Re: Fwd: [u-a-dev] Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility Human Factors Issues

2012-01-13 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Is this a criticism of the Unity interface or someone who wants to learn more about how to do what they want in Unity? For example, isn't it pretty easy to add an application to the Launcher, i.e. launch the application you want and then go to the launcher and click on the add to launcher button?

In latest Precise live system if I run any GUI command with sudo prefix, I get can not open display error message

2012-01-13 Thread Hammer Attila
Hy, I doed only a minimal modified Precise based live CD based with current awailable daily live CD. I only changed the default session with GNOME3 fallback session, installed the required dependencies and hungarian language related packages. I booted the live CD with passed access=v3

Re: In latest Precise live system if I run any GUI command with sudo prefix, I get can not open display error message

2012-01-13 Thread Jeremy Lincicome
This happens in Unity as well. Jeremy On 01/13/2012 02:36 AM, Hammer Attila wrote: Hy, I doed only a minimal modified Precise based live CD based with current awailable daily live CD. I only changed the default session with GNOME3 fallback session, installed the required dependencies and

Re: [u-a-dev] Ubuntu 11.10 Accessibility Human Factors Issues

2012-01-13 Thread Penelope Stowe
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Luke Yelavich them...@ubuntu.com wrote: This was sent to the dev list, and probably should really be on the main accessibility list. - Forwarded message from lenscom...@gmail.com lenscom...@gmail.com - Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:00:25 + From:

Re: In latest Precise live system if I run any GUI command with sudo prefix, I get can not open display error message

2012-01-13 Thread Hammer Attila
Hy, Jeremy, thank you the confirmation for Unity too. Rob, unfortunately su -c command suggestion doesn't help. After I change root password and run for example su -c gedit command, I get following error message the live CD: EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager:

Re: In latest Precise live system if I run any GUI command with sudo prefix, I get can not open display error message

2012-01-13 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
DON'T use sudo with GUI programs! It can seriously screw up permissions on the user-specific files the program needs to run. Please try again using the *correct* command: gksudo -- Mackenzie Morgan -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: In latest Precise live system if I run any GUI command with sudo prefix, I get can not open display error message

2012-01-13 Thread Hammer Attila
I tryed gksudo gedit command. Unfortunately I get following error message: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: pixmap, Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: pixmap, Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: pixmap,

Falling back to gnome-panel in Oneiric (again)

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Hunt
Hi, Piecing together what I read from a couple of emails on this subject from a while back... I tried the following commands to revert to classic gnome-panel sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback dbus-send --type=method_call --system --reply-timeout=1000

Re: Falling back to gnome-panel in Oneiric (again)

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Hunt
Hi Dave, Your instructions worked, thank you. Well when I said that falling back to gnome-panel would fix problems I meant that I would no longer experience the problems... I think the specific TB issue I'm referring to is specific to running Unity and indeed it seems to be fixed although

Re: Falling back to gnome-panel in Oneiric (again)

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Hunt
Okay, TB message reading problem has resurfaced. If this was twitter I'd use hashtag #doublegutted Oh well, still nice to have the old menu system back. On 13/01/12 22:57, Dave Hunt wrote: Falling back to gnome panel will not fix the issues with unity or t-bird, just be a work-around,