@Nolan I've been using Kubuntu so it may be that we are not talking
about the same issue.
My problem started when I installed Karmic and continued when I upgraded
to Lucid, up until today when I discovered that it was simply a question
of changing the lid-close action in the Ubuntu power managemen
@tekstr1der: I don't think Brian was recommending this as a workaround.
He was just providing information that might possibly help to diagnose
the problem.
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Update: I am using Kubuntu Karmic now and the menu key now works as
compose, but shift + rightt-alt still does not.
There is another issue which I am going to file a separate report about,
but which might possible have some bearing on this one. It is that in
KDE apps, my 3rd level choosers (right-
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This bug is in Ubuntu Intrepid.
If I assign the menu key to act as the compose key in my keyboard
preferences, I cannot actually use it as that because every time I press
it a contextual menu comes up. I can assign another function to the key
using the keyboard shortcuts tool
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Binary package hint: evince
evince 2.22.2
When you choose to save a copy of a document in evince, the save
dialogue always defaults to your home directory, and there seems to be
on obvious way of changing this. This is out of step with other desktop
applications, such as web
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Binary package hint: ekiga
bug observed in ekiga in hardy
Ekiga takes control of the camera even when it is not using it. Since it
is an application that will typically be left to run all the time the
computer is on, this means that the camera is not available to any other
a
For anyone who needs to know the workaround, run gconf-editor (alt-2
followed by gconf-editor should do it). Hit ctrl-F and search for
"autoipod". You will find a key of that name and another called
autoipod_command, which should do the trick.
Needless to say, this workaround is not obvious. So th
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Binary package hint: gnome
Bug in Hardy Beta, Gnome 2.22.1.
When I plug in my portable music player Rhythmbox opens automatically
and there appears to be no way to stop it. Apparently you used to be
able to do this through System-->Preferences-->Removable Drives and
Media, w
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Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
In Hardy Beta the current default behaviour on closing your laptop's lid
is to blank the screen. This is a mistake because it increases the
likelihood of users cooking their laptops in their backpacks if they
fail to realise that their
Ditto for Thinkpad R61i running Hardy Beta. Suspend works from GUI and
by using Fn-F4, but is not triggered by closing the lid.
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Oops. Sorry. I didn't realise that I had to install python-opengl as
well. Nevertheless if a package has "gl" in its name it is not
reasonable to consider 3D functionality to be optional;. There are
plenty of 2D chess front ends. glchess's 3D functionality needs to be
enabled by default.
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I installed glchess today but python-gtkglext1 did not get pulled in
with it and the the 3D option remained greyed out. When I installed
python-gtkglext1 the 3D option at least showed up in the "view" menu,
but selecting it made no difference – the board always displays in 2D.
** Changed in: gnome
I have a related problem, although I am not sure whether or not it is
due to the same bug.
In my case, Totem continues playing while I am moving a window, as does
kmplayer, amarok, vlc, audacious and gxine. However both mplayer and
realplayer 10 stop playing. Once the window move is completed they
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I discovered quite by chance (from http://en.wikipedia.org/Esszet) that
I could generate an ß in Gnome 2.14 and earlier using control-shift-df
(it changes to something else in 2.15 apparently). However I can find
nothing in the gnome documentation about this, or about all the
I'm using Edgy. The stream we were listening to was one of the access-
on-demand streams at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio3.shtml
(i.e. not the live stream).
The page as we had it was slightly modified by greasemonkey in that a
"listen in standa
Something has changed. Before I temporarily switched to firefox as the
default browser nothing would happen when I clicked on the links, but
now when I click on one of the links it tries to open a new instance of
seamonkey. I know this because seamonkey still does the old mozilla
suite thing of ask
My preferred browser is seamonkey. If I change this to firefox then I
can open the weblinks in firefox. However they don't open in seamonkey
even when it is the default browser.
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ekiga 2.0.3 in edgy
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Binary package hint: totem-mozilla
This fault occurred in totem-mozilla hosted by seamonkey (i.e. by an
ubuntu package as such). I am reporting it on the assumption that the
same thing could happen when it is hosted by firefox.
Seamonkey crashed while playing a realaudio str
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Binary package hint: ekiga
The weblinks in [Tools-->PC-To-Phone Account] in Ekiga don't work.
** Affects: ekiga (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Sorry I don't have any new information because I don't use Evolution any
more.
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I'm sorry I don't have any new information because I don't use Evolution
any more.
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This is a bug with gnome-dictionary in Dapper.
I want to configure gnome-dictionary to look up German words, but I
can't find out how to do it.
Ideally there should be a long dropdown list of dictionaries to choose
from -- English, French and Spanish, by themselves are not e
That's very encouraging. The Font Management wiki page addresses all the
issues I have mentioned above.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FontManagement
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Sorry, I hadn't seen Jeff Greene's comment when I made my last comment.
