dragging icons onto desktop - place where i drop plz

2010-01-28 Thread Rene Veerman
if i drag any icon onto the desktop, it just goes to a random place it seems. please make sure it ends up under my cursor when i drop it. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubunt

alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-28 Thread Rene Veerman
I've often got more than 20 windows open while coding. On windows, one can shift-alt-tab to move back 1 spot in the list of apps you're alt-tabbing through.. can ubuntu do the same? by default, please? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Christopher Chan
Amahdy, thanks for the show. You should try irc some time. Christopher -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Amahdy
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:31, C de-Avillez wrote: > > > Now, perhaps you do not see these lines -- which would, then, point to a > problem with your email client (be it a real client, or Google, or > whatever. > > Regards, > > ..C.. > > No I received them, I don't know why u assumed that, but g

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread C de-Avillez
Amahdy wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something here (like I said in my early first post), but I > even don't know how to set a total delivery for all messages sent here, I > only receive a digest and there is no option to receive > instant-notification, although I believe mailman has this option but m

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Amahdy
Oh you mean I can't have digest and single delivery at the same time? ok I think I got the problem now ... Thanks! -- Amahdy AbdElAziz IT & Development Manager 3D Diagnostix Inc. www.3ddx.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/amahdyabdelaziz On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:26, Andrew SB wrote: > On Thu,

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew SB
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Amahdy wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something here (like I said in my early first post), but I > even don't know how to set a total delivery for all messages sent here, I > only receive a digest and there is no option to receive > instant-notification, although I bel

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Amahdy
> > 2010/1/28 Amahdy >: > > >* What the problem really? when the quoted-text is collapsed and the replies > *>* are organized together and simple navigation ... yes I can follow threads > at > *>* google-groups even if it's with hund

RE: The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Jones
> > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:58:09 -0300 > From: Brian Vidal Castillo > Subject: Re: The 9.10 boot loader progress bar > To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <4b5fabc1.7030...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > We don't want text-based

Re: Dual Core CPU not seen after an upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-28 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2010/1/28 David MENTRE : > For the record, I have opened a bug against "linux" package (thanks Dustin): >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/513905 For archives: following Chris Cheney advice, I looked at the BIOS. I switched ACPI level to 3.0 (vs. 1.0 previously) and ac

Re: Dual Core CPU not seen after an upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-28 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2010/1/27 David MENTRE : > After an upgrade of my dual core AMD 4050e machine to Karmic, the > second core is no longer seen (/proc/cpuinfo shows only one CPU).  I > have never seen this issue  with Jaunty. > > Is this a known issue? Should I report it? To which package? For the record, I

Re: Dual Core CPU not seen after an upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-28 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2010/1/28 Christian Schuglitsch : > Type uname -r and tell us the output. Can it be that you have the i386 > kernel installed instead of the generic kernel? No, I do have the generic kernel: $ uname -r 2.6.31-17-generic I never had such issues before and I have used many Ubuntu release

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Siegfried-A. Gevatter
2010/1/28 Amahdy : > What the problem really? when the quoted-text is collapsed and the replies > are organized together and simple navigation ... yes I can follow threads at > google-groups even if it's with hundred replies, but here my thread with > about 10 replies, I opened 10 tabs to see them

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Amahdy
When I tell someone to migrate from Windows to Ubuntu because it's more stable, feature, performance ... etc, the answer is: I like what I'm now and I don't want to change it, my outlook is configured, my bookmarks are set, and hey I use FF not IE so please leave me like that. When I ask a Linux-a

Re: Dual Core CPU not seen after an upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-28 Thread Brett Mahar
> After an upgrade of my dual core AMD 4050e machine to Karmic, the > second core is no longer seen (/proc/cpuinfo shows only one CPU). I > have never seen this issue with Jaunty. I recently bought an eMachines desktop with an Athlon X2 5050e dual core processor. I installed Ubuntu 64bit (9.10

wvdial postinst script bugs

2010-01-28 Thread Forest Bond
Hi, The wvdial postinst script runs wvdialconf which tries to detect modems and write out /etc/wvdial.conf. There have been several bugs reported where wvdialconf hangs while probing serial ports and the wvdialconf process must be killed, leaving the package unconfigured. You may wish to scan th

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Markus Schönhaber
28.01.2010 02:26, Amahdy: > Anybody who read my original email in the digest will notice the problem, > the "From" has a special-char before it but I never typed it in my original > email, I don't know why this happened too maybe somebody could explain, but > my email is cropped at the original li

Re: Dual Core CPU not seen after an upgrade to Karmic

2010-01-28 Thread Christian Schuglitsch
Type uname -r and tell us the output. Can it be that you have the i386 kernel installed instead of the generic kernel? Am 27.01.2010 23:28 schrieb David MENTRE: > Hello, > > After an upgrade of my dual core AMD 4050e machine to Karmic, the > second core is no longer seen (/proc/cpuinfo shows only

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Derek Broughton
Amahdy wrote: >>Because what we have works very well and doesn't rely on an external > entity. > > We all know that there is "no bug free software", so if mailman is very > good, google-groups are -per my usage- very good too > >>Mailing lists are the lifeblood of most open source projects. > >

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Derek Broughton
Amahdy wrote: > Anybody who read my original email in the digest will notice the problem, > the "From" has a special-char before it but I never typed it in my > original email, I don't know why this happened too maybe somebody could > explain, but my email is cropped at the original list website.

Re: Question about this list

2010-01-28 Thread Remco
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:19, Amahdy wrote: > One thing to mention, under windows, for example to change something in the > taskbar without mouse: press win-logo, press it again (it will be > activated), press tab then tab till you reach the taskbar, then press the > right-click-input, then choos

Re: how to propose a new feature on Ubuntu?

2010-01-28 Thread Marco Pallotta
2010/1/28 Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) : > Hi Marco > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Marco Pallotta > wrote: >> In this last page I was suggested to contact ubuntu-devel-discuss >> mailing list about my idea. So I did it. >> In fact I proposed a new feature on 7 Jan 2010 ("making a workaroun

Re: how to propose a new feature on Ubuntu?

2010-01-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Marco On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Marco Pallotta wrote: > In this last page I was suggested to contact ubuntu-devel-discuss > mailing list about my idea. So I did it. > In fact I proposed a new feature on 7 Jan 2010 ("making a workaround > web page for bugs, in LTS release, not fixed").

how to propose a new feature on Ubuntu?

2010-01-28 Thread Marco Pallotta
I'm quite new to this discussion list and I haven't yet understood what are the steps to propose a new feature in Ubuntu. I read wiki documentation and I followed these steps: - I would like to contribute time or ideas to Ubuntu -> I would like to ask for a new feature to be implemented -> this is