[Bug 424956] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGABRT in raise()

2013-03-30 Thread Colin Law
Running Raring, not doing anything obvious with Nautilus at the time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424956 Title: nautilus crashed with SIGABRT in raise() To manage

[Bug 889044] Re: Nautilus opening behind current window

2012-05-03 Thread Colin Law
Could this be related to bug #781931 with unity 3d? New windows are moved to front but don't take focus. This seems to relate in particular to Nautilus. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.

[Bug 333366] Re: New windows of nautilus get unfocused

2012-07-16 Thread Colin Law
I don't know whether it is relevant but I am seeing the same issue with Tomboy (bug #1025166) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66 Title: New windows of nautilus get unfocused To

[Bug 863834] Re: [regression] Suspend on lid close broken on Oneiric

2012-08-03 Thread Colin Law
@Michael, that worked perfectly for me (on Quantal). Many thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/863834 Title: [regression] Suspend on lid close broken

[Bug 1033156] [NEW] HUD only works on first Nautilus window opened

2012-08-05 Thread Colin Law
Public bug reported: Using nautilus on Quantal alpha, up to date. If multiple Nautilus windows are opened then the HUD only shows nautilus menu items if invoked from the primary window. So to replicate: Open Nautilus on the home folder. Open another Nautilus window. Select the first nautilus win

[Bug 1033156] Re: HUD only works on first Nautilus window opened

2012-08-05 Thread Colin Law
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1033156 Title: HUD only works on first Nautilus window opened To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 1033160] [NEW] Cannot switch displays in System Settings > Displays

2012-08-05 Thread Colin Law
Public bug reported: Running Quantal alpha up to date on dual display system. To replicate: Open System Settings > Displays. The Displays window appears showing both displays, with one of them selected. Click the icon for the other display, it should become selected, but is not. Drag the Display

[Bug 1033160] Re: Cannot switch displays in System Settings > Displays

2012-08-05 Thread Colin Law
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1033160 Title: Cannot switch displays in System Settings > Displays To manage notifications about this bug go to: https:

[Bug 1018981] Re: nautilus(quantal) will not display hidden files from search dialog box even when show hidden folders is enabled

2012-08-10 Thread Colin Law
Upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681602 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #681602 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681602 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. htt

[Bug 1018981] Re: nautilus(quantal) will not display hidden files from search dialog box even when show hidden folders is enabled

2012-08-10 Thread Colin Law
I am assuming that this bug refers to the quick search feature (if that is what it is called) where just starting to type a file or folder name filters names in the current folder. In which case it is not a duplicate of a long standing bug #334125 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437626

[Bug 1035091] Re: Search does not work

2012-08-11 Thread Colin Law
I see this too. In nautilus click on search icon and then All Files. Nothing is found whatever is typed in search field. Search within the folder works. ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Des

[Bug 1035091] Re: Search does not work

2012-08-11 Thread Colin Law
Possibly this is upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681587 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #681587 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681587 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilu

[Bug 863834] Re: [regression] Suspend on lid close broken on Oneiric

2012-08-14 Thread Colin Law
Actually having said that Michael's suggestion works perfectly is not strictly true. Firstly note that for me it works best if I set the actions in System Settings > Power for lid close to Do Nothing, but even then I sometimes have problems with it not correctly recognising the external monitor on

[Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2012-08-21 Thread Colin Law
As I understand it unity-2d is to be removed in Quantal(12.10), emulation of 3d being provided by llvmpipe for hardware that does not support it, so that Unity (3d) will run. From that point of view it appears that this bug becomes irrelevant from 12.10. That is unless there are other use cases.

[Bug 1033160] Re: Cannot switch displays in System Settings > Displays

2012-08-21 Thread Colin Law
** Tags added: multimonitor -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1033160 Title: Cannot switch displays in System Settings > Displays To manage notifications

[Bug 160311] Re: Resizing windows by grabbing window borders is difficult

2012-08-22 Thread Colin Law
Steve: because this bug is only about unity 2d with metacity. If you have an issue on unity (3d) then it is a different bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160311 T

[Bug 905686] Re: nautilus assert failure: nautilus: ../../src/xcb_io.c:528: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.

