Re: Touch screen ultrabook suspends when screen is locked

2015-12-08 Thread Steve Ovens
Thought I would bump this up On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Steve Ovens <steve_ov...@linux.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 installed on an ultrabook which generally works > well. However, whenever the screen is locked it actually suspends the > machin

Touch screen ultrabook suspends when screen is locked

2015-12-03 Thread Steve Ovens
Hi All, I have Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 installed on an ultrabook which generally works well. However, whenever the screen is locked it actually suspends the machine. I have changed the gnome settings to blank instead of suspend and I have also tried adjusted logind.conf to HandleLidSwitch=ignore

Re: Encrypting with Evolution *Off Topic*

2015-09-15 Thread Steve Ovens
I have been using Evolution exclusively since 2008. Love it, though I have no business requirement for encryption so I haven't tried that functionality. I am, however watching this with interest On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Leo Francisco wrote: > Is anyone out

Some good news and some bad news

2015-02-08 Thread Steve Ovens
Hello all, I have been evaluating my own situation lately and I feel it is time to resign from Ubuntu Gnome. I haven't really found a way to be useful. I don't seem to be overly useful in the packaging team and I feel like I am a bigger drain on resources than I am a help. Therefore I am

Re: Why?!

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Ovens
For myself, I have a vm that tracks the newest release but mostly for package building. I dont really have a machine that is a daily machine that I can work through some of the bugs with. I have 2 work laptops and my main desktop for machines that I use daily that I cant really afford to have

Re: Droplet offered by Steve O.

2014-09-11 Thread Steve Ovens
Got caught up with moving cities. Appologies Ping me when you are ready On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Niels Vermaut nielsverm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys! Hi there :) Steve O. offered my a droplet for the

Re: Problems after dist-upgrade

2014-09-01 Thread Steve Ovens
horribly. End result: Reinstall, re-add xorg edgers, install nvidia-343 and I am now up and running On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 01/09/14 12:24, Steve Ovens wrote: So I did a dist upgrade and rebooted and now things have been throwing Soft Lockup: CPU

Re: Ubuntu GNOME Bug - Update

2014-08-25 Thread Steve Ovens
I cant reproduce this either on 3 computers On Aug 25, 2014 7:53 AM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 25/08/14 02:25, Nathan Russell wrote: I'd like to first raise awareness of every piece of evidence or relevant data I'm aware of regarding the bug. 1) The Ubuntu Forum thread I first

Middle mouse button stopped pasting

2014-07-31 Thread Steve Ovens
Hi All, On one of my Ubuntu 14.04 installs the middle mouse button no longer pastes. I am unsure how to trouble shoot this? Is this a problem with the buffer or has some update disabled the middle mouse button paste functionality? I appreciate any insight. -- Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer

Re: Middle mouse button stopped pasting

2014-07-31 Thread Steve Ovens
the mouse wheel emulation. This solved my problem On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Steve Ovens steve_ov...@linux.com wrote: Hi All, On one of my Ubuntu 14.04 installs the middle mouse button no longer pastes. I am unsure how to trouble shoot this? Is this a problem with the buffer or has some

Re: Chromium Browser

2014-06-20 Thread Steve Ovens
No issues here, although I moved from Chromium to Chrome due to a work requirement of having a later version of flash then is available outside of chrome. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Shenal Silva shenal.silva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All I am having similar issues here. Chrome tabs

Re: Problem with Flash Player on Firefox and Chromium

2014-06-20 Thread Steve Ovens
Honestly I use Google Chrome for flash based needs since Adobe abandon us. I dont even bother with the flash version in firefox anymore. FF is still my main driver, I just use Chrome when I absolutely need some flash content On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.com

Re: Attention Please (was: Re: Meeting(s) to discuss the blueprints)

2014-06-15 Thread Steve Ovens
I'm Canada east coast time gmt -4. Most nights are ok 00:00 to 02:00 gmt (20 to 22:00 local time). Weekends are more flexible On Jun 15, 2014 12:15 PM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote: This is urgent so please pay attention ... On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Ali/amjjawad

Re: How to remove gnome documents?

2014-06-11 Thread Steve Ovens
). When I have just nautilus, there are no search results displayed. Should I be filing a bug for this? As a matter of troubleshooting I have tried changing out the extension that does the searching. I get the same results either way. Please advise On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Steve Ovens

Re: How to remove gnome documents?

2014-06-11 Thread Steve Ovens
, May 2, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Steve Ovens steve_ov...@linux.com wrote: I have set Disabled ['gnome-documents.desktop'] Which indeed prevents gnome-documents from displaying in the activities interface. However, the Nautlius Recent Items do not show up there. I logged out and back in, I have

Re: [Vote] Time + Day for Weekly Meeting

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Ovens
I'm on the Canadian East Coast (gmt -4). I can be available anywhere from 22:00gmt to 02:00gmt Mon-Fri. I am fairly flexible on the weekends... 12gmt-00gmt usually On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote: Hi all, This is a quick email and it is very important

Re: Evolution 3.12 again.

2014-05-27 Thread Steve Ovens
We have no specific ETA. I can tell you that (mainly) Tim, and I are working towards bringing down the debian upstream packages. I use evolution daily for my work on Ubuntu Gnome and when my VPN drops, I simply close and reopen the program and this works fine for me. Have you tried this? On

Re: Meeting(s) to discuss the blueprints

2014-05-17 Thread Steve Ovens
I may also be able to attend depending on the day and whats going on (GMT -5 here) On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Alfredo Hernández aldomann.desi...@gmail.com wrote: If it's on a weekend I'd probably could attend, I believe. On 16 May 2014 07:51, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote:

Tracker Bug... still in the right location?

2014-05-13 Thread Steve Ovens
Hi All, I am still suffering from this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1076232 which has to do with Nautilus and tracker search. I notice that it was filed under regular Ubuntu, as opposed to Ubuntu-Gnome. Should this still be there? Any suggestions on how to get

Re: How to remove gnome documents?

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Ovens
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 02/05/14 08:11, Steve Ovens wrote: On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm mailto: dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 01/05/14 22:29, Steve Ovens wrote: Hi All, I have spent some

Re: How to remove gnome documents?

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Ovens
have tried changing the search order to: ['nautilus.desktop', 'gnome-contacts.desktop', 'gnome-documents.desktop']. I can see that I have items when I open Files in my Recent Places. Anyone have any further pointers? On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Steve Ovens steve_ov...@linux.com wrote

How to remove gnome documents?

2014-05-01 Thread Steve Ovens
Hi All, I have spent some time looking into this but I can't find anything definitive. I want to use the recently used files functionality, however it always wants to open *everything* in gnome documents. This is a problem because a lot of the files have passwords and moreover, I actually want to

Re: How to remove gnome documents?

2014-05-01 Thread Steve Ovens
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 01/05/14 22:29, Steve Ovens wrote: Hi All, I have spent some time looking into this but I can't find anything definitive. I want to use the recently used files functionality, however it always wants to open *everything

Re: Removing Gnome from Ubuntu 14.04

2014-04-29 Thread Steve Ovens
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Tim dark...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 29/04/14 16:22, Balázs Németh wrote: My Nvidia notebook graphic card does not likes it that much. So I put the base Ubuntu desktop back. Anyways, the original question was about removing the leftovers. gnome-shell runs

Re: Previewing the new design

2014-04-28 Thread Steve Ovens
Looking pretty good so far! On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Niels Vermaut nielsverm...@gmail.comwrote: So, I'm still designing the new site, however upon request, I've made a droplet so that everyone can see what is happening to the design. Shenal Silva also reminded me that there is a

Re: GNOME 3 PPA outdated?

2014-04-20 Thread Steve Ovens
We are working to update all of the apps. It takes time to unravel all of the dependencies and there is a staged approach. Rest assured that we will be updating the PPA over the next few weeks and we ask for patience. It is also the Easter weekend for some of us, which is a time where not much

Re: Membership in mailing list disabled!

2014-04-19 Thread Steve Ovens
I have also received this. Perhaps there is something wrong with mail server? On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Satyajit Sahoo satyajit.ha...@gmail.comwrote: *Your membership in the mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME has been disabled dueto excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] *One More* Day to go!

2014-04-17 Thread Steve Ovens
Yes this bug i can confirm. However i experience this in all ubuntus back to 12.04. I believe when i looked into it, it had to do with googles reimplementation of the mtp stack in later versions of andriod. A quick google will find others on other distros suffering the same problem. For myself i

Re: Problems after updates this morning (Trusty)

2014-04-05 Thread Steve Ovens
...@feathertop.org wrote: On 26/03/14 02:58, Steve Ovens wrote: Has anyone else been having with Trusty after updates? This morning I ran updates, and ever since then my wifi connections have become flaky/unreliable and pings now require sudo permissions? Is this intentional or is something

Re:

2014-03-31 Thread Steve Ovens
For the time being gnome 3.12 packages will be in the staging repo. It is on my list of things to do in the next week or so, start pushing newer apps to that repo On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Héctor Sales Llamas hectorsaleslla...@gmail.com wrote: Do you're sure of what you say ? There's

