Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-09-02 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/08/15 21:49, Barry Drake wrote: However (thankfully!) the bug I reported is still there. Newbie maybe, but not the same amount of egg-on-face. Thank you Colin. Just a final update on this problem. I've posted the below on the bug report. I think it explains where I am at: "End of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/08/15 17:46, Colin Law wrote: That's what is confusing me too. I don't see how there can be any accounts unless they have been added by the user. I see none with Wily. I've been trying to take a screenshot, but the window I want to capture has to be in focus, and without the dash, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/08/15 21:15, Colin Law wrote: Make sure you use dist-upgrade not upgrade, or if you are using apt rather than apt-get then sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade Thanks Colin I feel like the ultimate newbie now. I'd never heard of 'dist-upgrade'. It produced many upgrades

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/08/15 20:29, Alan Pope wrote: Thanks Al. That's shown me how badly broken my system now is! Alt-F give me the broken dash. I haven't re-assigned any quick keys on this system, so I decided to check. Alt f2, not alt f. Sorry - my typo. Alt f1 gives the launcher, Alt f2 gives

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/08/15 18:45, Alan Pope wrote: Alt-F2, gnome-screenshot, set Grab after a delay of to some value, then click Take screenshot and make sure you have the dash or whatever you want to screenshot out when the countdown finishes. Thanks Al. That's shown me how badly broken my system now

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Alan Pope
On 30 Aug 2015 7:36 pm, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 30/08/15 18:45, Alan Pope wrote: Alt-F2, gnome-screenshot, set Grab after a delay of to some value, then click Take screenshot and make sure you have the dash or whatever you want to screenshot out when the countdown

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Bill B.
On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 17:07 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: On 30/08/15 17:01, Colin Law wrote: How did you remove them? In the Online Accounts settings window, on the Google account settings, each of these accounts shows an 'on/off' switch. I turned all of them off to block access. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/08/15 15:14, Colin Law wrote: You say in the bug [1] that you removed interaction with all Google accounts (settings-online accounts) but I don't understand exactly what you mean by that. In the Online Account settings, it lists access by Ubuntu to the following Google online accounts

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/08/15 17:01, Colin Law wrote: How did you remove them? In the Online Accounts settings window, on the Google account settings, each of these accounts shows an 'on/off' switch. I turned all of them off to block access. I didn't remove any software, or alter any other parameters.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 29/08/15 14:20, Colin Law wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1320539 (Dash search of applications is randomly disabled when online searches have been turned off) Hi there I've reported it as: Ubuntu bug# 1490277 If any of you feel like repeating it in in your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-30 Thread Colin Law
On 30 August 2015 at 17:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 30/08/15 17:01, Colin Law wrote: How did you remove them? In the Online Accounts settings window, on the Google account settings, each of these accounts shows an 'on/off' switch. I turned all of them off to block

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-29 Thread Barry Drake
On 29/08/15 11:25, Alan Pope wrote: Do you mean the launcher on the left is gone, or it is there but empty, or it's there and you can open the dash (with the windows key) but no apps appear? Hi Alan. Thanks for your quick response. The launcher hasn't changed. The dash appears as normal,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-29 Thread Colin Law
On 29 August 2015 at 12:25, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 29/08/15 11:25, Alan Pope wrote: Do you mean the launcher on the left is gone, or it is there but empty, or it's there and you can open the dash (with the windows key) but no apps appear? Hi Alan. Thanks for your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-29 Thread Barry Drake
Hi Colin Thanks for your reply which seems to have disappeared! No, the online search is not disabled - but I think I had it disabled when I was trying to avoid google interference. Re-enabling everything did not cure the problem. Kind regards, Barry. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29 August 2015 at 10:40, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there The dash on my 15.10 desktop 64 bit installation won't show any applications. I don't understand what you mean here. Do you mean the launcher on the left is gone, or it is there but empty, or it's there

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 15.10 Wily - Dash problem

2015-08-29 Thread Colin Law
On 29 August 2015 at 14:06, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi Colin Thanks for your reply which seems to have disappeared! No, the online search is not disabled - but I think I had it disabled when I was trying to avoid google interference. Re-enabling everything did not