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| cajuntechie | Hello everyone. I have a quick question: How do I change my desktop wallpaper on 14.04? Following the SETTINGS->DESKTOP method I can't do it. Every image displayed in folders is grayed out and unselectable. | 02:35 |
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| Luyin | cajuntechie: perhaps a permissions problem? where are your wallpapers? | 02:43 |
| cajuntechie | Luyin, I am putting them in ~/Pictures/Wallpapers | 02:45 |
| Luyin | cajuntechie: show output of "ls -l ~/Pictures/Wallpapers" then, please | 02:45 |
| cajuntechie | One sec. Doing it now | 02:52 |
| genii | maybe they are -r | 02:52 |
| Luyin | genii: about to find that out ;) | 02:54 |
| cajuntechie | Well, ls -l gives me nothing. But ls -la gives me this: anthony@osiris:~/Pictures$ ls -la ~/Pictures/Wallpapers | 02:54 |
| cajuntechie | total 1044 | 02:54 |
| cajuntechie | drwxrwxr-x 2 anthony anthony 4096 Jan 29 20:53 . | 02:54 |
| cajuntechie | drwxr-xr-x 3 anthony anthony 4096 Jan 29 20:53 .. | 02:54 |
| cajuntechie | -rw-rw-r-- 1 anthony anthony 1060369 Jan 16 18:02 fullmoon.jpg | 02:54 |
| cajuntechie | Sorry for the big paste | 02:54 |
| cajuntechie | I thought that looked good. Maybe I'm reading perms wrong? | 02:54 |
| Luyin | hmm nothing serious there. looks good | 02:54 |
| cajuntechie | Very weird then | 02:55 |
| cajuntechie | BAck to research then. Thanks for taking a shot! | 02:55 |
| Luyin | cajuntechie: btw, there are paste services, whcih you can find in the channel topic ;) | 02:55 |
| cajuntechie | I know that. For some reason my brain just crapped on that paste and I didn't even think about them lol | 02:56 |
| genii | What does: file ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/fullmoon.jpg say? | 02:57 |
| cajuntechie | genii, you mean permissions on it? | 02:57 |
| genii | no | 02:57 |
| cajuntechie | What do you mean then? | 02:58 |
| genii | I mean literally the command called "file" | 02:58 |
| cajuntechie | Says it's a JPEG Image Data, JFIF standrd 1.01 | 02:58 |
| cajuntechie | Looks normal :-( | 02:58 |
| Luyin | cajuntechie: have you upgraded to the latest kernel and xfce version available for xubuntu? | 03:01 |
| cajuntechie | Well, Luyin, I've done a regular update this morning so I'm assuming I have the latest releases. I do regular updates. | 03:02 |
| genii | Have you rebooted since the last update? | 03:02 |
| cajuntechie | My kernal is 3.19.0-47. And yep, I've rebooted. | 03:03 |
| cajuntechie | kernel rather | 03:03 |
| Luyin | cajuntechie: please try this: open your preferred desktop picture (e. g. fullmoon.jpg) in an image viewer, and see if you can "set this as wallpaper" there | 03:05 |
| Luyin | it should also be possible to just select this via right-click in thunar | 03:05 |
| cajuntechie | Ahh, let me try that | 03:07 |
| cajuntechie | Wow, I'm a total idiot. That worked. Something that simple. Sheesh! Thanks lol | 03:08 |
| genii | Even if that works, still very curious problem that it cannot be done from settings | 03:08 |
| Luyin | yupp, I agree with genii | 03:09 |
| Luyin | well, glad you have at least a workaround | 03:09 |
| cajuntechie | Indeed it is. I wonder if I should dig deeper and maybe file a bug... | 03:09 |
| cajuntechie | Though I guess it wouldn't help really | 03:09 |
| Luyin | the thing is, how did it come up | 03:10 |
| Luyin | do you have some special setup, like multi monitors or something? special hardware perhaps? | 03:10 |
| cajuntechie | Nope, not at all. Just on a Dell laptop. I might install it on another pc and see what I get. Start with fresh logs and dig until I find out what's up | 03:11 |
| Luyin | well, good luck with that :) | 03:15 |
| genii | Maybe bug 11021 | 03:17 |
| ubottu | bug 11021 in openoffice.org (Ubuntu) "openoffice.org: fails to install" [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/11021 | 03:17 |
| * genii smacks the bot | 03:17 | |
| genii | https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11021 | 03:18 |
| ubottu | bugzilla.xfce.org bug 11021 in General "4.11 desktop settings does not like the "." in my monitor name." [Normal,Resolved: fixed] | 03:18 |
| Afdal | Does anyone know where I can find the default xfce4-desktop.xml file for Xubuntu 14.04 Trusty? | 03:26 |
| Afdal | Really don't wanna open up an ISO just to get at this one file | 03:26 |
| rww | package xubuntu-default-settings, downloadable at http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/all/xubuntu-default-settings/download , deb files can be unarchived with the `ar` command, path to file is /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml | 03:28 |
| Afdal | hmmm | 03:31 |
| Afdal | ar -x blahblah.deb? | 03:32 |
| Afdal | wait no | 03:33 |
| Afdal | how do you work this kajigger | 03:33 |
| RoadRunner | where, in xubuntu's file system do the binaries of apps install to? | 03:37 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: /usr/bin | 03:37 |
