| watsoncomputers | gonna reboot again | 00:00 |
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| watsoncomputers | ok I am at the UbuntuGnome menu screen under other options I have Expert mode, acpi=off, noapic, nolapic, edd=on, nodmraid, nomodeset, Free software only | 00:02 |
| manokara | nomodeset didn't work before, right? | 00:03 |
| watsoncomputers | I guess this is grub because I have no mouse just keyboard controls | 00:04 |
| watsoncomputers | I got a terminal window and then startx | 00:04 |
| watsoncomputers | at least I had some functionality of the desktop | 00:05 |
| watsoncomputers | you said start shell? | 00:05 |
| manokara | gnome-shell | 00:05 |
| manokara | instead of startx | 00:05 |
| watsoncomputers | ok let's see what that brings | 00:06 |
| watsoncomputers | Error: gdk_mir_display_open | 00:09 |
| manokara | oh noes | 00:09 |
| manokara | did it hang? | 00:10 |
| manokara | errors usually happen when booting | 00:10 |
| watsoncomputers | Faile to connect to Mir: Failed to connect to server socket: No such file or directory | 00:10 |
| watsoncomputers | Window manager error: Unagle to ope X display | 00:10 |
| watsoncomputers | back to prompt | 00:11 |
| manokara | :/ | 00:11 |
| watsoncomputers | yea rall bummer | 00:11 |
| watsoncomputers | I don't see what's all the hype about gnome | 00:11 |
| manokara | it's the extensions, i guess | 00:12 |
| watsoncomputers | Well I'll never know about them at this rate | 00:12 |
| watsoncomputers | hehe | 00:13 |
| manokara | http://i.imgur.com/GHqAgwQ.jpg - a little of those extensions | 00:14 |
| manokara | network meter, translator, botto mdock | 00:15 |
| manokara | it's pretty customizable | 00:15 |
| watsoncomputers | I don't know If you watch Youtube but Logan of Tek Syndicate has a gnome desktop with games and video production software running three montors with Nvida cards | 00:15 |
| manokara | i do watch youtube, but don't know about that channel, hehe | 00:16 |
| watsoncomputers | And He just switched to Linux | 00:16 |
| manokara | i have a dual monitor setup with nvidia cards | 00:16 |
| manokara | steam, some games | 00:16 |
| manokara | once you get used to linux you don't want to leave it :) | 00:17 |
| watsoncomputers | Go to TekSyndicate.com and you'll see the video there too got a good forum going on there. But It's some high level stuff and GAMES | 00:17 |
| manokara | oh yea, GAMES \o/ | 00:18 |
| manokara | not much of a gamer tho, just play casually | 00:18 |
| watsoncomputers | I am running Ubuntu-desktop on this machine and loving it. Gave the USB stick to a friend and he installed it dual boot on his windows machine right from the usb. | 00:19 |
| watsoncomputers | Now he's diving into ubuntu | 00:20 |
| manokara | awesome :D | 00:20 |
| watsoncomputers | Yea, but I think Unity is a challenge for his hardware he says it's a bit slow | 00:21 |
| watsoncomputers | so I was looking for lighter weight desktops | 00:21 |
| manokara | in my case I didn't like unity look very much, and it was very buggy in the past | 00:21 |
| manokara | maybe it is stable now | 00:21 |
| manokara | if you really want lightweight desktops and don't care too much about effects and such, lxde or xfce are good ones | 00:22 |
| watsoncomputers | Knock on wood 14.10 is working well on and AMD Fusion e351 cpu | 00:22 |
| watsoncomputers | my baby rig, I am building a multi-media production pc and Need a reliable desktop | 00:24 |
| manokara | i see | 00:24 |
| watsoncomputers | Maybe Unity is it or something else but I've only really seen 3 so far | 00:24 |
| manokara | maybe KDE | 00:25 |
| watsoncomputers | Krita, and kdenlive run on this box so I just wanted a lighter desktop if possible | 00:26 |
| watsoncomputers | Thing is If logan uses it then It must be the real shit, cause he already has Adobe and windows | 00:27 |
| watsoncomputers | And it's his full time job on youtube | 00:29 |
| manokara | it's all about hardware | 00:29 |
| manokara | when I went to the store buy the pieces for this box, I had to be very selective to see parts linux compatible | 00:30 |
| manokara | if I got home and it didn't work, well, it'd be bad :P | 00:30 |
| manokara | I had a Radeon 7790 first, bought a GTX 650 to use CUDA with Blender | 00:31 |
| manokara | but then, the cuda kernel doesn't compile | 00:31 |
| manokara | haha | 00:31 |
| manokara | but this card is more stable than the other one, so it's ok | 00:32 |
| manokara | i'm watching the vid now, that's a nice rig | 00:33 |
| watsoncomputers | I am very concerned with that too but I am committed to amd 970 chipset mb, FX-9590 cpu, SSD's and at least 8T of HD storage. Two hot swappable drive bays | 00:33 |
| manokara | :o | 00:34 |
| watsoncomputers | Looking at Sapphire 8gig 970x Vapor X | 00:35 |
