| mrojas6996 | hello!, anybody here? | 00:32 |
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| Vermicelli | I'm having trouble getting my Humble Bundle to install with Ubuntu Software Center. I get a "Not Found," for each title, which oddly enough while not found may or may not have ratings. | 00:34 |
| Vermicelli | http://i.imgur.com/GkUyX.png | 00:35 |
| ramprasadgk | Hello All Good Morning | 02:08 |
| ramprasadgk | INDIA | 02:08 |
| GridCube | :) hello | 02:14 |
| holstein | Vermicelli: i dont see shatter in the repos | 02:21 |
| ramprasadgk | hey guys i am unbale to login to my admin account | 02:36 |
| ramprasadgk | i can log in to gues but | 02:36 |
| ramprasadgk | guest* | 02:37 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: you dont have a root account by default... you mean, your normal user? you cant login to it? | 02:37 |
| ramprasadgk | i have | 02:39 |
| ramprasadgk | but not able to login | 02:39 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: well, assuming you need to reset your password.. http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword | 02:39 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: i would just double check the password, and try in TTY | 02:39 |
| ramprasadgk | passowrd is right | 02:55 |
| ramprasadgk | i even reset that | 02:55 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: reset what? the password? how? | 02:55 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: did you try logging in in TTY? | 02:56 |
| ramprasadgk | when i enter my password a screen flashes and bang.. i am back to login screen | 02:56 |
| ramprasadgk | i reset using recovery mode | 02:56 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: that could be a crash, more that a password failing | 02:56 |
| ramprasadgk | but thats not the problem | 02:56 |
| ramprasadgk | i think so | 02:56 |
| ramprasadgk | it was a brand new inst | 02:56 |
| ramprasadgk | 3 days ago | 02:57 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: sure.. 3 days is enough time for you to break it though | 02:57 |
| ramprasadgk | ha ha | 02:57 |
| ramprasadgk | :) | 02:57 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: you can start moving things out of the /home directory | 02:57 |
| holstein | i think you'll find you can login from TTY | 02:57 |
| ramprasadgk | i dont have anything great stored in there | 02:57 |
| holstein | you can get to a recovery console | 02:57 |
| ramprasadgk | i can login as guest though! | 02:57 |
| holstein | you can get to the /home directory from a live CD | 02:58 |
| ramprasadgk | no | 02:58 |
| ramprasadgk | i have it installed | 02:58 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: i dont think you can do what i am suggesting from the guest account, but feel free and try | 02:58 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: you can get to the /home directory of the user that is failing to login by using a live CD | 02:58 |
| holstein | OR, TTY | 02:58 |
| holstein | or the recovery root console | 02:59 |
| ramprasadgk | i can login | 02:59 |
| ramprasadgk | using recovery mode | 02:59 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: then whats the issue? | 02:59 |
| ramprasadgk | i dont think best way is use recovery mode everytime | 03:00 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: ok.. then in there you can remove or move .config and whatever other changes in there you think might be breaking the loading | 03:00 |
| ramprasadgk | to use xubuntu | 03:00 |
| ramprasadgk | k let me try it out | 03:00 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: while in recovery mode, you can recover the system.. you can remove some of the configuration files in your /home directory | 03:00 |
| ramprasadgk | ok | 03:01 |
| holstein | .config would be the first one i would try | 03:01 |
| === `mOOse` is now known as m00se | ||
| ramprasadgk | i have ibus | 03:10 |
| ramprasadgk | under .config | 03:10 |
| ramprasadgk | should i remove that | 03:10 |
| holstein | ramprasadgk: what i am suggesting is to remove or rename .config | 03:12 |
| holstein | i would just backup what is there, and blow it out.. reboot and try and login | 03:12 |
| ramprasadgk | it dint work | 03:26 |
| ramprasadgk | anyaway i gotta reintall XUBUNTU | 03:26 |
| XT_hydra | hi i have a problem with my xfce configs | 05:02 |
| XT_hydra | i recently had problem like panel not apearing and mouse not apearing and no keyboard input and so on | 05:04 |
| XT_hydra | so i deleted some stuff in ".conf" in my "home" folder | 05:04 |
| XT_hydra | but i dont see the little "x" button for quitting a window anymore | 05:04 |
| XT_hydra | likely the problem is wich configuration handle the GUI for that button? | 05:05 |
| XT_hydra | ooh i googled it problem solved.. lol | 05:10 |
| Mathias | :P | 05:23 |
| nexion | hola | 06:05 |
| nexion | hi | 06:05 |
| === ball is now known as ball__ | ||
| dreamr4c3r | Hi does anybody know how to type ascii characters? | 06:55 |
| dreamr4c3r | I tried with alt+numbers but it didn't work | 06:56 |
| ball | dreamr4c3r: You should have a key for each of the printable ASCII characters. Are you looking for something non-ASCII? | 06:56 |
| ball | (what number were you typing?) | 06:56 |
| dreamr4c3r | erm, sorry maybe not ascii haha i want to type special characters like the swedish a with the two dots and stuff | 06:57 |
| dreamr4c3r | these: äåö | 06:57 |
| ball | That's definitely not ASCII, but let me see what I can find. | 06:57 |
| dreamr4c3r | thanks :) | 06:57 |
| ball | Mouse -> Accessories -> Character Map | 06:57 |
| ball | ...hopefully that will help. | 06:58 |
| dreamr4c3r | oh i see, so i have to copy them from here? | 06:58 |
| dreamr4c3r | i suppose there's no way to type them quickly? | 06:58 |
| ball | There may be. I notice it says u+four digits | 06:58 |
| * ball experiments | 06:58 | |
| Sysi | https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-help/tips-specialchars.html#ctrlshiftu | 07:00 |
| ball | smoöth | 07:01 |
| dreamr4c3r | hehe i was thiking of compose keys, though i didn't see an options button in the keyboard layout | 07:01 |
| ball | Thanks Sysi | 07:01 |
| dreamr4c3r | ami just blind? | 07:01 |
| ball | I've just noticed that my keyboard doesn't seem to have an AltGr key | 07:02 |
| Sysi | there are different keyboard settings in xubuntu and ubuntu | 07:02 |
| ball | I wonder when those went away. | 07:02 |
| dreamr4c3r | :/ | 07:02 |
| Sysi | there are other ways of settings compose kay, like xmodmap and xkb | 07:03 |
| ball | I just installed Xubuntu this morning. | 07:03 |
