[00:00] <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] <darthrobot> Title: [San Diego Zoo Safari Park: Elephant Cam]
[03:24] <pleia2> welcome christopherhigue
[03:25] <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...
[03:27] <christopherhigue> Thanks again- It is time consuming to be "Solo" studying and not at least ask some of the brilliance that is Ubuntu Community..
[03:30] <pleia2> christopherhigue: feel free to go ahead and ask, folks kind of lurk and go in and out of here :)
[03:35] <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"
[03:36] <pleia2> didnt get the rest :)
[03:38] <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...:)
[03:39] <pleia2> so having multiple desktop environments installed isn't really a problem, only one runs at at time
[03:40] <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. :)
[03:41] <pleia2> not sure what the kernel message meant, where did you see it?
[03:42] <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.
[03:43] <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..
[03:47] <pleia2> well, if there are any specific apps/processes in the list you have questions about, feel free to ask
[03:50] <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
[03:56] <pleia2> hehe
[03:56] <pleia2> ah, my dinner has arrived! be back in a bit
[03:58] <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
[17:47] <agliodbs> how do I modify the icons in Unity dash so that I change the command line of the programs they're launching?
[17:54] <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?
[17:55] <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
[17:56] <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
[17:57] <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
[17:58] <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/ ?
[17:59] <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"
[18:00] <raevol> agliodbs: what do you mean "it's in 'kde4'"?
[18:01] <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"
[18:02] <agliodbs> most of the online guides misdirect me to ~home/.gnome/desktop
[18:02] <raevol> yea i don't know anything about that :(
[18:03] <raevol> agliodbs: back to work for me, good luck
[18:03] <agliodbs> raevol: thanks for the pointer!
[23:09] <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 ;)