Re: Unity Going Forward

[Colin Law]

On 17 August 2012 01:51, Jason Warner jason.war...@canonical.com wrote:
 ...
 But there is a cost to this decision. Unity 2D fit a very specific use case
 in very low-end and non-GPU accelerated hardware. By consolidating to Unity
 using LLVMpipe for this specific use case we expect to see some regressions
 in systems supported. This means that a certain class of hardware will no
 longer be supported to run Unity. Unity will run on all GPUs that support
 OpenGL 2.0. The earliest GPUs that meet this requirement are at least 5
 years old[1]. Even so, we know some subset of cards and hardware that could
 previously run Unity 2D will no longer be able to run Unity.

A heads up to make sure that the case of dual monitors with i945
graphics chipset (and possibly others) has been considered.  That
chipset will only run 3d if the virtual desktop is less than 2048
pixels wide so when an external monitor is plugged in only unity-2d
will run at the moment.  If the external monitor is not plugged in
then 3d is ok.  Having removed unity-2d the software will have to cope
with plugging in the external monitor in some way.  Note that this is
an issue for laptops made only a few years ago (Toshiba Satellite for
example).


 For these cases, we are actively working on Unity running through LLVMpipe
 which is a work in progress. Unity through LLVMpipe is CPU bound which means
 systems with decently modern CPU architectures and non-GPU accelerated
 hardware should be able to run Unity. As I mentioned, this approach is a
 work in progress as we tweak the experience and effects to maximize the
 performance. We expect this to shake out over the rest of this cycle and
 bleed into 13.04 as well[2][3].

Is it correct that at the moment a machine that will not run 2d will
not run at all after todays update?  This seems to be the case for me
at the moment, I see no unity shell on screen and in .xsession-errors
I see
compiz (unityshell) - Error: OpenGL 1.4+ not supported

When can I expect llvmpipe to start working so I know whether to log bugs?

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Re: Unity Going Forward

[Colin Law]

On 20 August 2012 00:30, Jason Warner jason.war...@canonical.com wrote:
 Hi Colin -

 On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:

 On 17 August 2012 01:51, Jason Warner jason.war...@canonical.com wrote:
  ...
  But there is a cost to this decision. Unity 2D fit a very specific use
  case
  in very low-end and non-GPU accelerated hardware. By consolidating to
  Unity
  using LLVMpipe for this specific use case we expect to see some
  regressions
  in systems supported. This means that a certain class of hardware will
  no
  longer be supported to run Unity. Unity will run on all GPUs that
  support
  OpenGL 2.0. The earliest GPUs that meet this requirement are at least 5
  years old[1]. Even so, we know some subset of cards and hardware that
  could
  previously run Unity 2D will no longer be able to run Unity.

 A heads up to make sure that the case of dual monitors with i945
 graphics chipset (and possibly others) has been considered.  That
 chipset will only run 3d if the virtual desktop is less than 2048
 pixels wide so when an external monitor is plugged in only unity-2d
 will run at the moment.  If the external monitor is not plugged in
 then 3d is ok.  Having removed unity-2d the software will have to cope
 with plugging in the external monitor in some way.  Note that this is
 an issue for laptops made only a few years ago (Toshiba Satellite for
 example).


 Is there an bug for this? if not, please file one so we can track it.
 Thanks.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1039051




 
  For these cases, we are actively working on Unity running through
  LLVMpipe
  which is a work in progress. Unity through LLVMpipe is CPU bound which
  means
  systems with decently modern CPU architectures and non-GPU accelerated
  hardware should be able to run Unity. As I mentioned, this approach is a
  work in progress as we tweak the experience and effects to maximize the
  performance. We expect this to shake out over the rest of this cycle and
  bleed into 13.04 as well[2][3].

 Is it correct that at the moment a machine that will not run 2d will
 not run at all after todays update?  This seems to be the case for me
 at the moment, I see no unity shell on screen and in .xsession-errors
 I see
 compiz (unityshell) - Error: OpenGL 1.4+ not supported

 When can I expect llvmpipe to start working so I know whether to log bugs?


 The rought ETA is sometime just after FF, so adding some time for testing
 and shakeout, it might be closer to beta1.

I have submitted a bug for this too in order to track it.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1039155

It is unfortunate that unity-2d has been removed before the
replacement is available as now one of my test machines is out of
action for Quantal testing.  I can logon but then just get the
background image and no launcher or panel.

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Re: Which Ubuntu projects/applications use Qt? (I'd like to offer my help)

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On 21 August 2012 18:57, a.gra...@gmail.com a.gra...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 On 21 August 2012 20:26, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 hi,
 Am Dienstag, den 21.08.2012, 14:22 +0300 schrieb a.gra...@gmail.com:

 Now that the code won't be maintained anymore by Canonical I'd like to
 move to a different project.

 why do you move away ? unity-2d might not see support from canonical,
 but i know there are many users out there that really like it, it is in
 universe, the code is public and free ... why not go on contributing to
 such a great project ?

Is there a way I can re-install it back into Quantal?

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Re: Unity Going Forward

[Colin Law]

On 20 August 2012 19:20, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
 On 20 August 2012 00:30, Jason Warner jason.war...@canonical.com wrote:
 Hi Colin -

 On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:

 On 17 August 2012 01:51, Jason Warner jason.war...@canonical.com wrote:
  ...
  But there is a cost to this decision. Unity 2D fit a very specific use
  case
  in very low-end and non-GPU accelerated hardware. By consolidating to
  Unity
  using LLVMpipe for this specific use case we expect to see some
  regressions
  in systems supported. This means that a certain class of hardware will
  no
  longer be supported to run Unity. Unity will run on all GPUs that
  support
  OpenGL 2.0. The earliest GPUs that meet this requirement are at least 5
  years old[1]. Even so, we know some subset of cards and hardware that
  could
  previously run Unity 2D will no longer be able to run Unity.

 A heads up to make sure that the case of dual monitors with i945
 graphics chipset (and possibly others) has been considered.  That
 chipset will only run 3d if the virtual desktop is less than 2048
 pixels wide so when an external monitor is plugged in only unity-2d
 will run at the moment.  If the external monitor is not plugged in
 then 3d is ok.  Having removed unity-2d the software will have to cope
 with plugging in the external monitor in some way.  Note that this is
 an issue for laptops made only a few years ago (Toshiba Satellite for
 example).


 Is there an bug for this? if not, please file one so we can track it.
 Thanks.

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1039051

That bug has been marked as a duplicate of #824099, Max GL texture
size can break multi-head [1], which is marked Won't Fix.  Can anyone
explain why this capability will not be provided by llvmpipe on
Quantal?

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/824099

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Re: Ubuntu 13.10 should be upgraded to LTS status

[Colin Law]

On 18 December 2013 21:40, Luke Faraone lfara...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 ...
 Do note that the default download of 12.04 from the Ubuntu site will
 result in a running system with the kernel in 13.10, see
 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack. That said, if
 there's hardware that is broken by later releases, a bug should be
 filed, and it should be fixed.

For instance https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1212821

I suspect that a fair proportion of the machines still running XP may
well not run Unity satisfactorily due to insufficient 3D capabilities
in the graphics h/w.  On 12.04 Unity 2d works fine but an upgrade to
14.04 could be disastrous.  I don't know whether the upgrade would
check the graphics capability.


 What is lacking here is a clear migration plan for XP users to follow,
 and I think that is a missed opportunity. Whether or not 13.10 LTS (or
 13.10 LTS-Lite) is an appropriate part of that migration plan is
 probably to miss the main point.

For old machines it may well be that Lubuntu would be a better option.

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Testing Unity with llvmpipe

[Colin Law]

I gather that Unity 2d will be dropped in 12.10, being replaced by
Unity with llvmpipe.  Is this an appropriate place to ask if there a
schedule for when this will be available for testing?  If so does
anyone know what the schedule is?

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Re: Testing Unity with llvmpipe

[Colin Law]

On 20 July 2012 06:17, Didier Roche didro...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 Le 19/07/2012 22:59, Colin Law a écrit :

 I gather that Unity 2d will be dropped in 12.10, being replaced by
 Unity with llvmpipe.  Is this an appropriate place to ask if there a
 schedule for when this will be available for testing?  If so does
 anyone know what the schedule is?

 Colin

 Hi Colin,

 we are discussing this for some weeks already with upstream.
 I guess most of PS people aren't subscribed to this mailing list, you should
 rather ask them in the unity-dev mailing list (
 https://launchpad.net/~unity-dev)

Thanks Didier, I will do that.

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Re: chromium no longer maintained

[Colin Law]

On 4 September 2012 13:26, Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi David,

 Bad said, Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, it gets forked once in a while
 after a release to update packages, see wikipedia.

 Anyway I think chromium is still the most recent, from when 12.04 was
 released, so may somebody will just need to pick it up for 12.10 I
 guess

12.10 currently has chromium-browser 20.0.1132.47 Ubuntu 12.10 (144678)

Colin


 2012/9/4 David Klasinc bigwh...@lubica.net:
 On 09/04/2012 02:10 PM, Nicolas Michel wrote:

 In conclusion : Google Chrome is mostly Chromium but not entirely. And
 one is not the fork of the other because in a fork, the codebase tends
 to differienciate along the time which is not the case here. One is
 based on the other, plus some more features.