| ball | I like it. | 07:04 |
| dreamr4c3r | :) | 07:04 |
| dreamr4c3r | it's fast huh hahah | 07:04 |
| dreamr4c3r | thanks sysi | 07:06 |
| ramprasadgk | hey guys where can i download all plugins for parole | 07:06 |
| ramprasadgk | keep it simple pals | 07:06 |
| ramprasadgk | dont send me a big doc | 07:07 |
| ramprasadgk | parole video/audio player | 07:07 |
| Sysi | do you lack some functionality you'd like to have? | 07:08 |
| ramprasadgk | yes | 07:09 |
| ramprasadgk | i cant play any vido on it | 07:09 |
| ramprasadgk | ex avi,mpeg etc | 07:09 |
| ramprasadgk | thats just basic rite | 07:09 |
| Sysi | !restricted-extras | 07:09 |
| ramprasadgk | it says sometimes, decoder not installed | 07:09 |
| Sysi | !codecs | 07:09 |
| ubottu | For multimedia issues, this page has useful information: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats - See also https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/media.html - But please use free formats if you can: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats | 07:09 |
| ramprasadgk | sometimes plugin needed | 07:09 |
| Sysi | you need plugin for subsystem that player uses rather than player itself actually | 07:10 |
| Sysi | search for gstreamer plugins in software center | 07:10 |
| Sysi | you need -bad and -ugly | 07:11 |
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| mlpokn | Hi | 08:06 |
| mlpokn | Guys | 08:07 |
| torax | hey | 08:07 |
| mlpokn | My USB mouse shows up twice in the Mouse Settings options. What can I do? | 08:07 |
| erkan^ | hello, where can i change a theme? i have 12.04 ? | 09:06 |
| akis | i installed an add-on on my thunderbird but due to a conflict with another add-on i remove it. i am running xubutnu 12.04 and as far as i can see in /home/user/thunderbird there is no trace of this add-on after i remove it. is there any possibility of any left-over files somewhere else and how can i be sure that removing this add-on everything related to it is removed? | 09:07 |
| mgs555 | Hey all. A bit of a newbie here. Recently installed xubuntu over the vanilla installation. 1. How do I change the appearance of checkboxes, sliders, tabs and such? I can't seem to find settings for this in either Appearance or Window Manager settings. 2. How do I make the volume control work? Best I can tell there's some conflict between pulseaudio and the one that xfce comes with. Is the xfce mixer ever gonna work "as expected" on t | 09:37 |
| TheSheep | mgs555: yes | 09:38 |
| knome | mgs555, 1) go to applications -> settings -> settings manager -> appearance | 09:39 |
| knome | mgs555, it's in the style tab | 09:40 |
| mgs555 | knome - that just seems to change the color scheme and window borders, but the sliders and stuff stays the same. maybe something's bugged out? They all seem kind of "primitive" - the checkboxes are just popped up buttons and sliders are these crude bars. | 09:41 |
| mgs555 | I switched between ubuntu/xubuntu/xfe a few times to try them out and it seems that this changed after I logged back into xubuntu the last time | 09:42 |
| mgs555 | oh, never mind :) | 09:43 |
| mgs555 | it finally worked | 09:43 |
| mgs555 | I just didn't try the right themes | 09:43 |
| mgs555 | sorry | 09:44 |
| mgs555 | is the sound mixer issue solvable? | 09:44 |
| ramprasadgk | my wifi is not detecting any n/w even though quiet a few around, ::: all drivers installed .. rfkill list wlan says they are not hard/soft blocked | 09:51 |
| ramprasadgk | how to connect to my wifi | 09:52 |
| ramprasadgk | anyone there | 09:57 |
| ramprasadgk | .............? | 09:57 |
| Simooon | ramprasadgk, perhaps your hardware switch is turned off? | 09:59 |
| ramprasadgk | no | 09:59 |
| ramprasadgk | it is on | 09:59 |
| Simooon | and it have worked before? | 09:59 |
| Simooon | *has | 09:59 |
| ramprasadgk | this is my first xubuntu install | 09:59 |
| Simooon | ok | 09:59 |
| ramprasadgk | with windows it was fine | 09:59 |
| Simooon | you can not detect any networks at all? | 10:00 |
| ramprasadgk | well | 10:00 |
| ramprasadgk | not wireless | 10:00 |
| Simooon | ok | 10:00 |
| ramprasadgk | during installation it mentioned that dhcp server inst failed | 10:00 |
| ramprasadgk | is that a porb | 10:01 |
| Simooon | not sure, perhaps you should try installing that | 10:01 |
| Simooon | ? | 10:01 |
| ramprasadgk | well | 10:01 |
| ramprasadgk | apart frm that | 10:01 |
| ramprasadgk | anything basic am i missing | 10:01 |
| longwuyuan | ramprasad ... if you click the icon in task bar .. do you see wireless enabled | 10:02 |
| ramprasadgk | because i got all drivers installed | 10:02 |
| Simooon | hmm not sure, sorry but I have to go | 10:02 |
| ramprasadgk | no | 10:03 |
| longwuyuan | have you tried to enable it | 10:03 |
| ramprasadgk | how do i do that | 10:03 |
| longwuyuan | unless u can tell what is wrong .. i am not sure what solution will work for you | 10:04 |
| longwuyuan | what is the output of iwlist wlan0 scanning | 10:04 |
| longwuyuan | " iwlist wlan0 scanning" | 10:04 |
| ramprasadgk | iterface doesn't support scanning | 10:05 |
| longwuyuan | also what is the output of "iwconfig" | 10:05 |
| ramprasadgk | lo no wireless ext | 10:06 |
| ramprasadgk | eth 0 no wireless ext | 10:06 |
| longwuyuan | any other line ? | 10:06 |
| ramprasadgk | lo eth0.. no other | 10:06 |
| ramprasadgk | only 2 | 10:06 |
| longwuyuan | then your wireless card is not even initialised | 10:07 |
| ramprasadgk | what do i have to do | 10:07 |
| longwuyuan | bring the wlan card up | 10:07 |
| ramprasadgk | because i m trying from past few days | 10:07 |
| longwuyuan | what hardware | 10:07 |
| ramprasadgk | any command? | 10:07 |
| longwuyuan | what laptop | 10:07 |
| ramprasadgk | BCM 4311 | 10:07 |
| longwuyuan | what wireless card make and model | 10:08 |
| ramprasadgk | broadcom | 10:08 |
| ramprasadgk | BCM4311 | 10:08 |
| longwuyuan | in "dmesg" output ... do you see the driver init | 10:08 |
| ramprasadgk | 802.11b/g | 10:08 |
| longwuyuan | "dmesg | less" and search | 10:08 |
| longwuyuan | better use xubuntu live and make sure that wireless works from live | 10:09 |
| ramprasadgk | driver init? | 10:10 |
| ramprasadgk | iany command to initialize wlan | 10:10 |
| ramprasadgk | card | 10:11 |
| longwuyuan | see the output of "dmesg" by typing "dmesg | less" . then use arrow keys of laptop keybaord to go up and down (or /<<text>>) and search if broadcom and wlan0 got initialised or not | 10:11 |
| longwuyuan | if not then .. i can't help in chat .. you have to read docs on how to install drivers for the hardware that you are using | 10:11 |
