[Bug 1541649] Re: Plymouth needs a safe method to unlock the device on boot without a physical keyboard.

2016-05-15 Thread Harrison Smith
This affects the practicality of Ubuntu as an operating system on my Dell Venue 8 Pro. Encrypting just the home directory is not really a satisfactory alternative, nor is carrying a USB keyboard at all times. I found this: https://github.com/zrafa/onscreenkeyboard as a rudimentary example of

[Bug 1158267] Re: broken (click-trhough) window decoration on some maximized windows

2013-06-15 Thread Harrison Smith
Something I've been wondering for awhile: How long does a fix like this generally take before it's moved into the main repos (i.e. - I get an 'update' though the regular software channel? I try to avoid custom built code, particularly when using said code involves ripping out a pretty core

[Bug 1075025] Re: Empathy shortcut bug Shift + F

2012-12-06 Thread Harrison Smith
For what it's worth, i find this bug to be more than a little annoying... Has this been resolved in a newer build than is available in the main distro repo? Also, as a work around you can cut/paste a capital f, if you really need to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 876815] [NEW] Unity 11.10 Cannot create launcher for Matlab

2011-10-17 Thread Harrison Smith
Public bug reported: When creating a non-terminal launcher for Matlab, the flag -Desktop must be appended. Given there is no mechanism to create custom launchers in Unity in 11.10, there is no way to create a launcher for Matlab. Additionally, there are many possible applications where a launcher