On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:31 +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> System->Preferences->Sound->Sounds->Enable Software Mixing
Exactly
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On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 21:51 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> the comments in their explain how to make it start. I don't know
> if you need to do anything else.
The comment also explains why you shouldn't start it from there :) See
the other replies about running the daemon per-user from the Gnome
pre
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 00:27 +, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> The only sounds I hear are at GDM login screen and when I do the
> hardware
> test.
>
> Otherwise, nothing, nada, zilch.
Is System > Preferences > Sound > tab Sounds > Enable Software Mixing
checked?
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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:55 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> Your idea would mean going around having to delete a bunch of
> temporary files that were autogenerated.
When closing the file, the editor could ask whether to keep the file. It
already asks whether it should be saved, anyway.
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On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 02:50 -0400, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
> Sound quite similar to rsnapshot... http://www.rsnapshot.org/
The underlying system, yes. The UI, um, no :)
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On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 21:14 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> but there is nothing inherently defective with the
> current behavior.
I'd agree for any other fs, but the only reason you would use an ntfs
partition is because you want to read this in windows. Thus it makes
little sense to allow crea
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 00:50 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Doesn't wubi install Ubuntu into an existing Windows partition?
Exactly. And then Ubuntu will happily let you create files that you
can't read in Windows. It's weird.
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On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:24 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> FAT is a defacto standard for portable storage devices.
Not true anymore, the external disks I have seen that have > 300 GB came
with NTFS. Anyway, external disks may be a different topic altogether,
but what about the Windows system par
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 23:21 +0200, Thomas Novin wrote:
> Nope, I haven't. But is the bug in VMWare/VirtualBox (unable to handle
> the new kernel) or is it some regression in kernel 2.6.25?
Was there a 2.6.25? I tracked Intrepid since before the Alpha, and only
have 2.6.24-16, 2.6.24-18, and 2.6.26
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:14 +0200, Thomas Novin wrote:
> It seems your installation has started on 2.6.24 and then been
> upgraded.
Yup, I installed Hardy and upgraded. At the time there were no installer
images yet.
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On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 10:15 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> The main point is that it is possible
> (and easy) to install Firefox 3 on Windows XP (released 2001), while
> try to install Firefox 3 on Dapper (released 2006).
FWIW: download from firefox.com, unpack, run installer. Granted, it is
no
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 18:14 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> FWIW: download from firefox.com
<- nothing
As was pointed out to me, FF3 needs gtk+ 2.10, which is not in Dapper.
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Hi,
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
For the upgrade Dapper -> Hardy, it recommends either "update-manager
-d" or "do-release-upgrade -d". However, in both cases the -d switch
checks for the next development release, which seems to me not to be
Hardy.
There just was a case on the -users
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 01:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> From what I see, the announcements and warnings that
> were posted had the intended, and expected, effect.
If I may chime in. Next time there is a serious problem it would be a
good idea to also include the ubuntu-users list in the announc
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 07:06 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> If you have to educate people even after they looked for some
> feature, there's something wrong. Perhaps the feature set of apt &
> friends is richer than it is useful?
Since the OP targeted his suggestion to "The user who does a cli-o
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:31 +0530, shirish wrote:
> had to rename it to cruft-remover-gtk due
> to trademark related names.
Non-technical users have absolutely no idea what "cruft" means.
Wikipedia correctly says, "Cruft is computing jargon"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft
I was so used to the
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 02:21 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> I thought cruft was used interchangeably with crud when talking about
> real-life things.
I thought it is a known word too, but US-natives called me to ask what I
was talking about.
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Hi,
today a number of updates were pulled, aptitude log excerpt follows
below. They included gnome-settings-daemon and
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-8-generic, both from intrepid-proposed.
I suppose one of them made the hardware buttons on my laptop (hp nc6440)
non-functional, though I only e
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:02 +1100, William Grant wrote:
>
> I strongly doubt it. My changes there didn't touch hotkeys.
Thanks everyone. Another set of updates arrived before I could figure
out what was going on, and now everything is fine again.
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On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 00:07 +, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> There is an huge risk in running with proposed.
Well, "huge" might be overstating it a little bit
> Those who run with them enable, should be also tracking them on LP.
Thanks for the heads-up, but I know what I am doing :) I run p
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 16:19 +, Andrew Sayers wrote:
> To address the actual point, security of files on removable media can
> only be handled at the hardware level, by making sure bad people don't
> steal your disks. Bad guys can be assumed to have root access to at
> least one box that they c
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:16 -0500, Mike Jones wrote:
> I have absolutely no desire to C-A-F#, find the program that is giving
> me fits, and then kill it in the hopes it fixes my issue.