| longwuyuan | if u used XUBUNTU LIVE .. then you can know if your WIRELESS hardware works or not | 10:12 |
| longwuyuan | do u have GUI ? | 10:13 |
| ramprasadgk | i dint find wlan0 | 10:13 |
| ramprasadgk | i have GUI | 10:13 |
| longwuyuan | then connect ethernet cable and do update first | 10:14 |
| ramprasadgk | ok | 10:14 |
| longwuyuan | maybe you will be able to communicate root-cause for somone to help you | 10:15 |
| ramprasadgk | but i dont have lan | 10:15 |
| ramprasadgk | only wifi | 10:15 |
| ramprasadgk | community wifi | 10:15 |
| longwuyuan | ok .. can u boot your computer to XUBUNTU LIVE ? | 10:15 |
| ramprasadgk | i have alternate CD only | 10:16 |
| longwuyuan | did u install from USB or CD | 10:16 |
| ramprasadgk | i have live ubuntu though | 10:16 |
| ramprasadgk | but alternate CD of Xubuntu | 10:16 |
| longwuyuan | does that boot to live ? | 10:17 |
| longwuyuan | i don't know so asking | 10:17 |
| ramprasadgk | oh yes | 10:17 |
| longwuyuan | then boot to live | 10:17 |
| ramprasadgk | but i havent tried on this laptop | 10:17 |
| ramprasadgk | because thsi is pretty old | 10:17 |
| ramprasadgk | like just 256 mb | 10:17 |
| knome | alternate CD doesn't boot to live | 10:17 |
| ramprasadgk | thats why i got xubuntu | 10:17 |
| longwuyuan | if your card is recognized .. in live CD then it will work with install | 10:18 |
| knome | ramprasadgk, lubuntu might be even better for you | 10:18 |
| longwuyuan | versions of hardware software etc need to match. what is your laptop model | 10:18 |
| ramprasadgk | prob i si got lesser h/w | 10:18 |
| ramprasadgk | presario CT500 | 10:18 |
| ramprasadgk | compaq | 10:18 |
| longwuyuan | how old ? | 10:19 |
| ramprasadgk | 7 yrs | 10:19 |
| longwuyuan | and which xubuntu version are you trying ? | 10:19 |
| ramprasadgk | 4.1 | 10:19 |
| ramprasadgk | latest | 10:19 |
| knome | there is no 4.1 version | 10:19 |
| knome | do you mean 12.04.1 ? | 10:20 |
| ramprasadgk | yes | 10:20 |
| ramprasadgk | sorry | 10:20 |
| ramprasadgk | its 12.04.1 | 10:20 |
| ramprasadgk | this is gettting tough | 10:21 |
| ramprasadgk | let me try fedora | 10:21 |
| ramprasadgk | i love ubuntu for its simplicity until simple things won't work :) | 10:22 |
| knome | good luck with installing; whatever you end up installing | 10:22 |
| knome | but i doubt fedora will support bcm any more or less | 10:22 |
| ramprasadgk | not sure | 10:23 |
| knome | ramprasadgk, did you already read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx ? | 10:23 |
| ramprasadgk | oh yeah | 10:23 |
| knome | well, the drivers are the same for all linuxes | 10:23 |
| knome | ramprasadgk, have you updated your bios? that worked wonders for my wife's laptop | 10:23 |
| ramprasadgk | i have got my drivers installed | 10:23 |
| ramprasadgk | how do i do that | 10:23 |
| ramprasadgk | what do i update | 10:23 |
| knome | check your motherboard manual | 10:24 |
| knome | you should check first if there even is bios update available; but i'm quite sure there is if you have a 7-year old pc and haven't updated it :) | 10:24 |
| ramprasadgk | hmm | 10:25 |
| ramprasadgk | pint is windows gets this right everytime | 10:25 |
| ramprasadgk | point* | 10:25 |
| ramprasadgk | why not with *inx | 10:25 |
| knome | yeah, windows has better support for bcm* | 10:25 |
| knome | long story short: because the bcm* drivers are closed source and linux maintainers would need to reverse-engineer them | 10:26 |
| ramprasadgk | well | 10:27 |
| ramprasadgk | i guess this is the time to update my system | 10:27 |
| ramprasadgk | :) | 10:27 |
| ramprasadgk | atleast will get a better RAM | 10:28 |
| knome | well, that too | 10:28 |
| knome | just check the components are known to be supported on linux, if you're going to use linux | 10:28 |
| ramprasadgk | true | 10:28 |
| knome | i know that's kind of stupid and you shouldn't need to do that, but that's how things are currently | 10:28 |
| ramprasadgk | i know | 10:29 |
| knome | otoh, if you choose the correct components, everything will work OOTB | 10:29 |
| knome | and that's simply awesome :) | 10:29 |
| ramprasadgk | this market is you need better h/w for better s/w | 10:29 |
| ramprasadgk | flip side of that is you won't learn most of things | 10:29 |
| knome | that's true, but you can't always win | 10:30 |
| knome | i suppose it depends much on what you use the stuff for | 10:30 |
| ramprasadgk | correct | 10:30 |
| ramprasadgk | basically i wanted to get this laptop for my wife | 10:31 |
| knome | if it's for leisure, it might be ok to have some unsupported/not fully supported stiff, but if it's for work, you most probably want maximum stability | 10:31 |
| ramprasadgk | just to browse the net and watch movies | 10:31 |
| ramprasadgk | yeah | 10:31 |
| ramprasadgk | rite | 10:31 |
| knome | 256MB sounds a bit low for that; i'm not sure how that'd play movies anyway | 10:31 |
| ramprasadgk | hmm | 10:31 |
| ramprasadgk | it does | 10:31 |
| ramprasadgk | not very well but | 10:32 |
| knome | i've had better PC's that don't play DVD's or video files well, and when it comes to youtube, if you want to use firefox, it's known to take half a gig... | 10:32 |
| ramprasadgk | however if i get my wifi working i can get many things straight | 10:32 |
| knome | what's the step where you are stuck at | 10:32 |
| knome | or have you followed the tutorial but it still simply doesn't work? | 10:32 |
| ramprasadgk | yes | 10:32 |
| ramprasadgk | atleas in my case | 10:33 |
| ramprasadgk | i tried all | 10:33 |
| ramprasadgk | i got all wwifi drivers installed | 10:33 |
| ramprasadgk | it is showing up now | 10:33 |
| ramprasadgk | but not scanning any wifi | 10:33 |
| knome | hmm | 10:33 |
| ramprasadgk | n/ws | 10:33 |
| knome | do you have several drivers loaded? (check lsmod) | 10:34 |
| ramprasadgk | yes | 10:35 |
| ramprasadgk | lots of | 10:35 |
| knome | i mean, several for wifi | 10:35 |
| knome | afaik you shold only have one | 10:35 |
| ramprasadgk | i dont have that | 10:35 |
| knome | ok | 10:36 |
| knome | weird | 10:36 |
| knome | a bios update could very well work | 10:36 |
| knome | updating it is not a bad idea anyway | 10:37 |
| ramprasadgk | for that i need a CD | 10:37 |
| ramprasadgk | rite | 10:37 |
| ramprasadgk | motherboard cd | 10:37 |
| knome | mmh, no | 10:37 |
| knome | you can get to bios on boot by pressing some keys, usually esc, del, f2, or so.. | 10:37 |
| ramprasadgk | i know to get there | 10:37 |
| knome | check the manual from the internet for your motherboard/bios | 10:38 |
| knome | on how to update | 10:38 |
