| bzb | how do I configure my system to start certain programs after login? | 10:36 |
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| leszek | hi | 11:46 |
| parlabane | hey | 11:46 |
| magamo | Hello folks. | 13:08 |
| magamo | I'm having an odd issue. I installed the nvidia drivers using synaptic, and went through one of the proceedures to restore the bootup splash screen, which subsequently also restores my ability to use VTs. | 13:10 |
| magamo | However, after doing so, running lxlock to lock my X session now turns half the screen black, and does not lock the screen. Nothing is harmed, simply switching work spaces (which will redraw a separate background) fixes the look of the screen.... But nothing actually locks. | 13:11 |
| magamo | I'm running lubuntu 13.10, obviously. The main OS install is fresh, but it's an old /home partition. | 13:12 |
| magamo | Hmmm... After a reboot lxlock worked... However, not as I was expecting. It now just turns on a second lightdm greeter on VT8, and switches to that, but leaves VT7 with my current session running unlocked. | 13:23 |
| nLpPyXR | Hello, just thought I'd drop by to thank everyone involved with Lubuntu, as I understand it's a community project | 16:29 |
| nLpPyXR | my six-year old machine has never, and I mean NEVER, been faster, nor friendlier | 16:29 |
| nLpPyXR | also, I love the package choices made, I'm a recent convert from M$-Win and stuff like mtPaint, Gnumeric or AbiWord blew my mind when I first tried them | 16:31 |
| nLpPyXR | love-letters aside, I would like to suggest that Xscreensaver is installed by default rather than, or at least alongside, the XFC4 power manager, as the latter doesn't really behave the way it should | 16:33 |
| nLpPyXR | XFCE4* | 16:33 |
| nLpPyXR | from my understanding 13.04 and prior version had Xscreensaver by default, but not Firefox, and having FFox as the default browser is just a major plus | 16:35 |
| holstein | nLpPyXR: you should be able to customize the installation by using the package manager of your choice | 16:37 |
| holstein | !software | 16:38 |
| ubottu | A general introduction to the ways software can be installed, removed and managed in Ubuntu can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoftwareManagement - See also !Packages, !Equivalents | 16:38 |
| nLpPyXR | oh yeah my next install will most likely be a minimal one that I'll build upon with just the packages I like, but still, for a recent convert like I was, it'd be a plus to Xscreensaver by default | 16:40 |
| holstein | nLpPyXR: sure.. but maybe not for everyone.. thats why you might want to consider just customizing as you need. | 16:41 |
| greeter | lubuntu was a savior for me that way, for sure | 16:41 |
| greeter | on an ancient computer, it takes something pretty light weight to actually run at all, let alone run properly | 16:41 |
| holstein | personally, i dont use a screensaver, and consider *any* of them to be a waste.. but, that doesnt mean i think any distro needs to ship with or without one specifically.. i just remove or choose not to use it | 16:41 |
| nLpPyXR | holstein: true, just thought I'd give my 2 cents. Mostly I just wanted to thank you all for a wonderful OS =] | 16:42 |
| greeter | i'd like to join in on the thanking for a wonderful OS :-) | 16:42 |
| holstein | yup.. thanks lubuntu team! | 16:43 |
| nLpPyXR | at least I'd expect the Lubuntu team to be here >_> | 16:44 |
| nLpPyXR | well, if they are, thanks guys! <3 | 16:44 |
| greeter | i'm sure someone reads this... of course they might be on the ubuntu servers too, i saw that option in the server list for xchat | 16:44 |
| holstein | nLpPyXR: this is the support channel.. you can try the #lubuntu-offtopic channel, which is loosely the *-dev channel | 16:44 |
| nLpPyXR | oh | 16:45 |
| nLpPyXR | alrighty | 16:45 |
| holstein | if you want to share how awesome it is, just share with someone.. tell a friend, or burn a live CD | 16:45 |
| nLpPyXR | I have actually | 16:45 |
| magamo | I recently tossed Lubuntu 13.10 on a friend's old EeePC 700A. | 16:53 |
| holstein | i have a 900 | 16:53 |
| magamo | Smooth as butter compared to the Xandros install on there. Anyone else encountered the issue I have with lxlock? | 16:54 |
| holstein | magamo: i use a manual locker | 16:54 |
| holstein | magamo: could be as simple as some settings with the screensaver or powermanagement | 16:55 |
| magamo | I'm switching to slock for now... But that may be less-than-ideal once my fiancee moves in and wants to use the computer while I'm at work -- I guess I'll just have to get in the habit of logging out completely. | 16:55 |
| magamo | Looks like this is actually anything now that tries to start a new X session causing this problem. And I forget if I was using nvidia 319 or nvidia 310 under 13.04 | 16:57 |
| magamo | But the fact that the locker doesn't actually lock anything for me as designed is... annoying. | 16:57 |
| holstein | magamo: maybe its related to your session config, or driver.. i havent had any issue with default locking | 16:58 |
| holstein | magamo: what exactly is going on? | 16:58 |
| * ianorlin thinks there is a bug related to this | 16:58 | |
| ianorlin | if it is when you lock screen and then press control alt f7 to get in | 16:58 |
| holstein | ianorlin: i could have just not encountered it.. | 16:58 |
