[Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2015-07-14 Thread PaulReiber
Sebastien, This bug is marked as affecting nearly 5 dozen people. Some (including me) consider it a regression, as the functionality used to work. It has 12 other bugs (affecting who knows how many people) all marked as duplicates. It was reported in 2007, possibly one or more of the 12 duplica

[Bug 281126] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2012-03-09 Thread PaulReiber
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 150690 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150690 LinkedIn Bug, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Paul Paul Reiber Linux Specialist at Rackspace Hosting San Antonio, Texas Area Confirm that you know Paul Reiber:

[Bug 511373] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2012-03-09 Thread PaulReiber
LinkedIn Bug, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Paul Paul Reiber Linux Specialist at Rackspace Hosting San Antonio, Texas Area Confirm that you know Paul Reiber: https://www.linkedin.com/e/-sj4zh6-gzm0t1ie-1b/isd/6236735009/FNNOIg9a/?hs=false&tok=3QvpM

[Bug 150690] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2012-03-09 Thread PaulReiber
LinkedIn Bug, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Paul Paul Reiber Linux Specialist at Rackspace Hosting San Antonio, Texas Area Confirm that you know Paul Reiber: https://www.linkedin.com/e/a0pjdr-gzm0syro-6a/isd/6236734543/CGV33KhQ/?hs=false&tok=0oOYrw

[Bug 516929] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2012-03-09 Thread PaulReiber
LinkedIn Bug, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Paul Paul Reiber Linux Specialist at Rackspace Hosting San Antonio, Texas Area Confirm that you know Paul Reiber: https://www.linkedin.com/e/r7oize-gzm0t1f8-37/isd/6236734999/ru5cB4dI/?hs=false&tok=2j5y3M

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2010-05-23 Thread PaulReiber
Followup: the link I posted before is to a great documentation site; the Devils Pie website itself is: http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie Aside: Please, let's try to keep messages to 150...@bugs.launchpad.net relevant to Bug 150690. (I know, I'm as guilty as the next guy...) Kind

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2010-05-23 Thread PaulReiber
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Paul Beardsell wrote: > I'm not sure I would change hardly a word of my posting.  [...] Me either; deficiencies are deficiencies, and X has some. Paul, check out this tool: http://foosel.org/linux/devilspie I think you'll be a happy camper unless you're allerg

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2010-05-23 Thread PaulReiber
ek.  This will be a bit of a learning experience for me, but > I figure this is a good place to get introduced to linux development. > > -ryan > > On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 19:41 +, PaulReiber wrote: >> Ryan - here's my understanding of this issue.  I believe, at the h

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2010-05-22 Thread PaulReiber
3 Email: p...@reiber.org Web: http://bit.ly/reiber On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Ryan Beard wrote: > Thanks Paul.  I've downloaded the Grub development kit, and I'll be > setting up conary today.  I'll let you how things go. > > -ryan > > On Fri, 2010-05-21 at

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2010-05-21 Thread PaulReiber
Ryan, If you're willing to dig/investigate, code, debug, and submit, I'm certainly willing to help. I've been programming/administering UNIX for ~30 years, Linux for ~15. My strengths are... well, pretty wide-reaching, but not so much in the GUI/Gnome/Window-manager/Virtual-Desktop coding details

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2010-05-21 Thread PaulReiber
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ryan Beard wrote: > Is this patch still applicable to Lucid?  I'm unable to locate pager.c > > -- > Can't drag a window to another workspace > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150690 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a du

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2010-04-09 Thread PaulReiber
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Paul Beardsell wrote: > Something is going wrong when my favourite o/s (of which I am a deeply > appreciative long time desktop user and boring evangelist) can have all its > window buttons moved top left and the background changed to lurid purple but > the desktop

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2010-04-09 Thread PaulReiber
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:01 AM, wdesmet wrote: > This only affects the workplace switcher applet, which I thought windows > didn't have? Indeed that appears to have been Allen's point - that workspace switching is something "new" that you don't see in Windows. Thus, new users try it out and like

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2010-04-09 Thread PaulReiber
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:39 AM, allankelly wrote: > This is still present in 9.10. [...affecting...] first impressions. Yes - depressing isn't it? However there doesn't appear to be a clear-cut fix because of how the implementation of workspaces differs from metacity to compiz. (oversimplifying

Re: [Bug 516929] Re: Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing

2010-02-05 Thread PaulReiber
Good question. In fact, that's part of why I think a simpler, tighter "Here's the keystrokes to abort your session" style message might be preferable to something which recommended the user log out - users home directories might be on NFS, or might be on a USB stick, or who knows where... so how t

Re: [Bug 516929] Re: Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing

2010-02-05 Thread PaulReiber
How about this instead: Well, I'm sure there are a lot of novice programmers out there who would love to learn the process of how to integrate a new component into gnome-session, and this is an awesome opportunity for someone new to get their hands dirty. The desktop team's pr

