[Bug 1248105] [NEW] Gnome-Control-Panel fails to install functional Canon MP280 driver

2013-11-05 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: I attempted to use Gnome-Control-Center to install a USB-attached Canon MP280 printer and it failed. I then proceeded to install the .deb packages using gdebi which were hidden inside the tar.gz package from http://support- nz.canon.co.nz/contents/NZ/EN/0100301402.html

[Bug 1248105] Re: Gnome-Control-Panel fails to install functional Canon MP280 driver

2013-11-05 Thread Cefn
Thanks, Sebastien. I'm using Ubuntu Gnome and as far as I know, that's the only Printer control panel I have. Is it unsupported? What is in fact supported? For the debugging report, I may have launched an unusual session (by running 'gnome-control-center printers') from the command line, because

[Bug 1232419] Re: [xsettings]: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in notify_have_shell()

2013-10-23 Thread Cefn
I didn't experience it again, so must have been transient, or fixed by later updates. Will report back if I see it again. I only saw it on Ubuntu Gnome. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu.

[Bug 335712] Re: strange escape handling in Exec line of .desktop files

2013-08-20 Thread Cefn
Yes, please provide information how to escape paths with spaces. There's no example I can find, and it seems impossible to satisfy the parser (I can't make my entry appear at all). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1206987] [NEW] No right-click option for Bookmarks, keyboard shortcut and menu entry hard to find

2013-07-31 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: I struggled navigating the Nautilus interface to find a mechanism to add items to Places, before finally looking up online to find a keyboard shortcut. When navigating e.g. in /home/user the Bookmark this item entry is greyed out (and essentially invisible with the contrast

[Bug 1207079] [NEW] alacarte: no user journey for associating filetype with new binary script

2013-07-31 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: I have spent a very long time trying to use any kind of GUI tool to configure a file association in Ubuntu Gnome, with no success. I finally was forced to find old .desktop files from a previous desktop backup which I'd manually authored before. The requirement is simple -

[Bug 151365] Re: Autosave doesn't work for Unsaved Documents

2013-07-19 Thread Cefn
Maybe a comment will bring this bug back to life. This is very serious for my use of desktop linux - there's no excuse for program configurations which lose user-entered text by default. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1194783] [NEW] Gnome Control Centre Display configuration throws error

2013-06-26 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: I am able to launch and run the Gnome monitor/display control utility by launching the following in Lubuntu 13.04 sudo gnome-control-center display ...but whenever I try to actually trigger a change to the display layout, it throws the following error in a dialog... Failed

[Bug 1174649] [NEW] File Roller cannot re-author APK archives

2013-04-30 Thread Cefn
./res/drawable-* /home/cefn/.cache/.fr-LedBmX/res/ ...a path which I figured out by opening a file with a text editor or image viewer, which then reveals the auto-generated path to this archive's temporarily mounted directories via the Save As dialog. Then file-roller helpfully asks if I want

[Bug 1166949] [NEW] Gconf-editor cannot author metacity button_layout key

2013-04-09 Thread Cefn
is launched with the specified key (output below)... cefn@cefn-raring-dell:~$ gconf-editor apps/metacity/layout button_layout ** ERROR:gconf-tree-model.c:59:gconf_tree_model_get_tree_path_from_gconf_path: assertion failed: (key[0] == '/') Aborted (core dumped) ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu

[Bug 1166090] [NEW] Metacity paths don't appear in gconf-editor

2013-04-08 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: I've been trying to find out how to put the window buttons to the left. All the guides I've seen refer to the use of a path in gconf-editor apps/metacity but that path to properties settings is non-existent. Does that mean that some kind of configuration hasn't happened,

[Bug 1044974] [NEW] Rhythmbox hangs with stupid alert box when syncing iPod

2012-09-02 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: Having deleted all the songs from my iPod Touch 16GB I was trying to put another 10GB of songs back on. Wasn't optimistic, thanks to Apple's obfuscated protocols, and sure enough about a half hour later the whole thing had hung, with a blank alert box and a greyed out

[Bug 1044974] Re: Rhythmbox hangs with stupid alert box when syncing iPod

2012-09-02 Thread Cefn
** Attachment added: rhythmbox_hung.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044974/+attachment/3288893/+files/rhythmbox_hung.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu.

