Re: Switching audio output to USB speakers

2012-12-18 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2012, 14:34:34 schrieb Lars Noodén: > I've been looking at the system settings and have not found a way to > change audio output from the internal speaker to some external USB > speakers I have added. The Preferences-> menu seems not to have any > options for sound at all

Re: Switching audio output to USB speakers

2012-12-18 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2012, 19:43:09 schrieb Lars Noodén: > On 12/18/12 7:31 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: > >> On 12/18/12 7:24 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > >>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: > I've been looking a

Re: Switching audio output to USB speakers

2012-12-18 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2012, 20:14:46 schrieb Lars Noodén: > On 12/18/12 8:12 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote: > >> And again this would be a nice feature to have but its impossible with > >> alsa > >> t

Re: Setting key shortcuts in LXDE / Openbox

2012-12-21 Thread leszek . lesner
I really would suggest binding those keys to a specific application, as binding the globally would also only work with one application. There is a global shortcut plugin for audacious and mplayer. But if you really want to globally bind them do it in the ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml . There a

Re: Setting key shortcuts in LXDE / Openbox

2012-12-21 Thread leszek . lesner
There is an little application called xev that records keypresses and shows their keycodes when executed in terminal. -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendet Lars Noodén schrieb am 21.12.12 16:07: >> Lars Noodén schrieb am 21.12.12 15:27: >> >> My USB keyboard and USB speakers have some extra keys l

Re: [Lubuntu] Evaluation of presentation programs?

2013-01-05 Thread Leszek Lesner
On Sa.,  5. Jan. 2013 02:11:50 CET, John Hupp wrote: > > What are my best options for a presentations program that is: > - very solid and reliable > - well documented > - can produce presentations in a format that can be viewed by people who > only have PowerPoint > - and /preferably/ is also l

Re: What do I need to install to get "System settings"?

2013-01-28 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Montag, 28. Januar 2013, 21:35:20 schrieb Chris Green: > I have lubuntu-core installed and running on this machine, what do I > need to install to get the "system settings" (or whatever it's called) > on the menus? Specifically I want to be able to set the display > geometry. display geometry

Re: Asking for a password in Single User mode

2013-02-01 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2013, 00:42:53 schrieb Ioannis Vranos: > OS: Lubuntu 12.10 32-bit. > > > Hi all, > > I searched the web, and could not find a solution to this. How can I > make the system ask for password, when booting in Single User mode? You need to set a password for the 'root' user.

Re: apport ignores default browser settings

2013-02-02 Thread leszek . lesner
I think apport always did use the Browser set in update-alternatives ‪ -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetLars Noodén schrieb am 02.02.13 14:16: I've noticed that in 13.04a, apport ignores the default browser settings made in Preferences->Preferred Applications and always launches Chromium-browser ins

Re:

2013-03-08 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Freitag, 8. März 2013, 09:11:01 schrieb Lee Gold: > $ cat /etc/lsb-release > DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu > DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS" > > Re above using Lubuntu 12.04, I have virtual two desktops. In the > taskbar I can switch between them

Re: Lubuntu with Realtek 8187

2013-03-08 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Freitag, 8. März 2013, 20:14:17 schrieb Ali Linx: > Hi, > > While your USB Adapter is connected to your machine, open LXTerminal and > run this command: > > sudo lshw -C network > > If the outout does not show that USB Adapter, then your system is not able > to recognize it. > If that is the

AW: YouTube, Video Editing & Voice Recording

2013-03-14 Thread Leszek Lesner
I used ffmpeg as command line tool to record my desktop. On my early videos I also used recordmydesktop which works fine aswell.For recording Skypecalls I recommend the skypecallrecorder. For screencast i normally have a sheet of paper lying next to me with all the main topics that I want to show o

Re: Problem with TTYs - they appear black

2013-03-18 Thread leszek . lesner
Try blacklisting nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-blacklist (create this file with sudo rights) And type in blacklist nouveau After that rebuild initrd with sudo update-initramfs -u and reboot That should make it work again -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetIoannis Vranos schrieb am 18.03.13 0