| Afdal | ah, figured it out | 03:41 |
| Afdal | thanks rww :) | 03:41 |
| rww | you're welcome :) | 03:42 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: can't find them all here; for example, no Thunderbird | 03:44 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: you can find the location of a specific package with "which packagename", e. g. "which thunderbird", which will give you "/usr/sbin/thunderbird" (mark the "s" in "sbin") | 03:46 |
| rww | unrelated to package. which looks for files in general. you can see the executable contents of installed packages with something like dpkg -L weechat-curses | grep bin | 03:47 |
| rww | assuming they went in /usr/bin or /bin or /usr/sbin or /sbin or somewhere else binny | 03:47 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: in my case, "which thunderbird" gave me "/usr/bin/thunderbird" (no "s") but I can't see TB in either bin OR sbin | 03:53 |
| RoadRunner | same for firefox, for example... | 03:54 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: what are you trying to achieve? | 03:54 |
| RoadRunner | just want to see where things go | 03:54 |
| RoadRunner | upon instal | 03:54 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: if the "which" command is pointing me to a directory, why am I not seeing the binary there? | 03:55 |
| Luyin | how are you trying to view the contents of /usr/bin? | 03:56 |
| RoadRunner | in Thunar | 03:57 |
| RoadRunner | file manager... | 03:58 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: ? | 04:00 |
| Luyin | can't reproduce that. I see thunderbird and firefox in /usr/bin | 04:01 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: I can't see them even with hiden files... | 04:02 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: screenshot pls | 04:03 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: all I can find is a link file "link to ..lib/firefox/firefox.sh" - not a binary/executable (still want that screenshot?) | 04:09 |
| Luyin | ... and what exactly is the problem with that link? | 04:11 |
| RoadRunner | no problem, but where is the exec? | 04:12 |
| Luyin | take a look at the linked file | 04:15 |
| RoadRunner | unfortunately not the whole path is given... | 04:19 |
| RoadRunner | where is ...lib? | 04:19 |
| Luyin | use ls -l /usr/bin/firefox to find out | 04:21 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: sorry for newbie questions, but the above command just gave me " ..lib/firefox/firefox.sh" again | 04:24 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: hope I am not being excessively dense here, but I am really not finding it... | 04:29 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: run "find /usr/ -name "firefox*" | 04:31 |
| Luyin | oh and ignore output telling you that you don't have permissions | 04:31 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: all I got there was ">" with nothing else | 04:32 |
| Luyin | ah sry | 04:33 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: run "find /usr/ -name "firefox*"" (double " " at the end) | 04:33 |
| Luyin | that is, the whole command should look like: | 04:33 |
| Luyin | find /usr/ -name "firefox*" | 04:33 |
| Luyin | sry, my capabilities of expression suffer from it being half past 5 in the morning ;) | 04:34 |
| RoadRunner | :) then I appreciate your help especially ! | 04:35 |
| krytarik | "/usr/bin/firefox -> ../lib/firefox/firefox.sh" - one directory up, then go from there. | 04:36 |
| Luyin | oh that was only two dots? | 04:37 |
| Luyin | I didn't see that | 04:37 |
| Afdal | oh hay | 04:37 |
| Afdal | since you guise at talkin about Firefox | 04:37 |
| Afdal | Hey does anyone know how to set Firefox's default preferences? | 04:38 |
| Afdal | as in, before OS installation | 04:38 |
| Afdal | where are those settings stored... if they're stored | 04:38 |
| Luyin | Afdal: you can reset firefox to its default settings via the help menu in FF itself | 04:38 |
| Afdal | oh sorry I didn't articulate that very well | 04:39 |
| Luyin | or, if you prefer to handle files manually (which I wouldn't recommend): ~/.mozilla/firefox | 04:39 |
| Afdal | I want to modify the default settings for a custom installation :) | 04:39 |
| Afdal | I think the .mozilla folder is user-based so it's not gonna work | 04:39 |
| Afdal | I'm making a modified Xubuntu liveCD | 04:40 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: krytarik: I found it! but the file is labeled not as exec but as a shell script, that's why I sailed by it... why is this not an exec and/or why aren't all app execs not in one place to be found conviniently? | 04:40 |
| krytarik | RoadRunner: This qualifies as an "exec" for me: "-rwxr-xr-x ... /usr/lib/firefox/firefox.sh". | 04:43 |
| RoadRunner | krytarik: and the 2nd part of my question? | 04:44 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: did you look INTO the file? | 04:46 |