Re: [Reminder] Please test the 'latest' daily build

2014-03-26 Thread Steve Ovens
What is required to test the iso-tracker? you mean download torrents? On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Lance lbsol...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Ali, Hi, We additionally need to get more testers to report their results

Re: Call for Testing Trusty Tahr Final Beta Candidate

2014-03-25 Thread Steve Ovens
I have been running 14.04 on 3 different laptops since alpha. A thinkpad, an HP dv6500 and a galago ultra pro. On the older machines i have the occasional crash during login. The component varies and i usually submit the abrt. On the Ultra pro i havent had any problems that i can recall. I have

Re: [Announcement] Take a Deep Breath :D

2014-03-18 Thread Steve Ovens
Congrats to all. Lots of time and resources have been poured into the effort On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote: Hi everyone, Take a very deep breath, please ... ready? are you sure? okay, there you go: http://ubuntugnome.org/lts-status/ What a huge

Re: StartUbuntu and Ubuntu GNOME

2014-03-12 Thread Steve Ovens
It always amazes me the amount of energy you have around converting your neighbourhood. Where I live, neighbours are not close, aside from the person directly next to your house, generally there is no communication in the neighbourhood. If I tried to accomplish what you are doing, they would look

Re: [Poll] Community Wallpaper Contest for Trusty Tahr

2014-03-05 Thread Steve Ovens
I agree, fantastic choices... I am actually surprised we get 10 votes. Some great photography work On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Fran Dieguez fran.dieg...@mabishu.comwrote: On mié 05 mar 2014 12:45:04 CET, Ali/amjjawad wrote: Hi everyone, Kindly have a read and make a vote, please :)

Re: Vacation page in Wiki

2014-02-22 Thread Steve Ovens
+1 for me. I probably will not use it as vacation as much as the weeks I am doing my on-call rotation I am usually useless On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Alfredo Hernández aldomann.desi...@gmail.com wrote: +1 subscribing to the page itself will allow anyone who wants to know who's busy

Re: Mirror for Ubuntu GNOME Trusty

2014-02-22 Thread Steve Ovens
Does your university block the updates as well? Is there a reason why you aren't using the alpha 2 and using the updates? On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Satyajit Sahoo satyajit.ha...@gmail.comwrote: I've no other means to download. On 22 February 2014 18:42, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org

Re: Team Meetings, yet again

2014-02-10 Thread Steve Ovens
I voted, Saturday or Sunday 14:00 GMT or onward since I am gmt -5, that makes weekdays very difficult On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, I sent the below email a week ago:

Re: Microsoft needs to migrate to Linux :D

2014-02-06 Thread Steve Ovens
cute! Nice share On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Ali/amjjawad amjja...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Adrián Avila adrian.avila@gmail.comwrote: *It article is a fluke.* We all know that what happens when you're dealing with Microsoft ;) 2014-02-06

Re: Ubuntu-GNOME Digest, Vol 11, Issue 49

2014-01-23 Thread Steve Ovens
I am with Lance, I have a significant number of computers/vms, enough that I maintain a local repo. The only machine that moves from LTS is generally my laptop. However, I wonder, aside from the DE, since we just pull from Ubuntu Main, the core still receives the updates to be on the level with

Re: Support Tim's Application

2014-01-19 Thread Steve Ovens
contributors( tech and non-tech alike) are welcomed and respected. This has great appeal and sows the seeds for long-term growth and stability. Best, David On Sun, Jan 19, 2014, at 05:52 AM, Steve Ovens wrote: N00b question... what does ppu and motu stand for? On Jan 19, 2014 3

Re: 5 Linux Distributions that Deserve more Love

2014-01-14 Thread Steve Ovens
Ya I saw this last night... there is an interesting distro in there On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Thought to share this with you: http://ow.ly/syreK Thank you! -- Remember: All of us are smarter than any one of us. Best Regards,

Re: introduction

2014-01-12 Thread Steve Ovens
Welcome to the team. Tim is our glorious leader in the packaging/development side of things. If you have questions you can feel free to tag me with them regarding packaging. I am new also (since Nov) but I have run through a few packages. I will be updating the packaging wiki some time this week

Re: Possible Evolution Bug?

