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[UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2012/2/18 ∅ <maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> On 02/18/2012 05:20 AM, Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
>> 2012/2/18 ∅ <maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On 02/18/2012 02:40 AM, UH wrote:
>>>> 1) Lubuntu Software Center crashes - reported as bug
>>> see earlier post. update packages and you should be good.
>> That didn't pass for me.
> just to be sure, you saw this:
> https://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-qa/msg00125.html
> ??
> check your version numbers against it.

What the last phrase mean? Which version number and against what? In
any case i purged and re-installed lubuntu-software- center (after
sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade but nothing changed.

>>>> 3) pcmanfm crashes often while installing a 2nd instance of it - reported as bug
>>> just had 111 instances open simultaneously. again, what are the
>>> conditions? we need to figure out how to reliably reproduce this. what
>>> bug #?
>> I posted this via apport to launchpad, but i'm unable to find it now.
>> ERROR: apport (pid 2200) Sat Feb 18 06:37:16 2012: wrote report
>> /var/crash/_usr_bin_pcmanfm.1000.crash
> is that file still around? you could try searching launchpad for terms
> based on it. if that doesn't work, perhaps more easy is to get on
> launchpad, click on your name, click bugs and hunt for it.
>> In human words: When i have open pcmanfm as root and then open another
>> instance of pcmanfm, then it crashes - but not systematically.
> do you not have the same problem if you are not using as root?

No only when one instance is root. Here is the link:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bug/934756

>>
>>>> 7) The fan speed problem . . . ....[ . . . ]

What i can say for sure: With the PowerNow Daemon (powernowd) at the
lower cpu frequency the fan is turned off. At high speed after a
couple of minutes it begins to turn. No speed variation recognizeable,
at least for me. That's for sure not the cleanest way but for the
moment a viable workaround, eventually. It'd be way better to have a
smooth temperature dependent and userwise controlleable controll of
the fan speed.

Btw, where is the place to configure that this daemon is started
automatically with any bootup?

/etc/init.d/powernowd looks like this:

-----------------------
#! /bin/sh
# Init script for powernowd
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          powernowd
# Required-Start:    $syslog $remote_fs $time
# Required-Stop:     $syslog $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start powernowd .
### END INIT INFO


PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/powernowd
NAME=powernowd
DESC=powernowd
OPTIONS="-q"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

# modify the file /etc/default/powernowd if you want to add personal options

[ -f /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

set -e

case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
        if [ -f /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor ]
        then
                start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec
$DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
        else
                echo "required sysfs objects not found!"
                printf "\tRead /usr/share/doc/powernowd/README.Debian
for more information.\n"
                exit 0
        fi
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON
        sleep 1
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  *)
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And, on my machine, sudo /usr/sbin/powernowd results like this:

---------------------
 ~:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/powernowd
powernowd: PowerNow Daemon v1.00, (c) 2003-2008 John Clemens
powernowd: Found 1 scalable unit:  -- 1 'CPU' per scalable unit
powernowd:   cpu0: 816Mhz - 1333Mhz (2 steps)
~:~$
---------------------

In my list, i forgot an important point:

Rightclick on desktop surface menu
=============================

When you rightclick on the desktop you have that menu with New, Paste
etc and as a last item Configure Desktop. Clicking on that you have
the options to configure the desktop ( pcmanfm --desktop-pref`). If
you activate there Advanced  on the rightclick you get now: PCManFM,
Lxterminal, Browser - and nothing else. So, there is no way back save
you start in terminal `pcmanfm --desktop-pref`. That's absolutely not
good. The advanced menu, at least, should offer, over the 3 existing
options, Setup Desktop and Obconf or Lxappearance. I tried to
configure that "by hand" editing the
`/usr/share/lubuntu/openbox/menu.xml`but it gave no effect. May be
there is another config file overruling that one?