[Bug 1826176] Re: Applications do not receive focus in Wayland sessions

2019-05-07 Thread Silvio Bierman
Hello Ɓukasz, Thanks for this. I have updated to this version yesterday evening and have been working with it for about 10 hours now. First of all I can confirm that as far as I can tell the problem has been fully resolved. All applications that I start from either the (docked via plugin) dash, t

[Bug 1826176] Re: Applications started from the dash often do not receive focus

2019-04-24 Thread Silvio Bierman
OK, I just filed issue #1211. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1826176 Title: Applications started from the dash often do not receive focus To manage notifications about this bug go to

[Bug 1817924] Re: (In Xorg sessions only) apps launched from gnome shell do not get input focus

2019-04-24 Thread Silvio Bierman
Since the bug seemed to have appeared in both environments at the same time I was not expecting two separate bugs. I have opened a new one against Gnome session: bug 1826176. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 1826176] [NEW] Applications started from the dash often do not receive focus

2019-04-24 Thread Silvio Bierman
Public bug reported: On a fresh install of Ubuntu 19.04 applications that are started from the dash inside a Wayland session often do not receive focus. The behavior is inconsistent. Some applications (like the terminal) always properly get the focus. Some like GEdit en Chromium mostly do not re

[Bug 1817924] Re: (In Xorg sessions only) apps launched from gnome shell do not get input focus

2019-04-24 Thread Silvio Bierman
I can now confirm it works in an X session though. So that part is fixed (although I never observed the bug there since I don't normally use X sessions). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 1817924] Re: (In Xorg sessions only) apps launched from gnome shell do not get input focus

2019-04-24 Thread Silvio Bierman
This bug also occurs in Wayland on a fresh Disco install. Opening Nautilus, Chromium, GEdit etc. does not properly set the focus to the newly opened windows. I have the mutter version that should contain the fix: root@mizuno:~# apt show mutter Package: mutter Version: 3.32.0+git20190410-1ubuntu1

[Bug 1817338] Re: Changing sound output doesn't work in gnome-control-center 3.32

2019-03-15 Thread Silvio Bierman
I can confirm it is working properly now. Thanks a lot for the fix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1817338 Title: Changing sound output doesn't work in gnome-control-center 3.32 To m

[Bug 1817338] Re: Changing sound output doesn't work in gnome-control-center 3.32

2019-03-13 Thread Silvio Bierman
I have installed the master branch of the "Sound Input & Output Device chooser" Gnome shell extension replacing the release version that got broken with the recent shell upgrade. This extension now again works properly enabling switching devices so this makes it indeed very likely that the issue

[Bug 1817338] Re: HDMI sound output not selectable in 19.04 (but works in 18.10)

2019-03-11 Thread Silvio Bierman
I have the same bug. I used to work around this by installing an alternative sound device selector shell extension but this one broke down when Gnome shell upgraded to 3.31.91. So now there is no way for me to switch to HDMI output any more. The select box shows the correct devices but selecting a

[Bug 1815723] Re: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

2019-02-14 Thread Silvio Bierman
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1814949 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1814949 I get the same error. Opening from the menu does nothing, using $ gnome-control-center or even $ gnome-control-center display as suggested above results in segmentation fault (core dumped). This is on a

[Bug 1635598] Re: Paste into folder option missing on breadcrumb buttons

2019-02-08 Thread Silvio Bierman
I am running Disco Dingo dev. branch now with Nautilus 3.31-90 and it seems they have fixed it. I consider this one closed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1635598 Title: Paste into fo

Re: [Bug 1636155] Re: Nautilus does not show mounts

2019-01-26 Thread Silvio Bierman
No, this is no longer an issue. It went away when I moved to 17.04. Kind regards, Silvio On 25-01-19 23:38, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Is that still an issue? Could you describe how those mounts are > configured exactly? It's weird that you describe the behaviour as > inconsistent, it would make

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2018-10-25 Thread Silvio Bierman
Reading the above gives little confidence this weird design decision will be reverted anytime soon or at all. I just did "apt purge snapd" to completely remove Snap from my 18.10 desktop. Things are now back to how I want them. I just had to install the regular gnome-calculator. -- You received t

[Bug 1746740] Re: XPS13 L322X Bionic (daily dev) touchpad laggy

2018-03-28 Thread Silvio Bierman
Thank you for this information Bib, saves me a lot of time. And this confirms we are talking about the same bug. I am using Wayland exclusively and have libinput10 1.8.4-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 installed. Touchpad is working fine. So this is something that was introduced with the version that comes with

