[Bug 68921] firefox crash in connection with attempt to change video console preferences at BBC News website

2006-10-28 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: I had Realplayer installed in Dapper. This worked with the BBC News website. I upgraded to Edgy Eft. I then visited the BBC News website and tried to watch a video and couldn't. I then tried to change the video preferences, by clicking on a link in the bottom left of the

[Bug 68921] Re: firefox crash in connection with attempt to change video console preferences at BBC News website

2006-10-28 Thread Jens Ropers
** Attachment added: problem report http://librarian.launchpad.net/4939392/_usr_lib_firefox_firefox-bin.1000.crash -- firefox crash in connection with attempt to change video console preferences at BBC News website https://launchpad.net/bugs/68921 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 69515] Movie Player (totem) crashes

2006-10-31 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: Movie Player (totem) crashes repeatedly. Not sure if I can get it to work with ANY movie after upgrading to Efty Eft. It worked under Dapper. ** Affects: totem (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Movie Player (totem) crashes

[Bug 62321] FAT32 partition on flash drive/USB keyfob gets automounted in case-sensitive mode

2006-09-25 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: Hi, When having a 1GB USB keyfob / flash drive plugged in while booting a Ubuntu 6.06 LTS default install, the FAT32 partition gets mounted in case-sensitive mode. At the very end of the dmesg it says this after bootup: [17179647.74] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO

[Bug 62321] Re: FAT32 partition on flash drive/USB keyfob gets automounted in case-sensitive mode

2006-09-25 Thread Jens Ropers
I probably didn't explain myself very well and/or didn't put the emphasis right here: Having figured things out as far as this, I don't see the utf8 is not a recommended part of the error message as central or even as much of an issue. Yes, I do think it's not nice to have error message thrown if

[Bug 62321] Re: FAT32 partition on flash drive/USB keyfob gets automounted in case-sensitive mode

2006-09-25 Thread Jens Ropers
Thanks for your replies. I'm noticing that a FAT32 hard drive partition I am mounting via /etc/fstab does not have the problem of (incorrectly) being case- sensitive. It (correctly) is case-insensitive. From my /etc/fstab: /dev/hdc1 /mnt/fattie vfat

Re: [Bug 152377] Re: Gamma correction does not work with xvideo using Openchrome drivers

2008-11-08 Thread Jens Ropers
Hi Bryce, Do you think it will be possible to test this from a live-CD? I'm asking because I've rebuilt and mixed and matched a lot of my PCs, and my SiS 630 256MB 1GHz PIII with that unichrome onboard graphics hardware actually currently runs Windows ME. (Yes, I know. Pity me, don't hate me.

Re: [Bug 152377] Re: Gamma correction does not work with xvideo using Openchrome drivers

2008-11-08 Thread Jens Ropers
2008/11/8 ropers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Bryce, Do you think it will be possible to test this from a live-CD? I'm asking because I've rebuilt and mixed and matched a lot of my PCs, and my SiS 630 256MB 1GHz PIII with that unichrome onboard graphics hardware actually currently runs Windows ME.

[Bug 156060] Re: Rhythmbox not display graphics if click on visualization and select a GOOM (Intermitent bug)

2007-11-24 Thread Jens Ropers
I'm having the same problem. Maybe this will clarify things a bit: The problem is that in a Rhythmbox installation in Ubuntu 7.10, the GOOM visualization plugin does not work -- when visualization is active and GOOM is selected, Rhythmbox can even seize up and almost freeze. Sometimes even the

[Bug 156060] Re: Rhythmbox not display graphics if click on visualization and select a GOOM (Intermitent bug)

2007-11-24 Thread Jens Ropers
PPS: While GOOM now works, there still is a significant delay upon activating a GOOM visalization. The music playback may even stop for a while. This is on an Intel Celeron 2.8 GHz PC with 2 GB RAM, so this probably should not happen. -- Rhythmbox not display graphics if click on visualization

[Bug 156060] Re: Rhythmbox not display graphics if click on visualization and select a GOOM (Intermitent bug)

2007-11-24 Thread Jens Ropers
Maybe if the issue with the GOOM visualization cannot be fixed, then a good alternative would be to remove the GOOM entry from the Rhythmbox visualization menu. libvisual-0.4-plugins might be a good alternative. Upon installing this package (not installed by default), a number of nice and

[Bug 156060] Re: Rhythmbox not display graphics if click on visualization and select a GOOM (Intermitent bug)

