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| uofm49426 | how can i get my laptop to find my desktop in vnc | 01:51 |
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| uofm49426 | over a wireless network | 01:51 |
| ArisVer | Good morning. A question on memory. System monitor reports 340MB instead of 350MB. How come? | 04:32 |
| === m00se is now known as e | ||
| === e is now known as m00se | ||
| ArisVer | Hi, i get SOME strange looking characters on my mozilla. I added a translator and i tried to translate some (chinese?) language and instead of english i get something like thailand lettering. I removed the translator but the characters are still there. I'm not even sure whether it was removed completely. | 06:08 |
| ArisVer | Anyone awake? | 06:16 |
| forkball | I haven't had this much fun on a computer in years! | 06:38 |
| forkball | I'm setting up my daughter's first desktop. | 06:39 |
| forkball | She's going to like the QuietPurple theme | 06:39 |
| === thermi is now known as Thermi | ||
| jgratero | Best twitter client for xubuntu? | 13:09 |
| Sysi | the one you like the most | 13:10 |
| Mark76 | Does anyone here know how to make the Pidgin text input window bigger? No one at pidgin irc is answering | 13:42 |
| Mark76 | http://imagebin.org/150211 | 13:42 |
| Mark76 | I can't type properly in this stupidly small space | 13:49 |
| TheSheep | Mark76: did you try changing your gtk theme? | 13:53 |
| === Pici` is now known as Pici | ||
| MK`` | what do I use to view files on a network? | 15:12 |
| TheSheep | gigolo | 15:14 |
| MK`` | thanks | 15:15 |
| TheSheep | if you mean the 'windows network' | 15:15 |
| TheSheep | aka smb | 15:15 |
| MK`` | yes, that is what I meant, thanks | 15:15 |
| Mark76 | I did, but it hasn't made any difference | 15:15 |
| TheSheep | Mark76: anything custom in your .gtkrc-2.0? | 15:16 |
| Mark76 | Nope | 15:16 |
| Mark76 | It only seems to affect some tabs. Not all | 15:17 |
| Mark76 | Like this one | 15:21 |
| G-Kar | hello | 16:18 |
| G-Kar | just installed xubuntu 7.1 on a Mac G3 and I can't get out of busybox | 16:19 |
| charlie-tca | no such release | 16:19 |
| TheSheep | also, you might check the #ubuntu-ppc channel | 16:20 |
| TheSheep | !ppc | 16:20 |
| ubottu | PowerPC. Formerly used by Apple for the Macintosh line of computers. Variants are now used in popular gaming consoles. PPC was a fully supported Ubuntu architecture up to and including edgy. It is now a community port, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ | 16:20 |
| charlie-tca | We never had a 7.1, and anything older than 8.10 is unsupported now | 16:21 |
| G-Kar | ok. I'll try and find 8.1 and give it a go | 16:21 |
| TheSheep | there is no 8.1 | 16:22 |
| zenrox | this new xfce is really nice and more polished than 4.6 ver | 17:55 |
| TheSheep | is it? | 18:05 |
| zenrox | yep | 18:05 |
| TheSheep | what makes you think so? | 18:05 |
| zenrox | well i have used xfce since 4.3 | 18:05 |
| TheSheep | you mean you only used xfce4? | 18:06 |
| zenrox | backly | 18:06 |
| zenrox | basicly | 18:06 |
| zenrox | thare were differances between even in the various 4.whatever lines | 18:07 |
| TheSheep | so what is really nice in it in particular? | 18:07 |
| zenrox | faster cleaner and easyer configing | 18:07 |
| === Pici is now known as Guest67539 | ||
| === Pici` is now known as Pici | ||
| thecrazygm | hey, need a little help | 19:58 |
| thecrazygm | i lost the volume control with the gmusicbrowser thing | 19:58 |
| thecrazygm | all i can add back is the mixer | 19:58 |
| thecrazygm | i'm gonna go have a smoke, so i'll be afk for a sec, if someone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated | 20:02 |
