Two problems with UbuntuMATE 19-10 - mouseover and shotwell

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, 15:05 Bret Busby, <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> On both of my UbuntuMATE 19.10 installations, the mouseover does not
> work. On previous version numbers, a mouseover would cause to be
> displayed, a description of the item, and. now, especially with new
> and unknown icons in the panel, I can not find what are they.
>
> Also, whilst I had no problems using shotwell in 16.04.x, and earlier
> LTS versions, in 19.10, it does not work. Shotwell in 19.10, tells me
> that a camera is tied up by another application, which needs to be
> shut down. But, using the file manager caja, I can access the images
> in the camera, and copy them to the computer, as long as I do it
> before shotwell or whatever, severs the connection with the camera,
> which then is no longer mounted.
>

On standard Ubuntu you just have to unmount the camera in Nautilus, then
shotwell can access it.

I have not noticed anything odd about the icons but I am not at my computer
so can't look to see if I understand what you are saying.


Colin


> But, then, connecting the camera to a 16.04.6 installation, works
> okay, and shotwell on the 16.04 installation, works fine, as it always
> has so done, in my experience (before 19.10_).
>
> I do not know whether these two problems, are problems of Ubuntu
> v19.10, or, problems of new versions of the individual packages (the
> mouse driver and shotwell).
>
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