Re: [ubuntu-uk] keycombo to restart gdm?

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 10 March 2010 22:40, Markie wrote: > Hi All, > > Before 9.10 you use to be able to restart gnome by pressing > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. This seems to have been disabled now, ... Yes that's right. > Now Im guessing I hit a different key combo or something, but how can I tell > from the logs whether

[ubuntu-uk] keycombo to restart gdm?

2010-03-10 Thread Markie
Hi All, Before 9.10 you use to be able to restart gnome by pressing CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. This seems to have been disabled now, I remember reading in somewhere. However on a couple of occasions on two seperate machines running 9.10 I have seen the desktop session restart in front of my very eyes and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-10 Thread Simon Wears
Looks interesting. I might have to go learn Python for this, as it'll help my portfolio. -- Simon Wears http://MunkyJunky.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alex (laptop, not person)

2010-03-10 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Joe O'Dell wrote: > That would be good for the "silver surfers" that struggle with computers, and > it promotes linux at the same time! > > I can't wait to see when this comes out - It looks as if you get a USB Key > that enables you to log into your desktop fro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rdesktop working when Tsclient does not

2010-03-10 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Adam Bagnall wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> This is a little odd. >> >> I have a Windows 2008 Server (r1, 32-bit, SP2) box sitting here, right >> next to & on the same subnet as my Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit) desktop PC. >> Both are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Bagnall
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > Hi, > > PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have > to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days. > Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it > might be more int

[ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi, PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days. Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it might be more interesting to try and work in a team. I know there's been some interest

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rdesktop working when Tsclient does not

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Bagnall
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote: > This is a little odd. > > I have a Windows 2008 Server (r1, 32-bit, SP2) box sitting here, right > next to & on the same subnet as my Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit) desktop PC. > Both are patched fully up-to-date. > > I would like to use the Ubuntu machi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rdesktop working when Tsclient does not

2010-03-10 Thread Markie
Hi Liam, Try installing gnome-rdp in Ubuntu from the software center menu, it give you options to add profiles and resize the screen, its a front end on the rdesktop command I believe. Im not sure why tsclient doesnt work, I would have thought they both use the sam port numbers if they support th