[Bug 1862423] Re: Save directory for gnome-screenshots cannot be changed

2020-10-04 Thread John Toliver
I found this extension while researching another problem. I invite any thoughts on its usage with regard to security. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1112/screenshot-tool/ gthub info here https://github.com/OttoAllmendinger/gnome-shell-screenshot/ Hope this helps. -- You received this

[Bug 1862423] Re: Save directory for gnome-screenshots cannot be changed

2020-10-03 Thread John Toliver
Possible workaround until this bug gets fixed: I made my own shortcut in settings "/usr/bin/gnome-screenshots -i" Then I assigned shortcut to be print screen. Interactive mode does remember last saved directory so that's a safe work around for the archive. Hope this helps somebody. -- You re

Re: [Bug 529714] Re: rhythmbox crashed with SIGSEGV in_nss_wins_gethostbyname_r()

2011-02-07 Thread John Toliver
@Brendan Peterfly, When you get some time can you list the steps you took so I can duplicate it on my test machine. Its not urgent however... At least for me it isn't. -Original Message- From: Brendan Peterffy <529...@bugs.launchpad.net> Sender: boun...@canonical.com Date: Mon, 07 Feb 20

Re: [Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparentlyrandomly on session start in some situations

2010-11-21 Thread John Toliver
So does the status being a confirmed fix release mean that eventually the fix will get pushed out in an update at some point in the future? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Bug Watch Updater <44...@bugs.launchpad.net> Sender: boun...@canonical.com Date: Su

Re: [Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparentlyrandomly on session start in some situations

2010-10-25 Thread John Toliver
Yeah but awn I noted doesn't always work with some applications. Like I have a windows app installed under wine and the shortcut I place on my desktop won't work in awn. It does that thing where the icon will move telling you the pc is doing something and then everything stops (the pc wants you t

Re: [Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparentlyrandomly on session start in some situations

2010-10-25 Thread John Toliver
This bug will not be fixed. In theory, the problem is going to be corrected whenever gnome 3.0 is released, and will have a completely different architecture for panels etc. -Original Message- From: Kevin Hunter Sender: boun...@canonical.com Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:35:01 To: Reply-

Re: [Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparentlyrandomly on session start in some situations

2010-10-17 Thread John Toliver
I thought the general understanding was that this bug wasn't going to be fixed as the underlying architecture was going to be redone as gnome 3.0 will be released within the next year or so and will replace 2.26. I could be wrong though. -Original Message- From: Rafael GarcĂ­a Sender: b

Re: [Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situations

2010-02-10 Thread John Toliver
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:13, Coz wrote: > hey guys, > I would like to confirm this... as though there aren't enough already!! :) > Ubuntu Karmic as well as several versions before karmic. > this is probably one of the most irritating bugs on gnome > I dont know if this is going to be fixed

Re: [Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situations

2009-12-07 Thread John Toliver
Be a part of the solution not the problem. Download the patch, apply the diff, and quit the crying. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:27, Someone wrote: > AMAZING an opearating system with the best feature ever: > PANEL SHUFFLE! > > It is guaranteed to shuffle your panel icons so you can have a messed

Re: [Bug 15019] Re: Difficulty downgrading packages with dependencies

2009-09-24 Thread John Toliver
It's been a while so I don't remember the conversation but I think you turn off the proposed repos in synaptic and then do the updates. Synaptic will recognize it is dealing with different versions that what is in the stable branch and downgrade things back to those version numbers. I would ask

Re: [Bug 163544] Re: tracker search tool shows no results

2009-04-24 Thread John Toliver
Re-indexing does fix the problem. The issue is that first of all, this shouldn't happen, and secondly, it happens frequently enough that re-indexing every time the results fail to display is not convenient and makes tracker not ready for everyday use. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 19:56, ichhaankur wr

Re: [Bug 163544] Re: tracker search tool shows no results

2009-04-24 Thread John Toliver
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 19:56, ichhaankur wrote: > I noticed that if you reindex, then the problem disappears! > > -- > tracker search tool shows no results > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163544 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in

Re: [Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2009-01-02 Thread John Toliver
Renzo, Thanks for the reply. I completely missed 54-57 and they helped much. Just as a note in case someone else runs into this: I downloaded the source which placed a folder called "gvfs-0.2.5". Then moved to ~/gvfs-0.2.5/daemon/ folder and downloaded and saved the patched titled "patch to pr

