[Bug 1695607] Re: Killed Wine application still shown in Gnome launcher

2018-03-09 Thread Andreas E.
This was still the case in Ubuntu 17.10 (I'll be able to retest and submit new logs soon). - The zombie Wine icons clutter the Gnome Shell launcher and app switcher until there is no space - Moreover Wine leaves the window manager in a really messy state so that Alt-Tab does not trigger app

[Bug 1731757] [NEW] When unlocking keyrings, seahorse should remember choice for "Automatically unlock this keyring"

2017-11-12 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: As a user, I want to keep some specific secrets under special protection, i.e. only manually unlocked on demand and not at login. Everytime that I manually unlock a keyring, the password dialog contains a preselected checkbox "Automatically unlock this keyring whenever I'm

[Bug 1708828] Re: Tap-to-click does not work in GDM

2017-08-16 Thread Andreas E.
Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro (but on 17.04, have not tested 17.10 yet) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0x7 -- 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/1708828 Title:

[Bug 1708828] Re: Trackpad tap does not work in GDM

2017-08-07 Thread Andreas E.
A point to consider is that not all touchpads look the same and behave the same. Hardware manufacturers do use their freedom of physical design decisions to drive the user into a natural interaction that fits their vision. By not having visible buttons and requiring significant force for physical

[Bug 1708828] [NEW] Trackpad tap does not work in GDM

2017-08-05 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: When Gnome Shell crashes or after boot, GDM is shown and asks the user to select an account and type the password. However selecting the account by tapping on it with the trackpad does not work. One has to press hard on the trackpad until it makes a cracking noise. This is

[Bug 1695615] Re: [gdm] lock screen password field resets every second

2017-06-08 Thread Andreas E.
Steps to reproduce: 1. gnome-shell --replace 2. Lock the screen 3. Unlock the screen and start typing the password -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1695615 Title:

[Bug 1695615] [NEW] lock screen pasword field resets every second

2017-06-03 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: After the screen is locked, one normally swipes the screen up and types the password into the password field that is shown. Sometimes, the password field resets the typed text every second (as if the lockscreen is reloaded). Subsequently, when you finish typing your password,

[Bug 1695607] [NEW] killed application still shown in dash

2017-06-03 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: After a Wine application has been killed by OOM, its icon is still shown in the Gnome Shell dash and marked as running application. The icon is not associated with any process, since no process of the killed application is running. Klicking the icon triggers after some time a

[Bug 1287917] Re: help content is not rendered to device-pixels on high-dpi screen

2017-02-19 Thread Andreas E.
This bug has been fixed somewhen in WebKitGTK. ** Changed in: yelp (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to yelp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287917 Title: help

[Bug 1665382] Re: File operation progress does not complete properly

2017-02-16 Thread Andreas E.
How can a non-working feature from upstream be merged into a stable Ubuntu release without review/trying out? And if Gnome releases are always work-in-progress, then Ubuntu should not "freeze" the buggy state for half a year, but forward to its users not only security updates but also all feature

[Bug 1665382] Re: File operation progress does not complete properly

2017-02-16 Thread Andreas E.
Upstream bug: Bug 773527 - Copy progress popover should close on completion https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773527 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #773527 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773527 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1665382] [NEW] File operation progress does not complete properly

2017-02-16 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: When copying files, a progress indicator button appears in the toolbar (round "cake" diagram). It also opens a popover that lists all file operations with a progress bar each. Unfortunately the popover 1) covers a huge part of the window, 2) it is opened on all nautilus

[Bug 1534645] Re: Cannot easily preserve a keyring to be only unlocked manually

2016-12-02 Thread Andreas E.
This is still the case in Ubuntu 16.10 with seahorse 3.20.0-2ubuntu1 and gnome-keyring 3.20.0-2ubuntu4 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to seahorse in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534645 Title: Cannot easily

[Bug 1644830] [NEW] gnome-software process does not quit after closing application window

2016-11-25 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: Gnome-system-monitor shows a process "gnome-software" that continues running after the application window has been closed. The process constantly takes 100–200MB RAM and was not there after boot/login. Observed behavior: Process does not quit after quitting the application

[Bug 1581377] [NEW] text-scaling-factor changes from 1.0

2016-05-13 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: After upgrading from Ubuntu 15.10 to 16.04, org.gnome.desktop.interface .text-scaling-factor is not anymore set to 1.0 (as before upgrade) and it does not want to be set to this value. When setting it via gnome-tweak-tool or dconf-editor, it grows again to 1.1875 which makes

[Bug 1570701] [NEW] suspend on critical battery state can be prevented by applications

2016-04-15 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: Some applications prevent the computer from going to suspend mode (applications that display video, eg. chromium, opera, openshot) because they assume it is in the user's interest to keep the screen on even when inactive. This is most times helpful and saves the user from

[Bug 1534645] [NEW] Cannot easily preserve a keyring to be only unlocked manually

2016-01-15 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: Assume you want to create a keyring for secrets that you only need rarely and thus want to access only on demand (not unlock on every login session). Whenever you access/unlock the keyring for the first, second, etc. time, the "Unlock keyring" dialog asks for the password

[Bug 1416084] [NEW] evince opens documents in tiny windows

2015-01-29 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: When opening a document in evince, it usually used to open in a reasonable window size (I don't know, maybe last used size). However many document now open in an evince window that is as small as possible (like 20px) and requires upscaling every time. Sometimes, the document

[Bug 1396626] [NEW] print dialog font selection scrolled to end

2014-11-26 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: When printing a gedit (plain text) document, it is possible to configure which font is used for printing. When you click on a font button to open the font selector dialog, and type into the search field, the filtered font list is scrolled to the last list item. As a result,

[Bug 1380051] [NEW] characters in svg images wiggle

2014-10-11 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: When zooming an SVG image that contains texts, the positions of characters wiggle. The characters move sidewards closer together or farer away, as if the kerning would be different at every zoom level. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: eog 3.10.2-0ubuntu5

[Bug 564072] Re: DPI is not recognized by UBUNTU, so fonts, icons and the whole system is too small

2014-06-07 Thread Andreas E.
Since this bug is labeled as gtk+2.0, I'd be interested to see also work continued on the gtk+2.0 toolkit. By manually editing gtk+2.0 themes, one can at least double some elements' dimensions and it seems not to break the layout of applications (of course such a theme derivative is then

[Bug 1318847] [NEW] shotwell shows incorrect time

2014-05-12 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: Shotwell shows a photo being shot at 11:11 although the original EXIF data give the time as 23:11. By default, the dconf key org.yorba.shotwell.preferences.ui.use-24-hour-time was set to false (…should use AM/PM notation). However it displays the time without AM/PM (at

[Bug 1287917] [NEW] help content is not rendered to device-pixels on high-dpi screen

2014-03-04 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: If the global scaling factor is set to something different from 1 on a high-dpi screen, pdfs look blurry because they are rendered to UI units instead of device pixels. org.gnome.desktop.interface.scaling-factor = 2 As I've heard the used setting for the scaling factor might

[Bug 1287915] [NEW] pdf not rendered to device pixels on high-dpi screen

2014-03-04 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: If the global scaling factor is set to something different from 1 on a high-dpi screen, pdfs look blurry because they are rendered to UI units instead of device pixels. This renders the main advantage of higher- resolution screens (sharp vector fonts/graphics) useless for the

[Bug 1278098] [NEW] keyboard settings dialog too wide

2014-02-09 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: The gnome-control-center dialog is not resizable and automatically adjusts to the size of the currently viewed category. The keyboard settings / shortcuts makes the dialog tooo wide, because a translation string does not wrap lines. Make sure that all texts can wrap if they

[Bug 1211937] Re: Nautilus leaks memory right after system start

2013-08-19 Thread Andreas E.
This is a serious issue because it can happen at unpredictable times, and the memory leak runs with enormous speed. The system locks up so much that I had to hard reboot several times which is not good and can do damage to files. As far as I found out, the issue happens when nautilus tries to

