[01:48] <avoider> Is there a way to stop turn off the auto screen lock
[01:56] <holstein> avoider: i just remove the locker
[01:58] <avoider> Whats the command holstein
[02:01] <holstein> avoider: i use the package manager of my choice (which synaptic is a nice GUI one) to search and see what locker i am using.. then i use that package manager to remove it
[02:10] <avoider> holstein: thanks
[02:23] <rayq_sec> Just go to 'Settings' --> 'Light Locker Settings' -- Enable light-locker 'ON' -- Automatically Lock the Session 'NEVER'
[02:23] <rayq_sec> That way you can CTL-ALT-DEL to lock it manually if you want
[03:35] <wmw> Can anyone please help me with /dev/video ? it is not there.
[03:35] <holstein> wmw: what are you trying to do?
[03:36] <wmw> holstein, sir, my webcam is not working.
[03:36] <wmw> And /dev/video is not there.
[03:37] <holstein> wmw: i would first try and see it in lspci, or lsusb.. or in the bios.. and ideally, working in an operating system that the device creators provide support for..
[03:37] <holstein> then you will know that the device is working properly.. then, i would use "cheese" to test.. and/or vlc
[03:38] <wmw> I checked lspci and lsusb both, but it does not seem to be present there either. The problem started the first time with me when I fresh installed Ubuntu 14.10
[03:39] <wmw> I am using Dell Inspiron 1525
[03:39] <wmw> And I have a Creative Webcam
[03:39] <holstein> wmw: you need to see the device in lsusb if its a usb device
[03:40] <holstein> wmw: could be, the device is broken, or usb is broken..
[03:40] <wmw> As cheese accesses /dev/video, it says, no camera present or something like that.
[03:40] <holstein> wmw: if you have it connected through any usb hubs, try bypassing them
[03:40] <holstein> wmw: yes, friend. the device is not showing up.. you wont find it in /dev/video
[03:40] <wmw> Oh... I checked it... but its not there in lsusb either. :(
[03:40] <holstein> wmw: you cant create /dev/video, and just make it work.. if its bad, or failing, or broken, it wont show
[03:41] <wmw> No sir, it is an inbuilt laptop camera, I'm not using USB
[03:41] <holstein> wmw: i would go to another machine with the usb cam.. i would try a live CD.. etc
[03:41] <wmw> O yeah! I can try using a live cd to check it.
[03:41] <holstein> wmw: sure. so, check the bios, then.. check lspci for it.
[03:41] <wmw> BUt I'm sure it was working fine with older distros...
[03:42] <wmw> Thank you holstein, sir.
[03:42] <wmw> I would recheck it. :)
[03:43] <wmw> See you around. Gone for rebooting.
[03:43] <holstein> wmw: cheers!
[04:59] <aynrand420> so uh
[04:59] <aynrand420> i set it so that my computer wouldn't turn the display off in settings manager, but the screen still goes black after like 10 minutes
[04:59] <aynrand420> it is very annoying having to fondle the mouse while watching basketball
[05:00] <aynrand420> i even restarted, same deal
[09:29] <AntiSol> hi
[10:36] <xubuntu910> dfdf
[12:12] <xubuntu95w> Hello everyone! I have been using Xubuntu for about 3 weeks now and never going back to Windows. It's so much more friendlier to work on a Unix-based operating system.
[12:13] <xubuntu95w> I have this problem even before I updated to the latest Xubuntu (14.10) that whenever I would drag and drop something, a remnant of the drag and drop folder icon and pointer stays with my mouse.
[12:44] <artag> Is it possible to turn off the gesture recognition in xfce ?
[12:55] <deshipu> artag: gesture recognition?
[13:23] <artag> deshipu: Maybe that's the wrong term. The feature whereby a window maximises when you sweep the mouse across it, or rolls up into the title bar when you double click
[13:29] <deshipu> artag: see window manager settings and window manager tweaks
[13:31] <artag> I've looked there, of course, but couldn't find anything that seemed to fit the bill. I might be being stpid though ..
[13:33] <deshipu> artag: the double click is there, for sure
[13:34] <deshipu> artag: "Use mouse wheel on title bar to roll up the window" may be the other
[13:35] <deshipu> artag: can't find the double click thing now, maybe it was removed?
[13:36] <deshipu> artag: ah, got it, "double click action" in the window manager settings, last tab
[13:38] <t0pazg3m> hi?
