[Bug 1850016] [NEW] undocumented mouse button 9 response

2019-10-26 Thread My name
Public bug reported: There is an undocumented mouse button 9 response that is redundant with the documented mouse binds & serves no purpose. But it does interfere with my desire to use button 9 for my own purposes. I sure would like to know how to fix this. ** Affects: viewnior (Ubuntu) Imp

[Bug 1730143] Re: no response to scroll wheel

2018-02-19 Thread My name
TBH, I don't understand you. As indicated my Ncurses version is 6 something. I don't have a clue how it was compiled since I installed it with apt-get from the standard Ubuntu repo. Are you saying I should try compiling it myself? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1730143] [NEW] no response to scroll wheel

2017-11-04 Thread My name
Public bug reported: ". . . new in htop 2.0 . . . If you're using NCurses 6, htop will also support your mouse wheel for scrolling." -- https://hisham.hm/htop/ Doesn't work for me. No response to scroll wheel. Any suggestions? I'd really like to make this work. htop 2.0.1 ncurses-bin 6

[Bug 1191259] Re: mplayer does not exit on end of file

2017-10-28 Thread My name
Still doing this in Xenial. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1191259 Title: mplayer does not exit on end of file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1191259] Re: mplayer does not exit on end of file

2017-10-28 Thread My name
I take that back. I should have said this is happening in mplayer under Xenial, not mplayer2. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1191259 Title: mplayer does not exit on end of file To ma

[Bug 1207674] Re: Man page refers to "trash-restore" instead of "restore-trash"

2017-08-16 Thread My name
And BTW, this is still the case in Xenial, 64 bit version. I wonder how many man-hours have been wasted by people trying to figure out how to use "trash-restore". Probably something under 1 in most individual cases, but how many cases are there? Surely not just the few that reached this page. Most

[Bug 1207674] Re: Man page refers to "trash-restore" instead of "restore-trash"

2017-08-16 Thread My name
According to Francia upstream, this IS a specific Ubuntu problem, because it was fixed upstream a while back. He says the version Ubuntu is using: " is very old, is from 2012, unfortunately seems that Ubuntu is still using a old version in its distribution. The current version is 0.17.1.14." from

[Bug 1691500] Re: synaptic as unpriveleged user crashes

2017-05-27 Thread My name
It started working again. Not sure why. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1691500 Title: synaptic as unpriveleged user crashes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs

[Bug 1691500] [NEW] synaptic as unpriveleged user crashes

2017-05-17 Thread My name
Public bug reported: I sometimes invoke synaptic as an plain user, just to browse and read the descriptions, etc. Used to work fine. Then I upgraded the kernel from 4.4.0-75 to 4.4.0-78 by installing linux-generic (it had been uninstalled to keep '77 at bay, because '77 killed my system). Everythi

[Bug 1659140] Re: x crashes when I log in and back out of a tty (console, cntrl-alt-F2 thing, whatever)

2017-01-26 Thread My name
** Tags added: security ** Tags removed: security ** Tags added: startx ** Tags added: security tty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659140 Title: x crashes when I log in and back ou

[Bug 1659140] Re: x crashes when I log in and back out of a tty (console, cntrl-alt-F2 thing, whatever)

2017-01-26 Thread My name
There doesn't seem to be an "edit" button, so I'll add details in comments as I discover them. In the situation described, the same thing happens if I use the command "logout" instead of "exit". In the error messages put forth by X (I presume) in tty2 while it was crashing in tty1 because I had j

[Bug 1659140] [NEW] x crashes when I log in and back out of a tty (console, cntrl-alt-F2 thing, whatever)

2017-01-24 Thread My name
Public bug reported: Observed behavior: When I get an alternate tty, or whatever it's called, with cntrl-alt-FN, where N is any digit, 2-6, inclusive; log in as the same user on the console; do stuff; and then log out with "exit": I'm suddenly back in tty1 and X has crashed. There is no x on any

[Bug 1562219] Re: Unprivileged xinit wont start in unallocated vt

2016-12-27 Thread My name
Uh, I wish I could edit my 2 posts above out. My problem was simple. After installing from the mini.iso, I was running an installation script that has a command of the form: sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends package1 package2 package3 . . . It always worked before. But one of those pac

[Bug 1562219] Re: Unprivileged xinit wont start in unallocated vt

2016-12-27 Thread My name
I should add that this probably the 5th or 6th time I've installed a 16.04 system on this machine and failed to get startx to work properly. I have another such that I haven't scrapped yet that WILL eventually start openbox in response to startx. But it takes a long time and results in my being log

[Bug 1562219] Re: Unprivileged xinit wont start in unallocated vt

2016-12-27 Thread My name
Me too. Under 16.04, 64 bit, with openbox, startx (or xinit) as user fails. Sudo startx gives me a console with a tiny font, so apparently it starts X but not Openbox. I'd explore that further and probably find how to start Openbox, but I don't want to run X as root anyway. I just tried sudo as a d

[Bug 1429620] Re: where is the ntpctl command?

2016-09-12 Thread My name
Pardon my stupidity. ntpdate -q meets my need fine. So does downloading the time from any server that posts a continually updated value of "now". See: https://superuser.com/questions/635020/how-to-know-current-time-from-internet-from-command-line-in-linux So I have my work-around. It's still true

[Bug 1429620] Re: where is the ntpctl command?

2016-09-12 Thread My name
Mea culpa for redundant post. I entered it on a different page & didn't realize it would wind up here anyway. And 8 was correct, not 9. I'd at least edit it out, but I see no button for that. BTW, unless and until this is fixed, anybody got a workaround for querying to see how accurate the present

[Bug 1429620] Re: where is the ntpctl command?

2016-09-12 Thread My name
"fix released" was 9 months ago and this still affects Trusty, which is LTS with 3 years to go. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1429620 Title: where is the ntpctl command? To manage n

[Bug 1429620] Re: where is the ntpctl command?

2016-09-12 Thread My name
"status:Confirmed → Fix Released" What's that mean exactly? It's 8 months since the preceding post and it isn't fixed in 14.04 LTS as of 2016 September 12. Is it going to be, or is Trusty abandoned, despite being LTS with 3 years to go before EOL? How soon is "soon"? Is it fixed in 16.04

[Bug 1525735] Re: X server fails to start under regular user in Xenial

2016-09-07 Thread My name
Mea culpa. I think I had 2 different (albeit similar) bug reports open in different tabs and posted to the wrong one. FWIW, the proximate cause of my problem was simple: ~/.Xauthority was owned root:root. That seems to me to be an installer bug. -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 1525735] Re: X server fails to start under regular user in Xenial

2016-09-07 Thread My name
I should have mentioned that the system shows a lot of large print output in tty 7 as the system is booting and hangs at "started update UTMP about system runlevel changes." When I look in tty1 there is screenful of stuff and then a prompt, looking as if it had successfully booted. I can log in th

[Bug 1525735] Re: X server fails to start under regular user in Xenial

2016-09-07 Thread My name
Me too. Fresh install of 16.04 from the mini.iso. Used apt-get to install xorg, openbox and some applications. This always used to work. Now only root can start x. This is bare metal, not virtual. I tried installing first xserver-xorg-video-all and then xserver-xorg-legacy. Neither made any differe

[Bug 554307] Re: linux-boot-prober yields wrong uuid for kernel root parameter

2016-08-02 Thread My name
Thanks, EvilSupahFly. I can now add this: Rm'ing every grub related file on the other systems, reinstalling grub, and running update-grub was REALLY BAD IDEA. Now when I try to boot /dev/sda6 (the system that is an fsarchiver-made clone of my main, /dev/sda5-based 14.04 system, where grub is suppo

[Bug 554307] Re: linux-boot-prober yields wrong uuid for kernel root parameter

2016-08-01 Thread My name
BTW, all my linux systems are 1-partition-each, no seperate ~s, or swaps or boot. Keeping it simple. They are on 2 drives, one external, one internal. Grub is on /dev/sda with config files on sda5, which is the one that boots. Some are on primary and some on logical partitions. Sda1 and sda2 are Wi

[Bug 554307] Re: linux-boot-prober yields wrong uuid for kernel root parameter

2016-08-01 Thread My name
Same thing with me in 14.04. This is a pretty basic thing to be broken for so long. Suggestions for work-arounds would be nice, since it doesn't look fixing it is imminent. Personally, I've tried a 2 grub rescue utilities, one from within one of the partitions that will boot, and another from CD.

