Testing Unity with llvmpipe

I gather that Unity 2d will be dropped in 12.10, being replaced by Unity with llvmpipe. Is this an appropriate place to ask if there a schedule for when this will be available for testing? If so does anyone know what the schedule is? Colin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-disc

Re: Testing Unity with llvmpipe

On 20 July 2012 06:17, Didier Roche wrote: > Le 19/07/2012 22:59, Colin Law a écrit : > > I gather that Unity 2d will be dropped in 12.10, being replaced by > Unity with llvmpipe. Is this an appropriate place to ask if there a > schedule for when this will be available for testi

Re: chromium no longer maintained

On 4 September 2012 13:26, Damian Ivanov wrote: > Hi David, > > Bad said, Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, it gets forked once in a while > after a release to update packages, see wikipedia. > > Anyway I think chromium is still the most recent, from when 12.04 was > released, so may somebody will just

Re: Update manager mandating rebooting

On 31 October 2012 11:49, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > I'd love to hear what other users and developers think about this: > > The refreshed update manager (almost) always displays "The computer needs to > restart to finish installing updates", with a default button "Restart" > highlighted. Not only t

Re: Possibility to add "Create Launcher" to right click context-menu in Nautilus

On 5 December 2012 21:10, Kieran Grant wrote: > Hey All, > > I am currently using Ubuntu 12.04.1, so I don't know if this is > something that was worked on in Ubuntu 12.10 or is in the planning stage > for Ubuntu 13.04, but I am wondering if it's possible for something to > be done about the lack

Re: Pulse Audio Sound Levels

On 12 March 2013 00:44, Lanoxx wrote: > Hi, > > I have a sound system from Teufel (Concept C 200) which has a built in USB > sound card and an analogue aux input. When I connect the USB cable to my > computer and the aux cable to my radio, then the sound of the radio does not > play. When I unplug

Re: Sleep mode on Thinkpad x201

On 19 March 2013 15:57, Alexandre Strube wrote: > Actually, I noticed that this happen when the big display connected to the > displayport output of the docking station is turned on. The notebook wakes > up fine, but then the secondary screen is turned on, and Ubuntu wants to > send the image to i

Re: Extra Pane in Nautilus

On 29 March 2013 19:42, Greg Williams wrote: > Has there been any discussion about improving the user-interaction with the > "Extra Pane" feature in Nautilus? > > I'm using 12.04 and make use of the Extra Pane feature a lot. A problem with > it though is that there is not clear communication/indic

Re: Extra Pane in Nautilus

On 29 March 2013 22:12, Greg Williams wrote: > Why won't the Ubuntu-Developers switch to the Marlin File-Browser? Why are > they continuing to use Nautilus with such a weakening feature base? I understand that the problem is that Nautilus also handles the desktop and other stuff. It is not just

Unity-2d packages in Raring

Just out of interest does anyone know why, on Raring, I keep getting updates for unity-2d packages when unity-2d is, I thought, dead and buried? Colin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l

Re: Unity-2d packages in Raring

On 1 April 2013 22:11, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> Just out of interest does anyone know why, on Raring, I keep getting >> updates for unity-2d packages when unity-2d is, I thought, dead and >> buried? > > >

Re: Unity-2d packages in Raring

On 2 April 2013 08:11, Didier Roche wrote: > Le 01/04/2013 23:21, Scott Kitterman a écrit : > >> On Monday, April 01, 2013 10:15:41 PM Colin Law wrote: >>> >>> On 1 April 2013 22:11, Jordon Bedwell wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

On 20 May 2013 18:02, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > > On May 20, 2013 8:10 AM, "Daniel J Blueman" wrote: >> >> When installing Ubuntu, I always see the source packages enabled by >> default. >> >> For all the general users I install Ubuntu for (including servers), >> it's an utter waste of bandwidth

Re: Many, many serious problems with Ubuntu

On 25 July 2013 04:20, Dale Amon wrote: > I have held back from putting in this report for a very long time > as my experience reading this list has led me to believe that no > one will much care because Granny Would Never Do That and she > certainly Would Never Know How to Do That. > > I have a T

