| Ahmuck | why am i getting this added on to my search results in firefox? - &t=canonical | 01:27 |
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| ianorlin | Ahmuck: with what search engine? | 01:30 |
| Ahmuck | duckduckgo | 01:34 |
| Ahmuck | https://duckduckgo.com/?q=something&t=canonical&ia=news | 01:35 |
| Ahmuck | it's not added in opera browser. getting ready to do a more complete search as to why | 01:37 |
| ianorlin | might be the ubufox extension or something but I am not too paranoid about this | 01:37 |
| Ahmuck | why? | 01:38 |
| ianorlin | might deal with something to give canonical the tiny amount of money it recives from search | 01:38 |
| ianorlin | but I don't know | 01:38 |
| Ahmuck | i was testing search engines, been doing testing for a while ... and at first i wondered if duckduckgo was associated with canonical | 01:40 |
| Ahmuck | but i'm getting the impression more and more that google/canonical/firefox might be more tied togather. | 01:40 |
| Ahmuck | but i can't make that assertion yet without some more investigation | 01:40 |
| Unit193 | grep -e ubuntu -e canonical /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale/*/*.xml | 01:41 |
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| Ahmuck | ok, that makes sense, it's branding the browser as canonical (which i suspected after looking at the "about" section) but why. it's a Mozilla product unless canonical has heavily modded it. | 01:44 |
| Ahmuck | or the hosting os | 01:45 |
| Ahmuck | as in firefox it appears to point to "ubuntu" | 01:45 |
| Ahmuck | /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale/en-US/duckduckgo.xml: <Param name="t" value="canonical"/> | 01:46 |
| Ahmuck | /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale/en-US/google.xml: <Param name="client" value="ubuntu"/> | 01:46 |
| Ahmuck | and why re-brand only those two? | 01:46 |
| Ahmuck | er, not re-brand but tag | 01:46 |
| ianorlin | I don't really know | 01:46 |
| Ahmuck | sorry, bbl, i got to lay down, i've been ill for a week | 01:47 |
| Ahmuck | https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ous&q=something&ia=news - same link in opera | 01:53 |
| krytarik | Ahmuck: https://duck.co/help/privacy/t | 01:58 |
| Ahmuck | interesting link. this however seems to remove privacy options touted by duckduckgo, no? | 02:09 |
| * phillw ahh.... it took a few minutes... do not feed to Ahmuck as all he wants to is complain | 02:11 | |
| phillw | Ahmuck: you have not troubled us in some months, what brings you back? | 02:11 |
| phillw | Unit193: if you are about, this is off topic for lubuntu. | 02:13 |
| user57 | Hello everyone. Can anyone tell me how to check what the latest updates to my system was? | 02:15 |
| user57 | Hello everyone. Can anyone tell me how to check what the latest updates to my system was? | 02:15 |
| Ahmuck | trying to find out why my searches are getting appended with canonical information is complaining? | 02:17 |
| Ahmuck | perhaps i should complain more publically | 02:17 |
| ianorlin | user57: tail /var/log/dpkg.log can tell you when you last installed updates by any method | 02:19 |
| ianorlin | in teh terminal | 02:20 |
| phillw | Ahmuck: maybe you should complain somewhere else, as lubuntu support channel has no input into what your grievance is. | 02:21 |
| Ahmuck | phillw: not going to fight with you | 02:22 |
| user57 | ianorlin, thanks a lot mate :) | 02:22 |
| Ahmuck | out | 02:41 |
| user57 | no pillowfight? | 02:44 |
| user57 | :O | 02:44 |
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| phillw | Unit193: I'm up to eye-balls with linuxpadawan etc. Can you follow up on Ahmuck, he's not all bad, but can flame a channel out. | 02:58 |
| Unit193 | phillw: Follow up with? And this isn't the channel for it. | 02:58 |
| phillw | I'll not intervene next time. | 02:59 |
| piknockyou | Hi there! | 09:26 |
| piknockyou | I was wondering, if it makes any sense to install an older version of Lubuntu to gain even more speed. Do you think this makes sense? Would I actually gain more speed? What could the disadvantes be? | 09:27 |
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| Drabuntu | Spricht jemand deutsch? | 13:40 |
| Drabuntu | Spricht jemand deutsch? | 13:46 |
| Drabuntu | Hallo, spricht jemand deutsch? | 14:51 |
| testdr | Drabuntu: ja - aber für Deutsch gibt es #ubuntu-de | 14:52 |
| Drabuntu | Was mache ich wenn Lubuntu LiveCD/USB Stick keinen Sound abspielt? | 14:52 |
| testdr | Drabuntu: prüfe das durch: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Sound_Problembehebung | 14:55 |
| Drabuntu | testdr> Danke leider habe ich jetzt kein Lubuntu am laufen sondern Ubuntumate und da funktioniert der Sound. | 14:58 |
| Drabuntu | Mal eine andere Frage ,wie kann ich lubuntu auf HDD installiert eine Datei unterschieben, damit man von LiveCD nicht installieren kann? | 15:12 |
| testdr | Drabuntu: thats no lubuntu support question - check your bios settings some may disable this - Bootoption im BIOS abschalten | 15:15 |
| Drabuntu | Achso. | 15:15 |
| qkzoo1978 | Any idea why pressing "prtsc" isn't generating a screenshot on my Toshiba laptop? Seems to me this always worked before... | 17:39 |
| testdr | qkzoo1978: could be the "lxsession-default screenshot" does not set the default-screenshot-program (most times its "scrot") -- you may modify hotkey-setting in .config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml for the Print key | 17:42 |
| testdr | qkzoo1978: if your laptop needs a modifier pressed for special-func-keys - maybe you only think you press the print-key but its not enabled without the modifier | 17:44 |
| qkzoo1978 | I think I just figured it out. I was waiting for some indicator that it was actually taking a screenshot, like an audible click or something, and it doesn't. Lol, I now have a crapload of screenshot images in my home folder. | 17:45 |
| testdr | qkzoo1978: thats why i modified the openbox-hotkey file - i put a script for screenshot with an message-hint at the action | 17:47 |
| qkzoo1978 | That's a good idea. I'd be happy with just a click sound or something. | 17:49 |
| testdr | qkzoo1978: thats the script i use - with date and special save-directory - usage "my_screenshot.sh screenshot/window": http://paste.ubuntuusers.de/420753/ | 17:52 |
| testdr | qkzoo1978: instead of using the zenity-popup-message you can use a sound to play | 17:52 |
| qkzoo1978 | Under default applications then, you just link to the script? | 17:54 |
| qkzoo1978 | ..for screenshot? | 17:55 |
| testdr | qkzoo1978: no - like written in the script - this "lxdefault-settings" did not work for me and there was (and still may be) a bug thats logouts a user at once (in the desktop-hotkey-menu) | 17:56 |
| qkzoo1978 | ok | 17:57 |
| qkzoo1978 | Is there a way to blow up the resolution of a single window? In other words, my default resolution is say 1366x768, but I want an individual window (say a browser window) to be 640x480. Is this possible? | 18:10 |
| holstein | qkzoo1978: you can resize the window as you want | 18:19 |
| qkzoo1978 | To any resolution? | 18:30 |
| holstein | qkzoo1978: resizing it does that | 18:30 |
| holstein | qkzoo1978: you make the window fit 640x480 pixels, of the 1366x768, and thats what you have | 18:30 |
| qkzoo1978 | err, not the actual size of the window, if that's what you thought I meant, I mean the "resolution" of a specific window, you know, like going to "Monitor Settings" in the menu, and changing the resolution. | 18:30 |
| holstein | if you want the browser window to just zoom, just use the zoom | 18:31 |
| holstein | usually control + | 18:31 |
| holstein | qkzoo1978: the resolution *is* the size :) | 18:31 |
| qkzoo1978 | zoom doesn't always work, i.e., flash content does not zoom well, or at all. | 18:31 |
| holstein | flash doest support linux anymore | 18:31 |
| qkzoo1978 | Google Chrome still runs flash just fine. | 18:32 |
| holstein | you can try the latest flash in the chrome browser.. you can use it in chrome or chromium | 18:32 |
| holstein | im sure you can force virtual resolutions.. but, i think there is probably a simpler way | 18:32 |
| qkzoo1978 | My problem is trying to get a game my folks play setup for geriatric eyeseight without making the resolution of the entire system just ridiculous. | 18:32 |
| qkzoo1978 | he likes to play Fishdom, (bigfishgames.com I think) and the flash content takes up a fraction of the screen, and he has to squint to see it. The only way I could make it playable for him was to increase the monitor resolution to like 640 x 480, but now the system just looks ridiculously large. | 18:34 |
| holstein | maybe just show him how to set the resolution | 18:34 |
| holstein | or, make a gaming user... or a script shortcut.. or a script that runs when he opens a dedicated browser.. | 18:35 |
| qkzoo1978 | Well, I did, but I was hoping to figure out a way somehow to adjust the resolution of just a single browser window. | 18:35 |
| holstein | or, ask the creators of the game.. | 18:35 |
| qkzoo1978 | ^ Better luck asking a brick for the winning lotto numbers. | 18:35 |
| holstein | could be, other users want it larger.. | 18:36 |
| qkzoo1978 | "or a script that runs when he opens a dedicated browser" so you can adjust resolution from the command line? | 18:36 |
| holstein | http://superuser.com/questions/385985/how-can-i-zoom-in-on-flash-applications | 18:36 |
| holstein | qkzoo1978: what i was saying was, you have *only*, for example, the chromium-browser setup for that game, or firefox, or whatever.. and when that browser is launched, the res is set | 18:37 |
| holstein | but, there are more elegant answers in the link i just linked | 18:37 |
| qkzoo1978 | Yeah, I'm checking them out | 18:39 |
| qkzoo1978 | qres is for windows only I believe. | 18:40 |
| qkzoo1978 | The other options I've already looked into and don't work for that game. | 18:41 |
| holstein | im sure you can do some clunkcy virtual resolution | 18:41 |
| holstein | but, why not just a gaming user? | 18:41 |
| qkzoo1978 | I want to confuse him as little as possible. | 18:41 |
| holstein | logout, login as gamer. click on web browser.. play game | 18:41 |
| holstein | what was he using? windows? what did he do before? | 18:42 |
| qkzoo1978 | I have it setup to automatically log him in, the extra step is too much for him. | 18:42 |
| qkzoo1978 | He had windows before, where he could download the game as an exe and run it full screen. | 18:42 |
| qkzoo1978 | Being XP is dead, I removed it from their "Old pc" and installed Lubuntu. | 18:42 |
| holstein | qkzoo1978: try it in wine | 18:42 |
| holstein | some smaller games like that might just work | 18:43 |
| holstein | that'll be similarly click and run | 18:43 |
| qkzoo1978 | Ya, I think I will try wine, been awhile since I messed around with it. | 18:43 |
| holstein | you can use arandr to generate scripts and make shortcuts on the desktop to 2 different resolutions | 18:44 |
| qkzoo1978 | arandr, I forgot about that one! | 18:44 |
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