[Bug 1751175] [NEW] Rhythmbox does not save metadata for FLAC files

2018-02-22 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: Since upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10, Rhythmbox does not record the metadata entered in the "Extract" interface when converting CDs to FLAC files. (I have not checked to see if the same is true with mp3.) Expected behaviour: I load a CD, and Rhythmbox loads the metadata for the

[Bug 1245064] Re: Keyboard Layout Options window is missed in gnome-control-center keyboard

2014-01-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Doing a Google search on this issue led me to this report, as well as the following blog post: http://www.humans-enabled.com/2013/10/ubuntu-1310-enable-controlaltbackspace.html The author points out that it's possible to access all of these options from a terminal. (Although it would be nice it

[Bug 1095962] Re: Empathy GUI does not start

2013-05-11 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I'm also seeing this. I've always used empathy -h in my startup applications so I'd be signed in in the background - I'd forget to sign in otherwise, but I also didn't want it popping up every time I signed in. In the past it would sign you in and then you could get the contacts list to pop up by

[Bug 984141] Re: Status menu not readable using Radiance theme

2012-04-21 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
As it turns out, I can add a screenshot after all, as the issue has resurfaced. I have no idea what is causing this however, because at other times the background is white and I can read it perfectly fine - and I've made no settings changes. ** Attachment added: Screenshot from 2012-04-21

[Bug 984141] Re: Status menu not readable using Radiance theme

2012-04-19 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Hmm... apparently not. After the latest series of updates the background for the status menu is a light grey, almost white, with dark text. Must have been a temporary issue. I'm marking it as invalid since I can't reproduce the issue as of today. ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: New

[Bug 984141] [NEW] Status menu not readable using Radiance theme

2012-04-17 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: The drop-down status menu in Empathy (online, away, etc.) is currently being displayed with grey text on a slightly darker grey background, making it impossible to read. If you mouse-over a particular status the text changes to white and it becomes readable, but the menu as a

[Bug 984141] Re: Status menu not readable using Radiance theme

2012-04-17 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
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[Bug 864661] Re: Remove empathy notification icon redundancy in Ubuntu 11.10

2011-12-15 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
No, the issue is that Empathy notifications are now built into the indicator-applet (the envelope icon), but if you allow 'all' in the system tray, you get an additional panel icon for Empathy, the legacy icon that existed prior to Ubuntu's new notification system. I'm no longer dealing with

[Bug 844385] Re: Display problems for gnome-sudoku in every theme installed by default

2011-10-21 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Andries: For the suggestions you're asking for it's more appropriate to use either the Ubuntu forums (ubuntuforums.org) or Ask Ubuntu (askubuntu.com) - Launchpad is more for reporting bug info to the developers. You won't be the first person with questions about things like disk layout, so

[Bug 844385] Re: Display problems for gnome-sudoku in every theme installed by default

2011-10-20 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
No programming needed. Open up the Update Manager, and click on the Settings... button bottom left; this opens up the Software Sources window. Click on the Updates tab, and then check off the box next to where it says Pre-released updates (oneiric-proposed). Close the software sources window,

[Bug 844385] Re: Display problems for gnome-sudoku in every theme installed by default

2011-10-19 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Hi Martin, Immediate feedback is: huge improvement! The game is now playable. I don't have time to do a full test now but first impressions are good, and I'll add further comments once I get a chance to test further. FWIW, I think it's great that I can post a design complaint about a

[Bug 844385] Re: Display problems for gnome-sudoku in every theme installed by default

2011-10-19 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
It's been fixed in the latest version - follow Martin's instructions in #5 and you'll be up and running. (Just enable oneiric-proposed, reload, and update.) The borders are now there. The interface for entering notes is not as nice as it used to be (it no longer fits in the square) but it works

[Bug 844385] Re: Display problems for gnome-sudoku in every theme installed by default

2011-10-17 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I assume there was a redesign for the move from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 - but it certainly does not seem well thought-out. I suppose the workaround is to install one of the many other sudoku games available in the Ubuntu repositories! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 838404] Re: opening existing file with gksu gedit creates untitled document

2011-10-09 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I see. So does that make the official GNOME position editing system files should be done with nano or similar or system files? why would a user want to edit a system file? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in

[Bug 864661] Re: Remove empathy notification icon redundancy in Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-04 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I am also seeing the old legacy notification icon for Empathy, and can find nowhere in the settings to remove it. Of course, you can get rid of the old icon by removing empathy from the systray whitelist using dconf-editor. But for me it's easiest to set that to 'all' because I have a few

[Bug 860485] Re: bad default setting: suspend after 30min when plugged in

2011-10-03 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I'm getting the suspend issue as well, in spite of setting things to don't suspend - surprisingly, it suspended even while playing music - I'd set a playlist to listen to while doing some work away from the computer, and had things come to a halt after 30 minutes. Everything is up to date on

[Bug 844385] Re: border for 3x3 squares not visible in most standard themes

2011-09-27 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I should add that this game does not display properly in every theme available on a standard Ubuntu install. In some cases the lines and borders do not show up; in one theme numbers that are entered are drawn in white on a white background, in another, numbers in the highlighted square are not

[Bug 828932] Re: can't focus Contact List while a conversation window is open

2011-09-15 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I should add that this remains a problem in the latest version of Unity in 11.10. The general bug summary is the following: 1. There are never problems if the Unity launcher is used to select a window - this always results in proper window focus. 2. To reproduce the bug (it doesn't happen 100%

[Bug 626016] Re: Swell Foop game does not work

2011-09-10 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
The patch wasn't mine! I think it came from upstream and was posted here by Jonathan. Although, this may all be moot, since in 11.10 testing it looks like both swell-foop and lightsoff have been pulled from the gnome-games package - in fact they're gone from the repositories altogether. So

[Bug 844385] [NEW] border for 3x3 squares not visible in most standard themes

2011-09-07 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: This is not so much a bug as a design problem in the latest version of gnome-sudoku, but it leads to serious playability issues. Since 3x3 squares are relevant to game play, there is typically a darker border around those squares as compared to the individual squares. The

[Bug 844385] Re: border for 3x3 squares not visible in most standard themes

2011-09-07 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-games in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/844385 Title: border for 3x3 squares not visible in most standard themes To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 838404] [NEW] opening existing file with gksu gedit creates untitled document

2011-08-31 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: When opening a text file as super user, using gksu gedit , the requested file opens, along with a second, untitled document. This is slightly annoying, since gedit will ask if the untitled document should be saved once the desired file has been edited and gedit is

[Bug 838404] Re: opening existing file with gksu gedit creates untitled document

2011-08-31 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/838404 Title: opening existing file with gksu gedit creates untitled document To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 828932] Re: can't focus Contact List while a conversation window is open

2011-08-18 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828932 Title: can't focus Contact List while a conversation window is open To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 828932] [NEW] can't focus Contact List while a conversation window is open

2011-08-18 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: If I have a conversation window open in Empathy, it is not possible to get the contact list back in focus - even if I move the contact list to another workspace. If I try to use Alt-Tab instead of the mouse, the contact list does not even show up as a selection choice. I

[Bug 828932] Re: can't focus Contact List while a conversation window is open

2011-08-18 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Correction: this seems to be a Unity bug - similar to how you don't get proper focus in Firefox if you use the keyboard to change workspaces instead of choosing the program from the launcher. So, to reproduce you have to open Empathy and a conversation window, go back to another workspace (eg to

[Bug 822371] [NEW] Lightsoff does not display properly with ATI graphics

2011-08-07 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: This game works perfectly on my ASUS netbook, but is a mess on my desktop, which has an ATI graphics card (fglrx driver). When first opened, I usually can't make out the game board. (The appearance is different each time). If I open the preferences, and check - and then

[Bug 822371] Re: Lightsoff does not display properly with ATI graphics

2011-08-07 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-games in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/822371 Title: Lightsoff does not display properly with ATI graphics To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 778247] [NEW] monitor shutdown causes GPU hang

