| totesmuhgoats | I originally had an ubuntu 11.10 install, I removed some packaged and installed xubuntu-desktop. I am wondering, on a normal xubuntu install, does thunar support mounting network shares? | 01:00 |
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| totesmuhgoats | out of the box i mean | 01:00 |
| holstein | totesmuhgoats: i like gigolo | 01:02 |
| totesmuhgoats | holstein: i am gonna assume that's a package, but taken out of context that would look very different | 01:05 |
| holstein | totesmuhgoats: you can assume its relevant to your query :) | 01:06 |
| totesmuhgoats | holstein: well I was asking the question just so i would know whether it is supposed to work and i broke something with my fidgetting or whether it doesn't support it out of the box | 01:06 |
| holstein | totesmuhgoats: im not sure... i dont see the connect to server im used to from nautilus | 01:07 |
| holstein | i found gigolo, and i stopped looking | 01:08 |
| holstein | i see 'open location' in there | 01:08 |
| Crash_O-D | how do I disable everything being stuck to the top bar. say I open the properties for mouse I can't move the window or anything. I cannot maximize minimize thoughs icons are gone | 01:08 |
| totesmuhgoats | yea i have open location, it just brings up a text box | 01:08 |
| totesmuhgoats | i ask because when i hadn't yet uninstalled the unity stuff there actually a network location thing listed in the left hand column | 01:09 |
| Crash_O-D | before this issue happened I did a git command 4 gpointing device settings rebooted and then have this issue | 01:09 |
| holstein | totesmuhgoats: maybe in nautilus | 01:10 |
| totesmuhgoats | holstein: in nautilus and in thunar | 01:10 |
| holstein | mabye a plugin? | 01:10 |
| holstein | totesmuhgoats: i dont have that | 01:10 |
| totesmuhgoats | well the gvfs stuff was probably installed and i think nautilus and thunar share their "places" list | 01:10 |
| totesmuhgoats | but thanks for the info | 01:10 |
| totesmuhgoats | I have to get going for the moment, talk to you guys later | 01:11 |
| Crash_O-D | any help would be greatly appreciate it | 01:12 |
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| Crash_O-D | why would my apps be stuck in 1 position not able to freely move? | 02:24 |
| Crash_O-D | I tried google ing it but no luck | 02:31 |
| Crash_O-D | How do i get xfwm4 to start always. I run it manuel and fixes issue | 03:00 |
| holstein | Crash_O-D: you can add that in the settings... | 03:23 |
| Crash_O-D | Setting? | 03:24 |
| holstein | menu - settings -settings manger- session and starup | 03:24 |
| Crash_O-D | Thanks | 03:25 |
| stray_ | Anyone help me with Ubuntu One? | 03:25 |
| holstein | stray_: feel free to ask... if anyone can answer, they will :) | 03:26 |
| stray_ | Well, I try to log in, and I get an error message saying "Method "CreateItem" with signature "a{sv}(oayay)b" on interface "org.freedesktop.Secret.Collection" doesn't exist" | 03:28 |
| Crash_O-D | what is the easiest way to have it on time o | 03:36 |
| Crash_O-D | what is the easiest way to have it auto mount a drive that is not the drive loading the xubuntu | 03:36 |
| holstein | Crash_O-D: i add them to /etc/fstab ...you can check out https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive | 03:39 |
| Crash_O-D | Thanks. My storage drive is my windows hdd | 03:39 |
| holstein | i say, as long as you know how to go in from a live CD and edit the /etc/fstab then you cant do too much damage :) | 03:39 |
| Crash_O-D | Thanks i found ntfs thing auto mounts thanks though | 04:07 |
| holstein | yup... its all there :) | 04:08 |
| ecotrump | I've lost the transparency options for my xubuntu panels and screenlets. Does anyone have any ideas for what might have happened? It happened just after I logged into a xfce session and then tried to get a xubuntu session running again. | 04:51 |
| ecotrump | I've lost the transparency options for my xubuntu panels and screenlets. Does anyone have any ideas for what might have happened? It happened just after I logged into a xfce session and then tried to get a xubuntu session running again. | 04:56 |
| ecotrump | Does anyone know why I would have lost transparency support and gained two more workspaces in Xununtu? Does anyone know what program would be controlling these features in Xubuntu? | 06:09 |
| well_laid_lawn | ecotrump: the transparency is from xfwm and the number of desktops from xfdesktop afaik - been through the settings manager? | 06:13 |
