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jesiHi00:01
jesiNeed help here00:01
jesiI dont have sound in YouTube00:01
arthurjohnsonWow. He stuck around for three whole minutes00:23
arthurjohnsonMust be new to Linux ;)00:23
MalkavianManiaclol arthurjohnson00:32
jesiAnyine assisting here?03:15
Viper550someoen said the xubuntu bug maintainers wern't doing as much of a good job03:19
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gatlinI know there is a wiki page on live cd customization but it only has instructions for gnome; I am interested in doing some refinements (different theme defaults etc) on a remix of xubuntu I'm working on04:19
gatlindoes anyone have any insight?04:19
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Viking667hey ho. Is there a "small" release of xubuntu? I want to install Xorg and Chrome, and that's pretty much it.05:57
Viking667(on a 1.3GHz P3 with 512Mb memory, no CDROM, and 10Gb drive.)05:57
Viking667And yes, it has USB, though I don't know if that's bootable yet.05:57
charlie-tcathere is not a specific image for a small release, no.05:58
Viking667hm. So I'm stuck with 610Mb for the iso then... *sigh*05:58
charlie-tcaYou could use the alternate image and do a minimal installation, which lets you decide which packages to install05:58
Viper550Viking667, try slitaz05:58
Viper550its also LXDE-based, but its only got a 30mb iso too05:59
Viking667Does it support running Chrome and Flash?05:59
Viper550Viking667, dunno, comes with that midori web browser06:00
Viking667m.06:26
Viking667Okay, thanks. I guess I can replace it, but I have to hope that Chrome works.06:26
charlie-tcaany suggestions for a stand-alone calendar to replace 'sunbird'?06:57
TheSheeporage?06:58
TheSheepcal -y ?06:58
charlie-tcaYeah, been trying hard to like orage, but it just don't work06:58
TheSheeposmo?06:58
TheSheepdates?06:58
charlie-tcaThanks. I will take a look at osmo again, and cal -y is the one I never think about07:01
syn-ackcharlie-tca, I've not found a single stand alone calendar that I've liked. I tend to use Evolution for just about everything...07:56
charlie-tcaI use claws-mail, but the calendar plugin crashes everytime I click on the calendar07:57
syn-ackouch07:57
charlie-tcaI really like sunbird, but they have discontinued it07:57
syn-ackreally?07:57
charlie-tcayeah07:58
charlie-tcareplaced by thunderbird with lightning07:58
syn-ackthat was gonna be second question07:58
charlie-tcaand lightning doesn't appear to be a stand-alone07:58
syn-ackwell since they've done that, have they actually a port to x64 yet?07:58
syn-ackno, it's not07:58
charlie-tca:-(07:59
faLUCEhi. the xfce4 panel often covers windows border in 10.04 . Is there a way to solve that? thanks07:59
syn-ackI liked thunderbird with lightning... pissed me off when they didnt have an x64 in the repos though07:59
charlie-tcafaLUCE: not that I know of07:59
syn-ackfaLUCE, come again?08:00
faLUCEsyn-ack: :)08:00
syn-ackI've never had that issue, myself08:00
faLUCEsyn-ack: it depends on the application08:00
syn-ackexamples?08:00
faLUCEsome java applications, some wine applications08:00
syn-ackah08:01
syn-ackI don't think that's so much an issue with the panel... I know what you're talking about now08:01
faLUCEsyn-ack: it has something to do with xfce408:01
faLUCEanyway, the same problem did not occour in the previous xubuntu08:02
syn-ackyou file a bug or anything yet? are there similar bugs?08:02
charlie-tcafaLUCE: packages usually update between releases08:02
faLUCEcharlie-tca: I have already update packages08:02
charlie-tcaThat's why it did not occur in previous release. the package updated08:03
syn-ackMay I reask my question as to whether or not you filed a bug on that?08:04
charlie-tcaI have not. I don't see the issue here08:04
faLUCEcharlie-tca: yes, this is clear. but what is strange is that this adds a strong bug... as said some days ago, there are several ugly bugs in this release; look at the thunar bug (which I solved, meanwhile)... it's really strange08:04
syn-ackcharlie-tca, sorry, that was meant for faLUCE08:05
syn-ackcharlie-tca, I think it's a non issue as well...08:05
faLUCEsyn-ack: no, I didn't file it, because I don't know exactly how to reproduce it08:05
syn-ackI still don't think it's an issue with the DE. I think it may be more of a WiNE issue and opJDK display issue08:06
syn-ackopenJDK too08:06
faLUCEsyn-ack: since it did not occour in the previous versionS of xubuntu, it's a problem of xfce08:06
