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

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

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

2022-04-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I also see it on Ubuntu MATE Jammy. Will the fix come from Xorg, or should we add LightDM to the affected projects list? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1922414 Title:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Bug 388547]

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

[Bug 1767765] [NEW] Clicking on fcitx applet hangs Ubuntu MATE

2018-04-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Method to reproduce in 1 minute: 1) Download the Ubuntu MATE 18.04 live CD. 2) Press space while booting to display the syslinux language menu. Select Ελληνικά (Greek) in order for fcitx to autorun. I guess the same will happen in other languages too. 3) Select Δοκιμάστε το

[Bug 1739732] [NEW] Can't switch to Greek in Ubiquity when fcitx is running

2017-12-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: I boot with the current Ubuntu MATE 18.04 daily live CD. I select Greek on syslinux, "Try Ubuntu before installing", and I start the Ubiquity installer. At the step where I'm supposed to type my full name, for example "Διαχειριστής" (administrator), I can't switch my

[Bug 1605571] [NEW] apt install --no-install-recommends fcitx-bin, breaks dead keys

2016-07-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Test case: remove everything related to fcitx. Then run: apt install --no-install-recommends fcitx-bin Then login with some locale that uses dead keys, for example the Greek locale. Then type e.g. ";"+"a". It's supposed to show "ά", but instead it shows "´α". At that point,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Bug 1551670] Re: Session shortcuts show up in non-Unity sessions

2016-03-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Fix committed in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/session- shortcuts/1.1, thank you Dmitry! ** Changed in: session-shortcuts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: session-shortcuts (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: session-shortcuts (Ubuntu)

[Bug 1551670] [NEW] Session shortcuts show up in non-Unity sessions

2016-03-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Hi, the new logout/reboot/shutdown shortcuts show up in the Applications → Accessories menu of Gnome-flashback and other Desktop Environments. I don't think they make sense there, maybe they should be marked to only be shown in the Dash/Unity session. Btw, they're also not

[Bug 1492546] Re: Systemd runs ifdown on shutdown even when it shouldn't

2015-12-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Martin, I'm seeing a regression for this with systemd 228-2ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Xenial. Now I again have to remove the "ExecStop=/sbin/ifdown %I" stanza in order to get netbooted clients to shut down. Maybe something else is stopping the ifup service on shutdown now? I tried to downgrade to the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Bug 1492546] [NEW] Systemd runs ifdown on shutdown even when it shouldn't

2015-09-05 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: The unit /lib/systemd/system/ifup@.service is Debian and Ubuntu specific, it's not part of upstream systemd. On shutdown, it unconditionally ifdowns all interfaces: ExecStop=/sbin/ifdown %I This is a regression from previous init systems (sysvinit and upstart) which cared

[Bug 592748] Re: problematic default file/directory permissions when VFAT drive connected

2015-01-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 453605 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453605 ** Also affects: udisks (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: udisks2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) ** This

[Bug 453605] Re: Make default mount umasks configurable

2015-01-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Quotting pitti from comment #2: We won't change the behaviour in udisks, there needs to be some default after all. Please completely remove dmask from the vfat/ntfs mount options, like fmask already is (absent). Patch available at LP #482501. I assume that dmask=0077 was added at some point

[Bug 453605] Re: Make default mount umasks configurable

2015-01-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
P.S. completely removing dmask from the mount options and letting /media/username cover the permission issues, couples well with UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED, so that people that want USB drives to be shared across users, can just specify UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED=1 in udev for those drives. Then

[Bug 1315867] Re: Don't strip XKB grp

2014-05-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Input from upstream: (12:17:39 μμ) rtcm: alkisg: yeah, mutter resolves the ISO_Next_Group keysym to keycodes and installs passive grabs for all those keycodes (12:21:00 μμ) rtcm: alkisg: so yeah, compiz would need something like

[Bug 1315867] [NEW] Don't strip XKB grp

2014-05-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: unity-settings-daemon = gsd-keyboard-manager.c has an Ubuntu specific patch that strips the grp: part in XKB options: if (n_sources 2 || g_strcmp0 (g_getenv (XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP), Unity) == 0) strip_xkb_option (options, grp:); The original upstream

[Bug 1241284] Re: iBus has problem recognizing the keyboard shortcut

2014-03-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I uninstalled ibus and I still had the problem. I think the Win+Space shortcut to change layouts is handled by gnome-settings-daemon, so I've put it in the Affects list. I also think it's a bad idea to have a DE-specific way to change keyboard layouts, because then we'd need to press e.g.

