[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move snap user data from "$HOME/snap" to "$HOME/.snap" (or to "$HOME/.local/share/snap" in accordance with the XDG spec)

2017-11-25 Thread machrider
I personally love it when half-baked projects drop shit in my home directory. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move snap user data from "$HOME/snap" to

[Bug 1576784] Re: MatchIsTouchscreen also matches touchpads in 16.04

2016-05-11 Thread machrider
I'm seeing the same problem with my Dell touchpad since upgrading to 16.04. /proc/bus/input/devices shows my touchpad as: I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1 N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5 U:

[Bug 1265192] Re: Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions

2014-09-10 Thread machrider
Glad to see it's doing a better job detecting other OSes. I'd hesitate to call this bug resolved until the installer does a better job messaging to the user what it is about to do. For example, if it says it is going to replace one OS, it should also make it clear that this is actually an entire

[Bug 1290847] Re: pyvenv fails due to mising ensurepip module

2014-08-13 Thread machrider
Anyone know if and when this fix is planned to be backported to trusty (i.e. the current Ubuntu release)? There doesn't seem to be any information in this bug report to indicate one way or the other. I actually don't even know which version of the python3.4 package fixes it. (Isn't that something

[Bug 1303736] Re: [SRU] Black screen after wakeup from suspending by closing the laptop lid

2014-08-07 Thread machrider
Yeah, either this is not fixed, or there are multiple issues that manifest in a similar way. I'm running 14.04 in 64-bit mode, fully up to date, on a Dell notebook with nVidia FX 2700M video card. I have added the lines in /etc/systemd/logind.conf: HandlePowerKey=ignore

[Bug 1303736] Re: [SRU] Black screen after wakeup from suspending by closing the laptop lid

2014-08-07 Thread machrider
Thanks Elfy, that's good to know. I wasn't able to find anything about my specific issue with light-locker other than this bug. Regardless, in case anyone else discovers this thread and still has problems, uninstalling light-locker and installing xscreensaver fixed it for me. I just did the two

[Bug 1265192] Re: Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions

2014-07-23 Thread machrider
Just chiming in to say that I got burned by this during Xubuntu 14.04 installation. I previously had Windows 7 and Linux Mint Nadia in a dual boot configuration. My options were: * Install alongside Linux Mint Nadia * Overwrite Linux Mint Nadia * ...something custom, I think... I chose to

[Bug 1265192] Re: Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions

2014-07-23 Thread machrider
By the way, fixing the bug in the installer is important, but it is not enough. This really merits a new Xubuntu release (14.04.1 or something), because otherwise many other unsuspecting users will download the image and get burned the way I just did. User interfaces that are about to wipe your

[Bug 1075479] [NEW] libao defaults to ALSA output, should probably use Pulseaudio

2012-11-06 Thread machrider
Public bug reported: When playing sound from an application that uses libao on Ubuntu 12.04 (for example, pianobar), it blocks any other sound-playing application from playing audio (for example, Firefox on YouTube). A little digging showed that /etc/libao.conf sets default_driver=alsa, changing

[Bug 768338] Re: Banshee sometimes crashes at the end of a song

2011-12-27 Thread machrider
Happens on my x86_64 system, too. Ubuntu 11.04, snd_hda_intel driver. 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device 0251 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-

[Bug 722377] Re: [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA controller. Switch display Fn button not working on Dell e6400

2011-09-03 Thread machrider
Having the same problem on a Dell M6400 in Ubuntu 11.04. The key combo worked for me on 10.10 (which was upgraded 9.10 - 10.04 - 10.10). Then I recently did a fresh install of 11.04 and the Fn+F8 combo does not work. The screen flickers as if it's trying to do something, but it never activates

[Bug 678423] Re: Keyboard shortcut Super+p causes entire screen to redraw

2011-07-08 Thread machrider
Still happens for me in maverick unless I use the workaround described by Shimon Rura above. I'm not upgrading to natty. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678423 Title: Keyboard

[Bug 377175] Re: Volume Up button locks screen

2011-02-16 Thread machrider
Bryce, there may be multiple bugs here, but the most important one (IMO) is that you can't remap this key's behavior in X. Agreed that identifying the volume up key as XF86ScreenSaver could be a product of keyboard driver strangeness. But it should always be possible to remap a key with xmodmap

[Bug 533921] Re: [lucid regression] HDA: pulseaudio volume control sets alsa master to 0 when still at 15% (incorrect db data?)