| knome | iirc i updated the bios with a usb stick :) | 10:38 |
| ramprasadgk | hmm | 10:38 |
| knome | ymmv | 10:38 |
| ramprasadgk | but tell me onething just to quickly no everything is fine with wifi ,any aprticular command or plca to chk | 10:39 |
| ramprasadgk | know* | 10:39 |
| knome | well, read the tutorials | 10:39 |
| ramprasadgk | quickly no--> quickly know | 10:39 |
| knome | http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 | 10:39 |
| knome | that too | 10:39 |
| knome | i don't have any specific ideas to test | 10:39 |
| knome | just what's listed on those | 10:39 |
| ramprasadgk | ok np | 10:40 |
| ramprasadgk | one more thing | 10:43 |
| ramprasadgk | have you got vlan runing on xubuntu | 10:43 |
| knome | sure | 10:43 |
| knome | yes | 10:43 |
| ramprasadgk | and also vlc player? | 10:44 |
| knome | not on this laptop, but i have it on desktop | 10:44 |
| ramprasadgk | ok | 10:52 |
| knome | how so? | 10:56 |
| mgs555 | hey all, I'll give it another try: I am having trouble with sound mixer after switching from ubuntu to xubuntu. Been googling all day, honest. Pulseaudio is not supported in xf gui, is this the right conclusion? I must switch completely to alsa? How is this to be done? I seem to have both of them now and neither the taskbar volume control nor keyboard media keys are working. | 11:01 |
| knome | mgs555, have you tried installig pavucontrol? | 11:09 |
| mgs555 | yes, but I don't get the option of adding it to the panel | 11:09 |
| mgs555 | I can add the xf mixer to the panel, but it doesn't seem to work properly | 11:10 |
| mgs555 | like now, I just did apt-get purge on pulseaudio | 11:10 |
| mgs555 | but the mixer still says its using the card through pusleaudio rather than alsa | 11:11 |
| knome | mgs555, do you have the indicator area enabled? pulseaudio should show up there | 11:11 |
| mgs555 | what do you mean by "indicator area"? | 11:12 |
| knome | mgs555, "indicator plugin" from the applet list | 11:12 |
| mgs555 | yes | 11:13 |
| knome | so, doesn't that show you a volume indicator? | 11:14 |
| mgs555 | I have my other icons there - skype, bt, dropbox, etc | 11:14 |
| mgs555 | the volume indicator is there | 11:14 |
| mgs555 | when I click on it, though, instead of a volume control it just takes me straight to the mixer | 11:14 |
| knome | hmm, i wonder if that's the right item | 11:14 |
| knome | that shouldn't take you to the mixed | 11:14 |
| knome | what version of xubuntu did you have again? | 11:15 |
| mgs555 | where it says Soundcard: Playback: Built-in Audio Analog Surround 5.1 (PulseAudio Mixer) | 11:15 |
| mgs555 | why is it puslse audio if I purged it | 11:15 |
| mgs555 | hm, how do I check? :) | 11:16 |
| knome | 'lsb_release -a' in a terminal | 11:16 |
| mgs555 | Ubuntu 12.04.0 LTS | 11:17 |
| mgs555 | .1 | 11:18 |
| knome | is it an upgraded system, or a fresh install? | 11:19 |
| mgs555 | I installed xubuntu through apt-get over a fresh ubuntu install | 11:20 |
| knome | ok | 11:20 |
| mgs555 | that's the problem? | 11:20 |
| knome | probably not, just checking :) | 11:20 |
| knome | can you confirm that you don't have the mixer applet in the panel - only the indicator plugin | 11:21 |
| knome | right-click panel -> panel -> panel preferences -> tab items | 11:21 |
| mgs555 | I have the mixer applet | 11:21 |
| knome | ok, remove that for now | 11:22 |
| knome | and see of you have a volume icon visible | 11:22 |
| mgs555 | I believe I installed it only because the indicator applet didn't have a volume control | 11:22 |
| mgs555 | ok | 11:22 |
| mgs555 | ok, removed. indicator only has messenger, bt, wifi, skype, dropbox, spotify | 11:23 |
| mgs555 | and I can't seem to get any options on it now - before I used to be able to hide certain icons. hm... | 11:24 |
| knome | try installing indicator-sound-gtk2 and see if it appears | 11:24 |
| knome | (you should have that installed, but who knows) | 11:24 |
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| mgs555 | ok. so looks like dependencies are gonna take pusle audio back in | 11:27 |
| recon_lap | what joy :) | 11:27 |
| knome | mgs555, yes; have you had output problems with that? | 11:27 |
| knome | recon_lap, pulseaudio is actually getting better and better; it works relatively well for most today | 11:27 |
| mgs555 | ok, done - so what should happen now? :) | 11:28 |
| knome | mgs555, the volume/sound indicator should appear | 11:28 |
| knome | mgs555, you might need to restart the panel; the easiest way is to log out and in | 11:28 |
| mgs555 | ha! Interesting side effect. I removed the indicator applet, and it reappeared again - even though it's not on the list | 11:30 |
| knome | hmm, weird | 11:30 |
| mgs555 | and this one is the one that I customized, with BT and wifi hidden away | 11:30 |
| knome | hmmkay | 11:30 |
| knome | does the volume icon show up? | 11:30 |
| mgs555 | but this one is called "Notification Area" | 11:32 |
| knome | right, that's not the one you actually want | 11:32 |
| knome | and yeah, it's not a side effect; i think it might be expected | 11:32 |
| knome | you can't have both notification are and indicator area/plugin, afaik | 11:32 |
| recon_lap | how do you check that packages are installed without doing anything ? | 11:59 |
| recon_lap | without changing anything* | 12:00 |
| tsimpson | apt-cache policy <package> | 12:00 |
| recon_lap | thx | 12:00 |
| tsimpson | tells you if it's installed, if so what version, and what available versions are | 12:00 |
| asenk | Why do i have to add source for virtualbox when i want to install it (nothings wrong with that, just want to know why) | 12:59 |
| GridCube | what source? | 12:59 |
| GridCube | !info vbox | 12:59 |
| ubottu | Package vbox does not exist in precise | 12:59 |
| GridCube | !info vbox | 12:59 |
| GridCube | !info virtualbox | 13:00 |
| ubottu | virtualbox (source: virtualbox): x86 virtualization solution - base binaries. In component universe, is optional. Version 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.1 (precise), package size 15439 kB, installed size 45859 kB | 13:00 |
| GridCube | is in universe | 13:00 |
| asenk | so virtualbox isnt in the default sources list -> ok -> but why? | 13:02 |
| Sysi | !info xubuntu-desktop | 13:03 |
| koegs | asenk: because it is not maintained by the ubuntu maintainers but by oracle | 13:03 |
| ubottu | xubuntu-desktop (source: xubuntu-meta): Xubuntu desktop system. In component universe, is optional. Version 2.152 (precise), package size 3 kB, installed size 43 kB | 13:03 |
| Sysi | also universe | 13:04 |
