Re: need some assistance

2012-12-12 Thread John Hupp
I posted recently about a HardInfo bug under Quantal-- maybe that is in play in your case as well. See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/2012-December/003139.html On 12/12/2012 5:37 PM, Ron Mitchell wrote: My apologies for not being active on the Lubuntu testing recently. There

"No package 'libraw_r' found"

2012-12-17 Thread John Hupp
I was trying to install the new version of Entangle, a camera remote capture program. Because the GetDeb repo has been down for a while (which is how I installed the earlier version), I was trying to install from source. But configure keeps generating "No package 'libraw_r' found" during its

Re: "No package 'libraw_r' found"

2012-12-17 Thread John Hupp
On 12/17/2012 3:05 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:42 PM, John Hupp wrote: I was trying to install the new version of Entangle, a camera remote capture program. Because the GetDeb repo has been down for a while (which is how I installed the earlier version), I was trying

[Lubuntu] Sed substitution with partially duplicate results

2012-12-19 Thread John Hupp
I'm using a script with sed to modify a configuration file. The script: sed -i \ -e 's/UPSCABLE usb/UPSCABLE ether/' \ -e 's/UPSTYPE usb/UPSTYPE net/' \ -e 's/DEVICE/DEVICE Lubuntu1:3551/' \ -e 's/TIMEOUT 105/TIMEOUT 60/' \ -e 's/NETSERVER on/NETSERVER off/' \ -e 's/NISIP

Re: [Lubuntu] Sed substitution with partially duplicate results

2012-12-19 Thread John Hupp
twice, any line DEVICE will become first DEVICE Lubuntu1:3551 and then DEVICE Lubuntu1:3551 Lubuntu1:3551 -wes On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, John Hupp wrote: I'm using a script with sed to modify a configuration file. The script: sed -i \ -e 's/UPSCABLE usb/UPSCABLE ether/'

Re: [Lubuntu] Sed substitution with partially duplicate results

2012-12-20 Thread John Hupp
colon with a backslash does that fix it? A colon is a potential delimiter although that seems to be unexpected output regardless. wxl On Dec 19, 2012 2:27 PM, "Jonathan Marsden" <mailto:jmars...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: John, On 12/19/2012 01:16 PM, John Hupp wrote:

Re: [Lubuntu] Sed substitution with partially duplicate results

2012-12-20 Thread John Hupp
On 12/20/2012 4:56 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 12/20/2012 07:23 AM, John Hupp wrote: I also tried sed -e 's/DEVICE$/DEVICE Lubuntu1:3551/' And that had no effect whatsoever. The result was still "DEVICE Lubuntu1:3551 Lubuntu1:3551". That makes no sense to me

Re: [Lubuntu] Sed substitution with partially duplicate results

2012-12-20 Thread John Hupp
On 12/20/2012 8:13 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 12/20/2012 4:56 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 12/20/2012 07:23 AM, John Hupp wrote: I also tried sed -e 's/DEVICE$/DEVICE Lubuntu1:3551/' And that had no effect whatsoever. The result was still "DEVICE Lubuntu1:3551 Lubunt

Re: A mounted usb card reader with falsh card shows up three times in file manager

2012-12-28 Thread John Hupp
I don't know a solution or if there is a bug report filed, but a similar behavior here: When I plug in my camera, its memory file system shows up once in the file manager if the file system is unmounted, and a second time if I mount the file system. Another bit of undesirable behavior: When I

Re: Chromium apparently hogging swap

2012-12-28 Thread John Hupp
I barely know enough to be dangerous, but I wonder if you should be investigating a memory leak problem: Chromium not properly releasing no-longer-needed memory, therefore using additional memory with continued browsing, resulting in more hard drive swap. On 12/28/2012 11:28 AM, Lars Noodén wr

[Lubuntu] Recommended online backup services (or those to avoid)?

2012-12-29 Thread John Hupp
I see that none of these are installed by default in Quantal: Deja Dup Ubuntu One Duplicity In fact, a Synaptic search on "backup" doesn't show that any backup package is installed. A little searching indicates that there have been problems installing or using Deja Dup

Re: No sound on 12.10 installation on Acer Revo - how to get some?

2012-12-29 Thread John Hupp
On 12/29/2012 12:28 PM, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 07:23:11PM +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Chris Green wrote: I am having trouble getting any sound output on an Acer Revo R3600. I first tried after upgrading an Ubuntu Server installation to 12.

Re: [Lubuntu] Recommended online backup services (or those to avoid)?

2012-12-29 Thread John Hupp
or really important stuff, and don't save so much stuff that way. Also, it may not let you know at what point everything has been synchronized. -- Sincerely, Aere -Original Message- *From*: John Hupp <mailto:john%20hupp%20%3clubu...@prpcompany.com%3e>> *To*: lubuntu-u

[Lubuntu] Ubuntu One how-to for online backup/sync?

2012-12-31 Thread John Hupp
I wrote earlier about online backup, but now I'm wondering in particular about Ubuntu One, which is explicitly designed as a sync service rather than a backup service. But that should serve well enough for many backup needs. Has anyone set this up afresh on Precise or Quantal? What packages

Re: [Lubuntu] Ubuntu One how-to for online backup/sync?

2013-01-02 Thread John Hupp
and I could download again, if necessary. I wish it were easier to select hidden cache files to be excluded from the backup. - Aere -Original Message- *From*: John Hupp <mailto:john%20hupp%20%3clubu...@prpcompany.com%3e>> *To*: Aere Greenway <mailto:aere%20greenway%20%3ca...@dv

Re: [Lubuntu] Ubuntu One how-to for online backup/sync?

2013-01-02 Thread John Hupp
hat I was merely authenticating against the already-established P/W.] On 1/2/2013 11:28 AM, John Hupp wrote: OK, I finally got Ubuntu One (U1) installed. Some interesting notes: The first is what to install. As I posted earlier, I had not found any instruction about how to proceed. I first tried

Re: [Lubuntu] Ubuntu One how-to for online backup/sync?

2013-01-02 Thread John Hupp
count and user-ID. But once I got that done, it seems to work fine. One unknown for me with Ubuntu One, is what happens when I change my password, which is due to be done soon. -- Sincerely, Aere -Original Message- *From*: John Hupp <mailto:john%20hupp%20%3clubu...@prpcompany.co

Re: New installation failing to take over from old installation

2013-01-02 Thread John Hupp
The last time I had a problem like that, I used the disk manufacturer's utility to erase the hard drive. Though I didn't even need to do the full erase -- the quick erase that targeted the first part of the drive did the job. (This is assuming that there is nothing on the drive that needs to

Re: About improving Lubuntu Quantal boot time and a new year wish

2013-01-04 Thread John Hupp
I don't have any answers for you, but thanks for an informative outline of available tools! And yes, your observation about Linux Mint is tantalizing. On 1/3/2013 6:10 PM, Pascual Lucero wrote: Hello, I would like to ask about measures to improve Lubuntu Quantal boot time and Lubuntu boot

[Lubuntu] Evaluation of presentation programs?

2013-01-04 Thread John Hupp
I know about LibreOffice Impress as a mature product. I have read a little about Ease (very new and rather rough at last report, not in the main repos, requires 3D support by the video driver and therefore often the proprietary video driver). What are my best options for a presentations progr

Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-01-12 Thread John Hupp
On 1/12/2013 10:27 AM, Chris Green wrote: I have a Lubuntu 12.10 system where, for some reason, a user can't run nm-tool:- chris@revo:/etc/dbus-1/system.d$ nm-tool ** (process:1618): WARNING **: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: Rejected send message, 2 m

Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-01-13 Thread John Hupp
On 1/13/2013 7:01 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 03:00:06PM -0500, John Hupp wrote: On 1/12/2013 10:27 AM, Chris Green wrote: [snip] However it works fine when run as the root user. A further symptom of the same thing (I think) is that the Network Manager applet is

Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-01-14 Thread John Hupp
On 1/14/2013 9:30 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:13:19AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: It has probably been done by a mix of Network Manager and direct editing over quite a long time. If this is the cause do you have any idea how to get back to a "completely controll

Calendar/PIM recommendations/evaluations?

