This isn't just of value to people who happen to have a mouse that's a
bit iffy, who get a bad impression of Ubuntu because the same mouse
works fine on Windows (see bug #1).
It's possibly also of benefit to those who have difficulty with muscle
control, especially the elderly. Maybe this bug can
This bug is very easy to reproduce. Here's how to do it on LibreOffice
5.1.6.2:
Start LibreOffice Writer.
Type a few characters to ensure it's responsive.
File->New->Presentation
(this starts Impress)
In that new window Insert->Image...
(that gives you a File selection dialog)
Don't finish selec
Affects me with one mouse on Mint 18.3 (also verified on another pc with
Ubuntu 16.04).
See extensive discussion, including how to investigate with xev, detailed code
fix for xserver-xorg-input-evdev, detailed hardware workarounds for mice with
contact bounce:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/32
I've no idea what 'STRG' means.
I've used Simple Scan for years. It's really handy. Really REALLY
handy. My thanks to its author. Indeed it's open on my desktop at the
moment, I was interspersing some scans with answering mail, and one of
my mails was this bug update notification.
However, I'
@Veron, yes, I'm sorry if it seemed I was critical of your help, my
"Shoot the messenger" was aimed at @Reinhart who didn't bother yet (?)
in 2011 to patch it.
Your link to https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7211 is interesting. They
make a good point, hide by default will make their job harder. But
@Veron: thank you. But, as with all workarounds, the users need to know
the workaround exists.
I find it very sad to see insights such as VanillaMozilla gives
rejected. Shoot the messenger.
@Reinhart: we have to disagree on what an "average user" is. Certainly
the kind of beginner I sometimes
Thanks for responding in less than 4 years. These days I usually
install Mint on desktops and Debian on servers.
Perhaps before another 3+ years have elapsed I'll try reproducing it,
but don't hold your breath.
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@Adrien
I was happy until "You can easily fix that yourself". For every Launchpad
reader that can, there's 100s who can't. And many thousands who don't even
know Launchpad exists.
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No explanation? Just High Importance, and then Won't Fix?
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[Lenovo Thinkpad x201s] Overheat due to slow fans when on 'auto'
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When this is fixed will it be backported to 16.04?
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sane-backends should go back to syncing with unstable
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"It's not like you get hundreds of them each day."
True. But even one such message puzzles and worries users. 360 users
have marked this bug, but imagine how many thousands don't even know to
look on Launchpad?
This report was filed 18 months ago. I don't doubt it's hard to fix it
for systems
Fresh install of 16.04.2, with latest updates.
# apt-get install wine
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
Fetched 198 kB in 1
I love it. #2 above: "... I didn't bother yet to patch it out."
Written over 6 years ago. Brings a whole new meaning to the word "yet"!
;)
And #12: "That it, people needs to..."
As if the average user understands such advice, much less ever visits
launchpad. Please try to make Ubuntu fit for
@kfogel: really? Is that what tafthorne's suggestion was? Well, in
that case, I agree, that's brilliant.
@tafthorne: why did I not realise how brilliant your suggestion was?
Simple. Because its length made me mutter 'tl;dr' and skip on to the
next. Please, if you're going to make further brill
Would 'Confirmed' be a more appropriate status than 'In progress'?
Indeed, given that this bug was reported over 5 years ago, even
mentioning the word 'progress' carries a touch of irony. :(
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Over 18 months ago (see #35) this was assigned to Iain Lane. Why has
activity stalled?
'lxinput' and/or 'xset' may be workarounds, no doubt of interest to
those few who visit this report. But what about the other 99% of users
who suffer but have no idea how to search Launchpad and find
workaroun
@algal: "My big takeaway from this is that I was naive to think
unattended-upgrades could run for years unattended, like a router".
Some might say that the naive ones were the devs who implemented
unattended upgrades without thinking through the possible failure
scenarios. Of course I couldn't po
@Fred: yes, you're right, on Lubuntu I installed Parcellite and it
worked fine. But, with respect, which clipboard manager to use is not
the point. The point is that Ubuntu and its relatives should be
providing this functionality out of the box, not requiring users to
figure out what's needed the
@pander: Don't you think it's insane to suggest every one of 23 (or more
likely thousands) of applications need to implement this internally,
instead of a generic solution?
