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brainwashochosi: so, should lightdm gtk greeter set the background only once? currently it does set the background specified in the config file and then the user defined one00:03
brainwashochosi: and bug 1232804, comment #3 explains the show stopper00:04
ubottubug 1232804 in xfwm4 (Ubuntu) "Improve "login greeter -> desktop" transition in Xubuntu" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/123280400:04
brainwashochosi: back to my first question, you'll only notice this issue, if you change your background so it differs from the default xubuntu one (which is specified in the greeter config file)00:07
ochosibrainwash: the patch for using the accountsservice stuff for wallpapers (which is ubuntu-specific btw) wasn't written by me, so i'd have to re-read the code01:20
ochosiwill do, but not sure i'll get to it before next week01:20
brainwashochosi: ok, this can be resolved easily I guess, but I'm not sure about the grey flicker caused by xfwm4's compositor, delaying the the launch of xfdesktop, so it does not "interfere" while xfwm4 is cloning the root background, seems to be an ugly workaround01:36
ochosiindeed01:37
brainwashI have no clue why it is happening, wish I could ask someone who knows about X01:38
brainwashochosi: should I create a report to address the double background greeter issue?01:41
ochosii'm not sure, in a way i'd want to have the "full solution"01:43
ochosias long as i haven't really had time to review the background-setting code, i can't even say that's a bug01:43
brainwashit's not a bug01:43
ochosithen why did you propose to create a bugreport for it? :)01:44
* ochosi is puzzled01:44
brainwashwish list report01:45
ochosiright, well you can always do that01:45
brainwashthe grey flicker caused by xfwm4 isn't a bug either01:45
brainwashbut it bugs me :D01:45
ochosiwell it's not a feature either :]01:45
brainwashit's an improvement01:46
brainwashgetting rid of it I mean01:46
ali1234the problems with alacarte are caused by python 2->3 transition making unicode warnings into errors01:46
ali1234and the resulting crashes are caused by https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038101:46
ubottubugzilla.xfce.org bug 10381 in General "malformed .directory files cause crash" [Normal,New]01:46
ochosianyhoo, gotta hit the hay, night everyone!01:47
brainwashgood night01:47
Unit193brainwash: In case you didn't notice #ubuntu-mir dies on the weekend, being a Canonical project. :P03:07
Unit193ochosi: Like https://github.com/gottcode/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/issues/34 ?  Still doesn't seem like my thing, worse version of the KDE kicker menu.03:37
Unit193brainwash: Seen https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61781 I'd assume.06:22
ubottubugzilla.kernel.org bug 61781 in Hibernation/Suspend "Userspace memory corruption after suspemd-to-RAM - Bisected to: 1c441e9 "epoll: use freezable blocking call"" [Normal,Needinfo]06:22
geniiI sort of wonder if #ubuntu-x will eventually cease to exist.06:25
Noskcaj10genii, I takes a long time for IRC channels to die. -ppc and -quickly both still exist06:45
geniiI don't know what -quickly is, but I know there are still people running *buntu on PPC platforms :)06:47
* genii reads http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/tools/quickly/06:48
Noskcaj10quickly is an old programming framework we ditched for Qt/QML stuff06:49
Noskcaj10It's deprecated and hasn't has an update in a year06:49
Noskcaj10-ppc was a support/dev channel back before i joined. It has roughly 10 people.06:50
elfyochosi: the date/time indicator I have here appears to have some blank space - not been keeping up with it in backlog - is that 'normal' 08:50
elfyhttp://imagebin.org/275715 you can see it between where the network ind is and the time08:50
ali1234i started seeing that too08:54
ali1234it didn't used to do it, must be a bug08:54
elfyI thought it was new - but I've been a bit out of it lately, so couldn't remember08:55
elfythanks ali1234 :)08:55
ali1234i'll have a look into it08:55
ali1234ah... the empty space is a GtkImage09:01
ali1234looks like a bug in the applet, it should not add an image like that if there isn't one09:01
ali1234andrzejr: line 283 of indicator-button-box.c looks suspicious to me. did you mean box->icon?09:13
slickymastermorning all10:03
ali1234elfy, andrzejr: the problem here is that the indicators now send an empty image (ie GTK_IMAGE_EMPTY) if they don't have an icon. so the logic that resizes everything thinks there is an icon, hence the empty space10:16
ali1234the fix could be something like this: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6357900/10:16
ochosiUnit193: so you prefer the traditional menu?15:06
Unit193ochosi: Of course.15:54
ochosihmm16:01
ochosiwhy's that?16:01
Unit193What do you mean "why is that?"?  Why do people like this sort of thing in Xfce? ;)16:03
Unit193It's not my thing, I don't want unity, I don't want mintmenu, it's simple as that.  It seems nice for some, but to me looks like a cheaper version of the KDE kickoff menu.16:04
GridCubeyou talking about whiskers menu?16:05
GridCubei find it aesthetically pleasing, though not groundbreaking16:06
GridCubeI would still love to have ubuntu's HUD though16:07