[Bug 1260226] Re: Xorg layout switching shortcut doesn't update indicator

2014-03-02 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
As Dmitry mentioned in bug 1241284, the layout change is monitored by some *daemon. It used to be monitored by gnome-settings-daemon, and now it's monitored by unity*? Dunno I'm not using unity, but I've put gnome- settings-daemon in the Affects list. Was the code that we're looking for in

[Bug 1241284] Re: iBus has problem recognizing the keyboard shortcut

2014-03-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Also affects: indicator-keyboard Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ibus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to indicator-keyboard in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1263591] Re: Add notification-area to panel-default-layout.layout

2014-03-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
By old-style you mean XKB? And new-style is IBus? IBus is too buggy, keyboard layout switching only works if one types slowly (LP: #1241284), and sometimes it doesn't work at all, and sometimes the indicator doesn't get updated even if you use the new-style switching, and it needs 40+ MB RAM

[Bug 1263591] Re: Add notification-area to panel-default-layout.layout

2014-02-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
OK Dmitry and thank you for trying it, but in my opinion if the ibus keyboard indicator is shown twice, that's an ibus bug and not a gnome-panel bug, and it should be solved by making that setting default to false: $ grep systray /etc/dconf/db/ibus.d/00-upstream-settings

[Bug 1263591] Re: Add notification-area to panel-default-layout.layout

2014-02-28 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
That said, if nm-applet and pidgin get fixed for 14.04, notification- area isn't that important anymore... I tried manually applying the patch for nm-applet, it works fine. Pidgin works fine too, after playing a bit with its settings. So yup notification-area isn't that important anymore.

[Bug 1274740] Re: Re-enable traditional titlebar on 'gnome-but-not-shell' sessions too

2014-02-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@Alkis: I think there is a typo in Ubuntu's patch. Can you stop nautilus (nautilus -n) and then try to launch it with: $ env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOMEF nautilus For some reason `nautilus -n` didn't do it, but `killall nautilus; nautilus` did the trick. I.e. after the `killall nautilus`

[Bug 1274740] Re: Re-enable traditional titlebar on 'gnome-but-not-shell' sessions too

2014-02-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
With gnome-flashback, I did the following change: $ grep DesktopName /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-fallback.desktop X-LightDM-DesktopName=FGNOME Logout/login, my environment now is: DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome-fallback SESSIONTYPE=gnome-session XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=FGNOME And, nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu2

[Bug 1263591] Re: Add notification-area to panel-default-layout.layout

2014-01-24 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I'm marking it as Won't Fix then. Some notes: 1) nm-applet integration has issues, it doesn't display the applet for me on gnome-flashback without manually adding notification-area. I also tried with a recent 14.04 live CD, some times nm-applet did appear and some

[Bug 1256961] Re: new glib (2.39.1) causes some indicators nautilus to not load promptly

2013-12-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I think this works around the problem: sudo -i echo '#!/bin/sh /usr/bin/gnome-panel ' /usr/local/bin/gnome-panel chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gnome-panel Logout or reboot, the panel should load quickly now. In other words, it seems like something is waiting for gnome-panel to finish loading, and if

[Bug 1263591] [NEW] Add notification-area to panel-default-layout.layout

2013-12-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Upstream gnome-panel includes notification-area: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-panel/plain/data/panel-default-layout.layout In Ubuntu, debian/patches/01_layout.patch changes that file in order to make use of indicator-applet-complete. That patch is Ubuntu-specific, it

[Bug 1263591] Re: Add notification-area to panel-default-layout.layout

2013-12-22 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Tags added: patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1263591 Title: Add notification-area to panel-default-layout.layout To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 60448] Re: .xsession-errors file grows out of control saturates disk space

2013-12-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Xsession or xinit should install a filter on stdout/stderr that checks every line in the output, so that if the same line is written repeatedly, they'd display something like: $REPEATED_ERROR_MESSAGE_PRODUCED_BY_WHATEVER_APPLICATION $date - Xsession: last message repeated 1.000.000 times

[Bug 1094924] Re: Freeze: zenity --list … FileName

2013-12-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 995435 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995435 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 995435 Zenity --list uses 100%cpu and does nothing -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 995435] Re: Zenity --list uses 100%cpu and does nothing

2013-12-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Zenity here in Trusty is still causing 100% CPU. Just run: $ zenity --list --column X /dev/null ...and try to close it, it won't close but stderr will be full of those: (zenity:8103): GLib-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.4/./glib/giounix.c:411Error while getting flags for FD: Bad file

[Bug 580961] Re: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

2013-11-07 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thanks, that partially solves the problem (Precise, 6.0-4ubuntu2). The question marks are gone, so LP: #1199239 can be marked 'Fix released'. This (LP: #580961) bug is NOT fully addressed though. The problem that remains is that only a few codepages are supported. For example, unzipping a file

