[Bug 1930695] Re: Noto Fonts (without color emoji) break non-color emoji in QT applications

2021-06-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Changed in: fonts-noto (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to fonts-noto in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1930695 Title: Noto Fonts (without color emoji) break non-color

[Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2019-04-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It shouldn't be Expired, but Confirmed. The bug's great age doesn't contribute a fix. (It no longer affects me. I dumped Gnome, and Ubuntu, on the desktop.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2018-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It doesn't matter where you move the directory to, if it can't be stat(2)'d then it's a POSIX violation and breaks programs. The example of a user running rsync on their home directory doesn't mean that's the only situation that should work. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2013-03-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Martin Pitt wrote: > status: Triaged → Fix Released So if this is considered the fix should we now raise bugs on all the user-space programs that are disgruntled to find root can't stat .gvfs as part of detecting it's a mount-point that shouldn't be crossed? -- You received this bug notifi

[Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2013-03-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
So can rsync --one-file-system, find, etc., now stat the inode to know it's another filesystem and not attempt to descend? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225361 Title: .gvfs can't b

[Bug 877429] Re: Manual resize of window required after Best Fit

2012-03-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
"Fit page height" isn't always the case; depends on the aspect ratio of the page and the window. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877429 Title: Manual resize of windo

[Bug 877429] [NEW] Manual resize of window required after Best Fit

2011-10-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Maximise evince with an A4 PDF, hit Best Fit, page fills vertical space, much horizontal space empty. I now have to manually resize the evince window to be narrower until the waste is tolerable. It would be nice if evince itself let me ask it to minimise its window for the c

[Bug 251105] Re: `tput init' works inconsistently in gnome-terminal, but not xterm, etc.

2011-07-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Yes, a friend with 11.04 confirms it's still readily apparent and easily testable in a gnome-terminal. ** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to vte in Ubuntu. h

[Bug 234158] Re: URL-related menu items don't appear if pointer is on bottom pixel of URL

2011-06-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
As I stated in comment #4 above, this bug was fixed upstream. Ubuntu 10.10 seems fine; the bug's fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234158 Title: URL-related menu items don't a

[Bug 225361] Re: other users don't have access to .gvfs

2011-01-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
rsync isn't trying to include .gvfs even with the -x option. It along with find(1), etc., has to be able to do some things with .gvfs to even work out it is the mount point of another filesystem and shouldn't be descended into further. Those things fail in a way that they never should with Unix s

[Bug 231051] Re: yelp crashed with SIGSEGV

2010-09-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
valgrind still reports problems on 10.04, like jumping based on uninitialised memory, but I can't get this particular problem to trigger, no. -- yelp crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231051 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, whi

Re: [Bug 18572] Re: modem_applet: waitpid()'s return value causes wedging.

2010-06-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've obtained gnome-applets_2.30.0.orig.tar.gz and gnome-applets_2.30.0-0ubuntu2.diff which I think are 10.04's. The original code is as above when I opened the bug although the line numbers are slightly different. The diff doesn't change them in any way. 12_modem_applet_waitpid_fix.patch still

[Bug 225361] Re: ~/.gvfs causes various errors

2009-03-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
So, are we instead to raise a bug on every program and script that doesn't expect a brain-damaged response due to ~/.gvfs? And then expect the maintainers of those programs to work around the brain damage? E.g. `alsa force-reload' causes `lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse- daemon file sy

[Bug 251105] Re: `tput init' works inconsistently in gnome-terminal, but not xterm, etc.

2009-02-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Also easily re-created following my above instructions on 8.10, gnome- terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1, libvte9 1:0.17.4-0ubuntu1 by someone else on their machine, so it should be Confirmed. -- `tput init' works inconsistently in gnome-terminal, but not xterm, etc. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2511

[Bug 251105] Re: `tput init' works inconsistently in gnome-terminal, but not xterm, etc.

2009-02-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Re-opening it because I think the required information was provided on 2008-08-16; the bug is present in Intredpid Alpha 3. ** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- `tput init' works inconsistently in gnome-terminal, but not xterm, etc. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

Re: [Bug 209464] Re: When I login, I receive and error that the permissions are wrong for the file .dmrc

2009-01-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
> sudo chmod -R 700 /home/prophet Hasn't that just made every file under there writable and executable? -- When I login, I receive and error that the permissions are wrong for the file .dmrc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209464 You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

[Bug 234158] Re: URL-related menu items don't appear if pointer is on bottom pixel of URL

2008-12-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Actually, the bug was perfectly valid and was fixed upstream. They then decided to change the title and the issue the bug was tracking and later decided that this second issue wasn't a bug. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385695#c13 -- URL-related menu items don't appear if pointer is

[Bug 137830] Re: [gutsy] sound-juicer can not see audio CD in drive

2008-12-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Why is this bug closed? Disabling polling should seem to do just that, stop the frequent polling. I don't see why it should stop things working when the user initiates the action; surely a one-off poll should be done then. And the "WARNING **: Error getting media type" diagnostic is very confus

[Bug 217167] Re: gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available.

