[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1292360] Re: On reopening an odt file, random paragraphs revert to "Default Style" paragraph style

2014-03-15 Thread joehill
The first paragraph in this was saved as "Title-lead" paragraph style. I exported it to PDF (in which it maintained this style), closed it, then opened it, and now it looks like this, the first paragraph having changed to "Default Style". (Strangely, a header and footer also seem to have been added

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1292360] [NEW] On reopening an odt file, random paragraphs revert to "Default Style" paragraph style

2014-03-13 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: Since installing the most recent PPA version of LibreOffice writer in Saucy, I find that whenever I close and then reopen an odt file, one or more random paragraphs have been changed from whatever style they were ("Text Body", "Heading 2," etc.) to "Default Style." Each time I

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown() LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2014-01-12 Thread joehill
Thanks for following up. I've updated to the PPA version of libreoffice (1:4.1.4~rc2-0ubuntu1~saucy1~ppa1). I'll report back if the problem happens again. I'm not sure I will locate a file that consistently demonstrates the problem--it has happened with a range of short and long text documents and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 567545] Re: Xorg crashes and restarts in low graphics mode

2014-01-05 Thread joehill
Thanks for following up. I haven't had this issue with the past few releases. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567545 Title: Xorg crashes and restarts in low graphic

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown() LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2013-11-15 Thread joehill
I should add that I reported essentially the same problem back in 2008 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/190768) with openoffice.org and the problem is the same in libreoffice today, except that the backups tend to be several days rather than several hours older. -- Y

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown() LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2013-11-15 Thread joehill
In response to a question above, I have an updated 13.10 system and the version of Java selected in LibreOffice is 1.8.0-ea (Oracle Java 8). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 190768] Re: openoffice.org restores old backup file after crashing

2013-11-15 Thread joehill
** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to openoffice.org in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190768 Title: openoffice.org restores old backup file after

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown() LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2013-11-15 Thread joehill
This is STILL a problem in the most recent version of LibreOffice. The latest time, a crash wasn't even involved. I cleanly closed LibreOffice and restarted my computer. When I reopend LibreOffice, I got the dialogue asking if I wanted to restore 2 files. I thought that was strange because it hadn'

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 190768] Re: openoffice.org restores old backup file after crashing

2013-11-15 Thread joehill
** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to openoffice.org in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190768 Title: openoffice.org restores old backup file after

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown() LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2013-11-15 Thread joehill
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Status: Expired => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178857 Title: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown()

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1154049] Re: Crashes with GLib-GIO-CRITICAL. UnknownMethod: Method "DescribeAll"

2013-09-17 Thread joehill
Same thing happening here. I can't get any of the parts of seahorse to work with one another at all. Initially, if I just boot up and then try to sign or encrypt a file using the seahorse nautilus plugin, I see the dialogue to choose which key to sign with, but then nothing happens. I check and se

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown() LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2013-07-07 Thread joehill
Sorry, I meant to say libreoffice. As you can see, I reported this bug concerning libreoffice, not openoffice.org. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178857 Title: so

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown() LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2013-07-05 Thread joehill
Any idea whether apport has updated for openoffice in order to complete this bug report? I'm still experiencing this crash quite often, sometimes several times in close succession. Lately it hasn't been restoring an old backup file, so currently my main problem is simply the crash. I had forgotten

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown() LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2013-05-17 Thread joehill
I've continued to experience the same crash at least once and sometimes several times a day, although not always with faulty recovery of old autosaved files. Please note that even though two bugs have been marked as duplicates of this one, they're reporting on two separate problems-- one is a persi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in os::shutdown() LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2013-05-13 Thread joehill
It crashed while a number of files were open and on more than one occasion. On each occasion a different set of files is open with no common denominator. The spreadsheet that caused the earlier crash I reported was students' confidential grades so I can't upload that one. But I'm attaching the file

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1174595] Re: Autosave recovers a backup file several hours old after Calc-related crash

2013-05-11 Thread joehill
I've resubmitted the same bug here through apport after it recurred: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1178857 . The bug is definitely persistent and makes using this version of LibreOffice very risky. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desk

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1178857] Re: LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

2013-05-11 Thread joehill
** Information type changed from Private to Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178857 Title: LibreOffice crashes, then restores a backup file several days old

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1174595] [NEW] Autosave recovers a backup file several hours old after Calc-related crash

2013-04-29 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: I was applying a conditional format to a range including several hundred cells when libreoffice Calc froze and then crashed. When I reopened libreoffice, it asked if I wanted to recover several files. I knew something was wrong because some of the files it asked to recover had