Re: menu config edit file

2013-03-30 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Samstag, 30. März 2013, 18:05:54 schrieb mrwi...@hushmail.com: > would like to edit the run command in the menu, anyone know the > location? > /usr/share/lxpanel/profile/Lubuntu/panels/panel The panel config includes the menu and the run command. You could try changing the command=run with

Re: Edit .ogv video files

2013-04-18 Thread leszek . lesner
Kdenlive or OpenShot can do this. -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetIoannis Vranos schrieb am 18.04.13 03:05: Hi all, I have not much background on video editing. I want to edit an .ogv video file, and Avidemux doesn't work with this kind of video files. Do you know any video editor program that ca

Re: playing multimedia with lubuntu raring-desktop-i386

2013-04-22 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 22.04.2013 11:51, schrieb Nio Wiklund: Question: I noticed that jockey-gtk is not bundled with lubuntu, but it seems to be available in the repos. Is there supposed to be any automatic searching for hardware, where proprietary drivers should be used? The proprietary hardware manager should be

Re: Sound Volume Icon

2013-05-04 Thread leszek . lesner
The icon is a lxde panel plugin and not a tray icon. Sonyou cannot get it in fluxbox. You need to search for alternatives like volwheel for example. -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetTong Sun schrieb am 04.05.13 07:04: Hi, IIRC, Lubuntu didn't have that Sound Volume Icon in version 12.10. My ques

AW: creating keyboard shortcuts for sound

2013-05-17 Thread Leszek Lesner
The default openbox configuration file has a commented section with exactly this in there already. So you only need to uncomment it. I think we are using aumix or amix there-- Gesendet von meinem HP Pre3Am 17.05.2013 15:44 schrieb Jonathan Nadeau : Hello list, I've gone to the openbox config file

Re: How To Install Nvidia Drivers In LUbuntu

2013-05-20 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Sonntag, 19. Mai 2013, 20:23:12 schrieb Tong Sun: > Hi, > > I'm using LUbuntu 13.04 and need to install the proprietary nvidia driver > on my system because the Nouveau driver is not working properly for > my GeForce 6150SE (Ref #1). > ... > > How should install the proprietary nvidia driver o

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2013, 09:49:17 schrieb Yorvyk: > A look at the specs for Chromebooks gives some idea of the power and RAM > Google deems necessary to run Chrome in a useful fashion. Be aware that chromebooks by default also use zram to improve memory footprint. We might try that on low memor

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 01.06.2013 23:21, schrieb PCMan: On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:53 AM, 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 ne

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-02 Thread leszek . lesner
We already have this in the Ubuntubrepo called zram-config and I highly believe its the same script you described as it does exactly the same. Its an upstart script btw. All in all I still don't see any downsize in using zram. This would allow js to stay with chromium as the default browser whi

Re: zRAM

2013-06-03 Thread leszek . lesner
Why not tested the official zram-config package from the repo ? -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetAli Linx (amjjawad) schrieb am 03.06.13 20:15: Hi, I have seen some emails talking about zRAM. I still have no time to go through these emails and yes, I'm referring to the endless threads about Firef

Re: zRAM

2013-06-09 Thread leszek . lesner
Ok a simple suggestion from me. Why don't we decidebto enable zram (with zram-config) for the alpha version and see how itnworks out for the testers. We can disable this afterwards if the test fails. But I highly doubt that you will see any downside in using zram. And btw. as I don't think it o

Re: zRAM

2013-06-09 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Sonntag, 9. Juni 2013, 12:14:27 schrieb Ali Linx: > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:08 AM, wrote: > > Ok a simple suggestion from me. Why don't we decidebto enable zram (with > > zram-config) for the alpha version and see how itnworks out for the > > testers. We can disable this afterwards if the tes

Re: RAM Usage During Installation of Lubuntu (was: zRAM)

