[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2017794] [NEW] selecting text problem when app runs full screen

2023-04-26 Thread John Smith
Public bug reported: When Text editor runs full screen, it is not possible to select (with the mouse) the portion of text which is in the bottom of the screen. When app doesn't run full screen, the behavior goes back to normal : selecting text while moving pointer in the bottom of the window

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1998017] Re: inhibitShortcutsDialog not working in Ubuntu 22.10 / Gnome 43. Breaks keygrab and passing keys to VMs/remote systems

2022-11-26 Thread John Smith
** Tags added: kinetic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1998017 Title: inhibitShortcutsDialog not working in Ubuntu 22.10 / Gnome 43. Breaks keygrab and passing

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1998017] [NEW] inhibitShortcutsDialog not working in Ubuntu 22.10 / Gnome 43. Breaks keygrab and passing keys to VMs/remote systems

2022-11-26 Thread John Smith
Public bug reported: inhibitShortcutsDialog not working in Ubuntu 22.10 / Gnome 43. Breaks keygrab and passing keys to VMs/remote systems Bug is fixed upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome- shell/-/issues/6107 Without that fix it is impossible to use same system shortcuts (Alt+Shift,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1970013] Re: Totem Video player displays distorted video (Intel Ivy Bridge)

2022-04-29 Thread John Smith
My Ubuntu 22.04 also affected. It's work fine under xorg session, but distorted under wayland. cpu: i7 3612qm (Ivy Bridge). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to totem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1970013 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1849942] Re: 19.10 Gnome Settings and Tweak Tools Window Bar Bug

2020-05-05 Thread John Smith
I too have this behaviour, making gnome-tweaks very hard to use. I have had it for some months, presumably since installing 19.10. It is still there in 20.04. Could something be done to fix it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 902535] Re: Unable to print with Lexmark S400 series since upgrade to 11.10

2018-10-24 Thread john smith
when my Lexmark printer printing blank pages, I solve this issue in this way Press the More button until you find Print Menus. Look under the Paper Menu section for the settings mentioned - Separator Sheets should be set to None, and Blank Pages should be set to Do not Print. If these settings are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 902535] Re: Unable to print with Lexmark S400 series since upgrade to 11.10

2018-10-24 Thread john smith
when my Lexmark printer printing blank pages, I solve this issue in this way Press the More button until you find Print Menus. Look under the Paper Menu section for the settings mentioned - Separator Sheets should be set to None, and Blank Pages should be set to Do not Print. If these settings are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1153488] Re: Treats bluetooth input device batteries as batteries

2018-10-11 Thread john smith
Bluetooth is one of the best technology to share a data, image, song, picture to one device with another device. if anyone faces Microsoft Outlook click here https://www.outlooktechnicalsupportnumbers.com/blog/microsoft-outlook- not-implemented/ -- You received this bug notification because you

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1631750] Re: Language installation doesn't work in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Settings app

2017-10-26 Thread John Smith
Things now back to normal. Many thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1631750 Title: Language installation doesn't work in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Settings

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1631750] Re: Language installation doesn't work in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Settings app

2017-10-26 Thread John Smith
@Gunnar: Aha! The "mixed bag" locale is in there: bombay:~$ cat .pam_environment LANGUAGE=en_GB LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_TIME=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_NAME=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=es_ES.UTF-8

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1631750] Re: Language installation doesn't work in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Settings app

2017-10-26 Thread John Smith
@Gunnar: Thanks, but it is already set to United Kingdom (and the machine has been restarted several times). But my half-Spanish locale persists. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1631750] Re: Language installation doesn't work in Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Settings app

2017-10-26 Thread John Smith
I have what seems to be a variant of the same problem, but not fixable with the workaround mentioned above. I upgraded a couple of days ago from Ubuntu Gnome 17.4 to Ubuntu 17.10, and now various of my global locale settings are incorrect in Gnome Shell 3.26. I set all the LC_* variables to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders or graphical glitch around all windows

2017-05-21 Thread John Smith
Upgrading to Latest Nvidia drivers 381.22 solves the problem, however, the driver 381.22 is only available via the following ppa https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1351939] Re: Sending USSD message does not work

