| Poindextra | Ooh, I think something I did made it work! Please disregard my previous question. :) | 00:04 |
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| SonikkuAmerica | YinsengLaptop: IIRC there's a little check box or something that says "Use this display" or something to that effect. | 00:04 |
| YinsengLaptop | Yeah, I check that. | 00:05 |
| YinsengLaptop | It seems to output to my monitor just fine though, although for some reason it's not letting me output at its native resolution | 00:05 |
| YinsengLaptop | maybe a limitation of my laptop though | 00:05 |
| SonikkuAmerica | YinsengLaptop: Depends on what you're connecting with too. With VGA, you can't go too far. | 00:08 |
| YinsengLaptop | the projector needs a VGA to DVI converter. Maybe that might be the problem? | 00:08 |
| YinsengLaptop | I know the converter works but maybe for some reason the projector won't take that | 00:08 |
| SonikkuAmerica | Bad cord...? | 00:09 |
| YinsengLaptop | I just tested it on my monitor | 00:09 |
| SonikkuAmerica | Well if it's using a DVI converter, the projector might be rejecting the DVI. | 00:10 |
| YinsengLaptop | Guess so. Not sure why. | 00:10 |
| * SonikkuAmerica wonders why on earth projectors (still) use VGA | 00:11 | |
| YinsengLaptop | no it uses DVI | 00:11 |
| YinsengLaptop | this laptop has a VGA output | 00:11 |
| * SonikkuAmerica smacks his forehead on his laptop making it go "bghhv fc" | 00:11 | |
| YinsengLaptop | Like I said I'm using a converter. I acknowledged that might be the problem. I've just never known the converter not to work | 00:12 |
| YinsengLaptop | Maybe it's different for projectors. | 00:12 |
| YinsengLaptop | Guess I'll have to buy an S-VIDEO cord and try that | 00:12 |
| SonikkuAmerica | I've had problems like that myself with Xubuntu | 00:14 |
| YinsengLaptop | The weird thing is | 00:14 |
| YinsengLaptop | if it's really incompatible, why does xubuntu recognize it in the first place | 00:14 |
| Snaboobaly | hey, i'm new to xubuntu (and linux) can anyone help me with something? | 00:15 |
| SonikkuAmerica | !anyone | Snaboobaly | 00:15 |
| ubottu | Snaboobaly: A high percentage of the first questions asked in this channel start with "Does anyone/anybody..." Why not ask your next question (the real one) and find out? See also !details, !gq, and !poll. | 00:15 |
| Snaboobaly | Whenever I try to install xubuntu alongside windows 7, i end up with very, very little free space. is there any way i can assign more space to the partition? i have more on my computer | 00:17 |
| SonikkuAmerica | Snaboobaly: I'd suggest using diskmgmt.msc in Windows 7 to shrink more HDD space, and then GParted (from your Live image) to expand your (existing?) Xubuntu partition. | 00:21 |
| YinsengLaptop | Okay, I've figured out the problem. My projector was set to digital input and apparently I had to change it to analog! | 00:29 |
| YinsengLaptop | So now that that's figured out... how do I make my screens extend instead of mirror or choosing one or the other? Like in Windows | 00:30 |
| YinsengLaptop | http://kamaradski.com/1280/xubuntu-12-10-and-12-04-extended-desktop-dual-monitor I found this but I don't know how to check the version of my xcfe | 00:32 |
| SonikkuAmerica | Your XFCE version is in Applications > About XFCE | 00:32 |
| SonikkuAmerica | 4.10 if 12.10 or 13.04, 4.8 if 12.04 LTS | 00:33 |
| YinsengLaptop | I ran the update manager though, it didn't update that far? | 00:34 |
| SonikkuAmerica | ?! | 00:34 |
| YinsengLaptop | The update manager? The thing that updates all the packages on the OS? | 00:35 |
| SonikkuAmerica | No, I get that, but your XFCE isn't 4.10? | 00:35 |
| YinsengLaptop | I can't figure out how to check, you say look in Applications but I don't see an Applications section | 00:35 |