2013-06-09 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Sonntag, 9. Juni 2013, 12:29:11 schrieb Ali Linx: > On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > > I normally use the manual partitioner because I make the partitions with > > gparted before I install. I think that it helps to use something to help > > manage the memory during the insta

AW: Re: zRAM

2013-06-09 Thread Leszek Lesner
>It helped me at the beginning but >then, it did not. I was using >Chromium during that test, if I >remember correctly and I guess I >still have the report and screenshot.>http://amjjawad.blogspot.com/2013/05/facebook-on-lubuntu-1210.htmlfirstly facebook is a special problem. secondly I guess you w

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-16 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013, 05:29:43 schrieb Iberê Fernandes: > 2013/6/16 Nio Wiklund > > > Hi Iberę, > > > > I don't know why this happens for you, but I have a few tips and > > work-arounds. > > > > 1. Is there a good swap partition on the internal HDD? If not, make one > > with gparted, when

Re: Minimum RAM required to install Saucy (Lubuntu 13.10) from Desktop ISO

2013-06-17 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Montag, 17. Juni 2013, 12:48:27 schrieb Yorvyk: > On 17/06/13 02:13, Nio Wiklund wrote: > > > 2. Or was I doing something seriously wrong? > > Probably :D > > We need to run Saucy installs on as much hardware as possible as I > believe there is more to this than just RAM size. I suspect some

Re: Minimum RAM required to install Saucy (Lubuntu 13.10) from Desktop ISO

2013-06-17 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 17.06.2013 14:05, schrieb Ali Linx (amjjawad): > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Leszek Lesner <mailto:leszek.les...@web.de>> wrote: > > Am Montag, 17. Juni 2013, 12:48:27 schrieb Yorvyk: > > On 17/06/13 02:13, Nio Wiklund wrote: > > >

Re: zRAM & Live CD

2013-06-17 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 17.06.2013 15:20, schrieb Yorvyk: > Having carried out a few tests I think we can say zRAM does appear to > make a positive make a difference to the ability to use the Live CD, > although further testing may be required. What concerns me is that it > remains enabled on the installed system. I t

Re: Minimum hardware requirements for Adobe Flash

2013-06-17 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 17.06.2013 16:37, schrieb 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 >> >>

Re: MIR (Ubuntu Display Server) - Should we be worried?

2013-06-18 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 17.06.2013 22:53, schrieb Karl Anliot: > it's a fragmentation problem. Linux apps will be supporting 1 of the > following: X11, MIR or Wayland. This question is probably better > asked on the LXDE mailing list. > > Cheers, > karl It is not only a LXDE problem but more precisely a Lubuntu probl

Re: Question

2013-06-21 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 21.06.2013 14:01, schrieb Ali Linx (amjjawad): > Hi, > > What exactly do I need to learn/have/do in order to make/create my own > system that is based on Lubuntu? > > Thanks! > > > Shortly I would first try with an easy remastering of an desktop system. Latter on you could try also live-build wh

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-22 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Samstag, 22. Juni 2013, 20:18:52 schrieb Andrew Hamming: > Can an option be added to the install process that gives the user an > ability to choose their browser? Sry to tell you this, but this is in my opinion bullshit if we provide a software center and the ability to easily choose your brow

Re: PGP / engimail no longer working in Saucy

2013-06-23 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Sonntag, 23. Juni 2013, 12:11:50 schrieb Lars Noodén: > On 06/21/2013 01:42 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > > On 2013-06-21 12:31, Lars Noodén wrote: > >> Today I'm running into trouble when trying to decrypt or sign messages > >> with PGP. Previously engimail worked fine for Thunderbird. Today it >

AW: Re: PGP / engimail no longer working in Saucy

2013-06-23 Thread Leszek Lesner
Noodén : On 06/23/2013 12:19 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote: > Am Sonntag, 23. Juni 2013, 12:11:50 schrieb Lars Noodén: >> On 06/21/2013 01:42 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >>> On 2013-06-21 12:31, Lars Noodén wrote: >>>> Today I'm running into trouble when trying to dec

Re: Lubuntu alternative sessions script

2013-07-04 Thread leszek . lesner
Let me first say its nice that you put some work in it. But I must warn you here that shipping this kinds of scripts is a complete security risk. First of all the script itself uses apt-get -y calls which have the potential to destroy dependencies delete packages and leave a non working packagem

Re: Lubuntu alternative sessions script

2013-07-05 Thread Leszek Lesner
eems to search for a script. Feel free to test, build upon or add some suggestions what could be added or modified. Here is my little testing ppa: https://launchpad.net/~leszek-lesner/+archive/testing-stuff Just as a reference. As it uses the changes of the current bzr lxsession it won&

Re: LxKeymap - Make Changes defintive

2013-07-08 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Montag, 8. Juli 2013, 02:02:07 schrieb Andre Rodovalho: > Interesting... configuring ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart works, but > only with Shift+Ctrl, and if @lxkeymap --autostart is not on the last line > of the file... > > on /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart @lxkeymap --autostart m

Re: Lubuntu alternative sessions script

2013-07-09 Thread leszek . lesner
Their chabger is written im Gambas as it seems. (a visual basic clone for linux). What it does is just copying over config files (for LXDE) and changing gsettings (for the gnome session). I highly doubt that their code will bring us any benefit. -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetFederico Leoni schr

AW: Android MTP + Lubuntu

2013-07-10 Thread Leszek Lesner
What definitely works fine is using kdes dolphin together with the kio-mtp. But this would pull kdelibs so it might be not optimal for you.  -- Gesendet von meinem HP Pre3Am 10.07.2013 22:43 schrieb Andre Rodovalho : I'm struggling to put some music via MTP on my Android Phone. I tried many tutoria

AW: Re: Android MTP + Lubuntu

2013-07-10 Thread Leszek Lesner
SendObjectInfo failed mtp: cannot run operation SendObjectInfo, device is not open 2013/07/10 18:20:48 CreateFolder failed: mtp: cannot run operation SendObjectInfo, device is not open2013/7/10 Leszek Lesner <leszek.les...@web.de> What definitely works fine is using kdes dolphin together with

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Video Problems - Saucy

2013-07-12 Thread Leszek Lesner
> THIS IS NOT GOOD :( > > We need to solve this issue ASAP before we carry on with our Start Ubuntu > campaign. How are we suppose to do this ? The Adobe Flashplayer is proprietary software. (and is simply talking crappy software) Alternatives like gnash or lightspark exists already. They supp

Re: Is there a way to get scrot to capture the mouse cursor?

2013-07-16 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Dienstag, 16. Juli 2013, 10:30:21 schrieb Augustine Souza: > I get the impression there isn't but I'm asking just in case I missed > something. The man page doesn't provide any information on this. You are right. Scrot misses that feature. You could try gnome-screenshot tool or when you have i

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [Feedback Needed] zram-config

2013-07-18 Thread leszek . lesner
I don't get your Problem Ali. I thought you tested out zram and I explained how it technicaly worked. If the unamed Community you are working together with still does not see the benefit then they maybe don't know what you are talking about and simply don't understand the technical background.

Re: LibreOffice installs Java and opens a security risk?

2013-07-18 Thread leszek . lesner
This is normal. Some components and the assistent to create letters is still usong java I guess. My question would be why do you think this is an security risk ? As far as I see it only installs the runtime engine and no browserplugin. -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendet John Hupp schrieb am 19.07.

AW: Audio devices vanish.

2013-07-23 Thread Leszek Lesner
First it would help to know which package(s) were updated. Then check alsamixer and dmesg and lsusb if the Device is recognized.

AW: Audio devices vanish.

2013-07-23 Thread Leszek Lesner
This seems to be issue I guess but Iam not sure. Try to boot a live image and see if it works there and if this error appears there too or not. As for the package look at the usual places in /var/log there should be a dpkg.log somewhere.(Be careful this might be a very big file)

AW: salamander artwork

2013-07-23 Thread Leszek Lesner
Hi Rafael,Wonderful work as always. The only thing I don't like is the wallpaper. In my opinion it's a little bit to dark and I don' thing mixing in green is a good thing. The rest is just very good.Should I also create a new wiki page just for a new wallpaper suggestion? 

AW: Richard Stallman Talks About Ubuntu

2013-08-01 Thread Leszek Lesner
First of all Stallmann is right when it comes to free software and Ubuntu shipping with some proprietary code. But this things most distribution offer (like binary blobs for wifi cards). Therefore the fsf has its own list of GNU/Linux distributions that are really free software without those binary

AW: Programming Language?

2013-08-02 Thread Leszek Lesner
Many. From python over c c++ c# and even java. As for scripting there is also Perl and bash scripting widely used.

Re: Bluetooth mouse works, but headset not found

2013-08-03 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Samstag, 3. August 2013, 13:26:19 schrieb Lars Noodén: > Blueman works in Lubuntu to find, select and connect to my bluetooth > mouse, more or less no problem. However, when I try to connect to a > headset, blueman finds it but PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) > does not find it. pavuco

Re: Bluetooth mouse works, but headset not found

2013-08-03 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Samstag, 3. August 2013, 13:31:06 schrieb Lars Noodén: > On 08/03/2013 01:28 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote: > > Am Samstag, 3. August 2013, 13:26:19 schrieb Lars Noodén: > >> Blueman works in Lubuntu to find, select and connect to my bluetooth > >> mouse, more or less no pr

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

2013-08-07 Thread Leszek Lesner
Even if there would be one. FlashPlayer is not actively developed anymore. I hardly doubt that there will be any Bugfix release despite of security fix releases.

AW: Audacious and MIDI files

2013-08-18 Thread Leszek Lesner
You need to configure it before playing back midi. As not every PC has a midi capable soundcard you need to configure a soundfont in audacious. 

AW: Using "Lubuntu" name for my own business?

2013-08-18 Thread Leszek Lesner
From my early ZevenOS days, which was called Zebuntu back then, I know that Canonical has a trademark on every *buntu word. This was one of the reasons we changed the name. 

Re: Audacious and MIDI files

2013-08-18 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Sonntag, 18. August 2013, 14:01:04 schrieb Aere Greenway: > On 08/18/2013 06:28 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > > Should Audacious be able to play MIDI files out of the box or is a > > little user-supplied configuration considered necessary? When I try to > > load a MIDI file into Audacious, I get the

Re: Lubuntu freezing

2013-08-29 Thread Leszek Lesner
What hardware do you have and which kernel ? Kernel 3.10.x has for example problems with the mei module and mei_me module freezing the systems on thinkpads. Am Donnerstag, 29. August 2013, 14:36:50 schrieb Lars Noodén: > For the past 4 or 5 days Lubuntu has been freezing up on me at least > tw

AW: Lubuntu freezing

2013-08-30 Thread Leszek Lesner
It must be a driver hanging problem. Like I told you before I know about the mei driver causing freezes. Please check if this driver is loaded in your system. You can use lsmod | grep mei for this. Then remove the driver ‎with sudo rmmod mei. The same goes for mei_me if you have it. If you don't ha

Re: zRAM broken on Raring?

2013-09-28 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 28.09.2013 18:27, schrieb Phill Whiteside: > Hi John, > > just to add to the fun, unit193 found this > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1215379 So, I don't > know if we should be using zram or zswap now! It needs looking into by > someone with more skilled than me (shoul

AW: zRAM broken on Raring?

2013-09-29 Thread Leszek Lesner
Honestlky I don't get the cronjob. Why is it necessary? On reboot the init system runs the stop command on zram-config in /etc/init.d which dies exactly the same as the cronjob here.

AW: zRAM broken on Raring?

