[Bug 702452]

2015-09-28 Thread Vincent Povirk
The default when AppUserModelID's are implemented should be the full path to the .exe file (exe's with the same filename in different directories do not group together on windows), so that's what I'd suggest setting WM_CLASS to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 437043]

2014-05-01 Thread Vincent Povirk
My understanding is this used to be broken with native dotnet, and now the bug affecting native dotnet is fixed. Problems with mono would be a separate bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1093907] Re: screen is distorted if aspect ratio does not match the native resolution

2014-01-09 Thread Vincent Povirk
Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the affected machine. I can try to retest on another machine with the development ISO, but I don't know if that will be useful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 702452]

2013-05-31 Thread Vincent Povirk
AppUserModelID is the way to go in the long run, but it requires some missing architecture (which I've been slowly working on implementing). And to really match Windows, we'd have to generate .desktop files on demand for running programs. Of course, the .exe bit could be done without any of the

[Bug 1157395] [NEW] pylint crashes on default values of a custom constant type

2013-03-19 Thread Vincent Povirk
Public bug reported: I'm getting the following exception when running pylint on my code: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/pylint, line 3, in module run_pylint() File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylint/__init__.py, line 21, in run_pylint Run(sys.argv[1:]) File

[Bug 1093907] [NEW] screen is distorted if aspect ratio does not match the native resolution

2012-12-26 Thread Vincent Povirk
Public bug reported: My laptop has a 16:9 display. If I change the display mode (or a program changes it) to a 4:3 resolution, the resulting image is stretched. I'm expecting letterboxing instead, as described here: http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.3/look-resolution.html.en If

[Bug 1016091] [NEW] gnome-control-center cannot change keyboard shortcuts in gnome shell

2012-06-21 Thread Vincent Povirk
Public bug reported: I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, with the Gnome desktop environment. Gnome-control-center is version 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu0.2. Steps to reproduce: 1. Click on the username at the upper-right corner of the screen in gnome shell. 2. Click on System Settings. 3. Click on Keyboard and

[Bug 989568] Re: Keyboard shortcuts do not work and cannot be changed

2012-06-21 Thread Vincent Povirk
** Also affects: gnome-control-center Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/989568 Title: Keyboard shortcuts do not work and cannot be changed

[Bug 989568] Re: gnome-shell shortcuts do not work and cannot be changed

2012-06-21 Thread Vincent Povirk
Could I work around this for now by upgrading my gnome-control-center package (with the caveat that it will break the keyboard shortcut editing in unity)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 702452] Re: [launcher] Wine applications are wrongly matched

2012-06-06 Thread Vincent Povirk
I'm still (slowly) working on this. I considered putting the exe filename in StartupWMClass, but I chose to wait for the following reasons: * We would still have the general Wine Windows Program Loader launcher with its StartupWMClass of Wine. Will BAMF have any way to know that the other

[Bug 977329] Re: unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_dispatch()

2012-04-09 Thread Vincent Povirk
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/977329 Title: unity-panel-service crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_dispatch() To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 702452] Re: [launcher] Wine applications are wrongly matched

2012-02-02 Thread Vincent Povirk
I don't have KDE available to test. Does that apply also to Wine programs not started via .desktop files? It seems to me the goal is to match applications reliably regardless of how they are started (meaning startup notification may not be available at all), and if that problem is solved correctly

[Bug 925723] [NEW] firefox-globalmenu removes the menu from at-spi

2012-02-02 Thread Vincent Povirk
Public bug reported: To reproduce: * Enable Assistive Technology support. * Make sure firefox, firefox-globalmenu, and accerciser are installed. * Make sure Unity is the active desktop. * Start firefox. The firefox menu should show up at the top of the screen. * Start accerciser, and find the

[Bug 702452] Re: [launcher] Wine applications are wrongly matched

2012-02-01 Thread Vincent Povirk
What if Wine just told BAMF what .desktop file to use? Would that sort of thing be reasonable? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/702452 Title: [launcher] Wine applications are wrongly

[Bug 702452] Re: [launcher] Wine applications are wrongly matched

2012-02-01 Thread Vincent Povirk
Note that Windows 7 has API's to allow processes to tell Windows which application each window belongs to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/library/windows/desktop/dd378459%28v=vs.85%29.aspx To be fully correct, we'll have to implement these API's through BAMF. I haven't seen a need for this yet,

[Bug 736188] Re: aisleriot solitaire- cannot play full game as no card could be withdrawn from deck around the middle of game..

