[Bug 1147137] [NEW] changing compiz setting breaks Unity desktop

2013-03-05 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compizconfig- settings-manager/+bug/773958 but more severe! I tried to change a setting on Compiz. I can't remember which one it was, but I think it was one of the Window Management ones. It asked me something about turnin

Re: [Bug 1134452] Re: can't install a .deb when offline

2013-02-28 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 926763 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/926763 Thanks MPT - didn't see that one when I searched. Cheers Andy On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 10:48 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 926763 *** > https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 457181] Re: Menu Help should have Report Bug entry

2013-02-27 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
It's not there on Precise 12.04. Version 5.2.7 of Software-Centre. Hopefully that makes it qualify as something other than "invalid" :) Andy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/457181 Titl

[Bug 1134452] [NEW] can't install a .deb when offline

2013-02-27 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: On Precise 12.04, on a PC that is not connected to the internet, if you double click a .deb file in Nautilus, it opens Software Centre, then gives a spinning wheel while it looks online for reviews. At that time the "install" button is greyed out. When that eventually times

Re: [Bug 739362] Re: the arrows in this PDF don't display, but do print

2012-11-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Brilliant! Thank you :) Andy On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 17:08 +, madbiologist wrote: > The PDF file attached to comment #2 now shows the arrows correctly on > Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal". > > Pacakges: evince 3.6.0-0ubuntu2 > libpoppler26 0.20.1-1ubuntu1 > libcairo

Re: [Bug 627889] Re: Asks for unexpected password when connecting to broadband

2012-06-10 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
it's even worse - support for the Huawei E220 and others (mine's K3520) has recently been broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/modemmanager/+bug/868034 and a discussion thread here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1857506 Sadly I haven't had time to fiddle with these suggest

[Bug 398162] Re: Nvdia proprietary drivers crash X randomly on T61

2011-05-13 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Sorry for the late reply - yes, it's fixed now - has been fine since Karmic, and is still good in Lucid. We're in good shape :) Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398162 Title:

[Bug 739362] Re: the arrows in this PDF don't display, but do print

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "what it looks like on windows (Adobe reader)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/739362/+attachment/1926798/+files/screengrab.JPG -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 739362] Re: the arrows in this PDF don't display, but do print

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "the PDF file that causes the problem" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/739362/+attachment/1926794/+files/UK%20Smart%20Energy%20Cloud%20Overview%20Diagram.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 739362] Re: the arrows in this PDF don't display, but do print

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/739362 Title: the arrows in this PDF don't display, but do print -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

[Bug 739362] [NEW] the arrows in this PDF don't display, but do print

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince this PDF was generated on windows from a powerpoint slide. On windows, it has some gradated arrows (green/blue) from the left-hand green shape (house) to the left blue vertical bar, and from the right blue vertical bar to the the right-hand gree

[Bug 551507] Re: Gedit indent (CTRL+T) plugin missing

2010-10-29 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Either way, the new functionality should be documented. In the plugins section of the gedit docs on Lucid, the Indent Lines plugin is still there, and still says to use Edit->indent, and in the "shortcuts" help, says ctrl-T to indent lines. I think highlighting some lines and pressing would "nor

[Bug 627889] Re: Asks for unexpected password when connecting to broadband

2010-10-25 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Oh, mine's on 32-bit Lucid, on a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p, btw. -- Asks for unexpected password when connecting to broadband https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627889 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 627889] Re: Asks for unexpected password when connecting to broadband

2010-10-25 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Am seeing the same thing (mine's in English) since I upgraded to Lucid from Karmic last week. Network Manager Applet v0.8 on Lucid. The SIM has no PIN number, but as soon as I click on the name of the mobile broadband profile it prompts for a "mobile broadband network password", repeatedly. A

[Bug 398166] Re: icon for switch users or shutdown changes

2010-09-08 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
The FUSA app was made much more sensible in Jaunty, and so is all fine now - we can close this one... thanks for following up :) Andy -- icon for switch users or shutdown changes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398166 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, wh

[Bug 227731] Re: Default archiver cannot extract file for one click

2010-01-11 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
btw, a colleague with a similarly clean Karmic install, gets exactly what you'd expect... extract then extract performs the extraction. Oh, it's File Roller 2.28.1 in both cases, btw -- Default archiver cannot extract file for one click https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/227731 You received this bu

[Bug 227731] Re: Default archiver cannot extract file for one click

2010-01-11 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
am seeing this bug on a clean Karmic install. it's as if the file chooser dialogue is "inactive" in some way... if you click one of the buttons (a radio button, or check box), e.g. all files or selected files (even if it's the same one as is already selected, when you click "extract" it works fine

