[Bug 1303462] Re: [Regression] Window titlebars placed behind panel

2014-04-22 Thread John M.K.
** Description changed: Windows with a height of (Display Height - Panel Height) get placed at y=0 (behind the top panel) which means window titlebars are not reachable without alt-moving the window. I assume this happens with windows that want to resize themselves if their height exceeds

[Bug 1297070] Re: Mouse Curson Disappearing Intermittently

2014-04-22 Thread John M.K.
** Description changed: - The cursor blings at irregular intervals wheen mouse cursor moving. - Tried this - http://askubuntu.com/questions/360423/mouse-cursor-flickering-and-disappearing + TEMPORARY WORKAROUND: + Try this to resolve it. Disconnect all but your main laptop/desktop monitors.

[Bug 1297254] Re: Unity Top-Menu Bar Not Showing Window Control Buttons

2014-03-25 Thread John M.K.
** Attachment added: "Hidden window bar beneath Unity bar" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1297254/+attachment/4042597/+files/Window%20Header%20Lost%20Up%20There.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 1297254] Re: Unity Top-Menu Bar Not Showing Window Control Buttons

2014-03-25 Thread John M.K.
** Attachment added: "No window control buttons" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1297254/+attachment/4042596/+files/Mouse%20Over%20Menu.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 1297254] [NEW] Unity Top-Menu Bar Not Showing Window Control Buttons

2014-03-25 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: Fresh Install This is similar to Bug ​#842566, but with an additional issue. When openinf LibreOffice, Window Controls do not appear on mouse-over in the Unity Top-Menu Bar. Also the LibreOffice window header is lost beneath the Unity Bar (See attached screenshots

[Bug 1297070] [NEW] Mouse Curson Disappearing Intermittently

2014-03-24 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: The cursor blings at irregular intervals wheen mouse cursor moving. Tried this http://askubuntu.com/questions/360423/mouse-cursor-flickering-and-disappearing and it worked, so it should be easy to fix ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-settings-da

[Bug 1179013] [NEW] PrintScreen Filename TextField Does not accept Keyboard Events

2013-05-11 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: I thought this would get fixed for the past 3-4 Ubuntu Releases... When you press PrintScreen and the gnome-screenshot dialog gains focus, the text field containing the filename appears selected, the window has focus, but upon pressing keys on your Keyboard, the selected fi

[Bug 1172809] [NEW] Default Language Problem...

2013-04-25 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: Installed fresh 13.04. I already filed a bug report on incorrect formatting of the Datetime Indicator (Bug #1172781 ). Now I have issues with Texmaker. By default, the menu items all appear in Greek, although I never chose this option. The rest of the programs run normally

[Bug 1172781] [NEW] Datetime Indicator Does not Respect Global Language Settings

2013-04-25 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: On changing the datetime indicator settings to also include Weekday and Month, I get the letters in greek (e.g. "Πεμ Απρ 25" instead of "Τhu Apr 25"). I haven't set Greek as the default language on my system, I assume this happens because it located my computer in Athens (f

[Bug 1172772] [NEW] Missing Default Choice for Switching Between Keyboard Layouts

2013-04-25 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: For the past three releases or so, when I add an extra keyboard layout (All Settings>>Keyboard Layout) I have to manually choose Options and make a selection under "Key(s) to Change Layout" to make Alt+Shift work. At least back in 9.10 or somewhere close, Alt+Shift might

[Bug 987941] Re: Ubuntu Installer Slideshow - Severe tearing when changing slides

2012-06-24 Thread John M.K.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 987949 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987949 @Dylan How about Unity? When you did full install, did your system default to Unity 2D or Unity 3D? If your system defaults to Unity 2D, which is wrong as your integrated graphics supports at least OpenGL 3

[Bug 987956] Re: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING!

