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| troglobyte | Does xubuntu install a beagle equivalent? | 00:47 |
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| nicklas_ | öj | 01:20 |
| Amgine | Question: How do I reduce sensitivity/turn off track pad mouse when I'm also using a usb mouse? | 01:27 |
| nicklas_ | http://www.dumpt.com/img/viewer.php?file=y8o5ru0r03h7es7ei7tv.png | 01:27 |
| lyrae_ | Hi im new to xubuntu. How do i remove icons from desktop (except mounted items, if possible) | 02:57 |
| Jora | Hello, I am having some trouble with my terminal when I try and enter my sudo password. The terminal will not let me enter anything when I try to enter my password. | 03:01 |
| Jora | What sorts of things might cause this? My keyboard is hooked up correctly etc. | 03:01 |
| Amgine | Jora: Are you sure it's not letting you enter anything? Normally sudo does not display anything while still accepting your input. | 03:02 |
| Jora | I'll try again | 03:02 |
| Amgine | Try typing in the password, then hit return. | 03:02 |
| Jora | I get this message: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) | 03:04 |
| Jora | E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? | 03:04 |
| Jora | I'm trying to execute the command sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall | 03:05 |
| Amgine | Mmm, *that* I can't help with, as I'm a ubuntu/xubuntu newb. | 03:06 |
| seraku_ | try one at a time | 03:07 |
| lyrae | how can i remove recycle bin and trash can from desktop? | 04:55 |
| jar | yes | 04:57 |
| jar | right click on the desktop and go into the desktop preference | 04:57 |
| jar | click icons | 04:57 |
| jar | and uncheck Trash | 04:58 |
| lyrae | thank you jar. and how about the volume icon on top right taskbar? | 04:58 |
| jar | right click | 04:59 |
| jar | remove | 04:59 |
| lyrae | no not that one | 04:59 |
| jar | To remove anything from a taskbar you can always right click and remove. | 05:00 |
| lyrae | i only get "mute" and "sound preferences" when i right click | 05:00 |
| lyrae | not this one though | 05:00 |
| jar | weird | 05:00 |
| jar | mine has remove | 05:00 |
| jar | because i have a more custom setup | 05:01 |
| lyrae | its not a widget you can add to taskbar i dont think | 05:01 |
| jar | That sounds weird. | 05:01 |
| lyrae | it does. i can show a ss if youd like. but ill just creaste a new taskbar and only add stuff i want | 05:01 |
| jar | a screenshot would be helpful | 05:02 |
| jar | Maybe I'm not understanding | 05:02 |
| lyrae | ahhhh ok i see it | 05:03 |
| lyrae | it was part of notification area | 05:03 |
| jar | ahhh | 05:03 |
| jar | that makes more sense | 05:03 |
| lyrae | i had to go to its properties and hide it by clicking a checkbox | 05:03 |
| jar | gotcha | 05:03 |
| lyrae | :) thanks for aughll your help tho | 05:03 |
| lyrae | thanks for all your help thought* | 05:03 |
| lyrae | sorry...new netbook, cant type yet | 05:03 |
| jar | it's fine | 05:04 |
| jar | which netbook do you have? :) | 05:04 |
| lyrae | dell mini inspiron. was free with comcast | 05:05 |
| jar | ahh sweet | 05:05 |
| lyrae | haha yea :) | 05:05 |
| jar | Nothing beats free | 05:06 |
| lyrae | nope | 05:06 |
| oelsen | hi | 13:44 |
| oelsen | i need help with cpu frequency scaling | 13:44 |
| oelsen | is there any central site for that= | 13:44 |
| oelsen | ? | 13:44 |
| gkuyyy | i have an xubuntu issue with my broadcomm wireless adapter | 13:47 |
| gkuyyy | namely i can't turn it on | 13:47 |
| gkuyyy | anyone have any tips? | 13:47 |
| gkuyyy | drivers are good | 13:47 |
| gkuyyy | has a hardware switch - a dedicated button above the keyboard, but obviously xubuntu doesn't recognize it | 13:48 |
| gkuyyy | any ideas on how to turn this bugger on? | 13:48 |
| _Pete_ | it should be on automatically if your cpu supports it | 13:49 |
