[04:25] <neil_slade> Hello. It is very early here in The UK, but hopefully someone somewhere else is online and can help me.
[04:27] <neil_slade> I have tried using the irc ubuntu with Pidgin. In general it works well enough, but when I minimise Pidgin I do not get any notifications of chat activity. So some discussions last night went unnoticed.
[04:30] <Unit193> You can change settings in Pidgin to get sound
[04:32] <neil_slade> I am now giving Xchat another try. Ideally I want something that I can minimise that will not bother me with messages if someone just logs in and logs out again without sending a message, but I would like to know about any chat activity as soon as it happens and to not overlook anything. I have set the notification options in Xchat. I now need to minimise it and find out whether or not I am alerted to new messages when xch
[04:32] <neil_slade> at is minimised to the system tray. Is there anyone who can send me a few test messages in a few minutes? Thanks for your suggestion Unit193, but I keep my speakers off most of the time, and if I am listening to music maybe Pidgins sound could be missed anyway. I need visual notifications that cannot be missed even if I am typing or moving between web pages at the time.
[04:37] <neil_slade> I will minimise Xchat  now. If I do not notice and reply to your messages then I apologise, but for this test I must leave Xchat minimised for some time and see whether or not I am alerted to chat activity. Maybe some of you could just type test message for neil a few times. Thanks.
[04:43] <Unit193> neil_slade: You should get this
[04:52] <neil_slade> Thanks Unite193, but I think I will have to find another way of connecting to irc. I went away fora few minutes to make a cup of tea. Here in the UK I am having breakfast before going to work. I saw no notification of your message before maximising Xchat back to my screen. I will have to leave this for now and try and find something that will do what I want. What i really need is a program that can be minimised, but it's n
[04:52] <neil_slade> otification messages stay on top of all other windows and stay there until cancelled. Pidgin and Xchat do not do what I want, I must keep searching. Thanks Unit193, I will disconnect in a few minutes and finish getting ready for work.
[04:53] <M0hi> neil_slade: Added something to your alert notifications in settings?
[04:54] <Unit193> There should be one in the icon bar for Xchat
[04:55] <neil_slade> Yes, I've already enabled every alert setting I can find in Xchat. Thee was still nothing on my screen telling me about your message when Xchat was minimised. I had to maximise and read the message for knowing it was there.
[04:55] <M0hi> neil_slade: you are in which version? 11.04 ?
[04:56] <neil_slade> Yes, 11.04
[04:56] <M0hi> are you using any docky? like AWN or some others?
[04:57] <neil_slade> Thanks for your help Unit193 and M8hi, but I must disconnect now and get ready for work.
[04:57] <Unit193> Well, tried
[05:43] <golgotha> anybody on here
[05:55] <philipballew> they should wait longer
[07:39] <philipballew> how do i switch to a different theme in xubuntu
[07:41] <bioterror> you change the look of bars and gtk theme
[07:42] <bioterror> http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/category/themes/
[07:42] <philipballew> i know bioterror ive never used xubuntu before until last week
[07:42] <philipballew> i was just wondering a way. i see this shows it :)
[07:44] <bioterror> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17174207/screenshots/fluxbox_e17looksm.jpg damn good looking fluxbox
[07:44] <bioterror> Unit193, ^^ check that
[07:45] <Unit193> bioterror: Just did! That's DANG sweet!!
[07:45] <bioterror> totally
[07:46] <philipballew> Applications->Settings->User Interface Settings isnt there in 10.04 ?
[07:46] <Unit193> Danit, now I have to add that to things to try :P
[07:46] <bioterror> unit ;)
[07:46] <philipballew> but i found it anyway
[07:47]  * philipballew needs to try fluxbox
[07:48] <bioterror> that thingie on the right is done with conky, the clock is LUA inside conky
[07:51] <philipballew> what would someone recommend as a good lightweight music manager that still looks nice
[07:51] <bioterror> you mean it should have library?
[10:27] <G`> hi
[11:21] <G`> `+v _G
[15:19] <bodhi_zazen> Anyone here interested in looking at an iptables document I wrote ?
[15:19] <bodhi_zazen> http://bodhizazen.net/IPTables.odt
[17:39] <pmackinney> Quick admin question- Running Ubuntu 10.4, I've set an alias for root in /etc/aliases, and I've tested that mail sent to root goes through, but I never get any system logs. I'm used to the root account getting a daily log summary. How to do this in Ubuntu?
[18:10] <bodhi_zazen> quiet today =)
[19:31] <Demon002> Has anyone managed a 11.04 Wubi install on Raid, if so do you know where the tutorial can be found?
[21:50] <nghalion> helloeveryone
[21:54] <nghalion> I have a problem in Ubuntu. where can i ask related questions?
[21:56] <holstein> nghalion: this is a decent place... if you want, give the /topic a look and go for it :)
[21:57] <nghalion> it's the first time for me here. and don't know exactly how things work
[21:58] <nghalion> i had a problem that i googled for but found nothing. (maybe i didn't search right)
[21:58] <nghalion> so i thought maybe i'll find my answer here
[21:59] <nghalion> am i in the right place to troubleshoot ubuntu?
[21:59] <nghalion> if not can someone please tell me where to ask
[22:00] <urlin2u> nghalion, no matter waht channel getting to the point with an actaul question will be best served.
