[Bug 742544] Re: Launcher is shown on the wrong screen in some multi-monitor setups

2011-11-01 Thread Aaron Mayse
Well one thing I can think of is the "dodge" animation will probably look kind of weird when not on the leftmost monitor. I know the Gnome panels used to have a problem where auto-hide would cause the panel to "hide" by sliding into another monitor's view. Maybe instead of a "sliding" motion, it sh

[Bug 742544] Re: Launcher is shown on the wrong screen in some multi-monitor setups

2011-11-01 Thread Aaron Mayse
@Tomasz Przybysz: Ooh, yeah, that's right; notifications end up in the wrong place on multi-monitor setups too! That would be a real problem for me if my second monitor even worked (right now it doesn't; I'm getting a weird overlap effect: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11410701#post1141

[Bug 682788] Re: Global menu is not ergonomical on large screens

2011-10-29 Thread Aaron Mayse
Rawphi: liked the demo for your patch (not downloading it myself just yet because I'm trying to fix a host of other problems related to the upgrade, but I appreciate the work). The irony here is that everyone is talking about fitts' law when advocating for global menus, but there's a problem: Fitt

[Bug 882274] Re: Community engagement is broken

2011-10-29 Thread Aaron Mayse
> > Customization comes at a cost for those who don't want it. Every option > > adds a cost. Adding all the options everyone wants results in software > > nobody will like. The balance is not going to be liked by everyone too. > > Accept that. > I can't! :) I can't understand the costs of adding an

[Bug 763005] Re: Compiz's "Sync to Vblank" makes display stutter/slow with some drivers (like fglrx)

2011-10-29 Thread Aaron Mayse
Is anyone else still having this problem? I'm using fglrx on a Radeon HD 4670, and dragging windows around still only happens at <1 fps. Of course, I'm also having numerous other problems, like compiz crashing every time I maximize my browser window, and CCSM will randomly crash the window decorat

[Bug 773487] Re: After upgrade to Natty, rotation of one of dual monitors don't work

2011-05-27 Thread Aaron Mayse
I think this is the same thing that is affecting me. I have two monitors that I keep in sort of an "L" configuration (see screenshot for what the layout is supposed to look like, and what it ends up looking like when I try to actually set it up that way). The configuration worked fine in all previo

[Bug 443010] Re: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in FcConfigFilename()

2009-10-26 Thread Aaron Mayse
Oh, right, and I'll note that, when I first updated my distribution (on 10/24) the same videos--the ones that crash vlc and mplayer--played just fine. They only crashed after I hit the update manager *after* the distribution upgrade. -- vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in FcConfigFilename() https://bugs.

[Bug 443010] Re: vlc crashed with SIGSEGV in FcConfigFilename()

2009-10-26 Thread Aaron Mayse
Same here. I think it's an audio problem: -it only happens when playing .mkv files; .avi works perfectly fine. -it happens regardless of which video driver I'm using (fglrx or the open source ati driver), and I notice the above user is using an NVIDIA card -it also affects mplayer, which crashes

[Bug 366678] Re: 9.04 fails to boot on HP DV2-1030US laptop

2009-05-20 Thread Aaron Mayse
Oh, and interestingly enough I seem to have the same problem with a completely different OS than Ubuntu: booting a Dosbox image from USB fails, but booting the same image burned to a CD succeeds. So this may actually be an AMD problem, or rather the 9.04 release stumbled on a weakness in the AMD ch

[Bug 366678] Re: 9.04 fails to boot on HP DV2-1030US laptop

2009-05-20 Thread Aaron Mayse
While that's an interesting workaround, this seems to point to a more fundamental problem with either AMD's chipsets (all of the computers affected by this bug--including both of mine, a home-built desktop running on a 790gx motherboard and a toshiba satellite running on a Turion processor) or how

[Bug 354228] Re: package python2.6-minimal 2.6.1-1ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade:

2009-04-04 Thread Aaron Mayse
Is this what's keeping me from upgrading? I'm getting: 2009-04-04 05:01:38,394 ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'Trying to install blacklisted version 'python2.6_2.6.1-1ubuntu8'' when trying to upgrade to 9.04 from 8.10. I'm not the only one either: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7015567 th