[ubuntu-uk] Email notifier, black-on-black panel legends

2009-07-10 Thread Rowan Berkeley
I found solutions to both of these. There is a tray notifier for Evolution (though not one for Thunderbird) in the repositories, namely the packets mail-notification and mail-notification-evolution. As for the black-on-black panel legends problem, it is solved by switching the desktop theme from 'H

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Wulfy
danattwood wrote: > Wulfy wrote: > >> One of the thing I tried was to install the PPD file. It complained >> that the driver was needed. I even tried to compile the source (not >> something I usually get into) but that kept failing, too... :@( >> >> I think perhaps that if I installed the 32-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Wulfy
Tony Pursell wrote: > On 10 Jul 2009 at 0:02, Wulfy wrote: > > >> My printer died so I bought a new one. It's a Canon PIXMA iP2500. My >> Kubuntu Jaunty set-up recognises the printer and correctly identifies >> it, but it refuses to talk to it. Requesting a test page causes the >> lights t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digest in a mess?

2009-07-10 Thread Steve
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:05:01 +0100, Paul Webster wrote: > Hi > The digest seems to have tied itself in knots, because gmail is telling > me > that my submission (very short) is over the 40 KB limit for posts to the > board... > Paul Webster Your submission is quite short. The rest of the di

[ubuntu-uk] Digest in a mess?

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Webster
Hi The digest seems to have tied itself in knots, because gmail is telling me that my submission (very short) is over the 40 KB limit for posts to the board... Paul Webster -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution's compulsory GPG routine (not)

2009-07-10 Thread Rowan Berkeley
If it's asking about the default keyring, this is due to having automatic login enabled - - It unlocks the keyring when you type your login password, which doesn't happen if you have auto-login enabled. The only thing you can do about this, as far as I know, is to disable automatic login. >> >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Friend managed to start virtual box kernel with grub

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Beard
Kris Douglas wrote: > Hello everyone, I was just wondering if I could get some information > on some of the events that have recently transpired. My mate has > recently tried to install virtual box on his pc, succeeding in this > task, he booted his pc to see his X server had loaded default drivers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Friend managed to start virtual box kernel with grub

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Pope
2009/7/10 Kris Douglas : > Nope and nope, it just seemed to load a server kernel for little/no reason :) > There will be a reason, we just don't know with the detail you've provided what that reason is yet. Did they install from the repo or from sun.com, did they download the deb directly or use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Friend managed to start virtual box kernel with grub

2009-07-10 Thread Kris Douglas
2009/7/10 Paul Roach : > To install and run virtualbox, you need the appropriate kernel modules > in order for it to run correctly, although this should just add > hardware compatibility for his VM's and shouldn't remove any hardware > support. > > Was there any unusual content in /var/log/messages

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Tony Pursell
On 10 Jul 2009 at 0:02, Wulfy wrote: > > My printer died so I bought a new one. It's a Canon PIXMA iP2500. My > Kubuntu Jaunty set-up recognises the printer and correctly identifies > it, but it refuses to talk to it. Requesting a test page causes the > lights to flash but no page to appear

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Friend managed to start virtual box kernel with grub

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Roach
To install and run virtualbox, you need the appropriate kernel modules in order for it to run correctly, although this should just add hardware compatibility for his VM's and shouldn't remove any hardware support. Was there any unusual content in /var/log/messages? Did he use any guides when insta

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Webster
nt-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear all > > I know I'm a pest with my incessant questions, but things just keep > cropping > up... > > When a word-processing file is downloaded (e.g. an email attachment), the > following happens on my system

[ubuntu-uk] Friend managed to start virtual box kernel with grub

2009-07-10 Thread Kris Douglas
Hello everyone, I was just wondering if I could get some information on some of the events that have recently transpired. My mate has recently tried to install virtual box on his pc, succeeding in this task, he booted his pc to see his X server had loaded default drivers, and his mouse and network

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: OOo bashing was Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-10 Thread Scrase, Eddie
You might be thinking about Go OO (www.http://go-oo.org/), which seems to work well on a couple of Windows boxes I use. In fact, I think that I can remember reading somewhere that Ubuntu uses the Go OO code rather than the standard OO code. > I havent had any problem with OO specially in Ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Lord (News)
> I think perhaps that if I installed the 32-bit version I could use it. I > don't really want to do that, though... I thought that 64bit Ubuntu was Multilib? Multilib means it has *both* 32 and 64bit libraries. I might be wrong here but I kind of thought that was the whole point of Multilib..

