From stan10x10 at gmail.com Thu Sep 1 22:15:14 2011 From: stan10x10 at gmail.com (uriah heep) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:15:14 -0400 Subject: convert from Ubuntu to Kubuntu Message-ID: I did install using Wubi from Kubuntu site but wound up with a standard Ubuntu interface. Would some kind persion direct me to info on how to convert to Kubuntu interface? Thanks Uriah -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hwasungmars at cantab.net Thu Sep 1 22:26:13 2011 From: hwasungmars at cantab.net (Hwasung Lee) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:26:13 +0100 Subject: convert from Ubuntu to Kubuntu In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Kubuntu is just Ubuntu with KDE. I haven't used the Kubuntu Wubi, but I assume if you install KDE it should work. Here is a nice GUI guide: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kde If you prefer the command line, this will do: sudo apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop I hope it works. Cheers, Mars On 1 September 2011 23:15, uriah heep wrote: > I did install using Wubi from Kubuntu site but wound up with a standard > Ubuntu interface. Would some kind persion direct me to info on how to > convert to Kubuntu interface? > > Thanks Uriah > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > > From grokit at ajinfosearch.com Thu Sep 1 22:44:18 2011 From: grokit at ajinfosearch.com (Alan Dacey Sr.) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:44:18 -0400 Subject: convert from Ubuntu to Kubuntu In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201109011844.18311.grokit@ajinfosearch.com> On Thursday, September 1, 2011 6:15:14 PM uriah heep wrote: > I did install using Wubi from Kubuntu site but wound up with a standard > Ubuntu interface. Would some kind persion direct me to info on how to > convert to Kubuntu interface? > > Thanks Uriah > 1- Open up a terminal 2- type 'sudo su' without the quotes and enter your password 3- type apt-get update 4- type apt-get install kubutuu-desktop kdebase-workspace 5- close the terminal and logut 6- pick KDM as the default desktop and sign in This will only give you basic Kubuntu. There is a lot more things KDE to get from the repros for the full experience. Amarok, Lancelot Menu, Ktorrent, Akrigator, Kdenlive, are some of my favorites -- Alan From sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk Fri Sep 2 15:52:49 2011 From: sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk (James Tappin) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:52:49 +0100 Subject: Problems with disconnecting USB drives In-Reply-To: <4E5E6C2C.4040107@att.net> References: <4E5D4DBE.2080300@att.net> <20110831144611.42625354.sjt@star.sr.bham.ac.uk> <4E5E6C2C.4040107@att.net> Message-ID: <20110902165249.53d27107.sjt@star.sr.bham.ac.uk> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:15:24 -0400 Jeff Layton wrote: JL> Thanks for the idea! Now I just need to figure out how to power JL> these devices externally :) Some external devices have a power socket even if they don't come with a brick. If neither has that then I guess there are a couple of possibilities: 1) If you have another USB port on the machine, then run one of the drives off that and connect whatever was in it (hopefully less power hungry) to the hub. 2) (I'm not 100% sure if this will work) Some USB hubs have the option of using external power, and a powered hub would be cheaper than a powered disk if it came to that. -- +------------------------+-------------------------------+---------+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__ | | sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk | University of Birmingham | -- \/` | | Ph: 0121-414-6462. Fax: 0121-414-3722 | | +--------------------------------------------------------+---------+ From stan10x10 at gmail.com Sat Sep 3 07:42:27 2011 From: stan10x10 at gmail.com (uriah heep) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 03:42:27 -0400 Subject: convert from Ubuntu to Kubuntu In-Reply-To: <201109011844.18311.grokit@ajinfosearch.com> References: <201109011844.18311.grokit@ajinfosearch.com> Message-ID: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Alan Dacey Sr. wrote: > On Thursday, September 1, 2011 6:15:14 PM uriah heep wrote: > > I did install using Wubi from Kubuntu site but wound up with a standard > > Ubuntu interface. Would some kind persion direct me to info on how to > > convert to Kubuntu interface? > > > > Thanks Uriah > > > > 1- Open up a terminal > 2- type 'sudo su' without the quotes and enter your password > 3- type apt-get update > 4- type apt-get install kubutuu-desktop kdebase-workspace > 5- close the terminal and logut > 6- pick KDM as the default desktop and sign in > > This will only give you basic Kubuntu. There is a lot more things KDE to > get from the repros for the full experience. Amarok, Lancelot Menu, > Ktorrent, Akrigator, Kdenlive, are some of my favorites > > -- > Alan > > Thank you folks for the advice. For some odd reason these suggestions did not work on my particular computer. Since this was a brand-new install and I had no information or programs set up I elected to just reinstall and this time I was able to get Kubuntu to install properly. Uriah Heap -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hwasungmars at hotmail.com Sat Sep 3 15:05:37 2011 From: hwasungmars at hotmail.com (Hwasung Lee) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 16:05:37 +0100 Subject: Kubuntu + Google Talk or Skype crackling sound Message-ID: Hello all, Since I have installed Kubuntu 11.04, I have been experiencing some crackling sounds. What is odd is that it doesn't happens to all of the programs. The symptoms: 1. Crackling sound when using Google Talk plugin 2. Crackling sound when using Skype 3. Crackling sound disappears after a few minutes on Google Talk or Skype, as if my computer is an old vacuum tube amplifier! 4. *No* crackling sound using other programs like flash or Amarok Does any one know how to fix this thing? I have tried solutions ranging from a fresh reload of Kubuntu and some other suggestions on the Ubuntu forum. Thank you in advance. Mars From paul at lemmons.name Sat Sep 3 20:53:59 2011 From: paul at lemmons.name (Paul Lemmons) Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:53:59 -0700 Subject: Kubuntu + Google Talk or Skype crackling sound In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E6293E7.3040102@lemmons.name> Does the crackling stop if you unplug or mute the microphone? On 09/03/2011 08:05 AM, Hwasung Lee wrote: > Hello all, > > Since I have installed Kubuntu 11.04, I have been experiencing some > crackling sounds. What is odd is that it doesn't happens to all of the > programs. The symptoms: > > 1. Crackling sound when using Google Talk plugin > 2. Crackling sound when using Skype > 3. Crackling sound disappears after a few minutes on Google Talk or > Skype, as if my computer is an old vacuum tube amplifier! > 4. *No* crackling sound using other programs like flash or Amarok > > Does any one know how to fix this thing? I have tried solutions > ranging from a fresh reload of Kubuntu and some other suggestions on > the Ubuntu forum. > > Thank you in advance. Mars > -- In a world without walls and fences we don't need Windows or Gates From hwasungmars at hotmail.com Sat Sep 3 21:09:26 2011 From: hwasungmars at hotmail.com (Hwasung Lee) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 22:09:26 +0100 Subject: Kubuntu + Google Talk or Skype crackling sound In-Reply-To: <4E6293E7.3040102@lemmons.name> References: <4E6293E7.3040102@lemmons.name> Message-ID: Unfortunately not. I physically unplugged my webcam and rebooted the system, and it still makes the crackling noise. :-( If I persist on trying, eventually the crackling noise disappear and everything is fine. (This can take up to minutes to happen.) Funny thing is Amarok is always working perfectly. I don't think this is a hardware problem, as my webcam works fine on my Windows 7 partition. Strange bug. Am I the only one affected by this? On 3 September 2011 21:53, Paul Lemmons wrote: > Does the crackling stop if you unplug or mute the microphone? > > On 09/03/2011 08:05 AM, Hwasung Lee wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> Since I have installed Kubuntu 11.04, I have been experiencing some >> crackling sounds. What is odd is that it doesn't happens to all of the >> programs. The symptoms: >> >> 1. Crackling sound when using Google Talk plugin >> 2. Crackling sound when using Skype >> 3. Crackling sound disappears after a few minutes on Google Talk or >> Skype, as if my computer is an old vacuum tube amplifier! >> 4. *No* crackling sound using other programs like flash or Amarok >> >> Does any one know how to fix this thing? I have tried solutions >> ranging from a fresh reload of Kubuntu and some other suggestions on >> the Ubuntu forum. >> >> Thank you in advance. Mars >> > > > -- > In a world without walls and fences we don't need Windows or Gates > > From samorris at netspace.net.au Sun Sep 4 21:20:35 2011 From: samorris at netspace.net.au (Steve Morris) Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:20:35 +1000 Subject: convert from Ubuntu to Kubuntu In-Reply-To: <201109011844.18311.grokit@ajinfosearch.com> References: <201109011844.18311.grokit@ajinfosearch.com> Message-ID: <4E63EBA3.7090002@netspace.net.au> On 02/09/11 08:44, Alan Dacey Sr. wrote: > On Thursday, September 1, 2011 6:15:14 PM uriah heep wrote: >> I did install using Wubi from Kubuntu site but wound up with a standard >> Ubuntu interface. Would some kind persion direct me to info on how to >> convert to Kubuntu interface? >> >> Thanks Uriah >> > 1- Open up a terminal > 2- type 'sudo su' without the quotes and enter your password > 3- type apt-get update > 4- type apt-get install kubutuu-desktop kdebase-workspace > 5- close the terminal and logut > 6- pick KDM as the default desktop and sign in Just my 2 cents worth. People need to be very careful about selecting kdm as the login manager, as it has been my experience that Unity will not start up from kdm, it will only start from gdm. regards, Steve > > This will only give you basic Kubuntu. There is a lot more things KDE to get from the repros for the full experience. Amarok, Lancelot Menu, Ktorrent, Akrigator, Kdenlive, are some of my favorites > > -- > Alan > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Since then, when I click on a link in kontact, I > open a winebrowser, in fact, I open dozens of winebrowswers and have to > restart the machine. Where can I change the behavior when I click on a link? > > Dave Have a look at which applications are set as DEFAULT when you start an application - eg, Browser = Firefox, Email = Thunderbird, and so on. BC -- Bob Hope's wife: "Where would like to be buried when you die?" Bob Hope : "Why don't you surprise me!" From michael.renner at gmx.de Tue Sep 6 16:21:55 2011 From: michael.renner at gmx.de (Michael Renner) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:21:55 +0200 Subject: can not connect access point In-Reply-To: <4E58BC22.8080905@whamra.com> References: <201108251905.37263.michael.renner@gmx.de> <4E58BC22.8080905@whamra.com> Message-ID: <201109061822.07622.michael.renner@gmx.de> On Saturday 27 August 2011, Waleed Hamra wrote: > On 08/25/2011 08:05 PM, Michael Renner wrote: [...] > this problem is one of those elusive nasty ones. there's no one reason > why it would happen. > as you suggested, yes, DHCP can very well be the problem sometimes, if > the network fails to receive an IP address from the access point, NM > disconnects it. you