In Ubuntu Unity I find Diodon works well, it's completely solved the
problem on Unity for me. But the user has to:
1. Reali
penalvch: do look more closely. Ellieviolet46 is clearly a link
spammer. If you go to the site she recommends, for a few $$ she'll
write you an essay! :)
And she's done the same on two other Launchpad bugs. Sadly it seems
there's no way to stop this kind of thing or even report it. See bug
454
Hello Michael, thank you, perhaps I should be pleased that someone has
responded to my report.
However, frankly my overwhelming reaction is that this is far too
typical of how Ubuntu reports are handled. It goes like this:
* a report is filed.
* nothing is done about it, zip, nada, rien, not eve
Madbiologist: thanks for clarifying. So I agree filing it as a new bug
would be good. I'm not an appropriate person to do that, since I'm
using Unity less and less, and even in the past I've only used LTS
releases. I hope someone will pick this up.
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Madbiologist: you write "This bug is about the default resize grab
handle at window borders being too small".
Can I gently suggest you read the title of this problem report?
"Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult"
Window borders. Nothing about a resize grab handle (which I as
Seth, when you say 'Fix Released', does this mean that in System
Settings there is now a means (using GUI tools only) for the user to
modify the border width?
Anything less than that is, to my mind, not a 'fix'. And I suspect many
others with hand/eye coordination problems would agree it's not a
I don't even accept that it's adequately fixed in Unity (unless there's
been significant progress since 14.04, for I only use LTS releases).
I teach elderly users with little or no experience of computers.
Naturally many don't have good hand/eye coordination, so they need to be
able to adjust set
@Nathaniel: does http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/fixing-a-bug.html
help?
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"Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies" does not work
Apreche: you say it's a serious issue, and I agree with you. Allegedly,
if I look at the stats at the top of the page, this affects me and 34
other users. Though I'm betting that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Informal discussions reveal that bugs need to have thousands indicating
it affects the
"Wait until the LED stops flashing", some have recommended. But there
are plenty of USB sticks, even ones from well advertised brands such as
SanDisk, that don't have an LED. Presumably users of such sticks are
expected to be psychic?
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Yes, I'm an experienced user and I too have spent a lot of time tracking
down why a 12.04 LTS update failed. The system has separate / and /home
partitions, and the / partition is 15GB, yet "No space left on device"
was suggested as the likely cause. There are many dozens of old
kernels.
At the
Presumably Ubuntu devs will not be interested in this. It needs
reporting by everyone to the Xorg developers to get their attention.
How does one do that?
Does anyone know WHY they decided to rip out XAA (whatever that is)?
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... go on, you know you want to!
Linux, bringing families together since 1991!
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[Grubenv] error: malformed file, press any key to con
I've changed the status back to incomplete because I still hope to move
this forward. I'm unable to borrow the printer before January.
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Status: Expired => Incomplete
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grub2 in lucid doesn't work in qemu with '-vga std'
To man
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If you don't have additional info, please just click on the "This bug
affects you and 93 other people" exclamation mark (at the top of the bug
report), so you add to the count. Adding comments like "Me too" just
clutter reports and make it harder for developers.
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Isn't this really a workaround, rather than a proper fix? Presumably
when bi-directional comms are used there is useful info being returned
by the printer, so now that it's prevented that will cause the printer
to run slower or other problems will be ignored?
Will this be taken up with Canon's en
In 14.04 it still comes up showing USA as location, although in fact in
London and connected to the Internet. In 12.04 it shows London as
location, so this is a regression.
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Driver is whatever is installed by Ubuntu "out of the box", a fresh
install. I can't provide further info, but I hope to investigate fully
when the owner lends me the printer.
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Identical problem for the HP Deskjet D1660 printer reported in bug
#1372448.
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Title:
HP Deskjet F370 produces nothing but blank outputs
To manage
Public bug reported:
HP Deskjet D1660 moves the paper and the head exactly as if it's
printing correctly, but there's no ink on the paper. However it does
work as expected on Windows, so the hardware is ok. Reproduced on
12.04, 14.04, Linux Mint 17 (which is based on 14.04) and even Debian
7.5.
Public bug reported:
With both 14.04 and 14.04.1 on the initial screen advising requirements
I get a cross against "connected to the internet" as if there is no
connectivity. Yet I have an ethernet connection plugged in and in the
notification area the usual arrow-up/arrow-down icon is showing, a
lpadmin -p MX310-series -o usb-unidir-default=true seems to fix the
problem. Removing that (-R) and using instead lpadmin -p MX310-series
-o usb-no-reattach-default=true the symptoms are as before.
Does this help? Are there further tests I can run?
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I have the MX310 printer on loan again for a short time. I suspected
that the behaviour, with the printer hanging up and requiring the power
plug to be pulled to recover, while Ubuntu was fine, is perhaps due to a
firmware error. After all, no matter what one throws at the printer, it
shouldn't l
Verified affects 14.04. Also affects Mint 17 with Mate.
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Title:
Terminal menu view|zoom in/out shows ctrl++/- shortcut but numeric
keypad doesn
Thanks for quick response. I did follow as much of that as seemed
relevant to me. Can you be more specific?
By the way, I had difficulty following the instructions to turn on the
error log. The gear icon in 14.04 has no 'Printer' in its menu (and
12.04 has 'Printers', not 'Printer'). Though on
Public bug reported:
New Linux user reports problem printing letters from Lenovo T60 with
Linux Mint 17 (Qiana) on Canon MX310 printer using LibreOffice 4.2.4.2.
I've borrowed the printer and done a fresh install of Mint 17 and Ubuntu
14.04 and reproduced the problem on both systems. A short let
lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04a9:1728 Canon, Inc. MX310 ser
$ ls -l /dev/usb/lp* /dev/bus/usb/*/*
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 0 Jul 21 19:49 /dev/bus/usb/001/001
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root lp 189, 6 Jul 21 19:49 /dev/bus/usb/001/007
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 128 Jul 21 19:49 /dev/bus/usb/002/0
Example LO document used in above test.
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This one has always irritated the heck out of me, because I often don't
know in advance of starting Nautilus that I'm going to want to change
something in a root-owned file. But I've been resigned to it because I
imagined there was some insuperable difficulty in implementing it. And
when my stude
> It isn't don't care so much as it is that the bug lies in the laptop's
bios, not linux.
I'm not competent to say whether it's in the bios, but for the sake of
discussion I can accept that. But it's noticeable that some of the
reports here are indicating that things were better in the past, then
Re #10 and #11, it gave me a chuckle! :) But actually there's something
serious here as well. Not just that the wiki would seem to be not quite
right, but also that some well-understood convention is needed, for use
when one person justifiably assigns a bug to another.
Indeed, even assigning a b
Also affects 12.04LTS.
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Cant re-add rubbish bin to exclusions after removing
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This issue is also reported on http://askubuntu.com/questions/167314
/how-to-change-keyboard-shortcut-for-compiz-magnifier-currently-alt-
enter
It's of concern to me because rdesktop uses alt+enter as a toggle for
maximising the remote screen.
Why has it been marked as low priority? This sends a
Bryan, you asked for thoughts. Don't shoot the messenger! :)
In part my objection is that the proposed messages have not just been
dumbed down and convey less information, they're actually wrong. As you
know, CDs contain streams of bits, they don't have any inherent
"bitness". Media doesn't req
And now Ubuntu 32-bit desktop 12.04.3 is too big, at 707MiB. I could
write 12.04.2 (693MiB) to a CD, but I can't write 12.04.3. For a PC
that doesn't have a DVD reader this is a serious issue.
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@supersasho: Since it's (allegedly) trivial, how about you propose a
patch to fix it? Or find someone else to help you create such a patch?
It's open source.
Whinging that unfixed bugs are trivial isn't a great way to get
developers on your side. It just adds to the length of the activity
log, a
Doesn't work for me. Firefox 22 on Ubuntu 12.04. Completely blank area
where the video should be. Other sites work fine.
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Video on ABCN
#194 "I'm sure that if a few of us team up and make a solid effort, we
can get something done about this issue."
In your dreams, Karl. Once upon a time I believed that "Ubuntu" meant
"humanity to others" and that Shuttleworth, coming from the African
continent, would be concerned about inclusivit
Bryan, I can appreciate that you're trying to change the wording to make
it more 'friendly', but at the same time you would be obscuring where
the issue is detected. A user who is smart enough to download or
otherwise obtain a CD, perhaps even burning it from an iso, is quite a
smart user. I know
On the contrary, why isn't it a good thing having a trash folder,
instead of immediate delete? If you consider the trash folder for your
main drive is good, why not for a usb drive as well? Behaviour should
be consistent, so that's it's easier to learn, easier to predict.
