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HTN-Kitsuneok, it seams to be fine now. sorry for bothering you.00:00
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WebGoddess008hello04:55
WebGoddess008hi04:59
nanotubehowdy05:01
WebGoddess008hi05:01
nanotubegreetings05:02
WebGoddess008i like unity okay but ended up reinstalling to Xubuntu tonight05:02
WebGoddess008xfce just is way more customizable and i feel like i can be productive on here05:03
WebGoddess008unity feels like it's for novice computer users instead of power users05:03
WebGoddess008the workspace switcher on the taskbar works a lot better for me05:04
WebGoddess008anyway i'm hoping to be able to contribute something to the x/ubuntu community, signed up for a couple of the mailing lists05:04
nanotubesounds great, WebGoddess008 :)05:05
nanotubei'm in the same boat - tried unity for a couple weeks, then dumped it in favor of xubuntu05:05
WebGoddess008yeah it was just about two weeks even lol05:06
WebGoddess008i've been using debian on all of my webservers for years, and i like win7 but it just felt like it was time for me to move to linux officially05:06
WebGoddess008so now i don't have windows anymore except for imaging my old desktop and shoving it in virtualbox05:07
WebGoddess008which i only really did because i have tons of notes in onenote 2010 that need to get moved to tomboy or similar05:07
Unit193Might be better off in #xubuntu-offtopic05:07
WebGoddess008oh ok, well i am gnu to the community just trying to get situated, i want to contribute on some level, signed up to the marketing list and stuff05:08
nanotubeUnit193: you're like the federal reserve - just as the party gets started, you take away the punch bowl :)05:08
WebGoddess008i think xubuntu is more marketable to the types of people i associate with than unity05:09
Unit193nanotube: Problem ossifer? ;)05:10
nanotubeUnit193: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McChesney_Martin#Chairman_of_the_Federal_Reserve05:11
WebGoddess008the preview livecd for xubuntu is not as impressive as the one for unity, i think it could be improved, also the panel editor has some oddities like using the same icon for removing stuff from the panel as for adding a separator05:12
nanotubeWebGoddess008: yea i noticed that too, about the separator05:13
nanotubewonder if there's a launchpad issue on that05:13
WebGoddess008yeah i haven't had time to set up launchpad but the more i look into the community the more interesting it is, been using ubuntu exclusively for about two weeks as primary o/s and i'm using the computer for up to 12 hours a day lol05:15
* nanotube 's been with ubuntu since 2005 or so05:16
WebGoddess008i used to be a software engineer so i've done enough development work to notice stuff from that angle05:16
WebGoddess008well i've been with debian server-side forever and it seems like ubuntu is the GUI side of debian so that is why i chose it over debian05:17
WebGoddess008i know ubuntu has serverside stuff too but i've not had time to explore that05:17
WebGoddess008i don't mind hacking config files to set up a webserver05:17
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Exia00Hello, quick question! Can xubuntu run on a pentium 3 650Mhz 256mb ram and 8mb video? thanks!08:32
lightaI think yes Exia0008:35
MarzataExia00: should be no problem.08:36
MarzataExia00: but you might go for fluxbox for better performance.08:37
Exia00thanks lighta and marzata! will check both and see what happens!08:39
Unit193Errrr... I wouldn't recommend Xubuntu for that...08:40
MarzataUnit193: ?08:41
PopeJobyou might have trouble with old network cards and soundlbasters08:43
Unit193Mind you that I can't find anything that *officially* says that it won't work, but....08:45
lightahey guys I have a route probleme can someone help me with that ? I don't understand how they come back...10:21
AlanIs anybody else using dual monitors on intel graphics on xubuntu 11.10?  I'm finding it really difficult to persist the monitor layout10:33
AlanI did the "obvious" thing and put an xrandr command into my startup, however after it applies something else fights with it and puts it back to cloned mode10:33
Alanand i haven't even enabled gnome-settings-daemon yet....10:33
AlanAlso, did backports become selected by default in 11.10?11:30
makarahi12:45
makaratell me about xubuntu12:45
baizonxubuntu is awesome12:45
makarawhat cant I do12:45
baizonwith?12:46
SysiI'd say coffee but I think you can12:46
makarai see it uses xfce. i switched to xfce on ubuntu and the fonts are more difficult to read for xchat.12:46
