[Bug 773286] Re: LAUNCHER has NO Controls? It should have a Preferences Button?

2011-04-29 Thread Peter Dietz
A normal piece of software would let you right clicking some empty area of the Unity bar and get preferences. This does not. For someone that needs to change a setting, its a long and annoying process, just to get to the unity menu. The OP has icon and position problems, I have multiple monitors a

[Bug 743011] Re: Windows that reparent away from the root before they are mapped can cause other windows to become invisible (and compiz to crash)

2011-04-22 Thread Peter Dietz
I run gnome, 11.04, beta2, "Ubuntu Classic", and typing "gitk" from a git repo causes the screen to flash, and then flicker back but messed up, and the system is frozen. I've installed all updates before trying this. I've noticed that if I manually change Tk/wish to 8.5, running gitk no longer cr

[Bug 661450] Re: Support for multiple monitors broken

2011-04-04 Thread Peter Dietz
Bilal, Its 11.04 Compiz Unity I believe, it switched to my default when I upgraded to 11.04 beta. I had never used Unity under 10.10. For reference, when I select "Ubuntu Classic" as my default session in 11.04, window maximizing behaves properly. However, with "Ubuntu" (aka. Unity) as the default

[Bug 661450] Re: Support for multiple monitors broken

2011-04-03 Thread Peter Dietz
When I have a window on my primary screen, and I click maximize, it moves the window to the secondary screen, and makes it very tall, narrow, and skinny. I expected it to take up all the room possible on the current screen I was on, the primary screen. This is very annoying, and unless its resolve

Re: [Bug 48545] Re: gnome-sound-properties empty "Default sound card:" list

2006-12-14 Thread Peter Dietz
Thanks for the info. Peter Dietz On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:10 +, Martin Pitt wrote: > Also, this is not an issue in Feisty any more since the default sound > card selector disappeared entirely. > > ** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu) >Status: Confirmed => Fi

[Bug 48545] Re: gnome-sound-properties empty "Default sound card:" list

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Dietz
I had the same problem of no indication of a default sound card in the "Sound Preferences" menu. I solved this by adding the name of the current user to the list of users in the audio group, in the file "/etc/group". Suggestion: should this not be done automatically when adding new users with "us