2017-05-07 Thread John Smith
I wonder if I could be of any help with this? Could I contribute any error message? Could I be of help in testing? I'd like to see a solution to this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to modemmanager in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1351939] Re: Sending USSD message does not work

2017-04-22 Thread John Smith
I use a ZTE K3565-Z from Vodafone. In Linuxmint 17 I managed to get this running with patched version from Alex by PPA. In Linuxmint 18 I'm lost - USSD still not working, to balance and no top up from abroad possible. The old PPA version does not work - no modem found. Is there a chance to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders or graphical glitch around all windows

2017-04-12 Thread John Smith
** Description changed: While using the nvidia proprietary drivers in 14.04 - 16.04, my Dell XPS L501X resumes from suspend, but displays wide black borders around all windows with close/minimize/maximize buttons blacked out as per attached screenshot. It occurs inconsistently, as it

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders or graphical glitch around all windows

2017-04-12 Thread John Smith
New possible workaround on a terminal type: unity ie user@machine:-$ unity this possibly restarts unity/compiz and corrects the bad border issue although, it may also close/crash and web-browser type of programs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1133477] Re: cut-n-paste move files got stuck forever

2017-03-17 Thread John Smith
Just ran into this issue moving a paltry 48 files. After hanging for five minutes I hit cancel and it continued to hang for another 10 minutes. Now instances of caja can't get directory listings. `caja -q` to shut caja down and now I can get listings again. If I F3 in Caja and drag-and-drop the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders or graphical glitch around all windows

2017-02-25 Thread John Smith
The shadow border glitch occurs around newly run programs as well, i.e., Computer suspends -> computer resumes -> graphical glitch around existing windows -> open new app -> new app also has graphical glitch around app window, where window shadow should be. ** Changed in:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2017-02-23 Thread John Smith
As Dave pointed out, the problem is not consistent with black borders but also with graphical glitch around windows, which I still think, has something to do with, how shadows are rendered. Adding an alternate attachment/image for graphic glitch. ** Attachment added: "Graphically glitched

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2017-02-21 Thread John Smith
** Description changed: While using the nvidia proprietary drivers in 14.04 - 16.04, my Dell XPS L501X resumes from suspend, but displays wide black borders around all windows with close/minimize/maximize buttons blacked out as per attached screenshot. It occurs inconsistently, as it

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1522922] Re: Screen flickering in Intel i915 driver

2016-10-30 Thread John Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1554613 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1554613 I'm having this same issue on a Dell 7537 running Ubuntu 16.10 (kernel 4.8). The flickering that occurs is a rapid change in the brightness of the screen, in a random, persistently manner (it never

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1629558] Re: Chromium sync says service unavailible

2016-10-01 Thread John Smith
** Tags added: chromium sign-in sync -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1629558 Title: Chromium sync says service unavailible Status in chromium-browser package

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1629558] [NEW] Chromium sync says service unavailible

2016-10-01 Thread John Smith
Public bug reported: Hello. I'm building the packages for the Raspberry Pi and currently, I'm building from upstream, but using your options. It seems like the API keys are not working. I built a version and then tried my own keys and the new keys you supplied in v52, but the same issue persists.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-17 Thread John Smith
(Switching back to proprietary nVidia driver) results in (graphic corruption after resume from suspend) However it seems there might be some issue related to how shadows are rendered. Using nouveau, there are no shadows, and windows have borders instead of being borderless with shadows. I'm not

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-16 Thread John Smith
It seems the problem might have something to do with how shadows are rendered, AFAIK using nouveau has disabled shadows (possibly due to lower performance of graphics card on nouveau) however the shadows are enabled using the proprietary Nvidia driver 361.42... I'm just guessing the shadows are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-15 Thread John Smith
Hey penalvch, After almost a day of using nouveau, there doesn't seem to be any black border after resume from suspend, however this might be because of low suspend-resume cycle count. I'll post update if the issue occurs on nouveau. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-14 Thread John Smith
there seems to be bug: title bar appearing transparent with nouveau as I have posted on bug tracker On Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 10:05 AM Christopher M. Penalver < christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com> wrote: > John Smith, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. > > To clarify