 Apart from the licenses, Chrome is to Chromium what Ubuntu is to Debian.

 But is this discussion really necessary here on this list? Unmaintained
 package is chromium-browser. That's all that matters.

 :)

 Regards,
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Re: Update manager mandating rebooting

[Colin Law]

On 31 October 2012 11:49, Daniel J Blueman dan...@quora.org wrote:
 I'd love to hear what other users and developers think about this:

 The refreshed update manager (almost) always displays The computer needs to
 restart to finish installing updates, with a default button Restart
 highlighted. Not only that, the window close button is not present.

I am not supporting the current interface, but just pointing out that
it it still possible to close the update manager by right clicking it
in the launcher and selecting quit.

I notice though that after this mornings updates, which I did via
command line and which updated the kernel the gear icon has not gone
red.  If I run the update manager however it says that I need to
reboot but the icon is still not red.

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Re: Pulse Audio Sound Levels

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On 12 March 2013 00:44, Lanoxx lan...@gmx.net wrote:
 Hi,

 I have a sound system from Teufel (Concept C 200) which has a built in USB
 sound card and an analogue aux input. When I connect the USB cable to my
 computer and the aux cable to my radio, then the sound of the radio does not
 play. When I unplug the USB cable the sound from the radio starts playing
 immediately. I have found out from the hardware manual that the sound card
 is able to control the aux output and mute it or control the volume. On
 windows it is possible to simultaneously enable both usb and aux inputs (see
 [1]). I have not found any way to do the same in Ubuntu so far and I would
 like to know if this is a bug (or missing feature) in which case I would
 report it on launchpad, or if I simply haven't found the right option.

 I have already tried to use alsamixer and pavucontrol. In alsamixer i can
 see that the usb sound card has separate speaker and line devices, but
 changing the volume does not affect the output. In pavucontrol there is
 simply no way to see the difference between speaker and line as there is
 only a single volume control for the usb sound card.

This would probably be better sent to the ubuntu users list
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

Colin

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Re: Sleep mode on Thinkpad x201

[Colin Law]

On 19 March 2013 15:57, Alexandre Strube su...@surak.eti.br wrote:
 Actually, I noticed that this happen when the big display connected to the
 displayport output of the docking station is turned on. The notebook wakes
 up fine, but then the secondary screen is turned on, and Ubuntu wants to
 send the image to it and dies. No keyboard, no nothing. But there is still
 disk activity, god knows why. Still, I don't know to which component I
 should open a bug against.

Does it recover if you disconnect the second display?  I have had
problems if I connect a second screen before powering the screen up,
though not as major as your issues.  It is always ok if I power up the
screen before connecting it to the laptop.  This is not on a Thinkpad.

Colin



 2013/3/19 Jeff Lane jeffrey.l...@canonical.com

 On 03/15/2013 08:33 AM, Alexandre Strube wrote:

 Hello list,

  From 12.10 to 13.04 updated daily, one bug appears and disappears again
 every couple of updates. The bug is related to the Lenovo X201 entering
 sleep mode.

 It's a kind of russian roulette. I never know if the machine will wake
 up again. Most of the time it just stays there. Black screen, no answer
 to capslock or usb, nothing. Just the disk showing activity every now
 and then. Apart from that, the machine is as dead as it can be.

 Sometimes, it works for weeks. Sometimes, at the first time it enters
 sleep mode, things go bad.

 I don't even know what to look for and to which component I should open
 this bug against. Can anyone point me to somewhere?


 I had the same issue and thought it had cleared up, but apparently not as
 I'm seeing exactly the same behaviour.  Here's a quantal bug I filed a while
 back that has been since marked fix-released:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1074589

 As it's a suspend/resume issue, file a kernel bug:

 # ubuntu-bug linux

 I saw the issue in Quantal, it was fixed somehow in an SRU and now appears
 to be in Quantal again. I've also got Raring installed on the machine but
 have not played with it enough to see if this behaviour reproduces in Raring
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Re: Extra Pane in Nautilus

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On 29 March 2013 19:42, Greg Williams mttbrns...@outlook.com wrote:
 Has there been any discussion about improving the user-interaction with the
 Extra Pane feature in Nautilus?

 I'm using 12.04 and make use of the Extra Pane feature a lot. A problem with
 it though is that there is not clear communication/indication about which
 pane is active (ie. which pane the user's keyboard input is going to
 affect). I think some improvements need to be made to this element of the
 design of it. Is this on any of the developers' radar for improvement?

Unfortunately the Gnome developers have decided to completely remove
the Extra Pane feature from Nautilus, along with other useful stuff.
Enjoy it while you can in 12.04 as if/when you upgrade to 13.04 or
above you will lose it completely :(
Note that this is not something that the Ubuntu developers have any
control over, as far as I am aware.

Colin

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Re: Extra Pane in Nautilus

[Colin Law]

On 29 March 2013 22:12, Greg Williams mttbrns...@outlook.com wrote:
 Why won't the Ubuntu-Developers switch to the Marlin File-Browser? Why are
 they continuing to use Nautilus with such a weakening feature base?

I understand that the problem is that Nautilus also handles the
desktop and other stuff.  It is not just the file manager.  There is
nothing to stop you installing Marlin of course.  When I tried it,
however, it seemed rather deficient in some areas.  I submitted some
bugs but there has been little response.  There does not seem to be a
lot of activity on the source.

Colin


 I have no use for Nautilus if it doesn't support the Extra Pane. This is one
 of the most used features of Nautilus by my friends and me. It's one of the
 linux things that pulled me away from using Windows and Windows Explorer.
 I like Gnome 3x but some of the decision those developers make are really
 poorly thought out.

 So why not switch to Marlin or something else that supports Extra Pane
 feature? Anybody know why this switch hasn't already been set in stone?

 From: clan...@googlemail.com
 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:55:08 +
 Subject: Re: Extra Pane in Nautilus
 To: mttbrns...@outlook.com
 CC: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com


 On 29 March 2013 19:42, Greg Williams mttbrns...@outlook.com wrote:
  Has there been any discussion about improving the user-interaction with
  the
  Extra Pane feature in Nautilus?
 
  I'm using 12.04 and make use of the Extra Pane feature a lot. A problem
  with
  it though is that there is not clear communication/indication about
  which
  pane is active (ie. which pane the user's keyboard input is going to
  affect). I think some improvements need to be made to this element of
  the
  design of it. Is this on any of the developers' radar for improvement?

 Unfortunately the Gnome developers have decided to completely remove
 the Extra Pane feature from Nautilus, along with other useful stuff.
 Enjoy it while you can in 12.04 as if/when you upgrade to 13.04 or
 above you will lose it completely :(
 Note that this is not something that the Ubuntu developers have any
 control over, as far as I am aware.

 Colin

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Unity-2d packages in Raring

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Just out of interest does anyone know why, on Raring, I keep getting
updates for unity-2d packages when unity-2d is, I thought, dead and
buried?

Colin

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Re: Unity-2d packages in Raring

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On 2 April 2013 08:11, Didier Roche didro...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 Le 01/04/2013 23:21, Scott Kitterman a écrit :

 On Monday, April 01, 2013 10:15:41 PM Colin Law wrote:

 On 1 April 2013 22:11, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote:

 On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com
 wrote:

 Just out of interest does anyone know why, on Raring, I keep getting
 updates for unity-2d packages when unity-2d is, I thought, dead and
 buried?

 Seems odd unless you are less than 12.10 but there could always be a
 deprecation period.

 I am on Raring.
 $ apt-cache policy unity-2d
 unity-2d:
Installed: 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1
Version table:
   *** 6.12.0daily13.04.01-0ubuntu1 0
  500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe i386
 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

 I do notice that they are all (unity-2d, unity-2d-spread and so on)
 only a few kB each, perhaps they are just placeholders to satisfy
 dependencies that have not been cleaned up yet.  On the other hand I
 am getting updates to them every few days which seems odd.

 They are transitional packages that depend on unity to smooth updates.
 Every
 time unity gets updated, they get updated too.

 Scott K

 As Scott told, they are from Unity sources.

 We need to keep them until next LTS as we support LTS to LTS upgrade so that
 people who only had unity-2d installed will get transitioned to the new
 Unity, even if they removed it in the previous LTS, so that they don't end
 up in an empty session upon upgrade.

OK, that makes sense.  Many thanks.

Colin

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Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

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On 20 May 2013 18:02, Benjamin Kerensa bkere...@ubuntu.com wrote:

 On May 20, 2013 8:10 AM, Daniel J Blueman dan...@quora.org wrote:

 When installing Ubuntu, I always see the source packages enabled by
 default.

 For all the general users I install Ubuntu for (including servers),
 it's an utter waste of bandwidth for everyone, particularly when
 automatically checking once a day. This is amplified eg in schools
 without transparent webcaches etc.

 Anyone get the same feeling that we should have source packages an opt-in?


 I think in most parts of the world 4MB is trivial overhead for a user.
 Although perhaps we should consider it since some developing nations have
 limited bandwidth?

