[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1794064] Re: Clicking a hyperlink in a PDF fails to open it if the default browser is a snap

2023-04-18 Thread Romano Giannetti
Still here in 22.04 LTS; the workaround I use is the last one suggested in https://askubuntu.com/a/1428798/16395 (WARNING; that will allow evince to launch *any* snap in your system. But otherwise, evince is severely limited...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of De

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014] Re: [Upstream] Cannot remove highlight from .doc in Word exported from Writer

2014-01-30 Thread Romano Giannetti
Note that the poster that said "works for me" misunderstood the problem (and reopened the bug shortly after). You can see highlighted text. The problem is that you can't REMOVE it - you highlight something in LO writer, export to .doc or .docx, and then from Microsoft word you can't remove it (

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014] Re: [Upstream] Cannot remove highlight from .doc in Word exported from Writer

2014-01-30 Thread Romano Giannetti
See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64490#c17 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to openoffice.org in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295014 Title: [Upstream] Cannot remove highlight from .doc in Word exp

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014] Re: [Upstream] Cannot remove highlight from .doc in Word exported from Writer

2014-01-30 Thread Romano Giannetti
The upstream bug has been marked as a duplicate of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64490 I tried to change the upstream bug without success... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to openoffice.org in Ubuntu. https:/

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014] Re: [Upstream] Cannot remove highlight from .doc in Word exported from Writer

2014-01-31 Thread Romano Giannetti
So, as you can see form the attachment, it's still here in 4.2.0.4 (tested in Windows, but still). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to openoffice.org in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295014 Title: [Upstream] Canno

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014] Re: [Upstream] Cannot remove highlight from .doc in Word exported from Writer

2014-01-31 Thread Romano Giannetti
** Attachment added: "Three files, showing the problem. Open .doc or .docx in MS word and try to remove the highlight." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/295014/+attachment/3964662/+files/TestInteroperabilityt.zip -- You received this bug notification because you

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1420698] [NEW] "use network time" is not installing ntp?

2015-02-11 Thread Romano Giannetti
Public bug reported: I discovered that, even if I checked "use network time" in the control panel, the package ntp was not installed (just ntpdate). This caused a drift in time in my desktop (which is always on); after a couple of days if I deselect the the option and select it again I have: SYS

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 381017] Re: Cannot drag attachment from mail attachment pane to desktop

2013-01-08 Thread Romano Giannetti
I can confirm it's still here, with Thunderbird 17.0, Ubuntu 12.10. Happily you can still "...save as". Having being reported on 2007-03-24 (see bug#95507), is probably going to be the oldest unfixed confirmed-and-easily-reproduced bug ever... ah no, evolution mailer has some bug older than this.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 937204] Re: gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in _XReply() (XSync, apply_settings)

2013-01-25 Thread Romano Giannetti
I hit (probably) the same bug --- made connecting to my PC via VNC practically impossible. Ubuntu 12.10, using gnome-shell. After a few minutes of remote VNC operation (using JumpDesktop from an iPad), gnome-settings-daemon crashes, and after that all the applications come out "ugly". Worse st

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1075923] Re: nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share

2013-01-25 Thread Romano Giannetti
Fedora has gvfs 1.15 (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5487) while Quantal has 1.14, which has been rapidly deleted on Fedora. I have not time to dig this more, but, if there is a PPA with a 1.15 build, I am available to test it out. -- You received this bug notification b

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1075923] Re: nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share

2013-03-06 Thread Romano Giannetti
I can't do it, because I have since changed my configuration --- using NFS. But some "adventurous" of you could test if upgrading gvfs can help. There is a PPA here, http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/upgrade-to-gvfs- with-mtp-support-in.html - it's oriented to other features, but if I understand corr

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1125260] Re: gtk_file_chooser_get_current_folder() function is broken in 2.24.10 < GTK+ < 2.24.15

2013-04-14 Thread Romano Giannetti
Affects a lot of applications ... still unassigned in ubuntu? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1125260 Title: gtk_file_chooser_get_current_folder() function is broken in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1125260] Re: gtk_file_chooser_get_current_folder() function is broken in 2.24.10 < GTK+ < 2.24.15

2013-04-14 Thread Romano Giannetti
The patch that the description points to is not the fix, it's just adding a test to the test patterns of the library. The correct patch seems to be this one: https://bug691040.bugzilla- attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=238204 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1125996] [NEW] Evince mis-print a PDF file (which prints ok with lpr or okular)

