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Mute sound on resume from suspend/hibernate  
Written by sillyxone the 22 Jan 09 at 14:37. Related project: Gnome. New
There should be an option to mute sound on resume/wake up from suspend/hibernate. My daughter often watches Youtube or play Flash games on my laptop and leaves them on (just close the lid). The next morning, when I open my laptop in a meeting, the funs keep going on and the volume buttons don't work until I unlock the screen.
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Solution #1: Add "Mute sound on resume" in Sound Preferences
Written by sillyxone the 22 Jan 09 at 14:37.
We can add a checkbox "Mute sound on resume" in Sound Preferences panel. Currently I put command:

amixer -c 0 sset Master mute -q

into a script in /etc/pm/sleep.d to mute the sound on resume.
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Solution #2: Disable sound while the screen is locked
Written by Seph_VII the 22 Jan 09 at 18:28.
Why should anyone be able to hear what I'm watching on my computer when it is locked? Sound should be muted while the screen is locked, this is a no-brainer.
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Solution #3: Allow volume buttons to work while screen is locked
Written by Hawke the 22 Jan 09 at 22:26.
Locking the screen should not disable the volume controls.
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Solution #4: Give option to allow buttons to work while screen is locked
Written by oybon the 28 Jan 09 at 13:32.
As #3 but it should be a configurable option.
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Solution #5: Add "Mute sound on Startup/Resume" (Solution #1 Enhanced)
Written by phoenix the 25 May 09 at 09:46.
Taking solution #1 further - there can be one option to "Mute on Startup/Resume". This will allow the machine to be in mute whenever it is started up or resumed from suspend, irrespective of what the last user setting was.
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Solution #6: Just remember the last state of sound
Written by chaemil the 23 Mar 10 at 15:06.
Just remember the last state of sound before closing notebook
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Solution #7: Include #1, #3, #4, and #5 (which extends #1)
Written by ewheelerinc the 21 Jun 10 at 06:39.

Solutions 1,3-5 seem relatively simple to implement on a single "applet" in Gnome System->Preferences.

However it is represented as a user interface, both the "Sound Preferences" and "Power Management Preferences" applets *should* link to it so everyone can find it no matter where they look. (For example, I tend to find features in Linux through various "though paths".)

-Eric
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Solution #8: Add Gui Preference to modify /etc/pm-utils/sleep.d/01PulseAudio
Written by phix the 14 Mar 12 at 00:18.
According to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/483900, the sound behavior on suspend/hibernate is controlled by this file. Why not add a switch in the "System Preferences" to adjust this as you wish.

On the other hand, it's easy to unmute music after suspend. Why not adjust the defaults to leave sound muted right after resume/thaw?

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Select disk to install package  
Written by chaemil the 20 Mar 10 at 12:06. Related project: Synaptic package manager. Not an idea
When you have two hdds in your computer you can't select to which one install the package.
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Solution #1: Select the hdd before instaling package
Written by chaemil the 20 Mar 10 at 12:06.
Why do you not be able to select the hdd like in windows (C:, E: ...)
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Solution #2: Make a migration tool
Written by kruemi the 23 Mar 10 at 08:34.
It should be not too hard to clobber together some scripts that mount a new (empty) harddisk, move the contents of a directory (i.e. /usr/) over there and mount it in the right place afterwards (change /etc/fstab).
It might be necessary to put this action in a starup script so there are no issues while doing the move operation.

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Unity LLVMPipe GUI switch  
Written by chaemil the 20 Dec 12 at 16:11. Related project: Unity. Not an idea
For now Unity desktop is automaticaly deciding to choose if it will use the standard acceleration or the CPU based one. But if you have for ex. old netbook which have GPU acceleration available but it's very weak and the CPU (LLVMPIPE) is faster you would like to change that.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/197771/how-do-i-enable-llvmpipe-rendering-in-uni ty
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Solution #1: Let the user change this from System settings menu
Written by chaemil the 20 Dec 12 at 16:11.
Just put the switcher to the Ubuntu's System settings to switch this just like the Aero in windows.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/197771/how-do-i-enable-llvmpipe-rendering-in-uni ty

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Lack of quicklists  
Written by chaemil the 29 Jun 11 at 09:35. Related project: Unity. Implemented
we have the ability to add quicklist but there's no on the most used apps

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Selected solution (#1): Add more quicklists to default apps
Written by chaemil the 29 Jun 11 at 09:35.

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Maverick windows scale problem  
Written by chaemil the 15 Sep 10 at 13:01. Related project: Gnome. Not an idea
When you want to scale window draging it's lower corners it is quite imposible bcs the theme have about 1 pixel size window decoration...
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Solution #1: Resize the window scale area
Written by chaemil the 15 Sep 10 at 13:01.
Resize or copy the bottom area of window from lucid...

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