Desktop Effects Reverting to crude X-Server style Grahpics
Resending since first mail was too big. Images are now at Imageshack: Image 1: http://yfrog.com/75appearanceproblem1p Image 2: http://yfrog.com/14appearanceproblem2p Since a few weeks now I am experiencing a strange bug when I am switching my desktop to use the second monitor thats connected through my VGA port. I use a Laptop so its not connected all the time. I have a thinkpad so I can use Fn+F4 to switch output. Pressing Fn+F4 usually switches between combinations LCD+VGA, LCD Only, VGA Only (where LCD is my laptops monitor). For me, plugging in the VGA cable and pressing Fn+F4 screws up the 2nd screen, and then the appearance. The appearance became in a way like crude XServer style grey graphics. Everything is a bit bigger and no rounded corners and gradients anymore. Interestingly the problem is instantly fixed when I go to system-preferences and open appearance. As you can see the difference between the two screen shots. One more thing is that when the graphics get screwed like in Screen shot 1 then I cannot use Fn+F4 anymore (it simply has no effect) until I open the Appearance Window, after that it works again. How ever I can't get it to VGA+LCD, only either LCD or VGA works and in between there a several iteration where the output is just broken, so instead of pressing Fn+F4 3 times it have to press it like 6 or 7 time to get what i want. I am wondering about which package I would have to file a bug? Regards Lanoxx -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Desktop Effects Reverting to crude X-Server style Grahpics
Sebastian Geiger wrote: For me, plugging in the VGA cable and pressing Fn+F4 screws up the 2nd screen, and then the appearance. The appearance became in a way like crude XServer style grey graphics. Everything is a bit bigger and no I am wondering about which package I would have to file a bug? These symptons occur when gnome-settings-daemon crashes. In fact you can emulate this by just killing the gnome-settings-daemon process. Normally the apport crash reporter is turned off in stable releases but you can enable it using this command: sudo force_start=1 /etc/init.d/apport start It will run until the next time you reboot and it will catch any crashes and prompt you to submit a bug to Launchpad. Once you have apport running, then do that thing with the VGA cable and/or Fn+F4 etc (whatever steps is necessary to trigger the bug) and hopefully the bug gets detected by apport. Martin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Desktop Effects Reverting to crude X-Server style Grahpics
Martin Olsson wrote: sudo force_start=1 /etc/init.d/apport start Actually I just tried it and it seems that this command has been deprecated in karmic. It prints another upstart related way to start the service but that second command does not work at all on my machine. Martin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Imagining a development news web site (for end users of ubuntu+1)
Hello! One big issue I noticed with the testing community in a development release of Ubuntu is that misinformation has a habit of spreading. For example, with Karmic, when the rules changed behind where icons get displayed, lots of users did not know what was going on. Some either thought it was a bug or a dumb change (when in fact it was a smart change :P). Similar situation with the changes to notify-osd. Angry ranters had to be told individually, almost, what the actual situation was and to please file bug reports or constructive feedback where applicable. Reading the changelogs, GNOME and Ubuntu Planet helps to that end, but both involve a lot of reading (and in the latter case some additional technical knowledge + a lot of patience). I think we could improve the experience for our testers and the quality of our bug reports if they were immediately aware of particularly important changes as they happened at the point they became available, from the perspective of Ubuntu+1. (Not months before they land downstream, not too much later). As far as I am aware, there is not really a definitive place to look for that type of information. So, I think a nice route about that is to create a web site in a news blog style, linked to from the Ubuntu Start Page for the development release (during its development until the release candidate) and as a live bookmark in Firefox's default setup. It should be reasonably low traffic but provide testers with big things that are changing, that need feedback or need help. I was poised to make a blueprint + wiki page for this, but I think it would be best to ask for feedback first. Please, fire away :) Dylan McCall -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Desktop Effects Reverting to crude X-Server style Grahpics
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 15:50 +0100, Martin Olsson wrote: Sebastian Geiger wrote: For me, plugging in the VGA cable and pressing Fn+F4 screws up the 2nd screen, and then the appearance. The appearance became in a way like crude XServer style grey graphics. Everything is a bit bigger and no I am wondering about which package I would have to file a bug? These symptons occur when gnome-settings-daemon crashes. In fact you can emulate this by just killing the gnome-settings-daemon process. Normally the apport crash reporter is turned off in stable releases but you can enable it using this command: sudo force_start=1 /etc/init.d/apport start It will run until the next time you reboot and it will catch any crashes and prompt you to submit a bug to Launchpad. Once you have apport running, then do that thing with the VGA cable and/or Fn+F4 etc (whatever steps is necessary to trigger the bug) and hopefully the bug gets detected by apport. Martin Hi, This bug has already been reported [1], and is currently on my list of things to look at. I intend to spend some time this evening debugging this one. Regards Chris [1] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447431 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