| Mark76 | First left. then take a right | 20:08 |
| Mark76 | Past the wheelie bins and it's the third door on your left | 20:11 |
| thecrazygm | ha | 20:12 |
| Sysi | try indicator-plugin | 20:14 |
| thecrazygm | yup that did it | 20:15 |
| thecrazygm | thanks | 20:15 |
| thecrazygm | i didn't bother to think that was what did it | 20:16 |
| thecrazygm | i was trying to remove the email/pidgin icon | 20:16 |
| thecrazygm | i guess i removed the whole indicator | 20:16 |
| Sysi | that would be done by removing indicator-messages with package manager | 20:17 |
| thecrazygm | again thanks | 20:18 |
| thecrazygm | thank you, quick apt-get remove and a kill -HUP and i'm happy now | 20:20 |
| thecrazygm | not used to debian/ubuntu | 20:20 |
| thecrazygm | not knew to linux though | 20:20 |
| thecrazygm | been using since Slackware 3 | 20:20 |
| thecrazygm | I've been using Arch for the last few years | 20:20 |
| thecrazygm | got tired of fidling with config files etc | 20:21 |
| ArisVer | XChat, skip network list on startup, not working, Xubuntu 10.04lts. | 20:21 |
| thecrazygm | just wanted this desktop to work | 20:21 |
| charlie-tca | ArisVer: what do you mean, skip network list? | 20:22 |
| charlie-tca | Xchat starts with a screen asking which network to use, doesn't it? | 20:23 |
| charlie-tca | Then you have to click connect to actually do a connection? | 20:23 |
| ArisVer | Yes, there is a check box, but still comes with the screen. | 20:23 |
| charlie-tca | if it doesn't connect to a network, what will it do? | 20:23 |
| ArisVer | No, the programs i have loaded come back on restart. | 20:24 |
| ArisVer | (most of them) | 20:24 |
| ArisVer | I set up the connections manually. | 20:25 |
| ArisVer | And they connect automatically. | 20:25 |
| charlie-tca | I think that is a feature of Xchat, if you leave it open when restarting | 20:26 |
| ArisVer | I'll close now and check. | 20:26 |
| ArisVer | The screen did not come back now. It's gone. | 20:27 |
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| mikeatvillage | Anyone there? I'm new to xchat and xubuntu | 21:03 |
| ArisVer | mikeatvillage: Ask your question. If someone knows he will answer you. | 21:05 |
| mikeatvillage | I have plugged in a usb handset but skype does not see it and I can't figure out how to get it recognised | 21:06 |
| ArisVer | Is there a way to put irc on Pidgin? | 21:10 |
| Unit193 | Pidgin does handle IRC | 21:11 |
| Mark76 | I'm using Pidgin right now | 21:12 |
| Mark76 | You just have to add an iRC account | 21:12 |
| Mark76 | For whichever network you want to connect to | 21:13 |
| Unit193 | Mark76: Did you ever try Finch? (CLI interface to pidgin and looks just like it) | 21:13 |
| Mark76 | I haven't | 21:13 |
| charlie-tca | mikeatvillage: try all the usb ports to see if one will recognize it | 21:13 |
| ArisVer | Put the 8001 number at port? | 21:13 |
| mikeatvillage | thanks charlie, I will try now... | 21:14 |
| charlie-tca | it might show up as a drive instead of phone, too | 21:15 |
| ArisVer | From Pidig i got a 'NickServ: (notice) ArisVer1 is not a registered nickname'. | 21:17 |
| Unit193 | ArisVer: You can't have 2 clients running with the same nick | 21:18 |
| ArisVer | Unit193: What can i do? | 21:19 |
| mikeatvillage | no luck charlie :-( tried all usb ports. | 21:19 |
| Unit193 | Log one out or use a different nick in one of the clients(and you're doing that in pidgin) | 21:20 |
| Unit193 | ArisVer: ^^ | 21:20 |
| DoctorTruth | does anyone know of a GOOD! video slideshow creator for Ubuntu as I am trying to create a vcd for mothers day coming up | 21:21 |
| charlie-tca | mikeatvillage: with the phone p | 21:22 |
| Unit193 | See ArisVer1 | 21:22 |
