[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2041491] Re: Provide an option to avoid the yaml NM backend

2023-10-30 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thank you; if I understood correctly, that method would render all the NM GUI/console tools unusable; it's not a viable workaround, as I would like to be able to use these tools as well... E.g.: - Create a new bond => GUI, nmtui, nmcli - Did I forget any setting while creating that bond? Let's

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2041491] [NEW] Provide an option to avoid the yaml NM backend

2023-10-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Hi, recently netplan added support for a yaml NM backend: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-networkmanager-yaml- settings/32420 The rationale is that "the descriptive YAML layer is especially useful in cloud environments":

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1987159] Re: Drop VNC support from GNOME Remote Desktop in Kinetic

2023-07-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> I am struggling to find any use cases where GNOME's VNC should be preferred to RDP. 1) Teacher screen broadcasting to students. There, a shared VNC session is much easier to setup and performs better than separate RDP sessions. Additionally, encrypting e.g. 10 RDP streams comes with significant

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2019940] Re: Directly manipulating NetworkManager keyfiles

2023-05-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2019940 Title: Directly manipulating NetworkManager keyfiles Status

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1998713] [NEW] Don't add universe to cdrom: sources

2022-12-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Please do not add "universe" in "deb cdrom:" lines of /etc/apt/sources.list. To reproduce the issue, boot Ubuntu GNOME 22.04, and at the live session, run: sudo add-apt-repository universe After that, `apt update` will keep complaining: W: Skipping acquire of configured

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1922414] Re: ssh-agent fails to start (has_option: command not found)

2022-04-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I also see it on Ubuntu MATE Jammy. Will the fix come from Xorg, or should we add LightDM to the affected projects list? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1922414 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1962021] Re: Make the deb package install the firefox snap

2022-04-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The commands to install firefox.deb from the PPA are: sudo -i add-apt-repository --yes ppa:mozillateam/ppa echo 'Package: * Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam Pin-Priority: 1001' >/etc/apt/preferences.d/60local apt install firefox firefox-locale-en If you need more locales like

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1962021] Re: Make the deb package install the firefox snap

2022-03-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The upgrade dialog says: ``` Upgrade to the firefox snap Starting in Ubuntu 22.04, all new releases of firefox are only available to Ubuntu users through the snap package. This package update will transition your system over

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 964705] Re: System policy prevents modification of network settings for all users

2022-03-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
My problem is a bit different: everything works fine, but the dialog appears when we ACTIVATE a VPN connection, even if we don't want to modify it. 1) I've prepared a VPN connection for my non-admin users and put it in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/vpn.nmconnection. 2) When they click

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1962021] Re: Make the deb package install the firefox snap

2022-02-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Will the firefox-esr Debian package be available in universe like all the other browsers there? If not, I guess in cases like netbooted clients where snap apps don't work properly yet, Ubuntu users will have no option but to migrate to google-chrome.deb. -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1772859] Re: Network Manager is not able to manage the devices on Ubuntu 18.04

2021-10-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
While working on a remote server, it took me 2-3 hours to locate this bug report and apply its workarounds. It's certainly not a good default behavior. In case someone has already removed netplan, the recommended steps to get network-manager to manage the interfaces, as I understood them, are:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 206924] Re: Make it possible to create a guest account

2021-07-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** No longer affects: ltsp -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to accountsservice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206924 Title: Make it possible to create a guest account Status in accountsservice: Confirmed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1662244] Re: lightdm causes all greeters to fail to start

2020-11-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
What torel proposed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity- greeter/+bug/1662244/comments/14 avoids the segfault: * soft memlock 262144 * hard memlock 262144 Should all lightdm users manually put that in limits.conf, or should we expect some update? -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1662244] Re: lightdm causes all greeters to fail to start

2020-11-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi, a recent systemd update in 18.04 makes slick-greeter segfault. So all Ubuntu MATE 18.04 users now get black screens instead of lightdm. It's related to memory limits so I'm cross-referencing it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1830746 This didn't help: [LightDM]

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1854588] Re: gdebi-gtk calls pkexec inappropriately

2020-08-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The problem is not in firefox or mate, it's in gdebi-gtk, and specifically in GDebiGtk.py, line 619: os.execv(pkexec_cmd, pkexec_args+gdebi_args) This replaces the current process with a pkexec call. This is not a valid usage of pkexec, as pkexec requires the parent process to not be init

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1762952] Re: Alternative shortcut for layout switching Alt+Shift unexpectedly set by default

2020-08-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi, this fix caused a regression in ubiquity: LP: #1892014 Ubiquity doesn't put alt_shift_toggle in XKBOPTIONS anymore, so we cannot switch to e.g. Greek using Alt+Shift, after going through a normal installation (or even in the live session). Are users expected to manually run `dpkg-reconfigure

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1867908] Re: Fix RTM NEW/DELLINK IFLA_IFNAME copy for maximum ifname length

2020-04-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thank you seb128! :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to wpa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867908 Title: Fix RTM NEW/DELLINK IFLA_IFNAME copy for maximum ifname length Status in wpa package in Ubuntu: Fix

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1869716] Re: Removing libpango1.0-0 broke Minecraft Launcher

2020-03-31 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Anydesk too. Thanks for the fix! :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pango1.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1869716 Title: Removing libpango1.0-0 broke Minecraft Launcher Status in pango1.0 package in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1867908] Re: Fix RTM NEW/DELLINK IFLA_IFNAME copy for maximum ifname length

2020-03-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi all, final freeze is approaching, and I don't see anyone syncing Andrej's new version from Debian... Maybe it would be easier to just accept my patch, to have this solved for 20.04, and do the syncing for 20.10? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1861481] Re: language-options causes live CD sessions to be untranslated

2020-02-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I checked with 20.04 and it appears that recent Ubuntu live CDs don't have boot=casper anymore; they do still have initrd=/casper/initrd; but anyway, ^/cow should be fine (sorry I hadn't noticed the ^ there before). Thank you for your work in this. -- You received this bug notification because

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1861481] Re: language-options causes live CD sessions to be untranslated

2020-02-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I commented before I saw the previous reply; I'll reply to that now. The "grep cow" approach breaks the LTSP package and other software that uses a COW root. To check for casper, please `grep -w boot=casper /proc/cmdline` or something casper-specific. In schools, we sometimes have students of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1861481] Re: language-options causes live CD sessions to be untranslated

2020-02-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Btw, lightdm doesn't set LANGUAGE at all in Debian; it only sets LANG, like GDM, and everything works fine. Gunnar, do you see any issues with just completely dropping your 04_language_handling.patch? Or at least this line there: +session_set_env (session, "LANGUAGE", language); --

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1861481] Re: language-options causes live CD sessions to be untranslated

2020-02-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I mean that if, on a normal 20.04 installation, I uninstall the el langpack, then 1) If I'm using GDM, universe apps show Greek, 2) If I'm using LightDM, universe apps show English (this one regressed in 19.10). If we're modifying LightDM, I suggest to modify LightDM to not set LANGUAGE at

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1861481] Re: language-options causes live CD sessions to be untranslated

2020-02-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Gunnar, so if a MATE user doesn't have the langpack installed, he shouldn't have a translated session? Why do we want to fix this only for Live CDs? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1861481] Re: language-options causes live CD sessions to be untranslated

2020-02-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The reason that this regression doesn't affect ubuntu-desktop, might be that unlike LightDM, GDM doesn't have that Ubuntu-specific patch to use /usr/share/language-tools/language-options. So, I subscribed "lightdm (Ubuntu)" to the affected packages, in case we just want to drop the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1861481] Re: language-options causes live CD sessions to be untranslated

2020-02-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
On a focal live cd, I tried to downgrade lightdm and accountsservice to their bionic versions and restart their services without rebooting, yet again the session was not translated. So I'm at a loss on which package was the one that caused the change in 19.10, maybe even glibc itself.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1861481] [NEW] language-options causes live CD sessions to be untranslated

