[Bug 390001] Re: Gnome visual effects not retained after reboot

2010-11-02 Thread Russel Winder
I found that by booting using Debian Squeeze with the user home directory in a partition shared by Debian and Ubuntu, doing the set up in Debian and rebooting in Debian, the configuration was saved. Booting to Ubuntu then used the save state. So the problem appears to be lack of state saving in U

[Bug 538849] Re: Uses 100% CPU

2010-03-31 Thread Russel Winder
Not actual data, but a tentative hypothesis based on memory of past behaviour: does the problem only happen after sending an email? -- Uses 100% CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to e

[Bug 538849] Re: Uses 100% CPU

2010-03-31 Thread Russel Winder
Please can this be made a blocking bug for releasing Lucid, it makes Evolution unusable on Lucid. I am getting this even after a full update as at 2010-04-01T06:30+00:00 -- Uses 100% CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 390001] Re: Gnome visual effects not retained after reboot

2010-03-28 Thread Russel Winder
Isn't the problem actually in GConf? Ever since switching from Metacity to Compiz in Jaunty, the state of the Compiz systems has failed to be stored on logout. In particular, Gnome thinks it is supposed to be using Metacity but Metacity fails to start so no window manager. This means manually se

[Bug 534618] Re: Ekiga does not work in Lucid

2010-03-27 Thread Russel Winder
I just "downgraded" the installed Ekiga from the Ubuntu Lucid repository to this Karmic versioned version from your PPA, and it works just fine :-) Any chance of getting this in to the Lucid distribution as an exception? The argument is that it works in Karmic and doesn't in Lucid without this bug

[Bug 483514] Re: Ekiga fails in Karmic

2010-03-14 Thread Russel Winder
Ekiga seems to fail completely under Lucid, to which I have now switched, in that it cannot even connect to the echo test call. cf. Bug 534618. -- Ekiga fails in Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/483514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, whic

[Bug 534618] Re: Ekiga does not work in Lucid

2010-03-14 Thread Russel Winder
cf. Bug 483514 -- Ekiga does not work in Lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/534618 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

[Bug 534618] [NEW] Ekiga does not work in Lucid

2010-03-08 Thread Russel Winder
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ekiga Skype is working fine, but Ekiga cannot make a test call: attempting to make a call results in an immediate "Call complete". If you let me know what data to provide I can collect it. Thanks. |> lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu lucid (deve

[Bug 483516] Re: Empathy doesn't allow SIP accounts in Karmic

2009-11-17 Thread Russel Winder
Which package is it that you are referring to as needing to be installed to avoid the problem? It would appear then that there is a bug, that the correct package dependencies are not in place to ensure a correct user experience. -- Empathy doesn't allow SIP accounts in Karmic https://bugs.launch

[Bug 483516] Re: Empathy doesn't allow SIP accounts in Karmic

2009-11-17 Thread Russel Winder
Is there a Launchpad feature request here -- send a bug report upstream ? I'll see what I can do later today, unless someone beats me to it. :-) Whoever gets the bug report in should put a link to it here and a back link in the bug report to here. -- Empathy doesn't allow SIP accounts in Karmic

[Bug 483516] Re: Empathy doesn't allow SIP accounts in Karmic

2009-11-16 Thread Russel Winder
OK on the fourth reboot, some hours after first trying, the SIP entry appeared in the protocls list for new accounts appeared. So the original error as reported is only part of the story. It is not a question of "doesn't allow" but a question of "why does it take so long for the entry to register

[Bug 483516] [NEW] Empathy doesn't allow SIP accounts in Karmic

2009-11-16 Thread Russel Winder
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: empathy Lat week I upgraded Jaunty -> Karmic. I am trying to use Empathy as a replacement for Gossip (or Pidgin) and Ekiga. The fresh install of Empathy from the Karmic distribution CD fails to load telepathy- sofiasip. Having loaded this manually, a S

[Bug 483514] [NEW] Ekiga fails in Karmic

2009-11-16 Thread Russel Winder
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ekiga Ekiga used to work fine in Jaunty. Since upgrading to Karmic (Ekiga version 3.2.5-1ubuntu1) Ekiga fails to be able to do the echo test call. The connection is made the message starts -- but breaks up badly -- then terminates before completion. Try