charlie-tcabut it won't get fixed without a bug report08:07
syn-ackYou do realise that more than just XFCE gets updated, right?08:07
syn-ackI mean, I don't mean argue points here, but I think you need to quite a bit more digging before you lay the blame on one particular thing08:07
faLUCEsyn-ack: yes, but it's reasonable that it's associated with xfce08:08
syn-ackIt's also reasonable that its associated with something else too08:08
charlie-tcafaLUCE: not if it doesn't happen outside of wine and openjdk08:08
charlie-tcaIt might be caused by the new gtk package08:09
faLUCEcharlie-tca: it happens for wine and jdk (not openjdk)08:09
syn-ackexactly08:09
faLUCEgtk is part of xfce08:09
charlie-tcaThat is not the xfce package, then08:09
syn-ackSo you're running Sun Java08:09
charlie-tcano08:09
faLUCEsyn-ack: yes08:09
charlie-tcagtk is not part of xfce08:09
faLUCEcharlie-tca: ok, let's say that it's used by xfce08:09
charlie-tcaIt is also used by gnome08:10
syn-ackxfce is built atop of gtk... its not even remotely a part of it08:10
syn-ackand LXDE08:10
syn-ackand a TON of other products08:10
charlie-tcaGTK is a completely separate package from xfce. The xfce developers do not touch it08:10
faLUCEcharlie-tca: yes, I see that, but anyway the two packages work together08:11
syn-ackfaLUCE, what charlie-tca and I getting at is that your issue is still premature to determine what is causing the issues. Time to debug08:11
faLUCEsyn-ack: I know that it's premature08:11
charlie-tcafaLUCE: if the bug is really in gtk, and we send it to xfce, it will never get worked08:12
syn-ackman, Pandora uses a lot of CPU... more than I initially thought08:14
syn-ackaveraging around 20% on top08:14
syn-ackhrm08:15
syn-ackI wonder if I can nice it out some with out it going nuts on me08:15
faLUCEcharlie-tca: syn-ack: http://drop.io/pujztbx <---- you can download a program which reproduces the bug. in order to execute it:  java -jar TestBugBorder.jar08:42
charlie-tcaDo you have any error messages in ~/.xsession-errors ?08:43
syn-ackSorry, I don't download from untrusted sources08:44
faLUCEsyn-ack: it's a program made by me08:44
syn-ackExactly.08:44
faLUCEcharlie-tca: only that (firefox-bin:2963): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead08:46
charlie-tcaThat's not it08:47
Viking667hey all. I'm having trouble getting Xubuntu onto a machine that hasn't got a CDROM drive, and won't boot from its USB drive.10:08
Viking667Any suggestions aside from hauling the drive out and sticking it in an install machine?10:08
moetunesthat would be a hassle10:09
Viking667*nod*10:09
moetunesthere is pxe10:09
moetunes!pxe10:09
Viking667It's looking to be the only option I've got left, unless I can get that running.10:09
moetunes!netinstall10:09
ubottuUbuntu can be installed in lots of ways. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation for documentation. Problems during install? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonProblemsInstall - Don't want to use a CD? See http://tinyurl.com/3exghs - See also !automate10:09
Viking667Right. I've got a prepared USB stick that I can stick on another machine that can act as the pxe host, would that work?10:10
moetunesI would put the hd in a comp that could boot from cd - it doesn't matter what comp the hd goes in unlike windows10:10
Viking667actually, it does, somewhat.10:11
syn-ackwhoa10:11
syn-ackheyas Viking66710:11
Viking667The target machine has Intel chipset (and unfortunately, Intel graphics too)10:11
Viking667hi there, syn-ack.10:11
Viking667ltns, huh?10:11
syn-ackTell me about it10:11
moetunesswap the hd from comp to comp - linux doesn't mind at all - and it is easier10:11
Viking667The other machines all have VIA chipsets, and one has ATI radeon vid10:11
Viking667moetunes: I struck that with one other machine I tried to migrate. I didn't know what X server I was supposed to use, now I know it's 81x, thank goodness.10:12
moetunesit is set up at boot time - the comps vid card doesn't matter now - there's no xorg.conf unless you make one10:13
Viking667so, anyhow - I have this USB stick I prepared with usb-creator, I can stick that on a pxe server...10:13
syn-ackIf you don't want to remove the disk, the only real method albeit time consuming would be to PXE boot it. Though.. if you use a Clonezilla machine it would go by very quickly10:14
Viking667*blink*... darn. I forgot that.10:14
moetunesheh10:14
Viking667no idea what clonezilla is.10:14
