[Bug 1503056] [NEW] Gnome screensaver disregards user settings

2015-10-05 Thread Byron Hawkins
Public bug reported: When I lock the screen, the gnome-screensaver-command initiates the screensaver within about 3 seconds. My system preferences indicate to wait one hour before turning off the screen. This is a bug. As a workaround for this blatantly incorrect behavior, I have changed my lock

[Bug 1406031] [NEW] Cannot connect to wifi having short password

2014-12-27 Thread Byron Hawkins
Public bug reported: I can't connect to a wifi network with security WPA WPA2 Personal and a password of 7 ASCII characters. Of course this password is invalid, but I can't change that, and I should be able to connect anyway. Actually I could connect the first time, and after that it wouldn't

[Bug 1273445] [NEW] Monitor does not wake on user input

2014-01-27 Thread Byron Hawkins
Public bug reported: My display settings specify that the screen should be turned off after one hour (in Brightness Lock). When I return to the machine after the screen has been turned off and press keys on the keyboard, the screen won't come back on. I have tried moving the mouse, clicking the

[Bug 1173349]

2013-10-22 Thread Byron Hawkins
Created attachment 82993 New crash information added by DrKonqi plasma-desktop (4.10.5) on KDE Platform 4.10.5 using Qt 4.8.4 - What I was doing when the application crashed: I was not actually doing anything, though Evolution was retrieving new messages from my imap account, and that is the

[Bug 1153901] Re: su should exit with a message that root is locked

2013-03-12 Thread Byron Hawkins
If there isn't a root password, I don't think the system should ever prompt the user for a root password. Check the web, tons of people find this alarming and are convinced they are locked out of root. Whether it makes sense or not, this is what people do experience and they are reporting it on

[Bug 936840] Re: ctrl key now known as primary which breaks keyboard shortcuts

2012-12-18 Thread Byron Hawkins
How can an ordinary user get a fix for this bug? I can't get any application switcher to work with this primary error. Thanks for your help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/936840

[Bug 731193] Re: Incomplete search results

2012-09-05 Thread Byron Hawkins
Searching for libgtk2.0-dev does not work with seemingly near matches. I tried: libgtk 2 dev libgtk 2 lib gtk dev gtk dev 2 and many similar combinations. All technical items are showing, yet this library did not show up until I searched for its exact name (which I found on google). The test