[Bug 390001] Re: Gnome visual effects not retained after reboot

2009-11-15 Thread Russel Winder
I just reported Bug 482539 but it has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. I am not sure that it is but . . . I had Jaunty installed and decided to switch from "No visual effects" (Metacity) to "Normal visual effects" (Compiz) after this change Metacity never worked again despite being instal

[Bug 482539] Re: Visual Effects state not remembered across logins

2009-11-15 Thread Russel Winder
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 390001 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390001 I am not sure that this is a duplicate of Bug 390001. That bug appears to be about rebooting not per session. However I have put an entry in that bug report to move things along. -- Visual Effects state no

[Bug 326158] Re: Root terminal doesn't start

2009-05-15 Thread Russel Winder
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 328575 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 This misses the use case reported elsewhere (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf2/+bug/328575) of having super user terminals a different colour to normal terminals. This incredibly useful feature

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-04-30 Thread Russel Winder
Sebastien, your comment seems to imply that Launchpad bug reports are a waste of time. Is this really what you meant? I had been under the impression that Launchpad was intended to be a gateway/portal for bug reporting. If Launchpad reports do not get forwarded upstream automatically once triage

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-04-29 Thread Russel Winder
Having just upgraded to Jaunty from Intrepid, I have arrived at this "cannot do 'gksu gnome-terminal'" bug. How did this happen? What change was made Intrepid -> Jaunty that broke this oft used (even if some people consider it the wrong thing to do) feature? I really am not looking for workaroun

[Bug 303094] Re: Ctrl-A very slow in Intrepid compared to Hardy

2009-04-20 Thread Russel Winder
Apologies for ignoring this for two months. The problem is still there a little but I have changed the way Maildrop deals with spam so I no longer get hundreds of new emails in a folder. I am therefore no longer getting the pain I had when I made the bug report. Given my failure to respond on ina

[Bug 303094] Re: Ctrl-A very slow in Intrepid compared to Hardy

2008-12-18 Thread Russel Winder
Actually it isn't usually that bad, in fact there is a wide variation in how long using Ctrl-A takes to select between 2 and 100 messages in a folder. I haven't done detailed timings but subjectively the fastest is about 0.5s and the slowest is about 2s. It is not clear that it is dependent on th

[Bug 303094] Re: Ctrl-A very slow in Intrepid compared to Hardy

2008-12-18 Thread Russel Winder
Lucky you. Selecting 3 messages takes about 2.5s on my system. -- Ctrl-A very slow in Intrepid compared to Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desk

[Bug 303094] Re: Ctrl-A very slow in Intrepid compared to Hardy

2008-12-04 Thread Russel Winder
I decided to wait. Evolution 2.24.2 came out for me today and I upgraded everywhere. Anecdotally I think I can say that the delay between typing Ctrl-A and the messages in the folder being highlighted is less than it was, but there is still a noticeable delay. The delay though is fairly clearly

[Bug 303094] Re: Ctrl-A very slow in Intrepid compared to Hardy

2008-11-28 Thread Russel Winder
Thanks for the quick response, it's much appreciated. I am using IMAP to a Courier SSL server on Ubuntu (Intrepid). The delay in the Ctrl-A action seems independent of client device filestore, I get it using my laptop with the .evolution directory on a local disc or with my workstation with the .

[Bug 303094] [NEW] Ctrl-A very slow in Intrepid compared to Hardy

2008-11-28 Thread Russel Winder
Public bug reported: The Ctrl-A action to select all the emails in a folder was relatively slow in Hardy (Evolution 2.22.1) but has become 5 or 6 time slower -- and so irritatingly much slower -- in Intrepid (Evolution 2.24.1). ** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided St

[Bug 288930] Re: Intrepid - Evolution does not spell check or is not enabled by default

2008-11-26 Thread Russel Winder
I just upgraded Hardy -> Intrepid and came across this problem that every letter is deemed to be a misspelled word. It is very, very annoying. Very few Ubuntu users will see this as a quirk, they will see it as a disaster. Can I suggest this should be seen as a critical blocking bug to be fixed