2007-11-24 Thread Jens Ropers
PS: The OP mentioned Compitz. I don't think Compitz has anything to do with it; for what it's worth, I have it disabled and I'm having the same problem. I don't even think OpenGL is necessarily at fault -- OpenGL works on my system, and I can use demanding OpenGL applications such as Chromium

[Bug 32963] Re: totem overrides XV_CONSTRAST to wrong default value (Xv movies on i810/i945 have horrible colour/gamma)

2007-11-30 Thread Jens Ropers
PS: To add to the above workaround, using not just xvattr -a XV_BRIGHTNESS -v 24 but also xvattr -a XV_CONTRAST -v 3000 makes the picture better, and more similar to a gamma 1.6 corrected picture. (The default values are 0 and 4096, respectively.) -- totem overrides XV_CONSTRAST to wrong

[Bug 32963] Re: totem overrides XV_CONSTRAST to wrong default value (Xv movies on i810/i945 have horrible colour/gamma)

2007-11-30 Thread Jens Ropers
I am having the same problem with 7.10. I have a very old and dark HP D2808 monitor. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I have set this line Gamma 1.6 to adjust the gamma correction. However, in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, XVideo does not respect the X Window system-wide gamma correction setting.

[Bug 176475] Empty Trash does not empty ~/.local/share/Trash

2007-12-14 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome Currently, some Ubuntu/Linux applications move items to ~/.Trash/ when deleting files, while other programs move the data to ~/.local/share/Trash/ . ~/.local/share/Trash/ seems to be the newer location, apparently it's recommended by the XDG Base

[Bug 105216] Re: 'man wall' contains reference to talk(1), but talk is absent in Ubuntu

2007-04-24 Thread Jens Ropers
IMHO VF's suggestion is probably somewhat useful. I'm still not sure how to avoid that commands that might not be installed are mentioned on man pages -- maybe it cannot be avoided, or maybe it would require fairly involved changes to the entire man system, so that only those see also entries are

[Bug 154602] incorrect cp(1) behaviour upon mkdir foo; cp -r foo foo

2007-10-19 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: coreutils GNU coreutils cp(1) behaves incorrectly if the user tries to copy a directory recursively. It (rightly) prints an error message, BUT copies the directory anyway, at least one level deep. To demonstrate: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a | Linux

[Bug 109626] Re: Unsupported Chipset - VT3344

2007-09-30 Thread Jens Ropers
It shouldn't be necessary to use your packaged SVN version. This page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenChrome describes all that should be needed to get things to work. -- Unsupported Chipset - VT3344 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109626 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 152377] Gamma correction does not work with xvideo using Openchrome drivers

2007-10-13 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: I am running Ubuntu 7.04 with the Openchrome video drivers ( http://www.openchrome.org/ ). I have configured my xorg.conf to set a gamma correction of 1.7. The gamma adjustment works fine in X, but does not work with any application using xvideo (aka xv, aka the X video

[Bug 152377] Re: Gamma correction does not work with xvideo using Openchrome drivers

2007-10-13 Thread Jens Ropers
I should add that I have not found a way to get Gamma correction to work with the (default) Totem Movie Player. I have resorted to adjusting the brightness and contrast in Totem under Edit - Preferences - Display - Color balance; but it's not as good a solution as proper Gamma correction. --

[Bug 152377] Re: Gamma correction does not work with xvideo using Openchrome drivers

2007-10-13 Thread Jens Ropers
Another addition: agpart detects my chipset as follows (from dmesg): agpgart: Detected VIA VT3314 chipset -- Gamma correction does not work with xvideo using Openchrome drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152377 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 92296] Re: [Feisty] Low quality of text rendering in Evince

2007-08-12 Thread Jens Ropers
I've previously posted the following info at bug 26118, but was advised that it's probably related to this bug, so I'm reposting things here: I'm also seeing absolutely atrocious font rendering with some PDF files in evince. gpdf renders the same PDFs much better, but appears to use different

[Bug 92296] Re: [Feisty] Low quality of text rendering in Evince

2007-08-12 Thread Jens Ropers
To add: I'm just noticing now that after upgrading to Ubuntu 7.04, the issue appears to be resolved for me -- I get decent PDF rendering in evince 0.8.1 now. If others can confirm this, then maybe this bug could be closed? -- [Feisty] Low quality of text rendering in Evince

[Bug 26118] Re: Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf

2007-08-12 Thread Jens Ropers
Thanks Peter. I've reposted my info there. -- Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26118 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 303601] Re: REISUB is broken