syn-ackGoodness, that's what. :P10:14
Viking667I'll have to go grab a pxe boot image then, I guess.10:14
syn-ackViking667, Ghost on 'roids, dude.10:14
moetunesand linux determines hardware at boot so swapping between comps is so much easier than pxe imo10:15
Viking667mmmm. not as badly as Windows, true.10:15
syn-ackSo, do I want to rid myself of a swap partition and start using page files? hrm10:16
syn-ackwhat say you guys?10:16
moetuneserrr page file = swap more or less - page file is a windows term10:17
syn-ackyeah, I know. ok "swap" file10:17
moetunesin linux we set a partition to do do swap10:17
Viking667shyte.10:18
syn-ackyeah, you can use files too.10:18
syn-ackmoetunes, I've been using linux 13 years now.... I keep up, mate10:18
Viking667this machine has no CDROM drive, no floppy drive, doesn't recognise any USB drives on bootup, and has a network connector, a hard drive, a CPU, and memory.10:18
moetunesyep - with the mem available now if you don't hibernate the is no real need for a swap partition afaik10:19
Viking667It (probably) supports booting from the network, I guess I'm stuck with pxe, except I haven't found it yet.10:19
moetunessyn-ack: and still you ask?10:19
syn-acksure do10:20
moetuneshehe :]10:20
syn-ackViking667, how old is that machine?10:20
moetunesis it a lappy10:20
syn-ackand... have you checked for a firmware update?10:20
Viking667not a lappy. It's a Compaq D50010:22
syn-ackouch10:22
Viking667yuh.10:22
Viking667max of 512Mb memory...10:22
syn-ackyeah, that's gonna be tricky but they do support PXE boot10:22
Viking667...which, luckily for me, it has10:22
Viking667you know the machine, huh?10:22
syn-ackyeah10:22
syn-ack<- premerger Compaq fanboi... remember. :P10:22
Viking667good. You might be able to walk me through a couple of things on this  machine.10:22
syn-ackBeen a while, but I'll try10:23
Viking667The machine came to me with a dying hard drive with an invalidated install of Windows on...10:23
syn-ackok..10:23
Viking667Right. I'll do the ltsp-server bit on this machine, I think... might make it easier10:23
Viking667I've got a 10Gb that's slotted in there now...10:23
Viking667give me a couple of minutes to reroute the secondary monitor...10:24
Viking667and power10:24
syn-ackyou had a Compaq hard disk lying around?10:24
syn-ackwith the offset pin..10:24
Viking667uhm, no?10:24
syn-ackwhat year is the bios on boot?10:25
Viking667this drive's uh... can't remember what it was now.10:25
syn-ack2000 or 2001?10:25
Viking667I'll check once I get the power plugged back in. Got a wonderful RED compaq on black background10:25
Viking6672000 I think, but give me a chance to plug it in.10:25
Viking667at the momen't there's no CMOS battery, that's going to have to wait10:25
syn-ackI'm sorry 1999 or 2000...10:27
Viking667crap Missed the date.10:27
syn-ackanyway, 2000 is first year post merger, so it's opened up a bit from before then10:27
moetunesppl are too trained on windows... you can take a linux install from amd h/ware and put the hd in an intel comp and it will boot fine10:27
Viking667you're in luck, the bios "About" screen states copyright of 1998-200110:27
syn-ackhah10:28
Viking667hah?10:28
syn-ackjust the dates. :P10:28
Viking667describes itself as a Evo D50010:28
Viking667sorry, 1982-200110:28
Viking667(that's what I meant to say to begin with)10:28
* syn-ack looks at his Evo D500 sitting to his right10:29
* Viking667 grins10:29
Viking667Compaq Evo D500 USDT10:29
Viking667it has a Celeron 130010:29
syn-ackMine has the P4 2.810:29
Viking667system rom says:  686Y1 v1.0210:29
syn-ackand it supports 1 gig ram instead of the half gig of yours10:30
Viking667ooo, lucky you. That's what I've got on this machine (p4)10:30
Viking667but the Compaq just has the Celeron10:30
Viking667325 or 335?10:30
Viking667or a full P4?10:30
syn-ackFull p410:30
Viking667even better!10:30
syn-ackI'm waiting on a PSU for it. :.10:31
syn-ack:/10:31
Viking667Right. Let me get a ltsp-standalone server installed here.10:31
Viking667the drive's a Fujitsu...10:36
Viking667darn dhcp3 server isn't starting yet... I might have to set it up.10:36
moetunespxe is pita10:39
Viking667might be, but it seems to be the only way I'll get Linux on this box shy of a disk transfer10:55
Viking667I've already got a dhcp machine set up, I just need the pxeboot image for booting Ubuntu's installer.10:56
syn-ackViking667, that's why I suggested clonezilla10:57
moetunes<moetunes> pxe is pita - why i suggested justtransferring the hd just for the install - could have been done by now...10:59
