[01:07] <Hermenegil> someone know how to restore the original graphic card driver auto-detected during the installation in Xubuntu 8.10 ?
[01:08] <TheSheep> Hermenegil: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
[01:14] <Hermenegil> hi TheSheep, how do i configure driver in : sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg ? it's asking question about keyboard layout, nothing on video driver
[01:26] <TheSheep> Hermenegil: I suppose it has been removed then
[01:26] <TheSheep> Hermenegil: just undo the changes you did to xorg.conf
[01:30] <Hermenegil> I didn't change anything in xorg.conf,  how can I undo ?
[01:41] <TheSheep> what did you do exactly?
[01:52] <TheSheep> please talk here :)
[01:52] <TheSheep> do you remember which packages you installed?
[03:18] <MaxHavoc> Does anyone know if it's possible to use SSH to just open a tunnel without giving a remote command prompt?
[03:20] <TheSheep> MaxHavoc: yes
[03:20] <TheSheep> MaxHavoc: you can run any command or forward ports
[03:22] <MaxHavoc> I'm trying to tunnel rdesktop through SSH
[03:28] <MaxHavoc> Would you...happen to know how to do that?
[07:19] <|ntegra|1> I really like the ubuntu manuals, they shed light on "how-to" which is loverly
[07:19] <Roken> Ubuntu Manuals?
[07:23] <|ntegra|1> ya-ha, hang on gotta go
[07:26] <|ntegra|1> oh, yeah, I just like it how ubuntu has made 'heaps' of howtos where there was a gap before (albeit a googlable gap, but none-the-less)
[09:49] <atgarsis> hi. got a little problem with grip. it tells "invalid encoder executable". anyone can help?
[09:49] <atgarsis> which encoder is best for mp3 and why the executable is invalid?
[10:32] <zeltak> hi
[10:33] <zeltak> anyonw knows how to get desktop icons on xubuntu? (using mythbuntu if that maters..)
[10:35] <ablomen> zeltak, place .desktop files in the desktop folder
[10:35] <zeltak> k gotcha thx :)
[10:36] <zeltak> mm how do i create it in xfce (since you cant drag from the menu right?)
[10:37] <ablomen> zeltak, most if not all .desktop files should be located in /usr/share/applications
[10:38] <zeltak> k thx alot ablomen
[10:38] <ablomen> you should be able to just copy them to ~/Desktop
[10:38] <ablomen> np :)
[14:53] <Woo_> Hey non supercilious Linux folk!
[14:53] <Woo_> My hard drive is getting broken these days so I bought a new and bigger one today.
[14:53] <Woo_> http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dd#Clone_a_harddisk
[14:54] <Woo_> Is it easy to make the filesystem bigger afterwards?
[15:01] <Stroganoff> Woo_: i recommend the gparted livecd to resize your FS
[15:04] <Woo_> Do you think I will encounter many problems doing this? I am NOT a person fammiliar with Linux.
[15:04] <Woo_> I also have a license of Acronis.
[15:05] <Stroganoff> no, gparted is really easy to use. i don't know if Acronis can handle ext3
[15:05] <cirv9> hey.. anyone who knows why Thunar keeps freezing whenever I choose "View hidden files" in for example /proc?
[15:05] <Woo_> Just for the cloning part
[15:12] <charlie-tca> cirv9: Is that the only folder it freezes in?
[15:13] <charlie-tca> for example, can you view hidden files in your /home directory?
[15:13] <cirv9> charlie-tca: nope, it's the same in /home
[15:13] <cirv9> I can view them, but it really takes ages to "load" the view
[15:14] <cirv9> its a fresh xubuntu 8.10 btw
[15:14] <Stroganoff> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2502
[15:16] <cirv9> Stroganoff: that's the problem, thanks. ill try disabling "tree view" then
[15:17] <Stroganoff> it seems to have been ugly-fixed recently
[15:23]  * jarnos think swap gets more and more filled, if you hibernate instead of shutdown.
[16:04] <PrebenR> anybody gotten video thumbnails to work in Thunar?
[16:04] <PrebenR> I have installed both the thunar-thumbnailers and the ffmpegthumbnail package
[16:04] <PrebenR> but still no thumbnails
[16:06] <charles> Newbie question: XU8.10 just installed, updated (~170packages), packages samba-common, smbclient, fusesmb installed. How can I browse existing windows network (at least one system, ping is ok)?