2013-02-15 Thread Romano Giannetti
Public bug reported: Evince incorrectly print some PDFlatex documents. Sometimes evince misprints PDF documents produced by pdflatex (at least, not checked with different sources). For example, in the included tar.gz file, you have a simple PDF with just one equation. The LaTeX source file is b

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1077696] Re: mounted samba share stops working for file access

2012-12-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
I have a very similar hang when copying files. After a few files copied, it hangs. Forever. I have a kernel warning stack trace: Dec 21 19:30:29 romano-asus kernel: [ 5760.344269] INFO: task cp:4312 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Dec 21 19:30:29 romano-asus kernel: [ 5760.348136] "echo 0 > /

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1077696] Re: mounted samba share stops working for file access

2012-12-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
I can confirm that mount.cifs seems to work ok. Gvfs problem. Anyone listening? I am available (well, after Xmas holidays) to help in debugging. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1055497] Re: Signature inserted twice when replying or forwarding

2012-12-31 Thread Romano Giannetti
I suppose this should be reported upstream on Gnome lists... I think that the (something more) supported MUA for Ubuntu is thunderbird - although it too has its share of unresolved bugs since ages... I switched to TB and a local dovecot server for my mbox archives, and I have to say that it's a

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072089] [NEW] conditional formatting from ODS files of versions <3.6 badly broken

2012-10-27 Thread Romano Giannetti
Public bug reported: In the following file, which worked perfectly in previous versions, if I change the conditional formatting of the column marked T1 so that the style of the numbers switch to "numerirossi" for a value <5, then the style of the column marked T2 changes too. This seems not to ha

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092] [NEW] conditional formatting from ODS files of versions <3.6 badly broken

2012-10-27 Thread Romano Giannetti
Public bug reported: In the following file, which worked perfectly in previous versions, if I change the conditional formatting of the column marked T1 so that the style of the numbers switch to "numerirossi" for a value <5, then the style of the column marked T2 changes too. This seems not to ha

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072089] Re: conditional formatting from ODS files of versions <3.6 badly broken

2012-10-27 Thread Romano Giannetti
Sorry, marked invalid because I reported it for the wrong package. Opened bug#1072092 for libreoffice-calc ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to openoffice.o

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092] Re: conditional formatting from ODS files of versions <3.6 badly broken

2012-10-27 Thread Romano Giannetti
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #56462 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56462 ** Also affects: df-libreoffice via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56462 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072089] Re: conditional formatting from ODS files of versions <3.6 badly broken

2012-10-27 Thread Romano Giannetti
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #56462 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56462 ** Also affects: openoffice via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56462 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** No longer affects: openoffice -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092] Re: conditional formatting from ODS files of versions <3.6 badly broken

2012-10-27 Thread Romano Giannetti
It seems that this is not a bug, just a different behavior for conditional formatting in the new version of LO. Please read the upstream (closed) bug for details. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. ht

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092]

2012-10-29 Thread Romano Giannetti
Thank you very much for your explanation, now I understand. A last question: what will happen editing the same file with 3.4 and 3.6? I have the last Ubuntu on my laptop, but the computer in my office run the 12.04 LTS, and probably I will need to edit the file on the two machines (the directories

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092]

2012-10-29 Thread Romano Giannetti
And by the way, with respect to comment #9: exporting the file to MS Excel format gives a file that has column C without conditional formatting. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092]

2012-10-29 Thread Romano Giannetti
I still think there is a bug, nevertheless. Look at the test_new_cf.ods file. If I define a new conditional format, says, on column B (from B4 to B11), then I do an "insert column", the new column will have the conditional formatting (ok) but when opening the conditional format dialog on the newly

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092]

2012-10-29 Thread Romano Giannetti
Hmmm... this comment smells very suspicious: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54621#c8 (Copied here: Ok, the problem is ScRangeList which is a ref counted class with an annoying copy behavior + ScDeleteObjectByPtr. The solution is to make ScRangeList a non ref counted class, copy c

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092]

2012-10-29 Thread Romano Giannetti
Created attachment 69184 Column C has conditional formatting albeit from ->manage seems not to be covered -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1072092 Title: conditional

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092]

