Re: Various programs and SVG image mis-rendering

2024-03-29 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 3/14/24 1:36 PM, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: On 3/14/24 15:30, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 2:41 PM Stephen Satchell wrote: Who are the correct people to report issues with the incorrect display of SVG images?  I've encountered the problem with: * Document Viewer * LibreO

Various programs and SVG image mis-rendering

2024-03-14 Thread Stephen Satchell
Who are the correct people to report issues with the incorrect display of SVG images? I've encountered the problem with: * Document Viewer * LibreOffice Write, Calc, Impress, Draw * GIMP The different programs screw up in different ways. LibreOffice Write can't handle an SVG image with scrun

Re: Bluetooth questions

2023-12-06 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 12/5/23 10:22 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote: So far, so good.  I moved my wireless access point across the room (after finding a long enough Ethernet cable!) to see if add distance between my bluetooth mouse and the AP would make a difference.  So far, the mouse is much happier.  I'll

Re: Bluetooth questions

2023-12-05 Thread Stephen Satchell
So far, so good. I moved my wireless access point across the room (after finding a long enough Ethernet cable!) to see if add distance between my bluetooth mouse and the AP would make a difference. So far, the mouse is much happier. I'll know more when I do my next technical drawing project.

Re: Bluetooth questions

2023-11-25 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 11/25/23 9:40 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote: More information on my problem with a Bluetooth mouse: First time I've looked at the kernal log. Here is what I found around the last mouse AWOL: Nov 25 09:30:44 game kernel: [456018.958770] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0c24 tx timeout Nov

Re: Bluetooth questions

2023-11-25 Thread Stephen Satchell
More information on my problem with a Bluetooth mouse: First, this recovery sequence appears to work 100 percent of the time, so whatever is causing the disconnect isn't permanent: sudo rmmod btusb sleep 3 sudo modprobe btusb sleep 5 sudo systemctl restart bluetooth Another symptom is that th

Re: Bluetooth questions

2023-11-13 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 10/26/23 8:31 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote: New information: when my problem happens, the Settings app takes forever to load, and shows incorrect information about Bluetooth when it does come up.  In fact, I can't get Bluetooth out of Airplane mode with the tool. Going through the re

Re: Bluetooth questions

2023-10-26 Thread Stephen Satchell
New information: when my problem happens, the Settings app takes forever to load, and shows incorrect information about Bluetooth when it does come up. In fact, I can't get Bluetooth out of Airplane mode with the tool. Going through the restart process once or twice brings everything back. As

Re: Bluetooth questions

2023-10-24 Thread Stephen Satchell
things break. I'll check syslog again when my problem happens. Are there any other logs I need to watch? On 10/21/23 8:10 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote: Are there known problems with Ubuntu 20.04 with regards to Bluetooth devices? I recently purchased a Logitech MX Master 3S mouse, and co

Bluetooth questions

2023-10-21 Thread Stephen Satchell
Are there known problems with Ubuntu 20.04 with regards to Bluetooth devices? I recently purchased a Logitech MX Master 3S mouse, and connected the device to my computer via Bluetooth. This is the first time I have done this with my computer. The situation is that the device works fine for

Font cleanup problems

2022-10-02 Thread Stephen Satchell
I'm having a few problems with fonts on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Here are my issues: 1) I just learned that Type 1 fonts are no longer supported. I supposed this is because Adobe has retired Type 1 fonts. True? If so, why are Type 1 fonts still in the distribution? Are existing Type 1 fonts in

Font cleanup problems

2022-09-28 Thread Stephen Satchell
I'm having a few problems with fonts on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Here are my issues: 1) I just learned that Type 1 fonts are no longer supported. I supposed this is because Adobe has retired Type 1 fonts. True? If so, why are Type 1 fonts still in the distribution? Are existing Type 1 fonts in

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-21 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 3/20/22 11:59 PM, Amit wrote: Older people and first time users (who don't have much prior experience of using computers and also who don't know about different ubuntu flavors) will type something like "download ubuntu" in google search to download ubuntu. When you do this, currently, you wil

Re: Increasing user base of Ubuntu desktop.

2022-03-20 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 3/20/22 8:38 AM, Amit wrote: The current default GUI of Ubuntu desktop is not very user friendly. Would you please be specific about what is missin or wrong that makes Ubuntu desktop "not very use friendly"? What would, in your eyes, improve the desktop experience, particularly for the se

Re: Installers, feature request

2021-07-30 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 7/29/21 9:04 PM, Richard Laager wrote: These days, just use TRIM support. As long as your filesystem isn't 100% full, this is going to achieve the same (actually better) effect. With either approach, the drive will have plenty of unused space for wear leveling. With TRIM, the drive also knows

Installers, feature request

2021-07-29 Thread Stephen Satchell
When an installer is instructed to use the full disk to install Ubuntu, I would request that two checkboxes be provided. These checkboxes would specify that the installer not use the entire disk; one would be for 10%, the other for 25%. This option is intended for installations onto Solid Sta