2020-01-31 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Since Ubuntu 19.10, for all Ubuntu live CDs that use LightDM (e.g. MATE and Xubuntu), if a user selects a language in syslinux other than those with an included langpack, the session is then untranslated. For example, if one boots Ubuntu MATE 20.04 and selects Greek in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1051288] Re: LightDM assumes there's only ONE system default layout

2019-12-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Are you still using lightdm there? Ubuntu 19.10 uses GDM; only some other flavors like MATE, Xubuntu and Lubuntu use lightdm. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1051288

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1718227] Re: replacement of ifupdown with netplan needs integration for /etc/network/if{up, down}.d scripts

2019-11-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** No longer affects: epoptes (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to wpa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1718227 Title: replacement of ifupdown with netplan needs integration for

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 183303] Re: Can't create new wireless network using mac80211 based drivers

2019-10-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** No longer affects: ltsp (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183303 Title: Can't create new wireless network using mac80211 based drivers Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1815172] Re: [bionic] drm/i915: softpin broken, needs to be fixed for 32bit mesa

2019-09-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Timo, if I remember correctly, there were some schools that were affected by this issue, but I wasn't able to reproduce it in the office due to lack of similar hardware. Unfortunately it's not easy to check which were those schools; but I can keep an eye on this issue, in case I hear about

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1815172] Re: Black screen on skylake after 18.0 => 18.2 update

2019-03-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Exactly. I did the "verification-done-bionic" step for 18.2.2 in comment #12 above; and unfortunately I don't have an affected school nearby, where I could test 18.2.8 in cosmic, and installing cosmic in a remote school would be hard. Thanks a lot Timo! -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Just correcting a wrong comment (#2) I made: > It happens on both 32bit and 64bit installations. I asked the school that reported the issue on 64bit to check again, and they said they have a 32bit installation after all. So the problem has only been reported in 32bit installations; I don't know

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I tried a small kernel bisection using the ubuntu kernel binaries, 4.19.2-041902=fails, 4.19.3-041903=works -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1815172 Title: Black screen on

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I don't know the software stacks involved: If I understood it correctly, mesa 18.3.3 doesn't work with older kernels while 18.0 did work, and so I'll do a bisection to see which kernel commit fixes the issue, and then distro kernel maintainers may cherrypick it for older kernels. If there's no

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hello Sergii, I tried with 4.20.7 and it appears to work fine! Thanks! Output of the commands: # uname -a Linux srv-6gym-chalk 4.20.7-042007-generic #201902061234 SMP Wed Feb 6 17:49:39 UTC 2019 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux # file /usr/bin/glxinfo /usr/bin/glxinfo: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1815172]

2019-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I just tried with 4.18.0-14-generic, the same issue happens there as well. And, another school reported the issue on HD Graphics 630: root@pc02:~# lspci -nn -k | grep -A 2 VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 [8086:5912] (rev 04) Subsystem:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1815172] Re: Black screen on skylake after 18.0 => 18.2 update

2019-02-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I verify that the bionic-proposed package addresses the issue. Tested in: # lspci -nn -k | grep -A 2 VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 [8086:5912] (rev 04) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd HD Graphics 630 [1458:d000] Kernel

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1815172] [NEW] Black screen on skylake after 18.0 => 18.2 update

2019-02-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Several schools reported black screens after normally updating their Ubuntu boxes from 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1 to 18.2.2-0ubuntu1~18.04.1. Downgrading mesa fixes the problem. lspci: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:1912] (rev

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 388547]

2018-12-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This issue got *much* worse recently, it now affects keyboard layout switching as well, so many applications like tuxpaint became completely unusable. Example: In Ubuntu 14.04, I run `tuxpaint --fullscreen`. I press Win+Space, the Gnome-defined method to switch my keyboard layout from "us,gr" to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1761606] Re: Two Wi-Fi network applets appear after logging back into live-usb Lubuntu 18.04 session.

