Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 19.10 and Xubuntu 19.04 and dual quad core Xeon E5335 CPUs

2019-10-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Not-OT: IIRC there were several 5.2 and/or 5.3 kernel issues related mails on the Arch general mailing list. Arch is a rolling release, however, it provides a LTS kernel, that at the moment is at 4.19.76 and actually Ubuntu's 16.04 lowlatency is [root@archlinux moonstudio]# systemd-nspawn apt -qq

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 19.10 and Xubuntu 19.04 and dual quad core Xeon E5335 CPUs

2019-10-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 03 Oct 2019 02:41:50 +, er...@ericheickmeyer.com wrote: >The reason it's slower than the generic kernel is that the lowlatency >kernel prioritizes AUDIO, nothing else. Hi, this is completely irrelevant, if the OP suffers from a regression after an upgrade. It has got impact, but in a

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [ubuntu-studio-users] Ubuntu Studio 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Beta Released

2019-09-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 11:49:19 -0700, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: >Ralf: Mousepad is part of the Xfce suite, so for consistency sake we >include it. Xfce includes no official GUI archiver, so we (and Xubuntu) >include File Roller from GNOME. There's your consistency. It's arguable that a distro for creat

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [ubuntu-studio-users] Ubuntu Studio 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Beta Released

2019-09-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My impression is, that this release is a good starting point for almost all creative domains. I doubt that Luke would consider the default optimal regarding privacy and it for sure does not fit my world view related to pro audio, but I didn't notice an issue, it should be possible to tailor it to i

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [ubuntu-studio-users] Ubuntu Studio 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Beta Released

2019-09-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:55:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Eoan Ermine (beta) released by Erich Eickmeyer :). >^^ ^ ^ > >I'll download it later and at least test it as a live-DVD when I backup >my Linux installs tonight or during the weekend. Hi,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [ubuntu-studio-users] Ubuntu Studio 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Beta Released

2019-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Eoan Ermine (beta) released by Erich Eickmeyer :). ^^ ^ ^ I'll download it later and at least test it as a live-DVD when I backup my Linux installs tonight or during the weekend. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setti

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] New Live Music Control Application

2019-09-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Elias Kesh wrote: >> WebKit Which version of webkit? Note, that Ubuntu dropped libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 for Ubuntu flavour releases >= Disco, see https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 . Guitarix once had a dependency to libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, https://packages.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Solution to my problem

2019-07-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:25:14 -0400, Mike Squires wrote: >When "grub" is installing it finds two LINUX kernels to boot but both >are labeled as "low latency" when being installed by "grub". Is the >second one really a version without the "low latency" mods? Running dpkg -l 'linux-image-*-*' |

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Studio 19.04 vs XUBUNTU 19.04 vs dual quad Xeon

2019-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:08:33 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >I forgot to mention: The big difference between what I have and your >setup is that I am using an Intel GPU. Hi, I wonder why anybody does run a desktop machine using RAID and I even more wonder that anybody does use RAID, if the deskt

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

2019-06-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:33:53 -0400, Luigino Bracci wrote: >I apologize for the rudeness of what I'm going to say, but stop >creating 32-bit distributions is a decision that seems taken by people >living in New York, having computers with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSDs, >and believing that the rest of t

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Kali Distro

2019-05-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 8 May 2019 19:08:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >modern pencils for graphic tablets This should read^^^ tablet PCs :D. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubu

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Kali Distro

2019-05-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, IMO an AIO approach always requires a rotten compromise. Not only related to the chosen Linux distro, but also to the chosen hardware. You either chose climate protection or you chose a super-computer with a super-instruction set, that anyway is not used by packages provided from repositories

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Web design/theme contribution

2019-04-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, if you need photos of a mixing console, small, not original British, keyboards from small Bluetooth to a real synth, guitars from classic to electric, assimilated by the hex pickup Borg, airbrush from a more or less unknown brand to DeVilbiss cult, pencils, 35mm film, an analog reflex camera,

