[04:39] <wxl> pleia2: hope it went well!
[04:41] <rww> it did :)
[04:41] <wxl> how many people did you have?
[04:41] <rww> about 12
[04:41] <wxl> (perhaps we should take this to -offtopic since it's not necessraily support related)
[11:54] <fishcooker> http://picpaste.com/Selection_065-HOIco0J9.png too many battery indicator
[16:41] <cinimoon1> Trusty. GeForce 8400 GS. seconds after GUI loads horizontal squiggly lines pixels to 3 centimeters long appears and computer freezes. There is enough time to login and load the desktop sometimes. Freeze can be avoided by switching to virtual terminal.
[18:20] <Dirkson> Hey all. Whenever lubuntu asks for a password (gksudo??), it allows you to select a user - And displays the wrong user. How do I change which user it defaults to?
[18:23] <wxl> Dirkson: more specific example, please. what steps are necessary to reproduce the problem?
[18:24] <Dirkson> wxl: Near as I'm aware, have more than one user and try to do anything gui-related that requires superuser permissions.
[18:24] <wxl> Dirkson: like opening synaptic, for example?
[18:24] <Dirkson> Yup, that'll do 'er : )
[18:25] <wxl> i don't remember it showing a user
[18:25] <wxl> the user should be YOU
[18:25] <Dirkson> Well, I do have more than one user on the system. It does not appear to default to the currently logged in user.
[18:25] <wxl> it sure should
[18:26] <Dirkson> That would be fine, if it could be made to do that : )
[18:26] <ianorlin> waht would the bug be filed against?
[18:26] <wxl> it should be a default
[18:26] <wxl> ok i see where it asks for the user
[18:26] <wxl> mine defaults to the standard user
[18:26] <ianorlin> I think it is in alphabetical order
[18:26] <wxl> what version are you running?
[18:27] <Dirkson> wxl: 14.something? Freshly installed
[18:27] <wxl> Dirkson: lsb_release -a
[18:29] <Dirkson> wxl: 14.04.1 LTS
[18:30] <Dirkson> ianorlin: My list is currently "Dirkson" and "Andy", and it defaults to "Dirkson"
[18:30] <ianorlin> hmm might be by user number then
[18:31] <Dirkson> Andy is user 1000, dirkson is user 1001
[18:31] <Dirkson> Andy also comes before dirkson in /etc/passwd
[18:34] <wxl> i have user foo (1000) and user bar (1001) and foo (currently logged in user) pops up
[18:34] <wxl> i.e. i cannot reproduce
[18:40] <Dirkson> wxl: Well, does whatever this tool is have a configuration I could be editing?
[18:40] <wxl> Dirkson: not that i'm aware of, but i'm investigating further
[18:41] <wxl> ah
[18:41] <wxl> so i used my other user and it defaults to the original one
[18:42] <wxl> but my user isn't in there either
[18:42] <wxl> since i'm not in sudoers
[18:44] <Dirkson> wxl: Interesting
[18:45] <wxl> ok now i can confirm that behavior
[18:45] <wxl> non-sudo users will not show up in the list
[18:45] <Dirkson> wxl: I did have to recreate the 'andy' user, because it somehow got corrupted. So it may technically be the 'second' user as far as this thing is concerned. (Although I don't know how it determines that)
[18:45] <wxl> but, the default is not necessarily currently logged uer
[18:46] <Dirkson> I would really rather keep the dirkson user around, so I can log in remotely and fix things for him.
[18:48] <Dirkson> wxl: Ah! It's the order in which users appear in the 'sudo' group of /etc/group
[18:49] <wxl> Dirkson: there ya go. pkexec is doing the heavy lifting, fwiw.
[18:50] <Dirkson> wxl: Interesting ^^ Thanks for walking through it with me - I would never have thought to check the groups file if you hadn't mentioned sudoers
[18:51] <wxl> Dirkson: as far as pkexec is concerned, i found that by looking at what grep Exec /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop was, which was synaptic-pkexec which is a shell script calling pkexec
[19:06] <pleia2> wxl: the jam wen't quite well! someone even showed up with another G4 Mac! Unfortunately we couldn't get it working in a live session (alternate booted, but he didn't want to install, just wanted to do live testing)  and he didn't know the specs of the machine to report the failure :\
[19:07] <wxl> pleia2: trusty or vivid?
[19:07] <pleia2> wxl: vivid
[19:07] <pleia2> my PPC G4 works fine, but it always does since I do testing here and there :)
[19:08] <wxl> pleia2: hm. curious. what exactly happened?
[19:08] <pleia2> get to standard boot> prompt in the cd, then black screen forever
[19:08] <wxl> pleia2: many thanks for that, by the way. i've got a new ppc machine being kicked down to me and i'm looking to give it to someone (or give them the g5 tower)
[19:09] <wxl> pleia2: sounds like graphic issues. did you try opening a virtual terminal?
[19:09] <pleia2> no, just tried using the alternate vo= whatever options in the boot menu
[19:09] <wxl> yeah that's probably your problem
[19:10] <wxl> basically if you get a blank screen (but not the old flashing cursor), try opening a virtual terminal. if you get one, it's definiately a grpahics issue
[19:10] <wxl> wherein the answer lies here somewhere https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#Configure_graphics
[19:10] <pleia2> good to know, I'll follow up with him to suggest it, the ctl+alt+f-key way to get to virt terminal?
[19:10] <wxl> yeah
[19:11] <pleia2> thanks :)
[19:11] <wxl> although i think in mac you have to add a key in there
[19:11] <wxl> command or something
[19:11] <wxl> it's been a while :)
[19:11]  * pleia2 nods
[19:11] <pleia2> I'll have a look
[19:11] <wxl> if the user has further problems, please have them get in touch
[19:18] <pleia2> will do :)