[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1002424] Re: After upgrading to Precise (12.04), Lightning calendar tab always disappears on Thunderbird restart

2018-07-02 Thread Doug Morse
This problem appears to have been corrected in Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.05. This ticket can be closed. Thank you. ** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to t

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1582213] Re: [xenial] Bluetooth device doesn't play any sound in A2DP mode unless set to HSP/HFP first

2017-06-05 Thread Doug Morse
@Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt): Thanks for your assistance! I am not Mary Sherman, and I'm continuing to experience this problem, even with the PPA and after rebooting. I didn't subscribe to this bug, I didn't even know about it. I report bug 1691556 and you marked it a duplicate of this one. As I

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1582213] Re: [xenial] Bluetooth device doesn't play any sound in A2DP mode unless set to HSP/HFP first

2017-06-03 Thread Doug Morse
The problem appears to be with setting up the input sink, which I couldn't care less about. If any knows of a way for bluez / pulseaudio to force a device to just connect as an output-only device (e.g., normal bluetooth speaker), I think I'd be fine, as I have no problems with numerous other bluet

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1582213] Re: [xenial] Bluetooth device doesn't play any sound in A2DP mode unless set to HSP/HFP first

2017-06-03 Thread Doug Morse
@hife and @Mary Sherman (spot9019): Thanks for the speedy replies! @hife: Thanks for describing your workaround in greater detail. I've already tried the a2dp.py script, it doesn't fix the problem for me. I just downloaded again the latest version and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1582213] Re: [xenial] Bluetooth device doesn't play any sound in A2DP mode unless set to HSP/HFP first

2017-06-02 Thread Doug Morse
@hife and @Mary Sherman (spot9019): You both indicate that the latest pulse-testing ppa fixes the problem for you. Can you both indicate whether you are running Unity as the desktop or KDE or perhaps some other? I still have suspicions that there may be a permissions issue that is specific to Un

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1582213] Re: [xenial] Bluetooth device doesn't play any sound in A2DP mode unless set to HSP/HFP first

2017-06-01 Thread Doug Morse
I must unfortunately report that that the recently reported fix does not work for me. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS connecting to Amazon Echo. Pulseaudio 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3~xenial1, which is the latest presently available from ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/pulse-testing as of today. The problem appears to result in the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1668704] Re: Cannot type any input into web pages with epiphany browser after upgrade

2017-02-28 Thread Doug Morse
Changed package from epiphany to epiphany-browser. ** Package changed: epiphany (Ubuntu) => epiphany-browser (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to epiphany-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1668704 Ti

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1132063] Re: Mouse settings missing from Mouse & Touchpad dialog

2015-12-29 Thread Doug Morse
Same problem on brand new 15.10 installed yesterday. From searching Google, I see that plugging in a wired mouse brings the settings back, and the pointer speed settings affects both mice. So, I've been able to make the needed adjustment, and it persists. However, disconnecting the wired USB mou

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 887654] Re: p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open share

2013-08-02 Thread Doug Morse
alien4any's solution (post #6) worked perfectly for me after trying several other suggestions found around the net (e.g., getlibs, etc). Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-keyring in Ub

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1002424] Re: After upgrading to Precise (12.04), Lightning calendar tab always disappears on Thunderbird restart

2012-05-21 Thread Doug Morse
Typo Correction: "...persisted across starts, but now it does not." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1002424 Title: After upgrading to Precise (12.04), Lightning cal

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1002424] Re: After upgrading to Precise (12.04), Lightning calendar tab always disappears on Thunderbird restart

2012-05-21 Thread Doug Morse
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1002424 Title: After upgrading to Precise (12.04), Lightning calendar tab always disappears on Thunderbird restart Status in “thun

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1002424] [NEW] After upgrading to Precise (12.04), Lightning calendar tab always disappears on Thunderbird restart

2012-05-21 Thread Doug Morse
Public bug reported: Since upgrading to Precies (12.04), every time I start (or restart) Thunderbird, the Lightning calendar tab disappears (all my other Thunderbird tabs persist). Prior to upgrading, the Lightning calendar tab always persisted across starts, but not it does not. This is a minor

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2012-03-06 Thread Doug Morse
@Sam: Any word on this re: firefox/thunderbird menus not appearing of disappearing after workspace switching? It's been 4 months since the first report on this issue without any resolution or workaround, and it's a constant irritation. I appreciate that most of the work here is voluntary contribu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 934711] Re: Google Plus (Google+) stopped working within Thunderbird after upgrade to 10.0.2 (10.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1)

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Morse
** Attachment added: "screenshot.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934711/+attachment/2751286/+files/screenshot.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934711 Titl

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 934711] [NEW] Google Plus (Google+) stopped working within Thunderbird after upgrade to 10.0.2 (10.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1)

