[Bug 565393] Re: Many monospace fonts not properly spaced when mixing weights in gedit/gtksourceview

2012-10-18 Thread james_mcl
I know this hasn't been posted in since February, but I wanted to note that the removal of 90-synthetic.conf's symlink from /etc/fonts/conf.d/ has an irritating side effect when using gedit (or pluma) - unsaved documents no longer have their names italicised in the side panel (or "side pane"). Thi

[Bug 124406] Re: Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat

2011-05-20 Thread james_mcl
Thanks Bryce, I did end up replacing the laptop, and it will be a little while before I have access to the affected machine again (it now resides in the attic at my parents' house!); however I'll be sure to file a bug report as soon as I get there. -- You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 124406] Re: Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat

2011-04-30 Thread james_mcl
Well, I've just been in touch with Ajax. I asked if he knew about any experimental thread-based branches: "There's http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ajax/xserver/log/?h=input-thread-v3 , which I haven't touched in months. It's assuredly broken if you poke it hard enough." I also asked if Wayland wou

[Bug 124406] Re: Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat

2011-04-29 Thread james_mcl
Okay... that last point needed a comment of its own - now to look at the other issues raised. 1.) "Touch base about this with Ajax to find if he has any experimental branches, or if he knows if anyone else is working on the problem, and how you can help." - It never occurred to me that any exper

[Bug 124406] Re: Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat

2011-04-29 Thread james_mcl
In answer to post 310, Bryce, I'm sorry but there's a serious misunderstanding of the issue in your post. You state "hitting a key a second time (to fire a new up-key signal) makes things work." This is not the case for everyone affected, or for every instance of the bug. The original poster, and

[Bug 124406] Re: Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat

2011-04-28 Thread james_mcl
Daniel - where you say that you can press any key to release the stuck one - over the years the bug's behaviour has varied, in some versions of Ubuntu I've been able to stop the repeting keypress by pressing another key, in others not. At the moment I usually seem to be able to stop it by pressing

[Bug 124406] Re: Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat

2011-04-28 Thread james_mcl
This is a two-part reply to Bryce Harrington's comment #294. 1.) I really have to take issue with your statement that "it's a minor annoyance (rather than an X lockup or crash)". When the key that gets stuck is "Delete", for instance, this has the potential to wipe out entire directories, and the

[Bug 581160] Re: rhythmbox-metadata segfault on mod files

2011-01-10 Thread james_mcl
I can't access 581162 either, but I did find a partial workaround in Lucid. First of all, I installed Audacious, so that I could use this to play the mod files. However, right-clicking on them and choosing Properties kept crashing Nautilus. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1189490 suggest

[Bug 111054] Could not install Feisty upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread james_mcl
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: update-manager I just tried to upgrade from Edgy to Feisty. After downloading the various packages, I was confronted by a dialog saying "Configuring mdadm" and asking me to state the "MD arrays needed for the root filesystem". The default, which I stuc

[Bug 111054] Re: Could not install Feisty upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread james_mcl
** Attachment added: "apt.log" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7465410/apt.log -- Could not install Feisty upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing li

[Bug 111054] Re: Could not install Feisty upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread james_mcl
** Attachment added: "term.log" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7465422/term.log -- Could not install Feisty upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 111054] Re: Could not install Feisty upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread james_mcl
** Attachment added: "main.log" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7465418/main.log -- Could not install Feisty upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing