Mlterm installed with RTL languages

2010-04-09 Thread Usama Akkad
Hello, is it possible to have mlterm installed when some user install RTL language? it's know that gnome-terminal doesn't support Arabic or Farsi or any RTL language because of vte bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/vte/+bug/263822 however mlterm does, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mlterm thanks, -- Ubu

Re: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat

2010-04-09 Thread Robert Avant
Mark, Thanks for your support, my beef about wanting the basics to work still applies. However, I have spent a couple of hours sorting out the Scanner and Wi-fi and now both are working. It is all very well including SANE in the Applications menu but there should also be an appliaction in the

just a heads up to the developers on bluetooth mouse losing pairing

2010-04-09 Thread Arthur Rosene III
I'm only on this list because I am intimidated by launchpad. i'm running lucid, and the gnome screensaver was set to ask for my password again overnight. i noticed though that after this long of time, my bluetooth mouse lost its pairing. i happen to have a wired mouse connected to the same,

Re: Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-04-09 Thread Evan
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Dylan McCall wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Jonathan Blackhall > wrote: >> It's very confusing for me when I click the big 'X' in my window controls, >> only to find that the application I was attempting to close has since been >> minimized to my system t

Re: Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-04-09 Thread Derek Broughton
Evan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Dylan McCall > wrote: >> I chewed on this thought for a bit, and I think adding a "really >> close" button to a window would compromise what is _potentially_ a >> pretty well thought out bit of UI. That's not to say it is well >> thought out yet, but

Re: Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-04-09 Thread Derek Broughton
Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: >> John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> >>> Maybe. But the paradigm isn't really that pressing the Close >>> button minimizes the window to the systray. >> >> I beg to differ. Think as a user, not a developer. I submit that >> _users_ do not generally

Re: Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-04-09 Thread Evan
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Derek Broughton wrote: > Evan wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Dylan McCall >> wrote: > >>> I chewed on this thought for a bit, and I think adding a "really >>> close" button to a window would compromise what is _potentially_ a >>> pretty well thought ou

any chances of including something like this still? :)

2010-04-09 Thread Rene Veerman
http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-linux-video-wallpaper-dual-monitor/ i'd appreciate it if someone just took a look at it, i'm not asking to shove this into the lucid release or even the one after that. just wanted to make you aware of a hack i found ;) -- - Greetin

Re: just a heads up to the developers on bluetooth mouse losing pairing

2010-04-09 Thread Rene Veerman
I had _exactly_ the same thing happen to me. Must be some kinda cyberwar going on, coz for me, not only did my mouse & keyboard stop working, even my teradisk crashed! thankfully i have an offsite backup that i have now duplicated again to a brandnew teradisk... On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:24 PM