Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-25 Thread Rob Beard
On 24/04/10 10:21, Alan Pope wrote: > On 24 April 2010 09:58, Barry Drake wrote: >> Alan Pope wrote: >>> Dunno about _more_ geeky ways. Why not use the less geeky ones? >> Question of image. Linux people are SUPPOSED to be geeky. > > An image that should be smashed into a pulp, burned, buried, du

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-24 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/04/10 10:21, Alan Pope wrote: > On 24 April 2010 09:58, Barry Drake wrote: >> Alan Pope wrote: > My mum uses Ubuntu. She is not geeky. :) No, but you'll get her there in time. :-P JT - -- - ---+

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-24 Thread Alan Pope
On 24 April 2010 09:58, Barry Drake wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: >> Dunno about _more_ geeky ways. Why not use the less geeky ones? > Question of image.  Linux people are SUPPOSED to be geeky. An image that should be smashed into a pulp, burned, buried, dug up, shot, burned again and fired into spac

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-24 Thread John Matthews
On 24/04/10 09:58, Barry Drake wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > >> Dunno about _more_ geeky ways. Why not use the less geeky ones? >> > Question of image. Linux people are SUPPOSED to be geeky. My son (a > one time systems engineer) was horrified to see 'terminal' in a > prominent position o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-24 Thread Barry Drake
Alan Pope wrote: > Dunno about _more_ geeky ways. Why not use the less geeky ones? Question of image. Linux people are SUPPOSED to be geeky. My son (a one time systems engineer) was horrified to see 'terminal' in a prominent position on my desktop. 'Didn't know anyone still used that?' was hi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-24 Thread Alan Pope
On 24 April 2010 08:33, Barry Drake wrote: > I found that a nuisance as well.  I've disabled the lock screen.  You > can use configuration editor (desktop->gnome->lockdown and then check > disable_lock_screen).  If you don't have configuration editor enabled in > the main menu, you can find it in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-24 Thread Barry Drake
John Matthews wrote: > I have been doing some updates, and everytime now in Lucid, after it > seems a really short period of time, it goes into a log in page. Sort of > locks. I really like that idea, until it comes to doing things like > updates. You have to log in all the time to find out what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-23 Thread Rob Beard
On 23/04/10 23:07, John Matthews wrote: > I have been doing some updates, and everytime now in Lucid, after it > seems a really short period of time, it goes into a log in page. Sort of > locks. I really like that idea, until it comes to doing things like > updates. You have to log in all the time

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-23 Thread Alan Pope
On 23 April 2010 23:07, John Matthews wrote: > I have been doing some updates, and everytime now in Lucid, after it > seems a really short period of time, it goes into a log in page. Sort of > locks. I really like that idea, until it comes to doing things like > updates. You have to log in all the

[ubuntu-uk] Relog-in page....

2010-04-23 Thread John Matthews
I have been doing some updates, and everytime now in Lucid, after it seems a really short period of time, it goes into a log in page. Sort of locks. I really like that idea, until it comes to doing things like updates. You have to log in all the time to find out what is happening. How can I inc