| GridCube | i want to create a launcher for a fullscreen game, warzone2100, i want to run it on a secondary xserver so from a terminal i use "sudo xinit /usr/games/warzone2100 %U -- :1" this efectively launchs the game on a secondary xserver, but when i create a launcher for it i used, as i though it would be the best way a gksu instead of a simple sudo, but i get this error: "this program could not be launched as root" | 00:48 |
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| GridCube | "it was impossible to copy the xautorization for the user" | 00:48 |
| GridCube | someone has a clue? | 00:52 |
| Unit193 | With xinit, I'd think that'd be a sudo moment. | 00:53 |
| GridCube | because that would create a new xserver so i can ctrl-alt-f* from the game and the desktop | 00:54 |
| GridCube | using a sudo and an open on terminal gives me this: | 00:55 |
| GridCube | Server is already active for display 0 | 00:55 |
| well_laid_lawn | I don't need sudo to start a second xserver | 00:56 |
| Unit193 | Nevermind then. | 00:57 |
| well_laid_lawn | xinit `which startfluxbox` -- :1 | 00:57 |
| GridCube | X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. | 00:58 |
| GridCube | well... | 00:59 |
| GridCube | i cant use gksu whatsoever | 00:59 |
| GridCube | >No se pudo copiar el archivo Xautorization del usuario. | 01:00 |
| GridCube | D: | 01:00 |
| GridCube | i cant even launch gksu synaptic | 01:00 |
| GridCube | this is bad | 01:00 |
| GridCube | this is really really bad | 01:02 |
| well_laid_lawn | !gksu | 01:04 |
| ubottu | If you need to run graphical applications as root, use « gksudo », as it will set up the environment more appropriately. Never just use "sudo"! (See http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo to know why) | 01:04 |
| well_laid_lawn | I wonder if lightdm has messed with permissions | 01:06 |
| well_laid_lawn | ls -l /usr/bin/X | 01:06 |
| well_laid_lawn | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 30 01:42 /usr/bin/X -> Xorg | 01:07 |
| Unit193 | He has parted. | 01:07 |
| well_laid_lawn | ok cheers | 01:07 |
| GridCube | :D | 01:09 |
| GridCube | fixed it | 01:09 |
| GridCube | renamed my .Xautorithy file and rebooted so it craeted a new one | 01:09 |
| GridCube | and now the gksu ask for my password and lanches a new server | 01:09 |
| GridCube | :3 | 01:09 |
| === qazokm is now known as mutes | ||
| xubuntu512 | hello, hola! | 01:40 |
| xubuntu512 | necesito ayuada sobre como resolver un problema en xubuntu, youtube, flashplayer | 01:41 |
| xubuntu512 | i needsome help with xubuntu, youtube videos , flasplayer | 01:42 |
| well_laid_lawn | !flash | 01:43 |
| ubottu | To install Flash see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash - See also !Restricted and !Gnash | 01:43 |
| xubuntu512 | thanks very much | 01:43 |
| well_laid_lawn | cheers | 01:43 |
| xubuntu512 | have you have before any issues regarding slow play, lagging videos with youtube and flaspalyer, specifically with you tube? | 01:44 |
| GridCube | xubuntu512, si queres ir a #ubuntu-es podria darte soporte en español | 02:02 |
| xubuntu512 | ok, por favor, loagradeceriamuchisimo | 02:02 |
| GridCube | xubuntu512, pone /j #ubuntu-es | 02:03 |
| xubuntu512 | soy nuevo en ubuntu, apenas lo instale la semana pasada | 02:04 |
| GridCube | xubuntu512, hace CONTROL-CLIC sobre el nombre del canal, o boton derecho entrar al canal | 02:06 |
| === MogDog66 is now known as Mog|Away | ||
| === Mog|Away is now known as MogDog66 | ||
| monser | hello | 08:46 |
| monser | xubuntu does not show my real desktop | 08:47 |
| monser | how to fix it? | 08:47 |