2012-10-29 Thread Romano Giannetti
Sorry if the comment above sounded offensive. It was just a gut feeling, evidently wrong, on the base that the problem seemed to arise from a strange behavior on copy, as if the was a reference connection between the two conditional formatting ranges instead of a separate copy. It was not meant to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1072092] Re: conditional formatting from ODS files of versions <3.6 badly broken

2012-11-01 Thread Romano Giannetti
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1072092 Title: conditional formatting from ODS files of versions <

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1074083] [NEW] Insert a column /moving a block in a conditional formatted range give wrong results

2012-11-01 Thread Romano Giannetti
Public bug reported: This bug is a new one --- I reported before an invalid one, because I failed to see that the management of conditional formatting has drastically changed from LO 3.4 to 3.6. I think I spotted a bad bug that breaks compatibility with MS Excel. If I define a new conditional for

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1074083] Re: Insert a column /moving a block in a conditional formatted range give wrong results

2012-11-01 Thread Romano Giannetti
This is the second test file. Notice that the conditional formatting in column B is unexpected --- the file is simply the previous one, where I just moved the blocks of numbers to the left. ** Attachment added: "second file" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1074083/+a

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1054808] Re: Default filename for screenshots is problematic

2014-06-23 Thread Romano Giannetti
The problem with ISO8601 is that it uses colons ":" to separate hours, minutes and seconds; although ":" are a perfectly valid character for the Unix filesystem, they are not accepted in Windows. So you can't put the screenshot on a NTFS filesystem nor on a shared filesystem (say, Dropbox) with

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2014-04-01 Thread Romano Giannetti
I just downloaded and installed in a VirtualBox Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04 beta2 32bit. Out of the box, I changed the "Switch to next sorce" to Alt+Shift L and ""alternative character key" to Right Alt and it works ok. I DID NOT test the plain Ubuntu-Unity installation. Color me (momentarily) happy. -

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2014-04-01 Thread Romano Giannetti
Ok, checked more; color me less happy. Definitely the layout switch does not work after suspend in the lock screen. Hope you all people have password that can be typed in all layouts, otherwise... Also, with more than two layouts, the switch with the keys happens only between two of them. The thi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014]

2014-04-05 Thread Romano Giannetti
It *has* to be difficult. Otherwise why is it open since 2004? On december 1st it will be 10 years old... If I understand the issue, the main problem is that in MS Word there are different attributes for character background and highlight, while in LOO/AOO they are considered the same. If this is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-14 Thread Romano Giannetti
I agree that the best possible solution would be for the Windows clients (at least TigerVNC and TightVNC) to catch up. Unfortunately this has not happened; for the time being it would be much better if vino could offer the option to go back to the previous Security Type when the client does not sup

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-14 Thread Romano Giannetti
I reported the thing to TigerVNC bug tracker too: https://sourceforge.net/p/tigervnc/bug-tracker/148/ let's see if a solution can be found... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vino in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-14 Thread Romano Giannetti
Sebastian: no. the default is to use encryption. But after updating vino (do not remember at which point), vino changed the security type to a new one (at least, I think); the connection stopped to work with the error reported above and the only solution to have it back was to disable encryption.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-15 Thread Romano Giannetti
Ok, I have reported it upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728267 --- but I am unable to add it to the bug. I used to choose älso affect distribution"and simply paste the URL, but now I have an error (says I can't add another bug to the same distribution and in the dsitribut

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-15 Thread Romano Giannetti
Can please people with the problem state their version? Mine is [:~] 127 % apt-cache policy vino vino: Installed: 3.10.0-0ubuntu1~saucy1 Candidate: 3.10.0-0ubuntu1~saucy1 Version table: *** 3.10.0-0ubuntu1~saucy1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/ sa

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-15 Thread Romano Giannetti
Upstream comment: "I think that the TLS security type (18) is rather uncommon, but gtk-vnc supports it. I think that virt-viewer uses gtk-vnc and should work: http://virt-manager.org/download/ " so basically the problem is that vino is using an encryption type which is supported only by few clie

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-15 Thread Romano Giannetti
Well, downloaded it (virt-viewer, I mean). Tried to connect to a remote machine but no dice --- it just show a window, asking for a connection URI, I tried 200 combinations... No documentation handy available either. Seems to be thought just for managing virtual machines, so it doesn't seem a gener

