Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Dale Amon
I've made enough progress to get work done but there are still things I don't like much as well as things that don't work. * I have not yet found which settings panel has the screensaver setup to make it run the slideshow over ~/Pictures. I would swear that this used to be part of the lock

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Sonntag, den 01.06.2014, 23:49 -0700 schrieb Dale Amon: I've made enough progress to get work done but there are still things I don't like much as well as things that don't work. you have not told us from where to where and how you upgraded ... also what desktop you are running ...

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 June 2014 10:05, Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com wrote: hi, Am Sonntag, den 01.06.2014, 23:49 -0700 schrieb Dale Amon: I've made enough progress to get work done but there are still things I don't like much as well as things that don't work. you have not told us from where to where and

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:47:20AM +0100, Colin Law wrote: In his last post, in a throw away line he asked Is there some simple change to make my gnome mate setup work properly again?. Why he did not point this out at the start, given that most of his problems seem to be UI related I can

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Dale Amon
Here's another on my list of issues. xemacs now gives this error on startup. (1) (xim-xlib/warning) Warning: XCreateIC failed. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
You would make this easier for yourself and all of us if you start with a few basic bits of information: Which Ubuntu version did you use before the upgrade? What did you upgrade to? How did you do the upgrade? Which desktop did you use? I note you mention Mate which I don't know much

Pre-upgrade warnings and advice?

2014-06-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
Ubuntu support for upgrades naturally depends on exactly what is being upgraded. Use of software from outside the official Ubuntu repositories (PPA repositories or .deb files or tar.gz packages or the like) means upgrades may be more complicated for the user. Is there anything in the official

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:32:48PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: You would make this easier for yourself and all of us if you start with a few basic bits of information: Which Ubuntu version did you use before the upgrade? Saucy. What did you upgrade to? Trusty. How

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Neal McBurnett
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:18:52PM -0700, Dale Amon wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:59:23PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: The appropriate way to deal with clear bugs is to report them in launchpad, along with the necessary details like steps to reproduce, kind of hardware, etc. Do you

Re: Pre-upgrade warnings and advice?

2014-06-02 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 02/06/2014 21:49, Neal McBurnett wrote: Ubuntu support for upgrades naturally depends on exactly what is being upgraded. Use of software from outside the official Ubuntu repositories (PPA repositories or .deb files or tar.gz packages or the like) means upgrades may be more complicated