Ubuntu may be dropping 32 bit support!

2014-10-22 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Check out: https://bryanquigley.com/crazy-ideas/still-running-32-bit-ubuntu/ Right now it's obviously just an idea, but you might want to throw your 2¢ in there. There is a survey. I'm not sure if this will affect PPC. -- @wxl Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubun

Lubuntu Utopic Unicorn 14.10 Released!

2014-10-23 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On behalf of the team, I'm proud to announce the fruits of our hard work: Lubuntu Utopic Unicorn 14.10! You can get it right here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu/ As it suggests, don't forget the release notes, which are now in FIVE separate languages thanks to rafaellaguna

re: Screen flickers in Lubuntu 14.10 Final Beta

2014-10-23 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Doctor Jellyface said: > I installed the Lubuntu 14.10 Final Beta Why did you not install the final release? There were certainly changes. > Everything went fine, except this: the screen started to flicker. Weird. Does this happen with the live CD, too? Does it NOT happen with older live enviro

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu Utopic Unicorn 14.10 Released!

2014-10-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
corn which can now be downloaded at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu. Acting Release Manager, Walter Lapchynski, shortly after the release: “This cycle we mainly focused on fixing known bugs. But”, he adds “there is a downside, too: due to several serious bugs, we had to skip PPC ve

Re: Lubuntu Utopic Unicorn 14.10 Released!

2014-10-26 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Henk Terhell said: > With LXQt and XFCE, which are both attractive desktops, speed is an > issue for such aging PC's . I'm surprised by this comment. LXQt is the future of Lubuntu. The near future. Could you elaborate more on the specifics of your concern? @wxl Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Roadmap proposal for Lubuntu 15.04

2014-10-28 Thread Walter Lapchynski
> I would like to recreate the > blueprints we had some releases ago to organize the work for this > cycle. You can find them under > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/topic-v-flavor-lubuntu Where's the whole app discussion? > On the Gtk side, many components have been updated recentl

Re: Roadmap proposal for Lubuntu 15.04

2014-10-28 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > Den 2014-10-28 18:21, Lars Noodén skrev: >> On 28.10.2014 19:15, Pierre Gobin wrote: >>> Let's take advantage of our 14.04 LTS version, and accept regressions in >>> a short term, in order to prepare a solid LTS version with LXQt in a >>> midd

Ubuntu Developer Summit: Lubuntu session!

2014-11-03 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Latest Developments In Lubuntu Development will happen at 2014-11-13 19:00..19:55 UTC in Community 1 http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/meeting/22341/latest-developments-in-lubuntu-development/ I plan mainly on focusing on what directions Lubuntu is headed in across the team, though much of it will

nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Ian's bug is apparently i810? On 14.10, no kernel module being used. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385920 Aere's bug is i915 I think. On 14.04, with i915 kernel module, I think. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389904 My guess is these are different. They do have the same results apparently. W

Re: nasty display bugs

2014-11-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Nov 6, 2014 5:01 PM, "David Harrison" wrote: > My old Panasonic Toughbook uses 'old Intel' graphics and survived the transition to 14.10 without obvious hitches. > I can't remember offhand whether the driver was 'stock' or installed via the Intel utility. What's the best way to check via cli?

Re: nasty display bug??

2014-11-07 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Nov 7, 2014 10:55 AM, "Fritz Hudnut" wrote: > In just "lspci" . . . it all showed "Nvidia" in just about all the lines. > Would it be safe to assume that doing this upgrade would probably ***not*** lunch my system? Well honestly we're not sure which kernel driver is to blame, but I think we're

Re: Fwd: [Bug 1389904] Re: With the recent update to xserver-xorg-video-intel, system boots to a black screen

2014-11-07 Thread Walter Lapchynski
>>> Hi everybody with old intel graphics, >>> Please check if it affects you too, and in that case report that it >>> affects you too. > I made a fresh install into an old IBM Thinkcentre 8187-73G with Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller. > The computer works and seems not affected by this

Re: nasty display bug??

