Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dear Ubuntu List Team i have something to draw to your attention

On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 20:25, Mark Dorrington wrote: > I am posting the ubuntu technicians e-mail address in case ubuntu does not > fix any > technical issues within ubuntu so he can report it to his developers. > Who are you asking to contact the technician? Colin --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] todoman bug

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 13:40, Ade Attwood wrote: > > Hi all first timer here > > I have an issue with the package "todoman". The bug is fixed on GitHub > with v3.4.1 but in the repos the latest version is v3.3.0. I have done > an apt show on the package and gone to the bugs URL. However, I need

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Adobe Flash problem

On 21/08/18 06:39, Michael wrot > Problems watching ITV on 32bit 18.04. Have tried several Adobe flash > versions, nothing happens after unpack, Which Adobe flash version for > 18.04 please, how do I do it.Tks, Michael D > > Is flashplugin-installer installed? If not then try

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

On 25 June 2018 at 22:07, Jim Price wrote: > ... > Lesson learned - don't just delete PPAs which have been disabled by a > dist-upgrade. That's true, but in fact the better lesson is to purge ppas before upgrading and then put them back again. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

On 25 June 2018 at 20:33, Jim Price wrote: > I've ended up in a bit of a bind. I updated from 14.04 to 16.04, which > seemed to go well but then I noticed that VLC was no longer installed. On > trying to re-install it, it could not find its dependency on vlc-nox. > vlc-nox is not in the 16.04

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xubuntu Display Settings

On 14 July 2017 at 00:05, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > > I've been doing a bit of distro hopping recently and have returned to my > Linux "first love" - Xubuntu. Xfce has improved considerably since I > abandoned it 3 or 4 years ago for MATE. It was always capable of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi dongles

On 30 November 2016 at 12:03, Dave Morley wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:56:01 + (UTC) > George Tripp wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend a wifi dongle that's plug & play / compatible >> with 16.04. >> >> >> George >> > > Pretty much any will work

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard " and @ change.

On 20 October 2016 at 16:33, Michael <michael.penllerg...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > > On 20/10/2016 16:39, Colin Law wrote: > > On 20 October 2016 at 15:27, Michael <michael.penllerg...@btinternet.com> > wrote: > >> My " and @ symbols have changed fro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard " and @ change.

On 20 October 2016 at 15:27, Michael wrote: > My " and @ symbols have changed from the UK layout to the American one. > > I have checked 16.04 keyboard and language settings and both seem to be > correct. > > Problem found on switch-on today. > There was a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

On 20 September 2016 at 08:55, Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 19 September 2016 21:07:13 BST, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>On 19 September 2016 at 20:13, Neil Greenwood >><neil.greenwood@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

in to see how to use it from a script. Thanks Colin [1] https://www.partimage.org/Main_Page > > > Neil > > On 19 September 2016 17:49:44 BST, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 19 September 2016 at 17:18, Robert McWilliam <r...@allmail.net> wr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

On 19 September 2016 at 18:37, Robert McWilliam <r...@allmail.net> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, at 17:49, Colin Law wrote: >> On 19 September 2016 at 17:18, Robert McWilliam <r...@allmail.net> wrote: >> Is not the partition table in the space before the first partit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

On 19 September 2016 at 17:18, Robert McWilliam <r...@allmail.net> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, at 14:21, Colin Law wrote: >> I do a fair amount of work with SD cards and use dd to create an image >> for backup or for burning onto other cards. If I burn an image from an &g

[ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

I do a fair amount of work with SD cards and use dd to create an image for backup or for burning onto other cards. If I burn an image from an 8GB card onto a 16GB card then I get a card which is only half used. If I then make an image from that one then I get a 16GB image (of which only 8GB or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 - incomplete Lois McNab

.ubuntu.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 -incomplete (Lois McNab) > 2. Re: Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 -incompl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 -incomplete