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Oliver, I too am frustrated by this situation. Following your logic
though, perhaps the people you should be labelling as 'retardedly
stupid' are the guys in Intel who failed to make the chip describe its
capabilities accurately. Or IBM and the various other manufacturers who
chose to use this ch
@mtu: "This is a crazy display of arrogance and ignorance on Canonical's
part..."
You might think that. I might think that. And certainly I think this
has the potential to affect many disadvantaged people around the world,
trying to reuse old but serviceable hardware.
But 'mtu', look at the num
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@MNLipp, I completely sympathise with your view. I even know of FOUR of
my acquaintances that have run into this problem, using non-PAE
machines. If I know of four, how many zillions are there out there
who'
Ephraim wrote: "12.10 Beta2 - Myunity depends on gambas2, but Beta2
includes only gambas3 :( what now?"
Perhaps it's time to convert MyUnity to Python? Gambas runs faster than
Python, but speed doesn't matter for a config tool and it seems as
though Gambas will always be a second class citi
David, for the avoidance of doubt, the way you propose Firefox should
work is indeed the way it used to work and the way it still does work if
you get rid of Unity. See my bug report bug #1004994, submitted in May
(when I was unaware of your bug report), which today has been marked as
a duplicate
I hope the developers won't slap me, but out of curiosity I tried fetching the
source with
apt-get source myunity
cd /myunity-3.1.3
and replaced the code in #5 above with:
IF Uversion <> "11.04" AND Uversion <> "11.10" AND Uversion <> "12.04" THEN
IF Uversion = "12.10" THEN
FMessage.S
To the average person, 'warning' means they need to be cautious and
check something, but this message doesn't give any indication of how to
do that.
Saying "this isn't a bug" is the same as saying one has no
understanding of how inexperienced users in the real world interpret
warning messages. I
In 3.1.3 Main.module, one of the first actions is:
IF Uversion <> "11.04" AND Uversion <> "11.10" AND Uversion <> "12.04" THEN
FMessage.SimpleMessage("Ubuntu " & Uversion & "\n" & ("Sorry, Ubuntu
release not supported."), "MyLogo_small.png", "dialog-error.png", "Close")
QUIT
ENDIF
Thanks Chris, but I fear that just marking this 'needs-reassignment'
will condemn it to languishing for years.
We agree this is not a Firefox bug, Firefox works fine without
globalmenu-extension.
As I understand it, you've provided globalmenu-extension to satisfy
requirements given by the Unity d
I've now checked on 12.04 and there I disable "Global Menu Bar
integration 3.2.3" add-on. It restores the functionality.
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Firefox sub-men
I've found that in 12.10 Alpha1 I can restore the correct operation by
disabling "Global Menu Bar integration 3.2.4pre" add-on (which I never
installed, so presumably came as part of 12.04). I don't know whether
I'm losing something else as a result of disabling this add-on, but
everything seems t
This is still happening on 12.04. E.g. bug #989104
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I've just run into this, trying to go from 12.04 to development version
of 12.10. This looks rather similar to bug #763766.
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WARNING: Fail
I've checked that it exists on Unity 3D and 2D. I've also installed
xubuntu-desktop and logged into Xubuntu session. Xubuntu appears to be
using the same Firefox (same content in About box) but here Firefox
works fine.
So I don't think the Bug Bot is correct to change 'affects' to Firefox.
I've
Public bug reported:
In Firefox we're used to being able to select a menu (such as Bookmarks
or History) with alt+B/H and then type a letter that corresponds with
the start of the entry in this sub-menu. This doesn't work in Unity 3D
(I haven't checked in 2D, though I will if there's doubt about
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I've just had my second encounter in a week with a Windows user trying
out Ubuntu on an older laptop. This one was a Sony Vaio PCG-Z1RSP. I
don't know that many folk, if I meet 2 instances in a week, how many
millions are stumped by this? Workarounds, forum posts, unofficial CD
images... these d
Thanks Luiz. This kind of helpful support is one of the things I love
about the Linux community. Yet I can't help thinking that another of
the things that I love about most Linux distros is the added confidence
one gets when installing software from known repositories, a big
contrast with Windows
Unless the unity-launcher-editor is invoked from the right click menu on
the icon, I don't see how this (or Ubuntu Tweak) is more than a klugey
workaround. If you really don't like calling it Properties, call it
Edit. But whatever you call it, to satisfy some questionable 'KISS'
principle, withou
Public bug reported:
Libreoffice Writer freezes when Impress add picture dialog is open. To
reproduce: boot up system (12.04, Unity 3D). Start Writer, type a few
characters to ensure it's working. Start Impress. Insert | Picture | From
File. Return to Writer, attempt to add more characters
** Summary changed:
- Don't remeber layout settings
+ Don't remember keyboard layout settings
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To
#14, @Robert. Someone who has access to private data and is
irresponsible or careless is always a danger, no more in this than any
other scenario. Obviously private attachments would need to be clearly
marked as private.
