Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers
On 19/06/15 08:29, Stuart Ward wrote: Wednesday evenings it is open to the public. Yesterday, I collected a computer from someone the local Freecycle group. It had no power supply or hard drive, but otherwise is OK. I rigged it up with an old spare power supply and it booted from a DVD. Torios is fantastic - but why doesn't the first screen tell you that you'll almost certainly have to use the nomodeset parameter with any older gear? This computer is an old Sony - Pentium 4 a700 MHz and 256 Mb. But I have had to use nomodeset on a far newer and faster box that I've been running 14.04 on I'd have thought that on something like Torios, this would have been a 'must have' with an extra option to boot with nomodeset and a little notice about why ... But yes - Torios is really good. Strange that the Torios terminal doesn't recognise lshw though. Any idea why this might be? Regards,Barry. -- http://barrydrake.co.nr/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers
On 23 June 2015 at 09:56, Barry Drake wrote: > On 19/06/15 08:29, Stuart Ward wrote: > >> Wednesday evenings it is open to the public. >> > > Yesterday, I collected a computer from someone the local Freecycle group. > It had no power supply or hard drive, but otherwise is OK. I rigged it up > with an old spare power supply and it booted from a DVD. Torios is > fantastic - but why doesn't the first screen tell you that you'll almost > certainly have to use the nomodeset parameter with any older gear? This > computer is an old Sony - Pentium 4 a700 MHz and 256 Mb. But I have had to > use nomodeset on a far newer and faster box that I've been running 14.04 on > > > I'd have thought that on something like Torios, this would have been a > 'must have' with an extra option to boot with nomodeset and a little notice > about why ... > > But yes - Torios is really good. Strange that the Torios terminal doesn't > recognise lshw though. Any idea why this might be? > > Probably because it's a minimal install and the expectation could be that you don't need it for a desktop system. I find in my day job that their provisioning varies on servers, and 99% of ours are CentOS. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib" -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Gnome Color Chooser
Hi I'm so impressed with Ubuntu MATE that I've finally abandoned Xubuntu as my go-to distribution. The MATE desktop has tools for tailoring the colours so you have a high level of control over its appearance. However some objects, such as certain toolbars, seem immune to these tools. I've been told to try gnome-color-chooser which I have installed. Unfortunately I am struggling to find how to use it. It is not really intuitive, and the only links to supposed documentation I've found are all dead or misleading. Does anybody have any experience with this tool and/or can point me towards some kind of user guide? Thanks Nige -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gnome Color Chooser
On 23 June 2015 at 16:22, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I'm so impressed with Ubuntu MATE that I've finally abandoned Xubuntu as > my go-to distribution. The MATE desktop has tools for tailoring the colours > so you have a high level of control over its appearance. However some > objects, such as certain toolbars, seem immune to these tools. I've been > told to try gnome-color-chooser which I have installed. Unfortunately I am > struggling to find how to use it. > > It is not really intuitive, and the only links to supposed documentation > I've found are all dead or misleading. > > Does anybody have any experience with this tool and/or can point me > towards some kind of user guide? > > > You will need the HTML colour value from Gnome Colour Chooser, that's the string like #FF that the chooser displays for a selected colour. However, it's not easy to find all the colour settings in MATE (as with GTK in general) so it can rather be trial and error. That or people who make GTK themes are a lot more patient than I am. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib" -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