[Bug 181893] Re: Adding a certificate exception for non-trusted HTTPS sites is difficult

2008-07-01 Thread Russel Winder
I have just had an issue with a broken SSL certificate that I needed to accept as a one-off and found Epiphany to be significantly inferior to Galeon in the way the browser interacts with the user. Can I propose that following the Galeon way of doing things would improve Epiphany -- i.e. put up a

[Bug 156232] Re: -c option in manual but not recognized since updated Feisty -> Gutsy

2008-06-05 Thread Russel Winder
Just to confirm that Hardy has a gimp with the -c option. (Everyone already knows this but it seems like a good way of saying we can close this bug.) Thanks. -- -c option in manual but not recognized since updated Feisty -> Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156232 You received this bug noti

[Bug 156232] -c option in manual but not recognized since updated Feisty -> Gutsy

2007-10-23 Thread Russel Winder
Public bug reported: I have just upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy and now the -c option is not recognized by GIMP: |> gimp -c Unknown option -c |> However, the manual states: -c, --console-messages Do not popup dialog boxes on errors or warnings. Print the messages on the co

[Bug 131286] Re: Cannot play BBC Live TMS Scorecard

2007-08-24 Thread Russel Winder
Unfortunately, a specific URL only exists whilst the game being reported is actually being played. So testing can only happen when a game is being reported. (The BBC pipe their radio commentary and an information display feed to a game specific URL.) Fortunately, the BBC are always reporting on

[Bug 131286] Cannot play BBC Live TMS Scorecard

2007-08-09 Thread Russel Winder
Public bug reported: The BBC provide a live cricket commentary and scoreboard. As at 2007-08-09 12:50 the URL was http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/sol/newsid_616/newsid_6162500?redirect=6162564.stm&news=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1 If I have totem-gstreamer installed then

[Bug 34375] Re: Multi-mode (audio+data) CDs always opened by Sound Juicer

2007-05-29 Thread Russel Winder
I just tried this on Feisty Fawn and the problem is still there. Put a disc in and you get the choice dialogue data/cd. I press data and get Nautilus to browse the data. If I then close the Nautilus window, and double click the icon on the backdrop, I get SJ. I have a `Browse Folder' entry on t

[Bug 54841] Re: rhythmbox crashes when loading my Music Library

2006-08-02 Thread Russel Winder
Done, result below. Just to add top the data, I see I forgot to say what was happening on the UI. Rhythmbox starts entirely as expected and loads all the artists/music files. The status bar right "doing something" indicator zaps left and right. Then it reaches the "done everything state". A ve

[Bug 54841] Re: rhythmbox crashes when loading my Music Library

2006-08-02 Thread Russel Winder
Yes, it was. Here is the output as requested (I hope :-) gdb>run -d Starting program: /usr/bin/rhythmbox -d (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging s

[Bug 54841] Re: rhythmbox crashes

2006-08-02 Thread Russel Winder
Rhythmbox used to work for me on my workstation but now does not. I cannot remember when the change happened but I assume it was the Breezy Badger -> Dapper Drake change. Whenever I run rhythmbox, it starts, the frame comes up, I can play music but the loading continues, it seems forever -- actua

[Bug 46168] Re: [Bug 46168] Re: Cannot get browser on extended CD ROM

2006-05-25 Thread Russel Winder
though either something is locking the CD device on first action on insertion that is not released when the first SoundJuicer instance is terminated or subsequent instances of SoundJuicer are not being correctly connected to the CD device. -- Russel. =========

[Bug 46168] Cannot get browser on extended CD ROM

2006-05-23 Thread Russel Winder
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus I put an extended CD-ROM into the drive and it is recognized as such and a dialogue box asks whether I want to browse or play. If I say browse a nautilus frame appears and I can browse the CD. If I right click on the desktop icon to get the men

[Bug 45957] Re: [Bug 45957] Re: Evince has blocking problems

2006-05-22 Thread Russel Winder
Info > I'm afraid I do not know, I do not have a Dapper installation, just Breezy. Sorry. -- Russel. ======== Dr Russel Winder+44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK [