[Bug 682788] Re: Global menu is not ergonomical on large screens

2011-12-06 Thread Tanker Bob
The global menus is my major gripe with Unity since I found a patch to move the dock from the left to the bottom of the screen. Global menus kill the mouse-over focus functionality which I use heavily. The global menu for the last window passed over with the pointer appears rather than the menu

[Bug 876198] Re: When switching workspaces with rotate/cube previous Ws contents are momentarily displayed

2011-11-06 Thread Tanker Bob
+1 for the behavior here with ctrl-alt-arrow. Even happens when rotating the cube with the mouse. When you stop on a desktop, the old one flashes there momentarily. nVidia 8800GTS, current proprietary drivers, using Unity. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 874862] Re: screen flashes on rotate cube

2011-10-16 Thread Tanker Bob
Have the same symptoms with NVidia 8800GTS card and current proprietary drivers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874862 Title: screen flashes on rotate cube To manage notifications

[Bug 774071] Re: Indicator-datetime-service renders 100% CPU usage

2011-05-19 Thread Tanker Bob
I see this bug on Ubuntu 11.04 in Classic mode immediately after boot up as well. I'm not using the Gnome panels, but deleted those in favor of the AWN dock. I do have weather-indicator installed on the system and I cannot get it to not load with AWN, but I exit it immediately upon boot up

[Bug 774071] Re: Indicator-datetime-service renders 100% CPU usage

2011-05-19 Thread Tanker Bob
OK, after uninstalling the Gnome weather indicator and restarting, none of my CPUs pegs at 100%. It indeed looks like indicator-weather is related to the issue, though that's counter-intuitive with indicator- datetime. Since I'm using AWN and have deleted the standard Gnome panels in 11.04,

[Bug 623655] Re: Error prevents enabling store plugin

2010-10-24 Thread Tanker Bob
Thanks, John. FWIW, I found Rhythmbox 0.12.8 too buggy to use, so went back to 0.13.1 and installed the PPAs listed above. I no longer have the U1 music store, but at least Rhythmbox works better. Don't care about bird calls. Since I just found out that I'm still being charged the international

[Bug 623655] Re: Error prevents enabling store plugin

2010-10-23 Thread Tanker Bob
OK, your question told me what I needed to know. I was using the webupd8team ppa for lucid, which apparently outran the support libraries with the latest ubuntu one plugin. I disabled the ppa, uninstalled rhythmbox and all its plugins, then reinstalled from the basic lucid repositories. Everything

[Bug 623655] Re: Error prevents enabling store plugin

2010-10-23 Thread Tanker Bob
Well, I forgot about all the issues with Rythmbox 0.12.8. After just a few hours this morning, I decided that I could live without the music store for a while. I installed the other two ppa's cited by Luminary (Thanks!) and updated to the latest releases of aptdaemon, ubuntu one builds, and

[Bug 623655] Re: Error prevents enabling store plugin

2010-10-22 Thread Tanker Bob
I just developed this issue in Lucid x86_64. Everything worked fine until the plugin update to 1.9 last week. I'm using Rhythmbox 0.13.1. After updating to the 1.9 plugin, I get the error message Unable to activate plugin Ubuntu One Music Store. I tried reinstalling the plugin, but that didn't

[Bug 623655] Re: Error prevents enabling store plugin

2010-10-22 Thread Tanker Bob
Here's my terminal session: --- b...@bob-ubuntu:~$ rhythmbox (rhythmbox:17423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (rhythmbox:17423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

[Bug 623655] Re: Error prevents enabling store plugin

2010-10-22 Thread Tanker Bob
aptdaemon version 0.11+bzr345-0ubuntu4.1 -- Error prevents enabling store plugin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623655 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 623655] Re: Error prevents enabling store plugin

2010-10-22 Thread Tanker Bob
I got the plugin from the webupd8team ppa for rhythmbox. I will disable that and try regressing the versions. Will Maverick's aptdaemon work in Lucid? Will all the dependencies be fulfilled? -- Error prevents enabling store plugin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623655 You received this bug

[Bug 532798] Re: [ambience] In firefox , Text of toolbar items when placed in menubar are invisible

2010-05-23 Thread Tanker Bob
This is still an issue. Where does the remedy stand? -- [ambience] In firefox , Text of toolbar items when placed in menubar are invisible https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532798 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 540801] Re: X server starts before Plymouth, or a very short time after (no or brief splash)

2010-05-01 Thread Tanker Bob
I have the bootsplash issue with the Lucid release. I'm using x86_64 Lucid on an Intel Core 2 Quad with 8 GB of RAM and an NVidia 8800 GTS card w/640 MB of RAM. The successful first boot from the hard drive showed the bootsplash, but subsequent boots after loading the current NVidia driver through

[Bug 397892] Re: Screensaver does not turn on [Ubuntu / Xubuntu Karmic]

