| efpc2003 | hi | 02:11 |
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| efpc2003 | i use xubuntu 8.04.4 : how to... set up flash... i can not see videos on youtube, midori web browser | 02:12 |
| efpc2003 | firefox works fine but is too heavy | 02:13 |
| efpc2003 | pentium III 550Mhz | 02:13 |
| * mpzn is away: gone | 02:31 | |
| * mpzn is back (gone 00:00:15) | 02:31 | |
| irchatter | How do I create a cron process to periodically remove the trash? What I have thus far fails to work :0 5 * * * * rm -rf /home/.local/share/Trash/* | 03:59 |
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| meth[phone] | anyone know what i can run to figure out why i can't do an upgrade ? something with my pkg db is messed up | 08:01 |
| xubuntu005 | hi! I'm here looking for some help | 12:04 |
| TheSheep | !hi | 12:04 |
| ubottu | Hi!, Welcome to #xubuntu! Feel free to ask questions and help people out. The channel guidelines are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines. Enjoy your stay! | 12:04 |
| xubuntu005 | i installed xubuntu, it finished correctly, but when i restarted my computer instead of a boot menu the windows started, when i started the boot menu manually the xubuntu wasnt there | 12:06 |
| xubuntu005 | any idea? | 12:07 |
| TheSheep | you started boot menu manually? | 12:07 |
| xubuntu005 | with F8 | 12:08 |
| TheSheep | that's windows boot menu | 12:08 |
| TheSheep | of course xubuntu won't be there | 12:08 |
| TheSheep | !grub | 12:08 |
| ubottu | grub is the default boot manager for Ubuntu releases before 9.10 (Karmic). Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub - GRUB how-tos: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto - See !grub2 for Karmic onwards. | 12:08 |
| xubuntu005 | i see | 12:08 |
| TheSheep | xubuntu005: try that 'restore grub' link | 12:08 |
| TheSheep | !grub2 | 12:09 |
| ubottu | GRUB2 is the default Ubuntu boot manager since 9.10 (Karmic). Lost GRUB after installing Windows? See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreGrub - For more information and troubleshooting for GRUB2 please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 | 12:09 |
| xubuntu005 | thanks | 12:11 |
| brousch | OK, Xubuntu is awesome. I installed it on my HP Compaq tc1100 tablet and the touchscreen and stylus worked ootb. I've never had that happen with any other distro | 12:42 |
| littlegirl | Hey there, is there a way to add the Recent Documents interface from the Places menu into the Xfce Menu? | 17:37 |
| pedropedrelli | hi | 17:55 |
| knome | hello | 17:56 |
| knome | bye | 17:56 |
| knome | :P | 17:56 |
| littlegirl | Hey there, is there a way to add the Recent Documents interface from the Places menu into the Xfce Menu? | 18:02 |
| LucyIntheSky | How can I make window manager buttons bigger (IE the whole bar) | 18:04 |
| LucyIntheSky | littlegirl, right click places and its in the properties | 18:05 |
| charlie-tca | LucyIntheSky: the title bar across the top? | 18:06 |
| LucyIntheSky | charlie-tca, yea xfwm4 | 18:06 |
| LucyIntheSky | its tiny and the DPI setting didn't make it any bigger. im on a 37" tv.... | 18:06 |
| charlie-tca | The only way I know is applications -> Settings -> Settings Manger -> window manager | 18:07 |
| charlie-tca | grow the title font bigger | 18:07 |
| littlegirl | LucyIntheSky: Thanks! That must be something recent, though, because I don't see it in the properties in 10.04. I'll grab the most recent one and see. (: | 18:07 |
| LucyIntheSky | littlegirl, yea im on 10.10 | 18:08 |
| brousch | charlie-tca: that doesn't seem to make the menu bar taller | 18:08 |
| LucyIntheSky | charlie-tca, yea that only changes the font | 18:08 |
| littlegirl | LucyIntheSky: Will grab it. (: | 18:08 |
| knome | there is no way to make the buttons larger, except modify the xfwm4 theme | 18:09 |
| LucyIntheSky | littlegirl, im glad you asked because I never bothered to look at that either it will come in handy. | 18:09 |
| brousch | LucyIntheSky: in the past i have changed the theme to do those kinds of things: make menu taller, make the scroll bar wider | 18:09 |
| LucyIntheSky | brousch, yea I found one that is a bit bigger but still the buttons are tiny from this distance on this display.. the DPI setting in xfce settings made everything else perfect except the WM for some reason.. | 18:09 |