Re: [Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-12-30 Thread John Toliver
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 16:44, FAJALOU wrote: > I agree with John; I have no idea how to apply the patch, but would love > to know how, anyone help? 8.04.1 here. Thanks > JT - Yeah. I figured out why everyone ignored me. Apparently Linux has this nice little command called "patch" which 'pat

[Bug 312535] Re: When trying to produce a .PDF file from openoffice

2008-12-30 Thread John Toliver
** Attachment added: "TestedDocuments.pdf.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20819112/TestedDocuments.pdf.gz -- When trying to produce a .PDF file from openoffice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312535 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscri

[Bug 312535] [NEW] When trying to produce a .PDF file from openoffice

2008-12-30 Thread John Toliver
Public bug reported: OS is Hardy 8.04 fully patched Openoffice.org 3.0 Here are the four programs I have used to test this: 1. Evince 2. Xournal (which has some limited pdf editing capability through use of layers) 3. Acrobat reader 8 for linux 4. Foxit reader 2.2 for Windows Scenario 1: When I

[Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-12-21 Thread John Toliver
I have been researching this and trying to figure out how to apply the patch that has been mentioned above that includes authentication in browsing of shares. So the way to apply this patch is this: "sudo patch [options] " I need to know the file that is supposed to be patched. This would make

Re: [Bug 228806] Re: [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and xulrunner-1.9

2008-11-16 Thread John Toliver
Yeah that did it alright :-) On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 17:18, kuba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try this page. > its an image 50 pixels wide, 272K: > http://www.dobroc.com/kuba/test.png > > my firefox (on ubuntu) crashes instantly. > > -- > [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and

Re: [Bug 135471] Re: Addressbook crash when searching contacts by "any field contains"

2008-11-13 Thread John Toliver
I confirm on 2.22.3.1 in 32 bit Hardy, this is working. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:35, runout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in ubuntu 8.10 interepit it seems we have this problem again. > i did not have it on 8.04 hardy. only since the upgrade > evolution 2.24.1 > $ uname -v > #1 SMP Thu Nov 6 17:

Re: [Bug 218322] Re: video playback artifacts when composite manager is enabled

2008-11-12 Thread John Toliver
Not a solution but on 8.04 32bit mplayer works On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 15:57, JosephK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > video playback fails in totem when metacity compositing is on. > i'm running intrepid 32bit fully updated. > thanks > > ** Attachment added: "lspci" > http://launchpadlibrarian.net

Re: [Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-10-27 Thread John Toliver
Have we heard anything from Canonical about why gvfs was included in the first place? I mean I've heard Debian Lenny which is about to be released still uses the older gnome-vfs. On another note, I would like to know how I might apply the patch made by Darkrain42(I think) which fixes this. On Mo

Re: [Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-10-16 Thread John Toliver
ead of > entering into the share and typing then. > > Am Samstag, den 11.10.2008, 18:37 + schrieb John Toliver: > > I know this has been stated repeatedly, however when I use the ubuntu (or > > nautilus) network icon to browse (instead of the one created by fusesmb), >

Re: [Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-10-11 Thread John Toliver
as I move between different networks. In any case, thank you much for the update. On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 13:19, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:10:01PM -0000, John Toliver wrote: > > I just got an update to samba and it seems to have fi

Re: [Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-10-11 Thread John Toliver
I just got an update to samba and it seems to have fixed this for me. I don't want to get everyone's hopes up but give it a try. The update also came with a bunch of things, like a kernel update, etc. On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 08:59 +, gerstrong wrote: > Bug is also in Ubuntu daily-live of octobe

Re: [Bug 207072] Konqueror is an option

2008-10-09 Thread John Toliver
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 06:36 +, gerstrong wrote: > Another option would be using konqueror with KDE instead of gnome and > friends for browsing windows shares. I sometimes use konqueror, that > works too. Yes I briefly looked at KDE as well. Problem with it is when you try to stream a video et

Re: [Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-10-08 Thread John Toliver
I might just give that a try... thank you. On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 18:13, Tim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 19:58 +, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > changing GNOME to use gnomevfs rather than gvfs would basically means > > downgrading some hundred applications and

Re: [Bug 207072] Re: nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS network.

