| donimo | with an old celeron 1.7ghz and 512 of ram, is it advisable to jump to 12.04? | 01:36 |
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| Gabe_W | I am trying to change the touch area on my synaptic touch pad is that possible? | 02:00 |
| Gabe_W | this laptop has a touchpad the size of an ipad | 02:00 |
| noskcaj | donimo: for ubuntu yes, for xubuntu or lubuntu no | 02:04 |
| noskcaj | donimo: sorry the reverse of that | 02:05 |
| donimo | thanks, i'll get 12.04 later. | 02:06 |
| donimo | xubuntu | 02:06 |
| drc | Gabe_W: I have minimal knowledge of touchpad commands, but you might look at "man synaptics" | 02:08 |
| Sysi | !synaptics | 02:09 |
| ubottu | For a comprehensive Synaptics Touchpad guide, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad | 02:09 |
| * drc bets they have the same stuff (but didn't have the url :) | 02:09 | |
| pezmaker | hello all | 03:36 |
| HeadlessZombie | hiya | 03:36 |
| pezmaker | bare with me as I setup the background for my problem? | 03:37 |
| pezmaker | bear? bare? | 03:37 |
| HeadlessZombie | k | 03:37 |
| HeadlessZombie | bear | 03:37 |
| pezmaker | roger. :) | 03:37 |
| pezmaker | was running straight up ubuntu, got tired of the latest misery that is gnome, stumbled across xubuntu and installed xubuntu desktop | 03:38 |
| pezmaker | loving everything about it, except one thing that I can't seem to find a fix that works for... many website fonts in chrome are unreadable | 03:38 |
| === xubuntu826 is now known as herpderp | ||
| pezmaker | firefox is just fine. Did not have this problem before switchover to xfce | 03:39 |
| HeadlessZombie | sorry, i wont be much help here. you can set what font and the size in chromium's prefrences, but i dont use it cuz chromium doesn't work on some of the sites i use | 03:40 |
| HeadlessZombie | firefox has proven to be the best of the linux browsers for stability and compatibility | 03:41 |
| pezmaker | Roger that. It's frustrating because it worked absolutely fine until the switchover, so it's got to be either a different package or a conflicting config setting between gnome and xfce, but nothing i've found in searches has worked. | 03:42 |
| pezmaker | also, thanks for reading anyway :) | 03:42 |
| HeadlessZombie | if that doesnt work, remove it and re-install. but beyond that, im no help | 03:42 |
| HeadlessZombie | chromium seems to work a lil better under kubuntu, but that was just my personal experience with it. like i said i dont use chromium | 03:43 |
| pezmaker | HeadlessZombie: figured out the fonts problem. | 05:35 |
| pezmaker | just thought i'd return to share with anyone who's paying attention, so you can help if this comes along for anyone else | 05:35 |
| pezmaker | summary of problem: chrome web fonts generally screwed up and no amount of dinking with antialias configs or chrome font settings fixed it, firefox worked fine, and chrome had worked fine in gnome | 05:36 |
| pezmaker | ~/.fonts.conf needs to be added (or edited) with a small block that apparently xfce skips | 05:36 |
| pezmaker | solution here: http://kmansoft.com/2012/08/15/debian-xfce-google-chrome-ugly-fonts-all-of-a-sudden/ | 05:37 |
| pezmaker | I had accidentally duplicated the header lines for the file and thus it didn't take, until I resolved that issue. | 05:37 |
| pezmaker | anyway, hope that can help someone, anyone, in the future. Peace :) | 05:38 |
| eubey | can someone help me install the nvidia graphics drivers on xubuntu? They're not showing up in the "Additional Drivers" dialog | 05:49 |
| baizon | eubey: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia | 05:52 |
| baizon | or http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1872740 | 05:53 |
| apm1 | baizon, ? | 05:55 |
| baizon | apm1: ! | 05:55 |
| apm1 | baizon, oh sorry ignore that i posted in the wrong channel :) | 05:56 |
| === `mOOse` is now known as m00se | ||
| === `mOOse` is now known as m00se | ||