| SonikkuAmerica | The Applications menu? The Xubuntu logo in the top left corner (left side of the top bar)? | 00:36 |
| YinsengLaptop | Oh, that's what you call it. Ok | 00:36 |
| YinsengLaptop | I have 4.8 | 00:37 |
| YinsengLaptop | Is it safe for me to update XFCE while using 12.04LTS? | 00:37 |
| YinsengLaptop | And if so, can someone walk me through on installing the latest stable XFCE? This post is a bit outdated | 00:38 |
| SonikkuAmerica | YinsengLaptop: this link should tell you all you need to know: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/install-xfce-410-in-xubuntu-1204.html | 00:39 |
| YinsengLaptop | that other post says I need at least 4.11 though | 00:40 |
| YinsengLaptop | How do I see what the latest stable Xcfe is | 00:41 |
| YinsengLaptop | And also, do I need to somehow shut down the Xcfe environment before updating it | 00:42 |
| SonikkuAmerica | YinsengLaptop: It would be set to the precise channel, which means 4.10. And 4.11 isn't stable (odd #'s are beta) | 00:42 |
| SonikkuAmerica | YinsengLaptop: And no, just follow the PPA instructions, then reboot | 00:43 |
| YinsengLaptop | But I'm not going to get the extended displays feature unless I upgrade past 4.10 | 00:43 |
| SonikkuAmerica | That means it's being tested. | 00:44 |
| SonikkuAmerica | The stable code for extension will be in the next stable release 4.12. | 00:44 |
| SonikkuAmerica | Laptop is dying. Must go! | 00:44 |
| YinsengLaptop | Well fuck | 00:44 |
| bazhang | !language | YinsengLaptop | 00:48 |
| ubottu | YinsengLaptop: Please watch your language and topic to help keep this channel family-friendly, polite, and professional. | 00:48 |
| ObrienDave | YinsengLaptop... check out a arandr for extended desktops | 00:49 |
| YinsengLaptop | Man do I hate freenode sometimes | 00:50 |
| YinsengLaptop | time to update xcfe | 00:53 |
| XRS1 | having issues with usb-modeswitch | 01:39 |
| XRS1 | do i need usb-modeswitch? it keeps interfering with apt | 01:40 |
| XRS1 | yes... | 01:43 |
| XRS1 | yes i do | 01:43 |
| Yinseng | okay, does anyone know how to make youtube less resource demanding on xubuntu? Just in general, like seriously, my laptop slows to a crawl. It was at least playable in Windows XP. | 01:47 |
| Yinseng | I tried HTML5 but that seems almost as bad | 01:47 |
| Yinseng | probably because I guess Firefox doesnt' have h.264 support | 01:47 |
| XRS1 | well what should I do? i think i need usb_modeswitch when i plug my phone in to change it from tethering mode to USB Mass Storage Mode. according to https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/raring/usb-modeswitch/ i have the latest version (1.2.3 running on 13.10) | 01:48 |
| Unit193 | has webm, and soon will have gstreamer (h264) support. | 01:48 |
| Yinseng | Yeah, webm is why it worked in the first place | 01:48 |
| Yinseng | h.264 is probably what it needs to use because it's in slideshow mode with webm | 01:49 |
| Unit193 | So, flash is more resource heavy for you? Lighter for me, but more crashy. You can always try pepperflash with Chromium or chrome. | 01:49 |
| Yinseng | I might try that. | 01:50 |
| Yinseng | Is there a firefox beta/alpha with gstreamer? | 01:50 |
| Unit193 | Aurora, or beta should work, I have it. | 01:51 |
| Yinseng | so the latest firefox beta has gstreamer? | 01:51 |
| Unit193 | https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-next you need to enable it in about:config as it's not 100% cooked. | 01:51 |
| Unit193 | !ppa | 01:51 |
| ubottu | A Personal Package Archive (PPA) can provide alternate software not normally available in the offical Ubuntu repositories - Looking for a PPA? See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas - WARNING: PPAs are unsupported third-party packages, and you use them at your own risk. See also !addppa and !ppa-purge | 01:51 |