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Morse
Public bug reported: Today, Feb. 17, 2012, running apt-get upgrade caused my version of Thunderbird to upgrade to version 10.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1. Everything seems to be working fine, with one notable exception: Visiting Google Plus within Thunderbird now no longer works, whereas it had be

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2012-02-01 Thread Doug Morse
@Sean: Thanks for the tip re: upgrading Compiz from oneiric-proposed (c.f., Bug #896762). I've done so (i.e., upgraded Compiz) and, although so far the problem seems to occur less often, for me at least it FAR from fixes it. Of course, my version of the problem occurs more (perhaps exclusively) w

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2012-01-12 Thread Doug Morse
On 2011-12-05 (Comment #37) Tim Penhey (thumper) wrote: > I believe that Sam may have fixed this bug already. Any further word on this? It's been over a month since Tim wrote this, and I still have to deal with this issue constantly re: menus either never appearing or disappearing immediately upo

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876929] Re: Evince crashes (segfault) under Unity with a custom theme

2012-01-03 Thread Doug Morse
Hi Jamie, Thanks for the help, although I'm not sure the actions you propose will fix the problem. /local/stores/morse is just a place I store large files on a separate partition and has nothing to do with evince. I relocate /usr/local to /srv/system/usr/local, a separate parition, and create a

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 897794] Re: Firefox 8 User Agent String "Ubuntu; " addition causes attempt to download rather than display

2011-12-06 Thread Doug Morse
@Sharif: Did you try to download the plugin directly from the website I mentioned in comment #9? I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 with the very latest official of Firefox (FF 8.0) from Ubuntu and the plugin works just fine for me. See the attached screenshots. Of course, the "Ubuntu; " part of the user agent

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-05 Thread Doug Morse
@Tim: Fantastic! It'd be great to get confirmation of that, as well as I for one am quite curious as to what the problem was and where it resided (e.g., Compiz, Mozilla, both, something else?). In hunting around for a fix, I noticed similar problems have been reported on other (non-Linux) platfor

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-05 Thread Doug Morse
@Anders: Very helpful, input -- thanks! I'm 99% certain that both Thunderbird and Firefox render their menus with Javascript -- this is how plug-ins / add-ons are able to change the contents of menus -- and this is rather unique when compared to most other Linux apps. So, thanks again for the tip

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-05 Thread Doug Morse
@Sean: Thanks for the input and yes, that's my recollection, too. I read through Thane's post so quickly I missed that he's still on 10.10. and that there's is no such setting in 11.04 / 11.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribe

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-05 Thread Doug Morse
@Thane: This is potentially very helpful information, thanks! I'm not entirely certain, but I think that selecting System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects -> None disables Compiz entirely, which, if so, would confirm that Compiz is implicated (which we already suspected). However, i

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 897794] Re: Firefox 8 User Agent String "Ubuntu; " addition causes attempt to download rather than display

2011-12-05 Thread Doug Morse
I can confirm that, as a workaround, if you install the User Agent Switcher: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/ and simply create a new user agent -- I called mine "Firefox 8.0" -- and edit out the "Ubuntu; " (notice that the space after the semicolon is removed),

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 897794] Re: Firefox 8 User Agent String "Ubuntu; " addition causes attempt to download rather than display

2011-12-05 Thread Doug Morse
I am also having several sites prompting me to download a "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" file for various websites. I also encountered one case in which the page simply renders the page as raw HTML instead of actually rending the page/frames correctly. This behavior is new, and I believe coincid

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-04 Thread Doug Morse
@Anders: Thanks, and thanks for your helpful input! Disabling transparent menus did seem to help, in that I was able to work intently for about 2 hours w/o menus disappearing. This is a much longer period than I've experienced in recent times (menus typically disappear on me every several minutes

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-04 Thread Doug Morse
@Andres and Sean: Most excellent, thanks. :) So, the disappearing menu issue is then not likely due to upgrade issues. @Andres: I agree, I think that Compiz is definitely implicated. That this problem only occurs with Mozilla apps -- as far as anyone has reported -- seems to narrow it down to at

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-03 Thread Doug Morse
@Domingos86: OK, good to know, thanks. Anyone out there having this disappearing menu problem based on a fresh (not upgraded) install of Oneiric (11.10)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-01 Thread Doug Morse
@Thane: Thanks so much. This pretty much disconfirms my working hypothesis, at least for Thunderbird -- that going into Expo view is necessary to trigger the problem -- but disconfirmation is useful information nonetheless. This seems to be a nasty bug in that I suspect it's going to be a hard on

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-01 Thread Doug Morse
Thanks Dave for your feedback -- I think the information is quite helpful. So, just to be clear: You DO have this problem when switching workspaces with Ctrl-Alt- (and hence never "zooming out" to Expo view)? IOW, my present working hypothesis is that going into Expo view is essential to triggeri

