Jacob Greenstein
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Upgraded to 17.04 yesterday. The upgrade went smoothly. So far I encountered two issues:
1. kile is not using the new okularpart library (apparently, it is still using qt4, or that dependency was not checked); for that reason embedded viewer is not working, which is rather inconvenient for me.
2. Mouse pointer behaves in a very strange way, as if it has a small square attached to it which it drags along and which covers a portion of the screen next to the pointer. This is a nuisance: when typing, you need to make sure that the pointer is well out of your way; scrolling becomes complicated, as this square covers a part of the scrolling bar. On top of that, from time to time it starts flickering for no obvious reason.
The link below is to a screenshot on which the square is clearly visible.
https://goo.gl/photos/ejryyN4xTtDAM1fo7
3.Some icons in some applications are a way too large (for example, in kmail).
1. kile is not using the new okularpart library (apparently, it is still using qt4, or that dependency was not checked); for that reason embedded viewer is not working, which is rather inconvenient for me.
2. Mouse pointer behaves in a very strange way, as if it has a small square attached to it which it drags along and which covers a portion of the screen next to the pointer. This is a nuisance: when typing, you need to make sure that the pointer is well out of your way; scrolling becomes complicated, as this square covers a part of the scrolling bar. On top of that, from time to time it starts flickering for no obvious reason.
The link below is to a screenshot on which the square is clearly visible.
https://goo.gl/photos/ejryyN4xTtDAM1fo7
3.Some icons in some applications are a way too large (for example, in kmail).
Dear Colleagues:
I have listened carefully in recent weeks as many of you expressed dissatisfaction on a wide range of issues. I have come to recognize that we have significant differences in opinion on several fundamental issues, including the role of the Provost in a large research university. These differences have made it difficult to achieve the level of unity that I believe we need to move forward on our ambitious agenda.
Therefore, I have informed Chancellor Wilcox that I intend to step down as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the end of the current academic year, and then to take up my duties as a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy.
It has been a privilege to serve as Provost, and I am very proud of what we have accomplished. In the two-plus years I have been at UCR, every major indicator of our success is up dramatically: applications, graduation rates, research funding, and the diversity of our senior administration and our newly hired faculty.
UCR is changing the conversation in higher education, and I look forward to continuing to be a part of its success.
Sincerely,
Paul D’Anieri
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
I have listened carefully in recent weeks as many of you expressed dissatisfaction on a wide range of issues. I have come to recognize that we have significant differences in opinion on several fundamental issues, including the role of the Provost in a large research university. These differences have made it difficult to achieve the level of unity that I believe we need to move forward on our ambitious agenda.
Therefore, I have informed Chancellor Wilcox that I intend to step down as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the end of the current academic year, and then to take up my duties as a faculty member in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy.
It has been a privilege to serve as Provost, and I am very proud of what we have accomplished. In the two-plus years I have been at UCR, every major indicator of our success is up dramatically: applications, graduation rates, research funding, and the diversity of our senior administration and our newly hired faculty.
UCR is changing the conversation in higher education, and I look forward to continuing to be a part of its success.
Sincerely,
Paul D’Anieri
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
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After a recent upgrade from Fedora 21 to Fedora 22 (both are mostly used with KDE) I encountered a rather unusual bug. If I put my laptop to sleep while Chrome is the top window, after I wake it up the screen behaves in a very strange way: it is blinking, some weird geometric forms appear and generally it is impossible to see anything or do anything that requires seeing what you are doing; after switching to a text terminal and kill all Chrome processes, things return to normal.
It is not clear where the bug originates. Chrome is the only application so far that exhibits such a behavior; on the other hand, I am using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, so it might be the combination of the 3 of them - Chrome (43.0.2357.81, 64 bit), the new Plasma and NVIDIA (346.72)
It is not clear where the bug originates. Chrome is the only application so far that exhibits such a behavior; on the other hand, I am using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, so it might be the combination of the 3 of them - Chrome (43.0.2357.81, 64 bit), the new Plasma and NVIDIA (346.72)
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