2012-05-01 Thread John M.K.
@Brian Murray, Coling Watson Did I mention that both Home and Root where "Logical" partitions of an "Extended" partition ? While trying to recreate the bug,did you use Primary or Logical partitions? Maybe that makes a difference... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 987949] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS

2012-05-01 Thread John M.K.
Eric, I can confirm that removing the nvidia-current and nvidia-settings packages solved the problem for me as well. Updating bug description for temporary fix... Hope they can fix this ASAP, provided it is an LTS. ** Description changed: I just did a full Install of Ubuntu 12.04 daily-live. U

[Bug 987949] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS

2012-04-29 Thread John M.K.
@Eric Did you try simply booting without installing, from a live-usb or live- cd? In my case it booted normally, and only failed using the integrated Intel graphics after installation. If you can confirm that too, it has to be a bug in the installer. -- You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 810976] Re: Fn keys don't work on Samsung X65

2012-04-29 Thread John M.K.
MarkS, have you tried searching through your BIOS options in case there is a setting affecting the default function of the "Function" key? I had a similar problem on my Dell laptop and as it turns out a BIOS switch was toggled that reversed the default function of the Fn key. Is that a regressio

[Bug 922879] Re: After Package Update in Oneiric 11.10 Keyboard's Function Key Got Messed Up

2012-04-28 Thread John M.K.
** Description changed: - - The Function Key in my laptop worked great in Oneiric 11.10, until I did package updates and it got messed up. + The Function Key in my laptop worked great in Oneiric 11.10, until I did + package updates and it got messed up. I regularly do package updates and on

[Bug 987949] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS

2012-04-27 Thread John M.K.
Booted 12.04 (release version and the one I was trying when filing this bug) from usb-drive by choosing "Try Ubuntu" The system booted normally, using Unity 3D, with no problems whatever. So this must be a bug for the installer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 987956] Re: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING!

2012-04-26 Thread John M.K.
@Colin /dev/sda7 is root (/) /dev/sda5 is home (/home) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987956 Title: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING! To ma

[Bug 987949] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS

2012-04-25 Thread John M.K.
** Description changed: - I just did a full Install of Ubuntu 12.04 daily-live. Unity defaults to Unity-2d, with many issues therein (tearing, etc.) It is the first time I fully install 12.04, but I have been regularly trying daily-builts from live-usb-stick... Never had issues, if any

[Bug 987956] Re: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING!

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
@Brian: No, I checked twice, I reinstalled 11.10 twice (only tried it once with Ubuntu 12.04 from daily-live), every time I ended up with my HOME partition void of the old content. I haven't tried what you just said, but I am pretty sure that if I simply install Ubuntu in the root partition, I w

[Bug 987956] Re: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING!

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
Yes, I chose ext4 on both root and home (separate partitions), and only chose the format option for root. The result was home being correctly installed in the separate, designated partition. But the contents I previously had in it were all gone, and in its place a typical default structure you wo

[Bug 987941] Re: Ubuntu Installer Slideshow - Severe tearing when changing slides

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 987949 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987949 No, It happened on a fresh installation. I didn't install NVidia manually. If anything, I just checked the install additional packages at the beginning of the installation, but that shouldn't have caused the

[Bug 987949] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
Note that as I reported in Bug #987941, which I marked as a duplicate of this, I had tearing issues during the installation as well, which I never had before. For example when I moved windows around. I had been trying daily-builts of 12.04 regularly from a usb-stick, without installing, and it a

[Bug 987949] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
No, I just installed 12.04 from today's daily-live built. I just checked the install additional packages at the beginning of the installation. I did not install NVIdia drivers manually, nor do I have the option on the additional drivers, it is not listed there as installed or as an option. I have

[Bug 987956] Re: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING!

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
** Description changed: I installed both Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 with a separate partition for the root and home directory. I chose to only partition the root directory. After installation, I always ended up with a HOME partition with deleted contents! I just lost all the data therein

[Bug 987956] Re: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING!

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
** Description changed: - I installed both Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 with a separate partition for the root and home directory. I chose to only partition the root directory. After installation, I always ended up with a HOME partition with deleted contents! I just lost all the data ther

[Bug 987941] Re: Ubuntu Installer Slideshow - Severe tearing when changing slides

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 987949 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987949 No, I didn't try Help & Support. Indeed, it appears to be an issue with my graphics drivers, I have a hybrid system that to date used to default to the integrated Intel graphics, but now changed to NIVIdia b

[Bug 987956] Re: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING!

