| mmazing | is there a way to set up the whisker menu to pop up with just the super key? | 00:06 |
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| ochosi | mmazing: not sure, also, that would conflict with all other composite shortcuts | 00:07 |
| ochosi | e.g. super+1 | 00:07 |
| mmazing | yeah, i would think that too, im planning on moving from unity to xubuntu and im trying to get some of the same functionality | 00:08 |
| mmazing | like having menus integrated into the top bar :) | 00:08 |
| mmazing | is that one possible? i can live with "ctrl-esc" for the whisker menu | 00:08 |
| ochosi | not sure, the global menu stuff hasn't really worked well for me in xfce | 00:09 |
| mmazing | ah "global menu" i have been trying to figure out what to call it | 00:09 |
| ochosi | that's what most ppl call it | 00:10 |
| ochosi | why switch from unity though if you're just gonna recreate it in xubuntu? :) | 00:10 |
| mmazing | too much bloat | 00:10 |
| mmazing | i like having the extra screen real estate by removing the menu, im looking into "maximus though | 00:11 |
| ochosi | xfwm4 is quite good with fullscreen mode imo | 00:11 |
| ochosi | you can always hit alt+f11 on any window | 00:11 |
| ochosi | and the alt-tab dialog isnt very disturbing | 00:11 |
| mmazing | looks pretty good | 00:14 |
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| bah_ | mmazing, I have my whisker menu mapped to super+space, maybe that is an alternative for you ? | 00:22 |
| mmazing | bah_: thanks, that may work, i'll try it | 00:23 |
| mmazing | so ... what would be the easiest way to migrate from ubuntu to xubuntu and maintain application settings | 01:21 |
| mmazing | i've tried moving home directory in the past but something inevitably gets messed up | 01:21 |
| mmazing | i guess ... i can just keep a copy of my old home and migrate settings as i install stuff | 01:22 |
| MAbeeTT | Hi! I installed xubuntu 14.04 and I am searching for the GUI for setting proxy URI as global setting. | 01:58 |
| holstein | !proxy | 01:59 |
| ubottu | Several Ubuntu channels prohibit access from open proxies and other anonymous connections due to a high level of abuse. The supported ways to hide your IP address on freenode are to use !Tor or get a !cloak | 01:59 |
| MAbeeTT | I do have a PAC file scenario | 01:59 |
| MAbeeTT | So I need a dialog as in the unity config. | 02:00 |
| MAbeeTT | holstein: what? | 02:00 |
| holstein | MAbeeTT: i was just hoping the bot would kick out something helpful like http://askubuntu.com/questions/150210/how-do-i-set-systemwide-proxy-servers-in-xubuntu-lubuntu-or-ubuntu-studio | 02:01 |
| Rarrikins | Is there a way to make wider the area for grabbing the edge of a window to resize it? | 02:01 |
| MAbeeTT | holstein: I searched the web too, but I did not find a wway for setting the proxy.pac URI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config#The_PAC_File | 02:03 |
| holstein | MAbeeTT: the information i gave should help you set a system wide proxy | 02:03 |
| MAbeeTT | I do no t have a system wide proxy. I have an URI for a pac file which sets rules for diffents proxyes. | 02:04 |
| MAbeeTT | so I need a GUI for setting the URI as http://proxy.my.university.edu/proxy.pac | 02:05 |
| MAbeeTT | the ubuntu/unity gui calls it "automatic method" | 02:06 |
| xubuntunoob | Hello everyone! | 06:18 |
| baizon | hello xubuntunoob | 06:21 |
| xubuntunoob | Just switched to Xubuntu, is it just me or is Xubuntu the only Linux distribution where you can easily disable a touchscreen? | 06:21 |
| baizon | cant, tell using xubuntu for a long long time :) | 06:22 |
| xubuntunoob | Wow it's already 11:30 over here. | 06:29 |
| johndow | 130 here | 06:30 |
| xubuntunoob | Which part of the world are you in? | 06:32 |
| johndow | arkansas, usa | 06:34 |
| xubuntunoob | California, USA | 06:35 |