can try setting up manual IPs, and connect. if it > stays connected, then try out the network. many times, DHCP wouldnt be > working not due to a configuration error, but rather because the > interface isnt receiving packets due to a driver problem. > > some people report that wpa_supplicant is the culprit, i suggest you try > this command in a terminal: > > ps -Af | grep wpa_supplicant well, I tried many things: applying the IP by hand, setup an ad hoc network with an other notebook: no luck. I tried to setup the ad hoc network with the build in WLAN interface (801.1b only): no luck. > and see if more than one instance of this program are running. if just > one, keep it, if more, kill them all, then start the program again by: I tested my USB-Stick with the other notebook: this works. It seems to me that his is maybe, or not, a probem with the installation. > sudo /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s > > let's just test these 2 theories for now, and we'll see what happens :) After all I decided to setup the machine from scratch (a simple task due the fact that I can recover my backup after that). Than we will see. CU -- |Michael Renner E-mail: michael.renner at gmx.de | |81541 Munich skype: michael.renner.gmx.de | |Germany Don't drink as root! ESC:wq From bnw101 at btinternet.com Wed Sep 7 15:05:52 2011 From: bnw101 at btinternet.com (Brian Wootton) Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:05:52 +0100 Subject: can not connect access point (Michael Renner) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E678850.1090504@btinternet.com> On 07/09/11 13:00, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Send kubuntu-users mailing list submissions to > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kubuntu-users-owner at lists.ubuntu.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of kubuntu-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: can not connect access point (Michael Renner) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:21:55 +0200 > From: Michael Renner > To: Waleed Hamra, Kubuntu user technical > support > Subject: Re: can not connect access point > Message-ID:<201109061822.07622.michael.renner at gmx.de> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" > > On Saturday 27 August 2011, Waleed Hamra wrote: >> On 08/25/2011 08:05 PM, Michael Renner wrote: > [...] > >> this problem is one of those elusive nasty ones. there's no one reason >> why it would happen. >> as you suggested, yes, DHCP can very well be the problem sometimes, if >> the network fails to receive an IP address from the access point, NM >> disconnects it. you can try setting up manual IPs, and connect. if it >> stays connected, then try out the network. many times, DHCP wouldnt be >> working not due to a configuration error, but rather because the >> interface isnt receiving packets due to a driver problem. >> >> some people report that wpa_supplicant is the culprit, i suggest you try >> this command in a terminal: >> >> ps -Af | grep wpa_supplicant > well, I tried many things: applying the IP by hand, setup an ad hoc network > with an other notebook: no luck. I tried to setup the ad hoc network with the > build in WLAN interface (801.1b only): no luck. > >> and see if more than one instance of this program are running. if just >> one, keep it, if more, kill them all, then start the program again by: > I tested my USB-Stick with the other notebook: this works. It seems to me that > his is maybe, or not, a probem with the installation. > >> sudo /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s >> >> let's just test these 2 theories for now, and we'll see what happens :) > After all I decided to setup the machine from scratch (a simple task due the > fact that I can recover my backup after that). Than we will see. > > CU I had a fair bit of trouble setting up my completely wi-fi connected network. I finally disabled DHCP in my router and made sure DHCP wasn't running anywhere else and used static addresses throughout. My router allowed me to do this, I created my own /etc/hosts and set up my printer with a static address. The only bit that bothered me was the Windows 7 machine I'm running, but it seems to cope without putting the boot in, this has stably worked for some years but I'm a little bothered by the change from IPV4 to IPV6, cos I know zilch about IPV6. brian From oub at mat.ucm.es Wed Sep 7 20:36:38 2011 From: oub at mat.ucm.es (Uwe Brauer) Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:36:38 +0200 Subject: installation prbl, can't install grub, 64bit thinkpad X121e References: <871uw1o76g.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <4E5E7B01.1030804@gmx.com> <4E5E7D79.4080300@gmx.com> Message-ID: <87vct4gkdl.fsf@mat.ucm.es> >> Regarding Re: installation prbl, can't install grub, >> 64bit thinkpad X121e; Goh Lip adds: > On 01/09/11 02:18, Goh Lip wrote: >> I installed on a brand new X121e (without an OS) >> Kubuntu 10.04. > Oops, hope you mean 11.04. > I think 10.04's grub is not good for grub-efi. No no, when there was no OS on the Laptop I could install 10.04 without a problem. But once Windows 7 64 was installed then I could not install neither 10.04 nor 11.04. From oub at mat.ucm.es Wed Sep 7 20:42:09 2011 From: oub at mat.ucm.es (Uwe Brauer) Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:42:09 +0200 Subject: installation prbl, can't install grub, 64bit thinkpad X121e References: <871uw1o76g.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <4E5E7834.3050206@whamra.com> Message-ID: <87mxeggk4e.fsf@mat.ucm.es> > On 08/31/2011 07:51 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote: > sudo grub-setup /dev/sda then I obtain: Cannot stat aufs So it seems that I need grub-efi Uwe From oub at mat.ucm.es Wed Sep 7 20:41:14 2011 From: oub at mat.ucm.es (Uwe Brauer) Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:41:14 +0200 Subject: installation prbl, can't install grub, 64bit thinkpad X121e References: <871uw1o76g.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <4E5E7B01.1030804@gmx.com> Message-ID: <87r53sgk5x.fsf@mat.ucm.es> > On 01/09/11 00:51, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Uwe, if your computer is UEFI, then you need to install "grub-efi". By > right, you will need a separate /boot partition and flag it as "boot" > and install "/" to a separate partition. Leave the first partition > "sda1" as "bios-grub" and the second was used by Windows as the "boot". > Suggest you create another partition as /boot and flag this instead as > "boot". I entered the BIOS setup and chose that the BIOS uses legacy mode *before* UEFI, but that did not help neither when I try to run grub-setup /dev/sda5 or any other partion I obtain Cannot stat aufs So it seems that I really need grub-efi a pity that it is not on the livecd! > After installation, the installation may still be "buggy" and you may > need then to install "grub-efi". I also suggest that after > installation (and before update/upgrade) and before rebooting, you do > a "grub-install" by > sudo apt-get install grub-efi > sudo grub-install /dev/sda Problem is the network card is not recognised so I cannot install grub-efi, must download it on a another laptop. Uwe From errol at tzora.co.il Thu Sep 8 09:48:12 2011 From: errol at tzora.co.il (Errol Sapir) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:48:12 +0300 Subject: firefox languages Message-ID: <4E688F5C.1060206@tzora.co.il> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ariya_subasingha at yahoo.com Thu Sep 8 10:23:39 2011 From: ariya_subasingha at yahoo.com (Ariya Subasingha) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 03:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Problem installing software Message-ID: <1315477419.87416.YahooMailNeo@web121112.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Dear Kubuntu readers,   I have a problem installing software. The details are as follows. Can any one help me?  I am writing this to get your guidance to install a software package I was trying to install open Office.org Darabase. When I selected the software from the list and clicked install and apply I got the following message "Waiting for Package manger Lock Cannot get exclusive lock on the package backend.. Please close any other legacy packaging tools that may be open ( There was no other package opend at that time)". When I checked the details I got the following message> "dpkg was interrupted you must manually run dpkg--configure-a" to correct the problem I can't imagine how to give the command to run dpkg--configure-a. In which dialog box do I write this command? Please help me. I tried to install some other software and I got the same messages.   Thank you Ariya -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You should be asked for a password, so enter your user password. Christian From ariya_subasingha at yahoo.com Fri Sep 9 05:41:20 2011 From: ariya_subasingha at yahoo.com (Ariya Subasingha) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:41:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Problem installing software In-Reply-To: <20110908104816.GA9689@jazz> References: <1315477419.87416.YahooMailNeo@web121112.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20110908104816.GA9689@jazz> Message-ID: <1315546880.39043.YahooMailNeo@web121104.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Hello Christian, Thank you very much for the prompt reply. I am still having problems. What do you mean by a terminal window. How do I get it? I am not very good at using Kubuntu. I like to learn and use it. In the windows environment The Deskto has  icons. But in the kubuntu desktop I don't know how to get icons on to it. When I open the computer I get the Kubuntu silver page and no way to get the icons. With Ubuntu Which I used earlier I was able to get Icons in the desktop. Sorry to trouble you. I would appreciate very much further assistance from you. The Libre Office package that comes with Kubuntu does not contain the database software. I need the software package often. If I can't get the Database with Kubuntu, I am afraid I will have to go back to MS Office and do my work.  It would have been easier if Kubuntu contained the database package as well. with best regards Ariya   ________________________________ From: Christian Schult To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 4:18 PM Subject: Re: Problem installing software Hello Ariya, Ariya Subasingha wrote: > When I checked the details  I got the following message> > "dpkg was interrupted you must manually run dpkg--configure-a" to correct the problem > > I can't imagine how to give the command to run dpkg--configure-a. In which dialog box do I write this command? > Please help me. I tried to install some other software and I got the same messages. Open a terminal window to get a command prompt. Hit ALT-F2 and enter "konsole" (without double quotes). Hit ENTER. A terminal window with a blinking cursor starts. Type into that window: sudo dpkg --configure -a (mind the spaces!) Hit ENTER. You should be asked for a password, so enter your user password. Christian -- kubuntu-users mailing list kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gkourtev at gmail.com Fri Sep 9 13:14:54 2011 From: gkourtev at gmail.com (Georgi Kourtev) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:14:54 +0300 Subject: Akonadi -- Google cal Message-ID: <201109091614.56101.gkourtev@gmail.com> Hi all, After some glitches, I managed to get PIM Calendar syncing properly with my Google calendar. However there are still two problems that I cannot get rid- off and make the usage of the calendar close to impossible: 1. The syncing only works after restarting the computer. Any time after it was hibernated (or put in a sleep mode) Akonadi gives the error on the resource -- 'bad password'. This only can be solved with restarting the computer. 