[Bug 80755] Re: extracting doesn't work right when the location entry is displayed

2010-01-11 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
I think this might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/227731 -- extracting doesn't work right when the location entry is displayed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 502888] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-05 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
@C thank you for clarifying that... I don't think blue on green is a good combination in *any* terminal, but (as the examples I've now posted on the gnome-terminal bug show) you're right, they are rendered much worse in gnome-terminal than on other terminals (e.g. konsole) -- bad colour on ls lis

[Bug 498212] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-05 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
oops, sorry that wasn't a fair comparison - different directory name! ** Attachment added: "konsoletest.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37442184/konsoletest.png -- bad colour on ls listing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498212 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 498212] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-05 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
this is the same test, using konsole. It's a bit more readable than the gnome-terminal example (hance the observation that gnome-terminal has a colour rendering problem (bug raised)), but it's still quite hard to read, compared to all the other colours that are normally seen on a text screen. **

[Bug 498212] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-05 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
just so we're all on the same page - this is how it looks on my computer. I believe I have correct colour vision - and I can barely make out the word "test" on this image at its normal size (as it opens). ** Attachment added: "an example of the problem" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37441918/

[Bug 498212] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-05 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
re-reading this, and just thinking from a basic usability point of view, blue and green are very close together in visual terms - the most common form of colour-blindness is blue/green, which makes them much harder to distinguish for a lot of people. Could you consider picking a pair of colours wh

[Bug 498212] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
per suggestion in above, raised upstream to gnome-terminal https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606064 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #606064 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606064 -- bad colour on ls listing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498212 You received this bu

[Bug 502888] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
raised upstream to gnome-terminal https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606064 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #606064 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606064 -- bad colour on ls listing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502888 You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 502888] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
ah, upstream as-in Gnome... sorry... yes, you're right -- bad colour on ls listing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502888 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://l

[Bug 502888] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Hi Pedro - I tried that, and they dismissed it as only applicable to gnome terminal. (see the link to the previous bug). I think this has to be dealt with "down here"... -- bad colour on ls listing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502888 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 498212] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/502888 -- bad colour on ls listing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498212 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu

[Bug 502888] [NEW] bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal See bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/498212 if a directory is chmod o+w and you do an ls from the gnome terminal command line, the directory gets coloured blue text on dark green background, making it almost

[Bug 502888] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37403239/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37403240/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37403241/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 498212] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2010-01-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Surprised and disappointed at this outcome - everyone agrees it's hard to read for most people. This is a basic accessibility bug - anyone with even mildly worse eyesight than ours is going to find it even harder to read! Contrary to what was suggested, o+w isn't *necessarily* a Bad Thing, so I s

[Bug 498212] Re: bad colour on ls listing

2009-12-18 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
sorry - this is an "ls" bug, not nautilus - when I did "report another bug" it defaulted to where I'd raised the previous bug. -- bad colour on ls listing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498212 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 498212] [NEW] bad colour on ls listing

2009-12-18 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus if a directory is chmod rwxrwxrwx (777) and you do an ls from the command line, the directory gets coloured blue text on dark green background, making it almost impossible to read. Ordinary files that are chmod 777, are lime-green on white, whi

[Bug 498210] [NEW] non-fatal error message when nautilus started from command line

2009-12-18 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus when I start nautilus from the command line in Karmic, I get (nautilus:31952): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed Nautilus does start, so it's non-fatal, but an annoying and un-necess

[Bug 498210] Re: non-fatal error message when nautilus started from command line

2009-12-18 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36942929/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36942930/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36942931/ProcStatus.txt ** Attachm

[Bug 398166] [NEW] icon for switch users or shutdown changes

2009-07-11 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: The icon for switch users or shutdown (fusa applet) in Intrepid should show a consistent icon - the red and white "on off switch". Sometimes it's a green circle, sometimes it's a red triangle. When I want to shutdown or restart my computer, I should be able to quickly spot t

[Bug 398162] Re: Nvdia proprietary drivers crash X randomly on T61

2009-07-11 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
uname -a Linux andysc-T61 2.6.27-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Jun 30 19:57:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux cat /proc/version_signature Ubuntu 2.6.27-14.35-generic ** Attachment added: "lspci -vvxxx output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28909536/lspci.out -- Nvdia proprietary drivers crash X randomly

[Bug 398162] Re: Nvdia proprietary drivers crash X randomly on T61

2009-07-11 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "the X screen when it tries to recover" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28909441/IMG_9609.JPG -- Nvdia proprietary drivers crash X randomly on T61 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398162 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is sub

[Bug 398162] Re: Nvdia proprietary drivers crash X randomly on T61

2009-07-11 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "photo of stack trace information" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28909409/IMG_9608.JPG -- Nvdia proprietary drivers crash X randomly on T61 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398162 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 398162] [NEW] Nvdia proprietary drivers crash X randomly on T61

2009-07-11 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Using Nvidia version 177 proprietary drivers on Lenovo T61 ThinkPad with Intrepid. >From time to time, seems like after a few minutes not being used, then press a key or move mouse (just seems like that, might be a red herring!), screen goes black, and a text screen appears w

[Bug 218462] Re: avi video plays on negative colors and off of the totem window

2009-07-11 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Am seeing this too, using Totem Movie Player on a Lenovo T61 ThinkPad with Nvidia proprietary drivers. This can be fixed by moving the "Hue" slider, as indicated above. Suggests to me this is a Totem problem, and one which could be fixed. -- avi video plays on negative colors and off of the tot

[Bug 202853] Re: Keyboard accelerators interfere with keyboard input

2009-05-18 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
This should not be a choosable option - if you're interacting with the remote system, you expect all the keystrokes to go through - even things like alt-tab are sent through rather than being handled on the local system, so to have ctrl-D (which is used very often on remote unix systems (particular

[Bug 295961] Re: GUI doesn't show when list_visible is 0

2009-04-16 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
sorry - I tried to update this but it didn't work for some reason - the bug was fixed in the most recent version of Pidgin. Thanks for your time and attention :) -- GUI doesn't show when list_visible is 0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295961 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 350758] [NEW] instructions for installing ntp are wrong

2009-03-29 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/server/C/NTP.html tells us to apt-get install ntp-simple When you do this, it says you should have typed apt-get install ntp which works ** Affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Sta

Re: [Bug 295967] Re: crashed while adding MSN user

2009-01-05 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Hi Pedro, sorry - I forgot to update the bug... it got fixed with the next update to Pidgin. So yes, close it as fixed. Thanks - and sorry I forgot to do it! Regards Andy Andy Stanford-Clark, FBCS CITP Distinguished Engineer Pervasive and Advanced Messaging Technologies, Hursley, UK Master

[Bug 295967] [NEW] crashed while adding MSN user

2008-11-09 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pidgin If I do Buddies -> Add Buddy... select MSN enter some text (e.g. an MSN id, but anything is fine) add an alias (some text) Click "add". Pidgin exits with a segv If I don't type anything in the optional alias box, it works fine. This is pidgin 2

[Bug 295961] Re: GUI doesn't show when list_visible is 0

2008-11-09 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19511436/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19511437/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19511438/ProcStatus.txt -- GUI do

[Bug 295961] [NEW] GUI doesn't show when list_visible is 0

2008-11-09 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pidgin Sometimes, and it doesn't seem very predictable, the pidgin GUI fails to show on the screen. There's a "pidgin" process running on the machine. Am not sure if I'm visible online at that stage. Anyway, the fix is to go into ~/.purple/prefs.xml an

[Bug 292055] [NEW] critically low battery is not sufficiently well notified

2008-11-01 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: There is insufficient warning of a critically low battery. On my T61 ThinkPad, you get a few little pop-up yellow boxes near the battery indicator saying things like 10%, and 5%, but then after a few more minutes, the machine just switches off. On Windows, you get a batter

[Bug 218882] Re: Thinkpad T61 Suspend hangs on resume

2008-09-22 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Just tried Intrepid Alpha 5 live CD, and ThinkPad T61 does not resume from sleep. I suspends fine, and when you wake it up, the CD spins for a short while, and the fan comes on, but nothing on the screen, and nothing else. Required power cycle to start it again. It works fine on Hardy, so this lo

[Bug 205090] Re: Bad default ls colors for directories

2008-08-04 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Since Hardy (I think), the choice of colours for directories is a poor one: looks like blue text with a dark green highlight, which makes the text completely unreadable on my laptop LCD screen. Fix is to "unalias ls" Suggest default definition of ls is "ls", not "ls --color", and let people turn

[Bug 252496] [NEW] resume from suspend takes a long time when wifi "roaming" is turned off

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: network-manager sounded kind of similar to #140763, but different enough for a new bug... On a Lenovo T61, resume from suspend takes around 2min32sec if "roaming" mode is turned off and DHCP selected in network manager for the wireless interface. If I t

[Bug 247811] Re: Applications menu content got erased

2008-07-28 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Thanks Chris - I agree that you should close it. Andy -- Applications menu content got erased https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247811 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.c

[Bug 247811] Re: Applications menu content got erased

2008-07-26 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Thanks Chris, I understand and agree with your assessment, and can see that in the "normal scheme of things" there would be a .old file. But evidently "something" chose to modify it itself and chose not to make a backup, and there's no obvious way to insulate against that. (unless we made these

