[Desktop-packages] [Bug 991758] Re: Chromium web browser not showing mp4 videos

2015-06-30 Thread David Biesack
Attached is a screenshot of the Network view. The video is 68MB, so the content size is correct. Hope it helps. ** Attachment added: chromium-mp4-network.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/991758/+attachment/4422498/+files/chromium-mp4-network.png -- You

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 991758] Re: Chromium web browser not showing mp4 videos

2015-04-30 Thread David Biesack
It turns out that chrome fails to play the videos when they are served from a SharePoint server (on our intranet). If I download the videos, I can Ctrl-O Open them in Chrome and view them. Same if I move them to a web server instead of a document folder in SharePoint. (Note that Firefox can view

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 991758] Re: Chromium web browser not showing mp4 videos

2015-04-30 Thread David Biesack
attached is the wget log. ** Attachment added: wget.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/991758/+attachment/4388592/+files/wget.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 991758] Re: Chromium web browser not showing mp4 videos

2015-04-29 Thread David Biesack
I'm running chromium-browser Version 41.0.2272.76 Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit) and installed the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg and chromium-codecs-ffmpeg- extra but I still can't play mp4/H.264 videos in the browser. I get a black window with a play button, an empty progress bar, 0:00 and a disabled audio

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1230172] Re: gnome-calculator menu unreachable when global menu is off

2015-04-08 Thread David Biesack
I found this can be changed via dconf, for those of you (like me) who don't use Gnome or Unity and can't access this hidden menu $ dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/button-mode 'basic'; gnome-calculator $ dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/button-mode 'advanced'; gnome-calculator $ dconf write

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1001035] Re: lightdm uses a hardcoded path to .xsession-errors, please make it configurable

2013-07-25 Thread David Biesack
I log onto a couple different machines using my common network account (i.e. a shared HOME). I really need a way to set my .xsession-errors file to be host specific, so that my concurrent sessions don't stomp on each other. I recommend a boolean configuration option for lightdm.config to use a

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 382879] Re: gdm should not hardcode name of ~/.xsession-errors

2013-07-25 Thread David Biesack
also, for those of us who have a shared network home directory, logging onto two machines causes them to stomp on the same .xsession-errors file. It would be nice to have a per-host .xsession-errors file. Someone suggested we argue upstream so I've done that:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1060182] Re: Unable to add Twitter account

2012-12-11 Thread David Biesack
I tried this again today after receiving the 'expired' notification, and the subscription worked. Perhaps some other system update or reboot fixed this. Not sure if i should leave this as Expired or mark as Invalid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1060182] Re: Unable to add Twitter account

2012-10-11 Thread David Biesack
I tried again today and I see the same failure. I'm presented with the Twitter web page, grant authorization, then the Broadast Accounts dialog refreshes with Twitter authorized near the top, and a text area below that says Authorization complete. but the banner (yellow box) says Verifying and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1034594] [NEW] zenity --question --timeout returns 5 when click yes

2012-08-08 Thread David Biesack
Public bug reported: The man page says: For example, zenity --question will return either 0, 1 or 5, depending on whether the user pressed OK, Cancel or timeout has been reached. zenity --entry will output on standard output what the user typed into the text entry field. however, for the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1019364] [NEW] vinagre menu is hidden when host screen too smal

2012-06-29 Thread David Biesack
Public bug reported: I ran vinagre 3.4.2 on a laptop running 1280x1024 resolution to connect to a desktop that was running on 1600x1200 dual monitors at an effective resolution of 3200x1200. The vinagre menu that is supposed to appear at the top center of the display appears to be centered on