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio Handbook

2019-02-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:30:45 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >There were a lot of discussions related to Calf >plugins, perhaps the AudioHandbook should take them into account, for >example >http://lists.ardour.org/pipermail/ardour-users-ardour.org/2018-November/date.html. Oops, this is th

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio Handbook

2019-02-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I found something that I don't want to edit without your agreement. "Having tried out a few of these tools, my favorites list ended up with mostly standard Calf plugins. They come with an intuitive GUI and get the job done." - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/AudioHandbook/Mixin

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Possible explanation of my problems with Ubuntu Studio 18.10 and video may require more than 768MB in some cases

2018-12-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 14:27:15 -0500, Mike Squires wrote: >I wonder if it might have something to do with the security updates >for the various problems like Spectre. You could disable those mitigations, but they unlikely cause that kind or performance issue. Read this thread, IOW this request and _

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Possible explanation of my problems with Ubuntu Studio 18.10 and video may require more than 768MB in some cases

2018-12-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 14:27:15 -0500, Mike Squires wrote: >My guess is that there is something about the low-latency kernel that >causes my dual Xeon quad core to slow down dramatically. You are dual booting between two releases of Ubuntu, one is running ok, the other does cause performance issues?

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Possible explanation of my problems with Ubuntu Studio 18.10 and video may require more than 768MB in some cases

2018-12-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, the described performance issues could also happen, if a disc drive is broken. Sometimes strange things also happen, if the CMOS battery is getting low. Usually, but not necessarily running sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda ^^^ gives a pointer. Replace "sda" with the d

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] New version of Calf plugins (and a failed ISO build)

2018-11-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 17:25:05 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >I use $88CAD walmart specials on Ardour with no problem. In general I >don't even need my glasses like I do for reading. YMMV... The Ardour font and screen size issue is a CRT issue. Regarding the LCD quality the issue isn't related to A

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] New version of Calf plugins (and a failed ISO build)

2018-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 13:15:36 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >I have found that the only problem with Ubuntu is that it is the >easiest Linux to access and so gets more newy users than Arch (for >example). I have found that more than 50% of all ubuntu user problems >are using Ardour/Jack with a USB m

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] [off-topic] Problems installing 18.10

2018-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>On 10/31/18 1:02 PM, Mike Squires wrote: >> will try to migrate them to a MS Windows 7 VM soon I migrated from a XP guest to a Windows 7 guest, because the software I need isn't supported for XP anymore. Since we don't know how long the needed software will be supported for Windows 7, consider to

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] GIMP 2.10.6 - Was: Cosmic Release Notes

2018-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On 18 Oct 2018, at 17:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On 18 Oct 2018, at 13:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> I just downloaded the current daily build and will test GIMP 2.10 on >> Ubuntu Studio cosmic, too. I'll report back. > The computer was unused for a while, so I wasn&#x

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] GIMP 2.10.6 - Was: Cosmic Release Notes

2018-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> On 18 Oct 2018, at 13:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I just downloaded the current daily build and will test GIMP 2.10 on > Ubuntu Studio cosmic, too. I'll report back. Hi, booting 20181017.2 "Live" worked without issues, btw. nice splash screen. The desktop appeared. I

[ubuntu-studio-devel] GIMP 2.10.6 - Was: Cosmic Release Notes

2018-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 20:32 -0700, Hank Stanglow wrote: > On 10/17/2018 07:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > just a warning regarding GIMP 2.10.6. > > > > Two days ago I used it on Arch Linux. It's more or less unusable. > Oh wow, thanks for that important first ha

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Cosmic Release Notes

2018-10-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>On Oct 17, 2018, at 4:34 PM, Ross Gammon wrote: >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio Hi, just a warning regarding GIMP 2.10.6. Two days ago I used it on Arch Linux. It's more or less unusable. It turns out that independent of the used distro GIMP 2.10.x is broke

