| blue_anna | how do I get changes to the keyboard layouts stick? | 00:48 |
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| blue_anna | like in the panel plugin, I change the "Change layout option:" to both shift keys, but then it reverts. And the Keyboard layouts listed there are the system global ones even though I deselected "Use system defaults" in the keyboard preferences for Xfce4 | 00:51 |
| aJynks | hi guys | 02:32 |
| aJynks | I am a new xubuntu user and was hopeing to get some new guy questions answered.... | 02:33 |
| aJynks | 1) I ama trying to get audio though my HDMI cable to use a HD TV as a monitor.... but can not seam to do so | 02:33 |
| aJynks | I have read some threads and they say to update my nvidia drivers and also update ALSA... is that correct and if so how do I do that? | 02:34 |
| dr4c4n | step 1) do you have an nvidia card? | 02:35 |
| dr4c4n | step 2) something useful in ubuntu is called | 02:35 |
| dr4c4n | sound bug audio | 02:35 |
| dr4c4n | oops, I meant ubuntu-bug audio | 02:36 |
| aJynks | yea i have a nvidia card | 02:37 |
| aJynks | i do not know about ubuntu-bug audio.. what is that and how do I use it? | 02:38 |
| dr4c4n | aJynks: can I pm (private message) u (so other people can use the forum to ask questions)? | 02:38 |
| aJynks | sure | 02:38 |
| Balsaq | good evening xubunters | 02:58 |
| dr4c4n | good evening | 02:58 |
| aJynks | guys.. how can I make sure I have the lattest drivers installed in xubuntu | 04:05 |
| aJynks | all the threads on ubuntufourms talk about menu iotems that are not in the most recent release | 04:05 |
| aJynks | *latest NVIDIA drivers | 04:06 |
| Balsaq | u could go to nvidia website | 04:06 |
| aJynks | but how can i tell what driver is installed at the moment? | 04:07 |
| aJynks | like all the threads say go "applications/system/hardware drivers | 04:09 |
| aJynks | but that is not in my menu | 04:09 |
| Balsaq | run this in terminal lsmod | 04:09 |
| aJynks | (fresh install of xubuntu) | 04:09 |
| Balsaq | and jockey-gtk | 04:09 |
| Balsaq | when u did the fresh install did u see xubuntu telling u to use the restricted driver? and did u choose it? | 04:11 |
| aJynks | no | 04:12 |
| aJynks | as in no i didn't see that | 04:12 |
| aJynks | i used the desktop iso | 04:12 |
| Balsaq | so maybe in your case there isnt one | 04:13 |
| Balsaq | so it sound slike you are running the one provided by buntu | 04:13 |
| aJynks | jockey-gtk searched for drivers and opened the same window that opens when clicking applications/system/addition drivers | 04:13 |
| aJynks | the other command sorta listed a ton of stuff | 04:13 |
| aJynks | I am trying to get sound working though my hdmi cable, the threads I am reading say I need to update my nvidia drivers and alsa | 04:14 |
| aJynks | I just do not seam to know how to do this | 04:15 |
| aJynks | Like i can not tell if the nvidia drivers are the current ones or not | 04:15 |
| Balsaq | checking on that... | 04:17 |
| Balsaq | i will log out of windows and into buntu | 04:20 |
| ubuXubu | hmm it spells it our for me in lsmod | 04:23 |
| ubuXubu | but still cant tell the driver itself | 04:24 |
| aJynks | hmmm | 04:25 |
| aJynks | ok, lets assume I have the latest version I suppose | 04:25 |
| aJynks | as applications/system/additional drivers - lists my nvida drivers with (current / recommended) | 04:26 |
| aJynks | (that was from the jockey-gtk command u gave me) | 04:26 |
| ubuXubu | well i would hope it is | 04:27 |
| aJynks | lol | 04:28 |
| aJynks | ok I am updating medibuntu from the shell command on the wiki - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu | 04:29 |
| aJynks | ubuXubu, how do I update or check for update ALAS? | 04:31 |
| ubuXubu | synaptic | 04:31 |
| ubuXubu | syst>admin>synaptic | 04:32 |
| aJynks | then just search for alas? | 04:32 |