2012-03-05 Thread Colin Law
I triggered bug by typing into the new HUD in Unity-2d -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905686 Title: nautilus assert failure: nautilus: ../../src/xcb_io.c:528: _XAl

[Bug 708375] Re: Shotwell doesn't remember "Hide photos already imported" tickbox

2012-03-13 Thread Colin Law
Closing this as it has been fixed upstream ** Changed in: shotwell (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to shotwell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/708375 Title: Sh

[Bug 708375] Re: Shotwell doesn't remember "Hide photos already imported" tickbox

2012-03-14 Thread Colin Law
Fixed upstream ** Changed in: shotwell Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to shotwell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/708375 Title: Shotwell doesn't remember "Hide photos alre

[Bug 708375] Re: Shotwell doesn't remember "Hide photos already imported" tickbox

2012-03-14 Thread Colin Law
Removing automatic tracking to upstream bug http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3090 as launchpad is unable to fetch the status from there ** Changed in: shotwell Importance: Unknown => Undecided ** Changed in: shotwell Remote watch: trac.yorba.org/ #3090 => None -- You received this bug notifi

[Bug 708375] Re: Shotwell doesn't remember "Hide photos already imported" tickbox

2012-03-14 Thread Colin Law
Removing automatic tracking to upstream bug http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3090 as launchpad is unable to fetch the status from there -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to shotwell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 821098] Re: Cant change keyboard shortcuts

2012-03-24 Thread Colin Law
Not for me with Custom Shortcuts it isn't. Using gnome-control-center 1:3.3.92-0ubuntu4 on Precise: System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts Click + and enter name and command, Apply. The prompt at the bottom says to click a row and press keys. Clicking a row pops up the comma

[Bug 821098] Re: Cant change keyboard shortcuts

2012-03-24 Thread Colin Law
For some reason Launchpad won't let me change the status back to Confirmed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/821098 Title: Cant change keyboard shortcuts

[Bug 963731] Re: Fixing Bug #950136 has caused a confusing Displays interface

2012-03-24 Thread Colin Law
In Appearance > Behaviour it would be in the same place as whether to hide the launcher, so all launcher config would be in the same place. On the other hand Displays is where the positioning of the displays is setup and there is the picture showing the layout, so in that case it is better there.

[Bug 821098] Re: Custom keyboard shortcuts require clicking the right side of the row

2012-03-24 Thread Colin Law
@Jeremy, yes it is much improved, I did not mean to indicate otherwise. The original bug as described is still there however. It is confusing to see a dialog showing the Custom Shortcuts which says "To edit a shortcut, click the row and ..." when in fact this does not work. Perhaps it would be

[Bug 821098] Re: Custom keyboard shortcuts require clicking the right side of the row

2012-03-24 Thread Colin Law
Jeremy, can you explain the relationship between upstream and Ubuntu with respect to this problem for me? Is this actually an upstream bug? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Bug 821098] Re: Custom keyboard shortcuts require clicking the right side of the row

2012-03-26 Thread Colin Law
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #672877 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672877 ** Also affects: gnome-control-center via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672877 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 776678] Re: gtk-warning after running gksu gedit

2011-06-01 Thread Colin Law
I feel the forum link throws rather more heat than light on the problem. It provides a workaround, but not a solution. The solution is to correct the underlying problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu.

