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| Guest4291 | I know this question has been asked before but how would I go back to Windows from Xubuntu? I already downloaded the ISO but I have no clue what to do next. | 00:16 |
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| Guest4291 | I installed FuriusISO, GParted, & Unetbootin. I have no clue what im doing. | 00:16 |
| drc | OK, I'm confused...You installed Xubuntu over Windows and now you want to get rid of Xubuntu and go back to Wndows? | 00:17 |
| Guest4291 | That's correct | 00:18 |
| Guest4291 | I love the OS but my touch screen works best on Windows | 00:18 |
| drc | Then simple boot from your original install/restore disk (whatever came with your computer) and re-install windows. | 00:19 |
| Guest4291 | I've been looking through forums but for the life of me can't find what work | 00:19 |
| Guest4291 | I have an ISO downloaded. This pc didnt come with a disk drive. | 00:20 |
| drc | I'd be very careful of using a "downloaded" windows iso (unless you are really really sure it's from MS). | 00:21 |
| Guest4291 | i am 100% sure the iso is good. | 00:21 |
| drc | But unetbootin should burn the iso to a usb (I'm assuming thats what you want to do?) | 00:21 |
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| drc | You may want to google on how to use unetbootin. I use it all the time, but never to burn a wndows disk, I have no idea if there | 00:22 |
| drc | 's anything spewcial to do. | 00:23 |
| Guest4291 | is there a way to boot the windows iso without a usb or cd? like put it on a partition or something? idk | 00:23 |
| bazhang | !find yumi | 00:24 |
| Guest4291 | so you never installed windows over ubuntu? you've ran xubuntu all your life? | 00:24 |
| ubottu | File yumi found in kayali, picon-usenix, texlive-lang-japanese | 00:24 |
| drc | sure, but that's way beyond the scope of the channel...and besides, if you have to ask, I'm not sure you have the skill set to accomplish it. | 00:24 |
| drc | I ran BSD long before I ever saw windows :) | 00:24 |
| drc | I have installed Linus/BSD over windows many times. | 00:24 |
| bazhang | something like yumi, be sure in ##windows Guest4291 | 00:24 |
| Guest4291 | i've done this before on a different pc but that was a while ago | 00:25 |
| bazhang | /join ##windows for confirmation | 00:25 |
| Guest4291 | alright thanks | 00:25 |
| bazhang | np | 00:25 |
| bazhang | !find grml | 00:27 |
| ubottu | Found: grml-btnet, grml-debootstrap, grml-rescueboot, grml-shlib, grml2usb | 00:27 |
| Guest4291 | Would you happen to know how to create a new partition? | 00:39 |
| bazhang | with gparted live disk | 00:40 |
| Guest4291 | ok i had unallocated space so i made a new partition and extracted my iso into the new partition. is it possible to boot this partition and have windows be installed at the bios screen? | 00:44 |
| Guest4291 | or is that a #windows question | 00:44 |
| artag | i have usually installed windows first, then run the ubuntu installer from the cd or usb stick | 00:45 |
| artag | the installer creates a boot menu that allows you to select an OS | 00:46 |
| artag | I don't think windows does this well if you do it the other way around | 00:46 |
| artag | the installer will allow you to choose what partitions you create | 00:46 |
| artag | though i don't think it allows you to repartition - you'll have to do that first | 00:46 |
| artag | (i say install windows first .. i don't ever have a need to do that, but sometimes I get a machine with it already on, so I repartition it into a little space) | 00:48 |
| * ObrienDave aims a bazooka at google translate. *BOOM* | 00:49 | |
| mathematician | hello | 01:15 |
| mathematician | i have a question that maybe the result of faulty wifi card but need to make sure | 01:15 |
| mathematician | anyone here? | 01:16 |
| drc | We're all waiting for you to actually <ask> the question. | 01:16 |
| mathematician | ya sorry, | 01:16 |
| drc | or asleep. it's hard to tell | 01:16 |
| mathematician | i can connect to the internet through wired connection | 01:17 |
| mathematician | but wireless | 01:17 |
| mathematician | wireless does not work on any other live linuxes as well. | 01:17 |
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| drc | mathematician: you <still> haven't ask a question. | 01:19 |
| mathematician | any ideas on as to how get wireless up and running? | 01:19 |
| bazhang | what does ifconfig show | 01:21 |
| bazhang | lo etho and wlan0? | 01:21 |
| bazhang | eth0 that is | 01:21 |
| mathematician | shows all | 01:21 |