| gmagno | hello. I'm not sure if I already been here, I've been knocking on so many doors... but no success :( I'm trying to get the terminal make some speaker sounds with "tput bel", and have no idea why it doesn't do it. I've already loaded pcspkr module and now I can make speaker sound with "beep" | 12:24 |
| gmagno | but still no sound with "tput bel" | 12:24 |
| gmagno | since centerim5, the chat app I'm using relies on "tput bel" to throw sound notifications, I still have the problem | 12:25 |
| gmagno | I'm using xubuntu 12.04 32bits | 12:25 |
| gmagno | I've alread been in #xfce, #xterm, #linux, #ubuntu, #pulseaudio... | 12:26 |
| gmagno | yo name it | 12:26 |
| gmagno | oh, and #centerim of course | 12:26 |
| gmagno | echo -e '\a' also does nothing | 12:26 |
| gmagno | ^G nothing as well | 12:27 |
| gmagno | I'm becoming a bit desperate | 12:27 |
| holstein | gmagno: i might try sending an email to a server team... i tried for a few minutes to get a bell to sound in terminal a few years ago, and just gave up on it | 12:27 |
| Unit193 | Basically, you're not going to be able to enable that bell, I tried at one point to get it, but only got as close to it would if I connected over VNC to the computer. (what?) | 12:28 |
| gmagno | holstein, oh :-o that would be great. I'm glad I'm not the only one with this | 12:28 |
| Unit193 | Things may have changed, though. | 12:28 |
| gmagno | but is this a linux problem, an ubuntu problem, or a xfce problem? | 12:29 |
| holstein | gmagno: im not even sure its a problem | 12:30 |
| gmagno | Unit193, let me ask, do you have now this issue? Does "tput bel" make any sound on your computer? | 12:33 |
| Unit193 | I don't have this issue as I don't want the bell, found a much better way to do what I wanted. Still no bell last I knew. | 12:34 |
| Seikao | Hello, I'm sorry for asking such a pathetic question, but do you have time to answer something for me while Xubuntu installs? | 13:01 |
| Seikao | Do steam-purchased PC games work on Xubuntu? | 13:02 |
| David-A | Seikao: I don't use steam, but I hear many games works. Name some of your games maybe someone can answer. | 13:53 |
| David-A | Seikao: If it works in ubuntu it should also work in xubuntu, so if no answer here, ask in #ubuntu | 13:54 |
| baizon | whats the problem? | 14:04 |
| itai | hi there, juts installed xubuntu, would like to add japanese input system , but it seems like all the methods i've googled involve downloading the entire support files, i dont need the menus in japanese ,just to be able to input it | 14:06 |
| bazhang | !ibus | itai | 14:08 |
| ubottu | itai: IBus is used to allow multilingual input such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK), Devanagari and Dravidian characters in !GUI applications - see also: !SCIM. For more info on Ibus see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ibus | 14:08 |
| itai | bazhang, thanks, i have ibus and it allowed me to add chinese (cause im loacted in china, very smart of xubuntu) , but i looked through the settings and it doesnt allow me to add any other language | 14:11 |
| itai | that it the "add" option in ibus>settings>input method is greyed out | 14:11 |
| bazhang | itai, thats odd, I can add about 5-6 languages here | 14:11 |
| bazhang | you did the ibus setup, right? | 14:12 |
| itai | yes ,你看？ chinese works... | 14:12 |
| itai | but cant add anything ,,, | 14:12 |
| bazhang | it then needs to be restarted once the language packs are installed and the system configured | 14:13 |
| bazhang | language packs must be installed first | 14:13 |
| itai | so how do i install the language packs? | 14:13 |
| bazhang | via the package manager | 14:13 |
| itai | i searched for japanese thru the ubuntu software center , there was no input system | 14:14 |
| bazhang | or use the system administration language support to add them | 14:14 |
| bazhang | ibus wont allow an add unless they are installed | 14:14 |