| charlie-tca | plugged into the computer, does it show anyting in lspci for it? | 21:22 |
| drc | Just noticed that in Additional Drivers (Nvidia - Current version) "This driver is activated but not currently in use". The -current driver works on this machine in Debian and LMDE. Is there something I have missed doing to "use" the proprietary driver in Xubuntu 11.04b[whatever] ? | 21:22 |
| ArisVer | Does this mean that i can close xchat and use pidgin? | 21:23 |
| charlie-tca | drc: have you restarted since installing it? | 21:23 |
| Unit193 | ArisVer: If you want | 21:23 |
| charlie-tca | mikeatvillage: I could suggest trying in #ubuntu-beginners for more help with that | 21:24 |
| Unit193 | ArisVer1: You can now change your nick in Pidgin to ArisVer | 21:24 |
| ArisVer1 | Write test! | 21:24 |
| mikeatvillage | Nothing that looks relevant charlie | 21:24 |
| charlie-tca | So it doesn't see it at all | 21:24 |
| drc | charlie-tca: Many times...this also happens in ubuntu 11.04/Unity...although Unity appeared to work there. | 21:24 |
| mikeatvillage | tvm, I'll head over there | 21:25 |
| charlie-tca | drc: try clicking the activate button again, and let it reinstall it | 21:25 |
| drc | I forgot the command to see exactly which video driver <is> being used.... | 21:25 |
| ArisVer1 | Unit193: How? | 21:25 |
| mikeatvillage | activate button? | 21:26 |
| drc | charlie-tca: Done that, several times. | 21:26 |
| mikeatvillage | sorry, not for me :-) | 21:26 |
| charlie-tca | command for which video driver? I use lspci or look in /var/log/xorg | 21:26 |
| charlie-tca | drc: if unity worked, it is probably gallium | 21:27 |
| ArisVer | XChat seems better. It can remember some commands. | 21:29 |
| drc | charlie-tca: Sounds like something I saw ...somewhere. | 21:29 |
| charlie-tca | gallium is the latest non-proprietary driver for both ati and nvidia | 21:30 |
| charlie-tca | it works well for some cards | 21:30 |
| Unit193 | ArisVer: Was AFK. You can do that with Accounts > {IRC Account} > Username | 21:33 |
| drc | charlie-tca: It worked well with Unity for me. | 21:33 |
| ArisVer | Yes, but, XChat seems better. It can remember some commands. | 21:34 |
| ArisVer | Like msg nickserv identify | 21:35 |
| Unit193 | Pidgin can auto ident with nickserv. But each person should use what they like best! (I use irssi) | 21:36 |
| charlie-tca | weechat is very good too | 21:36 |
| ArisVer | How about joining channels? I have not seen an option there. | 21:37 |
| charlie-tca | pidgin? | 21:37 |
| charlie-tca | I think it is harder to use | 21:37 |
| ArisVer | On Pidgin. | 21:37 |
| charlie-tca | I never found an easy way to join channels in pidgin | 21:37 |
| Unit193 | File{ish} > Join chat | 21:40 |
| ArisVer | Where? | 21:41 |
| ArisVer | Using Pidgin i can log in with my nick, but i have to manually enter channels. | 21:42 |
| Sysi | i'm currently on irssi, but i like xchat quite much, it's simple | 21:44 |
| Unit193 | irssi with some config to tell you what channels go with what numbers makes it easy | 21:50 |
| Sysi | i wouldn't use irssi if i wanted autoconnects | 21:52 |
| charlie-tca | Weechat; features of irrsi with autoconnect and channel names? | 21:53 |
| Unit193 | charlie-tca: irssi can/does have that (I just don't like autojoin) | 21:54 |
| Unit193 | charlie-tca: irssi autoconnects and idents with nickserv for me too | 21:55 |
| Sysi | afaik weechat doesn't differ that much about irssiabout features , it's just different | 21:55 |
| drc | Interesting...redux again. It appears that the latest iteration of the Additional Drivers script(s) adds a xorg.conf that tells X not to show the nvidia logo on startup. Changed that and the nvidia logo turns up at the "normal" place in X startup. Looking at the Xorg.0.log it <appears> that X loads the nvidia drive and unloads all the other possible X video drivers (nouveau, etc.). | 22:02 |