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 06:59:29 +, jaquil...@eagleeyet.net wrote: >On 2018-10-11 06:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 06:31:01 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >>> If the below is accurate what issues could be encountered in terms >>> of configurati

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 06:31:01 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >If the below is accurate what issues could be encountered in terms of >configuration? For example an incomplete "NotShowIn" list for desktop files. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep NotShowIn /etc/xdg/autostart/xfce4-power-manager.deskt

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:22:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >let alone of e.g. panels that might be replaced after using a file >manager of another desktop environment. this should read panels _and wallpapers_ ;) -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 15:48 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: > The main issue I have seen is having to tweak startup prograns from a > session's > control panel to keep multiple copies of the desktop icons from being > displayed > by multiple file managers. I have MATE, GNOME, and Cinnamon i

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 21:42:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I would reduce it to switching between window mangers, never does cause >an issue Oops, my apologies, even this isn't true :D. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or uns

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:27:25 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: >Most DE's are designed not to conflict with any other DE Yesno :D, for some more or less exceptional cases, regarding so called major DEs, you and I know better :p. A "conflict" might not be the right term for some issues, users c

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2018-10-06 at 21:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > A hidden download would be a serious privacy violation. Let alone that for some users downloads still could cost a pretty penny. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

2018-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 18:55:01 +, jaquil...@eagleeyet.net wrote: >Arent there during installation certain things which get downloaded >from the repos but the downloads are masked from the end user? Hi, a default install from an Ubuntu desktop flavour could be done without an Internet connection

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

2018-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:26:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:09:44 +0200, ttoine wrote: >>Which one is better? > >Are Windows, MacOS and iOS used by more or less satisfied users than >Linux is ;)? This should read Are Windows, MacOS and iOS used by more

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

2018-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:09:44 +0200, ttoine wrote: >Which one is better? Are Windows, MacOS and iOS used by more or less satisfied users than Linux is ;)? -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, (Off Topic)

2018-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:33:47 -0700, Hank Stanglow wrote: >Almost half the software I use for multimedia comes containerized >rather than from a traditional repository model -- that goes for an >Ardour subscription as well. If Ardour should be installed to e.g. /opt and use static, instead of share

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

2018-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:09:33 -0700, Hank Stanglow wrote: >growing emphasis on Snaps It's just a growing hype from a minority of Ubuntu developers involved in snap development. "Search thousands of snaps used by millions of people across 50 Linux distributions" https://snapcraft.io/store There's

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] No more

2018-09-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The footer of each email points to a way to unsubscribe. >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel Another way is to send an email without content and the subject unsubscribe to ubuntu-studio-devel-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com not ubuntu-s

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] the poll and Ubuntux doodles

2018-09-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:11:46 -0400, Peter Reppert wrote: >Tux [...] taking a selfie There are so many ways of "Götterdämmerung". Tux taking a selfie is like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)#Crumb's_response and anything else Ralph Bakshi ever was involved, such as "The Lord of

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio - hang on restart/shutdown

2018-09-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, Elisabeth is asking for help, see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2018-August/011271.html and https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2018-August/295006.html unfortunately HTML only. I tried to help, but have no time to dig deeper. She wrote a request off-list

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] open source AudioKit synth

2018-07-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 21:05:40 -0400, Peter Reppert wrote: >https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/28/audiokit-synth-one-ipad/ It requires iOS >= 10.3, support of my iPad 2 ended with iOS 9.3.5. >Many people have tablets but can't afford to purchase any apps. Android isn't real-time audio capable, only i

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Confirmed! Microsoft Has Bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion | It's FOSS

2018-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Charlie, if you want to share something about this topic, it became a thread at FreeBSD questions, see https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2018-June/281932.html and follow-ups. Subscribe at https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions and it already is a topic si

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio For Musicians handbook

2018-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 11:05:20 -0400, Peter Reppert wrote: >P.s. - at this point I should probably repeat that this PDF file is >hereby officially public domain. Hi Pete, include a valid license, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Licensing and https://creativecommons.org/licen

