[Bug 1788364] Re: Terminal not working on Ubuntu 18.04

2018-09-24 Thread Luís de Sousa
Hi there, for those seeking for a solution to this: removing the orca package permanently solves this issue: sudo apt purge orca This has no visible impact on the functioning of the system, just a slight increase of the overall fluidity of the DE. Best. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1788364] Re: Terminal not working on Ubuntu 18.04

2018-08-23 Thread Luís de Sousa
Hello again, some updates on this issue. I have been trying to upload a report with apport when a terminal window is greyed out. However, apport is also unresponsive when this happens, I use the Alt+F2 command prompt, it takes about 20 seconds to display the keyboard input (about one character

[Bug 1788364] [NEW] Terminal not working on Ubuntu 18.04

2018-08-22 Thread Luís de Sousa
Public bug reported: On Ubuntu 18.04 the terminal stops functioning after a few hours of work. In a fresh session the terminal works as expected, but after some time it becomes slow and finally unresponsive. After that, every time a new terminal window is launched it is greyed out and must be

[Bug 1600606] Re: Totem is missing the playlist. Please reintroduce it.

2017-12-15 Thread Luís de Sousa
Totem is hopelessly broken, this application is no longer up to the standards Ubuntu has grown us used to. The best solution is to install a fork of a functional Totem version like xplayer: https://launchpad.net/~embrosyn/+archive/ubuntu/xapps Cheers. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1600606] [NEW] Totem is missing the playlist

2016-07-10 Thread Luís de Sousa
Public bug reported: After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 Totem is no longer displays the video playlist in the side panel. As in previous Ubuntu releases, the side panel is disabled by default, but in this release the View menu is missing the Sidebar item in this later release. The Sibedar item

[Bug 1390628] Re: Mouse pointer invisible after upgrade to Ubuntu 14.10 and 15.04

2016-05-06 Thread Luís de Sousa
This issue was first reported by users on 13.04 and has lasted at least to 15.10. I am presently struggling with it on Ubuntu 14.04. On this release the "gsettings set" workaround does not work, neither does logging out and logging back in. There are a number of other workarounds discussed at

[Bug 1571307] [NEW] GEdit fails to start

2016-04-17 Thread Luís de Sousa
Public bug reported: I have GEdit in the launcher, when I click on it the icon blips as usual, but the GEdit window never comes up. If I try to start it from the terminal I get the following message: ** (gedit:11540): CRITICAL **: file log.c: line 980: unexpected error: Error calling

[Bug 63587] Re: Can't queue a song more than once in Rhythmbox

2015-09-29 Thread Luís de Sousa
This bug has now been open for eleven years. Could anyone update users on it? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63587 Title: Can't queue a song more than once in Rhythmbox To

[Bug 116290] Re: No choice of language for spell checking

2015-02-21 Thread Luís de Sousa
I am using Tomboy 1.15.4 on Ubuntu 14.04. For some strange reason Tomboy is (randomly?) underlining perfectly correct English words. I would like to check or switch the language but as this bugs attests, it is not possible. I would prefer this feature to be outright de-activated. -- You received