2018-12-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
And another test would be: In /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop to replace: Exec=nm-applet with: Exec=nm-applet --indicator ...which hopefully turns off autodetection and always uses indicator- applet-complete. Does that work? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1761606] Re: Two Wi-Fi network applets appear after logging back into live-usb Lubuntu 18.04 session.

2018-12-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
It appears to be a race condition, like maybe nm-applet first registers itself in the tray, then indicator-applet-complete is loaded, and it shows nm-applet a second time. While if nm-applet starts after indicator-applet-complete has finished loading, it doesn't register itself in the tray, only

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1718227] Re: replacement of ifupdown with netplan needs integration for /etc/network/if{up, down}.d scripts

2018-03-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
For the maintainers of the affected packages to be able to help in this issue, addressing the main question already stated above would be most helpful: To support netplan, do we have to implement netlink events listeners ourselves? I'm not sure all maintainers are willing to do that. Or is there

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1720908] Re: Firefox cannot load Flash because of libxul broken dependency

2017-10-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Chris thank you very much for taking care of both issues. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720908 Title: Firefox cannot load Flash because of libxul broken

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1605571] Re: apt install --no-install-recommends fcitx-bin, breaks dead keys

2016-07-23 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Gunnar, the live CD seeds are a different thing from package dependencies. It's a text file containing a list of packages that are preinstalled in the live CD, but the installer might decide not to include them in the installed system. Ubuntu-mate has only fcitx-bin in its live CD seeds:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1605571] Re: apt install --no-install-recommends fcitx-bin, breaks dead keys

2016-07-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The following commands fix the MATE live CD session: $ sudo apt install --no-install-recommends fcitx-data fcitx-module-x11 $ fcitx I.e. Martin if you want, you can add those 2 packages in the seeds, and keep the --no-install-recommends to avoid installing the whole fcitx stack. And of course

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1550325] Re: gnome-language-selector is not MATE compatible [debdiff attached]

2016-07-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote 2 hours ago: > I would suggest that a separate bug is submitted > about IM configuration in Ubuntu MATE live session. Reverting the fix of this current bug report solves the regression, but OK, I've filed LP bug 1605571 as you requested. I found out that this

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1550325] Re: gnome-language-selector is not MATE compatible [debdiff attached]

2016-07-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi, this patch indeed caused bug #1501832 to resurrect. Test case: Boot with ubuntu-mate-16.04.1-desktop-i386.iso Select "Greek" in syslinux. Select the live session. Open mate-terminal. Press Alt+Shift to switch to the Greek keyboard layout. Type ; and then type a. This is supposed to show ά.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1550325] Re: gnome-language-selector is not MATE compatible [debdiff attached]

2016-07-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Since both gnome-flashback and MATE have the same issue, while Unity doesn't have it, I think MATE should match gnome-flashback in both language-selector and /etc/default/im-config, not Unity. Btw, when I experience this issue, `ps aux` shows [fcitx] . -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

2016-05-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The network-manager package still ships /etc/dnsmasq.d/network-manager with "bind-interfaces" in it and that breaks the TFTP server of dnsmasq and sometimes even the DNS server of dnsmasq. "bind-dynamic" is a little better, but too unreliable to be used in production. So this bug is still not

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1584314] Re: Togo keyboard layout / compose keys

2016-05-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Gunnar, the issue was that in some cases, typing the Greek key for accent (tonos, the key is ";"), and then after releasing it, typing "α", resulted in two separate characters, i.e. ;+α=´α instead of the correct ;+α=ά At first I thought this was because of ibus, because I was seeing the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-05-20 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2016-04-29:#43 > @Alkis, right, the line changed was what you suggested in the upstream report > and in comment #33, > if that's incorrect/incomplete could you update the upstream report? I'm sorry guys for some reason I wasn't getting

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Martin, I don't have access to any systems without network-manager (that's ubuntu-server installations, I imagine?) so I cannot say if it currently works with plain ifupdown or not, and if the patch will break it. Let's assume the worst, that it now works there and that the patch will break