| littlegirl | LucyIntheSky: Heh, cool! I've used it for years with KDE. The current Kubuntu makes my computer run like molasses, though, so I'm checking into Xubuntu. (: | 18:10 |
| charlie-tca | LucyIntheSky: if you grow the title font 2 or 4 points at a time, the buttons grow with the title size | 18:10 |
| LucyIntheSky | littlegirl, ive always heard kde was slow, never used it though 10.10 xfce is lightning I am on a very good machine with an ssd though ;-) | 18:10 |
| knome | the buttons are still pixmap, so the button images do not become larger | 18:11 |
| LucyIntheSky | charlie-tca, hrm ok. let me try again. | 18:11 |
| knome | charlie-tca, am i correct? | 18:11 |
| charlie-tca | They grow for me in 10.04 with the window title font growing bigger | 18:11 |
| LucyIntheSky | yes I think you are correct they are pixmap... but let me try anyway | 18:11 |
| charlie-tca | They are resizing to match the font size | 18:11 |
| knome | i know they are pixmap. i drew some of them ;] | 18:11 |
| littlegirl | LucyIntheSky: Mine isn't top of the line, but I have decent hardware. I was shocked at how badly Kubuntu ran. Right now I'm using Debian and have Xubuntu in a VM, and am considering making it my operating system. Debian doesn't hold my hand enough, and it's behind the times on software compared to Ubuntu. (: | 18:11 |
| charlie-tca | but a large jump in the font size failed to work | 18:11 |
| charlie-tca | could be theme related, too. I use Defcon-IV for the window manager | 18:13 |
| LucyIntheSky | littlegirl, yea. never used debian but I did have to get some packages from debian ironically because ubuntu still doesn't support multi-processor video decoding for some reason.. which is the whole point of this machine. | 18:13 |
| LucyIntheSky | or the packages on ubuntu don't support it I should say. | 18:13 |
| LucyIntheSky | increasing the font size does NOT work on 10.10 | 18:13 |
| littlegirl | LucyIntheSky: I've found that not all Ubuntu debs can be run inside Debian. It's like they both store stuff in different places and have different default software. Debian is okay, but I think newcomers to Linux would have a much easier time with Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu. (: | 18:14 |
| knome | LucyIntheSky, as i said, the only way is to edit the theme | 18:15 |
| LucyIntheSky | knome, do you know how I would go about doing that, would I have to make new images? | 18:15 |
| littlegirl | One big example is that sources.list does not get set up for you automatically in Debian the way it does in Ubuntu. It took me a while to realize that. (: | 18:15 |
| LucyIntheSky | littlegirl, yea (X)ubuntu is great. | 18:15 |
| knome | LucyIntheSky, yeah, new images | 18:15 |
| LucyIntheSky | knome, im not much of a photo maker/editor :-( | 18:16 |
| knome | LucyIntheSky, it shouldn't be *too hard* with that style | 18:17 |
| LucyIntheSky | littlegirl, if you do upgrade anything get the intel x25-v 40gb ssd for like $97 make more of a difference than anything else probably unless your on a very old machine. | 18:17 |
| charlie-tca | hm, knome knows a lot more about the themes than I do... | 18:17 |
| knome | charlie-tca, no wonder really x) | 18:17 |
| * charlie-tca knows the answer! knome wrote themes for xubuntu | 18:18 | |
| * knome hides | 18:18 | |
| LucyIntheSky | so if I open the pixmaps for a current theme and resize will that work.? | 18:18 |
| LucyIntheSky | 0r will they look like crap | 18:18 |
| littlegirl | LucyIntheSky: My machine is about two years old, so I'm not in the market for new stuff quite yet, but maybe in another year. (: | 18:18 |
| knome | LucyIntheSky, they won't look very good if you just plainly resize them, but stretching them so that they don't look too bad is doable quite easily | 18:19 |
| LucyIntheSky | littlegirl, thats my point pretty much, in a year. buy an ssd that will be cheaper by then it will make more of a difference than a new machine. you probably have a core 2 duo or something if it's intel and thats fast enough. | 18:19 |
| LucyIntheSky | knome, thanks Ill have to look in to that at some point. | 18:20 |