| ubuXubu | reload>mark all upgrades> | 04:33 |
| ubuXubu | and hit apply | 04:33 |
| ubuXubu | then u can go to | 04:34 |
| ubuXubu | applications>ubuntu software mgr | 04:34 |
| ubuXubu | and use the search bar to find stuff | 04:34 |
| aJynks | ok it ticked some boxes but the apply button is stull greyed out | 04:34 |
| ubuXubu | cos u just installed | 04:34 |
| aJynks | (I really aprecite your help man thank you) | 04:34 |
| ubuXubu | and prolly did all updates | 04:35 |
| aJynks | so alas is uptodate? | 04:35 |
| ubuXubu | i did it now too and apply is grey cos i am all up to date at the moment | 04:35 |
| ubuXubu | well your OS is | 04:35 |
| ubuXubu | so now when u use ubuntu software center u know its all it can be | 04:35 |
| ubuXubu | or when u search in synaptic | 04:36 |
| ubuXubu | sometimes i dont know the name of wut i am looking for and i just keep typing in stuff till i find it | 04:36 |
| ubuXubu | so all your OS and software packages are up to date | 04:37 |
| aJynks | yea sorry none of this seams to be helping | 04:41 |
| ubuXubu | wut is your goal right now | 04:42 |
| aJynks | to get hdmi audio working | 04:42 |
| aJynks | I am pretty sure I need to update alsa | 04:42 |
| aJynks | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810 | 04:42 |
| aJynks | I was going to use this script | 04:43 |
| ubuXubu | Download the ALSA modules | 04:44 |
| ubuXubu | - Compile the modules | 04:44 |
| ubuXubu | - Change your /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base file | 04:44 |
| ubuXubu | - Remove the installer files | 04:44 |
| ubuXubu | - Reboot the PC | 04:44 |
| aJynks | so do not use that script? | 04:44 |
| aJynks | use symnantic/ | 04:44 |
| aJynks | ? | 04:44 |
| ubuXubu | dunno, just read that on the net | 04:44 |
| ubuXubu | let me ask my buddy | 04:44 |
| ubuXubu | too me, if u have alsa installed, and your system is up to date then alsa is uptodate | 04:52 |
| ubuXubu | yeah aJynks u may as well try any script u can find on the net cos canonical doent update alsa | 05:06 |
| aJynks | ok | 05:09 |
| aJynks | I found a wiki that has instructions | 05:10 |
| aJynks | i think might work | 05:10 |
| aJynks | trying now | 05:10 |
| aJynks | but it is for some custom os thatn uses ubuntu lite as the base called xbmc | 05:10 |
| aJynks | but i think as it uses ubuntu... the same fix should work... ? | 05:11 |
| aJynks | http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_set_up_HDMI_audio_on_nVidia_GeForce_G210,_GT220,_or_GT240 | 05:12 |
| Jyujinkai | Hey guys,,, I am terribly stuck tryign ot get sound to go though my HDMI cable in xubuntu... can anyone help me with this? | 06:45 |
| Sysi | what graphics card? | 06:45 |
| Sysi | i guess you need pulseaudio, thus pavucontrol | 06:46 |
| Jyujinkai | Sysi, i installed pulse audio but no help | 06:54 |
| Jyujinkai | in the configeration tab it says there is no hardware | 06:54 |
| blackrock | Hello, how do you add keyboard layout change shortcut? | 07:13 |
| Rakko | Where does xubuntu write its GUI theme settings? | 07:38 |
| Rakko | I can't find a gtkrc anywhere except in ~/.gimp-2.6 | 07:38 |
| Sysi | default themes are located to /usr/share/themes | 07:39 |
| Rakko | where are my own theme settings stored? | 07:40 |
| Rakko | like when I change them in Settings Manager -> Appearance | 07:40 |
| Rakko | and also, if I want to create a theme for myself, where would I put it? | 07:42 |
| Sysi | settings are mostly in ~/.config/ and other hidden folders | 07:43 |
| Sysi | press ctrl h in filemanager | 07:43 |
| Rakko | I know | 07:44 |
| Sysi | if you create/get theme put it to ~/.themes/ | 07:44 |
| Sysi | you need to create that folder | 07:44 |
| Rakko | OK, I just did that for the heck of it. Let's see if Appearance picks it up :) | 07:44 |
