[Bug 1082232] [NEW] gnome-screensaver 3.6 does not unlock

2012-11-22 Thread Andrew Cowie
Public bug reported: After sliding the lock screensaver out of the way, either a) the screen is grey [debian logo] and unresponsive, or b) you get the dialog to enter your password but keystrokes are not accepted. Only way out is to reboot. AfC ** Affects: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)

[Bug 1082232] Re: gnome-screensaver 3.6 does not unlock

2012-11-22 Thread Andrew Cowie
It's possible that this is resolved by https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686800 ; https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688700 was marked a duplicate of it, though it has a better title. If this is indeed the fix, then an urgent backport ahead of 3.6.1 would be advisable. Being

[Bug 982831] [NEW] Evolution can't create meeting, reports no backend for VEVENT

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Cowie
Public bug reported: I can no longer create meetings or appointments from Evolution! This was happening in Oneiric, and now that I've upgraded to Precise it's still broken. An error is reported in the GtkInfoBar it pops up saying No backend factory for 'file' of 'VEVENT' This is

[Bug 982831] Re: Evolution can't create meeting, reports no backend for VEVENT

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Cowie
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[Bug 887584] [NEW] Alert volume fails to mute

2011-11-08 Thread Andrew Cowie
Public bug reported: Setting the alert volume to zero (ie, selecting the Mute Checkbox) in the Sound Effects tab of Sound Settings has no effect; the alert noise is still being emitted from i.e. GEdit when you try to move past the beginning of the document. This worked on Natty, not sure why it

[Bug 887584] Re: Alert volume fails to mute

2011-11-08 Thread Andrew Cowie
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/887584 Title: Alert volume fails to mute To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 805743] [NEW] gst-keyboard-xkb should be gsd-keyboard-xkb

2011-07-04 Thread Andrew Cowie
Public bug reported: The string gst-keyboard-xkb appearing in the GtkStatusIcon (?) powering the indicator (?) for keyboard layout switching should be be gsd-keyboard-xkb ... the gst prefix makes it sound like GStreamer and not gnome-settings-daemon. Filed as requested by GNOME upstream. AfC

[Bug 805747] [NEW] Unnecessary gst-keyboard-xkb appearing in Notification Area when multiple keyboard layouts enabled

2011-07-04 Thread Andrew Cowie
Public bug reported: Running GNOME3 and enabling a second keyboard layout has caused a [broken image] gst-keyboard-xkb to appear in my Notification Area. gnome-shell's active layout indicator up next to accessibility and volume is present and working. But a separate thing, calling itself

[Bug 647127] Re: Persistent compositing glitches

2011-03-06 Thread Andrew Cowie
Observing this on Maverick. Quite annoying. It's especially common with menus but happens with tooltips too. The only thing to do is to kill the parent process. Can anyone with metacity experience suggest the code path that we should be looking at? AfC -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 446872] Re: gnome-panel keeps disappearing

2010-12-13 Thread Andrew Cowie
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Expired = New -- 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/446872 Title: gnome-panel keeps disappearing -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 640018] Re: empathy throws untrusted certificate warning on google chat services using google apps (non-google domains)

2010-11-16 Thread Andrew Cowie
It's not a Google specific problem. We use a perfectly sound CAcert certificate and suddenly, on upgrade to Maverick, this warning started appearing. Really annoying. As stated above, ignore SSL errors is not ideal; there's nothing wrong with the cert. So, maybe there's a problem with the root

[Bug 632594] Re: xvfb 1.9 and/or metacity not working on the buildds

2010-10-28 Thread Andrew Cowie
If it's a case of a DBus dependency (and if not, we're swerving off topic here) then the question is how to run a private DBus instance for the build in question. I ran into this ~2 years ago in that I had to run a a gnome-settings- daemon privately under the Xvfb for metacity's themes to work,

[Bug 446872] Re: gnome-panel keeps disappearing

2010-08-07 Thread Andrew Cowie
Still occuring. I suppose I should note that it's a composited metacity (or, rather metacity with compositing turned on). Not that that should matter, but hey. I keep an eye on ~/.xsession-errors and friends, but so far nothing has jumped out at me. I'm tempted to grab gnome-panel from jhbuild

[Bug 531835] Re: Fonts are very small

2010-06-15 Thread Andrew Cowie
Can we get this backported to Lucid please? AfC -- Fonts are very small https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 572082] Re: evolution not at current release

2010-05-01 Thread Andrew Cowie
Hm. So we found https://launchpad.net/~francesco-marella/+archive/unstable- evolution which of course isn't unstable. It's the latest upstream release, and since anyone who has a problem with Evo is going to be told to upgrade to stable 2.30, we're going to get a huge number of people *long

[Bug 572082] [NEW] evolution not at current release

2010-04-30 Thread Andrew Cowie
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution Evolution in Lucid isn't at 2.30, which is the release that goes with the rest of GNOME 2.30. AfC ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic

[Bug 572082] Re: evolution not at current release

2010-04-30 Thread Andrew Cowie
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46507150/Dependencies.txt -- evolution not at current release https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572082 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evolution in

[Bug 446872] Re: gnome-panel keeps disappearing

2010-02-09 Thread Andrew Cowie
Still occuring. New machine, fresh install, nothing copied across. Same applet family in this single panel : Menu, Workspace Switcher, Window List, Weather Report, Notification Area, Clock, Window Selector. Still disappearing periodically. AfC -- gnome-panel keeps disappearing

[Bug 454396] Re: [Karmic] when upgrading, gnome-power-manager should not be restarted as root

2009-10-27 Thread Andrew Cowie
It just happened again. After ~5 days with no upgrades, the largish upgrade stack that just landed resulted in there suddenly being two gnome-power-managers running, one of which was owned by root. AfC -- [Karmic] when upgrading, gnome-power-manager should not be restarted as root

[Bug 454396] Re: [Karmic] when upgrading, gnome-power-manager should not be restarted as root

2009-10-27 Thread Andrew Cowie
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- [Karmic] when upgrading, gnome-power-manager should not be restarted as root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/454396 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

Re: [Bug 454396] Re: [Karmic] when upgrading, gnome-power-manager should not be restarted as root

2009-10-19 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 23:41 +, Kees Cook wrote: I have not been able to reproduce this. Did you take any unusual steps during your upgrade? No. Nothing unusual at all. But it's been happening a lot (I tested a number of permutations of logouts, reboots, etc just to make sure I wasn't doing

[Bug 454396] [NEW] [Karmic] when upgrading, gnome-power-manager should not be restarted as root

2009-10-17 Thread Andrew Cowie
*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager It seems that after a package upgrade, suddenly a second gnome-power- manager is run (resulting in two GtkStatusIcons in the NotificationArea applet tray) which is wong. This is

[Bug 447820] [NEW] [Karmic] gnome-power-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in IA__g_closure_invoke()

2009-10-10 Thread Andrew Cowie
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager Just resumed from suspend when this bug appeared. AfC ProblemType: Crash Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Oct 10 17:56:30 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia

[Bug 447820] Re: gnome-power-manager crashed with SIGSEGV in IA__g_closure_invoke()

2009-10-10 Thread Andrew Cowie
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33393991/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: DevkitPower.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33393992/DevkitPower.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33393993/Disassembly.txt **

Re: [Bug 446872] Re: gnome-panel keeps disappearing

2009-10-09 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 08:08 +, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Thank you for your bug report, do you use compiz? do you get the issue without it? No. Running Metacity. AfC -- gnome-panel keeps disappearing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446872 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 446872] [NEW] gnome-panel keeps disappearing

2009-10-08 Thread Andrew Cowie
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel Periodically, the gnome-panel vanishes. The allocation space on the desktop remains (windows don't grow larger as they do if you're doing panel hiding) but the panel itself is gone and the background image shows through. As far as I can tell,

[Bug 446872] Re: gnome-panel keeps disappearing

2009-10-08 Thread Andrew Cowie
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/5681/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: GConfNonDefault.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/5682/GConfNonDefault.txt ** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt

[Bug 24280] Re: applications run through gksu cannot use themes in ~/.themes

2009-10-02 Thread Andrew Cowie
The present behaviour is NOT a good feature. There is no value whatsoever in having the user experience go from smooth to crap just because the distro has decided to escallate a program to root prividledges. The fact that in Ubuntu you have to [graphically or otherwise] provide [sudo] your

[Bug 435106] Re: Can't remove software-store from main menu

2009-09-24 Thread Andrew Cowie
Ok, I figured out what I was missing: Alacarte showed the Software Store, but over on the right hand side, after Applications (ie not in any of Applications's immediate subcategories). Because it was showing in the main menu as a top level (between System Tools and Places) I had been looking on

[Bug 435106] Re: Can't remove software-store from main menu

2009-09-23 Thread Andrew Cowie
Huh? I'm running Karmic. That's where the problem is. Or, are you saying that the solution is to tell people to uninstall this software-store package? AfC -- Can't remove software-store from main menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435106 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 273142] Re: screensaver won't release with mouse movement

2009-09-20 Thread Andrew Cowie
Upgrading from another distro with a fully working GNOME 2.26 installation, now running Ubuntu 'K' with it's 2.27 (about to be 2.28 packages), I am experiencing this problem. This hardware GNOME different distro, the cosmos screensaver deactivated on mouse movement, but now on Ubuntu (same