[00:06] Hey Chaiwalla [00:06] How did it go? [01:31] olá [01:51] i am having some troubles with my wifi.. i do not understand why i can not use iwconfig to input the ESSID... it works with the network-manager applet... but that does not work in my WM of choise (no systray) [01:51] any ideas? [02:01] * eeffoc waves at everyone! 'ello. [02:03] How goes it folks? [02:03] Anyone having swell times messing with xfce? [02:03] I just cracked my hassle of two weeks with a little help of ubuntu forum users! YAY. Forums, FTW. FYI...LoL... I needed to express my gratitude to IRC...k, thx, bye. [09:16] i have a 'new' hp scanner that a friend gave me, and it seems to be working right as far as saving images, but it is saving them in a .pnm filetype and open office doesn't seem to be able to open it [09:16] omg. i just tried to open the .pnm scanned file with open office and i notice in the file browser its 131 mb's!!! how can that be? [09:17] i need to reduce the size and convert it to pdf, but i don't know how [09:17] does anyone know how to get rid of or change the ugly boot splash screen [09:17] mine flashes in an odd or broken style like it is corrupt and i just want to get rid of it [09:20] a black screen is fine with me on the way to my log in screen... [09:21] i tried tweak but all that fixed was my log on screen [09:22] ubuXubu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2#Theming [09:23] ubuXubu: also check out /etc/default/grub [09:23] ubuXubu: I think removing 'quiet splash' from there and then rebuilding grub config would work [09:27] if its gonna mess with grub i think maybe ill pass [09:27] i read all tha tstuff ...waaayyyy toooo muc hbs there [09:27] much* [09:27] typos.. [09:27] i meant its way too much messing around [09:28] page after page of nonsence [09:28] but thank you [10:10] ok, i figured out how to scan the document directly as a pdf, but it's still an excessively large size (25 mb) what could be the deal? [18:43] Hello from the installer [18:45] That captcha words on this are not easy to see [20:33] hi. I've got a xubuntu box behind my adsl modem. how can I give the xubuntu box a fixed ip? (typically 10.0.0.4) [20:35] right click network manager, left click "Edit connections" [20:35] click add [20:36] Dynetrekk: I usually add IPv4 Settings, make it manual, then add the ip and gateway [20:36] charlie-tca: just a sec, I'll try that [22:01] What is the difference between Ubuntu and xUbuntu? I can't really tell from the websites. [22:02] Ubuntu uses the gnome desktop environment, Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment [22:03] The screenshots make them look functionally identical. [22:03] Ubuntu makes most of the choices for you, Xubuntu makes you make the choices [22:04] Screenshots where? [22:04] Desktop screen shots on the Ubuntu and xUbuntu websites. [22:04] what are the url's ? [22:04] hold on... [22:06] !xfce [22:06] Xubuntu is Ubuntu with Xfce instead of !GNOME. More info at http://www.xubuntu.org and http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/ - To install from Ubuntu: « sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop » - Join #xubuntu for support - See also: !Ubuntu and !Xubuntu-Channels [22:06] http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop and http://www.xubuntu.org/tour [22:07] does xubuntu use the ubuntu update channels? [22:07] yes [22:07] thx [22:08] Ben_G_9C9_: software center is the same in both environments [22:09] user preferences is much different, as is gnumeric vs openoffice, abiword vs openoffice, parole vs totem, pidgin vs empathy, gimp vs ??? [22:09] some apps will be the same, many will not be [22:10] Okay. Thanks. That answered my question.