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I just tried it and it indeed solves the performance issues: Old version 1:3.18.3-1ubuntu3: $ vblank_mode=0 glxgears 27418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5483.539 FPS New version 1:3.18.4-0ubuntu0.1: $ vblank_mode=0 glxgears 39851 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7970.179 FPS ** Tags removed:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-25 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@pitti, since 1) wouter isn't planning to fix this upstream soonish (Debian freeze is months ahead), 2) the issue is serious, i.e. people that install nbd-client, then randomly don't have network-manager running after reboots, 3) the included patch is surely better than the existing situation,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-25 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1487679 Title: Breaking ordering cycle by

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-04-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@seb128, thanks for releasing the fix, but it appears that not all the patch from comment #36 was applied: - auth_self - auth_self + yes + yes is still "auth_self" in accountsservice 0.6.40-2ubuntu10, and I think that it takes priority over , so the problem still persists

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Yup, I'm using your 1:3.18.3+git20160418-1ubuntu3 metacity many hours per day on my main work PC. i386, Xenial, Core i5-4440 @ 3.10 GHz, 8 GB RAM. I haven't seen any regressions so far, and I cannot even reproduce the issue Dmitry reported; although I've seen some recent commits of yours that

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thank you Alberts, yup that indeed increased the performance a lot: xenial-metacity --no-composite: 30407 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6081.219 FPS ppa-metacity --no-composite: 37147 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7429.385 FPS marco --no-composite: 37146 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7429.081 FPS Alberts,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-04-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@desrt, isn't that explained in comment #33, i.e. in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-messages/+bug/1192300/comments/13 i.e. in patch https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-messages/tell-accounts-services/+merge/93290 ? SetXHasMessages is called by the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-18 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Alberts I'm mostly using i386 installations so I could only test amd64 in a VM. I did saw a performance improvement there, but it wasn't as big as in the real hardware case... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I'm having a hard time applying all the last e.g. 20 upstream commits to the Xenial tree. @Dmitry, since you'll be merging the upstream with the Ubuntu tree anyway in order to test it youself, would it be possible to push the result somewhere, e.g. in launchpad, or publish a .deb in a PPA, so

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> only when the windows repainted themselves they started to become visible. I've seen that in the past about 5 times in the last 2 years. I don't remember which LTS gnome-flashback version I was using. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Alberts, I'm sorry, the (new) client that I tested with is giving me very inconsistent results, even by just rebooting it, and I'm not going to use it in benchmarks again in the future. It's a 3-year-old AMD-based laptop; maybe the problem is in the radeon driver or in its power states, anyway,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Alberts, I tried applying the latest 13 commits from the test-3-18 branch on top of Xenial's metacity. If my benchmarks were correct, it made things even slower. glmark2 score: xenial-metacity --no-composite: 311 test-3-18-metacity --no-composite: 154 xenial-marco --no-composite: 902 I.e.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 221363] Re: Policy Kit Unlock Buttons Greyed Out when using NX / VNC / LTSP

2016-04-12 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Since noone has answered for 4 months, and since some related commits have been made, I'm marking it fix released in LTSP. ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-04-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #94895 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94895 ** Also affects: accountsservice via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94895 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-04-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Here's another way to reproduce it: $ ssh -X localhost $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 & $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true It

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I confirm that by enabling NetworkManager-wait-online.service in Debian Stretch, I started getting dependency cycles. Replacing "# Default-Start: S" with "# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5" didn't solve the cycles. Any fixes or workarounds for Xenial? For now, I removed "Required start: $network" from

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-04-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Here is one method to see the dialog without working remotely: sudo sed 's/yes/auth_self/' -i /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy Then press Alt+Ctrl+F2 to switch to vt2, and Alt+Ctrl+F7 to switch back to vt7. After testing, to revert the change, run: sudo sed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
To sum up, two problems: 1) `metacity (and marco) --composite` in 12.04 and 14.04 had only 60% of the compiz performance. 2) `metacity` (both composite and no-composite) got a lot slower in 16.04, at 60% and 25% respectively of the compiz performance. -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> Any chance that you could track down version when it started to be slow? > Was composite already slow in previous LTS? Initial tests show that metacity had about the same performance as marco in 12.04 and in 14.04. In those versions, `metacity (or marco) --composite` performs only about 60% as