2014-11-07 Thread Walter Lapchynski
> The problem described happening on the Dell DX-1100 machine, is actually a > problem where if you boot the Live-DVD 14.10 system (both Lubuntu and > ubuntuMATE), using a PCI (not AGP) NVIDIA card, with the BIOS graphics > selection set to 'AUTO', it apparently goes ahead and uses the onboard > (I

Re: Installing a program from a tar.gz file in Lubuntu.

2014-11-09 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Marc Tremblay wrote: > I need to install > Smart Notebook in our computer labs and I am not familiar with the process. The one thing they don't explain is the difference between the two downloads. Get the files not the pre-pacaged repo. They actually have good ins

Re: Panel disappears after full screen windows

2014-11-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Florian Coste wrote: > I'm a new user of Lubuntu 14.10, but I've some problems > with a very small netbook. > Asus EeePC 1001PX > I've noted that this behaviour is only with full screen Firefox. I really > need of full screen option, because of my small size of sc

Re: Panel disappears after full screen windows

2014-11-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Florian Coste wrote: > 2014-11-10 20:05 GMT+01:00 Walter Lapchynski : >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Florian Coste >> wrote: >> > I'm a new user of Lubuntu 14.10, but I've some problems >> > with a very smal

Re: Panel disappears after full screen windows

2014-11-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Florian Coste wrote: > 2014-11-10 21:33 GMT+01:00 Walter Lapchynski : >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Florian Coste >> wrote: >> > 2014-11-10 20:05 GMT+01:00 Walter Lapchynski : >> >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Flor

any ideas for UOS?

2014-11-11 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Please join us for a Lubuntu-specific session at the Ubuntu Online Summit! It takes place from 1900-1955 UTC on Thursday 13 November 2014. It's called "Latest Developments in Lubuntu Development:" http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/meeting/22341/latest-developments-in-lubuntu-development/ It will c

Re: any ideas for UOS - simple and reliable method for persistent live drives

2014-11-11 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Nov 11, 2014 10:28 PM, "Nio Wiklund" wrote: > Den 2014-11-11 22:10, Walter Lapchynski skrev: > > Please join us for a Lubuntu-specific session at the Ubuntu Online > > Summit! If you look at the blueprint you'll get an > > overview of

Re: any ideas for UOS?

2014-11-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Do you want to present at UOS then? On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Jörn Schönyan wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Am Dienstag, 11. November 2014 22:10:58 CEST schrieb Walter Lapchynski: >> >> Please join us for a Lubuntu-specific session at the Ubuntu Online >> Summit! It

UOS session in ONE HOUR!

2014-11-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Don't miss it!!! http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/meeting/22341/community-1411-latest-developments-in-lubuntu-development/ -- @wxl Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify s

Lubuntu UOS session videos and slides

2014-11-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Well, we had a few technical mishaps with my first UOS session, namely with the slides. The talk was good, though. Well, until it was interrupted by my computer shutting itself off and then hunting to figure out how to make the slides work. Oh man, forgive me people. Still there's lots of info abo

Re: marketing stuff - translated, and more works

2014-11-16 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Rafael Laguna > Serbian translations added. Thanks so much, Zeljko for your efforts. If you > want to join our Global Team you're more than welcomed. I'd ask you for a > bit more translations ;) > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Marketing I'm so happy about this pr

Re: Configuring sound output on Lubuntu 14.4

2014-11-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Marc Tremblay wrote: > We are testing Smart Notebook Software for Smart boards at our school board > on Lubuntu 14.4. Everything seems to work quite well but we are unable to > get sound from the USB speakers on the smart board. > Any ideas on how to troubleshoot

Re: Configuring sound output on Lubuntu 14.4

2014-11-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Leszek Lesner wrote: > If your computers are powerfull enough I would recommend installing the > package > pulseaudio > and > pavucontrol I do not recommend this. People will disagree with me, but pulse is a bloated and unnecessary. It adds extra layers on top of

need suggestions for sound GUIs [was: Re: Configuring sound output on Lubuntu 14.4]

