Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Martin Olsson
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Martin Olsson wrote: >> Rene, >> >> Please open a launchpad bug requesting SHIFT-ALT-TAB as default. >> Then click "Also affects project" on that bug and search for >> the "hundredpapercuts" project, if that doesn&#

Re: alt-tab; need shift-alt-tab too.

2010-01-29 Thread Martin Olsson
Rene, Please open a launchpad bug requesting SHIFT-ALT-TAB as default. Then click "Also affects project" on that bug and search for the "hundredpapercuts" project, if that doesn't work just try to click "Subscribe someone else" and enter "djsiegel" and explain in a comment that you'd like the bug

Re: Desktop Effects Reverting to crude X-Server style Grahpics

2009-11-07 Thread Martin Olsson
Martin Olsson wrote: > > sudo force_start=1 /etc/init.d/apport start > Actually I just tried it and it seems that this command has been deprecated in karmic. It prints another "upstart" related way to start the service but that second command does not work a

Re: Desktop Effects Reverting to crude X-Server style Grahpics

2009-11-07 Thread Martin Olsson
Sebastian Geiger wrote: > For me, plugging in the VGA cable and pressing Fn+F4 screws up the 2nd > screen, and then the appearance. The appearance became in a way like > crude XServer style grey graphics. Everything is a bit bigger and no > I am wondering about which package I would have to file a

[karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

2009-10-19 Thread Martin Olsson
I just wanted to get this bug on the release radar since it's pretty severe (it makes all web browsing very slow for a large group of users). Worst case maybe we can ship about:config with a default of: network.dns.disableIPv6 == true https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/417757 -

Re: Pulse audio

2009-10-08 Thread Martin Olsson
Daniel Chen wrote: > Just because ALSA has appeared to be > sufficient in the past does not mean that it is, or even will be, > sufficient. Saying that ALSA only "appeared to be sufficient" feels Sound was broken for me in all releases before hardy and then in hardy it worked _perfectly_ wit

Here is an easy bug, to learn the basics of Ubuntu packaging

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Olsson
Maybe you know someone who is looking for an easy-to-fix first bug to get started with hacking on ubuntu? Here is such a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/444750 Here is step-by-step instructions for creating a debdiff bugfix: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Recipes/Deb

Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu

2009-09-28 Thread Martin Olsson
http://www.phoronix.com/ Their test suite is GPLv3 so you can reuse it! Martin Randy Appleton wrote: > I'm a computer science professor considering offering an undergraduate > research project. > > Does anyone know which of the major distributions is fastest? Has anyone > time

Re: Possible regression in Karmic: "valgrind echo foo" has problems

2009-09-20 Thread Martin Olsson
Mike Pontillo wrote: >Thank you for your response. I can confirm that rebuilding the same > version of the valgrind package solves the problem for me as well. > >Should anything else be done to triage this? Could other packages > be lurking in the repository that need to be rebuilt? TWIMC

Re: Reproducible w3m bug

2009-05-15 Thread Martin Olsson
For the first bug I recommend that you upstream it. There is not a lot of people in the Ubuntu project that fix bugs themselves, most people spend their time on packaging and integration (even though some people also do upstream work separately from their Ubuntu work). Filing an Ubuntu bug is nice

Re: High CPU usage applet (how to use apport to report CPU hogs)

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Olsson
Timo Sirainen wrote: > If some process has been eating 100% CPU for hours, there should be some > kind of a notification that it's happening. Like a small icon could > appear to gnome panel and clicking it would show the process details and > allow to kill it. > > Nowadays with multicore processor

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-02 Thread Martin Olsson
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > We have not made any decisions about whether this program would be based > on PackageKit, Add/Remove Applications, Synaptic, or something else, or > written from scratch. We should first design what it will do and how it > will behave, then work out how to implement it.

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-02 Thread Martin Olsson
Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > If you download and install everything that has 0 dependencies first, then > the > ones that depend on those things, and on up the tree, it could be doable. > Except for cyclical dependencies. For those, you'd need to get both > downloaded > before running dpkg on the

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-01 Thread Martin Olsson
One gigantic improvement would be downloading package deltas instead of whole .DEB files. I don't think this is necessarily that hard to do in a reliable fashion. I assume you already thought about that and it might be out of Ubuntu's scope (i.e. better developed separately and then integrated into

Re: removal of logout/shutdown options from the GNOME (was Foundations Team Weekly Summary, 2009-02-25=

2009-03-05 Thread Martin Olsson
(``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > Olá Robbie e a todos. > > On Monday 02 March 2009 23:03:06 Robbie Williamson wrote: >> * Discovered that the removal of logout/shutdown options from the GNOME >> system >> menu was a UI decision. After fuming about that for 5 minutes, set about >> working >> out

new feature in valgrind 3.4.0 makes it easy to track _origin_ of "uninitialized values"

2009-02-27 Thread Martin Olsson
FYI; Valgrind 3.4.0 introduces a really neat feature for finding the reason behind those pesky "jump/move depends on unintialized memory" errors. What this new feature does is that it prints the _origin_ of the undefined value instead of printing a warning when that value is _used_. Normally the

Re: Alt-SysReq-K in some cases nonfunctional.