2008-11-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I guess that's a pro forma comment because there's sufficient information here, it's just neither you nor I have the time to raise it upstream. Closing this bug means anyone looking to help out won't pop along and raise it upstream for us. -- gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-pro

Re: [Bug 225361] Re: ~/.gvfs causes various errors

2008-11-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
fuse-utils version 2.7.2-1ubuntu2 has a debian/fuse.conf that's identical to my /etc one, i.e. everything commented out, so perhaps you're right about the survival from an older release. -- ~/.gvfs causes various errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225361 You received this bug notification be

Re: [Bug 225361] Re: ~/.gvfs causes various errors

2008-11-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Nikolaus wrote: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/225361/comments/11 > > I understand this configuration of FUSE has been chosen because of > > security concerns, as opposed to using its allow_users or allow_root > > options. > > This is not a valid concern. In Ubuntu, allow

Re: [Bug 225361] Re: ~/.gvfs causes various errors

2008-11-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Phillip Susi wrote: > That is really just a contributing factor, not the problem. The > problem is that people are having utilities fail when they run into > .gvfs because root can't access it ( and this is by design, not a bug > ). It is a bug in that, under Unix, by design, that should *never*

[Bug 225361] Re: ~/.gvfs causes various errors

2008-11-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Just to be clear, mounting .gvfs somewhere other than $HOME doesn't solve the problem this bug's covering IMO, which is that the filesystem breaks the Unix norm that root can stat anything. -- ~/.gvfs causes various errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225361 You received this bug notification

[Bug 98637] Re: window list → bug in flash ing effect

2008-10-30 Thread Ralph Corderoy
The issue I raised in bug #260459, which was marked as a duplicate of this one, was seen in 8.04, yes. In that bug report, it says "Ubuntu 8.04, gnome-panel 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu1.1.". But perhaps it's a different issue and not a duplicate after all? -- window list → bug in flashing effect https://b

Re: [Bug 225361] Re: Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted

2008-10-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
In my opinion, this doesn't reall give enough information to confirm that the behaviour isn't down to user error. For example, on the second machine the cut-and-pasted output of for u in A B C; do ls -ld /home/$u{,/.gvfs}; df /home/$u/.gvfs; id $u; done would be useful. -- Superuser canno

[Bug 231051] Re: yelp crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-10-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: "valgrind-logs-gnome-help.tar.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18397609/valgrind-logs-gnome-help.tar.gz -- yelp crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231051 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug

[Bug 231051] Re: yelp crashed with SIGSEGV

2008-10-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Ubuntu 8.04, yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.3. On doing `gnome-help info:groff' the window appears correctly. Clicking "Introduction" gives a SIGSEGV in strlen(). It's very consistent behaviour. Attached is valgrind log. ** Changed in: yelp (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- yelp

[Bug 98637] Re: window list → bug in flash ing effect

2008-08-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
A little more info based on bug #260459 and its screenshot. The button doesn't have to be flashing for this to occur. Once the flashing has stopped and it reaches its steady `orange' state the lack of redraw when a notify button or window iconising frame animation has passed over it can still occ

[Bug 260459] Re: Iconised window button in gnome-panel gets corrupted when iconising another window

2008-08-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Setting to New rather than Invalid based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status If it's a duplicate, I'd welcome knowing the other bug number, as normal. ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- Iconised window button in gnome-panel gets corrupted when iconising anot

Re: [Bug 260459] Re: Iconised window button in gnome-panel gets corrupted when iconising another window

2008-08-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pedro, if it's a duplicate then can it be set as such rather than Invalid so the other bug number is specified so I'm subscribed and can follow things. Thanks. (I did look for gnome-panel bugs like this before opening a new one but found nothing.) -- Iconised window button in gnome-panel ge

[Bug 260459] Re: Iconised window button in gnome-panel gets corrupted when iconising another window

2008-08-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Attachment added: "gnome-panel_corruption.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17019184/gnome-panel_corruption.png -- Iconised window button in gnome-panel gets corrupted when iconising another window https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260459 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 260459] [NEW] Iconised window button in gnome-panel gets corrupted when iconising another window

2008-08-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel Ubuntu 8.04, gnome-panel 1:2.22.2-0ubuntu1.1. On occasion, when iconising a window using Alt-F9 the black rectangle animation that follows causes corruption on an existing button for a window in the gnome-panel, see attached gnome-panel_corru

[Bug 217167] gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available.