On 4 August 2016 at 07:22, Lois McNab wrote: > Hello, > > I started to upgrade on 1.8.2016 from 14.04 to 16.04 and the files were > being upgraded , when it stopped/froze. > > I attempted to restart the computer ,pressed F1 the following message > appeared on black

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

On 22 June 2016 at 08:44, Pete Smout wrote: > > On 22 Jun 2016 06:13, "Gareth France" wrote: >> >> >> >> On 22/06/16 01:10, Liam Proven wrote: >>> >>> Do you have the FB client on your smartphone? Did you let it access >>> your contacts? Then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote: > Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT partition > table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed successfully and I used rsync > to copy some files onto it. > > The next day, I was unable to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corrupt VLC problem in 4.2014

On 4 April 2016 at 20:32, Michael wrote: > I tried deleting in terminal but did not. > A DVD causes drive-chatter, sometimes a box of error messages, but no > playback possible, just shows the disc title. > Was good, looks like VLC corruption has developed. VLC will not have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing menu in top panel.

On 19 January 2016 at 09:04, Barry Drake wrote: > On 13/01/16 20:37, Barry Drake wrote: >> >> I have reported the missing menus in the top panel as bug #1533826 in >> respect of Audacity. > > > I have just reported the identical bug as Libreoffice Bug #1535579. Please

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

On 13 January 2016 at 18:07, Barry Drake wrote: >>Not sure what you mean by gnome menus in the top panel. Can you be >>more explicit? Are you running Ubuntu with Unity? > > Hi Colin . When you move the mouse pointer into the top panel, many > applications show a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

On 13 January 2016 at 15:46, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi In 16.04, currently all the gnome menus on the top panel seem to > have disappeared. This makes some applications, Libreoffice, not fully > useable as some functions can only be accessed from the menu. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 17 December 2015 at 11:06, Liam Proven wrote: > On 17 December 2015 at 08:45, Barry Drake wrote: >> Sorry not to respond sooner. I've booted into the BIOS settings. I could >> not find anything that has to do with wake/sleep. The manual than

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 16 December 2015 at 20:20, Liam Proven wrote: > > * Ubuntu has its own software-driven suspend/resume and hibernate/wake Is Ubuntu's hibernate (as opposed to suspend) reliable? I thought it was no longer supported. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

On 15 December 2015 at 21:43, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there The +F3 is permanently hard-coded to sleep/wake. I > can't find anywhere a keyboard shortcuts conf file. The locations given for > earlier versions of Ubuntu on the internet are no longer valid for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 1 December 2015 at 17:47, Tony Pursell wrote: > I have both an Android and an Ubuntu phone. The only Google thing the > Ubuntu phone doesn't do is Hangouts. I would love to have that. What I do > have is Gmail, G+, Maps & Calendar. For those that use it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 1 December 2015 at 16:39, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > On 1 December 2015 at 16:35, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Without the Google Apps (Gmail, Hangouts, Maps, navigation, G+) a lot >> of Android users will be very resistant to moving

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 1 December 2015 at 16:17, Barry Drake wrote: > On 01/12/15 14:19, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> On 1 December 2015 at 15:15, Alan Pope wrote: >>> >>> No, other platforms (Jolla, Tizen) have it. > > >> And Blackberry 10, which isn't even a version of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] $5 Computer

On 26 November 2015 at 13:17, Alan Lord wrote: > Slightly OT but I thought it interesting in case anyone missed the > announcement this morning: > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/ That's outrageous. Free computer with magazine indeed. What is the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 30 August 2015 at 17:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 30/08/15 17:01, Colin Law wrote: How did you remove them? In the Online Accounts settings window, on the Google account settings, each of these accounts shows an 'on/off' switch. I turned all of them off to block

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 29 August 2015 at 12:25, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 29/08/15 11:25, Alan Pope wrote: Do you mean the launcher on the left is gone, or it is there but empty, or it's there and you can open the dash (with the windows key) but no apps appear? Hi Alan. Thanks for your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

On 29 August 2015 at 14:06, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi Colin Thanks for your reply which seems to have disappeared! No, the online search is not disabled - but I think I had it disabled when I was trying to avoid google interference. Re-enabling everything did not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Amazon Prime videos to work

On 12 August 2015 at 22:09, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I am having trouble getting Amazon Prime videos to work in Ubuntu. It's Ubuntu Studio 14.04 with XFCE desktop. Can you give us a link to an example video? Colin I have tried it in Firefox, Chromium, Qupzilla, Opera, Vivaldi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] WIFI sending problem ....

On 12 August 2015 at 07:02, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 11/08/15 21:22, Colin Law wrote: What do you see in syslog when it disconnects? Bless you Colin. Looks like a hardware problem, and I think I've cracked it. Never thought to look at the syslog. Silly of me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] WIFI sending problem ....

On 11 August 2015 at 21:16, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi There ... Just about to go off for a couple of days with my netbook. Haven't used it for a month or two. WIFI was just fine then. I'm running 15.10. I did all the updates, and as always, copied the .thunderbird

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

On 25 June 2015 at 10:11, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: If anyone comes up with a better option than Zorin, I'll get it! Have you tried ubuntu mate? I have found it good on old PCs Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Pre installed - HP 'standard images' 'may not work' WTF

On 7 June 2015 at 10:50, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: I was very interested in the HP laptops on EBuyer - Ubuntu pre installed. '..HP ProBook 455 Notebook PC is powered by an AMD A10-7300 APU with AMD Radeon™ R6 Graphics. ..'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 6 June 2015 at 08:20, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there I had a most annoying problem when installing the testing version of Wily - 15.10. I have two internal drives. One currently has Mint installed, and the other had 15.04 testing in use until I installed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 6 June 2015 at 11:27, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 06/06/15 11:07, Colin Law wrote: On 6 June 2015 at 10:32, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 06/06/15 08:31, Colin Law wrote: I don't think 'sda' is a valid answer to all the questions, notably

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 6 June 2015 at 14:24, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: ... When I decided to re-install, everything was the same as before, but the warning did not appear at all. Grub was installed to sda only, and sdb was not at that time made bootable. I that case perhaps, as I suggested,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 6 June 2015 at 10:32, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 06/06/15 08:31, Colin Law wrote: Assuming the drives were sda and sdb which is which? As originally setup how did you select which system to boot from? Did you tell the BIOS to boot off one disk or the other or did you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 6 June 2015 at 12:11, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 06/06/15 11:50, Colin Law wrote: You did not answer the other questions on my previous post. Apologies if that is because you still have to sort out the answers. I thought I had better say in case you had missed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 6 June 2015 at 15:47, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 06/06/15 14:40, Colin Law wrote: I that case perhaps, as I suggested, you did not tell the installer to use sdb for boot. As Ubuntu is now so quick and easy to install, I popped a spare 80GiB drive into my caddy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying installation problem ....

On 6 June 2015 at 15:47, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 06/06/15 14:40, Colin Law wrote: I that case perhaps, as I suggested, you did not tell the installer to use sdb for boot. As Ubuntu is now so quick and easy to install, I popped a spare 80GiB drive into my caddy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clock settings greyed out

On 27 May 2015 at 09:09, Dianne pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Today my clock doesn't show in my menu bar, settings on clock tab are all OK but greyed out. Time is set to auto from internet, and I can change settings on this tab OK. I'm sure it was OK yesterday! No

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 3 May 2015 at 20:55, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: My brain still hurts from figuring out everything I have done so far. I'd rather not have to start again if I can at all help it. As you say there will be a correct way to do this and I would hope that being pointed to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 3 May 2015 at 12:01, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 3 May 2015 at 11:36, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: There is no point in botching it to make it work as that's not really an instruction I can expect anyone downloading it to have to follow. Will the packaging

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 28 April 2015 at 08:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: If it were clear how to do this then I would most certainly have done so. In practice I may have or I may have not. I have followed as much of the process as makes sense. Please don't top post, thanks. Are you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Local IP Address Allocation

On 29 March 2015 at 23:29, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Just a minor question about local networking I routinely have a number of different devices connected to my home network such as Ubuntu laptops, iPad, Android phone, Kindle, RPi and so on. The router allocates

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wine bug - new package?