2013-01-14 Thread John Hupp
I'm looking for calendar or personal information manager recommendations and evaluations. Overall recommendations (preferably with any deficiencies noted), or what other programs are nice except for this or that problem. I'm vaguely aware that there has been some controversy regarding the Lu

Re: Calendar/PIM recommendations/evaluations?

2013-01-14 Thread John Hupp
On 1/14/2013 11:29 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 01/14/2013 08:51 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:37:43AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: I'm looking for calendar or personal information manager recommendations and evaluations. Overall recommendations (preferably wit

Re: Calendar/PIM recommendations/evaluations?

2013-01-15 Thread John Hupp
On 1/14/2013 8:45 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 01/14/2013 10:14 AM, John Hupp wrote: On 1/14/2013 11:29 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 01/14/2013 08:51 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:37:43AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: I'm looking for calendar or personal information ma

Print-to-PDF (cups-pdf package) not working?

2013-01-19 Thread John Hupp
In a new installation of Quantal, I find that the PDF printer driver installed by cups-pdf is not working. Regular printing to an HP Laserjet under the hplip package works fine. Has anyone else experienced this? -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or un

Re: Print-to-PDF (cups-pdf package) not working?

2013-01-19 Thread John Hupp
On 1/19/2013 7:05 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:13 AM, John Hupp wrote: In a new installation of Quantal, I find that the PDF printer driver installed by cups-pdf is not working. Regular printing to an HP Laserjet under the hplip package works fine. Has anyone else

Make new user sub-folders inherit parent permissions

2013-01-19 Thread John Hupp
I have two users(user1 and user2), but for a special purpose I want to maintain a single store of files in the user1 home directory. So I added user1 and user2 to the "users" group, and reassigned the Group property for /home/user1from "user1" to "users." I think that change automatically pro

Re: Make new user sub-folders inherit parent permissions

2013-01-20 Thread John Hupp
On 1/19/2013 11:09 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:04 AM, John Hupp wrote: I have two users (user1 and user2), but for a special purpose I want to maintain a single store of files in the user1 home directory. So I added user1 and user2 to the "users" group, and

Re: Make new user sub-folders inherit parent permissions

2013-01-20 Thread John Hupp
On 1/20/2013 2:27 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:56 PM, John Hupp wrote: This opens up yet more questions. /etc/passwd only contains the original GID's for user1 and user2. It does not reflect that both have now been also added to the "users" group. S

Re: Make new user sub-folders inherit parent permissions

2013-01-21 Thread John Hupp
On 1/20/2013 7:40 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 1/20/2013 2:27 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:56 PM, John Hupp wrote: This opens up yet more questions. /etc/passwd only contains the original GID's for user1 and user2. It does not reflect that both have now been also add

Chromium does not support Google Calendar offline mode?

2013-01-21 Thread John Hupp
I was looking at calendar choices and posted about that recently ("Calendar/PIM recommendations/evaluations?"). Other than Chris Green's inventive CLI-oriented home-grown solution, theother suggestions were Google Calendar and Thunderbird + Lightning/Sunbird. One mightinstall Thunderbird not

Files moved to a shared project folder retain original Group

2013-01-22 Thread John Hupp
I got started on this general topic in the thread "Make new user sub-folders inherit parent permissions," but wanted to start a new thread to reflect the current state of development. The goal: A shared folder tree that a group of users can freely edit (suitable for a project team, for instanc

Re: Files moved to a shared project folder retain original Group

2013-01-22 Thread John Hupp
On 1/22/2013 9:19 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:45 AM, John Hupp wrote: I got started on this general topic in the thread "Make new user sub-folders inherit parent permissions," but wanted to start a new thread to reflect the current state of development. T

Re: Files moved to a shared project folder retain original Group

2013-01-24 Thread John Hupp
On 1/22/2013 10:53 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 1/22/2013 9:19 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:45 AM, John Hupp wrote: I got started on this general topic in the thread "Make new user sub-folders inherit parent permissions," but wanted to start a new thread to r

Re: New installation failing to take over from old installation

2013-02-03 Thread John Hupp
The last time I had a problem like that, I used the disk manufacturer's utility to erase the hard drive. Though I didn't even need to do the full erase -- the quick erase that targeted the first part of the drive did the job. (This is assuming that there is nothing on the drive that needs to

Re: User can't run nm-tool on 12.10 system

2013-02-03 Thread John Hupp
On 1/14/2013 9:30 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:13:19AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: It has probably been done by a mix of Network Manager and direct editing over quite a long time. If this is the cause do you have any idea how to get back to a "completely controll

Manually update a library? And a GetDeb question?