[Bug 1211937] Re: Nautilus leaks memory right after system start

2013-08-14 Thread Andreas E.
I had expected ubuntu-bug adds more detailed/valuable information about the bug. If there is more info needed, I could reproduce it and give what ever info requested. This was after a fresh install of Ubuntu, but with old user configuration imported. Turning of Nautilus to manage the desktop

[Bug 1211937] [NEW] Nautilus leaks memory right after system start

2013-08-13 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: Directly after logging in, nautilus starts to take more memory with a speed of ~4 MB/s. After 10-20 minutes the system freezes so extremely that it doesn't respond to any input (alt+f1, reisub). This could be caused by something related to the desktop since nautilus is used

[Bug 1194683] [NEW] totem leaks memory when playing ogv file

2013-06-25 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: When playing an ogv file generated from pitivi, Totem leaked around 800-1000MB RAM. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34-generic 3.8.11 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic i686

[Bug 1094971] [NEW] pairing timeout aborts short after first failed try

2012-12-31 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: After the first try of pairing the Ubuntu notebook with a bluetooth device (phone) failed (phone not ready or pin mistyped), every following try aborts immediately after less than a second (as if the timeout was suddenly shorter). There is no time anymore to read or even

[Bug 1094517] [NEW] can not add/replace files into sub folder

2012-12-29 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: I can not add files using dragdrop to an existing zip-archive opened in file-roller. 1. You have a zip file archive.zip which contains a sub-folder. 2. Open the zip file in file-roller. 3. Drag a file from the file manager into the root of the archive. This should be

[Bug 1093759] [NEW] transfer permissions to contained folders does nothing

2012-12-26 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: I ran nautilus as root (gksudo) in order to copy another user's .gconf folder, which then got the ownership of root. In properties of the .gconf folder, I corrected the permissions and clicked the button to transfer them to all contained files/folders. There was no indication

[Bug 991085] Re: application specific details prompt offers too limited options

2012-11-20 Thread Andreas E.
This crash happens almost daily and it is quite disturbing to see how apport has been sending (since then) maybe 50-100 worthless bug reports. I would like to help fixing it, but apport does not let me add correct information. If this can't be fixed in totem, because the bug reports can't get

[Bug 1058736] [NEW] Benchmark window preselects write test

2012-09-29 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 12.10beta2 gnome-disk-utility 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 The Benchmark window contains a rather unobvious checkbox for a write test which is preselected. Since this test is destructive, it should not be preselected on drives that contain partitions or data, and it should be

[Bug 1058736] Re: Benchmark window preselects write test

2012-09-29 Thread Andreas E.
** Attachment added: gnome-disks_write-benchmark.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058736/+attachment/3355993/+files/gnome-disks_write-benchmark.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1046177] Re: too many notifications for disk failure warnings

2012-09-05 Thread Andreas E.
** Attachment added: Dozens of dialogs on top of each other (see the dark black shadow). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1046177/+attachment/3293450/+files/palimpsest_disk_failure_warning.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 1046177] [NEW] too many notifications for disk failure warnings

2012-09-05 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: When I boot up and there is a disk failure warning, it bombards me with a new dialog every 2 seconds. If I'm not fast enough clicking the dialog away, I end up with dozens if not hundreds of disk failure warning dialogs. This is by far too much in too short time for users

[Bug 414107] Re: Palimpsest GUI impossible to use on small screen

2012-08-29 Thread Andreas E.
This is still an issue with certain parts of the UI (sorry for adding here, bug reporting seems disabled). The text string for disk failure warning doesn't break lines and forces the dialog to be (estimated) 1500px wide (on a 1280px screen). ** Attachment added: Smart values dialog. Note that

[Bug 920014] [NEW] gedit line select doesn't consider automatic word wrapping

2012-01-22 Thread Andreas E.
Public bug reported: When automatic word wrapping is enabled and you select a line (triple-click or press Pos1+shift+End), gedit selects only one displayed line segment and not the complete line until the end-of-line marker. It leaves the wrapped segments of the line unselected and unaffected