| koegs | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu | 13:05 |
| GridCube | asenk, is in universe, you dont need extra sources | 13:06 |
| jerli | hi there | 13:21 |
| Mathias | hi | 13:24 |
| GridCube | sup | 13:44 |
| Fohlen | hi @all | 13:48 |
| GridCube | hello :) | 13:49 |
| Fohlen | i have a question, is it possible to set up my mouse, so that i have the same feeling as in windows (xp/7) | 13:49 |
| GridCube | describe "feeling" | 13:49 |
| Fohlen | hmm, it is much faster i think | 13:51 |
| Fohlen | i googled arround a bit, but didnt found mouch :/ | 13:51 |
| Fohlen | generally, is there a "tool" where i can setup my mouse a bit more precise as with settings-manager? | 13:52 |
| GridCube | go to the settings manager and to the "mouse and touchpad" submenu, there adjust acceleration and sencibility | 13:52 |
| Fohlen | i tryed over 2 hours i think :/ | 13:52 |
| Fohlen | it is really hard, as a gamer to change mouse feeling :P:D | 13:52 |
| GridCube | then you can install synaptics | 13:53 |
| Sysi | disable acceleration, try some different values for sensitivity | 13:53 |
| GridCube | !info synaptics | 13:53 |
| ubottu | Package synaptics does not exist in precise | 13:53 |
| GridCube | mmmm | 13:53 |
| GridCube | wait | 13:53 |
| Fohlen | k | 13:53 |
| GridCube | ok | 13:53 |
| GridCube | !info gsynaptics | 13:53 |
| ubottu | gsynaptics (source: gpointing-device-settings): configuration tool for pointing devices (transitional package). In component universe, is optional. Version 1.5.1-6 (precise), package size 1 kB, installed size 28 kB | 13:54 |
| Fohlen | kthx, i will try that :) | 13:54 |
| Fohlen | uhm, i have to say, xubuntu 12.04 lts is nice work, you fixed much guys ;) | 13:55 |
| GridCube | :) and 12.10 will be better with 4.10 | 13:55 |
| Fohlen | uhm, in gponting device manager i can only setup middle mouse-button? | 13:57 |
| GridCube | oh | 13:57 |
| GridCube | :( | 13:57 |
| Fohlen | hmm, my problem is, sensivity is nice | 13:59 |
| Fohlen | but mouse isnt precise | 13:59 |
| Fohlen | it "glitches" away, when i shot | 13:59 |
| Fohlen | that drives me angry :/ | 13:59 |
| GridCube | mmmm | 13:59 |
| GridCube | adjusting the sencibility bar doesnt fix that? | 14:00 |
| Fohlen | nope, but maybe it is that table | 14:00 |
| GridCube | Fohlen, we are so close to 12.10 that im going to propose you to try installing xfce 4.10 | 14:00 |
| Fohlen | but under windoof, it worked :/ | 14:00 |
| Fohlen | hmm, no, i will upgrade then ;) | 14:01 |
| GridCube | :P but it might fix this problem | 14:01 |
| GridCube | or you can try using a withe sheet of paper under your mouse | 14:01 |
| GridCube | :P | 14:01 |
| erkan^ | xubuntu is nearly same as gnome (-: | 14:01 |
| GridCube | D: | 14:02 |
| erkan^ | (-: is nice than :-) or no, GridCube ? | 14:03 |
| GridCube | D: if you are implying that its almost the same as gnome 3 then no | 14:04 |
| GridCube | :P | 14:04 |
| GridCube | !ot | but in any case | 14:04 |
| ubottu | but in any case: #xubuntu is the Xubuntu support channel, #xubuntu-devel for discussion regarding development of Xubuntu, and #xubuntu-offtopic is for random chatter. Welcome! | 14:04 |
| GridCube | :D | 14:04 |
| erkan^ | I am no good in the development | 14:05 |
| GridCube | :P but you can go to offtopic to random chatter if you dont have any real problem | 14:05 |
| GridCube | :) | 14:05 |
| Marzata | but the offtopic channel is no active | 14:06 |
| erkan^ | ow | 14:06 |
| erkan^ | have xubuntu a offtopic too? | 14:06 |
| Marzata | there are better random chat channels for ubuntu users | 14:06 |
| GridCube | erkan^, did you read what ubottu said? | 14:07 |
| GridCube | Marzata, thats not true | 14:07 |
| erkan^ | oeps i didn't see good, GridCube | 14:07 |
| recon_lap | erkan^: well go into settings and increase you font size ^-^ | 14:08 |
| erkan^ | recon_lap, i have a syndrome usher | 14:09 |
| erkan^ | type 1 | 14:09 |
| erkan^ | :-S | 14:09 |
| recon_lap | erkan^: sorry to hear that. | 14:10 |
| erkan^ | no problem, you didn't know about me | 14:10 |
| erkan^ | (-: | 14:10 |
| |Anthony| | how do i make it such that 2 users can access audio devices at the same time? it would be 2 different audio devices | 14:15 |
| GridCube | set that up on pavucontrol | 14:16 |
| Fohlen | hmm, do anyone know what is the default of "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" ? | 14:17 |
| GridCube | Fohlen, http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/PointerAcceleration | 14:18 |
| |Anthony| | GridCube, it's not that simple. really. i've tried. only one user has access to all the sound cards at one time, the other gets Dummy output | 14:18 |
| GridCube | |Anthony|, make different groups for each user, like "audio1" and "audio2" and make those devices part of only those groups also | 14:19 |
| |Anthony| | through udev? | 14:19 |
| GridCube | you got me there i dont really know | 14:20 |
| |Anthony| | lol | 14:20 |
| |Anthony| | well how would you implement that suggestion there3 | 14:20 |
| GridCube | i would go and create a new group for each user, then i would add those devices to those groups separadetly, and i would search how to do that on the googles and probably end using udev for all i know :P | 14:21 |
| livingdaylight | greetings | 14:22 |
| GridCube | !hi | livingdaylight | 14:22 |
| ubottu | livingdaylight: Hi!, Welcome to #xubuntu! Feel free to ask questions and help people out. The channel guidelines are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines. Enjoy your stay! | 14:22 |
| livingdaylight | thanks GridCube | 14:23 |
| GridCube | :) | 14:23 |
| livingdaylight | I brought backdrops from /usr/share/xfce/backdrops or wherever from, to my home directory, but, now can't save new wallpaper to that folder. I tried sudo chmod +X ~/Pictures/backdrops but that doesn't seem to give me write permission still | 14:26 |
| |Anthony| | that's kinda funny | 14:26 |
| |Anthony| | sorry | 14:27 |
| |Anthony| | solidarity in failure i suppose | 14:27 |
| Fohlen | lol | 14:27 |
| Fohlen | GridCube, i can hear my mouseclicks/keyboard in mumble | 14:27 |
| Fohlen | could that be a fault of xubuntu? | 14:27 |
| livingdaylight | wtf? | 14:28 |
| Fohlen | i dont know why, but they hear my mouse louder than my voice o.o | 14:29 |
| |Anthony| | livingdaylight, it might be a better approach for the future to copy the individual files to a new folder and change perms of individual files | 14:29 |
| livingdaylight | |Anthony|: hrmm... I didn't know. how do I change permissions now? | 14:30 |
| livingdaylight | http://clip2net.com/s/2jP2s | 14:30 |
