-== Oneiric / Precise desktop paper cuts ==
+== Precise desktop paper cuts ==
=== Indicators ===
- # The indicator icon for confifuring the display resolution no longer exists?
+ # The indicator icon for configuring the display resolution no longer exists
* oneiric regression
* confirmed on precise
+ * probably "by design", but... wtf
- # When the control panel is already open but hidden behind other windows or on a different virtual desktop, clicking on "Sound Settings" or "Bluetooth Settings" does not bring it to the foreground, thus confusing users.
+ # When the control panel is open but --hidden behind other windows or-- on a different virtual desktop, clicking on "Sound Settings" or "Bluetooth Settings" does not bring it to the foreground, thus confusing users.
* oneiric regression
* confirmed on precise
- # Why can't the desktop remember that I don't want mirrored displays when I connect my laptop to the docking station?
+ # --Why can't the desktop remember that I don't want mirrored displays when I connect my laptop to the docking station?--
* this bug actually can't be reproduced every time I plug in an external monitor. It's hard to tell if there's an underlying logic.
+ * FIXED in precise or maybe in quantal
- # oneiric regression: When I connect a monitor to the DisplayPort output, sometimes the sound output also switches to it (but sometimes it doesn't, I couldn't figure out why). The sound output setting is buried deep into Control Panel / Sound Settings / Hardware / Profile, so it took me a while to figure out what had happened the first time.
+ # It looks like the HDMI audio output remains selected even when the output gets unplugged. As a result, the laptop does not play sound any more.
+ You can fix the problem by going to Sound Settings and click once on the internal audio output (which is the only output).
- # oneiric regression: (related, but distinct from previous bug) sometimes when I switch on the DisplayPort output I get no sound output at all, no matter how I set the Profile in Sound Settings. The only way to make sound work again is power cycling the external monitor.
+ # oneiric regression: Sometimes when I switch on the HDMI output, the sound also switches to it, but not consistently.
- # oneiric regression: no workspace previews in the panel. There's indicator-workspaces on Launchpad ([[https://launchpad.net/~geod/+archive/ppa-geod]]), but it doesn't start automatically at login.
+ # oneiric regression: We've lost the workspace previews in the panel. There's indicator-workspaces on Launchpad ([[https://launchpad.net/~geod/+archive/ppa-geod]]), but it only shows the current desktop number.
- # oneiric regression: The System Load indicator doesn't start automatically on login.
+ # --oneiric regression: The System Load indicator doesn't start automatically on login--
- # oneiric regression: Tray icons, including the bluetooth icon and the KTorrent icon, sometimes disappears from the panel. The icons can still be seen by opening the unity-2d-panel.
+ # --oneiric regression: Tray icons, including the bluetooth icon and the KTorrent icon, sometimes disappears from the panel. The icons can still be seen by opening the unity-2d-panel.--
+ * FIXED in Precise
# --menus of GTK3 applications appear in the window itself rather than in the Unity panel--
* oneiric regression
* FIXED in oneiric
+ # Displays: sometimes clicking on the second monitor does not select it. After fiddling with it long enough (dragging, clicking, etc) eventually it gets selected.
=== Window management ===
- # Dragging windows around becomes slow and jerky after some time. OpenGL acceleration works fine, it seems like a compiz issue with the intel driver. I can easily reprodiuce this on a Thinkpad X201 (Arrandale), but it's a lot harder to trigger on a X220 (Sandybridge).
+ # --Dragging windows around becomes slow and jerky after some time. OpenGL acceleration works fine, it seems like a compiz issue with the intel driver. I can easily reprodiuce this on a Thinkpad X201 (Arrandale), but it's a lot harder to trigger on a X220 (Sandybridge).--
* oneiric regression
- * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/803943]]
-
- # When switching workspaces, focus can sometimes go to a window hidden behind another full-screen window. Compiz does not seem to remember which window previously had focus in each workspace.
+ * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/770160]]: windows start to move slow after using compiz for some hours
+ * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/773861]]: Moving windows is very laggy with Compiz
+ * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/803943]]: compiz consuming a lot of cpu
+ * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/888039]]: Gradual degradation in desktop performance.
+ * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/891744]]: Dragging windows stutter during and after grid animation
+ * Improved in Precise, but there's still high cpu usage in some cases (see bugs)
+ * FIXED in Quantal and maybe also in Precise
+
+ # --When switching workspaces, focus can go to a window hidden behind another full-screen window. Compiz does not seem to remember which window previously had focus in each workspace.--
* oneiric regression
+ * FIXED in Precise
- # long-time issue, confirmed on precise: When the video mode changes, full-screen windows often get shuffled on different workspaces and don't come back to their original locations when the resolution changes back. This is particularly annoying when plugging/unplugging monitors.
+ # When the video mode changes, full-screen windows get shuffled to different workspaces and don't come back to their original locations when the resolution changes back. This is particularly annoying when plugging/unplugging monitors.
+ * this is a longstanding issue with compiz
+ * confirmed on Precise
# the "Desktop Cube" plugin of Compiz makes the display flicker briefly every time I switch workspace. This happens both with a Thinkpad X201 (Arrandale) and X200s (GM45).
* oneiric regression
* confirmed on precise
- # If I drag an icon around in Nautilus, I can often make Compiz hang. Restarting Unity from the console often cures the problem.
+ # --If I drag an icon around in Nautilus, I can often make Compiz hang after a while. Restarting Unity from the console often cures the problem.--
+ * FIXED in Precise
# While dragging icons or other objects, I can only switch workspaces by going to the left edge. It doesn't work on the right. This happens with both "Desktop Wall" and "Desktop Cube".
+ * In precise, desktop switching works on both edges, but the screen flickers awfully
+
+ # You can't abort icon dragging with the ESC key
+ * Oneiric regression
+ * Confirmed on Precise
+ # When dragging a window across the edge to another desktop, the mouse cursor jumps to the left or to the right, outside of the window title.--
+ * Confirmed on Precise
=== Session management ===
- # confirmed on precise: There's no longer a way to save the X session? Before, it was working only for some applications, but it was still a big time saver after a reboot.
+ # There's no longer a way to save the X session? Before it was working only for some applications, but it was still a big time saver after a reboot.
* oneiric regression
+ * confirmed on precise
- # Switch User Account locks my current session and then doesn't bring up the login screen. (I'm running gdm, not lightdm)
+ # --Switch User Account locks my current session and then doesn't bring up the login screen. (I'm running gdm, not lightdm)--
* oneiric regression
+ * works with lightdm
=== Unity Dock ===
* oneiric regression
* fixed in precise
- # There's a "Workspace Switcher" on the dock that doesn't do anything when I click on it. It's totally dead and I cannot even remove it. I have 4 virtual desktops and the Desktop Wall plugin is enabled.
+ # --There's a dead "Workspace Switcher" icon on the dock that doesn't do anything when I click on it and I cannot even remove it from the dock--
+ * It turns out that this icon works only if you enable Expo in compiz. Ok, but why can't I get rid of it??
+ * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/921271
# --There's a trashcan icon on my dock that brings up a new tab in browser--
* fixed in oneiric
- # Notification OSDs won't go away by clicking on them. They just become more transparent when hovering the mouse. I can reproduce it every time by typing "notify-send foo" in a terminal.
+ # --Notification OSDs won't go away by clicking on them. They just become more transparent when hovering the mouse. I can reproduce it every time by typing "notify-send foo" in a terminal--
* long-time issue
* confirmed in precise
+ * NOTABUG: works this way by design :-(
+ * Workaround: uninstall notify-osd and install notification-daemon
# --I can't configure the key to switch focus to the launcher to Super alone. I had to resort to Super-space, which is not comfortable for me--
* fixed in oneiric
- # If I edit preferences in ccsm, sometimes Unity does not pick them up until restarted.
+ # --If I edit preferences in ccsm, sometimes Unity does not pick them up until restarted--
+ * I haven't seen this in a while, it's probably fixed
+ # When I enable or disable a plugin in ccsm, sometimes compiz hangs. If I kill it, it takes down the whole X server
+ * See: http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/Xorg-crashed-on-compiz-close.0.log
+ * Confirmed on Precise
=== Applications ===
- # The Gnome Control Center (aka System Settings) often closes when clicking on icons. I suspect it's simply crashing.
