[05:46] <Fudge> does xubuntu use ubiquity
[06:22] <hobgoblin> Fudge: I believe so
[09:44] <axelot> hello guys, may ask for help?
[09:46] <axelot> i'd like to use my Wireless N 150 USB Adapter on my mum's laptop with xubuntu but i've no idea of what to do (noobie here)
[09:51] <mysteriousdarren> axelot: what brand? more people respond at #ubuntu at this time of night/day depending on where you are.
[09:55] <axelot> sorry, i forgot, i have a D_LINK usb n 150 dwa-125
[09:56] <axelot> i try to use ndswrapper with de .inf files on the bundle cd, but it doesn't work. instead, the computer crash by error
[09:56] <mysteriousdarren> did you find a driver? linux windows?
[09:56] <axelot> not yet, at least not the right one
[10:02] <axelot> still try on ralink according by some forum
[10:03] <mysteriousdarren> did you search on dlink's website? sorry I am helping about five people at the moment
[11:04] <duelle> Hi, I would like to reinstall my system. Currently I have an encrypted partition. Do I have to back up anything to get it going after reinstall?
[11:05] <mysteriousdarren> axelot: did you try ubuntuforums?
[11:05] <mysteriousdarren> duelle: are you gonna wipe the drive and start fresh?
[11:07] <duelle> mysteriousdarren: I would like to wipe my /home - the encrypted partition won't be touched for now
[11:08] <mysteriousdarren> I would back it up and wipe and then reinstall and reimage.
[11:10] <mongy> I have the Places panel plugin and the recent documents doesnt display recently opened files.
[11:10] <duelle> mysteriousdarren: Currently I do not have that much space to back up the whole partition. I want to switch from ubuntu to xubuntu to try it on my system. Later when i have enough backup space i will reinstall my whole system including that encrypted one.
[11:11] <mysteriousdarren> duelle: I would install the environment and go from there, the desktop environment will stay on if you want to change later.
[11:12] <mysteriousdarren> mongy: what is your problem? I don't understand.
[11:13] <duelle> mysteriousdarren: Sorry - I don't understand what you mean with "environment" and what "stays on" :(
[11:14] <mysteriousdarren> duelle: desktop environment. what ubuntu are you using?
[11:15] <duelle> currently ubuntu 11.10. But drivers are messed up a bit and causing some problems. So i would like to reinstall with xubuntu.
[11:16] <mysteriousdarren> totally reinstall? or just change desktop environments?
[11:17] <duelle> mysteriousdarren: Reinstall - because I can't get rid of those problems and nobody could tell me how to solve those problems yet. Seems to be some NVidia/Flash stuff..
[11:19] <mysteriousdarren> duelle: If its like that I would reinstall and keep just the one partition in that case.
[11:20] <duelle> mysteriousdarren: : Yeah, that' what I'd like to do. But I'm curious whether I just need the passphrase for the encrypted partition to remount afert reinstall or if there's something else I should back up to get it going afterwards
[11:20] <mysteriousdarren> passphrase is all
[11:22] <mysteriousdarren> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemHowto
[11:24] <duelle> mysteriousdarren: Ok, thanks a lot!
[11:24] <mysteriousdarren> duelle: your welcome
[13:51] <mongy> in thunar, how do I get it to let me do 'properties' when I select multiple folder?  it's greyed out
[13:54] <hobgoblin> mongy: from what I can tell you can't
[13:54] <mongy> :(
[13:54] <hobgoblin> but I'm sure there is a way with some customising, just don't know how :(
[13:55] <hobgoblin> I installed nautilus and use --no-desktop
[13:55] <mongy> such a simple task and can't be done. ugh.. i r disappoint
[13:55] <hobgoblin> so was I
[13:57] <hobgoblin> mongy - found a work around if you want
[13:57] <mongy> hit me
[13:58] <hobgoblin> no idea if it would work in a root thnar though
[13:58] <hobgoblin> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1052027
[13:58] <hobgoblin> just tried it out and it works
[13:59] <hobgoblin> slow though :(
[14:00] <mongy> yeah
[14:00] <mongy> not bad though
[14:01] <hobgoblin> better than having nautilus at least :)
[14:02] <mongy> just need a nice icon,..
