[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1334329] Re: Sound input settings not saved

2014-10-10 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I'm sorry, I would rather not be a programmer to fix a simple bug. Can this please be explained so a casual user can just fix it? Linux shouldn't be for programmers only. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1334329] Re: Sound input settings not saved

2014-10-11 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Once again, I do not understand any of this. You're asking me to do this but I am just a casual user who wrote this bug report because me, like others, are experiencing this only on Ubuntu. If you can ELI5 (explain like I'm 5), I might be able to do something. Otherwise if not, I give up and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1334329] Re: Sound input settings not saved

2014-10-12 Thread Brandon MacEachern
No, I am using the built in mic on this computer. Also, it's not using a Cirrus Logic sound chip, it's using all Intel. So, this patch you are linking me to is not likely to work or will make things worse. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-12-10 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Looks like this is still stuck here, almost a month later. That's ok, I switched to Debian. Sorry, I just can't be waiting like this anymore. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1334329] Re: Sound input settings not saved

2014-10-29 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Now this is affecting my desktop with Ubuntu 14.04. This software sucks, I'm sorry. It's crap, I'm switching distro's at this point. It's only affecting Ubuntu. ONLY. And if no one is willing to fix this problem, screw it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1334329] Re: Sound input settings not saved

2014-10-29 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I meant with 14.10.. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1334329 Title: Sound input settings not saved Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: New Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-10-29 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I've been having this problem for so long, that I am basically ready to ditch Ubuntu over it. Gnome control center does not have the issue for me, only ubuntu control center. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-10-29 Thread Brandon MacEachern
My bug report is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa- driver/+bug/1334329 Every computer I have now has this bug since 14.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-10-29 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Here's mine, it's a huge log. ** Attachment added: sound.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1376776/+attachment/4248219/+files/sound.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-10-29 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I'll try checking the fix when I get back home from work. If I leave Ubuntu control center open, it does actually change the inputs just fine, and apps get the change, I found that interesting because it is controlling Pulse. On my desktop closing the window seems to stay, but reopening sound

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-10-29 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Also, as for my laptop, this was happening far before then, and was happening for about 3/4 of the past year.. My desktop however, only just happened now since upgrading to 14.10. So for the laptop, I don't think it's related to the fix, but for the desktop, possibly. -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-10-30 Thread Brandon MacEachern
It won't install because it keeps insisting a newer version is already installed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1376776 Title: Sound panel's input

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-10-30 Thread Brandon MacEachern
You said it's for 14.04, I'm on 14.10. Oddly enough though, your PPA did not get listed, despite me putting it in the software sources and updating apt-get. :/ unity-control-center: Installed: 14.10.0+14.10.20140922-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 14.10.0+14.10.20140922-0ubuntu2 Version table: ***

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-10-30 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I was SSH-ed into my other computer, woops. Here's the true output from the one I am on right now that has your PPA. Still refuses to install, same error, claims the latest is already installed. brandon@BrandonsLinuxLaptop:~$ apt-cache policy unity-control-centerunity-control-center:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1388267] Re: Main screen zoom widget doesn't work

2014-10-31 Thread Brandon MacEachern
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1383486 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1383486 Happens to me, nothing I do gets that menu to work, so I can't currently find a way to immediately fit things to the page. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 743176] Re: Pink layer on taken screenshots (gnome-screenshot)

2014-11-02 Thread Brandon MacEachern
This is still apparently happening in Ubuntu 14.10, but NOT Xubuntu 14.10. How annoying that after all this time this hasn't truly been fixed yet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-utils in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1389300] [NEW] Display frozen during sleep

2014-11-04 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Public bug reported: When the computer goes to sleep, it freezes to a black screen with a single text cursor frozen (not blinking.). If I try to go to TTY1, it goes there, but upon entering my user name, it freezes and doesn't do anything. This happened since I got a mysterious Ubuntu 14.10

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1389300] Re: Display frozen during sleep

2014-11-04 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Ok I found the mysterious update, it's systemd-shim. So this may not be an Xorg issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1389300 Title: Display frozen during sleep Status

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1293144] Re: evolution crashes with SIGSEGV in folder_tree_maybe_expand_row() when creating new folder

2014-08-03 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Old bug, still hasn't had the fix pushed to Ubuntu. A total shame. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1293144 Title: evolution crashes with SIGSEGV in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1334329] Re: Sound input settings not saved

2014-08-09 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I would prefer no workaround. This is something that should just be fixed, not hacked to work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1334329 Title: Sound input settings

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-11-15 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Can confirm it works here too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1376776 Title: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation Status

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1334329] [NEW] Sound input settings not saved

2014-06-25 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Public bug reported: When attempting to set my preferred sound input device, simply leaving sound preferences and going back to sound preferences, and selecting input, causes the default SPDIF to be selected again, and not the internal microphone I preferred. I made a video to demonstrate what I

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1334329] Re: Sound input settings not saved

2014-06-25 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Not sure I understand what you said. This is for the internal microphone. It won't stay switched to the internal microphone as per my command. I don't know what to do with the files you gave me. Please keep in mind I am a simple user, I'm not an expert. -- You received this bug notification

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1376776] Re: Sound panel's input selection resets the default on every invocation

2014-12-24 Thread Brandon MacEachern
@Sebastien, I only switch distros when a bug takes too long to fix, one shouldn't need to wait so long especially when switching sound outputs and inputs easily system wide must be done for my production. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1411300] Re: Radeon flickering line after sleep

2015-02-02 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I would like to add, that in Kubuntu, it doesn't show up if I have it set to show the lock screen on resume. But if the lock screen is not set to be shown on resume (just go straight to my desktop), then the line does make an appearance again. Currently using Kubuntu for now as a result, but I

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1411300] [NEW] Radeon flickering line after sleep

2015-01-15 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Public bug reported: Since Ubuntu 14.10, no matter what DE or version of Ubuntu (Xubuntu, Kubuntu), after sleep there is a flickering line at the bottom of my screen. For Kubuntu, it can be prevented by simply requiring a password after resume. For Unity, running unity --replace works as a

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1411300] Re: Radeon flickering line after sleep

2015-01-15 Thread Brandon MacEachern
** Description changed: Since Ubuntu 14.10, no matter what DE or version of Ubuntu (Xubuntu, Kubuntu), after sleep there is a flickering line at the bottom of my screen. For Kubuntu, it can be prevented by simply requiring a password after resume. For Unity, running unity --replace

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1388922] Re: xdg-open doesn't properly detect Xfce/Xubuntu

2015-07-07 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Can we finally fix this please? This still isn't working correctly in 15.04, and I still have to modify xdg-open. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1388922 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1307144] Re: 'unredirect fullscreen windows' causes tearing

2015-07-25 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Can confirm this issue. For example, if I keep unredirected fullscreen windows turned on, and play Netflix in Google Chrome, for the most part the movies do play without tearing, but as soon as I hit the volume button and the OSD fades away, tearing happens and doesn't go away unless the OSD is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

2016-05-30 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Affects me. Intel GPU, and seems to only affect maximized windows. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1586539 Title: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1334329] Re: Sound input settings not saved

2016-03-10 Thread Brandon MacEachern
You can't exactly unplug and plug in onboard sound. Especially one with multiple inputs. It's purely a bug with Ubuntu preferences. In gnome it works just fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1648215] Re: Nautilus fails to launch occasionally

2017-02-06 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Still an issue. Every week, every month, I'm still here hoping for a miracle.. New installs still affected on 16.04.1. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1648215 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1657875] Re: Google Chrome flickers badly on web pages

2017-02-20 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Let me break it down for you, the BIOS is NOT out of date in regards to any of the Intel video BIOS portions. Version 2.27 has the same Intel video BIOS extension that 2.29 contains. It is foolish to update BIOS's just because you can, generally you do them because something is broken, but in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1631560] Re: Narrow spacing of icons in Files affects file names

2017-02-11 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Yea, this is pretty much unusable, and I may reinstall 16.04. I don't know who thought this was a good idea but they need to be smacked upside the head. ;) ** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2017-02-12 01-19-13.png"

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1664047] [NEW] File Properties window doesn't allow interaction with folder

2017-02-12 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 16.10, and the included version of Nautilus, when you right- click a file and go to Properties, you can only seemingly pull up one properties window PER folder, as the parent window you were just in is frozen in time, you can't click anything in it. Essentially

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1657875] Re: Google Chrome flickers badly on web pages

2017-02-12 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I am not trying out testing versions, I'm sorry, but you guys have wasted a lot of our time, you and the Xorg team. It's a joke really. You added the tag "bios-outdated" there's nothing outdated about my BIOS so I don't know where you think that's an appropriate tag. I'm sorry but testing zesty

