Backlight level save and restore as a init-script / upstart job for laptops

Dear Debian and Ubuntu developers! Let me inform you about the problem. The problem is well described on LaunchPad - see http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1270579 (21 users affected). Here I can repeat myself. I have tested many distros - Arch, OpenSuSe 13.1, Fedora 20, ALT Linux p7, Sabayon, Magei

Re: Backlight level save and restore as a init-script / upstart job for laptops

<http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/relight/>. But I think that init-script approach is better. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Nrbrtx] > > I have tested many distros - Arch, OpenSuSe 13.1, Fedora 20, ALT Linux > p7, > > Sabayon, Mageia 4. > &g

Display backlight level save and restore as a init-script / upstart job for laptops

Dear Ubuntu and Debian developers! I understand that you are very busy, but laptop users have problems with saving and restoring display backlight level in Debian and Ubuntu. Systemd-based distros (Fedora, OpenSuSe, Arch, Sabayon, Mageia) have this functionality out the box (they have systemd-bac

[bug 1270579] On laptops, screen brightness isn't memorized between sessions

There is a bug in Ubuntu upstart - see bug 1270579 . HOW TO REPRODUCE: 1. Boot a laptop. 2. Set a different screen brightness level. 3. Reboot. RESULT: Backlight is not memorized. FIX: Into the "Terminal" application, enter the following lines one by one:

Bug in glib (LP#1214352)

Dear Ubuntu developers! I found that there is a bug in glib package in Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS - see LP#1214352 . This bug breaks very useful and often used feature - opening LibreOffice documents from Samba (SMB/CIFS) network shares. In

Re: Bug in glib (LP#1214352)

tware. With best regards, Ubuntu user, Norbert. On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Nrbrtx wrote: > Dear Ubuntu developers! > > I found that there is a bug in glib package in Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS - see > LP#1214352 > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/1214352&g

Re: Display backlight level save and restore as a init-script / upstart job for laptops

it script <https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nrbrtx/+junk/sysvinit-backlight/files> ). You can install my package from PPA <https://launchpad.net/~nrbrtx/+archive/ubuntu/sysvinit-backlight> with the commands below: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nrbrtx/sysvinit-backlight sudo apt-get update s

Re: Issues with recent security updates?

Hi! On such strange moments I recommend to do fsck -fy of all filesystems, then verify all system files with debsums : 1. sudo apt-get install debsums 2. sudo debsums_init 3. sudo debsums --all --changed 4. collect the

Re: livemix_0.49~rc5-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Dear Peppe M! I think you should report bugs on launchpad ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livemix) with "apport-bug livemix" command. Then you can suggest your patches here and add link to upstream issues. With best regards, Norbert. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Peppe M wrote:

Keyboard layout switching in modern Ubuntus

Dear Ubuntu developers! I have just upgraded my machines from 12.04 to 14.04. After upgrades I discovered that there are some issues with keyboard layout switching. I have two keyboard layouts - English and Russian. I prefer to install GNOME FlashBack session into normal Ubuntu (Unity) flavor. I

Re: Keyboard layout switching in modern Ubuntus

Thank you for replies Ralf, Gunnar, Oliver, Dmitry, Alberto! >On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: >You may want to upgrade further to 16.04 or 17.04 (if this is not a typo). I upgraded my 12.04 to 16.04, not 14.04. It was a typo. I'm sorry. >On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Dm

CVE-2017-1000364 kernel fix brake user-space programs

Dear Ubuntu developers! I can't understand how this happen, but your latest kernel upgrade broke many user-space applications. For me this process was started from Scilab. I can't use it with new kernels (linux-image-3.13.0-121-generic on 14.04; linux-image-4.4.0-81-generic on 16.04). So I report

Re: LibreOffice bug - cannot load calc 5.1.4.2

Dear paul! It seems that you have not installed all updates to your system. What version of LinuxMint do you use? Have you added libreoffice PPA? According to version of libreoffice - 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1 ( https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:5.

Re: Openscap package too outdated

Dear all! As you may remember I tried to get OpenSCAP working on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS since 2014 (see my question on launchpad [Solved in comment 27] How to use openscap on Ubuntu or Debian? ). I have already reported some bugs a

Software installation on modern Ubuntu

Dear Ubuntu developers! I'm using Debian since 3.1 and using Ubuntu since 6.06. So let me write about installing programs. As far I can understand here were two methods of software installation: 1. apt (apt-get), dpkg, aptitude - for advanced users 2. synaptic and Ubuntu software-center - for new

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

et/bugs/1522675> bug 1533554: Duplicate package entries shown when listing by package origin (48 users affected) <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1533554> With best regards, Norbert. On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Nrbrtx wrote on 24/08/17 01:33: >

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

Synaptic (which is powerful, but buggy now) or maybe Muon (from KDE, does not really matter if it works stable). On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 24 August 2017 at 01:33, Nrbrtx wrote: > > Dear Ubuntu developers! > > > > I'm using Debian sin

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

>OK, I see where you are coming from. It never occurred to me that >anyone wanting to install libgtk2.0-dev, or similar, would want to use >a GUI. I assumed everyone used apt for that. Obviously I am wrong. lol :) In other words gnome-software is not a good alternative for software-center. It's a

Re: Software installation on modern Ubuntu

Thank you, Ralf! > To see into what packages software from upstream is >split https://tracker.debian.org/ is helpful. Helpful >is https://packages.ubuntu.com/ in combination with Google. I'm very familiar with this sites and console utilities - apt-get, apt-cache, aptitude, dpkg, apt-file (searche

Firefox ESR package is really needed

Dear Ubuntu developers! For enterprise Ubuntu users Firefox ESR is needed. It does not change too fast and support old "LEGACY" extensions . This problem was discussed a

Re: Firefox ESR package is really needed

aunchpad.net/~ubuntu-archive/+junk/sync-blacklist/revision/588>. > Can you please shine some light on why this change was made? Thanks! > > On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Nrbrtx wrote: > >> Dear Ubuntu developers! >> >> For enterprise Ubuntu users Firefox

Re: Firefox ESR package is really needed

aunchpad.net/~ubuntu-archive/+junk/sync-blacklist/revision/588>. > Can you please shine some light on why this change was made? Thanks! > > On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Nrbrtx wrote: > >> Dear Ubuntu developers! >> >> For enterprise Ubuntu users Firefox

Re: Firefox ESR package is really needed

Thanks to JonathonF - he built latest Firefox ESR 52.4.0. Interested users may download it from PPA https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr . But this is not user-friendly solution. Debian already packaged Firef

It is time to use MATE DE as default desktop on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Dear Ubuntu users and developers! I just installed the newest Ubuntu 17.10 with a new version of GNOME Shell, pretending to be Unity. This release is very important, because it determines the future of the next LTS version - 18.04. I want to share my impressions on 17.10. In short, it's a total n

Re: Firefox ESR package is really needed

ill give it a try to provide some ubuntu-flavoured firefox-esr builds > in https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa which are > meant to be co-installable with firefox and firefox-trunk. > > Rico > > Am 01.10.17 um 23:27 schrieb Nrbrtx: > > Thanks to Jonatho

Re: Install directory therion ubuntu 17.10

Dear Gernot! I do not know what is therion, but it is available in official repository - see https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon= names&keywords=therion . If you need to compile it manually it will be better if you install it with checkinstall (see https://wiki.debian.org/CheckIn

Re: Ubuntu Monthly Update Cadence Proposal

reporting bugs, but I want to make Ubuntu better. So I'll continue (https://bugs.launchpad.net/~nrbrtx). As conclusion I can say the following - if "Monthly Update Cadence Proposal" will help to fix cosmetic (non-security, non-critical) bugs inside (or before) LTS lifecycle, than it

Scilab bugs 1739476 and 1739477 on launchpad

Dear Ubuntu and Debian developers! Please take care on the following bugs in Scilab: - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scilab/+bug/1739476 - Scilab 6.0 launches, shows its window and closes immediately on bionic - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scilab/+bug/1739477 -

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

Dear Bryan and all! Please do not forget about some special hardware configurations such as Thin Clients. For example we use about 50 machines as Fat LTSP clients with Intel Celeron and Intel Atom. Their RAM is limited to 2Gb by hardware. They use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with MATE desktop environment. E