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987956 Title: Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.laun

[Bug 987956] [NEW] Installer Deletes Contents from Separate HOME partition without WARNING!

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: I installed both Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 with a separate partition for the root and home directory. I chose to only partition the root directory. After installation, I always ended up with a HOME partition with deleted contents! I just lost all the data therein without warni

[Bug 987949] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
Running the unity_support_test gives me the following error: /usr/lib/nux$ ./unity_support_test -p Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: GLX is not available on the system -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 987949] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987949 Title: Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS To manage notificatio

[Bug 987949] [NEW] Ubuntu 12.04 - Severe Graphics Regression on Hybrid System with Integrated Intel HD300 graphics and NVIdia OPTIMUS

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: I just did a full Install of Ubuntu 12.04 daily-live. Unity defaults to Unity-2d, with many issues therein (tearing, etc.) It is the first time I fully install 12.04, but I have been regularly trying daily-builts from live-usb-stick... Never had issues, if anything everythin

[Bug 987941] [NEW] Ubuntu Installer Slideshow - Severe tearing when changing slides

2012-04-24 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 from a daily built. Aside from the installation being slower than usual, whenever I changed Slide on the Slideshow, severe tearing occured during transitions. Actually you could see randomly distributed and randomly sized grey rectangles movin

[Bug 873760] Re: Oneiric 11.10 NVidia Proprietary Drivers Uninstallation Bug

2012-04-17 Thread John M.K.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 983202 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983202 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 983202 No Message Informing Lack of Proprietary OPTIMUS NVidia Drivers ** Description changed: Just upgraded to Oneiric 11.10. After installing and th

[Bug 983202] Re: No Message Informing Lack of Proprietary OPTIMUS NVidia Drivers

2012-04-17 Thread John M.K.
** Description changed: After A fresh Installation of Ubuntu 12.04: Under System Settings-> Additional Drivers, no Proprietary Drivers are listed for my system (I have an integrated Intel HD3000 graphics card and an NVidia GT 540M dedicated graphics card) EDIT: As it turns out, th

[Bug 952736] Re: Unable to detect additional device (Nvidia) throught jockey-gtk

2012-04-17 Thread John M.K.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 983202 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983202 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 983202 No Message Informing Lack of Proprietary OPTIMUS NVidia Drivers -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 983202] Re: No Message Informing Lack of Proprietary OPTIMUS NVidia Drivers

2012-04-17 Thread John M.K.
** Summary changed: - No Message Informing Lack of Proprietary NVidia Drivers + No Message Informing Lack of Proprietary OPTIMUS NVidia Drivers -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983202 Ti

[Bug 983202] Re: No Message Informing Lack of Proprietary NVidia Drivers

2012-04-17 Thread John M.K.
@Dave Thanks for the clarification! But, in that case, shouldn't the user be informed with a pertinent message explaining the situation? ** Summary changed: - Proprietary NVidia Drivers Not Found For NVidia GT 540M + No Message Informing Lack of Proprietary NVidia Drivers ** Description change

[Bug 983202] Re: Proprietary NVidia Drivers Not Found For NVidia 525M

2012-04-16 Thread John M.K.
It is a laptop (Dell XPS L502X) ** Description changed: After A fresh Installation of Ubuntu 12.04: Under System Settings-> Additional Drivers, no Proprietary Drivers are listed for my system (I have an integrated Intel HD3000 graphics card - and an NVidia 525M dedicated graphics card)

[Bug 983202] Re: Proprietary NVidia Drivers Not Found For My System

2012-04-16 Thread John M.K.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983202 Title: Proprietary NVidia Drivers Not Found For My System To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source

[Bug 983202] [NEW] Proprietary NVidia Drivers Not Found For My System

2012-04-16 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: After A fresh Installation of Ubuntu 12.04: Under System Settings-> Additional Drivers, no Proprietary Drivers are listed for my system (I have an integrated Intel HD3000 graphics card and an NVidia 525M dedicated graphics card) Note that under Ubuntu 11.10 the proprietary