2. None of my full day events entered in the Google calendar appear in the PIM Calendar, and vice versus. Any ideas why and how can be solved? Thanks. From bnw101 at btinternet.com Sat Sep 10 09:31:34 2011 From: bnw101 at btinternet.com (Brian Wootton) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:31:34 +0100 Subject: 2nd vdu plugged into laptop Message-ID: <4E6B2E76.7070802@btinternet.com> Can anybody tell me where to go from here? I've plugged a spare monitor into the video socket on my laptop. When I switch on I get the boot-up script OK coming up on the 2nd monitor, I get the blue background with kubuntu 10.10 on the 2nd monitor OK, but it goes totally blank as soon as the login window comes up on the laptop. I've searched system settings and can find nothing to help, doesn't mean it's not there though, knowing me. ta muchly brian From pkaplan1 at comcast.net Sat Sep 10 10:55:42 2011 From: pkaplan1 at comcast.net (Paul Kaplan) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: 2nd vdu plugged into laptop In-Reply-To: <4E6B2E76.7070802@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <2007183462.1244516.1315652142467.JavaMail.root@sz0131a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> What's your video card? For integrated intel graphics there is a gui config tool for monitors is called krandrtray (availalbe through system settings or as a standalone), the cli version is xrandr. Depending on your hardware you may be able to get the config you need using krandrtray and have it stick. I've found that I needed to write a minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but you can figure out what you need by playing around with xrandr I think there are similar tools for other video cards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Wootton" To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 5:31:34 AM Subject: 2nd vdu plugged into laptop Can anybody tell me where to go from here? I've plugged a spare monitor into the video socket on my laptop. When I switch on I get the boot-up script OK coming up on the 2nd monitor, I get the blue background with kubuntu 10.10 on the 2nd monitor OK, but it goes totally blank as soon as the login window comes up on the laptop. I've searched system settings and can find nothing to help, doesn't mean it's not there though, knowing me. ta muchly brian -- kubuntu-users mailing list kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris at bvhg.freeserve.co.uk Sat Sep 10 15:08:32 2011 From: chris at bvhg.freeserve.co.uk (Chris Luck) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:08:32 +0100 Subject: Clicking on link in kmail opens WineBrowser? In-Reply-To: <201109052207.08053.dthacker@bluestrain.net> References: <201109052207.08053.dthacker@bluestrain.net> Message-ID: Dave Thacker wrote: > I installed wine last week. Since then, when I click on a link in > kontact, I open a winebrowser, in fact, I open dozens of > winebrowswers and have to restart the machine. Where can I change > the behavior when I click on a link? I got over this by clearing out all the references to winebrowser in the System Settings->File Associations. You will find quite a number of references there, where there is more than one browser available it is set to the top of the list thereby taking priority. If you wish to retain the option of opening winebrowser from the context menu in Dolphin you can simply move it down the list. I preferred to delete all references. Killing the multiple-spawning browser-from-hell got to be quite a game for me. It was a race to open System Monitor before winebrowser killed the system. Once opened go to the Process Table tab and sort on name ascending ('W' at top), select 'wineserver' then right-click to kill. It all calms down after that. I don't know why Wine presumes to take priority - without asking as far as I can recall - when it comes to setting the default browser. -- Regards, Chris Luck From bnw101 at btinternet.com Sat Sep 10 17:50:01 2011 From: bnw101 at btinternet.com (Brian Wootton) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:50:01 +0100 Subject: 2nd vdu plugged into laptop In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E6BA349.1060300@btinternet.com> On 10/09/11 13:00, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > What's your video card? For integrated intel graphics there is a gui config tool for monitors is called krandrtray (availalbe through system settings or as a standalone), the cli version is xrandr. > > > Depending on your hardware you may be able to get the config you need using krandrtray and have it stick. I've found that I needed to write a minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but you can figure out what you need by playing around with xrandr > > > I think there are similar tools for other video cards > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Wootton" > To:kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 5:31:34 AM > Subject: 2nd vdu plugged into laptop > > Can anybody tell me where to go from here? > I've plugged a spare monitor into the video socket on my > laptop. When I switch on I get the boot-up script OK coming > up on the 2nd monitor, I get the blue background with > kubuntu 10.10 on the 2nd monitor OK, but it goes totally > blank as soon as the login window comes up on the laptop. > I've searched system settings and can find nothing to help, > doesn't mean it's not there though, knowing me. > ta muchly brian > Thanks, I installed the recommended NVIDIA driver and then found an NVIDIA X server settings app. which eventually I got to do what I wanted. brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cschult at gmx.de Tue Sep 13 10:05:21 2011 From: cschult at gmx.de (Christian Schult) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:05:21 +0200 Subject: Problem installing software In-Reply-To: <1315546880.39043.YahooMailNeo@web121104.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1315477419.87416.YahooMailNeo@web121112.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20110908104816.GA9689@jazz> <1315546880.39043.YahooMailNeo@web121104.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20110913100521.GA17114@jazz> Hello Ariya, Ariya Subasingha wrote: > Thank you very much for the prompt reply. I am still having problems. > What do you mean by a terminal window. How do I get it? I am not very Please follow the steps i described in my previous answer. Tell us which single step did not work. > good at using Kubuntu. I like to learn and use it. In the windows > environment The Deskto has  icons. But in the kubuntu desktop I don't > know how to get icons on to it. When I open the computer I get the > Kubuntu silver page and no way to get the icons. With Ubuntu Which I > used earlier I was able to get Icons in the desktop. There should be a panel at the bottom of the screen with a button on the left. The button opens a menu where you can reach installed programs. > The Libre Office package that comes with Kubuntu does not contain the > database software. I need the software package often. If I can't get > the Database with Kubuntu, I am afraid I will have to go back to MS > Office and do my work.  It would have been easier if Kubuntu > contained the database package as well. Installing the package libreoffice installes all components of LibreOffice - even the database component libreoffice-base. If you don't have LibreOffice Base it's maybe because there are instalaltions pending and waiting for solution by entering "sudo dpkg --configure -a". So solving the first problem may solve the problem with LibeOffice. [...] > > When I checked the details  I got the following message> > > "dpkg was interrupted you must manually run dpkg--configure-a" to correct the problem > > > > I can't imagine how to give the command to run dpkg--configure-a. In which dialog box do I write this command? > > Please help me. I tried to install some other software and I got the same messages. > > Open a terminal window to get a command prompt. Hit ALT-F2 and enter > "konsole" (without double quotes). Hit ENTER. > > A terminal window with a blinking cursor starts. Type into that window: > > sudo dpkg --configure -a > > (mind the spaces!) Hit ENTER. You should be asked for a password, so > enter your user password. regards Christian From o.sinclair at gmail.com Wed Sep 14 04:18:11 2011 From: o.sinclair at gmail.com (O. Sinclair) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:18:11 +0200 Subject: Nepomukindexer eats cpu Message-ID: <4E702B03.2040908@gmail.com> Since roughly a week the "nepomukindexer" process starts using cpu heavily after login. I have tried to "wait it out" but no luck, I have to kill it manually to cool down the computer. What is this process, what does it do and does anyone experience the same behaviour? Anyone have an idea of why this suddenly has started and what I could do about it? Am using Kubuntu 11.04 upgraded to KDE SC 4.7 Kind regards Sinclair From o.sinclair at gmail.com Wed Sep 14 04:27:20 2011 From: o.sinclair at gmail.com (O. Sinclair) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:27:20 +0200 Subject: Nepomukindexer eats cpu Message-ID: <4E702D28.3040706@gmail.com> Since roughly a week the "nepomukindexer" process starts using cpu heavily after login. I have tried to "wait it out" but no luck, I have to kill it manually to cool down the computer. What is this process, what does it do and does anyone experience the same behaviour? Anyone have an idea of why this suddenly has started and what I could do about it? Am using Kubuntu 11.04 upgraded to KDE SC 4.7 Kind regards Sinclair From blchupin at iinet.net.au Wed Sep 14 05:20:42 2011 From: blchupin at iinet.net.au (Basil Chupin) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:20:42 +1000 Subject: Nepomukindexer eats cpu In-Reply-To: <4E702D28.3040706@gmail.com> References: <4E702D28.3040706@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4E7039AA.1020004@iinet.net.au> On 14/09/11 14:27, O. Sinclair wrote: > Since roughly a week the "nepomukindexer" process starts using cpu > heavily after login. I have tried to "wait it out" but no luck, I have > to kill it manually to cool down the computer. > > What is this process, what does it do and does anyone experience the > same behaviour? > > Anyone have an idea of why this suddenly has started and what I could > do about it? > > Am using Kubuntu 11.04 upgraded to KDE SC 4.7 > > Kind regards > Sinclair > You can deactivate nepopuke in System settings. And if you figure out how to stop nepopuke putting out an advice to the screen stating that it is not active then please let, at least, me know. BC -- Any experiment in life will be at your own experience. From apachelogger at ubuntu.com Wed Sep 14 09:29:35 2011 From: apachelogger at ubuntu.com (Harald Sitter) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:29:35 +0200 Subject: Jonathan Kolberg is new Kubuntu Member Message-ID: On behalf of the Kubuntu Community I may congratulate Jonathan Kolberg [1] on becoming Kubuntu Member [2]. Jonathan is promoting Kubuntu in the lands of Germany as member of the German Kubuntu Community [3], further more he is dedicated Kubuntu Ninja [4] and as such responsible for the upcoming 4.7.1 release of KDE applications. In the future he wants to become Kubuntu Developer [5] and ultimately reach world domination (with Kubuntu, I think :)) Congratulations Jonathan! [1] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/bulldog98 [2] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Membership [3] http://kubuntu-de.org/ [4] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/GettingInvolved/Development#Kubuntu_Ninja_Dojo [5] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/KubuntuDevelopers regards, Harald From chaxastro at gmail.com Wed Sep 14 17:36:43 2011 From: chaxastro at gmail.com (Clive Chacksfield) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:36:43 +0100 Subject: Kubuntu 10.04LTS. Desktop screen does not fill available area... Message-ID: <4E70E62B.9090709@gmail.com> Have just installed Kubuntu 10.04LTS on an old Toshiba Tecra8200 in an effort to re-use an old laptop (previously running Windows XP Pro): Processor: Intel Pentium III 1 GHz Installed Memory: 256 MB (SDRAM) [Looking to increase this to 512MB soon] Display: 14.1 in Hard Drive: 20 GB Installation went OK and runs OK (slowly, but as expected with only 256MB RAM). Problem is, the desktop screen does not fit the available screen area. There's about a 3cm black border around the desktop. Have gone into the BIOS settings, have changed the 'display setting: 'LCD Display Stretch' to 'enabled'. Now, the BIOS screen fills the screen, problem solved, I thought. Saved the changes to the system settings and confirmed this, but when the laptop reboots, the problem remains. Went back into BIOS settings to check, but 'LCD Display Stretch' still shows as 'enabled'. Any ideas? From kassube at gmx.net Wed Sep 14 18:05:42 2011 From: kassube at gmx.net (Nils Kassube) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:05:42 +0200 Subject: Kubuntu 10.04LTS. Desktop screen does not fill available area... In-Reply-To: <4E70E62B.9090709@gmail.com> References: <4E70E62B.9090709@gmail.com> Message-ID: <201109142005.42749.kassube@gmx.net> Clive Chacksfield wrote: > Installation went OK and runs OK (slowly, but as expected with only > 256MB RAM). Problem is, the desktop screen does not fit the available > screen area. There's about a 3cm black border around the desktop. > > Have gone into the BIOS settings, have changed the 'display setting: > 'LCD Display Stretch' to 'enabled'. Now, the BIOS screen fills the > screen, problem solved, I thought. > > Saved the changes to the system settings and confirmed this, but when > the laptop reboots, the problem remains. I'm not sure if I understand the effects on your screen correctly, but I think this should fix it: Nils From gkourtev at gmail.com Thu Sep 15 10:05:12 2011 From: gkourtev at gmail.com (Georgi Kourtev) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:05:12 +0300 Subject: SAMBA Message-ID: <201109151305.12663.gkourtev@gmail.com> Hello, friends. I realised that Samba is not working well for no particular reason -- only regular updates were done on this machine. Now the machine cannot print on a network printer, nor one can browse network (other shared PCs or resources). Through the Kpackage I see that Samba is installed, as well as what seems to be some related files. Just to note that the same machine did not have problems some days ago. Any ideas how I can see where the problem sits and to solve it? Thanks. From jfrantzius at googlemail.com Thu Sep 15 11:56:01 2011 From: jfrantzius at googlemail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_von_Frantzius?=) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:56:01 +0200 Subject: Where to report packaging bug? Message-ID: Hi, when I tried sending a file via Bluetooth to my Kubuntu Natty machine (freshly installed, with ppa for KDE 4.7.0), it turned out that it is missing packages for receiving files via bluetooth. I'd like to file a bug report somewhere, suggesting to install these packages by default. I had been positively surprised by a previous opensuse install on the same machine, where sending a file from mobile to PC via bluetooth had worked totally surprisingly flawlessly (other than that, my recent Kubuntu install on that machine worked much better than opensuse, just to have mentioned it...) I had a look at https://launchpad.net/kubuntu-packaging but that doesn't seem to track bugs with launchpad. Now against which launchpad project could I file that bug report? Or are suggestions like this only tracked via mailing-lists? The package in question (obexpushd) actually isn't KDE specific, but I don't know whether Kubuntu relies on same non-KDE package collection as defined by Ubuntu, or whether it defines its own? Thanks for any pointers, Jörg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jason at joines.org Fri Sep 16 01:30:55 2011 From: jason at joines.org (Jason Paul Joines) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:30:55 -0500 Subject: amarok changing timestamps on netcasts Message-ID: <4E72A6CF.7020502@joines.org> I'm using Amarok 2.4.0 wind KDE 4.6.2 on Kubuntu 11.04. By default Amarok stores netcasts I download in ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/NAME-of-NETCAST. For some reason, it changes the timestamp on some of the saved files every day. This results in my backups picking them up every day. 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2011-09-15 19:25 ./APM_ The Dinner Party Download/dpd_20110805_128.mp3 -rw-rw---- 1 jason jason 22M 2011-09-15 19:25 ./APM_ The Dinner Party Download/dpd_20110722_128.mp3 -rw-rw---- 1 jason jason 17M 2011-09-15 19:25 ./APM_ The Dinner Party Download/dpd_20110812_128.mp3 jason at rooibos~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts$ Jason =========== From gkourtev at gmail.com Fri Sep 16 06:28:26 2011 From: gkourtev at gmail.com (Georgi Kourtev) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:28:26 +0300 Subject: Fwd: SAMBA Message-ID: <201109160928.27439.gkourtev@gmail.com> I realised that Samba is not working well for no particular reason -- only regular updates were done on this machine. Now the machine cannot print on a network printer, nor one can browse network (other shared PCs or resources). Through the Kpackage I see that Samba is installed, as well as what seems to be some related files. Just to note that the same machine did not have problems some days ago. Any ideas how I can see where the problem sits and to solve it? Thanks. ----------------------------------------- The problems continue... It seems may be that I have not all the necessary files installed for Samba (like some libraries for example). How can I check whether I have all files and dependencies OK? Thanks. From Errol at tzora.co.il Sun Sep 18 03:13:44 2011 From: Errol at tzora.co.il (Errol Sapir) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:13:44 +0300 Subject: linux and cell phones Message-ID: <4E7561E8.6020802@tzora.co.il> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nigel at prayingforisrael.net Sun Sep 18 04:38:36 2011 From: nigel at prayingforisrael.net (Nigel Ridley) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:38:36 +0300 Subject: linux and cell phones In-Reply-To: <4E7561E8.6020802@tzora.co.il> References: <4E7561E8.6020802@tzora.co.il> Message-ID: <4E7575CC.9060208@prayingforisrael.net> On 09/18/2011 06:13 AM, Errol Sapir wrote: > I am about to go into the smartphone world. Is there a recommended smart phone > type to use with Linux. My unprofessional take is that an Android phone would be > more compatible. Am I making sense?? > > Thanks for any input > > Errol > > My daughter has a Samsung Galaxy that has no problems connecting with Kubuntu. Nigel From claydoh at claydoh.com Sun Sep 18 04:57:46 2011 From: claydoh at claydoh.com (Clay Weber) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:57:46 -0400 Subject: linux and cell phones In-Reply-To: <4E7561E8.6020802@tzora.co.il> References: <4E7561E8.6020802@tzora.co.il> Message-ID: <1762563.5drQOlNn7z@lark-latitude-d630> On Sunday, September 18, 2011 06:13:44 AM Errol Sapir wrote: > I am about to go into the smartphone world. Is there a recommended smart > phone type to use with Linux. My unprofessional take is that an Android > phone would be more compatible. Am I making sense?? Thanks for any input > Errol My wife has one (a Samsung Fascinate Android), and I will be getting one soon. Android phones can be connected to a linux pc and seen as a usb drive. She never actually connects it to her laptop except to transfer the occaisional recorded video. The point of smartphones, especially androids and google, is to not have to connect to another device. They sync to the cloud, and your phone or desktop syncs back from there. Even an iphone has some support, but with every firmware change things get re-broken in terms of connecting to a linux box. UbuntuOne supports file syncing with iPhones, but that is not a decent deal for KDE users. Now I have almost zero hands-on experience with smartphones, as my wife does not let me 'play' with her phone, and she's had it almost a year now :) So really it boils down to what you like, for the most part. -- Clay Weber http://kubuntuforums.net http://ubuntumaine.org http://emacdogsports.com From kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org Sun Sep 18 09:47:16 2011 From: kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:47:16 -0700 Subject: Sound Probs Message-ID: <20110918094716.GA19631@xpresso.seaslug.org> Howdy folks; I've been having sound problems for some time now. No sound for games, and no sound for firefox. I just tried activating a game, and then firefox from a shell and got some error msgs back from, "epiphany-game", and about a zillion screen pages worth of them from firefox. Firefox appears to think I'm using pulse. The indentations are mine in an effort to keep things halfway readable. Can anyone make head or tails out of the following, well enough to get something working? Bill epiphany ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:977:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore Resource_path: /usr/share/epiphany Mix_OpenAudio: No available audio device firefox [0xb09d66c0] main demux debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate [0xb09d66c0] main demux warning: no access_demux module matching "file" could be loaded [0xb3448c80] avcodec decoder warning: Physical channel configuration not set : guessing [0xae65bb50] pulse audio output: No. of Audio Channels: 1 shm_open() failed: Permission denied [0xae65bb50] pulse audio output debug: Pulse mainloop started [0xae65bb50] pulse audio output debug: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused [0xae65bb50] pulse audio output debug: Pulse initialization unlock and fail [0xae65bb50] pulse audio output debug: Pulse initialization failed [0xae65bb50] alsa audio output debug: opening ALSA device `default' [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: thread (aout) created at priority 15 (alsa.c:687) [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: using audio output module "alsa" [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: output 'fl32' 22050 Hz Mono frame=1 samples/4 bytes [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: mixer 'fl32' 22050 Hz Mono frame=1 samples/4 bytes [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: no need for any filter [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: looking for audio mixer module: 3 candidates [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: thread started [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: using audio mixer module "float32_mixer" [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: input 's16l' 22050 Hz Mono frame=1 samples/2 bytes [0xb0785b50] main audio filter debug: looking for audio filter module: 1 candidate [0xb0785b50] scaletempo audio filter warning: bad input or output format [0xb0785b50] scaletempo audio filter warning: input and output formats are not similar [0xb0785b50] main audio filter warning: no audio filter module matching "scaletempo" could be loaded [0xb0785b50] main audio filter debug: looking for audio filter module: 1 candidate [0xb0785b50] scaletempo audio filter debug: format: 22050 rate, 1 nch, 4 bps, fl32 [0xb0785b50] scaletempo audio filter debug: params: 30 stride, 0.200 overlap, 14 search [0xb0785b50] scaletempo audio filter debug: 1.000 scale, 661.000 stride_in, 661 stride_out, 529 standing, 132 overlap, 308 search, 1101 queue fl32 mode [0xb0785b50] main audio filter debug: using audio filter module "scaletempo" [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: filter(s) 's16l'->'fl32' 22050 Hz->22050 Hz Mono->Mono [0xb0785c60] main audio output debug: looking for audio filter module: 24 candidates [0xb0785c60] main audio output debug: using audio filter module "converter_float" [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: found a filter for the whole conversion [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: filter(s) 'fl32'->'fl32' 22050 Hz->22050 Hz Mono->Mono [0xb0785e80] main audio output debug: looking for audio filter module: 24 candidates [0xb0785e80] main audio output debug: using audio filter module "trivial_channel_mixer" [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: found a filter for the whole conversion [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: filter(s) 'fl32'->'fl32' 24255 Hz->22050 Hz Mono->Mono [0xb07860a0] main audio output debug: looking for audio filter module: 24 candidates [0xb07860a0] main audio output debug: using audio filter module "bandlimited_resampler" [0xae65bb50] main audio output debug: found a filter for the whole conversion [0xb3448c80] main decoder debug: End of audio preroll mdb:255, lastbuf:196 skipping granule 0 [0xaeac35b0] main input debug: Decoder buffering done in 1809 ms [0xae65bb50] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-5194), dropping buffer [0xae65bb50] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-30971), dropping buffer [0xae65bb50] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (40014) [0xae65bb50] main audio output warning: buffer is 40467 late, triggering upsampling [0xae65bb50] main audio output warning: resampling stopped after 6763810 usec (drift: -90) [0xae65bb50] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (40001) [0xae65bb50] main audio output warning: buffer is 40821 late, triggering upsampling [0xae65bb50] main audio output warning: resampling st From alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com Sun Sep 18 15:46:42 2011 From: alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com (Alex Gabriel) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:46:42 -0400 Subject: linux and cell phones In-Reply-To: <1762563.5drQOlNn7z@lark-latitude-d630> References: <4E7561E8.6020802@tzora.co.il> <1762563.5drQOlNn7z@lark-latitude-d630> Message-ID: I have a BlackBerry Torch (9800) and have no problem whatsoever when interacting with Kubuntu, and Linux in general. Immediately after connecting the phone to any computer using the included micro USB cable, I'm given three options: 1. USB Drive 2. Sync Media 3. Charge Only So far I mainly use the first option, but the second option works as well, though it connects the phone as an MTP drive. I've noted that support for MTP seems to be a bit unreliable in Linux (insofar as media players are concerned), but if you use Amarok and have the phone connected as a USB drive, you can sync media without a problem. Due to the fact that it connects as a USB drive, all regular functions of Konqueror/Dolphin work the same as it would with a hard disk drive or other device connected via USB. I think the main thing you need to look for in a phone, insofar as integration with Linux is concerned, is whether it allows connection as a USB drive. If it has that, you can be certain it will work with whichever distribution you choose to use. Alex Gabriel Dimensia Design Studio alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 00:57, Clay Weber wrote: > On Sunday, September 18, 2011 06:13:44 AM Errol Sapir wrote: >> I am about to go into the smartphone world. Is there a recommended smart >> phone type to use with Linux. My unprofessional take is that an Android >> phone would be more compatible. Am I making sense?? Thanks for any input >> Errol > > My wife has one (a Samsung Fascinate Android), and I will be getting one soon. > > Android phones can be connected to a linux pc and seen as a usb drive. > She never actually connects it to her laptop except to transfer the > occaisional recorded video. > > The point of smartphones, especially androids and google, is to not have to > connect to another device. They sync to the cloud, and your phone or desktop > syncs back from there. > > Even an iphone has some support, but with every firmware change things get > re-broken in terms of connecting to a linux box. > UbuntuOne supports file syncing with iPhones, but that is not a decent deal for > KDE users. > > Now I have almost zero hands-on experience with smartphones, as my wife does > not let me 'play' with her phone, and she's had it almost a year now  :) > > So really it boils down  to what you like, for the most part. > > > -- > Clay Weber > http://kubuntuforums.net > http://ubuntumaine.org > http://emacdogsports.com > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > From Errol at tzora.co.il Sun Sep 18 23:04:25 2011 From: Errol at tzora.co.il (Errol Sapir) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:04:25 +0300 Subject: linux and cell phones In-Reply-To: References: <4E7561E8.6020802@tzora.co.il> <1762563.5drQOlNn7z@lark-latitude-d630> Message-ID: <4E7678F9.9070200@tzora.co.il> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clay at claydoh.com Sun Sep 18 23:21:42 2011 From: clay at claydoh.com (Clay Weber) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:21:42 -0400 Subject: linux and cell phones In-Reply-To: <4E7678F9.9070200@tzora.co.il> References: <4E7561E8.6020802@tzora.co.il> <4E7678F9.9070200@tzora.co.il> Message-ID: <1968615.8TSKjFY1Np@lark-latitude-d630> On Monday, September 19, 2011 02:04:25 AM Errol Sapir wrote: > Thanks for the input Nigel, Clay and Alex. I am going with the Motorolla > Antrix. Seems a good choice for me. Errol > Nice! I am leaning towards the Samsug Droid Charge myself (though the similar Thunderbolt is nipping at it's heels), the larger amoled screen is is a deal maker. The Atrix looks nice, it did make my short list in whittling down the list of 1288749993 Android phones to choose from. Clay From nigel at prayingforisrael.net Mon Sep 19 08:06:38 2011 From: nigel at prayingforisrael.net (Nigel Ridley) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:06:38 +0300 Subject: Oneiric - usable yet? Message-ID: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> My daughter has just bought a Samsung N150 Plus (netbook) and she wants me ti install Kubuntu on it. I don't really want to install Natty only to have to upgrade, or do a fresh install of Oneiric in another month. So my question is: How usable/stable is [Kubuntu] Oneiric at the moment? Nigel From john at batistic.net.nz Mon Sep 19 08:26:22 2011 From: john at batistic.net.nz (John Batistic) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:26:22 +1200 Subject: Oneiric - usable yet? Message-ID: <201109192026.22820.john@batistic.net.nz> I'm running Kubuntu netbook remix on an EEE PC 1001 net book with total success. It uses the limited screen real estate very efficiently. John Batistic My daughter has just bought a Samsung N150 Plus (netbook) and she wants me ti install Kubuntu on it. I don't really want to install Natty only to have to upgrade, or do a fresh install of Oneiric in another month. So my question is: How usable/stable is [Kubuntu] Oneiric at the moment? Nigel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tv.debian at googlemail.com Mon Sep 19 08:53:54 2011 From: tv.debian at googlemail.com (tv.debian at googlemail.com) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:53:54 +0200 Subject: Oneiric - usable yet? In-Reply-To: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> 19/09/2011 10:06, Nigel Ridley wrote: > My daughter has just bought a Samsung N150 Plus (netbook) and she wants > me ti install Kubuntu on it. > I don't really want to install Natty only to have to upgrade, or do a > fresh install of Oneiric in another month. > So my question is: How usable/stable is [Kubuntu] Oneiric at the moment? > > Nigel > Hi, please do not install a buggy development system as the first experience your daughter will have with Linux/Kubuntu, it's a too common mistake which has disastrous effects on the credibility of our beloved system(s). Of course if she's a geek or computer science students this may not apply, but otherwise run away from alpha/beta software. Go with something stable and trusty, an upgrade or even a clean install when oneiric is out won't be such a burden if you plan carefully. And you don't have to do it right away, wait a bit after the release. Partition separating user data from system, and/or backup user data and modified configuration files, save list of installed applications, and it won't take time at all. If you encounter configuration problems here are some interesting resources for Samsung's note/netbooks: http://www.voria.org/forum/index.php https://launchpad.net/~voria/+archive/ppa https://twistedpairdevelopment.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/installing-ubuntu-on-a-samsung-n145-and-possibly-others/ The later is directed to n145 model, but I used it has an inspiration to hammer out the few glitches of a NF210 install. Have fun, and congratulate your daughter for her good taste regarding Operating systems ! From nigel at prayingforisrael.net Mon Sep 19 10:55:30 2011 From: nigel at prayingforisrael.net (Nigel Ridley) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:55:30 +0300 Subject: Oneiric - usable yet? In-Reply-To: <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> Message-ID: <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> On 09/19/2011 11:53 AM, tv.debian at googlemail.com wrote: > 19/09/2011 10:06, Nigel Ridley wrote: >> My daughter has just bought a Samsung N150 Plus (netbook) and she wants >> me ti install Kubuntu on it. >> I don't really want to install Natty only to have to upgrade, or do a >> fresh install of Oneiric in another month. >> So my question is: How usable/stable is [Kubuntu] Oneiric at the moment? >> >> Nigel >> > > Hi, please do not install a buggy development system as the first > experience your daughter will have with Linux/Kubuntu, it's a too common > mistake which has disastrous effects on the credibility of our beloved > system(s). Of course if she's a geek or computer science students this > may not apply, but otherwise run away from alpha/beta software. > Go with something stable and trusty, an upgrade or even a clean install > when oneiric is out won't be such a burden if you plan carefully. And > you don't have to do it right away, wait a bit after the release. > Partition separating user data from system, and/or backup user data and > modified configuration files, save list of installed applications, and > it won't take time at all. > > If you encounter configuration problems here are some interesting > resources for Samsung's note/netbooks: > > http://www.voria.org/forum/index.php > > https://launchpad.net/~voria/+archive/ppa > > https://twistedpairdevelopment.