| _Pete_ | oops | 13:50 |
| _Pete_ | forget | 13:50 |
| _Pete_ | :) | 13:50 |
| gkuyyy | yeah but it's not | 13:50 |
| gkuyyy | i agree though | 13:50 |
| gkuyyy | i wish i could find the compaq guy that designed it with an on off button and smash it on his head | 13:51 |
| gkuyyy | oh i'm a linux noob btw | 13:51 |
| gkuyyy | so go easy | 13:51 |
| gkuyyy | :) | 13:51 |
| gkuyyy | it's a copmaq presario v5000 pretty old | 13:52 |
| oelsen | anyone knows a central site/man page for that? | 13:53 |
| oelsen | i used freebsd and there are only two thing: kernel state settings and powerd. on ubuntu i am confused about what to use correctly | 13:53 |
| gkuyyy | when i run lshw it sees the adapter and says it's disabled | 13:54 |
| gkuyyy | i wish there were some sort of software switch or something | 13:54 |
| gkuyyy | i really can't conceptualize how to get the thing powered up | 13:54 |
| gkuyyy | when i installed ubuntu last year this wasn't an issue | 13:55 |
| gkuyyy | but xubuntu is a diff story | 13:55 |
| gkuyyy | would rather use xubuntu though | 13:55 |
| Sysi | have you set what power button should do? | 13:55 |
| gkuyyy | nope. it's not a key combo or anything it's a totally separate key | 13:56 |
| gkuyyy | lemme see if xubuntu sees it | 13:56 |
| Sysi | check settings on power manager | 13:56 |
| gkuyyy | ok | 13:56 |
| Sysi | can't remember if it does nothing by default | 13:57 |
| gkuyyy | no luck so far on that front but it's an intriguing angle | 14:00 |
| gkuyyy | i'm going to see if i can get the keyboard drivers installed to recognize the hardware switch | 14:04 |
| gkuyyy | i see a program called hp wireless assistant that i know can access the power to the adapter. what if i run it in wine? just to turn it on? would that work? | 14:07 |
| gkuyyy | gonna give up and install ubuntu and see what it's doing differently | 14:19 |
| oelsen | bye | 14:29 |
| Edgar1 | hello anyone | 15:23 |
| Edgar1 | I want to know something... | 15:23 |
| Edgar1 | I have ubuntu 9.04 with gnome, and i want to install xfce but i dont want the complete xubuntu-desktop package | 15:24 |
| Edgar1 | you know, without abiword, gnumeric or thunderbird | 15:24 |
| Edgar1 | so my question is...can i just install the xfce package? | 15:24 |
| Sysi | why not? | 15:27 |
| Sysi | it takes what it need as dependencies, and should work | 15:28 |
| Edgar1 | just asking, you know | 15:28 |
| Edgar1 | ok | 15:28 |
| Sysi | only stupid questions are those which you you don't say :) | 15:29 |
| Edgar1 | xD | 15:30 |
| r0bert | hiho | 15:37 |
| r0bert | between the grub-2-menu and xubuntu's "sparkling"-splasg | 15:37 |
| r0bert | that mouse-logo is displayed | 15:38 |
| r0bert | what is it called (is it splash?) and hoe can i change it? | 15:38 |
| likemindead | I'm confused about that too, r0bert. | 15:42 |
| likemindead | And curious. | 15:42 |
| r0bert | ! | 15:42 |
| r0bert | that's the spirit | 15:42 |
| Sysi | in grub settings/conf? | 15:50 |
| r0bert | that would be /etc/default/grub and a "no" | 15:52 |
| Sysi | it's not /boot/grub/menu.lst anymore? | 15:53 |
| r0bert | not with grub 2 | 15:53 |
| r0bert | <: | 15:53 |
| r0bert | and some stuff in /etc/grub.d/ is important, too | 15:54 |
| sporedi | W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock ----------(next line)---E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/-----(last line)-----E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. | 16:38 |
| joshua__ | hi i have xubuntu 9.10 and none of my windows have any minimize or close buttons | 17:39 |
| Besogon | may be something that consern themes | 17:40 |
| joshua__ | well i just installed it and it was like that | 17:41 |
| r0bert | applications => preferences => window management (something like that, dont have it in english) | 17:41 |