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1433032] Re: Starting Chrome makes gnome-keyring-daemon loading 100% of a CPU thread for 5 at least mins

2017-01-19 Thread Brandon MacEachern
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1174162 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1174162 Affecting me on latest Chromium browser and Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on a raspberry Pi. As if it was one more reason to go back to Firefox, this is possibly the final nail in the coffin. -- You received this

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1657875] [NEW] Google Chrome flickers badly on web pages

2017-01-19 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Public bug reported: In reference to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg- video-intel/+bug/1586539 Was asked by Christopher M. Penalver (penalvch) to make this new bug report. Google chrome intermittently flickers (sometimes even Firefox I found, but very very rarely), and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

2017-01-19 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Christopher M. Penalver (penalvch), why do we both need to file a new report? What exactly is wrong with this one? Anyways, here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1657875 I don't have time to go back and forth on this as I have a lot to do daily, even the weekends. I just

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1657875] Re: Google Chrome flickers badly on web pages

2017-01-19 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I have been trying a few of the recommended changes, and so far, Force rasterization on all layers didn't work. It was less of an issue but not completely gone. I have now moved on to the one you mentioned, using sna and dri 3.0. I thought these were default options though? Either way I forced

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1657875] Re: Google Chrome flickers badly on web pages

2017-01-20 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I can now officially confirm, that simply doing as you mentioned: sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "TearFree""true" Option "DRI""3"

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1208993] Re: Ubuntu slows down and hangs while copying file from/to USB

2016-10-15 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I'm having this issue right now on 16.04. What's strange, is that if I copy say 600GB worth of thousands of files, about half way through, Xorg will start chewing up resources, and everything slows down to a hault, even though literally the only thing I ever opened was Nautilus. I never opened

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1649011] [NEW] File Choser crashes in GTK3 apps when unselecting multiple items

2016-12-10 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Public bug reported: When using the mouse to select multiple files in a GTK3 based application via the file choser, everything works as expected, but if you undrag the lasso you just made to unselect them, once the last file is unselected, the entire applications crash. It doesn't matter what

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1648215] [NEW] Nautilus fails to launch occasionally

2016-12-07 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Public bug reported: Every once in a while, Nautilus will fail to launch. Clicking it's icon in the Unity launcher will either open up a black window, outlined only by its shadow, or it just flashes in the launcher and nothing happens. Sometimes when this happens, it can be fixed by killing

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1586539] Re: Major screen flickering in Chromium and Google Chrome

2016-12-28 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Yes as a first responder I would like to see this fixed in 16.04. My radio equipment only supports LTS releases and has no support for 16.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1648215] Re: Nautilus fails to launch occasionally

2017-01-02 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I have converted my father to Linux, and he's on Ubuntu 16.04.1, and his computer is observing this same Nautilus freeze. I am hoping someone can look into this. He doesn't have a launchpad account, and doesn't know a single thing about Linux to even really be of assistance here. But, I am

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1664047] Re: File Properties window doesn't allow interaction with folder

2017-04-01 Thread Brandon MacEachern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4syY5TGxq0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1664047 Title: File Properties window doesn't allow interaction with folder Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1518813] Re: sharing panel fails to properly launch required daemons

2017-04-11 Thread Brandon MacEachern
I'm having this issue on Ubuntu Gnome 16.10. Does anyone care about fixing these issues or is Linux seriously so full of bugs these days that everyone is twiddling thumbs while they relearn coding? Before you respond (to the devs), prove me wrong. I used to be a Linux dev 15 years ago, and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1648215] Re: Nautilus fails to launch occasionally

2017-04-11 Thread Brandon MacEachern
Vej, I didn't even know you responded to me, Launchpad never sent me an email, and with the busy schedule I am running, I had no time to manually check. Either way, since Unity is dead, there's no point in figuring this out. It's not an issue with Ubuntu 16.10, and since Unity is dead anyway,

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1683435] Re: Mouse speed/acceleration ignored in 17.04

2017-05-18 Thread Brandon MacEachern
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1682193 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682193 I have tried all sorts of mice, either a Logitech Trackman (my preferred), or a wired USB mouse, nothing. Even tried a USB/PS2 adapter and used a few different mice, still nothing. -- You received this