| Rakko | Hmm, the thing I put in there isn't showing up. | 07:45 |
| Rakko | oh, wait | 07:45 |
| Rakko | yep, it worked :) thanks | 07:47 |
| Rakko | xubuntu and xfce are awesome | 07:47 |
| Sysi | melikes | 07:50 |
| Rakko | night | 07:53 |
| Rakko | now I have MurrinaStormCloudSilver back | 07:54 |
| Rakko | I wonder why they took it out | 07:54 |
| Rakko | night | 07:55 |
| Jyujinkai | Hey guys,,, I am terribly stuck tryign ot get sound to go though my HDMI cable in xubuntu... can anyone help me with this? | 08:02 |
| Rakko | sorry, it's me again :) | 08:02 |
| Rakko | I got my caps lock and ctrl swapped when I'm logged in, but I don't remember how to enable it for the login screen | 08:03 |
| Rakko | or for the VTs. could someone point me in the right direction? | 08:03 |
| Jyujinkai | dose "aplay --version" give you the version of alas play you are using? | 08:56 |
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| lukinfore | hi | 14:51 |
| lukinfore | anyone knows where notes plugin store it content? | 14:51 |
| charlie-tca | yes, ~/.local/share/notes/Notes | 14:54 |
| lukinfore | charlie-tca, thanks | 14:56 |
| charlie-tca | You are welcome | 14:58 |
| * likemindead is excited about Xfce 4.8 dropping. :D | 18:01 | |
| Sysi | pre 1 | 18:03 |
| likemindead | What's the consensus among Xubuntu users about Ubuntu going to Unity? | 18:05 |
| Sysi | the regular-not-netbook too? | 18:05 |
| charlie-tca | yup | 18:07 |
| charlie-tca | Ubuntu will use unity instead of gnome-shell | 18:07 |
| Sysi | very interesting | 18:07 |
| Sysi | i've alvays hated gnome, but i dislike many features in unity | 18:08 |
| Sysi | some features in it are great | 18:08 |
| likemindead | I think they should've gone with Xfce from the beginning. It's sooo good. Love it. | 18:10 |
| Sysi | xfce is kinda special | 18:11 |
| Sysi | i'm a bad person, desktop is now kde | 18:11 |
| likemindead | :::gasp::: | 18:11 |
| Sysi | that's fun, most xfce-guys hate kde | 18:12 |
| charlie-tca | isn't tat why there are choices? | 18:15 |
| charlie-tca | s/tat/that | 18:15 |
| likemindead | True dat. | 18:15 |
| Sysi | exactly (but my opinions are bit odd) | 18:16 |
| likemindead | I tried Kubuntu for one 6-month cycle, I think it was 7.10 or so. | 18:16 |
| likemindead | Came back to Xfce, as always. :D | 18:16 |
| Sysi | old kde was just horrible | 18:16 |
| Sysi | 4-series.. so much features | 18:16 |
| Sysi | i think going from windows to osx feels like xfce → kde | 18:17 |
| likemindead | I like the simplicity of Xfce, though. I strip it down to just what I like. What features are you enjoying with KDE? | 18:18 |
| Sysi | exept on linux you'll always have same functionality on terminal, and choises | 18:19 |
| Sysi | i like fullscreen taskswitch, eyecandy, and workspace switches | 18:19 |
| Sysi | and now i've learned to use it's settings | 18:21 |
| foret_ | Hello, everyone. Did anyone face a problem of inability to change zoom in netbeans? OS: xubuntu 10.10, DE: xfce4. Tried Ctrl+MouseWheel | 20:57 |
| chudy_michef | Hi. I've just installed Xubuntu (Lucid Lynx) on my old Compaq - apparently successfully. Except that it won't boot - just hangs, black screen, silent hard drive. Can anyone help?? | 21:49 |
| charlie-tca | Hold shift to get the grub menu. Then edit the boot line to remove "quiet splash". If that fails, try replacing "quiet splash" with "nomodeset". These are one-time boot edits. | 21:55 |
| charlie-tca | see if it helps | 21:55 |
| chudy_michef | charlie-tca: thanks I'm just going to try that | 21:57 |
| chudy_michef | charlie-tca: hang on - hold shift from where to get the grub menu? | 21:57 |
| charlie-tca | right after the bios check when starting the computer | 21:57 |
| chudy_michef | charlie-tca: pressing shift didn't seem to do anything. is there another way I can get into a place where I can edit the boot line? | 22:07 |