[Bug 978401] Re: Missing Application Instance In Unity Launcher

2012-04-11 Thread John M.K.
** Description changed: - Just installed vlc on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 daily built... I chose "unlock from launcher" while an mp3 file was playing, and the Vlc icon disappeared from the Unity Launcher. No empty icon whatsoever... Actually that might as well be a problem with Unity Laun

[Bug 978401] Re: Missing Application Instance In Unity Launcher

2012-04-10 Thread John M.K.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978401 Title: Missing Application Instance In Unity Launcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc

[Bug 978401] [NEW] Missing Application Instance In Unity Launcher

2012-04-10 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: Just installed vlc on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 daily built... I chose "unlock from launcher" while an mp3 file was playing, and the Vlc icon disappeared from the Unity Launcher. No empty icon whatsoever... Actually that might as well be a problem with Unity Launcher to begin wit

[Bug 905328] Re: [needs-packaging] Texlive installer package should be created

2012-04-09 Thread John M.K.
@Sergio I mostly agree with your comments, and I would be the first to try out a PPA on the likes of your proposal (I am quite lazy myself :). But I still feel that a PPA like that does not belong to the main repository, just like in so many other cases. Do you see a new official ppa for every ne

[Bug 905328] Re: [needs-packaging] Texlive installer package should be created

2012-04-01 Thread John M.K.
As of 2012-03-27 there is an update in Debian for TexLive (2011 version), it is quite possible that it even makes it in time for Ubuntu 12.04 (see bug#712521) . So in a sense, it feels like this bug is no longer valid. I see that the main point here is to prevent the same thing from hapenning

[Bug 965082] [NEW] Cannot Login to System After update to Unity 5.8

2012-03-26 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: I am not sure as to whether Unity 5.8 is to blame for this. but as of yesterday, Mar 25, after upgrading packages (Unity 5.8) I cannot get past the login screen. Lightdm fires up nicely, but when I enter the password, either the screen freezes to Lightdm's screen or everythin

[Bug 965082] Re: Cannot Login to System After update to Unity 5.8

2012-03-26 Thread John M.K.
** Description changed: - - I am not sure as to whether Unity 5.8 is to blame for this. but as of yesterdat, Mar 25, after upgrading packages (Unity 5.8) I cannot get past the login screen. + I am not sure as to whether Unity 5.8 is to blame for this. but as of + yesterday, Mar 25, after upgrad

[Bug 905559] Re: The ubuntuone-syncdaemon is running by default in the background, despite never being used.

2012-03-01 Thread John M.K.
** Changed in: ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905559 Title: The ubuntuone-syncdaemon is running by default in the background,

[Bug 922879] Re: After Package Update in Oneiric 11.10 Keyboard's Function Key Got Messed Up

2012-02-13 Thread John M.K.
Also tried the new version 3.0.0-16. That didn't work either. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/922879 Title: After Package Update in Oneiric 11.10 Keyboard's Function Key Got Messed

[Bug 922879] Re: After Package Update in Oneiric 11.10 Keyboard's Function Key Got Messed Up

2012-02-03 Thread John M.K.
@jsalisbury No, unfortunately it doesn't. I tried booting up with all versions 3.0.0-14 to 3.0.0-12 and none seemed to work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/922879 Title: After Packag

[Bug 922879] Re: After Package Update in Oneiric 11.10 Keyboard's Function Key Got Messed Up

2012-01-27 Thread John M.K.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/922879 Title: After Package Update in Oneiric 11.10 Keyboard's Function Key Got Messed Up To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.

[Bug 922879] [NEW] After Package Update in Oneiric 11.10 Keyboard's Function Key Got Messed Up

2012-01-27 Thread John M.K.
Public bug reported: The Function Key in my laptop worked great in Oneiric 11.10, until I did package updates and it got messed up. I regularly do package updates and only noticed it today, so I guess it has to be somewhere between 1-2 ago... Problem: All keys that used to work in combination