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/installing-ubuntu-on-a-samsung-n145-and-possibly-others/ > > The later is directed to n145 model, but I used it has an inspiration to > hammer out the few glitches of a NF210 install. > > Have fun, and congratulate your daughter for her good taste regarding > Operating systems ! > It's OK, my daughter has been using Kubuntu for several years already and she asked me to install Kubuntu as she likes it and is used to it. I just wanted to know if Oneiric is stable enough already for general use. Thanks for the links - they will come in useful I'm sure :-) Nigel From coolens at kahosl.be Mon Sep 19 11:31:42 2011 From: coolens at kahosl.be (Hugo Coolens) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:31:42 +0200 Subject: Klipper does not work under Kubuntu 11.04 amd64, kde 4.6.2 In-Reply-To: <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: I have been a longtime Debian user but recently got this PC with Kubuntu pre-installed, so I wanted to give it a try. I got most of it working as expected except one thing which really bothers me a lot: klipper does not work like it should: I have the klipper icon in the bottom bar of my screen but nothing selected comes in it, klipper just sits there doing nothing. Does anyone here know how to fix this? regards, hugo From coolens at kahosl.be Mon Sep 19 11:35:13 2011 From: coolens at kahosl.be (Hugo Coolens) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:35:13 +0200 Subject: what's the equivalent for Debian /var/log/messages in Ubuntu? In-Reply-To: <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: what's the Ubuntu-equivalent command for Debian's "tail -f /var/log/messages" I use this often when attaching new hardware to see what's happening. To my surprise Ubuntu doesn't seem to have this file, how can I get the same info I got on my Debian-machines using Ubuntu? regards, hugo From alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com Mon Sep 19 12:54:29 2011 From: alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com (Alex Gabriel) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:54:29 -0400 Subject: what's the equivalent for Debian /var/log/messages in Ubuntu? In-Reply-To: References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: Hi Hugo, I've run that command many times on my Kubuntu installation, and never had any problems. What is the output of the command when you run it? Alex Gabriel Dimensia Design Studio alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 07:35, Hugo Coolens wrote: > > what's the Ubuntu-equivalent command for Debian's > "tail -f /var/log/messages" > > I use this often when attaching new hardware to see what's happening. > To my surprise Ubuntu doesn't seem to have this file, how can I get the same > info I got on my Debian-machines using Ubuntu? > > regards, > hugo > > > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > From alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com Mon Sep 19 12:56:24 2011 From: alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com (Alex Gabriel) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:56:24 -0400 Subject: Klipper does not work under Kubuntu 11.04 amd64, kde 4.6.2 In-Reply-To: References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: Hugo, when you run the application, does it copy anything at all? What applications have you used to test it? I've run it and seen it copy information from Kate, Chromium, and LibreOffice. Alex Gabriel Dimensia Design Studio alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 07:31, Hugo Coolens wrote: > I have been a longtime Debian user but recently got this PC with Kubuntu > pre-installed, so I wanted to give it a try. I got most of it working as > expected except one thing which really bothers me a lot: klipper does not > work like it should: I have the klipper icon in the bottom bar of my screen > but nothing selected comes in it, klipper just sits there doing nothing. > Does anyone here know how to fix this? > > regards, > hugo > > > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > From coolens at kahosl.be Mon Sep 19 18:27:35 2011 From: coolens at kahosl.be (Hugo Coolens) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:27:35 +0200 Subject: Klipper does not work under Kubuntu 11.04 amd64, kde 4.6.2 In-Reply-To: References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Alex Gabriel wrote: > Hugo, when you run the application, does it copy anything at all? It doesn't copy anything at all > What applications have you used to test it? I've run it and seen it > copy information from Kate, Chromium, and LibreOffice. I tried with Kate, LibreOffice, rxvt, whatever, it just sits there doing nothing :-( > Alex Gabriel > Dimensia Design Studio > alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 07:31, Hugo Coolens wrote: >> I have been a longtime Debian user but recently got this PC with Kubuntu >> pre-installed, so I wanted to give it a try. I got most of it working as >> expected except one thing which really bothers me a lot: klipper does not >> work like it should: I have the klipper icon in the bottom bar of my screen >> but nothing selected comes in it, klipper just sits there doing nothing. >> Does anyone here know how to fix this? >> >> regards, >> hugo >> >> >> >> -- >> kubuntu-users mailing list >> kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users >> > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > From coolens at kahosl.be Mon Sep 19 19:55:11 2011 From: coolens at kahosl.be (Hugo Coolens) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:55:11 +0200 Subject: xpdf gives segmentation fault under kubuntu 11.04 In-Reply-To: References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: I installed xpdf using sudo apt-get install xpdf but it crashes as you can see below: coolens at tuxedo:~$ xpdf cable.pdf Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-bold-i-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Segmentation fault Any idea how to solve this (of course not by using another pdf-viewer) regards, hugo From kubuntu-users at whamra.com Mon Sep 19 21:03:58 2011 From: kubuntu-users at whamra.com (Waleed Hamra) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:03:58 +0300 Subject: xpdf gives segmentation fault under kubuntu 11.04 Message-ID: <4E77AE3E.6030705@whamra.com> On 09/19/2011 10:55 PM, Hugo Coolens wrote: > I installed xpdf using sudo apt-get install xpdf but it crashes as you > can see below: > coolens at tuxedo:~$ xpdf cable.pdf > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-times-bold-i-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct > Segmentation fault > > Any idea how to solve this (of course not by using another pdf-viewer) > > regards, > hugo > Hello Hugo first off, please, start a new thread when you want to start a subject in this list, instead of replying to an unrelated email. many of us use threading views, and this sorts your email into a completely unrelated topic. but to the matter at hand. a little googling suggests this is a somewhat popular topic from this year. it seems to be a bug in libpoppler, which is a dependency of xpdf, and hence, can not be removed. but according to both, debian and ubuntu bug control, a fix has been released somewhere around late july. i am assuming you are using either Natty or an earlier release, since Oneiric is still in beta stage, in which case, you won't be able to get the fix from the regular repository. you can either wait for the oneiric upgrade, which should be in October, and use another pdf viewer meanwhile, or you can install xpdf along with libpoppler from some alternate repository (or maybe oneiric's). i'm afraid i don't know of any such repository at the moment, or how safe it is to pick just the few debian packages needed from oneiric's repository and installing them on an older system. PS: in https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/xpdf/+bug/788343 there's a mention of a way to install from the source package, you can try that as well. -- Waleed K. Hamra Manager of Hamra Information Systems -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From Errol at tzora.co.il Tue Sep 20 03:23:08 2011 From: Errol at tzora.co.il (Errol Sapir) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:23:08 +0300 Subject: linux and cell phones In-Reply-To: <1968615.8TSKjFY1Np@lark-latitude-d630> References: <4E7561E8.6020802@tzora.co.il> <4E7678F9.9070200@tzora.co.il> <1968615.8TSKjFY1Np@lark-latitude-d630> Message-ID: <4E78071C.30109@tzora.co.il> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From coolens at kahosl.be Tue Sep 20 10:06:05 2011 From: coolens at kahosl.be (Hugo Coolens) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:06:05 +0200 Subject: what's the equivalent for Debian /var/log/messages in Ubuntu? In-Reply-To: References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Alex Gabriel wrote: > Hi Hugo, I've run that command many times on my Kubuntu installation, > and never had any problems. What is the output of the command when > you run it? Because the file /var/log/messages doesn't seem to exist on a ubuntu-system I get this: root at tuxedo:/home/coolens# tail -f /var/log/messages tail: cannot open `/var/log/messages' for reading: No such file or directory root at tuxedo:/home/coolens# So I guess, there must be another way to accomplish this in Ubuntu? regards, hugo > > Alex Gabriel > Dimensia Design Studio > alexgabriel at dimensiadesign.com > > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 07:35, Hugo Coolens wrote: >> >> what's the Ubuntu-equivalent command for Debian's >> "tail -f /var/log/messages" >> >> I use this often when attaching new hardware to see what's happening. >> To my surprise Ubuntu doesn't seem to have this file, how can I get the same >> info I got on my Debian-machines using Ubuntu? >> >> regards, >> hugo >> >> >> >> -- >> kubuntu-users mailing list >> kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users >> > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users > From jon at radscan.com Tue Sep 20 15:46:38 2011 From: jon at radscan.com (Jon Trulson) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:46:38 -0600 (MDT) Subject: what's the equivalent for Debian /var/log/messages in Ubuntu? In-Reply-To: References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> <4E770322.3060205@googlemail.com> <4E771FA2.8080008@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Hugo Coolens wrote: [...] > root at tuxedo:/home/coolens# tail -f /var/log/messages > tail: cannot open `/var/log/messages' for reading: No such file or directory > root at tuxedo:/home/coolens# > > So I guess, there must be another way to accomplish this in Ubuntu? > Try /var/log/syslog, as in: tail -f /var/log/syslog [...] -- Jon Trulson Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master stays out of the way. From ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk Tue Sep 20 16:14:53 2011 From: ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk (Mark Fraser) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:14:53 +0100 Subject: what's the equivalent for Debian /var/log/messages in Ubuntu? In-Reply-To: References: <4E76F80E.7020002@prayingforisrael.net> Message-ID: <201109201714.54604.ubuntu@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> On Tuesday 20 Sep 2011 16:46:38 Jon Trulson wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Hugo Coolens wrote: > > [...] > > > root at tuxedo:/home/coolens# tail -f /var/log/messages > > tail: cannot open `/var/log/messages' for reading: No such file or > > directory root at tuxedo:/home/coolens# > > > > So I guess, there must be another way to accomplish this in Ubuntu? > > Try /var/log/syslog, as in: > > tail -f /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages has been disabled in Ubuntu 11.04 onwards, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/762505 explains why. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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When I start the programme via K-Menu, everything stops after about one minute. When I try to open .png or .jpg files, exactly the same happens. Does anybody have a clue how to get Gimp started in *Ubuntu 11.04? Respectfully yours, Bas Roufs. -- ==================== *Bas G. Roufs* Van 't Hoffstraat 1 NL-3514 VT Utrecht M./SMS +31 6 446 835 10 T. +31 30 785 2040 E. BasRoufs at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jon at radscan.com Wed Sep 21 23:31:56 2011 From: jon at radscan.com (Jon Trulson) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:31:56 -0600 (MDT) Subject: GIMP: how to correctly and effectively install it in Kubuntu 11.04? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Bas Roufs wrote: > Hello everybody > > In several previous versions of Kubuntu I did manage to successfully install > Gimp. > But now, in Kubuntu 11.04 it does not seem to work any more. I did install > Gimp and several dependencies. But whatever I try exactly, I simply do not > manage to get the package started. When I start the programme via K-Menu, > everything stops after about one minute. When I try to open .png or .jpg > files, exactly the same happens. Does anybody have a clue how to get Gimp > started in *Ubuntu 11.04? > Respectfully yours, > Bas Roufs. > > I ran into the same problem. This 'workaround' worked for me: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3117271.msg265844#msg265844 -- Jon Trulson Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master stays out of the way. From clay at claydoh.com Wed Sep 21 23:47:48 2011 From: clay at claydoh.com (Clay Weber) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:47:48 -0400 Subject: GIMP: how to correctly and effectively install it in Kubuntu 11.04? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2600599.0mdFV7GXzX@lark-latitude-d630> On Thursday, September 22, 2011 01:01:57 AM Bas Roufs wrote: > Hello everybody > > In several previous versions of Kubuntu I did manage to successfully install > Gimp. > But now, in Kubuntu 11.04 it does not seem to work any more. I did install > Gimp and several dependencies. But whatever I try exactly, I simply do not > manage to get the package started. When I start the programme via K-Menu, > everything stops after about one minute. When I try to open .png or .jpg > files, exactly the same happens. Does anybody have a clue how to get Gimp > started in *Ubuntu 11.04? > Respectfully yours, > Bas Roufs. A well known problem, with many google hits on how to fix it :) In System Settings, go to Application Appearance >> GTK+ Appearance >> widget style. then temporarily switch the widget style to Raleigh, then hit 'apply' Now run gimp, it should open, with the ugly Raleigh look. Close gimp, go back to system settings, and switch it back to Oxygen. Gimp should then open just fine. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/742516 The bug is fixed in the version of Gimp in 11.10. Clay From fsunoles at gmail.com Thu Sep 22 21:06:58 2011 From: fsunoles at gmail.com (Homer) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:06:58 -0600 Subject: Large numbers w/Perl Message-ID: Kubuntu 10.04 This may be more of a Perl question, but thought some (K)ubunters might have run into this. With Perl in the past I have used Date::Manip without issue. I've just recently tried running some code that I know used to work, but now doesn't. The issue seems to be in the integer size I am sending to DateCalc. Any seconds I input up to and including 2147483647 work. Greater than that number gives garbage results. That number is the maximum value for a 32-bit signed integer. I have verified the code works on a Debian box, but does not on two (K)Ubuntu (both 10.04) that I have tried it on. I have tried Math::BigInt, Math::BigFloat, and bignum without success. From charles at litek.com Sun Sep 25 06:46:50 2011 From: charles at litek.com (Charles Kanavle) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:46:50 -0700 Subject: Routine update left me stuck in run level 3 Message-ID: Kubuntu 8.04 on Dell e1705 The update icon was flashing, so I did the routine update series, only to find after rebooting that it now comes up only in a text screen, like run level 3. I love using Kubuntu, but now I don't know how to get back to the kde gui. Is there a doc somewhere that I can study, or a few steps at the keyboard I can try? Thank you for any help, Charles From gbonnema at xs4all.nl Sun Sep 25 08:36:36 2011 From: gbonnema at xs4all.nl (Guus) Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:36:36 +0200 Subject: Routine update left me stuck in run level 3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E7EE814.5050005@xs4all.nl> On 09/25/2011 08:46 AM, Charles Kanavle wrote: > > Kubuntu 8.04 on Dell e1705 > > The update icon was flashing, so I did the routine update series, only > to find after rebooting that it now comes up only in a text screen, > like run level 3. > > I love using Kubuntu, but now I don't know how to get back to the kde > gui. Is there a doc somewhere that I can study, or a few steps at the > keyboard I can try? > If you have X, from a terminal as root do startx and check the error messages. You should be able to work from there. Depending on your distribution there will be a conf file for X. For me (Fedora) the X11 files are in /etc/X11 and I think the conf file is in xorg.conf.d, but I have no conf file because it just works. Hope this helps. Guus. From mdhirsch at gmail.com Mon Sep 26 16:27:08 2011 From: mdhirsch at gmail.com (Michael Hirsch) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:27:08 -0600 Subject: upgrade to 11.04 fails cause it wants to remove update-manager-kde Message-ID: Since 11.10 is about to be released, I thought I should upgrade to 11.04, but I can't. I have a pretty much stock install of Kubuntu 10.10. I may have upgraded KDE using the ppa packages. When I try to upgrade it says that it can't because it needs to remove update-manager-kde, but it isn't allowed to. Earlier it said that it wanted to remove kubuntu-desktop. I worked around this by making sure that xubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop were not installed. So I uninstalled update-manager, in case that was causing problems but still have that problem. Anyone know how to fix this? 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URL: From jason at joines.org Mon Sep 26 22:17:33 2011 From: jason at joines.org (Jason Paul Joines) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:17:33 -0500 Subject: amarok changing timestamps on netcasts In-Reply-To: References: <4E72A6CF.7020502@joines.org> Message-ID: <4E80F9FD.7030404@joines.org> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: amarok changing timestamps on netcasts From: Michael Hirsch To: Kubuntu user technical support Date: 2011.09.26.Mon.11:28:06 > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jason Paul Joines > wrote: > > I'm using Amarok 2.4.0 wind KDE 4.6.2 on Kubuntu 11.04. > > By default Amarok stores netcasts I download in > ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/NAME-of-NETCAST. For some > reason, it changes the timestamp on some of the saved files every > day. This results in my backups picking them up every day. All > of the files dated "2011-09-15 19:25" in this list had their > timestamps updated at the same time for no apparent reason even > though most of them were downloaded weeks or months ago. Any ideas? > > Are you sure that amarok isn't downloading them every time? > > Michael Now that's a good question but I'm not quite sure how to figure it out. Amarok has marked these episodes as downloaded already so I don't know why it would download them again. If I understand this output correctly, I downloaded the file on the 20th and the time stamp was changed for no apparent reason today but the file is still 6 days old and not a new file. Also, I manually download these files via a secondary-click in Amarok. Amarok is configured to automatically scan for updates to this netcast but not to download them. ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/Global News$ stat globalnews_20110920-1559a.mp3 File: `globalnews_20110920-1559a.mp3' Size: 12350125 Blocks: 24128 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 804h/2052d Inode: 13371644 Links: 1 Access: (0660/-rw-rw----) Uid: ( 1000/ jason) Gid: ( 1000/ jason) Access: 2011-09-20 16:25:28.835232044 -0500 Modify: 2011-09-26 17:04:58.209045046 -0500 Change: 2011-09-26 17:04:58.209045046 -0500 ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/Global News$ Jason =========== From myriam at kde.org Tue Sep 27 07:51:39 2011 From: myriam at kde.org (Myriam Schweingruber) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:51:39 +0200 Subject: upgrade to 11.04 fails cause it wants to remove update-manager-kde In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Michael, On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 18:27, Michael Hirsch wrote: > Since 11.10 is about to be released, I thought I should upgrade to 11.04, > but I can't.  I have a pretty much stock install of Kubuntu 10.10.  I may > have upgraded KDE using the ppa packages. > > When I try to upgrade it says that it can't because it needs to remove > update-manager-kde, but it isn't allowed to. > > Earlier it said that it wanted to remove kubuntu-desktop.  I worked around > this by making sure that xubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop were not > installed. > > So I uninstalled update-manager, in case that was causing problems but still > have that problem. > > Anyone know how to fix this? Did you run it from the command line with sudo apt-get dist-upgrade? I assume you checked your /etc/apt/sources.list for wrong entries already. Regards, Myriam -- Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) From ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk Tue Sep 27 09:05:19 2011 From: ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk (Mark Fraser) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:05:19 +0100 Subject: upgrade to 11.04 fails cause it wants to remove update-manager-kde In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201109271005.20216.ubuntu@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> On Monday 26 Sep 2011 17:27:08 Michael Hirsch wrote: > Since 11.10 is about to be released, I thought I should upgrade to 11.04, > but I can't. I have a pretty much stock install of Kubuntu 10.10. I may > have upgraded KDE using the ppa packages. > > When I try to upgrade it says that it can't because it needs to remove > update-manager-kde, but it isn't allowed to. > > Earlier it said that it wanted to remove kubuntu-desktop. I worked around > this by making sure that xubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop were not > installed. > > So I uninstalled update-manager, in case that was causing problems but > still have that problem. Have you got any PPAs enabled? -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I worked > > around this by making sure that xubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop were > > not installed. > > > > So I uninstalled update-manager, in case that was causing problems but > > still have that problem. > > Have you got any PPAs enabled? Sorry, I didn't see the top of your post. You may have to use ppa-purge to get rid of some of those Kubuntu PPAs before doing the upgrade. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From g.lip at gmx.com Tue Sep 27 10:35:38 2011 From: g.lip at gmx.com (Goh Lip) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:35:38 +0800 Subject: upgrade to 11.04 fails cause it wants to remove update-manager-kde In-Reply-To: <201109271012.01649.ubuntu@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> References: <201109271005.20216.ubuntu@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> <201109271012.01649.ubuntu@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> Message-ID: <4E81A6FA.3040801@gmx.com> On 09/27/2011 05:12 PM, Mark Fraser wrote: > On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 10:05:19 Mark Fraser wrote: > > > On Monday 26 Sep 2011 17:27:08 Michael Hirsch wrote: > > > > Since 11.10 is about to be released, I thought I should upgrade to > 11.04, > > > > but I can't. I have a pretty much stock install of Kubuntu 10.10. I may > > > > have upgraded KDE using the ppa packages. > > > > > > > > When I try to upgrade it says that it can't because it needs to remove > > > > update-manager-kde, but it isn't allowed to. > > > > > > > > Earlier it said that it wanted to remove kubuntu-desktop. I worked > > > > around this by making sure that xubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop were > > > > not installed. > > > > > > > > So I uninstalled update-manager, in case that was causing problems but > > > > still have that problem. > > > > > > Have you got any PPAs enabled? > > Sorry, I didn't see the top of your post. You may have to use ppa-purge > to get rid of some of those Kubuntu PPAs before doing the upgrade. > \ Strange, I thought distribution upgrades now get rid of ppa'a automatically. Regards - Goh Lip ps; Myriam, where have you been? We kinda miss you. :) -- Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% mortality rate. From ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk Tue Sep 27 10:46:02 2011 From: ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk (Mark Fraser) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:46:02 +0100 Subject: upgrade to 11.04 fails cause it wants to remove update-manager-kde In-Reply-To: <4E81A6FA.3040801@gmx.com> References: <201109271012.01649.ubuntu@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> <4E81A6FA.3040801@gmx.com> Message-ID: <201109271146.02467.ubuntu@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 11:35:38 Goh Lip wrote: > On 09/27/2011 05:12 PM, Mark Fraser wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 Sep 2011 10:05:19 Mark Fraser wrote: > > > On Monday 26 Sep 2011 17:27:08 Michael Hirsch wrote: > > > > Since 11.10 is about to be released, I thought I should upgrade to > > > > 11.04, > > > > > > but I can't. I have a pretty much stock install of Kubuntu 10.10. I > > > > may > > > > > > > > have upgraded KDE using the ppa packages. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When I try to upgrade it says that it can't because it needs to > > > > remove > > > > > > > > update-manager-kde, but it isn't allowed to. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Earlier it said that it wanted to remove kubuntu-desktop. I worked > > > > > > > > around this by making sure that xubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop > > > > were > > > > > > > > not installed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So I uninstalled update-manager, in case that was causing problems > > > > but > > > > > > > > still have that problem. > > > > > > Have you got any PPAs enabled? > > > > Sorry, I didn't see the top of your post. You may have to use ppa-purge > > to get rid of some of those Kubuntu PPAs before doing the upgrade. > > \ > Strange, I thought distribution upgrades now get rid of ppa'a > automatically. It does, but I've had problems with some PPAs that stopped the updater being able to find a successful update path. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/792348 -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org Tue Sep 27 18:09:52 2011 From: pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org (Pastor JW) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:09:52 -0700 Subject: upgrade to 11.04 fails cause it wants to remove update-manager-kde In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201109271109.53172.pastor_jw@the-inner-circle.org> On Monday, September 26, 2011 9:27:08 am Michael Hirsch wrote: > Since 11.10 is about to be released, I thought I should upgrade to 11.04, > but I can't. I have a pretty much stock install of Kubuntu 10.10. I may > have upgraded KDE using the ppa packages. > > When I try to upgrade it says that it can't because it needs to remove > update-manager-kde, but it isn't allowed to. > > Earlier it said that it wanted to remove kubuntu-desktop. I worked around > this by making sure that xubuntu-desktop and gnome-desktop were not > installed. > > So I uninstalled update-manager, in case that was causing problems but > still have that problem. > > Anyone know how to fix this? Did you uninstall update-manager or update-manager-kde? They are two different packages. -- 73 de N7PSV aka Pastor JW < PDGA# 35276 http://the-inner-circle.org _Registered Kubuntu User: #27403 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_original_inner_circle http://h.webring.com/hub?ring=universalministr From tkg at lanl.gov Tue Sep 27 19:57:27 2011 From: tkg at lanl.gov (Thomas K Gamble) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:57:27 -0600 Subject: printer configuration problems Message-ID: <201109271357.27252.tkg@lanl.gov> I finally made the change to 11.04. Did a clean install but now I can't seem to configure a printer. I get the KCModule error that was suposed to have been fixed in this release. I tried completely uninstalling cups and system-config- printer-kde and reinstalling but get the same error. Are there any workarounds to this? Thanks -- Thomas K. Gamble Research Technologist, System/Network Administrator Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering (C-CDE) Los Alamos National Laboratory MS-E543,p:505-665-4323 f:505-665-4267 "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." Henry Kissinger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pkaplan1 at comcast.net Tue Sep 27 20:25:29 2011 From: pkaplan1 at comcast.net (Paul Kaplan) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Subject: printer configuration problems In-Reply-To: <201109271357.27252.tkg@lanl.gov> Message-ID: <917888491.2169156.1317155129321.JavaMail.root@sz0131a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> I haven't seen this with 11.04, but did a few releases ago. My workaround was to install the gnome printer config applet to config the printers. They worked fine under KDE after that. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas K Gamble" To: "Kubuntu user technical support" Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:57:27 PM Subject: printer configuration problems I finally made the change to 11.04. Did a clean install but now I can't seem to configure a printer. I get the KCModule error that was suposed to have been fixed in this release. I tried completely uninstalling cups and system-config-printer-kde and reinstalling but get the same error. Are there any workarounds to this? Thanks -- Thomas K. Gamble Research Technologist, System/Network Administrator Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering (C-CDE) Los Alamos National Laboratory MS-E543,p:505-665-4323 f:505-665-4267 "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." 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URL: From rayburke30 at gmail.com Tue Sep 27 21:58:34 2011 From: rayburke30 at gmail.com (ray burke) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:58:34 +1000 Subject: Stuck at the login screen In-Reply-To: References: <4D2CC16E.4010704@whamra.com> Message-ID: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:00 PM, ray burke wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Homer wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:30 PM, ray burke wrote: >>> Homer, >>> >>> how do input "ShaodwFB "True"" when you cant even get the system up as cant >>> login? >>> >>> ray >> >> Hi Ray, >> >> The graphical login prompt would appear, and I could enter >> username/password.  It would then get about 2/3 of the way through the >> login process, then go blank, then return back to the login screen. >> Hence, I was "stuck" at the login screen.  I exited to a shell from >> the login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and edited files that way.  I didn't >> have a menu option at the login screen to go to a shell as was >> suggested.  I'm guessing that is a configurable option. >> >> -- >> kubuntu-users mailing list >> kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users >> > > > Homer, > > I shall install K 10.10 on my spare 40gb ide drive and when I get to > the login screen that I > cant input on I will do the exited to a shell from >> the login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and edited files that way.   and see what happens? > > > thanks ray > Homer, Could you please email me the 2 workarounds to this problem as I am going to do a new install to my new dual core 1155 socket with 500gb sata drive and incase I cant login like it happened to me before when I installed the k10.10 to the computer I ran at the moment? ray From tkg at lanl.gov Tue Sep 27 21:56:56 2011 From: tkg at lanl.gov (Thomas K Gamble) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:56:56 -0600 Subject: printer configuration problems In-Reply-To: <917888491.2169156.1317155129321.JavaMail.root@sz0131a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> References: <917888491.2169156.1317155129321.JavaMail.root@sz0131a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Message-ID: <201109271556.56795.tkg@lanl.gov> > I haven't seen this with 11.04, but did a few releases ago. My workaround > was to install the gnome printer config applet to config the printers. > They worked fine under KDE after that. Paul Tried that just now and it failed with cups server errors. Turns out the init script for cups isn't working properly. If I start it with /etc/init.d/cups it appears to start and a process shows up but doesn't work properly. If I just run 'sudo cupsd' from the console, it loads and works fine. Happily printing now. I'll have to troubleshoot the init script when I have time to find the problem. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas K Gamble" > To: "Kubuntu user technical support" > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:57:27 PM > Subject: printer configuration problems > > > > > > > I finally made the change to 11.04. Did a clean install but now I can't > seem to configure a printer. I get the KCModule error that was suposed to > have been fixed in this release. I tried completely uninstalling cups and > system-config-printer-kde and reinstalling but get the same error. Are > there any workarounds to this? > > > > > Thanks -- Thomas K. Gamble Research Technologist, System/Network Administrator Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering (C-CDE) Los Alamos National Laboratory MS-E543,p:505-665-4323 f:505-665-4267 "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full." Henry Kissinger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: