Re: Videos appear a black box and won't play in ubuntu 11.10

2012-02-25 Thread Chris Robinson 
Is this with Firefox?  It sounds like a flash problem.  I can highly recommend 
installing the flash-aid add-on in Firefox and letting it do its thing.  It 
will install the correct version of flash for the version of Firefox and the 
OS, removing any conflicting versions in the process.  After it has run a 
restart of Firefox will be required.

There have been a lot of Firefox updates recently.  Most likely something got 
broken along the way.

Chris




 From: Jared Norris 
To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com 
Cc: bob matheson  
Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2012 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: Videos appear a black box and won't play in ubuntu 11.10
 
On 21 February 2012 13:41, bob matheson  wrote:
> I am running Ubuntu 11.10 on a Samsung laptop with intel i5 second
> generation processor.
>
> I update regularly when update message appears. For about a week I have had
> this problem where a video appears as a black box and will not play. This is
> a new problem, as previously everything was OK. I first noticed it on
> Ninemsn site which I refer to daily for news. I have searched the web to try
> and find a solution, but being relatively new to Ubuntu can't quite work out
> what to do.
>
> Any advice your could offer would be very much appreciated. There is not a
> great rush as you are probably very busy.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bob Matheson - Cairns.

Good evening all,

Bob has sent me an email with some problems that I've not encountered
before. With his permission I've forwarded this to the mailing list to
see if anyone else has experienced this issue and has some suggestions
on how to fix it. So does anyone have any ideas about how to
troubleshoot or fix the issue above?

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Re: Alt+Ctrl+Arrow keys disabled in Precise

2012-02-25 Thread Chris Robinson 
I've added a me-too with the following text:
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However there IS conflict between the new shortcut keys and other uses of the 
super key.  Now, when I press and hold shift-super in preparation for pressing 
the arrow keys I get several unwanted and annoying behaviours:

1) The Launcher pops out, all numbered up

2) The Hint screen for shortcut keys pops up and overlays the wall

3) Only _after_ the workspace is selected does the wall come to the foreground 
- apart from that it's behind shortcut key help screen.  It's very annoying and 
confusing

4) The whole things works so slow that most of the time I am looking at the 
shortcut key hint screen, with the wall out of focus below it. Every time I 
press an arrow key the shortcut key help screen comes to the foreground while 
the animation on the wall is occurring.

5) I get very annoyed and wonder if someone actually thought this through.  If 
this goes out as it is in LTS then it will be seriously broken.


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I think this shows who is calling the shots - The devs have been told to 
implement whatever the design team has asked for - with no functionality 
testing or other input.
:-(

Chris





 From: Stephen Rees-Carter 
To: Ubuntu AU List  
Sent: Saturday, 25 February 2012 4:53 PM
Subject: Alt+Ctrl+Arrow keys disabled in Precise
 
Hey all,

Just a warning for those of us running precise:

The Alt+Ctrl+Arrow keyboard shortcut for switching workspaces has been
replaced for Super+Shift+Arrow keys.
The change makes absolutely no sense, and shows no thought for
backwards compatibility...
Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/940085

So, before the last LTS they moved the window controls to the left,
now before this LTS they are removing a long-standing keyboard short
cut...

It's also worth nothing that the new Super+Shift+Arrow combination is
half-broken for me:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/940803
It only goes Up and Down, but not Left or Right.

Thanks,
~Stephen

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