2009-02-09 Thread Jens Ropers
I can also confirm this. And to repeat what I previously posted here ( http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7vry9/help_my_magic_sysrq_keys_reisub_no_longer_work_in/ ) : Ever since I started running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), I found that the magic SysRq keys (REISUB or similar) no longer work

Re: [Bug 154602] Re: incorrect cp(1) behaviour upon mkdir foo; cp -r foo foo

2009-03-30 Thread Jens Ropers
2009/3/30 jaduncan jaduncan+launchpad@jaduncan.com: This is correct behaviour as per POSIX - it's how it should work! Says who? This is something that would be an upstream bug, but they will not want to change this behaviour. Well, have you asked them? -- incorrect cp(1) behaviour

[Bug 317867] [NEW] Compared to some well-known other OSes, Ubuntu makes less efficient use of screen real estate (when in default configuration).

2009-01-16 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: Some time ago, I did some research about the way Ubuntu uses screen real estate. I posted the results here: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7kn5y/is_it_just_me_or_do_nix_des_do_a_horrible_job_at/14xg It turns out that Ubuntu is roughly on par with OS X, but only

[Bug 502136] [NEW] Cannot move some items into new menus in alacarte menu editor

2010-01-01 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: alacarte In the alacarte menu editor, some items cannot be moved into new menus (folders). PROBLEM: Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Right click on the Ubuntu logo .. Applications .. Places .. System area in gnome-panel. 2. Select Edit Menus. This

[Bug 502136] Re: Cannot move some items into new menus in alacarte menu editor

2010-01-01 Thread Jens Ropers
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37345942/Dependencies.txt -- Cannot move some items into new menus in alacarte menu editor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 502136] Re: Cannot move some items into new menus in alacarte menu editor

2010-01-01 Thread Jens Ropers
Alright, so I just booted off the 9.10 live CD, and I can confirm the exact same behaviour under Ubuntu 9.10, with alacarte version 0.12.4-0ubuntu2. -- Cannot move some items into new menus in alacarte menu editor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502136 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 502136] Re: Cannot move some items into new menus in alacarte menu editor

2010-01-01 Thread Jens Ropers
...and what's worse, the default installation of Ubuntu even includes CD/DVD Creator, trying to move which triggers this bug, in Applications -- Accessories. Eat that, overeager premature Ubuntu bug closers! -- Cannot move some items into new menus in alacarte menu editor

Re: [Bug 154602] Re: incorrect cp(1) behaviour upon mkdir foo; cp -r foo foo

2009-03-30 Thread Jens Ropers
2009/3/31 C de-Avillez hgg...@gmail.com: Interesting. Jim Meyring's answer did not make it here (although, AFAICS, it was correctly addressed). So, here it is: Jens Ropers wrote: 2009/3/30 jaduncan jaduncan+launchpad@jaduncan.com: This is correct behaviour as per POSIX - it's how

Re: [Bug 154602] Re: incorrect cp(1) behaviour upon mkdir foo; cp -r foo foo

2009-03-31 Thread Jens Ropers
Thank you! :) 2009/3/31 jaduncan jaduncan+launchpad@jaduncan.com: Original refusal was based on an IRC refusal, but upstream have now said that while they won't do the work they are interested in patches. Reopened to track. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)       Status: Invalid =

Re: [Bug 68921] Re: firefox crash in connection with attempt to change video console preferences at BBC News website

2006-12-12 Thread Jens Ropers
On 12/12/06, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jens, Thanks for your crash report. Could you please download you crash report, run apport-retrace -d [filename] and resubmit it. Instructions can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport I am working my way though all of the

[Bug 71579] crash while writing a previously recorded iso image to CD-ROM

2006-11-12 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: I do not know whether this is reproducible, but this is what I did: 1. Open graveman. 2. record an iso from a CD-ROM 3. Tell graveman to write that iso to a blank disk This is when graveman crashed, 3/4 thru the operation. ** Affects: graveman (Ubuntu) Importance:

[Bug 71579] Re: crash while writing a previously recorded iso image to CD-ROM

2006-11-12 Thread Jens Ropers
** Attachment added: .crash file http://librarian.launchpad.net/5059437/_usr_bin_graveman.1000.crash -- crash while writing a previously recorded iso image to CD-ROM https://launchpad.net/bugs/71579 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [Bug 329644] Re: Alt-SysReq-K has no effect, or unintended effect (depending on system it is used on)