Running XMir on Saucy

Following the announcement on ubuntu-devel I have installed unity-system-compositor as described in [1] (I did not previously have the testing ppa enabled). The machine boots and appears to be running ok and ps aux | grep unity-system-compositor shows it to be running. However grep -i xmir /var/l

Re: Running XMir on Saucy

On 10 August 2013 10:46, Colin Law wrote: > Following the announcement on ubuntu-devel I have installed > unity-system-compositor as described in [1] (I did not previously have > the testing ppa enabled). The machine boots and appears to be running > ok and > ps aux | gr

Re: Upgrade issues

On 2 June 2014 10:05, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Sonntag, den 01.06.2014, 23:49 -0700 schrieb Dale Amon: >> I've made enough progress to get work done but there are still >> things I don't like much as well as things that don't work. >> > you have not told us from where to where and how you

Re: Pre-upgrade warnings and advice?

On 3 June 2014 00:15, Charl Wentzel wrote: > On 02/06/2014 21:49, Neal McBurnett wrote: > > Ubuntu support for upgrades naturally depends on exactly what is being > upgraded. Use of software from outside the official Ubuntu repositories > (PPA repositories or .deb files or tar.gz packages or the

Re: User education on first boot post install

On 12 July 2010 20:13, Jeff Lane wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 12:21 +0200, Gareth McCumskey wrote: >> This is my first mail to this list so forgive me if this has already been >> asked >> or discussed. > > I don't recall this being discussed lately, and it's a great first > post :-) Anyone kno

Re: User education on first boot post install

On 6 November 2014 08:57, Colin Law wrote: > On 12 July 2010 20:13, Jeff Lane wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 12:21 +0200, Gareth McCumskey wrote: >>> This is my first mail to this list so forgive me if this has already been >>> asked >>> or discussed. >&

Re: Unlock Keyring Dialog

On 21 November 2014 08:16, 沁雨寒眸 wrote: > > hello > > You can set it How? Colin > > > ‍ > > -- Original -- > From: "Doug Webb";; > Date: Fri, Nov 21, 2014 02:23 AM > To: "ubuntu-devel-discuss"; > Subject: Unlock Keyring Dialog > > I am usually entering a web a

Re: Critical Git Vulnerability

On 21 December 2014 at 00:45, Alex Oh wrote: > http://git-blame.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/git-1856-195-205-214-and-221-and.html > > There is a vulnerability with git pull. Would be great if the git package > can be updated to version 2.2.1. > > The current version is 1.9.1. On which version of Ubun

Re: Critical Git Vulnerability

On 21 December 2014 at 00:45, Alex Oh wrote: > http://git-blame.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/git-1856-195-205-214-and-221-and.html > > There is a vulnerability with git pull. Would be great if the git package > can be updated to version 2.2.1. The link suggests it is only relevant on Win and OS X, or

Re: Can't read past apparent/erroneous EOF marker but can append

On 23 December 2014 at 16:36, Jeff Archambeault wrote: > Hi, > > Is this the right mailing list to post this message to? Not really, this is for development issues, probably better on the Ubuntu Users list https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users Colin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mai

Re: Systemd in Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid

On 10 January 2015 at 17:04, Oscar wrote: > > On 2015-01-10 15:38, ?? wrote: >> Hello! Excuse me, are there any plans of making systemd a default >> init-system in Ubuntu 15.04? Thank you. >> > > Hello, > > There is info about that here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/systemd I think that is rathe

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

On 14 January 2015 at 15:34, Chris Knutson wrote: > Clearing out old kernel versions manually to be able to upgrade the kernel > version is something the end user should never have to do. Clearing out old > kernel version from /boot should be better managed by the software updater > to intelligent

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

ssibly manually installed ones? Colin > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 14 January 2015 at 15:34, Chris Knutson >> wrote: >> > Clearing out old kernel versions manually to be able to upgrade the >> > kernel >> >