Re: [Bug 516929] Re: Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing

2010-02-05 Thread PaulReiber
Andreas Noteng wrote: > As a sidenote: ctrl+alt+backspace isn't supposed to work anymore. al > least not by default, se: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/DontZap > > So I just read this, after penning a response for how we might work around the bug. If the note at the very end of the page is c

Re: [Bug 516929] Re: Xorg misbehaves when user home directory is missing

2010-02-05 Thread PaulReiber
Wow... well I was trying to stay away from designing a solution, and stick with describing the problem. But, since you asked, I'll take a stab at it. How about this: A small component named maybe home_dir_check could be added, which would see if the home directory existed or not. If it exists

Re: [Bug 511373] Re: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_alternate_screen_scroll

2010-01-24 Thread PaulReiber
Wow... good catch, Chris! I looked right at this and didn't realize it was the problem. Now I've got to wonder what put it there. I've done a LOT of custom installs and such, any number of which might be the culprit. I'll follow up with details if I figure out how it happened. Thanks for your

Re: [Bug 511373] Re: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_alternate_screen_scroll

2010-01-22 Thread PaulReiber
Here you go! Thanks so much. -Paul $ nm -D /usr/lib/libvte.so.9 | grep vte_terminal_set_alternate_screen_scroll 0001d100 T vte_terminal_set_alternate_screen_scroll $ ldd /usr/bin/gnome-terminal linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x7fff60d8) libvte.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libvte.

Re: [Bug 511373] Re: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_alternate_screen_scroll

2010-01-22 Thread PaulReiber
I provided this in the original bug report; here it is again: $ apt-cache policy libvte9 libvte9: Installed: 1:0.22.2-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:0.22.2-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:0.22.2-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Bug 511373] [NEW] gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_alternate_screen_scroll

2010-01-22 Thread PaulReiber
Public bug reported: gnome-terminal wont start, giving a VTE related error: gnome-terminal: symbol lookup error: gnome-terminal: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_set_alternate_screen_scroll I started using the yaquake and tilda terminal emulators a few months ago, so I didn't notice this problem r

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Can't drag a window to another workspace

2009-11-15 Thread PaulReiber
This tool-tip issue has nothing to do with the REAL bug. Please, let's stay on focus. If you think the tool-tip issue is serious enough, open a NEW bug, and discuss it there. This bug's about broken functionality, not about tool-tips. Kind regards, -Paul Reiber Email: p...@reiber.org Web: http:

[Bug 144538] Re: menu editor dont start.

2009-11-03 Thread PaulReiber
I didn't do anything manually to any files as root; this occurred all on its own either from the 0.04 install or from the 9.04->9.10 upgrade. The previous comments are very old so they make me wonder if its the same bug... but it's definitely the same symptom; just trying to edit my menus and the

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Compiz Gutsy : Can't drag a window to another workspace

2009-05-14 Thread PaulReiber
NOTE I've not looked at the code in question - though I plan to - this is just some potential insight into the situation. Seems to me, if compiz was "taking over" for the other multi-workspace code, it might do just what was observed - force the number of workspaces (from all the other/old codes p

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Compiz Gutsy : Can't drag a window to another workspace

2009-05-06 Thread PaulReiber
I'm unaware of expo's drag/drop interface, so I can't comment, other than to say I found it REALLY REALLY useful to be able to move windows from workspace to workspace (on or off of the current workspace, for example) before this bug was introduced. Indeed, it _was_ a great way to "manage my windo

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Compiz Gutsy : Can't drag a window to another workspace

2009-04-26 Thread PaulReiber
Interesting... maybe this can help the developers w/ their debugging. -pbr http://reiber.org On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Paul Beardsell wrote: > I would like this fixed.  But (works for me) there is an acceptable > workaround:  Disable visual effects.  System -> Preferences -> > Appearance -

Re: [Bug 150690] Re: Compiz Gutsy : Can't drag a window to another workspace

2009-04-22 Thread PaulReiber
I have no idea when this will-be/should-be/was fixed; I'm simply the guy who reported the problem. As a "post mortem" (if they/you/we are doing those) it'd be great to analyze this bug and see why it has taken so long to get it fixed (esp. since it _used_ to work!) I think it works under at least

Re: [Bug 281126] Re: Can't move window from one desk to another

2008-10-30 Thread PaulReiber
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 150690 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150690 Hiya. I reported this problem originally against the gnome-panel workspace switcher applet; someone else thought it was compiz related; I was never quite sure. The applet previously allowed for moving a wind

[Bug 111040] Re: compiz can't drag window thumbnails to other "workspaces"

2008-01-22 Thread PaulReiber
ws switcher v 2.20.1 under gutsy gibbon exhibits same lack of proper handling of (1)mouse-wheel and (2) mouse-up events -- compiz can't drag window thumbnails to other "workspaces" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop