This is a bug fixed version of Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.x. I want to make the Ubuntu Tweak more stable so that I can start the development of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6.
The release notes of Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.10:
- Disable the broken sources and notify the user to make it easy to fix
- Add the Launcher Autohide setting to Compiz (Natty only)
- Fix bug: LP: #695294 No module named simplejson
- Fix bug: LP: #665841 ubuntu tweak crash in Login
What is “Disable the broken sources and notify the user to make it easy to fix”?
Recently I received a lot of bug reports caused by broken sources. It is often a misspelled PPA source.
I don’t know how does it happen, because I’ve never meet this problem. PPA sources are less important then the main sources.list, but it will make the package manager not work.
So, from this version, I add a sources validation feature for Ubuntu Tweak: Every time when you start Ubuntu Tweak, it will check the sources to make sure the package manager is working. If one of the sources is broken, Ubuntu Tweak will disable it, then notify the user with dialog, so user can edit the sources easily.
The dialog will be showed like this when Ubuntu Tweak starts.
In Source Editor, you can see the broken sources has been disabled. So your Ubuntu can still work like normal.
And in Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.10, I also add the option to make the Launcher hide automatically. It will give you a wider screen space.
Because Ubuntu 11.04 Natty is still under development, so the it might be changed in the future. Just for testing.
OK, that’s all. I hope this version will keep your system always work. And I will try to find out what causes the misspelled sources.
Now Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.10 has entered the PPA sources, try to update from here: http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/downloads
Or download the packages from here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+download
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This English is melting my brains! :S
Nah, kidding, I really like this app!
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I am using a lot , very great and very useful apps !
Unfortunately, it stills doesn’t install in Natty, due to Python versioning problems, so all that support for Natty is pretty useless still…
Please download from here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+download
Choose the “Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.10 deb packages for Natty”
This package still doesn’t work for me in natty.
Thanks for your confirmation.
I will try to work on it.
this looks cool and all but i tyred to download it from ubuntu-tweaks.com and https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+download
and it will not work it will say /tmp/9ZjhnyvT.tar.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.Try again later, or contact the server administrator.
i dont no what to do HELP ME PLEAZE
Did someone find a work around in order to show more sources in mint 10?
Here with mint 10_64 and Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.10 shows only few PPAs.
Please run “lsb_release -cs” under terminal, then give me the output.
julia
now it seems to work!
I’ll try another PC asap.
Thank you
OK it works. I’ve purged and reinstalled ubuntu tweak.
It seems the sources metadata was corrupted…
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Running Natty on an EeePC. Tried several ways/methods of installing Ubuntu-Tweak. No success. It keeps crashing at the logo.
Due to the unstable of Natty, something is broken. I will try to find a solution to make Ubuntu Tweak work.
I installed the natty version on my natty. the lauch crahsed with the following error code, hope it helps your diagnosis:
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04 natty
Application: Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.10
Desktop: gnome
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/ubuntu-tweak”, line 110, in
launcher = TweakLauncher(session_bus, MainWindow())
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/mainwindow.py”, line 232, in __init__
self.update_model()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/mainwindow.py”, line 383, in update_model
self.TITLE_COLUMN, “%s” % title,
TypeError: value is of the wrong type for this column
Great app. Congratulations, it eases managing a lot of stuff in ubuntu and also tweaking via GUI other things.
However, in the image selection of the login screen settings, i placed a pic with 500kb to replace the generic screen, but it doesn’t show up after booting. It’s in the new settings, but not working. Perhaps it’s due to ubuntu’s new updates i guess. I’m on 64bit version. If i put another one from the ubuntu’s login default folder then it works. I have a 1366×768 screen and downloaded a wallpaper to show up also on the login screen.
Any sugestions?
hello all,
with this version 0.5.10 my tweak tool not appear some functions or options, check out on the screenshot
http://twitpic.com/453gqt
I waiting your response, Regards
I’m having a similar issue: no ‘Startup’ or ‘Desktop’ options, just ‘Applications’, ‘Personal’ and ‘System’…
I’m using version 0.5.10 in Ubuntu 10.10 + KDE 4.6.1
Any fix for this?
Any chance of an option for 11.4+ to remove unity and revert to standard gnome?
Cheers.
I’m having the same issue as hanfle and Gabrial on a new install of Ubuntu 10.04, it works normally on my home 10.04 and 10.10 installs.
See hanfle’s screenshot.
Any answers?
Thanks for your hard work!
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