2008-08-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Sam, my `global' in the bug's title means `not per-profile for a single user', not `for all gnome-terminals across all users', so although that solution may work for you, I have other users on this machine so it isn't suitable. And files under /usr/share aren't intended to be edited by a user

[Bug 258775] [NEW] gnome-terminal doesn't resize on `ESC [ 8' or `ESC [ 4' despite vte's resize_window()

2008-08-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal Ubuntu 8.04, gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2. xterm and other terminals I've tried correctly handle the standard `ESC [ 8' and `ESC [ 4' escape sequences to alter the size of the terminal window. # Sets terminal to 100x40 characters.

Re: [Bug 217167] Re: gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available.

2008-08-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Sam, thanks for the pointers. The first isn't suitable because it's editing a file that isn't intended to be edited by the user and also changes the size for all users on the machine, not just me! :-) The second shows others are having the same issue but there's no solution to have per-profi

[Bug 251105] Re: `tput init' works inconsistently in gnome-terminal, but not xterm, etc.

2008-08-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pedro, Thanks, I found https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Needing+testing+in+the+development+release and followed the instructions there. Under qemu using Intredpid Alpha 3 with gnome-terminal 2.23.4.2-0ubunut2 and libvte9 1:0.16.14-1ubuntu1, I can re-produce the bug. The attached screensh

Re: [Bug 208837] Re: "Esc [ 1 8 t" Response doesn't match xterm.

2008-08-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pedro, sorry, I wasn't clear. The ^[ seen in the single quotes in my examples is a literal escape character typed as `Ctrl-V Escape'. If xterm is giving `^[[18t' back then that suggests a circumflex and open bracket have been given. Try echo -n '@[18t' | tr @ \\033; sleep 1; echo inste

Re: [Bug 251105] Re: `tput init' works inconsistently in gnome-terminal, but not xterm, etc.

2008-08-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pedro, Sorry I have only one machine here and it's running 8.04. I suppose I could try the Alpha CD under qemu or something. BTW, is this a correct use of the Incomplete status? I gave a very full description of how to produce the problem in 8.04 but if it remains Incomplete for four weeks t

[Bug 209464] Re: When I login, I receive and error that the permissions are wrong for the file .dmrc

2008-08-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi CalcProgrammer1, you're being a bit unclear. "I WANT others to access my home directory" -- is that for reading the files in it or creating and deleting files too? If the latter, then I don't know of a workaround since my suggestion above, cd && chmod go-w . .dmrc, removes write access for oth

[Bug 251105] [NEW] `tput init' works inconsistently in gnome-terminal, but not xterm, etc.

2008-07-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 8.04, gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2, libvte9 1:0.16.13-1ubuntu1. Using tput(1) to send the terminal's terminfo init string to gnome-terminal, and hence vte as I understand it, gives inconsistent results. It often fails to initialise the terminal back to its defaults.

[Bug 242666] Re: gnome-keyring asks for passphrase for plain `ssh-add -l'

2008-06-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Given it's /usr/lib/gnome-keyring/gnome-keyring-ask displaying the dialogue box I'm guessing gnome-keyring is the right package. ** Changed in: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: openssh => gnome-keyring -- gnome-keyring asks for passphrase for plain `ssh-add -l' https://bugs.launchpad.ne

Re: [Bug 225361] Re: Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted

2008-06-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
It may have originally been confirmed and triaged but surely it's normal to respond to a `It looks like it's recently been fixed, please check' request. To not do so might mislead people into thinking it has indeed been fixed. That is not spamming. -- Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder whe

[Bug 225361] Re: Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted

2008-06-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Interesting. There's a couple of differences in the .gvfs inode between the two of us. Your perms are 0700, mine are 0500. Your access time is today but your modify and change aren't, all three of mine are the same value. Do you have anything mounted on .gvfs, if not, perhaps it's just a normal

Re: [Bug 225361] Re: Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted

2008-06-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
This is an up to date 8.04 i386. $ sudo strace -e trace=lstat64 stat /home/ralph/.gvfs lstat64("/home/ralph/.gvfs", 0xbfe8be54) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) stat: cannot stat `/home/ralph/.gvfs': Permission denied Process 30706 detached $ I think the problem still exists.