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-18 Thread Romano Giannetti
@Holger: yes --- I just noticed it too. I humbly suggest that Canonical or Redhat help the vino developers to add a more common encryption type to the vino server. It is the default (and the facto only) remote vnc server in our system, and in its current state forces everyone to connect **in clea

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 883319] Re: xrandr --scale restricts area in which mouse moves

2014-04-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
I think that the upstream bug is not correct here. The problem is not with panning; the problem is with scaling and the mouse behavior. I have xserver-xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu6 (X.Org X Server 1.14.5), and if I issue xrandr --output LVDS1 --scale 2x2 the screen scales correctly, but then the mouse

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 883319] Re: xrandr --scale restricts area in which mouse moves

2014-04-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
So basically, the "Fix released" status is incorrect. The bug referred to the title is still here (at least in Saucy, will test Trusty). Maybe the other problem (panning, mentioned in the upstream bug, not related with this bug title) is fixed, but not this one. -- You received this bug notificat

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 883319]

2014-04-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
Probably this bug has been marked invalid because there is a mix of two bugs here: one is related to panning (which I do not know if it's fixed or no), and the other one to mouse constraints when scaling. I have X.Org X Server 1.14.5 , and if I issue xrandr --output LVDS1 --scale 2x2 the screen

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 881046]

2014-04-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
Probably this bug has been marked invalid because there is a mix of two bugs here: one is related to panning (which I do not know if it's fixed or no), and the other one to mouse constraints when scaling. I have X.Org X Server 1.14.5 , and if I issue xrandr --output LVDS1 --scale 2x2 the screen

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 883319] Re: xrandr --scale restricts area in which mouse moves

2014-04-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
...checked in 14.04 trusty, still here. A real PITA because the scaling is really useful with all the applications (*-tweak-tools, are you listening me?) which are expecting 1600x1200 pixel every time... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 883319] Re: xrandr --scale restricts area in which mouse moves

2014-04-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
Yes --- I understand. But why the bug is marked "Invalid"? It is quite easy to reproduce, and difficult to miss (if you ever needed to use the --scale option). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https:/

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 883319] Re: xrandr --scale restricts area in which mouse moves

2014-04-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
Can a bug supervisor mark this for Trusty and removing the (wrong) Fix Released status? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/883319 Title: xrandr --scale restricts area

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1311735] [NEW] vino-server using a lot of CPU and very sluggish after upgrade to 14.04

2014-04-23 Thread Romano Giannetti
Public bug reported: The title says its all. PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 8150 romano20 0 64268 8800 5948 R 57.8 0.4 126:57.46 vino-se+ 8883 romano20 0 632412 34788 6156 S 31.8 1.7 195:15.26 dropbox 1420 root 20

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1311735] Re: vino-server using a lot of CPU and very sluggish after upgrade to 14.04

2014-04-24 Thread Romano Giannetti
Encryption is already off due to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/1281250 - otherwise vino is practically impossible to use (no clients apart from vinagre use the encryption that vino offer). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, wh

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-25 Thread Romano Giannetti
@nitrogen dream: reading here: https://sourceforge.net/p/tigervnc/code/HEAD/tree/rfbproto/rfbproto.rst #vnc-authentication, with type 2 the only thing that is encrypted is the VNC password, which is, honestly, my least worry. All the keystrokes in the session (including your bank password) is then

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible from non-linux machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-25 Thread Romano Giannetti
** Summary changed: - VNC accessible for Windows machines only with encryption disabled + VNC accessible from non-linux machines only with encryption disabled -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vino in Ubuntu. https://bugs.l

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1281250] Re: VNC accessible from non-linux machines only with encryption disabled

2014-04-25 Thread Romano Giannetti
SSVNC works, although is quite slow with vino. Using x11vnc as server with -ssl options give a reasonable speed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vino in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1281250 Title: VNC accessi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1184085] Re: Xorg server crashes when drawing dashed circles

2014-04-30 Thread Romano Giannetti
I can confirm that the bug is fixed in Trusty Thar 14.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184085 Title: Xorg server crashes when drawing dashed circles Status in

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2014-05-02 Thread Romano Giannetti
On Ubuntu Gnome 14.04, the bug is still there. I have no PPA related to gnome or this bug installed. The "modifier only" option for switching, set to whichever option, will change the keyboard indicated in the panel indicator, but will not really change the keyboard layout. Setting the "switch t

