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sim642Why does my touchpad sensitivity change when I add a secondary monitor extended to my laptop?12:18
sim642Not sure if the values themselves change but it sure feels much different12:19
AppAraathello, I'm wondering the following: Can I cache the contents of the liveCD image to RAM so that I can remove the disk or USB stick after I've loaded the live environment onto a machine (with 4GB of RAM) ?12:24
bazhangAppAraat, and do what after that12:50
AppAraatbazhang: use it to start a web-browser and fill in some Google Forms.12:52
bazhangAppAraat, tried it yet?12:53
bazhangnot clear how thats related to removing the usb stick12:55
AppAraatI can only try it on a VM right now and I don't know as to how far it would be applied to a real machine. During my last experimentation with live environments, I can't recall which flavor of Ubuntu it was, but after removing the USB stick (where the live image, from which the machine booted from was stored on), the system froze.12:56
AppAraatI interpreted that as the live environment not being able to read some important files for operation from the place where they were stored (the USB stick in my case)12:57
bazhangdepends on much space in the ram is left I suppose12:57
bazhangI've heard of folks using a livecd/usb to boot and access their banks web for example12:58
AppAraatthe thing I'm trying to do is to set up a live environment on 40+ machines, but I only have 1 USB stick. Hence I was thinking of using it only to load the live environment on the machine and then unplug the USB stick to load up another on a different machine.13:00
flocculantI think you need to use toram as an option, then you should be able to remove the stick13:01
flocculantlet me try13:03
AppAraatflocculant: do I have to add "toram" in the part where there's also "quiet" and "splash" are written?13:07
flocculantAppAraat: well that appeared to work - and yes13:07
flocculantonce it got to dekstop - I removed stick, then went to webbrowser and my bank13:08
flocculanttoram after the --- worked13:09
AppAraatoh after the ---13:09
AppAraatok let me try that, because everything is crashing now :p13:10
flocculant:)13:10
flocculanthave to say I only tested quickly13:10
AppAraatheh nope, everything still crashing :p13:14
AppAraathttp://i.imgur.com/VO35Cjk.png13:14
flocculantbrb13:15
flocculantAppAraat: so I booted got to the kb/human icons - hit a key, F6, esc, typed toram to the showing boot line13:21
flocculantlet it boot - which takes a while as it loads to ram - removed the stick, ran a bunch of things, logged out, logged in, ran a bunch of things13:22
flocculantso it appears to work here for sure13:22
AppAraatflocculant: like this? http://imgur.com/Fbn5efu13:23
flocculantyea13:24
AppAraatI think it still loads some stuff after booting. For example, I opening the menu has to be done before unmounting USB stick because it loads the files necessary to load the menu.13:26
flocculantnope13:26
flocculantI opened the menu to run a bunch of things ;)13:26
flocculantI let the desktop load up properly before I remove the stick13:27
AppAraatat least, that's what I get on a VM running xubuntu-15.10-desktop-amd64.iso13:28
AppAraat(and 2GB of RAM)13:28
AppAraatflocculant: how do you remove the stick btw?13:28
flocculantI'm not doing this in a vm ... I'm doing this on hardware13:28
flocculantAppAraat: I grabbed it with my left hand and gave a sharp tug :D13:28
AppAraatyep, similar to what I'm doing (only virtually) :p13:29
flocculantAppAraat: I would imagine that trying to do it in a vm is prone to issues - running a livesystem via the vm bit of ram that it's grabbed from the real ram13:30
flocculantand does vm 'ram' actually behave the same as real ram?13:30
AppAraatgood points, I should try on real system.13:34
flocculantyea - that is what you apparently wanted to know :)13:36
AppAraatit's just that I thought that virtual machines would behave like well... real machines :p13:37
flocculant:)13:37
AppAraatwell it's a party without toram :D13:59
AppAraateverything freezes13:59
AppAraatnow let's try it _with_ toram13:59
AppAraatok, well. Everything seems to work all right :)14:08
flocculantfunny you should say that ;)14:10
knomeas long as you don't boot...14:10
AppAraatand even then, it's just a boot from a USB stick away :p14:14
flocculantheh14:14
AppAraatthis power manager indicator can't seem to go away though lol14:14
AppAraatmeh, I'll just kill the indicator14:21
VampiricPadaHi, I had a issue over the weekend with my xubuntu install where I had to do chown to the .Xauthority/.ICEAuthority, but it now seems that I have lost sound options and it seems to be using the XFCE theme rather than the xubuntu-desktop theme. Anyone shed any light on this for me?16:35
