Re: That need to close bugs?

2007-09-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Just to pick up one question that wasn't answered during this thread ... On Sep 18, 2007, at 2:58 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: "Fergal Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... What is the rationale behind skipping closed bugs in a search? I've been burned by this in the past. I can understand why

Re: Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-09-26 Thread Michael R. Head
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 05:13 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > > > On 9/24/07, Tormod Volden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael R. Head suppressingfire.org> writes: > > The obvious suggestion is to use the alternate CD, but a > graphical > > installer that has l

Re: Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Olsson
First make sure you have this package installed: xserver-xorg-input-evdev I think your kernel needs to have evdev support to, or at least an evdev module loaded (but my gutsy kernel just worked out of the box). My original mouse configuration (which was really bad with all those latency problem

Re: Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Francesco Fumanti
Hello, Thanks for this interesting piece of information. Could you please paste the relevant section of the xorg.conf in a reply to this email, to show what has to be changed? In fact, I tried to do the change, but the X server did not startup correctly anymore. (I am back to the previous sett

Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi, I always thought the mouse behaved a little weird in "Linux". When I would drag-and-sweep select something with the mouse very quickly I would often end up with a selection that was smaller than I intended. Clearly there was some kind latency problem because X.org didn't get the mouse down

Re: tracker in gutsy [was: Re: Ubuntu Technical Board meeting, 2007-09-25]

2007-09-26 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
[Moved to -discuss] Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi, > > Matt Zimmerman [2007-09-25 13:10 -0700]: >> After a wandering discussion about the challenges facing Ubuntu Server, >> community and Canonical developers and the project in general, Soren's >> application was approved. Please welcome him as our ne

Re: Subpixel font rendering in gutsy

2007-09-26 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 26.09.2007 um 12:26 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > On Sep 21, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Alex Jones wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 23:45 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: >>> >>> Very small (12px in height and less) Monospace fonts (such as >>> those used by gnome-terminal) will not be rendered

Re: Subpixel font rendering in gutsy

2007-09-26 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Sep 21, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Alex Jones wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 23:45 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Very small (12px in height and less) Monospace fonts (such as those used by gnome-terminal) will not be rendered this way because several users have expressed dislike of the effect;