[01:27] <Ahmuck> why am i getting this added on to my search results in firefox? - &t=canonical
[01:30] <ianorlin> Ahmuck: with what search engine?
[01:34] <Ahmuck> duckduckgo
[01:35] <Ahmuck> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=something&t=canonical&ia=news
[01:37] <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
[01:38] <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
[01:40] <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
[01:41] <Unit193> grep -e ubuntu -e canonical /usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale/*/*.xml
[01:44] <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.
[01:45] <Ahmuck> or the hosting os
[01:45] <Ahmuck> as in firefox it appears to point to "ubuntu"
[01:46] <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
[01:47] <Ahmuck> sorry, bbl, i got to lay down, i've been ill for a week
[01:53] <Ahmuck> https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ous&q=something&ia=news - same link in opera
[01:58] <krytarik> Ahmuck: https://duck.co/help/privacy/t
[02:09] <Ahmuck> interesting link.  this however seems to remove privacy options touted by duckduckgo, no?
[02:11]  * 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?
[02:13] <phillw> Unit193: if you are about, this is off topic for lubuntu.
[02:15] <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?
[02:17] <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
[02:19] <ianorlin> user57: tail /var/log/dpkg.log can tell you when you last installed updates by any method
[02:20] <ianorlin> in teh terminal
[02:21] <phillw> Ahmuck: maybe you should complain somewhere else, as lubuntu support channel has no input into what your grievance is.
[02:22] <Ahmuck> phillw: not going to fight with you
[02:22] <user57> ianorlin, thanks a lot mate :)
[02:41] <Ahmuck> out
[02:44] <user57> no pillowfight?
[02:44] <user57> :O
[02:58] <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.
[02:59] <phillw> I'll not intervene next time.
[09:26] <piknockyou> Hi there!
[09:27] <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?
[13:40] <Drabuntu> Spricht jemand deutsch?
[13:46] <Drabuntu> Spricht jemand deutsch?
[14:51] <Drabuntu> Hallo, spricht jemand deutsch?
[14:52] <testdr> Drabuntu: ja - aber für Deutsch gibt es   #ubuntu-de
[14:52] <Drabuntu> Was mache ich wenn Lubuntu LiveCD/USB Stick keinen Sound abspielt?
[14:55] <testdr> Drabuntu: prüfe das durch:  http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Sound_Problembehebung
[14:58] <Drabuntu> testdr> Danke leider habe ich jetzt kein Lubuntu am laufen sondern Ubuntumate und da funktioniert der Sound.
[15:12] <Drabuntu> Mal eine andere Frage ,wie kann ich lubuntu auf HDD installiert eine Datei unterschieben, damit man von LiveCD nicht installieren kann?
[15:15] <testdr> Drabuntu: thats no lubuntu support question - check your bios settings some may disable this - Bootoption im BIOS abschalten
[15:15] <Drabuntu> Achso.
[17:39] <qkzoo1978> Any idea why pressing "prtsc" isn't generating a screenshot on my Toshiba laptop?  Seems to me this always worked before...
[17:42] <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
[17:44] <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
[17:45] <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.
[17:47] <testdr> qkzoo1978: thats why i modified the openbox-hotkey file - i put a script for screenshot with an message-hint at the action
[17:49] <qkzoo1978> That's a good idea.  I'd be happy with just a click sound or something.
[17:52] <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
[17:54] <qkzoo1978> Under default applications then, you just link to the script?
[17:55] <qkzoo1978> ..for screenshot?
[17:56] <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)
[17:57] <qkzoo1978> ok
[18:10] <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?
[18:19] <holstein> qkzoo1978: you can resize the window as you want
[18:30] <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.
[18:31] <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
[18:32] <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.
[18:34] <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
[18:35] <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.
[18:36] <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
[18:37] <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
[18:39] <qkzoo1978> Yeah, I'm checking them out
[18:40] <qkzoo1978> qres is for windows only I believe.
[18:41] <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
[18:42] <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
[18:43] <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.
[18:44] <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!