2011-03-19 Thread Vincent Povirk
Which game were you playing? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736188 Title: aisleriot solitaire- cannot play full game as no card could be withdrawn from deck around the middle of

[Bug 693791] Re: firefox preserves logins across sessions when not asked to

2011-01-12 Thread Vincent Povirk
Yes, this still happens with 4.0b8. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/693791 Title: firefox preserves logins across sessions when not asked to -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 693791] Re: firefox preserves logins across sessions when not asked to

2010-12-23 Thread Vincent Povirk
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/693791 Title: firefox preserves logins across sessions when not asked to -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 468856] Re: grub2 does not detect Windows 7

2010-12-08 Thread Vincent Povirk
I've retested with Ubuntu 10.10 (which has os-prober 39), and this works now. Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468856 Title: grub2 does not detect Windows 7 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 681902] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gdu_device_get_object_path()

2010-11-27 Thread Vincent Povirk
Does this happen consistently, or was it only once? Maybe it's a race condition? I think that _gdu_device_new_from_object_path may return NULL if the device goes away before it completes. -- nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in gdu_device_get_object_path() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/681902 You

[Bug 255671] Re: wineprefixcreate should display a setting up message during first run

2010-09-05 Thread Vincent Povirk
This is fixed in Wine as of 1.1.42 by commit 9254476d131bbf4b8982962f83fc37e4b36abab7. ** Changed in: wine (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Released -- wineprefixcreate should display a setting up message during first run https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255671 You received this bug

[Bug 27956] Re: pressing print screen deactivates gnomine, making it pause, preventing me from taking a screenshot

2010-06-10 Thread Vincent Povirk
The pausing when losing focus isn't necessarily to prevent anyone from cheating. No one knows the rationale for it because no one has filed a bug upstream. -- pressing print screen deactivates gnomine, making it pause, preventing me from taking a screenshot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27956

[Bug 27956] Re: pressing print screen deactivates gnomine, making it pause, preventing me from taking a screenshot

2010-06-10 Thread Vincent Povirk
As much as I don't like to see reopened bugs with long arguments about them, I really feel that Sebastien has dropped the ball here. As I understand it, part of launchpad's purpose for ubuntu is to be a central place for ubuntu users to file bugs they see in ubuntu, without worrying about whether

[Bug 27956] Re: pressing print screen deactivates gnomine, making it pause, preventing me from taking a screenshot

2010-06-10 Thread Vincent Povirk
There. Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621212 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #621212 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621212 -- pressing print screen deactivates gnomine, making it pause, preventing me from taking a screenshot

[Bug 468856] [NEW] grub2 does not detect Windows 7

2009-11-01 Thread Vincent Povirk
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub2 grub-common is version 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu3. os-prober is version 1.35. Yesterday, I went through the following steps: * Delete all partitions from the hard drive. * Install 64-bit Windows 7 at the beginning of the free space. * Boot into Windows 7

[Bug 448820] Re: Screensaver doesn't run if a menu is visible

2009-10-11 Thread Vincent Povirk
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 49579 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/49579 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 49579 screen doesn't lock when panel menu is open -- Screensaver doesn't run if a menu is visible https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448820 You received this bug

[Bug 448807] Re: applet has box around it after returning from screensaver

2009-10-11 Thread Vincent Povirk
Who said anything about what the icons mean? The presence of some black after returning from the screensaver implies that a window is not redrawing everything when it gets an expose event. I don't see a black box in the screenshot, but I do see a vertical black line near the notification area.

[Bug 448450] Re: On startup, network-manager uses wifi instead of wireless

2009-10-11 Thread Vincent Povirk
Reported fixed. ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- On startup, network-manager uses wifi instead of wireless https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448450 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 429160] [NEW] X server does not start with proprietary nvidia drivers enabled

2009-09-13 Thread Vincent Povirk
Public bug reported: Description:Ubuntu karmic (development branch) Release:9.10 x86 architecture The X server fails to start with proprietary nvidia drivers (185, as recommended by the Hardware Drivers utility). To work around this, I had to change my driver in xorg.conf to nv and

[Bug 429160] Re: X server does not start with proprietary nvidia drivers enabled

2009-09-13 Thread Vincent Povirk
nvidia driver version 185 I don't know how to check which GPU. -- X server does not start with proprietary nvidia drivers enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429160 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 404638] [NEW] enable touchpad setting has no effect in karmic

2009-07-25 Thread Vincent Povirk
Public bug reported: I'm using 32-bit Ubuntu karmic (9.10). After a recent update and reboot, the Enable touchpad setting in SystemPreferencesMouse has no effect. The touchpad works even if that setting is enabled. I would like the touchpad to be disabled. I'm currently working around this

[Bug 280505] Re: deskbar-applet crashed with EOFError in prompt_user_passwd()

2009-05-23 Thread Vincent Povirk
I think that the crash is gnome bug 569260, which should be fixed in gnome 2.26 (ubuntu 9.04). However, the fix does not let the networking extensions authenticate to proxies when they couldn't before. It just prevents a crash in that situation. So I suspect that in 9.04 the networking extensions

[Bug 280522] Re: easytag crashed with SIGSEGV in g_markup_escape_text()

2009-05-23 Thread Vincent Povirk
Looks to me like easytag is passing data to g_markup_printf_escaped that is not valid utf8. append_escaped_text can't handle this situation. -- easytag crashed with SIGSEGV in g_markup_escape_text() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280522 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 280522] Re: easytag crashed with SIGSEGV in g_markup_escape_text()

