[Bug 1677050] GOOD DAY!

2022-05-09 Thread James H. Williamson
Hope this email finds you well! Been thinking of you lately.  Please let me know when you get this, I'd like to ask you something. Stay safe and healthy, Jim -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 1677050] Re: Youtube video will not run

2017-03-29 Thread James H. Williamson
Thank you that is helpful information. On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:50 AM, Timo Aaltonen wrote: 15.04 is long obsolete (support ended over a year ago), so there's probably no flash player updates to it anymore. Upgrade or reinstall. not an X bug anyway **

[Bug 1677050] [NEW] Youtube video will not run

2017-03-28 Thread James H. Williamson
Public bug reported: When I first set up ubuntu I was able to look at youtube videos, but then they just stopped running. I have no real idea why. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-82.90-generic 3.19.8-ckt22 Uname:

[Bug 518056]

2015-09-25 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
A git patch would be welcome, but we at least need a signoff line for the patch. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518056 Title: cedilla appears as accented c (ć instead of ç) when

[Bug 518056]

2015-09-25 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Pushed as commit 121a1bad334459f66f78bfca6df53dc841cf97f8. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518056 Title: cedilla appears as accented c (ć instead of ç) when typing 'c To manage

[Bug 518056]

2015-04-11 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
The desired behavior is that the dead_acute key followed by the c key results in ccedilla, while keeping the original behavior for other letters. It already does in the pt_BR.UTF-8 locale. The compose file for pt_BR.UTF-8 includes the en_US.UTF-8 file and then overrides some of the sequences,

[Bug 1319489] Re: Google callendar events often not shown in indicator panel

2014-09-12 Thread James H
This is due to this bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735311 Basically, google changed the way http requests are handled. There is a patch available for 3.10, which should work for ubuntu 14.04, here: https://bug735311.bugzilla- attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=284624

[Bug 1319489] Re: Google callendar events often not shown in indicator panel

2014-09-12 Thread James H
I just realized that this bug was reported *before* google changed the http handling, so the bug reporter might have been experiencing a different problem. Nevertheless, the problem exists now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1353951] Re: gnome online accounts require autentication on startup

2014-08-28 Thread James H
It looks like the bug I linked to above in comment #3 might be a duplicate of a different bug in evolution-data-server. Google has changed the way it handles http authentication, breaking online accounts functionality. evolution-data-server bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735311

[Bug 1353951] Re: gnome online accounts require autentication on startup

2014-08-21 Thread James H
I just wanted to add that I have been experiencing this bug in several distros, each with their own version of goa. Email works fine, but the calendar component has issues: Debian Wheezy (goa 3.4.2): I get a password prompt twice when I log in, but after that authentication is successful Ubuntu

[Bug 1072206] Re: [nvidia] Window content is black or transparent

2014-08-08 Thread James H
Bug is not fixed with nvidia-343.13. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1072206 Title: [nvidia] Window content is black or transparent To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1072206] Re: [nvidia] Window content is black or transparent

2014-08-04 Thread James H
This bug is still present for me. (up-to-date 14.04, nvidia-331, gtx 770 4gb) If I minimize a window and then switch to it with alt-tab, it will come up black *every time*. However, I found out today that if I disable *just* the un-minimize animation using unity-tweak-tool, the problem goes

[Bug 408903]

2014-06-11 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Current kernels have KEY_MICMUTE==248, i. e. X.org should be perfectly able to recognize this. Apparently this was done in 2011 already. 248 is the first linux kernel value which X cannot handle. The mapping is +8, so 248 ⟹ 256, which does not fix in 8 bits. (The first 8 are reserved – from

[Bug 321720]

2013-07-10 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
b == bugzilla-daemon bugzilla-dae...@freedesktop.org writes: James, can you define the deficiencies in the spec linked from comment #9 so that we can understand which parts of XFA still need to be documented? For starters www.xfa.org does not exist. And xfa.org does not have an A or

[Bug 321720]

2013-07-10 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
It looks like the xfa situation isn’t as dire as I’d been led to understand. OTOH, I’m not entirely certain that the licence text in the preface of the pdf referenced in comment #9 is GPL-compatible. Or even DFSG- compatible. In any case (unless Albert things otherwise), it probably should not

[Bug 321720]

2013-07-10 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Most of the information I have about xfa has come from the itext list. An example of the type of info posted there: http://support.itextpdf.com/node/134 If there is new info since 2011/12 I’d be interested to know. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 321720]

2013-06-26 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Adobe would have to document XFA forms before this even could be addressed. The most up to date info I could find on that front is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA#Standardization As long as Adobe keeps XFA forms proprietary they are not potable and livecycle and acroread are the only way

[Bug 537970]

2012-06-03 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
The renderings I get from evince (master, with poppler master and cairo master), ghostscript (9.05 and master) and mupdf (master) all match the png you posted as attachment #62423. I looked at the document after running it though: :; mupdfclean -d -a Abschlussarbeit.pdf Abschlussarbeit.pdfc

[Bug 527157] Re: Brightness controls skips Levels.

2012-04-28 Thread James H
gsd-media-keys-manager.c.rej : --- plugins/media-keys/gsd-media-keys-manager.c 2012-04-14 11:13:20.0 +0400 +++ plugins/media-keys/gsd-media-keys-manager.c 2012-04-14 11:20:07.772836587 +0400 @@ -142,6 +144,8 @@ NotifyNotification *volume_notification;

[Bug 527157] Re: Brightness controls skips Levels.