2013-02-05 Thread John Hupp
On I'm running Quantal, I've been wanting and waiting to solve a camera control problem and feel that the latest release of libgphoto2 (v2.5.1) will probably do the job. But the version installed (the highest available) from the official repo is 2.4.x. I'm imagining that if I do a manual upg

Re: Manually update a library? And a GetDeb question?

2013-02-08 Thread John Hupp
"read the dpkg manual page before using dpkg, as improper use may break the package management database." In other places two or more databases are indicated, as in the dpkg manpage. Can anyone clarify this with authority? On 2/7/2013 6:42 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: Le 05/02/2013

Re: Keeping the sub-teams active and up-to-date

2013-02-09 Thread John Hupp
I'm not affected as a member, active or inactive, of any team. But as a beneficiary I have a stake in seeing that things work well. And I'll assert that there is a big difference between dictatorship and leadership. Ali cited the clear organizing principle which defines and stresses active me

Re: Manually update a library? And a GetDeb question?

2013-02-09 Thread John Hupp
need, but this is the first time I have attempted something like this, so I'd really appreciate any special pointers that might not be covered there. On 2/8/2013 10:26 AM, John Hupp wrote: Running Entangle (www.entangle-photo.org) to do remote capture (aka "tethered shooting"), whi

Re: Manually update a library? And a GetDeb question?

2013-02-09 Thread John Hupp
On 2/9/2013 4:19 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 02/09/2013 07:45 AM, John Hupp wrote: Regarding my last question below, I now see that Synaptic uses dpkg, so it seems very likely that despite the language of some of the documentation, there is probably only one package database shared by all

[Lubuntu] Permanently delete user Public folders?

2013-02-23 Thread John Hupp
I understand that the Public folder for each user is a vestige of other/older implementations that employed the Personal File Sharing tool (gnome-user-share). It gives the impression of being like a Windows "Shared Documents folder but does not function as such. It can be deleted, but somethi

Re: Ubuntu cloud

2013-02-24 Thread John Hupp
Yes, currently Ubuntu One is QT and installs 40+ dependencies. And during the first-time setup it hangs at Getting Information. It also introduces a second boot-time login unless you install libpam-gnome-keyring to get the option to auto-login at user login. And finally, it is really a sync s

Re: [Lubuntu] Permanently delete user Public folders?

2013-02-25 Thread John Hupp
On 2/23/2013 4:58 PM, P Bielecki wrote: 23.02.2013 20:44, John Hupp: I understand that the Public folder for each user is a vestige of other/older implementations that employed the Personal File Sharing tool (gnome-user-share). It gives the impression of being like a Windows "Shared Docu

Re: [Lubuntu] Permanently delete user Public folders?

2013-02-26 Thread John Hupp
On 2/26/2013 11:20 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, John Hupp wrote: On 2/23/2013 4:58 PM, P Bielecki wrote: Hi John, I think the mentioned dirs are created at user login by /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update executed from /etc/X11/Xsession.d/60xdg-user-dirs-update

GUI ink level reporter for Epson Stylus C120

2013-03-14 Thread John Hupp
I found that CUPS supports printing to the Epson Stylus C120 using the automatically-installed Gutenprint driver. So I added an entry to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsPrinters, but I also noted there that ink levels are not reported in printer properties. The only GUI tool

Re: Xscreensaver activated with switching back to original user

2013-04-20 Thread John Hupp
I have observed the same thing, and someone raised the issue here maybe a year ago. I recall that it was regarded as a known bit of inelegant behavior, but it didn't seem like it was on the developers' radar as a target. On 4/20/2013 11:43 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: When I switch users and then

Re: Xscreensaver activated with switching back to original user

2013-04-20 Thread John Hupp
I should add that I don't know if there is a bug report on file. On 4/20/2013 11:43 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: When I switch users and then log out of the second user I get the login screen, as expected. Then when I enter the login credentials for the first user, the next thing I am greeted with i