2014-01-09 Thread Steve Ovens
but I can't create a new one On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Tim t...@feathertop.org wrote: On 10/01/14 06:43, Steve Ovens wrote: Hi All, I am sending this to the greater mailing list because I would like for the QA people to have some visibility into this as well. I believe I have

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Moment of Truth

2014-01-06 Thread Steve Ovens
On the issue of bugs, when we see something that differs from stock gnome that we would like back, some projects have these filed as bugs. How should this be handled in Ubuntu Gnome? I am specifically thinking about how the network icon is missing in Trusty as compared to my Arch install. I find

Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Moment of Truth

2014-01-06 Thread Steve Ovens
/14 10:38, Steve Ovens wrote: On the issue of bugs, when we see something that differs from stock gnome that we would like back, some projects have these filed as bugs. How should this be handled in Ubuntu Gnome? I am specifically thinking about how the network icon is missing in Trusty

Re: Tracker

2014-01-04 Thread Steve Ovens
I cant speak for the group, but my personal opinion is that to reduce maintenance complexity, it seems logical to limit the number of moving parts. If the desktop has some major problem, it becomes a more difficult task to track down which (if any) extension has caused the problem On Sat, Jan 4,

Re: Invitation for Hangout on Air Meeting

2014-01-04 Thread Steve Ovens
I kept trying to join and it kept saying that it wasnt live yet, so i eventually ended up catching the recorded version On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Wiki and Docs

Re: May I introduce myself?

2014-01-02 Thread Steve Ovens
Hi Karl, Thanks for the interest in the project. Which sub team(s) are you looking to help with? Please read the ubuntu gnome wiki regarding getting involvrd. (I would link you but I am on my mobile) We look forward to your contributions! Regards Steve On Jan 1, 2014 9:41 PM, Karol Woźniak

Re: Edit Ubuntu gnome Wiki page with a script?

2013-12-30 Thread Steve Ovens
though On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Steve Ovens steve_ov...@linux.comwrote: Hi all, related to tracking packages which have already been processed, I am wondering if it is possible to edit a wiki page dedicated

Re: [FAQ] Ubuntu GNOME The Display Server

2013-12-20 Thread Steve Ovens
Hi Ali, I believe in the FAQ there should be some more detail. I know both Wayland and Mir are premature, but putting that in the FAQ without a detailed description of each seems lacking to me. My proposal would be to either change the title to something like But what if Ubuntu chooses a

Re: [Monthly Report] November 2013

2013-12-15 Thread Steve Ovens
I'm not sure that I am a big fan of this. I am accustomed to you how Nautilus works in Gnome 3.10. Maybe I am just old, but I am not sure I am overly down with the changes. I don't quite see the problem they are trying to solve with some of the abstrations On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Sean

Re: Edit Ubuntu gnome Wiki page with a script?

2013-12-13 Thread Steve Ovens
I have completed the script (I believe). As I am not an official member of Ubuntu (yet) I cannot use people.ubuntu.com. I am open to suggestions as to where I should post this Regards On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Tim t...@feathertop.org wrote: On 12/12/13 06:30, Steve Ovens wrote: Hi

Re: Talk to Ubuntu GNOME Team!

2013-12-13 Thread Steve Ovens
I eat a ton of Tim's time on IRC already... poor Tim On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Would You Like to Talk With One of Ubuntu GNOME Team Members on Google Hangout? Ask? Discuss? Share? Anything in Mind? Let me know :) -- Remember: All

Re: Talk to Ubuntu GNOME Team!

2013-12-13 Thread Steve Ovens
Is your intent to sort of coordinate a hangout(s) across different time zones or are you simply going to say, person X is going to online at xx.xx GMT? On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Steve Ovens steve_ov

Edit Ubuntu gnome Wiki page with a script?

2013-12-11 Thread Steve Ovens
Hi all, related to tracking packages which have already been processed, I am wondering if it is possible to edit a wiki page dedicated to this purpose from a script. As I understand each wiki software has different ways to acheive this. Any pointers would be appreciated -- Red Hat Certified

Re: light-weight gnome

2013-11-22 Thread Steve Ovens
-light package. I though it will be a good idea ... :( MATE is created by GTK+2, so it can not provide new feature of GTK+3. 2013/11/22 William wjck...@gmail.com MATE is a GNOME 2 fork that is extremely light weight. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Steve Ovens steve_ov...@linux.com

Re: [Following Up] Joining Ubuntu GNOME

2013-11-15 Thread Steve Ovens
Hi All, As requested by Ali, I am replying to this email because I am still interested in joining the team. I hope to hear from Tim in the next little while to find out the next steps. Regards Steve On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Everyone,

Hoping to answer a call for help

2013-11-11 Thread Steve Ovens
Greetings all, I am looking to answer the call for a package builder for Ubuntu Gnome. I have the hardware and the internet bandwidth to help out (as well as the dedication and skill). I have followed the steps found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GettingInvolved For those interested