| charlie-tca | no, unfortunately. You have to hold the right shift, maybe on that one. Don't tap shift, but hold it down | 22:08 |
| charlie-tca | You should/might see a small white square at the bottom of the screen at the right moment, but it is not always visible | 22:08 |
| chudy_michef | charlie-tca: okay I'm going to try again. I'll hold the right shift down from the moment the machine switches on. | 22:10 |
| charlie-tca | won't work | 22:10 |
| charlie-tca | has to after bios checks so that the keyboard is active. | 22:10 |
| chudy_michef | charlie-tca: okay | 22:10 |
| chudy_michef | charlie-tca: aha, got it! | 22:10 |
| charlie-tca | yes, it is a pain in the posterior part | 22:11 |
| chudy_michef | charlie-tca: it's giving me four options now - Ubuntu, Ubuntu (recovery mode), then a couple of things called memory test | 22:11 |
| charlie-tca | hit e on the first line to edit it. | 22:12 |
| charlie-tca | arrow down to the line that ends in "quiet splash" | 22:12 |
| charlie-tca | hit end to get to the end of the line, then backspace carefully to remove them. do not backspace over ro / | 22:13 |
| charlie-tca | Then hit Ctrl+x to boot | 22:13 |
| chudy_michef | charlie-tca: okay... | 22:13 |
| chudy_michef | charlie-tca: hm, the screen's gone black again and the hard disk's silent. I'll try putting in 'nomodeset' where 'quiet splash' was | 22:14 |
| charlie-tca | give it a minute. It should show any errors | 22:14 |
| charlie-tca | It goes blank right away? | 22:14 |
| chudy_michef | no. there were a few screens of text that scrolled past very quickly. then it went blank | 22:14 |
| charlie-tca | okay. Try the nomodeset then | 22:15 |
| chudy_michef | Same again. Last thing on those screens of text was 'Running /scripts/init-bottom'. Then blank, then 'Starting Apparmor profiles', then blank. That's where I am now! | 22:16 |
| charlie-tca | hmm, you can try the recovery menu next. run clean and run fix broken update | 22:17 |
| charlie-tca | Then you probably have to restart again | 22:17 |
| chudy_michef | okay so I guess I need to switch off, then restart with the install disk in the drive to get the recovery menu?? | 22:18 |
| charlie-tca | nope | 22:18 |
| charlie-tca | second entry in the grub menu | 22:18 |
| chudy_michef | okay | 22:18 |
| chudy_michef | I'm in the grub menu now. Do I press enter to boot that option, or e to edit it? | 22:21 |
| charlie-tca | enter | 22:23 |
| chudy_michef | okay. I've selected 'clean' and pressed enter. I can't see an option like 'fix broken update' | 22:25 |
| charlie-tca | update packages or fix broken anything? | 22:25 |
| chudy_michef | there's 'repair broken packages' - I'll try that | 22:26 |
| charlie-tca | that's it | 22:26 |
| charlie-tca | then clean again | 22:26 |
| charlie-tca | then continue | 22:26 |
| chudy_michef | It says it's 'Checking battery state...' The cursor is blinking but apart from that it's not doing much else. Any ideas?? | 22:27 |
| charlie-tca | Ctrl+F1 ; Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart, see if it works now | 22:30 |
| charlie-tca | and the only other thing I got is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/BlankScreen | 22:31 |
| chudy_michef | Argh - same again. I got the 'Ubuntu' screen with the logo, then it went black. | 22:31 |
| charlie-tca | try that troubleshooting page. and maybe ask in #ubuntu-x | 22:32 |
| charlie-tca | if you can't login from there, you can boot into recovery mode and pick the last option, I think it is. root promp | 22:33 |
| chudy_michef | Thanks for that wiki page - it seems to describe exactly what's happening. I'm just reading the workarounds. | 22:33 |
| chudy_michef | But yes, there was an option like open the root directory at the command line | 22:34 |