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio For Musicians handbook

2018-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 12:49:52 -0400, Peter Reppert wrote: >Please let me know if I should save it as something else For downloads the PDF file format is quite common for that kind of guide. For online reading it either should be plain text or HTML. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] DE trials

2018-05-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 10 May 2018 20:27:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >When using KDE, would you also default to KDE apps such as the KDE >image viewer? Even on my modern 64 bit machine it takes a while until >gwenview is loaded from a SSD. I dislike environments providing apps >for simple tasks tha

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] DE trials

2018-05-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
When using KDE, would you also default to KDE apps such as the KDE image viewer? Even on my modern 64 bit machine it takes a while until gwenview is loaded from a SSD. I dislike environments providing apps for simple tasks that get loaded that slow from a SSD, as loading a program from a Commodore

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Agenda for 2018-05-05/themes

2018-05-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 06 May 2018 03:55:21 +, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: >You mentioned getting a dark theme to work well and keep working well. >My modded and ported version of the old UbuntuStudio theme works very >well for what I use it for (because I myself ensure it does), but last >time I tried th

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Meeting Notes 2018-05-05

2018-05-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 05 May 2018 20:21:08 -0700, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > - Plasma http://manual.ardour.org/ardour-configuration/system-specific-setup/kde-plasma-5/ Other apps need a workaround, too, apart from this at least the desktop comes with a learning curve for users coming from xfce4, le

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Budgie

2018-05-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 5 May 2018 17:34:15 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >Pro: > the terminal has some nice features Roxterm was discontinued. While it is removed from all Ubuntu releases after Xenial, upstream resumed development. Roxterm was seriously partial broken for a very long time, but even while i

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Agenda for 2018-05-05

2018-05-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 05 May 2018 11:49:26 -0700, ikemons...@gmail.com wrote: >On Saturday, May 5, 2018 11:33:49 AM PDT Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Maintaining a theme that works good for all apps is very hard. > >That's why you try to pick something already in the repos. :) Apart from cho

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Agenda for 2018-05-05

2018-05-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 5 May 2018 07:25:16 -0700, er...@ericheickmeyer.com wrote: >New theme (something with a dark variant)? Maintaining a theme that works good for all apps is very hard. I've never seen a dark theme that really worked and was well maintained. Countless very good themes of all kinds were discon

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Release notes for Bionic

2018-04-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 14:48:54 +0200, Ross Gammon wrote: >For the release, we normally like to list what has changed since the >last release. Also make sure to list any known bugs that show on the >iso tracker (http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/) Hi, while vulnerabilities regarding the main repository shoul

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

2018-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 18:14:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >[root@moonstudio ~]# apt list -a -qq linux-lowlatency | grep installed >2>/dev/null Oops :D [root@moonstudio ~]# apt list -a -qq linux-lowlatency 2>/dev/null | grep installed linux-lowlatency/xenial-updates,xen

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

2018-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 10:25 -0700, Len Ovens wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 08:44:20 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: > > > I saw software installers mentioned somewhere too... so far the only > > > reliable software installer

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

2018-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 08:44:20 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >I saw software installers mentioned somewhere too... so far the only >reliable software installer I have tried is synaptic. the two big >failures of other setups are: > - not passing package option questions to the user (jackd asks > reat

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

2018-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:39:50 +0300, eylul wrote: >Installing a new desktop environment on top of existing ubuntustudio >not hard but cleaning the old one is nearly impossible. That is why I recommend to not install Ubuntu Studio, but another flavour and then to install the needed Ubuntu Studio meta

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

2018-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:39:50 +0300, eylul wrote: >One of the biggest advantages of moving to mate would be being able to >use (and possibly adapt) the software center. Also it could help us >dodge the issues with menus. (hopefully? maybe?) It also seems that we >have people here who are also active

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Attention

2018-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:10:05 +0200, Set Hallstrom wrote: >This said, Ralf you are _not_ helping here. You are the lead, so feel free to decide to add wallpapers and tons of unmaintained and untested packages and also migrate to a new desktop environment. Welcome new people to your team who introduc

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

2018-04-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 16:09:24 -0700, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: >My proposal would be to move from Xfce to MATE Ubuntu Mate is pretty good these days. It's the distro and desktop environment I would recommend to users who want something working OOTB for mailing, browsing and office work and who don't wa

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] US still alive !

