eems to install and run fine but when I
click on an icon, instead of running the program it thinks you want to
move it.
Is this something you're aware of and/or do you know if/when a fix
might be forthcoming?
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I am unable to update mysql-client. Here's what I get:
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Get:1 http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu focal InRelease [12.9 kB]
Err:1 http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu focal InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is
not available
ite long for each boot (Pressing Ctrl-C does nothing).
>
Do you have a bug tracking the fact that CTRL+C doesn't work?
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Hello,
I would like to request a feature to add programs to start up on login
by using the launcher and right click -> run on login.
Extracting the command to run the program is not straight forward from
programs installed via the app store.
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a left super
key, only a right one. I found in Gnome Tweak Tool the option to have
either the left or the right super key open the overview.
Can we have the option to have either?
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ere's a company called Kingspec who sell new PATA
SSDs, still.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingspec-128GB-Solid-Notebook-Laptop/dp/B00HWOYY72
Good for bringing a speed boost, and life to older computers. I know a
few people who use them, and swear by them.
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Can
st as long
as editing the page and causes more work for numerous people.
Just join the team on launchpad, logout and back into the wiki and
then edits can be made.
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t a perfect solution. It's now harder for people to
do drive by edits, and we (admins) are getting numerous spurious
requests to join the team every day and have that extra workload to
deal with.
We're also investigating other options of course.
Thanks for alerting us to the omission. That
reason to make it extra hard to help?
>
Blame spammers completely covering the wiki with dodgy links. We had
to do something and this was the least worst option, sorry.
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Hi,
On 21 August 2015 at 14:01, Dimitri John Ledkov x...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On 21 August 2015 at 13:53, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote:
On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and
supporting
On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and
supporting it a while back. As far as I know it's a dead-end now.
We didn't stop shipping it. I just downloaded the 15.04 desktop iso.
alan@deep-thought
. This doesn't seem to have happened. If we don't plan
on fixing these (new user) facing issues, is it time to retire wubi
from the images?
Cheers,
Al.
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1471344
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various other samba packages including
libsmbclient but I get the same issue every time.
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Google is your friend. :)
http://askubuntu.com/questions/610640/where-are-sms-and-mms-stored
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From: mapr...@ubuntu.com
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:10:52 +0100
Subject: Re: apt and pdiff files
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Dan Chen email address hidden wrote:
cf. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel/28674
thanks, didn't
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:22:28 -0700
From: hol...@cox.net
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 07:33:23PM +, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote:
Thereby removing one more user choice. Choice is one of the bedrocks
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:29:04 -0400
From: brettcornw...@lavabit.com
To: dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com; ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?
On 04/09/2013 08:21 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
snip
Maybe I was not very explicit - all console
Thereby removing one more user choice. Choice is one of the bedrocks of
linux. Thanks guys. That's one of the main reasons I dumped ubuntu and
went to debian.
Have aptitude is a plus, you don't remove any choice:
if you want, do:sudo apt-get install aptitudeThe thing I hate is the proxy
In this page you can get all version (32 and 64 bits)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/quantal/alpha-2/
I have 12.10 and works really good!
Regards!
Alan
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 20:16:18 +0200
From: johans...@telkomsa.net
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal
All these bugs describe the same problem: Max Brightness at boot. There are
a lot of people with this problem.
How bad is that? I have problem in my Acer with no brightness: I fixed that
with a parameterin the grub.. My problem meant that I cannot use it.. Your
problem is trivial
That's quite nice, I haven't seen that turtle interpreter before!
Unfortunately it's past feature freeze and at less than one week from
release, it's unlikely that we'll get a feature freeze exception for that.
However, if you file a bug at Launchpad.net
Hi,
I try to install the TurtleArt in Synaptic and only have the version 98..I have
the latest sources (of precise pnagolin)...The latest Turtle are 138!
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4027
Someone can update it?
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and taking ages to load avatars:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES6c1vub9Y
Both of these just recorded on a core i7 / 8GB with not a lot going on.
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On 21 April 2011 16:14, Allison Randal alli...@canonical.com wrote:
- Only ship a very small shim for the client on the CD (advantage of
small footprint), and do the rest of the install the first time someone
uses Ubuntu One.
