* Uwe Stöhr wrote, On 12/09/09 21:41:
Andre Poenitz schrieb:
The most recent Karmic Koala updates make updating the Lyx caret (text
position) very slow.
What is Karmic Koala?
The next Ubuntu release (9.10)
PS: On Fridays I would have suggested to look at
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=karmic+koala ;-)
Well, I already googled it myself ;-). It is nevertheless a strange that
people asking for help while the list members first have to google what
they are talking about.
It is perhaps not so strange; I just guessed wrongly between "tediously
verbose" and "obtusely arcane" - either of which has the potential to be
annoying - however the joy of such public communication is the
incidental widening of everyone's horizons.
I could had said "The Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution alpha release Karmic
Koala" but at the time even "Ubuntu Karmic Koala" seemed unnecessarily
verbose. I shall take your tip, though, and presume that not everyone is
so familiar with the progress of Ubuntu.
Back to the topic Ubuntu 9.10 is not stable and in beta state.
Heh, it's alpha 5 right now.
I'm wondering why we should care about an unreleased OS.
Here's some reasons, although I don't propose that you personally adopt
any of them:
* Other mailing list members care
* It's a chance to spot problems before release
* Other Lyx users care
By using alpha Karmic Koala I was able to spot and report bugs in qemu
and rhythmbox so that they will be fixed before release.
I'm not asking for support here on this issue, I'm only asking if anyone
else has noticed this, as I may be able to get information to help me
investigate further.
So far the problem has only shown itself on computers with nvidia
drivers, my ATI machine does not show the problem. I'll investigate more
when I get back to my nvidia machines.
To answer Steve Litt's question, I'm using lyx 1.6.3 (I don't know how
to ask dpkg where it was built as I do for rpm's but I suspect it is a
Jaunty Jackalope getdeb build), and qt 4.5.2
Sam