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-14 Thread John Smith
I sorted out the suspend issue (turns out I had inserted a faulty memory card in the laptop and as it was unable to get data 'sync' to it hence systemd was assuming that suspend transaction would be destructive :D ) I'll try to use nouveau for a few days, see if black border issue persists or

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-13 Thread John Smith
Another thing that might help in triage is as per the workaround specified, Changing screen position (in a 2 monitor setup: laptop + HD TV(via HDMI) ) corrects the problem, Important thing to note is that you can use [ nvidia-x-server-settings ] or [ gnome program: Displays] to do it, in either

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] Re: Black borders around all windows

2016-06-13 Thread John Smith
1. The black border issue is inconsistent so cannot verify whether using nouveau fixed it or not. 2. My HDD seems to be giving-up as the read-error-rate is at: 6033 ->Which seems to result in btrfs errors/panic in syslog -> -> Also which seems to prevent `suspend` at the moment 3.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1576228] [NEW] Black borders around all windows

2016-04-28 Thread John Smith
Public bug reported: There seems to be a bug somewhere in [ kernel OR xorg OR nvidia proprietary driver ] in the display stack. After the laptop ( dell XPS L501X ) resumes from suspend there are wide black borders around all windows with close/minimize/maximize buttons blacked out. [ image

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1527944] Re: Youtube video distorted and only outlines (HTML5) on v47

2015-12-20 Thread John Smith
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527944 Title: Youtube video distorted and only

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1527944] [NEW] Youtube video distorted and only outlines (HTML5) on v47

2015-12-19 Thread John Smith
Public bug reported: I'm a reporting a bug which is present in v47, not v45 or any earlier versions. I'm installing chromium onto Raspbian, but upon further tests this affects a full Ubuntu 15.10 system as well. Also notable, this is on the Raspberry Pi 2, a ARMv7 system (armhf). When viewing a

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1527944] Re: Youtube video distorted and only outlines (HTML5) on v47

2015-12-19 Thread John Smith
** Description changed: I'm a reporting a bug which is present in v47, not v45 or any earlier versions. I'm installing chromium onto Raspbian, but upon further tests this affects a full Ubuntu 15.10 system as well. Also notable, this is - on the Raspberry Pi 2, a ARMv7 system (armhf). When

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1283826] Re: lightdm hangs after updates

2014-10-26 Thread John Smith
If you just want to try my fix skip to end of post. I also stumbled up on this bug in the summer. It took me a while but I managed to solve it in the end for me. (Had the problem on 6 or 7 older computers.) I was sure I documented it here as well but it appears I did not. It was a while ago but

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1156294] Re: Bogus config control file included in .deb

2014-05-13 Thread John Smith
After release upgrade to Trusty I still get: /var/lib/dpkg/info/compiz.config: 1: /var/lib/dpkg/info/compiz.config: [general]: not found /var/lib/dpkg/info/compiz.config: 2: /var/lib/dpkg/info/compiz.config: backend: not found /var/lib/dpkg/info/compiz.config: 3:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 998276] Re: Keyboard shortcuts not appearing in the main menu under Unity

2013-03-11 Thread John Smith
Oops my mistake, i didnt notice there was markup in the menus and didnt include the markup code. Hopefully the attached v3 patch should revert and fix the markup issues. ** Patch added: 998276.v3.markup.patch

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 998276] Re: Keyboard shortcuts not appearing in the main menu under Unity

2013-03-11 Thread John Smith
Thanks for testing. Committed markup fix as r12190. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998276 Title: Keyboard shortcuts not appearing in the main menu under Unity

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 998276] Re: Keyboard shortcuts not appearing in the main menu under Unity

2013-02-18 Thread John Smith
Committed to trunk as r12132. ** Changed in: inkscape Status: In Progress = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998276 Title: Keyboard shortcuts not

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1128100] Re: Inconsistencies between gedit and the Unity dock

2013-02-18 Thread John Smith
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1027584 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027584 Hi Edward, I realize I should use the latest version of Ubuntu when filing a bug report. It's good to see that this issue got addressed. However, even when changing /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1128100] Re: Inconsistencies between gedit and the Unity dock