Here in a rural part of Wales (UK) which would not normally be
considered a developing nation, my connection may run as slow as
0.5mbps (depending on the phase of the moon and the weather).  A 4MB
download then takes significantly more than a minute, which is not
trivial when one is waiting for apt-get update to complete.  Assuming
I understand the implications that is.  In addition I know, from the
ubuntu-users list, that a surprising number of users around the world
still have only dial-up speed available.  I have often wondered why
the sources are enabled when the average user is never going to need
them.

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Re: Many, many serious problems with Ubuntu

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On 25 July 2013 04:20, Dale Amon a...@vnl.com wrote:
 I have held back from putting in this report for a very long time
 as my experience reading this list has led me to believe that no
 one will much care because Granny Would Never Do That and she
 certainly Would Never Know How to Do That.

 I have a Thinkpad W520. I have identical second screens, Acer's, at
 home and at work. The laptop moves back and forth with me and thus
 makes the transition back and forth twice a day. I use Mate for my
 work space. I can't stand Unity. Matter of taste and habits. I made
 my choice and it was to stay with what for me worked far better.

 In order to use the VGA connector, I have the BIOS set to the Discrete
 Graphics Mode.

 When I boot, one of three things happens:

 * A blue screen of death before even the grub screen appears
 * A large blinking cursor at the top left of a black screen
   just after the grub screen selection is made.
 * A successful boot where the large blinking cursor turns into
   a small blinking cursor after some interval and then
   it goes to the encryption password screen and the boot
   suceeeds from there.

That sounds like a hardware problem to me.

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Running XMir on Saucy

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Following the announcement on ubuntu-devel I have installed
unity-system-compositor as described in [1] (I did not previously have
the testing ppa enabled).  The machine boots and appears to be running
ok and
ps aux | grep unity-system-compositor
shows it to be running.  However
grep -i xmir /var/log/Xorg.0.log
shows nothing and
sudo cat /var/log/lightdm/unity-system-compositor.log
shows:

/usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor: Symbol
`_ZTVN3mir26DefaultServerConfigurationE' has different size in shared
object, consider re-linking
*** Error in `/usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor': malloc(): memory
corruption: 0x09104628 ***

Is that a bug?

Colin

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/Installing

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Re: Running XMir on Saucy

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On 10 August 2013 10:46, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Following the announcement on ubuntu-devel I have installed
 unity-system-compositor as described in [1] (I did not previously have
 the testing ppa enabled).  The machine boots and appears to be running
 ok and
 ps aux | grep unity-system-compositor
 shows it to be running.  However
 grep -i xmir /var/log/Xorg.0.log
 shows nothing and
 sudo cat /var/log/lightdm/unity-system-compositor.log
 shows:

 /usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor: Symbol
 `_ZTVN3mir26DefaultServerConfigurationE' has different size in shared
 object, consider re-linking
 *** Error in `/usr/sbin/unity-system-compositor': malloc(): memory
 corruption: 0x09104628 ***

The latest upgrade of unity-system-compositor to
0.0.1+13.10.20130810.1-0ubuntu1 seems to have fixed it.

Colin


 Is that a bug?

 Colin

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Re: Upgrade issues

[Colin Law]

On 2 June 2014 10:05, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 hi,
 Am Sonntag, den 01.06.2014, 23:49 -0700 schrieb Dale Amon:
 I've made enough progress to get work done but there are still
 things I don't like much as well as things that don't work.

 you have not told us from where to where and how you upgraded ...

 also what desktop you are running ...

In his last post, in a throw away line he asked  Is there some simple
change to make my gnome mate setup work properly again?.  Why he did
not point this out at the start, given that most of his problems seem
to be UI related I can only wonder.

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Re: Pre-upgrade warnings and advice?

[Colin Law]

On 3 June 2014 00:15, Charl Wentzel charl.went...@vodamail.co.za wrote:
 On 02/06/2014 21:49, Neal McBurnett wrote:

 Ubuntu support for upgrades naturally depends on exactly what is being
 upgraded.  Use of software from outside the official Ubuntu repositories
 (PPA repositories or .deb files or tar.gz packages or the like) means
 upgrades may be more complicated for the user.

 It's always been my experience that when upgrading, all software that is not
 installed by default, are uninstalled and must be installed separately by
 the user after the upgrade.

I don't think that is correct.  Anything installed from the standard
Ubuntu repositories should stay installed and should automatically be
upgraded.

  Mate would definitely fall in this category.

Since mate-desktop is in Universe then I would assume it would be
upgraded rather than uninstalled.

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Re: User education on first boot post install

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On 12 July 2010 20:13, Jeff Lane jeffrey.l...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 12:21 +0200, Gareth McCumskey wrote:
 This is my first mail to this list so forgive me if this has already been 
 asked
 or discussed.

 I don't recall this being discussed lately, and it's a great first
 post :-)

Anyone know why are we suddenly receiving posts apparently from 2010?

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Re: User education on first boot post install

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On 6 November 2014 08:57, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 12 July 2010 20:13, Jeff Lane jeffrey.l...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 12:21 +0200, Gareth McCumskey wrote:
 This is my first mail to this list so forgive me if this has already been 
 asked
 or discussed.

 I don't recall this being discussed lately, and it's a great first
 post :-)

 Anyone know why are we suddenly receiving posts apparently from 2010?

OK, I see from a later post it is because they have been waiting
moderation for four years.  Sorry for the noise.

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Re: Unlock Keyring Dialog

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On 21 November 2014 08:16, 沁雨寒眸 ssswm...@vip.qq.com wrote:

 hello

 You can set it

How?

Colin



 ‍

 -- Original --
 From:  Doug Webb;dougw...@shaw.ca;
 Date:  Fri, Nov 21, 2014 02:23 AM
 To:  ubuntu-devel-discussubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com;
 Subject:  Unlock Keyring Dialog

 I am usually entering a web address in the upper left of my screen when
 the keyring dialog is displayed in the lower right corner, 24 inches
 away. Needless to say, I don't see it and my keyboard appears to stop
 working, leaving me frustrated. Since the dialog is going to interrupt
 what I am doing, would you please pop it up where I am working on the
 screen so I'll see it?

 Thank you,
 Doug Webb


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Re: Critical Git Vulnerability

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On 21 December 2014 at 00:45, Alex Oh alexo...@gmail.com wrote:
 http://git-blame.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/git-1856-195-205-214-and-221-and.html

 There is a vulnerability with git pull. Would be great if the git package
 can be updated to version 2.2.1.

 The current version is 1.9.1.

On which version of Ubuntu are you seeing that?  The statement is
meaningless without defining which version of Ubuntu you are referring
to.

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Re: Can't read past apparent/erroneous EOF marker but can append

[Colin Law]

On 23 December 2014 at 16:36, Jeff Archambeault
jjarchambea...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 Is this the right mailing list to post this message to?

Not really, this is for development issues, probably better on the
Ubuntu Users list
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

Colin

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Re: rplay fails to run

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On 8 February 2015 at 14:58, Maurizio Dall'Acqua mau@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 I would like to add sound to ctwm which uses rplay as a tool to play
 sound events. I have downloaded:

Hi Maurizio

This list is not intended for user support it is for development
issues.  I suggest trying the ubuntu-users list.  If you ask there
don't forget to say which version of ubuntu you are using and what you
mean by 'downoaded'.  If you mean installed then describe how you
installed them.

Colin

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Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

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On 15 January 2015 at 14:49, Cláudio Sampaio pat...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 15 January 2015 at 14:37, Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com
 wrote:
  ...
  I have Ubuntu Server instances in the Cloud, with very tiny root disks,
  one
  of which has run for several years, autoupdating, and accumulated 37(!!)
  kernels, which filled up its 8GB root partition.
 
  Around that time a few years ago, I wrote the purge-old-kernels
  command
  (http://manpg.es/purge-old-kernels), which does a very effective job of
  saving your current kernel, and one other known working kernel, while
  deleting the rest.  I was working on getting that into the distro (and
  out
  of the bikeshed package), but Adam Conrad told me that apt would fix
  this,
  itself.  I've CC'd Adam.  Can you advise us, Adam?

 As from 14.04 apt-get autoremove should remove old kernels except for
 current and most recent.


 apt-get autoremove is an arcane command-line tool. I thought by this part
 of the discussion it had became clear that it is not a sensible solution
 (except maybe if auto-scheduled).

It seemed to me that Dustin was not aware of using autoremove,
otherwise why tell us about his purge-old-kernels script, since that
function is now handled by autoremove?   Also, since he is talking
about a server no change to the update-manager gui app is going to be
relevant.  I thought from the OP that this was what was being
discussed.

Nothing I have been posting should be taken to mean that I do not
think an improvement to update-manger is desirable.

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Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

[Colin Law]

On 15 January 2015 at 14:37, Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@canonical.com wrote:
 ...
 I have Ubuntu Server instances in the Cloud, with very tiny root disks, one
 of which has run for several years, autoupdating, and accumulated 37(!!)
 kernels, which filled up its 8GB root partition.