2014-11-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Leszek Lesner wrote: > If your computers are powerfull enough I would recommend installing the > package > pulseaudio > and > pavucontrol I do not recommend this. People will disagree with me, but pulse is a bloated and unnecessary. It adds extra layers on top of

Re: Trouble printing TuxPaint files in Lubuntu computer lab

2014-11-19 Thread Walter Lapchynski
>> I found out that I can install a tuxpaint config application that allows >> you to use an alternative print command instead of “LPR” which I believe is >> the default in Tuxpaint. Is there an alternative print command I could use >> that would allow us to print directly from the application? To

Re: donate

2014-11-20 Thread Walter Lapchynski
> On Thu Nov 20 2014 at 0:43:44 Fran Fondo wrote: >>> Hello ubuntu web browsing Mate can make a donation to the team >>> How come you can not make a donation to the Lubuntu team? Supposedly Ubuntu will accept donations and use them for needs in the community, especially those of the LoCo commun

Re: Configuring sound output on Lubuntu 14.4

2014-11-20 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 11/19/2014 09:48 AM, Aere Greenway wrote: >> Since Lubuntu is moving to QT, there is a mixer I like to use, which has >> the capability of manipulating a huge variety (all?) of the sound-card >> controls, including the "Synth" control of a

Blueprints HOWTO (was: Re: Configuring sound output on Lubuntu 14.4)

2014-11-20 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Since Lubuntu is moving to QT, there is a mixer I like to use, which has the capability of manipulating a huge variety (all?) of the sound-card controls, including the "Synth" control of a Soundblaster Live sound-card (which always has to be raised from its default setting)

Re: Donate

2014-11-21 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Andre Rodovalho wrote: > Stick with us, we all learn together... > Good point, and the better we learn as we truly organize as a team and commit ourselves to sharing our knowledge and skills! tl;dr money is great, but contributions are even better!!! https://wik

Re: Good News - Dell Optiplex GX60

2014-11-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Nov 24, 2014 4:25 AM, "Ian Bruntlett" wrote: > I can confirm that lubuntu 14.10 alternate i386 runs on this computer Is that the one you filed the bug report on? @wxl Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon Team Leader -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubun

Re: Bootup Message (correction)

2014-12-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Steven Duckworth wrote: > " [21.792244] via-ircc :00:11.0: device not available - (can't > reserve [io 0x4000-0x407f]) " > via-ircc is part of the drivers that support IrDA (infrared): https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/irda/via-i

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 27

2014-12-11 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Dec 11, 2014 12:36 AM, "Steven Duckworth" wrote: > I used the command *dmesg* and it brought up a lot of log info. > However I am having trouble copy/pasting from the UXTerm. If I right click to highlight, it just creates a grey block area, and doesn't show any right click functions. > I also c

URGENT testing help needed for Lubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04 Alpha 1 due tomorrow!!

2014-12-17 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I announced yesterday that milestone testing has begun for the Alpha 1 release of Lubuntu's Vivid Vervet 15.04. I had at least a couple tests done (thank you everyone!) but they have all been invalidated due to an error on the part of the release team. That being said, I ask you all to help out an

Re: Mount NFS after boot

2014-12-19 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Linda wrote: > Anyone have a suggestion how to automatically mount an NFS share after boot? At work we have a Samba share we need to connect to and we tried the whole fstab thing but it had all sorts of problems. You know what the solution was that never seems to

Re: vivid vervet/LXQt experience

2014-12-24 Thread Walter Lapchynski
First, this is probably best for the lubuntu-qa list which I have cc'd. Secondly it's hard to fix problems if we know only that there are problems. Knowing the specific nature of the problem is essential, so we need some more detail. Henk Terhell wrote: >> - vivid vervet with LXQt was OK but cra