2018-04-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:22:05 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >I am picky and don't use qjackctl for anything other the connections >window. I have my own script that does what I happen to want. For usage with scripts a good tool is https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/aj-snapshot , however at some poin

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Candace

2018-04-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Pulseaudio often isn't needed at all and furthermore it has got counter-productive effects for most professional audio work. For workarounds there is software such as apulse, see https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse , let alone that some apps such as Firefox support alsa, as well as jack, just build F

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Candace

2018-04-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Here we go: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/ Upgrading from one to another release, should still allow you to continue using Ubuntu Studio without major inconveniences. If newcomers would be allowed to overturn basal preconditions, completely ignoring backwards compatibility with

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Candace

2018-04-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 07:33:05 -0700, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: >moving from QJackCtl to Cadence Dropping QjackCtl in favour of Cadence? If so, that's utter nonsense! You could provide Cadence, but you cannot move/migrate from QjackCtl to Cadence, since this would break the workflow for a majority of Ub

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Disabling KPTI

2018-04-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Has anybody already compared the DSP load/audio real-time performance, when booting linux-lowlatency with and without the "nopti" option? [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Gaining Wiki Edit Permissions

2018-04-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
While https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Professional_audio still is broken as an Ubuntu Studio Wiki, it at least provides room for discussion, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Professional_audio , such discussions are usually continued at an Arch mailing list. Actually, we were able

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Gaining Wiki Edit Permissions

2018-04-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I'm a member of the Wiki documentation team, IOW I'm allowed to edit Wikis, but I can't remember that I ever needed to sign the Ubuntu CoC, nor that I ever was forced to use any GPG signing. Actually I've got two accounts, but for testing purpose I logged in by just one of my accounts. One issue st

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] wineasio interesting app

2018-04-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 18:12:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >PS: I got my hands dirty, trying to build a snap for QjackCtl, but >including jackd. This was a long time ago, nowadays doing connections >between the snap and the host Linux likely has improved a lot. > >The thre

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] wineasio interesting app

2018-04-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: I got my hands dirty, trying to build a snap for QjackCtl, but including jackd. This was a long time ago, nowadays doing connections between the snap and the host Linux likely has improved a lot. The thread is at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snapcraft/2016-July/000394.html it's "Is there

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] wineasio interesting app

2018-04-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 18:21:12 +0300, eylul wrote: >Of course there is also the option of snap packages that can be worth >investigating. Hi, since building QjackCtl is easy to do, the rules and control files at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qjackctl are helpful to do this, for testing purpose co

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] wineasio interesting app

2018-03-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 14:11:49 +0200, pascalc...@gmail.com wrote: >Cadence is an interesting app but imo missing in US Wineasio.With >Wineasio I can make music with garritan personal orchestra4 in US >16.04.4 LTS. Hi, it's probably missing for hysterical raisins. The license is LGPL, see https://

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Fwd: Bug#888657: ladish: should this package be removed?

2018-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:37:27 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:52:45 +0100, Ross Gammon wrote: >>Hi All, >> >>It is very likely that ladish/gladish will be removed from the Debian >>archive soon, as it is not maintained upstream, and needs to

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Fwd: Bug#888657: ladish: should this package be removed?