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

2016-04-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
mterry, charlesk, I took the liberty of subscribing you because I think it involves this commit: https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-messages/tell-accounts-services/+merge/93290 The issue is happening to me as well, on Ubuntu 16.04 gnome-flashback, in 2 cases: 1) sometimes when I try

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Yet another benchmark, glmark2, in a very recent core i5 client. Scores: No WM: 2058 marco --no-composite: 1894 compiz : 1878 metacity --no-composite: 742 xcompmgr: 716 marco --composite: 708 metacity --composite: 441 In an ideal world, gnome-flashback would support compiz first, then `metacity

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

2016-04-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I was able to reproduce the issue in Debian Stretch after applying an Ubuntu specific patch to it. So I'm suspecting that Ubuntu's etwork- manager might be involved in this, I've put it to the affects list. Specifically, by editing Debian's /lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service like this:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1565640] Re: Set compositing-manager=false by default

2016-04-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> Probably way easier is to document, to execute in terminal: > gsettings set org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager false It's easy for one sysadmin to run a few commands in a terminal. It's not easy for hundreds of students, e.g. 5-10 years old, to run a few commands in a terminal. Sysadmins

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1565640] Re: Set compositing-manager=false by default

2016-04-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> @Alberts, I'll do some more tests and come up with hard numbers concerning the performance of metacity with or without compositing. I did some benchmarks and reported them in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/1566157 Now I'm more convinced that metacity's

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Here's another benchmark, with an SDL 2D game, teeworlds, running full screen: no wm: 220 FPS metacity --no-composite: 220 metacity --composite: 130 compiz: 218 xcompmgr: 130 compton: 129 I really think that the user's choices would be: 1) compiz, for every PC that supports it, 2) metacity

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
And here are some numbers for glxgears again (on another pc), but with xcompmgr and compton included. The first column is the WM used, the second is the FPS for glxgears, and the third the FPS for glxgears -fullscreen: no wm 221 15 metacity --no-composite 170 15 metacity --composite

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I run another set of benchmarks using x11perf. I don't know how much they can help in pinpointing the issue(s), but they do show that `metacity --composite` is extremely slower than `metacity --no-composite` or `compiz`. I'm attaching the output in LibreOffice Calc format, I think it's more

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] Re: Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Ah, I forgot to include the results without a window manager as a comparison: $ killall metacity & sleep 5 && glxgears -fullscreen & sleep 20 && killall glxgears 44884 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8976.656 FPS 44905 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8980.993 FPS Normalized: 118 FPS, the fastest of all. $

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1566157] [NEW] Metacity's compositing is too slow

2016-04-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: I did the following benchmarks between `metacity --no-composite`, `metacity --composite`, and `compiz`, in Ubuntu 16.04. First, I disabled vsync: $ cat ~/.drirc Then I ran glxgears as follows: $ metacity --no-composite --replace & sleep 5 &&

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1565640] Re: Set compositing-manager=false by default

2016-04-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@Alberts, Dmitry: > No compositor means - no desktop window or it will be black - you will never > see background. > My plan is to fix this in Xenial+1. Less patches will mean less work for me, > too :P That's a good example, does that mean that in Ubuntu 16.10 if one doesn't use compositing he

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1565640] Re: Set compositing-manager=false by default

2016-04-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@Alberts, I'll do some more tests and come up with hard numbers concerning the performance of metacity with or without compositing. I do believe that in some cases it will be possible to optimize the performance through appropriate bug reports and patches; but I also strongly believe that there

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1551283] Re: ibus/im-config in Ubuntu GNOME

2016-03-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> ... I'll try to raise the issue in Debian's im-config, ... I will ask that ibus isn't running in locales where it's not needed... I installed Debian Stretch with the Gnome desktop environment and neither im-config nor ibus were installed by default there. So I cannot report it in Debian, as it