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

On 15 January 2015 at 14:37, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > ... > I have Ubuntu Server instances in the Cloud, with very tiny root disks, one > of which has run for several years, autoupdating, and accumulated 37(!!) > kernels, which filled up its 8GB root partition. > > Around that time a few years ago

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

On 15 January 2015 at 14:49, Cláudio Sampaio wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 15 January 2015 at 14:37, Dustin Kirkland >> wrote: >> > ... >> > I have Ubuntu Server instances in the Cloud, with very tiny root disks, >

Re: about nc manual page content

On 18 January 2015 at 04:48, 田 震 wrote: > I have found your email address on nc manual page bottom, and I am > confiusing about -p and -l option, why there is an description about -l "It > is an error to use this option in conjunction with the -p, -s, or -z > options”? If I want listen connection

Re: rplay fails to run

On 8 February 2015 at 14:58, Maurizio Dall'Acqua wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to add sound to ctwm which uses rplay as a tool to play > sound events. I have downloaded: Hi Maurizio This list is not intended for user support it is for development issues. I suggest trying the ubuntu-users lis

Re: Windows type shortcuts to files and folders

On 2 March 2015 at 15:40, Johan Kriel wrote: > I would like to suggest the availability of shortcuts to files and folders > (like those used in Windows) also in addition to the currently available > symbolic links. Symbolic links do have their useful place, but they can also > be a real pain in th

Re: Change what is considered by apt-get as major amount of disk space

On 25 March 2015 at 13:06, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > No, I want to stop apt-get from asking dumb questions. Asking > whatever it is OK to use 1/25000 of disk is a dumb question that > should not be asked. I believe the point is that whether it asks or not is nothing to do with how much space may

Re: Tomboy

On 29 March 2015 at 15:02, Анатолий wrote: > Hello. March 24 Update Library mono and stopped working program Tomboy. > It's very sad, because these notes I have a lot of necessary information > to work with. It is working ok for me on Ubuntu 15.04. You could ask on the ubuntu-users list which is

Re: Request Help with Video

On 2 April 2015 at 17:07, SRR wrote: > Forgive me if this is not the appropriate place to post my question. This is list is principally for discussion of development related issues. You would probably be better asking on the ubuntu-users list. Colin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: MSI nvidia fx5500 on 14.04

On 19 April 2015 at 20:32, Krzysztof wrote: > I'm trying to install nvidia-173 driver for my graphic card and it fails. > Even I manage to install before desktop installation the desktop appears as > a complete mess. After desktop setup the driver cannot be installed. Could I > get some help here?

Re: problem in running software named zekr

On 6 July 2015 at 15:05, hg ksajdoiwedn wrote: > Hi all > > Please help me for solving following problem: > > I am using ubuntu 15.04 > but when i want ro run the "zekr" it produces some error messages as > follows: > org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [Unknown Mozilla path > (MOZILLA_FIVE_

Re: Damaged package

On 6 July 2015 at 23:45, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 02:10:56AM AEST, Giacomo Tommaso Petrucci wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm writing this email just to let you know, if you don't already know, that >> the openarena package is flagged as damaged by the packet manager. >> Thank

Re: Windows type shortcuts to files and folders

On 16 July 2015 at 14:39, Johan Kriel wrote: > Actually this is still not quite what I want. It works fine from within the > file manager, but it does not work from within any other application. When I > click on the link from within an application, the app tries to open the > .desktop file instea

Re: Origami install doesn't work

On 20 July 2015 at 14:05, Antonio Aloisio wrote: > Hi! > I have tried to install the folding at home client to my ubuntu box and > origami install failed. > > root@biggoliath:~/GIT/RagBag/Codility.org/part4# origami install > wget --quiet -O /var/lib/origami/finstall -c > http://zelut.org/projects

Re: Origami install doesn't work

On 21 July 2015 at 07:59, Antonio Aloisio wrote: > Hi colin. > I mailed the mailing list because that was the address of the current > package maintainer. Probably best to report a bug using ubuntu-bug origami Colin > > Cheers > Antonio > _____

Re: updates to libmtp9 in trusty

On 20 August 2015 at 18:32, David H. Durgee wrote: > I recently upgrade to an android phone but found it was not recognized in > libmtp 1.1.6-20 as provided in trusty. As directed, I opened a bug report > and the maintainer responded and closed it indicated support was added to > git for the 1.1.