Re: Loss of keyboard functionality with Google Chrome and Lubuntu 14.4.1

2015-01-05 Thread Walter Lapchynski
> On 1/5/2015 4:27 PM, Brendan Perrine wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 21:08:54 + >> Marc Tremblay wrote: >>> I found a solution by making a configuration change under language >>> support. When I change the keyboard input method from IBUS to none, it seems >>> to resolve the issue. That elimin

Re: How do you know if it is safe to remove a usb

2015-01-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Jan 12, 2015 6:33 AM, "Linda" wrote: > so in PCManFM how do you know when it is done writing the content that was cached and is actually safe to remove the usb drive? Is it when the drive disappears from the file list? If you use the `mount` command, it should tell you whether or not the driv

Re: IBUS Keyboard input issue might force us to abandon Lubuntu

2015-01-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Marc Tremblay wrote: > I did some research and found a temporary solution that involved changing > the Keyboard input method from IBUS to none. This essentially resolved the > issue in the browser but also caused another problem in that we are now > unable to swit

Re: IBUS Keyboard input issue might force us to abandon Lubuntu

2015-01-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Marc Tremblay wrote: > Can I simply install uim or fctx through the terminal? Yep. ☺ Then set it as default input method. You should check to make sure that there's no mention of ibus in `update-alternatives --get-selections`. It seems that the way it keeps tra

Re: ibus question

2015-01-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Jan 13, 2015 6:49 AM, "Linda" wrote: > wonder if this is also some how connected to another problem I have with some users being unable to use their keyboard number pad when accessing via Teamviewer I doubt it's related, especially if you have the default input method as none. have you consul

Lubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04 Alpha 2 Released

2015-01-22 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Our second pre-release of Vivid Vervet 15.04 is now available. Check the [release notes][1] for more information and download locations. Beta 1 will be available for testing 24 February so hit those dailies hard and make sure we're ready. Most importantly, squash as many bugs as you can! There is

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Installing Lubuntu 14.04.2 into computers with low RAM

2015-02-05 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Saqman2060 wrote: > If I can recall, lubuntu 14.04.2 will not be released do to some kernel > issues. Correction: it MAY not be released due to packaging issues, which Xubuntu seems to be having too, albeit in a different manifestation. -- @wxl Lubuntu Release Ma

Trusty 14.04.2 finally ready for testing, due in 2 days

2015-02-17 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Your help is requested for testing the latest point release for Trusty Tahr. We have only two days to make sure that there are no problems so that we can release, along with the rest of the Ubuntu family. If you're new to testing, it's actually quite easy. All you need is a virtual machine, so you

Re: Trusty 14.04.2 finally ready for testing, due in 2 days

2015-02-17 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > So the problem I reported with Intel 82815 graphics months ago is still > there. If the bug report doesn't show "fix released," this is to be expected and such comments are unnecessary. Thanks for testing! -- @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubu

Re: Trusty 14.04.2 finally ready for testing, due in 2 days

2015-02-17 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I see no problems with testing but I struggle with what to do with comments on the mailing list about it still not working. I hate to just put your messages in the round file.. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 02/17/2015 03:42 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >>

Final 14.04.2 testing due Thursday (again)

2015-02-17 Thread Walter Lapchynski
If you read my [earlier email][] and acted upon it, I thank you. It's unfortunate that the fixes that were supposedly there were not actually complete (even for the amd64 image that actually did pass). I'm sure you noticed this from all the failures. Despite this, I really have to applaud Adam Conr

ok final last for real testing needed on 14.04.2 (TODAY ONLY!)

2015-02-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Ok, so we had another respin. So everything needs to be checked over. The good news is that we have a desktop PPC image! Yay! My guess is alternates are still messed up. If we can verify this with one testcase for each architecture, that's all that's needed. Looks like folks are working on deskto

Testing needed or no 14.04.2 PPC!

