Why is my mouse pointer frozen???
File creation date.
When you use Nautilus to copy multiple things to multiple places, is it just me or does it do all the operations concurrently, slowing them all down as it scrubs back and forth between disk locations?
And why doesn’t it have a Pause button?
And why does every other program have a different file chooser?
Huh. The hacky kludge that Ubuntu used to allow us to run Firefox 3.5 in Jaunty (sorry, I mean “Shiretoko”) has left a redundant folder called firefox.3.0-replaced in my home directory. But don’t worry, it’s only wasting 600 MB of space.
Windows’ directory chooser is better than Gnome’s.
I love how you have to left-click on the PulseAudio control to get the menu to display, while every other icon in the universe uses the right-click. Oh wait, no; I hate that.
I finally got video chat working!
After rebooting into Windows for a few weeks, because Pidgin and Skype don’t do video chat in Linux, I discovered that if you run Empathy (which is shit), you can video chat with people on Gmail. In 2 out of 3 calls, one person can’t see the other, and you have to hang up and try again. It crashes, the video locks up permanently, and while working correctly, it uses 100% of the CPU, but it works!
Take that, capitalist pigs!
Why don’t SSH bookmarks ever work when I try to open them with Gnome Do?
If I edit my Wine menu entry for “Mozilla Firefox” to “Mozilla Firefox Wine”, it remembers the change, but it’s still not displayed in the menu. This is because
Name[en_US]= value in the .desktop file.Name= value, which does not change when you edit it.In Sound Preferences, if you turn the volume down to the bottom, it mutes automatically. Ok. OS X does this, too.
But then if you drag the volume slider back up again… it stays muted.
>:0
Why does the .deb package installer have to ask me for my password every time? Just remember it for several minutes, like every other program does.
Ubuntu: “Your laptop battery is low. I’m going to shut down in 3 minutes.”
Me: “3 minutes?? Isn’t that a bit… last minute?”
*plugs in computer within 10 seconds*
Ubuntu (plugged in, charging the battery, less than 30 seconds after the last warning): “Battery is critically low, shutting down.”
Me: “FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU”
I can’t even play a .wav file in Audacity anymore without it skipping constantly, on a 2 GHz machine with 2 GiB of memory. Works fine in Windows. I find it very hard to believe that anyone has ever used Ubuntu to produce music.
When you switch the “fallback” from one audio output device to another, and then push the hardware volume buttons, it adjusts the new default device’s volume, as it should.
Instead of adjusting relative to the new device’s current volume, though, it starts adjusting at the old device’s previous volume, resulting in a sudden, deafening increase if the previous device was at full volume.
Thanks, guys.
Apparently PulseAudio mixer cannot control the entire volume range of my USB audio interface. alsamixer can, but PulseAudio cannot.
Of course, after increasing the volume with alsamixer and then closing the entire Terminal, my CPU usage starts maxing out. The culprit? alsamixer.