| itai | the sys admin language support forces me to download the entire thing, menus ,firefox translation etc, im on a slow connection , it has been running for hours now, | 14:15 |
| itai | do you maybe know the package name and i can just apt-get it ? | 14:15 |
| itai | it even downloads gnome packs for some reason... | 14:16 |
| bazhang | the essential japanese fonts, etc? | 14:19 |
| bazhang | there are numerous japanese systems available in the ibus selection | 14:19 |
| itai | just the input system , i guess i would need some fonts , | 14:20 |
| bazhang | system input methods that is | 14:20 |
| itai | anthy is what i usually use | 14:20 |
| bazhang | !find anthy | 14:20 |
| ubottu | Found: anthy, anthy-common, ibus-anthy, libanthy-dev, libanthy0 | 14:20 |
| itai | that simple> | 14:20 |
| itai | ? | 14:20 |
| bazhang | !info ibus-anthy | 14:20 |
| ubottu | ibus-anthy (source: ibus-anthy): anthy engine for IBus. In component main, is optional. Version 1.2.6-2ubuntu1 (precise), package size 82 kB, installed size 632 kB | 14:20 |
| itai | will it work alongside chinese ? | 14:21 |
| bazhang | !info anthy | 14:21 |
| ubottu | anthy (source: anthy): input method for Japanese - backend, dictionary and utility. In component main, is optional. Version 9100h-9ubuntu1 (precise), package size 143 kB, installed size 412 kB | 14:21 |
| bazhang | of course | 14:21 |
| bazhang | so try anthy and ibus-anthy for starters | 14:21 |
| itai | thanks, you know, bazhang, i've been using ubuntu for many years and whenever there's a problem you are always there on the irc, so thank you! | 14:22 |
| bazhang | well, save the thanks til its fixed, but OK | 14:22 |
| itai | i'll try to apt-get anthy and see what happens, thank again , have a wonderful day (or night) | 14:24 |
| bazhang | has been started! If you can not use IBus, please run System -> Administration -> Language Support and set the "Keyboard Input Method" to "ibus", then log out and back in again. | 14:24 |
| bazhang | that was the ibus setup message | 14:24 |
| itai | interesting | 14:25 |
| bazhang | err ibus-setup | 14:25 |
| bazhang | let me try to add some languages | 14:25 |
| bazhang | なに？ | 14:30 |
| itai | works for you | 14:31 |
| itai | apt-get is downloading some packages , hope it works, as i was saying ,im on a very slow connectiuon | 14:32 |
| bazhang | the language support prompted me to add some packages, then I chose ibus as the system input method, and it was ok | 14:32 |
| bazhang | about 26mb here | 14:33 |
| itai | i think my mirrors are just too slow , i'll change them and see if it helps, anyway gotta go, thanks for everything | 14:34 |
| bazhang | np | 14:34 |
| daedaluz | I wish to downgrade back to xfce 4.8 from 4.10 I took from ppa, how do I do it? | 15:07 |
| martinphone | how do I copy a file to my etc directory where sudo privileges are needed? | 15:12 |
| martinphone | can anyone help me with: | 15:20 |
| martinphone | sudo -u gnunet touch ~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf | 15:21 |
| martinphone | touch: cannot touch `/home/dexter/.gnunet/gnunet.conf': Permission denied | 15:21 |
| daedaluz | martinphone: sudo -u touch ~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf | 15:21 |
| daedaluz | what's that gnunet doing there? | 15:22 |
| martinphone | daedaluz, readme | 15:22 |
| martinphone | daedaluz, is sudo -u gnunet mkdir ~/.gnunet/ also wrong? do I need to sudo -u mkdir ~/.gnunet/ ? | 15:24 |
| daedaluz | yes | 15:24 |
| martinphone | sudo -u touch ~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf | 15:25 |
| martinphone | sudo: unknown user: touch | 15:25 |
| daedaluz | and leave that u out btw | 15:25 |
| martinphone | sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin | 15:25 |
| daedaluz | just checked what it does | 15:25 |
| daedaluz | "sudo touch ~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf" | 15:25 |