[13:38] <knome> hello.
[13:40] <xubuntu43d>  why not have via Samba in the menu for add printers
[16:28] <wgetME> hello
[16:28] <wgetME> which theme do you love for Xubuntu ?
[16:29] <xangua> I kinda like ambiance and radiance
[16:29] <Azelphur> !best | wgetME
[16:29] <Azelphur> hmm, that factoid disappeared for some reason.
[16:38] <wgetME> ok
[17:01] <xubuntu85f> hey all... does any one knows whats the best method to make xubuntu run on an old spec PC 256mb ram ?
[17:02] <xubuntu85f> tried installing xubuntu 9 version and then i done an update, now i have a problem that videos dont play on youtube, so i done an uograde, got ubuntu software centre, and install flash plugin
[17:03] <xubuntu85f> so my youtube videos play, but very slow and pc frezz all time
[17:03] <xubuntu85f> any suggestions???
[17:03] <knome> xubuntu85f, if possible, get more ram
[17:04] <xubuntu85f> well intention here is to give this pc to my 5year old kid, to mess round with, so upgrading parts is really out of question
[17:04] <xubuntu85f> is there any other solution ?
[17:05] <knome> there isn't much to do to make your low-resource PC bend to a modern OS
[17:05] <knome> there are other distributions that should work better with that amount of ram though
[17:06] <xubuntu85f> upgrading ram will then lead to low cpu .. so there is not much point in that
[17:06] <xubuntu85f> what about allocating virtual memory...is this duable ?
[17:07] <knome> adding (a lot of) swap space isn't going to help much because the HDD is likely slow as well
[17:07] <knome> you are just moving the bottleneck to another place
[17:07] <knome> i would look at other distributions, or, another PC or upgraded parts
[17:08] <xubuntu85f> ok, point taken...thx
[17:08] <knome> you're welcome
[17:08] <xubuntu85f> what other OS are there, or would u recommend
[17:09] <knome> i don't know them too well, but OS's like DSL might be a good point to start investigating
[17:09] <knome> you can also ask ##linux where much more people are able to give meaningful feedback
[17:09] <slickymasterWork> xubuntu85f: you can try http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ and/or http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm
[17:10] <slickymasterWork> or maybe even http://lubuntu.net/
[17:11] <xubuntu85f> one more thing, i installed user agent addon on fire fox and added a new string to emulate brownsing on web as an ipad (which makes all browsing much faster)
[17:11] <xubuntu85f> my problem is that, in my normal 64bit pc with latest xubuntu it works great
[17:12] <xubuntu85f> however on the low spec pc, the page load on you tube but then then the video doenst play, i have done the flash update and in normal brwsing it works but slow...any ideias why ???
[17:26] <n-iCe> hi
[17:28] <knome> xubuntu85f, opt-in for the HTML5 player and see if that works any better
[17:33] <xubuntu85f> how do i do that ?
[17:34] <xubuntu85f> is this something i need to register/download/install ??? or simple commands i can throw in termnal to acquire ??
[17:34] <elfy> https://www.youtube.com/html5
[17:35] <xubuntu85f> gr8...thx will have a go at it now
[17:42] <xubuntu85f> tried it, not that great..works on normal brwosing mode, but when i tried to switch to ipad mode on my pc it stops videos
[17:44] <knome> xubuntu85f, sounds like the "ipad mode" is the culprit then.
[17:45] <xubuntu85f> "culprit"...it works great on my 64bit xubuntu, but for the lower version pc with 256mb ram, i dont understand whats wrong
[17:46] <knome> i would imagine that changing the "browsing mode" is taking off some of the processing power from playing the video
[17:46] <xubuntu85f> user agent firefox addon seems great and gives you option on how you want to browse web. in ipad mode all pages load at super speed rate, and as above explained, you tube videos load with great easy, but for old cpc, pages all load fast, but its the video that doesnt play
[17:47] <knome> video being choppy with 256MB RAM doesn't surprise me
[17:47] <knome> xubuntu85f, which xubuntu version are you using again?