| johndow | so, i have put lubuntu on my comp | 06:38 |
| johndow | now i am wondering if i should have chosen xubuntu | 06:38 |
| xubuntunoob | I personally find Lubuntu and Kubuntu to be unappealing. | 06:41 |
| johndow | lubuntu looks good so far | 06:42 |
| johndow | response time is quick | 06:42 |
| johndow | seems shit loads real good | 06:42 |
| johndow | what do you use | 06:42 |
| xubuntunoob | Off-topic but, I tried Fedora in the past two days, it was good. | 06:43 |
| johndow | Does Fedora have a live cd option? | 06:43 |
| xubuntunoob | Right now I'm using Xubuntu 14.04 LTS. | 06:43 |
| johndow | I used Redhat 5 back in the day | 06:43 |
| johndow | ....long time ago | 06:43 |
| xubuntunoob | Yeah, I find it really hard to create a Fedora USB though. | 06:43 |
| baizon | guys, you can continue your talk on #xubuntu-offtopic. This is a support channel only :) | 06:43 |
| xubuntunoob | Ha-ha, back when Redhat Linux was free? | 06:43 |
| johndow | well i bought it | 06:44 |
| xubuntunoob | What's the point, no one needs support on this channel right now. :L | 06:44 |
| johndow | baizon, are you an operator here? | 06:45 |
| baizon | johndow: no | 06:46 |
| johndow | ok | 06:46 |
| johndow | I'll respect the channel rules though. | 06:47 |
| xubuntu_ | why does xubuntu show users desktop walppaer on login screen? how to stop it from doing that? | 08:16 |
| larrypg | settings manager - session and startup-splash- then choose | 08:24 |
| xubuntu931 | my mouse pointer has been looking pixilated and then the system began to come up slowly or not at all on monitor | 10:51 |
| xubuntu931 | system is up now and I have installed all updates and restarted | 10:52 |
| xubuntu931 | my pointer now displays fine except that there is about a one inch by one inch grid of vertical bars with it | 10:53 |
| cyborgcygnus | My headsets volume buttons turns something up & down but not the volume of my headset, anyway I can check what it is changing &/or how to make it change the headset volume. | 11:31 |
| cyborgcygnus | how can I* | 11:32 |
| cyborgcygnus | The headset controller changes the system sound but doesn't change media playing volumes. Weird | 11:34 |
| bah_ | hi.... is it anybody here that have a Mac US keyboard ? I should really need some help | 11:36 |
| bah_ | *is it anybody here that have a Mac US keyboard ? do anybody here have a Mac US keyboard ? (sorry for the grammar) | 11:53 |
| knome | bah_, rather tell what's your issue | 12:20 |
| bhad | I have apt-get installed lamp-server^ . The webserver seems to work, as well as php when using a .php file and surfing to that. But <?php echo "something"; ?> does not. Why is this? | 12:34 |
| bah_ | knome, I went over to #ubuntu and asked the same question, anyway I am not able to type any symbols using the US layout, works fine in the Swedish layout by using right-alt+some-key | 12:35 |
| bah_ | seems like bhad ask in both places at the same time,, I ask in one place and if no answer in another : ) | 12:37 |
| knome | bhad, please do not cross-post | 12:38 |
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| goneeuro | did any of you guys lose the google hangouts aplet from the top panel when upgradeing chrome today? | 12:49 |
| goneeuro | This is the applet that i mean. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/goneeuro/Screenshot-04282014-034934PM_zps5284d3ec.png | 12:51 |
| goneeuro | Is there anyone in here today. ha | 12:57 |
| cfhowlett | !quite a few|goneeuro | 12:57 |
| ubottu | cfhowlett: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :) | 12:57 |
| goneeuro | ha. ok. Ussually it moved so fast before. | 13:00 |
| goneeuro | Any ideas on how to get the hangouts icon back in the top panel? | 13:02 |
| haled | I've added http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/ssi.html to apache2.conf and it seems to work. Why didn't xubuntu do this be default? | 13:14 |