[Bug 867556] Re: Oneiric mouse sensitivity no (or reversed) effect

2011-10-27 Thread Colin Law
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 28052 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/28052 Yes it is a duplicate. The key statement in the description is "Sensitivity seems to do little or nothing", bug #20852 says "the "sensitivity" has no effet whatsoever". If 20852 is fixed then this bug will als

[Bug 761836] Re: Gtk-WARNING when running with sudo

2011-10-31 Thread Colin Law
The summary line for this bug should be changed to indicate that the problem also occurs when running gedit with gksudo as other bugs that refer to gksudo have been marked as duplicates of this one. Sudo should not be used with gedit of course, one should always gksudo. -- You received this bug

[Bug 761836] Re: Gtk-WARNING when running with sudo

2011-10-31 Thread Colin Law
After running a system for a while I find this symptom has disappeared. I assume that either the bug has been fixed or another app has dealt with the situation more intelligently and the file has been created successfully, so that the error is no longer seen when using gedit. -- You received this

[Bug 922644] [NEW] Inconsistent behaviour shift or ctrl click in unfocussed nautilus window

2012-01-27 Thread Colin Law
Public bug reported: Problem 1, to replicate Open nautilus and another window (I used terminal but I think any will do), with both visible on display. Select List View in nautilus Click to select a file or folder Click in the other application's window Ctrl Click another file/folder in unfocussed

[Bug 922644] Re: Inconsistent behaviour shift or ctrl click in unfocussed nautilus window

2012-01-27 Thread Colin Law
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/922644 Title: Inconsistent behaviour shift or ctrl click in unfocussed nautilus window To manage notifications about this bug go t

[Bug 878198] Re: Difficult to grab window borders in unity-2d

2012-01-31 Thread Colin Law
Another workaround is to hack the theme itself. For the Ambiance theme edit /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml and in the section starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878198 Title: Difficult to grab window borders in unity-2d To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 922644] Re: Inconsistent behaviour shift or ctrl click in unfocussed nautilus window

2012-02-01 Thread Colin Law
Following further tests I realise that this problem only appears when running Unity-2. All operates as expected when running 3d. I guess that this means it is not an upstream problem. ** Also affects: unity-2d Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification be

[Bug 903845] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in strcpy(), error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0

2012-02-01 Thread Colin Law
I don't know, sadly I trashed my virtual machine and am not able to re- generate it at the moment. Looking at my description I note that I said it was an issue with Oneric whereas I meant Precise of course (as is noted in the system report. I will change the description. Perhaps the other person

[Bug 847814] Re: Oneiric not asking for password after suspend / resume

2011-10-03 Thread Colin Law
I thought that this happened however I suspended but I now find that it is ok if I select suspend from the indicator but if I press the power button and select suspend from the popup then it does not ask for password on resume. I cannot try closing the lid as suspend/resume via lid operation does

[Bug 847814] Re: the gnome-session dialog suspend option doesn't lock the screen

2011-10-03 Thread Colin Law
It does seem extremely similar to bug #859498, I see the NM disconnect for example. I am still seeing it with gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.0-0ubuntu4 if that is relevant. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in U

[Bug 867556] [NEW] Oneiric mouse sensitivity no (or reversed) effect

2011-10-04 Thread Colin Law
Public bug reported: In Oneiric Beta up to date 4th Oct 2011 in Mouse and Touchpad settings Mouse Pointer Sensitivity seems to do little or nothing, at least when the Acceleration is low. When the accel is high then setting the sensitivity high apparently *reduces* the acceleration. Using gno

[Bug 867556] Re: Oneiric mouse sensitivity no (or reversed) effect

2011-10-04 Thread Colin Law
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/867556 Title: Oneiric mouse sensitivity no (or reversed) effect To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bu

[Bug 821098] Re: Cant change keyboard shortcuts

2011-10-05 Thread Colin Law
I had this problem but I think I have just found the cause. The comment at the bottom of the window says "To edit a shortcut, click the row and hold down the new keys ..". In fact you have to click the right hand end of the row where it shows the existing shortcut or Disabled. The text there the