Re: [Bug 225361] Re: Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted

2008-06-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
> what about --exclude=~/.gvfs ? I don't think most shells will expand the tilde when it's not at the start of a word like that. $ echo --exclude=~/foo --exclude=~/foo $ The problem here isn't that the issue can't be worked around, typically adding an --exclude or several as Chris

[Bug 225361] Re: Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted

2008-05-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I'd argue that, based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance, this bug's Importance should be Medium. As described in the duplicate I raised, things like automatically checking the success of a daily tar(1) now fails because it always exits with a non-zero status instead of only rarely: For ~

[Bug 234158] [NEW] URL-related menu items don't appear if pointer is on bottom pixel of URL

2008-05-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal Ubuntu 8.04, gnome-terminal 2.22.1-0ubuntu2. Take a URL in a gnome-terminal, the pointer can be moved over it, the URL is underlined, and mouse button 3 will bring up a context menu with Open Link, etc. However, if that same URL is approa

[Bug 209464] Re: When I login, I receive and error that the permissions are wrong for the file .dmrc

2008-05-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
The error message should, from reading the source of gdm 2.20.6-0ubuntu1, say "User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not w

[Bug 209464] Re: When I login, I receive and error that the permissions are wrong for the file .dmrc

2008-05-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Confirming as asharin has also experienced the problem. ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- When I login, I receive and error that the permissions are wrong for the file .dmrc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209464 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 188732] Re: Blinking cursor can not be deactivated anymore

2008-05-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Switch to watching the new Gnome bug. Hope that's the right thing to do. Couldn't see how to add two Gnome bug watches. ** Changed in: gnome-terminal Bugwatch: GNOME Bug Tracker #342921 => GNOME Bug Tracker #533522 Status: Fix Released => Unknown -- Blinking cursor can not be deact

[Bug 188732] Re: Blinking cursor can not be deactivated anymore

2008-05-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Changing from Invalid to Confirmed. I'm assuming some bot changed it to Invalid based on the Gnome bug status, hopefully it'll leave it alone now. But journeying into the realms of the Gnome community made me remember why I'm glad Ubuntu came to exist; it's a more polite society. ;-) Anyway, I'

[Bug 188732] Re: Blinking cursor can not be deactivated anymore

2008-05-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Gnome have accepted this change was a mistake. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342921 which I've just link this bug too. However, they're being sensitive flowers and are deleting comments from the bug report. Some were from Jay L. T. Cornwall willing to provide a patch he'd alread

[Bug 188732] Re: Blinking cursor can not be deactivated anymore

2008-05-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
** Also affects: gnome-terminal via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342921 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Blinking cursor can not be deactivated anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188732 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desk

[Bug 225361] Re: Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted

2008-05-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
This bug should clearly be confirmed. As well as Thomas Nybergh spotting the same problem, I also raised a duplicate, bug #227724. ** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Superuser cannot access ~/.gvfs folder when mounted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225361 You rece

[Bug 190848] Re: font in terminal does not resemble font in preview

2008-05-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Just a point on the .fonts.conf provided above. `rgba' is being set to `rgb'. This will make coloured pixels be used around the edges of black text on a white background; it won't stick to just gray pixels. That may be OK for an LCD but if you want grayscale, set rgba to `none' instead. Many t

[Bug 188732] Re: Blinking cursor can not be deactivated anymore

2008-05-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I understand this is a Gnome change, but they've applied logic a step too far. There's a big physical difference between a one-pixel-wide cursor used in Gtk+ text areas, etc., and a one-character-filled- rectangle used by gnome-terminal. The former I want to blink because it can be hard to spot.

Re: [Bug 225644] Re: gnome-help Suffers g_filename_to_uri() assertion failure.

2008-05-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
>Status: Incomplete => Invalid As an aside, maybe a bug status meaning `valid bug already fixed in later version' would be nice. Invalid suggests that it wasn't a bug, which isn't true. And having a separate status would let them be separated in the statistics. -- gnome-help Suffers g

[Bug 225644] Re: gnome-help Suffers g_filename_to_uri() assertion failure.

2008-05-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Sigh, should have thought of that. OK, I've got a friend with 8.04 to look and it works fine. The gnome-help line above doesn't segfault but politely complains. And the Help on Dominosa menu item runs `yelp /usr/share/sgt-puzzles/help/dominosa.html' which works fine. Sorry for the noise. -- g

[Bug 225644] [NEW] gnome-help Suffers g_filename_to_uri() assertion failure.