[16:16] <Stroganoff> charles: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FuseSmb#Using%20smbfuse
[16:16] <Pres-Gas> charles, I believe the fusesmb package...Stroganoff beat me
[16:19] <charles> Stroganoff, Pres-Gas: thanks, I'll check it.
[17:18] <nikolam> Hi
[17:18] <chosig> Hello
[17:19] <nikolam> I have bonobo-activation-server using 1 Gig of RAM
[17:19] <nikolam> :)
[17:19] <nikolam> Hardy 64bit
[17:21] <TheSheep> that's what I call lightweight
[17:22] <TheSheep> !bugs
[17:22] <nikolam> :) TheSheep
[17:25] <nikolam> hm TheSheep it was my mistake.. hmm. Sorting by memory usage is right in System monitor. It was My mistake. It was 1016 KiB.
[17:25] <nikolam> Sorry
[17:26] <nikolam> But I still wonder where all that Ram goes, since 1036MB is used and no applications use that much Ram
[17:34] <TheSheep> nikolam: try xrestop
[17:38] <jf812> Hi is anybody here?
[17:38] <charlie-tca> !anybody | jf812
[17:39] <jf812> No im not really going to ask a question. I was just seeing if it connected properly
[17:39] <charlie-tca> Okay, you are connected. Welcome to #xubuntu
[17:41] <jf812> What kind of computer are people running Xubuntu on? I'm just running it on my home PC
[17:41] <charlie-tca> All kinds, from the old to the new, including mac
[17:42] <jf812> I prefer it to Ubuntu because its simpler
[17:43] <charlie-tca> I started using it because it ran on my old pc
[17:44] <charlie-tca> Now I use it because I like the way it works better.
[17:44] <chosig> hrm... my panels dissapeared when i moved a launcher, what's the xfce-way to restart them?
[17:44] <chosig> (didn't get a crash report)
[17:44] <Odd-rationale> i used to use xubuntu/xfce... now i'm on gnome...
[17:44] <TheSheep> chosig: alt+f2 and type 'xfce4-panel'
[17:45] <charlie-tca> or https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XubuntuPanels
[17:46] <chosig> TheSheep, thanks
[17:47] <chosig> oh... segfault
[17:56] <tich> does anyone know if there is a way to take a screen shot when an application is fullscreened?
[17:58] <tich> i have the screen shot panel app but i would like to take some screen shots of applications when the panel is ouut of view
[17:59] <tich> i read, in the description of the panel app that one could bind it to a key but i can't see how to do it
[18:02] <TheSheep> tich: just use gimp and timed snapshot
[18:03] <tich> TheSheep, ah yes i read about that but i wanted to be more spontaneous
[18:03] <TheSheep> try installing scrot and binding it to your key
[18:04] <tich> okay, i will look into that
[18:04] <tich> it is in the repos i presume
[18:04] <tich> thanks for the advice
[18:27] <chosig> hrm... if i tell terminal to open an url (firefox), is it possibleto make firefox stay in the workspace it is and not teleport to the one i "opened the url" from?
[18:27] <TheSheep> yes
[18:27] <TheSheep> chosig: http://wiki.sheep.art.pl/Firefox and XFCE4
[18:28] <TheSheep> chosig: http://wiki.sheep.art.pl/Firefox%20and%20XFCE4
[18:30] <chosig> TheSheep, thanks a bunch :)
[18:32] <chosig> TheSheep, Arithemtic Algebraic Geometry... wow, sounds intense :)
[18:40] <TheSheep> chosig: eh?
[18:41] <chosig> looked at your portfolio :)
[18:42] <TheSheep> ah
[18:55] <Odd-rationale> TheSheep: hey, that's a cool option! wish i new about that before! :P from what i've been told, this "new feature" is part of the freedesktop.org EWMH specifications. I admit i don't like very much. Thanks for the work araound!
[19:04] <atgarsis> hello
[19:05] <atgarsis> i am using 'evince' document reader, but some pdf documents look a bit 'scruffy', i.e. the fonts are not embedded. any ideas how to cure this problem?
[19:06] <atgarsis> does that mean that 'evince' does not support non-embedded fonts?
[19:08] <Hermenegil> can someone tell me why "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" ask me question about my keyboard but nothing on video/graphic ?
