Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

2015-04-08 Thread Elfy
On 08/04/15 15:16, Tony Pursell wrote: Hi All [snip] 4) Closing apps I find a real pain. Perhaps someone will tell me how to do it easily. The only way I have found is to do a really precise slow swipe from the right edge to about 2/3rds the way across the screen to get it to show open

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-04 Thread Elfy
On 04/02/13 13:14, Kris Douglas wrote: What he meant was that there may be zip data inside. Rename the file yo something.zip and see if it opens in your Archive viewer You should be able to right click the thing and open with option should be archive manager --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing GIMP 2.8

2012-10-07 Thread Elfy
On 07/10/12 13:21, Colin Law wrote: On 7 October 2012 12:41, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I'm trying to install GIMP 2.8 into Ubuntu 12.04, where the default version is 2.6.1. All the advice I can find seems to be essentially the same, namely: sudo add-apt-repository