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From: Liam Zwitser liamzwit...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Subject: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea?
To: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Hello everyone,
In Jaunty alpha 3 you can´t use CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart
Greetings all,
Where would be the best place to ask for
kernel features for 9.04 ?
thanks
nick L.
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mma...@mmarkk-desktop:/tmp$ sudo swapon -a
swapon: невозможно зупустить
/dev/disk/by-uuid/5066c9f1-b2a1-4a7c-b225-67f6cbb70c04: No such file or
directory
Опечатка зупустить - запустить
The same message in translit:
mma...@mmarkk-desktop:/tmp$ sudo swapon -a
swapon: nevozmojno
i'm mostly curious about the lacking webcam support on interpid (i
think no one has webcam working on interpid - specially those gspca,
the most known webcam format) - do jaunty has a solution for this
problem?
thanks and cheers,
Paulo
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I spent some time signing up for Linux the other day and must have
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2009/2/5 Loïc Martin loic.mart...@gmail.com:
Firts, I don't understand why language-support-translations-XX
install a package(s) thunderbird-locale-xx-XX when Ubuntu don't
install thunderbird mail client by default... Ubuntu uses evolution
as mail client, non?
It's due to the way
2009/1/30 Nick Lindsell nicklinds...@googlemail.com
Greetings all,
Where would be the best place to ask for
kernel features for 9.04 ?
thanks
nick L.
9.04 use 2.6.28, then you can find info here:
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_28
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On Friday 16 January 2009 15:58:23 Liam Zwitser wrote:
In Jaunty alpha 3 you can´t use CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart the X-server
anymore. I know that some users complained about restarting the X-server,
but I see a lot more, including yours truly, complaining about the fact
that the shortcut
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 13:39 -0800, Dylan McCall wrote:
Another thing worth noting is that Ubuntu's /default/ effects via Compiz
are very modest. In fact, they provide the same general features as
Metacity's compositor does by default with about a quarter the standards
compliance.
Not true.
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:18 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
If metacity just does the features in 'Normal' visual effects. Then you
could reserve the Extra button for installing compiz, much like the
codecs are installed.
This is the option we discussed last week; however Metacity doesn't
provide
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 06:54 -0700, LaMont Jones wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:18:09AM +, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
Boot-charting jaunty-A3 [1] on my SSD system, we see both the
'hwclockfirst.sh' and 'hwclock.sh' init scripts invoke 'hwclock
--hctosys --utc', being significant on the
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 22:53 +0100, Martin Olsson wrote:
PS. I think Lennart is doing a _terrific_ job; I'm hoping Ubuntu technical
board understands the need to be careful about merging new stuff to avoid
regressions. This experience has been quiet painful for me and I suspect
there is other
So in essence Scott, due to what you've highlighted as a lack of
testing input during the pre production lifecycle phases, your
suggesting that end users should endure the brunt of testing? As
Ubuntu needs to move forward rapidly, being cutting edge and cant be
so highly concerned with the risk of
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 00:53 +1100, Null Ack wrote:
So in essence Scott, due to what you've highlighted as a lack of
testing input during the pre production lifecycle phases, your
suggesting that end users should endure the brunt of testing? As
Ubuntu needs to move forward rapidly, being
Scott James Remnant wrote:
It's not that simple, in fact I'd go as far to say that we should never
adopt new things is a very dangerous position to take.
Thanks for posting, James. There were many excellent points in your reply.
After reading it, I do agree with you.
However, I will probably
Am 16.01.2009 um 16:58 schrieb Liam Zwitser:
I assume that most people don´t want to have to
restart their pc when the GUI chrashes.
I assume most people don't want their GUI to crash at all. That's a
serious data loss each time, after all.
If your X crashes from time to time that's
I agree with this guy, have it on by default, noobs can use GUI to switch it
off.
Else, millions of users will be doing this on first boot up:
alt f2
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section ServerFlags
Option DontZap no
EndSection
The important thing is that those millions of users
If your X crashes from time to time that's unfortunate for you, but a good
thing for Ubuntu as you get the chance to report and track down a bug.
Come on, are you kidding me? That attitude towards user-friendliness isn't
going to help Ubuntu at all. Sorry but a users X issues doesn't help
Am 10.02.2009 um 14:33 schrieb Scott James Remnant:
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 22:53 +0100, Martin Olsson wrote:
PS. I think Lennart is doing a _terrific_ job; I'm hoping Ubuntu
technical
board understands the need to be careful about merging new stuff
to avoid
regressions. This experience
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:31 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
Undoubtly, efforts to avoid regressions are a very good thing. One
possible solution is to offer the possibility to roll back to or keep
the previous technology. Perhaps you want to have a look at other
distros to get an idea on
Even if a new user is unfamiliar with the key combination, it only takes a
little education OR them doing it once. Lessons are learned hard.
Should we remove all the abilities that may damage the system?
Where does the line get drawn?
The C-A-B is an easy thing to learn and avoid, but a
Scott,
Scott James Remnant escreveu:
For those that need utmost stability, we have Long Term Support releases
every couple of years; we put extra effort into bug fixing for these,
and try to avoid any large subsystem changes.
and yet, pulseaudio was introduced in Hardy, the LTS release. I
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addressed your question? Presuming so, go to this page (
https://lists.ubuntu.com/), click on the link for any given mailing list
there that you want to unsubscribe from, scroll down, enter your email
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On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 14:13 +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Yes, we won't get to every single bug report filed; there are many tens
of thousands more users testing jaunty early than there are developers
who can fix the bugs.
And that leads to...
If you're someone that knows C and currently
Am 10.02.2009 um 16:35 schrieb Scott James Remnant:
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:31 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
Undoubtly, efforts to avoid regressions are a very good thing. One
possible solution is to offer the possibility to roll back to or keep
the previous technology. Perhaps you want to
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 15:57:02 Justin M. Wray wrote:
Even if a new user is unfamiliar with the key combination, it only takes a
little education OR them doing it once. Lessons are learned hard.
Should we remove all the abilities that may damage the system?
Where does the line get
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 15:02:51 Dylan McCall wrote:
The important thing is that those millions of users actually don't
mind tinkering with xorg.conf and probably do anyway. The users we are
trying to help, however, Don't Know The Key Combo Exists, or that
xorg.conf exists, or that they
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:35:50 + Scott James Remnant
sc...@canonical.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:31 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
Undoubtly, efforts to avoid regressions are a very good thing. One
possible solution is to offer the possibility to roll back to or keep
the previous
--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Felipe Figueiredo phils...@gmail.com wrote:
I just join the choir in the PulseAudio argument, in that
it was
introduced (IMHO) in Ubuntu 6 months ahead of schedule.
Even if it were introduced prematurely[0], there is no sense in
backing it out as a default in 8.04.3. What
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:59, Clive Wagenaar clivewagen...@gmail.comwrote:
(It is a pity this is from upstream where Arch, fedora etc will all also
'dumbed down' too)
Is this true? If it is, then C-A-B should be left disabled.
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On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 17:42 -0600, Nergar -blank- wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:59, Clive Wagenaar
clivewagen...@gmail.com wrote:
(It is a pity this is from upstream where Arch, fedora etc
will all also
'dumbed down' too)
Is this true? If
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 17:42 -0600, Nergar -blank- wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:59, Clive Wagenaar
clivewagen...@gmail.com wrote:
(It is a pity this is from upstream where Arch, fedora etc
will all also
'dumbed down' too)
Is this true? If
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Justin M. Wray
wray.justin.ubu...@gmail.com wrote:
Even if a new user is unfamiliar with the key combination, it only takes a
little education OR them doing it once. Lessons are learned hard.
This is poorly conceived thinking, but switching it off is straight
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:06 -0500, John Moser wrote:
The correct solution is not dead-simple to implement, but it works:
When you C-A-B, grab the whole screen and put up a confirmation dialog
like gksudo does. You can't switch desktops off it (CAB happens
sometimes while swapping around
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:10 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
I don't particularly care for the deicision that was made, but it's
been
made, so there's little point rehashing it now.
Scott K
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:37:49 -0500 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com
wrote:
I don't particularly care for the deicision that was made, but it's been
made, so there's little point rehashing it now.
Fallacy. I don't
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:37:49 -0500 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com
wrote:
This is engineering, not science. There is no single answer that is right
for everyone.
Engineering is science. How do you think engines
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:06 -0500, John Moser wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Justin M. Wray
wray.justin.ubu...@gmail.com wrote:
Even if a new user is unfamiliar with the key combination, it only takes a
little education OR them doing it once. Lessons are learned hard.
This is
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:26:06 -0500 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com
wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:37:49 -0500 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com
wrote:
This is engineering, not science. There is no single answer
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:06 -0500, John Moser wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Justin M. Wray
wray.justin.ubu...@gmail.com wrote:
Even if a new user is unfamiliar with the key combination, it only takes a
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