[Bug 1065979] Re: external/internal monitors mirrored on boot when laptop lid is closed

2013-10-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Regression: This update broke the default Xorg resolution, set by e.g. PreferredMode in xorg.conf or by XRANDR_MODE_0 in LTSP, now gnome-settings-daemon forces the *highest* resolution instead of the default one. It's very annoying on CRT screens where e.g. 1024x768 is preferred, and 1600x1200

[Bug 1236752] Re: gnome-settings-daemon (3.4.2-0ubuntu0.6.3) breaks nvidia multi-monitor-config

2013-10-15 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Yes, please revert LP: #1065979 as it caused a regression: LP: #1065979 broke the default Xorg resolution, set by e.g. PreferredMode in xorg.conf or by XRANDR_MODE_0 in LTSP, now gnome-settings-daemon forces the *highest* resolution instead of the default one. It's very annoying on CRT screens

[Bug 861171] Re: Shutdown from greeter does nothing when multiple accounts open

2013-10-04 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Any progress on this one? It's very annoying on LTSP, where teachers can't shut down the LTSP servers because e.g. 2 hours ago some student had a xorg crash, and even if his thin client is now powered off, the user is still considered logged on at the server because the ssh socket isn't yet

[Bug 1078679] Re: Gnome fallback - intermittent menus on top panel

2012-12-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Here's a script that makes gnome-panel try twice to get loaded properly, so it should avoid the need for a desktop launcher that kills the panel for most of the cases; for the few that will remain, a logout/login should suffice... Greek teachers shouldn't apply it, it'll come as an update from

[Bug 1078679] Re: Gnome fallback - intermittent menus on top panel

2012-11-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've been seeing that too, in standalone workstations as well. It's causing significant problems in classrooms where the teacher doesn't know the commands to restart gnome-panel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1078679] Re: Gnome fallback - intermittent menus on top panel

2012-11-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I've just experienced it again in an LTSP fat client. Gnome-panel was showing but without any text, looked liked it hanged while loading. strace -p $(pidof gnome-panel) displayed only the following: # strace -p 1928 Process 1928 attached - interrupt to quit restart_syscall(... resuming

[Bug 491940] Re: Patch for LTSP clients to properly reboot/shutdown

2012-09-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Since the proposed patch was not accepted by the Ubuntu devs that maintain gnome-session, nor any alternative component was suggested to try to patch that instead, we didn't upload a patched gnome-session in the ts.sch.gr PPA for 12.04, it's only there for 10.04. So no point in adding the PPA in

[Bug 1017870] Re: Nautilus prompts to execute plain text files on sshfs mounts

2012-09-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The upstream sshfs-fuse developer proposed this patch to fix the issue: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29804620 Removing the Nautilus tasks as the problem was in sshfs. ** Changed in: sshfs-fuse (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium ** Changed in: sshfs-fuse (Ubuntu)

[Bug 915468] Re: the unity-greeter keyboard's selection doesn't respect the user config

2012-09-13 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
This is still an issue in Ubuntu Precise fully updated. 1) If I use autologin, everything is fine, my keyboard layout is the same as the system default, En/El. 2) If I use the greeter: * I only have En available in the greeter, * I only have En available in the session, * I don't get a

[Bug 842768] Re: Cups notifies printer ' xxx ' may be not connected although printer is OK and printing is OK too

2012-08-21 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I believe the fix about making org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.print- notifications default to false may be shipped as a patch of the gnome- settings-daemon package, so I put it in the affects list. $ dpkg -S

[Bug 1017870] Re: Nautilus prompts to execute plain text files on sshfs mounts

2012-06-30 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #679187 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679187 ** Also affects: nautilus via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679187 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1017870] [NEW] Nautilus prompts to execute plain text files on sshfs mounts

2012-06-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Public bug reported: Precise, nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu3 Steps to reproduce: mkdir /tmp/etc sshfs localhost:/etc /tmp/etc nautilus /tmp/etc = double click on adduser.conf Nautilus prompts: Do you want to run adduser.conf, or display its contents? adduser.conf is an executable text file. [Run in

[Bug 872429] Re: No keyboard layout text in gnome-session-fallback

2012-06-26 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Works fine on Precise now, so somewhere along the road it was fixed. Marking as invalid though because I'm not sure which package fixed it. ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid ** Changed in: libgnomekbd (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- You

[Bug 990951] Re: Empathy Messenger 3.4.1: avatars not showing [Windows Live protocol] [Ubuntu 12.04]