+ # --The Gnome Control Center (aka System Settings) often closes when clicking on icons. I suspect it's simply crashing.--
* oneiric regression
+ * Fixed in Precise
- # Evolution 3: the (webkit based) mail preview pane sometimes "crashes". It remains blank or garbled and there's no way to restore it until I restart the application.
+ # --Evolution 3: the (webkit based) mail preview pane sometimes "crashes". It remains blank or garbled and there's no way to restore it until I restart the application.--
+ * Fixed in Precise
- # Evolution 3: forgets my Google account password every time I start it. Works with other IMAP accounts.
+ # --Evolution 3: forgets my Google account password every time I start it. Works with other IMAP accounts.--
+ * Fixed in Precise
- # Evolution 3: my Google calendars no longer show up (no errors are displayed). The CalDAV calendars still work.
+ # --Evolution 3: my Google calendars no longer show up (no errors are displayed). The CalDAV calendars still work.--
+ * Fixed in Precise
- # Evolution 3: sometimes Evolution just stops polling for email until I restart it
+ # --Evolution 3: sometimes Evolution just stops polling for email until I restart it--
+ * Fixed in Precise
- # Evolution 3: sometimes Evolution hangs during shutdown until I kill it from the terminal
+ # Evolution 3: sometimes Evolution hangs on shutdown until I kill it from the terminal
- # Evolution 3: this might sound like a rant, but due to many other stability issues with Evolution, my email experience has become really miserable in Oneiric.
+ # --Evolution 3: this might sound like a rant, but due to many other stability issues with Evolution, my email experience has become really miserable in Oneiric.--
+ * Decent in Precise
=== Hardware support ===
- # Wifi becomes incredibly slow after a few minutes of use (like, 1-2kb/s). This is a an Intel iwlagn 6250. I tried all kernels all the way to 3.2 with no improvement. The only workaround I could find is disabling 802.11n support.
- * Likely this bug: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131914553920614&w=2
+ # When I connect a monitor to the DisplayPort output, sometimes the sound output also switches to it (but sometimes it doesn't, I couldn't figure out why). The sound output setting is buried deep into Control Panel / Sound Settings / Hardware / Profile, so it took me a while to figure out what had happened the first time.
+ * oneiric regression
+ # HDMI/DisplayPort sound no longer works
+ * Probably this kernel 3.2 regression: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/973704
+ * Fixed in upstream kernel 3.4
+
+ # If I unplug AC while the lid is closed, the laptop does not automatically suspend. This is very dangerous because you can accidentally store your laptop in a backpack while it's still running.
+ * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/886629
+
+ # --Wifi becomes incredibly slow after a few minutes of use (like, 1-2kb/s). This is a an Intel iwlagn 6250. I tried all kernels all the way to 3.2 with no improvement. The only workaround I could find is disabling 802.11n support.--
+ * Likely this bug: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131914553920614&w=2
+ * Fixed in precise
+
# --My jWin Bluetooth headphones stop working when there's no sound output for about 30 seconds. After this, all applications that try to play some sound will hang until I disconnect the bluetooth device--
* Fixed in kernel 3.2
=== Upgrade issues ===
- # After upgrading to Oneiric, the machine became unbootable due to an incomplete /run migration. There's a bug in Launchpad, but it's not getting any attention.
+ # --After upgrading to Oneiric, the machine became unbootable due to an incomplete /run migration. There's a bug in Launchpad, but it's not getting any attention.--
* breaks boot
+ * Maybe fixed in Precise
# My home is dm-crypt encrypted, alghough not with luks. After upgrading to Oneiric, it was no longer being mounted because mount thought it was of type minixfs. WTF?? To fix this, I had to pass '-n nominix' to blkid in /lib/cryptsetup/checks/un_blkid. This filtering was present in an earlier version of cryptsetup, but it has been removed in 2:1.1.3-1.
* breaks boot
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/613273
* FIXED: incomplete /run migration
- # Apport no longer starts when something crashes in my unity session. It works for newly created users.
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+ # Apport no longer starts when something crashes in my unity session. It works for newly created users.
+
+ # --Tool tips have become black on black (hence, unreadable)--
+ * Confirmed on Precise
+ * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk2-engines/+bug/144968
+ * I fixed this myself by editing sutff in dconf, but... wtf ubuntu!
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