2009-12-07 Thread Tanker Bob
Marc, Tonight's gnome-screensaver release fixed the issue for me. It did require a reset after updating. 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic, 8 GB RAM, NVidia 8800GTS w/185 driver. Great work, thanks! -- Screensaver does not turn on [Ubuntu / Xubuntu Karmic] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397892 You received

[Bug 125364] Re: keep invalid agrument crash

2009-10-03 Thread Tanker Bob
Ralph, I wrote my response and provided all the additional information requested almost a year ago, and received no answer in all that time, and now you're saying that you haven't heard from ME in a while? And that after no response for 7 months before that? I'd hardly say that I was the one

[Bug 363695] Re: update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU

2009-07-14 Thread Tanker Bob
Is the fix committed just in Karmic? It needs to be fixed in other releases since that's where we all encountered it. -- update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 363695] Re: update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU

2009-06-07 Thread Tanker Bob
Confirmed problem on Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 Jaunty. I am running in Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 CPU, and the update-apt-xapian process takes 100% of one core. As of this writing, it has run for 468:50:30 according to top with no end in sight. This is absurd. I tried purging the package and killing the

[Bug 363695] Re: update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU

2009-06-07 Thread Tanker Bob
I just killed the process I wrote about this afternoon. In checking the database, I noticed that it was last written over 2.5 hours ago. Yet, the update-apt-xapian process was still taking 100% of one CPU core until I just killed it. I took David's advice and moved the executing script from

[Bug 355318] Re: Open dialog populates slowly

2009-04-26 Thread Tanker Bob
System configuration: MSI P6N SLI Platinum motherboard, E6600 Core 2 Duo o/c to 3.125 GHz, 2 GB OCZ Rev 2 Platinum DDR2 SDRAM, EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS w/640MB, 320GB x2 SATA RAID1, Ubuntu 9.04 x86 I did not have this problem in 8.10, but have it bad in the 9.04 Ubuntu final release with ext3 file

[Bug 355318] Re: Open dialog populates slowly

2009-04-26 Thread Tanker Bob
Additional data: System Monitor does NOT show a spike in CPU activity while waiting for the file dialog to appear, but just before it does appear, Xorg goes to 20% for less than a second then drops back to zero. Using iotop, no disk usage appears for most of the delay period, but kjournald jumps

[Bug 307991] Re: libsane-extras doesn't contain epkowa.conf

2008-12-14 Thread Tanker Bob
My thanks to saftaplan for taking time to report this. Add my voice as well. This workaround also solved the issue for me. The forums have a number of recent reports of this regression. -- libsane-extras doesn't contain epkowa.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307991 You received this bug

[Bug 194284] Re: PDF's printed with kpdf add extra white page on HP Color laserjet 2550

2008-12-11 Thread Tanker Bob
It is NOT fixed in kpdf in 8.04.1 LTS. Okular is a different program in Intrepid. The latest kpdf in KDE 3.5.10 for Hardy still has this bug. -- PDF's printed with kpdf add extra white page on HP Color laserjet 2550 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194284 You received this bug notification

[Bug 290158] Re: Mouse fails to get captured when clicking Capture in capture info popup

2008-12-09 Thread Tanker Bob
I'm running PCLinuxOS 2007 under an Ubuntu 8.10 32-bit host in VirtualBox 2. I see this as well. Unchecking the Don't show the message again box fixes the issue. -- Mouse fails to get captured when clicking Capture in capture info popup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290158 You received this

[Bug 125364] Re: keep invalid agrument crash

2008-11-06 Thread Tanker Bob
Fabian, Since I didn't hear anything for seven months after my initial report, I implemented another backup solution. I haven't used Keep since then. But, here are the results of trying today to backup a normal document directory: An error occured making /home/bob/Documents/Word Documents

[Bug 285305] Re: vmmouse doesn't work with input hotplug

2008-11-04 Thread Tanker Bob
Great work! I tested it with a Kubuntu 8.04.1 host, VMWare Workstation 6.5.0, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid guest with WMWare Tools 6.5.0 build 118116 installed. I installed the xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse fix from the intrepid-proposed repository, then restarted the virtual machine. The mouse now moves

[Bug 194284] Re: PDF's printed with kpdf add extra white page on HP Color laserjet 2550

2008-08-27 Thread Tanker Bob
I have this exact same problem with kpdf under KDE 3.5.9, Kubuntu Hardy 8.04.1 up to date, and a Brother HL-5240 laser printer. It always prints an extra blank page after each job. Sometimes it prints an extra page in between multiple copies of a page, which is particularly annoying when printing

[Bug 183969] Re: xserver-xorg-core update breaks java wxwidgets apps

2008-01-23 Thread Tanker Bob
You were using an unofficial nvidia driver which does not include the symlink. 7.10 does not have 169.* . That's silly. 169.07 created the symlink on install. The xorg-core 8.1 update broke the symlink on ALL versions of the nvidia driver, not just 169.07. I had 169.04 and others had the version

