[00:45] <MinimalLak> I installed kubuntu onto a virtual worstation in vmware player, and im trying to install vmware tools; im at the point where the konsole is asking me for the location of the gcc program on my computer
[00:45] <MinimalLak> and I have no idea where to point it to
[00:47] <MinimalLak> what do I input into the console to solve this
[03:36] <apparle> hi guys
[03:36] <TheFakeazneD525> ohai mark
[03:37] <apparle> I see that screen dims automatically while watching youtube videos. Is there a way to fix this
[03:37] <apparle> automatically disable power management when flash videos are playing?
[03:43] <apparle> it happens on all the browsers, nothing specific about rekonq or firefox or chromium
[03:56] <robertbellarmine> How do you delete specific history from the bash? Say you want to delete #10-20, I know if I want to clear it I can just history -c but that deletes all of it.
[04:00] <apparle> is there a dbus interface to phonon, where I could check if any sound is playing?
[04:01] <robertbellarmine> How do you delete specific history from the bash? Say you want to delete #10-20, I know if I want to clear it I can just history -c but that deletes all of it.
[04:02] <robertbellarmine> Thanks
[04:54] <jussi> robertbellarmine: just go into the .bash_history file in your home dir and remove what you want?
[06:10] <lordievader> Good morning.
[06:14] <TheFakeazneD525> ohai
[06:14] <lordievader> Hey TheFakeazneD525, how are you?
[06:22] <TheFakeazneD525> I'm good
[12:14] <BluesKaj> Hiyas all
[13:13] <mparillo> MinimalLak: I am using VMware Player right now. For 14.04, I simply use the Easy Install without any problems, so I do not have to install VMware Tools. For 14.10, I have big problems with VMware tools, but I have found that sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop does everything I need. For Plasma-Next, nothing works for me.
[13:14] <mparillo> Answered Question for 14.10: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+question/251352
[13:14] <vbgunz> I'd like to do some fall cleaning on the pc. Trying to figure out what I've manually installed over the last pass couple years though isn't a cakewalk. I've found a couple solutions through Google but all of them return packages that I did not manually install. Is there a surefire way of only seeing what I've manually installed with apt-get?
[13:14] <mparillo> Bug Report for Plasma Next: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1362631
[13:18] <vbgunz> is it possible that maybe when trying to look up manually installed apps that I am seeing dependencies of manually installed apps as manually installed when technically imho, they're really automatic?
[13:18] <vbgunz> I'm just not finding that perfect and absolute idea of seeing what I've explicitly asked to be installed
[13:18] <mparillo> MinimalLak: But if you really want to install VMware Tools manually, I have done it successfully (I think with NetRunner and Linux Mint). Basically, I just take all their defaults by hitting enter, and if I get in a loop (I forgot where), I simply say no.
[13:41] <vbgunz> anyone know Nvidia persistenced daemon constantly says failed on every bootup?
[13:54] <BluesKaj> vbgunz, which nvidia ?
[13:54] <vbgunz> I have a GTX 570
[13:54] <vbgunz> It's always failed on boot up and I'm beginning to think I just don't need it or maybe failed is harmless and over verbose
[13:56] <BluesKaj> sbivol, which driver ?
[13:56] <BluesKaj> oops vbgunz
[13:56] <vbgunz> It's all good, I'm using the blob and the driver is 331.38
[13:57] <BluesKaj> ok, then what do mean by daemon fail..what error?
[13:58] <vbgunz> If I cat /var/log/boot.log I always have this ->  * Starting NVIDIA Persistenced Daemon                                   [fail]
[13:59] <vbgunz> I've googled this and I never find anything that can explain it to me
[13:59] <vbgunz> I'm not sure if this should fail, if it's OK to fail, if maybe it's not failing at all
[14:00] <BluesKaj> vbgunz, do you see the nvidia logo for a few frames after grub?
[14:00] <shadeslayer> vbgunz: unless you have a nvidia card, I think it'll be fine
[14:01] <BluesKaj> shadeslayer, he does
[14:01] <vbgunz> I don't see an Nvidia logo and yes I have an Nvidia card
[14:01] <shadeslayer> ah ok
[14:01] <shadeslayer> vbgunz: 2 cards? ( One discreet and One integrated )
[14:01] <vbgunz> I mean is this normal? I've never seen it succeed. if you have an nvidia card and cat your /var/log/boot.log do you have the same?
[14:02] <vbgunz> I have onboard graphics yes
[14:02] <BluesKaj> vbgunz, lspci -knn | egrep -A 3 'VGA|3D'
[14:02] <shadeslayer> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/alt-nvidia-331-persistenced.1.html
[14:02] <shadeslayer> worth a read I think
[14:03] <vbgunz> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 [GeForce GTX 570] [10de:1081] (rev a1) Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:1570] Kernel driver in use: nvidia 01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GF110 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0e09] (rev a1)
[14:04] <BluesKaj> vbgunz, then if the silly daemon is erroring , but the card/driver still works then why fret about it?
[14:05] <vbgunz> I don't think I'm fretting but I am experiencing performance drops that shouldn't exist. trying to understand things better leads me to asking if this could be the cause or if it's normal, something to be concerned about or not
[14:06] <vbgunz> I was hoping maybe someone can say, oh that's totally normal, happens to everybody or oh that's bad, here's why you want to fix it :)
[14:06] <vbgunz> I'm just looking into it as I've found it going over my logs
[14:07] <BluesKaj> vbgunz, is that an onboard gpu?
[14:08] <vbgunz> I have 2 dvi, 1 hdmi plugged into my dedicated GTX 570. I'm not using onboard graphics at all
[14:09] <BluesKaj> ok
[14:10] <BluesKaj> there's some pretty fancy onboard gpus nowadays
[14:11] <vbgunz> hmm, I just for the first time ever and I've tried this before, enabled nvidia-persistence for everybody on the system
[14:14] <vbgunz> after reading pretty much the entire manual on it though I don't see how this will carry over through a reboot, I'm gonna try though as I've messed with other stuff trying to sort out my boot.log, brb
[14:18] <vbgunz> it carried over across a reboot
[14:26] <vbgunz> ok brb, trying to solve a bunch of issues with my boot.log
[16:11] <arthurfiggis> hello! i've been poking around on search engines trying to find a proper answer to this, but so far not much...i'm using ubuntu gnome currently and with that deja-dup for backups, it's integrated rather nicely into gnome so that you can right click pretty much anywhere and restore missing files...is there anything similar integrated into kubuntu/the kde desktop for ubuntu in general?
[18:12] <adam_00001> hello
[18:12] <lordievader> o/
[18:14] <soee> alo alo
[18:18] <bprompt> allo
[21:39] <PCEX> .
[21:42] <TheFakeazneD525> .
[23:47] <valorie> deja-dup doesn't seem to be a gnome product
[23:51] <TheFakeazneD525> its a ubuntu thing rite?