 Around that time a few years ago, I wrote the purge-old-kernels command
 (http://manpg.es/purge-old-kernels), which does a very effective job of
 saving your current kernel, and one other known working kernel, while
 deleting the rest.  I was working on getting that into the distro (and out
 of the bikeshed package), but Adam Conrad told me that apt would fix this,
 itself.  I've CC'd Adam.  Can you advise us, Adam?

As from 14.04 apt-get autoremove should remove old kernels except for
current and most recent.

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Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

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On 14 January 2015 at 15:34, Chris Knutson
christopher.knut...@gmail.com wrote:
 Clearing out old kernel versions manually to be able to upgrade the kernel
 version is something the end user should never have to do. Clearing out old
 kernel version from /boot should be better managed by the software updater
 to intelligently manage historic kernel versions based on available disk
 space on the partition.

I believe that as from 14.04 (I think) only the current and previous
kernels are kept, the others are deleted by autoremove.  Not sure
whether the software updater will autoremove them.

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Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

[Colin Law]

On 14 January 2015 at 16:33, Chris Knutson
christopher.knut...@gmail.com wrote:
 I just had to purge 3 older kernel versions this morning on 14.04 to update
 from 3.13.0-43 to 3.13.0-44

Did you try autoremove?  Alternatively is it possible they were
ancient ones left over from before an upgrade to 14.04?  Or possibly
manually installed ones?

Colin


 On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 14 January 2015 at 15:34, Chris Knutson
 christopher.knut...@gmail.com wrote:
  Clearing out old kernel versions manually to be able to upgrade the
  kernel
  version is something the end user should never have to do. Clearing out
  old
  kernel version from /boot should be better managed by the software
  updater
  to intelligently manage historic kernel versions based on available disk
  space on the partition.

 I believe that as from 14.04 (I think) only the current and previous
 kernels are kept, the others are deleted by autoremove.  Not sure
 whether the software updater will autoremove them.

 Colin

 
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Re: about nc manual page content

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On 18 January 2015 at 04:48, 田 震 dawnc...@me.com wrote:
 I have found your email address on nc manual page bottom, and I am
 confiusing about -p and -l option, why there is an description about -l It
 is an error to use this option in conjunction with the -p, -s, or -z
 options”? If I want listen connection on a port(e.g. 5000), I have to use nc
 with -lp 5000, both LInux and MacOS manual are same about these option.

This mailing list is mostly for discussion of Ubuntu development
issues rather than technical support.  You are more likely to get help
if you post to the Ubuntu Users list, see
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

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Re: Systemd in Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid

[Colin Law]

On 10 January 2015 at 17:04, Oscar os...@tiderman.net wrote:

 On 2015-01-10 15:38, ?? wrote:
 Hello! Excuse me, are there any plans of making systemd a default
 init-system in Ubuntu 15.04? Thank you.


 Hello,

 There is info about that here:
 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/systemd

I think that is rather out of date.  It says systemd is under active
development in Ubuntu although the rough plan would be to default to
systemd during development of 15.04 but since that is only three
months away presumably it is now a firm plan or is not to be the
default.

Colin

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Re: Tomboy

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On 29 March 2015 at 15:02, Анатолий anatol...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello. March 24 Update Library mono and stopped working program Tomboy.
 It's very sad, because these notes I have a lot of necessary information
 to work with.

It is working ok for me on Ubuntu 15.04.  You could ask on the
ubuntu-users list which is for technical support.  This list is for
discussion of development issues.

If you do ask there give details of which version of Ubuntu you are
using and anything else which you think may be relevant.

Cheers

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Re: Windows type shortcuts to files and folders

[Colin Law]

On 2 March 2015 at 15:40, Johan Kriel j...@hotmail.co.za wrote:
 I would like to suggest the availability of shortcuts to files and folders
 (like those used in Windows) also in addition to the currently available
 symbolic links. Symbolic links do have their useful place, but they can also
 be a real pain in the ass on occasion. For example, I regularly have to jump
 back and forth several times during the day between two or more folders.
 Using Ubuntu symlinks for this purpose just takes me deeper and deeper into
 an artificial directory structure with an ever increasing path length.
 Windows type shortcuts, which jumps directly to another folder using the
 normal path, would work much better in this case. Please consider this. It
 would help a lot.

Do you mean just a .desktop file that runs nautilus and opens the
required folder?

Colin

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Re: MSI nvidia fx5500 on 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 19 April 2015 at 20:32, Krzysztof k...@limes.com.pl wrote:
 I'm trying to install nvidia-173 driver for my graphic card and it fails.
 Even I manage to install before desktop installation the desktop appears as
 a complete mess. After desktop setup the driver cannot be installed. Could I
 get some help here?

This list is for discussion of development issues, try the
ubuntu-users list.  When you do that say which version of Ubuntu you
are using, which graphics card it is, how you are trying to install
the driver, and what the error is.

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Re: Request Help with Video

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On 2 April 2015 at 17:07, SRR srrar...@gmail.com wrote:
 Forgive me if this is not the appropriate place to post my question.

This is list is principally for discussion of development related
issues.  You would probably be better asking on the ubuntu-users list.

Colin

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Re: problem in running software named zekr

[Colin Law]

On 6 July 2015 at 15:05, hg ksajdoiwedn asdfgh123...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all

 Please help me for solving following problem:

 I am using ubuntu 15.04
 but when i want ro run the zekr it produces some error messages as
 follows:
 org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [Unknown Mozilla path
 (MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME not set)]

This list is for discussion of development issues, the ubuntu-users
list is the one to use for questions like this.

However, though I have never heard of zekr googling for
zekr no more handles
suggests that
sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
might do it.  If not then have a look at the other hits that google
provides for this search.

If you need to ask further questions please go to the users list.

Cheers

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Re: Damaged package

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On 6 July 2015 at 23:45, Luke Yelavich them...@ubuntu.com wrote:
 On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 02:10:56AM AEST, Giacomo Tommaso Petrucci wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 I'm writing this email just to let you know, if you don't already know, that
 the openarena package is flagged as damaged by the packet manager.
 Thanks for your attention

 What version of Ubuntu, and what version of the package?

And exactly what error are you seeing?  Please copy/paste the terminal
output here.

Colin

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Re: updates to libmtp9 in trusty

[Colin Law]

On 20 August 2015 at 18:32, David H. Durgee dhdur...@verizon.net wrote:
 I recently upgrade to an android phone but found it was not recognized in
 libmtp 1.1.6-20 as provided in trusty.  As directed, I opened a bug report
 and the maintainer responded and closed it indicated support was added to
 git for the 1.1.10 release:

 #1386 Device 0 (VID=1004 and PID=622a) is UNKNOWN.
 http://sourceforge.net/p/libmtp/bugs/1386/


 When will trusty be upgraded to the 1.1.10 release of the library so that I
 can access my phone?

 Is there a way I can add support for my phone to the current release of the
 library?  Is there a PPA with updates for this library? Thank you for any
 assistance you can offer.

It may be possible to set your phone to use an alternative mode on USB
(PTP maybe) so that it is accessible without using mtp.

Colin


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Re: Windows type shortcuts to files and folders

[Colin Law]

On 16 July 2015 at 14:39, Johan Kriel j...@hotmail.co.za wrote:
 Actually this is still not quite what I want. It works fine from within the
 file manager, but it does not work from within any other application. When I
 click on the link from within an application, the app tries to open the
 .desktop file instead of jumping to the destination. Which makes it actually
 completely useless. In Windows a shortcut will always take you to the
 destination no matter what application you are using it from. Come on guys,
 please don't make me think I should have stayed with Windows after all.

Please explain exactly what you are trying to do and why the standard
links do not work for you.  Perhaps then someone will suggest a
solution.

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Re: Origami install doesn't work

[Colin Law]

On 20 July 2015 at 14:05, Antonio Aloisio gnu...@gnuton.org wrote:
 Hi!
 I have tried to install the folding at home client to my ubuntu box and
 origami install failed.

 root@biggoliath:~/GIT/RagBag/Codility.org/part4# origami install
 wget --quiet -O /var/lib/origami/finstall -c
 http://zelut.org/projects/misc/finstall
 ERROR: WGET RETRIEVAL FAILED!

 it fails because http://zelut.org/projects/misc/finstall is not available.

This link is primarily for discussion of Ubuntu development issues,
your question would be better addressed to the ubuntu-users list.
However, ou could use
sudo apt-get install origami
or install it from the Software Centre

If that does not do what you want then ask again on the users list please.

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Re: Origami install doesn't work

[Colin Law]

On 21 July 2015 at 07:59, Antonio Aloisio antonio.aloi...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi colin.
 I mailed the mailing list because that was the address of the current
 package maintainer.

Probably best to report a bug using
ubuntu-bug origami

Colin


 Cheers
 Antonio
 
 From: Colin Law
 Sent: ‎21/‎07/‎2015 09:19
 To: Antonio Aloisio
 Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss
 Subject: Re: Origami install doesn't work

 On 20 July 2015 at 14:05, Antonio Aloisio gnu...@gnuton.org wrote:
 Hi!
 I have tried to install the folding at home client to my ubuntu box and
 origami install failed.

 root@biggoliath:~/GIT/RagBag/Codility.org/part4# origami install
 wget --quiet -O /var/lib/origami/finstall -c
 http://zelut.org/projects/misc/finstall
 ERROR: WGET RETRIEVAL FAILED!

 it fails because http://zelut.org/projects/misc/finstall is not available.