2009-02-15 Thread Martin Olsson
Mike Jones wrote: > Additionally, > > Could someone please explain to me what REISUB is? I have never > heard this term before, and as I said before, I am a programmer by > trade, with better than just basic knowledge about operating systems and > such, so I am a bit thrown off. Each l

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Olsson
Scott James Remnant wrote: > It's not that simple, in fact I'd go as far to say that "we should never > adopt new things" is a very dangerous position to take. Thanks for posting, James. There were many excellent points in your reply. After reading it, I do agree with you. However, I will probabl

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-04 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi Daniel, Thanks for replying. Dan Chen wrote: > How can you help? Test the jaunty daily-live images for Ubuntu and Kubuntu > for starters. I've booted the jaunty live CD from feb 3rd on this machine now, installed skype and the bug persists there. I've filed all the filed, plus a record al

Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-01 Thread Martin Olsson
When I upgraded my hardy laptop to intrepid I lost audio/mic in Skype: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/288269/comments/10 Recently someone posted a comment with some steps that fixed the issue for me: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-plugins/+bug/288269/co

Rebuilding a package with debug symbols and no optimization in a _parallel_ fashion?

2008-12-15 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi, Normally when I want to rebuild a package with no-optimizations and full debug symbols I do: mkdir some_pkg ; cd some_pkg ; apt-get source SOME_PACKAGE ; cd SOME_PACKAGE_DIR DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt nostrip" fakeroot debian/rules binary sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb This is

Command to flush file system cache to prepare for performance testing?

2008-12-09 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi, If grep through all files in a directory twice, then the first time takes a lot longer because the second run will have most of the files available in the "in memory file system cache". I want to do some basic performance testing for a scenario involving disk I/O. I'm wondering if there is a

Re: Apport in stable releases [was: Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list]

2008-11-14 Thread Martin Olsson
Scott Kitterman wrote: > We'd be flooded with stacks of dupes mostly to existing bugs > and no one to triage, let alone fix them. In their current form dupes are mostly annoying, but what if the apport was redesigned so that it had a "production mode" where it only bumped a counter on the origina

Valgrind itself SIGSEGVs on ubuntu x64

2008-10-05 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi, Pretty much _any_ program that I run through valgrind on x64 boxes cause memcheck itself to SIGSEGV (valgrind works great on 32-bit afaik). Would be nice to have this for intrepid because valgrind is instrumental in: * analyzing other bugs * quality checking daily builds etc This bug only ha

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-11 Thread Martin Olsson
> > Voting could also reduce noise from "me too!" comments. (On the other > hand, there's the risk that the reduction in "me too!" comments might be > outweighed by the increase in "this bug has X votes, why hasn't it been > fixed?" comments.) > Sometimes useful information gets buried among ton

Finding the right package for bug 226631

2008-05-04 Thread Martin Olsson
Sometimes totem plays movies in slow motion (especially when I'm playing audio in certain other apps like audacious for instance). I've managed to narrow down the conditions to a very short set of repro steps involving the final hardy live CD. I'm trying to figure out in what package this bug a

SMB shares lost and not recreatable when upgrading to hardy

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi, I upgraded to Hardy today. Everything went fine except for one thing: All my network shares for folders located on NTFS drives disappeared. What's worse is that I cannot recreate them. I believe this is due to Hardy turning on a SMB flag that makes it impossible to share files for which yo

Re: SCIM driving me insane

2008-03-09 Thread Martin Olsson
Despite the glitches noted, I believe it's a great decision to include easy-to-switch on-by-default input method support. Many of the worlds most important and fastest growing economies are in asia and they don't use english as much as europe etc. It would be awesome to have more young hackers

Re: SCIM driving me insane

2008-03-09 Thread Martin Olsson
I was going to post a bug about this yesterday. I think CTRL-SPACE is a very very bad keyboard shortcut for this. I accidently triggered it 5 or 6 sixes when typing an e-mail, before I understood what was going on. Being able to change input method or whatever is an awesome feature it's just th

Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?

2007-11-16 Thread Martin Olsson
e system got royally screwed (long fsck etc). Some of you might say this is like the oldest trick in the book, yada yada yada... Martin Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:51:27 -0800 > Martin Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear kernel hacke

Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?