[19:10] <charlie-tca> Video is now set automatically through Hal, I think.
[19:15] <Hermenegil> can i change the video setting manually ?
[19:16] <charlie-tca> You can manually edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, yes
[19:18] <Hermenegil> there is almost nothing in my xorg.conf
[19:19] <charlie-tca> That is because most items are automatic now.
[19:19] <atgarsis> anyone can recommend a pdf viewer which would support non-embedded fonts?
[19:25] <Stroganoff> atgarsis: xpdf?
[19:26] <atgarsis> does it also support djvu format?
[19:26] <Stroganoff> i don't know
[19:26] <Stroganoff> there's also acroread from adobe (it's in the medibuntu repos)
[19:28] <atgarsis> thanks!
[20:02] <Hermenegil> i have this prompt on boot : " Your screen, graphics card, and input device setting could not be detected correctly. You will need to reconfigure these yourself. "  i'm now in the (Low-graphic mode), can i restore the video driver without reinstalling, (I'm on Xubuntu 8.10)
[20:04] <charlie-tca> Hermenegil: yes, it can be done. You shouldn't need to reinstall. Take a look here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution
[20:05] <charlie-tca> You can also boot using recovery option in Grub, and try Xfix option
[20:07] <Hermenegil> thanks, i let you know if it work
[20:07] <charlie-tca> no problem.
[21:35] <jeremey> anybody here use Quanta +?
[21:37] <charles> Hi all! Another one newbie question: how can I  change the system locale? I have a lot of usb---flashdrives with windows-created (cp1251) filenames and need to use them...
[22:04] <wooboy> hi!!!
[22:04] <wooboy> anybody here????
[22:05] <zoredache_> !anyone
[22:06] <wooboy> how do i get my two bars back? they diseapeared!
[22:06] <wooboy> top and bottom bars
[22:06] <wooboy> on xubuntu
[22:06] <zoredache> aka 'panels'.   press alt-f2, and then type xfce4-panel
[22:06] <wooboy> thanx very much
[22:07] <wooboy> why did they diseapear???
[22:07] <wooboy> suddenly
[22:08] <zoredache> If you didn't do anything to kill the processes, then another possibility might be that there was some kind of bug and the process died.
[22:08] <wooboy> oh ok
[22:08] <wooboy> thx anyway :)
[22:10] <wooboy> it works cool thx
[22:19] <Odd-rationale> !panels
[22:19] <Odd-rationale> !panel
[22:20] <charlie-tca> !xfce-panels
[22:20] <Odd-rationale> hmm...
[22:21] <Odd-rationale> charlie-tca: did you add that?
[22:21] <charlie-tca> I wrote a wiki help page yesterday.
[22:21] <charlie-tca> No, it was already
[22:21] <Odd-rationale> yeah, i know, you should me...
[22:21] <Odd-rationale> showed*
[22:21] <Odd-rationale> met me see here...
[22:22] <charlie-tca> Took a lot of reading to find the factoid
[22:23] <Odd-rationale> !xfce-panels is Did you panels disappear? Press alt+f2 and run: xfce4-panels | See also: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XubuntuPanels | Want to theme your panels? See http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/howto-set-a-background-image-for-your-panel/
[22:23] <charlie-tca> Nice
[22:23] <Odd-rationale> !xfce-panels
[22:24] <Odd-rationale> heh. i think it needs to get approved...
[22:24] <Odd-rationale> I got a msg from ubottu saying that it is waiting aproval from #ubuntu-ops
[22:24] <charlie-tca> So it will get there...
[22:25] <Odd-rationale> you can always head over there to make sure it gets done... :P
[22:26] <charlie-tca> Not on the list.
[22:33] <Odd-rationale> charlie-tca: what do you mean?
[22:33] <charlie-tca> I lost my mind, forget it
[22:34] <Odd-rationale> !xfce-panels
[22:43] <Odd-rationale> !xfce-panels
[22:44] <Odd-rationale> !xfce-panels
[22:44] <Odd-rationale> !panels
[22:44] <Odd-rationale> there we go, charlie-tca
[22:44] <charlie-tca> Looking good! :-)
[22:44] <Odd-rationale> use !panels
[22:45] <Odd-rationale> !panels | charlie-tca
[22:45] <Odd-rationale> :P
[22:46] <charlie-tca> Hey! that's great... :-)