2015-02-18 Thread Walter Lapchynski
So the alternates are broken. No time to fix that. This is true for all archs, including PPC. PPC's only hope of having any updated image for 14.04.2 will require someone to do 4 desktop testcases. I would do them myself but I have no time and have no PPC laptop to bring with me to work. Release

Lubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04.2 now available

2015-02-20 Thread Walter Lapchynski
now available for download via [this link][1]. Release-Manager Walter Lapchynski explains: “We had to delay the release for two weeks because of problems with X meta-packages which caused us numerous re-spins. But we wanted to do it right in order to maintain stability of existing installations

alternates vs OBI [was: Re: Lubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04.2 now available]

2015-02-21 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Israel wrote: > There is an alternative method for installing on Low memory computers > already. > This is OBI Problem #1: it's entirely non-standard. I could maybe live with that, but it needs to successfully be able to walk a total noob through the process and n

Re: System program error detected

2015-02-26 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Usually digging through /var/crash and getting rid of anything left there will fix problems. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Marc Tremblay wrote: > Hi Ian, > > > > I have managed to resolve the issue by sheer luck I guess. > > > > My original image was created using Pen Drive Linux to write the

Lubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04 Beta 1 Released

2015-02-26 Thread Walter Lapchynski
The Beta 1 pre-release of Lubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04 is now available. Please check the [release notes][1] for more information as well as download locations. As you can see from the [release schedule][2], Beta 2 will be released 26 March, with the final release on 23 April. Releases are available

Re: Lubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04 Beta 1 Released

2015-02-27 Thread Walter Lapchynski
com/VividVervet/Beta1/Lubuntu > > > Walter Lapchynski schreef op 27-2-2015 om 00:41: > >> The Beta 1 pre-release of Lubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04 is now available. >> Please check the [release notes][1] for more information as well as >> download locations. >> >>

Re: Fwd: Keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+C CTRL+V) don't work when keyboard is set to Hebrew

2015-03-01 Thread Walter Lapchynski
First off, there is an [Ubuntu Local Community in Israel][1] that you may want to connect with, especially considering they have probably faced the same issue. Secondly, this is not solely a Lubuntu issue. Sure, we have different GUI tools to do this and that but ultimately "under the hood" Ubuntu

Re: Fwd: Keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+C CTRL+V) don't work when keyboard is set to Hebrew

2015-03-01 Thread Walter Lapchynski
of information: > > http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/1586 > > But I'm too ill-informed to understand if what they describe is the same > problem and what exactly they're suggesting as a solution... > > > > > אלעד הן > נייד: 052-5348554 > > On Sun, Mar 1

Re: Fwd: Keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+C CTRL+V) don't work when keyboard is set to Hebrew

2015-03-01 Thread Walter Lapchynski
48554 > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > >> One thing I read from there is potentially installing the `ibus-m17n` >> package and then choosing the Hebrew input method in `ibus-setup`. I >> actually just did this, switched to the Hebrew input

Re: Fwd: Keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+C CTRL+V) don't work when keyboard is set to Hebrew

2015-03-01 Thread Walter Lapchynski
arrassingly I have no Idea where ibus-setup > is... > > Anyway, as far as I know there are no physical differences between US and > Hebrew keyboards. > > > > > אלעד הן > נייד: 052-5348554 > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >> >

Re: Fwd: Keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+C CTRL+V) don't work when keyboard is set to Hebrew

2015-03-01 Thread Walter Lapchynski
e spell checker? > > > > > אלעד הן > נייד: 052-5348554 > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >> >> Keyboard Input Methods in the Preferences menu. Or just run >> `ibus-setup` from the command line. Or you can use the "Run" opt

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Re: Alternate testcase changes

2015-03-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I agree there's no reason to wait for desktop to implement the change to alternate. I do, however want to emphasize that encryption is more valuable to the average user than LVM. Maybe we should separate these testcases for now? Then at some point in the future, we could create a combined one. O

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Re: Alternate testcase changes

