[Bug 257804] Re: Documentation Error in Heron: Article "Share files and folders with other computers"

Note that the instructions you quote say, “Click on the *folder* you wish to share with the right mouse button” (my emphasis). To share a file on your Desktop, you would need to share your entire Desktop folder. (This is by default in English the subfolder of your Home folder called Desktop.)

[Bug 251412] Re: evince does not properly select text

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 33288 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33288 “Bug 181737 is already a duplicate of bug 33288. You can only mark a bug report as duplicate of one that isn’t a duplicate itself.” Therefore I am marking this bug as a duplicate of bug 33288 for now. -- ev

[Bug 251412] Re: evince does not properly select text

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 33288 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33288 Bug 181737 could perhaps be considered a duplicate. It doesn’t show up by default in search results because it is in turn a duplicate of bug 33288. Most of the bug reports I can find mention specifically colu

[Bug 31396] Re: there's no GUI way to copy text from the embedded terminal window (middle-click works)

Note that Ctrl+Shift+C does not currently copy from the embedded terminal window in Synaptic (see comments in bug 250359). If you want a keyboard workaround, try Ctrl+Insert. -- there's no GUI way to copy text from the embedded terminal window (middle-click works) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 250359] Re: Cannot copy text in Synaptic ’s embedded terminal window with Ctrl+Shift+C

I agree that Ctrl+C is unlikely to be bound to copy, for the reason you gave. It is a little worrying that someone unfamiliar with Ctrl+C ⇒ SIGINT could interrupt changes, but then this argument could equally apply to a sudo command at any terminal. (To head off a possible argument: Synaptic’s

[Bug 250359] Re: Cannot copy text in Synaptic ’s embedded terminal window with Ctrl+Shift+C

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 31396 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/31396 I don’t think that this is a duplicate of bug 31396, which is looking for a GUI method of copying (and for Ctrl+C not to send an interrupt, which should probably be in a separate report), whereas this report i

[Bug 250358] Re: KDE No middle mouse button simulation with two button mouse

I’m sorry that you had problems with that command. The problem is presumably that nvidia-xconfig wrote the previous version of the file. Perhaps there is a bug in nvidia-xconfig that means it doesn’t write out the Emulate3Buttons option. If so, then this might be considered to be a bug in tha

[Bug 250359] Re: Cannot select text in synaptic in the "Applying changes" dialog's terminal output window

I think that whether a feature request is trivial or not is related to the complexity of the solution rather than that of the problem. You ask whether usability bugs are trivial. For one thing, don’t worry: usability is certainly not considered to be trivial! For another, bugs are never trivi

[Bug 250358] Re: KDE No middle mouse button simulation with two button mouse

What does the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf say for the option Emulate3Buttons? To find out quickly, at a terminal enter: grep Emulate3Buttons /etc/X11/xorg.conf If it does not say “true” (or “1”, “on” or “yes”), you could try changing this setting by at a terminal entering: sudo dpkg-reconf

[Bug 250359] Re: Cannot select text in synaptic in the "Applying changes" dialog's terminal output window

The summary says that you cannot select text in the terminal window, but the description says that you can. If you can select text, try to copy it with Ctrl+Insert. This works for me in GNOME, so you may have success in KDE. Ctrl+Insert is one of the old-school trio of: • Cut: Shift+Delet

[Bug 248683] Re: file-roller cannot decompress non-archive .gz

Well, how about this, then? (I’ve taken the opportunity to add in some quotation marks to make the script just slightly more robust!) #!/bin/sh FILE="$(tempfile)" echo Hello world >"$FILE" gzip --to-stdout "$FILE" >"$FILE.gz" tar --create --gzip --directory="$(dirname "$FILE"

[Bug 248683] Re: file-roller cannot decompress non-archive .gz

I wrote the following (and attached) shell script to see if I could reproduce the problem in Ubuntu 8.04 (file-roller version 2.22.3-0ubuntu1): #!/bin/sh FILE=$(tempfile) echo Hello world >$FILE gzip --to-stdout $FILE >$FILE.gz tar --create --gzip --directory=$(dirname $FILE)

[Bug 248593] Re: File-roller does not integrate with mime types

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 132901 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132901 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 132901 [gutsy] Cannot set / remeber from Nautilus the default application with which to open archived files in file-roller -- File-roller does not integrate

[Bug 218631] Re: Screen brightness only at 3 levels

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 239413 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239413 Yes: you have encountered bug 239413 (or one of its many variants and duplicates!). I shall mark this report as a duplicate of bug 239413. Please look around that report and any of the related others: bug 2

[Bug 218631] Re: Screen brightness only at 3 levels

Do you experience the same problem if you use the Brightness Applet? If you don’t already have a Brightness Applet, right-click on a blank area of a panel and choose “Add to Panel.” Choose “Brightness Applet,” and then choose “Add.” Click on the new applet, and try using the scrollbar (with yo

[Bug 248564] Re: Inspiron "Fn brightness keys" repeat four times after update to Hardy

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 239413 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239413 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported. It appears to be a duplicate of bug 239413, so it is being marked as such.

