[Bug 1063617] Re: 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu1 regression: keeps setting gsettings keys to wrong values

2014-04-29 Thread Gilles Tournier
I confirm that this bug is still affecting Compiz in 14.04LTS. Clean install + no CCSM. So, yet another new release (supposedly a stable, conservative and long-term one) and still this has not been fixed ! It has now been a year and a half - across 4 releases - and still there is no one

[Bug 1119420] Re: The notification area whitelist is missing from 13.04, making some applications unusable

2014-02-07 Thread Gilles Tournier
Stats, community comments and user's wishes don't matter to Canonical nowadays. For all the recent decisions they have taken unilaterally which caused big turmoil among the community, they have never backed out because of the noise or widespread disagreement from its user base... As it has

[Bug 1063617] Re: 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu1 regression: keeps setting gsettings keys to wrong values

2014-01-20 Thread Gilles Tournier
Thank you Carl-Eric for your idea of monitoring what apps set gsettings and what do they do exactly. And also to Fred for indicating how to actually do this monitoring. Now my question is: how could we execute a shell with the dconf watch command early enough in the boot process so as to have

[Bug 1063617] Re: 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu1 regression: keeps setting gsettings keys to wrong values

2014-01-19 Thread Gilles Tournier
For me, it is not only Windows keys that are involved : I also use super, but along with other regular keys. When I loose my custom shortcuts settings, all of them are gone; reset to default values (Windows specific keys and regular keys as well). As for when this happens, that seems to be part

[Bug 1063617] Re: 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu1 regression: keeps setting gsettings keys to wrong values

2013-11-19 Thread Gilles Tournier
This is very annoying that this bug was NEVER fixed since it appeared in 12.10...Every now and then there has been a fix released but that changed nothing and it is generally not available for backport. Also once in a while appears again in this thead the buggy solution to change CCSM

[Bug 1063617] Re: 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu1 regression: keeps setting gsettings keys to wrong values

2013-05-07 Thread Gilles Tournier
For information, the problem for me seems to have completely disappeared since I upgraded to 13.04! Nota Bene: it was not a clean install, but an upgrade of an existing 12.10. Conditions where the problem does show up seem to be rather obscure... -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1063617] Re: 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu1 regression: keeps setting gsettings keys to wrong values

2013-03-13 Thread Gilles Tournier
André, Thank you for your warning. I had also tried your fix, but Unity got completely screwed up - same as described by the two other people that reported this issue. I tried to play a little bit at recovering the situation - but to no avail. Even trying to reinstall the packages involved

[Bug 1063617] Re: 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu1 regression: keeps setting gsettings keys to wrong values

2013-03-13 Thread Gilles Tournier
Stegard, I have tried your autostart solution, but it didn't work for me...I will have to investigate a little more to see if perhaps I have also a problem with Gnome keyboard properties. Also: do I have to register the file as an app in some way? -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 1063617] Re: 1:0.9.8+bzr3319-0ubuntu1 regression: keeps setting gsettings keys to wrong values

2013-03-12 Thread Gilles Tournier
I am also begging for a backport to 12.10 !!! Since upgrading to Quantal, this very annoying behavior of not remembering shortcuts across logout/logins has forced me to revert to using 12.04LTS...I have been using two shortcuts for a very long time: one for closing a window and one for

[Bug 817383] Re: nautilus-gksu fails to work, needs a re-build to install libnautilus-gksu.so to /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0

2012-04-15 Thread Gilles Tournier
I do acknowledge that this bug is dead and burried since the Ubuntu team as decided to drop this handy feature for some unclear and unjustified reason...still no one answered my question. Will the libnautilus-gksu.so presently dated feb 23rd 2011 work with Ubuntu 12-04 by simply copying the lib

[Bug 817383] Re: nautilus-gksu fails to work, needs a re-build to install libnautilus-gksu.so to /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0

2012-04-14 Thread Gilles Tournier
Ok, thanks for this comment and the download link. So, in other words, does this mean that just dowloading the current build of this library and put it inside /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0 would still work with 12.04 ? No need to recompile the sources ? Oddly enough, the libnautilus-gksu.so

[Bug 873831] Re: line 55: 14898 Aborted

2012-03-08 Thread Gilles Tournier
You are right and this is quite a discovery! Now the question is: what exactly are these statically linked executable doing there in /usr/lib/klibc/bin? To what purpose would they be used instead of the same basic unix executable inside /bin (which are all dynamically linked) ? Are they used at

[Bug 873831] Re: line 55: 14898 Aborted

2012-03-07 Thread Gilles Tournier
Thank you Jason for this information. I also suspected that this package's development had stalled... Our only hope now, is that perhaps this was only a bug introduced by 11.10 Oneiric...and that the coming release of 12.04 would have solved it. We will see... -- You received this bug

[Bug 873831] Re: line 55: 14898 Aborted

2012-03-06 Thread Gilles Tournier
Fine...but not really a viable solution for using the prelinking tool the normal way. May I also add that after 5 months from the notification, this bug is still undecided and unassigned ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 880331] Re: Can no longer shutdown when laptop lid closes

2011-12-05 Thread Gilles Tournier
I agree. But my experience tells me that a kernel crash upon sleep or hibernate is a very difficult bug to troubleshoot. Most of the time, these bugs arise only on a specific hardware or BIOS or ACPI design or other unknown things. In my case, I really like to have to only close the lid when

