Public bug reported:
As a developer I'm not very satisfied with the current behavior of
apport. After an abort trap in an application in development (a Scheme
kernel with reference counting) apport silently brings the machine down
trying to "analyze" my software in development (you can be glad
Public bug reported:
The command line utility stty from the package coreutils forgets to
turn on local echo in cooked mode. That mode doesn't make much sense for
most of *NIX land without the local echo and especially the Bourne Again
SHell is not able to reset a terminal device to a sane
(define (convert-csi-input port)
(let ((char (read-char port)))
(case char
((#\A) 'up)
((#\B) 'down)
((#\C) 'right)
((#\D) 'left)
((#\H) 'home)
((#\F) 'end)
((#\1) (if (eat!-char? #\~ port) 'home #f)) ; vt220 find / linux home
((#\2) (if
Public bug reported:
Part of my current project involves descrambling the escape sequences
sent by terminals for certain keys. As I was not able to find any
documentation for the Linux VT (called tty) I choose to reference the
VT100/220 documentation and I consider the following behavior a bug.
I never meant to file this bug against emacs24.
With alt-F2 I still see the command ubuntu-bug linux in the HUD.
On the bug website it then showed me Emacs24 - I then explicitly changed
it linux.
This bug report is to be filed against the linux package but after that
story I don't know how to
Public bug reported:
Since Emacs22 and for all of Emacs23 I'm used to do the following
sometimes to copy one part of a file to another:
- move the cursor to the starting position and press ctrl-space to set point
- scroll down with the scroll bar
- click on the end position
- m-x copy-regTAB OR
Public bug reported:
I prefer clicking to touching and I turn the touch pad tap feature off.
But the /dash/ still reacts to multitouch taps.
How to reproduce:
1) Turn off the option Tap to Click in System Settings - Mouse and
Touchpad (while we're already here: something completely unrelated:
Public bug reported:
Some puritans commented the FUN part of the makefile of secure-delete.
See yourself:
--- secure-delete-3.1.orig/Makefile
+++ secure-delete-3.1/Makefile
-all: sdel-lib.o srm sfill sswap smem sdel-mod.o
- @echo
- @echo A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid
Instead of filing an new bug report I found this one.
Firefox and Thunderbird default to a font size of 16. They don't tell
me that it's sixteen points (as in typographic points pt as 1/64 inch).
But if it were 16pt it would be the size of a headline and the messages
do appear like that.
Now my
Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) wrote 40 minutes ago: #3
Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel?
I'm sorry but I am not able to test any snapshot builds, upgrades or
else. I've got a fixed time frame to get the machine up and running, do
some testing, configuration,
Public bug reported:
Today I downloaded the sources of secure delete. Inspected some files
with vi and some with Emacs 24. Did what I wanted to do, started to
listen to my favourite internet radio station, wanted to cite on
Facebook a citation from the secure delete docs.
I wanted to open the
Public bug reported:
I like to keep some application starters in a folder ~/Applications
because I need them once or twice a year but I am glad when I do not
need to see them at all. One example is OpenOffice.org but that is a
custom install - let's have a look at Inkscape.
First of all there
Public bug reported:
I tried an installation with the ext4 file system on the system partition.
Sometimes - once a day or every two days - I had what I call a disk operation
storm: a lot of disk activity on the physical hard disk, unresponsive mouse
cursor, bad performance for some seconds.
Imagination is everything! The RGBA patch didn't seem to change anything
- no matter what (with Xrdb, fonts.conf) font rendering always stays on
rgb.
The radiance problem was text shadows. Please see attached screenshot of
screenshots: it's color enhanced. The upper part is a menu bar item with
Found it. Solved it.
Just apply the patch to /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.
It somehow works instantly, i.e. it changes the appearance of the menu
bar instantly. Don't know why ...
Caveats:
1) It's still called Radiance and not Bright.
2) One might still perceive some kind of
Public bug reported:
This bug has been there for at least three years.
The font anti aliasing in the menu bar is completely off when the user
chooses the Radiance theme. The attached screen shot shows a Firefox
menu on top of an Emacs session. You see the unity menu bar at the top
with the
Regarding the EFI variables (default boot entry chime volume) I found
the following situation:
- the kernel from live / installation dvd / iso does really contain the
screwed up efi module configuration: there doesn't seem to be any way to
access the firmware from within the live system
- the
Public bug reported:
Please make Ubuntu Install default to using sane EFI compatible
partitioning scheme and boot loader installation.
Full Install
Partition Table: GPT
First Partition: Boot / ESP Label: EFI (VFAT/FAT32 with GPT boot flag enabled -
see Mange Flags in gparted)
On my Mac which
On 13/06/2015 18:50, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
Michael Titke, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu
better. Just to clarify, are you able to take your MacBook4,1 when it
had OSX on it, download a Ubuntu live environment, and install without
any manual modifications
On 13/06/2015 22:06, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
Michael Titke:
- It's referred as a MacBook4,2...
Not according to your bug description.
True. It really says 4,1
Despite this, just to clarify, when I say install successfully I mean it
installs, one reboots at the end of the install
Public bug reported:
I do not know how to reproduce the behavior: after I dragdrop operation
I ended up with what you can see in the attached file: there is a
tainted yellowish rectangle at the top of the mail window and is has a
trace down to the bottom left corner. There is another but weaker
Public bug reported:
I usually connect my smartphone to my Mac via USB.
Some years ago I discovered (still on Mac OS X) that in addition to the usual
dial-up connection of my smartphone attached to my Mac there was a WAN
connection on the same device with an IP-adress. I sent a ping on it but
Public bug reported:
I have written a Patience Solitaire game called Open Flowers with Racket
6.1. Running in the Ubuntu GUI it sometimes does not react to keyboard
shortcuts as defined in it's menu: the first keyboard shortcut is
delivered and handled. The following keyboard shortcut is not seen
KSM
As someone who has just changed from Mac OS X to Ubuntu I want to add two or
three words to this issue. First of all Mac OS X gets it right in a lot of
places and each modifier key has its own domain:
- ctrl: Controls the cursor movements in text fields (ctrl-a: beginning of
line, ctrl-e
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