[Bug 248550] Re: Shutdown dialog buttons act "pressed"

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 204199 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204199 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 204199, so it is being marked as such. Please loo

[Bug 247123] Re: Rhythmbox cannot download some podcasts (port 8000)

For completeness, here is a log to show that Rhythmbox does indeed make a HEAD request: HEAD /ueberklang/ueber220608.mp3 HTTP/1.1 Host: listening.at:8000 User-Agent: gnome-vfs/2.22.0 neon/0.25.4 Keep-Alive: Connection: TE, Keep-Alive TE: trailers HTTP/1.0 400 Bad

[Bug 247129] Re: Spaces in Firefox (et al.) are too wide

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 193108 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193108 > I'm sorry that I didn't notice the other bug report You needn’t apologise: I didn’t notice it either! Nor did I find the Mozilla Bugzilla bug, even though I looked. :^/ It was only because you quoted th

[Bug 247129] Re: Spaces in Firefox (et al.) are too wide

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 193108 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193108 That error you quoted tracks the problem down! There is another thread in the forums about it: Firefox 3 text spacing issue http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=699815 and there is already a bug

[Bug 247129] Re: blanks become tab characters

“Spaces” is probably a better word than “blanks.” Someone else has this problem (unless you are GStubbs43 at ubuntuforums.org): large spaces in firefox http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=839221 ** Summary changed: - blanks become tab characters + Spaces are too wide ** Descriptio

[Bug 246840] Re: "Simple" Metacity theme rendered incorrectly

I have an Intel GMA 950 integrated in an Intel Mobile 945 GM chipset. (Or something like that, anyway!) I too am using the intel driver. -- "Simple" Metacity theme rendered incorrectly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246840 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 247129] Re: blancs become tabs

(By “tabs” I thought you meant Firefox tabs rather than tab characters!) Do you get the same problem if you run Firefox in Safe Mode? Safe Mode http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode Quit Firefox entirely (Ctrl+Q) and run (Alt+F2): firefox -safe-mode ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ub

[Bug 246840] Re: "Simple" Metacity theme rendered incorrectly

I, too, have an Intel graphics processor, although not the same one. Still, I am setting this bug back to New to see if someone else can reproduce it. ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- "Simple" Metacity theme rendered incorrectly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 247142] Re: Customize mouse pointer

Fair enough. But only trivial feature requests are supposed to be marked as Wishlist. See, for example: Setting Importance https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/CommonTasks#head-5e1ca5fc3e9d228820006723b58c1bbc3cedcb76 I think that Ubuntu Brainstorm is probably a good place for this idea, and

[Bug 247142] Re: Customize mouse pointer

I think that this is a non-trivial feature request rather than a bug report, so I am marking it as Invalid. Indeed it was filed yesterday at Ubuntu Brainstorm: Idea #10956: Customize mouse pointer http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10956/ ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Inva

[Bug 246840] Re: "Simple" Metacity theme rendered incorrectly

Can you provide additional information to make this reproducible? ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- "Simple" Metacity theme rendered incorrectly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246840 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 246840] Re: "Simple" Metacity theme rendered incorrectly

I can’t reproduce this: see attached screenshot (taken while running Compiz). ** Attachment added: "Screenshot of a GIMP window not exhibiting the described problem" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15927824/Screenshot%3A%20Layers%2C%20Channels%2C%20Paths%2C%20Undo.png -- "Simple" Metacity the

[Bug 247129] Re: blancs become tabs

What do you mean by “blancs”? I think that you need to be more clear and specific about the problems that you are encountering. A screenshot may be helpful. You may find it useful to read this article: How to Report Bugs Effectively http://chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs Thank y

[Bug 247123] Re: Rhythmbox cannot download some podcasts (port 8000)

It seems that Überklang is running Icecast2, so you could install apt:icecast2, try to reproduce the bug in that, and file a bug here in Launchpad or upstream if you manage to do so. There are mailing list posts from November 2006 regarding Icecast’s lack of support for HTTP HEAD, so I don’t k

[Bug 247123] Re: Rhythmbox cannot download some podcasts (port 8000)

I think that the problem is actually that listening.at refuses to respond helpfully to an HTTP HEAD request on port 8000: it instead returns a 400 Bad Request error. RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, states: The metainformation contained in the HTTP headers in response to a

