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Martin Hope
Yan King Yin
Asked: 2019-04-25 22:15:01 +0800 CST
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This is an old bug, it seems to be not Evince's own fault but the bug is from Poppler. The specific cause of the bug has been identified (it's the calculation of some coordinates) but as of 2019 it is still not fixed in Ubuntu.

This is an example: I tried to highlight the second sentence of the first paragraph, but this is what I get: enter image description here

That means all the users of Ubuntu cannot highlight PDF texts using Evince --- this is such a basic function.

Is there any way to update Poppler to the correct version such that Evince works?

Please do not mark this as a duplicate question UNLESS one can provide a specific way to upgrade Poppler and resolve this problem.

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Martin Hope
Yan King Yin
Asked: 2015-12-17 02:14:01 +0800 CST
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I'm using Ubuntu, and FTP works in Filezilla, but when I try to use the ftp program, I could log in but the file transfers are often stalled (and fail with timeout), except sometimes when the file is very small.

I heard something about "passive" and "active" transfer but I'm not sure if it could make a difference.

What is the likely setting that would allow the ftp program to work? Or else why would Filezilla work but not ftp?

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Martin Hope
Yan King Yin
Asked: 2014-07-18 04:55:43 +0800 CST
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Using Lubuntu.

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, it logs me out to the login screen. It's supposed to bring up the task manager.

Turns out that "lxsession-default tasks" is the problem.

I searched, and there is almost nothing on the web about this command.

In Preference -> default apps for LXsession, I have set the default to Task Manager. But somehow it's not working.

Disgusting really.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, LXDE.

Temporary solution:

Edit ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml

Find the entry that invokes "task manager", change the command from "lxsession-default tasks" to simply "lxtask".

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