Re: mozilla system freeze-up

2013-05-25 Thread John Hupp
On 5/14/2013 10:00 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 05/14/2013 02:13 PM, Gerry wrote: Hola mis compadres Lubuntu! Seamonkey 2.17 freezes my machine, there's no alternative but to power off/on. This also occurs with Firefox & Thunderbird. The system message, fleetingly diplayed, refers to Glib... pag

Re: Thunderbird Mail Experience

2013-05-25 Thread John Hupp
On 5/15/2013 1:33 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 05/15/2013 11:28 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 05/15/2013 11:19 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: The only problem I have observed, is what appears in the indented line below. In that line, I selected the word "bold" and changed it to bold emphasis, and it a

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread John Hupp
On 5/31/2013 1:53 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote: Hi, In order to have more feedbacks before deciding to switch to Firefox, or to keep Chromium by default, I would like to ask you some testimonies and any feedbacks about the use of the 2 browsers. We need to evaluate the use of the 2 browsers *on old

Re: Minimum hardware requirements for Adobe Flash

2013-06-17 Thread John Hupp
On 6/17/2013 9:30 AM, Yorvyk wrote: According to those nice people at Adobe the minimum requirements for running Flash with Linux are:- 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 5.6 or later (32 bit an

"Printing service not available" error when installing USB printer in Raring

2013-07-18 Thread John Hupp
I just did a non-upgrade installation of Raring 13.04 Desktop x86 from DVD (installing from the boot-time prompt, not the Live CD session), then installed everything the Software Updater offered by default, and ran into this "Printing service not available" error while trying to install a USB p

Opening a Windows Vista shared folder from Raring

2013-07-18 Thread John Hupp
I had no trouble in 12.10 Quantal opening a Windows XP share from the file manager, but in a fresh install of 13.04 Raring, I tried to open a share on a Windows Vista machine and depending on whether I tried to open Windows Network or entered smb:/// in the file manager address bar, I got one o

Re: Opening a Windows Vista shared folder from Raring

2013-07-18 Thread John Hupp
On 7/18/2013 3:37 PM, Federico Leoni wrote: 2013/7/18 John Hupp : I had no trouble in 12.10 Quantal opening a Windows XP share from the file manager, but in a fresh install of 13.04 Raring, I tried to open a share on a Windows Vista machine and depending on whether I tried to open Windows

Re: Opening a Windows Vista shared folder from Raring

2013-07-18 Thread John Hupp
On 7/18/2013 4:07 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 7/18/2013 3:37 PM, Federico Leoni wrote: 2013/7/18 John Hupp : I had no trouble in 12.10 Quantal opening a Windows XP share from the file manager, but in a fresh install of 13.04 Raring, I tried to open a share on a Windows Vista machine and depending

LibreOffice installs Java and opens a security risk?

2013-07-18 Thread John Hupp
I forget if I asked this question some time back, but if I did, I don't remember that the matter was settled. I wanted to add LibreOffice to an installation for the sake of better MS Office file compatibility and to gain a presentations program, but it looks like LibreOffice will install Java.

Re: LibreOffice installs Java and opens a security risk?

2013-07-18 Thread John Hupp
but I don't think LibreOffice 4 installs any type of Java at all. It's possible this happened with much older versions and before Oracle changed some legal stuff about Oracle which even caused Canonical to drop Oracle's Java from the repos. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Jo

Re: LibreOffice installs Java and opens a security risk? [SOLVED]

2013-07-19 Thread John Hupp
kia N9 gesendet John Hupp schrieb am 19.07.13 04:30: This is in 13.04 Raring. I was looking at the dependent packages that are installed with the LibreOffice metapackage. Various references to JRE (Java Runtime Environment) and Java. On 7/18/2013 8:56 PM, Augustine Souza wrote: John, how long

Re: [Internet Speed Problem] My System is using 1Mbps ONLY out of 8Mbps

2013-08-02 Thread John Hupp
On 8/2/2013 6:32 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Hi, I have this problem for months but I decided NOT to deal with it as a high priority and sometimes to ignore it. Now, I can't ignore it anymore. I'd like to understand and know what is going on??!! * My Internet Connection is 8Mbps * I'm

