wubi installation woes on vista 64bit

Mon May 4 14:31:54 UTC 2009

i was trying with the beta of jaunty so im wondering if the released
version of jaunty will give me the same error if not then it was
something with the beta. if same error persists ill check launchpad.

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>    1. Re: Panel colors in KDE 4.2.2 (Antonio Augusto (Mancha))
>    2. Re: Webmin (David McGlone)
>    3. Re: Switching off all ound notifications
>       (Antonio Augusto (Mancha))
>    4. Re: Switching off all ound notifications (marc)
>    5. Re: Panel colors in KDE 4.2.2 (marc)
>    6. wubi installation woes on vista 64bit (Jonathan Aquilina)
>    7. Re: wubi installation woes on vista 64bit (Sascha G?thling)
>    8. Re: Panel colors in KDE 4.2.2 (Myriam Schweingruber)
>    9. Re: wubi installation woes on vista 64bit (Myriam Schweingruber)
>   10. twinview and wallpaper (Alain Muls)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 08:22:50 -0300
> From: "Antonio Augusto (Mancha)" <mkhaos7 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Panel colors in KDE 4.2.2
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 01:08, Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How do you change panel colors - both background and text?
>>
>
> For what i know you can't change panel options.
> For whatever reason they had, KDE devs thought it was very smart to
> not allow users to customize these things.
> Only the theme has control on how these things look.
> Silly, if you ask me.
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 07:29:10 -0400
> From: David McGlone <david at dmcentral.net>
> Subject: Re: Webmin
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Sunday 03 May 2009 11:13:37 pm Clay Weber wrote:
>> On Sunday 03 May 2009 11:02:32 pm Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>> > Where did package webmin go? It's not available in Jaunty
>>
>> http://www.webmin.com/download.html
>> there are ubuntu debs there
>>
>> I don't think it's been in Ubuntu, for a while at least since Dapper
>
> Thats about right. I've been downloading the .deb from sourceforge for the
> past 2 or 3 years
>
> Here's the .deb:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=webadmin&filename=webmin_1.470_all.deb&use_mirror=voxel
>
> Blessings,
> David M.
> http://www.dmcentral.net
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 08:33:02 -0300
> From: "Antonio Augusto (Mancha)" <mkhaos7 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Switching off all ound notifications
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 04:30, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>> Clay Weber said:
>>
>>> On Thursday 30 April 2009 6:26:48 pm marc wrote:
>>>> Clay Weber said:
>>>> > On Thursday 30 April 2009 6:06:00 pm marc wrote:
>>>> >> It used to be possible to switch off all sound notifications in a
>>>> >> single click. I can't find where to do this now. Anyone know?
>>>> >> Thanks.
>>>> >
>>>> > Try System Settings / Notifications / Player Settings and check "no
>>>> > audio output"
>>>> > That , um, sounds like that is what you are looking for
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I thought that was for all audio, not just notifications.
>>>>
>>>> However, it doesn't work for gnome apps (in Kubuntu), which continue
>>>> peeping and pinging and burbling every time you hit a button. And, of
>>>> course, the apps themselves don't have their own audio controls; I know
>>>> not why, I really don't.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, you will probably have to go into gnome's preferences and
>>> disable it there, too.
>>>
>>> You are more or less running two separate desktop environments that
>>> don't use the same settings. There are some standards, such as menus and
>>> similar, but once you open a gnome app, it will look for gnome settings.
>>> KDE's settings aren't used there (and vice-versa).
>>
>> Yup, but I really thin they should be unified in this case. As I implied,
>> this whole "new" area hasn't been thought through at all.
>>
>
> This is no easy feat IMHO, since, for starts Gnome and KDE use two
> completly different sound architecture. KDE4 uses Phonon and Gnome is
> using Pulseaudio, so no, in the short term, I can't see this changing.
> After all this is what makes them TWO different desktops, instead of a
> single project.
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:33:24 +0000 (UTC)
> From: marc <gmane at auxbuss.com>
> Subject: Re: Switching off all ound notifications
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Antonio Augusto (Mancha) said:
>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 04:30, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>>> Clay Weber said:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday 30 April 2009 6:26:48 pm marc wrote:
>>>>> Clay Weber said:
>>>>> > On Thursday 30 April 2009 6:06:00 pm marc wrote:
>>>>> >> It used to be possible to switch off all sound notifications in a
>>>>> >> single click. I can't find where to do this now. Anyone know?
>>>>> >> Thanks.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Try System Settings / Notifications / Player Settings and check "no
>>>>> > audio output"
>>>>> > That , um, sounds like that is what you are looking for
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, I thought that was for all audio, not just notifications.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, it doesn't work for gnome apps (in Kubuntu), which continue
>>>>> peeping and pinging and burbling every time you hit a button. And, of
>>>>> course, the apps themselves don't have their own audio controls; I
>>>>> know not why, I really don't.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, you will probably have to go into gnome's preferences
>>>> and disable it there, too.
>>>>
>>>> You are more or less running two separate desktop environments that
>>>> don't use the same settings. There are some standards, such as menus
>>>> and similar, but once you open a gnome app, it will look for gnome
>>>> settings. KDE's settings aren't used there (and vice-versa).
>>>
>>> Yup, but I really thin they should be unified in this case. As I
>>> implied, this whole "new" area hasn't been thought through at all.
>>>
>>>
>> This is no easy feat IMHO, since, for starts Gnome and KDE use two
>> completly different sound architecture. KDE4 uses Phonon and Gnome is