[Bug 1746740] Re: XPS13 L322X Bionic (daily dev) touchpad laggy

2018-03-27 Thread Silvio Bierman
Well. I had reverted to Artful so that was easier said than done. I upgraded to Bionic once more. That brought back the problem but "ubuntu- bug libinput" then complained that I did not have that package installed. I did not know what libinputxxx package to use and I got tired of soft-stroking my t

[Bug 1746740] Re: XPS13 L322X Bionic (daily dev) touchpad laggy

2018-03-23 Thread Silvio Bierman
Yes, it is an XPS13 L322X model. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746740 Title: XPS13 L322X Bionic (daily dev) touchpad laggy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bug

[Bug 1746740] Re: XPS13 L322X Bionic (daily dev) touchpad laggy

2018-03-22 Thread Silvio Bierman
Sorry for being trigger happy... I am using a Dell XPS13. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746740 Title: XPS13 L322X Bionic (daily dev) touchpad laggy To manage notifications about t

[Bug 1746740] Re: XPS13 L322X Bionic (daily dev) touchpad laggy

2018-03-22 Thread Silvio Bierman
I have upgraded to Bionic recently and my touchpad immediately became close to unusable. The sensitivity was WAY too high so the cursor could only be moved with extremely low pressure. Anything beyond seemed to be considered a palm pressure or something. In addition, the touchpad buttons had become

[Bug 1635598] Re: Paste into folder option missing on breadcrumb buttons

2017-10-05 Thread Silvio Bierman
This has only gotten worse. Paste into folder also disappeared from the menu. Open in terminal has always been lacking. I fail to see why not all items from the context menu on listed folders together with those from the context menu on the view background are being offered on the current column

[Bug 1706807] Re: [amdgpu] scrambling/pixelation and jutter upon opening thunderbird

2017-10-05 Thread Silvio Bierman
I meant 17.10 naturally. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1706807 Title: [amdgpu] scrambling/pixelation and jutter upon opening thunderbird To manage notifications about this bug go to

[Bug 1706807] Re: [amdgpu] scrambling/pixelation and jutter upon opening thunderbird

2017-10-05 Thread Silvio Bierman
Thank you Jeremy. I totally forgot I enabled those a while ago when Chromium in 17.0 needed a bump and I was being locked out of many secure sites. Helped me then but I should have disabled them asap. Thanks for the pointer, problem solved. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1706807] Re: [amdgpu] scrambling/pixelation and jutter upon opening thunderbird

2017-10-04 Thread Silvio Bierman
I don't know if this is the same bug but since my 17.10 updated Thunderbird to 52.4.0 I am faced with this issue consistently. Thunderbird is unusable this way and I have manually installed a 52.3.0 version to be able to manage my e-mail. This happens both when running under X or Wayland. Gnome sh

[Bug 1714410] Re: Can't change display configuration, Method ApplyConfiguration is not implemented on interface org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig

2017-09-11 Thread Silvio Bierman
I have the same issue as Shwan (#13). Turning off the laptop screen when an additional display is connected works but is forgotten after restart. So the question remains: is this covered by this bug report or must a new one be created? -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 1681523] Re: [Launcher] missing right click options

2017-04-24 Thread Silvio Bierman
The workaround Jon describes does nothing for me. This is an extremely annoying bug. Please fix asap! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1681523 Title: [Launcher] missing right click opt

[Bug 1661245] [NEW] Need to bump chromium-browser version on Zesty

2017-02-02 Thread Silvio Bierman
Public bug reported: Perhaps this bug should be reported against the current Zesty state but the chromium-browser in Zesty is stuck at version 53 which is practically unusable with many HTTPS sites because of erroneous security warnings. The same thin happened on Yakkety and a version bump to 5

[Bug 1636155] [NEW] Nautilus does not show mounts

2016-10-24 Thread Silvio Bierman
Public bug reported: I use SSHFS to mount a number of directories on remote servers. Normally, when I create the mounts all Nautilus windows immediately show them in the sidebar and Nautilus also displays desktop icons for them. Since my upgrade to Ubuntu 16.10 this no longer works properly. The