| Yinseng | Unit193: What do you mean not 100% cooked? | 01:54 |
| Unit193 | Well, it's not enabled by default yet, and they have reasons for that. Part of that is that it's not been ported to gstreamer 1.0 yet. | 01:54 |
| XRS1 | oops. i bwoke it. uninstalled usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data. tried to reinstall usb-modeswitch and got: " usb-modeswitch : Depends: usb-modeswitch-data (>= 20110227-1~) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages." so i installed usb-modeswitch-data first then tried again and got the same error. | 01:55 |
| XRS1 | how do i hunt down the problem? | 01:56 |
| Unit193 | Correct version? | 02:00 |
| Unit193 | dpkg -l | grep usb-modeswitch | awk '{print $3}' | 02:01 |
| XRS1 | 1.2.3+repack0-1ubuntu3 20130610-1 | 02:02 |
| XRS1 | uh... usb-modeswitch is not supposed to be installed any more. i just apt-get removed it | 02:03 |
| XRS1 | but that command worked | 02:03 |
| XRS1 | should i purge? | 02:04 |
| Unit193 | Listed what's installed, may not be configured. | 02:04 |
| XRS1 | okay i purged usb-modeswitch and usbmodeswitch-data and still get the same error | 02:07 |
| xubuntu489 | holaa alguien que hable español | 02:09 |
| Unit193 | !es | xubuntu489 | 02:10 |
| ubottu | xubuntu489: En la mayoría de los canales de Ubuntu, se habla sólo en inglés. Si busca ayuda en español entre al canal #ubuntu-es; escriba "/join #ubuntu-es" (sin comillas) y presione intro. | 02:10 |
| xubuntu489 | Gracias | 02:10 |
| Yinseng | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1987116 So why does this work? | 02:42 |
| Yinseng | it made a huge difference | 02:43 |
| Yinseng | youtube went from slideshow to pretty decent speed | 02:46 |
| XRS1 | might explain why i have so much page tearing | 02:50 |
| Yinseng | Well that covers just about everything. My ancient laptop is now running at decent speed. | 03:09 |
| Yinseng | Can someone recommend me a bittorrent client for a really old computer? | 03:13 |
| XRS1 | Transmission | 03:24 |
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| bazhang | rtorrent would be good for an old box like that | 06:03 |
| XRS1 | good to know | 06:08 |
| bazhang | cli only, but full of features | 06:10 |
| bazhang | there's a great tutorial on it, try ing to remember the bloggers nick | 06:10 |
| bazhang | http://fsk141.com/rtorrent-the-complete-guide/ http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/howto-use-rtorrent-like-a-pro/ | 06:14 |
| bazhang | the first is more recent, the second a bit dated, but should still apply | 06:14 |
| codygman | What is the window manager for xfce called? | 07:13 |
| codygman | err.. i'm in xmonad right now | 07:13 |
| codygman | can I just do xmonad --replace? | 07:13 |
| Unit193 | Should be able to, but xfwm. | 07:15 |
| Unit193 | (xfwm4 technically.) | 07:15 |
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| djamayaofficiall | I'm looking to use a splash screen to hide my dektop while my panel and startup programs load... Balou is great, but it doesn't hide the whole process. is there a way to modify it, or is there another app someone can recommend? | 14:30 |
| PsynoKhi0 | Hi, I'm trying to install 13.10 beta 1 on a laptop with a broadcom wireless card, BCM4318, ubiquity gets stuck at "configuring bcmwl-kernel-source" | 15:06 |
| GridCube | PsynoKhi0, please join #xubuntu-devel :) | 15:07 |
| PsynoKhi0 | ok thanks | 15:07 |
| baizon | PsynoKhi0: my solution was to disable the proprietary DKMS drivers | 15:25 |
| PsynoKhi0 | baizon: ok thanks, will try | 15:27 |
| PsynoKhi0 | baizon: did you use any particular command? | 15:29 |
| Arpad2 | is the nvidia proprietary driver still better than the open source alternative? the batteries go empty under two hours with open source driver | 16:08 |
| PsynoKhi0 | Arpad2: yes though nvidia claimed they'd help the nouveau team with documentation | 16:27 |
| Arpad2 | PsynoKhi0: so, then it us worth to install the nvidia driver... | 16:28 |
| Arpad2 | hi | 18:47 |
| Arpad2 | the resolution is set at 640x480 and I don't know how to change it. | 18:48 |
| YinsengLaptop | http://pastebin.com/FMbjM4Rn I'm having a problem installing a printer driver. It just doesn't want to take in software center no matter how many times I download it. | 19:12 |
| YinsengLaptop | I thought it might've been corrupt at first but all the contents extract just fine with the Archive Manager | 19:16 |
| YinsengLaptop | Ok... that aside, Ubuntu Software Center is crazy slow for me. I'm not sure if this is normal for such an old computer or if there's something wrong with it. Is there any tweaks I can do? Or any substitutes? | 19:26 |
| YinsengLaptop | It has gotten hung up more than once and required me to terminate it | 19:26 |
| bazhang | check linuxprinting.org database for your printer yet? | 19:30 |
| YinsengLaptop | That seems to just redirect me to another website | 19:31 |
| bazhang | http://www.openprinting.org/driver_list.cgi <-------- YinsengLaptop and thats what is on the page | 19:33 |
| YinsengLaptop | bazhang: This takes me to the same exact file I've downloaded | 19:34 |
| YinsengLaptop | c2esp | 19:34 |
| YinsengLaptop | and Ubuntu Software Center will not install it | 19:35 |
| bazhang | what form is it in | 19:36 |
| YinsengLaptop | .deb | 19:37 |
| bazhang | whats the exact error message | 19:37 |
| YinsengLaptop | http://pastebin.com/FMbjM4Rn | 19:38 |
| YinsengLaptop | It's not corrupt, it extracts with Archive Manager just fine. I've redownloaded it like 3 times | 19:38 |
| bazhang | printer-driver-c2esp, c2esp <--- both in the repos | 19:39 |
| YinsengLaptop | This is a newer version though, Ubuntu Software Center could only find a much older version | 19:39 |
| bazhang | sudo apt-get install them | 19:39 |
| YinsengLaptop | this is version 25, the older one is version 23 | 19:40 |
| YinsengLaptop | okay.. I guess I can do that. I'm curious why it didn't just work with Ubuntu Software Center to begin with though | 19:40 |
| bazhang | dependencies | 19:40 |
| bazhang | the way to install software in ubuntu is always, always look in the repos *first* | 19:41 |
| YinsengLaptop | Ubuntu Software Center kinda seems useless then | 19:41 |
| YinsengLaptop | yup.. the repo installed the old version I told you about | 19:41 |
| bazhang | then use the command line if you dont like it | 19:41 |
| YinsengLaptop | Just installed version 23 rather than version 25 | 19:42 |
| bazhang | apt-cache search c2esp brings those up | 19:42 |
| bazhang | install them both | 19:42 |
| YinsengLaptop | I did, they're installed. | 19:42 |
| YinsengLaptop | But it's version 23 | 19:42 |
| YinsengLaptop | and as far as i can tell version 23 doesn't have support for my printer | 19:44 |
| YinsengLaptop | So I'm back to square 1, here. | 19:45 |
| xubuntu345 | witam | 20:00 |
| xubuntu639 | Maybe someone can help me as I am new to linux OS, I'm running a fresh install of Xubuntu 13.04 and I'm having a problem with my USB wifi adapter dropping connection, link sys AE1000 | 21:29 |
| xubuntu639 | I'm able to connect to my network and resolve DNS servers, connection is strong (4MB/s) then gradually slows down to nothing and drops. | 21:30 |
| xubuntu639 | Iv'e done some searching (reaching out for public help is always my last resort) and I have mostly found issues with older versions of ubuntu and driver problems. | 21:32 |
| MissyVixen | does anyone know how to force the CPU governor to not change? no matter what i set it to it seems to revert back to on demand within a few moments ? | 22:24 |
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