2013-02-17 Thread John Smith
Providing the package as requested by crichton. Though I'm not sure whether it should be gedit or the unity dock. ** Package changed: ubuntu = gedit (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 998276] Re: Keyboard shortcuts not appearing in the main menu under Unity

2013-02-12 Thread John Smith
.v2.patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/appmenu-gtk/+bug/998276/+attachment/3524984/+files/998276.v2.patch ** Changed in: inkscape Assignee: (unassigned) = John Smith (john-smithi) ** Changed in: inkscape Status: Confirmed = In Progress -- You received this bug notification because

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 998276] Re: Keyboard shortcuts not appearing in the main menu under Unity

2013-02-01 Thread John Smith
** Changed in: inkscape Status: In Progress = Confirmed ** Changed in: inkscape Assignee: John Smith (john-smithi) = (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 998276] Re: Keyboard shortcuts not appearing in the main menu under Unity

2013-01-21 Thread John Smith
** Changed in: inkscape Assignee: (unassigned) = John Smith (john-smithi) ** Changed in: inkscape Status: Confirmed = In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 998276] Re: Keyboard shortcuts not appearing in the main menu under Unity

2013-01-21 Thread John Smith
Patch that should show the keyboard shortcuts (accelerators) in the main menu under Ubuntu Unity. Replaces the Inkscape custom labels with standard gtk menu accelerators. Tested on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. Would like to see if it works under OS X. ** Patch added: 998276.v1.patch

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 426763] Re: Cancelling import leads to error message

2012-10-10 Thread John Smith
r11777 - ps/pdf import dialog should no longer warn when cancelled. Tested on Ubuntu 12.04. ** Changed in: inkscape Assignee: (unassigned) = John Smith (john-smithi) ** Changed in: inkscape Status: Triaged = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 168164] Re: font sizes specified in pixels instead of points

2012-10-03 Thread John Smith
Thanks for finding that insaner ! Committed to trunk as r11733. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/168164 Title: font sizes specified in pixels instead of points Status

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 167262] Re: In the Text and Font dialog, Ctrl+Z (Undo) destroys text

2012-09-25 Thread John Smith
Undo / Redo (and shortcuts) now have no affect in the Text dialogs text entry. ** Changed in: inkscape Status: Triaged = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 165865] Re: markers must take object's stroke color (SVG 1.2 feature)

2012-09-23 Thread John Smith
@~suv, thanks for noticing that, should be fixed in r11699. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/165865 Title: markers must take object's stroke color (SVG 1.2 feature)

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 168164] Re: font sizes specified in pixels instead of points

2012-09-18 Thread John Smith
Commit r11675 : * fix the precision issue (comment #52) * show font size to precision in user preference Input/Output-SVG Output-Numeric precision. @David, thanks for spotting that, should be fixed now, let me know if you see any other bad cases. BTW Fix is to use Inkscape::CSSOStringStream

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 165865] Re: markers must take object's stroke color (SVG 1.2 feature)

2012-09-17 Thread John Smith
Commit r11671 should fix the problem with duplicates (comment #71 and first case in comment #72). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/165865 Title: markers must take

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 867806] Re: df -h permission denied error

2012-06-17 Thread John Smith
My backup scripts (which has been running silently for a long time) started to complain after I installed Ubuntu 12.04: rsync: readlink_stat(/var/lib/lightdm/.gvfs) failed: Permission denied (13) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1006623] [NEW] video has little breaks, sometimes whole app breaks

2012-05-30 Thread John Smith
Public bug reported: When playing a video, video stops on a moment(less than a second) and continue. Sometimes the whole program crashes (An Error Occurred: Disconnected: Connection Terminated ). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.30-1build2

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1006623] Re: video has little breaks, sometimes whole app breaks

2012-05-30 Thread John Smith
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gstreamer0.10 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006623 Title: video has little breaks, sometimes whole app breaks Status in “gstreamer0.10” package in Ubuntu: New Bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 966696] [NEW] package python-uno 1:3.4.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-03-27 Thread John Smith
Public bug reported: cant update because of this problem ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: python-uno 1:3.4.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 AptOrdering: python-uno:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 966696] Re: package python-uno 1:3.4.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

2012-03-27 Thread John Smith
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/966696 Title: package python-uno 1:3.4.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error