[Bug 924413] Re: When Universal Access text size is large, Unity Dash may space icons such that some of them are off the edge of the desktop

2012-02-14 Thread Silas S. Brown
** Attachment added: Screen shot of the problem https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/924413/+attachment/2737804/+files/screenshot.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924413 Title:

[Bug 924413] Re: When Universal Access text size is large, Unity Dash may space icons such that some of them are off the edge of the desktop

2012-02-14 Thread Silas S. Brown
The above screenshot was taken by doing sleep 30 ; xwd -screen and then calling up the Dash. As you can see Dash did not manage to fit itself within the available screen space. This was on an eeePC with fonts set to large. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 931963] Re: File upload dialog does not fit netbook screen when Unity's Accessibility font size is set to Large

2012-02-14 Thread Silas S. Brown
** Attachment added: Screenshot of file dialog not fitting on screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/931963/+attachment/2738001/+files/screenshot1.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 931963] Re: File upload dialog does not fit netbook screen when Unity's Accessibility font size is set to Large

2012-02-14 Thread Silas S. Brown
** Attachment added: Screenshot of workaround: zoom the file dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/931963/+attachment/2738021/+files/screenshot2.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 931963] [NEW] File upload dialog does not fit netbook screen when Unity's Accessibility font size is set to Large

2012-02-14 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: See attached screenshots. The first screenshot is a full-screen grab of an eeePC netbook running Firefox when I pressed Upload a file in this bug tracker and typed scr (the first three letters of a file I have called screenshot). As you can see the relevant part of the

[Bug 924410] [NEW] Unity Dash ignores changes to Universal Access text size

2012-01-31 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: Unity Dash appears to space its icons according to the text size that is set at the start of the session. But if you go to System Settings / Universal Access / Text Size and set it to Larger, and then bring up Unity Dash again, the icon spacing is unchanged. If however you

[Bug 924410] Re: Unity Dash ignores changes to Universal Access text size

2012-01-31 Thread Silas S. Brown
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[Bug 924413] [NEW] When Universal Access text size is large, Unity Dash may space icons such that some of them are off the edge of the desktop

2012-01-31 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: When Universal Access text size (in System Settings) is set to largest (and you log out and log in again at this size), Unity Dash may space icons such that some of them are off the edge of the desktop and there is no way to access them. It would be nice to take screen width

[Bug 924413] Re: When Universal Access text size is large, Unity Dash may space icons such that some of them are off the edge of the desktop

2012-01-31 Thread Silas S. Brown
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924413 Title: When Universal Access text size is large, Unity Dash may space icons such that some of them are off the edge of the desktop To manage

[Bug 745608] Re: [915GM] font corruption on Intel GMA900

2012-02-01 Thread Silas S. Brown
The DebugWait workaround worked for me on an EeePC 900 using Ubuntu 11.10. I added it to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-quirks.conf as there weren't any xorg.conf files in /etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 745608] Re: [915GM] font corruption on Intel GMA900

2012-02-01 Thread Silas S. Brown
Actually the problem has not completely disappeared after the DebugWait workaround. But it does seem to be much less frequent. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/745608 Title: [915GM]

[Bug 801741] [NEW] Keystrokes sometimes dropped immediately after a window is closed

2011-06-24 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: Only when using the Openbox window manager, using WINE with Wenlin from http://www.wenlin.com/ (you can try the free demo version) I noticed some keystrokes go missing. Turns out the keystroke that goes missing is always the one immediately AFTER the keystroke that closed

[Bug 801741] Re: Keystrokes sometimes dropped immediately after a window is closed

2011-06-24 Thread Silas S. Brown
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[Bug 924413] Re: When Universal Access text size is large, Unity Dash may space icons such that some of them are off the edge of the desktop

2012-03-06 Thread Silas S. Brown
I added the screenshot as requested but this bug is still marked Incomplete. Am I supposed to set the status back to Confirmed myself? How? (The controls are not obvious.) We don't want the system to automatically expire it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 924413] Re: When Universal Access text size is large, Unity Dash may space icons such that some of them are off the edge of the desktop

2012-03-15 Thread Silas S. Brown
Thanks. Is there any way I can try 12.04 beta on my netbook without actually installing it? I only have one netbook and I don't want to risk losing a working system. I can't seem to find a live USB for 12.04 beta. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 731424] Re: X crashes when I set a Python Tkinter edit control to display a long text string in 25pt DejaVu font

2012-02-20 Thread Silas S. Brown
This bug mysteriously seems to have returned on my old Ubuntu 11.04 box (which is still taking security updates); is it possible that the 11.04 package has regressed? X11 crashes when a 25pt Tk input box contains a lot of text and you click in it and press Home, or Control-A for Select All. --

[Bug 805817] [NEW] -w option to set wallpaper fails silently when given a relative path

2011-07-05 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: When I do: cd wallpapers pcmanfm -w pattern.jpg || echo false nothing happens to the wallpaper, and there is no false printed. However, it's OK if I give it the full path: pcmanfm -w $(pwd)/pattern.jpg but there is nothing in the pcmanfm --help text to warn that full path

[Bug 805817] Re: -w option to set wallpaper fails silently when given a relative path

2011-07-05 Thread Silas S. Brown
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/805817 Title: -w option to set wallpaper fails silently when given a relative path To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 882769] [NEW] Too easy to accidentally close a tab with no confirmation when using Dvorak keyboard

2011-10-27 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: The New Tab keyboard shortcut is Shift+Ctrl+T, and the Close Tab shortcut is Shift+Ctrl+W. On a Dvorak keyboard, T and W are right next to each other (they are in the positions of K and comma on an English QWERTY keyboard). Therefore it is too easy to hit Close Tab by

[Bug 882769] Re: Too easy to accidentally close a tab with no confirmation when using Dvorak keyboard

2011-10-27 Thread Silas S. Brown
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882769 Title: Too easy to accidentally close a tab with no confirmation when using Dvorak keyboard To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 669211] Re: Xpdf segfaults on start in libpoppler.so.7

2011-05-09 Thread Silas S. Brown
Ursula's .deb file fixes it for me. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669211 Title: Xpdf segfaults on start in libpoppler.so.7 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 669211] Re: Xpdf segfaults on start in libpoppler.so.7

2011-05-09 Thread Silas S. Brown
Unfortunately there seems to be another bug in Ursula's package. I don't know if this bug also occurs in the official xpdf package because the official xpdf package crashes so I can't test any more. Ursula's package does not crash, but: I was viewing a multi-page PDF file which I had generated

[Bug 731424] Re: X crashes when I set a Python Tkinter edit control to display a long text string in 25pt DejaVu font

2011-05-05 Thread Silas S. Brown
Thanks, I installed Bryce's 2 .deb files with dpkg -i, and now X no longer crashes when I run the above Python script (or the application I'm developing that I hit this in). But as you say there are still problems displaying the text. The characters are displayed only when they are selected with

[Bug 800150] [NEW] squashfs errors; work around by combining CD with USB boot?

2011-06-21 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: When attempting to install Lubuntu 11.04 on an old laptop (in response to one of those my old laptop doesn't run Windows anymore help requests from a friend), I was getting squashfs errors from the install CD that were causing random failures and general chaos, although the

[Bug 800150] Re: squashfs errors; work around by combining CD with USB boot?

2011-06-21 Thread Silas S. Brown
It's possible that a Plop Boot Manager CD would have helped me load Lubuntu from the USB drive. http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html (I did not try this, since I've already returned my friend's laptop with Debian 6 on it.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 769866] Re: tab completion no longer escapes filenames

2011-05-03 Thread Silas S. Brown
I believe there is a bug on line 1587 of /etc/bash_completion, the -o default on that line should be changed to -o filenames. I haven't checked if 10.10 had -o default. If it did, then I expect the changed behaviour was due to a change in the readline library. -o default means tell readline to

[Bug 731424] Re: X crashes when I set a Python Tkinter edit control to display a long text string in 25pt DejaVu font

2011-05-03 Thread Silas S. Brown
Bug is still present after upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/731424 Title: X crashes when I set a Python Tkinter edit control to display a long text string in

[Bug 731424] [NEW] X crashes when I set a Python Tkinter edit control to display a long text string in 25pt DejaVu font

2011-03-08 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: I am on Ubuntu 10.10 with the default X server, and the following Python code crashes it every time: from Tkinter import * f=Frame() f.option_add('*font', -family {DejaVu Sans} -size -25 -weight normal -slant roman -underline 0 -overstrike 0) f.pack() text = StringVar(f)

[Bug 1089050] [NEW] UK copyright law makes this package illegal to distribute

2012-12-11 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: In the UK (but not the rest of the world), the copyright on the Authorized (King James) version of the Bible is perpetual and it may only be printed, distributed or imported by those who have official royal permission. I don't know if there are any special exceptions for