 This link is primarily for discussion of Ubuntu development issues,
 your question would be better addressed to the ubuntu-users list.
 However, ou could use
 sudo apt-get install origami
 or install it from the Software Centre

 If that does not do what you want then ask again on the users list please.

 Colin

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Re: slurm-llnl-torque install problem on Ubuntu 14.10

[Colin Law]

On 6 June 2016 at 03:20, FIH FIH  wrote:
> Hello maintainer,
>
> I got some problem while install slurm-llnl-torque.
> I've try the command on
> https://www.howtoinstall.co/en/ubuntu/utopic/universe/slurm-llnl-torque/
> After "sudo apt-get install slurm-llnl-torque"
> It shows error message as follow:
>
> E: Failed to fetch
> http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/slurm-llnl/slurm-llnl-torque_2.6.7-2build1_all.deb
> 404  Not Found [IP: 211.73.64.9 80]

This question should have been addressed to the ubuntu-users list
rather than here, so if you have further followups please ask there,
however:

Ubuntu 14.10 is way out of support now, so the archives are no longer available.
You may be able to pick up old ones from old-releases.ubuntu.com, I am
not sure.  To try it replace, in sources.list all the sources (such as
tw.archive.ubuntu.com) with old-releases.ubuntu.com then run
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
and if that succeeds then try the install again.
Note however that you are using an unsupported system which should not
be connected to the internet as it may well have numerous security
holes.

Colin


>
> Not sure if I need to add source.list or not.
> Could you please help to check how to fix this problem?
> Thanks a lots!
>
> BR,
> Jason
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Re: Cannot set "Ctrl+Esc" as shortcut for gnome-system-monitor

[Colin Law]

On 23 February 2016 at 09:18, Angelo Compagnucci
<angelo.compagnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> 2016-02-23 10:16 GMT+01:00 Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com>:
>> On 23 February 2016 at 09:09, Angelo Compagnucci
>> <angelo.compagnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I cannot set "Ctrl+Esc" as shortcut for gnome-system-monitor, or at
>>> least I can set that shortcut, but it doesn't work in practice.
>>
>> How have you attempted to do that, and which version of Ubuntu are you
>> using?
>
> System Setting -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts.
>
>>  Also is it the standard (Unity) Ubuntu or one of the flavours?
>
> Ubuntu 14.04.4 vanilla.

I have just noticed that you sent this to ubuntu-devel-discuss, which
is for discussion of development issues, not for user support.  I
suggest you ask again on the ubuntu-user list.

Also tell us there exactly what you entered for the command to run in
the shortcut and whether you have tried it with different key
combinations.

Colin

>
>>
>> Colin
>
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Re: Cannot set "Ctrl+Esc" as shortcut for gnome-system-monitor

[Colin Law]

On 23 February 2016 at 09:09, Angelo Compagnucci
 wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I cannot set "Ctrl+Esc" as shortcut for gnome-system-monitor, or at
> least I can set that shortcut, but it doesn't work in practice.

How have you attempted to do that, and which version of Ubuntu are you
using?  Also is it the standard (Unity) Ubuntu or one of the flavours?

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Fwd: Full screen / always on top

[Colin Law]

On 19 January 2016 at 17:13, Fred H Olson  wrote:
> I think it is a Gnome function "Always on top". It is great. I miss it
> when I can not find it on other operating systems that I have to use
> sometimes.
> (I get to it by: cursor on app title bar / right click / Always on top)
>
> But Full screen / always on top makes no sense.

It does if you have multiple monitors

>  I occasionaly get to
> this state by having an unmaximized app window, and then after forgetting
> it is always on top, maximize the app window.  Then I try to select
> another app and it's window does not appear.  Eventually I realize I
> have a Full screen / always on top...
>
> It would be useful if "maximize" would check if the window was
> always on top.  If so it could do something like:
> o undo the always on top state
> o warn the user with an option to undo the always on top state
> o undo the always on top state and issue an alert.

This would not be appropriate in the case of dual monitors.  In fact
the problem you describe is not to do with being full screen, but due
to having the AOT window larger than the other app window and
completely covering it.  If you have a large (but not full screen) AOT
window with a small window behind it you get exactly the problem you
describe.  I think that if you select AOT then this is just a
situation that you have to watch out for.

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Re: optional dark theme

[Colin Law]

On 16 February 2016 at 14:45, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Vitaly Zdanevich [2016-02-16 17:15 +0300]:
>> So my dear developers of Ubuntu - how about include (maybe in the
>> next release) some dark ui (for example
>> http://killhellokitty.deviantart.com/art/Dorian-theme-3-10-416353853)?
>
> Ubuntu already has a dark theme by default, so this is certainly not a
> priority or goal.

I am only seeing Ambiance, Radiance and High Contrast on Wily (Unity).
Am I missing something?

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Re: suggest policy: all GUI apps that display files/folders right-click copies full path

[Colin Law]

On 27 March 2016 at 09:47, Ralf Mardorf  wrote:
> PPS:
>
> I suspect that Nautilus provides to add plugin/action scripts, for
> SpaceFM you can write "tools" scripts. IOW when using the variable "%f"
> you could write a script that copies to the clip board or opens a
> terminal with the full path etc..

Good idea. Googling for nautilus script copy full path to clipboard
yields a number of likely looking hits.  It seems pretty trivial at
first glance.  Might even give it a go myself as it would certainly be
useful

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Re: Yagf

[Colin Law]

On 5 March 2016 at 01:59, dboyd  wrote:
> I am using a AMD E1-6010 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics × 2, and 64 bit
> processor and have all the latest updates for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS loaded.
>
> Over the last two years each time I update to the latest version of Yagf
> (0.9.2.1-1) It freezes when I try scan and to OCR. So I keep reverting back
> to Yagf 0.9.2-2 which works perfectly. Why does the Ubuntu recommended
> update fail to work? I have installed all the latest dependencies and still
> Yagf 0.9.2.1-1 will not work.

This should probably be directed to the ubuntu-users group rather than
here.  If you repost there also provide the output from
apt-cache policy yagf

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Re: Xenial freeze if I plug a second monitor

[Colin Law]

On 7 March 2016 at 00:01, Martinx - ジェームズ  wrote:
> Guys,
>
>  I'm trying to use my second monitor under Xenial (fully upgraded) but, it
> freezes if I plug the second monitor.
>
>  I'm using it on a brand new Macbook Pro (2015).
>
>  Any thoughts? Is this a know bug?

There have been bugs in that area but for me it is all working now.
What happens if you boot with the second monitor plugged in?

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Re: suggest policy: all GUI apps that display files/folders right-click copies full path

[Colin Law]

Are these not issues for upstream Nautilus developers to consider
rather than Ubuntu?

Colin

On 28 March 2016 at 04:11, Dale Amon  wrote:
> I like the way NeXTstep did it. If you drag an icon
> from the Workspace Manager to a shell or into Emacs,
> it 'drops' as the full path name of the item you
> dragged.
>

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Re: suggest policy: all GUI apps that display files/folders right-click copies full path

[Colin Law]

On 31 March 2016 at 12:47, Ralf Mardorf  wrote:
> ...
> Does any of the bloatware desktop environments terminal emulations
> auto-wrap lines, if you resize the window? In more than ten years
> that I'm using Linux, they were unable to support this.

Do you mean in the way that gnome-terminal does?

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Re: whis is maintainer for tightvncserver?

[Colin Law]

On 15 May 2016 at 01:21, Mike Lieberman  wrote:
> ...
>
> USERXSESSION=$HOME/.xsession
> USERXSESSIONRC=$HOME/.xsessionrc
> ALTUSERXSESSION=$HOME/.Xsession
> ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors
>
> None of these exist.
>
> There is a $HOME/mike/.xsession-errors and it is in use by but not by
> tightVNC. How can I create the four files to make the script happy?

Generally $HOME would be set to /home/, at least on Ubuntu, I
don't know about Mint, try
echo $HOME
to what it is set to.

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Re: Red5 server

[Colin Law]

On 29 July 2016 at 11:30, Bacar Azhar  wrote:
> Hi
> I want to install Red5-server from synaptic package Manager in VPS ubuntu 15
> x64
> but it-s not accept
> can you help me please

You should ask this on the ubuntu-users list rather than the
developers.  If you do that then try
sudo apt install red5-server
and if copy/paste the output from that command into the message.

Colin

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>
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Re: install android apk in ubuntu

[Colin Law]

On 4 August 2016 at 11:31, hadi <hmira...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On ۱۶/۰۸/۰۴ 12:18, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 3 August 2016 at 18:46, hadi <hmira...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi dear
>>> i can`t run andriod apk in ubuntu.please help me!
>>
>> Are you talking about Ubuntu Phone or Ubuntu on a PC?
>>
>> Colin
>
>
> ubuntu on a pc

Please reply to the list not to the poster directly. Thanks.

