[Bug 44562] Re: [nvidia] Switch user causes screen resolution to change

2011-07-03 Thread Lee Braiden
I'm currently seeing this, in ubuntu 11.04, with latest updates. Symptoms for my setup are: * Works fine for single display. * Switching user, I get a new display that LOOKS like 640x480; not sure of the exact res. * The X server doesn't seem to be AWARE of the new hardware res, as the login

[Bug 186655] Re: Some pages appear blank when printing/previewing PDFs

2011-06-28 Thread Lee Braiden
Attaching a sample PDF which does this. The PDF was created by: a) Drawing in Inkscape b) Exporting as a PNG bitmap c) Loading that bitmap into PosteRazor d) Using PosteRazor to generate a multipage PDF e) Loading into Evince to preview/print. Note that both printing and print-previewing is

[Bug 186655] Re: Some pages appear blank when printing/previewing PDFs

2011-06-28 Thread Lee Braiden
Correction: it's simple stroked paths in the original, not sure how PosteRazor renders the PDF, but there's a PNG step in there, of course. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186655 Title:

[Bug 186655] Re: Some pages appear blank when printing/previewing PDFs

2011-06-28 Thread Lee Braiden
Oh, and I'm seeing this in evince 2.32.0, Using poppler/cairo (0.16.4) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186655 Title: Some pages appear blank when printing/previewing PDFs To manage

[Bug 290666] Re: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs

2011-06-01 Thread Lee Braiden
I've packaged up the fsync() and fsyncdata() functions above, written a little wrapper which runs a command with it (such as liferea) and then syncs ONCE when the application closes. Again, this is NOT the solution, but a lot of people might find this useful until liferea / sqlite is fixed.

[Bug 290666] Re: Liferea stalling, uses excessive number of fsyncs

2011-06-01 Thread Lee Braiden
Ahh, I just saw the eatmydata comment above. Didn't know about that utility, so I'll withdraw this rather than duplicating efforts :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290666 Title:

[Bug 410948] Re: Volume too loud

2010-12-08 Thread Lee Braiden
Also affecting me. I don't know if others are seeing slightly different symptoms, or have misinterpreted. For me, the problem is simply: * surround and LFE seem to be equivalent, at least in that they both adjust up the sub-woofer volume. * the LFE and Surround volume levels are maximised by

[Bug 410948] Re: Volume too loud

2010-12-08 Thread Lee Braiden
I just realised that Daniel T. Chen tagged this Won't fix?! Frankly, that's INSANE. Just because there's a way to fix it manually, it does not mean that ubuntu should not work to fix it by default. The current behavior is ILLOGICAL, UNEXPECTED, INTERFERING, and ANNOYING. This is the most

[Bug 238835] Re: persistent failure with DVD mounting, reading, writing

2010-10-01 Thread Lee Braiden
I've had this too, and fixed it with a kernel option, although I'm not sure which one just now. I believe it's one of the options listed in brasero bug #200337 (on launchpad). I also believe these bugs should be merged. -- persistent failure with DVD mounting, reading, writing

[Bug 559582] Re: Upgrade from karmic to lucid failes with Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on mountall

2010-09-28 Thread Lee Braiden
Jeez, really? You've abandoned apt-get as a valid upgrade path? That constitutes a major change to ubuntu, if not a complete detachment from Debian. It fundamentally alters the path that Ubuntu sysadmins can plan around. This needs to be VERY clear to people, like a big red box above any

[Bug 481797] Re: Gdm displays the full name of the user rather than the username

2010-09-23 Thread Lee Braiden
This is a fairly big problem for me, as I've two accounts setup with the same full name, but different user names -- one for personal stuff, one for work. Upgrading to maverick made it impossible to tell which was which. Also, I think it's potentially a big problem in organisations that have two

[Bug 644881] Re: wouldn't let me sign into facebook

2010-09-23 Thread Lee Braiden
Same problem here. The issue is that there is no Add button appearing, once authorised. -- wouldn't let me sign into facebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644881 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 256478] Re: Support contact grouping (metacontacts)

2010-08-07 Thread Lee Braiden
Just one additional thought: this should support priorities, on a general and per-contact basis. For example, given a contact with both jabber and MSN, a FOSS user may prefer to contact someone through Jabber as a general rule. But a particular user may use jabber in work, and MSN on his phone,

[Bug 91442] Re: magicrescue should depend on a package which provides jpegtran

2010-08-03 Thread Lee Braiden
You would perhaps think this was a bigger problem if you'd just left magicrescue running for 24 hours, only to find it hadn't picked up a single jpeg on a partition used for general browsing. I'd suggest pushing this fix quite hard, to make sure it doesn't catch anyone else out. -- magicrescue

[Bug 610810] [NEW] creates a directory under /home

2010-07-28 Thread Lee Braiden
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: tumgreyspf I just discovered this folder: $ ls -lRa /home/tumgreyspf/ /home/tumgreyspf/: total 24 drwxr-xr-x 2 tumgreyspf nogroup 4096 2010-07-21 12:18 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root4096 2010-07-21 12:18 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 tumgreyspf nogroup 220

[Bug 610810] Re: creates a directory under /home

2010-07-28 Thread Lee Braiden
That's great Thomas, thanks for your work on this :) -- creates a directory under /home https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/610810 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 120539] Re: [needs packaging] Qt Jambi

2010-07-10 Thread Lee Braiden
Harald: In what archives? On lucid, apt-cache search jambi returns nothing. I gather this was in older releases, but removed. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: Fix Released = Incomplete -- [needs packaging] Qt Jambi https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120539 You received this bug notification

[Bug 339530] Re: newwave missing userchrome.css

2009-08-27 Thread Lee Braiden
Hmm. Not arguing about the validity, but if you're going to mark this as invalid after 5 months of no progress, some sort of minimal reasoning would be nice ;) -- newwave missing userchrome.css https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339530 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 339530] Re: newwave missing userchrome.css

2009-08-27 Thread Lee Braiden
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain :) -- newwave missing userchrome.css https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339530 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 3923] Re: Cannot change default character encoding

2009-06-01 Thread Lee Braiden
Another vote for getting this fixed ASAP. I think the encoding choice should be part of the profiles. Encodings are such an easy thing to miss that not having the option to easily set preferences and have them as default is quite dangerous imho. ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)

[Bug 324453] Re: [needs-packaging] Add DVBDaemon to Jaunty Packages

2009-02-17 Thread Lee Braiden
I'd like to see this too. As far as I know, totem are aiming to include this in the next version, so I think it's important to start working on packages anyway. -- [needs-packaging] Add DVBDaemon to Jaunty Packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324453 You received this bug notification

[Bug 141531] Re: gdebi in Ubuntu 64 bits can't install ubuntu 32 bits packages

2009-02-13 Thread Lee Braiden
Agreed; this needs to be easier. With the command line, it's a simple matter of adding --force-arch to dpkg invocation. An advanced options dropdown/rollout with a tick box and a simple (very small, very maintainable) internal list of archs supported by other archs would solve it. -- gdebi in

[Bug 283832] Re: bzr notification icon should not be permanent

2009-02-12 Thread Lee Braiden
Just want to add that I also hate this (and came here looking for this exact bug which I would have written up of course, if it didn't already exist). It's not just that the icon doesn't provide anything useful and takes up real-estate... it's taking up memory, and creating vulnerabilities by

[Bug 283832] Re: bzr notification icon should not be permanent

2009-02-12 Thread Lee Braiden
Oh, after being surprised by the strength of my dislike for this, I just realised one of the things that's making me hate it so much. The quit option is actually ignored. I right-click, choose quit, and it just sits there. Do it again, same lack of response. I've also just noticed that it's

[Bug 311651] [NEW] about menu option links to porn!

2008-12-26 Thread Lee Braiden
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gspot Right-clicking on the gspot icon, choosing about, and then gspot website launches this link: http://mfa.ath.cx/porn/ Some of the images are quite graphic. At least some also probably violate copyrights. The version I'm running is 0.1.4. **

[Bug 242339] Re: specto lost all my urls

2008-11-29 Thread Lee Braiden
I've been running specto for about three days, and it just happened to me. Not as uncommon as you might think, perhaps. -- specto lost all my urls https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242339 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 201362] Re: Bzr-svn cannot be loaded

2008-07-02 Thread Lee Braiden
I'm seeing this in debian (sid) too. From a python interpreter, import svn works fine. However, I found code online from bzr-svn which does import svn.delta. If I do this, I get: $ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jun 25 2008, 17:58:32) [GCC 4.3.1] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or

[Bug 201362] Re: Bzr-svn cannot be loaded

2008-07-02 Thread Lee Braiden
Ahh, I missed your svn.core question earlier. That doesn't work for me either (unsurprisingly). -- Bzr-svn cannot be loaded https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201362 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 131743] Re: liferea-add-feed does nothing in firefox

2008-03-07 Thread Lee Braiden
I've seen this problem on both ubuntu and now debian. This is what I get on debian: $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/iceweasel:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH $ strace log /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin (Here, I go to a site witha feed, click the rss icon, click the checkbox to always subscribe to feeds

[Bug 131743] Re: liferea-add-feed does nothing in firefox

2008-03-07 Thread Lee Braiden
Hmm. I thought it might not be executing scripts that need shebang line interpretation, but having just compiled a simple c program that prints its args, and temporarily replaced /usr/bin/liferea-add-feed with it, I see that this doesn't get called either. iceweasel/firefox seem to be very

[Bug 131743] Re: liferea-add-feed does nothing in firefox

2008-03-07 Thread Lee Braiden
re-opening, as although I'm not using ubuntu right now, I've seen this in ubuntu's latest packages after the patch above, just as Kay says above. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released = Incomplete -- liferea-add-feed does nothing in firefox

[Bug 56340] Re: crashes reproducibly on loading document (attached)

2006-08-14 Thread Lee Braiden
here's the document -- crashes reproducibly on loading document (attached) https://launchpad.net/bugs/56340 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 56340] crashes reproducibly on loading document (attached)

2006-08-14 Thread Lee Braiden
Public bug reported: The following document crashes repeatedly when I try to load it, looping back to the document recovery dialog. ** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- crashes reproducibly on loading document (attached)

[Bug 56340] Re: crashes reproducibly on loading document (attached)

2006-08-14 Thread Lee Braiden
Sorry guys. I was rushing to get through job application stuff, and I guess I was thinking that I was using an custom bug report tool. Since there wasn't an obvious box for version numbers etc., I figured it was included. Obviously not, in a browser! :) I'm using openoffice.org-writer