| livingdaylight | haro? | 14:36 |
| GridCube | yes? | 14:37 |
| livingdaylight | yes, please? | 14:37 |
| GridCube | why +x? | 14:37 |
| GridCube | you want to execute images? | 14:37 |
| GridCube | do man chmod | 14:37 |
| livingdaylight | want to change permission so I can import as described above | 14:37 |
| GridCube | livingdaylight, what is what you want to do | 14:39 |
| livingdaylight | is it really not clear? :s | 14:39 |
| GridCube | you want to be able to see the backdrops you add on your ~/ folder ont he choosing thingy for backdrops on the desktop? | 14:39 |
| livingdaylight | backdrops was originally a file in root with root permissions | 14:40 |
| GridCube | i know, buy you tried to give it +X | 14:40 |
| GridCube | that would make them eXecutable files | 14:40 |
| |Anthony| | lol | 14:40 |
| livingdaylight | As a user I brought in the backdrops folder to my home folder so as to have a readily-available source of wallpapers and folder for adding more wallpapers available. | 14:41 |
| GridCube | livingdaylight, i understand | 14:41 |
| livingdaylight | well, don't mock me, give me the solution, please? | 14:41 |
| GridCube | but there is a folder for that already | 14:41 |
| livingdaylight | |Anthony|: twat | 14:42 |
| GridCube | as i was saying | 14:42 |
| |Anthony| | did you really just call me a twat? | 14:42 |
| GridCube | you have to create a folder named backdrops on ~/.local/share/xfce4/backdrops | 14:42 |
| GridCube | and then put all your images there | 14:42 |
| GridCube | and they will be listed on the chooser thingy on the desktop | 14:43 |
| GridCube | that folder is own by you and you can do what ever you want to it | 14:43 |
| livingdaylight | the folder is already there. Its where I copied it from to my home/folder. What's wrong with that? | 14:43 |
| GridCube | you moved permissions | 14:43 |
| GridCube | and it was not really needed | 14:43 |
| livingdaylight | GridCube: ok, sorry, no. I moved backdrops from a root folder. | 14:44 |
| |Anthony| | you could have also created a ln -s | 14:44 |
| livingdaylight | question is why do I need to create a folder? I@m asking how to I copy a folder from root and move it to my home directory? | 14:44 |
| GridCube | because you dont really "need" to | 14:45 |
| livingdaylight | I'm sure its dead simple | 14:45 |
| livingdaylight | whether I need to or not is not the question | 14:45 |
| GridCube | that folder is own by root and defines the wallpapers for all users, the ones on your ~/ are own by you and only you can see them | 14:45 |
| livingdaylight | fact is I have moved it and now I can't save images to that folder - why? and more importantly, - how - do I change it so that I can | 14:45 |
| livingdaylight | oh, boy... | 14:46 |
| GridCube | livingdaylight, you need to change permisions for that directory | 14:46 |
| GridCube | not for the files inside them | 14:46 |
| livingdaylight | GridCube: yes, how, please? :) | 14:46 |
| GridCube | launch gksu thunar | 14:46 |
| recon_lap | livingdaylight: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/filepermissions.html | 14:46 |
| GridCube | go to ~/.local/share/xfce4/ | 14:46 |
| GridCube | right clic on the folder backdrops and go to the permision tab | 14:46 |
| GridCube | there fix it to "anyone can write" | 14:47 |
| livingdaylight | I hoped to do it from command line, with chmod. Is that not a way? | 14:47 |
| GridCube | yes, theres a way | 14:47 |
| GridCube | sudo chmor +r ~/.local/share/xfce4/bacdrops | 14:49 |
| GridCube | sudo chmod +r ~/.local/share/xfce4/bacdrops | 14:49 |
| GridCube | oh man... | 14:49 |
| GridCube | its +w | 14:49 |
| GridCube | +w means its Writable | 14:49 |
| GridCube | and its backdrops... oh gods, there you have why i know the gui ways of doing this things | 14:50 |
| livingdaylight | I did the gksu method just to see and still says that the owner is root http://clip2net.com/s/2jPkq | 14:51 |
| GridCube | the owner might be root but the permisions are to everyone can write | 14:55 |
| GridCube | on "others" | 14:55 |
| livingdaylight | what a pain. I want to change owner root to me the user to make it consistent with all other folders in my /home/ | 14:56 |
| GridCube | then move it back to where it where and make a new folder yourself | 14:56 |
| livingdaylight | seems I need to create a folder and can't bring in a root folder and change the owner | 14:56 |
| holstein | i would just make a new one, pull in what you need and chown | 14:57 |
| livingdaylight | strange | 14:57 |
| GridCube | mmm chown | 14:57 |
| livingdaylight | So, are saying it is impossible in LInux to bring in a root folder and change the owner? | 14:57 |
| GridCube | no | 14:58 |
| GridCube | use chown | 14:58 |
| GridCube | sudo chown you /folder | 14:58 |
| holstein | livingdaylight: in linux, its all open, so everything is possible.. its even possible to break things and configure things improperly | 14:58 |
| livingdaylight | well, gksu thunar right-click and permissions hasn't changed the 'root' as owner | 14:58 |
| GridCube | it wasnt suppose to | 14:58 |
| GridCube | i told you how to change permissions not users | 14:59 |
| livingdaylight | GridCube: sudo chown /folder is what i DID - remember? | 14:59 |
| livingdaylight | aha | 14:59 |
| GridCube | no, you did chmod | 14:59 |
| livingdaylight | yes | 14:59 |
| GridCube | its not the same changing permision than users | 14:59 |
| livingdaylight | now we're getting somewhere :) | 14:59 |
| livingdaylight | so, how do I change user, please? | 15:00 |
| GridCube | man chown | 15:00 |
| livingdaylight | sudo chown - ? | 15:00 |
| GridCube | do man chown and read its man | 15:00 |
| holstein | i would step back for a bit, and try and see what the overall goal is | 15:00 |
| holstein | things are setup as they are for good reasons typically, and the permissions system is an easy way to keep things secure | 15:01 |
| GridCube | holstein, he wants to own the ~/.local/share/xfce4/backdrops folder | 15:01 |
| erkan^ | Can I change theme for Xubuntu: Human/Ubuntu-theme? | 15:01 |
| GridCube | erkan^, if you want to | 15:01 |
| GridCube | i dont see why anyone would want to leave greybird tho | 15:01 |
| GridCube | :P | 15:01 |
| GridCube | erkan^, as long as it is a gtk2-3 compatible theme it should work | 15:02 |
| erkan^ | I have download Human Theme in synpatic and installed too, but i cannot found him via Theme, GridCube | 15:02 |
| erkan^ | oh yes i have him! | 15:03 |
| GridCube | erkan^, see faq 7 http://xubuntu.org/news/faq-1110-oneiric/ | 15:04 |
| erkan^ | ok | 15:06 |