Re: [Internet Speed Problem] My System is using 1Mbps ONLY out of 8Mbps

2013-08-02 Thread John Hupp
On 8/2/2013 8:05 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 8/2/2013 6:32 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Hi, I have this problem for months but I decided NOT to deal with it as a high priority and sometimes to ignore it. Now, I can't ignore it anymore. I'd like to understand and know what i

Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-07 Thread John Hupp
There was this helpful bug report on file at http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1178982. It described behavior on Dell PC's with integrated Intel graphics, in which Adobe Flash Player would display only with shades of purple and green in a horizontally compressed window (or at

Re: AW: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-07 Thread John Hupp
d anymore. I hardly doubt that there will be any Bugfix release despite of security fix releases. *Von: *John Hupp *Gesendet: *Mittwoch, 7. August 2013 20:09 *An: *Iberê Fernandes; lubuntu users mailing list *Betreff: *Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed wind

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-07 Thread John Hupp
On 8/7/2013 3:11 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 08/07/2013 12:08 PM, John Hupp wrote: There was this helpful bug report on file at http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1178982. It described behavior on Dell PC's with integrated Intel graphics, in which Adobe Flash Player

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-07 Thread John Hupp
On 8/7/2013 4:26 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 08/07/2013 01:28 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 8/7/2013 3:11 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 08/07/2013 12:08 PM, John Hupp wrote: There was this helpful bug report on file at http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1178982. It described

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-07 Thread John Hupp
On 8/7/2013 7:04 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 8/7/2013 4:26 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 08/07/2013 01:28 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 8/7/2013 3:11 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 08/07/2013 12:08 PM, John Hupp wrote: There was this helpful bug report on file at http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-08 Thread John Hupp
On 8/8/2013 2:58 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-08-08 03:01, Aere Greenway wrote: On 08/07/2013 05:04 PM, John Hupp wrote: For what it's worth, I have just found that the workaround detailed in Comment #1 in the bug report (http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1178982) does

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-08 Thread John Hupp
On 8/8/2013 5:09 PM, Federico Leoni wrote: 2013/8/8 Phill Whiteside : hi Nio, As this is marked as a work around to a bug, I'd suggest popping it onto https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Workarounds Regards, Phill. Interesting. This workaround seems to solve the issu

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-09 Thread John Hupp
On 8/9/2013 9:04 AM, NikTh wrote: Ok, I will answer here of how I understand the whole situation. I hope this helps someone. First, the bug status now is marked as Invalid and for that, do not bother your selfs with this bug anymore. Invalid means invalid. Permanent closed as developers figur

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-10 Thread John Hupp
On 8/10/2013 3:52 AM, NikTh wrote: I have two lines of attack on this problem: 1) Trying to file a good bug report concerning the Flash behavior, and 2) Trying to get the workaround fully working. Using UXA acceleration solved the Flash problem but left me with a garbled login screen. So I took

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-11 Thread John Hupp
On 8/10/2013 10:41 PM, NikTh wrote: Sorry I didn't explained this correctly. You had to use the TearFree option with the SNA acceleration, not UXA. In case that this option will fix flash player's glitches. If by adding the TearFree option you face any freeze/crash, then you must add the parame

Live Disc with Persistence

2013-08-11 Thread John Hupp
I have 4GB and 8GB flash drives currently serving as Live USB drives with persistence running Quantal and Saucy. For the sake of troubleshooting the Flash/LightDM-login problems more invasively, I would like to make another Live setup with persistence running Raring, but I don't have another b

Re: Live Disc with Persistence

2013-08-12 Thread John Hupp
On 8/11/2013 12:33 PM, John Hupp wrote: I have 4GB and 8GB flash drives currently serving as Live USB drives with persistence running Quantal and Saucy. For the sake of troubleshooting the Flash/LightDM-login problems more invasively, I would like to make another Live setup with persistence

Gparted missing in installation though present on Live CD

2013-08-12 Thread John Hupp
While working on the Live-Lubuntu-with-persistence problem, I found that Gparted was present in the Raring Live CD but missing from the Raring installation. I have a Quantal machine running here also and noticed Gparted missing from that installation, too. Is this by design? It means that f

