[Bug 1360005] Re: Cyrillic symbols looks strange when using autocompletion

2014-12-01 Thread Peter Cordes
Does the completed filename look different from the output of ls? Can you copy/paste a test-case? I don't know how to type cyrillic characters without busting out gucharmap, but I have no problem pasting mkdir / touch 'some UTF8' into a shell to test it out. e.g. touch cyrillic with spaces echo

[Bug 1342970] Re: should have a recommends: on gnome-shell

2014-07-18 Thread Peter Cordes
discussion on bugs.debian.org/755023 indicates that the gnome-session may have recently started actually depending on gnome-shell, so the appropriate dependency is Depends, which Debian currently has. ** Summary changed: - should have a recommends: on gnome-shell + should have a recommends: on g

[Bug 1342970] [NEW] should have a recommends: on gnome-shell

2014-07-16 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: gnome-session 3.9.90-0ubuntu12 Some packages (e.g. gdm) use a dependency on gnome-session as shorthand for that plus a window manager. gnome-session should Recommends: gnome- shell. Otherwise xinit starts it, and then it aborts when gnome-shell isn't present. e.g. xinit ha

[Bug 951916] Re: gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patched-in LaunchpadIntegration.

2013-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
I updated the title again, the "won't run" part of the bug description is the symptom if you hit this bug, but that only happens when you either install gnome-sudoku on a lean install that doesn't include the recommends: packages of ubuntu-desktop, or if you strip stuff out of a desktop install.

[Bug 951916] Re: gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patched-in LaunchpadIntegration. Won't run.

2013-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
The lpi patch is gone from gnome-games's source tree in Saucy, so at some point this bug disappeared. It still affects 12.04 LTS, but won't affect future releases. ** Changed in: gnome-games (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Summary changed: - gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patc

[Bug 951916] Re: gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patched-in LaunchpadIntegration. Won't run.

2013-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
** Summary changed: - gnome-sudoku crashed with ImportError in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnome_sudoku/main.py: cannot import name LaunchpadIntegration + gnome-sudoku missing dependency for patched-in LaunchpadIntegration. Won't run. -- You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 951916] Re: gnome-sudoku crashed with ImportError in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnome_sudoku/main.py: cannot import name LaunchpadIntegration

2013-06-09 Thread Peter Cordes
Installing gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 allows gnome-sudoku to start on Ubuntu 12.04. python-launchpad-integration wasn't sufficient. Even ubuntu-desktop doesn't include gir1.2-launchpad-integration-3.0 in its dependency chain, only a Recommends via software-center. Anyway, either add the

[Bug 472948] [NEW] installs a broken man-page symlink

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-tools found with cruft(8): $ find -L $(dpkg -L gstreamer0.10-tools) -maxdepth 0 -type l -ls 31182280 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 31 16:11 /usr/share/man/man1/gst-xmlinspect-0.10.1 -> gst-inspect-0.10.1 actual target

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Cordes
> Now, am I to undestand that, at least in my case, the error message > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail": > /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgail.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 > was caused by libgail being a 32bit library and not compatible with amd64 > architecture? amd64 Linux kernels su

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Cordes
BlueSky wrote: > Lecturing them on the dangerousity of their ways is just an excuse not to fix > the bug. > I do not mean to attack you personally, but I just hate it when people say > "why do you do that anyway?" or > "it's much better if you do it the other way" when there is a real bug. Tha

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Cordes
** Description changed: I cannot start gnome-terminal. If I open an xterm and start gnome- terminal from the command line, here is what I get: $ sudo gnome-terminal Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. (original report didn't have sudo in this command, but a later comment b

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Cordes
** Description changed: I cannot start gnome-terminal. If I open an xterm and start gnome- terminal from the command line, here is what I get: - $ gnome-terminal + $ sudo gnome-terminal Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting. + (original report didn't have sudo in this command, bu

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Cordes
> The main purpose of this message is to point out that this is NOT just a su issue. Right, it's an X11-without-gconf issue. See my post, above, for my workaround for fluxbox. Like you, I use fluxbox and gnome-terminal. It's a simple matter of getting gconf running. I do it by running gnome-se

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Cordes
Thanks to everyone for confirming that this happens under normal circumstances. No further confirmation is required. Just subscribe to the bug without making a post, unless you have anything new to add. (Correct me if I'm overstepping here, Ubuntu maintainers.) Further posts on this thread shou

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
forgot to say that this is maybe not gconf2's bug, but rather a bug in things that use it. (esp. if the fix is a more useful error message.) -- Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328575 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal bcause of gconf error

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes
I noticed this problem because my .fluxbox/startup wasn't starting my gnome-terminal anymore. (that's a shell script run by startfluxbox that runs some X clients then execs /usr/bin/fluxbox. I put some of my startup stuff in it.) If I run /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon & before gnome-terminal,