makarais it more stable?12:47
makaracan I used alternative keyboard layouts like like for Hindi?12:48
makaracan I install LibreOffice?12:48
Marzatamakara: yes12:48
Marzatamakara: Xchat is very stable, but irssi is best.12:48
Sysixubuntu differentiates about xfce on ubuntu just by default settings and set of applications12:48
Sysiyou can change antialiasing settings (for font) in appearance settings12:49
Sysiyou can lose your window borders if you get corrupted saved session but that's easy to fix (or avoid)12:50
Sysiotherly should be really stable12:50
makaraokey dokey. changed sub-pixel and hinting and its much better12:51
makarait feels snappy like Ubuntu 10.04 again12:51
Marzataxfce is more stable than gnome212:52
makarawith gnome 2 and compizconfig-settings-manager I could set keyboard shortcuts to place a window in the top right of the screen. Can XFCE do that?12:55
Sysisee window manager settings -> keyboard, possibly wmctrl, and compiz works fine with xfce12:56
sebapawlak89Hi, i recently installed tight vnc server on my PC and after reboot serveral changes were made. I got 2 more workspaces, window decoration options were changes and 2 panels' backround went to solid color (were transparent previously). I managed to set things back but i cannot change panels' background to transparent any more. Any idea how to fix this?13:11
makarairssi has no gui?13:17
makaracan I set a keyboard shortcut to open the terminal - ctrl-alt-T, like in Ubuntu13:18
makaramy grid plugin shortcuts are not working to put windows into the corner of the screen, along the bottom etc13:18
makaracan I use two displays and have them not mirror each other?13:20
Sysimakara: command xfce4-terminal in keyboard settings -> hotkeys13:21
Sysisebapawlak89: you changed from xubuntu session to xfce session?13:21
sebapawlak89Sysi: well i tried both13:22
makarasetting the background on the laptop changes the background on my plugged in flatscreen13:22
Sysisebapawlak89: you need to enable compositing in window manager tweaks to get transparent panel13:22
Sysimakara: use arandr13:22
sebapawlak89Sysi: Do i change it just in settings menu?13:23
Sysiyes13:23
makaraSysi: i dont see xfce4-terminal, but then maybe its because I have xfce on ubuntu, not xubuntu13:25
Sysimakara: I mean add it13:26
makaraSysi: it works13:27
SysiI know, I just told you to do it13:27
makaraeasy there13:28
makarai appreciate your help13:28
Sysi:P13:28
Marzatasebapawlak89: vino works fine as vnc server13:33
sebapawlak89Marzata: tbh i couldnt connect, tight vnc worked perfectly. another thing u cannot configure vino via console :(13:43
Marzatasebapawlak89: can you configure tight vnc via console?13:44
sebapawlak89Marzata: well yeah. nano its config file13:44
Marzatasebapawlak89: can't you do the same with vino?13:47
sebapawlak89well not from windows machine13:49
sebapawlak89via putty13:49
sebapawlak89only way to configure it via console remotely is to use x streaming13:49
Sysiuse whatever works for you13:50
sebapawlak89i just couldnt find vino config file so i chose tight vnc :)13:51
Sysiit's gnome app, it probable saves settings in gconf13:51
douglasMaking a bootable usb stick:  So far I've verified sum, tried different sticks, tried working the iso with 'start up disk creator' and 'UNetbootin', and tried different usb slots on the laptop.  And each time I get the same error message.14:16
knomewould help much if you also told what the error message was14:18
jnsl_where should i place .otf fonts to install them ?15:20
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qpnaoschello15:29
qpnaoscI am having a problem with the permissions on my flash drive15:30
qpnaosccurrently, it is read only15:30
qpnaoscso I went into the root user, which owns it, and tried to change permissions from there15:30
qpnaoscbut it just kept changing them back to read only15:30
qpnaoscafter that, I tried some terminal commands:15:30
qpnaosc sudo chown -R USERNAME:USERNAME /media/mynewdrive15:31
qpnaoscand   sudo chgrp plugdev /media/mynewdrive15:31
qpnaosc  sudo chmod g+w /media/mynewdrive15:31
qpnaosc  sudo chmod +t /media/mynewdrive15:31
qpnaoscchanging the relevent bits15:31
qpnaoscbut it keeps refusing me!15:31
knomeqpnaosc, chown?15:34
qpnaoscknome, yes?15:38
qpnaoscknome - yes?15:38
qpnaoscwhat about it?15:41
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Alanhas anybody had any luck with multiple monitors in xubuntu 11.10?16:42
Alansomething keeps fighting my xrandr command and setting the displays back to the wrong thing...16:42