This is not an issue for discussion on this list, which is for
development issues. You would be better asking on the ubuntu-users
list.

However to get you going, you cannot run an android app directly, but
you can run it in an emulator in android studio. I believe you can do
this by
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-developer-tools-center
udtc android

If you have further questions please ask on the users list.

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Re: install android apk in ubuntu

[Colin Law]

On 3 August 2016 at 18:46, hadi  wrote:
> hi dear
> i can`t run andriod apk in ubuntu.please help me!

Are you talking about Ubuntu Phone or Ubuntu on a PC?

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Re: Libre Office Install/Remove

[Colin Law]

On 16 July 2016 at 19:53, paulwheeler  wrote:
>
> However, the joy was short-lived, because I then discovered the libreoffice 
> configuration file was still in the '.config' directory!
>
> .config/libreoffice/4/user
>
>
> Why? How? For what reason?

Because that file was not created by the installer, it was created at
run time by the app.  Synaptic can only remove files created at
install time.  Perhaps you would a complete remove to also remove all
the other files created by libreoffice, such as your documents
themselves.

>
> I installed this version of libreoffice: 1:4.4.3~rc2-0ubuntu1~trusty1
>
> I am running this version of Synaptic: 0.81.2
>
> My System: Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64-bit, Cinnamon version 2.6.13, Linux 
> Kernel 3.16.0-38-generic, AMD Phenom II x4 810 Processor x 4 with 8GiB memory

I not that you are not even running Ubuntu.  Why are you not asking
this on a Mint list?

Colin

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Re: imagination error

[Colin Law]

On 29 Aug 2016 9:10 a.m., "BugCatcher"  wrote:
>
> Attempted to use imagination to create a slide show -- what it claims to
do.
>
> Got the error message:
>
> Failed to launch the encoder!
>
> Failed to execute child process
> "avconv" (No such file or directory).
>
>
> Strange, since the package description says:
> " It only requires the ffmpeg encoder to produce a movie to be burned
with another application".
>
> Does the program actually need avconv? If so, why is it not in Synaptic
0.83  (3.0-5ubuntu1)?
>
>
> System:
>Host: Paul-AMDx64-Mint18-Cinnamon Kernel: 4.4.0-34-generic
x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.7
>Distro: Linux Mint 18 Sarah
>

I suggest you first try it on an Ubuntu system to see whether this is a
mint issue. If it is mint related then you are on the wrong list.

Colin

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Re: Running ImageJ fails

[Colin Law]

On 30 August 2016 at 22:54, Карлен Плузян  wrote:
> Running imagej fails with the following message:
>
>Open other images in this ImageJ panel as follows:
>  imagej -p 3  [ ... ]
>
>No JVM found to run ImageJ
>Please apt-get install a JVM to run ImageJ or
>set JAVA_HOME if it's not a JVM from a Debian Package.
>
> even though multiple JVM's are installed here.
>
> Bug #1556997 reported by Václav Šmilauer on 2016-03-14
>
> Pleas, **FIX**this bug in the current LTS release (16.04)

As mentioned in comment #6 on that bug [1] the solution is for someone
to request an SRU of the fix into Xenial

Colin

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagej/+bug/1556997

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Re: gnome-weather

[Colin Law]

On 30 September 2016 at 07:34, Łukasz Batek  wrote:
> I haven't got forecast in this program since few months.
> I give answer: (org.gnome.Weather.Application:3823): GWeather-WARNING **: 
> Failed
>> > to get METAR data: 404 Not Found.
>
> I gave answer also from man, who create this app:
>
> "The new version has been released, and is already available in some
> distributions (including I believe Arch and Fedora).
>
> Please file a bug in your distribution if you still experience this
> problem.

I think that following that suggestion is the thing to do (file a
bug).  After checking there is not one already.

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Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Colin Law]

On 8 October 2016 at 17:21, Xen  wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf schreef op 06-10-2016 12:42:
>>
>> Just a very laste note.
>>
>> On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 22:29 +0200, Xen wrote:
>>>
>>> >> In Windows
>>>
>>> Yes you conveniently break off my statement but (I had to look for it)
>>> it was about something that has *nothing* to do with security as it
>>> dealth with network shares.
>>
>>
>> Yes, you mentioned Windows allows to do this and that, but Linux
>> doesn't, so I pointed out, that Windows is insecure and Linux isn't. I
>> assume causality. There are reasons that Linux does work different to
>> Windows.
>
>
> And so whenever Linux can't do something, it is for security? Don't make me
> laugh.

I think there is a difference between *can't* meaning is not able to
and *won't allow* meaning there is something specifically stopping
that from happening.  The *won't allow* features are generally for
security reasons.

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Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Colin Law]

On 8 October 2016 at 23:58, Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Colin Law schreef op 08-10-2016 18:29:
>>
>> On 8 October 2016 at 17:21, Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ralf Mardorf schreef op 06-10-2016 12:42:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just a very laste note.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 22:29 +0200, Xen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> >> In Windows
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes you conveniently break off my statement but (I had to look for it)
>>>>> it was about something that has *nothing* to do with security as it
>>>>> dealth with network shares.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, you mentioned Windows allows to do this and that, but Linux
>>>> doesn't, so I pointed out, that Windows is insecure and Linux isn't. I
>>>> assume causality. There are reasons that Linux does work different to
>>>> Windows.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And so whenever Linux can't do something, it is for security? Don't make
>>> me
>>> laugh.
>>
>>
>> I think there is a difference between *can't* meaning is not able to
>> and *won't allow* meaning there is something specifically stopping
>> that from happening.  The *won't allow* features are generally for
>> security reasons.
>
>
> A root user also cannot do the things just mentioned.
>
> The required software does not exist, for the most part.
>
> There are also no security considerations whatsoever pertaining to the local
> system regarding the mounting of remote network shares on a user supplied
> home directory or equivalent. It is utter bull. You can make such
> generalized statements all you want but I hear nothing that actually
> addresses the topic.

I was not commenting on any particular topic, merely pointing out that
that Ralf (I think) said there are some things that Linux "does not
allow" and you answered this with a post referring to things that
Linux "can't" do and the two things are not the same. I also stated
that things that Linux will not allow are generally security related.

Is any of that untrue?

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Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Colin Law]

On 9 October 2016 at 15:43, Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Colin Law schreef op 09-10-2016 14:38:
>>
>> On 9 October 2016 at 12:56, Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> Colin Law schreef op 09-10-2016 9:28:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> I was not commenting on any particular topic, merely pointing out that
>>>> that Ralf (I think) said there are some things that Linux "does not
>>>> allow" and you answered this with a post referring to things that
>>>> Linux "can't" do and the two things are not the same. I also stated
>>>> that things that Linux will not allow are generally security related.
>>>>
>>>> Is any of that untrue?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You might as well state that the sun is not green and that might also not
>>> be
>>> untrue. But the question is whether that is relevant or related or
>>> whether
>>> it is a showstopper.
>>
>>
>> That is one question, but as I said it was not my point.  I was merely
>> pointing out that you had misread or misinterpreted the earlier post.
>> Nothing more or less than that.
>
>
> And that is simply not true. And apparently you are arguing for the sake of
> arguing.

In what way is it not true, it was my first post on this thread and
all I said was:

"I think there is a difference between *can't* meaning is not able to
and *won't allow* meaning there is something specifically stopping
that from happening.  The *won't allow* features are generally for
security reasons."

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Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Colin Law]

On 9 October 2016 at 12:56, Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Colin Law schreef op 09-10-2016 9:28:
>> ...
>> I was not commenting on any particular topic, merely pointing out that
>> that Ralf (I think) said there are some things that Linux "does not
>> allow" and you answered this with a post referring to things that
>> Linux "can't" do and the two things are not the same. I also stated
>> that things that Linux will not allow are generally security related.
>>
>> Is any of that untrue?
>
>
> You might as well state that the sun is not green and that might also not be
> untrue. But the question is whether that is relevant or related or whether
> it is a showstopper.

That is one question, but as I said it was not my point.  I was merely
pointing out that you had misread or misinterpreted the earlier post.
Nothing more or less than that.

Colin

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Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

[Colin Law]

On 7 Sep 2016 1:09 a.m., "Ryan Cunningham" 
wrote:
>
> [The following message is a re-post from an aborted message thread
originally sent to .]
>
> Attn. Ubuntu Developers:
>
> I have heard recently that Ubuntu has plans to cancel support for
processors in the Intel 80386 family (and clones of the same). This is
impacting me because I have a 32-bit Ubuntu machine (powered by an Intel
80586) which runs Ubuntu 16.10. This machine, a home laptop converted into
a server, is only in the testing phase right now and probably will remain
there for 6 years at most.

Would you not be better to go back to 16.04 LTS which will be supported
till April 2021?

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Re: Dropbox wants to update

[Colin Law]

On 27 September 2016 at 19:57, Jarno Suni  wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have installed nautilus-dropbox on Trusty. Now it tells I have to update in 
> order to continue using the product. If I follow instructions, I am guided to 
> install a .deb that conflicts nautilus-dropbox. How to proceed?

This list is for discussion of development issues rather than for user
support. Please ask again on the ubuntu-users list.  However when you
ask also please post the result from
apt-cache policy nautilus-dropbox

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Re: How to upgrade one package between old versions?