Why would it be confusing to have attachments marked 'private'? Private
me
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Ubuntu-bug -w produces "xprop failed to determine process ID of the
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I'm trying to report a problem in PySol, so I run 'ubuntu-bug -w' and
click on the window of the application. Every time I do this,
regardless of where in its window I click, I get "xprop failed to
determine process ID of the window". I'm doing this in 12.04 beta2
daily buil
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Terminal menu view|zoom in/out shows ctrl++/- shortcut but numeric
keypad doesn't implement
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The menu for the terminal shows View|Zoom In and Out, with shortcuts
ctrl++ and ctrl+-. Using the numeric keypad for this doesn't work.
This is especially irritating for ctrl++, since on many keyboards this
requires a shift as well. Besides which, typical users are familiar
Using daily build 2012-04-07, i386, booted, did nothing on the desktop,
happened perhaps a minute later.
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colord crashed with SIGSEGV in db
I've just hit this same problem on submitting bug #975939.
There seems to be an assumption that a crash dump always contains data
that must be kept private. That isn't always true. If I'm testing a
beta and doing it on a scratch pc, even my login info is fake and would
not be a security risk if
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"duplicate of bug #954736"? But the link to that bug says "cannot be
found", so how do I verify if it really is a duplicate?
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Reproduced without doing anything with the welcome slideshow, and
without using Firefox. Same symptoms, syslog again indicates a problem
with flash plugin installer, so my "noteworthy" comment in the
description should be ignored.
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Crash during installation
To ma
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Using daily build (6 apr 2012) on a new pc, no previous installation.
Copying files had probably completed. Syslog indicates a problem with
flash plugin installer. Perhaps noteworthy that I had earlier clicked
on the scrolling twitter-feed in the welcome slides and as a resu
@Erick
I understand and I thoroughly agree about gratitude to Colin. I hope my
comments aren't going to be taken in any negative way, they're definitely not
offered in that spirit. It's just that I know how easy it is for people busy
at the coal face to be unaware of what a mountain Joe Public
@ Greg Faith, #55
Yours is a thought, and it's a helpful thought, but it's a thought directed at
helping someone who knows what they're doing and is looking for a workaround.
Ubuntu aims at inclusivity, geeks who know where to find answers can use
workarounds, but for every geek there are many
Erick, I agree David has done a great job, but does it really provide a
decent workaround for the real world? In the real world 99 out of 100
people trying out Linux (often people who are doing so because a
proprietary OS has become too slow and bloated, so they've been
encouraged to give Linux a
Further info. A friend has tried to repro this, as follows:
> I created 70K files in a directory and gedit opens normally on Mint. The
> file system is ext4. If I try and browse the files in "File->Open" or in
> the "File Browser" in the side panel it takes it's time to populate the
> browser, but
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gedit
Gedit takes forever (many minutes) to start up if there are a lot of
files in the same directory. It also takes a similar time to exit.
I had about 70,000 small text files (each around 1K) in a directory.
Double clicking on one in Nautilus resulte
I have been sent a .kdb file and so I have just installed Keepass(x) on Ubuntu
(Gnome) 10.10 and
am having the same problem. I have a USA keyboard driver. I have used Keepass
in the past
(when I used to use Kubuntu) so I don't think it's due to unfamiliarity with
the program.
Please note, Far
This is an important issue for me, it caused me to stop recommending
10.10 to inexperienced students. I'm sorry I've not found the time to
test some alphas.
So my comment may not be correct, but the feeling I'm getting is that
there's unwise effort being put in to make the installer too "smart".
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