Viking667current machine needs to remain running, and it's the only viable target for a HD install, so no.11:04
moetunesk11:06
moetuneserrr - how do you use a new install on a machine that needs to remain running?11:07
Viking667(1) compaq is target machine. It's the one without CDROM, et al.11:08
Viking667(2) This machine is the source machine , and currently running applications11:09
Viking667I do have another machine that can act as a dhcp server, and has done so in the past.11:09
Viking667I can put the files required for pxe on there...11:09
ManicMalkavian!unetbootin11:09
ubottuFor information about installing Ubuntu from USB flash drives, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick - For a persistent live USB install, see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent11:09
Viking667I just edit the menu and away I goe11:10
ManicMalkavianwouldnt that do the trick?11:10
Viking667ManicMalkavian: problem there. The silly machine won't recognise the USB drive either.11:10
Viking667I've already been down that path11:10
ManicMalkaviani seee11:10
Viking667that was the first thing I tried.11:10
Viking667yuh.11:10
moetunesyou can't use a new install without a reboot - format is most likely11:11
ManicMalkavianis it a desktop or a laptop?11:11
ManicMalkaviancos if both machines are desktops, i would just hotswap your optical drive11:12
Viking667The machine doesn't have a slot to put it...11:13
ManicMalkavianhang it out of the case11:13
Viking667silly thing has one power plug. It's plugged into the hard drive. Sigh.11:13
ManicMalkavianaah11:13
Viking667it hasn't even got any FLOPPIES, for pete's sake...11:13
charlie-tca!netboot11:13
ubottuUbuntu can be installed in lots of ways. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation for documentation. Problems during install? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonProblemsInstall - Don't want to use a CD? See http://tinyurl.com/3exghs - See also !automate11:13
ManicMalkavianyou see, i have parts lying around... so id just set another PSU next to the case and run new wires to it11:13
Viking667it's got (instead) this stupid multi-function bay that can take either a CDROM (which I don't have) or a floppy (which I also don't have)11:14
Viking667I wondered that too... I've got a cdrom drive spare...11:14
Viking667I even have a PSU spare.11:14
ManicMalkavianthen do that11:15
Viking667But what I don't have is a reliable dual cable.11:15
Viking667(ide)11:15
ManicMalkaviani see11:15
ManicMalkaviannewer motherboard with only one ID port11:15
Viking667I _think_ I have a second single IDE cable lying around...11:15
ManicMalkavianIDE*11:15
Viking667no, it's an OLDER mother board with ide ports11:15
ManicMalkavianaah, god11:15
ManicMalkaviangood*11:15
Viking667I'm not even sure if the darn thing's got two IDE connectors or not11:15
ManicMalkavianit will11:15
Viking667Well, not that good. It's as unexpandable to all hell and gone.11:16
ManicMalkavianif its an older board11:16
Viking6672001-ish, Compaq Evo D500 USDT11:16
Viking667hm. That last link assumes there's an OS already on the hard drive... there isn't,.11:18
Viking667I'll check the other Installation links too.11:18
ManicMalkavianhonestly, netbooting isnt worth the effort11:19
ManicMalkavianjust plug in a spare PSU and CD drive11:19
ManicMalkavianand youll be installed within the hour11:19
Viking667except I haven't got an hour left... so I'llbe doing this tomorrow, I guess.11:26
Viking667I've figured out I can't just shovel over a whole ISO, it won't work for that.11:28
Viking667so now I'm on the hunt for a netboot ISO that's small enough (30Mb?) to pxe it.11:28
Viking667still looking at web pages. I seem to have found what I want.11:28
TheSheepthere is the minicd11:31
moetunes!minimal11:31
ubottuThe Minimal CD image is very small in size, and it downloads most packages from the Internet during installation, allowing you to select only those you want (the installer is like the one on the !Alternate CD). See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD11:31
Viking667ooo.11:33
Viking667Right. I'll have that when I get up tomorrow then, I guess.11:33
Viking667thank you.11:35
moetunesI wouldn't be linuxing without TheSheep ....11:36
_chris_is it usual that apache2 has about 10 processes running ?11:51
moetunes_chris_: I get 4 running - but it prob depends on what you're doing with it11:56