| haled | err, that not what I've added | 13:15 |
| haled | I've added "AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm" to apache2.conf and it seems to work. Why didn't xubuntu do this be default? | 13:15 |
| bah_ | knome, I had to catch a buss and then I got some issue that forced me to reboot, sorry for that (in case you try to answer) | 13:17 |
| HIpatia | se me dañó el entorno gráfico, qué hago? | 13:26 |
| HIpatia | de Xubuntu.. | 13:26 |
| knome | HIpatia, english only please | 13:26 |
| cfhowlett | !es|HIpatia | 13:26 |
| ubottu | HIpatia: 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. | 13:26 |
| HIpatia | hmm :S | 13:26 |
| HIpatia | sorry knome | 13:26 |
| cfhowlett | or is that Italian? | 13:26 |
| HIpatia | cfhowlett spanish | 13:27 |
| Pa^2 | Cursor changes to huge in app windows, back to small on the desktop. Any ideas why? | 16:05 |
| saxx_ | Anyone know how to fix choppy audio? | 17:44 |
| holstein | saxx_: i use a known-good audio file in a simple player i know works, and test the audio independent of any other variables.. such as mp3 codec support, or flash audio.. etc | 17:45 |
| saxx_ | The problem is mainly with Youtube, they audio skips and stutters, not sure what to do | 17:46 |
| holstein | saxx_: test if its flash, or audio | 17:46 |
| holstein | saxx_: test audio, and if audio is ok, then you have a different problem.. choppy audio in flash | 17:47 |
| saxx_ | I'll give it a try now, thanks holstein | 17:47 |
| holstein | i use chrome's flash, since its factually the only recent version of flash for linux | 17:47 |
| holstein | https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ | 17:47 |
| saxx_ | I'll copy all my music over and then give it a try, I never thought it could be a flash issue | 17:48 |
| holstein | you can use it in the chrom browser or force it into the chromium browser.. | 17:48 |
| holstein | you can try forcing youtube over html5 https://www.youtube.com/html5 | 17:48 |
| saxx_ | Ah yeah, Saw that before, if the music doesn't skip I'll do that ^ | 17:48 |
| saxx_ | Seems it's fine playing local audio files, I'll do the html5 thing now | 17:54 |
| holstein | saxx_: or, use the latest flash.. or, dont use flash at all. and dont expect flash support for desktop linux, since its factually over | 17:54 |
| saxx_ | I'll update my flash, thanks for the help holstein :) | 17:56 |
| holstein | saxx_: you cant | 17:56 |
| holstein | saxx_: there is not update for your flash.. you have to use the one from chrome | 17:56 |
| holstein | *if* you want current flash.. | 17:56 |
| saxx_ | Well I'm using Chrome as my main browser, it's using the html5 player now and seems okay | 17:57 |
| holstein | saxx_: google-chrome? or chromium? | 17:57 |
| saxx_ | Google Chrome | 17:57 |
| saxx_ | Also, what is the best audio player in your opinion? | 17:57 |
| holstein | saxx_: then, you can confirm you have the latest version of flash with https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ | 17:58 |
| holstein | saxx_: "best" is always a matter of use case and preference | 17:58 |
| saxx_ | I'll do that now | 17:58 |
| saxx_ | In your opinion though, what do you use? | 17:58 |
| holstein | i usually get all i need from vlc.. and have been using it for years on many OS's | 17:58 |
| holstein | i like audacious for JACK support | 17:58 |
| saxx_ | Ah vlc, I'll give it a try | 17:58 |
| saxx_ | I'll give a few a try and see what I like best :) | 17:59 |
| holstein | banshee is a nice "bigger" one.. though, amarok is my fav of the big ones | 17:59 |
| saxx_ | I've used banshee before, I liked it when I used it | 17:59 |
| OneWithWaves | Hello Xubuntu! Can anyone help me with a blank screen after boot? I believe I'm running 14.04. | 18:52 |
| marko_serbia | hello everybody | 18:58 |