On 30 March 2015 at 00:22, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 March 2015 at 08:28, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: There is a ppa for up-to-date Wine versions, if you can enable it in Mint. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wine bug - new package?

On 25 March 2015 at 09:53, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi ...I'm currently using Mint more than Ubuntu because of the need for Windows apps installed under Wine. The bug I reported way back, that Wine cannot be made to open Microsoft .msi files, was fixed way back. If

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB 3.0 HDD Problem

On 9 March 2015 at 00:54, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I've just discovered that Ubuntu Mate 14.10 appears unable to mount a USB 3.0 HDD (through a USB 2 port). It can mount a USB 2 HDD no problem. Both are formatted as ext4. What do you see in syslog when you plug it in?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.04.1 to 14.04.2?

On 20 February 2015 at 08:13, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but my 14.04.1 installation is humming along nicely, and I'm assuming that all important security and bug fixes have been happening during routine updates. Is there any need for me to upgrade to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rhinosupport tickets [was 14.04.1 to 14.04.2?]

On 20 February 2015 at 09:45, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Spammer, removed and blocked from the list. OK, thanks. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Rhinosupport tickets [was 14.04.1 to 14.04.2?]

Can anybody tell me why I have been getting these message (see below) when I reply to questions here? Colin -- Forwarded message -- From: Power Pro ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Date: 20 February 2015 at 09:03 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.04.1 to 14.04.2? To: Colin Law clan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Exposure

On 15 February 2015 at 17:00, Sharif Shown sharif.sh...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know...? You don't know what? Colin On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 8:38 PM, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 15/02/15 12:57, Sheila Farmer wrote: Hi , My name is Sheila Farmer, I am a friend of the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

On 3 February 2015 at 04:35, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Colin, Thanks for getting back to me. On 1 February 2015 at 16:43, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: ... Try it with a normal shutdown and a failed one and see if there are any obvious differences

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

On 3 February 2015 at 15:14, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, i can only look at this during my evenings (i am currently in the US). On 3 February 2015 at 07:09, Stuart Ward stuart.w...@bcs.org wrote: On 3 February 2015 at 04:35, James Morrissey

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

On 1 February 2015 at 20:47, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Following up on this again as the issue persists in 14.10. To recap: When i go to shutdown my system - through whatever means (terminal, GUI etc.) - the system restarts. The issue only occurs if i have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

Colin Tony On 28 January 2015 at 21:58, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 January 2015 at 21:24, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Hooray for the OMGUbuntu website. I located their piece about the removal of Adobe Reader for Linux which included a link

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

On 29 January 2015 at 09:45, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Unfortunately this is Corporation Tax and there doesn't appear to be any other way to do this. It's a ridiculous system, so badly designed. Turns out I now need to wait a week for them to post out a 6 digit number

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

this article. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/10/adobe-reader-linux-download-pulled-website So has that worked around your problem? Colin On 29/01/15 10:37, Colin Law wrote: Good point. Does it display if you view it in Firefox or Chromium rather than downloading it? Likely not. You could put

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

:06, Colin Law wrote: Presumably you could just print the form out and fill it in by hand. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

On 28 January 2015 at 20:54, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I am currently about to prepare the first return for my limited company and I'm finding the website you have to use for this is quite simply unusable. It appears you have to download an interactive PDF and fill it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