Re: Gparted missing in installation though present on Live CD

2013-08-12 Thread John Hupp
On 8/12/2013 3:38 PM, NikTh wrote: On 2013-08-12 21:20, Federico Leoni wrote: You right John, is not present by default and I think it should be always present together with system-config-samba package for enabling share quickly on Lubuntu... F. Yes, it is not present by default. This is not

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-12 Thread John Hupp
On 8/10/2013 6:28 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 8/10/2013 3:52 AM, NikTh wrote: I have two lines of attack on this problem: 1) Trying to file a good bug report concerning the Flash behavior, and 2) Trying to get the workaround fully working. Using UXA acceleration solved the Flash problem but left

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-13 Thread John Hupp
Here is a fresh summary (with one new result) of the problem on machines with integrated Intel graphics in which Adobe Flash Player 11.2 displays only with shades of purple and green in a horizontally compressed window. (My current example is a Dell Dimension 2400 on Raring.) In my testing wit

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-14 Thread John Hupp
On 8/13/2013 4:47 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-08-13 20:46, John Hupp wrote: Here is a fresh summary (with one new result) of the problem on machines with integrated Intel graphics in which Adobe Flash Player 11.2 displays only with shades of purple and green in a horizontally compressed

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-16 Thread John Hupp
On 8/14/2013 6:20 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 8/13/2013 4:47 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-08-13 20:46, John Hupp wrote: Here is a fresh summary (with one new result) of the problem on machines with integrated Intel graphics in which Adobe Flash Player 11.2 displays only with shades of purple

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-16 Thread John Hupp
On 8/16/2013 10:42 AM, Federico Leoni wrote: Em 16/08/2013 11:36, "John Hupp" <mailto:lubu...@prpcompany.com>> escreveu: > > On 8/14/2013 6:20 PM, John Hupp wrote: >> >> On 8/13/2013 4:47 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >>> >>> On 2013-08-13 20

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-16 Thread John Hupp
On 8/16/2013 11:23 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-08-16 17:12, John Hupp wrote: On 8/16/2013 10:42 AM, Federico Leoni wrote: Em 16/08/2013 11:36, "John Hupp" mailto:lubu...@prpcompany.com>> escreveu: On 8/14/2013 6:20 PM, John Hupp wrote: On 8/13/2013 4:47 PM, Nio Wiklund wr

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-16 Thread John Hupp
On 8/16/2013 1:42 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 08/16/2013 09:12 AM, John Hupp wrote: Just after posting above, it occurred to me that there is another question to ask: What about the workaround for the workaround? All: If it truly works with Chromium (I still need to test that on the affected

Re: Did anyone refile bug for Flash Player shows green/purple in compressed window?

2013-08-16 Thread John Hupp
On 8/16/2013 1:50 PM, Federico Leoni wrote: 2013/8/16 John Hupp : I just had a quick look at Federico's link, which led me to https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/2013/2013q2-intel-graphics-stack-release. I see that it's not just "a" driver but a whole stack (8 downlo

Re: Gparted missing in installation though present on Live CD

2013-08-17 Thread John Hupp
On 8/17/2013 5:49 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:03 PM, John Hupp <mailto:lubu...@prpcompany.com>> wrote: While working on the Live-Lubuntu-with-persistence problem, I found that Gparted was present in the Raring Live CD but missing from t

Re: Lubuntu freezing

2013-08-29 Thread John Hupp
Following Leszek's thought about the kernel: if it is happening several times a day, can you boot to an earlier kernel for the next couple days? On 8/29/2013 8:30 AM, Federico Leoni wrote: Happen to me too, especially when I use Chrome, but I don't think is related. Next time I'll look more

Re: Lubuntu freezing

2013-08-29 Thread John Hupp
On 8/29/2013 10:22 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 29.08.2013 16:53, John Hupp wrote: Following Leszek's thought about the kernel: if it is happening several times a day, can you boot to an earlier kernel for the next couple days? I can try that if I can get an old kernel or two back on the s

