Re: Why and why.

2010-05-02 Thread William Grant
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 18:25 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op zondag 02-05-2010 om 19:38 uur [tijdzone +1000], schreef William > Grant: > > But they didn't have to do the first stage in an LTS that people will > > be using for three years. > > The first stage was

Re: Why and why.

2010-05-02 Thread William Grant
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 09:59 +0800, Christopher Lees wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 12:00 +0100, George Farris wrote: > > > > Wait just a bit. The problem is that the notification area is a poor > > > replacement of the window list. Instead of big strips with an icon and > > > a title, it's just a

Re: PPA: how to build for karmic

2009-08-02 Thread William Grant
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 09:54 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello David, > > David MENTRE [2009-08-01 21:25 +0200]: > > I have successfully build a source package and uploaded it to my > > PPA. Unfortunately, by default the PPA is for Jaunty while I wanted to > > build the package for Karmic. > > Jus

Re: What is going on

2009-04-21 Thread William Grant
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 05:08 +0100, richard wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:04:10 -0300 > Derek Broughton wrote: > > > richard wrote: > > > > > > > > In order to try and get Virtualbox up I reloaded 2.6.28-11 server, > > > reloaded virtualbox, it starts but borks staring the VM > > > > > > I ra

Re: Anyone else lost hardware buttons after update from intrepid-proposed?

2008-11-11 Thread William Grant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Dong wrote: > Well of the listed packages, gnome-settings-daemon would be my first > suspect. I strongly doubt it. My changes there didn't touch hotkeys. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with M

Re: [Fwd: Turn off touchpad while typing]

2008-10-20 Thread William Grant
the last character has been typed. > > does this turning on and off affect battery time, say in terms of cpu > wakeups? Probably, but the checking interval is configurable -- it defaults to 200ms. -- William Grant -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [Fwd: Turn off touchpad while typing]

2008-10-10 Thread William Grant
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno ven, 10/10/2008 alle 07.20 +1100, William Grant ha scritto: >> I would *hate* that. A second is a very long time in typing-time. I >> wonder how others feel about it... > > Well, after a bit of testing I think 0.3 sec is more than enou

Re: [Fwd: Turn off touchpad while typing]

2008-10-09 Thread William Grant
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno gio, 09/10/2008 alle 16.16 +1100, William Grant ha scritto: > >> hal-set-property isn't very useful here, but xinput can be used to >> change things without SHMConfig. While travelling this morning I added >> input device proper

Re: [Fwd: Turn off touchpad while typing]

2008-10-08 Thread William Grant
s morning I added input device property support to syndaemon -- it turned out to be a rather larger job than I expected, but AFAICS it is fine. Install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics from my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~wgrant/+archive) to get this version. With it installed, syndaemon should be us

Re: I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

2008-08-21 Thread William Grant
x27;t notice, which happened in my case. It somehow continued resizing whilst Nautilus remounted it, causing massive corruption that took a lot of time and FAT-hacking to partially recover from. -- William Grant -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify se