[Bug 1232454] Re: Computer will suspend very soon because of inactivity. dialog when resuming from suspend

2013-11-28 Thread Roger James
I think there are a number of bugs here. The version I see is. With Turn screen off when inactive set to 30 minutes and Suspend when inactive for set to 1 hour. If I come back after an hour the screen has turned off, but the computer has not suspended. When I wake up the screen the dekstop has

[Bug 1314556] Re: Unable to mount Android MTP device

2015-10-30 Thread Roger James
Just a quick comment. I know this was mentioned before (#46) but it would be a good idea if everyone checked this behaviour with phone in both locked and unlocked states _before_ it is plugged into the USB. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,

[Bug 1314556] Re: Unable to mount Android MTP device

2015-09-27 Thread Roger James
Same problem on 15.04 with an HTC Desire 820. Unable to mount android phone message and then an empty nautilus browser window. Is this something to do with the transient usb mass storage device that phones with this chipset reports on the usb bus for a while after first connection. This is

[Bug 1825623] Re: [AppIndicatorSupport-FATAL] unable to update overlay icon

2019-07-13 Thread Roger James
I have seen a number of issues related to this error message. Including slow wake up from sleeps. Long pauses in screen repaint. Long launch times for applications. The only sure fix I found was to completely purge the gnome-shell-extension-appindicator package and reboot. The system them becomes

[Bug 1835295] [NEW] Closing a window on the desktop freezes the desktop for a minute or more.

2019-07-03 Thread Roger James
Public bug reported: When I close a window on the gnome desktop. The desktop often freezes for anything between 30 seconds and a number of minutes. I notice this most often when closing a terminal window with ctrl+d. When look at the syslog and cpu usage (top) from a terminal logged in via ssh I

[Bug 1835295] Re: Closing a window on the desktop freezes the desktop for a minute or more.

2019-07-04 Thread Roger James
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1826604 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1826604 Hi Daniel, Sorry about the incomplete bug report. I had forgotten that I had turned apport. I have now found a fix for the first part of my report. This has reduced the noise level so that I can see the

[Bug 1835295] Re: Closing a window on the desktop freezes the desktop for a minute or more.

2019-08-19 Thread Roger James
Closed bug to reduce confusion. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1812883 Desktop view flashes every time ~/Desktop changes ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop

[Bug 1812883] Re: Desktop view flashes every time ~/Desktop changes

2019-08-19 Thread Roger James
I worked round this issue by uninstalling gnome-shell-extension- appindicator. This fixed this issue and also a number of high cpu usage issues I was seeing. The cpu issues were sometimes severe enough to also expose weaknesses in the compositor. I suggest that anyone who is getting problems with

[Bug 1812883] Re: Desktop view flashes every time ~/Desktop changes

2019-08-19 Thread Roger James
I think this bug may well be a duplicate of #1825623. Would anyone object if I marked it as such. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1812883

Re: [Bug 1812883] Re: Desktop view flashes every time ~/Desktop changes

2019-08-19 Thread Roger James
Hi Jonathon, Sorry, I wasn't clear. I really only meant the uninstall as a temporary test, to provide more information on what issues this extension was causing. For me it also solved a number of seemingly unrelated issues mostly to do with excessive cpu usage. Roger On 19 August 2019

[Bug 1812883] Re: Desktop view flashes every time ~/Desktop changes

2019-08-20 Thread Roger James
The extension is only fully removed if you purge it and reboot your system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1812883 Title: Desktop view

[Bug 1825623] Re: [AppIndicatorSupport-FATAL] unable to update overlay icon

2019-08-20 Thread Roger James
I have now reinstalled the extension and having been running for a day without problems. This leads me to think that this a persistent data, rather than code related problem. I can only assume that the purge reinstall cycle removed whatever was causing the problem. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1867585] Re: CPU spikes caused by saving PDF to Desktop

2020-06-22 Thread Roger James
If you are experiencing this bug. Try the following. if the directory "/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop- icons@csoriano" rename it to something else. Then restart the desktop (logout then login). Please report the results of this test back here. I am trying to correlate information on

[Bug 1832812] Re: Locking and unlocking the screen is slow and stuttery

2020-06-22 Thread Roger James
If you are experiencing this bug. Try the following. if the directory "/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop- icons@csoriano" rename it to something else. Then restart the desktop (logout then login). Please report the results of this test back here. I am trying to correlate information on

[Bug 1872796] Re: gnome-shell animations are noticeably stuttery when the Ubuntu extensions are enabled

2020-06-22 Thread Roger James
If you are experiencing this bug. Try the following. if the directory "/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop- icons@csoriano" rename it to something else. Then restart the desktop (logout then login). Please report the results of this test back here. I am trying to correlate information on

[Bug 1872796] Re: gnome-shell animations are noticeably stuttery when the Ubuntu extensions are enabled

2020-06-23 Thread Roger James
The Extensions app does not appear to work fro the csoriano version of desktop icons. It thinks that it is the rastersoft fork. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1872796] Re: gnome-shell animations are noticeably stuttery when the Ubuntu extensions are enabled

2020-06-23 Thread Roger James
I am running Ubuntu Focal 20.04. The gnome-shell version is 3.36.2-1ubuntu1-20.04.1. The desktop icons version is 20.04.0-2-1ubuntu1-20.04.1. The app does not work. I believe the app is designed to work on per user extensions only. The desktop icon extension is installed as a system extension in

[Bug 1872796] Re: gnome-shell animations are noticeably stuttery when the Ubuntu extensions are enabled

2020-06-24 Thread Roger James
Daniel, I apologise. We have been talking about different apps. I have been referring to the browser plugin that talks to https://extensions.gnome.org/. This is because it was the first thing I spotted when I searched on the net. I realise that what you have been talking about the is a

[Bug 1812883] Re: Desktop view flashes every time ~/Desktop changes

2020-06-22 Thread Roger James
This bug is still present in Focal. It seems to have lost focus in upstream. In Focal it is much harder to remove the extension as it is even more tightly linked in as a mandatory dependency for a number of major system components. The only way to remove it is by deleting or renaming its files.

[Bug 1908429] Re: gnome-shell fills syslog: Attempting to run a JS callback during garbage collection. This is most likely caused by destroying a Clutter actor or GTK widget with ::destroy signal conn

2021-12-04 Thread Roger James
For info. The bug also means that the systemd journal is growing at an extremely fast rate. Double whammy. All these files by default reside in the root file system. Which is usually created quite small. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs,