• dove
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Topic: using CB 9.04 after oct.

what horrible things are going to happen to me if I keep using my beloved 9.04 after October? I'm using  Statler on my laptop and it's OK but my desktop I want auto log on, with Statler OB doesn't seem to support this, as well as no huludesktop,openshot,64bskype. I'm also having problems with my beloved Quod-Libet in Statler which works great on 9.04-thanx

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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

When an Ubuntu release goes End-Of-Life, a few things happen:

1. The repositories move from archive.ubuntu.com to old-releases.ubuntu.com (so you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to the new address)
2. These repos stop being updated--no bug fixes, no security patches, nothing (but you can get new apps from PPAs or from source, as always)
3. Third-party developers stop supporting the release (no more 8.10 intrepid downloads at virtualbox.org for example) and quality and quantity of support decreases at places like ubuntuforums.org

What is the absolute worst-case scenario? As always:

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  • luc
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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

dove wrote:

I'm using  Statler on my laptop and it's OK but my desktop I want auto log on, with Statler OB doesn't seem to support this

if you are talking about auto login at boot and timed login after logout you can look here.
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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

Quod Libet doesn't work? Too bad. I am using its sister app Ex Falso for tagging audio files, and it works fine; haven't tried Quod Libet with Statler or Debian, though (I am using almost exclusively MPD & NCMPCPP for listening to music). It is in the Squeeze repos, so I guess it should work – which is no guarantee it does, of course.

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  • pvsage
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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

mp3diags is a decent tag editor.  The only tags it writes are id3v2.3.0, but since that's the only tag my Walkman player sees...

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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

pvsage wrote:

mp3diags is a decent tag editor.  The only tags it writes are id3v2.3.0, but since that's the only tag my Walkman player sees...

Thanks – what I meant to say is that Ex Falso works great in Statler; too bad if Quod Libet doesn't (they use the same tagging backend).

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  • dove
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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

Quod-Libet works with files just locks up on internet radio

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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

Just to be consistent, the easiest way to setup auto-login is simply
Menu -> System -> GDM Login Setup

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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

Afaik that menu item doesn't exist in Statler Openbox, though you can still run it from the terminal using "gksudo gdmsetup".

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  • dove
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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

anonymous wrote:

Afaik that menu item doesn't exist in Statler Openbox, though you can still run it from the terminal using "gksudo gdmsetup".

that was my problem thanx for info.

  • dove
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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

dove wrote:
anonymous wrote:

Afaik that menu item doesn't exist in Statler Openbox, though you can still run it from the terminal using "gksudo gdmsetup".

that was my problem thanx for info.

I got statler to auto log on automatically but even though I have checked both "connect automatically" and "available to all users" in network manger every time I log on "available to all users" is unchecked? and have to put password in to log on to my home wireless network.

  • rich
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Re: using CB 9.04 after oct.

That's a network-manager problem. It happened on my Daughter's Ubuntu laptop as well as our home desktop.
I removed it and installed Wicd in its place.

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