[12:18] <sim642> Why does my touchpad sensitivity change when I add a secondary monitor extended to my laptop?
[12:19] <sim642> Not sure if the values themselves change but it sure feels much different
[12:24] <AppAraat> hello, 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) ?
[12:50] <bazhang> AppAraat, and do what after that
[12:52] <AppAraat> bazhang: use it to start a web-browser and fill in some Google Forms.
[12:53] <bazhang> AppAraat, tried it yet?
[12:55] <bazhang> not clear how thats related to removing the usb stick
[12:56] <AppAraat> I 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.
[12:57] <AppAraat> I 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] <bazhang> depends on much space in the ram is left I suppose
[12:58] <bazhang> I've heard of folks using a livecd/usb to boot and access their banks web for example
[13:00] <AppAraat> the 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.
[13:01] <flocculant> I think you need to use toram as an option, then you should be able to remove the stick
[13:03] <flocculant> let me try
[13:07] <AppAraat> flocculant: do I have to add "toram" in the part where there's also "quiet" and "splash" are written?
[13:07] <flocculant> AppAraat: well that appeared to work - and yes
[13:08] <flocculant> once it got to dekstop - I removed stick, then went to webbrowser and my bank
[13:09] <flocculant> toram after the --- worked
[13:09] <AppAraat> oh after the ---
[13:10] <AppAraat> ok let me try that, because everything is crashing now :p
[13:10] <flocculant> :)
[13:10] <flocculant> have to say I only tested quickly
[13:14] <AppAraat> heh nope, everything still crashing :p
[13:14] <AppAraat> http://i.imgur.com/VO35Cjk.png
[13:15] <flocculant> brb
[13:21] <flocculant> AppAraat: so I booted got to the kb/human icons - hit a key, F6, esc, typed toram to the showing boot line
[13:22] <flocculant> let 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 things
[13:22] <flocculant> so it appears to work here for sure
[13:23] <AppAraat> flocculant: like this? http://imgur.com/Fbn5efu
[13:24] <flocculant> yea
[13:26] <AppAraat> I 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] <flocculant> nope
[13:26] <flocculant> I opened the menu to run a bunch of things ;)
[13:27] <flocculant> I let the desktop load up properly before I remove the stick
[13:28] <AppAraat> at least, that's what I get on a VM running xubuntu-15.10-desktop-amd64.iso
[13:28] <AppAraat> (and 2GB of RAM)
[13:28] <AppAraat> flocculant: how do you remove the stick btw?
[13:28] <flocculant> I'm not doing this in a vm ... I'm doing this on hardware
[13:28] <flocculant> AppAraat: I grabbed it with my left hand and gave a sharp tug :D
[13:29] <AppAraat> yep, similar to what I'm doing (only virtually) :p
[13:30] <flocculant> AppAraat: 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 ram
[13:30] <flocculant> and does vm 'ram' actually behave the same as real ram?
[13:34] <AppAraat> good points, I should try on real system.
[13:36] <flocculant> yea - that is what you apparently wanted to know :)
[13:37] <AppAraat> it's just that I thought that virtual machines would behave like well... real machines :p
[13:37] <flocculant> :)
[13:59] <AppAraat> well it's a party without toram :D
[13:59] <AppAraat> everything freezes
[13:59] <AppAraat> now let's try it _with_ toram
[14:08] <AppAraat> ok, well. Everything seems to work all right :)
[14:10] <flocculant> funny you should say that ;)
[14:10] <knome> as long as you don't boot...
[14:14] <AppAraat> and even then, it's just a boot from a USB stick away :p
[14:14] <flocculant> heh
[14:14] <AppAraat> this power manager indicator can't seem to go away though lol
[14:21] <AppAraat> meh, I'll just kill the indicator
[16:35] <VampiricPada> Hi, 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)
[16:40] <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?
[16:52] <xubuntu56w> hello?
[17:01] <xubuntu56w> hello?
[17:01] <xubuntu56w> Halp?
[17:02] <xubuntu56w> can anyone help me?
[17:05] <xubuntu56w> can anyone please help me?
[18:13] <Darkon1957> how to connect iphone to xubuntu 15.10
[19:29] <sw0rdfish> Hello folks. About to join the family now
[19:29] <sw0rdfish> just setup my usb to be ready to install xubuntu on my old laptop with 1GB RAM
[19:31] <sw0rdfish> how do I do an md5 check
[19:39] <knome> !md5
[19:44] <sw0rdfish> done
[19:55] <sw0rdfish> knome there is no need for an installation guide right?
[19:56] <sw0rdfish> its supposed to be self-guiding
[19:56] <xubuntu00w> helllloo?
[19:56] <xubuntu00w> can someone help me turn my webcam on lol
[19:57] <xubuntu00w> please im dying
[19:57] <xubuntu00w> HELLLO
[19:58] <joetastic> Turn 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 screen
[19:58] <xubuntu00w> Thank you!
[19:59] <knome> sw0rdfish, pretty much so, if you aren't interested in doing something a little bit weirder
[19:59] <joetastic> if cheese isn't installed type "sudo apt-get install cheese"
[20:00] <andyfied> advice for life
[20:01] <xubuntu00w> I'm really sorry, I'm really horrible with technology.
[20:01] <xubuntu00w> Type it into what
[20:01] <joetastic> terminal
[20:04] <xubuntu00w> it says im not in the sudoers file
[20:05] <joetastic> try: su -
[20:06] <joetastic> su with a dash should let you type in your root password
[20:07] <xubuntu00w> typed in password, says authorization denied. is a root password different than my normal password?
[20:07] <xubuntu00w> im amish so....
[20:07] <joetastic> when you set up the system is asks for both
[20:08] <xubuntu00w> well kiss my grits my brother set this demon spawn machine up
[20:08] <flocculant> joetastic: no it doesn't - you must be talking about a different os
[20:08] <xubuntu00w> thanks anyway
[20:08] <joetastic> you could try using the ubuntu package manager
[20:08] <flocculant> xubuntu00w: you won't have a root password with xubuntu
[20:09] <well_laid_lawn> !root
[20:09] <joetastic> why wouldn't he be in the sudoers file
[20:10] <flocculant> joetastic: 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 have
[20:10] <joetastic> if he doesn't have the admin password he's got bigger problems than a netcam
[20:11] <well_laid_lawn> the first user created is automatically added to the sudoers, the rest have to be manually added to the wheel group
[20:11] <flocculant> yes I know
[20:11] <flocculant> none will have su set up
[20:13] <joetastic> root password recovery on xubuntu http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
[20:21] <flocculant> password recovery using a root recovery session - not setting a root password
[20:22] <flocculant> joetastic: unless someone goes out of their way to set root password - it's not there
[21:05] <internetman> does 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.
[21:53] <well_laid_lawn> tried the buttons on the front of the monitor ?
[22:08] <internetman> well_laid_lawn: they work :D
[22:12] <well_laid_lawn> :)
[22:51] <jpt9> Just installed Xubuntu on a hand-me-down ThinkPad X220.  I've played with it on desktops before, but not laptops...
[22:52] <jpt9> Is 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.
[22:56] <pleia2> jpt9: 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)
[22:58] <jpt9> pleia2: Hmm... lemme poke around in sysfs...
[23:00] <jpt9> Huh.  scaling_governor for at least cpu0 is still at powersave, even when plugged in.
[23:02] <jpt9> And ondemand isn't listed as one of the available ones.