[Bug 247811] Re: Applications menu content got erased

2008-07-15 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "/var/log/apt/term.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16030688/term.log -- Applications menu content got erased https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247811 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 247811] Re: Applications menu content got erased

2008-07-15 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "term.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16030679/term.log -- Applications menu content got erased https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247811 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

[Bug 247811] Re: Applications menu content got erased

2008-07-15 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
that sounds like a bug, then? (the extra ... I realise this is very hard to track down... what I was thinking might be helpful, though, are things which would mitigate the disaster if it happens again... e.g. have the system make a backup of key files like applications.menu before it makes a chan

[Bug 247811] Re: Applications menu content got erased

2008-07-14 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
that was what cause the alacarte error I listed above. Copying in an applications.menu from a friend (also on Hardy) didn't help either (applications menu was still empty). This did start in alacarte, but it just had templates for the main folders - nothing in them, so I'd have had to repopulate t

[Bug 247811] Re: Applications menu content got erased

2008-07-14 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
** Attachment added: "/etc/xdg/menus/applications.meu" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16003975/applications.menu -- Applications menu content got erased https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247811 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 247811] Re: Applications menu content got erased

2008-07-14 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
I was installing libdvdcss using these instructions... from here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=85097 >wget >http://ftp.yi.se/pub/software/videolan/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb/libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb > -c >wget >http://ftp.yi.se/pub/software/videolan/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb/libdvdcss2-dev_1.2.

[Bug 247811] [NEW] Applications menu content got erased

2008-07-12 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-main-menu not quite the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152115 or https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146528 On Hardy 8.04.1... after accidentally saying "yes" to the offer of a cleanup after a partial install of something on package manager, t

[Bug 202413] Re: T61 Hangs on Sleep

2008-06-24 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Resume after suspend on Lenovo T61 with Nvidia graphics card *was* working, albeit with about a one minute wait with a flashing underline cursor during resume until something (presumaby) timed out and the password panel appeared. But at least it worked! Then last week, some new upgrades.. Nvid

[Bug 218882] Re: Thinkpad T61 Suspend hangs on resume

2008-04-26 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
seeing the same on T61 with Nvidia graphics card. Sometimes the flashing _ stays for about 1 minute, then the login prompt comes up... other times it "never" (OK, as long as my patience lasts) returns. Oh, and the crescent moon standby LED flashes all this time as well. -- Thinkpad T61 Suspend

[Bug 147721] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with IndexError in _syncXorgConfig()

2008-02-27 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
happens on alpha 5 on Lenovo T61 ThinkPad. May be related: in system->preferences->screen resolution, it says: resolution 1680x1050 refresh rate: 0 Hz <-- not right! Also maybe related... the new Hardy Heron background picture comes up with bands of colour rather than gradual gradation, s

[Bug 176341] Re: ambiguity on disk repartitioning

2008-02-27 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
re "so it must be difficult to change"... either that or nobody has worried about it before... ;) -- ambiguity on disk repartitioning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176341 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 178977] usability "Eject" versus "Unmount volume"

2007-12-27 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: on Gutsy Gibbon, if you remove a memory stick from USB, without doing any action first, you get a nice little popup which says: Unsafe device removal... To avoid serious data loss, disable removable drives with the "Eject" option in the drive icon's context menu on the deskt

[Bug 146706] Re: [Gutsy Beta] Live cd graphics fail with nvidia geforce4 440 go

2007-12-19 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Am getting the same thing with Lenovo T61 ThinkPad which has nVidia Quadro NVS 140M inside. There's nothing on the screen, though - once it kicks up into graphics mode, the screen is just black. Would be good if there was some kind of fallback position, as those of use taking the first faltering

[Bug 176343] Re: migration introduction on liveCD is wrong about partitioning

2007-12-18 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
sorry... \disctree\extra\switching-guide\dualboot-procedure.html on the Gutsy Gibbon LiveCD -- migration introduction on liveCD is wrong about partitioning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176343 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact

[Bug 176343] migration introduction on liveCD is wrong about partitioning

2007-12-14 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: in the text about moving to a dual boot system, the introductory text explains that you have to select "manual" repartitioning, then create a swap space of at least 500meg.. etc, etc. So you prepare yourself for that bit of linux unpleasantness... then in the repartitioning

[Bug 176341] ambiguity on disk repartitioning

2007-12-14 Thread Andy Stanford-Clark
Public bug reported: If you use the guided option for repartitioning, in the case where you want to shrink an existing (windows) partition, and install Ubuntu into the freed space, there is a slider, which says (something like) "how big do you want the new partition to be". To me, that meant "h