[17:48] <xubuntu85f> i installed version 9 as it only requires 196mb of ram...i later upgraded to xubuntu 10 as its got the ubuntu software centre
[17:48] <xubuntu85f> so to awnser your question xubuntu 10
[17:49] <knome> fwiw, there is no "xubuntu 10", it's either 10.04 or 10.10; furthermore, neither of those releases are supported, so if something doesn't work, you are on your own
[17:49] <xangua> you can try Lubuntu, it uses even less resources than Xubuntu
[17:50] <knome> xangua, we've gone through other OS option discussion already
[17:50] <knome> lubuntu 10.04 is not any more supported either, so it's a dead-end choice as well
[17:51] <xangua> I didn't mean 10.04, of course 14.04 minimum
[17:51] <xubuntu85f> having above in mind i was browsing by Puppy Linux, however i cant find what requiremnts are for latest version
[17:51] <xangua> there even wasn't a lubuntu 10.04
[17:53] <xubuntu85f> @knome...its xubuntu 10.04 lts
[17:53] <elfy> xubuntu85f: that is out of support
[17:53] <xubuntu85f> seems to work great for this pc however
[17:54] <xubuntu85f> will try installing Puppy Linux
[17:54] <xubuntu85f> does any 1 know what are requiements for the latest realease ?
[17:55] <knome> ask the puppy linux IRC channel if they have one
[17:56] <xubuntu85f> how do i get there, sorry, new to all this ubuntu os world
[17:57] <knome> xubuntu85f, /join #puppylinux
[17:58] <xubuntu85f> thx
[18:57] <superboot> Hi all. I'm having an issue with xubuntu stalling at shutdown requiring a hard shutdown (using power switch). Is there anyway to clear the splash screen and see what step the shutdown process is stuck on?
[18:59] <n-iCe> hi superboot
[18:59] <n-iCe> using the shutdown terminal command shows you what's going on
[19:24] <xubuntu85f> so been trying this out...and is just to confusing im afraid
[19:24] <xubuntu85f> thx all for help and suggestions
[19:24] <holstein> xubuntu85f: trying what? and whats confusing?
[19:24] <xubuntu85f> puupy os
[19:25] <holstein> xubuntu85f: looking at the scroll back, yo dont install puppyOS
[19:25] <xubuntu85f> as an alternative to run my 256mb ram old sepc pc
[19:25] <xubuntu85f> yeah, tried it out..but to confusing
[19:25] <holstein> puppy will run fine there.. there are many low-spec OS's..
[19:26] <xubuntu85f> ci guess it run well when u know what u doing...for instance with the drivers for network
[19:26] <xubuntu85f> i have the cd driveres for windows, but then there are a lot of commands unkonm to me, like having to mount cd and so on...totally alien
[19:26] <holstein> xubuntu85f: the network device either supports linux or it doesnt..
[19:26] <holstein> xubuntu85f: the company can provide you with a cd with linux drivers, but, they typically dont
[19:27] <xubuntu85f> its an old dell laptop
[19:27] <holstein> xubuntu85f: i suggest, try mirroring the scenario that worke for you when you were learning windows
[19:27] <holstein> you likely bought a PC, and used it "as-is" for years. maybe even with out wireless or networking of any kind
[19:27] <xubuntu85f> not following you, going back as in what???
[19:28] <holstein> its challenging to drop into *any* operating system and expect the same work flow and expertise that one has accumulated over years
[19:28] <xubuntu85f> true
[19:28] <xubuntu85f> frustating is the "word"
[19:28] <holstein> for me, i find it *very* frustrating these days when i fire up a friends windows 8 PC.. but, thats becuase i am not familiar with the OS
[19:29] <xubuntu85f> seems a pretty basic system puppy, but not been able to drive it, is driving me insane
[19:29] <holstein> allowing yourself to aquire the familiarity is the key.. and also, staring with a "base" that suppots linux
[19:29] <holstein> xubuntu85f: these days, hardware is *so* cheap, its really not constructive to spend too much time fighting with linux support
[19:30] <xubuntu85f> so what is the base for linux...been using xubuntu and love its simplicity, i actually related very well considering i only been using that on my 64bit pc for the past months
[19:30] <holstein> xubuntu85f: you can likely fine *very* cheap/free intel based hardware somewhere.. something that works "out of the box".. a P4 with a gig of ram or more
[19:30] <holstein> xubuntu85f: *any* company can support linux.. some do, and very well.. like intel. intel hardware typically works "out of th box"
[19:31] <holstein> xubuntu85f: you are trying to run modern operating systems on much older hardware.. and that will not get any easier
[19:31] <xubuntu85f> anyhow, just wanted to keep my old pc alive for my  year old boy to start learning on something besides windows
[19:32] <holstein> xubuntu85f: you have a PC with 256 of ram.. iOS *cant* run on it.. macOSX cant.. *nothing* from windows in the past few years can.. android cant.. etc
[19:32] <xubuntu85f> keep going...
[19:32] <holstein> xubuntu85f: nothing about linux is preventing you from using that hardware... but, you are going to be taking on the responsiblity of supporting it.. which, can be challenging/frustrating
[19:32] <xubuntu85f> true
[19:32] <holstein> what do i suggest? just look for easier hardware to get used to linux with..
[19:33] <xubuntu85f> ok, so here is a question
[19:33] <xubuntu85f> all androids tablets running linux on it right ?
[19:33] <holstein> xubuntu85f: linux is just the kernel
[19:34] <xubuntu85f> ok, just lost me there...
[19:34] <holstein> xubuntu85f: andoidOS, and ubuntu's operating system, as well as *many* other systems use the linux kernel
[19:34] <holstein> android*
[19:34] <xubuntu85f> my question is, can i install android os into this old pc ?
[19:34] <knome> that is out of the scope of this channel
[19:35] <holstein> xubuntu85f: and the answer is, *nothing* about linux is preventing that.. linux is completely open.. you, and/or the company that made the hardware can make it where linux/xubuntu/ubuntu can run right on the hardware, easily.. and out of the box
[19:35] <xubuntu85f> are there any channels that have help on this topic?
[19:35] <holstein> xubuntu85f: there is little that xubuntu/ubuntu/linux can do, since they dont own, or create the hardware, to specific faciliate linux running on that device
[19:36] <holstein> xubuntu85f: if dell wants, they can release to you an android version made that that hardware..  but, that is *not* easy.. and something that is setting you up for, at the best case, a lot of trial and error, and compromise
[19:36] <knome> xubuntu85f, https://source.android.com/source/community/index.html
[19:37] <holstein> what would i do? take that hardware, and run an operating system that is was intended to run.. something from the same era.. maybe stock xubuntu 12.04 for example..
[19:37] <xubuntu85f> yeah im running xubuntu.10.04lts
[19:37] <holstein> *nothing* is going to make that machine any faster, newer, or better.. you can get higher specs, and better linux support from hardware for cheap/free
[19:38] <xubuntu85f> but its not handling to well, specially videos on youtube
[19:38] <xubuntu85f> try changing to html5
[19:38] <xubuntu85f> but also no luck
[19:38] <holstein> xubuntu85f: adobe can provide for you flash content for your machine.. they do not though
[19:38] <holstein> xubuntu85f: you will move forward using that hardware with *many* legitimate compromises
[19:40] <xubuntu85f> what i done, was install user agent addon for firefox, and then use ipad optin to browse web...which i must admit has a high increase on speed and load page
[19:40] <xubuntu85f> all work like a charm on my 64bit pc, but on the old spec pc, the video doesnt open for some reason.
[19:41] <holstein> xubuntu85f: the reason is that.. the low/old spec hardare
[19:41] <xubuntu85f> i have configure and added all files as on the 64bit pc, but still not working
[19:41] <holstein> xubuntu85f: adobe is not interested in supporting flash content on that hardware
[19:41] <holstein> xubuntu85f: you can ask them to do so.. but, the issue you are having is not with xubuntu, as your testing shows
[19:42] <xubuntu85f> true
[19:42] <xubuntu85f> still ok i guess for movis and all
[19:42] <holstein> xubuntu85f: "ok" is relative.. and up to you.. for me, i dont run x on a machine like that..
[19:43] <holstein> xubuntu85f: i run it headless, and make a file server, or some other server.. i dont expect machines that old to run modern desktops
[19:43] <holstein> you can, but, you will have compromises
[19:44] <xubuntu85f> well keep it for now, as i im not a great beleiver of waste, i know i might use pasts of it for other projects in future..maybe keep lcd and do PS3 console mod...:)
[19:44] <xubuntu85f> holstein and all that join in with help and suggestions...thx u all so much, gr8 cummunity u have hr !
[19:45] <holstein> xubuntu85f: sure.. good luck!
[23:04] <yomm> Hi, i am running xubuntu 12.04, and after removing the lightdm session manager compiz is slow and tearing the place up. It was working great before the removal of the session manager ... any clues ? maybe i'm offtopic here just let me know