2013-09-29 Thread Leszek Lesner
: Nio WiklundGesendet: Sonntag, 29. September 2013 10:11An: Leszek Lesner; John Hupp; lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.comBetreff: Re: AW

AW: zRAM broken on Raring?

2013-10-03 Thread Leszek Lesner
WhitesideCc: Leszek Lesner; lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.comBetreff: Re: AW: zRAM broken on Raring? Does that also mean that zram will not be fixed in time for the Saucy release? On 10/3/2013 1:38 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: I strongly suspect that

Re: Lubuntu Screencasts about to be deleted

2013-10-09 Thread Leszek Lesner
> > Best, > David Yentzen > > On Oct 9, 2013 6:50 AM, "Phill Whiteside" wrote: > > Thanks for the warning Leszek, indeed they do suck balls :( > > > > Regards, > > > > Phill. > > > > On 9 October 2013 11:44, Nik Th wrote: > &g

AW: Chromium

2013-10-11 Thread Leszek Lesner
Btw. One tip for chromium users who suffer from limited memory. You can force chromium to run as a single process with the commandline --single-process . This can save tons of ram when using many tabs but I am afraid I experienced some drawbacks on some sites. (rendering issues or pages not refresh

AW: Multi-Processor Usage an Lubuntu 13.10 (64-bit) on MacBook

2013-10-24 Thread Leszek Lesner
Tryout the terminal commandCat /proc/cpuinfoIf this shows processor 0 and a processor 1 the system recognized two CPUs and is using them.The Qsynth through pulseaudio thing is bad as it had (from my experience till pulseaudio 2.0) a bad latency. Use Alsa here instead (needs to suspend pulseaudio fi

AW: People do not understand the desktop installer

2013-10-24 Thread Leszek Lesner
Hmm isn't there a graph before and after?

ZRAM, vm.swappiness and the future

2013-10-26 Thread Leszek Lesner
As some of you know there were some discussions on this mailinglist regarding zram and vm.swappiness. In this mail I want to write down all I know and learned about zram, vm.swappiness and its cooperation. This is intend as a help and a starting point for discussions for the next release of Lubuntu

AW: [Lubuntu-qa] ZRAM, vm.swappiness and the future

2013-10-26 Thread Leszek Lesner
About the size of zram. Lubuntu and the zram-config package in ubuntu uses half of the physical memory. At least this is a more sane setting then setting it to use all available RAM. And of course you are right swappiness=0 does not mean it waits until ram is full to swap out. Swappiness is only a

AW: .config/autostart

2013-10-27 Thread Leszek Lesner
I heard it before so you seem not to be alone with this. Try to enable it manually Here is a screencast about Autostart if you don't know how: http://m.youtube.com/wat

AW: [Lubuntu-qa] keymap us(alt-intl) not working as expected.

2013-11-04 Thread Leszek Lesner
When it comes to lxkeymap it would keep its configuration if you would autostart it with lxkeymap --autostart at the beginning of your session. But as it does not com

Re: zram-config

2013-11-07 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 07.11.2013 17:28, schrieb sd: > Hi, > > Some details about zram-config: > > [ppp] 1. I have somehow the impression the system is not fully aware > about the memory assigned to zram. > [leszek] To 1. You are wrong. Its a normal swap and all apps which are > aware of swap are aware of zrams swap.

AW: hi, who can recommend some little games to me.

2013-11-10 Thread Leszek Lesner
Not so little but a lot of fun also for adults is hedgewars. 