| daedaluz | but I don't get it, you are sudoing in your own $HOME | 15:26 |
| martinphone | disregard all this | 15:26 |
| martinphone | daedaluz, thats my noobness | 15:34 |
| martinphone | not my home, but /compiled/gnunet/, but a dire in which sudo is not needed | 15:34 |
| martinphone | daedaluz, http://paste.ubuntu.com/1194897/ | 15:35 |
| martinphone | all that in dir: home/compiled/gnunet/gnunet-0.9.3 | 15:35 |
| === `mOOse` is now known as m00se | ||
| martinphone | can I use glade 3, it requires gtk3 | 15:56 |
| martinphone | I need libxml 2.4.1. In the repo I find a libxml--2.6-2 but version number 2.34 | 16:24 |
| martinphone | is this the one I need? | 16:24 |
| holstein | martinphone: i would say try it, and if you need a different one, step it down | 16:26 |
| martinphone | damned gnunet | 16:26 |
| === `mOOse` is now known as m00se | ||
| Foxhound-Z | I'm having trouble configuring my Wireless NIC | 18:03 |
| Foxhound-Z | I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 | 18:03 |
| Foxhound-Z | Per the directions on this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1800178 | 18:03 |
| Foxhound-Z | I managed to install the RT5370 drivers | 18:03 |
| Foxhound-Z | But I can't get the GUI front end for wireless tools to detect the wireless driver | 18:04 |
| Foxhound-Z | moreover, I can't seem to establish a connection with my access point | 18:04 |
| Foxhound-Z | hmm | 18:05 |
| Foxhound-Z | Can anyone lend me a hand? | 18:05 |
| livingdaylight | Foxhound-Z, wish I could. but that's over my head | 18:08 |
| livingdaylight | seems most people here are having a lazy sunday | 18:09 |
| martinphone | lazing on a sunday afternoon... | 18:18 |
| martinphone | how do I become root from a terminal? | 18:18 |
| === `mOOse` is now known as m00se | ||
| livingdaylight | martinphone, use sudo? | 18:25 |
| livingdaylight | or do sudo su | 18:25 |
| livingdaylight | sudo -s | 18:27 |
| Foxhound-Z | martinphone, now, how about you help me with my mess ;-) | 18:50 |
| martinphone | me? | 18:57 |
| martinphone | I DOUBT i CAN HELP ANYONE | 18:57 |
| martinphone | sorry for that | 18:57 |
| grumbel | Stupid question: How to I read man pages from the GUI? | 19:26 |
| grumbel | there must be something better then "man pulseaudio | xless" | 19:27 |
| Unit193 | http://manpages.ubuntu.com/pulseaudio | 19:28 |
| Unit193 | Like that? | 19:28 |
| TheSheep | grumbel: install devhelp | 19:29 |
| TheSheep | !info devhelp | 19:29 |
| ubottu | devhelp (source: devhelp): GNOME developers help program. In component main, is optional. Version 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 (precise), package size 14 kB, installed size 119 kB | 19:29 |
| Sysi | !info yelp | 19:29 |
| ubottu | yelp (source: yelp): Help browser for GNOME. In component main, is optional. Version 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 (precise), package size 49 kB, installed size 544 kB | 19:29 |
| grumbel | Neither yelp nor devhelp seem to support man pages | 19:30 |
| TheSheep | that's weird, I'm sure devhelp did at some point | 19:30 |
| grumbel | devhelp just gives me access to all the Gnome reference docu as far as I can tell | 19:31 |
| calico | Does anyone one if the broadcom wireless have been solved already in the current Ubuntu version? I tried hard to migrate to Ubuntu some months ago but the wireless problems were a deal breaker | 19:31 |
| grumbel | yelp seems to be completely useless, as that just looks like a poor mans webbrowser | 19:31 |
| TheSheep | grumbel: it is a browser, but not for web pages, but for help pages | 19:33 |
| TheSheep | anyways, looks like that functionality was removed (or it didn't exist in the first place and I remember wrong), so I guess you could just stream your man page through man2html and to a web browser | 19:36 |
| === billy_idle is now known as march | ||