>> using Pulseaudio, so no, in the short term, I can't see this changing.
>
> Nah, phonon can use pulse audio. They are two different things.
>
>> After all this is what makes them TWO different desktops, instead of a
>> single project.
>
> Linux is a multi user system. If gnome and kde can't live together then
> we're stuffed.
>
> You can't just wave your arms and say this issue is inherent in having
> both available. Where the heck do you stop with that line of reasoning?
>
> --
> Best,
> Marc
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:40:02 +0000 (UTC)
> From: marc <gmane at auxbuss.com>
> Subject: Re: Panel colors in KDE 4.2.2
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Antonio Augusto (Mancha) said:
>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 01:08, Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> How do you change panel colors - both background and text?
>>>
>>>
>> For what i know you can't change panel options. For whatever reason they
>> had, KDE devs thought it was very smart to not allow users to customize
>> these things. Only the theme has control on how these things look.
>> Silly, if you ask me.
>
> I agree.
>
> Seems you can only apply "themes" now. For each widget you can choose
> your own "file", but there's no help, so I've no idea what those files
> are supposed to be.
>
> Maybe they'll add colour selection, translucency and all the other that
> they threw away at some point. Who knows?
>
> --
> Best,
> Marc
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:44:53 +0200
> From: Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>
> Subject: wubi installation woes on vista 64bit
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> are there any known issues with wubi on vista 64bit? for some reason i
> cannot install it and keep getting errors. i have tried turning vista uac
> off and installing wont work with it on same issue :( would really love to
> get kubuntu installed via wubi.
>
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> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 08:58:27 -0400
> From: Sascha G?thling <sascha.guethling at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: wubi installation woes on vista 64bit
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Jonathan Aquilina
> <eagles051387 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> are there any known issues with wubi on vista 64bit? for some reason i
>> cannot install it and keep getting errors. i have tried turning vista uac
>> off and installing wont work with it on same issue :( would really love to
>> get kubuntu installed via wubi.
>>
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> I know it doesn't help YOU, but I had no problems installing wubi on 64bit
> vista. So it is no general problem.
>
> Just a guess: Does wubi have admin rights? Seems to be a common problem.
>
> OTOH it would help if you could post some error message, so we can
> understand what the exact problem is.
>
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> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:35:18 +0200
> From: Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Panel colors in KDE 4.2.2
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 14:40, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>> Antonio Augusto (Mancha) said:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 01:08, Jerry Lapham <rjlapham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> How do you change panel colors - both background and text?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> For what i know you can't change panel options. For whatever reason they
>>> had, KDE devs thought it was very smart to not allow users to customize
>>> these things. Only the theme has control on how these things look.
>>> Silly, if you ask me.
>
> That is not silly, it's due to the architecture of plasma: do you know
> that you need as much as 9 layers for a SVG icon? See?
>
> Everybody can submit themes to kde-looks.org, BTW, so that is not in
> the sole hands of the Oxygen and Plasma devs. It just makes no sense
> for the average user to change isolated items in a theme, as it would
> break the overall picture. I can already hear the outcries like "my
> Panel is broken!!! Stupid developers!!!" from the usual suspects...
>
> Please, people, all this can be found in the various pages through
> Google, as well as on the kde.org websites. So instead of accusing
> developers of silliness and throwing out wild guesses about the whys
> and hows, a bit of reading and documenting would not hurt...
>
> That's how Free Software works, everybody can contribute to his/her
> abilities, just don't expect miracles and keep your comments
> constructive, especially if you do not know the behinds of the scene.
> Also, unlike the proprietary software scene where users are kept in
> ignorance deliberately, in the Linux world there is everything
> available, but of course one has to read and learn a little..
>
>
> Regards, Myriam.
>
> PS. What about reading the CoC every once in a while before posting?
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> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:36:42 +0200
> From: Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: wubi installation woes on vista 64bit
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 14:44, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> are there any known issues with wubi on vista 64bit? for some reason i
>> cannot install it and keep getting errors. i have tried turning vista uac
>> off and installing wont work with it on same issue :( would really love to
>> get kubuntu installed via wubi.
>
> Did you do a search for bugs in Launchpad?
>
>
> Regards, Myriam.
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> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:41:16 +0200
> From: Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be>
> Subject: twinview and wallpaper
> To: "kubuntu-users" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Hi
>
> Using Kubuntu 0.04 I retried the twinview and it works using the nvidea
> settings
> program. My wallpaper is only visible on the main screen. How can you have
> the
> wallpaper (perhaps another one) on the second screen. At this moment it is
> the
> (ugly :-)) kubuntu background.
>
> Tx/Alain
>
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