ochosiUnit193: i dunno, traditional menus don't really do it for me. but anyway, i think whiskermenu by default has its merits/benefits for many, and it remains easy-enough for everyone else to get the traditional menu16:21
GridCubehaving eye candies its a huge plus, and if they are not intrusive and are actually useful then thats better16:25
ochosihas anyone really investigated yet what would be needed for HUD to work in xfce?16:26
ali1234hell noooooooo16:29
ali1234having said that, it probably wouldn't be that hard16:30
GridCubeochosi, i got in contact wiht the developer a few months ago, and they where developing an API for it16:31
GridCubei havent moved in that road since because i cant code and no one else showed interest16:32
ali1234afaik it's done via all the same API as global menu16:32
ali1234so if you can implement global menu on xfce, you can implement HUD16:32
ali1234and there is a panel plugin/applet for global menu on gnome16:32
ali1234my #1208333 fix just got merged btw, for 13.10 too16:33
ochosibug #120833316:34
ubottubug 1208333 in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) "Change resolution with "Mirror displays" checked, extended mode will be trimmed " [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/120833316:34
ochosi?16:34
ali1234oh sorry i meant 120833316:36
ali1234the appindicator one16:36
ali1234er 120388816:36
ochosi:)16:36
ochosibug #120388816:36
ubottubug 1203888 in libappindicator (Ubuntu) "appindicator ignores menu entries after having sent the menu to the indicator" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/120388816:36
GridCubeali1234, have you seen this? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GridCube/HUD_in_Xubuntu_Rationale16:37
ochosicongrats ali1234 16:37
ali1234GridCube: not seen it, no16:39
brainwashdoes whisker menu support key navigation? and are you able to hide icons completely and show only the text?16:43
jjfrv8brainwash, 1) yes, 2) no16:45
brainwashjjfrv8: thanks, I'll file a "bug" report and request this feature :)16:46
Unit193!info light-locker trusty20:35
ubottulight-locker (source: light-locker): simple session-locker for lightdm. In component universe, is optional. Version 1.0.0-0ubuntu1 (trusty), package size 56 kB, installed size 910 kB20:35
brainwashdoes it automatically lock after a certain amount of time?20:37
Unit193brainwash: See pings last night?20:37
brainwashmir channel dies on the weekend and memory corruption kernel bug20:38
brainwashwell, what? :)20:39
brainwashah, the kernel bug could be related to the logind suspend/resume issue in ubuntu?20:40
Unit193I'm guessing you can read it better, but seemed like that at a quick go over.20:40
brainwashmaybe20:43
brainwashmany bug reporters got advised to test kernel 3.1220:43
Unit193Yeah, 'tis what you said.  I still haven't hit it with the new sysd, but I'm guessing it won't be long until .12 shows up in repo.20:49
Unit193+for me.20:49
Noskcajbluesabre, I'm now part of the debian python apps team, would you mind if i maintain catfish there, or will you contact them and get added?20:53
NoskcajDebian won't upload it till the next release anyway though21:05
slickymastergood night all22:31
Unit193Howdy.22:32
slickymasterhi, Unit193. How are you tonight?22:33
Unit193Alive, so that's one thing.22:34
slickymasterUnit193, can't argue with that22:35
ochosibrainwash: yeah, with the latest git version (1.1.0 release upcoming) you can set it to automatically lock after X11's builtin screensaver kicks in (which you control with xset s $timeout), plus an additional timeout so you can still move your mouse when the screen blanks and inhibit the locking23:26
brainwashochosi: what about logind's idle action?23:27
ochosidon't know anything about that23:27
ochosiand anyway, using X11 seems to work on more platforms for now23:28
ochosican't see any backdraw23:28
brainwashok23:31
brainwashI'm not even sure, if the idle action gets triggered in ubuntu23:31
brainwashochosi: btw do you know how gnome/gdm does handle locking now?23:32
ochosiyeah, stuff like that (weird logind-implementation in ubuntu) doesn't particularly make me want to support logind's idle action23:33
ochosinot really, only that the former gnome-screensaver is now somehow connected with gdm23:33
ochosihaven't looked at the implementation though, so no clue23:33
brainwashbecause vt-switching is driving me mad, actually every little screen flicker does23:34
brainwashit's 2013 :(23:34
ochosifeel free to use xscreensaver, it still works23:36
ochosibrainwash: fwiw:23:37
ochosi8eb321f0f8872373cbad5363c0355297d95d676a "Remove monitoring of pixmap on root window (to  make the WM more solid and faster, it will make no difference in XFce since we use a "fake" root with  xfdesktop)" That  color was picked because it is/was the xfdesktop default.23:37
ochosiand there's another thought of the xfdesktop-dev about your transition-bug and xfwm4:23:37
ochosihttp://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?h=eric/Port-to-GApplication&id=f8204f77cf48452b7021ee707369f6b69f322928 would solve the race condition. I wonder if  MONITOR_ROOT_PIXMAP was put it to workaround the same Xorg bug  xfdesktop had.23:37
ochosiso that's that, gotta go sleep23:38
ochosinight evryone23:38
lderannight ochosi 23:38
brainwashgood night23:38
brainwashochosi: thanks for the information flood :P23:38

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