2011-05-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager I'm filing this under gnome-power-manager since the problem occurs when it attempts to put the monitor to sleep (but it might be an Xorg problem). Problem: occasionally (about one time in three) when the system powers down the

[Bug 778247] Re: monitor shutdown causes GPU hang

2011-05-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778247 Title: monitor shutdown causes GPU hang -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 778247] Re: monitor shutdown causes GPU hang

2011-05-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Here is the xsession-errors file. ** Attachment added: .xsession-errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/778247/+attachment/2115780/+files/.xsession-errors -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 631672] Re: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in xkl_process_error()

2011-04-15 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I haven't seen a crash in a long time, so I'll have to assume it's fixed! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/631672 Title: gnome-settings-daemon crashed

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work in Maverick

2011-04-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
See bug #626016 - there's a patch available; it fixes both lightsoff and swell-foop. Just follow the instructions in #12 - it takes about a minute to get up and running. (And for what it's worth, it was only fixed for Natty today.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 751783] Re: Can't select Thunderbird as Mail Reader in Preferred Applications

2011-04-07 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I can confirm that I now see Thunderbird as the default under preferred applications. Unfortunately, this doesn't change the email button on the dash - that still takes me to Evolution. However, that's a separate bug, I suppose. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 626016] Re: Swell Foop game does not work

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Arghh... I upgraded my netbook to 11.04 beta1 over the weekend and both programs simply segfault... I guess I'll check to see if there's a report open yet for 11.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-games in

[Bug 751766] Re: Games swell-foop and lightsoff both segfault in 11.04

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-games in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751766 Title: Games swell-foop and lightsoff both segfault in 11.04 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 751766] [NEW] Games swell-foop and lightsoff both segfault in 11.04

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-games I recently upgraded to the 11.04 beta on my eeePC 1005HA netbook; I decided to try the games swell-foop and lightsoff since these were inoperable in 10.10 until very recently (the programs ran but did nothing). A fix was released - the

[Bug 751783] [NEW] Can't select Thunderbird as Mail Reader in Preferred Applications

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center I'm running 11.04 Beta1, upgraded from 10.10 netbook edition. I have Thunderbird installed as my default email client. In 10.10, if I opened the Preferred Applications dialog in the Control Center, I could choose between Evolution

[Bug 751783] Re: Can't select Thunderbird as Mail Reader in Preferred Applications

2011-04-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751783 Title: Can't select Thunderbird as Mail Reader in Preferred Applications -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 626016] Re: Swell Foop game does not work

2011-03-27 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Great! That fixed it for me. I trust we'll see this working out of the box in 11.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-games in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626016 Title: Swell Foop game does not

[Bug 663794] Re: Evince thumbnailer has high CPU load

2010-12-05 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I've noticed this problem too, but can't say what the specific issue is. When it happeneds on my machine nautilus is open in a directory with 10 or more pdf files (all of which were created with pdflatex) - at some point I notice a lot of activity in the CPU monitor I have running on my bottom

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work correctly

2010-11-11 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
The problems with online games I would think are unrelated. I've found in the past (before Sun released a 64-bit java plugin) that the open source Iced Tea java plugin handles 95% of applets just fine, but there were a handful of specialised applets that wouldn't work. Check to see if you have

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work correctly

2010-10-13 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Yes, the final release is out now, and this package is still broken, along with swell-foop and gnibbles - all three regressions from 10.04 (although admittedly swell-foop was never stable and itself was a regression from the older same-gnome). Is this an upstream problem? Does anyone know if

[Bug 654272] Re: worm game. cannot start new game. game score is initialized but the game splash (worm with green background) does not disappear

2010-10-13 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I can also confirm this bug - and add that it's been this way since 10.10 beta, as far as I can recall. This is one of three packages in gnome-games that has regressed to the point of being completely unplayable in 10.10 - the other two being lights off (which worked perfectly in 10.04) and