[Bug 1635598] [NEW] Paste into folder option missing on breadcrumb buttons

2016-10-21 Thread Silvio Bierman
Public bug reported: Clicking the right mouse button on the breadcrumb-buttons that represent the path to the current folder used to offer on option "Paste into folder". This options is now gone. This is extra annoying since the only alternative is right clicking an EMPTY space in the window area

[Bug 1571311] Re: Nautilus hangs when opening SSHFS shares

2016-04-26 Thread Silvio Bierman
Interesting observations: the culprit seemed to be one specific SSHFS mount (I usually create a bunch at onse using a shell-script) that would block opening the first Nautilus window (for any location). If I left that mount out then things worked fine. Then I deleted the .Trash-1000 folder on that

[Bug 1571311] Re: Nautilus hangs when opening SSHFS shares

2016-04-25 Thread Silvio Bierman
Clean install of 16.04 release does not solve the problem. An instance of a Nautilus window must be open when creating the SSHFS mounts or all attempts to open a window will hang. After closing the last Nautilus window while mounts are present no new window can be opened until the mounts are dropp

[Bug 1571311] Re: Nautilus hangs when opening SSHFS shares

2016-04-17 Thread Silvio Bierman
Addition: accessing the share when all Nautilus windows are closed is then done from the desktop icon that is created for the share. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571311 Title: Naut

[Bug 1571311] [NEW] Nautilus hangs when opening SSHFS shares

2016-04-17 Thread Silvio Bierman
Public bug reported: If I create an SSHFS share while having a Nautilus window open it shows the mount in the sidebar (and on the desktop) and I can access the share without problem. However, If I make the share without a Nautilus window open (or if I close all Nautilus windows after the share

[Bug 1522316] Re: Icons are too big

2016-01-06 Thread Silvio Bierman
What is the status of this bug? The current 16.04 still has huge desktop icons and no way to make them smaller. The Nautilus icon size options are also way too limited. The smallest setting is too small and both larger settings are too big for list mode. Reducing the options to three sizes is a bi

[Bug 1516323] Re: With compositing off some apps have a huge black border

2015-12-29 Thread Silvio Bierman
Ah Alberts is right: the problem only happens with the terrible CSD windows. Unfortunately in 16.04 Nautilus and GEdit have also become CSD windows. Libra, Orchis and Ultra-Flat are some thems I tried with the same result. I could live with reverting all CSD windows as a workaround :) -- You rec

[Bug 1516323] Re: With compositing off some apps have a huge black border

2015-12-29 Thread Silvio Bierman
This is not only a problem with Numix. Ambiance and Radiance look kind of OK but they have messed up rounded corners. All the other themes I tried have the same huge borders. Only happens with GTK3 (I think) windows though (Nautilus, Tweak-UI, GEdit). I do not have compositing turned off as far a

[Bug 1516713] Re: gtk3 overlay scrollbars consistently show wrong behaviour

2015-11-17 Thread Silvio Bierman
Thank you Sebastien! If you need anyone to do some testing at any point I will be glad to help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1516713 Title: gtk3 overlay scrollbars consistently show

[Bug 1516713] Re: gtk3 overlay scrollbars consistently show wrong behaviour

2015-11-17 Thread Silvio Bierman
Btw, this was with a 9px font setting. Most of my colleagues use 8px and some have 7px but I am the senior so that is out of my league :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1516713 Title:

[Bug 1516713] Re: gtk3 overlay scrollbars consistently show wrong behaviour

2015-11-17 Thread Silvio Bierman
No, the fonts are not smaller than the line but smaller or at least hardly larger than the sensitive area (feels like about 12 pixels) near the line. As I said, you do not have to hover the line, only close enough to it. I attached a screenshot for the Eclipse editor issue (editing a property file

[Bug 1516713] Re: gtk3 overlay scrollbars consistently show wrong behaviour

2015-11-17 Thread Silvio Bierman
I tried Ambiance and Radience. They initially do have thinner scrollbars. But once the mouse comes close enough to the scrollbar line it extends into its full width. Only if I use a large enough font I can position the cursor in the last line. In Eclipse where I use small fonts this makes the last

[Bug 1516713] Re: gtk3 overlay scrollbars consistently show wrong behaviour

2015-11-16 Thread Silvio Bierman
Sorry, I misread your comment and the part where you said "when not in use". They are visible when the mouse is over the content so they are always "in use" when I want to click the last line to put the cursor there (which will then not work of course because I can only click on the scroll bar). -