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1131099] Re: Can not edit or add new bookmarks/places to nautilus

2013-04-25 Thread joehill
And Ctrl-D doesn't work for me either since I upgraded to 13.04 today, so apparently the cog is the only way to bookmark (even though it still lists the "Ctrl-D" shortcut next to it). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautil

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1131099] Re: Can not edit or add new bookmarks/places to nautilus

2013-04-25 Thread joehill
Ah, I'm glad to see there is a way (the cog) to add bookmarks. If this is how it is by design, it still seems like a HUGE usability issue that you have to Google around to figure out how to add a bookmark, whereas in the past there were a number of more intuitive ways to do it (drag & drop, right c

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1041916] Re: Touchpad of Fujitsu LifeBook AH532 not recognized

2012-11-24 Thread joehill
I can confirm that Dave Turvene's driver works for me. Thanks, great news! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1041916 Title: Touchpad of Fujitsu LifeB

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 739184] Re: [Libreoffice] Mnemonics do not work in Unity

2012-11-06 Thread joehill
I second that this is extremely important. In Precise, I could just disable lo-menubar, and it made no difference that the menu appeared in the window instead of at the top of the screen. Now I have to choose between using keyboard shortcuts (by uninstalling libreoffice-gnome /libreoffice-gtk) and

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 960076] Re: LibreOffice saves my files, next time I attempt to open them it says they're corrupt

2012-03-20 Thread joehill
I was able to reproduce it with this scaled-down document (I'm not sending the original problem documents because they're unpublished papers that shouldn't be available publicly yet). All documents work on my other computer. I think the problem may be that for some reason Ubuntu has created 1MB /tm

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 960076] [NEW] LibreOffice saves my files, next time I attempt to open them it says they're corrupt

2012-03-20 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: Last night I was working on several files, closed them, then attempted to reopen them and got a dialog saying: << The file 'x.odt' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. LibreOffice can attempt to repair the file. The corrupt document could be the result of document man

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 960076] Re: LibreOffice saves my files, next time I attempt to open them it says they're corrupt

2012-03-20 Thread joehill
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/960076 Title: LibreOffice saves my files, next time I attempt to open them it says they're corrupt Status in “libreoffice” package

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 950794] Re: Personal settings are lost after upgrading to LibreOffice 3.5/Precise

2012-03-17 Thread joehill
So I know we all have opinions about this and I'm not a developer, but in my view it's a big (not invalid) bug to make people lose their settings on upgrading. I guarantee there are lots of users like me who want to use their settings and don't want to spend hours Googling and going through Launchp

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 950794] Re: Personal settings are lost after upgrading to LibreOffice 3.5/Precise

2012-03-17 Thread joehill
I'm not advocating doing it silently. There are many packages that ask on upgrading if the user wants to update configuration or user details to conform with the new standard. It seems it would be relatively easy to have a dialog that says something like "This version of LibreOffice stores user dat

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 878061] Re: Wrong file selected from "Recent Documents" list in file menu

2012-03-16 Thread joehill
Thanks for checking up on this. I'm not sure it's the same problem as the other reported bug, since that had to do with recent files not showing up at all, and this has to do with clicking to open one file and the file next to it in the list opening. But in any case I'm now using 3.5.0 (most recent

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 950794] Re: After upgrading to LibreOffice 3.5/Precise, LibreOffice stops using my personal settings

2012-03-09 Thread joehill
I would think that would be the ideal solution (either copying or moving or symlinking). Otherwise everyone's going to wonder where their settings went and will waste a lot of time trying to figure out how to fix it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packag

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 950794] Re: After upgrading to LibreOffice 3.5/Precise, LibreOffice stops using my personal settings

2012-03-09 Thread joehill
Isn't it still a bug if the only way to upgrade from LibreOffice 3.4 to 3.5 is to do extensive searching on-line about where the config files go? Is this something an average user is supposed to know? I've spent hours doing Google searches for how to migrate. Shouldn't there be some warning when yo

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 950794] Re: After upgrading to LibreOffice 3.5/Precise, LibreOffice stops using my personal settings

2012-03-09 Thread joehill
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/950794 Title: After upgrading to LibreOffice 3.5/Precise, LibreOffice stops using my personal settings Status in “libreoffice” pac

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 950794] [NEW] After upgrading to LibreOffice 3.5/Precise, LibreOffice stops using my personal settings

2012-03-09 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: I just upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.4 and LibreOffice no longer uses any of my personal settings from the previous version (file history, spelling, autocorrect, extensions, etc.). Everything is still in my ~/.libreoffice/3/user/ folder, but LibreOffice simply doesn't seem

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 877803] Re: network-manager forgets wireless password after I cancel connection

2012-02-12 Thread joehill
I would like to add that this bug is actually much more obtrusive than my original comment makes it out to be. 1) Any time network manager has a hard time connecting to a router--even if I'm right next to the router and, for example, the router gets unplugged and rebooted--it seems to think it's

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 760879] Re: "Window" menu is hidden

2011-10-22 Thread joehill
Thanks for the tip to uninstall lo-menubar. This solves the window menu problem and the problem that it's impossible to access menus using Alt-F etc., which was also making LibreOffice unworkable for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 878061] [NEW] Wrong file selected from "Recent Documents" list in file menu

2011-10-19 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: Since upgrading to Oneiric, when I click on a file in the "Recent Documents" list, LibreOffice opens another file adjacent to it in the list about 50% of the time. So there seems to be a discrepancy between the file names displayed in the list and the files those positions poi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 878061] Re: Wrong file selected from "Recent Documents" list in file menu

2011-10-19 Thread joehill
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878061 Title: Wrong file selected from "Recent Documents" list in file menu Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: New Bug de

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 877803] [NEW] network-manager forgets wireless password after I cancel connection

2011-10-18 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: When I am using my netbook in a different room from where the router is and have a weak connection, sometimes network-manager has a hard time connecting and prompts me for a password, with the password field filled with the correct password (although hidden). Normally I hit "c

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 877803] Re: network-manager forgets wireless password after I cancel connection

2011-10-18 Thread joehill
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/877803 Title: network-manager forgets wireless password after I cancel connection Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876558] Re: Libreoffice "Find" window invisible

2011-10-17 Thread joehill
Oh I see, yes there is a tiny "Find Text" box that appears in the upper- right edge of one of my toolbars, but even when I click on the arrow button to expand it, some extra functions are available but still no text box to see what I'm searching for. So this bug seems to go back to a design flaw. T

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876558] Re: Libreoffice "Find" window invisible

2011-10-17 Thread joehill
** Summary changed: - Libreoffice search and replace window invisible + Libreoffice "Find" window invisible -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876558 Title: Libreoffi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876558] Re: Libreoffice search and replace window invisible

2011-10-17 Thread joehill
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876558 Title: Libreoffice search and replace window invisible Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: S

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 876558] [NEW] Libreoffice search and replace window invisible

2011-10-17 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: Since upgrading to oneiric, whenever I press Ctrl-F or click on Edit -> Find in LibreOffice, no dialogue window appears, yet I can still enter a search term (without any visual feedback) and press Enter and LibreOffice will find the first instance of the word. Strangely, "Find

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857312] [NEW] When I restart Firefox with previous tabs, an extra tab opens and tries to connect to a URL composed of random numbers

2011-09-23 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: Whenever I restart Firefox and it opens my tabs from previous sessions, there is almost always an extra tab to the right of all the others with an address like http://111956611/ (this was the last number I got--each time it's different). I have no idea if this is caused by an

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857312] Re: When I restart Firefox with previous tabs, an extra tab opens and tries to connect to a URL composed of random numbers

2011-09-23 Thread joehill
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857312 Title: When I restart Firefox with previous tabs, an extra tab opens and tries to connect to a URL composed of random numbers S

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857237] Re: LibreOffice crashes 100% of time if I leave it for an hour or more

2011-09-23 Thread joehill
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/857237 Title: LibreOffice crashes 100% of time if I leave it for an hour or more Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: New B

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 857237] [NEW] LibreOffice crashes 100% of time if I leave it for an hour or more

2011-09-23 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: For several months now (since Maverick) LibreOffice has crashed consistently every time I have left it unused for an extended period of time, I believe around an hour or more, including if I suspend my computer. LibreOffice will appear to be functioning, but then if I attempt

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 852931] [NEW] No way to open docx files directly from firefox--only option to save allowed

2011-09-17 Thread joehill
Public bug reported: According to the help page on adding download actions (http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing%20file%20types#w_adding- download-actions), if one clicks on a file type that Firefox does not already have an action for, it will ask whether you want to "Open with" an applica

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 852931] Re: No way to open docx files directly from firefox--only option to save allowed

2011-09-17 Thread joehill
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/852931 Title: No way to open docx files directly from firefox--only option to save allowed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Ne