Re: GNU GRUB version 1.99-12ubuntu5.1

2012-12-03 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Rich, There are several e-books you can have a read of to learn the 'innards' of Lubuntu and linux in general. But, before you trouble yourself with that, may I quote our mission statement.. Lubuntu is targeted at PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware > that, in most cases, just don

Re: GNU GRUB version 1.99-12ubuntu5.1

2012-12-03 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Richard, 1) Welcome to Lubuntu But what you are more worried about is the screen on booting That is the default boot screen and is completely normal (in fact it shows to others that you have a very healthy install). You can silence that display if you wish and remove the countdown. I'

Re: [Lubuntu] Simple configuration for remote logging with rsyslogd

2012-12-03 Thread John Hupp
If you mean write down what I have done with LTSP on Lubuntu (and not just this rsyslog recipe), I think I did post up a recipe for a standard 2-NIC LTSP5 setup on Lubuntu Precise some months ago. Now I'm still deep in troubleshooting (or something) of a 1-NIC LTSP-PNP setup on Lubuntu Quantal

Re: GNU GRUB version 1.99-12ubuntu5.1

2012-12-03 Thread Richard Bloss
Hi again, actually the options don't read linux 3.0.0-1. I can't quite make out what it reads because it's covered with Letters (P & M) & other symbols. The rest of the msg is correct as far as I can make out. I copied the "options" from a ticket on the Ubuntu forums. Some other folks are gettin

GNU GRUB version 1.99-12ubuntu5.1

2012-12-03 Thread Richard Bloss
Hi, Last week this msg popped up during boot: (sorry if this sounds like rambling - new to linux) GNU GRUB version 1.99-12ubuntu5.1 options are: Ubuntu, with linux 3.0.0-1-generic Ubuntu, with linux 3.0.0-1-generic (recovery mode) Previous Linux versions Memory test (memtest86+) Memory test (memte

Re: [Lubuntu] Simple configuration for remote logging with rsyslogd

2012-12-03 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi John, I'm a couple of years out from when our last guy asked about LTSP.. Back in 10.04 a teacher in a non 1st world country 'found' lubuntu. Ubuntu via GNOME was becoming 'too heavy' for his out dated computer lab. He was so thankful for the ability to actually have the quite ancient blade ser

Re: [Lubuntu] Simple configuration for remote logging with rsyslogd

2012-12-03 Thread John Hupp
On 11/30/2012 4:47 PM, John Hupp wrote: On Lubuntu Quantal, it looks like rsyslogd is installed with a certain configuration -- probably just for local logging -- but is not set to auto-start. I'm trying to set up remote logs for an LTSP client (to log to the LTSP server) for the sake of tro

alien arena problem

2012-12-03 Thread paul sutton
Hi I am running Lubuntu 12.04 and have just installed Alien arena, psutton@E-machine:~$ uname -a Linux E-machine 3.2.0-33-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:19:45 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux psutton@E-machine:~$ lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia3

Re: [Lubuntu] System Information and Benchmark tool broken in Quantal?

2012-12-03 Thread John Hupp
Here is the bug report, in case anyone wants to add their "this affects me too" vote or a comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hardinfo/+bug/1029212 The bug is apparently artwork related. Also artwork related are the odd messages that appear when a GUI app is launched from the t

Re: [Lubuntu] System Information and Benchmark tool broken in Quantal?

2012-12-03 Thread Aere Greenway
John: It works that way for me as well. I have heard there is a bug filed reporting the problem, but it has been that way since October, and nothing has changed with it. Sincerely, Aere -Original Message- From: John Hupp To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [Lubuntu] Syst

[Lubuntu] System Information and Benchmark tool broken in Quantal?

2012-12-03 Thread John Hupp
I find that when I run the System Information and Benchmark tool in Quantal, it produces the program window with the menu bar and toolbar, nocontents, and an empty popup. But the window controlson the popup are visible and operable. Clicking to close that produces another empty popup. Closing

Re: Can LXTerminal 'open' URLs like some other terminals?

2012-12-03 Thread Hitesh Shah
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Yao Wei (魏銘廷) wrote: > If you click the URL with Ctrl, it will open URL with `xdg-open` which > will redirect to your preferred browser. > > This functionality exists since 2010-03-29 which is committed by Marty > Jack. > > Thanks for that. Works perfectly :) -- L

Re: Can LXTerminal 'open' URLs like some other terminals?

2012-12-03 Thread 魏銘廷
If you click the URL with Ctrl, it will open URL with `xdg-open` which will redirect to your preferred browser. This functionality exists since 2010-03-29 which is committed by Marty Jack. On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi Chris, > > You can always raise bug for lxte

Re: Chromium Memory usage

2012-12-03 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Lars, are you using the latest stable? I did see reports a while back re: memory leak. I don't see this behavior on my system which runs for days on end with chromium running. Regards, Phill. On 3 December 2012 09:08, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 12/03/2012 02:47 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > >

Re: Chromium Memory usage

2012-12-03 Thread Lars Noodén
On 12/03/2012 02:47 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I see mutterings of Chromium using ~ 100KiB / Tab open... I also suspect it of eating RAM gradually. If I leave Chromium open during the day, by the end of the day swap is full and everything is slow. If I do not use Chromium, then