[Bug 277988] [NEW] man page not parseable for man -k

2008-10-04 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gucharmap man -k guchar gucharmap (1)- (unknown subject) I couldn't find it when I was looking for it earlier with man -k unicode and man -k character, etc. I don't know nroff so I can't tell what's wrong with the page that makes it not parse

[Bug 155655] Re: gnome-terminal does not honor display setting when using xephyr-xserver

2008-10-02 Thread Peter Cordes
I tried to reproduce this, but it works for me on a pre-Intrepid system. I'm going to mark this fix-released, rather than invalid, on the assumption that there was something going on. If anyone can reproduce this, or knows exactly what the submitter meant by "only the first gnome-terminal hono

[Bug 105538] Re: Setting capslock to control in gnome keyboard preferences leaves capslock stuck on

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Cordes
MountainX, you don't need sudo in /etc/rc.local. It runs as root on bootup, like all init scripts. Are you sure your loadkeys method even works? loadkeys is a totally different way to change your keymap: It changes the Linux kernel keymap. I though X put the kbd in raw mode, and got keycodes w

[Bug 252174] Re: gvfsd-trash crashed with SIGSEGV in g_main_context_dispatch()

2008-09-05 Thread Peter Cordes
I hit this on a clean boot of the Intrepid alpha5 desktop i386 livecd. (from a USB drive with isoscan/filename=...) It looks identical to Steve's original report, except mine receives the segv in g_main_context_prepare(). I also get segvs in fast-user-switcher-applet whenever I click on it. It lo

[Bug 175960] Re: "clock appears to be wrong" dialog prevents gnome session from starting

2008-08-07 Thread Peter Cordes
It's fixed in Hardy. The time-admin gui runs with root privs, so I can set the clock and then get to the normal gnome desktop. -- "clock appears to be wrong" dialog prevents gnome session from starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175960 You received this bug notification because you are a me

[Bug 251002] [NEW] man page wrong about default text encoding for pdftotext

2008-07-22 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: The man page for pdftotext(1) says -enc defaults to Latin1, but my testing shows that I get identical output with no -enc and with -enc UTF-8. -enc Latin 1 gives different output. I'm using a French PDF, and viewing the text with less(1). In an LANG=en_CA xterm, the -enc L

[Bug 190227] Re: ia32 apps look for libs on the wrong place

2008-05-15 Thread Peter Cordes
Mesa in ia32-libs has the same problem. ~/bin32/gears is /usr/lib/xscreensaver/gears from xscreensaver on an ia32 Debian Etch system, IIRC. Any 32bit openGL program, even medibuntu's googleearth package, is affected. $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose MESA_DEBUG=1 ~/bin32/gears libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriver

[Bug 175960] Re: "clock appears to be wrong" dialog prevents gnome session from starting

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Cordes
just noticed my .xsession-errors contains: (process:12519): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper program instead. For further details, see: http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html Refusing to initialize GTK+

[Bug 175960] "clock appears to be wrong" dialog prevents gnome session from starting

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-control-center I'm not sure this is the right package: maybe gnome-session is really at fault here. I have an old AMD K7 machine with a probably-dead CMOS battery, so it often boots up with the hw clock set to the year 2000. I just put Ubuntu Gut

Re: [Bug 135680] Re: evince chokes on absolute paths that include a #

2007-09-03 Thread Peter Cordes
#x27;t make copies of things in /tmp. I only have them installed because Ubuntu-desktop depends on them; I'm kind of a crusty command-line curmudgeon, so I use fluxbox on most of my desktops, not metacity+nautilus+... :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , de

[Bug 135680] Re: evince chokes on absolute paths that include a #

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Cordes
Launching from Nautilus shows the same problem for me. You probably need an NFS mount, or maybe even an autofs-mounted NFS mount, to reproduce this. Like I said, it only happens in /net for me. I just tried copying my file to bar.pdf. Then evince /net/llama/home/peter/bar.pdf works. (It mak

[Bug 135680] Re: evince chokes on absolute paths that include a #

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Cordes
oh yeah, IIRC once evince is running, use open from the menu and browsing to the /net path works with no problem. And this is mis-titled, because the problem only happens on /net (or maybe any NFS mount). evince /home/peter/... is ok. -- evince chokes on absolute paths that include a # https:/

[Bug 135680] evince chokes on absolute paths that include a #

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Cordes
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince evince './ACTInc_Quote#1722076.2.pdf' works evince '/net/llama/home/peter/ACTInc_Quote#1722076.2.pdf' pops up a dialog that says Unable to open document The local file URI 'file:/tmp/evince-8626/document-0-ACTInc_Quote#1722076.2.pdf' may no

[Bug 44958] Re: Use p7zip for RAR archives?

2006-12-09 Thread Peter Cordes
I checked out the situation on my new AMD64 Edgy system. unrar-free can't even extract uncompressed files from rar archives created with rar 3.0. 7z can get the uncompressed files (method m0g), but can't extract the compressed files (e.g. method m3g). So it does look like 7z is better. unrar