Re: How to install lubuntu to USB

2014-02-04 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 04.02.2014 03:43, schrieb Tong Sun: > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > >> In the past few releases, the GTK version of USB Creator has failed for me >> as well. I would hope they would have fixed it by now, but apparently not. > Glad to know that it is not only me. > >> I

Re: Extra Step to connect to a Wireless Network

2014-02-14 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 14.02.2014 19:01, schrieb Ali Linx: > Hi Lubuntu Community, > > Not sure if you're aware of my real life project [1] or not which is > part of StartUbuntu Project [2] but for you to know, I am using > Lubuntu 13.10 as one of the systems beside Xubuntu 12.04.3 and Ubuntu > GNOME 13.10 :) > > Howe

Re: Beginner Troubles

2014-02-14 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 14.02.2014 19:14, schrieb Ali Linx: > > On 02/14/2014 10:03 PM, Bob Grasper wrote: >> Hi All. >> >> I am a linux newby (I know - what a pain, you may be thinking. I am >> trying to breathe new life into a netbook that had Win XP on it. I >> have very little experience of linux at all. Here's the

Re: Extra Step to connect to a Wireless Network

2014-02-14 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 14.02.2014 19:32, schrieb Ali Linx: > > On 02/14/2014 10:13 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote: >> Am 14.02.2014 19:01, schrieb Ali Linx: > Hi Leszek and thanks for your reply :) > >>> Hi Lubuntu Community, >>> >>> Not sure if you're aware of my

AW: Re: Portable installed system that boots in UEFI as well as BIOS mode

2014-03-26 Thread leszek . lesner
The copying process from usb to ram would take a longer time to boot up. (especially on 2GB or more). The RAM that can be used also must be substracted by the images size. And no it has nothing todo with zram it is just a tmpfs mounted ramdrive where you copy the system to. As far as I know puppy c

Re: Lubuntu 14.04 prerelease UK keyboard not UK

2014-04-12 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 12.04.2014 19:20, schrieb George DiceGeorge: I installed Lubuntu 14.04 prerelease about a week ago. I now notice that although I installed it with UK the keyboard software is a US keyboard so @ is in the wrong place and key [£] gives [#] etc etc. Shouldnt a UK keyboard have installed itself?

AW: 14.04 Look and Feel: many items are VERY faint

2014-04-22 Thread Leszek Lesner
Hi,The nvidia-96 are simply so old that they won't work with the current kernel that's one of the reasons it was not shipped I guess. What actually might work very good for 2D acceleration is the old nv driver. But that seems not to be packages for Ubuntu 14.04. The only source I know where to get

Re: mainline kernel and preferred kernel

2014-04-22 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Dienstag, 22. April 2014, 11:15:00 schrieb fari...@arcor.de: > Since i found somewhere - to resolve my a2dp problem - the suggestion to > try with the 3.15 mainline kernel, i installed this. The kernel works > fine so far, but that specific problem, for me at least, isn't solved by > it. Now, in

AW: Lubuntu Software Center is far too small

2014-04-25 Thread Leszek Lesner
I guess multiverse and or universe isn't included in the LTS ‎support. Might be a valid reason not to activate them by default. But I agree perhaps LSC could check and give a reminder to activate those two repos for getting more software.   Originalnachricht   Von: Ali Linx Gesendet: Freitag, 25

Re: Lubuntu Software Center is far too small

2014-04-25 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 25.04.2014 12:48, schrieb George DiceGeorge: > I installed from the alternate CD. > Lubuntu Software Center / Other Software/ Independent was enabled > (and shouldnt be) > > Ubuntu Software / Downloadable from the internet > the first 4 are enabled Canonical supported, canonical maintained etc >

AW: LxQt

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

Re: LXQt desktop, xfce4-clipman and LibreOffice

2014-05-24 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 24.05.2014 13:58, schrieb Hitesh Shah: > I'm running the LXQt desktop session on Lubuntu 14.04 for some days now. > > Because there doesn't seem to be a built-in clipboard saving mechanism like > the one in regular Lubuntu, I'm trying xfce4-clipman. > > I also have LibreOffice Calc and I'm seein

AW: Re: Cannot suspend now?

2014-06-03 Thread leszek . lesner
Hi, Check your free ram. If this problem only occurs after some time of work on the PC the ram might run full and there is not enough free to suspend to ram (hence it times out) Greetings LeszekVon: "c. marlow" An: "lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" Gesendet: 4. Juni 2014 05:26Betreff: Re: Cannot sus

AW: Re: AW: Re: Cannot suspend now?