| mathematician | eth0 has the correct info | 01:21 |
| bazhang | sudo dhclient wlan0 | 01:22 |
| mathematician | ok, what am i looking for? | 01:23 |
| artag | there's all that wpa_supplicant stuff, and iwconfig, if you want to do it manually. Or there's network manager, if it isn't broken | 01:23 |
| bazhang | a lease | 01:24 |
| mathematician | i do not mind manual labour | 01:25 |
| mathematician | just would like to get it up and running | 01:25 |
| mathematician | this is from | 01:25 |
| mathematician | iwconfig: IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=16 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off | 01:25 |
| bazhang | whats the return from sudo dhclient wlan0 | 01:25 |
| mathematician | no return. just sat blank | 01:26 |
| artag | i don't know my way around that stuff. I did it once, but was quite relived when it became automatic | 01:26 |
| mathematician | i have inputed all the correct info to network manager | 01:26 |
| artag | right, so it hasn't connected. it needs to do that before it gets a lease | 01:26 |
| mathematician | im on wired now | 01:26 |
| mathematician | should i disconnect etherchord and try again that command? | 01:27 |
| artag | no, you can have both connections. it won't work well but you'll get further than that | 01:27 |
| mathematician | retying the command | 01:28 |
| artag | are you running xfce desktop ? | 01:29 |
| xubuntu70w | What is the command to install grub bootloader? | 01:29 |
| xubuntu70w | I want to do this from terminal | 01:29 |
| mathematician | no luck on that command sudo dhclient wlan0. just a blinking text box | 01:30 |
| artag | no, it can't get a dhcp lease because there is no wireless connection | 01:30 |
| JackFrost | xubuntu70w: Read up on grub-install, man grub-install | 01:33 |
| mathematician | no luck with the wifi connection. it sees the connects aviable but goes in circles with the end result being "diconnected" | 01:36 |
| mathematician | connections* | 01:36 |
| mathematician | is there a an update specifically for the wireless firmware? | 01:38 |
| artag | i don't know. I have seen similar problems in the past but am not suffering them now | 01:50 |
| mathematician | ok, i tried setting up wireless with iwconfig and got this message: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. | 01:56 |
| artag | http://superuser.com/questions/42460/can-you-explain-how-to-understand-what-the-iwconfig-command-displays-in-ubuntu | 02:33 |
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| andrewXubuntu | Hello, can anyone say if it's possible to correct a mistake that I did with FDISK? | 04:12 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: possibly.. share some details, and a voluteer will try and answer | 04:14 |
| andrewXubuntu | holstein, alright! So I was installing xubuntu on my machine which already had windows xp, so I shrink the partition with success, and then I use FDISK to re-write the partition, the problem is, my old partition started at 63 but on the new I only can choose 2048, maybe this is a problem? | 04:16 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: what do i do? i do complete backups of *all* data, before resizing partitions like that.. you *can* lose data, and break things.. | 04:17 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: what do i think you should do? stop, and try and access any important data, and back it up.. use a live ISO via USB.. the xubuntu installer for example | 04:18 |
| andrewXubuntu | holstein, the problem is that I can see the partition | 04:19 |
| andrewXubuntu | I mean the content | 04:19 |
| andrewXubuntu | Is possible to set the start of sector manually? | 04:20 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: do you mean, the problem is, you *cant* see the content? from where? a live iso? as i said, you can break partitions like that.. is the partition broken? if so, you can try something like the test disk suite | 04:20 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: most *anything* is possible.. the problem would be to just move forward doing things, without having a backup | 04:21 |
| andrewXubuntu | holstein, yes I know that, | 04:21 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: if i had important data on that disk, i would back it up, ASAP.. if the partition is not accessible, i would use test disk and see what i can get. is that the case? | 04:21 |
| andrewXubuntu | In fact I have some backups, | 04:21 |
