[Bug 518236] Re: Evince/Okular displays incorrect characters

2010-05-24 Thread pauljohn32
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with Evince 2.30 and I see the wrong rendering in Evince with that example document. The square root doesn't show properly, it is a little "squiggle" symbol. mu comes out as the infinity symbol that is open on the right side. Please check page 3 in that pdf, look in the ta

[Bug 539912] Re: [lucid] current battery charge not easily accessable

2010-05-03 Thread pauljohn32
I applied this patch (thanks Tom) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/539912/comments/5 and it does help. Now a click on the battery icon reveals the percent charge. It is very important to me because a 'full charge' is anything above 70%, and the battery time is

[Bug 464957] Re: when changing /apps/gdm/simple-greeter disable_user_list in true, still gives a user list in gdm at startup

2009-12-13 Thread pauljohn32
I've run the configure command sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /apps/gdm/simple- greeter/disable_user_list true and the user list disappears for a while, but it keeps coming back! It seems to me as though updates are erasing my settings. In /var/log/apt/term.log, for example, I fin

[Bug 138957] Re: (gutsy) lock screen doesn't support fingerprint readers driven by thinkfinger

2008-12-09 Thread pauljohn32
Doing 3 things fixed this for me. 1. Change the permissions on $HOME/.thinkfinger_bir so that it is owned by the user, not by root: $ sudo chown pauljohn .thinkfinger.bir 2. Changing the permissions of the uinput device, which was root:root, and instead this is needed: chown root\:plugdev /dev