[Bug 244732] Re: can not unmark package marked for removal

I’m pleased that you have been able to uninstall your troublesome package, but as I said before, I don’t think that you have provided enough information for someone to fix the bug that caused it to be so. If you could provide steps that will reproduce the problem, that would be excellent, as so

[Bug 244732] Re: can not unmark package marked for removal

You have mentioned a password that is needed for uninstallation, but you have not given any further information to indicate which program is asking for this password (it may be interchange, for example). Is interchange installed? Perhaps interchange is blocking the uninstallation of interchang

[Bug 244732] Re: can not unmark package marked for removal

Have you successfully used interchange? And interchange-ui? Can you give the exact text that asks you for a password? (This does not sound to me like it is a bug in Synaptic itself.) ** Changed in: ubuntu Sourcepackagename: synaptic => None -- can not unmark package marked for removal https:/

[Bug 245069] Re: slow computer running with 7.10

My mistake: sorry. -- slow computer running with 7.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245069 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listi

[Bug 244863] Re: grep -i does not work on Intrepid

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 241990 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241990 :^] -- grep -i does not work on Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244863 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 244732] Re: can not unmark package marked for removal

Have you tried entering: sudo apt-get install -f at a terminal? -- can not unmark package marked for removal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244732 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu

[Bug 245069] Re: slow computer running with 7.10

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can’t fix it, because your description didn’t include enough information. You may find it helpful to read “How to report bugs effectively”

[Bug 244828] Re: Dasher just doesn't work at all

Can you start Dasher’s movement by clicking a mouse button? For me, changing the “Start with mouse position” option crashes Dasher only sometimes (not that this stops it from being a bug, of course!), and once the option has successfully changed, it is still changed when Dasher restarts. -- Da

[Bug 244840] Re: Landscape PDF documents get printed portrait, truncated

A workaround would be to install pdftk and use this to rotate PDFs before printing them. For example, the following should work for the first Wiggles illustration on the page you linked to: pdftk band.pdf cat 1-endR output band-rotated.pdf This may not an elegant workaround, but it is a work

[Bug 244863] Re: grep -i does not work on Intrepid

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 241990 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241990 I should have said that this is a duplicate if and only if the -i /--ignore-case option is broken when and only when your character encoding is UTF-8: i.e. if you get the same results as Javier Noval in bug 24

[Bug 244863] Re: grep -i does not work on Intrepid

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 241990 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241990 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 241990, so it is being marked as such. Please look

[Bug 243717] Re: case sensitive grep broken with UTF8 in intrepid, breaking scripts

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 241990 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241990 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 241990 grep -i fails to work on intrepid -- case sensitive grep broken with UTF8 in intrepid, breaking scripts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243717 You rec

[Bug 243406] Re: jobs command in dash doesn't work with pipes in scripts

I think that the problem here is that Dash is running “jobs | wc -l” and “jobs | cat” in subshells. These subshells have no stopped jobs or running background jobs to report, which is why the output of jobs is empty. If in Dash you run: sleep 10 & jobs you will get the output you are

[Bug 74360] Re: Several compose key combinations don't work

Not with Firefox, but with other applications such as gedit and gnome-terminal, there *is* a graphical way to change your input method temporarily to the X input method. Right-click (if your pointing device is set for right-handedness :^]) in the text input field, and choose Input Methods and

[Bug 242798] Re: Ekiga - "Registration failed: Forbidden" with an 'ñ' in the pwd

I don’t think that this is the same problem as the upstream bug. The upstream bug is about checking that the registrar and realm fields are sane. It is reasonable to question the registrar field, because this identifies a server, and therefore presumably contains an IP address, host name or do

[Bug 241544] Re: pdf2ps creates empty output

I see the non-standard behaviour of the ghostscript tools as quite troublesome, because they are likely to be used in conjunction with tools such as those provided by psutils, which behave as standard Unix text processing utilities. This can lead to awkward pipelines such as the following, which i

[Bug 241544] Re: pdf2ps creates empty output

I think you will find the file ~/Report_a_bug_about_Ubuntu.ps containing the output you wanted. pdf2ps’s man page gives usage as: pdf2ps [ options ] input.pdf [output.ps] What it doesn’t mention is that if output.ps is not specified, input.ps will be automatically created in the current dire

[Bug 95177] Re: HTML mail confirmation dialog list needs a scrollable widget

A couple of workarounds from bug 242231: Add [a second row of] workspaces or remove the acceptance dialog in the preferences Also, if you do *not* have Visual Effects enabled, you *can* Alt-drag the dialog beyond the top of the screen (at least, it works for me). So, running “metacity --replace”