[Bug 1516713] Re: gtk3 overlay scrollbars consistently show wrong behaviour

2015-11-16 Thread Silvio Bierman
I use numix-grey. And that does not make any sense: any scrollbar width larger than zero pixels would cover content. That could cripple any application, including one that edits graphics etc. The fact that I could access a line of text because it is larger than common scrollbar widths does not rig

[Bug 1516713] Re: gtk3 overlay scrollbars consistently show wrong behaviour

2015-11-16 Thread Silvio Bierman
** Summary changed: - gtk3 overlay scrollbars consitently show wrong behaviour + gtk3 overlay scrollbars consistently show wrong behaviour -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1516713 Title:

[Bug 1516713] [NEW] gtk3 overlay scrollbars consitently show wrong behaviour

2015-11-16 Thread Silvio Bierman
Public bug reported: This is a general bug in GTK3 overlay scrolling (the new kind, not the old "overlay scrollbars" feature). When a window needs both horizontal and vertical scrolling the actual accessible content is reduced by the size of the scrollbars that show up when you move the mouse int

[Bug 1506704] Re: Thin font, nautilus doesn't integrate with Unity.

2015-10-23 Thread Silvio Bierman
An additional remark about the garbled fonts in Eclipse: this happens when I scroll the package-explorer window. This might be a Java related thing since I can not reproduce the behavior outside Eclipse. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 1506704] Re: Thin font, nautilus doesn't integrate with Unity.

2015-10-23 Thread Silvio Bierman
I need to correct what I said above. Turning of hinting DOES improve things a lot but it does not work immediately. I did have to restart the system after disabling hinting which made me believe earlier that it did nothing (and then I kept restoring the setting to ON/FULL). Fonts still look wrong

[Bug 1506704] Re: Thin font, nautilus doesn't integrate with Unity.

2015-10-23 Thread Silvio Bierman
I also experience strange font rendering after reinstalling 15.10. I have already been on the development version for months and until yesterday everything looked fine. Yesterday I did a download of the 15.10 release and reinstalled. Everything worked out of the box, even my installed packages, EXC

[Bug 1379926] Re: gedit crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()

2014-11-04 Thread Silvio Bierman
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1379628 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1379628 Same here. Gedit is practically unworkable. When editing text files the mouse cursor often becomes invisible when moving it over the edit window and during editing it crashes at random moments. System is 14

[Bug 961977] Re: Launcher shows arrows for applications on all workspaces

2014-11-03 Thread Silvio Bierman
Correction: I have upgraded up until 14.10 and am sure things still worked as I was used to . Reinstalling broke things. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/961977 Title: Launcher shows ar

[Bug 961977] Re: Launcher shows arrows for applications on all workspaces

2014-11-03 Thread Silvio Bierman
I want to propose reverting this change. I consider the current behavior to be a bug. Switching is far more useful across workspaces and hardly useful inside the current one. I have been upgrading Ubuntu since 12.04 up until 14.04 and am quite sure the behavior did not break then. Recently I rei

[Bug 1228352] Re: [regression] Alt-Tab for all viewports will not switch viewports when selecting a window on another viewport

2014-09-22 Thread Silvio Bierman
I found the cause of the problem: besides my Unity plugin the Desktop Wall plugin had been disabled as well. Enabling it via CCSM (and ignoring some complaints about conflicting plugin settings involving something like Flip up/down or so) resolved the issue. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1361895] Re: Openjdk-8-jdk is a debug build

2014-09-19 Thread Silvio Bierman
This has been resolved. Current version of openjdk-8-jdk "8u40~b04-2" is a normal production build which performs as expected. I propose to close this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 1228352] Re: [regression] Alt-Tab for all viewports will not switch viewports when selecting a window on another viewport

2014-09-18 Thread Silvio Bierman
Hi, I have the same issue with Ubuntu 14.10. Something went wrong and I lost my Unity launcher and panel. I tried to restore them using 'dconf reset -f /org/compiz/' (read that somewhere) but that did not help. It turned out my Unity plugin was simply set to inactive so activating it via CCSM brou

[Bug 1361895] Re: Openjdk-8-jdk is a debug build

2014-09-03 Thread Silvio Bierman
Yes I read that fastdebug-info a long time ago and IMHO what is says about speed is incorrect. In Java 6 fastdebug was horribly slow as well and things do not seem to have changed. I downloaded and installed Java 8 from Oracle and that does run as expected. It seemed to be slightly faster than Ope