2007-11-16 Thread Martin Olsson
Dear kernel hackers, This is a message from below 0x7FFF. Please look at this bug (it's not a new concept but still): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/163185 I'm no expert but I'd guess the "complete freeze" part of the bug has to do with the kernel, no? It would be nice to have a sys

Re: Grouping preferences/Administration items?

2007-10-28 Thread Martin Olsson
Milan wrote: > At least, there is a logic: Preferences are/should be for user settings, > Administration for system-wide, often requiring admin rights settings. > Still, there are issues with this classification: the Network Tools are > not settings at all, Hardware Information is in preferences (s

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Martin Olsson
Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Sunday 21 October 2007 14:08, Martin Olsson wrote: > >> And to justify this crippled BACKSPACE key you still would have to >> explain why this is not a problem on Windows ("the main platform of >> ignorant computer users")? Why is it

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-21 Thread Martin Olsson
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > A confirmation alert is usually the worst possible solution to any > design problem. People treat it as an interruption rather than as a > serious question. (Some horrid Web sites already do this, with > JavaScript alerts of the form "Are you sure you want to navi

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Martin Olsson
Nicolas Alvarez wrote: > > It's the wrong way to fix it. You can lose data by clicking enter > while a link is focused too, should we disable the enter key? The > right solution has been mentioned multiple times in multiple places: > prompt "Are you sure you want to change page and lose what you

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Martin Olsson
Fergal Daly wrote: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290474 > > has been sitting unloved for over 2.5 years now. Notepad.exe still > takes more care to preserve your hard work :( > > So unless firefox becomes much more careful about user edits, it seems > to me that using the same

Re: You devs rock. Thanks for your work.

2007-10-20 Thread Martin Olsson
I also think Ubuntu is improving at an tremendously phenomenal rate. When I bought my laptop in june, Ubuntu couldn't even boot (it was stuck in busybox). Then they fixed that bug but there was a problem with X.org not being able to use my widescreen, but after a few weeks that bug was fixed too

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Martin Olsson
Nicolas Alvarez wrote: >> I switched from IE to Firefox for three reasons: >> 1. Tabs rock >> 2. Open source rocks >> 3. Not suddenly finding myself 5 pages back in my history rocks. Maybe you mean that you "switched from Windows to Linux for.." because Firefox on Windows has always used BACKS

A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Martin Olsson
I really really would like to see "BACKSPACE as BACK" working in Firefox. I think this is the kind of polish bug that makes a lot of people stay away from ubuntu (beyond hardware problems of course). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/60995 Is there any established process f

Re: 4 More days...

2007-10-16 Thread Martin Olsson
jdong wrote: > If you have any other constructive solutions or suggestions, we'd be > more than happy to hear them out. The existence of angrykeyboarders will become more and more painful and Ubuntu gets more and more users. The current system has a scalability problem and convincing people t

Re: Compiz and workspace switcher

2007-10-07 Thread Martin Olsson
I've also had a lot of problems with setting a specific number of workspaces while running Compiz. I believe it's an issue being worked on, check out this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libwnck/+bug/129152 Martin Matthew Larsen wrote: > I used to get this strange problem where each

Re: Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Olsson
his email, to show what has to be changed? In fact, I tried to do > the change, but the X server did not startup correctly anymore. (I am > back to the previous settings) > > Maybe I changed the wrong line in the xorg.conf file? > > Cheers > > Francesco > > >

Mouse movement quality in Ubuntu

2007-09-26 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi, I always thought the mouse behaved a little weird in "Linux". When I would drag-and-sweep select something with the mouse very quickly I would often end up with a selection that was smaller than I intended. Clearly there was some kind latency problem because X.org didn't get the mouse down

Re: trackerd in Gutsy

2007-09-09 Thread Martin Olsson
If you google for trackerd, this is the first hit: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/tracker/trackerd.html I thought that was the tracker program running in Ubuntu. Thanks for the clarification. Martin Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:44 -0700, Mart

trackerd in Gutsy

2007-09-09 Thread Martin Olsson
Hi, I noticed that trackerd is running by default in Gutsy Tribe 5. Is this information sent to Canonical? What else is trackerd logs used for? Can I view them myself? Martin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https:

Important bug for Gutsy

2007-09-04 Thread Martin Olsson
Many laptops come with Vista pre-installed. It would be nice if Ubuntu could be installed to dual-boot with such a Vista installation. Currently, there is this annoying bug which blocks resizing of Vista NTFS partitions and this is making it very hard to install Ubuntu dual-booting in parallel

Re: Support for multimedia/internet keyboards

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Olsson
Kevin Fries wrote: > > I believe you are speaking of the: > System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts > I agree, the problem is not that the keys don't work at all. Rather, the problem is that for many people there are no keysyms defined for the keys. And Ubuntu has many multimedia keys conf