I have just tried going to fonts:/// in Nautilus, but it doesn't offer
any obvious ways to do anything. For instance I tried dragging and
dropping a font file into the window, but it didn't stick, not even when
I did it is root
Part of the problem is that the standard Ubuntu install includes a large
number of fonts for a large number of languages. For instance the
arabeyes package installs a couple of dozen fonts or so. For someone who
cannot read Arabic script there is little value in having more than one
or two Arabic f
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Binary package hint: gnome
Gnome lacks a tool to manage fonts the way you can in KDE or in OS X. It
is very hard to work with a large number of fonts if you cannot enable
or disable them when needed. For instance I have just had to uninstall a
load of novelty fonts because th
I've tried following the suggestions given here, but they don't work for
me. I probably won't try anything else because I will be switching to a
different MUA in the next couple of days.
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Sebastian, no, it seems to be gone. I have recently installed Dapper on
another box and the problem hasn't occurred. I can't remember whether I
had installed all the samba stuff before I tried it on that machine,
although I suspect I did. In any case I still think the most likely
explanation has so
By virtual trash I mean the trash folder that appears in my imap account
when it is displayed in Evolution, but does not exist on the server (as
opposed to my real imap trash folder, which is where I would like the
trash to be stored). Messages deleted in Evolution will appear to be
moved to the vi
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Binary package hint: evolution
I have just discovered that I cannot empty the virtual trash for my
fastmail.fm imap account. Right clicking and "empty trash" doesn't work.
Dragging and dropping to the real trash doesn't work. Searching for all
the virtually deleted messages i
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Binary package hint: evolution
I am reporting this as an ubuntu bug because evolution is the default
email client of ubuntu and therefore, to the extent that it is poorly
maintained, it will have a major impact on Ubuntu as a whole.
The evolution developers take years to dea
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Binary package hint: evolution
This might possibly be related to #47329.
When I add contacts, for instance by rlght-clicking on an email address,
the contacts show up in the main contact view, but are not available
when I click on the "To:" button in a compose window. Only a
Please could you mark this as urgent. My spam levels are now getting
unmanageable. In other words this bug is a blocker as far as evolution
is concerned.
At the very least could we have some ad hoc documentation on how to get
spam filtering of some sort working in evolution? At this point I no
lon
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Binary package hint: synaptic
Synaptic should be able to tell you which repository a package came
from.
For example I just compiled a detailed bug report concerning the package
"realplay" (it installs realplayer 10, not 8) and then discovered that
launchpad didn't want it be
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Binary package hint: synaptic
Synaptic should be able to tell you which repository a package came
from.
For example I just compiled a detailed bug report concerning the package
"realplay" (it installs realplayer 10, not 8) and then discovered that
launchpad didn't want it be
For some reason the problem has gone away. I suspect that this may have
had something to do with me installing some package necessary for samba
to work, although I can't remember exactly what I did. What I mean is
that I think the problem may have something to do with shares-admin not
being able to
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This bug is with Evolution 2.6.1 in Dapper.
On a few occasions I have found that the message display window has
frozen, even though other parts of Evolution appear to be working. In
other words I can select other messages in the message list, or go to
other folders and select
Forgot to mention that I am using Ubuntu Dapper.
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Instead of the imap folder tree appearing under the name of the account
in the left-hand window you simply get the word "Loading..." It stays
like that until you close Evolution.
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Sorry Simon. it looks like I've had a bit of a brainfart. There does
appear to be a zoom to arbitrary size option after all. I think I didn't
notice it because it was greyed out until I checked the appropriate box.
Perhaps a human interface issue, albeit a minor one.
Of course correctly identifyin
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I often work on a 17" monitor set to 1280x960 resolution. At this
resolution it is impossible to get abiword to zoom appropriately. A
letter size page at "actual size" in fact displays with a width just
about equal to the diameter of a CD or DVD. None of the other zoom
options
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Binary package hint: evolution
I misconfigured an account in evolution to fetch mail under imap4
instead of imap because I didn't know any better. The result was that
mail failed to come in, but I was not alerted to any error. The imap
server concerned was fastmail.fm.
What
This bug has just afflicted me for the first time (although I have had
problems with duplicate mails already). It actually happened while I was
starting and stopping evolution in order to compile an unrelated bug
report, #62192. To be more precise, I first noticed it immediately after
the double ev
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Binary package hint: evolution
This bug is related to, but not identical to, #37878. It is more like a
number of bugs, but I am finding it very hard to distinguish one from
another.
1. I installed dapper and spam filtering did not work.
2. I found that bogofilter wasn't ins
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
In dapper shares-admin crashes on launch. The error messages vary, but
usually a window appears with a spinning wheel and the contents greyed
out. On one occasion, while trying to launch shares-admin as non-root, a
password dialogue app
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