Public bug reported:
• In my /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose I have about 10'000 lines of
special compose keys defined.
• In my /boot/grub/grub.cfg I have a very complicated special setup for my
various boot configurations, and a 5-sec timout for my EFI-config.
• My /etc/ssh/sshd_confi
Hi Paride
Thanks for your feedback. I'm a bit confused and concerned that a
critical behaviour like this has to be addressed on package level and is
not part of aptitude, but so be it.
I will file individual bug reports against the affected packages when a
configuration file is next overridden i
Making changes to /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose was, at
least for some time, the only way to make keyboard composition work in
Ubuntu, as ~/.XCompose didn't work anymore, and creating a custom
keyboard layout from scratch was not an option (my XCompose contains key
compositions for almo
Public bug reported:
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-55.62-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-55-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.7
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/l
Thanks, this apparently solved the problem.
I had to pin Font DPI down to 96 though, because the proprietary driver
sets DPI must too high, which let to giant letters and a mismatch
between applications respecting the DPI and those using a fixed 96 DPI
anyway.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
As to sshd_config:
I will, when the case arises again.
Unfortunately, I don't use sshd in my boxes on a regular basis and so
often discover only changes that possibly happened a long time ago. I
remember a nasty change from "PasswordAuthentication no" to
"#PasswordAuthentication yes", but honest
As to grub.cfg:
I set GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 in my /etc/default/grub, but the timeout for efi
was reset to 30 on every update. I didn't know that files in
/etc/default/grub.d are supposed to be changed, but I now changed
if [ \$grub_platform = efi ]; then