| chudy_michef | (What would I do if I took that option?) | 22:34 |
| charlie-tca | Sometimes that is the only place you can login. It should be similar to a terminal prompt, except you are in root at that time | 22:34 |
| charlie-tca | something like ubuntu@ubuntu: | 22:35 |
| chudy_michef | OKay I'll try that - I'll get back to you in a minute when I've seen what happens. | 22:36 |
| chudy_michef | Okay I picked the 'Drop to root shell prompt' option. I've got a prompt like this: root@myname:~# | 22:40 |
| charlie-tca | That is the root user. You can do anything there, and do not need sudo in front of commands. Be careful with it | 22:41 |
| chudy_michef | Okay. Wiki page says I should type 'sudo /etc/X11/xorg.conf' - do you mean I should type that without 'sudo'? | 22:42 |
| chudy_michef | (sorry to ask what's probably a silly question - but you did say I should be careful!!) | 22:43 |
| charlie-tca | yup | 22:43 |
| charlie-tca | you don't need sudo at that prompt, since being root means it is automatically there. On the other hand, it won't hurt anything | 22:43 |
| chudy_michef | Okay... I'm looking at some kind of text editor, seems to have a file called xorg.conf open. But the page is blank apart from the top line and a couple of lines of options at the bottom. Wiki says to change the Device section but there's no option called device. | 22:46 |
| charlie-tca | type it in, just as shown in the wiki. do not tab, use space instead | 22:47 |
| charlie-tca | Then use Ctrl+O to save the file and Ctrl+X to exit the editor | 22:48 |
| charlie-tca | Caps do matter with those commands | 22:48 |
| chudy_michef | okay... I'm back at that root prompt now. | 22:48 |
| chudy_michef | following restart instructions on wiki | 22:49 |
| charlie-tca | good | 22:49 |
| chudy_michef | Okay, well at least I'm getting somewhere: there's a window in the middle of the screen saying "Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode. The following error was encountered. You may need to update your configuration to solve this. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error parsing the config file' | 22:50 |
| chudy_michef | The config file is what I just edited, right?? | 22:50 |
| chudy_michef | It's giving me a few options: Run Ubuntu in low-graphics mode for just one session, Reconfigure graphics, Troubleshoot the error, Exit to console log-in, Restart X. | 22:52 |
| charlie-tca | Well, try low-graphics for one session | 22:55 |
| charlie-tca | yup, you just edited the file, and it doesn't like that mode, but if it works... | 22:55 |
| chudy_michef | Okay!!! SOmething's working. I logged in. Wow. So this is Linux. Graphics looks fine from here. | 22:56 |
| charlie-tca | That would be the ", although the resolution might be quite wrong." part | 22:56 |
| chudy_michef | I can live with this resolution, although it will be annoying to have to get those error messages every time. | 22:57 |
| charlie-tca | Anytime it asks that now, tell it you will run in low-graphics mode, at least for a little bit. | 22:57 |
| Thermi | gn8 going to bed | 22:59 |
| chudy_michef | Thanks very much, charlie-tca. I doubt there's anything I can do in return, but I feel I owe you one. | 22:59 |
| lighta | hi guys, can we attribuate a specific processor for a process in unix ? if yes how ? | 23:00 |
| charlie-tca | You are welcome | 23:00 |
| charlie-tca | Thanks is plenty | 23:00 |
| charlie-tca | lighta: don't know | 23:00 |
| lighta | ok charlie-tca thx, can you suggest me a place where I can found this ? | 23:00 |
| chudy_michef | Then thanks again. | 23:01 |
| chudy_michef | Bye | 23:02 |
| charlie-tca | umm, not sure, lighta | 23:06 |
| charlie-tca | maybe #ubuntu-kernel, but I could be wrong | 23:06 |
| lighta | thx i'll try | 23:13 |
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