On 28 January 2015 at 21:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 28 January 2015 at 20:54, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Does anyone have any idea why this is not working correctly? Will I have to install a different viewer to do this? In this day and age we really should

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

On 28 January 2015 at 21:24, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Hooray for the OMGUbuntu website. I located their piece about the removal of Adobe Reader for Linux which included a link to the last version of it. It 'appears' to be working. Not exactly the ideal solution, it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 27 January 2015 at 13:47, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 27/01/15 12:42, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: you mentioned earlier in the thread that you successfully ran the installation on an copy of mint using the same ubuntu packages. Was that possibly using a different .wine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 27 January 2015 at 11:45, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 20/01/15 10:50, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there Some time ago, I mentioned that I could not install .msi files using wine. I've reported this as a wine bug at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1414995 Please,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 27 January 2015 at 12:20, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 27/01/15 11:53, Colin Law wrote: I see from the bug report that you have used the command wine msiexec -i ActivePython-2.7.8.10-win32-x86.msi What happens if you just use msiexec -i ActivePython-2.7.8.10-win32-x86

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 27 January 2015 at 15:51, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 27/01/15 14:54, Colin Law wrote: In the working mint and the non-working ubuntu what do apt-cache policy wine and apt-cache policy wine1.6 and which msiexec show? Colin I think you've got it Colin. The packages

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with wine ....

On 27 January 2015 at 17:24, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 27/01/15 17:14, Colin Law wrote: I might suggest that high horses are out of order when complaining about problems in an alpha release :) Colin Oops! I hadn't realised I was giving that impression. Apologies

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 17 January 2015 at 22:28, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I don't use Thunderbird, but googling for thunderbird threaded view suggests that View Sort by Threaded may be it. Similarly I would have thought that googling for email inline reply would have quickly found

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 18 January 2015 at 09:43, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 18/01/15 09:15, Colin Law wrote: Also if that is the version of ibus then I deduce you are running Ubuntu 14.10, whereas the new ibus is for 14.04, so it won't help anyway. I don't know, but I suspect it may

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 17 January 2015 at 20:43, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I have deleted all but the UK keyboard layout as suggested and all was well until I rebooted. Now it is stuck in US layout which is still showing as not installed. Have you tried installing the new version of ibus?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 17/01/15 20:48, Colin Law wrote: On 17 January 2015 at 20:43, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I have deleted all but the UK keyboard layout as suggested and all was well until I rebooted. Now it is stuck in US layout which is still showing as not installed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 17 January 2015 at 20:55, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Sorry but I have no idea where the bug is. I linked to it in my earlier post. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/ibus/+bug/1240198 Colin On 17/01/15 20:54, Colin Law wrote: On 17 January 2015

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

say Installed: 1.5.5-1ubuntu3 Candidate: 1.5.5-1ubuntu3 The one in the Proposed repo is 1.5.5-1ubuntu3.1 Colin On 17/01/15 20:58, Colin Law wrote: On 17 January 2015 at 20:55, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Sorry but I have no idea where the bug is. I linked

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

at appropriate point(s) so that it is easy for a reader to see what I am replying to. Colin On 17/01/15 21:34, Colin Law wrote: On 17 January 2015 at 21:00, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I know but due to the never ending tsunami of emails coming in (mostly scams/junk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 17 January 2015 at 12:42, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I've been suffering from this since release day but it's driving me nuts so I have to speak out and see if anyone knows the solution. My machine keeps defaulting to the American keyboard layout. The icon in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

On 17 January 2015 at 13:42, Barry Titterton titterton.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/01/15 13:14, Colin Law wrote: On 17 January 2015 at 12:42, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I've been suffering from this since release day but it's driving me nuts so I have to speak out

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

On 8 December 2014 at 12:42, George Tripp luggeo...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I feel it's a pity that Canonical don't collaborate with a supplier to provide PC / laptops .. Why would installing Ubuntu invalidate the warantee? You can always restore Windows from the install CDs or whatever

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

On 6 December 2014 at 15:51, George Tripp luggeo...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: ... I feel it's a pity that Canonical don't collaborate with a supplier to provide PC / laptops which are definitely compatible with Ubuntu. I'd be a potential customer. Although I have installed it on a variety of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Re-start wifi?

