[Bug 379367] Re: Gedit adding a newline at the end of file should be configurable

2020-02-13 Thread Edgar Bonet
To those who think the default behavior is a "deficiency" or a "bad design decision": it is neither. It is the only correct behavior when dealing with text files. It is not a matter of "simple" vs. "complex" editors either: it is a matter of Windows vs. Unix text format. In the Windows world, text

[Bug 1621732] Re: gedit doesn't show last newline

2020-02-13 Thread Edgar Bonet
It's not a bug, it's a feature. In the Unix world, a line of text ends with the character, by definition. A file consisting solely of the four-byte sequence "foo\n" contains only one line. And this is what gedit *correctly* shows. See "Why should text files end with a newline?": https://stackove

[Bug 1845801] Re: [nvidia] Automatic login fails and then all subsequent logins fail. Killing gnome-session-binary fixes it, or just not using automatic login.

2019-11-25 Thread Edgar Bonet
Today, after an `apt upgrade' that brought me an updated grub, the problem came back. I logged on the second virtual console, edited /etc/default/grub, and found a new instance of the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" I commented it out, typed `sudo update-grub`, then `sudo reboo

[Bug 1845801] Re: [nvidia] Automatic login fails and then all subsequent logins fail. Killing gnome-session-binary fixes it, or just not using automatic login.

2019-11-21 Thread Edgar Bonet
Having the exact same issue here: - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti - NVIDIA Driver Version: 430.50 System utterly broken after upgrade from 19.04 (kernel panics), managed to kind of repair it, then this infinite login loop. I could get out of the loop by logging in another virtual console, then typ