reset now deprecated, man page not updated

Bug #1059275 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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This bug affects 21 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Stephen M. Webb
7.2
Fix Released
Medium
Stephen M. Webb
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Stephen M. Webb
Trusty
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

[ Impact ]

The manpage for the "unity" command reflects the actual available options.

[ Test Case ]

Run "man unity". It should not say "--reset" is a valid command-line switch (option).

[ Regression Potential ]

This is a change to the man page. I suppose it might be a regression if the man page still does not match the option available in the 'unity' command. Not terribly serious.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
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Andrea (agasp68) wrote :

Hello. I had the same problem and I fixed it using Ubuntu Tweak/Tweaks/Desktop/Desktop Icons. Unticked it (Show Desktop Icons), ticked it again and the icons appeared again

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Andrea (agasp68) wrote :

Ignore my previous post. Icons are back but update manager does not work and it gives me this message

"Can't guess meta-package

Your system does not contain a ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop or edubuntu-desktop package and it was not possible to detect which version of Ubuntu you are running.
 Please install one of the packages above first using synaptic or apt-get before proceeding."

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Simplehuman (simplehuman) wrote :

This bug is still actual for Utopic

tags: added: trusty utopic
tags: added: manpage
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 7.3.2
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Alex Burdu (alex.burdu) wrote :

Having this same problem on Ubuntu 14.04 running inside VirtualBox. Somehow the Unity bars are not shown. I tried compiz --replace and i get "compiz (core) - Error: Plugin 'composite' not loaded."
Then I tried "$ sudo unity --reset
ERROR: the reset option is now deprecated"

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.3.1+14.10.20140904-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (7.3.1+14.10.20140904-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Adjust upstart dependency to upstart-bin. (LP: #1351306)

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * When Show Desktop is active, it will set the tooltip icon as
    "Restore Windows". This is per workspace. So each time show_destop
    bool is updated in PluginAdapter, the Show Desktop icon will update
    its tooltip if needed. (LP: #1237132)
  * Use CONFIG instead of CACHE to store the first_run.stamp

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * update the unity manpage (LP: #1059275)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Share lockscreen password entry between screens. (LP: #1308540)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * IconRenderer: draw count texture at proper scaling, built by
    LauncherIcon (LP: #1353070)
  * LauncherIcon: make the Icon count width depending on the text value
    width (LP: #796527)
  * Lockscreen: scale the UI elements based on current monitor scaling
    (LP: #1292218)
  * SwitcherView: set progress on icon render args (LP: #1361679)
  * SearchBar, ActionButtons, IconRenderer: include the font scaling
    when scaling textual items
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:12:54 +0000

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
milestone: 7.3.2 → 7.3.1
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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Attached debdiff between trusty-updates and SRU.

description: updated
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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Alan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (7.2.4+14.04.20141217-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Share lockscreen password between screens (lp: #1308540)
  * Allow a distinct pam config file for greeter and for lock-screen.
    (lp: #1305440)
  * Add an arrow activator in the lockscreen. (lp: #1332509)
  * Make sure GetScreenGeometry returns the correct value (lp: #1374785).
  * unmapped all windows prior to shutdown (lp: #1370017) (lp: #1375271)

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * fix tooltip for the "Show Desktop / Restore Windows" icon in the Alt-Tab
    switcher (lp: #1237132)
  * Use CONFIG instead of CACHE to store the first_run.stamp (lp: #1328677)

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * LayoutSystem: make sure the exposed open windows are displayed in the
    preserved order (lp: #1349281).

  [ handsome_feng ]
  * added support for getting the distro name from /etc/os-release
    (lp: #1329584)

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * When grabbing keys, try prefixing "XF86" if the key isn't found. GNOME
    gives us unprefixed keys sometimes (lp: #1302885).

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * make the Launcher icon count badge width depend on the text value width
    and scaling (lp: #1353070) (lp: #1354498) (lp: #796527) (lp: #1066971)
    (lp: #1361713)
  * DecoratedWindow: make edges independent from borders and properly update
    them on actions change (lp: #1276177), (lp: #1299741), (lp: #1301776),
    (lp: #1324104), (lp: #1364225), (lp: #1373695)
  * Lockscreen: scale the UI elements based on current monitor scaling
    (lp: #1292218)
  * UnityScreen: when filtering out windows in spread, make sure we unscale
    them (lp: #1316265).
  * PanelMenuView: ensure that proper window tiles and buttons are shown at
    the right place (lp: #1384910) (lp: #1384958) (lp: #1385285)
  * SearchBar, ActionButtons, IconRenderer: include the font scaling when
    scaling textual items (lp: #1332947) (lp: #1361751) (lp: #1362162)
    (lp: #1362346).
  * ApplicationLauncherIcon: make sure we close the dash if DnD is accepted
    and the application window is about to be focused (lp: #1350331).
  * SwitcherView: set progress on icon render args (lp: #1361679).
  * LockScreenController: wait for the primary shield to get the grab
    before setting the session locked (lp: #1368427) (lp: #1371764).
  * added decorations to windows in non-focused workspaces (lp: #1383468)

  [ Stephen M. Webb ]
  * updated the unity(1) manpage to match the actual command (lp: #1059275)
  * bumped package version to match upstream

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * Preparing for unity 7.2.4
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:52:10 +0000

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for unity has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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