| monser | and is there a way to remove thunar without removing xubuntu desktop> | 08:47 |
| monser | hello all | 08:50 |
| Sysi | xubuntu-desktop is a metapackage which is safe to remove | 08:51 |
| well_laid_lawn | monser: is xfdesktop running? | 08:51 |
| Sysi | if you're using nautilus you need to use gconf-editor gnome-tweak-tool or something to set it to not take over the desktop | 08:51 |
| monser | I removed all gnome | 08:51 |
| monser | then I installed xfce4 | 08:51 |
| monser | how can i check if that is running? | 08:51 |
| monser | ps -A? | 08:51 |
| well_laid_lawn | ps aux | grep xfdesktop | 08:52 |
| monser | I think it is running | 08:53 |
| monser | I see the default dekstop | 08:53 |
| monser | like I have made a new user | 08:53 |
| monser | but I have not | 08:53 |
| Sysi | you see only black if xfdesktop has crashed | 08:53 |
| monser | no I see the default desktop | 08:54 |
| monser | like when you install the xubuntu for the first time | 08:54 |
| monser | in my /home/user/Desktop I have files | 08:55 |
| monser | I do nto see those files on the desktop | 08:55 |
| monser | on the workspace | 08:55 |
| monser | and I have installed wine | 08:55 |
| monser | i do nto see that in others from xfce menu | 08:55 |
| monser | like it is gone | 08:56 |
| monser | but it is not | 08:56 |
| monser | i can start it from terminal | 08:56 |
| monser | evrything is like I have created a new user | 08:56 |
| monser | but the user is the same | 08:56 |
| monser | also when I try to open the mounted partition with pcmanfm | 08:57 |
| monser | i get permission denied | 08:57 |
| monser | I can open other mounted partitions with no problems | 08:57 |
| monser | just the one that it is fat32 i can not | 08:57 |
| monser | why? | 08:57 |
| monser | hello all | 11:20 |
| baizon | hi hi | 11:20 |
| monser | what is the package for setting up keyboard shortcuts for switching between different keyboard layouts? | 11:20 |
| Sysi | xfce4-xkb-plugin IIRC | 11:21 |
| Sysi | I'm not sure how muvh bugs it has nowdays | 11:21 |
| Sysi | there might be alternative ways | 11:21 |
| baizon | monser: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin | 11:21 |
| baizon | !package xfce4-xkb-plugin | 11:22 |
| Sysi | !info xfce4-xkb-plugin | 11:22 |
| ubottu | xfce4-xkb-plugin (source: xfce4-xkb-plugin): xkb layout switch plugin for the Xfce4 panel. In component universe, is optional. Version 0.5.4.1-1 (oneiric), package size 513 kB, installed size 2476 kB | 11:22 |
| baizon | ah damn | 11:22 |
| baizon | thanks :) | 11:22 |
| monser | it tells me i have it | 11:23 |
| monser | but i can switch between different layouts | 11:23 |
| monser | now it works | 11:24 |
| monser | good :D | 11:24 |
| baizon | :D | 11:24 |
| monser | is there a way to have pure xfce without any gnome libraries? | 11:24 |
| well_laid_lawn | !purexfce | 11:25 |
| ubottu | If you want to remove all !KDE and !Gnome packages and have a default !Xubuntu system follow the instructions here « http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purexfce » | 11:25 |
| Sysi | if you need/want *really* clean, do minimal installation from alternate cd or mini.iso and install what you need (with aptitude -R) | 11:26 |
| monser | unfortunately aptitude is for geeks.there is no way to find out how to use it.you just need to know what to press on the keyboard . | 11:30 |
| monser | I looked for a tutorials how to use it, but did not find anything.there are for irssi, but no for aptitude | 11:30 |
| monser | where can i get that mini.iso you mentioned? | 11:31 |
| well_laid_lawn | !minimal | 11:31 |