holsteinAlan: i like arandr16:43
Alanholstein: doesn't look like that will help me with a "persistent" xrandr setup though... it can generate scripts that i can tell the session to autorun, but that still leaves me where i am right now16:44
Alani.e. the xrandr commands get called then something else comes along and screws it all up again16:44
holsteinAlan: have you tried it?16:44
holsteini am proposing it for ubuntustudio, and if you have time to test and confirm, that would be great.. installing it doesnt take long at all16:45
Marzatastudio runs xfce?16:53
hobgoblinit does16:54
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Alan(xfce4-settings-helper:20741): xfce4-settings-helper-WARNING **: Failed to c    onfigure HDMI2.16:57
Alandid studio switch to XFCE when main Ubuntu stopped with gnome2?16:58
hobgoblinno real idea I'm afraid - I was just looking around16:58
SysiAlan: what graphics driver are you using?16:59
Alanintel16:59
Alanall i need to do is "xrandr --output HDMI1 --right-of HDMI2"17:00
Alanthat's it17:00
Alanbut if i do that in my session startup, XFCE craps itself and sets me back to cloned mode17:00
Alanif i do it once my session is up and running, it works fine17:00
Sysiyou should maybe ask at #xfce17:01
SysiI've heard similar problem mentioned there couple of times, can rememebr solution though17:01
Sysithere might be some conf file containing settings you want to delete17:01
Alanholstein: arandr is completely useless it seems17:02
Alanor just unintuitive17:02
Alanoh, ok, i see now17:02
Sysiit's just GUI for xrandr17:03
Alanwell that was my argument17:04
Alanhere goes.17:04
Alanyup17:05
Alansame behaviour17:05
Alansomething is being so smart it's stupid17:05
Sysido you have gnome settings daemon running?17:06
Alanno17:07
Alanthat's the first thing i checked17:08
Alanbecause i'd had a different but similar problem on another machine17:08
Alanalso, wtf, how broken can this get...17:08
Alani unchecked "use this monitor" and then checked it again.... and the monitor never came back on17:08
Alanand did the same with the other one...17:08
Alanand now i have black screens17:08
Alanwhat a pile of crap17:09
knomeplease watch your language17:09
Alansorry17:09
knomethanks for understanding17:09
Alani thought that was mild compared to what i'm feeling right now17:09
knomei understand, but we're trying hard to have a family-friendly channel :)17:09
AlanXFCE's multi-monitor support seems to have gone from being braindead to being just good enough to break everything17:10
knomeno, the culprit is not xfce really17:10
SysiI think it is17:11
Alanknome: what would you blame?17:12
Sysibecause that probably happens if you open fluxbox-session from lightdm and then run startxfce417:12
knomewhy would you run fluxbox-session if you want xfce?17:12
Alanthe point is at some point in the session startup something else is happening to undo what xrandr did17:12
Sysito check if xfce is culprit17:12
knomeso far, i haven't had problems with dualhead in xfce, not with nvidia and not with ati17:13
Alanand that something is really stupid, because XFCE's own display management is half-assed17:13
knomeand i don't think intel is any different17:13
Alanknome: how do you have it set up then?17:13
Alani'd be interested to know17:13
knomewell, i'm mostly using nvidia (and nvidia-settings in that case), but it has worked for me with ati by setting up the xrandr commands to autostart17:14
Alanon 11.10?17:14
SysiAlan: you could try deleting all (xfce) settings, you need to do that when logged out17:14
Alanit works on 11.0417:14
Alanwhere do they hide?17:15
Alanall in ~/.config/xfce4?17:15
Sysiafaik17:16
Alanthat didn't get rid of the startup stuff...17:16
Alanok... so did i break something in the great big XFCE registry of doom then?17:18
Alanit's not trying to clone now17:18
Alanif i run the xrandr in startup17:18
Alanwhoa... this is weird....17:22
Alanthe clean config doesn't even have a "displays" section in the settings editor17:22
Alanbut the other one did...17:23
Alanwhat the hell is even going on here...17:23
Alanah17:23
Alanthat'll be because i haven't used the display configuration dialog17:23
Alani think i've isolated the problem...17:24
Alanbingo17:24
Alanmy statements weren't far off17:26
AlanXFCE is just clever enough to shoot itself in the foot17:26
Sysiprogress!17:29
Alani'll pastebin my diagnosis17:30
Alanin a minute, when i've finished writing it17:30
Alanhttp://paste2.org/p/185369418:01
AlanSysi:18:01
baizonAlan: tried arandr?18:05
holsteinim interested in how arandr failed and on what hardware... this has been a point of documentation for ubuntustudio and doing extended desktops on XFCE18:06
holsteinwe have tried with success so far on various ATI, nvidia and intel hardware18:07
SysiAlan: it would be good if you could make official bug report18:13
brad_hey, just installed, have some questions :-)18:23
brad_first, how do i upgrade to the new stable firefox?18:24
brad_i added the stable ppa but it didnt work18:24
Sysidid you install LTS or 11.10?18:24
brad_11 1018:24
Sysiit should have quite fresh firefox, you probably need to separately find and install from PPA18:25
brad_huh, let me update it and check what it installs.  i'll be back :-)18:27
baizonwill be there a upgrade for firefox 8.0 -> 9.0?18:27
holsteinbaizon: if you add the PPA, you should be able to easily maintain the current stable18:30
baizonyes yes i know18:30
baizonjust wondering will it be added to the official repos18:30
holsteinhttps://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable18:30
holsteinbaizon: it shouldnt be... but it could be backported i suppose18:31
baizonok18:31
baizonbut no date yet?18:31
holsteinfor 9?18:31
holsteini mean, unless it gets backported, it wont happen AFAIK18:31
baizonhmm ok then18:32
baizonthx for the info :)18:33
holsteinbaizon: i could be mistaken.. i know FF is moving faster than it used to, and the naming is different.. but thats the way it was for the LTS for example18:34
baizonyes, firefox 10 will be a lts version18:35
holsteincould be... depends on the timing i suppose18:35
Sysifirefox-lts like 3.6?18:42
baizonSysi: yes18:48
baizonSysi: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal18:49
oscarhello19:02
oscarany one here?19:02
oscari need some help19:03
baizonwhats your problem?19:04
oscari just did a fresh install of xubuntu 11.1019:04
oscaran i have this weird flickering with the lights19:05
oscarhello?19:07
oscarhello19:09
oscari need help with a back light problem19:11
Marzataback light?19:15
Marzataapple?19:15
Sysiyou need to tell some details, about problem and your hardware19:16
voozeHey, i have 2 problems... 1: its like "handicap" mode or somthing os set on, everything is really big, and touchscreen keyboard appears on login, how back i go back to "normal" 2: in my panel i cant see sessionsmenu even though its added.. i've tryed to delete and add without luck.. anyone could help with these problems?19:52
mongyis there a decent panel plugin to show memory used, either % or mb/gb is fine, anything except sysload plugin that is already there, its no good for me20:05
mongythnk I'll go with Indicator-Sysmonitor.. only 5mb more than netspeed plugin.20:13
holsteinconky is nice20:14
baizoni use conky20:14
mongyprefer not to have something on the scree.  would be hidden a lot20:14
mongyscreen*20:14
mongyjust want basic netspeed and mem info in the panel, this will do.20:15
buskmannHi all.. Im trying to make a headless server out of my xubuntu 11.10 32bit installation. But i cant even get a vnc connection. I know i will have to get this working before i get started with the headless bit. Can someone help me with this pls?21:14
Unit193!vnc21:14
ubottuVNC is a protocol for remote desktop. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNCOverSSH describes how to use it securely.  It works best over fast connections, otherwise look at !FreeNX21:14
Unit193x11vnc is one you can install21:15
Unit193x11vnc -safer -forever -display :0    would work to start it, but I highly recommend SSH tunnel rather than opening it up to the world21:15
Unit193(That command doesn't use a Password to access!)21:16
buskmannthanx.. ill try that..21:16
buskmannok.. im really new at this. SSH is only on a locale network? i havent got a nead for opening it to the world, so how can i set up a SSH tunnel? pls21:23
buskmannim gonna read the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNCOverSSH first, and come back. tnx :)21:25
Unit193!ssh|shouldhelptoo21:29
ubottushouldhelptoo: SSH is the Secure SHell protocol, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH for client usage. PuTTY is an SSH client for Windows; see: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ for it's homepage. See also !scp (Secure CoPy) and !sshd (Secure SHell Daemon)21:29
Unit193Nice use of space...21:29
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xubuntu976Hello I am just installing ubuntu again and i have to say that i LOVE that i can go on the web while ubuntu is installing.22:30
Marzatais this possible with apple or m$?22:32

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