[Bug 1089053] [NEW] UK copyright law makes this package illegal to distribute

2012-12-11 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: As I reported with the bible-kjv-text package (Bug #1089050), in the UK (but not the rest of the world), the copyright on the Authorized (King James) version of the Bible is perpetual and it may only be printed, distributed or imported by those who have official royal

[Bug 1089053] Re: UK copyright law makes this package illegal to distribute

2012-12-12 Thread Silas S. Brown
Cambridge University Press at http://www.cambridge.org/home/page/item6459996/ say We grant permission to use the text, and license printing or the importation for sale within the UK, as long as we are assured of acceptable quality and accuracy and the permission request form is at

[Bug 1089050] Re: UK copyright law makes this package illegal to distribute

2012-12-12 Thread Silas S. Brown
Cambridge University Press at http://www.cambridge.org/home/page/item6459996/ say We grant permission to use the text, and license printing or the importation for sale within the UK, as long as we are assured of acceptable quality and accuracy and the permission request form is at

[Bug 1619844] Re: [Xenial] shutdown/reboot hangs at "Reached target Shutdown"

2017-12-28 Thread Silas S. Brown
This bug disappeared for me when I did apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-16.04 to upgrade to kernel version 4.10.0 instead of 4.4.0. (I also had proposed-updates in /etc/apt/sources.list, but it was the linux-generic- hwe-16.04 package that really fixed it.) I suspected it was a kernel bug

[Bug 1089053] Re: UK copyright law makes this package illegal to distribute

2018-10-30 Thread Silas S. Brown
Thanks, but Crosswire is in Arizona, which is not in the UK, so Crosswire don't have to worry about UK-specific copyright laws. The distributors of Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd, are based in the UK. So it's Ubuntu that needs to get the permission, not Crosswire. It might be possible for Crosswire to

[Bug 1089053] Re: UK copyright law makes this package illegal to distribute

2018-10-30 Thread Silas S. Brown
Thanks, but Crosswire is in Arizona, which is not in the UK, so Crosswire don't have to worry about UK-specific copyright laws. The distributors of Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd, are based in the UK. So it's Ubuntu that needs to get the permission, not Crosswire. It might be possible for Crosswire to

[Bug 1724876] Re: libreoffice soffice.bin using 100% cpu

2019-01-02 Thread Silas S. Brown
It seems LibreOffice is more likely to use high CPU when its windows are in the background. Bringing one to the foreground reduced CPU usage. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724876

[Bug 1808836] [NEW] Adding 64-bit libs for Skype rendered Lenovo G50 laptop unbootable

2018-12-17 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: I used a standard Lubuntu 18.04 LTS i386-destkop live CD to install on a Lenovo G50 laptop, the install went well and booted into the new system nicely, but then I remembered this user might want Skype, so I downloaded the Skype deb and found it was amd64-only. The laptop

[Bug 1724876] Re: libreoffice soffice.bin using 100% cpu

2018-12-28 Thread Silas S. Brown
Also affects LibreOffice 6.0.7.3 on 18.04. In the occurrence I saw, the user had used and closed Calc but had left one Writer document open. All documents visited were made by the user and had no macros, but in case it's relevant I should perhaps mention we have Java disabled as a workaround for

[Bug 1885337] [NEW] LibreOffice Writer selects inappropriate font when Traditional Chinese text is pasted on system that also has TexLive installed

2020-06-26 Thread Silas S. Brown
Public bug reported: LibreOffice 6.0.7 on Ubuntu 18.04, with English (UK) locales selected and running LXDE, reacts to paragraphs of Traditional Chinese text being pasted into LibreOffice Writer by searching the system for a Chinese font and selecting it for the pasted Chinese text.

[Bug 1868706] Re: Snapd postinst script hangs

2020-11-03 Thread Silas S. Brown
Very similar thing happened on Lubuntu 20.04, `apt-get dist-upgrade` said Unpacking snapd (2.47.1+20.04) over (2.46.1+20.04) ... Setting up snapd (2.47.1+20.04) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine.real ... and hung. `pstree` just

Re: [Bug 805817] Re: -w option to set wallpaper given a relative path

2021-08-18 Thread Silas S. Brown
I re-tested in Lubuntu 20.04.2 LTS and reproduced the problem on the current LXQt desktop (pcmanfm-qt 0.14.1), -w works when given an absolute path, while it has no effect (but no error) if the path is relative. I have not had the chance to re-test on the non-Qt LXDE desktop (no longer supported