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Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Released

ebooksddl — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:30:08 -0000

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Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Released

Kenneth — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:28:04 -0000

Thanks for sharing this information. It really helps my problem.

Keep it up.

kenneth

Re: No Tooltips For Indicator Icons In Lucid

milan oravec — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:01:07 -0000

Wrrrr! Where can I re-enbale tooltips? It is nonsense to disable such a important information for battery status! For sound it is not so critical, but it was handy too.

Milan

Re: No Tooltips For Indicator Icons In Lucid

Bhaskar Kandiyal — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:15:59 -0000

I think it's patched like that to not show tooltips. Also, I'm using Awn, I've removed all the gnome-panels and now my desktop has a lot more space. Awn also has a notification area applet which you can use as a replacement for the indicator applet, I think it supports tooltips.

Re: No Tooltips For Indicator Icons In Lucid

Matej Moško — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:26:00 -0000

I prey for tooltips to come back. I still miss them very much after a month of using lucid. Even though I have got used to indicator-applet. This one thing makes me angry more and more. I have switched to linux not because I am able to modify it if I dare and still it is idiot-proof. Why there is no way to turn indicators on???

Re: Gimp lost it’s progressbar in Lucid

svarneticist — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:17:43 -0000

Oh great! Such a relief! Thank you!

Re: Switched to Xfce (Xubuntu)

Elizabeth Krumbach — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:26:17 -0000

I've been using xfce since 2003, if you haven't seen a non-Xubuntuized xfce I encourage you to have a look - I much prefer the original rather than the one they made to kinda look like Gnome.

So first I make it look like pure old xfce ;) then I load up a whole pile of keyboard shortcuts, enable composite (I don't need the cube, but transparent windows are grand) and fully customize my panel (not much from the original panel remains).

Re: Switched to Xfce (Xubuntu)

Arthur — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:21:14 -0000

Thanks!

Re: No Tooltips For Indicator Icons In Lucid

Stefan — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:25:17 -0000

Since all the information that was in the tooltips is now available by clicking on the icon, I have to say that I'm very happy with this change. Good icons can tell you the basic without a tooltip (think of different number of highlighted arcs in the wireless connection icon or different filling of the battery icon) and if I need to know more, I prefer to click then to wait with the mouse pointer. So yes, I think it's great.

BTW, I also like the position of the window buttons although I never had them there. But then I mostly use keyboard shortcuts anyway...

Re: No Tooltips For Indicator Icons In Lucid

Jim Rorie — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:09:04 -0000

Several icons, like power, have reduced functionality without tool tips. There is not an easy way to determine your power level without them.

Re: No Tooltips For Indicator Icons In Lucid

TomVal — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:03:32 -0000

I expect tooltips an all the icons, they tell me what they are for. Tooltips are also an accessibility item, since icons are small, while tooltip font may be adjustable. So I vote to bringing back tooltips to panel icons.

Re: Switched to Xfce (Xubuntu)

Bhaskar Kandiyal — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:30:00 -0000

Here you go: http://thundafunda.com/393/...

Re: Switched to Xfce (Xubuntu)

Arthur — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:38:35 -0000

Where did you get the wallpaper?

Re: How To Install Grub2 On Ubuntu Jaunty

JR — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:08:18 -0000

I had high hopes for the splash screen. The beauty of open source is that it can be changed. The pitfall is that there is little or no documentation on how to do so. I have tried making splash screens of all different types, but unfortunately I can't get it.

This info is helpful:
Resolution: 640×480 at 72×72 ppi
Colorspace: RGB
File Type: Targa (.tga)

But not enough. Should it be a compressed TGA? How many bits per pixel? 16/32/48?

Re: How To Install Grub2 On Ubuntu Jaunty

gastly — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:41:41 -0000

@poliltimmy:
Nope, I didn't have any problems with booting any other OS. I have triple boot infact (XP, Vista, Ubuntu) and it works perfectly :)

Re: How To Install Grub2 On Ubuntu Jaunty

poliltimmy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:39:40 -0000

What about an XP dual boot? Any problems there?

Re: How To Install Grub2 On Ubuntu Jaunty

gastly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:18:00 -0000

@DAS:
You can create your own with Gimp or a similar app.
I hope this info is helpful for creating one yourself:
Resolution: 640x480 at 72x72 ppi
Colorspace: RGB
File Type: Targa (.tga)

That's the beauty of Open Source, if you don't like it, change it ;)

Re: Use Notify-Osd with Firefox on Karmic

twilzz — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:17:30 -0000

Thanks man! nice thing

Re: How To Install Grub2 On Ubuntu Jaunty

Das — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:52:51 -0000

Man these splash images are garbage! I can't believe the developers would put this junk in a distro!

What happened to the days of COOL Linux images? This junk is like something off those cheesy wallpaper sites, with all their banners and popups! Come on you know what I mean!

I hope someone can tell us WHERE to find some decent Grub2 splash images or a TUT to make our own!

THANKS

Re: How To Compile Firefox 3.5b4 from Source (With Nice Fonts)

gastly — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:36:42 -0000

@eric:
Hi, I haven't tried upgrading my custom built FF using the 'Check For Updates' option. I think you will be able to upgrade, but I'm not sure about it. I build my custom FF for a new release everytime lol. Although, the update for addons and stuff like that would work :)

Re: How To Compile Firefox 3.5b4 from Source (With Nice Fonts)

eric — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:50:37 -0000

I've tried your packaged build, but it kept on crashing. So I decided to build my own one, and at my second attempt I succeeded ! Thanks for your post ! " –enable-system-cairo" was for me the reason to build my own version ( Debian lenny ). What happens if I let it upgrade ?

Re: Apply Windows XP themes in WINE

shahsajad — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:24:58 -0000

help me

Re: Apply Windows XP themes in WINE

shahsajad — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:23:40 -0000

hi i am sory i can not apply themes for note book

Re: Update on the blog

gastly — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:26:28 -0000

Thanks for reporting this Kiran, this theme I'm using is old and it by-default shows a 'Get Firefox' banner for non-FF users; Anyways, this should be fixed now. Strange tho, when I tested it in IE it didn't show the banner to me...so I thought I disabled it xD

Re: Update on the blog

Kiran Jonnalagadda — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:56:49 -0000

Why is your blog recommending I upgrade to Firefox 2 (huge banner at top of page)? That's an obsolete release and I already have a way superior browser in Chromium on Linux.