| joshua__ | well ill have to quit cuz the window is in the way let me try | 17:42 |
| Besogon | xfce4-appearance-settings | 17:43 |
| joshua__ | i tried opening window manager and window manager tweaks and neither of them would open | 17:45 |
| r0bert | open a console | 17:45 |
| r0bert | xfwm4-settings | 17:46 |
| joshua__ | it said "these setting cannot work with your current window manager (unknown)" | 17:48 |
| r0bert | Oo | 17:48 |
| r0bert | did you change anything? | 17:48 |
| joshua__ | nope | 17:48 |
| r0bert | very strange | 17:49 |
| joshua__ | can i download and install one? | 17:49 |
| r0bert | did it work with the live-cd? | 17:49 |
| r0bert | did something fail when installing? | 17:49 |
| joshua__ | maybe it said like skipping somthing at the begining but completed | 17:50 |
| joshua__ | i used a torrent | 17:50 |
| r0bert | the official torrent? | 17:50 |
| joshua__ | i clicked one from their website so i think so | 17:51 |
| r0bert | okay | 17:51 |
| joshua__ | could it be my computer? | 17:51 |
| r0bert | dont think so | 17:51 |
| r0bert | can you do a | 17:52 |
| r0bert | sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop | 17:52 |
| r0bert | ? | 17:52 |
| joshua__ | well i had the previous release and did the upgrade and it worked fine but i thought it would be better to use the cd | 17:52 |
| joshua__ | let me try | 17:52 |
| r0bert | sry | 17:53 |
| r0bert | sudo apt-get install --reinstall xubuntu-desktop | 17:53 |
| r0bert | did you format your partitions? | 17:53 |
| r0bert | maybe there's some interfering settings from the previous installation (i doubt that) | 17:54 |
| joshua__ | it said i have the latest version | 17:54 |
| joshua__ | k let me try reinstall | 17:54 |
| joshua__ | i think it finished | 17:58 |
| joshua__ | do i have to logout or anyhting | 17:58 |
| joshua__ | and i did format my partitions | 17:59 |
| r0bert | dunno, just try logging out | 17:59 |
| joshua__ | k | 17:59 |
| joshua__ | nope still the same | 18:03 |
| joshua__ | maybe it didnt burn right or download | 18:05 |
| r0bert | have you still got the image? you could perform a md5sum check | 18:06 |
| r0bert | but i doubt that, as your installation seems to have gone throught | 18:06 |
| joshua__ | yep ill try that later cuz its on my mom comp | 18:07 |
| r0bert | could you try moving the .config directory to .config-bak und kill the xserver to restart it without saving its current setting? | 18:07 |
| r0bert | that way you'll be able to restore any settings you've made later on | 18:08 |
| r0bert | killing the xserver will work with alt+prntscrn+k | 18:08 |
| joshua__ | i wouldnt no where to begin lol | 18:08 |
| joshua__ | when i try using like gnome it runs slow. could that be my cpu or to little ram? | 18:12 |
| r0bert | what does that mean "using like gnome"? | 18:12 |
| joshua__ | well i mean gnome | 18:12 |
| r0bert | besides, my cpu, gfx card and 1gb ram are 7.5 years old | 18:13 |
| r0bert | might be your ram/cpu then | 18:13 |
| joshua__ | mines a bit older lol '00 or '01 | 18:13 |
| joshua__ | it was built for windows xp put that runs slow so i started tryin linux | 18:14 |
| r0bert | how much ram do you have? | 18:15 |
| r0bert | what cpu and gfx card? | 18:15 |
| joshua__ | 256 ram, intel celeron | 18:16 |
| r0bert | yay | 18:16 |
| r0bert | lowest end <: | 18:16 |
| r0bert | u'd better stick with xfce | 18:16 |
| Besogon | LXDE | 18:16 |
| r0bert | ye, that would even be better | 18:16 |
| Sysi | or crunchbang | 18:17 |
| joshua__ | is my cpu to blame too? | 18:17 |
| Sysi | xubuntu is bloated :\ | 18:17 |
| Sysi | cpu doesn't matter much | 18:17 |
| joshua__ | so if i get more ram? | 18:17 |
| r0bert | well it does to some extent | 18:17 |
| r0bert | but the whole comination makes it slow | 18:18 |
| r0bert | <joshua__> so if i get more ram? | 18:18 |