| andrewXubuntu | but I would like to know if is possible to fix that mess that I made | 04:22 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: sure.. so, do you have *everything* backed up? if not, do that first.. its a good idea, and good practice, since *all* drives fail | 04:22 |
| andrewXubuntu | No, unfortunatelly not everything | 04:22 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: what i would do *before* attempting *any* fix is, as i stated, backup what i need | 04:22 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: if the partition is not mounting from a live iso, i would use test disk.. photorec for example | 04:23 |
| andrewXubuntu | holstein, test disk | 04:23 |
| andrewXubuntu | inside live iso? | 04:23 |
| holstein | http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec | 04:23 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: you want to run that tool *not* from the drive you are trying to recover from | 04:24 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: if that means a live iso, then, yes.. and, as i indicated before, thats waht i would use.. the live iso installer for xubuntu | 04:24 |
| andrewXubuntu | I see, I'm currently running from USB, so I'm ok | 04:24 |
| andrewXubuntu | I think | 04:24 |
| andrewXubuntu | sorry for newbies questions | 04:25 |
| andrewXubuntu | I'm windows user trying to change | 04:25 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: only you can see for sure.. i would want to be running from the live environment, and ask one of the tools to recover data | 04:25 |
| holstein | andrewXubuntu: sure.. try and approach it as much like you did windows as possible.. for example, you didnt shrink a partition when you installed windows.. you likely intalled windows, or bought a machine with windows on it | 04:26 |
| andrewXubuntu | holstein, yes, in fact in windows I did using partition magic | 04:29 |
| andrewXubuntu | I should have used again | 04:29 |
| andrewXubuntu | :) | 04:29 |
| holstein | you should use whatever tools you can do the job with.. but, i think you are assuming some things, right now | 04:29 |
| holstein | i would backup the data, with a recovery tool, if need be, and test the hard drive before moving on | 04:30 |
| andrewXubuntu | holstein, I will read that link you gave me | 04:30 |
| andrewXubuntu | now | 04:30 |
| holstein | http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step is where i would start.. | 04:31 |
| holstein | though, this is not a fix for your problem, at all.. | 04:31 |
| andrewXubuntu | yes | 04:33 |
| andrewXubuntu | Time to read brb | 04:33 |
| dbenson | Does anybody know how to get xfce4 kiosk mode working? I've followed quite a few tutorials and done some experimenting with various config files but haven't had much luck. Any help or links would be appreciated.... | 05:14 |
| holstein | dbenson: i, recently, have not been able to make it work, either | 05:19 |
| dbenson | holstein - thank you for letting me know... | 05:44 |
| dbenson | holstein: in case you're still working on it, I've been creating launchers in the user profile (.desktop files) and then changing the owner/perms as root to prevent changes. I also had to uninstall things like nm-applet to prevent network changes... little hacks like that have gotten me a bit closer, maybe it will help you too... | 05:49 |
| holstein | dbenson: i just went with a read-only setup in a different desktop environment, then, didnt need to do it any longer.. | 05:53 |
| bathtub95 | I suddenly can't mount any drives because 'Not authorized to perform operation'. Networking is also disabled and can't be reenabled. Any ideas? Sounds like user permissions but I'm a newbie. | 10:11 |
| andrewXubuntu | holstein, Hey are you there? | 11:45 |
| Luyin | andrewXubuntu: if you've got a question, ask the room | 11:48 |
| andrewXubuntu | Luyin, No is not a question, I just want to thank him, I was able to fix a mess that I made with FDISK using the links he pointed out, I'll leave a msg to him then! :) | 11:50 |
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| nanogeek | hey there! I'm new to this channel and i hope we have many things in common | 13:09 |
| cfhowlett | !details | nanogeek, | 13:27 |
| ubottu | nanogeek,: Please elaborate; your question or issue may not seem clear or detailed enough for people to help you. Please give more detailed information, errors, steps, and possibly configuration files (use the !pastebin to avoid flooding the channel) | 13:27 |
| madduck | is there a recommended way to mount a Samba share upon login without requiring additional authentication? | 14:24 |