2015-03-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
rypted disk' is implemented via LVM. > > Lubuntu is a special case with 'encrypted LVM', and inside it 'encrypted > home'. What I suggest is to remove 'encrypted home' from the test-case. > > Best regards > Nio > > Den 2015-03-04 17:15, Walt

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Re: Alternate testcase changes

2015-03-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
, and inside it 'encrypted > > home'. What I suggest is to remove 'encrypted home' from the test-case. > > > > Best regards > > Nio > > > > Den 2015-03-04 17:15, Walter Lapchynski skrev: > >> I agree there's no reason to wait

Re: Lubuntu alternate installer - inspiration

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Then submit changes to debian-installer, either in the form of a bug or merge proposal. @wxl Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon Team Leader On Mar 6, 2015 6:28 AM, "Israel" wrote: > On 03/06/2015 01:39 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > > > > Hi Nio, > I com

Re: Fwd: Keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+C CTRL+V) don't work when keyboard is set to Hebrew

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
ource of the problem. >>> >>> He told me to run this command: >>> >>> *setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle "us,il"* >>> >>> Now everything works wonderfully. >>> >>> How can I help lubuntu fix this problem?

Re: Fwd: Keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+C CTRL+V) don't work when keyboard is set to Hebrew

2015-03-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I have a suspicion as to what the problem might be. Can you send a picture of your keyboard? Also it would be nice to have the output of `setxkbmap -query -verbose 10`. It also might be good to have the same thing if you do `setxkbmap -option "us,il" && setxkbmap -query -verbose 10`. After you do

Re: Greetings

2015-03-09 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Stephen Wade wrote: > after an update I > am showing 2 identical Network Status icons, they are absolutely identical. > Both show network enabled and wifi enabled but if I uncheck either one I > lose the connection. Can I tidy this up? Well, you can kill one of the

Re: System program error detected

2015-03-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
gt; > I'm still getting error messages show up on every reboot with 14.10 > > Any ideas? > ________ > From: Walter Lapchynski > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 5:24 PM > To: Marc Tremblay > Cc: Ian Bruntlett; lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: System program error detected

2015-03-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
ough terminal? > > > ________ > From: Walter Lapchynski > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 2:33 PM > To: Marc Tremblay > Cc: Ian Bruntlett; lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: System program error detected > > Oh yeah, you need to `sudo` that. FYI, you need to

Re: System program error detected

2015-03-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
; does > "block" the message. > > $ sudo vi /etc/default/apport > > and manually change enabled=1 to enabled=0. > > Bryan > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:43:54 -0700 > Walter Lapchynski wrote: > >> $ sudo rm /var/crash/* >> Password: >> >

Lubuntu Community Council catchup

2015-04-02 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Just a reminder that our scheduled time to catch up on the status of Lubuntu with the Community Council is in approximately one hour (1700 UTC Thu 2 April 2015). You can find more on the [original message][1]. Certainly every team leader should do their darndest to attend, but it is, of course, ope

Re: Lubuntu Community Council catchup

2015-04-02 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Now delayed a bit until 1730. Come idle at #ubuntu-meeting whilst we wait! ☺ On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > Just a reminder that our scheduled time to catch up on the status of > Lubuntu with the Community Council is in approximately one hour (1700 > UTC Th

Re: Lubuntu Community Council catchup

2015-04-02 Thread Walter Lapchynski
For those that are interested, here are the meeting minutes: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2015/ubuntu-meeting.2015-04-02-17.31.moin.txt On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > Now delayed a bit until 1730. Come idle at #ubuntu-meeting whilst we wait

Re: No provision for printing pictures under Lubuntu 14.04?

2015-04-05 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Seems like it's not a bug, per se. Intended function upstream, it seems. What is the default print command? Does `lpr` work? I often use this on the command line to print PDFs, so it seems plausible. This may be something we can fix in the default settings of MtPaint, if we explore all of the possi

Re: No provision for printing pictures under Lubuntu 14.04?

2015-04-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote: > With LxQt I hope we have kolourpaint as default. So we will be able to print > images easily. Maybe the default image viewer will do that too. > In 14.04 I use fotoxx to do it. > > > 2015-04-05 23:23 GMT-03:00 Walter Lapchy

Re: No provision for printing pictures under Lubuntu 14.04?

2015-04-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
x article, I installed gtklp and then substituted > that for kprinter. > > Using lpr instead of gtklp for the print command does not work. At least to > the casual observer, it yields the same no-response as kprinter. > > On 4/5/2015 10:23 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > >

Re: No provision for printing pictures under Lubuntu 14.04?

2015-04-07 Thread Walter Lapchynski
; The default print command is kprinter. > > Following the Puppy Linux article, I installed gtklp and then substituted > that for kprinter. > > Using lpr instead of gtklp for the print command does not work. At least to > the casual observer, it yields the same no-response as kprint

Re: No provision for printing pictures under Lubuntu 14.04? [Bug filed]

2015-04-07 Thread Walter Lapchynski
, that would be excellent. Thanks again! On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:17 PM, John Hupp wrote: > Done: at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mtpaint/+bug/1441355 with > the Lubuntu Packages Team subscribed. > > On 4/7/2015 12:59 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >> >> please

new IRC channel for QA/development: #lubuntu-devel

2015-04-21 Thread Walter Lapchynski
For those of you who have hung about #lubuntu-offtopic to discuss non-support issues but would rather have a focused place to discuss otherwise ontopic items (that channel can get REALLY offtopic at times), we now have such a place. Since most of the discussion in this regard relates to QA/developm

Re: Playing music on Bandcamp

2015-04-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I use Chrome (not Chromium, which does not include Pepper Flash, but you can get it through the pepperflashplugin-nonfree plugin) and everything works great with Bandcamp, which has no HTML5 election. There used to be such a thing, but now I think HTML5 is standard. I personally recommend Chrome (e

Re: Playing music on Bandcamp

2015-04-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
gt; אלעד הן > נייד: 052-5348554 > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >> >> I use Chrome (not Chromium, which does not include Pepper Flash, but >> you can get it through the pepperflashplugin-nonfree plugin) and >> everything works great wi

Re: Playing music on Bandcamp

2015-04-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
vious...) > > > > > אלעד הן > נייד: 052-5348554 > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > >> If you're not using Pepper, I'm disinclined to believe you're using >> Flash at all. Maybe there's something with the HTML5 i

Re: Playing music on Bandcamp

2015-04-30 Thread Walter Lapchynski
page_size == 0' failed > > > > > > אלעד הן > נייד: 052-5348554 > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: >> >> Really, any output. There may be an error on starting the program, or it >> may only be when using Bandcamp. >> >&g

Ubuntu Online Summit: Lubuntu edition

2015-05-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
As you may or may not know, the biannual [Ubuntu Online Summit][1] is going on this week. For those that don't know, this is traditionally a planning session for Ubuntu Developers (whether they're developing code or communities), but is increasingly more applicable to the general public. It is inde

LXQt session at Ubuntu Online Session Thursday

2015-05-04 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Our [Show and Tell session for LXQt][1] at the Ubuntu Online Session will be at 1800 UTC Thursday 7 May 2015. It was originally the day before but we pushed it out to the last day of the session to allow us a little extra time to get a new ISO spun up. Please come join and ask questions, whether i

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: [Lubuntu-admins] 15.04 - Installation Experience

2015-05-08 Thread Walter Lapchynski
but this bug only affects usb-creator, correct? silverlion had trouble with media he created in windows using the i386 iso. md5 matched up, but testing media causes some bad sector error. repeatably does this on multiple usb drives but no problem with the lts version. I can't reproduce but he relia

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] LXQt session at Ubuntu Online Session Thursday

2015-05-08 Thread Walter Lapchynski
LXQt is still relatively early in development. Things will improve. However, the future of LXDE on any distro doesn't look good. Upstream development has transitioned almost entirely to LXQt. Patches welcome and all, though. :) @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu

Re: Lubuntu 14 && U-MATE 15 installer issues [PPC]

2015-05-11 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Classic tl;dr. Someone fill me in if you need my help. Did want to point out that the issues with the installer really had nothing to do with this situation, but was more about planning for things like Snappy. My idea about getting a text mode for ubiquity so that we could get rid of the alternate

state of upstart (was: Re: Check my upstart script code?)

