How to use events for special laptop buttons

2010-01-16 Thread MPR
Hi developers, I have two buttons on my laptop that currently do nothing. I would like to use them to do something, preferably execute a program. I've determined that I can see that they send press and release events when I use the input-events program. Can someone tell me what I do with this info

Re: How to use events for special laptop buttons

2010-01-17 Thread MPR
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Marco Pallotta wrote: > Have you tried with gnome-keybinding-properties tool? Yes, and it is not recognized when I press the key. From my research the key will have to be handled by HAL or DeviceKit which I do not know how to configure. I've been working on this s

How to report a feature request and receive mentoring

2010-01-23 Thread MPR
I'd like to have a new feature added to Ubuntu when the Calibre ebook manager software is installed, but I do not know the proper procedure for making the feature request or getting help adding it myself. I looked at the details for the package with hopes of emailing the package maintainer, but it

Re: Samba 3.4.4

2010-01-24 Thread MPR
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Klaas TJEBBES wrote: > Will Samba 3.4.4 be released for Ubuntu in a near future ? The Samba in Debian testing is at 3.4.3 [1] so it would be best to help Samba 3.4.5 [2] which is in unstable get into testing before 11 February which is when the Debian package impo

Re: The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

2010-01-25 Thread MPR
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Amahdy wrote: > BTW: I believe 99% of users doesn't really care about the splached boot, > they *have* to see text at some point after pressing the power button I'm a highly-technical user and I like having no text during boot. My laptop goes from the HP logo to b

Re: Samba 3.4.4

2010-01-25 Thread MPR
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Klaas TJEBBES wrote: > Does this mean that whatever happens, Samba 3.4.4 will be packaged for Lucid > before February the 11th ? No. The developers are taking packages from Debian testing for Lucid. Debian testing only has 3.4.3 at the moment. 3.4.4 will be skipp

Re: The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

2010-01-25 Thread MPR
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Amahdy wrote: > How can you determine "If something goes wrong"? The first indication is when I see that the system stops working as expected. When that occurs then I will start to investigate. > For example couple of years ago, my previous laptop had "fedora 10

Re: The 9.10 boot loader progress bar

2010-01-25 Thread MPR
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > Indeed, the first indication should be when I see that the system > stops. Unfortunately, I can not see that. There is no indicator to tell > me the system stopped. My system takes a minute or two to start up. > Without the indicator, I can