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Martin Hope
Niriel
Asked: 2012-03-21 01:18:46 +0800 CST
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We used to have this functionality with Evolution: clicking on the date-time in the gnome panel would show a list of events/tasks/appointments from the Evolution Calendar. As an interesting side effect, one would receive alarm notifications even when Evolution wasn't running.

Now that Thunderbird is the default email client, I'd imagine that there is a similar functionality for Lightning (Thunberbird's calendar). I just can't find it. Maybe it's not ready ?

thunderbird gnome-panel calendar 11.10 lightning
Martin Hope
Niriel
Asked: 2012-03-08 00:41:48 +0800 CST
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I imagine that most applications don't even notice that I have two network cards. They ask the kernel to open a socket and they're happy like that. Transparency is great.

I'm left wondering: when I am connected to both a wired and wireless network, which one is used by the system? The first one that was created? The last? Both equally? Both randomly? Both, with some intelligence to balance the load and find the open ports?

Related: what does the network history part of the System monitor actually displays? The sum of the debit of the two network cards?

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Martin Hope
Niriel
Asked: 2012-01-07 14:30:06 +0800 CST
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I have installed Cairo-Dock and Synapse so I have no use at all for the Unity dock and dash.

What more is there to Unity than that? The top bar with the indicator applets I guess. I don't mind it, but I wouldn't mind having another one either.

Can I disable the Unity dash and dock? Or do I need to use a different desktop manager? Which one? The lighter the better. Possibly one that does nothing but display applets in the corner of the screen.

11.10
Martin Hope
Niriel
Asked: 2012-01-03 07:14:57 +0800 CST
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I reinstalled (not upgraded) my system from Natty to Ocelot this morning. I had backed up my home, including the ~/.* folders.

I have troubles getting Evolution to work. Even though I restored the .evolution and .local/share/evolution folders, Evolution does not seem to realize that there are already a couple of gigabytes of files in 4 emails account already installed for it. It keeps asking me to create accounts from scratch.

I realized later that I could have asked Evolution to build me a .tgz before reinstalling, but it's too late for that now. I got used to the fact that copying files usually just work.

Does anyone know how I can make Evolution see what's there ?

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Martin Hope
Niriel
Asked: 2012-01-03 03:29:31 +0800 CST
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Yesterday I was still using Natty with Compiz. I had noticed that disabling Vsync in Compiz made dragging windows much more smooth and responsive (I don't mind the tearing).

I installed Ocelot this morning which seems to use Mutter by default (I may be wrong there, I'm still kind of lost). Dragging windows has the same sluggish feeling as with Compiz and Vsync enabled. So I was thinking I could try disabling Vsync.

Can vsync be disabled/enabled in Mutter?

Edit to answer the comments:

$ ps -ef | grep compiz | grep $USER
<myname>  3989  3908  5 12:14 ?        00:03:38 compiz
<myname>  4051  3989  0 12:15 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/compiz-decorator
<myname> 15409 15406  0 13:25 pts/0    00:00:00 grep compiz

So indeed I was confused. If I'm running Compiz I should manage to bend it to my will.

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