You rather lose your complete X session along with all data in open
files than switching to a virtual console an
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 16:18 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> I see, but did I miss the thread or why such big changes are not
> publicized in early stages?
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty ?
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On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 16:52 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>
> And *YOU* are missing the point that Ctrl+Alt+Delete on Ubuntu
> *already* does what Windows does when you hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete but are
> actually already logged in: it asks if you want to log out.
Nope it does not. The windows *kernel
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:15 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> I don't think I am getting the point
Please excuse my jumping in (it's probably an accident that I am again
picking you :) but I think the point is that if a developer asks you
(not) to do something, you (don't) do it.
I think Colin exp
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 17:33 -0600, Ryan Hayle wrote:
> which is
> evident in this screenshot:
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23152448/10pt.jpg
Nothing at all is evident in screenshots that are saved as jpg to show
font issues. It's impossible to distinguish font rendering compression
artefact
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 00:45 +0100, Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
> They are png. I renamed them to jpg by mistake
Oh, goody then :)
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On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 23:38 +, Matt Wheeler wrote:
> Looking at the source for gconf2 it looks like the xml backend is
> abstracted quite neatly from the main body of the code so perhaps it
> wouldn't be too difficult to create an experimental sqlite/somedb
> backend and compare performance.
I
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 07:34 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> today I noticed that the consistency problem between the default
> ubuntu start page, which is a custom google search, and the search box
> at the top-right of firefox, has finally been solved. Now also the
> search box is
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 18:26 +0100, paul.mcma...@met.police.uk wrote:
> There is absolutely no way I would have figured that out in under a
> week.
> The Ubuntu Community is great, especially with questions such as this,
> but for the average user (with limited technical knowledge or
> understandin
Hi all,
If someone feels so inclined I would be happy if I could get an
explanation about a bug resolution, to improve my understanding of what
to expect from the new Karmic boot process. Thanks in advance.
In response to the karmic beta announcement [1] which asked for bugs to
be filed regarding
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:12 -0500, Robbie Williamson wrote:
> Apologies for this. While the systems startup text is normal, e.g. the
> fsck stuff, the kernel messages are not, e.g. the usb stuff. I've dup'd
> this to bug 438335.
Thanks. I should have found and read this myself, sorry for tha
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 14:50 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Do you mean that I have a possibly remote possibility of convincing the
> ubuntu developers to ship pidgin instead of empathy? Do I need to write
> a scientific paper on that, or is it possible that someone actually does
> an unbiased co
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 03:55 +0200, Remco wrote:
> I'm not saying that Ubuntu shouldn't be accessible by default. I think
> that would be a great idea. But accessibility settings have a strong
> impact on the user experience. One size certainly doesn't fit all. And
> this particular accessibility se
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:23 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> I'm saying that Applications and
> Places have icons but System doesn't and that looks unfinished and not
> consistent.
I think that's the bug, because I have them in all three menus.
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On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 10:59 +0200, Hein Hanssen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When using USB memory sticks, I would expect to have an right click menu
> showing a format option. This is not the case (well, at least on the
> Gnome desktop, I don't know about KDE).
I have the option in Karmic's Gnome, for US
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 07:14 +, Alex Cockell wrote:
> For example - is new hardware support regularly SRU'd back into the
> current LTS release, after decent QA?
Yes for kernel modules:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/linux-backports-modules-hardy
I'm not sure how X.org drivers are handled
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 07:58 +0800, DULMANDAKH Sukhbaatar wrote:
> I have t41 too. But it's working fine with compositing. It has radeon
> 7100 mobile graphics card.
There are many different T41 configurations and some have old Intel
onboard chipsets.
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On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 14:46 +0200, yurik 81 wrote:
> Can you move the line 'gtk-icon-sizes =
> "panel-menu=24,24:gtk-button=16,16"' from the Human theme to
> '/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc'. In this case, these parameters can be overridden
> in '~/.gtkrc-2.0'. Only Human theme force 'gtk-icon-sizes' :(
Now
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 17:03 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> Lets not be too hasty in larting someone for using apt-get instead of
> update-manager or do-release-upgrade.
Agreed, and I seem to remember that I was the one to have pestered Colin
until he wrote this :)
BUT, this implies that the user of a
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 03:31 +0100, Remco wrote:
> Ouch, that's bad. Whether it's true or not doesn't even matter.
The Register is trying to drive visits up. It was bound to happen with
increasing popularity, there is always something to be gained by
shooting down last year's favorite. Nothing new
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 13:48 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
> Remember, Lucid is an LTS release. This will have four big side effects:
>
>- Generally fewer new features (Though rumor of Gnome 3.0,
> and pushing for a 10 sec boot is kinda scary)
Gnome project just announced that 3.0 will be release
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 13:19 +0100, Palle Hellemann wrote:
> I answered: "You just click on the Floppydisk Icon in the Menu bar!"
This is old, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/human-icon-theme/+bug/136584
and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531460
Also, I use Ubuntu 9.10 w
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 08:36 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote:
> please make sure it ends up under my cursor when i drop it
You really should file bugs in launchpad for such things, they will just
be lost on the list. Preferably use ubuntu-bug to report:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
-
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 02:29 +0200, Amahdy wrote:
> I'm wondering why starting from 9.10 the boot loader started to be an
> infinite loop progressbar (like windows always does)??
This was discussed at length during the last few days. Check this thread
in the archives:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archi
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:08 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 02:29 +0200, Amahdy wrote:
> > I'm wondering why starting from 9.10 the boot loader started to be an
> > infinite loop progressbar (like windows always does)??
>
> This was discussed at lengt
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 10:15 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> That exactly demonstates what I meant with "not helpful at
> all".
Markus, this is not the support list for random problems.
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On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:47 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> Having used all these methods to file bugs, I have never been stopped
> from commenting on the bug report before all of the automatic methods
> attached the log files and filled in commentary.
I think the problem is that ubuntu-bug excep
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 02:10 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> With *-20, it won't boot anymore.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/561151
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On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 08:35 -0300, vododo wrote:
> I tried to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 and I had several problems.
> I used the save-upgrade method. Once it was done, GNOME didn't start.
As others have said, upgrading with apt-get or aptitude is not the
recommended method. The recommended method i
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:49 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote:
> How many users actually use Bluetooth headsets with their computers or
> mute their browsers?
>
> I feel that being able to play games without having to edit text files
> or install alternate packages is much important to the average user
> the
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:49 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote:
> End users don't want to have to add PPAs or download .deb files off of
> websites.
These end users don't want constantly changing applications (and bugs)
all the time either, in my experience.
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On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 02:27 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote:
> Skype will work on infinityOS and on any audio system that I propose
> Ubuntu should adopt. Skype works fully on the pure ALSA system
> employed currently by infinityOS as I use it personally.
I did question whether Skype will work on your dist
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 22:05 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> I did question whether Skype will work on your distro,
I did *not* question ..
Sorry.
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As a happy F-Spot user, let me make a few comments.
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 05:07 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> i still get complaints of it being slow and the fact that it requires
> you to import all of your photos into one folder is...beyond words.
(...)
> i remember the last answer i got was
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 10:00 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> Just uncheck the copy photos checkbox when
> importing.
Yes, every time. And never ever forget it.
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On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 17:24 +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
>
> This was a bug in f-spot. But it has been fixed at least since Ubuntu
> 9.04.
How so? It still shows the checkbox in the import dialog and there is
not setting in the preferences. Or do you mean that this checkbox
remembers its state now
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 11:21 -0600, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> We already have several.
That's like saying we have the equivalent of MS Office. We don't. We
have text editors, highly professional systems like LaTeX, and a the
somewhat-adequate OO.org, but neither is really satisfying as a MS
Office
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 17:02 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote:
> Your going to have to grab the source code from launchpad package by
> package[0].
Running "apt-get source " from an Ubuntu system seems much more
convenient, and there should be a way to run or script it so that it
fetches the source for all
On Mo, 2011-04-11 at 18:28 -0400, Jason Todd wrote:
> I LOVE that the launcher only activates when the cursor goes to the
> upper-left corner! Please don't say this has changed. If the launcher
> activates anytime the cursor touches the left margin, it will result
> in endless burdens for everyday
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 01:09 +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
> ~30% less download time
A while ago I read about changing apt/dpkg to allow for the handling of
security updates through binary patches. Does anyone know what came out
of this?
It seems to me that for slower connections, binary patches are t
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:44 +1300, Jonathan Musther wrote:
> I would very much like to hear from somebody on the ext3 team about
> this.