VampiricPada(Xubuntu 15.10 btw)16:35
mariano_I'm using xubuntu 15.10, but I want to dual boot with Manjaro. I just purchased an SSD drive to install manjaro, but I want the xubuntu grub to stay in place in case the manjaro installation goes bad, is there a way to do this?16:40
xubuntu56whello?16:52
xubuntu56whello?17:01
xubuntu56wHalp?17:01
xubuntu56wcan anyone help me?17:02
xubuntu56wcan anyone please help me?17:05
Darkon1957how to connect iphone to xubuntu 15.1018:13
sw0rdfishHello folks. About to join the family now19:29
sw0rdfishjust setup my usb to be ready to install xubuntu on my old laptop with 1GB RAM19:29
sw0rdfishhow do I do an md5 check19:31
knome!md519:39
ubottuTo verify your Ubuntu ISO image (or other files for which an MD5 checksum is provided), see http://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM or http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LQ_ISO/Checking_the_md5sum_in_Windows19:39
sw0rdfishdone19:44
sw0rdfishknome there is no need for an installation guide right?19:55
sw0rdfishits supposed to be self-guiding19:56
xubuntu00whelllloo?19:56
xubuntu00wcan someone help me turn my webcam on lol19:56
xubuntu00wplease im dying19:57
xubuntu00wHELLLO19:57
joetasticTurn on the Xubuntu machine and it should detect the webcam. Launch the Terminal again, type "cheese" (without quotes) and press "Enter" to launch Cheese on your computer. Cheese will pick up the video signal from your webcam and you should be able to see the image on your screen19:58
xubuntu00wThank you!19:58
knomesw0rdfish, pretty much so, if you aren't interested in doing something a little bit weirder19:59
joetasticif cheese isn't installed type "sudo apt-get install cheese"19:59
andyfiedadvice for life20:00
xubuntu00wI'm really sorry, I'm really horrible with technology.20:01
xubuntu00wType it into what20:01
joetasticterminal20:01
xubuntu00wit says im not in the sudoers file20:04
joetastictry: su -20:05
joetasticsu with a dash should let you type in your root password20:06
xubuntu00wtyped in password, says authorization denied. is a root password different than my normal password?20:07
xubuntu00wim amish so....20:07
joetasticwhen you set up the system is asks for both20:07
xubuntu00wwell kiss my grits my brother set this demon spawn machine up20:08
flocculantjoetastic: no it doesn't - you must be talking about a different os20:08
xubuntu00wthanks anyway20:08
joetasticyou could try using the ubuntu package manager20:08
flocculantxubuntu00w: you won't have a root password with xubuntu20:08
well_laid_lawn!root20:09
ubottuDo not try to guess the root password, that is impossible. Instead, realise the truth... there is no root password. Then you will see that it is 'sudo' that grants you access and not the root password. Look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo20:09
joetasticwhy wouldn't he be in the sudoers file20:09
flocculantjoetastic: what is MUCH more likely is that whoever set it up for them added a new account and didn't set it up for sudo rights - now he won't know and has gone of looking for something he won't have20:10
joetasticif he doesn't have the admin password he's got bigger problems than a netcam20:10
well_laid_lawnthe first user created is automatically added to the sudoers, the rest have to be manually added to the wheel group20:11
flocculantyes I know20:11
flocculantnone will have su set up20:11
joetasticroot password recovery on xubuntu http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword20:13
flocculantpassword recovery using a root recovery session - not setting a root password20:21
flocculantjoetastic: unless someone goes out of their way to set root password - it's not there20:22
internetmandoes anyone have a tip when the screen does not go blank after the time i set in settings manager? none of the settings work, including suspend etc.21:05
well_laid_lawntried the buttons on the front of the monitor ?21:53
internetmanwell_laid_lawn: they work :D22:08
well_laid_lawn:)22:12
jpt9Just installed Xubuntu on a hand-me-down ThinkPad X220.  I've played with it on desktops before, but not laptops...22:51
jpt9Is there a way to adjust the CPU speed/power management settings?  The power manager settings has brightness, timeouts, security, etc, but doesn't seem to have anything for throttling the CPU speed when on battery.22:52
pleia2jpt9: there might be more generalized linux tools, but it's not something you can do from the settings menus (and I don't know about them)22:56
jpt9pleia2: Hmm... lemme poke around in sysfs...22:58
jpt9Huh.  scaling_governor for at least cpu0 is still at powersave, even when plugged in.23:00
jpt9And ondemand isn't listed as one of the available ones.23:02
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