2015-05-13 Thread Walter Lapchynski
> > On 05/09/2015 03:47 PM, John Hupp wrote: >>> >>> Here is an improved upstart job >> >> So what *is* the status of upstart? AFAIK we're transitioning entirely away from it and over to systemd as a default, but will upstream still be available for people that want to use it? As an Ubuntu product,

free PPC for testers

2015-05-22 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I just got a iBook and I would like to offer it to anyone interested in testing with it. If you would like it please email me your address and I will send it on its way. thanks in advance! @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon Team

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] free PPC for testers

2015-05-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Boris, What kind of work? I already had someone ask about the machine and I'm inclined to give to give it to them, but if Wolfgang is doing ppc-specific development, I might be willing to make an exception. That, or find another machine. I do seem to regularly be given ppc machines. I do have a G5

Fwd: Wily Werewolf Alpha 1 Released

2015-06-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Thanks for testing and bug squashing, folks. Keep it up! @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon Team Leader Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-organizer -- Forwarded message --

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] the current version of Lubuntu trusty-desktop-i386.iso

2015-08-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
It's too bad we haven't heard from Julien as my bet is that this is easily fixed. That being said, assuming we don't, it best that we do release rather than not release at all, so I vote for the DVD/USB only. On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Phill. Whiteside wrote: > The alternates have been pull

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] the current version of Lubuntu trusty-desktop-i386.iso

2015-08-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
9:43 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > It's too bad we haven't heard from Julien as my bet is that this is easily > fixed. That being said, assuming we don't, it best that we do release > rather than not release at all, so I vote for the DVD/USB only. > > On Thu, Aug 6

free PPC machines

2015-08-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I've got multiple PPC machines that I'm willing to donate to folks that are interested in testing with them, including a PowerMac G5. First come, first serve. Send me an email if you want them! -- @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Ore

Re: the current version of Lubuntu trusty-desktop-i386.iso

2015-08-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I marked it as ready, so we're good. Melodie also pointed out we could always suggest people do 800MB CDs. You may be able to overburn it but the amd64 is 27MB over so I'm thinking not. Going forward, we may want to look at removing extra languages from the [desktop seed][1]: # must have * Langu

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lack of Lubuntu package testcases for wily

2015-08-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I agree this is an important thing that should be done. I know that Brendan has done this stuff, so he would be a good person to connect with. If anyone else wants to pick up on this, it would be most appreciated!!! On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Simon Quigley wrote: > I recently started doing

Re: the current version of Lubuntu trusty-desktop-i386.iso

2015-08-06 Thread Walter Lapchynski
gt; Julien Lavergne > Le 6 août 2015 7:51 PM, "Walter Lapchynski" a écrit : > >> I marked it as ready, so we're good. Melodie also pointed out we could >> always suggest people do 800MB CDs. You may be able to overburn it but the >> amd64 is 27MB over so I&#

Re: The Current Status of the Lubuntu Blueprint Team

2015-08-08 Thread Walter Lapchynski
The team is still alive and you're welcome to join. Basically it's a cross-discipline team meant to organize bigger picture ideas that affect multiple teams. We do occasionally weed through the blueprints to remind us of what we need to work on next. Current work is focused on LXQt. @wxl | http:

Re: The theory of upgrading from 14.04 to 15.04 using /etc/apt/sources.list

2015-08-10 Thread Walter Lapchynski
i think i did that once as a test but why not just do a do-release-upgrade? @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon Team Leader Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-organizer On Aug 9, 20

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