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work

2010-09-19 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
After the update of the gnome-games package this problem persists. When I first ran lightsoff after the update I got the same thing as in the image posted by Stef (except that the counter was set to 1). There was also a window with seed in the title bar that appeared very briefly before

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work

2010-09-11 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I tried commenting out this line and now I just get a blank window - see screenshot. There must be something else going wrong on my machine. ** Attachment added: Screenshot-4.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-games/+bug/633292/+attachment/1572237/+files/Screenshot-4.png --

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work

2010-09-11 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Actually I just tried putting the line back in and the same thing happens. The only difference seems to be that with the line commented out I get the blank window without any error messages showing up in the terminal. -- Lights Off game doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633292 You

[Bug 633292] [NEW] Lights Off game doesn't work

2010-09-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-games Upon upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 beta, the game Lights Off (package lightsoff) has ceased to function. If I choose it from the menu, the window loads, and the level indicator appears at the bottom, but no blocks appear in the gameplay area as

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work

2010-09-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633292/+attachment/1557291/+files/Dependencies.txt -- Lights Off game doesn't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633292 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work

2010-09-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Both gnibbles and swell-foop are completely broken too. I know games aren't high priority but they are often the first thing a new user will try out (and by them, judge the OS). (I myself was motivated to switch to Linux by the kde games available on a Red Hat machine in my office several years

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work

2010-09-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I think this might be different, but I'm not sure. At least the error output I got is different, and the attached screen shot doesn't agree with what I'm getting. More info: I just tried running the program again to get a screen shot. Right now I'm using the Unity netbook interface, and

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work

2010-09-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
I still get the program window when I login to the gnome desktop - see attached screenshot. Should I try installing a desktop theme using cleanlooks to see if it starts working? (That would suggest this is in fact the same as bug #616288.) ** Attachment added: Screenshot.png

[Bug 633292] Re: Lights Off game doesn't work

2010-09-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
First screenshot got corrupted somehow - there aren't two copies of the menu bar. (See new attachment) The main thing to observe is the absence of the shiny blue blocks one is supposed to be trying to remove in this game. ** Attachment added: Screenshot.png

[Bug 633786] [NEW] Runaway process when trying to access Windows Network in Nautilus

2010-09-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gvfs First instance occurred when clicking on the Network folder in the Ubuntu 'Places' menu, resulting in the error message appearing in screenshot-1. However, I don't seem to be able to reproduce the problem. Later instances occurred as follows

[Bug 633786] Re: Runaway process when trying to access Windows Network in Nautilus

2010-09-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
** Attachment added: Screenshot-1.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633786/+attachment/1559100/+files/Screenshot-1.png ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633786/+attachment/1559101/+files/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt

[Bug 633786] Re: Runaway process when trying to access Windows Network in Nautilus

2010-09-08 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
** Attachment added: Screenshot-2.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/633786/+attachment/1559104/+files/Screenshot-2.png -- Runaway process when trying to access Windows Network in Nautilus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633786 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 626016] Re: Swell Foop game does not work

2010-09-07 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Same problem here, running an eeePC 1005 (Intel). This program was really buggy in 10.04, crashing frequently. I'm hoping we get a functional version for 10.10 since its predecessor (same-gnome) was one of my go-to games when I wanted to waste 5 minutes or less! -- Swell Foop game does not

[Bug 626016] Re: Swell Foop game does not work

2010-09-07 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
Here's the output when running from terminal: ** (seed:3819): WARNING **: ArgumentError - probably due to incorrect gir file (which may be fixed upstream) argument 1 must not be null for function: Conf.get_string ** (seed:3819): WARNING **: ArgumentError - probably due to incorrect gir file

[Bug 557009] Re: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV

2010-04-07 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
** Visibility changed to: Private -- empathy crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557009 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 557009] Re: empathy crashed with SIGSEGV

2010-04-06 Thread Sean Fitzpatrick
** Attachment added: CoreDump.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43315582/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43315583/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43315584/Disassembly.txt ** Attachment