| manokara | i think i'll make some money selling games on steam and upgrade my box :P | 00:35 |
| watsoncomputers | That's a safe bet, like porn, games sell | 00:35 |
| manokara | yep | 00:35 |
| watsoncomputers | be an indi developer and make a name for your self | 00:35 |
| manokara | that's what i am planning | 00:36 |
| watsoncomputers | Logan promotes indi games alot | 00:36 |
| manokara | i went to 3 part time job interviews, and didn't pass in any of them :/ | 00:36 |
| watsoncomputers | Join the forum | 00:36 |
| watsoncomputers | You may find some eger alpha testers on the linux forum | 00:37 |
| manokara | I wanted to make games for the 3 platforms, but I haven't had much success setting up a Mac VM | 00:37 |
| watsoncomputers | No worries mate, Go to www.workmarket.com and get a gig | 00:37 |
| manokara | that's because I have AMD cpu | 00:37 |
| watsoncomputers | you work for your self | 00:38 |
| manokara | hmm, it seems interesting | 00:38 |
| watsoncomputers | like linux, small learning curve to make yourself known | 00:38 |
| manokara | but I need to keep up to date with what's going on if I wanted to still be known | 00:40 |
| watsoncomputers | but I have been paying the bills the last 4 yrs and it helps being indi to have something coming in you can count on even if it' like part time but pay's like full time. | 00:40 |
| manokara | what do you work with? games? | 00:40 |
| watsoncomputers | I do hardware integration, networking, windows obviously | 00:41 |
| watsoncomputers | don't know a lick of code | 00:41 |
| manokara | hmm, nice | 00:41 |
| manokara | I know some code but I need the will to actually finish something, hehe | 00:42 |
| manokara | the good and old procrastination | 00:42 |
| watsoncomputers | hey xauth: file /home/ubuntu-gnome/.Xauthority does not exist | 00:42 |
| watsoncomputers | I typed in --help after startx and got that before the usage screen | 00:43 |
| manokara | this doesn't seem critical | 00:44 |
| manokara | still nothing? | 00:44 |
| watsoncomputers | well I was looking to see what options if any I might have with startx | 00:46 |
| manokara | commonly one does it like this: startx -- :0 (or :1) | 00:47 |
| watsoncomputers | some I get -fs size -fi fontname | 00:47 |
| manokara | those two are for the raw X environment I believe | 00:48 |
| watsoncomputers | ok | 00:48 |
| watsoncomputers | let's try | 00:49 |
| manokara | i'll have to be afk for a bit, good luck there o/ | 00:49 |
| watsoncomputers | ok thanks | 00:50 |
| darkxst | watsoncomputers, the live cd's dont use grub | 01:18 |
| darkxst | if you hit a key at the very first screen | 01:18 |
| darkxst | you should be able to select some boot options with one of the F keys | 01:19 |
| darkxst | possibly F6 | 01:20 |
| watsoncomputers | Yes, I did f6 nomodeset and got a blank desktop but it had a number 3 in the upper left corner so using settings display I combined them and now have a functioning desktop | 01:38 |
| watsoncomputers | just getting use to moving around in it, I did find tweek tools | 01:39 |
| watsoncomputers | a lot to learn about moving around | 01:40 |
| watsoncomputers | and the tweeks them selves | 01:40 |
| smallfoot- | Anyone working on getting GNOME Shell to work on Ubuntu? | 18:10 |
| smallfoot- | You can install the gnome-session-wayland package | 18:10 |
| ahoneybun | darkxst: hey who is the person who works on your guys slideshow in ubiquity? | 19:06 |
| FunnyLookinHat | Anyone else here running 15.04? I'm having a randomly occurring issue where a window grabs focus and won't let go - the only way to get to a window behind it is to control + alt + arrow to another workspace and then alt-tab back into the original workspace. | 20:24 |
| Noskcaj | smallfoot-, Doesn't gnome-shell work now? | 21:16 |
| smallfoot- | Noskcaj, it did work some week ago when using Upstart. Then Ubuntu transitioned to systemd. Since then, I haven't gotten it to work. | 21:45 |
| smallfoot- | $ sudo apt-get install gnome-session-wayland | 21:45 |
| smallfoot- | $ gnome-session --session=gnome-wayland | 21:46 |
| smallfoot- | $ service gdm start | 21:46 |
| smallfoot- | Anyone can run GNOME on Wayland on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet? | 21:55 |
| darkxst | smallfoot I'm not aware of any issues caused by the systemd transition | 22:11 |
| darkxst | smallfoot-, just select the "gnome on wayland" session from gdm | 22:13 |
| smallfoot- | darkxst, when I start Ubuntu (not Ubuntu-GNOME) what starts is LightDM | 22:50 |
| smallfoot- | However, I can type "service gdm start" to start gdm, but then GDM kinda freezes and i cant use it | 22:50 |
| darkxst | smallfoot-, dpkg-reconfigure gdm | 22:51 |
| smallfoot- | thanks | 22:52 |
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