| madduck | thunar seems not to give me a way to do it via gvfs, clicking on browse network gives «failed to open "/ on ".» | 14:29 |
| madduck | «operation not supported» | 14:29 |
| madduck | gvfs-backends is installed, thunar-* is installed… :/ | 14:34 |
| rosaecaeruleae | is GPG already installed in xubuntu or do I have to get it? | 14:38 |
| Pici | should already be installed. | 14:39 |
| rosaecaeruleae | Pici, ok, how do I use it? | 14:39 |
| Pici | rosaecaeruleae: What do you want to do with it? | 14:39 |
| rosaecaeruleae | Pici, send encrypted mails | 14:40 |
| Pici | Well, gpg is just for file encryption, you'll need to find a plugin or similar for your mail client to use it. | 14:41 |
| Pici | !gpg | 14:41 |
| ubottu | gpg is the GNU Privacy Guard. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto and class #8 on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClassroomTranscripts | 14:41 |
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| dmfrey | my last upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04.1 ran into some issues. I would like to reinstall or reconfigure the window manager, however, I am unsure as to which packages I should do this to. Which packages should i work on? | 15:58 |
| dmfrey | disregard | 16:34 |
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| laci_ | hello to all! | 19:00 |
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| Manj-811-Xfce | right clicks on my touchpad register as a leftclick.do you know a quick fix? | 19:03 |
| slickymasterWork | !hi | laci_ | 19:05 |
| ubottu | laci_: 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! | 19:05 |
| drc | Manj-811-Xfce: Have you tried Mouse and Touchpad in Settings? | 19:05 |
| Manj-811-Xfce | i have but theres no option in there for clicks | 19:07 |
| slickymasterWork | Manj-811-Xfce: in the Devices tab of Mouse and Touchpad you have a Buttons and Feedback sub-tab | 19:08 |
| drc | Does Buttons and Feedback (under the appropriate Device)>right-handed and Left-handed not work? | 19:08 |
| Manj-811-Xfce | uh it does work. i selected right-handed | 19:11 |
| drc | So..Problem Solved? :) | 19:11 |
| Manj-811-Xfce | not really lol. when i select left-handed iget the right click dropdown menu | 19:12 |
| Manj-811-Xfce | but i cant click and grab anything | 19:12 |
| drc | and what happens when you select right-handed? | 19:12 |
| Manj-811-Xfce | but when i select right-handed i can click and grab but i cant get the right click dropdown menus | 19:13 |
| Manj-811-Xfce | i hope you understand what im saying | 19:13 |
| Manj-811-Xfce | well i found a workaround. tapping my touchpad with two fingers register as a right click. that'll do i guess | 19:15 |
| drc | I can't get my trackpad (which I very rarely use) to misbehave like that, so, I'm out of ideas, sorry. | 19:23 |
| === wololo is now known as dessazioeajziazd | ||
| kol_ | hi | 21:50 |
| kol_ | i have a questoin about the keyboard layout | 21:51 |
| kol_ | i'd like to set a new shortcut to change my keyboard layout with setxhbmap but it does not work :/ | 21:51 |
| kol_ | if anyone would like to help me, i'd be really happy :) | 21:51 |
| wbled | I have a problem with xubuntu | 21:55 |
| wbled | 14.10 to be exact | 21:55 |
| wbled | whenever I boot, I get no sound so I always have to type "sudo alsa force-reload" in the terminal | 21:55 |
| wbled | can someone tell me how to fix this? | 21:55 |
| wbled | seriously | 21:56 |
| wbled | pls | 21:56 |
| wbled | dangit you people | 21:58 |
| wbled | k, whatever | 21:58 |
| wbled | buh-bye! | 21:58 |
| wbled | merry early christmas! | 21:58 |
| drc | wow...a whole 3 minutes... | 22:05 |
| drc | In Xubuntu 14.10, does the Power Manager Plugin (for the panel) actually <do> anything (other than sit there and tell you the state of your batteries if/when you click on it)...as opposed to the old indicator-power (which would at least tell you if your box was on batter or powercord) ? | 22:34 |
| octetcloud | It says "Discharging" when on battery, which isn't really explicit, but gets the job done. | 22:38 |
| octetcloud | drc: ^ | 22:38 |
| drc | octetcloud: from what I can tell, one still has to "mouse over" the icon to tell that. | 22:39 |
| drc | the icon itself doesn't change. | 22:40 |
| drc | as opposed to the old system :) | 22:40 |
| * drc thinks change is good...but only if I like the change :) | 22:41 | |
| drc | But I was wondering if I was missing something in the new system. | 22:42 |
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