[Bug 1044974] Re: Rhythmbox hangs with stupid alert box when syncing iPod

2012-09-02 Thread Cefn
After force quit and restart, it's still hung, and can't even seem to load my music library. See screenshot. ** Attachment added: rhythmbox_reloaded_hung.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/1044974/+attachment/3288900/+files/rhythmbox_reloaded_hung.png -- You

[Bug 1044974] Re: Rhythmbox hangs with stupid alert box when syncing iPod

2012-09-02 Thread Cefn
Eventually, (after 5 minutes or so) the attached screenshot appears, indicating that the fact the iPod is still plugged in is triggering the same or a related latent bug. ** Attachment added: rhythmbox_reloaded_eventual.png

[Bug 1044974] Re: Rhythmbox hangs with stupid alert box when syncing iPod

2012-09-02 Thread Cefn
Attempting to unmount, kill nautilus or force-unplug the iPod had no effect, so I ran ps aux | grep gvfs | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs -n1 sudo kill -9 ...which killed the iPod mount and caused Rhythmbox's hanging on blank alert box behaviour to resolve itself. It's offered to reinitialise my

[Bug 1044974] Re: Rhythmbox hangs with stupid alert box when syncing iPod

2012-09-02 Thread Cefn
, and is not full, (i.e. plenty of space before the 16GB limit) cefn@cefn-precise-dell:~/.gvfs/Cefn’s iPod$ df . Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Available Use% Mounted on gvfs-fuse-daemon 15347304 3593272 11754032 24% /home/cefn/.gvfs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 907311] Re: Not exiting properly? An instance of Brasero is already running, exiting

2012-05-02 Thread Cefn
This is very serious, as for most users it would mean CD burning is entirely impossible. It seems to be associated with either... * having run Brasero to burn a CD with the windowed client within the same session * allowing automount behaviour to trigger Brasero with the Nautilus-embedded

[Bug 920691] Re: Nautilus has no Bookmark target until CTRL+D

2012-01-24 Thread Cefn
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 874386 Can't drag/drop files onto bookmarked folders -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/920691 Title: Nautilus has no

[Bug 920691] Re: Nautilus has no Bookmark target until CTRL+D

2012-01-24 Thread Cefn
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 874386 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874386 It's not a duplicate of the other bug it was linked to, so I have removed that link. This is a feature regression, is confusing and inconsistent, (perhaps this doesn't qualify it as a bug). The other 'bug'

[Bug 920691] Re: Nautilus has no Bookmark target until CTRL+D

2012-01-24 Thread Cefn
Sebastien has added back the duplicate flag I removed, even though this is incorrect. Indeed this is the direct opposite of the other bug, if you take into account the feature discussion at Gnome, which split bookmark drag functionality into two. The one they decided to preserve is broken by the

[Bug 920691] [NEW] Nautilus has no Bookmark target until CTRL+D

2012-01-23 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: Running a stock Oneiric version of Nautilus. I find that dragging Folders into the left pane never creates a bookmark. Previously, I think I could drag folders 'in between' other folders in the left pane, seeing a black line indicating where the new bookmark would be placed.

[Bug 920691] Re: Nautilus has no Bookmark target until CTRL+D

2012-01-23 Thread Cefn
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/920691 Title: Nautilus has no Bookmark target until CTRL+D To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 677452] [NEW] Power applet shows as charging when unplugged

2010-11-19 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager I have a dell inspiron 1525. It's possible there's some sequence like sleep, unplug, unsleep which creates the conditions for this bug to emerge. The behaviour, given the default Ubuntu settings, is that the battery applet just

[Bug 677452] Re: Power applet shows as charging when unplugged

2010-11-19 Thread Cefn
-- Power applet shows as charging when unplugged https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677452 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 553301] Re: Music synced to iPod touch does not appear on device

2010-08-15 Thread Cefn
Same problem here. Ipod Touch 2nd Gen 16GB is being identified as a 1Gb Shuffle (although the available space is reported correctly). Syncing appears to work, but nothing appears on the device at the end, so it appears to be syncing into a tree which isn't being read by the iPod Touch software,

[Bug 610036] Re: MTP plugin causes Mighty Mouse to hang

2010-08-10 Thread Cefn
I disagree this is a low priority bug. It stops you using your point and click desktop altogether if you make the mistake of launching Rhythmbox (a default install) in its default configuration. This is pretty major if you ask me. If you're not familiar with keyboard navigation, then your

[Bug 610036] Re: MTP plugin causes Mighty Mouse to hang

2010-08-10 Thread Cefn
I mean MTP plugin - sorry for typo. -- MTP plugin causes Mighty Mouse to hang https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610036 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 596559] Re: Lost text file contents due to desktop bug - change autorecover defaults!

2010-07-11 Thread Cefn
I'm not sure I agree. For me and countless others you could decide to have autosave ENABLED by default. I probably wasn't clear in my original bug report, but my point was that you have two modes. Sensible mode - keep my data Stupid mode - lose my data I'm questioning the logic by which

[Bug 596559] Re: Lost text file contents due to desktop bug - change autorecover defaults!

2010-07-11 Thread Cefn
This relates to the following bug too, which doesn't seem to have been accepted as something needing attention... https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/151365 ...and which just bit me - since activating 'autosave' I thought the editor would save automatically, but a previously unsaved file is

[Bug 596559] [NEW] Lost text file contents due to desktop bug - change autorecover defaults!

2010-06-20 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gedit Just recently updated to Lucid Lynx with a clean install. While authoring a text file full of project notes, my laptop went into some kind of sleep state (blank screen) and I was unable to return to the desktop without a hard shutdown in between.