On 28 November 2014 at 11:11, Owen Branley obran...@gmail.com wrote: When I re-start my wifi connection is not active so I shutdown and reboot! Why do I have to do this ? What do you mean by re-start? To me, re-starting the computer is the same as rebooting. Also what do you mean by not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity doesn't load after kernel update?

On 26 November 2014 at 13:03, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/11/14 12:00, Will Cooke wrote: Hi Alan, could you try resetting compiz's configuration: First rm -rf ~/.compiz-1 if it exists Then run gsettings reset-recursively org.compiz.core:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/ Then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity doesn't load after kernel update?

On 26 November 2014 at 15:37, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/11/14 15:31, Colin Law wrote: What settings have you changed? I wonder whether the fact that some settings are non-standard is a factor in the problem arising in the first place. I have never had to reset as far as I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reverse engineering data files

On 24 November 2014 at 08:03, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I was led to believe by a rep of the company who makes these that this is not the case. He was happily discussing with my other companies who have done the same. Can't he let you have a copy of the format

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HUD memory leak?

On 21 November 2014 17:28, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: interesting, however I only use chrome. Do you have a large number of bookmarks in Chrome? Colin On 21/11/14 17:25, Alan Pope wrote: On 20 November 2014 20:42, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug report filed re screenshot problem

On 16 November 2014 14:21, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1393188 Is fglrx installed? To find out: apt-cache policy fglrx Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug report filed re screenshot problem

On 16 November 2014 16:11, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/11/14 15:43, Colin Law wrote: On 16 November 2014 14:35, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/11/14 14:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 16/11/14 14:27, Colin Law wrote: On 16 November 2014 14:21

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because I use screenshots a lot on my blog. Every time I try to make a new screenshot, it just creates a new copy of an old

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

On 15 November 2014 12:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

On 15 November 2014 12:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/14 12:42, Colin Law wrote: On 15 November 2014 12:13, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have upgraded to 14:10, and picked up a bug or two along the way. This one is a nuisance, because

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

On 16 September 2014 21:08, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Not ubuntu related but I'm hoping someone may have the answer I need. Today I discovered my webspace has been hacked and several sites now contain additional code at the start of every single PHP file. Looking at my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

On 17 September 2014 07:34, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I do keep regular backups however the issue is that this has been sitting silently for some time and changes made since the last clean backup would have been lost. A VCS is much more than a set of backups. Since the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

On 17 September 2014 14:08, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I understand. In which case the big issue would be weeding out old redundant files and ensuring no hidden files exist from this recent hack before creating this system. I did say it did not help you in your current

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

On 17 September 2014 20:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Not helpful for solving the immediate problem I know, but for the future the issue would be easy to solve if you kept a master copy of your source in a version control system such as git. Then if the site becomes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

On 15 August 2014 11:12, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 11:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 15/08/14 11:02, Alan Pope wrote: On 15 August 2014 10:59, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: If I want to do it using apt-get, I'm going to have to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

On 15 August 2014 11:36, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 11:31, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 11:12, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 11:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 15/08/14 11:02, Alan Pope wrote: On 15

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

On 15 August 2014 13:46, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/08/14 10:59, Barry Drake wrote: I've gone through an entire development cycle without having to re-install 14.10 - just amazing! I now have a very large number of unwanted kernels. There used to be a very simple gui tool

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

On 15 August 2014 13:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 13:46, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote: .. Here's a very neat bash command that I stick in ~/bin for this very purpose: http://www.tolaris.com/2012/07/19/removing-old-kernels-from-ubuntu/ That only removed

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