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[Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>]

Am Montag 25 April 2011, um 08:38:56 schrieb Lee Gold:
> Hi,
> 
> Using Lubuntu 10.10. When I close my Laptop (pull the screen/lid down to
> close it) it goes into a standby mode where I must press my now blinking
> on/off button to restart it. I want to have it so my laptop stays on.
> The screen by default will probably turn off (that seems hardwired into
> the hardware) but other than that I want control over this. Most flavors
> of Unbuntu easily have control over this by GUI menus but I don't see
> any way in Lubuntu. Is there a way?

You can configure this by opening up the run dialog (ALT+F2) and typing in 
gnome-power-preferences.

> 
> With a Synaptics touchpad. Moving the finger along the right edge of the
> touchpad acts as a scroll wheel. If the cursor is not in any app window
> but is in open desktop area - then this scrolling action will transport
> one to a different desktop. I have two desktops enabled so by moving the
> the finger along the side up/down I go from Desktop1 to Desktop2 and
> back. This deadly for me and causing much hair pulling. I am in the
> middle of doing something and desktop will change. No matter how careful
> I am this eventually happens. So for the sake of sanity I have only one
> desktop. I'd like multiple desktops but I need to turn-off this
> scrolling feature. I've seen some hacks in config files but they either
> don't work or have side effects. I want to keep the scrolling in windows
> were the touchpad scrolling really helps. I just want to turn-off the
> scrolling between desktops only. I can't find a GUI in Lubuntu to do
> this. Is there a way that works that anyone knows?
There seems to be no gui option in the Openbox configuration but you can open 
up the configuration file ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml and try to delete the 
following lines under the <context name="Desktop"> paragraph: 
      <mousebind button="Up" action="Click">
        <action name="DesktopPrevious"/>
      </mousebind>
      <mousebind button="Down" action="Click">
        <action name="DesktopNext"/>
      </mousebind>
After saving and a relogon it should be gone.
> 
> When I double click on a text file (txt extension) nothing happens. I do
> that with a .doc and Abiword opens the  file. I think there's no program
> associated with the txt extension. I'd like Gedit to open the file and
> be default program. How do I do this? Related maybe - Say there's a text
> file on the web with a link to download it. If I click the link the
> default program to open is "Virus Scanner"(?). I choose and find the
> path to Gedit the "Always use this to open this kind of file" checkbox
> is checked and grayed out. Gedit opens the file but the preference does
> not stick.
Just create a text file and right click on it go to properties and set the 
right programm to 'open with'. 

Hope this helps