[Bug 980134] Re: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-27 Thread Peter Belew
I just upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 on another system, a gBox P4 computer. Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10" Linux billy 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 17:34:21 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 G

[Bug 980134] Re: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-26 Thread Peter Belew
I am now running the released version from a CD - I downloaded the ISO this evening. ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc$ cat lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04 LTS" ubuntu@ubuntu:/etc$ uname -a Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu

[Bug 980134] Re: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Belew
11.10 beta2 used for testing Maori bug on netbook - in comment #6 Linux ubuntu 3.0.0-11-generic #18-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 13 23:29:47 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)" ~ -- Yo

[Bug 980134] Re: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Belew
Today I booted a beta2 version of 11.10 Oneiric on my Dell netbook, and checked keyboard behavior regarding this bug. I had the US and ES (Spanish) layouts installed, with and without the Maori layout in the list. The behavior was the same as with the 12.04 beta2 version installed in other systems:

[Bug 980134] Re: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Belew
gnome-terminal was updated last night, but the problem persists. Version information: $ ls -l gnome-terminal -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 301480 Apr 16 21:53 gnome-terminal $ apt-show-versions | grep gnome-term gnome-terminal/precise uptodate 3.4.1.1-0ubuntu1 gnome-terminal-data/precise uptodate 3.4.1

[Bug 980134] Re: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-13 Thread Peter Belew
And also : this problem still occurs today. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/980134 Title: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in t

[Bug 980134] Re: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-13 Thread Peter Belew
This problem may be useful in testing Bug #981182 regarding a command- not-found crash after entering the � characters. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/980134 T

[Bug 980134] Re: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Belew
Note that if I install gnome-terminal (in addition to the default xfce4-terminal) under Xubuntu on the same system, it behaves the same way (also as of today's updates). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in

[Bug 980134] Re: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Belew
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/980134 Title: AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list. To manage noti

[Bug 980134] [NEW] AltGr key doesn't work properly in gnome-terminal when Maori is in the keyboard selection list.

2012-04-12 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: I am running the 12.04 beta, 2012-04-12 daily, i386, from a DVD. I have 3 different keyboard layouts loaded in the keyboard layout selector: US, ES (LATAM), and Maori. With ES selected, and the AltGr key depressed, my top QWERTY row should look like this @ł€¶ŧ←↓→øþ But i

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2011-02-26 Thread Peter Belew
At any rate, this appears to be fixed in Lucid, Karmic, and the current Natty alpha version. I can see the various USA keyboard versions indicated, like USA, USA1 USA2 etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Belew
I don't particularly like the concept of the indicator applet OR the "notification area" - similar concepts, lumping together several applets; I'd rather just add these things individually and arrange them individually. BUT: this bug is about the keyboard indicator specifically, which has lost a c

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2011-02-01 Thread Peter Belew
This problem has popped up over and over again with almost every Ubuntu release. It largely affects people who deal with a number of languages using the Latin character set, but are used to the US keyboard. I think there may be other variant keyboards for which subscripts would be useful, but I'm n

[Bug 439448] Re: Visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-12-30 Thread Peter Belew
Regarding the above comment #330 - remember that Lucid Lynx Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS will be coming out soon - This bug probably affects this LTS release, so it will still be relevant for some time. Not only this, but some video adapters and monitors will not support the new GUI, so that they will be ru

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Belew
Some new issues: When I boot in safe mode. I can't use the wifi interface (configured with network-manager), but the eth0 interface works (configured in /etc/network/interfaces). Apparently network-manager is disabled in safe mode. When booting into the normal Gnome mode, the previously-configure

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Belew
The behavior is the same as in comment #2 after rebooting. -- 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/689377 Title: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec noteb

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
The behavior is the same as in comment #2 after rebooting. -- 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/689377 Title: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec noteb

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
I tried a brief test of Safe Mode instead of Classic mode. The panels appear properly in Safe Mode, but not (necessarily) in Classic (Gnome) mode. I just tried 3 times: Safe Mode: Panels ok Classic Mode: only bottom panel Safe Mode: Panels ok. Just logging out between tests, not rebooting. --

[Bug 689377] Re: Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "current apt-show-versions output" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689377/+attachment/1763969/+files/versions2010-12-12.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Bug 689377] [NEW] Panels fail to appear on Gnome startup on Averatec notebook running 11.04 alpha1

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel I have installed 11.04 'natty narwhal' beta-1 on my Averatec 3280 notebook, and have updated it daily through this morning. This has a Unichrome display which only supports Gnome in 11.04. This display has had a number of problems with previo

[Bug 526862] Re: Gnome often logs off when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-11-29 Thread Peter Belew
The reason there has been no activity (on my part) is that I experienced endless problems with Ubuntu, and gave up and installed Debian Lenny instead, which works fine. -- Gnome often logs off when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526862 You received this bug notif