[Bug 28052] Re: Improve mouse sensitivity and acceleration settings

2011-10-12 Thread Colin Law
Could someone clarify here, is all the above saying that it is known that the mouse sensitivity setting does nothing and that to make it do something is a wishlist item rather than a bug? Seeing this on 11.04 and 11.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Des

[Bug 868032] Re: nautilus progress window marked skipped, not managed by gnome-shell

2011-11-16 Thread Colin Law
I have taken the liberty of changing this back to incomplete as it seems to be fixed in Unity but not Unity-2d. To replicate, in Unity-2d: Open nautilus and start a file copy operation going. Note that the nautilus launcher now shows two markers for the two windows, but Alt-Tab does not show the

[Bug 868032] Re: nautilus progress window marked skipped, not managed by gnome-shell

2011-11-16 Thread Colin Law
DESKTOP_SESSION is ubuntu-2d I saw the note at the end of comment #11 that a specific test was being made for unity, and thought that the problem may be that this did not include 2d. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nau

[Bug 868032] Re: nautilus progress window marked skipped, not managed by gnome-shell

2011-11-16 Thread Colin Law
OK, for the record, posted as bug #891169 on unity-2d. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/868032 Title: nautilus progress window marked skipped, not managed by gnome-s

[Bug 841085] Re: log viewer lists not log by default (incompatible with rsyslog)

2011-12-08 Thread Colin Law
I think it is important that the viewer defaults to showing something. It is very confusing for someone inexperienced with linux to open the log file viewer and find it completely empty. It is not obvious that one should use file open to see something. The gui interface is supposed to make it eas

[Bug 902940] [NEW] nautilus error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0

2011-12-11 Thread Colin Law
Public bug reported: In Oneiric alpha running in VirtualBox nautilus crashing regularly (though not always) on opening. dmesg shows nautilus[31311]: segfault at aaba ip 00be929e sp bfb75fa0 error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0[b7f000+f3000] ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Packag

[Bug 902940] Re: nautilus error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0

2011-12-11 Thread Colin Law
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/902940 Title: nautilus error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/u

[Bug 902940] Re: nautilus error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0

2011-12-13 Thread Colin Law
There is no crash report being generated and when the crash occurs I do not get the popup asking me if I want to report a problem. All that happens is that the nautilus icon in the launcher pulsates for a few seconds as normal then it stops, and in syslog I see the segfault message. I cannot see

[Bug 903845] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_timer_stop(), error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0

2011-12-13 Thread Colin Law
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/903845 Title: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in strcpy(), error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0 To m

[Bug 804891] Re: nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_timer_stop()

2011-12-13 Thread Colin Law
Bug #903845 may be related to this, or may be a duplicate. I have submitted it as a new bug as it occurs fairly consistently for me and in syslog/dmesg I see nautilus[31311]: segfault at aaba ip 00be929e sp bfb75fa0 error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0[b7f000+f3000] which is not something I ha

[Bug 902940] Re: nautilus error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3102.0

2011-12-13 Thread Colin Law
OK, the next time it crashed it did ask me to report the crash, and it has generated a crash report, see bug #903845 Switching this one back to invalid again ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu D

[Bug 878198] Re: Difficult to grab window borders in unity-2d

2012-01-06 Thread Colin Law
Just a note for anyone finding this that Alt+F8 can be used to grab the border for re-sizing and Alt+F7 for moving. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878198 Title: Di

[Bug 776678] [NEW] gtk-warning after running gksu gedit

2011-05-03 Thread Colin Law
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gedit When gedit is invoked from terminal via gksu, for example, gksu gedit /etc/fstab on closing gedit several warnings are seen such as (gedit:2057): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed:

[Bug 776678] Re: gtk-warning after running gksu gedit

2011-05-03 Thread Colin Law
** Description changed: Binary package hint: gedit - When gedit is invoked from terminal via, for example, + When gedit is invoked from terminal via gksu, for example, gksu gedit /etc/fstab on closing gedit several warnings are seen such as (gedit:2057): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to st

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