2009-07-29 Thread Jens Ropers
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 303601 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303601 2009/7/29 NappingUnderBricks afarri...@gmail.com: I've got no idea what the 'REISUB' key is It's not a single key. It's a key combination sequence that's customarily used to get badly borked Linux boxen

Re: [Bug 329644] Re: Alt-SysReq-K has no effect, or unintended effect (depending on system it is used on)

2009-07-29 Thread Jens Ropers
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 303601 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303601 2009/7/29 ropers rop...@gmail.com: 2009/7/29 NappingUnderBricks afarri...@gmail.com: I've got no idea what the 'REISUB' key is It's not a single key. It's a key combination sequence that's customarily

[Bug 23647] Re: kill -L does not work

2007-04-10 Thread Jens Ropers
Just encountered this bug as well. Here are my two eurocents: The fact that '/bin/kill -L' *does* work as documented in 'man 1 kill' but 'kill' (ie. bash built-in kill) *does not* is an inconsistency. Inconsistencies should be avoided. IMHO this could be fixed EITHER by: - removing the 'kill -L'

[Bug 105216] 'man wall' contains reference to talk(1), but talk is absent in Ubuntu

2007-04-10 Thread Jens Ropers
Public bug reported: I've encountered the following documentation error: In 'man 1 wall', it says: SEE ALSO mesg(1), talk(1), write(1), shutdown(8) However, talk(1) does not exist on a default Ubuntu install: $ talk bash: talk: command not found $ which talk $ sudo find / -name talk

[Bug 26118] Re: Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf

2007-04-18 Thread Jens Ropers
@Marciano Siniscalchi Thank you for your comment. Do you/does anyone know if there is another bug filed for that Type 3 fonts rendering issue? -- Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26118 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 26118] Re: Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf

2007-03-28 Thread Jens Ropers
I don't know if this is related, but I'm also seeing absolutely atrocious font rendering with some PDF files in evince. gpdf renders the same PDFs much better, but appears to use different fonts and ignore settings such as bold. Please see the following two screenshot for comparison. Yes, this

[Bug 26118] Re: Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf

2007-03-28 Thread Jens Ropers
** Attachment added: gPDF pdf screenshot http://librarian.launchpad.net/7035138/Screenshot.gpdf.png -- Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf https://launchpad.net/bugs/26118 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 26118] Re: Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf

2007-03-28 Thread Jens Ropers
This is the actual PDF file the above screenshots were taken with. ** Attachment added: PDF file that is rendered badly in evince (and gPDF is not too great either) http://librarian.launchpad.net/7035319/18280.pdf -- Bad rendering (hinting) in Evince and Xpdf

[Bug 94048] Re: [feisty] Slow gnome application startup due to /etc/hosts misconfiguration

2007-03-25 Thread Jens Ropers
This needs to be investigated by someone knowledgeable enough before it's committed. man hosts sudo vi /etc/hosts ji# ESC$bywk$a ESCp:x (DISCLAIMER: I'm a BSD guy. If this, for whatever weird and wonderful reason, breaks shit in Linux, don't blame me.) -- [feisty] Slow gnome application

Re: [Bug 303601] Re: REISUB is broken

2009-05-07 Thread Jens Ropers
2009/4/28 Michael Jones eternal...@gmail.com: @gorillastrong2    You can re-enable control-alt-backspace by modifying your xorg conf file to include the lines Section “ServerFlags” Option “DontZap” “false” EndSectionOption “DontZap” “false” The above is slightly bad information because

Re: [Bug 303601] Re: REISUB is broken

2009-05-07 Thread Jens Ropers
2009/5/8 Michael Jones eternal...@gmail.com: How exactly are you able to verify that when you received the information from a website that undoubtedly modified the input it was given to be correctly represented internally, and then transmitted to be displayed on an unknown browser that

Re: [Bug 303601] Re: REISUB is broken

2009-05-08 Thread Jens Ropers
2009/4/28 Michael Jones eternal...@gmail.com: @gorillastrong2 You can re-enable control-alt-backspace by modifying your xorg conf file to include the lines Section “ServerFlags” Option “DontZap” “false” EndSectionOption “DontZap” “false” Jens Ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Bug 502136] Re: Cannot move some items into new menus in alacarte menu editor

2010-07-13 Thread Jens Ropers
On 13 July 2010 21:15, Kamus kamu...@gmail.com wrote: Since this report have a long time without activity please could you check if this issue is still occuring under latest release of alacarte included in Ubuntu Lucid? Seriously? *Seriously?* You had to ask me for that? You couldn't just