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 872207] Re: When Firefox is running in Unity, drop-down menus sometime close when opened

2011-12-01 Thread Doug Morse
Hi, [This comment is a bit long. For those in a hurry, perhaps just read the "important part" set off below. :) ] As with Dave Russell (comment #15), menus disappear for me constantly as well, both in Firefox and in Thunderbird. I'd say 20+ times an hour rather than 20+ per day. Globalmenus wo

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 894048] Re: Keyboard accelerators not working correctly in Firefox and Thunderbird after upgrade from 11.04 (Natty) to 11.10 (Oneiric)

2011-11-23 Thread Doug Morse
I should add: I'm pretty sure this problem has existed since I first upgrade to Oneiric (11.10). Regardless, it certainly is a problem now. Here are what I believe to be the relevant packages and their versions: morse@s3 ~> dpkg -l | egrep "(thunderbird|firefox)" ii firefox

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 894048] Re: Keyboard accelerators in firefox-globalmenu and thunderbird-global menu after upgrade from 11.04 (Natty) to 11.10 (Oneiric)

2011-11-23 Thread Doug Morse
** Summary changed: - Keyboard accelerators in firefox-globalmenu and thunderbird-global menu after upgrade from 11.04 (Natty) to 11.10 (Oneiric) + Keyboard accelerators not working correctly in Firefox and Thunderbird after upgrade from 11.04 (Natty) to 11.10 (Oneiric) -- You received this bu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 894048] [NEW] Keyboard accelerators not working correctly in Firefox and Thunderbird after upgrade from 11.04 (Natty) to 11.10 (Oneiric)

2011-11-23 Thread Doug Morse
Public bug reported: Hi, After upgrading from Natty (11.04) to Oneiric (11.10), the keyboard accelerators for firefox-globalmenu and thunderbird-globalmenu have stopped working correctly. Behavior: When pressing a keyboard accelerator, for example, Alt-F for the File menu, for the first time af

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 874320] Re: Wake on Lan (WOL) not working after upgrade from natty to oneiric

2011-10-22 Thread Doug Morse
9:36:1d:d3. SO... probably a false alarm here. :) I'll close this bug if I am able; otherwise I leave it for the proper admin to do so. Thanks, Doug ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Doug Morse (dm-dougmorse) -- You received this bug notification beca

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 874320] Re: Wake on Lan (WOL) not working after upgrade from natty to oneiric

2011-10-22 Thread Doug Morse
Closing my erroneous bug report. :) ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874320 Title: Wake on

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876929] Re: Evince crashes (segfault) under Unity with a custom theme

2011-10-18 Thread Doug Morse
I presume you meant 'aa-complain' and yes, that fixed it. I had thought that the problem might be AppArmour related, but did not think to check /var/log/syslog, which clearly showed that AA was the problem. Below you can see both the before (DENIED) and the after (ALLOW) -- after I ran aa-complai

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876929] Re: Evince crashes (segfault) under Unity with a custom theme

2011-10-17 Thread Doug Morse
OK, just now I backed up /usr/share/themes/Ambiance to /usr/share/themes/Ambiance.DIST and made the same three trivial changes to the them -- changed selected_bg_color from #f07746 to #008ab8 in gtk-3.0/settings.ini, gtk-3.0/gtkrc, and gtk-2.0/gtkrc -- and switched to this updated Ambiance theme.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876929] Re: Evince crashes (segfault) under Unity with a custom theme

2011-10-17 Thread Doug Morse
** Attachment added: "Strace log of evince" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876929/+attachment/2555641/+files/strace-evince.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876929

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876929] [NEW] Evince crashes (segfault) under Unity with a custom theme

2011-10-17 Thread Doug Morse
Public bug reported: I have created a custom theme -- a trivial derivation of Ubuntu 11.10's stock Ambiance them, with the only changes being changing the selection color from orange to blue (1 color change in 3 files) -- and everything works fine except that evince crashes with a segfault. I hav

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 874320] [NEW] Wake on Lan (WOL) not working after upgrade from natty to oneiric

2011-10-14 Thread Doug Morse
Public bug reported: Hi Fellow Ubuntu-ers, Wake on lan (WOL) was working fine on my system before upgrading to Oneiric. Now, nothing I do makes WOL work again. I have tried uninstalling network-manager and simply configuring /etc/network/interfaces as such: - contents of /etc/network/inter

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 874320] Re: Wake on Lan (WOL) not working after upgrade from natty to oneiric

2011-10-14 Thread Doug Morse
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874320 Title: Wake on Lan (WOL) not working after upgrade from natty to oneiric Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: