering panels

2011-03-02 Thread Dazed_75
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:09 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 02. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: > > Thanks Hans, that works most of the time. I was wanting to use the >> menus/panels while the audience could still see the slide (and I do not >> like >> the windowed view). I'll try on a meerkat mach

Re: Presentation w/o covering panels

2011-03-02 Thread der.hans
Am 02. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: Thanks Hans, that works most of the time. I was wanting to use the menus/panels while the audience could still see the slide (and I do not like the windowed view). I'll try on a meerkat machine but using the virtual desktops work almost as well. OO 3.2

Re: Presentation w/o covering panels

2011-03-02 Thread Dazed_75
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM, der.hans wrote: > Am 02. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: > > moin moin, > > > At SCaLE, a number of presenters had their Gnome panels still showing >> while >> doing their slide show. I've no ben able to duplicate that with OO >> Impress. Does anyone know how?

Re: SCaLE9x redux

2011-03-02 Thread der.hans
Am 02. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Lisa Kachold so: Much of the content might best been steamed and YouTubed, however it would have to be a voluntary endeavor at the low cost of the con. I believe the plan is for Conference By Wire to host the videos and have them available. Conference By Wire did a g

RE: SCaLE9x redux

2011-03-02 Thread der.hans
Am 02. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Ted Gould so: As a speaker I can say that they've been harassing me for slides very effectively. I imagine that other's will be unable to avoid them as well :) Yeah, Bala was after me for mine even though I'd turned them in via the speaker registration as requested.

RE: SCaLE9x redux

2011-03-02 Thread der.hans
Am 02. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Taylor, Kaia so: I'm totally stoked from SCaLE. I spent all day Friday at devOps, and think that from there I can start helping my team to change our self image in a way that makes more money for the company. Hans, Leigh Honeywell's keynote on hackerspaces was great.

Re: Presentation w/o covering panels

2011-03-02 Thread der.hans
Am 02. Mar, 2011 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: moin moin, At SCaLE, a number of presenters had their Gnome panels still showing while doing their slide show. I've no ben able to duplicate that with OO Impress. Does anyone know how? Use my laptop, apparently. I don't know why that happened, but wou

Re: Presentation w/o covering panels

2011-03-02 Thread Dazed_75
Hmmm, maybe its in a newer OO Impress. This machine is still on 3.1 and I found http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1512876 which seems to show that 3.2 might work the way I want it to. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > At SCaLE, a number of presenters had their Gnome p

Presentation w/o covering panels

2011-03-02 Thread Dazed_75
At SCaLE, a number of presenters had their Gnome panels still showing while doing their slide show. I've no ben able to duplicate that with OO Impress. Does anyone know how? -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it alwa

Re: SCaLE9x redux

2011-03-02 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 08:56 -0700, Taylor, Kaia wrote: > > I'm totally stoked from SCaLE. I spent all day Friday at devOps, and > > think that from there I can start helping my team to change our self > > image in a way that makes more money for

RE: SCaLE9x redux

2011-03-02 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 08:56 -0700, Taylor, Kaia wrote: > I'm totally stoked from SCaLE. I spent all day Friday at devOps, and > think that from there I can start helping my team to change our self > image in a way that makes more money for the company. > Hans, Leigh Honeywell's keynote on hacker

Re: Why does the $%&#@!# NUMLOCK key dies? :(

2011-03-02 Thread Dazed_75
Could you be a bit mre specific what you mean by "NUMLOCK key quits working"? Do you mean it no longer has any effect? Or that it is the NUMLOCK key itself that is outputting control characters? Or do you mean that the numeric pad puts out control characters as if NUMLOCK was off and that the NUM

RE: SCaLE9x redux

2011-03-02 Thread Taylor, Kaia
I'm totally stoked from SCaLE. I spent all day Friday at devOps, and think that from there I can start helping my team to change our self image in a way that makes more money for the company. Hans, Leigh Honeywell's keynote on hackerspaces was great. What I would really like instead of video i

Why does the $%&#@!# NUMLOCK key dies? :(

2011-03-02 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Hello cybernetic intelligence: This is what's happening: Every so often, and in several Ubuntu machines that I take care of (and some KDE machines before I ditched KDE), suddenly, and for not apparent reason, the NUMLOCK key quits working and all I get is control characters regardless of the

Re: Monitor changes to a file

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Ballon
You could also try using strace as well, although maybe I just don't understand exactly what you need. Note; if the script doesn't run long enough it's hard to catch the data. For example when I ran dd below with a count of 1000 both text files were empty. I ran this as myself and root, the results