Re: [Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014]

2014-05-04 Thread Romano Giannetti
This bug is moving to a release to the next since at least 2004... (In its various incarnations) Would be more faithful if some developer acknowledged that it is unfixable for the different structure of the two programs and mark it wontfix. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1215798] Re: losing windows on Ubuntu 13.10

2014-05-05 Thread Romano Giannetti
Desktop shot showing the bug. ** Attachment added: "Workspace 2_003.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1215798/+attachment/4106024/+files/Workspace%202_003.png ** Also affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received t

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1215798] Re: losing windows on Ubuntu 13.10

2014-05-05 Thread Romano Giannetti
Added gnome-terminal because it really happens reliably just with it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215798 Title: losing windows on Ubuntu 13.10 Status in “g

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2014-05-08 Thread Romano Giannetti
@William, i have a pure Ubuntu Gnome (3) system --- should I test your PPA? Keyboard switch with key-combos is utterly broken on my system, to the point that the only reliable way to obtain it is using the panel indicator --- which, by the way, is often than not out of sync with the real keymap.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1318452] [NEW] .Xmodmap should be read after keyboard layout switch

2014-05-11 Thread Romano Giannetti
Public bug reported: Using Ubuntu Gnome 14.04, my .Xmodmap is correctly read at startup (at least, it seems). I have a very simple .Xmodmap: ! EuroSign is on AltGr-5, eacute is mucho more useful for Spanish keycode 26 = e E e E eacute Eacute However, on layout switch, the modificatio

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2014-05-12 Thread Romano Giannetti
Yes, I can confirm that with more than 2 layouts the thing is even more broken. I tried to get a shot to understand better what it's happening, but I suspect that the thing is **really** complex and we have a lot of interacting modules and things that (I suspect) no one really grasp --- the dconf

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2014-05-12 Thread Romano Giannetti
@William --- will try again this afternoon; sorry for the delay. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1218322 Title: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2014-05-12 Thread Romano Giannetti
@William (sorry, got posted too early, a pity launchpad don't let you edit comments). I read wrongly your comment and thought it would have been of no use (I use only latin keyboards --- switch between US intl, US intl AltGr-dead keys, and Spanish), and the name of the PPA is for "non-latin"... --

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2014-05-13 Thread Romano Giannetti
@William: I tested the PPA. Remeber, Ubuntu Gnome 14.04; I have just two keyboard layouts (if you want I can check with three to). With the PPA: 1. switching to next source works ok if I choose a normal key combo, for example, Super+Space. On pressing the combo, the layout switches, the indicator

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014]

2014-05-14 Thread Romano Giannetti
We are near to 4.3 release, and this bug is here (or in OO.org or in various incarnations of the suite) since 2004. The only thing that happens is that it is marked as a "must have" for the current version, and never taken care of. Could a developer comment if this is really impossible to fix? I

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014]

2014-05-15 Thread Romano Giannetti
@Björn --- you are right, sorry. To add something constructive, I mention I have a workaround if the file is sufficiently simple to be able to save it in RTF: 1) save the file in RTF format 2) open it with a text editor (vi, gedit) 3) substitute all occurrences of "\chshdng0\chcfpat0\chcb

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1246272] Re: Keyboard layout changing randomly

2014-05-15 Thread Romano Giannetti
There is a possible workaround here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/459617/keyboard-layout-isnt-kept-upon- reboot -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1246272 Ti

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1246272] Re: Keyboard layout changing randomly

2014-05-15 Thread Romano Giannetti
Could be this the upstream report? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729423 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #729423 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729423 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnom

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2014-05-15 Thread Romano Giannetti
Could be this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings- daemon/+bug/1246272 (and maybe this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729423 ) related too? Seeing the workaround in http://askubuntu.com/questions/459617/keyboard- layout-isnt-kept-upon-reboot I have a feeling that

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1215798] Re: losing windows on Ubuntu 13.10

2014-05-16 Thread Romano Giannetti
Tried to report upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730261 Temporary solution: install terminator. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #730261 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730261 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packag

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1215798] Re: losing windows on Ubuntu 13.10

2014-05-16 Thread Romano Giannetti
Christian Persch [gnome-terminal developer] said on 2014-05-16 17:49:52 UTC, in the upstream bug: "An essential component in your reproducer is restarting gnome-shell. Gnome-terminal used to unrealise and re-realise all windows in this case; that was removed from 3.8. So I think this is fixed in g