| magamo | running lxlock (Default locker in 13.10) basically acts as if I selected Switch User. It starts a new session on VT8, and brungs up a greeter. | 16:59 |
| magamo | ianorlin: Yes, that's the behavior I'm seeing. | 16:59 |
| greeter | gee i never thought i'd get a false highlight on this nick | 16:59 |
| magamo | I'm also seeing what I suspect is an nvidia bug where after I switch VTs, anything that starts a new X session just blanks half my screen and does nothing. | 17:00 |
| ianorlin | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxsession/+bug/1205384 | 17:01 |
| ubottu | Ubuntu bug 1205384 in lxsession (Ubuntu) "Lock can be circumvented by switching to console" [High,In progress] | 17:01 |
| SonikkuAmerica | That's essentially a security vul | 17:02 |
| ianorlin | it is marked one | 17:02 |
| melodie | hi Noskcaj | 20:19 |
| melodie | I have read about your offer to lead the organisation of the qa-lubuntu team, will it finally be effective? | 20:20 |
| Noskcaj | hey melodie. I'll probably try and start next weekend (i'm away this week), but i don't really know what i'm meant to be doing | 20:23 |
| melodie | Noskcaj you will be replacing phillw, right? | 20:23 |
| melodie | what about asking him some insights, on his ##phillw chan? | 20:24 |
| Noskcaj | phill left a month or two ago, but yes. I've been on his channel for some time, so i'll ask for what to do | 20:24 |
| melodie | I didn't think he left such a long time ago | 20:25 |
| melodie | I would suppose Amj could also help you, in addition to phillw | 20:25 |
| melodie | perhaps | 20:25 |
| gumble | hey, wlan worked for me until a few days ago. now when I click on the applet, I only see ethernet connections and not my wireless connects anymore... when I click on edit connections, I see my old connections listed under "wireless connections" but only can edit them there, not connect | 21:01 |
| ianorlin | do you know what kind of card? | 21:01 |
| ianorlin | did you uncheck enable wifi on network manager by accident? | 21:01 |
| Unit193 | Or suspend? | 21:04 |
| gumble | no I didn't. how do I find out which card? lspci | grep wireless doesn't give me anything | 21:04 |
| gumble | its the laptop of my gf. I installed lubuntu some time ago, could be that I had to install custom wireless drivers back then and she overwrote it somehow | 21:05 |
| gumble | what is suspending wireless? | 21:05 |
| gumble | I tried the hardwareswitch for wirelss -> doesn't change anything. when rightclicking on the applet, I only can activate/deactive 'network'. the point for wireless is missing | 21:06 |
| ianorlin | can you look throguh the hole lspci? | 21:06 |
| gumble | iwconfig says 'no wireless extensions' | 21:07 |
| gumble | ok I'll do. wait a sec | 21:07 |
| gumble | found it | 21:07 |
| gumble | Ethernet controller: Marvel Tec Group Ltd. 88E8040, Network controller: Broadcom Corp. BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY | 21:08 |
| Unit193 | !bcm | 21:11 |
| ubottu | Help with Broadcom bcm43xx can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx | 21:11 |
| ianorlin | http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 | 21:11 |
| Unit193 | Not too hard to deal with, really. You have a PHY in case you missed it, but guessing you saw. | 21:12 |
| gumble | thanks guys! | 21:13 |
| LXLE | the built in search for pcmanfm seems to work fine if searching within your home folder, however trying to search the entire system doesn't seem to work, is there something i'm missing? | 21:22 |
| deleted_ | Are you sure it's just not taking a very long time? I thought it had frozen the first time I tried searching /* | 21:22 |
| LXLE | no, i've left it set for 1/2 hour no returns | 21:23 |
| LXLE | catfish on the other hand picks up system wide searches almost immediately | 21:23 |
| deleted_ | That's strange, I don't have the same issue. What version are you running? | 21:24 |
| LXLE | 1.2 | 21:25 |
| deleted_ | That's funny, I'm on 1.1 | 21:26 |
| bzb | I need to start a program whenever I login to a particular account. What is the best practice for this? should I use a cron job? or a startup script?. With cron, I can create a user specific cron job iwth "@reboot /usr/bin/someprogram". is this the standard way? | 21:26 |
| deleted_ | bzb, check out this link | 21:27 |
| deleted_ | http://askubuntu.com/questions/159008/how-to-add-startup-applications-in-lubuntu | 21:27 |
| deleted_ | That helped me with startup scripts when I did not wnat to use .Desktop files | 21:27 |
| deleted_ | LXLE, I'm trying to replicate your problem now and I actually seem to be having the same issue! | 21:28 |
| deleted_ | Did you use tools>find files? | 21:28 |
| LXLE | yes | 21:31 |
| deleted_ | Is this issue only when you search from root? | 21:33 |
| deleted_ | sorry, the root directory>? | 21:33 |
| deleted_ | I was just able to use the search feature (and it was quite fast) within a subdirectory, tat's why I ask | 21:34 |
| LXLE | yes, you can search the root directory | 22:10 |
| bzb | I need to start a program whenever I login to a particular account. What is the best practice for this? should I use a cron job? or a startup script?. With cron, I can create a user specific cron job iwth "@reboot /usr/bin/someprogram". is this the standard way? | 23:14 |
| Unit193 | Normally one uses ./.config/autostart/someprogram.desktop | 23:15 |
| bzb | Unit193: thanks for the info | 23:29 |
| Unit193 | Sure. | 23:29 |
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