| r0bert | if u can get it for free | 18:18 |
| r0bert | any money on it will be considered wasted | 18:18 |
| r0bert | in my opinion | 18:18 |
| joshua__ | what distro would u recommend | 18:19 |
| r0bert | there's a lxde spin of fedora | 18:21 |
| Sysi | lubuntu | 18:21 |
| r0bert | if there's such and you want to stay on ubuntu - there you go <. | 18:22 |
| joshua__ | i never heard of it | 18:22 |
| Besogon | I repeat LXDE is lighter than XFCE. | 18:23 |
| joshua__ | would that be the same as kde and gnome just look diff? | 18:23 |
| joshua__ | for fedora | 18:23 |
| Besogon | I didn't try that but you can look at http://lxde.org/ | 18:24 |
| r0bert | joshua__: read here => http://gilir.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/lubuntu-9-10-and-plan-for-lucid/ | 18:25 |
| joshua__ | um robert after they installed that lucid desktop it said to reboot. should i try that since i reinstalled xubuntu | 18:30 |
| r0bert | dont think so | 18:30 |
| r0bert | but go try | 18:30 |
| joshua__ | damn still dont work | 18:34 |
| joshua__ | but ne ways. can 1xde fedora do everything fedora with gnome or kde can do? | 18:35 |
| joshua__ | like can they run all the same programs | 18:35 |
| r0bert | you can also stick with your current installation and change to lxde | 18:37 |
| joshua__ | and i would type what in the terminal? | 18:38 |
| r0bert | dunno, i've never done that <. | 18:41 |
| r0bert | http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Ubuntu | 18:41 |
| joshua__ | well i think either way it would be better for me to reinstall the whole distro | 18:42 |
| nicklas_ | öj | 18:45 |
| nicklas_ | i want a new harddrive now :-P | 18:51 |
| Sysi | i NEED some hard disc | 18:59 |
| Sysi | i have broken partition table | 19:00 |
| r0bert | i need money for hard disc drives | 19:00 |
| Sysi | i think i'll borrow one first | 19:00 |
| joshua__ | i need one thats lockable | 19:11 |
| r0bert | between the grub-2-menu and xubuntu's "sparkling"-splash | 19:49 |
| r0bert | that mouse-logo is displayed | 19:49 |
| r0bert | what is it called (is it a splash?), where does it reside and how can i change it? | 19:50 |
| Admiral-Awesome | heh I'm not a fan of that logo either | 19:50 |
| FrozenFire[work] | What is the best way to generate thumbnails of images in Xubuntu? Preferably, it would provide a context menu item in Thunar, so I can just select a bunch of images and thumbnail them to a specified size. | 19:52 |
| Admiral-Awesome | Its there an easy way to disable ondemand like it was in gnome. rccconf doesnt seem to change anything now or sysv-rc-conf | 19:54 |
| Admiral-Awesome | Its still scales my 2 cpu | 19:54 |
| vik | hello, I want to disable ipv6 globally, what is the simpliest and best way of doing that in Karmic? Thanks | 20:11 |
| konstantink | hi folks.. little question here: i am running xubuntu 9.10 from virtualbox on a windows host. although experienced with ubuntu (at least, that's what i thought), i am having trouble to change the screen resolution. first approach: use some gui stuff (in settings). but the resolution i want wasn't listet. second approach: chagen xorg.conf. but... /etc/xorg.conf does not exist. so where does xfce store its config files? | 21:25 |
| konstantink | sorry... /etc/X11/xorg.conf.. | 21:26 |
| konstantink | (doesn't exist either :) ) | 21:26 |
| likemindead | Are you using any 'restricted hardware?' | 21:26 |
| konstantink | i am not sure. the t60 thinkpad has an ati graphics card. i wonder, however, what virtualbox makes out of it. lspci gives me just some standard stuff.VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter | 21:27 |
| konstantink | i am just curious: is xfce not using xorg? | 21:29 |
| likemindead | It's not Xfce, it's how Ubuntu's changed. | 21:29 |
| likemindead | It weirds me out too. :-\ | 21:29 |