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1246272] Re: Keyboard layout changing randomly

2014-05-21 Thread Romano Giannetti
@Alberto Low? Really? Since 13.10, between this and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1218322 Ubuntu has become a PITA if you have to write in more than one language (and even with just one, if that one is not en_US). Your call, but I think this is _at least_ h

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1246272] Re: Keyboard layout changing randomly

2014-05-22 Thread Romano Giannetti
I want to underline that my comment was not *at all* a critic to developers. There is something pesky going on with keyboards, and difficult to spot (although I suspect some kind of bad interaction between {unity,gnome}-control-settings and ibus). The monster bug #1218322 would have been fixed othe

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1246272] Re: Keyboard layout changing randomly

2014-05-24 Thread Romano Giannetti
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1240198 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240198 The all time record being probably bug #295014, with us since 2004 in its first incarnation... But well, we have to remember that most developers works on this in their free time, so... There should be a ple

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 381017]

2014-05-31 Thread Romano Giannetti
If I can chime in with a comment to the developers (if anyone is listening here): I am used to never use drag and drop of attachment on TB now, given the really broken behavior. Suggestion: ditch the thing completely. Remove drag and drop. For good. It's so broken it is more a danger(1) than any

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1241811] Re: USB disk not automatically mounted after upgrade to 13.10

2014-06-04 Thread Romano Giannetti
I can confirm that when it happened to me, I had gdm as login manager and not lightdm. Since the upgrade to 14.04, it happened just one time in one laptop (solved by login/logout) with Ubuntu Gnome, and never in my other laptop which has Xubuntu. So for me it is happening now very rarely; last ti

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 366780] Re: Please provide a mechanism whereby Wi-Fi networks can be prioritized

2014-06-05 Thread Romano Giannetti
The thing could be solved with just one bit of "priority" thing. I already commented to the upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359556 and had no answers. I imagine that using the NM scripts dispatcher you can implement some workaround, though: http://askubuntu.com/questions/

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1068404] Re: Low graphics mode in muxless hybrid ATI/Intel GPU systems after fglrx upgrade

2013-09-30 Thread Romano Giannetti
A comment: I could manage the full resolution of my Samsung laptop only with the solution here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/205112/how-do-i-get-amd-intel-hybrid- graphics-drivers-to-work (one million thanks). But my main problem was that the open-source driver was not giving me the correct scr

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1068404] Re: Low graphics mode in muxless hybrid ATI/Intel GPU systems after fglrx upgrade

2013-10-01 Thread Romano Giannetti
@Marco: you're right --- wrong place. But if anyone would arrive here on trying to solve a problem similar to mine: I can use the free drivers simply removing the nomodesetting flag from the boot command line (which was necessary to boot the installation USB). Thanks. -- You received this bug not

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014] Re: [Upstream] Cannot remove highlight from .doc in Word exported from Writer

2013-10-08 Thread Romano Giannetti
Another bug has been opened in freedesktop.org, with a bit of movement. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64490 Tried to add it to the bugwatch, but failed. @halfbeing: One of the problem I think is that this bug, for example, has just 4 "me too". I wonder how many people really uses

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 295014] Re: [Upstream] Cannot remove highlight from .doc in Word exported from Writer

2013-10-08 Thread Romano Giannetti
Good news: Bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65403 (which is a subset of this one) has been closed with the following patch: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8b949134441056a1455d67ddfdd7e0bc5f2ee682 If I understand correctly, Zolnai Tamás (thanks!) has added

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1077696] Re: mounted samba share stops working for file access

2013-10-09 Thread Romano Giannetti
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1075923 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075923 I am quite sure that this is a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1075923. It seems fixed --- I cannot test it myself now. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1075

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1241811] Re: USB disk not automatically mounted after upgrade to 13.10

2013-10-23 Thread Romano Giannetti
No need to wait for the next boot. After four hours, inserted again the same disk, no automounting. At least not in the three minutes I have waited before mounting it manually. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in U

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2013-10-24 Thread Romano Giannetti
Probably there are reasons that make this impossible, so please take this a naïve suggestion (no offense intended to all the people working on this, especially William) --- but what about going back to the 13.04 situation? Now I am trying to reenable the ctl-alt-backspace x-kill (gnome shell tends

