| xubuntu497 | i was wondering if someone could help me with something? I've only been using Xubuntu for a couple of months,... and i love it. Today i noticed that updates are available (18 in fact), but i click on "show updates", it tells me that software on this computer is up to date. | 01:33 |
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| Unit193 | xubuntu497: You could try to "reload sources" or whatever the GUI calls it. | 01:44 |
| Unit193 | (Or, open terminal and type sudo apt-get udpate && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ) | 01:44 |
| xubuntu497 | Unit193: thanks for the suggestions. I opened a terminal and typed in what you suggested and that seemed to do it. | 01:55 |
| Unit193 | That's how I do my updates, followed by sudo apt-get autoremove --purge; sudo apt-get autoclean | 01:56 |
| XRS1 | yeah the GUI updater is slower and less reliable | 01:56 |
| XRS1 | but nice to have | 01:56 |
| xubuntu497 | that's how i'll do mine from now on.. so much better. | 01:56 |
| Unit193 | XRS1: I wouldn't know. :D | 01:57 |
| xubuntu497 | what is the autoremove and autoclean commands for? | 01:58 |
| XRS1 | gets rid of old leftovers | 01:59 |
| Unit193 | autoremove removes packages that were automatically installed, and (shouldn't) be needed anymore. autoclean removes debs from /var/cache/apt/ that are no longer on the update servers. | 01:59 |
| Unit193 | http://manpages.ubuntu.com/apt-get | 01:59 |
| xubuntu497 | ah. i'm new to all of this. So much to learn... but so interesting. | 02:00 |
| xubuntu497 | Unit193: Thanks for the link. I'll keep that on hand | 02:03 |
| Unit193 | You can read it on your system too, man command-name for amnaual page on the command. | 02:03 |
| Unit193 | !man | 02:04 |
| ubottu | The "man" command brings up the Linux manual pages for the command you're interested in. Try "man intro" at the command line, or see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal | Manpages online: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/ | 02:04 |
| xubuntu497 | nice, thanks | 02:05 |
| xubuntu497 | i appreciate all the help and direction. good night | 02:07 |
| Viva_Nero | my issue from earlier was never resolved, xubuntu quntal used to display a splash in boot and shutdown, but stopped for some reason, and I'd like the splash back | 02:08 |
| XRS1 | more often than not, that boot splash doesnt work on most of the systems i've installed ubuntu upon | 02:10 |
| Viva_Nero | but is has worked before, and without me touching anything, stopped working | 02:11 |
| XRS1 | which causes a lot of user confusion when using a CRT tube screen | 02:11 |
| Unit193 | Viva_Nero: Any recent updates? Text say anything? | 02:12 |
| Viva_Nero | nope, and nothing like error messages, just showing stuff loading or stopping | 02:12 |
| XRS1 | well at least you get that. i just get a black screen | 02:13 |
| Viva_Nero | it says xubuntu on a black background, a few dots below that, then changing text\ | 02:14 |
| Unit193 | XRS1: You can edit /etc/default/grub and remove quiet splash to get text. | 02:14 |
| XRS1 | awesome | 02:15 |
| Unit193 | Old knoppix days++ | 02:15 |
| Viva_Nero | there is something happeng at boot, "scanning for btrfs file systems" (this is unrelated to the splash issue) slowing it down | 02:15 |
| Viva_Nero | I think a package is starting at boot that doesn't need to be | 02:15 |
| Unit193 | "This package contains the default xubuntu-text theme used when no support for a graphical theme is found on your system." is when it kicks you over to plymouth-theme-xubuntu-text rather than the graphical one. | 02:16 |
| Unit193 | There's a boot option to disable btrfs, iirc. | 02:16 |
| Viva_Nero | where would this setting be? | 02:20 |
| === bazhang_ is now known as bazhang | ||
| Viva_Nero | GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" | 02:21 |
| Viva_Nero | hmm, quiet splash is on, according to /etc/default/grub | 02:21 |
| [[thufir]]1 | on ubuntu, apt-get install xubuntu-desktop will pull in the rest of the packages? that's the main package? | 02:53 |
| bazhang | the meta-package | 02:53 |
| bazhang | !meta-package | 02:53 |
| ubottu | A meta-package is a package that simply depends upon other packages and brings them in. It's not a real package, but a very useful package that can drag in other package versions. | 02:53 |
| [[thufir]]1 | good :) unity seems to be causing me problems. | 02:54 |
| bazhang | its the same for all other desktops, lubuntu, kubuntu edubuntu ubuntustudio etc | 02:54 |
| Unit193 | !purexubuntu | don't think it's been updated, though. | 02:55 |
| ubottu | don't think it's been updated, though.: 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 » | 02:55 |
| bazhang | you could just install gnome-shell if you wish to stay in gnome | 02:55 |
| bazhang | !nounity | 02:55 |
| ubottu | Ubuntu 11.10 and higher use GNOME 3 with the !unity shell by default. To use GNOME Shell instead, from 12.10 an up install the "ubuntu-gnome-desktop" package. From 11.04 to 12.04, install the "gnome-shell" package and investigate "gnome-tweak-tool". For GNOME Fallback mode, which is similar to GNOME 2, install "gnome-panel". Both packages will place entries in the Sessions dropdown. Using Natty? See !classic | 02:55 |
| [[thufir]]1 | thanks. | 02:55 |
| bazhang | np | 02:56 |
| [[thufir]]1 | what's the command to run "xubuntu reset" if I have problems? | 03:09 |
| bazhang | !xfce-panels | 03:10 |
| ubottu | Did your panels disappear? Press alt+f2 and run: xfce4-panels | Want to theme your panels? See http://xubuntu.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/howto-set-a-background-image-for-your-panel/ | 03:10 |
| bazhang | nope | 03:10 |
| bazhang | ubottu lag | 03:10 |
| ubottu | You have lag, I don't have lag | 03:10 |
| [[thufir]]1 | bazhang: no, like when you can't click on windows properly. | 03:11 |
| [[thufir]]1 | xfce4-reset? | 03:11 |
| bazhang | doubt there is such a one. | 03:12 |
| [[thufir]]1 | hmm. I've had to enter it before, jsut can't recall. | 03:13 |
| crystalline | Anyone know a cpu monitor for xfce? I want to see temp and clock | 03:25 |
| Unit193 | You can add a panel item for that. | 03:25 |
| crystalline | oh my god gnash plays youtube well enough that I don't need flash, when did it start working | 03:28 |
| crystalline | So I installed 13.10 and I'm disappointed... I've seen some "x has crashed" when closing things, but I've had no real problems beyond the volume not working(alsamixer works as usual) | 04:42 |
| Unit193 | Yep, volume indicator is broken right now, and nm-applet randomly crashes. It's not released yet. | 04:45 |
| crystalline | It seems pretty much done, not much to change really, xfce really is tiny and everything is an add-on | 04:46 |
| crystalline | the over 13.10's are still unusable | 04:47 |
| crystalline | the others* kde/lxde/gnome3 | 04:47 |
| crystalline | hmm, thunar doesn't want to bookmark folders... | 04:54 |
| lody | hey my desktop resolution is normal, except everything is huge, it's as though i'm in HDPI mode on OSX! is there a way to make everything normal sized? (including even the mouse cursor) http://i.imgur.com/u5F0SxY.jpg yes it also looks like this on xubuntu session | 06:32 |
| lody | i did not install anything unusual, just nvidia-325, then lxde to see if the de was causing the weird hugeness | 06:33 |
| XRS1 | what you got for Launcher -> Settings -> settings Manager -> Appearance -> Fonts? | 06:41 |
| XRS1 | 96 DPI? Droid Mono 10 regular? | 06:42 |
| xubuntu473 | hi | 07:18 |
| xubuntu473 | my update icon is yellow, says there are 18 updates available (option is grayed out, I cannot click on it). When I click on Show updates, it says my computer is up to date | 07:18 |
| xubuntu473 | what is going on? | 07:18 |
| Unit193 | You could try to "reload sources" or whatever the GUI calls it. (Or, open terminal and type sudo apt-get udpate && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ) | 07:20 |
| === ikonia_ is now known as ikonia | ||
| xubuntu473 | thanks Unit193. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade has gotten rid of it | 07:22 |
| Unit193 | Kernels? | 07:23 |
| xubuntu473 | the update message | 07:23 |
| foto | Hello everyone i have just tried the beta1 of Xubuntu 13.10 . I have found it really good but also i have found a program that imho does badly what is supposed to do, the ristretto image viewer. The image scaling (and i use my pc mostly for viewing photo) is worser than every other image viewer i have tried before, with the result is fully of jagginess! I haven't found an option to change the scaling method, anyway i have m | 07:34 |
| foto | ade a screenshot of the same image in ristretto ( http://goo.gl/5TUsTQ ) and eye of mate ( http://goo.gl/ro5kbg ). I have also found out on launchpad that i'm not the first to notice this problem. | 07:34 |
| Unit193 | Bug #1055528 | 07:57 |
| ubottu | bug 1055528 in ristretto (Ubuntu) "Medium format camera files when opened in native resolution are not clear enough." [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1055528 | 07:57 |
| daniel_fr | Hi, i have a pb after fresh install full HD formated... : /dev/disk/by-uuid/8280A25C80A25687 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! | 13:08 |
| daniel_fr | black screen and this if I press esc on boot | 13:09 |
| cfhowlett | daniel_fr, ask in #ubuntu. I'll be watching - should be interesting! | 13:11 |
| daniel_fr | I think should be a BIOS issue but :/ | 13:18 |
| JimboPea | Hi, having a problem on xubuntu 13.04. have a rtl8188ce wireless card and the speeds are low with it dropping out often. tried installing the driver off the realtek website which just disabled it. had to reinstall to fix. Can anyone help? | 15:02 |
| === HisaoNakai_ is now known as HisaoNakai | ||
| aegis8 | The software updater is bugging me that there are 12 updates for xubuntu, but when I click show updates, it says everything is up to date. | 16:10 |
| Malgorath | Hi I just installed xubuntu 13.04 and fully updated. I was wondering if there is any way to stop having all the USB and other hard drive mounts from showing up on my desktop? Also i have 2 monitors and have dual monitor working but its showing [Home] [File System] and so on with both monitors(everything else is seperate). | 20:17 |
| elfy | settings manager - dsesktop - icons - default icons | 20:17 |
| Unit193 | Malgorath: Yeppers, right click and check desktop settings. Also, install arandr. | 20:17 |
| Malgorath | Unit193, what does arandr do? | 20:18 |
| Unit193 | It'll make it easier for you to setup multi-monitor. | 20:19 |
| Unit193 | It's in http://xubuntu.org/news/category/faq/ for more information, I've only used it once. | 20:19 |
| Malgorath | Thx | 20:20 |
| anti | hi guys i need help i set my display up with xrandr after reboot it just boots a black scxreen can some give me a fix for this | 22:01 |
| shadowgonecrazy | Hello everyone | 22:39 |
| shadowgonecrazy | could some one help me If Xubuntu fast for a crappy computer | 22:39 |
| well_laid_lawn | the applications you use have more of an impact than the linux distro you use | 22:41 |
| shadowgonecrazy | alright Well will the specs of my computer help | 22:41 |
| well_laid_lawn | help with ? | 22:43 |
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