[Bug 1002985]

2015-09-12 Thread John Gill
I just tested this with: Version: 4.4.2.2 Build ID: 40m0(Build:2) Locale: en_CA On Ubuntu 15.04. Saved as docx and it opened fine in Libre Office. Would be good to test whether it works in Word, but I don't have that :) Guessing this one is fixed. Footnotes looked pretty good too :) -- You

[Bug 1002985] Re: [Upstream] Saving to .doc decouples endnote number from text

2015-09-07 Thread John Gill
I just tested this with: Version: 4.4.2.2 Build ID: 40m0(Build:2) Locale: en_CA On Ubuntu 15.04. Saved as docx and it opened fine in Libre Office. Would be good to test whether it works in Word, but I don't have that :) Will copy to https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50286

[Bug 894773] Re: totem messes up dual screen setup

2013-02-18 Thread John Gill
I just tried again on 12.10 and all is OK -- fixed by magic :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/894773 Title: totem messes up dual screen setup To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1002985] Re: Saving to .doc decouples endnote number from text

2012-05-23 Thread John Gill
Submitted to libreoffice bugzilla as this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50286 ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #50286 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50286 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1002985] [NEW] Saving documents in .doc format introduces bogus superscript text

2012-05-22 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: When I try and save the attached document in .doc format (97/2000/XP/2003) -- other Microsoft Word formats have similar issues -- text around some of the endnote markers gets converted to superscript. Note also that editing the word version to remove the superscript

[Bug 1002985] Re: Saving documents in .doc format introduces bogus superscript text

2012-05-22 Thread John Gill
** Attachment added: worldissuesisudraft_may21.odt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1002985/+attachment/3158071/+files/worldissuesisudraft_may21.odt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 903608] Re: [Upstream] LibreOffice text remains superscript if typed right after footnote

2012-05-22 Thread John Gill
Christopher: See this bug, afraid I was unable to assign it to you: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1002985 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/903608 Title:

[Bug 903608] Re: [Upstream] LibreOffice text remains superscript if typed right after footnote

2012-05-18 Thread John Gill
This bug is causing serious problems. My son is using libreoffice on Ubuntu for school work. The school requires papers to be submitted in .doc format (yes, I know that sucks). When he saves as .doc, text around the endnote references gets arbitrarily converted to superscript. Opening the

[Bug 903608] Re: [Upstream] LibreOffice text remains superscript if typed right after footnote

2012-05-18 Thread John Gill
oops -- that should read stray endnote tags around a block of text. I suspect these get into the document when endnotes are added then deleted, then text gets added back in. Did I mention I hate wysiwig editors where you can't actually see all the formatting that is going on? -- You received

[Bug 894773] [NEW] totem messes up dual screen setup

2011-11-25 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with an Nvidia Geforce 8600M GS graphics card. I'm using the proprietary Nvidia driver 280.13 I'm running in Twinview mode, with a 1280x1024 flat panel and a 1280x800 laptop screen to the right. When I start up totem it messes up this set up. I

[Bug 660864] Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Atheros AR9285 Wireless disconnects ( atl1c )

2011-09-14 Thread John Gill
I have a lenovo laptop with an Atheros AR9285. Wireless was connecting to my access point, but no traffic was flowing (I could not even ping the access point). This was on Natty. I upgraded to Oneiric Ocelot and the problem is still there. Turning off security on the access point gave me a

[Bug 564185] [NEW] Drag and drop to gmail fails

2010-04-15 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: f-spot Gmail in chromium and firefox 3.6 now supports drag and drop of attachments. It works fine from nautilus -- drag an image over a compose page and you get a green area to drop it on. Dragging from f-spot fails -- gmail doesn't seem to realise

[Bug 361731] Re: Empathy can't connect to a Jabber account

2009-11-04 Thread John Gill
An update on this for karmic. I've done quite a bit of hacking around the last couple of days to try and get things working. It seems the problem is the interaction between empathy, telepathy and the gnome keyrings. Things worked fine for me when I set up a fresh account. I then observed that

[Bug 361731] Re: Empathy can't connect to a Jabber account

2009-10-27 Thread John Gill
At the risk of being a 'me too', I'm using the Karmic release candidate and jabber accounts are still failing to authenticate. With empathy as the default IM for Karmic, this bug would seem to be rather critical. -- Empathy can't connect to a Jabber account

[Bug 459294] [NEW] Install of Karmic Koala release candidate fails to boot

2009-10-23 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity The desktop CD boots just fine. Install went fine. Reboot died after some usplash messages re failing to initialise various resolutions. Fix was to boot into rescue disk, mount the root drive and rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf to

[Bug 459503] [NEW] Moving filesystems around leaves prober dazed and confused

2009-10-23 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: os-prober For reasons best known to myself I created a new partition for my Ubuntu 9.04 install and copied the files over. I then ran 'sudo upgrade-grub' and it appeared to run fine. I then had to fix up fstab, to enter the new UUID of my new

[Bug 441760] Re: Empathy complains vino not compiled with telepathy

2009-10-07 Thread John Gill
Slight embarrassment here. I decided to check what version of vino is installed on my system only to discover that it is not actually installed. So the error message is technically correct, the version of vino on my system didn't have telepathy ;) Installing vino solves the problem. It might

[Bug 441760] [NEW] Empathy complains vino not compiled with telepathy

2009-10-03 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: empathy When trying to share desktop with empathy it complains vino is not compiled with telepathy. This is Ubuntu netbook remix, Karmic beta. I guess the problem is really with the version of vino shipped with empathy. ProblemType: Bug Architecture:

[Bug 441760] Re: Empathy complains vino not compiled with telepathy

2009-10-03 Thread John Gill
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32953729/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32953730/XsessionErrors.txt -- Empathy complains vino not compiled with telepathy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441760

[Bug 358457] Re: Pulseaudio crashes when playing radio from BBC iplayer

2009-04-26 Thread John Gill
With the latest jaunty this problem has gone away so I am marking it complete. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Fix Committed -- Pulseaudio crashes when playing radio from BBC iplayer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358457 You received this bug notification because

Re: [Bug 360822] Re: Setting version string to 2.6.2c1 breaks some code

2009-04-15 Thread John Gill
In that case the bug should be re-assigned to disper (also on launchpad). I've tried to do this, but can't get launchpad to accept my re- assignment. Simply marking this invalid is not helpful. John On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Matthias Klose d...@ubuntu.com wrote: such code is wrong and

[Bug 360822] [NEW] Setting version string to 2.6.2c1 breaks some code

2009-04-13 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python2.6 The latest python2.6 in jaunty sets sys.version to 2.6.2c1 Some packages (eg disper in a launchpad ppa) use tricks like this to parse versions: _pyvers = map(int, string.split(string.split(sys.version)[0], '.')) They expect the version

[Bug 360822] Re: Setting version string to 2.6.2c1 breaks some code

2009-04-13 Thread John Gill
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25364370/Dependencies.txt -- Setting version string to 2.6.2c1 breaks some code https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360822 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 358457] Re: Pulseaudio crashes when playing radio from BBC iplayer

2009-04-10 Thread John Gill
I just tried creating a fresh user account. I don't experience the problem with that account. I keep /home in a separate partition and although I do new installs, I like to keep my /home. So my guess is there is some configuration setting under my user that triggers the crash. So, to move

[Bug 358457] [NEW] Pulseaudio crashes when playing radio from BBC iplayer

2009-04-09 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pulseaudio Pulseaudio is crashing on me. After a crash, I started with 'pulseaudio -vvv' Then go here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_radio_five_live/ and start the radio stream -- pulse crashes. Below is the log from pulseaudio -vvv I:

[Bug 358457] Re: Pulseaudio crashes when playing radio from BBC iplayer

2009-04-09 Thread John Gill
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25111069/Dependencies.txt -- Pulseaudio crashes when playing radio from BBC iplayer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358457 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 352672] Re: Volume control reports Connection failed: connection refused

2009-04-09 Thread John Gill
I've marked this one invalid. The real problem here is that pulseaudio is crashing. Once it has crashed the volume control can't connect to it. See this bug for how it is crashing for me: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/358457 -- Volume control reports Connection

[Bug 352672] Re: Volume control reports Connection failed: connection refused

2009-04-09 Thread John Gill
marking invalid: problem is that the volume control can't connect to pulse if it is not running. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- Volume control reports Connection failed: connection refused https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/352672 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 358457] Re: Pulseaudio crashes when playing radio from BBC iplayer

2009-04-09 Thread John Gill
Note that the original problem was with current Jaunty. Anyway, just did aptitude update and aptitude upgrade, reboot and the problem is still there. John On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Daniel T Chen seven.st...@gmail.comwrote: Please reproduce this symptom in current jaunty. ** Changed

[Bug 352672] Re: Volume control reports Connection failed: connection refused

2009-04-01 Thread John Gill
Is this symptom from a fresh install of jaunty or from a distribution upgrade? It is a fresh install. Only complication is I have a separate home partition, so that has configuration stuff from previous installs. Is this symptom reproducible if you do the following? killall

[Bug 352672] [NEW] Volume control reports Connection failed: connection refused

2009-03-31 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pulseaudio When I bring up the volume control it reports Connection failed: connection refused Apart from the sound is working. Also, after a fresh reboot the control comes up without problems. I haven't yet tracked down what action triggers it to

[Bug 352672] Re: Volume control reports Connection failed: connection refused

2009-03-31 Thread John Gill
Forgot to mention, the above is with jaunty. -- Volume control reports Connection failed: connection refused https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/352672 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 268945] Re: No module named CommandNotFound

2008-10-28 Thread John Gill
Using intrepid I'm getting the same problem. Looking at /usr/lib/command-not-found the top line is as follows: #!/usr/bin/python -S The -S says don't import site.py on initialisation. Now it looks that site.py is necessary to got the path set up correctly to find the CommandNotFound module.

Re: [Bug 200805] Ubuntu needs you!

2008-08-16 Thread John Gill
I'm afraid I'm in the process of moving to Canada.. so my separate display is with the shippers until October at least -- unfortunately Intrepid will be out by then I guess. I'll give it a test then and update the bug as appropriate. John On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Brian Murray [EMAIL

[Bug 207627] Re: awn with compiz viewport switching results in cube spinning

2008-04-15 Thread John Gill
Good news. This problem has gone away in the latest Hardy packages. I've set the status to fix-released accordingly. compiz: 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu5 avant-window-navigator: 0.2.1-0ubuntu2 -- awn with compiz viewport switching results in cube spinning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207627 You

[Bug 207627] [NEW] awn with compiz viewport switching results in cube spinning

2008-03-27 Thread John Gill
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: avant-window-navigator If I set awn to show windows on all viewports and click on a window an another viewport then the cube spins to that viewport. So far, so good. However, if I move the mouse as the cube is rotating it stops the rotation and flips

[Bug 200805] Re: xorg uses laptop video BIOS 'Panel Size' for external monitors, so apps end up confined to small space in top left of screen

2008-03-25 Thread John Gill
Forgot to mention, the laptop/external monitor works fine with Gutsy. -- xorg uses laptop video BIOS 'Panel Size' for external monitors, so apps end up confined to small space in top left of screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200805 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 200805] Re: xorg uses laptop video BIOS 'Panel Size' for external monitors, so apps end up confined to small space in top left of screen

2008-03-25 Thread John Gill
Forgot to mention, the laptop/external monitor works fine with Gutsy. -- xorg uses laptop video BIOS 'Panel Size' for external monitors, so apps end up confined to small space in top left of screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200805 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 200805] Re: xorg uses laptop video BIOS 'Panel Size' for external monitors, so apps end up confined to small space in top left of screen

2008-03-25 Thread John Gill
I am experiencing the same problem with a Dell Latitude D410 and Hardy Heron. This uses the intel driver: (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, Intel Integrated Graphics Device I tried the panelsize option as described above,

[Bug 200805] Re: xorg uses laptop video BIOS 'Panel Size' for external monitors, so apps end up confined to small space in top left of screen

2008-03-25 Thread John Gill
Update: Adding a Display subsection to the Screen section of my xorg.conf, specifying a Virtual size equal to the size of the external problem has solved the issue for me. Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Monitor Configured Monitor Device