[Bug 1074279] Re: lightdm uses more physical memory than X

2012-11-03 Thread Maria Geller
Decided to use mdm borrowed from mint nadia instead, until lightdm is fixed. Programs that use insane amounts of RAM to their expected usage are prolly broken in other ways too, and can jolly well desist until they behave. Works OK apart from the (common) mistake a lot of Xsession things make, i.e

[Bug 1074279] Re: lightdm uses more physical memory than X

2012-11-02 Thread Maria Geller
Yes this is what I get as well. I was shocked to see MATE using 230M with nothing running. It was quite a bit less in Precise. htop shows lightdm using 31M. Switching to slim and lxdm saved memory, but they are not as useful. Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686 -- You recei

[Bug 967182] Re: Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 and libvdpau1 together cause breakage in firefox and chromium in Precise and Oneiric for nvidia users

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
Good work Marc. Some sites still crash the container with libvdpau1 + flash11.2 , regardless of the settings or even existence of /etc/adobe/mms.cfg tho. So either 11.2 without vdpau, or 11.1 with vdpau is the only viable workaround I've found for nvidia people. Prolly best to stick with 11.1 an

[Bug 967182] Re: Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 and libvdpau1 together cause breakage in firefox and chromium in Precise and Oneiric for nvidia users

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
Those packages are for Oneiric. Where are the links for Precise ? And why did you wait until now to post them ? If you are unable to contribute in any meaningful way, then kindly desist. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 967182] Re: Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 and libvdpau1 together cause breakage in firefox and chromium in Precise and Oneiric for nvidia users

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
Anyone wanting 32-bit i386 debs of the 11.1.102.63 adobe-flashplugin and adobe-flash-properties-gtk can get them here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1oouv75h2v2m8mf http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6gy9864688w59n6 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 967182] Re: Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 and libvdpau1 together cause breakage in firefox and chromium in Precise and Oneiric

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
** Summary changed: - Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 breaks firefox and chromium in Precise and Oneiric + Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 and libvdpau1 together cause breakage in firefox and chromium in Precise and Oneiric ** Description changed: - New update 11.2.202.228 of flash plugin seems incompatibl

[Bug 967182] Re: Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 breaks firefox and chromium in Precise and Oneiric

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
I should have mentioned that anything that uses apt for installation, like apt-get or aptitude or synaptic or even the "software centre" downloads the debs into /var/cache/apt/archives. So all you need do to keep a copy of a package deb is to make a dir to hold your stuff e.g. sudo mkdir -p /usr/l

[Bug 967182] Re: Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 breaks firefox and chromium in Precise and Oneiric

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
@J11 just for future reference, flash is always breaking in lunux so make sure you always keep a copy deb of the last known working version. Manually installing the way you suggest certainly works, but it is a very bad idea. You would be better making a .deb yourself. Or ... you could ditch libvdp

[Bug 968949] Re: Quick filter does nothing

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
Actually quick filter works fine for me. But it searches the descriptions as well as the names. It would be SO much nicer if it just searched the names, like the name "filter" implies. For example "lib" in the quick filter gives me (amongst others), apt- xapian-index, apparently just because it me

[Bug 967182] Re: Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 breaks firefox and chromium in Precise and Oneiric

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
I've discovered if you ditch libvdpau1 it works again. So the conflict seems to be with vdpau. But if you want mplayer or mplayer2 you are out of luck, cos both need libvdpau1 to run, and both have libvdpau1 as a formal dependency. And things like smplayer, gnome-mplayer &etc all depend on mplayer

[Bug 706646] Re: Synaptic prevents apt-get, Software Center from working while Synaptic is open

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
And it is exactly right that two package managers cannot run at once. Otherwise the lists would be inconsistent, never mind the actual state of the system which could be in a highly undesirable "undefined" state. And why anyone would *want* to use something else while synaptic is still open is bey

[Bug 969029] [NEW] Synaptic progress bar takes an age to show

2012-03-30 Thread Maria Geller
Public bug reported: What it says on the tin. The progress bar takes rather too long to appear, and starts part of the way along instead of at the beginning. Otherwise, this is now working pretty well, and Michael should be commended for his diligence and special aptitude. ** Affects: synaptic (

[Bug 960191] Re: Missing Startup Notifications in Precise

2012-03-29 Thread Maria Geller
Er perhaps the affected package(s) needs to be changed. I ran a series of tests (see bug #967189) and the X11 stack under 12.04 seems to be exonerated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/960

[Bug 967189] Re: Changing mouse theme randomly works

2012-03-29 Thread Maria Geller
Well it seems things are not so straightforward after all. I ran a series of tests using the xcursor program I wrote to demonstrate bug #960191 under a vanilla X "desktop" comprising just an xterm, launched with "xinit" rather than "startx". Results of tests: 1. No window manager at all - pointer

[Bug 967189] Re: Changing mouse theme randomly works

2012-03-29 Thread Maria Geller
OK. Since nobody seems that bothered about fixing either this or bug #960191 I guess I'll just have to do it myself. What I am proposing is a series of tests to determine whether xfwm is the culprit or xorg-server- core - because it HAS to be one of those. If icons are not inheriting from their pa

[Bug 967974] Re: Filters sometimes reset to AND when I set OR

2012-03-28 Thread Maria Geller
** Attachment added: "Screenshot - 290312 - 04:57:39.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/967974/+attachment/2958465/+files/Screenshot%20-%20290312%20-%2004%3A57%3A39.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 967974] [NEW] Filters sometimes reset to AND when I set OR

2012-03-28 Thread Maria Geller
Public bug reported: I have a filter for dev packages that reads Package name Includes -dev$ Package name Includes headers and I want OR, but sometimes it just resets without warning to AND. Also the "filters" file has what appear to be strange values for andMode - I thought that was 0 or 1 onl

[Bug 967189] [NEW] Changing icon theme is broken in Precise Xubuntu

2012-03-28 Thread Maria Geller
Public bug reported: Changing icon theme doesn't work properly in Xubuntu Precise. This is from the same error in the X11 stack that caused bug #960191 - windows are not inheriting the icon from the parent. Screenshot attached. My pointer is the white one in the lower half ... even though the bla

[Bug 967189] Re: Changing icon theme is broken in Precise Xubuntu

2012-03-28 Thread Maria Geller
** Attachment added: "Mouse icon theme selector" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/967189/+attachment/2955232/+files/Screenshot%20-%20280312%20-%2015%3A47%3A12.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 967182] [NEW] Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 breaks firefox and chromium in Precise

2012-03-28 Thread Maria Geller
Public bug reported: New update 11.2.202.228 of flash plugin seems incompatible with the Precise X11 stack. Previous version 11.1.102.63 works fine. Symptoms: Total freeze of firefox and chromium. Setup: kernel - 3.2.0-20-generic X - nvidia 295.20 ** Affects: adobe-flashplugin (Ubuntu)

[Bug 960191] Re: Missing Startup Notifications in Precise

2012-03-21 Thread Maria Geller
OK did not know which package or packages were broken. But I think you are right about it being an xorg problem rather than a xfwm4 problem. Very likely to be xserver-xorg-core by the looks of it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 960301] [NEW] PAE Kernel by default in 12.04 is a big mistake

2012-03-20 Thread Maria Geller
Public bug reported: Some people do not want or need PAE kernel and to make it default, is a nuisance. Use cases - 1. Old processor without PAE support means you cannot even install and change the kernel. 2. v86d does not play well with PAE. Plymouth without KMS (e.g. nvidia proprietary) works

[Bug 960250] [NEW] Synaptic doesn't show installed files list for some packages

2012-03-20 Thread Maria Geller
Public bug reported: Precise 12.04 Xubuntu Synaptic 0.75.6 Kernel 3.2.0-19-generic Some packages show "The list of installed files is only available for installed packages" in the Installed Files tab of the Properties window, even though they are installed. There are several examples of this inc

[Bug 960250] Re: Synaptic doesn't show installed files list for some packages

2012-03-20 Thread Maria Geller
** Attachment added: "Screenshot" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/960250/+attachment/2904029/+files/Screenshot%20-%20200312%20-%2014%3A31%3A58.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 960191] [NEW] Missing Startup Notifications in Precise

2012-03-20 Thread Maria Geller
Public bug reported: I noticed that there were no startup notifications in Precise using Xubuntu. So I tried metacity instead of xfwm4, with the same results. Eventually I decided to get the source for xfwm4 and insert trace puts() calls. What I found was that the launchers really were sending me

[Bug 960191] Re: Missing Startup Notifications in Precise

2012-03-20 Thread Maria Geller
** Attachment added: "Busy Cursor Test" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/960191/+attachment/2903632/+files/xcursor.c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/960191 Title: Missing Startup Not