2008-10-08 Thread John Toliver
fusesmb is a fairly decent work around from the home user perspective. In light of the fact that upstream isn't addressing the fix or at least it isn't available yet, does anyone know of a way to ask Canonical to downgrade to the version of samba that worked properly in Gutsy? Would it be THAT mu

Re: [Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situations

2008-09-30 Thread John Toliver
Find the right repository if anyone is interested: deb http://*fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu* intrepid main On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:57, John Toliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Slightly off topic but I was trying to install nautilus 2.24 (or whichever > version comes with i

Re: [Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situations

2008-09-30 Thread John Toliver
Slightly off topic but I was trying to install nautilus 2.24 (or whichever version comes with intrepid). I enabled the repos from intrepid and still nothing. Any ideas? On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:26, Geert Jan Alsem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C10uD, you should specifiy which version of Ubuntu

Re: [Bug 64594] Re: hurestore will always crash on startup (unfinished tool)

2008-08-28 Thread John Toliver
I agree. Between sbackup which "appears" to be working correctly, and hubackup/restore which doesn't work at all, I'm just about ready to start scripting my own backup scheme which I don't want to do, but I agree, hu* shouldn't even be mentioned and should be removed from the repos until it does w

[Bug 222826] Re: Openoffice.org 2.4 will not run reports created in version 2.3.1

2008-07-25 Thread John Toliver
I will provide better data as I'm in a hurry now but I ended up resolving it by doing some manual editing of my 2.3 formatted data to make it 2.4 compliant. I'm no longer able to accurately tell you if this would occur as my reports worked afterwards. -- Openoffice.org 2.4 will not run reports c

Re: [Bug 15019] Re: Difficulty downgrading packages with dependencies

2008-06-02 Thread John Toliver
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 18:16 +, Mr. Mike wrote: > The big scenario for me on this is when I finally learned/figured-out that > the "Proposed" repository is more or less for alpha/beta versions of stuff. > Right?? > So, when I stopped using those repos, my Ubuntu became way more stable, > Sus

[Bug 222826] [NEW] Openoffice.org 2.4 will not run reports created in version 2.3.1

2008-04-26 Thread John Toliver
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: openoffice.org When I upgraded Ubuntu Linux from version 7.10 to 8.04, the package Openoffice 2.3.1 was upgraded to 2.4. When I open up a database I created in version 2.3.1, and attempt to run a report, the report fails with this error: "The query with

[Bug 15019] Re: Difficulty downgrading packages with dependencies

2008-04-25 Thread John Toliver
So then if I were to install a package and find that the package has a bug for which no patch exists at the time, and I decide I want to go back to what I had earlier that worked, how am I supposed to do this? -- Difficulty downgrading packages with dependencies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15

Re: [Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situations

2008-02-06 Thread John Toliver
Actually it's stopped doing this. I don't believe I've done anything differently. It's gone from a problem happening every reboot to happening every month etc. The next time it does happen I will move the icons a few pixels away and test this On Feb 6, 2008 10:26 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <[EMAIL

[Bug 164798] Re: Yelp crashes when clicking on link in page for "dive into python" causes yelp to close immediately with no warning

2007-11-23 Thread John Toliver
** Attachment added: "This is the page I was referring to" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10540687/Screenshot-1.png -- Yelp crashes when clicking on link in page for "dive into python" causes yelp to close immediately with no warning https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164798 You received this bu

[Bug 164798] Re: Yelp crashes when clicking on link in page for "dive into python" causes yelp to close immediately with no warning

2007-11-23 Thread John Toliver
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10540675/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10540676/ProcMaps.txt ** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10540677/ProcStatus.txt -- Yelp c

[Bug 164798] Yelp crashes when clicking on link in page for "dive into python" causes yelp to close immediately with no warning

2007-11-23 Thread John Toliver
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: yelp 1. Use any method to get to the page with the link for "dive into python" 2. Click on link 3. Yelp dies. yelp v.2.20.0 System is: T23 1.13Ghz 1GB Ram 30GB HDD Gutsy 7.10 Kernel 2.6.22-14-Generic gnome 2.20.1 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date

[Bug 44082] Re: GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move apparently randomly on session start in some situations

2007-11-18 Thread John Toliver
I notice it happens when I reboot, and no resolution changes, nor have I added anything new to the panel. Two Icons on the far left simply appeared in interchanged positions. For example, the icons were in position 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 before reboot, and after reboot they are in position 1-2-3-4-5-7-6.