| n2diy | I'm listening to the game on my am radio, can I pipe the audio through my sound card and out of my speakers? | 20:05 |
| TheSheep | n2diy: sure, go ahead | 20:05 |
| n2diy | TheSheep, how? | 20:06 |
| TheSheep | just connect your radio to your computers audio in socket? | 20:06 |
| TheSheep | usually the red one | 20:06 |
| n2diy | TheSheep, and what do I play the audio with? | 20:07 |
| TheSheep | I don't understand | 20:07 |
| HeadlessZombie | plug the AM radio into the microphone port | 20:07 |
| HeadlessZombie | make sure mic is turned up in the alsa mixer | 20:07 |
| n2diy | HeadlessZombie, ok thats done, what app. do I use to play the audio? | 20:09 |
| n2diy | TheSheep, what app. do I play the audio with? | 20:09 |
| Sysi | n2diy: http://s8dragon.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/listen-to-microphone-over-the-speakers-using-pulseaudio/ | 20:11 |
| TheSheep | n2diy: no need for an app | 20:11 |
| n2diy | not working | 20:15 |
| grumbel | n2diy: start pavucontrol | 20:16 |
| n2diy | grumbel, ok, playing with alsamixer now. | 20:16 |
| grumbel | n2diy: under "Input Devices" in pavucontrol, do you see any action? | 20:17 |
| grumbel | you might also want to try gnome-alsamixer | 20:18 |
| grumbel | Actually I think you might be able to do it completely without pulseaudio | 20:18 |
| grumbel | as soundcards should be able to handle that directly | 20:19 |
| grumbel | click around in gnome-alsamixer on the Line and Mic settings | 20:19 |
| grumbel | and maybe the Capture settings | 20:20 |
| grumbel | Some of those should make mic output come out of the speakers | 20:20 |
| grumbel | if that doesn't help, but you do actually get mic input (can test that with Audacity) | 20:20 |
| grumbel | you can abuse pulseaudio loopback module to redirect audio | 20:20 |
| n2diy | ok, installed gnome-alsamixer, no luck with that either. Sounds work here. Can't play now, have to listen to the end of the game on the radio, thanks all! Go Eagles. | 20:28 |
| CrisBee | Good evening! :) | 21:14 |
| David-A | hi | 21:17 |
| CrisBee | hi | 21:17 |
| camefromwindows | does anyone have experience dual booting with windows? | 21:31 |
| camefromwindows | no? | 21:32 |
| well_laid_lawn | !dualboot | 21:32 |
| ubottu | Dual boot instructions: x86/AMD64: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DualBoot/Windows - Macs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro https://help.ubuntu.com/community/YabootConfigurationForMacintoshPowerPCsDualBoot | 21:32 |
| camefromwindows | thanks | 21:33 |
| well_laid_lawn | the bot does ;) | 21:33 |
| well_laid_lawn | cheers | 21:33 |
| Mathias | i'm dualbooting :P | 21:33 |
| camefromwindows | what windows are you using? | 21:33 |
| camefromwindows | assuming you're using windows... | 21:34 |
| Mathias | windows/wineeww yup | 21:34 |
| camefromwindows | does the xubuntu partition tool (in the liveCD) play nice with win7? or should I make the partition in win7? | 21:35 |
| Mathias | it plays nice with windows | 21:37 |
| camefromwindows | ok then... Do I have to create swap manually, or does it do that for me? b/c I heard I need that | 21:38 |
| Mathias | depends on what you choose :P | 21:39 |
| camefromwindows | ok then... I need to go burn an iso. Thanks for your help | 21:40 |
| orangepnut | my internet dropped earlier, can anyone help me install a font? | 23:28 |
| aicasn | someone please recommend a good a/v muxer | 23:32 |
| aicasn | HandBrake is a good video encoder, but it's not intended to be a muxer, per-se | 23:32 |
| === `mOOse` is now known as m00se | ||
| well_laid_lawn | I like avidemux | 23:41 |
| well_laid_lawn | !info avidemux | 23:41 |
| ubottu | avidemux (source: avidemux): a free video editor - GTK version. In component multiverse, is optional. Version 1:2.5.4-0ubuntu11 (precise), package size 760 kB, installed size 1953 kB | 23:41 |
| aicasn | i'll check it out. thanks | 23:46 |
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