| drc | Practicing my google-fu turns up some posts that suggest that the reason for "not currently in use" is because I am not doing anything that requires the 3D aspects of the driver. Does this sound kosher? | 22:03 |
| charlie-tca | I don't know, but I have always had it activate if I installed it with hardware/additional drivers. | 22:04 |
| charlie-tca | I would be very skeptical about that suggestion | 22:04 |
| charlie-tca | You could install foobilliard and find out for sure. It uses 3d | 22:05 |
| drc | charlie-tca: Me also, but this has been consistent since doing fresh installs of X/Ubuntu 11.04b2+ | 22:05 |
| charlie-tca | looking at my nvidia machine, let's see. | 22:06 |
| charlie-tca | I have Experimental 3D support NVIDIA cards - not activated | 22:06 |
| charlie-tca | but everything works | 22:06 |
| charlie-tca | wrong | 22:06 |
| charlie-tca | hilighting the driver, it is activated and in use | 22:07 |
| charlie-tca | Is that the answer? highlight the driver, and see if it says activated? | 22:07 |
| Sysi | nouveau overrides propietary one, check lspci -k | 22:07 |
| drc | foobilliard appears to work, at least the first screen comes up | 22:07 |
| charlie-tca | yeah, it always does, but is the action smooth or jerky? | 22:08 |
| Sysi | you have wrong driver in xorg.conf or you need to additionally blackist nouveau | 22:08 |
| drc | Sysi: Kernel driver in use: nvidia | 22:09 |
| drc | from lspci -k | 22:09 |
| drc | charlie-tca: All I have been able to do is move the perspective around, but that is smooth | 22:10 |
| Sysi | just wish your system won't explode with updates.. i don't consider jockey trustworthy | 22:11 |
| charlie-tca | and is the driver now activated? | 22:11 |
| charlie-tca | (system now requires 3d) | 22:11 |
| drc | charlie-tca: nope, activated but not in use | 22:12 |
| drc | how does one play this game? | 22:12 |
| charlie-tca | Pretty sure the ""not currently in use" is because I am not doing anything that requires the 3D aspects of the driver." is nonsense | 22:12 |
| charlie-tca | roller on the mouse to hit hard or soft, enter to shoot, left/right arrows to move around the table, right control or right shift + left mouse to move the cue ball when allowed | 22:14 |
| charlie-tca | ESC to bring up the menu | 22:15 |
| drc | charlie-tca: smooth as silk | 22:16 |
| drc | http://pastebin.com/KFF7D0W6 Xorg.0.log | 22:16 |
| charlie-tca | I went and looked, right shift + left mouse to move the cue ball | 22:16 |
| charlie-tca | Then it should be working, even if it doesn't know it | 22:16 |
| charlie-tca | If it is smooth, 3d is working | 22:17 |
| drc | charlie-tca: Ok, I'm officially confused now :) | 22:17 |
| charlie-tca | NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 270.41.06 Mon Apr 18 14:55:51 PDT 2011 | 22:18 |
| drc | Everything <appears> to be working correctly. It's not a big deal to me what the caption says, but it does confuse me. | 22:18 |
| charlie-tca | looks like nvidia hardware driver | 22:18 |
| charlie-tca | confusing, yes. Working, yes | 22:19 |
| drc | Well, if I'm gonna play pool, I need some beer..... | 22:19 |
| charlie-tca | I gave up confusion a while back, now I just go with what works | 22:19 |
| drc | Yup...sounds like sage advice. | 22:22 |
| thecrazygm | well, i'm out guys | 22:25 |
| thecrazygm | untill next time | 22:25 |
| drc | Great, now charlie-tca has turned my laptop into a pool hall :( | 22:43 |
| charlie-tca | just click that little X in the top right corner, it will go away | 22:44 |
| charlie-tca | neat little game, though, isn't it? | 22:45 |