| marko_serbia | I have one question, if somebody can help or has seen similar issues ... | 18:59 |
| marko_serbia | I have installed xubuntu on laptop, which has hard disk plus ssd inside ... | 18:59 |
| marko_serbia | (xubuntu is installed on hard disk) | 19:00 |
| marko_serbia | problem is when I try to copy several GB of files from SSD to hard disk, everything slows down | 19:00 |
| marko_serbia | load goes up to 6, for example | 19:00 |
| marko_serbia | system becomes quite slow to respond and unusable, until copy is finished | 19:01 |
| marko_serbia | I tried the same on fresh install of debian jessie, on other HDD partition, and there is no such behaviour | 19:01 |
| rtzui | Hi. What handles the hardware audio controlls? | 19:05 |
| rtzui | Because +/- volume it stopped working for me, while mute still works | 19:06 |
| rtzui | the keypresses are still recognised correctly, for example as XF86AudioLowerVolume. | 19:07 |
| a_ | i have a dell inspiron n5110 laptop that comes with a sandy-bridge intel core i processor with integrated graphics card and a dedicated nvidia card, i was attempting to boot ubuntu 14.04 interminal mode, changing the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub to "text" or "acpi = force" or even "nomodeset" would result in excessive use of the dedicated nvidia card, any advice on what parameters work best for optimus technology? | 19:17 |
| rtzui | after trying lots of stuff, the solution is to kill xfce4-volumed, and run in _not_ as deamon, despite it's name | 19:22 |
| RareshPCWhizz | Hello! | 21:10 |
| saxx_ | Hey Raresh | 21:23 |
| larrypg | what lag? | 21:24 |
| saxx_ | ? | 21:26 |
| xubuntu273 | Hi there. I recently chose to move from Win to Linux. My PC is a Packard Bell Dot with a Atom 270N CPU (1,6 GHz) and 1 Gb RAM. I've then chosen Xubuntu 14.04. | 22:03 |
| xubuntu273 | My problem is that at the boot, I've the following message: | 22:03 |
| xubuntu273 | 17.210751 acerhdf unknown (unsupported) bios version packard bell/doa150/v.3103 | 22:04 |
| xubuntu273 | Do you know what does it imply and how to fix this? | 22:04 |
| ochosi | xubuntu273: i'm not sure, first of all: does it boot? | 22:08 |
| xubuntu273 | Yes | 22:08 |
| Joe_knock | Hello | 22:08 |
| larrypg | seems to be something about fan control | 22:09 |
| slickymaster | !hi | Joe_knock | 22:09 |
| ubottu | Joe_knock: Hi!, Welcome to #xubuntu! Feel free to ask questions and help people out. The channel guidelines are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Guidelines. Enjoy your stay! | 22:09 |
| Joe_knock | Is there any way to get the original bottom panel in 12.04? I removed them when I first installed, but would like them back for my dev PC. | 22:09 |
| Joe_knock | Thanks slickymaster :-) | 22:09 |
| ochosi | xubuntu273: could be that the kernel cannot control stuff like the cpu fan | 22:09 |
| ochosi | but hard to know | 22:09 |
| slickymaster | Joe_knock: ared you referring to have it back in 12.04 or 14.04? | 22:10 |
| xubuntu273 | From what I read on the internet, yes, it seems related to the fan control. So it worries me... | 22:10 |
| ochosi | xubuntu273: however, one thing that seems for sure is that since this is a kernel issue, it's very likely you'll get similar/the same errors with another distro | 22:10 |
| ochosi | well, the bios isn't the only thing that controls the fan | 22:11 |
| ochosi | or can control the fan | 22:11 |
| ochosi | you can monitor the temperature of your cpu | 22:11 |
| Joe_knock | slickymaster: I am using 12.04 currently and would like to get that panel back. I can add a panel, but it doesn't have the quick launchers that that panel had. | 22:11 |
| ochosi | and see whether the fan ever kicks in | 22:11 |
| xubuntu530 | Hi | 22:12 |
| larrypg | panel - proprerties | 22:12 |
| Joe_knock | ochosi: I think my old laptops fan is dead (or almost). | 22:12 |