Re: Bug when trying to empty trash?

On 26 August 2015 at 16:42, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2015, 16:00 +0200 schrieb Amr Ibrahim: >> "I was going to file this as a bug, but I didn't know if it was the desired >> reaction. When you go to empty the trash by right clicking on the launcher >> it will open nau

Fwd: Full screen / always on top

On 19 January 2016 at 17:13, Fred H Olson wrote: > I think it is a Gnome function "Always on top". It is great. I miss it > when I can not find it on other operating systems that I have to use > sometimes. > (I get to it by: cursor on app title bar / right click / Always on top) > > But Full scree

Re: optional dark theme

16353853)? > > Ubuntu already has a dark theme by default, so this is certainly not a > priority or goal. I am only seeing Ambiance, Radiance and High Contrast on Wily (Unity). Am I missing something? Colin Law -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Mod

Re: Cannot set "Ctrl+Esc" as shortcut for gnome-system-monitor

On 23 February 2016 at 09:09, Angelo Compagnucci wrote: > Dear All, > > I cannot set "Ctrl+Esc" as shortcut for gnome-system-monitor, or at > least I can set that shortcut, but it doesn't work in practice. How have you attempted to do that, and which version of Ubuntu are you using? Also is it t

Re: Cannot set "Ctrl+Esc" as shortcut for gnome-system-monitor

On 23 February 2016 at 09:18, Angelo Compagnucci wrote: > Hi Colin, > > 2016-02-23 10:16 GMT+01:00 Colin Law : >> On 23 February 2016 at 09:09, Angelo Compagnucci >> wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I cannot set "Ctrl+Esc" as shortcut for gno

Re: Yagf

On 5 March 2016 at 01:59, dboyd wrote: > I am using a AMD E1-6010 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics × 2, and 64 bit > processor and have all the latest updates for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS loaded. > > Over the last two years each time I update to the latest version of Yagf > (0.9.2.1-1) It freezes when I tr

Re: Xenial freeze if I plug a second monitor

On 7 March 2016 at 00:01, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > Guys, > > I'm trying to use my second monitor under Xenial (fully upgraded) but, it > freezes if I plug the second monitor. > > I'm using it on a brand new Macbook Pro (2015). > > Any thoughts? Is this a know bug? There have been bugs in that

Re: suggest policy: all GUI apps that display files/folders right-click copies full path

On 27 March 2016 at 09:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PPS: > > I suspect that Nautilus provides to add plugin/action scripts, for > SpaceFM you can write "tools" scripts. IOW when using the variable "%f" > you could write a script that copies to the clip board or opens a > terminal with the full path e

Re: suggest policy: all GUI apps that display files/folders right-click copies full path

Are these not issues for upstream Nautilus developers to consider rather than Ubuntu? Colin On 28 March 2016 at 04:11, Dale Amon wrote: > I like the way NeXTstep did it. If you drag an icon > from the Workspace Manager to a shell or into Emacs, > it 'drops' as the full path name of the item you

Re: suggest policy: all GUI apps that display files/folders right-click copies full path

On 31 March 2016 at 12:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > ... > Does any of the bloatware desktop environments terminal emulations > auto-wrap lines, if you resize the window? In more than ten years > that I'm using Linux, they were unable to support this. Do you mean in the way that gnome-terminal does?

Re: whis is maintainer for tightvncserver?

On 15 May 2016 at 01:21, Mike Lieberman wrote: > ... > > USERXSESSION=$HOME/.xsession > USERXSESSIONRC=$HOME/.xsessionrc > ALTUSERXSESSION=$HOME/.Xsession > ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors > > None of these exist. > > There is a $HOME/mike/.xsession-errors and it is in use by but not by > tightVNC.