| erkan^ | Yes, you can use themes for GTK and install themes directly to ~/.themes or /usr/share/themes. You can obtain more themes from various sites, like xfce-look.org. | 15:06 |
| GridCube | :) | 15:07 |
| erkan^ | GridCube, bottom window is full, how make I all visible: http://picpaste.com/pics/bottom-fnPxzQs1.1348153888.png ? | 15:12 |
| GridCube | oh you mean not all the items are shown in the panel? | 15:13 |
| GridCube | thats a known bug that i think its fixed on 4.10 | 15:14 |
| GridCube | i dont known if theres a solution for 4.8 | 15:14 |
| erkan^ | yes | 15:14 |
| erkan^ | i have solved now ! :D | 15:16 |
| GridCube | how so? | 15:16 |
| erkan^ | I did item "Window" remove, and anew add, than i see that is normal all visible, GridCube | 15:17 |
| erkan^ | which file manager do you use, GridCube ? | 15:23 |
| recon_lap | a question, is there a differance between using sudo or useing su to root, other than sudo is safer? | 15:23 |
| recon_lap | may saying sudo is less accident prone rather that safer | 15:24 |
| holstein | recon_lap: the end result is the same | 15:24 |
| recon_lap | thx, going to make a CA and just wanted to be sure | 15:25 |
| GridCube | erkan^, i use thunar | 15:32 |
| erkan^ | me too | 15:34 |
| GridCube | :) | 15:35 |
| acer_ | Hello | 16:57 |
| GridCube | !hi | acer_ | 16:58 |
| ubottu | acer_: Hi!, Welcome to #xubuntu! Feel free to ask questions and help people out. The channel guidelines are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines. Enjoy your stay! | 16:58 |
| acer_ | Can someone help me with mt wireless on my acer? | 16:59 |
| * ball is settling back into Xubuntu | 16:59 | |
| GridCube | !details | acer_ | 17:00 |
| ubottu | acer_: Please give us full details. For example: "I have a problem with ..., I'm running Ubuntu version .... When I try to do ..., I get the following output: ..., but I expected it to do ..." | 17:00 |
| acer_ | Well i dont have so much details, I have the latest v of xubuntu but my wireless dont show up in connections | 17:02 |
| recon_lap | acer_: have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/internet/C/troubleshooting-wireless.html | 17:02 |
| recon_lap | acer_: sorry , let me find a more upto date one | 17:03 |
| recon_lap | acer_: this one is better https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/net-wireless-troubleshooting.html | 17:05 |
| acer_ | recon_lap, Thanks! | 17:05 |
| recon_lap | acer_: and if you'd let us know the make and model of laptop | 17:05 |
| acer_ | Acer travelmate 290 | 17:06 |
| recon_lap | wow, never saw instruction for fixing a wireless card that require taping up pint on the card itself =-O | 17:12 |
| recon_lap | pint/pins* | 17:12 |
| acer_ | hmm looks like its disabled.. | 17:13 |
| recon_lap | acer_: if you could tell us the model of the wifi card that would be good. | 17:13 |
| acer_ | a sec | 17:14 |
| acer_ | http://pastebin.com/WrB13S7H | 17:16 |
| GridCube | acer_, it says "DISABLED" | 17:18 |
| GridCube | you need to "ENABLED" it :P | 17:19 |
| GridCube | see if your keyboard doesnt have a fn key to unlock wifi | 17:19 |
| GridCube | or see if your bios is not locking it either | 17:19 |
| acer_ | Yeah, but I dont know how :P Key is ON | 17:19 |
| recon_lap | i found this, but want to look about more to see if there is a better solution http://rfswitch.sourceforge.net/?page=laptop_matrix | 17:20 |
| recon_lap | taping over pins 11 and 13 sounds a but caveman | 17:21 |
| recon_lap | but/bit* | 17:22 |
| acer_ | I'll be back later need to reboot this. | 17:22 |
| acer_ | I'll just take the hammer so i just need to do it once ;P | 17:23 |
| danwhiffin | howdy y'all | 17:34 |
| danwhiffin | anyone here an expert on getting nvidia drivers to work? | 17:35 |
| recon_lap | !details | danwhiffin | 17:36 |
| ubottu | danwhiffin: Please give us full details. For example: "I have a problem with ..., I'm running Ubuntu version .... When I try to do ..., I get the following output: ..., but I expected it to do ..." | 17:36 |
| recon_lap | make and model of computer are useful to | 17:37 |
| danwhiffin | Ok, cool. I've installed the latest xubuntu on a dell inspiron n5110, using an nvidia geforce 640M | 17:37 |
| danwhiffin | i think that's the right card model... | 17:37 |
| danwhiffin | when i look at additonal drivers, it shows that there is none installed. | 17:38 |
| danwhiffin | when i used the nvidia panel (x server settings) I get the following error | 17:38 |
| danwhiffin | You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server. | 17:39 |
| danwhiffin | I was wondering if there was an idiot simple way (cos im an idiot) to install the driver? | 17:39 |
| danwhiffin | running xubuntu 11.10 | 17:40 |
| recon_lap | well, try "applications menu -> settings -> additional drivers" | 17:40 |
| danwhiffin | "no proprietary drivers on this system" | 17:41 |
| GridCube | danmackay, also paste the output of lspci | grep -i "vga" | 17:41 |
| danwhiffin | 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 540M] (rev a1) | 17:42 |
| GridCube | you have two vga cards | 17:42 |
| GridCube | you seem to be using the intel one, that uses generic drivers to the output you are seing | 17:42 |
| danwhiffin | oh ok | 17:43 |
| GridCube | shut down your computer, change the vga cords cables to the right ones and reboot | 17:44 |
| GridCube | you might want to disable the integrated card from the bios aswel to avoid this sort of problems in the future | 17:44 |
| danwhiffin | ...okay. im on a laptop, and I haven't changed any cable.s | 17:44 |
| GridCube | oookay | 17:45 |
| GridCube | i dont know then :) | 17:45 |
| danwhiffin | ah | 17:46 |
| GridCube | b? | 17:46 |
| danwhiffin | I'm trying to google how to select graphics card. mentions about xorg | 17:47 |
| GridCube | danwhiffin, i dont know if thats posible | 17:47 |
| danwhiffin | hmmm | 17:47 |
| danwhiffin | wty for all the help bt | 17:48 |
| GridCube | i think that your notebook screen is atached to the intel video card | 17:48 |
| danwhiffin | btw | 17:48 |
| GridCube | and the other output is the nvidia one | 17:48 |
| GridCube | the external output | 17:48 |
| danwhiffin | im slightly lost. on my windows install it runs off the nvidia, and i havent changed anything after installing xubuntu...7 | 17:49 |
| danwhiffin | hardware wise | 17:49 |
| recon_lap | danwhiffin: there is a thing called Optima which nvidia uses to switch between VC depending on load to save batteries, it's not well supported by ubuntu yet as far as i know | 17:50 |
| recon_lap | danwhiffin: you ever heard of your bios ? | 17:51 |
| danwhiffin | yes. i know it. | 17:51 |