| Luyin | like opening it with an editor/pager? | 04:46 |
| Luyin | e. g. "less lib/firefox/firefox.sh" | 04:46 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: yes, it is described as an app launcher bla, bla, bla... | 04:46 |
| RoadRunner | they said something about an ease of migration, I guess it didn't make much sense to my linux virgin brain | 04:47 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: and does it say something about a file it executes? | 04:47 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: I still fail to see why you're looking into this. is there something wrong with your firefox installation? | 04:48 |
| RoadRunner | Luyin: ok, I'd say we've persued this far enough :), my firefox is fine; what I am having problems with is my Cairo-dock | 04:49 |
| RoadRunner | where, when I try to drag app icons onto it | 04:49 |
| RoadRunner | the icons are replaced with generic sys icons | 04:49 |
| RoadRunner | http://imgur.com/DF5fq8m | 04:50 |
| RoadRunner | so I thought its because I am draging desktop objects and not actual execs | 04:50 |
| krytarik | RoadRunner: Ftm, http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html | 04:50 |
| RoadRunner | krytarik: thank you for this, I was looking for a more in depth explanation than just a picture with just the 1st level dirs :) | 04:52 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: I see there IS firefox in your dock, so what's the problem? | 04:57 |
| Luyin | RoadRunner: also, read this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard | 04:57 |
| RoadRunner | thank you for fs hierarchy help, now lets move on to Cairo: I want to add app icons not to the dock itself but to its stack docklet | 04:59 |
| RoadRunner | please note that on this picture http://i.imgur.com/5cMDfOk.png the menu of the docklet shown is showing no icons and you can see how draging firefox from diff places produced diff results but none produced its icon | 05:06 |
| RoadRunner | krytarik: would you like to help me with this :) ? | 05:09 |
| krytarik | RoadRunner: So it's an error in Cairo Dock - I already mentioned #cairo-dock earlier, and they might have other support venues and a bug tracker as well. | 05:29 |
| RoadRunner | I posted this question in their channel as well, but not too many people there; since I just upgraded to its latest ver (3.4) I thought if this was a bug - it would be a big one and it would get picked up bfr this release; perhaps I am just missing some way to do this... | 05:32 |
| krytarik | RoadRunner: Since it seems that the Stacks plugin is actually meant for files, rather than application launchers, I'd think that if you make the respective .desktop files executable (+x), it should work. | 05:57 |
| RoadRunner | krytarik: sorry, I didn't get that, +x ? | 06:01 |
| krytarik | RoadRunner: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/en/man1/chmod.1.html | 06:02 |
| RoadRunner | this sounds pretty involved, I'll have a read through with a clearer head, bud I doubt that's what cairo creators had in mind; their thing should be simple to use | 06:04 |
| RoadRunner | krytarik: oh, and if I understood you right: the files you see in the docklet of my image, don't have correct icons but they DO launch correct apps | 06:10 |
| krytarik | RoadRunner: Yep, I was just referring to the icons. | 06:14 |
| RoadRunner | krytarik: sorry, had to step out; where do icons from apps reside in fs? | 07:03 |
| krytarik | RoadRunner: You want the launchers, not the icons - generally, system-wide in '/usr/share/applications', and user-specific in '~/.local/share/applications'. | 07:14 |
| krytarik | Also, this might come in handy at some point: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ | 07:16 |
| RoadRunner | "generally, system-wide in '/usr/share/applications', and user-specific in '~/.local/share/applications'." so these are locations for icons or for launchers? | 07:18 |
| krytarik | Launchers are the ones with ".desktop" at the end. | 07:21 |
| RoadRunner | is there a way to change an icon for a launcher? | 07:23 |
| krytarik | Look at the link I just posted. | 07:24 |
| RoadRunner | already got it bookmarked, thank you as usual :) (there's much there, it'll take me a while to go through it all, but if the answer is there - great!) | 07:27 |
| RoadRunner | and for now, time to sleep, thanks again and talk to you later :) | 07:28 |
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| XubUserSp1984 | quit() | 09:39 |
| XubUserSp1984 | exit | 09:39 |
| XubUserSp1984 | Hi | 09:41 |
| XubUserSp1984 | A new Xubuntu user from Spain | 09:41 |
| XubUserSp1984 | I'm using 14.04 LTS. It's fine. I like it. No troubles at the moment | 09:44 |
| === nick23413241324 is now known as `qq | ||
| RockLee | Hey guys, I've been searching around for a remedy for USB 3.0 slow transfer speeds on Xubuntu 14.04, but I'm still where I started. Does anyone know a workaround? | 15:21 |
| xzgv | hi all | 16:03 |
| xzgv | I tried to install xubuntu, i chose to partition, but the bootloader has only offers one choice - /dev/sda - no good - i need the option ( no bootloader) i got 2 other distros installed with grub on the first one. is there something i am not seeing? | 16:06 |
| xzgv | grub on the first distro | 16:07 |
| xzgv | trying to install xubuntu 14.04-3 | 16:09 |
| pencilandpaper | The installer doesn't have the "other" option xzgv ? | 16:17 |
| pencilandpaper | Where you can manually choose your partition? | 16:17 |
| pencilandpaper | Then let it run through the install until it asks where you want grub installed, and to choose not to install it? | 16:17 |
| xzgv | pencilandpaper, just /dev/sda | 16:19 |
| xzgv | let it install, and then there is another option to say NO to grub install? | 16:20 |
| pencilandpaper | Not so much letting it install, but its after choosing the "other" option so that you can manually choose your partition that you want xubuntu installed to I believe. | 16:20 |
| pencilandpaper | You don't want Xubuntu controlling grub right? | 16:20 |
| xzgv | no | 16:21 |
| xzgv | i would lose the other 2 distros | 16:21 |
| pencilandpaper | How would you lose the other two distro's..Xubuntu's grub will see the other two distro's. What are the other two distro's if you don't mind me asking? | 16:22 |
| xzgv | antix and vectorlinux | 16:23 |
| pencilandpaper | Those should be seen by Xubuntu's grub bro. After installation, boot in to Xubuntu and run: sudo update-grub | 16:24 |
| xzgv | i already got grub on antix (first distro) no bootloader on vector | 16:24 |
| pencilandpaper | right, thats a debian based distro..they always allow for that option. I use it as well..to opt out of grub being installed. :) So I feel you..but I think that Xubuntu's grub will see those other two distro's and you should be able to choose what you want to boot in to. | 16:25 |
| pencilandpaper | The order just may not be how you want it in the grub menu. | 16:25 |
| xzgv | i don't care about the order just want the 3 of them to show | 16:26 |
| xzgv | I don't want to end up with just xubuntu and miss the other 2 | 16:26 |
| pencilandpaper | It should see them for you xzgv , go for it..and if it doesn't see them. Then we can figure it all out man. | 16:27 |
| pencilandpaper | BUT..remember to boot in to Xubuntu and run: sudo update-grub | 16:27 |
| pencilandpaper | If they aren't seen initially after installation that is how to get the other two distro's to be seen. | 16:27 |
| pencilandpaper | I have to restart soon, I just ran updates and a new kernel was installed. | 16:28 |
| xzgv | yeah, that's what i did with antix to make vector appear in the menu | 16:28 |
| pencilandpaper | I'm over here running a unstable version of Xubuntu..just to watch it update in to stable. :) | 16:28 |
| pencilandpaper | Nice xzgv . | 16:28 |
| pencilandpaper | System: Host: ijotlines-Latitude-E6320 Kernel: 4.4.0-2-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 | 16:28 |
| pencilandpaper | Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial | 16:28 |
| pencilandpaper | :) | 16:28 |
| pencilandpaper | Brb. | 16:28 |
| pencilandpaper | Nice, everything went ok. :) | 16:33 |
| pencilandpaper | Brb. | 16:33 |
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| Slide_ | Hello ! | 22:43 |
| chem | I recently switched from Mint to Xubuntu 15.10, and I can't figure out how to get permissions to work. Specifically, I can't get Plex Media Server access to a mounted 2nd hard drive. Can anyone help? | 22:48 |
| knome | how did you get it to work in mint? | 22:50 |
| chem | I followed the top answer here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/395291/plex-media-server-wont-find-media-external-hard-drive | 22:51 |
| knome | have you tried to follow that guide on xubuntu? | 22:54 |
| chem | Yes, doesn't work | 22:55 |
| oswin | join/ #xubuntu-fr | 22:58 |
| oswin | join/ #fedora-fr | 22:58 |
| krytarik | chem: That depends on the permissions on the concerning HDD, of course. | 23:00 |
| chem | krytarik: how do you mean? | 23:01 |
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| === nome is now known as knome | ||
| thoma | Hi. Anyone have experienced problem with xfce4-terminal + solarized colors palette and vim? I see that colors are reversed for dark and for light theme. If I'll select light solarized colorscheme for xfce4-terminal, and then light solarized colorscheme for vim, it turns out that I have dark solarized colorscheme in vim. When I set dark solarized colorscheme for vim, it gives me light version. What the heck? | 23:20 |
| knome | thoma, since you specifically ask about xfce4-terminal, have you checked if this happens with other terminal emulators? | 23:24 |
| thoma | knome: I didn't, but I guess it's okay with other term emulators, since people don't post this kind of problems with xterm for example | 23:48 |
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