charlie-tca_chris_: Probably is correct, but you could also check in #ubuntu-server to be certain11:56
_chris_okay thx11:59
moetunesthe bot is dead!!12:01
charlie-tcashe times out too, huh?12:02
moetunesheh12:02
LaPetiteHello12:45
ManicMalkavianhello LaPetite12:45
LaPetiteI need help with my Wireless. After 20minutes I add rt2800usb to blacklist, restared PC and my Wireless works fine12:45
LaPetiteBut now It not works anymore12:45
LaPetiteI see again stupid message: "wlan0 No scan results"12:46
ManicMalkavianreload the kernel modules and disable and re enable the interface12:46
LaPetiteRestarted PC, loaded unloaded USB Wireless12:46
LaPetiteAnd same thing..12:46
LaPetiteOne thing was that12:46
LaPetiteThat laptop was in other room12:46
LaPetiteand battery goes down12:46
LaPetiteand pc taked off12:47
LaPetiteAfter that it don't work anymore12:47
LaPetiteAnyway, after that i didin't checked Wireless. I connected my cable internet, isntalledd some things like macchanger and aircrack.12:47
LaPetiteand after that I getting my wireless crashed :/12:47
LaPetitenm-tool showing me12:48
LaPetiteDriver: usb12:48
LaPetiteState: disconnected12:48
LaPetiteDefault: no12:48
LaPetiteSo maybe here is a problem?12:48
LaPetitelsusb showing: 148f:3070 Ralink Technologi, Corop.12:49
ManicMalkavian[AMSG] AWAY: Snooze13:14
knomeManicMalkavian, please do not use public away messages13:14
tychocan anyone help me editing my menu ?13:16
tychoi downloaded alacarte but it just shows the wrong icons all the time13:16
tychowhere is the menu file located ?13:17
TheSheepwhat do you want to change?13:18
tychowell13:21
tychoi want to be able to add programs that dont get added automatically and change the wine folder in "other" category13:21
tychoit also shows icons of programs i dont have installed anymore13:22
tychoi know a bit xml so i can figure it out i just cant find the file13:23
tychoit says different folders when i serach on google13:23
charlie-tcaIt is no longer xml as of Xfce 4.613:23
tychowhat is i13:24
tychoit13:24
charlie-tca[for 4.6] copy '/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu to '~/.config/xdg/menus' and customize it.13:24
charlie-tcahttp://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu13:24
tychoi have the latest13:24
tychonow i removed every file that is in username//.config/xdg/menus13:28
tychostill shows all icons13:28
charlie-tcaIcons come from the generated .desktop files for most applications. They are in /usr/share/applications13:30
tychoah found them13:30
charlie-tcaNot every item in that directory will be in the menus13:31
tychoi dont get this i have removed all files in .config / menus13:34
tychoand remove the icons i dont want from the applications folder13:35
tychoand refreshed it in the terminal13:35
tychostill shows duplicate icons13:35
tychoshouldnt it show nothing at all or at least one less duplicated icons13:35
charlie-tcaWhen you click Applications - properties, what menu are you using?13:36
charlie-tcaright-click Applications, left-click properties, Menu File should have choices13:36
tychothese are in swedish but i will try to translate, Others, Programming, acessories, system games, network multi media office graphics and settings13:37
charlie-tcaNo13:37
charlie-tcaIs that Ubuntu or Xubuntu?13:38
tychoxubuntu13:38
charlie-tcaright click Applications, in the panel, then left-click "properties"13:38
charlie-tcaYou can choose "Use default desktop menu file" or "Use custom-menu file"13:39
tychook13:39
tychoah13:39
charlie-tcadefault is Use default destkop menu file13:39
charlie-tcaI'm just trying to point you in different directions, here. the menus in 4.6 are not really set up for user editing13:40
charlie-tcaMaybe something will be what you want13:41
tychowell i chose one here that is ok, just have too add the various folder again with all the wine programs13:41
charlie-tcaAdd them in ~/.local/applications13:42
charlie-tcaAll you need is a Application_Menu_name_you_want.desktop file13:42
Fredagshi, I'm having quite some trouble setting my netbook up for wifi13:43
tychoi am currently in username/.local/ but there is no applications folder do i create one13:43
charlie-tcaooops, sorry13:44
charlie-tca~/.local/share/applications13:44
tychoah!!13:44
tychosweet13:44
FredagsIt's an old acer 3003lmi with a broadcom card, though I gave up on trying to get it working, so I'm currently trying a dlink dongle13:44
charlie-tcaFiles are just like those in /usr/share/applications . They are just easier to edit here13:44