2010-12-11 Thread machrider
I believe Daniel Chen set this to WontFix prematurely. This report isn't wahh, I don't like how pulseaudio works. It's an actual bug. When I set the volume with gnome's mixer applet or with pavucontrol, and pulseaudio's level reaches 15%, then Alsa's Master channel reaches zero. Therefore, at

[Bug 533921] Re: [lucid regression] HDA: pulseaudio volume control sets alsa master to 0 when still at 15% (incorrect db data?)

2010-12-11 Thread machrider
Sorry, forgot to note that I'm seeing this behavior on a system running Maverick, packages fully updated as of a few hours ago. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533921 Title: [lucid

[Bug 678423] Re: Keyboard shortcut Super+p causes entire screen to redraw

2010-11-23 Thread machrider
Oh, the flickering doesn't happen if I run rhythmbox-client --play-pause at the command line, so I didn't suspect Rhythmbox was the problem, either... -- Keyboard shortcut Super+p causes entire screen to redraw https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678423 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 678423] [NEW] Keyboard shortcut Super+p causes entire screen to redraw

2010-11-22 Thread machrider
Public bug reported: I recently upgraded from Lucid to Maverick, and noticed a regression. I have a keyboard shortcut Mod4+p (aka Super/Windows key) bound to run the command rhythmbox-client --play-pause. I've had this shortcut since Karmic, it always worked fine. After upgrading to Maverick,

[Bug 678423] Re: Keyboard shortcut Super+p causes entire screen to redraw

2010-11-22 Thread machrider
Just tested in compiz instead of metacity - the flicker is faster, but still present. (Visual Effects set to Extra, before with Metacity they were set to None.) -- Keyboard shortcut Super+p causes entire screen to redraw https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678423 You received this bug notification

[Bug 678423] Re: Keyboard shortcut Super+p causes entire screen to redraw

2010-11-22 Thread machrider
No, no screen flicker when I press Mod4+p if the shortcut is not bound to that combo. -- Keyboard shortcut Super+p causes entire screen to redraw https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678423 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 612591] Re: Maverick kernel treats touchpad's middle button as ClickPad

2010-11-06 Thread machrider
Thanks, the patch works on my Dell Precision M6400. Was having the same behavior as the above M6500 users. This bug needs to be fixed upstream ASAP, it's a pretty terrible regression. -- Maverick kernel treats touchpad's middle button as ClickPad https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612591 You

[Bug 377175] Re: Volume Up button locks screen

2010-10-01 Thread machrider
The volume up key locks screen behavior is still present for me in Lucid. My setup is described above. ** Changed in: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu) Status: Expired = New -- Volume Up button locks screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377175 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 589428] Re: Drag drop stops working after a while

2010-06-13 Thread machrider
Just happened to me on the same version of Firefox (3.5.9+nobinonly- 0ubuntu0.9.10.1), Ubuntu karmic, x86_64. Anything that can normally be dragged (bookmarks, tabs, etc.) can't be dragged anymore. After restarting Firefox, drag and drop works again. -- Drag drop stops working after a while

[Bug 527458] Re: please include status messages/tooltips

2010-06-10 Thread machrider
It's completely asinine that the battery status indicator is forced to show Laptop battery 5 minutes until fully charged as a *menu item*. This is a classic case of needlessly reinventing the wheel, and doing something surprising to the user in the process. What happens if I click on that menu

[Bug 590297] Re: USB storage device opens in F-Spot even when I configured it to Open Folder

2010-06-09 Thread machrider
In File Management Preferences, I found that I was probably tweaking the wrong setting. Under Other Media, I had to find Picture CD in the Type combo box, and then change Action to Open Folder (it was set to Open F-Spot). After doing this, the MP3 player opens in a folder viewer as expected.

[Bug 590297] [NEW] USB storage device opens in F-Spot even when I configured it to Open Folder

2010-06-05 Thread machrider
Public bug reported: My MP3 player is a USB mass storage device. It happens to have a top level folder called 'Pictures', which I can't rename. (I renamed it to 'Not Pictures' and then the device automatically recreated a 'Pictures' folder.) Apparently the presence of a folder called

[Bug 91418] Re: Time not updated when daylight savings switch made

2010-03-14 Thread machrider
This bug is pretty old, but I think I just saw it myself. In the US, daylight savings time began this morning. My jaunty box that was running at the time switched without a problem. My karmic laptop, which was off at the time (not hibernating), did not update when I booted it up today. I had

[Bug 317366] Re: urxvt menu hangs urxvt with x input frozen

2010-02-11 Thread machrider
The version in karmic-proposed (9.06-1ubuntu0.09.10.1) fixes this problem for me. -- urxvt menu hangs urxvt with x input frozen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317366 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 377175] Re: Volume Up button locks screen

2009-09-10 Thread machrider
I'm having the same problem. Ubuntu 9.04 with a Macally Icekey USB keyboard. This is new after upgrading from 8.04 - 8.10 - 9.04 last night. I've tried both the Generic keyboard layout (pc104 and pc105), as well as evdev-managed keyboard. I figured out the following: 1. In Jaunty, keycode 160

[Bug 228967] Re: Redirect of default start page breaks the Back button

2009-09-07 Thread machrider
In addition to breaking the Back button, this home page breaks the *forward* button. Start a browser, get the ubufox home page. Do some web browsing (visit a web site, click a link, whatever). Hit back until you reach the start page, then hit back one more time. (Maybe I'm weird, but I hit

[Bug 190492] Re: Kernel hangs on boot (SATA, AMD64/i386)

2009-05-16 Thread machrider
Does NOT hang for me anymore. I'm running Hardy 8.04 with kernel 2.6.24-24-generic. One of the recent kernel updates must've changed something (I only just rebooted this week, previous to that it has been ~200 days, so I'm not sure exactly which kernel fixed it for me). I got ATA errors on

[Bug 324233] Re: kubuntu 8.10 - Network Manager 0.7 - DHCP/resolvconf Problem

2009-02-13 Thread machrider
Seeing the same behavior. Doesn't require a reboot for me -- if NetworkManager is running, it will destroy my resolvconf symlink and write a new file every couple minutes. If I restore the symlink by hand, my VPN works until NetworkManager breaks it again. NetworkManager

[Bug 278941] [NEW] glslideshow keeps showing the same image

2008-10-06 Thread machrider
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xscreensaver Using Kubuntu 8.04, I'm unable to get glslideshow to show more than one image. It seems to have chosen one image and always shows that image, despite being pointed at a directory with several images in it. I used xscreensaver-demo to

[Bug 278941] Re: glslideshow keeps showing the same image

2008-10-06 Thread machrider
Just figured out that changing my images directory in xscreensaver-demo to another path, then putting back the original path got it to rescan the directory and find the new files I had copied in. It must scan the directory once and cache the values somewhere? I don't see any kind of cache file

[Bug 190492] Re: Kernel hangs on boot (SATA, AMD64/i386)

2008-05-31 Thread machrider
Same issue here. Unbelievable that the Ubuntu team would push out Hardy before fixing this kind of issue. What a nightmare for an average user! The old kernel (2.6.22) worked fine. After turning off the quiet and splash kernel options, the 2.6.24 kernel produces error messages like: ata3:

[Bug 201652] Re: azureus crashes on startup

2008-04-08 Thread machrider
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 200481 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200481 I see this as well, running gutsy x64 on an Intel Q6600 system. Freshly installed azureus crashes the JVM (IcedTea) with a SIGSEGV. Further, I installed the Sun JRE, and set that as my default JRE, and the

[Bug 41427] Re: slow keys can turn on surreptitiously cause confusion.

2008-04-03 Thread machrider
It seems like this issue is being largely ignored, but I'm going to submit my $0.02 anyway. I just wasted over an hour of my (valuable) workday trying to figure out why my keyboard would intermittently stop working. As it turns out, yes, I was activating slow keys by lazily holding down the

[Bug 192275] Re: python-xml contains an outdated copy of minidom

2008-03-07 Thread machrider
Glad to hear it! -- python-xml contains an outdated copy of minidom https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192275 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 192275] [NEW] python-xml contains an outdated copy of minidom

2008-02-15 Thread machrider
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-xml A fresh install of a Gutsy desktop edition (not server) results in the 'python-xml' package being installed. Python-xml contains a copy of the minidom library, although Python itself comes with minidom (at least, in my version 2.5.1 install