2014-06-06 Thread leszek . lesner
Did you try the command line app pm-suspend yet ? Basically this is what xrce, kde and all the others use for suspending.Von: "c. marlow" Cc: "lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" Gesendet: 6. Juni 2014 21:24Betreff: Re: AW: Re: Cannot suspend now? where it is not critical with power management. >>>

Re: disks utility

2014-08-16 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Samstag, 16. August 2014, 12:13:36 schrieb Paul Sutton: > Hi > > Any idea what the application is called for managing file systems on > disks is called please > > http://zleap.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/disks.png > > > i think its something like gnome-disks > > If I go to settings manag

AW: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread leszek . lesner
Hi,Iam not completely sure but I think you need at least 768MB ram for the installer to work.

Re: Installer from live CD not launching

2014-10-15 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 15.10.2014 17:37, schrieb Aere Greenway: > On 10/15/2014 04:28 AM, leszek.les...@web.de wrote: >> I am not completely sure but I think you need at least 768MB ram for >> the installer to work. >> > I have successfully installed Lubuntu 14.04 on Pentium 3 (and Pentium > 4) machines having only 51

Re: About Gnome-Mplayer and playlist management

2012-11-10 Thread leszek . lesner
this problem is caused by a feature to cache streams. So technucally its not a bug but a configuration thing. Setting the config to not cache should solve this. -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendet Pascual Lucero schrieb am 10.11.12 13:30: Hello, I would like to ask the following: I have seen

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

2012-11-17 Thread leszek . lesner
lxterminal does not has this feature. I suggest roxterm -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendet Chris Green schrieb am 17.11.12 18:57: I'm used to being able to right click on URLs (and other things such as E-Mail addresses) and getting a useful menu of things to do with them. Can LXTerminal do this

Re: lxkeymap foreign keyboard settings (de) on 12.10ppc

2012-11-19 Thread leszek . lesner
have you disabled the FN keys with pommed ? -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendet UH schrieb am 19.11.12 08:49: Finally, i managed to set up the keyboard to macintosh german (on a PB G4 running lubuntu 12.10). Before, i was only capable to do that by 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'

Re: Thunderbird missing top menus

2012-11-28 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2012, 12:19:23 schrieb Lars Noodén: > On 11/28/12, John Hupp wrote: > > press Alt-F to see if the File menu appears. > > I hadn't thought to try that, it does show the menus. Very strange. > They all disappear again when anything is pressed. This makes > Thunderbird us

Re: Thunderbird missing top menus

2012-11-28 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2012, 13:18:12 schrieb Lars Noodén: > On 11/28/2012 01:07 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2012, 12:19:23 schrieb Lars Noodén: > >> On 11/28/12, John Hupp wrote: > >>> press Alt-F to see if the File menu appears. >

Re: Thunderbird missing top menus

2012-12-04 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2012, 13:18:12 schrieb Lars Noodén: > On 11/28/2012 01:07 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2012, 12:19:23 schrieb Lars Noodén: > >> On 11/28/12, John Hupp wrote: > >>> press Alt-F to see if the File menu appears. >

Re: Thunderbird missing top menus

2012-12-05 Thread leszek . lesner
7; machines (rather than 12.10) for similar reasons (specifically, the loss-of-focus problems with Java applications). My worst-case fall-back would be to switch to Ubuntu Studio 12.04 for everything (not just audio-production). That is a long-term-support release, so it will last a long t

Re: Menu items disappear in Audacity 2.0.1 on Lubuntu 12.10

2012-12-06 Thread leszek . lesner
As I said before a known optical bug only resize the window and it should appear again. Bug is known in upstream -- Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendet Hitesh Shah schrieb am 06.12.12 14:44: Aere Greenway had posted here (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/2012-December/003153.html)

AW: SOME INFO

2014-11-18 Thread leszek . lesner
HiFlashplayer is installable via the packagemanager though youtube should work with HTML5 directly in the browser.By default a PDF viewer is installed.

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