[Bug 1297065] Re: [needs-packaging]openjdk-8 in ubuntu

2014-08-26 Thread Silvio Bierman
Done. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297065 Title: [needs-packaging]openjdk-8 in ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openj

[Bug 1361895] [NEW] Openjdk-8-jdk is a debug build

2014-08-26 Thread Silvio Bierman
Public bug reported: The current openjdk-8-jdk package for Ubuntu 14.10 installs a version of java that reports "openjdk version 1.8.0_01-internal-fastdebug" as its version. This is a debug build that works painfully slow. Using it to run Eclipse and do stuff like building projects or even open s

[Bug 1297065] Re: [needs-packaging]openjdk-8 in ubuntu

2014-08-25 Thread Silvio Bierman
I have a development machine running Ubuntu 14.10 and have installed package openjdk-8-jdk. Unfortunately "java -version" reports "openjdk version 1.8.0_01-internal-fastdebug" which makes it a debug Java runtime build. Running anything like Eclipse with this JDK is about five times slower than usi

[Bug 1351480] Re: Compiz in utopic is older than in Trusty-updates

2014-08-14 Thread Silvio Bierman
I managed to resolve this with "aptitude dist-upgrade" by rejecting its first solution (removing metacity etc) and accepting the second one which removed among other things libmetacity-private0 and installed libmetacity-private1. Apparently this was a result of earlier partial updates. I can now c

[Bug 1351480] Re: Compiz in utopic is older than in Trusty-updates

2014-08-14 Thread Silvio Bierman
Actually a new error occurs (broken packages) when installing this via "aptitude update": Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-plugins_1%3a0.9.12+14.10.20140812-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Failed to perform reques

[Bug 1351480] Re: Metacity-common Critical issue

2014-08-10 Thread Silvio Bierman
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351480 Title: Metacity-common Critical issue To manage notifications about thi

[Bug 1351480] Re: Metacity-common Critical issue

2014-08-08 Thread Silvio Bierman
I can confirm this bug. I upgraded to 14.10 about three weeks ago and the Software Updater has been complaining about not being able to install al updates for about a week now. I use "aptitude upgrade" to do the partial update but a "aptitude dist-upgrade" says it will remove compiz, unity and a lo

[Bug 933776] Re: [regression] Super+W ("Initiate Window Picker for All Windows") shows only windows from curent workspace

2012-05-02 Thread Silvio Bierman
When was left click on icon changed to current output only? In my 11.10 this worked fine until I upgraded to 12.04. In my opinion such a modification would be a mistake. As I said earlier I think single output switching is at best the second option for switching between application windows. I for

[Bug 933776] Re: behavior for compiz scale plugin all window picker is wrong

2012-04-26 Thread Silvio Bierman
Can we vote for this bug somewhere? It is ridiculous that this was set to low prio since it completely cripples Unity. Single viewport switching is a non-function because switching by definition involves all viewports. The scale plugin if working properly is THE essential function that makes Unity

[Bug 880476] Re: after update to kernel 3.0.0-13 ubuntu 11.10 does not start

2011-11-24 Thread Silvio Bierman
@Rocko: Thank you for this little gem. Beats the way I reinstalled the driver by miles. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880476 Title: after update to kernel 3.0.0-13 ubuntu 11.10 does

[Bug 880476] Re: after update to kernel 3.0.0-13 ubuntu 11.10 does not start

2011-11-24 Thread Silvio Bierman
@NVIDIA users: Andre is right, it has something to do with the graphics driver. I was already on 290.10 but it does not seem to be the version itself. After reinstalling the 3.0.0-13 kernel the boot problem persisted. Then I booted in recovery mode and reinstalled the same NVIDIA driver. After that

[Bug 880476] Re: after update to kernel 3.0.0-13 ubuntu 11.10 does not start

2011-11-23 Thread Silvio Bierman
@Rocko: This does not work for me. For one it does not uninstall the 3.0.0-13 kernel. Secondly it did not fix the boot problem when using that kernel. Also, my package manager offered an initramfs update and while/after installing that it started complaining about my package repository being bro

[Bug 880476] Re: after update to kernel 3.0.0-13 ubuntu 11.10 does not start

2011-11-22 Thread Silvio Bierman
I have the same problem. Dell XPS L501X, Nvidia graphics (not dual), Ubuntu 11.10 64bit. Just ran the updates and got kernel 3.0.0-13 which does not boot. Reverting to 3.0.0-12 works as usual. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U