| ubottu | The Minimal CD image is very small in size, and it downloads most packages from the Internet during installation, allowing you to select only those you want (the installer is like the one on the !Alternate CD). See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD | 11:31 |
| well_laid_lawn | !install | 11:32 |
| ubottu | Ubuntu can be installed in lots of ways. Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation for documentation. Problems during install? See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommonProblemsInstall - Don't want to use a CD? See http://tinyurl.com/3exghs - See also !automate | 11:32 |
| Sysi | monser: you mean the ncurses "GUI"? that's magic, I mean like "aptitude -R install package" | 11:37 |
| monser | i wanted to use the aptitude and the whole system just got messed up.it started to install , then delete things in the background.Yeah I'm talking about ncurses.Those people who write that application , they wrote it only for themselfs.How do they expect someone who does not know anything to use it? vi editor is the same thing.Fortunately wise, really wise people created nano | 11:39 |
| monser | let's hope that there will be wise people to rewrite aptitude | 11:40 |
| Sysi | vi is quite simple, you just need to know/remember couple things. I bet there's good manual for aptitude too | 11:41 |
| Sysi | but aptitude is as simple as apt-get when used similarly | 11:44 |
| Paranoiko_koalak | greetings | 11:48 |
| Paranoiko_koalak | I have downloaded the latest xubuntu image and I want to burn it to cd. which burner do you suggest | 11:49 |
| Paranoiko_koalak | ? | 11:49 |
| hobgoblin | any should work - but make sure to burn as image | 11:50 |
| Paranoiko_koalak | nero does the work? | 11:50 |
| well_laid_lawn | yep | 11:51 |
| ircnode0 | interesting, I executed gnome-terminal command, but nothing appeared? | 12:51 |
| ircnode0 | yesterday gnome-terminal command worked | 12:51 |
| TheSheep | ircnode0: xubuntu doesn't have gnome-terminal installed by default | 12:53 |
| ircnode0 | TheSheep: gnome-terminal found in /usr/bin/ | 12:59 |
| TheSheep | ircnode0: apparently you installed it | 13:00 |
| ircnode0 | TheSheep: nope, my school installed it. | 13:00 |
| ThePendulum | Your school uses Xubuntu? | 13:00 |
| ircnode0 | I think ubuntu, but it have xfce4 in option | 13:01 |
| ThePendulum | Then they probably installed Ubuntu and installed Xfce4 on Ubuntu, which is a tad lame | 13:01 |
| ircnode0 | so student can choose their favorite desktop => they won't get complains :) | 13:03 |
| ThePendulum | I never heard of a school that let the students choose, besides schools that allow students to bring their own machines | 13:04 |
| TheSheep | ThePendulum: we always let the students choose, there was always gnome, kde and windowmaker | 13:04 |
| TheSheep | and later xfce, when it appeared | 13:05 |
| ircnode0 | yes, but if there is computer in school, they don't need to buy or bring any laptop | 13:06 |
| ircnode0 | I think I should omit "if" | 13:06 |
| ThePendulum | Most schools I know simply install something and make students use that, otherwise it's pretty damned hard to teach something now isn't it? | 13:06 |
| ThePendulum | Any... I have some .mkv movies and I'd like to put them on DVD | 13:07 |
| ThePendulum | Some suggest 'Devede', but it doesn't seem to support MKV | 13:07 |
| ThePendulum | Nvm, I figured out the issue | 13:08 |
| ThePendulum | The software looks for the .mkv extension, but they're not present because that's unnessecary on Linux | 13:08 |
| gagan6621 | when i turn on transparency in terminal. cpu stuck at 77%.what to do. | 13:13 |
| ThePendulum | Turn it off? | 13:14 |
| gagan6621 | ThePendulum: 2-5% | 13:14 |
| ThePendulum | Why do you turn it on? | 13:15 |
| gagan6621 | ThePendulum: This is noot what i am expecting...:) | 13:16 |
| gagan6621 | not* | 13:16 |
| gagan6621 | ThePendulum: any help? | 13:17 |
| ThePendulum | I'm afraid I'm not sure what the source of the issue could be | 13:17 |
| ThePendulum | But there's no need to turn on transparency in the terminal, is there? | 13:17 |
| gagan6621 | ThePendulum: yeah i agree with you but.. why cpu at 70%.. | 13:18 |
| ThePendulum | You do have a decent graphics card? | 13:18 |
| ThePendulum | And you're sure it's a result of the transparency setting? | 13:18 |
| ircnode0 | gagan6621 can check it with top command | 13:20 |
| gagan6621 | ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] | 13:21 |
| Sysi | gagan6621: compositing enabled in window manager tweaks? what graphics card/driver? | 13:21 |
| gagan6621 | ircnode0: yep i always use top | 13:22 |
| gagan6621 | ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series] | 13:22 |
| gagan6621 | m using catalyst 12.1 | 13:22 |
| gagan6621 | m using catalyst 12.1 driver from amd | 13:22 |
| gagan6621 | Sysi: let me check... | 13:23 |
| Sysi | in addition to that I only can guess bug in driver | 13:23 |
| gagan6621 | Sysi: i disabled the composit Now cpu at 40%. and panel is no longer visible.. | 13:26 |
| Sysi | press where it should be | 13:30 |
| gagan6621 | yep was there... | 13:30 |
| ThePendulum | Darn, making a DVD surely takes a long itme | 13:47 |
| ThePendulum | *time | 13:47 |
| === recon69_lap is now known as recon_lap | ||
| mongy | what with | 14:03 |
| ThePendulum | Greetings mongy | 14:24 |
| knome | anybody have ideas on laptop brightness troubleshooting? | 14:38 |
| knome | fn-keys won't work, how can i check if i can tweak brightness at all? some websites suggests i should update the bios, but i'm unwanting to do that if i can avoid it by any means | 14:39 |
| Sysi | screen brightness panel plugin | 14:45 |
| Sysi | "setpci screen brightness" on google | 14:45 |
| knome | Sysi, setpci doesn't seem to work :/ | 14:50 |
| Sysi | sounds bad, assuming you got it right | 14:50 |
| knome | i did, i checked the right pci device with lspci | 14:51 |
| luroh | knome: some laptops need special acpi drivers. if those drivers for some reason aren't present or don't work, it might be worth trying to boot with acpi=off | 14:53 |
| knome | booting, brb | 14:57 |
| knome | luroh, if i set acpi=off, wireless stops working. any more ideas? ;) | 15:14 |
| luroh | but, did your brightness buttons start working? | 15:14 |
| knome | yeah, they did | 15:15 |
| luroh | i didn't say i wouldn't break everything else ;D | 15:15 |
| knome | mm-hmm. | 15:15 |
| luroh | ok, so your problem seems to be acpi driver related, that's something at least | 15:16 |
| Sysi | bios update actually could help | 15:16 |
| luroh | just curious, what model is it? | 15:16 |
| knome | luroh, hp 6735s | 15:17 |
| luroh | ah, yeah, hp is known to do some vendor specific acpi stuff | 15:17 |
| Sysi | you should try as new kernel as possible, at least if machine is new | 15:18 |
| luroh | see if you can get hold of a changelog for any newer bios version, it might give a clue | 15:19 |
| knome | Sysi, machine is not new, but i have 12.04 | 15:19 |
| Sysi | uname -a ? | 15:20 |
| Sysi | ah, not new | 15:20 |
| knome | Sysi, kernel is 3.2.0-18 | 15:20 |
| knome | i386 | 15:20 |
| * knome is trying bios update | 15:23 | |
| knome | bios update worked \o/ | 15:44 |
| luroh | sweet :) | 15:44 |
| knome | yeah | 15:44 |
| knome | wife wil be happy to be able to use both wlan and adjust the brightness :P | 15:44 |
| knome | bbl | 15:46 |
| knome | thanks luroh and Sysi | 15:46 |
| luroh | np | 15:46 |
| macosx | utz | 16:11 |
| macosx | utz2 | 16:13 |
| Myrtti | hm | 16:13 |
| Nataki | hi there. can someone help me with meta questions? | 16:16 |
| Nataki | nobody? that's no very nice of you. | 16:33 |
| pv_ | How I can move top panel (taskbar, etc) to the bottom? I have found only orientation settings, but that do not help to me. | 16:41 |
| Sysi | pv_: panel settings -> unlock -> drag from handle at the end of panel | 16:42 |
| velit | how do i make the task bar vertical? | 16:43 |
| Sysi | please don't crosspost | 16:43 |
| pv_ | o, thanks. | 16:44 |
| * pv_ go to install xubuntu to host. Gnome3, unity, kde - wrong way of linux :) | 16:48 | |
| Sysi | right way - your way | 16:53 |
| trisquel | hi all.Is there a way to spoof the mac address of the network card in mini-ubuntu.iso install 11.10.there is no ifconfig command | 17:03 |
| === xubuntu733 is now known as jerwaz | ||
| luroh | trisquel: try 'sudo apt-get install net-tools' | 17:09 |
| trisquel | luroh: I can not install anything.It's a netboot install | 17:10 |
| luroh | oh i see | 17:10 |
| trisquel | I need to set up the mac address first so i can get connected to the net | 17:10 |
| luroh | right | 17:10 |
| luroh | hm, dunno then | 17:11 |
| TheSheep | trisquel: are you sure there is no /sbin/ifconfig? | 17:11 |
| TheSheep | (it might not be in PATH) | 17:11 |
| TheSheep | trisquel: there might be also /sbin/ip | 17:12 |
| trisquel | TheSheep: let me see | 17:12 |
| trisquel | yes there is ip command | 17:13 |
| trisquel | how to use it? | 17:13 |
| TheSheep | ip addr works pretty much like ifconfig | 17:15 |
| TheSheep | but no idea how to change mac with it | 17:15 |
| trisquel | ok | 17:15 |
| TheSheep | you could instead just set a static ip with it | 17:16 |
| trisquel | my main goal is to set a mac address | 17:16 |
| trisquel | the static ip i can set up using the gui install configuration | 17:16 |
| trisquel | its provided | 17:16 |
| TheSheep | and that doesn't help you? | 17:16 |
| TheSheep | some weird firewall settings? | 17:17 |
| trisquel | I'll try to see if ip can stop eth0 | 17:17 |
| trisquel | ip eth0 down does not work | 17:20 |
| ThePendulum | I accidentally removed the .Trash-000 folder from my hard drives, and now I can't delete files from them | 17:21 |
| TheSheep | trisquel: ip link set eth0 down | 17:21 |
| trisquel | TheSheep: I found the command to change the mac with ip command | 17:38 |
| trisquel | ip link set address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx dev eth0 | 17:39 |
| trisquel | D | 17:39 |
| trisquel | thanks for telling for ip command | 17:39 |
| trisquel | I did not know that it exists | 17:39 |
| Drudru75 | Hello all | 17:54 |
| Drudru75 | I have a question before installing xubuntu | 17:55 |
| Yanc | guys is it possible that the login dialog disappeares please? basically set it to login automatically without the dialog? | 18:17 |
| beata1 | !flash | 20:11 |
| ubottu | To install Flash see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash - See also !Restricted and !Gnash | 20:11 |
| jarnos | 11.10 is unresponsive. Xorg is using CPU heavily. Using nouveau driver, I suppose. | 20:46 |
| jarnos | Anything you can do about it? | 20:59 |
| Marzata | somebody with Epson Stylus Photo PX730WD printer? | 21:57 |
| mongy | I can't even remember what mine is, it's been so long | 22:10 |
| mongy | oh, sx400, and works OOTB. | 22:10 |
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