[Bug 587812] [NEW] Linux install in Virtualbox broken by authoritarian automount behaviour

2010-05-31 Thread Cefn
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus I have been trying to install Lucid as a Guest OS onto to an SD card using Virtualbox-OSE running on Lucid as the Host OS. I've been doing it over and over and it failed each time. I believe I've found the problem and it's the automount

[Bug 587812] Re: Linux install in Virtualbox broken by authoritarian automount behaviour

2010-05-31 Thread Cefn
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49425530/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: usr_lib_nautilus.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49425531/usr_lib_nautilus.txt -- Linux install in Virtualbox broken by authoritarian automount behaviour

[Bug 587812] Re: Linux install in Virtualbox broken by authoritarian automount behaviour

2010-05-31 Thread Cefn
An example of something I've tried to prevent this automount behaviour is to add a line like this to /etc/fstab... /dev/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/ ext3 noauto 0 0 which places the mount point outside of /media and flags it as noauto. Both of these were alleged in previous versions to be the

[Bug 587812] Re: Linux install in Virtualbox broken by authoritarian automount behaviour

2010-05-31 Thread Cefn
Although there are a million solutions offered out there for alternate linux and ubuntu builds which do not work on Lucid, I have good news. Lucid does indeed have a CHECKBOX! Hit Alt+F2 and then type gconf-editor Navigate to /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount Uncheck the box. This is a

[Bug 331608] Re: Rhythmbox unresponsive when deleting music from ipod

2010-04-17 Thread Cefn
I can confirm similar behaviour on my Ubuntu (Mint) installation, pushing a few hundred tunes using an iPod Touch and the ifuse packages, as described here... http://fatbuttlarry.blogspot.com/2010/01/ipod-touch-iphone-3g-ubuntu-910-in-5.html I appreciate that mine isn't a mainstream supported

[Bug 540582] Re: Creating isos of some DVDs fails with Data could not be written

2010-04-10 Thread Cefn
Checking session consistency (brasero_burn_check_session_consistency brasero-burn.c:1848) BraseroDvdcss called brasero_job_get_action BraseroDvdcss called brasero_job_get_action BraseroDvdcss called brasero_job_get_current_track BraseroDvdcss called brasero_job_set_output_size_for_current_track

[Bug 540582] Re: Creating isos of some DVDs fails with Data could not be written

2010-04-10 Thread Cefn
I experienced the same bug, which terminates in the same way. Above is the log from my session. -- Creating isos of some DVDs fails with Data could not be written https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540582 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 540582] Re: Creating isos of some DVDs fails with Data could not be written

2010-04-10 Thread Cefn
manager like synaptic then use the following to copy the stream in a way which abandons the corrupted sectors, rather than allowing them to junk the copy. In the terminal unmount the drive and start the copy process like this... umount /dev/sr0 ddrescue -d -n -b 2048 /dev/sr0 /home/cefn/out.iso /home

[Bug 395124] Re: logout window appears behind other windows

2009-09-17 Thread Cefn
Not sure I agree with the bug importance assignment here. I experience the bug as well, and it took a bit of time to work out what was going on, and the consequences can be serious. If the toolbar is configured to auto-hide, it's actually impossible to see anything happening at all when you

[Bug 240916] Re: can't configure display resolution (monitor, graphics card) manually in gui

2009-04-15 Thread Cefn
shown in my command line. c...@cefn-linux-tablet:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 768, maximum 1440 x 1792 VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) LVDS connected 1280x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1280x768_60.00 60.0

[Bug 260436] Re: Unable to force screen resolution with vtswitch/splitter

2009-04-10 Thread Cefn
Glad I could help 3vil. It's a shame that there's no mechanism for ordinary people to achieve the same thing, for whom manually editing xorg.conf is a step too far. After all it only takes three gui fields and a go button! All the other tools are already in place - gtf, gnome resolution config,

[Bug 260436] Re: Unable to force screen resolution with vtswitch/splitter

2009-03-05 Thread Cefn
Could you reopen this bug. I can reproduce it and still have a KVM which prevents the autodetection capability from working. My suggestion that this should remain open is based on Bryce's interpretation of the bug/feature request earlier in this thread...

[Bug 260436] Re: Unable to force screen resolution with vtswitch/splitter

2009-03-05 Thread Cefn
I'm referring to your request a few hours ago... can you force the resolution using the xrandr command line tool? Yes you can force it using xrandr, assuming that you have edited xorg.conf properly. I've carried out these steps and proven that you can force the correct resolution regardless of

[Bug 260436] Re: Unable to force screen resolution with vtswitch/splitter

2009-03-05 Thread Cefn
had to manually generate a line using gtf thus... c...@cefn-linux-dell:~$ gtf 1440 900 60 # 1440x900 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 55.92 kHz; pclk: 106.47 MHz Modeline 1440x900_60.00 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync Then weigh in and edit my xorg.conf, based