This is what dropbox does albeit a download and not on CD, and it
On 8 April 2011 18:38, Patrick Goetz pgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
I'm assuming most developers and power users use point to focus, as
we do. Having the menu in the taskbar creates a unique problem for point to
focus users;
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/674138
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On 9 June 2010 17:57, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Of course it is! At least according to our
philosophy: http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy
Still, many people don't think that Ubuntu is truly committed to free
software in practice.
On 24 March 2010 14:10, Phillip Susi ps...@cfl.rr.com wrote:
On 3/24/2010 9:54 AM, Evan wrote:
Why? I'm sure there are reasons, but my initial reaction is that any
computer which can easily be stolen (ie laptop/netbook) should
NEVER have auto-login enabled.
Why? Given physical access to the
On 19 March 2010 12:55, Rene Veerman rene7...@gmail.com wrote:
by the looks of it i can't even delete 'm from launchpad.. :S
You can. On the right hand side see Bug attachments. Click 'edit'
next to the one you want to delete then click Delete attachment
button.
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On 7 March 2010 19:47, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote:
Of course. It would be silly not to reuse what we already have available
and of course just as silly to not position it with other things in
mind.
Have you looked at OpenERP?
It exists already, is written in python, is in the
Hi Timo,
On 7 February 2010 14:16, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote:
a) Is anyone aware of some earlier discussions on the topic wrt Ubuntu
and b) Would everyone agree that it would make a lot of sense?
Perhaps if some of the more irritating bugs in usb_modeswitch and
network_manager
2010/1/25 Amahdy mrjava.java...@gmail.com:
Here is the middle of thing, have the splash splitted out into two parts,
the upper is the graphical splash and the lower part is the traditional
text-boot with [green(OK)] or [red(fail)]
Even maybe with a scrollbar to scroll through the log if
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:16:07PM -0800, Shentino wrote:
Just curious, would adding a support ticket system of some sort help?
Not sure about the nitty gritties of how they work under the hood but it's
a common support feature I've observed in other systems both amateur and
I always use the advanced options in the installer to install grub to the root
partition of the distro I'm installing. Since I'm dual booting with windows, I
then use grub4dos to boot into linux. This gives me a quick and easy method to
restore the ability to boot linux after a Windows
2009/10/13 George Farris farr...@cc.mala.bc.ca:
No that turns on icons for everything. I'm saying that Applications and
Places have icons but System doesn't and that looks unfinished and not
consistent. A paper cut if you will.
Indeed, I have thought for a while that there was going to be
2009/10/7 Przemysław Kulczycki przemekkulczy...@gmail.com:
Hi devs.
I'd like to point your attention to a bug which might be frequently
noticed after Karmic is released:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/438136
Sorry, I thought it might be a dupe of
2009/9/15 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de:
It's a pretty generic Dell with a Core 2 Duo, intended to run desktop-
amd64. Any idea on how to get back on track?
Go to bed and test some more tomorrow. There's been some fairly major
changes in the boot process, including stuff like dbus and gdm
2009/8/27 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com:
2009/8/27 Jonathan Taylor gring...@gmail.com:
I have tried Ubuntu several time over the past 5 years. I usually get so
frustrated that I go back to Windows XP. This week, I installed Ubuntu 9.04
on my Laptop. I spent yesterday trying to install
2009/8/26 Mat Tomaszewski mat.tomaszew...@canonical.com:
- Ubuntu documentation (help.ubuntu.com) – very information-rich
resource but very beginner-unfriendly (lots of technical jargon)
- Forums – lots of information noise, very difficult to locate the right
thread (or even find out where to
2009/7/27 Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com:
Wouldn't it make sense to rather try contacting the maintainer or the
ubuntu mozilla team about the issue or to open a bug on launchpad so you
can get a reply from the people doing the changes?
..or read his blog post about it :)
Hi Sense,
2009/6/22 Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl:
2) I mentioned removing Mono from the LiveCD because when F-Spot is
gone, just one Mono application remains on the LiveCD: Tomboy. Tomboy
is something that's definitely worth including on the LiveCD. However,
this single program does require
to it, in the sense that it seems to me the program is doing
something I didn't ask for (pictures take lot of space).
In F-spot the import dialog has a check box Copy files to the Photos
folder which you can turn off to prevent that behaviour.
http://popey.com/~alan/Screenshot-Import.png
Cheers,
Al
2009/6/17 Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com:
Let's all refrain from a mono flamewar.
2009/6/19 Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com:
And sadly, Banshee (mono) may soon be replacing Rhythmbox in Ubuntu
Lets not go down that road huh?
Al.
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2009/4/26 Jan Claeys li...@janc.be:
Op vrijdag 24-04-2009 om 09:08 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Danny
Piccirillo:
Alright, i'll bottom-post for you =]
Now also try to snip away irrelevant text from what you quote. ;-)
That makes it much faster to read mail!
It's also faster (and
2009/4/22 Vincenzo Ciancia cian...@di.unipi.it:
Il giorno mer, 22/04/2009 alle 15.19 +0100, richard ha scritto:
richar...@richard-g8jvm:~/eagle-5.5.0/bin$ ldd ./eagle
not a dynamic executable
The output from file eagle?
Assuming it's eagle the circuit board design software, then
2009/4/1 richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk:
Is this a known bug or do I file a new bug report ?
Tip: Read the release notes at
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta specifically
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta#Known%20issues
Some users of Intel i8x5
2009/3/18 Alexander Sack a...@ubuntu.com:
Is there any reason why we don't overlay /home? Just so that you can
test upgrade for existing configs?
That would fail for users who make one-time changes to their data. For
example users who download their mail via pop. If they upgrade using
aufs and
2009/2/15 Mike Jones eternal...@gmail.com:
Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never heard
this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by trade, with
better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and such, so I am a
bit thrown off.
It's the
2009/2/15 Alex Cockell alcock...@eclipse.co.uk:
Umm -please forgive me, but you mention that removing the
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace three-key-salute was proposed for removal two years
ago... Has this been made absolutely clear to preinstall manufacturers
in time for them to print new manuals?
This
2009/1/7 Richard Tattersall tatter_s...@msn.com:
CLI is also useful for support/guides, because rather than lots of click
here, then here, then here all you need is to copy and paste commands in a
terminal.
I suspect this is where many of our new users are introduced to the
command line. We
2009/1/7 Remco remc...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
It is. Maybe we should go through the wiki doing a global replace of
apt-get install with click apt:// :) (note for the humour
impaired, this is not a serious suggestion, but you get the idea
Hi Francesco,
2008/11/30 Francesco Fumanti [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Could anybody please tell me when the updates of Ubuntu 8.10 will be
released?
What makes you think 8.10 _will_ have a respin/update to the ISO?
As far as I can see only LTS (Long Term Support) releases (6.06 and
8.04 so far) have
2008/11/21 Terry Sikes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I did run across the idea of apt repositories on DVD, is anyone aware of
such .iso files for developer tools (8.04 compatible)? It'd be great to just
use Synaptic with a DVD.
Repo on a usb disk/stick? That way you can take it to another machine
to
2008/11/9 Dean Loros [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Where is the white-list located? I have several extra programs
installed would like to verify that this part works...you can respond
here, PM me thru ubuntuforums or contact me at autocrosser1 at gmail.com
See the bug report listed in the first mail.
2008/11/3 James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Perhaps we need some sort of tool installed by default that removes
packages that are no longer needed, and may be considered cruft :-)
I'd agree the word cruft is unsuitable given the fact that it's a geek phrase.
By way of an unscientific test I
2008/11/3 Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
To add my own $ o.o2, I'd very much like to see a tool or Synaptic
feature which tells me about the differences between a standard
install and the current set of installed packages. One can purge
package by package until {Synaptic, apt-get,...} wants
this firm to explain exactly what they are hoping to achieve.
ii) Talk to whoever pays the bills and ensure they don't get paid for
producing this nonsense.
HTH
Alan
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this feature off but by default you should not
be allowed to create files which cause such a problem.
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their toe in the water through
things like dual booting etc.
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wondering if it'd be
worth trying to get more slots as part of the google SoC aswell.
That'd definitely help draw in new people.
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as to warrant it being reviewed
with the aim to replace transmission. After all, there's nothing better for
development than competition. If someone is about to usurp your position,
that's a great incentive to make your application better. And it's a great
drive to improve your application.
Thanks,
Alan
Hi Martin,
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:44 -0700, Martin Olsson wrote:
I noticed that trackerd is running by default in Gutsy Tribe 5. Is this
information sent to Canonical?
trackerd is a daemon that indexes your files so that the tracker applet
can find content for you on your computer quickly.
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