| cesarpinto1980 | hello guys | 01:01 |
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| cesarpinto1980 | support request from a newbie here? | 01:01 |
| cesarpinto1980 | alguien habla espanol? | 01:03 |
| cesarpinto1980 | por casualidad? | 01:03 |
| cesarpinto1980 | im just trying to fix the screen resolution on my newly installed xubuntu ver 9.04 | 01:04 |
| cesarpinto1980 | i only get 800x600 option | 01:04 |
| cesarpinto1980 | i tried to fix it with the instructions on the xubuntu website | 01:05 |
| cesarpinto1980 | but im not very familiar with linux | 01:05 |
| cesarpinto1980 | maybe there is someone who can help me for a few mins? | 01:05 |
| cesarpinto1980 | pleeease?# | 01:05 |
| Roybot | cesarpint: Maybe you dont have the right drivers for your graphics card | 01:16 |
| benchik | say guys. whats most of xubuntu developing deals with? python/bash scripts? | 01:40 |
| knome | those and of course bugfixing things that are important to xubuntu. | 01:42 |
| knome | of course "development" is a lot more, for example decisions about default applications | 01:42 |
| benchik | knome: suppose i want to contribute. should i know both python and shell script. or one of them will suffice? | 01:43 |
| knome | it's a lot more than python (and definitely more than bash scripts) | 01:44 |
| knome | benchik, see http://xubuntu.org/contribute | 01:44 |
| knome | benchik, you should at least join the xubuntu-devel mailing list and it would be nice if you joined #xubuntu-devel | 01:44 |
| knome | benchik, knowing what you would like to help would be awesome as well :) | 01:45 |
| knome | *help with | 01:45 |
| benchik | knome: will check that. thanks. basically my current scipting knowledge is python and perl. planning to learn bash scripting pretty soon | 01:46 |
| knome | tbh, bash scripting isn't exactly what we need :) there's only a few things that are done with them. | 01:47 |
| benchik | knome: so most scripting is python? | 01:48 |
| knome | yes, there's more things in python | 01:48 |
| papul | can i install xubuntu in a netbook | 02:06 |
| papul | will xubuntu run on netbooks? | 02:07 |
| knome | papul, i run xubuntu on my eeepc. | 02:08 |
| knome | papul, though apart from eeepc's, i don't know what the hardware compatibility is. | 02:08 |
| cagey | is this an acceptable place for troubeshooting assistance w/my fresh, non-working xubuntu install? | 02:13 |
| knome | cagey, sure. | 02:13 |
| knome | cagey, exactly what this channel is for. | 02:13 |
| cagey | Good! I have Googled myself silly but I can't find the "switch" to fix my deal. :( | 02:14 |
| cagey | unfortunately, I'm not at the machine right now but I can still take notes... | 02:15 |
| knome | okay | 02:15 |
| cagey | so... fresh install of xubuntu 904 on an ancient (233MHz) box. went through entire install and booted normally. Upon reboot (the next day) it never loads the desktop. | 02:16 |
| knome | how much ram do you havE? | 02:16 |
| cagey | 256M-maxed | 02:17 |
| cagey | it loads a "background" of a single blue colour and the mouse pointer is present but no icons, no menus, no taskbar. No ability to right -click. | 02:17 |
| knome | okay, that shouldn't be the problem | 02:17 |
| knome | did you try running the live cd? | 02:17 |
| cagey | yes. Thats what I used to install | 02:18 |
| knome | it sounds like a problem with resources, but your machine should be able to take it. | 02:18 |
| cagey | in the system log, I see avahi-daemon doing something about every minute but that's it | 02:19 |
| cagey | but it booted fine the 1st time after install so that seem confusing to me | 02:19 |
| knome | oh, so you have had it running already | 02:19 |
| knome | our minimum requirements are actually a 333 mhz processor etc. etc., but as you have already logged in... | 02:20 |
| cagey | yeah, after the install, I rebooted as directed and it booted into the new OS. I played around for a while and let it set for a bit. | 02:20 |
| knome | what did you do while the first login? | 02:20 |
| cagey | looked around. prob played Solitaire. Tried to minimise GUI action to save CPU "power". N ow when it boots, it appesrs to go through everything, splash, animated XFCE screen, etc but then settles to the non desktop w/pointer | 02:21 |
| knome | hmmh. | 02:22 |
| cagey | in fact, I had wondered about the XFCE screen as it was one of the few things I did. although, I dont know if it's a background or an intermediate splash? | 02:22 |
| knome | the mouse with the light blue background? | 02:23 |
| cagey | I guess the XFCE w/animation is actually the splash? | 02:23 |
| knome | yes. | 02:24 |
| cagey | it look slike its "slamost there" but never gets past that solid screen w/pointer. It must be a very simple thing ,despite my consternation on the matter! :) | 02:24 |
| knome | hmm. | 02:24 |