charlie-tcaAny file in this will override /usr/share/applications , too13:45
Fredagsupon entering ssid and wpa2 passwords in the network manager it appears to connect and then repeatedly prompts me for the password (which is correctly entered). the router doesn't seem to see any connection attempts though13:45
Fredagsany thoughts?13:45
charlie-tca!wireless | Fredags13:47
ubottuFredags: Wireless documentation, including how-to guides and troubleshooting information, can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs13:47
Fredagsyeah, checked it out but i still don't get it to work13:47
Fredagstried ndiswrapper with the drivers for broadcom13:47
charlie-tcaI really don't know wireless, myself.13:47
tychoi just had to remove some files there and change the desktop file on the menu, now it looks like i want... thx13:48
Fredagsalright13:48
charlie-tcatycho: You are welcome13:49
charlie-tcaGlad we got there, even if it was a bit of a merry-go-round13:49
tychoyes i appreciate it, i think they should add a menu editor in the next release to make it easier13:50
charlie-tcaIt is planned for Xfce 4.813:51
tychooh thats great13:51
arthurjohnsonThey also need an easier way to add launchers to the panel14:16
arthurjohnsonI hope thats coming with 4.814:16
charlie-tcahmm, I guess I don't add very many14:20
arthurjohnsonMe either, but when I do, its a pita.  Appfinder, adding launchers.  Just not very intuitive for the new user.14:26
arthurjohnsonI would like to see Xfce become more and more user friendly, that way when GNOME goes all wonky, getting rid of the panel and going all shell, we will dominate the wimp interface!14:26
arthurjohnsonI'm on the gnome-shell mailing list, thats their long term plan.  To dump the gnome panel and metacity all together.14:27
charlie-tcaAren't they doing that in gnome3?14:29
arthurjohnsonYeah14:30
arthurjohnsonSome time after GNOME3 is out, metacity and panel are history. I think we are going to see some users migrate to us over that.14:31
charlie-tcaI haven't heard if Ubuntu is dropping the panel at the same time, though14:31
charlie-tcaUsers will bounce back and forth depending on what is new, all the time.14:32
arthurjohnsonProbably.  My days of switching window managers every week ended years ago. I settled on Xfce because its easy to use, feature rich, and doesn't use a lot of resources.  Its what Gnome should have been.14:34
* arthurjohnson abandoned GNOME when they dropped sawfish14:34
charlie-tcaheh. I went for the color the first time14:35
charlie-tcaI had to change a lot of theme stuff in Ubuntu, xubuntu was made for me14:35
arthurjohnsonIndeed. I switched to Xubuntu in 7.10.14:47
arthurjohnsonOnly used Ubuntu with 7.0414:48
arthurjohnsonAs far as window managers go, I didn't care for Xfce 3. Xforms were kindof ugly.  I didn't start using Xfce religiously until version 4.14:48
TheSheephow do you use a desktop environment religiously?14:49
TheSheepfor making sacrifices and stuff?14:49
arthurjohnsonYes, I sacrifice dead projects to it14:49
arthurjohnsonThe last one was WindowMaker ;)14:49
arthurjohnsonWhen I started with Linux I used FVWM, then KDE (loved ver 1 and 2), but switched to WindowMaker early, like 1999 or 2000.  Used that till I switched to Ubuntu with 7.04, and Xfce ever since Xubuntu 7.1014:51
TheSheepfunny, I also came to xfce from windowmaker14:53
TheSheepcde before that14:53
arthurjohnsonWindowMaker is the pimp, but it doesn't handle libnotify and tray items gracefully.  In fact, WindowMaker pretty much predates the system tray and notify techs we take for granted today.14:54
arthurjohnsonNever found a decent dockapp for system tray, at least not when I switched.  Maybe someone has a decent dockapp now, but its kinda too late. My heart belongs to Xfce ;)14:55
charlie-tcahuh. I went commodore-64, to windows 3.1 to OS/2 to Ubuntu 5.10 to Xubuntu 6.0614:56
arthurjohnsonI used OS/2 for a while, but didn't have a cdrom drive, and their hardware support was brutal.14:56
charlie-tcayeah, all their home user support was bad14:57
arthurjohnsonFor me it was Tandy CoCo, DOS, Win 3.11, OS/2, Win98 (for a month or so), Slackware, RedHat, Debian, then Ubuntu.14:57
arthurjohnsonAll starting about 1984 ;)14:58
charlie-tcabut then again, Ubuntu 5.10, I had to manually install ndiswrapper and wireless drivers from windows, download and install the nvidia driver, etc.14:58
charlie-tcaAh, the fun days. Go find a computer that had internet to download ndiswrapper to install wireless14:59
charlie-tcaWasn't even in the repositories, either14:59
handjobHi. I am bit frustraed and I need some help. I have some issues with god damn puls (there is more problems then benefits of this shit) and I need to acces /root. When passing "cd /root" I get the "permission denied" and thats ok. But when I do sudo cd /root sudo: cd: command not found. I can't log in as I root since it is disableb by default. What to do? I dont want to grant user 777 on /root...15:22
ochosihandjob, tried sudo su yet?15:28
schlaftier_handjob: cd is a shell builtin, that's why you cannot "sudo cd". Try "sudo -i" or "sudo su"15:29
handjobThank You gentleman.15:33
choihi, does anyone know how to enable the terminal beep in xfce?15:35
handjobBye!15:35
charlie-tcachoi: you can edit the terminal preferences manually - in a terminal, mousepad ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc15:37
choi@charlie-tca, already did that, no effect.15:37
choi@charlie-tca, i can do the beep and it works, but it cannot work when using "echo -e '\a'" so it doesn't work with terminal applications15:38
charlie-tcadid you enable bell in /etc/screenrc ?15:38
choiill check15:38
choihmm.. what part here? do I disable visual bell?15:39
charlie-tcaNo, you enable audio bell, just a minute15:40
charlie-tcaman screen should list it15:41
choiscreen? isn't that an application?15:42
charlie-tcaoops wrong one15:42
charlie-tcaedit /etc/inputrc15:42
charlie-tca'set bell-style audio15:43
knomecharlie-tca, any idea why i don't get a xubuntu gdm theme after upgrade to lucid?15:43
charlie-tcaYou get a blank?15:43
charlie-tcayou just don't get the fireflies?15:43
knomeblack background, light gtk stuff15:43
knomei don't get those either.15:43
charlie-tcait's disabled, mr_pouit knows the command15:44
knomeokay. was there some issue with nvidia, or is it already fixed?15:44
charlie-tcaI had to disable it during testing15:44
charlie-tcathe only issue I know was with plymouth, gdm and nvidia. Removing gdm splash in 9.10 stopped the repeating gdm login screen15:45
knomemm-hmm15:45
charlie-tca In lucid, if you got a black screen on boot, you disabled the plymouth splash screen in grub, removed the gdm splash screen15:46
choi@charlie-tca still not working, do I have to restart?15:46
knomealso, i needed to install elementary-icon-theme and change both the icon theme and gtk theme to elementary and albatross, respectively.15:46
charlie-tcachoi: believe you do for the file to be read again.15:46
acantidejin #xubuntu-es15:47
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knomecharlie-tca, didn't do either of those.15:47
charlie-tcano idea, knome. Time for a bug report15:47
choi@charlie-tca okay15:47
charlie-tcaI can't think of any I saw where the only screen missing is gdm15:47
knomecharlie-tca, well i didn't install recommends, since i didn't wan abiword or gnumeric to be installed15:49
charlie-tcaThat's it ! gdm-splash is part of xubuntu-artwork, isn't it?15:50
charlie-tcagnome doesn't use it anymore15:50
knomei installed xubuntu-artwork later on though, but that didn't solve the issue15:50
charlie-tcabut if gdm didn't see it on install, it probably disabled it15:51
knomeany way to enable?15:51
charlie-tcamr_pouit: what is the command to re-enable the gdm splash screen?15:51
knomei'm not sure if i like thunderbird 315:52
charlie-tcaI didn't like it at all15:52
ochosiwell maybe it's time to give claws-mail a chance...15:55
ochosi:)15:55
charlie-tcaUsing it already :-)15:56
knomethe foldertree seems to be quite crammed up15:56
knomeneed to work on a new userChrome.css15:56
ochosicharlie-tca, would be cool imo if you'd set the elementary icon theme i made for claws as default, that would make it blend in with the rest a bit more nicely15:57
charlie-tcaIs it installed to the system by default?15:58
ochosinot sure how up-to-date the claws-mail-themes package is in ubuntu15:58
ochosii've always been using claws from their ppa15:58
charlie-tcaOnly show one in claws-mail - Default internal theme16:00
ochosiyeah, you need to install the claws-mail-themes package16:00
ochosiand even then i'm not sure my theme is there already16:01
charlie-tcaoh16:01
ochosidepends on when they made that package16:01
ochosii'll have a quick loock16:01
ochosii'll have a quick look16:01
charlie-tcaI don't know. version is 3.7.416:01
ochosiit says 20090605.dfsg-216:02
ochosiso that's *really* old...16:02
charlie-tcaheh16:02