[Bug 991638] Re: Crashes when gui is invoked

2016-05-12 Thread My name
Same thing in 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 under plain Openbox. Any workarounds? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991638 Title: Crashes when gui is invoked To manage notifications about this bu

[Bug 1004812] Re: imwheel -c segfaults

2016-05-12 Thread My name
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 991638 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991638 Same thing in 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 under plain Openbox. Any workarounds? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1491554] [NEW] Proxy settings have no effect

2015-09-02 Thread My Name
Public bug reported: I am using unity-control-center version 15.04.0+15.04.20150410-0ubuntu1 on an Ubuntu 15.04 fresh install. I am trying to configure proxy using proxy URL by going from: System Settings -> Network -> Network Proxy and selecting "automatic" for "method". I need to add Proxy URL

[Bug 1316250] Re: firefox adress bar black on pentium processor with integrated graphics

2015-03-30 Thread My name
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1314924 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314924 Toggling gfx.xrender.enabled didn't work for me. Same problem. Just started happening sometime in the last week or so. Url field is a uniform black while the search field on the same toolbar is normal. If

[Bug 1394891] [NEW] evim search fails with message: "E486: Pattern not found: \\/\c" followed by the string searched for

2014-11-21 Thread My name
Public bug reported: Ubuntu Trusty 64 bit system built from the mini.iso with Openbox as the WM and sole DE as well. Vim version 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3. Recently, search has started failing about half the time. In Evim, if I search for "some string that IS there somewhere" I'll get the following

[Bug 1054298] Re: xbacklight doesn't work, but xrandr does and so does /sys/class/backlight

2014-08-30 Thread My name
Everything I wrote above is still true for me in 14.04, Trusty, 64 bit version, with pretty much the same setup, plain Openbox (no LXDE, no Lubuntu, no other DE) and lxterminal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://

[Bug 1302875] Re: thunar invoked by root does not show unmounted partitions in side pane like thunar invoked as user does in Ubuntu 13.10 using plain Openbox as DE

2014-04-04 Thread My name
** Tags added: mount thunar ubuntu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1302875 Title: thunar invoked by root does not show unmounted partitions in side pane like thunar invoked as user d

[Bug 1302875] [NEW] thunar invoked by root does not show unmounted partitions in side pane like thunar invoked as user does in Ubuntu 13.10 using plain Openbox as DE

2014-04-04 Thread My name
Public bug reported: Under Ubuntu 13.10, 32 bit version, using Openbox only as the DE, thunar 1.6.3 invoked by root will not show unmounted partitions on an external usb mounted hard drive. Thunar invoked as user shows them in the side pane under "Devices". Once the partition is mounted by clicki

[Bug 1054298] Re: xbacklight doesn't work, but xrandr does and so does /sys/class/backlight

2013-11-04 Thread My name
Still doesn't work in Saucy. For me, none of the following, cause any change in screen appearance, nor to they bring any response in lxterminal other than a new prompt: xbacklight -get xbacklight -set 100 -time 0 xbacklight -set 20 -time 0 xbacklight -set 2 -time 0 Running Saucy in plain openb

[Bug 877203] [NEW] pm-suspend freezes system on resume when invoked through gnome-terminal or user menu

2011-10-18 Thread My Name
Public bug reported: When using pm-suspend on Macbook 4,1 system freezes on resume. This only happens when the command was invoked using gnome-terminal or the user menu. Using xterm works fine. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 apt-cache policy pm-utils

[Bug 519540] [NEW] linux kernel failed to install with Ubuntu upgrade

2010-02-09 Thread My Name
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub I assume that further info has been included with this report. If not, there's a Launchpad bug as well -- when visiting a bug to see if it has been reported already, saved bug info from the installation problem gets lost. ProblemType: Package Archi

[Bug 519540] Re: linux kernel failed to install with Ubuntu upgrade

2010-02-09 Thread My Name
** Attachment added: "AptOrdering.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38946135/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38946136/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Dmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38946137/Dmesg.txt ** Attachment