| * charlie-tca going hide again. He is tired of being wrong now. | 18:20 | |
| knome | LucyIntheSky, no problem | 18:20 |
| LucyIntheSky | im glad we are in xubuntu in ubuntu they yell at you for offtopic even if it's friendly. | 18:21 |
| littlegirl | LucyIntheSky: I've got an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor. Hopefully that's good enough. (: | 18:21 |
| LucyIntheSky | littlegirl, im not a fan of amd my self, but thats not bad at all. | 18:21 |
| knome | littlegirl, LucyIntheSky: by the way, there is #xubuntu-offtopic for non-support discussion :) | 18:22 |
| LucyIntheSky | lol. ok | 18:22 |
| littlegirl | For image resizing, I look for smooth scale, which fills in the image for you with multiple colors to make enlarging images look a bit smoother. (: | 18:22 |
| littlegirl | knome: This is non-support? The reason for discussing it was that Kubuntu doesn't run well on the hardware, so Xubuntu is being tried out. | 18:22 |
| knome | littlegirl, sorry, i might be a bit unfocused. that one last line looked like spec comparing though ;) | 18:23 |
| LucyIntheSky | heres the last thing I'll say, my core 2 duo machine ran much better than my i7 when it had the ssd in it lol. | 18:23 |
| Sysi | knome: tech talk isn't yet bad offtopic (but slightly) | 18:24 |
| LucyIntheSky | hey its all about computers right. so its all ontopic | 18:24 |
| ochosi | :) | 18:24 |
| Sysi | until somebody has a question about xubuntu | 18:25 |
| LucyIntheSky | id be more than willing to help them lol ;-) thats how we all started talking | 18:25 |
| littlegirl | I'll try not to discuss hardware when talking about operating systems from now on. (: | 18:25 |
| LucyIntheSky | sounds hard to do ;-p | 18:25 |
| LucyIntheSky | where can I get a theme with huge buttons any ideas? | 18:26 |
| knome | LucyIntheSky, littlegirl: no problem really, just go ahead ;) | 18:26 |
| LucyIntheSky | np to you either knome ;-D | 18:27 |
| ochosi | LucyIntheSky: huge buttons in gtk or xfwm? | 18:28 |
| LucyIntheSky | xfwm I believe. | 18:28 |
| ochosi | right | 18:28 |
| ochosi | xfwm is pretty simple, just modify a theme | 18:28 |
| LucyIntheSky | alrighty. | 18:29 |
| ochosi | you can find them in /usr/share/themes | 18:29 |
| LucyIntheSky | yea let me look @ the one im using and make a backup. real quick. | 18:29 |
| LucyIntheSky | lol 'piranha' | 18:29 |
| LucyIntheSky | what do I want to do to it in gimp? | 18:31 |
| ochosi | yeah, just start by upscaling all the important parts and then rename it to "Whale" | 18:31 |
| * knome laughs | 18:32 | |
| LucyIntheSky | I scaled it to 2x as big it looks ok | 18:32 |
| Ya___ | hello guys | 19:43 |
| autif1 | !hi | 20:12 |
| ubottu | Hi!, Welcome to #xubuntu! Feel free to ask questions and help people out. The channel guidelines are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines. Enjoy your stay! | 20:12 |
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| brousch | xubuntu does not seem to recognize my monitor. settings->display only offers me 800x600, but the monitor supports 1440x900 | 21:28 |
| brousch | do i have to modify the xorg.conf to fix that? | 21:28 |
| Sysi | try arandr | 21:30 |
| brousch | ah, installing the nvidia-96 driver seems to have opened the other resolutions | 21:42 |
| brousch | beautiful | 21:42 |
| Sysi | with restricted driver you should propably use nvidias own thingy | 21:44 |
| brousch | i enabled all of the repos and installed the one from there | 21:44 |
| brousch | i think that's how i'd been running it in gnome ubuntu too | 21:45 |
| asadeddin_ | Hey all, I need some help. | 21:52 |
| asadeddin_ | I am looking to move some of the computers at the office from XP to Xubuntu | 21:53 |
| asadeddin_ | but I fear that the GUI might confuse a lot of people, thus I've been looking at Linux Mint as it's closer to XP than Xubuntu | 21:53 |
| asadeddin_ | what do you guys think? | 21:53 |
| Sysi | users get confused because menu is in different corner? | 21:54 |
| asadeddin_ | well, because of the two tool bars | 21:54 |
| Sysi | i hope you won't have bigger problems than that | 21:54 |
| asadeddin_ | one on the top and the other on the bottom | 21:54 |
| Sysi | iirc there says "Menu" or "Applications" | 21:55 |
| asadeddin_ | like Linux Mint has both combined, I guess I can do that in Xubuntu with a little customizing | 21:55 |
| asadeddin_ | right? | 21:55 |
| asadeddin_ | I hope so too | 21:55 |
| Sysi | depending on what level you need to do it | 21:56 |
| Sysi | changing settings is very easy, changing global settings bit harder and making custom installation pretty difficult | 21:56 |
| asadeddin_ | i need to ask as well, I've been reading that although Xubuntu is supposed to be resourcec light, it actually isn't as it seems to be and might be heavier | 21:56 |
| asadeddin_ | yeah I guess I'll just make some settings after each installation is done | 21:57 |
| asadeddin_ | what do you think about Xubuntu's performace | 21:57 |
| asadeddin_ | like | 21:57 |
| asadeddin_ | I've got 512mb ram to play with | 21:57 |
| Sysi | ubuntu works better on less ram than gnome | 21:57 |
| asadeddin_ | only using Oo and Firefox | 21:57 |
| asadeddin_ | do you mean Xubuntu? | 21:58 |
| Sysi | yes | 21:58 |
| Sysi | 512 is quite enough for xubuntu | 21:58 |
| asadeddin_ | glad to hear that | 21:58 |
| asadeddin_ | do you think my move will work in the office/ | 21:58 |
| asadeddin_ | I'm quite tired of microsoft and their stupid requirements | 21:58 |
| asadeddin_ | ? | 21:59 |
| Sysi | if you have even a bit open-minded users | 21:59 |
| Sysi | we have xubuntu at school, not much problems | 21:59 |
| asadeddin_ | right... Well now for the more difficult question. I'm looking to do them as fat clients, as in Network Login for users | 22:00 |
| asadeddin_ | would you know any good reasource on the subject matter | 22:00 |
| Sysi | if you want global user accounts you need to deal with PAM and LDAP and propably NFS or Samba | 22:02 |
| asadeddin_ | I see.... I 'm looking to make an Ubuntu Server with Xubuntu clients connected to it for File & Printer sharing. Also for fat client | 22:02 |
| asadeddin_ | Samba is probably best for the first two | 22:03 |
| asadeddin_ | LDAP for Fat client? | 22:03 |
| Sysi | NFS is better for linux-linux file sharing | 22:04 |
| Sysi | LDAP is like database for user accounts | 22:05 |
| asadeddin_ | what about openLDAP? | 22:05 |
| asadeddin_ | what's the difference? | 22:05 |
| Sysi | same thing propably | 22:05 |
| asadeddin_ | I know a lot of these questions I can google, but you seem to be doing a pretty good job of answering them X) | 22:05 |
| Sysi | i'm not actual sysadmin, never set up that kind of system but we have it at school and i somewhat know how it works | 22:06 |
| asadeddin_ | ok i see | 22:07 |
| Sysi | i do am part of sysadmin group | 22:07 |
| asadeddin_ | maybe i should check out the ubuntu server | 22:07 |
| asadeddin_ | channel | 22:07 |
| asadeddin_ | but anyways, i would rather setup and use Samba just incase I ever want to add an XP machine | 22:07 |
| asadeddin_ | so I guess Samba + LDAP = Happiness? | 22:08 |
| asadeddin_ | I found this in case you might ever need it: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/network-authentication.html | 22:08 |
| Sysi | you can have both for file sharing | 22:09 |
| Sysi | personally i've never used samba, it may work as well | 22:10 |
| asadeddin_ | i see | 22:10 |
| asadeddin_ | well thanks a lot | 22:11 |
| Sysi | np | 22:12 |
| knome | for what i know, samba works okay. | 22:12 |
| asadeddin_ | i've heard good things about Samba | 22:12 |
| asadeddin_ | and it's overall functionality | 22:12 |
| asadeddin_ | also a lot of tutorials seem to include it | 22:13 |
| knome | it's okay if you *must* connect to windows network. if you don't need to, then it's useless | 22:13 |
| asadeddin_ | well, I might need to, it's not a total conversion to Linux, there might be still some pcs on there | 22:15 |
| knome | yup | 22:15 |
| asadeddin_ | interestingly enough, I'm chatting on the Ubuntu-server channel | 22:16 |
| asadeddin_ | and someone is saying LDAP might be overkill for the whole thing | 22:16 |
| asadeddin_ | I have yet to understand why from him | 22:16 |
| asadeddin_ | Ok... so if you wanted to know | 22:25 |
| asadeddin_ | Samba might be able to do this as well: the login/pass is passed back to the samba server....set it with smbpasswd like he said. | 22:26 |
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