ochosibasically that package contains the crappy themes16:03
ochosinot the newer png themes, only the older xpm stuff16:03
ochosiwould really deserve an update16:03
charlie-tcaknome: you are using 'xubuntu session' and not 'xfce session', right?16:03
ochosiespecially if claws is considered as a tb-replacement16:03
knomecharlie-tca, yup16:04
charlie-tcaI'll have to dig for the file to enable/install. got to run to uds wrapup now, though. I will get to you16:04
knomeokay :)16:05
charlie-tcaI attended remotely all week16:05
choi@charlie-tca was that set bell-style "audible" or "audio"?16:12
charlie-tcaIt should be "audible", I think16:12
choihmm didn't work :(16:14
choithere are so many combinations of settings to turn it off or on, so far i haven't made it work16:15
choidoes it work on yours?16:16
charlie-tcaI turn all the bells and flashes off16:17
charlie-tcaI hate them bells16:17
choihaha, yeah, i turned it off before too. although now that i'm using a lot of terminal apps, it seems useful16:18
choinevermind, i'll try to search the forums, thnx neway16:18
onkaracould anyone confirm if autofs in LucidLynx is broken ??18:18
Pres-Gasoooh, I hope not...I was looking at using it18:19
onkaraPres-Gas: yeah I can't get it to work18:21
Pres-Gasonkara, do any of these match your issue? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs18:21
Pres-Gasonkara, especially this one?  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/57391918:21
onkaraPres-Gas: yes I am having the exact same problem ... not only autofs is not starting on reboot but its not mounting even when service is manually started18:23
Pres-GasI would latch onto that report and contribute to it or lurk, onkara18:24
Pres-GasThough to get you fixed in the meantime, onkara.  It looks like there is a patch/workaround.  See comment #5?  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/573919/comments/518:27
K3nnyHi18:40
K3nnycan somone help me pls18:40
K3nnyi got truble install ubuntu18:40
Pres-GasElaborate K3nny18:42
Pres-GasOr ask in #ubuntu18:42
K3nnyk18:42
knomeis there a fix to the "not-selectable" thunar bug? that's really annoying, and i definitely do not want to use any other view.18:53
Pres-Gasknome, I am so glad someone said that is a bug...18:54
Pres-Gas...that was annoying me18:54
knomewhy wouldn't it be? you can't select stuff although y oushould.18:55
Pres-GasWell, I made alot of changes, knome...so I thought it was one of those changes.  I was troubleshooting this.18:56
Pres-Gasonkara, did you try that "patch"?19:05
schlaftierIt's definitely a bug in Thunar19:15
Pres-Gasschlaftier, always good to know when I DIDN'T break it19:17
schlaftierhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/52011819:18
schlaftierIt will be fixed soon, apparently somebody already wrote a patch19:21
onkaraPres-Gas: sorry which patch are you referring too ?19:29
Pres-Gasonkara, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs/+bug/573919/comments/519:30
Guest2098hi19:44
Guest2098i on this channel for first time19:44
Pres-Gas!welcome19:45
ubottuHello and welcome to #xubuntu! Feel free to ask questions or help others. If you'd like to chit-chat, please visit #xubuntu-offtopic and for developer discussion, see #xubuntu-devel :)19:45
Guest2098i have a problem with my msi 100u msi netbook19:45
Guest2098a small windows appear on screen19:45
Guest2098a bomb is design on it19:46
Guest2098and my screen flash19:46
Guest2098i look in system monitoring19:46
Guest2098no active processus there19:46
Guest2098do someone know what it is ?19:48
slow-motionhi20:52
Psilocybin_ElfHyea20:57
Psilocybin_ElfHeya*20:57
|2-bits|I'm wondering if there is a package for the thunarx development files? I've been looking but I can't find it...21:22
|2-bits|short of that, is there anyway I can find out which package provides a specific file? I'm just looking for thunarx.h21:24
schlaftier|2-bits|: libthunar-vfs-1-dev: /usr/include/thunarx-1/thunarx/thunarx.h21:25
schlaftier(I did: apt-file search thunarx.h)21:26
|2-bits|oh wow21:28
|2-bits|thanks21:28
|2-bits|it's in vfs? huh21:29
schlaftierI wouldn't know :)21:40
=== schlaftier_ is now known as schlaftier
arthurjohnsonOkay, I'm about to go down a dark, dark tunnel22:51
arthurjohnsonI'll most likely be eaten by a grue22:51
* arthurjohnson is reinstalling his primary server22:51
arthurjohnsonSo I'll be away for a while ;)22:59
slow-motionn823:46

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