Dark text on dark background in Firefox address bar: fix

2014-05-08 Thread Hitesh Shah
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1005501#c23 which suggests going into about:config and setting "gfx.xrender.enabled" to false and restarting the browser. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless

2014-05-08 Thread Israel
On 05/08/2014 03:43 PM, fari...@arcor.de wrote: > lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com: >> Hi Pierre, >> >> This is quite messy. How come it works better with root permissions in >> some cases and without root permissions in other cases? >> >> Anyway I will try your solution and let you know the

Re: Play DVD's

2014-05-08 Thread Israel
On 05/08/2014 03:20 PM, John Hupp wrote: > On 5/7/2014 9:39 PM, Israel wrote: >> On 05/07/2014 12:58 PM, John Hupp wrote: >>> Playing DVD's is on my functionality checklist, and when I insert one >>> under 14.04, all I get is a prompt to open the DVD in the file manager. >>> >>> I would like it to

Firefox 29 bug - browser PDF viewer prints blank pages

2014-05-08 Thread John Hupp
Ben Kaduk on the Ubuntu users list wrote: I can't seem to find any substantial amount of complaining (or really, any traffic at all) about this on the forums, bug tracker, or mailing lists, which is very confusing to me, but this firefox update appears to have broken printing PDFs from the in-

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless

2014-05-08 Thread farinet
lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com: > Hi Pierre, > > This is quite messy. How come it works better with root permissions in > some cases and without root permissions in other cases? > > Anyway I will try your solution and let you know the result. > > Best regards > Nio I had the same proble

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Aere Greenway
On 05/08/2014 01:26 PM, Pierre Gobin wrote: Le 08/05/2014 19:22, Aere Greenway a écrit : On 05/08/2014 11:05 AM, Pierre Gobin wrote: I saw many users with problems to connect to networks after running "nm-applet" with root permissions. To have nm-applet at startup, I only added "nm-applet"

Re: Play DVD's

2014-05-08 Thread John Hupp
On 5/7/2014 9:39 PM, Israel wrote: On 05/07/2014 12:58 PM, John Hupp wrote: Playing DVD's is on my functionality checklist, and when I insert one under 14.04, all I get is a prompt to open the DVD in the file manager. I would like it to automatically open in Gnome MPlayer (or VLC, if that is a

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Aere Greenway
Pierre & Nio: I tested several things. First, I selected (from the main menu) "Preferences"..."Network Connections", which brought up a configuration tool that allowed me to successfully configure my wireless network. The nm-applet in the task-bar (inserted by right clicking on the panel) s

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Pierre Gobin
Le 08/05/2014 19:22, Aere Greenway a écrit : On 05/08/2014 11:05 AM, Pierre Gobin wrote: I saw many users with problems to connect to networks after running "nm-applet" with root permissions. To have nm-applet at startup, I only added "nm-applet" in "Default apps for LXSession", in the tab

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Nio Wiklund
2014-05-08 19:16, Nio Wiklund skrev: > 2014-05-08 19:05, Pierre Gobin skrev: >> >> Le 08/05/2014 18:49, Nio Wiklund a écrit : >>> 2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev: On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with >

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Aere Greenway
On 05/08/2014 11:05 AM, Pierre Gobin wrote: I saw many users with problems to connect to networks after running "nm-applet" with root permissions. To have nm-applet at startup, I only added "nm-applet" in "Default apps for LXSession", in the tab "Autostart". This solved the problem. Pierre:

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Nio Wiklund
2014-05-08 19:05, Pierre Gobin skrev: > > Le 08/05/2014 18:49, Nio Wiklund a écrit : >> 2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev: >>> On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it y

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Aere Greenway
Nio: I just ran the live CD on my primary system, and saw that when it finishes initializing, there is no network applet in the task-bar, even though there was a working ethernet cable connection. The lack of that applet is probably what causes the problem. I think my problem, was that inst

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Pierre Gobin
Le 08/05/2014 18:49, Nio Wiklund a écrit : 2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev: On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't. Nio: I would tell you precisely, but I can

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Nio Wiklund
2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev: > On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >> When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with >> or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't. > Nio: > > I would tell you precisely, but I can only reproduce the problem by > ru

Re: 14.04 seems subject to bug 1046563 with update-manager/notifier

2014-05-08 Thread John Hupp
OK, I'm in good position to test whether this is the old bug at work or simply phased updates working properly. I just ran Software Updater manually and it identified 683 KB of updates available for the Lubuntu Base. I did not install the updates, so within 2.5 days I should be notified that

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Aere Greenway
On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't. Nio: I would tell you precisely, but I can only reproduce the problem by running the live CD or live USB, and on those (test)

Re: Windows XP replacement games: Penguin Spider?

2014-05-08 Thread John Hupp
On 5/7/2014 9:37 PM, Israel wrote: On 05/07/2014 11:39 AM, John Hupp wrote: Hi, all. I'm honing my Windows XP replacement recipe and am well aware that lots of people love those simple games that have traditionally been included with Windows. I see that Lubuntu 13.10 included the Penguin Spide

Re: 14.04 seems subject to bug 1046563 with update-manager/notifier

2014-05-08 Thread bapoumba
Ah very very good point : http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/phased-updates.html the iputils packages are showing up on that page. Thank you much, I always forget about phase updates.. On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Dale Visser wrote: > You may just be encountering "phased updates" f

RE: 14.04 seems subject to bug 1046563 with update-manager/notifier

2014-05-08 Thread Dale Visser
You may just be encountering "phased updates" for the first time in this version: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/08/phased-updates-to-start-rolling-out-for-ubuntu-13-04 It takes 2.5 days for a new phased update to roll out to all users. Apt-get bypasses the delays and gets everything that can

Re: 14.04 seems subject to bug 1046563 with update-manager/notifier

2014-05-08 Thread bapoumba
Hello, thanks for the email, I was about to post one. First off, I'd like to apologize for silently joining the list a few weeks back. So hello, you'll mainly find me on the forums :) I've added a few things to the forums thread, and linked the bug report here https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Nio Wiklund
2014-05-08 05:35, Aere Greenway skrev: > On 05/07/2014 08:44 PM, Israel wrote: >> That is extremely bizarre Did you use the same disk image that was >> successful before? >> I know you said the md5sum checked out... but it is odd that you >> should get something so different. >> > Israel: > >

AW: LxQt

2014-05-08 Thread Leszek Lesner
It is another desktop environment that can be used besides LXDE.

LxQt

2014-05-08 Thread Hitesh Shah
Just saw this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/05/next-gen-linux-desktop-lxqt-makes-first-public-release Any details on what happens if it is installed? Will there be a separate login session or is this another distro by itself? Sorry for the dumb question! I visited lxqt.org but there's not much