2008-05-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: yelp Ubuntu 7.10, yelp 2.20.0-0ubuntu3. This command is done when choosing Help -> Help on Dominosa in the `dominosa' program of package sgt-puzzles 7446-1, or any other program in that package. $ gnome-help ghelp:///usr/share/sgt-puzzles/gnome/help

[Bug 217167] Re: gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available.

2008-04-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've also found that rxvt 1:2.6.4-12 responds correctly to the two printf(1)s above. So gnome-terminal is so far the only one that doesn't. -- gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217167 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 217167] Re: gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available.

2008-04-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
This is on a standard Ubuntu 7.10, gnome-terminal 2.18.2-0ubuntu1. As you can't cut and paste those echo(1)s above, here's some printf(1) equivalents. $ printf '\x1b[8;40;100t' $ printf '\x1b[4;200;200t' -- gnome-terminal is Always 80x24. No global or per-profile setting available. htt

[Bug 208837] [NEW] "Esc [ 1 8 t" Response doesn't match xterm.

2008-03-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Ubuntu 7.10. The escape sequence "Esc [ 1 8 t" is meant to make the terminal reply with the height and width of the current window characters. It's handled in vte-0.16.9/src/vteseq.c, line 3865. The output on gnome-terminal is different to the xterm from xterm-229-1. Here'

[Bug 208837] Re: "Esc [ 1 8 t" Response doesn't match xterm.

2008-03-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Sufficient detail provided that it can go straight to confirmed. Hope that's OK. ** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- "Esc [ 1 8 t" Response doesn't match xterm. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208837 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 208837] Re: "Esc [ 1 8 t" Response doesn't match xterm.

2008-03-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
There are other similar faults where the response is incorrect in that same function. ^[[13t response should be ^[[3;x;yt but is ^[[x;yt. ^[[14t response should be ^[[4;h;wt but is ^[[h;wt. ^[[19t response should be ^[[9;h;wt but is ^[[h;wt. On a similar note, although ^[[20t is handl

[Bug 163451] Re: Unable to run GNOME Font Viewer in Ubuntu 7.10 from menu

2008-03-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've just followed Jonathan Fritz's path. Having freshly installed 7.10 I did System -> Preferences -> Main Menu to see what could be changed. Finding Applications -> Other -> Gnome Font Viewer I thought it sounded useful and ticked it. Selecting the newly appeared menu item show a minimised butt

[Bug 82378] Re: [network-admin] creates /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 without noauth

2007-02-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Regarding the importance of fixing this bug: As it stands, a new user who has installed from a 6.10 CD can't get online using their modem and diagnosing the problem isn't straightforward for 90% of those users. It may be that they can use some other system or OS to get online and seek advice, but

[Bug 82378] Re: [network-admin] creates /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 without noauth

2007-02-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
I've just installed Ubuntu 6.10 and have hit this problem having used System -> Administration -> Networking to configure the modem. /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 doesn't contain noauth, unlike a much older version of Ubuntu I used to use, probably 5.04. Consequently, pppd complains during `ifup ppp0' as de

desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

2006-07-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Setting status to Confirmed; James Stansell is clearly experiencing the same problem in 5.04 and 5.10 Live Preview. ** Changed in: system-tools-backends (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Modem volume not turned off by AT&FH0M0. https://launchpad.net/bugs/18331 -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 29389] Re: fails to install -- possibly due to implicit dependency on default-display-manager?

2006-06-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Confirming as at least part of the original problem, grep on non- existant file, exists. ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- fails to install -- possibly due to implicit dependency on default-display-manager? https://launchpad.net/bugs/29389 -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 29389] Re: fails to install -- possibly due to implicit dependency on default-display-manager?

2006-06-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
gdm's postinst has code like DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE=/etc/X11/default-display-manager case "$1" in configure) if grep "/usr/bin/gdm" $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE; then echo "/usr/sbin/gdm" > $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE fi ;; esac which d

[Bug 29389] Re: fails to install -- possibly due to implicit dependency on default-display-manager?

2006-06-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
For reference, the text in 49134 was got on a fresh 6.06 desktop i386 install with a `apt-get upgrade'. -- fails to install -- possibly due to implicit dependency on default-display-manager? https://launchpad.net/bugs/29389 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lis

[Bug 49134] apt-get upgrade of gdm reports default-display-manager ENOENT.

2006-06-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gdm Did `apt-get upgrade' on recent 6.06 and gdm was to be upgraded to 2.14.6-0ubuntu2.1. Output included error from grep: Setting up libfreetype6 (2.1.10-1ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up gdm (2.14.6-0ubuntu2.1) ... grep: /etc/X11/default-display-manager: No