| knome | maybe try removing .cache | 02:25 |
| cagey | is it a file or dir.? is it in root? | 02:25 |
| knome | sorry, i mean ~/.cache, where ~ is your home directory | 02:25 |
| knome | /home/yourusername/.cache | 02:25 |
| cagey | can I just "rm" it? | 02:26 |
| knome | rmdir :) | 02:26 |
| knome | or ehm | 02:26 |
| knome | "rm -rf .cache" actually | 02:26 |
| cagey | ah! | 02:26 |
| knome | as the directory is not empty. | 02:26 |
| cagey | right. I've seen that one before | 02:27 |
| cagey | do you think it's getting stuck on old info, stalled it? | 02:27 |
| cagey | stalling | 02:27 |
| knome | i don't know. it sounds weird. | 02:27 |
| knome | if it doesn't work, it's probably just your cpu not being powerful enough:/ | 02:28 |
| cagey | the live CD goes to the screen for a little while, but progresses beyond it after 30 s or so | 02:28 |
| knome | right.. | 02:28 |
| cagey | if CPU nogo, why would it tolerate the live CD? | 02:28 |
| knome | don't know. | 02:28 |
| knome | it could run once whilst installing, that is what makes it weird | 02:29 |
| cagey | I know it's running full-out just to run the GUI but I didnt know of a better distro to try | 02:29 |
| knome | yeah... | 02:30 |
| cagey | it runs DSL very well but it's pretty rough | 02:30 |
| knome | usually people are struggling with the amount of ram but your problem is a bit different | 02:30 |
| cagey | I know it prob wants 512 but... | 02:30 |
| knome | 256 is good for running it | 02:30 |
| knome | you can get it running even with 128, but it will be damn slow | 02:31 |
| cagey | anything you can think of is the rm cache doesnt fix me? | 02:31 |
| cagey | if the... | 02:31 |
| knome | hmm. | 02:31 |
| knome | i'm really out of ideas | 02:31 |
| knome | maybe come back later and ask if anybody else has ideas | 02:32 |
| cagey | if too slow, I would just think it;d be... well... too slow. Not no load | 02:32 |
| knome | it's night in europe, so... | 02:32 |
| cagey | yeah. at least I found this channel. Live help beats endless searching... | 02:32 |
| cagey | thanks for the ideas! | 02:32 |
| knome | yeah, no problem | 02:33 |
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| moonbeam_ | hello, anyone here particularly familiar with xfwm4? I'm seeing something a bit odd but I'm not sure if it's wnck issue or xfwm4 issue. The code in question works fine with Metacity and Compiz though. | 04:20 |
| moonbeam_ | I'm guessing this isn't the right channel. | 04:21 |
| zhxk` | hello, may i have two edition of xfce on same system, one is stadarded xfce desktop, another is simiplified xfce? | 11:06 |
| zhxk` | user can choose wich to login at gdm time? | 11:07 |
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| Syrius | hello everybody there ? | 14:23 |
| Syrius | does any body use gryc ? | 14:23 |
| Syrius | if I check the update existing and make backups of existing that will update existing make backup first and also backup newly created files right ? | 14:40 |
| hezy | Hi, anyone knows how to disable the autosearch in synaptic? | 16:23 |
| hezy | I type one letter and it starts looking for matching programs before I get to the second letter, nad then I have to wait for a while. This is on my old computer (no problem with a new one) | 16:25 |
| BCM43 | I try to install xubuntu on my aspire one via usb and I get the error "The attempt to mount a file system with type ext3 in scsi2 (0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) at "/" failed" I try to configure manualy with fdisk /dev/sda and I then try to save it and I get fdisk printout: “Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy” | 18:54 |
| pteague | is there some way to force a dhcp change to /etc/resolv.conf ? i have xubuntu in a virtualbox instance & connected to the wireless at work at which point everything was set correctly... put the macbookpro to sleep, got home, woke it, & it won't change the resolv.conf ... i think i was able to get it to change the ip by restarting networking, but don't remember... finally just gave up & restarted the vm | 19:32 |
| Besogon | pteague: change that fily byyouself. This is not hard | 19:34 |
| pteague | yes, but i don't want to have to daily change it between work & home | 19:35 |
| Besogon | If you have NetowrkManager that should change resolf.conf automaticaly | 19:36 |
| pteague | unfortunately that doesn't seem to happen in NAT mode... if i set it up as bridged it does, but bridged has 2 issues... if the dhcp/network is stupid (like a hotel) it shows up as 2 different computers & if the mbp isn't connected to anything then it seems to report that there's no networking device... maybe i need to screw with this on the vbox end | 19:39 |
| Besogon | Ask on #ubuntu chanel pleace. I not well in English | 19:43 |
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