When ext3 was new, I am pretty certain that I have read quotes by
Theodore T'so that he does not recommend turning off the checks. It's
been a long time though,
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 22:17 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> When ext3 was new, I am pretty certain that I have read quotes by
> Theodore T'so that he does not recommend turning off the checks. It's
> been a long time though, and searching now turns up nothing definitive
> f
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 14:09 -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> Can we not just check and never run (auto)fsck when on battery?
But there are definitely people who rarely or never use the laptop while
plugged in. E.g., they may charge overnight, unplug and take the laptop
on the road, replugging in the
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 09:42 -0500, Bryan Haskins wrote:
> This is a designed as something for a new user who just wants to throw
> some files on a disk, burn a DVD for their player, and so on.
AFAICT from the Brasero GUI, it does not create Video DVDs that any
standalone-player can play, just d
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 09:50 +1300, Jonathan Musther wrote:
> One thing I've been thinking would be good for quite some time is
> creating separate / and /home partitions by default.
While a separate /home makes reinstalls easier, how would you know the
size of / the user needs?
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On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 16:41 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Filing bugs is ok, but if you think an issue is generic then
> feel free to bring it up here.
Is suspend/hibernate with laptops using the new proprietary ATi driver
(fglrx) in Hardy expected to work now, or is is still normal to fail?
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 18:28 -0500, David A. Harding wrote:
> F-Spot is inefficent
> and may violate Microsoft's patents.
>
> Ubuntu users deserve beautiful things and they don't deserve to have
> them taken away because we ignored potential patent violations
According to MS, the Linux kernel vio
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 06:53 -0500, Justin Wray wrote:
> True to an extent, but all shell scripts (including bash) will work
> within metashell.
I don't want to get involved in the discussion, but this one caught my
eye. How is it possible for metashell to have "all" shell scripts work
in it. Do
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 15:34 -0400, Jon wrote:
> Now I see that the reference was to being compatible with the server
> OS. I guess I'm still left scratching my head why a server app would
> be included in what I consider to be largely a desktop distro.
>
> Maybe I'm just out to lunch today.
:) E
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:49 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> It's part of why I don't use file managers--I don't get to reclaim
> hard drive space immediately.
This seems to be a radical move when you can also just check the option
"Include a delete command that bypasses the Trash" in Nautilus.
Hi,
is it just me or has something changed in gnome-panel or compiz that
makes all applets violate the implication of Fitt's law [1] that
clickable button areas should extend to the screen edges?
I'm using gnome panel 1:2.21.92-0ubuntu2 as current in Hardy, the screen
effects are on. With this s
Hi,
a couple days ago, suddenly strange characters appeared in all apps when
typing. Shortly before that I accidentally pressed a button combo -
didn't know which.
I figured out that this was caused by SCIM having been triggered by the
combo. The problem is that now it does not go away anymore: i
On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 22:27 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> I can't find a bug report about this, does this only happen to my
> machine?
I ፎኡንድ (ዓዓርግህ)) (argh!) found
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scim/+bug/199030 and will add
to it.
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On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 00:54 +0100, Janne Hyötylä wrote:
> Is there a bug report about it? If not, I suggest that you create one.
I hadn't found one and wanted to inquire on the list whether it's only
me who sees this. But it's funny how I always seem to find an existing
report _after_ posting. Her
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 11:16 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> it is very disturbing
> that it is still not fixed as it violates a basic interaction principle
Reading on in the bug report I see that it was fixed in gutsy and now
reappeared.
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On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 11:20 -0800, Martin Olsson wrote:
> I was going to post a bug about this yesterday. I think CTRL-SPACE is a
> very very bad keyboard shortcut for this. I accidently triggered it 5 or
> 6 sixes when typing an e-mail, before I understood what was going on.
Read the existing b
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 18:32 +, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
>
> I just uninstalled it!! there was no way i couldnt find of removing it
> from the startup.
Read the bug report I linked from the other post, it contains a better
solution
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On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:05 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> I think everybody will agree that making ubuntu work well on tablet
> PCs is a Good Thing for the image of ubuntu itself.
I can only second the importance of tablets nowadays. I work in an
international business consultancy, and out of
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 00:22 +0200, Murat Gunes wrote:
> The "Debugging Sound Problems" page in the wiki [1] can help.
Unfortunately, this is nearly exclusively about Alsa.
FWIW, I had always fine sound with PulseAudio in Hardy until it stopped
on or after the weekend. I have a hard time figuring
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