[Colin Law]

On 9 November 2016 at 15:41, Jin Li  wrote:

> Hi Ubuntu,
>
> I want to upgrade glusterfs from glusterfs 3.6.4 to glusterfs 3.6.9.
> Currently only version 3.6.9 is in glusterfs 3.6 ppa.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~gluster/+archive/ubuntu/glusterfs-3.6
> 
>
> Do you know how could I upgrade within glusterfs 3.6 automatically?
>

This question should really be addressed to the ubuntu-users list, if you
have further questions it would be best to ask there.

However
Add that ppa as in the instructions on the page and you can automatically
install 3.6.9. Or is that not what you mean by 'upgrade within glusterfs
3.6'? If not then please ask again on the users list.

Colin




> Thanks for your help.
>
> Best regards,
> Jin
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Re: Gnash

[Colin Law]

On 14 Nov 2016 7:22 a.m., "Till Uhlmann"  wrote:
>
> I'm unable to unistall gnash from my system. Ubuntu 16.04 Mate.
> "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file
> '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_cl' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. -
> pkgAcquire::Run (13: Keine Berechtigung)" is the information i got by
> trying uninstall gnash-common/gnash may i need only a valid apt-key for
> reinstall gnash correct bevore uninstalling again

How exactly are you trying to install it?

Colin

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Re: gnome-weather

[Colin Law]

On 1 December 2016 at 21:43, Łukasz Batek  wrote:
> Hello,
> Is this possible to set for view all hours in this app?

I advise asking on the ubuntu-users list as this list is for ubuntu
development issues not for user support.

When you do that I suggest saying which version of ubuntu and which
version of gnome-weather.

Cheers

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Re: issues installing Lubuntu 17.04 beta 1

[Colin Law]

The DNS problem could be this, particularly if you are using a fairly old
router.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1609546

Colin

On 13 March 2017 at 16:40, B S  wrote:

> I installed Lubuntu 17.04 beta 1 on a private label Intel NUC with a core
> i5-6260U and a 250G SSD that came with Windows 10.  I did not use wifi,
> though the system has it.  Hooked it up to the LAN with an ethernet patch
> cable.  The issues I ran into are:
>
>
> Twice, DNS didn't work after booting from the installation media (which I
> put on a USB flash drive).  The system connected to the network.  It even
> found some DNS servers.  ping 8.8.8.8 worked.  But somehow, DNS queries
> weren't working.  ping google.com did not work.  I edited
> /etc/resolv.conf to add 8.8.8.8 as a nameserver, and then it worked.
>
>
> Apparently, the first time I tried to install, it didn't detect that the
> system is UEFI.  It asked me where to install GRUB.  I am not familiar
> with UEFI, and didn't understand that it wasn't supposed to ask.  I told
> it to put GRUB on /dev/sda.  That didn't work, and I tried installing
> again, this time putting GRUB on /dev/sda1.  That didn't work either, and I
> tried to edit the Windows boot with bcdedit.  Didn't work, and broke
> Windows.  Ended up zeroing out the start of the SSD, and scrounging up an
> external DVD drive so I could do a fresh install of Windows 10. Then I
> tried installing Lubuntu again, from the flash drive, and that time it
> worked, didn't ask where to install GRUB.  From what I read, seems it's not
> easy to tell if a UEFI system is in UEFI mode, or in legacy BIOS mode.  To
> me, it doesn't make sense that this is hard.  Surely UEFI has some
> identifying feature to distinguish it from BIOS, that is easily queried, if
> only one knows how?
>
>
> Finally, I used rsync to copy my files.  Some power saving, screen
> locking, and/or hibernating feature kicked in after a while (15 minutes?)
> and caused rsync to abort.
>
>
> That's all the issues I've run into so far.  No doubt I'll see more
> problems when I start trying to use it.
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Re: [14.04] nVidia GeForce 1080TI

[Colin Law]

On 1 June 2017 at 14:05, J Fernyhough  wrote:
> On 01/06/17 07:45, Sebastian Busse wrote:
>> We are thinking of upgrading to current nVidia graphics cards. As far as
>> I can see, the GeForce 1080 is supported since 367.27 while the GeForce
>> 1080 TI is supported since 381.09.
>>
>> In Trusty Tahr, we seem to have access to 375 in the repositories.
>>
>> Do you plan on providing a version of the nVidia drivers >= 381.09 in
>> the trusty repos?
>>
>
> Trusty is EOL in about 10 months (April 2018); if you're upgrading
> hardware you should probably be installing 16.04 on it.

April 19 I think
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

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Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

[Colin Law]

On 26 August 2017 at 17:16, Nrbrtx <nrb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO gnome-software is too simplified and stupid as all modern GNOME.
> No options (except of shortcut to software-properties-gtk), no advanced
> search.
> I will not use it. 63% of 88 reviews are negative.
>
>> It has exactly the same set of s/w available as Synaptic does.
> False.
> Let's assume that we need to install libgtk2.0-dev from gnome-software.
> How to do it? Simple search of libgtk2.0-dev produces no results (note:
> software-center finds and installs this package). Any other ideas?
> gnome-software is a toy for installing nice games and GUI applications.

OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that
anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use
a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that.  Obviously I am wrong.

Colin

>
>
> I prefer to use MATE DE with Synaptic (which is powerful, but buggy now) or
> maybe Muon (from KDE, does not really matter if it works stable).
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 24 August 2017 at 01:33, Nrbrtx <nrb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear Ubuntu developers!
>> >
>> > I'm using Debian since 3.1 and using Ubuntu since 6.06.
>> > So let me write about installing programs.
>> >
>> > As far I can understand here were two methods of software installation:
>> > 1. apt (apt-get), dpkg, aptitude - for advanced users
>> > 2. synaptic and Ubuntu software-center - for newbies.
>> >
>> > Nowadays gnome-software and mate-welcome were added to the newbies'
>> > list.
>> > But they have very small lists of software.
>> > Ubuntu software-center was great, but its development was dropped.
>>
>> Ubuntu software has been replaced by gnome-software. It has exactly
>> the same set of s/w available as Synaptic does.
>>
>> Colin
>
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Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

[Colin Law]

On 24 August 2017 at 01:33, Nrbrtx  wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu developers!
>
> I'm using Debian since 3.1 and using Ubuntu since 6.06.
> So let me write about installing programs.
>
> As far I can understand here were two methods of software installation:
> 1. apt (apt-get), dpkg, aptitude - for advanced users
> 2. synaptic and Ubuntu software-center - for newbies.
>
> Nowadays gnome-software and mate-welcome were added to the newbies' list.
> But they have very small lists of software.
> Ubuntu software-center was great, but its development was dropped.

Ubuntu software has been replaced by gnome-software. It has exactly
the same set of s/w available as Synaptic does.

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Re: "mpv" package no longer comes with DVB support

[Colin Law]

On 19 October 2017 at 11:07, Adrian  wrote:
> Hello, never used a mailing list before so I hope this is right.
>
> Until 17.10, the mpv media player used to come with support for DVB viewing.
> It appears that this has been disabled by default now, but for questionable
> reasons.
>
> Since it didn't cause any problems for Ubuntu users (who don't deal with old
> kernels), would it be possible to re-enable this feature/flag for the Ubuntu
> package?
>
> Thanks!
>
> p.s. If this is the wrong place to address for such issues, please let me
> know.

The best way to handle this is probably to post a bug against mpv using
ubuntu-bug mpv. Then the right people should see it.

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Re: x11vnc throws “X Error of failed request: BadMatch” after upgrade from 17.04

[Colin Law]

On 5 November 2017 at 02:32, Owen Phillis  wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Whether I invoke VNC from a remote or local terminal and, no matter the
> command line I submit, I get:
>
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
> Serial number of failed request:  40
> Current serial number in output stream:  40

Firstly this should really be adddressed to the ubuntu-users list, if
you want more help please go there, but for the moment I wonder
whether this is a Wayland issue. Try logging in using X rather than
Wayland (you can select this from the login screen).

Colin

>
> The session starts like normal...
>
> owen@Thor:~$ x11vnc -storpasswd
> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 passing arg to libvncserver: -storpasswd
> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 x11vnc version: 0.9.13 lastmod: 2011-08-10  pid: 13865
> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 XOpenDisplay("") failed.
> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 Trying again with XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=localhost ...
> 05/11/2017 12:01:57
> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 *** XOpenDisplay failed. No -display or DISPLAY.
> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 *** Trying ":0" in 4 seconds.  Press Ctrl-C to abort.
> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 *** 1 2 3 4
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 *** XOpenDisplay of ":0" successful.
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 Using X display :0
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 rootwin: 0x270 reswin: 0x2a1 dpy: 0xf3ac80f0
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 -- USEFUL INFORMATION --
> --snip--
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 X FBPM extension not supported.
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 X display is not capable of DPMS.
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01
> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 Default visual ID: 0x24
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
>   Serial number of failed request:  40
>   Current serial number in output stream:  40
>
>
> Any ideas? Is this just me?
>
>
> Cheers,
> O.
>
>
>
>
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Re: Python2 demotion (moving from main to universe) in progress

[Colin Law]

On 9 December 2017 at 11:47, Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Colin Watson schreef op 09-12-2017 0:24:
>
>> there are good reasons behind many of the changes in Python 3
>
>
> You know, an appeal to "good reasons" is really a blanket statement that
> betrays the absence of any good reasons.
>
> So you go on to detail the similarities with C but with C there never was
> one breaking point, just incremental changes.
> .
> .

