On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:00:42 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote:
>>> Tried to run [gnome-panel &] but it still dies when I close the
>>> terminal.
Sorry, my bad. The above is definitely less then clear. Here is what I
meant to say.
I wanted to run the gnome-terminal process at the background, then
Need your help folks,
I upgraded my laptop from Hardy to Intrepid and then to Jaunty yesterday.
The problem is that gnome-panel never starts upon boot. Executing
[killall -v gnome-panels] reports "no process killed".
Tried to run [gnome-panel &] but it still dies when I close the terminal.
Th
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:43:27 +0100, doug livesey wrote:
> Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? Just
> something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop up &
> annoy me until I deal with them.
Take a look at "remind" in Synaptic. It is extremely powerfu
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:52:23 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote:
> I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox lately (freezing during
> general use, lagging during Flash video playback, etc.).
I'm using FF on 2 machines with Ubuntu 8.04. Yes, starting at the first
time FF does it damn slow. Someti
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:54:40 +0100, David King wrote:
> I am now using the Synaptic Package Manager to remove the old version
> and install the new version. However, I still do not understand why the
> update manager still offered me an older 2.0 version, even though the
> 2.1.4 version is now in