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1551283] Re: ibus/im-config in Ubuntu GNOME

2016-03-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thank you very much Gunnar, the latest PPA changes work as expected for me in gnome-flashback, i.e. ibus isn't running and I can type Greek just fine. What you have in the PPA is a good compromise for 16.04, please keep it that way. For the future, post 16.04, I'll try to raise the issue in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1551283] Re: ibus/im-config in Ubuntu GNOME

2016-03-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi Gunnar, > May I ask: Which display language are you using? If it's something else but Greek, can you please switch to Greek, log out, log in again, and then try to type in Greek (with IBus running). Does that make a difference? I tested with display language = Greek. I haven't tested with

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1551283] Re: "Region & Language" settings should allow you to set keyboard input method system

2016-03-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> With those changes, im-config (and gnome-language-selector) will default to IBus in Ubuntu GNOME. Hi, I've tested the packages from the PPA under Xenial's gnome-flashback, and now I got ibus running by default. And it again breaks keyboard layout switching with the default Win+Space, so I

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1532484] Re: Don't warn about unsigned extension installed via Debian packages

2016-02-16 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This is fixed in Debian, why can't we apply the patch in Ubuntu? @chrisccoulson, could you please provide some reasoning behind "This isn't something that we're going to be changing in Ubuntu"? @bdrung, I have the following xul extensions installed: xul-ext-adblock-plus

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 221363] Re: Policy Kit Unlock Buttons Greyed Out when using NX / VNC / LTSP

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Is this still an issue in recent Ubuntu/LTSP versions? ** Changed in: ltsp (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to system-tools-backends in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 891793] Re: Login with USB key or smart card

2015-12-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Hi, LDM will be deprecated in LTSP 6, so I don't think anyone's going to work on this issue. So I'm marking it "Won't Fix". ** Changed in: ltsp Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1502570] Re: gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution

2015-10-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thank you Dmitry. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1502570 Title: gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution Status in gnome-panel package in Ubuntu: Fix

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1502570] Re: gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution

2015-10-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Because then we would lose all the other recommended packages: http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/gnome-panel alacarteeasy GNOME menu editing tool evolution-data-serverevolution database backend server gnome-appletsVarious applets for the GNOME panel - binary files

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1502570] Re: gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution

2015-10-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Would it be at all possible to have this in Wily? We're thinking of installing 15.10 in some schools here instead of 14.04, and it would make things a bit easier for us. Thank you very much in any case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-08 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
1) It works fine for me with no regressions at all, thank you very much. 2) I just noticed that contrary to what I wrote in the bug title, ibus also breaks Unity, but only a little, so I hadn't noticed before. It eats up the accent but only the first time that the user tries it. I.e. ";" + "a" =

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Gunnar, one of the 3 problems here is that im-config starts ibus while it shouldn't. We Greeks have no need for ibus, and IM_CONFIG_DEFAULT_MODE=auto should understand that and act accordingly like im-switch did in the past. In the past I've exchanged some emails with Osamu, the im-config

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1502570] [NEW] gnome-panel indirectly installs evolution

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/gnome-panel gnome-panel Recommends: evolution-common ...which in turn Recommends: evolution Is this on purpose? Could you please lower the "Recommends" to "Suggests"? Gnome-flashback isn't a flavor with a live CD etc, so it makes more sense to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The problem seems to be some incompatibility between ibus and gnome-flashback. ibus doesn't cause problems in Unity but it does cause this problem in flashback. A workaround for gnome-flashback would be to conflict with ibus until this is solved. A workaround for users:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Also affects: im-config (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ibus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-settings-daemon in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1481025] Re: Keyboard shortcut for layout switching works in Unity but not in Gnome-Flashback

2015-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
> How can you tell that im-config shouldn't start IBus? Isn't that why system settings vs user settings exist? For example, my /etc/default/keyboard reads: XKBLAYOUT="us,gr" XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" Then for example Gnome puts those as the default layouts for my session.

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