Re: [xubuntu-users] Xorg with 99% CPU

2018-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
en X' usage exceeds 90%, do killall -9 on all web browsers. Most of the time the problem subsides. SteveT Steve Litt September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify se

Re: [xubuntu-users] The Devil's Advocate -- TANSTAAFL AKA "FOSS vs Proprietary"

2017-07-13 Thread Steve Litt
ones. I'd say they're all good, except the ones that crash and surprise. I'm glad we have all these choices. SteveT Steve Litt July 2017 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [xubuntu-users] The Devil's Advocate

2017-07-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 06:26:20 +0100 Joao Monteiro <jmonteiro...@gmail.com> wrote: > MR, can you please clarify me what "to bottom post" means, as I don't > want to break any etiquette. http://bfy.tw/CoLm SteveT Steve Litt July 2017 featured book: Quit Joblessness: S

Re: [xubuntu-users] Need help with needing help and support

2017-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
(y/n) yes's. )P. As soon as humanly possible, do a complete set of smartctl tests on all this laptop's drives. One of many explanations for a bunch of bad sectors is a hard drive beginning to go bad. If you find out the drive is bad, use System Rescue CD to copy off all your data from any bad dri

Re: [xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 120, Issue 29

2017-01-21 Thread Steve Litt
ollow your advice in the preceding paragraph even if I have a quad processor and 16GB of RAM. All other things being equal, simpler apps tend to be more stable and often also more able to be assembled into specialty programs via shellscripts. By the way, I highly recommend installin

[xubuntu-users] Authoring tools: Was Is there a Linux Distro with MS Word Pre installed?

2017-01-13 Thread Steve Litt
such as footnotes and bibliographies, it can create (I assume) XHTML that can easily be converted to web, ePub, or LaTeX, with all appearance ruled by CSS or LaTeX stylesheets. I haven't done this yet, but it looks to me like a very realistic way to author the kind of books I write. Steve

Re: [xubuntu-users] shell tools

2017-01-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:59:34 -0500 pereira <ninorpere...@gmail.com> wrote: > Still, adding to the instructions how best to add the link to > whatever to $PATH http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/prepostpath.htm SteveT Steve Litt December 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning

[xubuntu-users] Software quote of the century: was which image viewer?

2016-11-11 Thread Steve Litt
to quote the preceding sentence, with attribution? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt November 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.u

[xubuntu-users] Handy new menu system

2016-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
. Feel free to email me on or off list with any questions, comments or suggestions. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: [xubuntu-users] 16.04 -> 14.04

2016-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
, wipe, then fresh install 14.04 and all the software, and copy back your data as necessary. I have to ask this: Why do you want to go back to 14.04? Might there be a better way than downgrading to accomplish what you need done? SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technic

Re: [xubuntu-users] toggle touchpad ON/OFF

2016-04-03 Thread Steve Litt
ptics driver loaded?" Good. Take the preceding error message, doublequotes and all, and put it into Google. You'll get lots of ideas to try. SteveT Steve Litt March 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz -- xubuntu-users maili

Re: [xubuntu-users] toggle touchpad ON/OFF

2016-04-02 Thread Steve Litt
ny messages, from the script, showing up on the command line? SteveT Steve Litt March 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: http

Re: [xubuntu-users] toggle touchpad ON/OFF

2016-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 02:22:04 +0900 Thomas <ny...@hb.tp1.jp> wrote: > On 2016年03月28日 07:49, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:06:57 +0900 > > Thomas <ny...@hb.tp1.jp> wrote: > > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > curstate=`synclient

Re: [xubuntu-users] toggle touchpad ON/OFF

2016-03-26 Thread Steve Litt
sans-mouse, and quickly switch to mousing and back again. And it's distro-agnostic, and not likely to be replaced by an upgrade. SteveT Steve Litt March 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users