2012-04-29 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Manolis, Assigned to means αυτός που θα διορθώσει το πρόβλημα, όχι αυτός που έχει το πρόβλημα. So now that you assigned this bug to ubuntu-greek-users it means that ubuntu-greek-users will fix this bug, and that the Empathy developers shouldn't bother with it. So please don't assign bugs, it

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

2012-02-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Also affects: ltsp Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: ldm (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/891793 Title: Login with USB key

[Bug 580961] Re: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

2011-11-17 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
assignee: madlokil means that madlokil is the developer responsible for fixing the bug. status: In progress by thefusionite means that someone is working to fix the bug, so the other developers don't need to bother with it. So by setting the status to assigned+in progress, you actually

[Bug 872429] Re: No keyboard layout text in gnome-session-fallback

2011-10-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
** Attachment added: libgnomekbd.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872429/+attachment/2536793/+files/libgnomekbd.png ** Also affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 872429] Re: No keyboard layout text in gnome-session-fallback

2011-10-11 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Forgot to mention - using Oneiric fully updated as at 2011-10-11: gnome-session-fallback 3.2.0-0ubuntu3 libgnomekbd-common 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu.

[Bug 491940] Re: Patch for LTSP clients to properly reboot/shutdown

2011-07-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Sorry, no idea. We're using only LTS releases here, and I'm kinda pressed time-wise this year, so I won't be able to test with recent versions of the involved packages until Ubuntu 12.04, if it's still a problem then. The LTSP task mainly referred to LTSP_LOGOUT_ACTION (commit

[Bug 580961] Re: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

2011-04-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
@frol: ppa:frol/zip-i18n contains libnatspec 0.2.6-0ubuntu2, while ppa:r0lf/ppa contains a later version, libnatspec 0.2.6-1. $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.2.6-0ubuntu2 gt 0.2.6-1 || echo Needs version bump Needs version bump For people that have/had r0lf's ppa in their sources to be able to

[Bug 580961] Re: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

2011-04-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
frol wrote on 2011-04-01: Alkis, can You please confirm that libnatspec is working correctly on your machine, by installing natspec-bin frol ppa:r0lf/ppa and running natspec -i? Does it correclty detects charsets for your locale? Also can You post output of zipinfo -v biografiko.zip? It

[Bug 580961] Re: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

2011-04-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
frol wrote 51 minutes ago: Alkis, You need to cantact libnatspec maintainer about this bug: https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+contactuser That person closed my bug report (LP #477755) where I was suggesting the altlinux solution that was finally accepted upstream, in order to open this bug. Then

[Bug 580961] Re: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

2011-03-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Στις 10-03-2011, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 15:04 +, ο/η Martin Pitt έγραψε: But AFAIK the new -I and -O options already work. I thought the remainder of the problem was that the value isn't autodetected, but needs to be specified manually? No, the -I and -O options do not work properly. It looks

[Bug 580961] Re: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

2011-03-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
If I'm not mistaken, a fix for this bug has been committed upstream since 2010/12/05: ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/beta/unzip610b.zip A related post in their forums: http://www.info-zip.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7t=223start=45#p2113 Maybe it'd be simpler to use the 6.1 package rather

[Bug 494096] Re: Clicking the title of a window is bringing a window underneath it into focus

2011-03-01 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
The metacity from lucid-proposed works fine here. $ dpkg-query -W metacity metacity1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494096 Title:

[Bug 580961] Re: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

2011-02-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I confirm that 6.0-4ubuntu1 is still half-broken, compared to previous Ubuntu versions. * Extracting works: UNZIP=-o cp737 unzip archive.zip * Listing doesn't: UNZIP=-o cp737 unzip -l archive.zip Since listing doesn't work, file-roller also doesn't work. I tested with

[Bug 580961] Re: unzip fails to deal correctly with filename encodings

2011-02-14 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
I just tried frol's PPA with the libnatspec dependency. It didn't correctly autodetect the encoding so I didn't see any benefit with that implementation. It did however work as good as unzip did in older Ubuntu versions, i.e. both extracting *and listing* worked if either the UNZIP/ZIPINFO

[Bug 697112] Re: Backport fix for broken XDMCP login to Lucid

2011-02-10 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Runs fine on my i386 Lucid: $ dpkg-query -W gdm gdm 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu5 Connected via XDMCP about 10 times in a row with no problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu.

[Bug 697112] Re: Backport fix for broken XDMCP login to Lucid

2011-01-06 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Thank you Sebastien, attaching a .debdiff and subscribing ubuntu- sponsors. ** Patch added: Initialize length for XdmcpFill, fixes XDMCP logins https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/697112/+attachment/1786460/+files/xdmcpfill_length.debdiff -- You received this bug notification

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