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| incorrect | what service is started by 'gnome services' that handles monitors? | 09:18 |
| well_laid_lawn | incorrect: xfconf stores display settings in .config - I don't know what from gnome could be handling monitors | 09:20 |
| incorrect | it is nice just plugging a screen in and having it set up for you | 09:24 |
| well_laid_lawn | ohh - xfce needs a little more preperation then gnome | 09:27 |
| incorrect | i wonder, is there a way to configure which gnome services get started | 09:27 |
| well_laid_lawn | part of the reason it's lighter andd some ppl prefer that | 09:27 |
| incorrect | i don't mind | 09:27 |
| incorrect | i was just trying to start the services i wanted | 09:27 |
| incorrect | i like xfce the ui suits me better | 09:27 |
| incorrect | i just like the functionality of gnome in some areas | 09:28 |
| well_laid_lawn | I know nothing about gnome sorry - there's a display config in system sttings | 09:28 |
| well_laid_lawn | in xfce | 09:28 |
| incorrect | the gnome services is a tick box in the xfce session options | 09:28 |
| incorrect | just i have no idea which services it thinks it is starting | 09:29 |
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| Fusrodah | Hi how do I install the shockwave flash download from Adobe? | 12:05 |
| well_laid_lawn | !flash | 12:06 |
| ubottu | To install Flash see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash - See also !Restricted and !Gnash | 12:06 |
| Fusrodah | I've got a flash tar.gz file in my download folder but I dont know what to do with it | 12:06 |
| well_laid_lawn | unpack it and look for a readme file | 12:07 |
| well_laid_lawn | clicking on it in thunar should get it unpacked | 12:08 |
| Fusrodah | there's a usr folder filled with tone of subfolders and a libflashplayer.so file | 12:08 |
| Fusrodah | dont know what thunar is, it opened with archive manager | 12:09 |
| well_laid_lawn | I'd try the official method first then | 12:09 |
| well_laid_lawn | !thunar | 12:09 |
| ubottu | thunar is a file manager for !Xfce. It is a lightweight alternative to !Nautilus and is quite similar. More info at: http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html - Want to Replace Nautilus with Thunar? See http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease | 12:09 |
| Fusrodah | thanks for the advice but jeez what a hassle, cant it just be double clicked | 12:10 |
| Fusrodah | I will check the links | 12:10 |
| well_laid_lawn | who knows what's in the tar.gz? | 12:10 |
| Fusrodah | it was the shockwave flash download for linux from Adobe | 12:11 |
| well_laid_lawn | but how does adobe expect it to be installed? - that's why there's the supported method | 12:11 |
| well_laid_lawn | s/how/who/ | 12:12 |
| well_laid_lawn | ignore that last message.. | 12:12 |
| Fusrodah | adobe gives no instructions. I just tried the instructions you inked and got a 'failed to fetch' error message | 12:14 |
| Fusrodah | sorry I just got Xubuntu yesterday and it's been a nightmare getting things to work properly | 12:14 |
| well_laid_lawn | I can appreciate that - it takes a little more work then ubunut for some things | 12:15 |
| Fusrodah | where in the file system would I find ~/.mozilla/plugins | 12:16 |
| well_laid_lawn | the ~ means your home folder | 12:19 |
| well_laid_lawn | and the dot in front of mozilla means it's a hidden dir | 12:19 |
| well_laid_lawn | ctrl+h shows the hidden files/dirs | 12:20 |
| well_laid_lawn | in the file managers' view menu there is an option to show the hidden files too | 12:26 |
| well_laid_lawn | it shows the keyboard shortcut beside it | 12:27 |
| sebster | how do I make my changes permanent after I edit my monitor setup with xrandr? I can't figure it out at all. Tried several things to no avail. | 12:33 |
| ablomen | sebster, you can try putting it in the ~/.xinitrc file (you can create it if it does not exist) | 12:35 |
| well_laid_lawn | or you make a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d for it | 12:35 |
| well_laid_lawn | !xrandr | 12:35 |
| ubottu | XRandR 1.2 is the new method of running dual screens in !X. Information/HowTo here: http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 | 12:35 |
| sebster | I've looked at that document before I got here and still don't understand squat. It looks pretty chaotic to me... I'll try again! | 12:37 |
