Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread Bruno Girin
On 12/03/12 14:51, Alan Bell wrote: > On 12/03/12 14:35, Barry Drake wrote: >> On 12/03/12 10:31, Alan Bell wrote: >>> it could look like this: >>> http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/appmenulens.png >>> but it isn't designed that way. >> >> Oh yes, that's really nice. I suppose you've suggested it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server 11.10 -- how do I enable remot access via Putty?

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Beard
On 12/03/12 17:01, Alexander Birchall wrote: Hi, I thought I was quite experienced at administering a Ubuntu Server, but I am totally confused by the graphical desktop for Ubuntu Server 11.10. I need to be able to remotely connect to the server with Putty (my choice for remote access to servers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread Jim Price
On 12/03/12 14:51, Alan Bell wrote: yeah, I suggested it. The best way is not to petition it or anything, but to implement it as a python based lens and submit it as an extra. I will do that at some stage, but it would be great if someone beat me to it. The lens I have is functional, but an ugly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] thunderbird message filter rules

2012-03-12 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 09/03/2012 20:42, paul sutton wrote: Hi Having made a set of rules for what thunderbird does with mail from different people (move to different folders) this works fine on my desktop, if I want to reproduce the same set of rules on other computers I either have to do this manually (which mea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread Andres Muniz
- Mensaje original - > On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote: > > I set up a "show Alan" button on the desktop which makes a keys based > > ssh session to my home server on a static IP address and forwards his > > port 22 to a port here. I can then ssh back to him and log in as a > > userĀ 

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server 11.10 -- how do I enable remot access via Putty?

2012-03-12 Thread john beddard
Hi Alex, sudo ufw allow ssh if your using ufw firewalls on both client and server. However my guess is that the problem is likely connected to password permissions, after exchanging keys. The Ubuntu help documentation is very useful in this area : https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/serverguide/C/open

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server 11.10 -- how do I enable remot access via Putty?

2012-03-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-03-12 17:01, Alexander Birchall wrote: > I thought I was quite experienced at administering a Ubuntu Server, but I > am totally confused by the graphical desktop for Ubuntu Server 11.10. I don't believe there is a GUI for server by default. Are you sure you used the server disk? > I need

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server 11.10 -- how do I enable remot access via Putty?

2012-03-12 Thread Alexander Birchall
Hi, I thought I was quite experienced at administering a Ubuntu Server, but I am totally confused by the graphical desktop for Ubuntu Server 11.10. I need to be able to remotely connect to the server with Putty (my choice for remote access to servers). But how do I enable this remote access

[ubuntu-uk] Flossie 2012 CfP deadline extended

2012-03-12 Thread Paula Graham
Flossie 2012 is a free, two-day event for women who use or are otherwise interested in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Digital Arts or Open Data, Knowledge and Education. Details here: http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=175 Link to submission form here: http://www.flossie.org/openconf Regist

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread Alan Bell
On 12/03/12 14:35, Barry Drake wrote: On 12/03/12 10:31, Alan Bell wrote: it could look like this: http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/appmenulens.png but it isn't designed that way. Oh yes, that's really nice. I suppose you've suggested it? And the nice Canonical folk are not interested?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread Barry Drake
On 12/03/12 10:31, Alan Bell wrote: it could look like this: http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/appmenulens.png but it isn't designed that way. Oh yes, that's really nice. I suppose you've suggested it? And the nice Canonical folk are not interested? Where can we petition to get something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread Alan Bell
On 11/03/12 22:41, Barry Drake wrote: Alan, don't agree at all with this ah, maybe you aren't talking about 12.04? On Precise, it just works intuitively (once you've got used to lack of menus etc.) Regards,Barry. yes, this is all 12.04. The apps lens is nasty, if you have a h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread Alan Bell
On 12/03/12 08:38, alan c wrote: On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote: In firefox we set up his webmail and pinned that as an application tab as a separate item, I am not sure how that is done, can we have a short separate thread on that, alan please? thx right click a tab and pin as application

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread alan c
On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote: > I set up a "show Alan" button on the desktop which makes a keys based > ssh session to my home server on a static IP address and forwards his > port 22 to a port here. I can then ssh back to him and log in as a user > I created on his machine, I can also for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread alan c
On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote: > I noticed that Dad was peering at the screen a bit (I got him a new 17" > screen to replace the 14" screen so there is more room on it, but > similar dot size) so I used ccsm to set the mouse bindings for the > enhanced zoom plugin to super+button4 and butto

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread alan c
On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote: > In firefox we set up his webmail and pinned that as an application tab as a separate item, I am not sure how that is done, can we have a short separate thread on that, alan please? thx -- alan cocks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mai

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-12 Thread alan c
On 11/03/12 21:42, Barry Drake wrote: > On 11/03/12 12:44, Alan Pope wrote: >> Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu to them - maybe 5 to >> 10 minutes - you don't want to spend all day boring them and you don't >> want to eat up your/their family/work time. > > Among the other things