[22:00] <urlin2u> what
[22:00] <holstein> nghalion: sure... if you want, when you join a channel check out the /topic
[22:01] <holstein> you can literally type "/topic"
[22:01] <nghalion> thanks
[22:01] <holstein> here, for example, you will see the part about "Please do not wait to ask questions, simply ask"
[22:01] <nghalion> noticed that now :)
[22:02] <holstein> nghalion: no worries, and its pretty relaxed here
[22:02] <nghalion> ya it seems like it
[22:02] <holstein> but, the busy channels can be noticably more strict, and for good reason
[22:02] <nghalion> strict in what way?
[22:02] <nghalion> i thought this is to learn more about ubuntu
[22:03] <holstein> !ask | nghalion
[22:03] <ubot2`> nghalion: Please don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-)
[22:03] <holstein> nghalion: like.. you might get that in a channel
[22:03] <holstein> again... no worries, its part of the learning process to see what its like on both sides
[22:04] <nghalion> !ask | nghalion
[22:04] <ubot2`> nghalion, please see my private message
[22:04] <nghalion> thank u ubot2
[22:04] <nghalion> and sorry for cothering
[22:04] <nghalion> bothering*
[22:05] <holstein> nah, thats what ubot2` is for
[22:05] <nghalion> :)
[22:05] <holstein> you can query that bot and ask questions
[22:06] <holstein> !grub
[22:06] <ubot2`> 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 - See !grub1 for releases before Karmic (9.10)
[22:06] <nghalion> i sure will
[22:06] <holstein> anyways.. whats up nghalion ?
[22:06] <nghalion> well
[22:08] <nghalion> i recently resized my HDD (ubuntu installed on it) and now the mount point shows as /sdb instead of /media. this cuzed problems with folder links and similar stuff.
[22:08] <holstein> what changed?
[22:08] <holstein> what is expecting /media?
[22:09] <holstein> you can always mount partitions as /whatever
[22:09] <nghalion> for example: one of my drives was located in /media/storage now it's /media/sdb6
[22:09] <nghalion> i can change that how?
[22:11] <holstein> you can always just mount it over at /media/storage
[22:11] <holstein> im not sure how or why it has changed
[22:11] <holstein> this has to be an extra drive or partition
[22:11] <holstein> nghalion: why dont you run something like this in a terminal
[22:12] <holstein> sudo fdisk -l
[22:12] <nghalion> i did
[22:12] <holstein> and paste bin that here...
[22:12] <holstein> http://paste.ubuntu.com/
[22:12] <holstein> and you can let me know what is what, and whats doing what, why
[22:12] <Unit193> If he has pastebinit installed he can do   sudo blkid |pastebinit
[22:13] <holstein> Unit193: :)
[22:14] <nghalion> thanks for the tip unit193
[22:14] <nghalion> ok done
[22:14] <Unit193> holstein: Didn't someone say somthing about s/fdisk -l/blkid/ anyway?
[22:19] <nghalion> http://paste.ubuntu.com/679247/
[22:30] <holstein> nghalion: biab...
[22:31] <nghalion> ?
[22:31] <nghalion> didn't get u
[22:36] <holstein> nghalion: im back now
[22:36]  * holstein looking
[22:36] <holstein> nghalion: so... sda is windows, and sdb is linux
[22:36] <nghalion> ya
[22:36] <holstein> you say you resized something? what?
[22:36] <nghalion> plus a NTFS partion with linux
[22:37] <holstein> yeah?
[22:37] <holstein> wheres that?
[22:37] <holstein> sdb6 ?
[22:37] <nghalion> ya
[22:38] <nghalion> i added an extra partion and deleted it later
[22:38] <nghalion> so i thought everything went back the way it was
[22:38] <nghalion> but i ended up with this problem
[22:38] <holstein> what problem?
[22:38] <holstein> i guess im just not sure what the deal is
[22:38] <nghalion> the naming problem
[22:38] <holstein> you have a couple 'red flags' for me
[22:38] <holstein> you have linux install on an ntfs paritition
[22:39] <holstein> and im still not clear on what the naming problem is
[22:39] <nghalion> ok
[22:39] <holstein> if that directory exists
[22:39] <holstein> you can mount that partition to it
[22:39] <nghalion> ya it does
[22:39] <nghalion> u know
[22:39] <nghalion> it's not a big deal
[22:39] <holstein> you can set that up in /ets/fstab if you want
[22:39] <nghalion> i'll try that
[22:39] <holstein> nghalion: i wouls start from the beginning and really think about what is where and why
[22:39] <holstein> would*
[22:40] <nghalion> sure
[22:40] <holstein> especially now since you are arguably at the beginning
[22:40] <nghalion> i'll try to resolve it
[22:40] <holstein> you could blow out all the linux partitions, get windows where/how you want it
[22:40] <nghalion> if i need anything i'll sure get back to u
[22:40] <holstein> and reinstall, and not be out anything but 20 or 30 minuts
[22:40] <holstein> minutes*
[22:41] <nghalion> but reinstalling will wipe ubuntu out
[22:41] <holstein> sux to get too far down the road and realize you got the disk in a way that you dont like :/
[22:41] <nghalion> i dont want that now
[22:41] <nghalion> if that's the only way
[22:41] <nghalion> i'll do it later
[22:41] <holstein> nghalion: sure.. you dont have to, im sure you can sort it out :)
[22:41] <holstein> if i cant help, we'll find someone who can
[22:42] <nghalion> thanks a million holstein appreciate your help greatly
[22:42] <holstein> nghalion: anytime