[Bug 969359] Re: [keyboard]: gnome-settings-daemon consumes 100% cpu (and blinking numlock)

2012-12-19 Thread Ridgeland
Follow up observations patch applied on 11-30 (post #140) This is for a remote PC I connect to via VNC over SSH. tightvnc. I don't see it often. Today was first time in 3 weeks. User has trouble getting photos from camera. Initial cpu load around 30% - things look good. PC uptime is 2 hours -

[Bug 969359] Re: [keyboard]: gnome-settings-daemon consumes 100% cpu (and blinking numlock)

2012-11-30 Thread Ridgeland
I just installed the i386 ...06 deb on a friend's PC with the problem. Before the install cpu load was like 6.x or 7.x now it's like 0.3 Hope the bug stays dead. Thanks for the package. Will post back only if the bug returns. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 969359] Re: [keyboard]: gnome-settings-daemon consumes 100% cpu (and blinking numlock)

2012-10-10 Thread Ridgeland
I'm fighting this bug too. Tried the fix in #85 but bug came back again. So I'm back here again. Tried the fix of uncheck "remember-numlock-state" cpu load dropped from > 5.0 to under 1.0 and system seems fine now. Could be a hardware issue. The user has a replacement keyboard. Don't know what s

[Bug 305664] Re: gnome-terminal keyboard shortcuts don't allow change

2008-12-09 Thread Ridgeland
My bad. In Ubuntu 7.04 to change the keyboard shortcut for Action Copy you can click on the word "Copy" and it asks for the new shortcut. In Ubuntu 8.10 if you click on "Copy" nothing. I finally discovered that now the user cannot click on "Copy" but must click on the shortcut key field. The

[Bug 305664] [NEW] gnome-terminal keyboard shortcuts don't allow change

2008-12-05 Thread Ridgeland
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal In gnome-terminal could not get keyboard shortcuts to accept changes. Changes are ignored. My fix was to edit using gconf-editor. Change /apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings and change the fields there (copy, paste was all I wanted to chang

[Bug 96706] Re: menu editor won't accept changes

2008-01-14 Thread Ridgeland
OK I've learned it's not a bug but a feature! You cannot add a menu so you can turn on the items under the menu without first turning on at least one of the items under the menu. Or in my specific case to turn on the System Tools menu I must first turn on an item in that menu (i.e. Root Terminal

[Bug 96706] Re: menu editor won't accept changes

2007-11-14 Thread Ridgeland
Confirming the error is still there in 7.10 final release The error also occurs for users that ARE in the "admin" group. -- menu editor won't accept changes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96706 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug con

[Bug 96706] Re: menu editor won't accept changes

2007-11-14 Thread Ridgeland
This error is in 7.10 final as well. See this forum post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=604877 My work-around was editing out a line in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu This a bug in the logic of nesting files for local and global controls. Alacarte is Broken as it currently is released.

[Bug 96706] Re: menu editor won't accept changes

2007-09-30 Thread Ridgeland
I'm getting this error in 7.10 Beta It is not consistent. I can add items like Applications -> Accessories -> File Browser and it works. The menu shows it. But I cannot add Applications -> System Tools. Not as root, as system admin, as terminal running "sudo alacarte". It seems to allow executabl