| drc | yup...I <think> I remember a similiar (if not the same) from years (and years) ago...wasted too much time then too. | 22:45 |
| charlie-tca | yup | 22:46 |
| Sysi | umf, what game? didn't catch it from backlog | 22:46 |
| charlie-tca | foobilliard | 22:46 |
| drc | I <think> it was on a mac though.... | 22:46 |
| charlie-tca | When I first installed it, it was not very much fun, and did not work good at all | 22:47 |
| charlie-tca | Now, though, with the improvements made to it and to Xubuntu, it is pretty good | 22:47 |
| drc | bbs | 22:47 |
| pedza | hey | 22:57 |
| pedza | on ubuntu and linux mint xfce i cant go past the gdm | 22:57 |
| pedza | how can this be fixed? :P | 22:57 |
| charlie-tca | Don't know how to fix Ubuntu or Mint | 22:58 |
| pedza | sorry | 22:58 |
| pedza | xubuntu | 22:58 |
| zenrox | pedza, try doing sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop | 22:59 |
| pedza | well | 22:59 |
| pedza | i just finished a fresh install | 22:59 |
| pedza | xubuntu natty beta 2 | 22:59 |
| zenrox | i am using that right not | 22:59 |
| pedza | it has xubuntu-desktop as far as i know | 23:00 |
| pedza | yeah | 23:00 |
| pedza | i want to use it too but cant | 23:00 |
| charlie-tca | Did you change themes? | 23:00 |
| pedza | i just installed it | 23:00 |
| zenrox | do you have a 3d gfx card | 23:00 |
| zenrox | ?? | 23:00 |
| pedza | cant even log in | 23:00 |
| pedza | integrated graphics card | 23:00 |
| pedza | the laptop is | 23:00 |
| pedza | hp 530 | 23:00 |
| zenrox | is it 3d capabile | 23:00 |
| pedza | think so | 23:00 |
| pedza | i could run unity quite well | 23:00 |
| zenrox | what is it? | 23:00 |
| charlie-tca | Try going to a tty using Ctrl+Alt+F1, log in and remove the .config files | 23:01 |
| zenrox | hmm | 23:01 |
| zenrox | ya | 23:01 |
| pedza | all of them? | 23:01 |
| zenrox | i would sugest that as well | 23:01 |
| zenrox | yes | 23:01 |
| pedza | the command is | 23:01 |
| charlie-tca | the files probably are not compatible with the current install | 23:01 |
| pedza | rm | 23:01 |
| pedza | ? | 23:01 |
| charlie-tca | rm ~/.config | 23:01 |
| zenrox | yep | 23:01 |
| charlie-tca | and rm ~/.cache | 23:02 |
| pedza | cannot remove ... : is a directory | 23:02 |
| pedza | :p | 23:02 |
| charlie-tca | then Ctrl+Alt+del | 23:02 |
| charlie-tca | OH | 23:02 |
| charlie-tca | forgot | 23:02 |
| charlie-tca | rm -r ~/.config | 23:02 |
| charlie-tca | and rm -r ~/.cache | 23:02 |
| Sysi | rm ~/.ICEauthority | 23:04 |
| pedza | ahhh | 23:04 |
| pedza | worked | 23:04 |
| pedza | thanks :) | 23:04 |
| zenrox | n/p | 23:04 |
| zenrox | pedza, just a config file messed up some how | 23:04 |
| pedza | but now i get a crappy default desktop :P | 23:05 |
| pedza | :) | 23:05 |
| pedza | yeah | 23:05 |
| Sysi | you can try something new then :P | 23:05 |
| pedza | i am | 23:06 |
| pedza | thanks guys ^^ | 23:06 |
| charlie-tca | If you change the theme to wildbush, it will fret | 23:07 |
| pedza | gonna do another fresh install | 23:07 |
| charlie-tca | it will lock you out again | 23:07 |
| KM0201 | how do i enable control alt backspace to restart X, under xfce? | 23:07 |
| charlie-tca | no idea | 23:07 |
| pedza | and by trial and error find out which config files are troublesome | 23:08 |
| Sysi | xorg thing | 23:08 |
| Sysi | xorg.conf is propably easiest, but altGr printScr K is new binding for that | 23:09 |
| pedza | is xubuntu used by any governments etc? | 23:17 |
| zenrox | that i dont just dont know | 23:28 |
| zenrox | if thay do thay ant talking about it | 23:28 |
| charlie-tca | That's because I can't remember no more | 23:28 |
| pedza | ok :) | 23:32 |
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