| pleia2 | http://www.sdzsafaripark.org/video/elephant_cam.html elephants playing in the water! (it's topical because they are in san diego, you see) | 00:00 |
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| darthrobot | Title: [San Diego Zoo Safari Park: Elephant Cam] | 00:00 |
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| pleia2 | welcome christopherhigue | 03:24 |
| christopherhigue | Thanks pleia2 for the right direction- I am here, and to anyone willing to answer something for me I do have a small, but hopefully managable problem... | 03:25 |
| christopherhigue | Thanks again- It is time consuming to be "Solo" studying and not at least ask some of the brilliance that is Ubuntu Community.. | 03:27 |
| pleia2 | christopherhigue: feel free to go ahead and ask, folks kind of lurk and go in and out of here :) | 03:30 |
| christopherhigue | So, I need to first ask simply- Is it "okay that I have several flavours of 12.04LTS - as I have installed currently, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS untiy 2d as well as Kde plasma(through an Ubuntu Studio for music development desire :) and now I also have Gnome with classic, and classic(no effects) All this from right after boot ;runs about 900mb of my 2.9gb RAM available- To narrow all this down I had a quick nerve racking messag | 03:35 |
| pleia2 | your line chopped off at: "I had a quick nerve racking messag" | 03:35 |
| pleia2 | didnt get the rest :) | 03:36 |
| christopherhigue | okay-- the rest is - It had i think my kernel Uvs and what not like [389484] -Something like that and it said Zero ram loaded? then it went away Very very quickly and I seem to be running 190 process' and 867mb of ram, I have 2.9GB installed on my 64-bit full install of Ubuntu -by the way...:) | 03:38 |
| pleia2 | so having multiple desktop environments installed isn't really a problem, only one runs at at time | 03:39 |
| christopherhigue | -Thats what I thought as well :) I do second guess myself, and me being only a couple weeks into Linux being my savior I am still not just so sure about everything | 03:40 |
| pleia2 | welcome to the world of linux! | 03:40 |
| akk | That's okay, some of us have been using it for decades and we're still not sure about everything. :) | 03:40 |
| pleia2 | not sure what the kernel message meant, where did you see it? | 03:41 |
| akk | BTW, if you run something to show you how much memory is free, it will look like most of it is used up | 03:42 |
| akk | but that's not really true -- Linux uses any spare memory for disk cache (to make disk accesses faster) | 03:42 |
| christopherhigue | haha awesome to hear!, to pleia2- Right after it started booting the Kubuntu 12.04 bootloader page I think... | 03:42 |
| akk | but it can free up that memory any time if you need it. | 03:42 |
| akk | With 3Gb RAM you should have plenty of memory for most things you'll want to do. | 03:43 |
| christopherhigue | yeah I just looked at system monitor and took notice without running something else like an app to test or command.. | 03:43 |
| pleia2 | well, if there are any specific apps/processes in the list you have questions about, feel free to ask | 03:47 |
| christopherhigue | Yeah I always was able to run this system pretty hard with Multiple things going on i.e:; Mozilla, Wine to play around with FL studio , and also with the software ctre or updates installing... I have a pretty well built hp - m8330f. it seemed like a Cro-magnum when ehhehhm - Windows 7 was on it, but I wiped that **** like my last laboratory visit.. I cant fight to run my system all the time theres no fun in that exper | 03:50 |
| pleia2 | hehe | 03:56 |
| pleia2 | ah, my dinner has arrived! be back in a bit | 03:56 |
| christopherhigue | Thanks again pleia2 your awesome... I am going to go back into the books of learning everything I can so I only come here for not so obvious questions - ttyl | 03:58 |
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| agliodbs | how do I modify the icons in Unity dash so that I change the command line of the programs they're launching? | 17:47 |
| raevol | agliodbs: can you explain a little more what you mean by "icons in the unity dash"? | 17:54 |
| agliodbs | raevol: you know what Unity Dash is? | 17:54 |
| raevol | agliodbs: there's several things in ubuntu called the dash | 17:55 |
| raevol | agliodbs: are you referring to the menu that pops up when you press the super key? | 17:55 |
| agliodbs | raevol: the think in the upper left corner, and the thing you get if you hit the "windows" key | 17:55 |
| raevol | agliodbs: ok, and then which icons do you want to modify? the application shortcuts? can you give me an example? | 17:56 |
| agliodbs | raevol: yeah, I want to modify "Kate" to pass the -n switch | 17:56 |
| raevol | agliodbs: so those icons are the .desktop entries for the application, the same as the ones that are used in menus in other deskop environments | 17:57 |
| raevol | agliodbs: they generally live in /usr/share/applications/ but not always | 17:58 |
| raevol | open the file for Kate in a text editor and it should make sense | 17:58 |
| agliodbs | raevol: yeah, I haven't been able to find them | 17:58 |
| raevol | agliodbs: you might want to look up some documentation for .desktop files to see their format | 17:58 |
| agliodbs | raevol: I've looked in the various locations recommended on the web, and the definition files aren't in any of those | 17:58 |
| raevol | agliodbs: you looked in /usr/share/applications/ ? | 17:58 |
| raevol | agliodbs: you're running ubuntu? how did you install kate? from the standard repository, or manually? | 17:59 |
| agliodbs | standard ... | 17:59 |
| agliodbs | oh. it's in "kde4" | 17:59 |
| raevol | agliodbs: what do you mean "it's in 'kde4'"? | 18:00 |
| raevol | agliodbs: http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/amd64/kate/filelist | 18:01 |
| darthrobot | Title: [Ubuntu – File list of package kate/raring/amd64] | 18:01 |
| raevol | agliodbs: it's in /usr/share/applications/kde4 ok i see what you are saying now | 18:01 |
| agliodbs | yeah | 18:01 |
| agliodbs | raevol: only noticed it when I opened the dir in a gui | 18:01 |
| agliodbs | was searching for "kate" | 18:01 |
| agliodbs | most of the online guides misdirect me to ~home/.gnome/desktop | 18:02 |
| raevol | yea i don't know anything about that :( | 18:02 |
| raevol | agliodbs: back to work for me, good luck | 18:03 |
| agliodbs | raevol: thanks for the pointer! | 18:03 |
| pleia2 | got XMir running on my Xubuntu laptop, I shall bring to Ubuntu Hour tomorrow to show people | 23:09 |
| pleia2 | can see if we can break it ;) | 23:09 |
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