| well_laid_lawn | maybe putting the xrandr commands in .xinitrc or autostarted apps would be easier | 12:38 |
| sebster | where should .xinitrc be? | 12:39 |
| well_laid_lawn | it's a hidden file in your home dir - it might not exist yet | 12:41 |
| sebster | I can't create it either, it says read only file system... why is the world against me? | 12:41 |
| well_laid_lawn | why would it be read only? | 12:43 |
| sebster | your guess is as good as mine | 12:43 |
| sebster | I'll try to reboot since I've probably killed the whole OS. I'm sure I'll be back soon... | 12:43 |
| well_laid_lawn | luck | 12:44 |
| jmcantrell_ | network manager shows "device not ready" under wireless, but my wireless seems to be working. anyone know what my problem might be? | 13:04 |
| sebx | I'm trying to get my dual monitor setup changes to be persistent. I've got the xrandr script that executes the changes but I can't get it to run automatically. I tried putting .xinitrc into the home directory, and the /etc/skel directory, which is what it said in the ArchLinux documentation. How is it supposed to work? | 13:35 |
| baizon | sebx: try arandr :) | 13:35 |
| sebx | that still doesn't make the changes persistent | 13:37 |
| sebx | afaik arandr is a gui for xrandr but it's the same in the end = not persistent | 13:37 |
| sebx | am I the only person in the world using more than one monitor? I'm shocked at how badly this is supported. | 13:38 |
| Sysi | sebx: settings -> sessions and startup -> autostart | 13:40 |
| sebx | I don't seem to have a sessions and startup option... | 13:41 |
| DemonWitch | hey i installed ubuntu on a 8gb stick and i have hardly any space left. Can i erase those? /usr/share/doc and/or /usr/src | 13:42 |
| baizon | DemonWitch: sudo (apt-get autoremove, apt-get autoclean, localepurge) | 13:43 |
| DemonWitch | baizon: what about /usr/src? | 13:47 |
| baizon | DemonWitch: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=809121 | 13:48 |
| baizon | DemonWitch: and http://serverfault.com/questions/87341/ubuntu-usr-is-full-up-recommend-anything-in-there-i-can-delete | 13:48 |
| DemonWitch | baizon: /usr/share/doc | 13:50 |
| DemonWitch | is this where manual pages are? | 13:50 |
| baizon | yes | 13:51 |
| baizon | but i think its better to remove the packages, like <packagename>-doc | 13:51 |
| DemonWitch | baizon: whats the difference? | 13:53 |
| baizon | if you delete it manually, maybe you delete "to much" | 13:54 |
| DemonWitch | baizon: is there a way to disable getting doc packages for new things i download? | 13:59 |
| baizon | hmm ok got dual-view but the second desktop is the default desktop, not xubuntu. Any ideas how to fix that? | 14:07 |
| DemonWitch | how can i change grub2 boot options? | 14:14 |
| knome | !grub2 | 14:15 |
| 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 - See !grub1 for releases before Karmic (9.10) | 14:15 |
| DemonWitch | knome: i need to remove windows from boot options | 14:15 |
| knome | see the latter link in the message | 14:16 |
| GridCube | my media keys on the keyboard have lost their superpowers | 14:49 |
| GridCube | :( | 14:49 |
| baizon | my keyboard never had that power :( | 14:50 |
| baizon | my laptop is "to new" :P | 14:50 |
| ablomen | GridCube, did you try checking "Run gnome services on startup" in the sessions config menu? | 14:51 |
| GridCube | :( | 14:51 |
| GridCube | nope i just figure it, i tried to up the volumen | 14:52 |
| GridCube | it worked | 14:52 |
| GridCube | i mean before | 14:52 |
| ablomen | well see if it is checked, for me certain keys work without, but others dont, while with it on all work | 14:53 |
| GridCube | i have a lot of password gnome stuff but no services | 14:54 |
| ablomen | GridCube, its in the advanced tab | 14:54 |
| GridCube | oh | 14:54 |
| GridCube | i found it | 14:55 |
| GridCube | checked | 14:55 |
| GridCube | but it used to work | 14:55 |
| ablomen | well try logging out and in again and see if it works now | 14:55 |
| GridCube | mmhm | 14:59 |
| GridCube | not cool | 15:04 |
| GridCube | keys still do not work | 15:04 |
| GridCube | and now my desktop is blue | 15:04 |
| baizon | GridCube: xD | 15:06 |
| Disqualified | how do i edit the tty terminal messages that appear when i console login ? | 15:08 |
| jmcantrell | network manager shows "device not ready" under wireless, but my wireless seems to be working. anyone know what my problem might be? | 15:15 |
| Disqualified | how can i check the remaining free space of my root partition? (its also encrypted, but now its open that i use it) | 15:25 |
| baizon | df -h | 15:27 |
| baizon | or du -h | 15:30 |
| baizon | i always forget | 15:30 |
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| mash | d | 15:47 |
| GridCube | baizon, i disable that gnome thingy | 15:47 |
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| mash | d | 16:02 |
| DaBaus | how can i run a bash command at boot always? | 16:33 |
| Sysi | DaBaus: as your user? | 16:36 |
| sebx | is it possible to change the master volume via keyboard shortcuts? I can't find anything that works for me | 18:31 |
| Myrtti | sebx: I don't see why not, I think I personally used aumix for the job some time ago | 18:42 |
| Myrtti | easier methods probably exist | 18:42 |
| sebx | I'm trying to figure out who is in charge of volume. It seems that alsa isn't doing the master volume. This is such a ballache. At first glance I loved XFCE but I've spent all day trying to get the most basic things to work and I'm still not getting there. | 18:43 |
| sebx | got aumixer installed and get this error trying to "aumixer -v +" : "error opening mixer: No such file or directory" | 18:45 |
| TheSheep | sebx: pulseaudio is in charge | 18:52 |
| sebx | can that do anything with the sound? I've bumped into pulseaudio but didn't go anywhere with hit. Is there a volumeup/down? | 18:53 |
| TheSheep | sebx: also, volume keys work out of the box | 18:53 |
| sebx | don't have any on my keyboard | 18:53 |
| Sysi | does settings shortcut for "amixer 5%+ Master" work? | 18:55 |
| TheSheep | some time ago, when it didn't work in beta I used amixer | 18:55 |
| Sysi | settings gnome services to launh on startup and using gnome settings is also possible | 18:55 |
| TheSheep | amixe set 'Master' '1+' | 18:55 |
| TheSheep | amixer | 18:56 |
| sebx | Unable to find simple control 'Master',0 | 18:56 |
| sebx | gnome services? I don't understand how that will get me there | 18:57 |
| Sysi | settings -> sessions and startup, set them to launch, then open gnome-system-settings or something and set keys the way you like, if it's possible on gnome | 18:58 |
| sebx | I'll try that brb | 18:59 |
| sebx | I went to Session and Startup, Advanced, Launch GNOME services at startup. That just gave me an onscreen keyboard. What would this do to volume? Where should I be able to set keyboard shortcuts? | 19:02 |
| sebx | does nobody else adjust their volume? I really don't get it | 19:03 |
| Sysi | amixer command is working for me | 19:05 |
| Sysi | gnome services by itself won't do much, install and open that systemsettings-thingy of gnome | 19:06 |
| sebx | what command does work for you and amixer? | 19:07 |
| Sysi | the one you reported to not work | 19:07 |
| sebx | I'm cursed. Absolutely nothing is working for me. | 19:07 |
| sebx | can't even remove amixer to try and install it again. waaaaaaaah | 19:08 |
| Sysi | have you tried gnome3 fallback/classic if you don't like unity? | 19:09 |
| Sysi | it wasn't very bad on 3.2 I think 11.10 has | 19:10 |
| sebx | I've used Kubuntu, Ubuntu 10&11 and I find that they are either full of crap or ugly. I loved Xubuntu initially but can't get dual monitor or even volume controls to work. It's ridiculous | 19:10 |
| sebx | I'm trying to find a version that does it for me and love the speed of xubuntu but yeah, it's doing very little very fast for me | 19:11 |
| sebx | thanks for your help, I'm off to go sobb | 19:16 |
| ola_ | hi | 19:56 |
| ola_ | can anyone can help me install camera drivers for acer travelmate 2490? | 19:56 |
| ola_ | i'm new to xubuntu | 19:57 |
| micahcowan | searched everywhere, not finding an answer. I have a working compose key (using "menu" key, via ~/.Xcompose; xev verifies that it reports as Multi_key). However, it doesn't _do_ anything (<Multi_key> <'> <'e> produces 'e). Any help? | 19:57 |
| holstein | ola_: its probably already working... try installing something like cheese to confirm | 19:59 |
| holstein | micahcowan: mabye the keyboard layout? | 19:59 |
| micahcowan | holstein, well, I went under "Settings Manager" -> "Keyboard", and tried a few different US variations, but not much luck there | 20:01 |
| ola_ | I've some problem with skype | 20:01 |
| ola_ | in cheese i have picture but it's not right | 20:01 |
| holstein | ola_: i would test with something like cheese... skype is not open | 20:01 |