[14:02] <hobgoblin> :)
[14:02] <hobgoblin> well if you work it out let me know :p
[14:03] <hobgoblin> mine just says thingy at the moment - was just trying it out lol
[14:03] <mongy> gdu-info icon seems ok
[14:03] <hobgoblin> oh - didn't even see the icon box - been awake too long I think
[14:03] <mongy> first run its slow, after that its ok.  nice find
[14:05] <hobgoblin> thanks - not often I manage to help much in here - xubuntu's a bitnew to me :)
[14:06] <mongy> I didnt even bother googling.  I am my own worst customer.
[14:07] <hobgoblin> ha ha ha
[14:09] <mongy> that one's going in my custom xubuntu
[14:10] <hobgoblin> nice
[14:10] <mongy> custom live iso i mean
[14:10] <hobgoblin> I assumed that was your meaning
[14:19] <mongy> meh,  what is it with mint's obsession with the colour green.
[14:19] <hobgoblin> lol
[14:19] <hobgoblin> envy perhaps
[14:19] <mongy> gnome-classic/mate/cinammon are pretty much made irrelevant with xfce :)
[14:20] <hobgoblin> you'd not think so if you were forum staff ...
[14:20] <Unit193> hobgoblin: You being offtopic here? ;)
[14:20] <hobgoblin> :( on and on and on and on and on it goes
[14:20] <hobgoblin> Unit193: pffft
[16:08] <SmokeyD_> what vnc server (or other remote desktop prog) can I install to enable the currently running xfce session to be controlled remotely?
[16:08] <holstein> SmokeyD_: i have used vino
[16:08] <Marzata> vino
[16:08] <Marzata> vino-preferences
[16:13] <SmokeyD_> Marzata, hmm, I am not currently at that machine, but I enabled the settings using gconftool-2
[16:13] <SmokeyD_> I used "gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled true"
[16:13] <holstein> right.. i just run vino-preferences as Marzata suggests
[16:13] <SmokeyD_> and gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/prompt_enabled false
[16:13] <SmokeyD_> holstein, as I said, I am not at that machine and therefore can't run vino-preferences
[16:13] <holstein> not gconftool.. try that when you are near the machine... thats where i 'enable' it
[16:14] <holstein> SmokeyD_: there are other vnc servers it you are trying to configure one via SSH.. is that the case?
[16:14] <SmokeyD_> holstein, yes
[16:18] <SmokeyD_> holstein, but it seems that tightvnc for instance don't let me take over the currently running xfce session, but rather start a new desktop session. Or am I mistaken?
[16:19] <holstein> SmokeyD_: you can sudo restart if that is the case, but i wouldnt think so
[16:26] <SmokeyD_> holstein, tightvncserver indeed starts a new display, it doesn't control the already open display. If I tell it to run on display 0, it complains that that display is already taken due to /tmp/.X0-lock
[16:27] <holstein> SmokeyD_: not sure what to tell you.. that has not beeen my findings... you can always forward X and start vino-preferences, or try one of the other vnc servers
[16:38] <vjacob> if I know that my kernel has CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI_IBM=m (from reading the .config)
[16:38] <vjacob> how do I then find out what module to 'modprobe' based on this knowledge?
[16:38] <vjacob> (as a general rule)
[16:39] <vjacob> bienvenu
[16:39] <SmokeyD_> Ah, I got it working. Using x11vnc -display :0 -noxdamage
[16:43] <mongy> chrome remote desktop aint half bad. its an option.
[16:44] <holstein> mongy: i hadnt heard of that yet...
[16:44] <mongy> chrome extension.
[16:44] <holstein> cool... that sounds easy
[16:48] <mongy> otherwise I'd use freenx if I were needing such a tihng.
[16:48] <mongy> faster than vnc, imo
[16:48] <vjacob> when trying to remove libcups2:i386 I get a dependency problem due to libgtk2.0.0:i386 depending on it
[16:49] <vjacob> should libcups2:i386 not be removed? I just apt-get autoremoved a number of :i386 packages related to sound
[16:50] <vjacob> my uname says i'm running x86_64, if it makes any difference
[16:51] <mongy> what did you install that needs those packages
[16:52] <vjacob> no idea
[16:53] <vjacob> and now I'm starting to wonder if I have more packages such as this
[16:55] <mongy> mine are amd64 versions.
[16:55] <mongy> was it something like zsnes or flashplugin ?
[16:57] <mongy> hell, removing libcups2 on mine tries removing half my system
[16:57] <mongy> and wants to install a shedload of kde stuff
[16:58] <vjacob> it could have been flashplugin
[16:58] <mongy> you are better using the one from the partner repo if you use 64bit.  it doesnt use 32 libs
[16:58] <vjacob> i thought I was using the one from the repo
[16:59] <vjacob> i wasn't even aware I had flashplug installed prior to 10 minutes ago
[17:04] <mongy> probably installed with the xubuntu-restriced package
[17:04] <mongy> which you can install during installation
[17:16] <vjacob> ok
[17:16] <vjacob> thanks mongy
[17:21] <mongy> for what
[17:29] <vjacob> assuming your comments were to my question, I appreciate the response
[17:31] <mongy> what was the package in the end, what did you do to fix
[17:43] <vjacob> mongy: don't know yet
[17:44] <vjacob> "sudo apt-get build-dep --no-install-recommends linux-image-$(uname -r)" results in ...
[17:44] <vjacob> "Picking 'linux' as source package instead of 'linux-image-3.0.0-15-generic' E: Unable to find a source package for linux"
[17:44] <vjacob> what gives?
[17:44] <vjacob> is there a better (kernel compile) guide around than https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile ?
[17:46] <baizon> vjacob: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=56835
[17:48] <vjacob> baizon, i found that myself but that thread started in 2005
[17:48] <vjacob> and i'm looking for a guide, not a forum to help with compile problems
[17:48] <vjacob> thanks
[17:49] <mongy> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile
[17:49] <vjacob> mongy: any idea why step B) does not work (my previous question) following that guide?
[17:51] <vjacob> perhaps i will just compile a kernel some other time and make do with this fan going on all the time.
[17:51] <vjacob> cya
[17:51] <mongy> http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2012/01/13/compile-linux-kernel-3-2-for-ubuntu-11-10/
[18:27] <whitman> Hi, how can I get the keychain to work within a terminal?  I'm always prompted for my key passphrase when using ssh. (xubuntu 11.10)
[18:30] <mongy> anyone good with openvpn?  In windows when I connect to my vpn it does not interrupt any existing connection, so my download carries on etc, but in ubuntu it kills what connections to pidgin, irc, downloads etc.  any way around it?
[18:31] <mongy> and just as I asked that, I gained the tumbleweed badge on askubuntu for it lol
[21:46] <Guest18102> hello
[22:46] <GridCube> im trying to load cheese but im getting this error: http://paste.ubuntu.com/838408/
[22:46] <GridCube> :/
[22:47] <mongy> missing a gtk package?
[22:48] <GridCube> i dunno, it worked before
[22:48] <mongy> --reinstall it ?
[22:48] <GridCube> i have not installed or uninstalled stuff in weeks
[22:48] <GridCube> mmm could try
[22:50] <GridCube> welp, that did the trick
[22:56] <mongy> really
[22:56] <mongy> cool
[23:02] <w30> GridCube, doesn't that blow your mind when a complicated problem has a simple solution and a simple problem takes days of hard work to fix?
[23:03] <dlentz> woah....
[23:03] <GridCube> yep'
[23:04]  * w30 likes Linux because it can be fixed but hates not having the knowhow to do it.
[23:05]  * w30 =dumb
[23:13] <w30> 235581966336 bits copied out of 250 GB; not much to go. 24hours  + elapsed so far
[23:49] <ped> hi there! newbie here , is there a way to set the win key ?
[23:51] <TheSheep> ped: set the win key?
[23:55] <TheSheep> ped: don't send me private messages