Note that Colin Watson also schreef op 09-12-2017 0:24:
> In any case, there is really very little point in tilting at this
> windmill now, unless your goal is to expend further energy.

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Re: ffmpeg Large-file error?

[Colin Law]

On 24 October 2017 at 22:39, Dexter N Muir  wrote:
> Winff 1.5.5 on Kubuntu 17.04, hp p6-2175a (i3), which uses ffmpeg
> 7:3.2.4-1build2 (this time, though historical):

If this is a fault in the video file (which looks likely to me) then
there is not much that can be done about it here. If you believe it to
be a bug in winff or ffmpeg then file a bug using
ubuntu-bug winff  # or ffmpeg obviously

Colin

>
> ffmpeg 1st pass window:
> /usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i "/drv2/My
> Videos/_aMule/Incoming/Formula.One.17.United.States.Grand.Prix.720p.HDTV.x264-VERUM.[tvu.org.ru].mkv"
> -crf 23.0 -vcodec libx264 -filter:v scale=w=720:h=406 -preset slow -acodec
> aac -strict experimental -ar 48000 -b:a 128k -coder 1 -flags +loop -cmp
> chroma -partitions +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me_method hex -subq 6
> -me_range 16 -g 250 -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71
> -b_strategy 1 -threads 0
> "/drv2/Formula.One.17.United.States.Grand.Prix.HDTV.x264-VERUM.[tvu.org.ru].mp4"
>
> Error message in Konsole, Kubuntu's Terminal:
> [ac3 @ 0x563f33722b60] exponent 25 is out-of-range1:01:02.99
> bitrate=1447.7kbits/s dup=53 drop=0 speed=1.36x
> [ac3 @ 0x563f33722b60] error decoding the audio block
> frame=207544 fps= 62 q=-1.0 Lsize=  744330kB time=01:09:11.09
> bitrate=1468.9kbits/s dup=73 drop=0 speed=1.25x
>
> The error message is actually the two "ac3 @" lines, the first ([ac3 @
> 0x563f33722b60] exponent 25 is out-of-range) overwrites the underlying
> progress line (which gives the point at which the error occurs, 1 hour,
> consistently), and is probably the important one.
> That last line, (frame ... 1.25x) is ongoing progress.
> (Incidentally, the progress line is padded out to beyond Konsole's default
> width, resulting in screensful of progress lines until widening the view, at
> which point it overwrites itself)
> The error seems to be non-fatal; the process continues to completion and the
> result seems to be unaffected.
>
> Hopefully enough to work on ...
>
> Cheers
> Dex
>
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Re: More diagnostics data from desktop

[Colin Law]

On 14 February 2018 at 15:22, Will Cooke  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We want to be able to focus our engineering efforts on the things that
> matter most to our users, and in order to do that we need to get some more
> data about sort of setups our users have and which software they are
> running on it.
>
> We would like to add a checkbox to the installer, exact wording TBD, but
> along the lines of “Send diagnostics information to help improve Ubuntu”.
> This would be checked by default.
>

I think it has been suggested that a popup asking nicely whether it is ok
to send diagnositics, with buttons for yes/no might go down better than a
checkbox. I concur with that idea as pre-checked checkboxes do have a bad
reputation.

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Re: cheese pour ubuntu 18.04

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 23:42, alain  wrote:

> bonjour,
>
> je suis maintenant sous ubuntu 18.04
>
> j'utilisais cheese regulierement sous les autres versions de ubuntu
>
> depuis le passage à BIONIC, Cheese ne fontionne plus.
>
Do you get a different error displayed if you unplug the webcam?
Are you able to try a different webcam?
Does the webcam work with a different application?

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Re: Ubuntu 19.04 ".desktop" no longer working!?

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 10:46, Gunnar Hjalmarsson  wrote:
> ...
> Even it that's true, it's a bit obsolete info for Ubuntu users. The
> description of the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package says:
>
> "Description: desktop icon support for GNOME Shell
>   This package provides a GNOME Shell extension for showing the contents
>   of ~/Desktop on the desktop of the Shell. Common file management
>   operations such as launching, copy/paste, rename and deleting are
>   supported."
>

Ah, I think I understand now, Nautilus changed so that .desktop files
no longer were runnable, but the shell extension reverts this, except
it doesn't due to a bug.  Do we know that the new version in proposed
should fix it?  I don't see a relevant bug (fixed or otherwise) in
launchpad.

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Re: Ubuntu 19.04 ".desktop" no longer working!?

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 19:48, Thomas Stadtmüller
 wrote:
>
> Dears,
>
> Can you confirm Ubuntu 19.04 still supports .desktop files?
>
> I have upgraded from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04.
>
> Now I wonder why there isn't a huge cry out in the community about
> .desktop files no longer working.

This is a Nautilus issue.  .desktop files still work, but not via
double click on the Desktop or in a browser window.  Apparently the
Gnome developers decided this is something we shouldn't do.
See 
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/05/nautilus-will-no-longer-launch-binaries.html

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Re: Ubuntu 19.04 ".desktop" no longer working!?

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 12:36, Gunnar Hjalmarsson  wrote:
>
> On 2019-05-29 12:32, Colin Law wrote:
> > Ah, I think I understand now, Nautilus changed so that .desktop
> > files no longer were runnable, but the shell extension reverts this,
>
> Yes, basically.
>
> > except it doesn't due to a bug.
>
> It does for me, and apparently for others too. Are you experiencing the
> same problem as Thomas?

I believe so.  I have just found the solution however.  Right click
the file on the Desktop and select Allow Launching.

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Re: Ubuntu 19.04 ".desktop" no longer working!?

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 30 May 2019 at 16:30, Thomas Stadtmüller
 wrote:
>
> Still quite worrisome, that I seem to be a single person in the Ubuntu 
> universe who did complain about falling into this "upgrade trap". And only 
> weeks later and with your help I am now slowly getting out there.

I think the reason is that very very few people put desktop files on
desktop.  That is, after all, what the launcher is for.

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Re: Copy newer files only

[Colin Law]

This should ideally be addressed to the ubuntu users list rather than
the development list.
However rsync may do what you want.
 If you want further help then ask at the users list.

Colin

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 21:49, kor  wrote:
>
> I am wondering whether I am the only one who wishes that copying files
> from one folder to the next would only overwrite newer files instead of all.
>
> +++, Egon
>
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Re: Defaulting to verify the image integrity before installing on desktop?

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 16:52, Sebastien Bacher  wrote:
>
> What do others think? Should we default to check the media before booting the 
> ISO? (And if so do we need to ensure the menu still provide a way to skip the 
> testing (we should at least for automaticall installation)?)

If this is implemented I would vote for the ability to skip the test.
Personally I often burn a stick then check it and then may install to
more than one machine, so it would be a pain to have to repeat the
test on every install.  I think it would be very unusual for a stick
to become corrupted after burning I think.

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Re: Gnome Calendar

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 15:02, Matej Kovacic  wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed (in 18.10) that default Calendar app (which is Gnome Calendar) 
> sets the time zone completely wrong - it uses Algiers, I assume, it just 
> takes the first one on the list.

This would probably be better posted on the Ubuntu Users list rather than here.

18.10 is way out of support, so much so that you may have difficulty
upgrading.  Unless you meant 19.10.
What timezone are you in and what do you see if you run, in a
terminal, the command

date


Colin


>
> However, old Gnome Calendar had an option to set time zone manually. Now 
> Ubuntu wants to be very smart, and these options are hidden from the users... 
> the problem is, when the computer tries to be smart, it is making incredibly 
> stupid things.
>
> So my question is:
>
> - how to set the correct time zone to Calendar (since the settings 
> possibilities are stripped down to minimum)
>
> - can you suggest me some alternative (better working) Calendar applications 
> for Ubuntu
>
> - why Ubuntu developers feel they have to follow the stupid Apple philosophy 
> "Apple thinks instead of you" - do you think the users are stupid and need 
> everything server on a plate???
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Matej
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Re: Calibre issue

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 15:58, Oscar Pretto <59scr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> yesterday I updated my Ubuntu, and now I cannot open Calibre.
> Might it be possible there is a bug in the update?

See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2020-October/041228.html

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Re: vnc4server

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 21:44, lds19850124  wrote:
>
> hello all,
>
> vnc4server install fail under ubuntu 20.04, why?
> sudo apt-get install vnc4server

The reason it fails is that there is no such package in the repo.

Colin

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> thanks
> joe
>
>
>
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Re: Add libcgal13 to ubuntu 20.04 repos

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 21:10, Spencer Owen  wrote:
>
> libcgal is present in the 18.04 universe repo, but is missing in the 20.04 
> repo.

Is it possibly libcgal-dev that you are looking for?

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