2010-08-13

gusl: (Default)
2010-08-13 01:38 am
Entry tags:

troubleshooting

* Today I finally went ahead and did 39 critical updates including, I think, the kernel.

* I just upgraded Flash with: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer. This worked, and I can listen to YouTube and use Google Streetview again. Did they choose the same day to stop supporting older versions of Flash?

* GMail on Firefox on Ubuntu has been having trouble attaching files about half the time. It's annoying.

* A few days ago, I lost my taskbar, and had difficulty rebuilding it. I was eventually able to add stuff back with Panel Settings > Add Widgets (thanks in part to Jeff's help). However, I still don't know how to add back the "System Settings > Display" as a widget.

* even Firefox isn't obeying my Compose file anymore: e.g. now it's making ć instead of c-cedilla and '+t produces nothing (it should produce 't). Aaahh!

As we can see, emacs is reading the Compose file (in fact, it's also reading .XCompose, which is a copy of it!):

gusl@gusl-laptop:~/Documents$ strace -e open emacs --nofork |& grep Compose
open("/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose", O_RDONLY) = 6
open("/home/gusl/.XCompose", O_RDONLY)  = 6
open("/home/gusl/.XCompose", O_RDONLY)  = 6
open("/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose", O_RDONLY) = 6
open("/home/gusl/.XCompose", O_RDONLY)  = 6
open("/home/gusl/.XCompose", O_RDONLY)  = 6


and the cedilla works.

But kate and Firefox aren't:
gusl@gusl-laptop:~/Documents$ strace -e open kate --nofork |& grep Compose
gusl@gusl-laptop:~/Documents$ strace -e open firefox --nofork |& grep Compose


and the cedilla doesn't work!

The point is that Firefox used to read it! I thought this was due to being a GTK app.