[Bug 371516] Re: Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Belew
This works properly in Ubuntu 10.10 -- Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371516 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:

[Bug 662960] Re: "Add Wallpaper" dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK)

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Belew
Thanks - I never noticed that you can reverse the sort order by clicking on 'name'. That solved the problem! Not a bug! It's odd that that came up that way through my installation of Lucid through the upgrade to Maverick! :) Not a bug, just embarrassing user dumbness! -- "Add Wallpaper" dialog i

[Bug 662960] Re: "Add Wallpaper" dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK)

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Belew
I've attached a screenshot. While attaching the screenshot, I just noticed that the dialog for attaching a file to this bug report (viewed in Firefox) has the same problem! So the problem is not confined to this package ... ** Attachment added: "Screenshot" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/

[Bug 662960] [NEW] "Add Wallpaper" dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK)

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center When I try to add a background image, the Add Wallpaper dialog shows files and directories in reverse alphabetical order - "Z" before "A" for example. I have noticed this since installing Lucid on my Dell netbook, and the problem pers

[Bug 662960] Re: "Add Wallpaper" dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK)

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Belew
-- "Add Wallpaper" dialog in the Change Desktop Background shows files in reverse order (LUCID and MAVERICK) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662960 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in ubuntu. -- des

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Belew
There seems to be some confusion in the comments between the Indicator Applet 0.3.7 and the Notification Area 2.30.0, both of which appear in my panels, showing different applets. Is this problem occurring in both container applets, or just one? -- visual corruption affecting several panel applet

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Belew
Christopher - I assume that you have updated the versions in both those partitions to date, so that in theory they should be the same (except for any customizations you may have made). If so, it would be interesting to run apt-show-versions in each partition (you may have to install that program),

[Bug 588042] Re: Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "Installed package versions" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49461367/apt-show-versions.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49459377/Dependencies.txt -- Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog https://bugs.laun

[Bug 588042] [NEW] Unable to change cursors with "Appearance Preferences" dialog

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center I am currently unable to change cursors or change cursor sizes (for variable-size cursors) on my Dell netbook. This running 10.04 Lucid. I had installed some additional cursor packages, then noticed I couldn't change the cursors from

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Belew
Thank you, Sebastien, I just subscribed to bug #546240 -- New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531173 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
Karmic, up through any current updates, uses icons with numeric subscripts indicating variants of the basic keyboards for a language. Eliminating that feature (actually in a redesigned program) is a definite regression. By the way, I designed the original US-International layout for Windows 2.11 i

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
Note that I just observed this today, in the released Lucid, updated up to today, both on systems which had been installed during the alpha and beta stages and on one which was installed afresh on 3 May 2010. -- New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout https://bugs.lau

[Bug 531173] Re: New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
I just subscribed to this bug because I just noticed the behavior in the keyboard indicator - it no longer displays different icons for variants of the same country layout, as for USA, USA1, USA2. This change must have occurred in the past few weeks, as I have been using alternate US layouts for di

[Bug 439448] Re: visual corruption affecting several panel applets

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Belew
I must say I sympathize with the previous comment. Having said that, this is still happening. on various systems of mine, with different display drivers: I don't think it's a display driver issue. Some have noted that this happens or persists after a system upgrade where the home directory is pre

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Belew
I will have to wait for the 10.10 release on one of my systems, then, since it is certain that serious bugs affecting that, such as Bug #495553, won't be fixed in Lucid. Also, I don't consider this a 'cosmetic' bug - it's a functional bug. A function has been left out in Karmic. -- gnome-appeara

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-04-21 Thread Peter Belew
This works correctly on Lucid. However there are serious display and live-cd bugs in Lucid which keeps me from installing it in several systems, so it would be really nice to port the changes back to Karmic. -- gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

[Bug 439448] Re: notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Belew
As someone noted above, I've also observed that removing and re-adding the notification area will generally restore the proper icons. I notice that this has been seen in both Karmic and Lucid, by various people. -- notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 439448] Re: notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Belew
This is also happening to me when I first log on. I'm attaching an image of the top right of my screen, after logging on to my Dell 10v netbook. I'm running the standard Gnome version of Karmic, not a netbook remix. Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10 DISTRIB_C

[Bug 439448] Re: notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Belew
I re-logged-in again and now I have 2 battery icons right after logging in - then a fraction of a minute later I have network-manager, battery, and volume-control icons showing. -- notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439448 You received this bug

[Bug 439448] Re: notification area shows wrong icons. erratic behaviour

2010-04-06 Thread Peter Belew
This is still happening on my Dell netbook with the standard (not netbook) version of Karmic installed, updated through this morning. It just happened to me after I logged off and logged back in to Gnome. There were duplicate volume-control icons. But then I looked away and looked back a minute or

[Bug 555995] Re: Duplicate nonfunctional icons appear in Notification Area

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "screenshot showing notification area with duplicate battery icon" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43190282/two-batteries-UR.png ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43189907/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "GConfNonDefault.txt"

[Bug 555995] [NEW] Duplicate nonfunctional icons appear in Notification Area

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel Running Karmic, with icons appearing in a Notification Area (version 2.28.0) in the top panel, often one or another icon will be duplicate. For example, right now the notification area shows the volume control and TWO battery indicators. Only

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Belew
The shell commands grep filename ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml | sed -e 's///g' | sed -e 's/<\/filename>//g' | less will show all the paths and filenames of the list of background images. This will be of use if no change is made in Karmic to fix this problem. I attached a script with these commands

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Belew
The list of backgrounds is stored in ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml -- gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/517920 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 517920] Re: gnome-appearance-properties no longer provides tooltips about background image names

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Belew
I've been meaning to report this myself for some time. It is rather inconvenient if one wants to determine the name and location of a background image in one's list of backgrounds, in order to repair or modify the image, or in order just to find it for use on another system, for example. Earlier r

[Bug 526862] Re: System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Belew
Yes, I have plymouth installed. This is still happening as of the latest updates (10:24 am PST Tue Mar 2) It just happened as I ran the 'date' command in a shell window while updating this report! Note that the OS doesn't reboot - the Gnome session logs off, so I have to log in again. ** Summar

[Bug 526862] Re: System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Belew
This happened again after I booted the laptop this morning. Also, I corrected the description to clarify that the X server restarts, rather than that the system reboots from scratch. -- System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526862 You received

[Bug 526862] Re: System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Belew
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal Since 2010-02-22, approximately, when I try to `su -` from gnome- - terminal, the system will often reboot as soon as I type the root - password. + terminal, gnome will often restart as soon as I type the root password, + going bac

[Bug 526862] Re: System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39695766/Dependencies.txt -- System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 526862] [NEW] System often reboots when doing `su -` from gnome-terminal

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal Since 2010-02-22, approximately, when I try to `su -` from gnome- terminal, the system will often reboot as soon as I type the root password. This is on Lucid alpha-2 updated up almost to alpha-3. This is on an Averatec 3280 laptop. Ubun

[Bug 507609] Re: gdm-simple-slave crashed with SIGSEGV in _XFlush()

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37895751/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37895752/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Disassembly.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37895753/Disassembly.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
The current openchrome driver is dated -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333172 2009-12-07 08:15 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/openchrome_drv.so -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Belew
Yes, it's likely to be an xorg issue. The driver is xserver-xorg-video-openchrome, dpkg -s xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Package: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 556 Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT Architecture: i386 Version: 1

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Belew
** Summary changed: - Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps + Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps, on Averatec 3280 with openchrome driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You rece

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I notice that the right side of the screen is a pixel or so higher than the left side - that can be seen where the ends of the top and bottom panels meet in the middle of the screen. -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug noti

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I changed the driver back to "openchrome", and added Option "SWCursor" "true" to the "Device" section for the display. Now the cursor appears as with the vesa driver, making it easier to point at objects on the reversed screen. I suspected the problem with the cursor position was due to using a

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I tried an experiment: I put the xorg.conf file back in /etc/X11, but changed 'openchrome' to 'vesa', and restarted. The screen ends up being split the same way, with the left-hand part of the logical screen showing in the middle, but the mouse pointer position is the same as the logical position:

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
Here is an xorg.conf file which I used earlier when the issue was that the boot login screen was too large - this problem was similar to an earlier bug I reported on the same laptop, running earlier Ubuntu releases: Bug #296142. With the initial installation of lucid, only the login screen was the

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I am attaching /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The Xorg.0.log was generated when booting WITHOUT an xorg.conf file. ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log - no xorg.conf file" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36701274/Xorg.0.log -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps https://bu

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
I am attaching a photo of the screen. The red pointer on the left is at the physical left side of the screen, but the logical left of the screen is in the center, so the background lynx image is split. The hide buttons for the top and bottom panels appear in the center of the screen. Note that the

[Bug 495553] Re: Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36698576/Dependencies.txt -- Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495553 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gd

[Bug 495553] [NEW] Screen origin shifted to center, screen wraps

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm I installed Lucid on the Averatec 3280 laptop from the Alternate CD on 10 December 2009. I then updated the system with apt-get several times. On booting this morning, the logical screen origin was shifted to the center of the screen. With some diffic

[Bug 453227] Re: gnome-appearance-properties crashed with SIGSEGV while trying to change cursor appearance

2009-10-16 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "CoreDump.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33790355/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33790356/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Disassembly.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33790357/Disassembly.txt ** Attachm

Re: [Bug 271138] Re: mouse and keyboard unresponsive when gdm first runs

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Belew
I have not, either, so I assume it is no longer a bug. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Martin Pool wrote: > I have not seen this on either of my machines for months, so it > probably has been fixed. > > > -- > Martin > > -- > mouse and keyboard unresponsive when gdm f

Re: [Bug 371516] Re: Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin

2009-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
It's a Pidgin plugin, actually. So the bug should probably be transferred to Pidgin. A similar bug was reported on Pidgin under 8.04, but the music player was VLC. That person is upgrading to 9.04 now, and will update his bug report. It was suggested that I report this directly to Pidgin developer

Re: [Bug 371516] Re: Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin

2009-05-04 Thread Peter Belew
This is the Music Tracker plugin for Pidgin. On my 8.10 system, the Pidgin is version 2.5.2. Rhythmbox is 0.11.6 This works on the 8.10 system. For the version(s) on the 9.04 version of Ubuntu, this does NOT work. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > there is no such opti

[Bug 371516] Re: Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin

2009-05-03 Thread Peter Belew
This seems to be the same problem reported in bug #345742 with VLC and pidgin, possibly the cause is the same. I'm not sure yet it's a duplicate. -- Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371516 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 371516] Re: Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin

2009-05-03 Thread Peter Belew
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26301030/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26301031/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26301032/ProcStatus.txt -- Rhythm

[Bug 371516] [NEW] Rhythmbox music status not shown by Pidgin

2009-05-03 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: rhythmbox While playing music on rhythmbox, I can't get the current music title etc. to show up on Pidgin. The versions are the current ones in Ubuntu 9.09 as of 3 May 2009. pidgin: Installed: 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8 Candidate: 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8 Version t

[Bug 297927] Re: [intrepid] X server fails to start properly on Jetway

2009-04-15 Thread Peter Belew
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 271138 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271138 This appears to have been fixed in the Ubuntu 9.04 Beta release - that worked fine on both the Jetway systems I have. Also an unreported problem in which the systems didn't start with consistent screen resolut

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-21 Thread Peter Belew
Two cycles ago? This only appeared in Ubuntu LTS with the recent release. So people using LTS have only had a few weeks to notice the change, and possibly suggest changes. Discussed at length? This did not involve Ubuntu LTS users, as far as I know. This hasn't appeared in Debian stable yet. Des

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-20 Thread Peter Belew
I also filed a new usability bug on Gnome's Bugzilla, number 548714. -- Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259195 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee.

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-20 Thread Peter Belew
See Gnome Bugzilla - Bug no. 537128 - 'mouse pointer themes missing' - I added to that. I'll look for other existing Gnome bug reports as well. -- Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259195 You received this bug notification

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-19 Thread Peter Belew
I mentioned above that I experienced a crash in Firefox while changing a mouse pointer. Actually what I was doing was trying to start this bug report and experimenting with changing mouse pointers from the theme dialog, and trying to see what would happen if I changed the pointer in one theme, then

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Belew
I made a brief survey tonight among members of a LUG I am in. One person tried to figure out how to change the mouse pointer, and gave up after trying for a while. His teenage son managed to find the dialog, with a fair amount of prompting from me. Another person, who is very familiar with Fedor

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Belew
I just confirmed that the same behavior occurs with Fedora 8, with the same version of Gnome. So this is a Gnome 2.22.3 issue. -- Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259195 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Belew
This is a screenshot of the Xcursor program from the gcursor package. It displays the right stuff, but doesn't actually set the cursor, as mentioned above and in Bug #138491. ** Attachment added: "Screenshot of Xcursor" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16910492/Screenshot-Xcursor%20Selector.png -

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Belew
This is a mouse preferences dialog from Debian 4.0 - with Gnome 2.14.3. This is similar to the dialog in earlier releases of Ubuntu. ** Attachment added: "Mouse preferences with pointer tab" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16910414/MousePreferencesDebian40.png -- Mouse pointer selection has be

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Belew
This shows the 'hardy' mouse preferences dialog - with the pointer selection tab removed. ** Attachment added: "Mouse Preferences in 'hardy'" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16910377/MousePreferencesUbuntu8.04.1.png -- Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

[Bug 259195] Re: Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Belew
The second current way to get to theme (and thus mouse pointer) selection, is to right-click on the screen background, bringing up a menu which allows one to select "Appearance Preferences" in addition to 'Background' - one of these choices is "Theme" which works as above. -- Mouse pointer selec

[Bug 259195] [NEW] Mouse pointer selection has become confusing under Gnome 2.22.3 under hardy

2008-08-18 Thread Peter Belew
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center Selection of the mouse pointer has changed radically under hardy and Gnome 2.22.3 - finding how to do this is un-obvious and obscure. Also, pointer selection can crash Firefox. That happened to me while I was attempting to file this