Re: slurm-llnl-torque install problem on Ubuntu 14.10

On 6 June 2016 at 03:20, FIH FIH wrote: > Hello maintainer, > > I got some problem while install slurm-llnl-torque. > I've try the command on > https://www.howtoinstall.co/en/ubuntu/utopic/universe/slurm-llnl-torque/ > After "sudo apt-get install slurm-llnl-torque" > It shows error message as foll

Re: Libre Office Install/Remove

On 16 July 2016 at 19:53, paulwheeler wrote: > > However, the joy was short-lived, because I then discovered the libreoffice > configuration file was still in the '.config' directory! > > .config/libreoffice/4/user > > > Why? How? For what reason? Because that file was not created by the ins

Re: Red5 server

On 29 July 2016 at 11:30, Bacar Azhar wrote: > Hi > I want to install Red5-server from synaptic package Manager in VPS ubuntu 15 > x64 > but it-s not accept > can you help me please You should ask this on the ubuntu-users list rather than the developers. If you do that then try sudo apt install

Re: install android apk in ubuntu

On 3 August 2016 at 18:46, hadi wrote: > hi dear > i can`t run andriod apk in ubuntu.please help me! Are you talking about Ubuntu Phone or Ubuntu on a PC? Colin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.c

Re: install android apk in ubuntu

On 4 August 2016 at 11:31, hadi wrote: > On ۱۶/۰۸/۰۴ 12:18, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 3 August 2016 at 18:46, hadi wrote: >>> >>> hi dear >>> i can`t run andriod apk in ubuntu.please help me! >> >> Are you talking about Ubuntu Phone or Ub

Re: imagination error

On 29 Aug 2016 9:10 a.m., "BugCatcher" wrote: > > Attempted to use imagination to create a slide show -- what it claims to do. > > Got the error message: > > Failed to launch the encoder! > > Failed to execute child process > "avconv" (No such file or directory). > > > Strange, since the package d

Re: Running ImageJ fails

On 30 August 2016 at 22:54, Карлен Плузян wrote: > Running imagej fails with the following message: > >Open other images in this ImageJ panel as follows: > imagej -p 3 [ ... ] > >No JVM found to run ImageJ >Please apt-get install a JVM to run ImageJ or >set JAVA_HOME if it's

Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

On 7 Sep 2016 1:09 a.m., "Ryan Cunningham" wrote: > > [The following message is a re-post from an aborted message thread originally sent to .] > > Attn. Ubuntu Developers: > > I have heard recently that Ubuntu has plans to cancel support for processors in the Intel 80386 family (and clones of the

Re: Dropbox wants to update

On 27 September 2016 at 19:57, Jarno Suni wrote: > Hi > > I have installed nautilus-dropbox on Trusty. Now it tells I have to update in > order to continue using the product. If I follow instructions, I am guided to > install a .deb that conflicts nautilus-dropbox. How to proceed? This list is

Re: gnome-weather

On 30 September 2016 at 07:34, Łukasz Batek wrote: > I haven't got forecast in this program since few months. > I give answer: (org.gnome.Weather.Application:3823): GWeather-WARNING **: > Failed >> > to get METAR data: 404 Not Found. > > I gave answer also from man, who create this app: > > "The

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

On 8 October 2016 at 17:21, Xen wrote: > Ralf Mardorf schreef op 06-10-2016 12:42: >> >> Just a very laste note. >> >> On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 22:29 +0200, Xen wrote: >>> >>> >> In Windows >>> >>> Yes you conveniently break off my statement but (I had to look for it) >>> it was about something that

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

On 8 October 2016 at 23:58, Xen wrote: > Colin Law schreef op 08-10-2016 18:29: >> >> On 8 October 2016 at 17:21, Xen wrote: >>> >>> Ralf Mardorf schreef op 06-10-2016 12:42: >>>> >>>> >>>> Just a very laste note. >>&g

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

On 9 October 2016 at 12:56, Xen wrote: > Colin Law schreef op 09-10-2016 9:28: >> ... >> I was not commenting on any particular topic, merely pointing out that >> that Ralf (I think) said there are some things that Linux "does not >> allow" and you answered

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

On 9 October 2016 at 15:43, Xen wrote: > Colin Law schreef op 09-10-2016 14:38: >> >> On 9 October 2016 at 12:56, Xen wrote: >>> >>> Colin Law schreef op 09-10-2016 9:28: >>>> >>>> ... >>>> I was not commenting on any particula

Re: How to upgrade one package between old versions?

On 9 November 2016 at 15:41, Jin Li wrote: > Hi Ubuntu, > > I want to upgrade glusterfs from glusterfs 3.6.4 to glusterfs 3.6.9. > Currently only version 3.6.9 is in glusterfs 3.6 ppa. > > https://launchpad.net/~gluster/+archive/ubuntu/glusterfs-3.6 >

Re: Gnash

On 14 Nov 2016 7:22 a.m., "Till Uhlmann" wrote: > > I'm unable to unistall gnash from my system. Ubuntu 16.04 Mate. > "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file > '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_cl' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - > pkgAcquire::Run (13: Keine Berechtigung)" is the informat

Re: gnome-weather

On 1 December 2016 at 21:43, Łukasz Batek wrote: > Hello, > Is this possible to set for view all hours in this app? I advise asking on the ubuntu-users list as this list is for ubuntu development issues not for user support. When you do that I suggest saying which version of ubuntu and which ver

Re: error message when trying to install.

On 9 January 2017 at 00:48, luis talavera wrote: > Hello, > > I can't install anything in my Linux Mint 17, it returns this error message. > I can't install even from the software centre that include my Mint. Could > you help me? > > Thanks so much. > > > > (synaptic:16612): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ch

Re: ubuntu16.04: tcsd

On 7 March 2017 at 02:21, Yan Kun wrote: > I have a TPM in my machine,but trousers.service failed: > > It report: > > Failed to start LSB:starts tcsd > > So how to deal with it ? This would probably be better asked on the ubuntu users list Colin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-deve

Re: issues installing Lubuntu 17.04 beta 1

The DNS problem could be this, particularly if you are using a fairly old router. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1609546 Colin On 13 March 2017 at 16:40, B S wrote: > I installed Lubuntu 17.04 beta 1 on a private label Intel NUC with a core > i5-6260U and a 250G SSD tha

Re: [14.04] nVidia GeForce 1080TI

On 1 June 2017 at 14:05, J Fernyhough wrote: > On 01/06/17 07:45, Sebastian Busse wrote: >> We are thinking of upgrading to current nVidia graphics cards. As far as >> I can see, the GeForce 1080 is supported since 367.27 while the GeForce >> 1080 TI is supported since 381.09. >> >> In Trusty Tahr

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

On 24 August 2017 at 01:33, Nrbrtx wrote: > Dear Ubuntu developers! > > I'm using Debian since 3.1 and using Ubuntu since 6.06. > So let me write about installing programs. > > As far I can understand here were two methods of software installation: > 1. apt (apt-get), dpkg, aptitude - for advanced

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

er to use MATE DE with Synaptic (which is powerful, but buggy now) or > maybe Muon (from KDE, does not really matter if it works stable). > > > > On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 24 August 2017 at 01:33, Nrbrtx wrote: >> > Dear Ubuntu dev

Re: Chromium cant start after updating to 61.0.3163.79-0ubuntu0.14.04.1196

On 22 September 2017 at 23:03, Jahnmariuz Haarslev wrote: > Hi. > > I updated Chromium today in my Linux Mint 17.3. And now I can't start > Chromium. This is not the right list for the question. Ideally it should be directed to a mint support list, but you may possibly get some help on the ubuntu

Re: "mpv" package no longer comes with DVB support

On 19 October 2017 at 11:07, Adrian wrote: > Hello, never used a mailing list before so I hope this is right. > > Until 17.10, the mpv media player used to come with support for DVB viewing. > It appears that this has been disabled by default now, but for questionable > reasons. > > Since it didn'

Re: ffmpeg Large-file error?

On 24 October 2017 at 22:39, Dexter N Muir wrote: > Winff 1.5.5 on Kubuntu 17.04, hp p6-2175a (i3), which uses ffmpeg > 7:3.2.4-1build2 (this time, though historical): If this is a fault in the video file (which looks likely to me) then there is not much that can be done about it here. If you bel

Re: x11vnc throws “X Error of failed request: BadMatch” after upgrade from 17.04

On 5 November 2017 at 02:32, Owen Phillis wrote: > Hi guys, > > Whether I invoke VNC from a remote or local terminal and, no matter the > command line I submit, I get: > > X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > Major opcode of failed request: 73 (X_GetImage) > Seria

Fwd: Installing ubuntu-tweak

Forwarding to the list -- Forwarded message -- From: Paulina Gajoch Date: 21 November 2017 at 14:46 Subject: Re: Installing ubuntu-tweak To: Colin Law Thanks, I can run gnome-tweak-tool, but it is not satisfaying for me. But thanks for help Paulina W dniu 21.11.2017 o 14:41

Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

gt; windmill now, unless your goal is to expend further energy. Colin Law -- 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: cheese pour ubuntu 18.04

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 23:42, alain wrote: > bonjour, > > je suis maintenant sous ubuntu 18.04 > > j'utilisais cheese regulierement sous les autres versions de ubuntu > > depuis le passage à BIONIC, Cheese ne fontionne plus. > Do you get a different error displayed if you unplug the webcam? Are y

Re: Ubuntu 19.04 ".desktop" no longer working!?

On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 19:48, Thomas Stadtmüller wrote: > > Dears, > > Can you confirm Ubuntu 19.04 still supports .desktop files? > > I have upgraded from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04. > > Now I wonder why there isn't a huge cry out in the community about > .desktop files no longer working. This is a N

Re: Ubuntu 19.04 ".desktop" no longer working!?

On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 10:46, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > ... > Even it that's true, it's a bit obsolete info for Ubuntu users. The > description of the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package says: > > "Description: desktop icon support for GNOME Shell > This package provides a GNOME Shell

Re: Ubuntu 19.04 ".desktop" no longer working!?

On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 12:36, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > > On 2019-05-29 12:32, Colin Law wrote: > > Ah, I think I understand now, Nautilus changed so that .desktop > > files no longer were runnable, but the shell extension reverts this, > > Yes, basically. > > &g

Re: Ubuntu 19.04 ".desktop" no longer working!?

On Thu, 30 May 2019 at 16:30, Thomas Stadtmüller wrote: > > Still quite worrisome, that I seem to be a single person in the Ubuntu > universe who did complain about falling into this "upgrade trap". And only > weeks later and with your help I am now slowly getting out there. I think the reason

Re: Copy newer files only

This should ideally be addressed to the ubuntu users list rather than the development list. However rsync may do what you want. If you want further help then ask at the users list. Colin On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 21:49, kor wrote: > > I am wondering whether I am the only one who wishes that copyin

Re: Gnome Calendar

On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 15:02, Matej Kovacic wrote: > > Hi, > > I have noticed (in 18.10) that default Calendar app (which is Gnome Calendar) > sets the time zone completely wrong - it uses Algiers, I assume, it just > takes the first one on the list. This would probably be better posted on the U

Re: Calibre issue

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 15:58, Oscar Pretto <59scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > yesterday I updated my Ubuntu, and now I cannot open Calibre. > Might it be possible there is a bug in the update? See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2020-October/041228.html Colin -- Ubuntu-devel-di

Re: Add libcgal13 to ubuntu 20.04 repos

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 21:10, Spencer Owen wrote: > > libcgal is present in the 18.04 universe repo, but is missing in the 20.04 > repo. Is it possibly libcgal-dev that you are looking for? Colin L. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or u

Re: vnc4server

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 21:44, lds19850124 wrote: > > hello all, > > vnc4server install fail under ubuntu 20.04, why? > sudo apt-get install vnc4server The reason it fails is that there is no such package in the repo. Colin > > thanks > joe > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubunt

Re: Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 at 16:01, Amit wrote: > > The main point is that most of the non-programmers are used to Windows, so to > migrate them to linux, there should be an user interface like Windows. I know > there are few such distros but I think that there are so many diverse options > in linux