[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-06-05 Thread John Florian
Paul, clicking on the panel where the menu should be does not produce the expected menu. Instead the mouse cursor changes to a hand. I see this is the same cursor as when then panel has been corrected and I click and hold on an empty part of the panel. It would be my analysis that the panel does

[Bug 50485] New tabs do not run command as a login shell

2006-06-20 Thread John Florian
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal In the gnome-terminal preferences, there is an option to "Run command as a login shell". This option only affects the first tab. To reproduce, define an alias (for example) in the user's .bashrc script. This alias will only be defined an

[Bug 50485] Re: New tabs do not run command as a login shell

2006-07-06 Thread John Florian
Daniel, no the problem hasn't been solved. It is intermittent, so I know how it's supposed to behave, but that is not always the case. Also, it may be that it's my .bash_profile that's not being sourced, since it is that file which sources my .bashrc. If I can get the problem to repeat, I'll post

[Bug 50485] Re: New tabs do not run command as a login shell

2006-07-10 Thread John Florian
Problem solved and not a bug with gnome-terminal. My ~/.bash_profile had: [ -r .bashrc ] && source .bashrc But, if I've moved out of my $HOME in the first tab, the above would fail to source .bashrc. I resolved the issue by changing to: [ -r ~/.bashrc ] && source ~/.bashrc -- New tabs do not

[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-07-14 Thread John Florian
I still suffer with this problem. Does anybody have an idea what might be a simple cure? I've thought about mv'ing my .gnome* directories aside or the like to determine why new users have no problems, yet I do simply because I upgraded the OS and kept /home throught it all. Where does gnome-pane

[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-07-30 Thread John Florian
Positive I did not "simply remove menubar applet". Both the top and bottom panels are empty, void, devoid of all life and 100% non- responsive -- just a gray pair of gray bars, until I right-click desktop to open a gnome-terminal (via nautilus-open-terminal) and exec "killall gnome-panel". It see

[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-08-10 Thread John Florian
I just made a significant discovery on this bug. If I add a new panel and populate it, this new panel works correctly! The old panels still fail as reported and can still be revived via the killall. Now I have a predicament. I assume that I can make this problem go away for me by just making ne

[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-08-11 Thread John Florian
What is gnome-panel racing against? For the record, doing: killall gnome-panel *always* brings back gnome-panel for me. I've done this 100's of times. :-( -- gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login https://launchpad.net/bugs/47602 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.

[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-08-16 Thread John Florian
I have permanently resolved this issue (for myself) by creating new replacment panels and dragging all old launchers to the new panels and removing the old (and now empty) panels. I can now logout and back in and everything works as expected. -- gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

[Bug 6687] Re: Options in system > preferences > sessions, various little problems

2006-05-25 Thread John Florian
I have a brand new 6.06 dapper (04 May 2006) install, but with a /home restored from the prior Fedora Core 3. Upon logging into GNOME a dialog states "Some panel items are no longer available ... these items will now be removed ... You will not see this message again." Great, except I see the mes

[Bug 38181] Re: Screensaver freezes on Dapper (ATI Radeon 8500 LE)

2006-05-25 Thread John Florian
Two systems but one is with an Matrox MGA! Both require cold boot. Both are completely updated. Both are AMD Athlon XP systems. lspci: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP (rev 01) warty -> hoary -> breezy -> dapper This system has been very good right up to about a week ago. Lockups now con

[Bug 38181] Re: Screensaver freezes on Dapper (ATI Radeon 8500 LE)

2006-05-25 Thread John Florian
Just adding that the same gnome-power-management change on the Radeon box seems to have helped just as it did with the Matrox box. -- Screensaver freezes on Dapper (ATI Radeon 8500 LE) https://launchpad.net/bugs/38181 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubunt

[Bug 38181] Re: Screensaver freezes on Dapper (ATI Radeon 8500 LE)

2006-05-25 Thread John Florian
Just adding that the same gnome-power-management change on the Radeon box seems to have helped just as it did with the Matrox box. -- Screensaver freezes on Dapper (ATI Radeon 8500 LE) https://launchpad.net/bugs/38181 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubunt

[Bug 46856] Panel items no longer available message won't away

2006-05-26 Thread John Florian
Public bug reported: I have a brand new 6.06 dapper (04 May 2006) install, but with a /home restored from the prior Fedora Core 3. Upon logging into GNOME a dialog states "Some panel items are no longer available ... these items will now be removed ... You will not see this message again." Great,

[Bug 6687] Re: Options in system > preferences > sessions, various little problems

2006-05-26 Thread John Florian
Sebastien, aren't panel applets part of the session that is being saved with respect to the "Ask on logout" option? I'm quite certain in the older versions of GNOME, panel configuration was not preserved unless this option was checked. I thought this bug sounded quite related as if the bogus pan

[Bug 47329] Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts

2006-05-29 Thread John Florian
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evolution Using Evolution 2.6.1 in fully updated Dapper 6.06. 1. Goto Evolution mail. 2. Press New button. 3. Press To button. 4. Note that no contacts are shown. Searching doesn't help. This seems broken. 5. Close contact selector. 6. Goto Evolution c

[Bug 47329] Re: Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts

2006-05-29 Thread John Florian
This is the default address booked named "Personal" and this is the only available choice in the Select Contacts window ("On this computer" and "On LDAP Servers" are not selectable). -- Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts https://launchpad.net/bugs/47329 -- desktop-b

[Bug 47329] Re: Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts

2006-05-29 Thread John Florian
More info: if a new contact is added by way of right-clicking on an address associated with a message that is being viewed, the new address will work as expected. This new address will appear with all the other contacts when simply viewing the contacts, __but will be the only one visible__ when us

[Bug 47329] Re: Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts

2006-05-30 Thread John Florian
The non-selectable contacts were added in a prior version of Evolution from Fedora Core 3. While this is a brand new Dapper install, /home (and only /home) is from the FC3 install. -- Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts https://launchpad.net/bugs/47329 -- desktop-bu

[Bug 47602] gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-05-30 Thread John Florian
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel Using version 2.14.1-0ubuntu16. User logs in through GDM, everything works as expected, but the gnome panels are just empty gray bars. Known work arounds: 1. right-click desktop, open gnome-terminal, killall gnome-panel 2. right-click eac

[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-05-31 Thread John Florian
* I'd say they are not frozen since they respond to right-click and their properities and such work fine. * Mouseover has no effect. * Background is set to: None (use system theme). -- gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login https://launchpad.net/bugs/47602 -- desktop-bugs mailing

[Bug 47329] Re: Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts

2006-06-03 Thread John Florian
I would have to assume that a new user would have no problem since any new contacts that are added work fine. It is just the contacts from the prior version of Evolution that are having problems. A new user would have no such contacts. -- Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up

[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-06-03 Thread John Florian
I am using the default Ubunutu Human theme. Don't believe I'm using xgl or composite, since those require me actively doing something to enable them, right? -- gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login https://launchpad.net/bugs/47602 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubun

[Bug 96987] [apport] workrave crashed with SIGSEGV in RemoteControl::set_applet()

2007-03-27 Thread John Florian
You have been subscribed to a public bug: Binary package hint: workrave Crashed right after logging into X via gdm. ProblemType: Crash Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Mar 27 10:55:38 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/workrave Package: workrave 1.8.4-1ubuntu1 PackageArchitectu

[Bug 96987] Re: [apport] workrave crashed with SIGSEGV in RemoteControl::set_applet()

2007-03-29 Thread John Florian
Daniel, thanks for getting one of my favorite panel applets fixed so fast -- the old auto apt-get upgrade pulled it down this morning. That patch is quite the doozy :-) -- [apport] workrave crashed with SIGSEGV in RemoteControl::set_applet() https://launchpad.net/bugs/96987 -- desktop-bugs

[Bug 105265] GNOME Save As dialog continuously resizes itself

2007-04-10 Thread John Florian
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome Using a fully updated 7.04 beta, if I cause a GNOME (maybe GTK) Save As dialog to open, the resultant Save As dialog window that opens seems to continuously resize itself. The window is anchored at the same position the entire time, but the right e

[Bug 47602] Re: gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login

2006-09-23 Thread John Florian
Unfortunately, I can no longer provide feedback on this bug. As mentioned on 2006-08-16, I permanently made the problem go away as the problem was getting too annoying, especially when I had solution waiting in the wings (see 2006-08-10). -- gnome panels are empty (show nothing) after login http

[Bug 46856] Re: Panel items no longer available message won't away

2006-09-30 Thread John Florian
Issue is gone. Don't recall exactly what I did to make it go away, but I believe it involved mv'ing the old home directory aside and then selectively pulling things back into a fresh one. -- Panel items no longer available message won't away https://launchpad.net/bugs/46856 -- desktop-bugs mai

[Bug 47329] Re: Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts

2006-10-21 Thread John Florian
What is "eds" and how do I run it to help with the upstream request? I don't see such an executable. -- Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts https://launchpad.net/bugs/47329 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/

[Bug 105265] Re: GNOME Save As dialog continuously resizes itself

2007-04-23 Thread John Florian
When I first reported this bug, I could consistently reproduce the problem every time. However, in the last week or so, I have not seen the problem at all. I should have mentioned in the original post that I am using sawfish for a WM, but otherwise it is a standard GNOME DE. -- GNOME Save As di

[Bug 47329] Re: Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts

2006-11-04 Thread John Florian
Thanks Guenther, that seemed to be the problem. It would appear that an upgrade of Evolution should automatically assign a category to existing contacts. -- Can't use the "To" button in Compose Message to look up contacts https://launchpad.net/bugs/47329 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bu