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 10/07/09 16:17, Paul Webster wrote: > Dear all > > I know I'm a pest with my incessant questions, but things just keep > cropping up... > > When a word-processing file is downloaded (e.g. an email attachment), > the following happens on my system: What email client are you using? I use Thunder

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread danattwood
Wulfy wrote: > Alan Lord (News) wrote: > >> On 10/07/09 13:16, Wulfy wrote: >> >> >> >>> Thanks, Alan. >>> >>> I had seen that page but it's for the i386 version of Ubuntu. I don't >>> really want to downgrade my architecture just to get the printer >>> going... :@( >>> >>> Once again,

[ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Webster
Dear all I know I'm a pest with my incessant questions, but things just keep cropping up... When a word-processing file is downloaded (e.g. an email attachment), the following happens on my system: 1) If it is a .doc file, an Open Office 3.0 start-up window appears and makes a failed attempt to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Wulfy
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 10/07/09 13:16, Wulfy wrote: > > >> Thanks, Alan. >> >> I had seen that page but it's for the i386 version of Ubuntu. I don't >> really want to downgrade my architecture just to get the printer >> going... :@( >> >> Once again, thanks for responding. >> > > No

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution's compulsory GPG routine

2009-07-10 Thread Vinothan Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 15:36 +0100, vinu wrote: > >> Assuming it IS gnome-keyring, somewhere in the repositories is a >> package that will unlock your default keyring on login and lock it >> again when you log out, to defeat thi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution's compulsory GPG routine

2009-07-10 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Thunderbird is much easier to use than Evo, anyway, so I shall scrap Evo and use Thunderbird. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu

2009-07-10 Thread John Matthews
Daniel Drummond wrote: > John Matthews wrote: > >> Hi, thank you for the information. >> >> I was just wondering, how do I get it to work, and become my default >> browser so that I dont have both, and I dont loose my profile info? >> >> John. >> >> >> > > Not sure if this is the best w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-10 Thread John Matthews
Rob Beard wrote: > Paul Webster wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? >> >> I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the >> installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. >> >> Paul W. >> > Hi Paul, > > It's not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-10 Thread John Matthews
Rob Beard wrote: > Paul Webster wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? >> >> I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the >> installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. >> >> Paul W. >> > Hi Paul, > > It's not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: OOo bashing was Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-10 Thread John Matthews
Rob Beard wrote: > Sean Miller wrote: > >> I concur... Openoffice is bloatware of the highest order. >> >> If I could be bothered to get an older version of Office working on >> wine I would - but I don't use office suites enough to do so. >> >> It's a shame, really, that Sun decided to go down

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 10/07/09 13:16, Wulfy wrote: > Thanks, Alan. > > I had seen that page but it's for the i386 version of Ubuntu. I don't > really want to downgrade my architecture just to get the printer > going... :@( > > Once again, thanks for responding. No problem. I had some issues with a KM printer befo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Wulfy
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 10/07/09 00:02, Wulfy wrote: > >> My printer died so I bought a new one. It's a Canon PIXMA iP2500. My >> Kubuntu Jaunty set-up recognises the printer and correctly identifies >> it, but it refuses to talk to it. Requesting a test page causes the >> lights to flas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] lexmark z2420

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote: > Hi Rob, > > I'm quite happy to print from the Vista machine. > > Got quite used to it, in fact, over the past 10+ years that I've been > using Linux. I have a Samba share etc. on the Vista machine so it's > not at all difficult to whip files to and fro between Linux and > Wind

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Beard
Paul Webster wrote: > Hi > > Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? > > I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the > installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. > > Paul W. Hi Paul, It's not obvious how to do it, I'd agree on that one.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: OOo bashing was Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote: > I concur... Openoffice is bloatware of the highest order. > > If I could be bothered to get an older version of Office working on > wine I would - but I don't use office suites enough to do so. > > It's a shame, really, that Sun decided to go down the bloated route, > because t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] lexmark z2420

2009-07-10 Thread Sean Miller
Hi Rob, I'm quite happy to print from the Vista machine. Got quite used to it, in fact, over the past 10+ years that I've been using Linux. I have a Samba share etc. on the Vista machine so it's not at all difficult to whip files to and fro between Linux and Windows. Just wondered if anybody ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] lexmark z2420

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote: > This is a long shot... have Googled but can't find anything of use... > > Bought a Lexmark z2420 wi-fi printer a couple of days ago, which works > great on Windows but I can't find any sign of drivers for Linux. > > To be honest I wouldn't touch Lexmark with a 10ft barge pol