| slickymaster | Joe_knock: The only way to get that panel back would be to wipe you panel config so that everything is reset to factory defaults. | 22:12 |
| slickymaster | Joe_knock: you would have to l | 22:13 |
| slickymaster | Joe_knock, logout and switch to a virtual terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1 | 22:14 |
| larrypg | slickymaster, and Joe_knock , using 14.04 and 14.10 but think you can add (although not the default) what you want | 22:14 |
| Joe_knock | slickymaster: I think I'll just try adding a couple and possibly running a livedisk and copy those settings . | 22:15 |
| slickymaster | larrypg, Joe_knock is referring to 12.04, not to 14.04 | 22:15 |
| slickymaster | Joe_knock: in case you want to try it, after switching into ttl1 you'd run -> rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4/panel | 22:16 |
| slickymaster | then, after that ->rm ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml | 22:16 |
| xubuntu273 | So as it is a kernel issue, does it mean that the control of the fan will not be supported on any distro? In other words, I can get Linux working on my netbook? | 22:16 |
| slickymaster | Joe_knock: with that done, switch back to the login manager (Ctrl-Alt-F7) and log back in | 22:16 |
| slickymaster | Joe_knock, that should do it | 22:17 |
| xubuntu273 | Can't * | 22:18 |
| Joe_knock | slickymaster: I'm tempted to try it out :P | 22:19 |
| ochosi | xubuntu273: as i said previously, the bios is not the only thing controlling the fan. monitor your cpu temp and see whether the fan ever kicks in | 22:19 |
| ochosi | xubuntu273: and yes, i said that too (that you'll see this in every distro most likely) | 22:19 |
| slickymaster | Joe_knock: You can also delete those files graphically if you have another DE installed, as long as you are not logged into Xfce. | 22:20 |
| Joe_knock | slickymaster: A virtual terminal = the commandline version of linux with no GUI? | 22:21 |
| slickymaster | Joe_knock: yes, running without X Window System, which starts in the seventh virtual terminal | 22:23 |
| acpiorwhat | how can i format a floppy disk *without* installing kfloppy? | 22:30 |
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| acpiorwhat | are floppy disks supported by 14.04? | 22:41 |
| TheSheep | sure | 22:42 |
| acpiorwhat | TheSheep, how can i format a floppy disk *without* installing kfloppy? | 22:43 |
| TheSheep | !info mtools | 22:43 |
| ubottu | mtools (source: mtools): Tools for manipulating MSDOS files. In component main, is optional. Version 4.0.18-1ubuntu1 (trusty), package size 185 kB, installed size 339 kB | 22:43 |
| TheSheep | you can just use mkfs.vfat | 22:43 |
| TheSheep | too | 22:43 |
| TheSheep | but I find mformat easier | 22:43 |
| * ochosi is amazed by TheSheep's arcane retro knowledge... | 22:43 | |
| acpiorwhat | mformat a: gives me the error "v | 22:44 |
| acpiorwhat | mformat a: gives me the error "can't open /dev/fd0" . yes i am root | 22:44 |
| acpiorwhat | by the way /dev/fd0 does not exist | 22:44 |
| TheSheep | that would explain it | 22:45 |
| acpiorwhat | /dev/floppy does not exist either | 22:46 |
| TheSheep | acpiorwhat: aah, the floppy module is not loaded into the kernel by default anymore | 22:47 |
| TheSheep | interesting | 22:47 |
| TheSheep | acpiorwhat: try "sudo modprobe floppy" | 22:47 |
| xubunturyan459 | do any of you know how to recover lost abiword files? Mine wouldnt save and when i tried it crashed and lost everything | 22:48 |
| xubunturyan459 | i dont think it was saved | 22:48 |
| TheSheep | acpiorwhat: then 'dmesg' to see what it said | 22:48 |
| xubunturyan459 | and sorry if im in the wrong forums | 22:48 |
| acpiorwhat | TheSheep, thank you! modprobe worked! | 22:49 |
| TheSheep | acpiorwhat: cheers | 22:51 |
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