RE: Ubuntu Domain Server
Follow-up to this: I just logged into the VPN for the first time after upgrading to Karmic at home and it kept my default route, didn't replace the nameserver entries, and still added a local route for the VPN over ppp0! Whatever work has gone into NetworkManager between 9.04 and 9.10 I heartily approve! Thanks! -Original Message- From: ubuntu-devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu- devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ethan Baldridge Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:59 AM To: Shentino; Morten Kjeldgaard Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com; Derek Broughton Subject: RE: Ubuntu Domain Server I just edit resolv.conf anyway and fix it the next time it “breaks” (every time I log into my company VPN, even though I have the PPPoE client set to not apply DNS settings from the DHCP server). For a personal computer, I can just keep editing; I have to fix the default route every time anyway. But it would be nice to know how to “fix” it – and the routing table – permanently. From: ubuntu-devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu- devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Shentino Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:33 AM To: Morten Kjeldgaard Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com; Derek Broughton Subject: Re: Ubuntu Domain Server On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard m...@bioxray.au.dk wrote: On 20/10/2009, at 15.35, Derek Broughton wrote: I will never understand why a server GUI would improve anything? I will never understand why elitists hate GUIs. A good UI should improve things by absolutely preventing misconfiguration. That's because the GUI often gets in the way of good sysadm practices and also automated configuration such as cfengine and the like. One example is the /etc/resolv.conf file, which used to be a simple 3 line file that in karmic has been replaced with a complex and intransparent resolvconf system, that is part of the network configuation gui and clobbers /etc/resolv.conf at every boot. IIRC, resolvconf leaves a big fat #AUTOGENERATED, DO NOT EDIT comment line in the file, so at least any potential conf-file monkeys looking to poke around are clued in, and presumably a short operation can tell resolvconf to go away or at least disable itself. There's a huge difference maintaining a single-user system on a laptop and hundreds of workstations. -- Morten -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Imagining a development news web site (for end users of ubuntu+1)
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Hi, One big issue I noticed with the testing community in a development release of Ubuntu is that misinformation has a habit of spreading. For example, with Karmic, when the rules changed behind where icons get displayed, lots of users did not know what was going on. Some either thought it was a bug or a dumb change (when in fact it was a smart change :P). That's a controversial topic, you can't just assert such a thing. Reading the changelogs, GNOME and Ubuntu Planet helps to that end, but both involve a lot of reading (and in the latter case some additional technical knowledge + a lot of patience). I think we could improve the experience for our testers and the quality of our bug reports if they were immediately aware of particularly important changes as they happened at the point they became available, from the perspective of Ubuntu+1. (Not months before they land downstream, not too much later). As far as I am aware, there is not really a definitive place to look for that type of information. http://www.commit-digest.org/ (for Kubuntu) and http://blogs.gnome.org/commitdigest/ (for Ubuntu) might be good starting points. -- Alexandre Franke -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: System Beep problem
On 11/04/09 15:40, Aurélien Naldi wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:53 PM, John Vivirito gnomefr...@gmail.com wrote: How do i turn system beep back on in Karmic. The sound that is used now is just a thud sound. Only have ~4 other choices in the sound preference. Hi, I discovered today that pcspkr, the module responsible for system beeps, is blacklisted on karmic. I have been blacklisting it after each install for years, and thus love this change! You can remove it from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to get the old behaviour. Is it a better way to un-blacklist a module? Best regards. I had it un-commented for a while but i will try removing it and see what happens Thanks Ok i removed it and no change, i will file a bug on it as soon as i can it would be great to have atleast a work around where i can start. -- Sincerely Yours, John Vivirito https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito Linux User# 414246 How can i get lost, if i have no where to go -- Metallica from Unforgiven III signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
