| ball | How do I report a minor bug in Ubuntu? | 22:15 |
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| davef | here I guess? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs | 22:25 |
| ball | Thanks | 22:36 |
| ball | Well that's a Lunchpad account created. | 22:50 |
| daftykins | i think there was the command "ubuntu-bug" also | 22:51 |
| ball | That didn't work because it wants a package name and xcalc isn't a package. | 22:52 |
| daftykins | so file against x11-apps ? | 22:53 |
| daftykins | judging by the search result i just had from apt-cache | 22:54 |
| ball | Thanks | 22:54 |
| ball | I don't know apt-cache | 22:54 |
| daftykins | so after an apt update, "apt-cache search x" lets you search for programs with keywords if you don't know the package name yet | 22:54 |
| ball | Agh! Trying to report one bug reveals an unrelated one. | 22:59 |
| daftykins | it does o0 | 22:59 |
| ball | Though in fairness it's partly a limitation of the laptop I'm using (doesn't have a middle mouse button on the trackpad) | 22:59 |
| ball | ...and I don't see an option to simulate a middle mouse button by clicking L and R at the same time. | 23:00 |
| ball | ...which means I can't paste the error message into the Further information box | 23:00 |
| daftykins | shift+insert | 23:00 |
| daftykins | or just ctrl+v like usual depending | 23:01 |
| ball | It pastes /something/ but not the text | 23:01 |
| ball | unless it's white-on-white. | 23:01 |
| ball | I'll just retype it. | 23:02 |
| penguin42 | ball: What are you seeing? | 23:02 |
| penguin42 | ball: I'd say your chances of getting a bug fixed in xcalc by reporting it in ubuntu are smaller than the precision representable in xcalc | 23:03 |
| daftykins | :D | 23:04 |
| ball | I submitted it. | 23:04 |
| daftykins | i see you and i raise you "any bug at all" | 23:04 |
| penguin42 | ball: Link? | 23:04 |
| ball | Can't paste the link ;-) | 23:05 |
| ball | Oh hang on, this is from an X app rather than terminal, so https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x11-apps/+bug/2049321 | 23:05 |
| -lubotu:#ubuntu-uk- Launchpad bug 2049321 in x11-apps (Ubuntu) "xcalc needs a font" [Undecided, New] | 23:05 | |
| ball | I done made me a bug report. | 23:07 |
| penguin42 | oh, hmm, that probably is an ubuntu packaging error; I mean it's probably a missing dependency on a font package | 23:07 |
| ball | If I make one, does that mean I have to fix someone else's? ;-) | 23:26 |
| penguin42 | ball: Can I suggest installing xfonts-100dpi or xfonts-75dpi | 23:45 |
| ball | I can try it... | 23:46 |
| penguin42 | you may need to restart X | 23:48 |
| ball | Hmm... back shortly... | 23:48 |
| ball | That did it. | 23:51 |
| penguin42 | excellent | 23:52 |
| penguin42 | ball: Please add a comment to your bug that it fixed it, and so it's probably a missing dependency | 23:52 |
| daftykins | did you do some kind of minimalist install that avoided some package deps, or is it really just a mistake on the part of the install? | 23:52 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: I'm wondering if they don't bother with the bitmap fonts? | 23:52 |
| daftykins | hmm beyond my experience level honestly | 23:53 |
| ball | I probably did choose "minimal" so that I could add just the packages that I need. | 23:53 |
| ball | Odd that it would include xcalc but not the fonts it needs though. | 23:54 |
| daftykins | i'd probably test in a VM going both routes, i would have thought even the minimal option has the complete Xorg | 23:54 |
| ball | I don't think I have anything that can run Linux VMs. | 23:55 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Those bits are pretty prehistoric now | 23:55 |
| daftykins | ja | 23:55 |
| daftykins | ball: do you like it for being leaner and quicker to start? i think i read ages ago the bundled calculator got snap-ified | 23:56 |
| daftykins | i don't use desktop ubuntu so have no idea | 23:56 |
| ball | daftykins: I can't compare it with the full version because I haven't tried that in recent years. | 23:57 |
| daftykins | are we talking the calculator app or the full OS install now? 'cause testing in a VM would verify the latter | 23:58 |
| ball | I don't think I have anything that can run Linux VMs. | 23:58 |
| ball | (the full OS) | 23:59 |
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