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1241811] Re: USB disk not automatically mounted after upgrade to 13.10

2013-10-24 Thread Romano Giannetti
@Alexander: no idea. :-| I can confirm that killing and restarting daemons can give you problem if you don't logout and login again... for example, restarting gnome- shell sometime makes shutdown/reboot form the menu impossible. Quite lost... -- You received this bug notification because you ar

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2013-10-25 Thread Romano Giannetti
Why invalid? The bug is still here, and it is taken care of by the developers... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1218322 Title: Can't set keyboard layout

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1241811] Re: USB disk not automatically mounted after upgrade to 13.10

2013-10-27 Thread Romano Giannetti
I have dome more tests, but I could not find the conditions under which it worked some days ago. Summarizing, no automatic mount of USB drives. Anyone can give some hint on debugging it? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1241811] Re: USB disk not automatically mounted after upgrade to 13.10

2013-10-29 Thread Romano Giannetti
After the upgrade it worked for me during a couple of days. Then it stopped again... and is still not working. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241811 Title: USB disk

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2013-10-30 Thread Romano Giannetti
For me (Gnome shell, gdm locking screen) it _seems_ to work (if I press Alt+Shift the overhead windows appears and seems to change layout). Couldn't really test, too, because the password is typed in the exactly same way on my two layouts. (yes, it has plenty od special char. Happening to be in the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2013-10-31 Thread Romano Giannetti
I have the packages form the PPA (gnome-control-center 1:3.8.5-0ubuntu1~saucy1)(gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-0ubuntu11.1). Ubuntu Gnome, Gnome-shell, gdm. 1) Basically it works for me with Alt+ShiftL to switch layouts, and Menu key as Compose. 2) My preferred setup (shift + shift) can be selected

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1247507] [NEW] Nautilus crash if a zero-sized video or graphic file exists in the folder

2013-11-02 Thread Romano Giannetti
Public bug reported: Open nautilus on a director, and then from a shell in the same directory create a 0-lenght file with a video extension, like .avi or .MTS. Nautilus immediately crash trying to render the preview. (0)samsung-romano:~/tmp% touch 0.MTS (0)samsung-romano:~/tmp% totem-video-th

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1247507] Re: Nautilus crash if a zero-sized video or graphic file exists in the folder

2013-11-02 Thread Romano Giannetti
Sebastian: got it, if I uninstall python-nautilus (and with it gir1.2-nautilus-3.0) the bug disappears. I am not sure which functions I am losing with it... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1218322] Re: Can't set keyboard layout change to alt+shift, ctrl+shift, etc.

2013-11-04 Thread Romano Giannetti
@All: I think that we all should try to cool down on this bug. It's a serious one, developers are on it, it's not easy to fix and it's impossible to revert to old system (unfortunately). The SRUs are trying to fix it in a incremental manner; I think that all these changes of tag come from not havi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1245064] Re: Keyboard Layout Options window is missed in gnome-control-center keyboard

2013-11-04 Thread Romano Giannetti
Hi, you can set compose key --- it's just in another place. See http://askubuntu.com/questions/360378/how-to-access-the-keyboard-layout- options-in-13-10/370257#370257, i have mine set to Menu and it's ok. Anyone knows how to re-instate Ctrl-Alt-Backspace behavior, though? I was unable to find it.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1241811] Re: USB disk not automatically mounted after upgrade to 13.10

2013-11-04 Thread Romano Giannetti
Tried right now --- this boot/login it is working, and I have the following in ~/.cache/upstart/gnome-settings-daemon.log (gnome-settings-daemon:1896): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to connect to device: Failed to connect to missing device /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/devices/cups_PDF ...and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1075923] Re: nautilus hangs copying large directories from a samba share

2013-05-30 Thread Romano Giannetti
@karl: are you sure? I admit it has been month since last I triggered it, but I distinctly remember having processes stuck in D state, unkillable even with -9. Nevertheless, killing the processes for example during a move could cause data loss, as reported above. It seems that there have been

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1184085] Re: Xorg server crashes when drawing dashed circles

2013-06-13 Thread Romano Giannetti
I can confirm that the bug *does NOT* occur in another machine with ATI card which uses the open-source radeon modules. In that machine, xfig works ok (no crashes and the solid color fill are ok). So it seems a intel-driver bug. ** Also affects: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Importance: Un

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