2009-05-23 Thread Vincent Povirk
glib documentation states that these functions will only work for utf8 text so it is an easytag bug. -- easytag crashed with SIGSEGV in g_markup_escape_text() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280522 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 288790] Re: ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition

2008-10-31 Thread Vincent Povirk
Rootdelay works. I, uh, don't know which motherboard I have either. -- ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 288790] Re: ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition

2008-10-27 Thread Vincent Povirk
Yep, after exiting busybox, the system boots up. I'll try the rootdelay thing soon. -- ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 288790] Re: ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition

2008-10-27 Thread Vincent Povirk
version_signature claims I'm using 2.6.27-7.14-generic. -- ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 288790] [NEW] ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition

2008-10-24 Thread Vincent Povirk
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic I'm using Ubuntu 8.10. linux-image-2.6.27-4-generic is the most recent kernel that boots correctly on my machine. Versions -5 through -7 fail to mount the root partition during startup and dump me in a busybox shell. The

[Bug 288790] Re: ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition

2008-10-24 Thread Vincent Povirk
** Attachment added: dmesg-output-bad.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18864742/dmesg-output-bad.txt -- ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 288790] Re: ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition

2008-10-24 Thread Vincent Povirk
** Attachment added: dmesg-output-good.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18864750/dmesg-output-good.txt -- ubuntu linux 2.6.27-7-generic fails to mount root partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 256520] Re: Should use flat menus by default instead of 3D menus

2008-09-26 Thread Vincent Povirk
Wine now updates prefixes automatically when it detects that it's running a new version. It may not be possible to prevent it from overwriting existing settings if you use that method. -- Should use flat menus by default instead of 3D menus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256520 You received

[Bug 255671] Re: wineprefixcreate should display a setting up message during first run

2008-08-07 Thread Vincent Povirk
The process should never fail, nor should it break if wine is started again while the directory is being created. -- wineprefixcreate should display a setting up message during first run https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255671 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 249645] Re: Software should be run from it's directory.

2008-07-17 Thread Vincent Povirk
This should be fixed as of Wine 1.0. Have you tested it in that version? -- Software should be run from it's directory. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249645 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 249645] Re: Software should be run from it's directory.

2008-07-17 Thread Vincent Povirk
Can you please check the working path directly, rather than relying on loading DLL's, just to make sure they are not failing for some other reason? The wine.desktop file that wine installs in /usr/share now specifies the command wine start /unix for running .exe files. This command translates the

[Bug 203225] Re: [hardy] wine crashed using truespace 3.2

2008-07-12 Thread Vincent Povirk
No, I don't think it's created by default. You might want to try creating the key and setting it to opengl. -- [hardy] wine crashed using truespace 3.2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203225 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 203225] Re: [hardy] wine crashed using truespace 3.2

2008-07-01 Thread Vincent Povirk
Do you have the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D\DirectDrawRenderer key set? It should either be unset or have the string value opengl. If it has a value of gdi, this won't work. -- [hardy] wine crashed using truespace 3.2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203225 You received this bug

[Bug 218846] Re: [Wishlist] Please include animated Cursor Patch

2008-06-29 Thread Vincent Povirk
Are you aware of the problems described at: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-April/046804.html and http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2006-April/046819.html ? AFAIK this has not yet been addressed and the patches will break 16-bit apps. -- [Wishlist] Please include

[Bug 243390] Re: Difficult to associate a Wine application as a handler or default handler for a file type

2008-06-27 Thread Vincent Povirk
Does photoshop show up in Wine's Open With list on Windows? If so, this is http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13597 I don't think it's possible to do this sensibly for apps that don't show up in Open WIth. -- Difficult to associate a Wine application as a handler or default handler for a

[Bug 242563] Re: The bundled ie6 in wine only shows a blank screen

2008-06-26 Thread Vincent Povirk
Yes, Wine Internet Explorer is a stub. It has no user interface and is not meant to be a fully-featured browser. Most people only use it to install Gecko. You can view web pages in it if you run it with a url, e.g. $ wine iexplore http://www.google.com/ -- The bundled ie6 in wine only shows a

[Bug 236589] Re: WINE in Ubuntu cannot automatically run .msi files

2008-06-19 Thread Vincent Povirk
This is partially fixed in Wine since 0.9.60. Starting a .msi file with Wine Windows Emulator works. wine.desktop only needs to be updated to report that it can handle .msi files (this also involves creating mime types iirc). -- WINE in Ubuntu cannot automatically run .msi files

[Bug 236106] Re: doubleclick on .exe starts all programs in wrong directory

2008-06-19 Thread Vincent Povirk
This has been fixed in Wine since 0.9.60. -- doubleclick on .exe starts all programs in wrong directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236106 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 234384] Re: aisleriot scheme crash

2008-05-24 Thread Vincent Povirk
This is bug 443307 in the GNOME bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443307 -- aisleriot scheme crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234384 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list