2012-04-26 Thread James H
I'm using Debian Wheezy, but I tried it on Ubuntu's 3.2.2 source package and it failed with the same error. I tried unpacking the package and using patch -p1 52_brightness_in_hardware.patch, and that didn't work. I tried putting it in the debian/patches directory and using dpkg-buildpackage,

[Bug 527157] Re: Brightness controls skips Levels.

2012-04-25 Thread James H
Patch didn't work for me. What gnome-settings-daemon version did you work on? (3.2.2 here) $ patch -p1 ../52_brightness_in_hardware.patch patching file data/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.gschema.xml.in.in patching file plugins/media-keys/gsd-media-keys-manager.c Hunk #1 succeeded at

[Bug 527157] Re: Brightness controls skips Levels.

2012-04-23 Thread James H
Thanks. I'll test this out as soon as I find time to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527157 Title: Brightness controls skips Levels. To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 531208]

2012-04-19 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
If we look Unicode charts, they also plan these association (written under a character when there is one, for instance ⇱ is the home key) I don't know of any system actually supporting this. rxvt-unicode does, using ctrl-shift as the introducer. It also supports C-S + code point entry and C-S

[Bug 527157] Re: Brightness controls skips Levels.

2012-03-28 Thread James H
Dmitriy: Yes it is a dirty hack :) I don't know of any other applications that would increment the backlight up and down, and GNOME's ability to set the brightness to a specific percentage (without going through steps inbetween) *should* still be functional with it...although even the unpatched

[Bug 527157] Re: Brightness controls skips Levels.

2012-03-25 Thread James H
This patch is for GNOME 3.2 that permanently disables gnome-settings- deamon's ability to step-up and step-down the backlight. For those who still can't get the correct brightness steps, this is a workaround. It works perfectly on my Lenovo Thinkpad x220. I'm not usually a code hacker or

[Bug 527157] Re: Brightness controls skips Levels.

2012-03-25 Thread James H
Please note that the above patch is ONLY for those encountering this problem and should definitely be used ONLY on an individual basis. It will break backlight control for everyone else using GNOME 3.2. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 585853]

2012-01-31 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Sure, my patch just follows the license of the original code. So it's in MIT/X11 license. Cool. And to be clear, I only asked because of the license issue with the first patch on this bug report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 869047]

2012-01-04 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
A non-working PgUp is a common result of an impedance mismatch between the input driver and the configured xkb keycodes. You should confirm that both are evdev or that you have keyboard and a suitable keycodes for that. Xorg.0.log will show which input driver is used. xkbcomp :0 - |grep

[Bug 315740]

2011-12-08 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Before the changes to the Compose files can be pushed, we need to decide on what character to use for the apostrophe in the cʼh strings. I spent some time before the holiday researching that. The fdo bug reports and related posts in the list archives use U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK.

[Bug 890438]

2011-12-05 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
But there is no one reason to switch keyboard layouts in back order in first place, isn't it? As someone who loads extra layouts just in case, I find the reverse order switching to be invaluable. I use lctrl+rctlr; it may be easier to deal with the reverse order in such cases than with the

[Bug 610957] [NEW] package libclucene0ldbl 0.9.21b-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2010-07-28 Thread James H McKinley
Public bug reported: I HAVE NO IDEA ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: libclucene0ldbl 0.9.21b-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jul 28 09:53:36 2010 ErrorMessage:

[Bug 610957] Re: package libclucene0ldbl 0.9.21b-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

2010-07-28 Thread James H McKinley
** Attachment added: AptOrdering.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52646027/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52646028/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Df.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/52646029/Df.txt ** Attachment added:

[Bug 546874] Re: passwd - can't login, change password

2010-03-26 Thread James H
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow libpam-runtime Fixed it. It was set to use Winbind NT/Active Directory authentication. I did not ask it to this, it seems maybe Samba is setting this by default. Thanks -- passwd - can't login, change password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546874 You received this

[Bug 546874] Re: passwd - can't login, change password

2010-03-26 Thread James H
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow libpam-runtime Fixed it. It was set to use Winbind NT/Active Directory authentication. I did not ask it to this, it seems maybe Samba is setting this by default. Thanks -- passwd - can't login, change password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546874 You received this

[Bug 546874] Re: passwd - can't login, change password

2010-03-25 Thread James H
Can't add users. The password portion of the add fails. Then try to set the password and it fails as well b...@sam:~$ sudo passwd charlie [sudo] password for bill: passwd: System error passwd: password unchanged 10.04 Beta 1 AMD64 Server version -- passwd - can't login, change password

[Bug 282315] Re: Gnome-sudoku timings all wrong

2010-01-19 Thread James H Boyd
While this bug doesn't affect solving the Sudoku puzzle, it leaves a bad impression--especially for a newbie, who may try playing the game during his/her initial trial of Ubuntu. After all, timing how long it took you to solve the puzzle is 'obviously' easy. E.g., just save computer's clock at

[Bug 458870] Re: package ubuntustudio-audio 0.52 failed to install/upgrade:

2009-11-06 Thread James H Boyd
I am upgrading AMD64 version of Ububtu 9.04 to 9.10 -- package ubuntustudio-audio 0.52 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458870 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 458870] Re: package ubuntustudio-audio 0.52 failed to install/upgrade:

2009-11-06 Thread James H Boyd
Earlier in the processing of the upgrade the following two messages appeared: Could not install '/var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntustudio-audio_0.64_amd64.deb' package may not be in a working state subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Could not install 'ubuntustudio-audio'