2018-01-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:52:45 +0100, Ross Gammon wrote: >Hi All, > >It is very likely that ladish/gladish will be removed from the Debian >archive soon, as it is not maintained upstream, and needs to be ported >away from GTK2. > >Whilst we can probably keep it a little longer in Ubuntu, unless >some

[ubuntu-studio-devel] US Homepage - Was: [ubuntu-studio-users] Hello

2017-11-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 23:39:33 +0200, i...@allasfel.com wrote: >Hello, my name is George, I am from Greece and I use Ubuntu Studio. >I'm a web designer and developer. I'd like to ask you if you would be >interested in getting a new template for your site ubuntustudio.org . >I could create a fresh lo

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Qt apps don't follow the GTK+ theme

2017-10-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Just in case Ubuntu Studio should still be based upon Xubuntu: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2017-October/010350.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2017-October/010351.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2017-October/010352.html -- ubuntu-stud

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] https://

2017-06-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 07:22:20 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> I attached a script to download 64 bit architecture Ubuntu desktop >> flavours, with an automatic check against signed checksums. >> >> After making

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] https://

2017-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 31 May 2017 11:15:22 -0400, Helios Martinez Dominguez wrote: >Briefly speaking, there is the chance for the distributions to get >infected by code injection due to man-in-the-middle attacks, >subverting security and risking both project's integrity and systems >information by making use of

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Support on the Ubuntu Studio users mailing list

2017-04-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi all, :) Hi Set, I haven't read anything from you for a very long time. I hope you're well. Hi Len, fortunately you are active at Ubuntus Studio devel, as well as at Linux audio user. I'm writing especially to you, because I guess somebody with knowledge needs to care more about the Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ardour5 crashes under ubuntu-studio 17.04

2017-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:57:44 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >Hmm, one question, are you using any calf plugins? I have heard that >calf has changed the url in their ttl files and so the old url fails >to load the new plaugin of the same name. The "{New,Recent,Other} Session" window provides the "Sa

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Ardour5 crashes under ubuntu-studio 17.04

2017-04-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:55:41 +0200, gerdmitpf...@online.de wrote: >they told me jack was faulty in 17.04 Hi, both versions are faulty, Jack 1 as well as Jack 2? Maybe you could switch to Jack 1? Jack 1 might not work with this DBUS and pulseaudio audio defaults, but nearly nobody needs this. Ar

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] check-in and reminder release candidate on April 6th

2017-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 06:02:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2017-April/289831.html >https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2017-April/289831.html Oops! The second link should read: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2017-April/

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] check-in and reminder release candidate on April 6th

2017-04-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, there's no cpufreq/scaling_governor when running Linux as a guest in a virtual machine. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2017-April/289831.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2017-April/289831.html Regards, Ralf -- "Michael" described Floyd as "an idiot savant

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] check-in and reminder release candidate on April 6th

2017-04-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:27:15 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >On Fri, 31 Mar 2017, Ross Gammon wrote: >> On 03/31/2017 10:50 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> VitualBox emulates a CPU, by using the real CPU. The guest is not >>> able to change settings of host and

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] check-in and reminder release candidate on April 6th

2017-03-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:31:48 +0200, Ross Gammon wrote: >The file that is modified to add the "performance" setting does not >exist. It could just be a Virtual Box thing, but it makes me wonder if >the files & paths change according to the CPU type and kernel drivers? There is one difference for CP

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Coming Zesty Milestones

2017-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> On 17 Feb 2017, at 21:52, Len Ovens wrote: > > One more thing about -controls. I would like to remove the dependency on > jackd some time (maybe next cycle) as there are getting to be more proaudio > applications that do not need jack (Ardour for one) but still need the > realtime and memo

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio

2017-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:59:01 +0300, autumna wrote: >Alright I'll change the text to being only the sample rate. This is what I recommend to do, because nothing else, but jack#s default 32-bit float matters. >I was wondering about that 192k, but turns out it was a >miscommunication. 48k default