[Bug 183969] Re: xserver-xorg-core update breaks java wxwidgets apps

2008-01-19 Thread Tanker Bob
Xan said: if i write in console glxinfo x restart That's exactly the nvidia information screen on which xorg-core 8.1 restarted the xserver. Looks like I'll hold off on 8.3 until this gets sorted out. Life is good with 8.2 so far. -- xserver-xorg-core update breaks java wxwidgets apps

[Bug 183969] Re: xserver-xorg-core update breaks java wxwidgets apps

2008-01-19 Thread Tanker Bob
Based on what I've read here, I just installed xorg-core 8.3 and the its two related package updates over an operational kubuntu gutsy nvidia setup and everything works fine after restarting the xserver. The nvidia symbolic links remained intact. Looks like 8.3 does the trick. Thanks for the

[Bug 183969] Re: xserver-xorg-core update breaks java wxwidgets apps

2008-01-18 Thread Tanker Bob
I confirm that xorg-core 8.2 resolves the issues on Kubuntu Gutsy AFTER reinstalling the nvidia drivers. Manually resetting the symbolic link did not work for some reason. Thanks for the quick response to this issue. For the record, my symptoms were somewhat different from others here. Wine,

[Bug 151025] Re: FAT: Unrecognized mount option usefree or missing value

2007-12-01 Thread Tanker Bob
What about Kubuntu 7.10? I have this problem with USB mass storage devices as well but there is no gconfig-editor in which to change settings in Kubuntu. Is there another way at that setting? -- FAT: Unrecognized mount option usefree or missing value https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151025 You

[Bug 102097] Re: Auto mount does not work for USB drive

2007-11-04 Thread Tanker Bob
My OS crashed big time today, taking the \ partition down with it. I had to rebuild the \ partition from scratch, but my \home partition survived relatively intact. After a complete reinstall, the USB automounting problem remained unchanged. That was a bit disappointing. -- Auto mount does not

[Bug 102097] Re: Auto mount does not work for USB drive

2007-11-02 Thread Tanker Bob
I also have this problem on Kubuntu Gutsy installed clean. I posted details at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=594421. I'll repeat some of that here for convenience and add a few things. Short description is that no USB removable FAT file system will automount in my Kubuntu Gutsy. I have

[Bug 125364] keep invalid agrument crash

2007-07-11 Thread Tanker Bob
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: keep Kubuntu 7.04, 2.6.20-16-generic kernel, backup from a ext-3 home directory to an ATA-100 FAT USB2 external drive. All permissions are correct on the drives. Execute keep, created a backup for my home directory to the external drive, saved the

[Bug 125364] Re: keep invalid agrument crash

2007-07-11 Thread Tanker Bob
I forgot to mention that I'm using Kubuntu 7.04 x86_64 distribution. -- keep invalid agrument crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125364 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 125364] Re: keep invalid agrument crash

2007-07-11 Thread Tanker Bob
I believe the issue is that keep is trying to backup files which are owned by root. I'm not backing up as root, and have the box checked for keep not to backup special files. keep should simply skip files for which it doesn't have permissions, not crash with cryptic error messages. Since a number

[Bug 72506] Re: Epson CX5900 scanner/printer scanner part not detected

2007-06-16 Thread Tanker Bob
Thanks, Rich. Adding libsane-extras worked for me as well with a CX7800 on Kubuntu 7.04! Selecting CX7800 did not work, but selecting Stylus CX7700/CX7800 worked fine. -- Epson CX5900 scanner/printer scanner part not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/72506 You received this bug

[Bug 85488] Re: some usb_devices fault if usb_suspend enabled

2007-06-16 Thread Tanker Bob
For the CX7800, this bug report fixed the problem I was having: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/72506; This fixed scanning for my CX7800 under Kubuntu 7.04 with the current kernel. -- some usb_devices fault if usb_suspend enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85488 You

[Bug 85488] Re: some usb_devices fault if usb_suspend enabled

2007-06-03 Thread Tanker Bob
Calm down This bug is a huge deal. I've been reading the tech blog debates about Windows vs. Linux for over six months now since my conversion. Things like this bug prove the Windows' proponents point that Linux isn't ready for prime time. After all that the ubuntu devs have done to make

[Bug 85488] Re: some usb_devices fault if usb_suspend enabled

2007-06-03 Thread Tanker Bob
silentb - Thank you. I'll be out of town that week, but I look forward to the fix when I return. -- some usb_devices fault if usb_suspend enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85488 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 85488] Re: some usb_devices fault if usb_suspend enabled

2007-05-14 Thread Tanker Bob
Workaround does not help my Epson Stylus CX7800 with Epson backend on SANE. -- some usb_devices fault if usb_suspend enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85488 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 85488] Re: some usb_devices fault if usb_suspend enabled

2007-05-10 Thread Tanker Bob
Bug also happens with an Epson Stylus CX7800 All-in-one scanner, Feisty x86-64, Epson backend. None of the workarounds on this page help. The error I get in every case is scanimage: sane_start: Operation not supported This scanner worked perfectly on Edgy. All other USB devices work fine. I