| recon_lap | danwhiffin: might be worth have a look in there to see if there are any video card options | 17:52 |
| danwhiffin | ok, ill have a look. | 17:52 |
| recon_lap | danwhiffin: I'd not change anything hastily though | 17:52 |
| danwhiffin | heh yeah. ok, thanks for the help. cheers | 17:53 |
| danwhiffin | much obliged | 17:53 |
| asenk | about the mouse acceleration which was discussed earlier: is it possible to just disable acceleration alltogether and map the pointer to move in 1:1 motion with only sensivity to control? | 18:01 |
| recon_lap | asenk: have you tried setting acceleration to 0/1 in setting manager? | 18:04 |
| asenk | recon_lap: best you can do is 0.1 | 18:41 |
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| Blue | accepted | 19:58 |
| knome | ? | 19:58 |
| Blue | im having trouble installing | 19:58 |
| holstein | Blue: a package? the operating system? this is the place to ask.. just ask :) | 20:03 |
| Blue | I downloaded the mirror | 20:05 |
| Blue | then burned it to a disk | 20:05 |
| Blue | and my computer cant read or run any of the files | 20:05 |
| holstein | Blue: you downloaded the iso? the live iso from a mirror? for the xubuntu 12.04 desktop version? | 20:06 |
| MrBushido | is there anything like netlimiter for linux? it's a taskmanager like app that breaks down bandwidth usage by process and allows you to limit each processes max bandwidth http://www.netlimiter.com/img/scrshots/nl2shot_limit.png | 20:06 |
| Blue | yes i downloaded the mirror foe 12.04 | 20:07 |
| Blue | *for | 20:07 |
| holstein | Blue: you downloaded the iso? | 20:07 |
| holstein | you downloaded the iso from a mirror.. you have a file that is 'xubuntu.*.iso".. something like that.. ending in .iso? correct Blue ? | 20:08 |
| Blue | yes | 20:08 |
| Blue | it's the iso | 20:09 |
| MrBushido | what message do you get when you try to boot from your cd drive? | 20:09 |
| holstein | Blue: you will just boot the machine using that CD you made | 20:09 |
| holstein | Blue: the computer wont "read" anything from it.. its going to be a bootable image.... you'll just reboot the machine, and boot the CD instead of the hard drive | 20:09 |
| Blue | ok, so just re-start and on the boot up menu select the cd? | 20:09 |
| Blue | ok thanks! | 20:09 |
| holstein | Blue: correct... you might need to go into the bios for that | 20:10 |
| MrBushido | most bios's let you hit F8 to see a boot menu | 20:10 |
| holstein | each machine is different so i cant be much more specific without you taking and posting some images | 20:10 |
| MrBushido | you can just choose your cd drive from the list that pops up after hitting f8 | 20:10 |
| Blue | ok thanks everyone! | 20:10 |
| Mathias | try the f keys :p | 20:11 |
| holstein | Blue: enjoy! | 20:11 |
| MrBushido | sooooo, anybody know a per process bandwidth monitor? | 20:11 |
| holstein | MrBushido: i might try the server mailing list | 20:12 |
| Sysi | http://linuxpoison.blogspot.fi/2010/09/monitor-bandwidth-consumption-per.html | 20:14 |
| holstein | Sysi: that should do the trick for MrBushido | 20:15 |
| MrBushido | ty | 20:25 |
| HeadlessZombie | my 16GB flashdrive has reached its max writes. about to install to new flash drive. What i have: 4GB flash drive and an 8GB flash drive. The 4GB is newer and has more writes available. what install / partition scheme should I use If i wanted to use both drives to get the most storage space? | 20:29 |
| genii-around | You already asked that question in #ubuntu | 20:30 |
| HeadlessZombie | and i got ignored. | 20:31 |
| MrBushido | HeadlessZombie: it depends, what do you use linux for? | 20:32 |
| MrBushido | are you going to be downloading a lot of stuff to your home drive, then deleting and it and downloading more stuff | 20:32 |
| HeadlessZombie | xampp server running opencart | 20:32 |
| MrBushido | then you probably want to use the 16mb for / and /home and use your 4gb drive for /var/ or whever xampp does it stuff | 20:33 |
| HeadlessZombie | k | 20:34 |
| MrBushido | unless you use your xampp server to serve static files | 20:34 |
| HeadlessZombie | thanx | 20:34 |
| HeadlessZombie | no | 20:34 |
| genii-around | HeadlessZombie: So the machine runs headless? eg: basic server install with xampp and you just access it from a web browser elsewhere? | 20:35 |
| MrBushido | also consider using ext2 or another non-journaling filesystem | 20:35 |
| MrBushido | since it will cut down on writes per file | 20:35 |
| HeadlessZombie | genii-around; yes. MrBushido; yes it's ext2 | 20:36 |
| genii-around | ramdisks for tmp space... | 20:36 |
| genii-around | HeadlessZombie: So your basic install after apt-get clean is probably somewhere in the neighbourhood of 2G, I'm thinking. I'd be tempted to mirror the 4G onto the first part of the 8G and run them as a raid1, then use the second 4G of the 8G for wherever the data gets put | 20:39 |
| genii-around | And no swap partitions, obviously | 20:39 |
| HeadlessZombie | good advice | 20:40 |
| xubuntu581 | i | 20:57 |
| MrBushido | is there a specific place i can find log files? trying to figure out why cairo-dock freezes up every once in a while but cant see any logs in it's whereis directories | 21:10 |
| Unit193 | One place is /var/log/ | 21:13 |
| MrBushido | Unit193: ty, will check | 21:16 |
| iToast | Hey | 21:25 |
| iToast | what's the minimal requrements for xubuntu | 21:25 |
| HeadlessZombie | 256 RAM, 4GB HD | 21:27 |
| HeadlessZombie | can run in 128RAM but you dont wanna use the GUI | 21:27 |
| HeadlessZombie | minimum install with alternate CD is 2GB | 21:28 |
| HeadlessZombie | really you dont want to use less than 384 RAM and 6GB hard drive | 21:29 |
| iToast | I have 1.5gb of ram | 21:30 |
| iToast | and a 120gb hdd | 21:30 |
| iToast | for a XBMC build. | 21:30 |
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| === newbie is now known as Guest806 | ||
| Guest806 | i just downloaded and installed the newest linus system, its great, but i want to disable the guest account | 22:44 |
| Guest806 | i already tried going through the folder and editing the lightdm. file and when i tried to save a box popped up that told me the system couldnt open the file to write it | 22:45 |
| GridCube | see the faq 7: http://xubuntu.org/news/faq-1204-precise/ | 22:45 |
| GridCube | you need to open the file using: gksu | 22:46 |
| GridCube | gksu leafpad /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf | 22:46 |
| erkan^ | Can I use PPA https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa in Xubuntu? | 22:59 |
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