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio

2017-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 22:16:40 +0300, eylul wrote: >I'd rather not call inexperienced users, or people who don't have a lot >of time to go read "lazy". They are users all the same. Not everybody >has to become experts. Correct and that's why those users want an easy to use GUI, without cryptic optio

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio

2017-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:22:12 +0100, Dennis Schulmeister-Zimolong wrote: >Hi Ralf, > >On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 16:56:52 +0100 >Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> For experienced audio users and novices willing to learn your app is >> crap. The target group are users who don't have

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio

2017-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Eylul, Jack is a sound server for audio production purpose. For good reasons it defaults to 32-bit float. There's nearly no good reason to decide against this default. The bit depth used by the sound server has nothing to do with e.g. CD compatibility. If this app should make setting up an aud

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio

2017-01-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, this settings app makes things more complicated instead of making them easier. In parenthesis you mention "buffer 1024". Actually this should read "1024 frames". Take a look at QjackCtl, it's "Frames/Period", aka "Frames". If you want to let users chose the jack sample rate, don't provide e

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] -controls

2016-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops, iOS Firefox or my providers web interface are responsible for some strange sentences. Corrections: > On 08 Dec 2016, at 10:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hi, > > especiall user-friendly apps should keep things simple. Don't try to cover > all posssible usecases. I

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] -controls

2016-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, especiall user-friendly apps should keep things simple. Don't try to cover all posssible usecases. If somebody wants to use an USB interface, then it doesn't require some ominous secundary master interface. Assuming a user unpluggs an USB audio interface, then the user needs to change the

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] -controls

2016-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Don't try to solve user problems that don't exist! Consider to join the Ubuntu users and some Ubuntu flavour users mailing lists. On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 16:09:39 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >Audio setup: > Master audio interface > Second choice master (disable unless master is USB) >

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] apt - Was: CPU governor settings

2016-12-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 13:21:46 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 08:47:04 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >>> (I prefer to download the *.deb and dpkg -i it :) >> >> we should get used to 'apt&

[ubuntu-studio-devel] apt - Was: CPU governor settings

2016-12-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 08:47:04 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >(I prefer to download the *.deb and dpkg -i it :) Hi, we should get used to 'apt'. apt install /path/package.deb The advantage, one command to install from repositories and to install local packages. If required, it resolves dependenc

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Meeting Tuesday, Nov 29 at 19:00 UTC

2016-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 13:11:40 +0100, Set Hallstrom wrote: >Thanks for your feedback Ralf. >How does one put such a a nifty link in a text-mail? My apologies, I wasn't clear with this. If Ubuntu announces a meeting, they sometimes link to a web site, e.g. for a video conference and this website in

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Meeting Tuesday, Nov 29 at 19:00 UTC

2016-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 12:22:40 +0100, Set Hallstrom wrote: >On 2016-11-27 11:41, eylul wrote: >> We will be doing a check-in meeting at Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 19:00UTC >> (what time is this for me? >>

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] 17.04 cycle

2016-10-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:09:10 +0200, Set Hallstrom wrote: >I will probably not be able to learn all i still need to learn to be a >packager If a packager would write a Wiki, understandable for users with less good English skills, about how to do the packaging, more users could help the team. The te

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Antivirus, code / app content scanning.

2016-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 23:12:35 +0200, Set Hallstrom wrote: >The best way to be sure you're copy is integer is to do a checksum of >the downloaded ISO >https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToSHA256SUM It should be verified by a signed checksum. The above link mentions this, too. However, there are sev

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Antivirus, code / app content scanning.

2016-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 00:26:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >there's a news page > >https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/ Too funny... "USN-3093-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities - 28th September 2016 It was discovered that ClamAV incorrectly handled certain malformed files. A remote attacker coul

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Antivirus, code / app content scanning.

2016-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 12:33:02 -0400, ProSysAdmin wrote: >I have had positive malware scans after installing everything in the >past, using the av included in the Ubuntu studio distribution. It >appeared to be part of a worm but incomplete, found on an app >directory. Maybe a false positive back then

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