| likemindead | I'd see if you can install the ATI drivers, I guess. | 21:29 |
| konstantink | ok, i was gonna do that but then i though: why install drivers if the system doesn't know about the real hardware. but i'll give it a try | 21:30 |
| konstantink | anyway... where is all that stuff stored if not in xorg.conf? | 21:30 |
| likemindead | That's where, again, I'm confused. It used to me much more... simple. :-\ | 21:35 |
| likemindead | (Feel free to join in, lurkers.) | 21:35 |
| troglobyte | konstantink: Have you run the "install guest addittions..." from the virtualbox menu? | 21:35 |
| troglobyte | thats where you get drivers for your guest OS | 21:36 |
| konstantink | @troglobyte: yes, i did run that. as far as i can tell that worked out (i can change the resolution - i just can't pick the right one ...) | 21:36 |
| troglobyte | Ah | 21:36 |
| konstantink | i am running envy at the moment. don't think it'll work, though | 21:37 |
| troglobyte | do you have "auto-resize guest display "turned on? You can drag out the window and it'll adjust accordingly. | 21:37 |
| troglobyte | well, it should on a windows host anyway | 21:38 |
| konstantink | err.. | 21:38 |
| konstantink | i don't think i do | 21:39 |
| konstantink | no fancy auto-resize stuff | 21:39 |
| konstantink | except, host+a, but that is something different, right? | 21:39 |
| troglobyte | my host is ubuntu so it may be different but I get the option under the 'Machine' menu | 21:39 |
| troglobyte | host+G | 21:40 |
| konstantink | oh, it's grey here.. can't activate it | 21:40 |
| troglobyte | aw bummer | 21:40 |
| konstantink | maybe i should check whether the guest additions are installed correctly.. | 21:40 |
| troglobyte | it's quite a process if i remember correctly. | 21:41 |
| konstantink | but they have to be... i saw that script running with the kernel rebuilding stuff | 21:41 |
| konstantink | envy script is done. i'll restart and come back if it didn't help. if i don't show up again, envy solved it. however, i still don't know where xorg gets its config from | 21:42 |
| likemindead | !xorg | 21:48 |
| ubottu | The X Window System is the part of your system that's responsible for graphical output. To restart your X, type « sudo /etc/init.d/?dm restart » in a console - To fix screen resolution or other X problems: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution | 21:48 |
| likemindead | Hmm... | 21:48 |
| konstantink | alright... that was anything but successful. | 21:56 |
| konstantink | envy did create a xorg.conf. that xorg. conf was obviously buggy (the driver did not exist) and caused gdm to crash | 21:57 |
| konstantink | i removed xorg.conf completely and now i am back to the state i was before | 21:57 |
| konstantink | that means, xorg is reading standard config files... but where are they? how come i am lost in this business again... | 21:58 |
| seevee | I ran sudo service gdm stop and then startxfce4 - did not give me the desired result, but the issue now is that the screen resolution only allows 800x600 as a maximum. Suggestions? | 22:13 |
| seevee | I'm running 9.04 | 22:17 |
| garrythefish | not enough drilling. that's what's the problem with the lesbos at #ubuntu-women | 23:36 |
| garrythefish | see ya :) | 23:36 |
| garrythefish | not enough drilling. that's what's the problem with the lesbos at #ubuntu-women | 23:36 |
| likemindead | !ops | ban garrythefish, please? | 23:39 |
| ubottu | ban garrythefish, please?: ops is HELP! gnomefreak, tonyyarusso, PuMpErNiCkLe, maxamillion, TheSheep, crimsun, mrpouit, Myrtti, PriceChild charlie-tca or cody-somerville | 23:39 |
| likemindead | :-\ | 23:56 |
| knome | hmm. | 23:57 |
| likemindead | No bans for bigoted, mysoginistic spammers? | 23:58 |
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