| micahcowan | (FWIW, my locale is set to ja_JP.utf8 - gives me more opportunity for Japanese practice) | 20:01 |
| ola_ | in cheese my camera works but I have no picture in skype:( | 20:11 |
| ola_ | and I need skype with picture | 20:11 |
| ola_ | how can I check which drivers for camera I need to skype? | 20:12 |
| Crash_O-D_AFP | Anyone know the install instructions for utorrent? | 20:28 |
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| well_laid_lawn | !info utorrent | 20:36 |
| ubottu | Package utorrent does not exist in oneiric | 20:36 |
| holstein | Crash_O-D: for a torrent? or utorrent?.. you can search in the repositories? | 20:36 |
| Crash_O-D | I know but utorrent not in there. I downloaded from there site due to that. But can not find install instructions | 20:38 |
| holstein | Crash_O-D: you dont download from there site | 20:38 |
| holstein | you just download a torrent manager fromt he repos | 20:38 |
| Crash_O-D | Utorrent was very nice to me in windows why i like it small, light | 20:38 |
| holstein | Crash_O-D: you can use WINE to run windows applications in ubuntu/linux | 20:39 |
| holstein | Crash_O-D: i suggest when first migrating, to try the native applications | 20:40 |
| holstein | there are lots of torrent clients | 20:40 |
| holstein | transmission is the normal one | 20:40 |
| Crash_O-D | Do they have wine working better when i tryed wine years ago when i first tryed linux it did not like me lol. One reason i stoped trying linux not much help years ago i could find | 20:40 |
| Crash_O-D | Transmission is small also cool. Thanks | 20:42 |
| holstein | Crash_O-D: WINE works perfectly, just like it always did | 20:42 |
| holstein | the support for certain windows apps is arguably better all the time | 20:42 |
| holstein | http://appdb.winehq.org/ | 20:44 |
| Crash_O-D | Back then it had trobble running some apps right. i dont remember what apps or what os at time but looks like it got better. Thanks. I will try transmission though. Since small so should be light thanks so much | 20:46 |
| Crash_O-D | sorry my droid x2 reboot kicking me from chat | 21:06 |
| TheSheep | Crash_O-D: don't worry, nobody cares ;) | 21:21 |
| Crash_O-D | TheSheep: I dislike it restarting on its own. since i like irc on there :) | 21:22 |
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| ChristopherNG | hello i need urgent help | 22:39 |
| ChristopherNG | !hello | 22:39 |
| vincent_ardern | what do you need help with? | 22:39 |
| ChristopherNG | second | 22:40 |
| ChristopherNG | My problem is that my drive is not longer being recognized by Ubuntu, xubuntu or even windows.. | 22:41 |
| ChristopherNG | I have tried mounting it every way, cli and using the gui | 22:42 |
| ChristopherNG | but I cant access it via my laptop | 22:42 |
| vincent_ardern | sounds like the drive might be physically broken. could you try another enclosure? | 22:42 |
| ChristopherNG | I was booting arch from that external drive | 22:42 |
| vincent_ardern | does the bios recognise it? | 22:42 |
| ChristopherNG | Yes it appears there but it does not boot it | 22:43 |
| ChristopherNG | ive tried | 22:43 |
| vincent_ardern | that's beyond my capabilities then i'm afraid. sorry | 22:43 |
| ChristopherNG | Do you think flashing the bios would help? | 22:44 |
| vincent_ardern | the general ubuntu channel is probably more useful for this question | 22:44 |
| vincent_ardern | i doubt flashing the bios would change anything | 22:44 |
| ChristopherNG | ok well i think alot of this problem is because ive got about 4 or 5 different operating systems on about 3 machines and things get messed up. | 22:45 |
| ChristopherNG | i need to really just stick to one thing to make all this easier, but they all have different good and bad. | 22:45 |
| ChristopherNG | ubuntu, xubuntu, windows, arch and gentoo | 22:46 |
| ChristopherNG | thanks anyway | 22:46 |
| jmcantrell | network manager shows "device not ready" under wireless, but my wireless seems to be working. anyone know what my problem might be? | 23:02 |
| andres-kain | sorry, jmcantrell i do not know much but does login out fix it? do you have a wireless hardware switch? | 23:05 |
| sheperson | How can I remove gmusicbrowser from the volume applet? | 23:05 |
| jmcantrell | no and yes | 23:05 |
| jmcantrell | andres-kain: ^ | 23:06 |
| andres-kain | does flicking the hardware switch turn it on and off? | 23:07 |
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