Re: Lubuntu freezing

2013-08-29 Thread John Hupp
On 8/29/2013 4:20 PM, Gerry wrote: On 08/29/2013 01:36 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: For the past 4 or 5 days Lubuntu has been freezing up on me at least twice a day. The symptoms are that everything appears to stop working. Even the mouse pointer won't move and I cannot switch to a console (ctrl-al

"Hand of Thief Trojan targets all common Linux distributions"

2013-09-06 Thread John Hupp
I understand that with a standard Ubuntu/Lubuntu installation not running Wine, it is believed that there are no active threats that would responsibly require resident anti-virus protection. That may still be true today, but perhaps it won't be for too much longer. See the last 3 paragraphs o

Re: "Hand of Thief Trojan targets all common Linux distributions"

2013-09-06 Thread John Hupp
t;https://launchpad.net/%7Edbyentzen> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:26 PM, John Hupp <mailto:lubu...@prpcompany.com>> wrote: I understand that with a standard Ubuntu/Lubuntu installation not running Wine, it is believed that there are no active threats that would responsibly req

Re: "Hand of Thief Trojan targets all common Linux distributions"

2013-09-06 Thread John Hupp
s if you run a server of do other things then you need anti virus. But then again that is his( and my opinion) and each user should do what he/she thinks is best. Best Regards, David Yentzen https://launchpad.net/~dbyentzen <https://launchpad.net/%7Edbyentzen> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013

Re: "Hand of Thief Trojan targets all common Linux distributions"

2013-09-07 Thread John Hupp
On 9/6/2013 10:29 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 09/06/2013 11:26 AM, John Hupp wrote: I understand that with a standard Ubuntu/Lubuntu installation not running Wine, it is believed that there are no active threats that would responsibly require resident anti-virus protection. That may still

Re: "Hand of Thief Trojan targets all common Linux distributions"

2013-09-07 Thread John Hupp
On 9/7/2013 2:47 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 09/07/2013 08:50 AM, John Hupp wrote: On 9/6/2013 10:29 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: MY SUMMARY: Someone is building a new commercial trojan for Linux, which doesn't actually work yet, and there is no known way to infect anyone with it a

Creating a desktop shortcut

2013-09-18 Thread John Hupp
I want to create a desktop shortcut for a command that I ordinarily run in an lxterm window thus: sudo ltsp-update-image --cleanup / I tried a standard desktop shortcut with the relevant line: Exec=sudo ltsp-update-image --cleanup / but running the shortcut produces no results. I also tried

Re: Creating a desktop shortcut

2013-09-18 Thread John Hupp
On 9/18/2013 5:24 PM, Nik Th wrote: - Original Message - From: John Hupp Sent: 09/18/13 11:19 PM To: Lubuntu Users Subject: Creating a desktop shortcut I want to create a desktop shortcut for a command that I ordinarily run in an lxterm window thus: sudo ltsp-update-image

zRAM broken on Raring?

2013-09-27 Thread John Hupp
On Raring, output from 'sudo parted -l' includes: Error: /dev/zram0: unrecognised disk label And syslog shows a slew of errors: Lubuntu kernel: Buffer I/O error on device zram0, logical block 128247 Syslog also indicates that half of memory was given to zram to form its block device.

Re: zRAM broken on Raring?

2013-09-28 Thread John Hupp
ncy for something'. Maybe you have installed some ppa or other special repository to get new kernels or other new packages. What version is the kernel in your system? Best regards Nio On 2013-09-28 01:06, John Hupp wrote: The news/announcements concerning Saucy tend to say something &quo

Re: zRAM broken on Raring?

2013-09-28 Thread John Hupp
On 9/28/2013 12:23 PM, sudodus wrote: Hi John, Yes, let us hope the bug will be fixed soon, and it will be back-ported :-) Can you run your application without zRAM? You can switch it off in a simple way (and have it ready for reactivation) like this with crontab. Edit the crontab with sudo cr

Re: AW: zRAM broken on Raring?

2013-10-02 Thread John Hupp
sk label'). *Von: *Nio Wiklund *Gesendet: *Sonntag, 29. September 2013 10:11 *An: *Leszek Lesner; John Hupp; lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com *Betreff: *Re: AW: zRAM broken on Raring? Hi Leszek, John has zRAM in Raring. It was pulled in by a package he installed, and I try to help him sw

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