[Bug 880331] Re: Can no longer shutdown when laptop lid closes

2011-12-04 Thread Gilles Tournier
Thank you David for your solution. It does work perfectly. But...I still think this is an issue and not a simplification. Why would a lambda user be forced to go through dconf-editor (which they probably don't know anything about) in order to have the laptop shutdown when they close the lid

[Bug 817383] Re: nautilus-gksu fails to work, needs a re-build to install libnautilus-gksu.so to /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0

2011-10-24 Thread Gilles Tournier
I fully agree with Thorsten - people who don't know about this feature and its potential dangerousity will not be concerned at all as this feature is unavailable by default with the current build. On the other side, people who were using this feature are probably knowledgeable enough to know

[Bug 880317] [NEW] no more open as root contextual menu in Nautilus after Oneiric upgrade

2011-10-23 Thread Gilles Tournier
Public bug reported: 1. Ubuntu 11.10 - kernel 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 2. nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5 3. I had this convenient right click menu open as root for a very long time and I expected to keep it while uprading from Natty 4. It disappeared after

[Bug 880331] [NEW] Can no longer shutdown when laptop lid closes

2011-10-23 Thread Gilles Tournier
Public bug reported: 1. Ubuntu 11.10 kernel 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 2. software-center 5.0.1.5 / power settings menu / gnome-power-manager 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 3.expected to keep this option I had configured in Natty after upgrading to Oneiric 4. after

[Bug 779509] Re: keyboard layout settings not remembered

2011-06-19 Thread Gilles Tournier
Hello James, Thank you for the workaround you found. I confirm that this actually worked for me too and that it did solve the problem ! The settings are being remembered across reboots when the proper keyboard is selected at the GDM greeting (and this is only needed once). I do agree with you

[Bug 779509] Re: keyboard layout settings not remembered

2011-05-19 Thread Gilles Tournier
I have tried what you just described, but it does not work for me...First off, I never selected the option choose keymap for every window and the system-wide option was always available and selected. Still, I cannot get rid of the unwanted keymap, which will always reappear after reboot. Damn!!

[Bug 779509] Re: keyboard layout settings not remembered

2011-05-16 Thread Gilles Tournier
It sounds to me that the installer package is doing weird things and perhaps adding unwanted keyboard maps as a default...then this layout becomes a system-wide default that cannot be removed or changed! At least, I experienced the same problem as your Natty server installation but with Natty

[Bug 760800] Re: Cryptkeeper icon do not appear on the gnome panel

2011-05-16 Thread Gilles Tournier
I did some research and it appears that this is not a bug. There is a setting in Unity that can be modified using gconf-editor or this command in a terminal: gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist ['all'] ...then all apps that send an indicator to the tray works fine. The

[Bug 760800] Re: Cryptkeeper icon do not appear on the gnome panel

2011-05-16 Thread Gilles Tournier
Sorry I made a typo mistake: - it's not gconf-editor but rather dconf-editor which can be installed with the package dconf-tools. (sudo apt-get install dconf-tools) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber.

[Bug 771400] Re: Netspeed isn't in Add to panel in natty

2011-05-16 Thread Gilles Tournier
With my Natty desktop it shows up in the Add to panel and it works fine with Ubuntu Classic - but not in Unity... A possible clue is that I already had it in the panel under Maverick, and I did a version upgrade to Natty using update-manager (rather than installing a Natty clean from scratch).

[Bug 760800] Re: Cryptkeeper icon do not appear on the gnome panel

2011-05-14 Thread Gilles Tournier
I confirm this bug. Unable to use it with Unity (App launches but is not accessible via Unity panel). Note: works fine with Gnome panel... Ubuntu 11.04 Cryptkeeper 0.9.4-1ubuntu1 It's really too bad that one cannot use cryptkeeper under Natty with the new Unity Desktop; and would have to revert

[Bug 779509] Re: keyboard layout settings not remembered

2011-05-11 Thread Gilles Tournier
Ok...but do you have two keyboard layouts to choose from or only one? Does the indicator applet show in the tray accordingly? What keyboard did you choose during Natty first installation? Is it the same one as the layout you use now or did you add an additional keyboard layout afterward? It

[Bug 779509] Re: keyboard layout settings not remembered

2011-05-11 Thread Gilles Tournier
Furthermore, I don't see why the mecanism for disabling the indicator from showing in the tray would not work or would not be implemented (as stated in other threads about this indicator): in my opinion, the code for handling the gconf key

[Bug 779509] Re: keyboard layout settings not remembered

2011-05-10 Thread Gilles Tournier
What do you mean when you say your Natty Desktop is not affected? Have you done the same keyboard layout configuration as you described with the german kb map and everything behaves normally both with Xserver and the console (and also it keeps the configuration across reboots) ? -- You received

[Bug 779509] Re: keyboard layout settings not remembered

2011-05-09 Thread Gilles Tournier
I have tried your suggestion to reconfigure console-data, but it does not change the problem. Furthermore, the behavior after reconfiguring console-data is the same as reported in the bug description: the settings are NOT remembered across reboots and I always end up with the wrong keyboard in

[Bug 779509] [NEW] keyboard layout settings not remembered

2011-05-08 Thread Gilles Tournier
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) Kernel 2.6.38-8-generic (#42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011) Gnome 2.32.1 (Ubuntu 2011-04-14) gnome-settings-daemon 2.32.1-0ubuntu13.1 Description: the