[05:37] <alkisg> flexiondotorg: for large deployments, which version would you suggest? Which one is more supported? The stock 1.12 found in xenial, or 1.14 found in the PPA? If it's the second one, maybe we can file a bug report to backport it to xenial-backports?
[07:36] <raspberry>  hi, does anyone here know how to get ubuntu mate recognise homemade joystick? I connected my joystick to the raspberry via SPI and it works, but I need the system to know that it is a joystick and don't know how to achieve that
[07:39] <tiox> raspberry: Had you checked to see if it's a recognized xinput device?
[07:39] <tiox> xevent, rather.
[07:40] <tiox> Sorry, got my Microsofts and Linuxes mixed.
[07:42] <raspberry> I'm not sure if I understant you. When I type ls /dev/input in the terminal there is no joystick visible
[07:43] <tiox> You can also see if it appears in jstest-gtk; do 'sudo apt install jstest-gtk' and see if it shows when you run jstest-gtk
[07:43] <tiox> If it does not, there was another testing tool but I forgot exactly what it was.
[07:43] <raspberry> ok installing it right now
[07:45] <raspberry> in the screen Joystick Preferences I have no device
[07:45] <raspberry> doesn't that tool for USB joysticks only? because I have it connected via GPIO
[07:46] <tiox> ...Oh. Hrm. I have no experience with Pis, I just assumed you made it work via USB 2.0
[07:47] <raspberry> no, because the joysticks that I was given by my boss have to be connected to the GPIO and additionaly with a help of MCP3008
[07:47] <tiox> Hm. Well, had you read this article? https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi/buttons
[07:48] <raspberry> I think yes, because I'm searching info for about 3 days right now. The problem is that my device will not be for games, but for the drone control co articles about retro-gaming doesn't help much
[07:48] <tiox> It's not the most neutral of articles, since adafruit is pshing their software at the end after the build section but it should give you some idea.
[07:49] <raspberry> moreover from what I remember joysticks that are in those tutorials are connecter each button to its own GPIO which is also far different from what I have
[07:50] <tiox> https://www.google.com/search?q=control+a+drone+from+raspberry+pi+GPIO
[07:50] <tiox> Best thing I can give you.
[07:50] <tiox> I have zero expertise in your situation.
[07:51] <raspberry> hmm thanks there are some articles that I haven't read yet. Mainly I was searching "how to make GPIO joystick visible on linux" or something like "making own GPIO joystick"
[07:51] <tiox> But, I am adept enough with Google to maybe help myself. Hopefully that search result yielded something.
[07:52] <alkisg> raspberry: I think this channel is mostly for desktop environment issues, while for gpio and pi programming it would be best to ask in the #raspberrypi channel
[07:54] <tiox> I was going to mention that but I had to give it a shot.
[07:54] <raspberry> alkisg yeah, I think you are right, but I've been asking there too yesterday and nobody answered
[07:55] <tiox> Ouch.
[07:55] <tiox> Yeah, that's pretty sucky.
[07:55] <tiox> Sometimes the right channel don't give you the right help. Damn shame.
[07:55] <alkisg> raspberry: I think you basically want to create a linux kernel module to make a joystick out of gpio events
[07:55] <tiox> Been there myself.
[07:55] <alkisg> If that's the case, yeah, even raspberrypi won't be enough for your needs, you'd need to read up on how to create kernel modules
[07:56] <tiox> Welp, going to scoot off and do some things elsewhere.
[07:56] <tiox> Nice talkin',
[07:56] <tiox> .
[07:56] <alkisg> bb tiox
[07:56] <tiox> ttyl
[07:58] <raspberry> The problem is that I've heard that the APM Planner has all necessary code to control a drone, but it has to recognize that the joystick is connected to the system. If I would like to write my own code then there will be no problem because I've made for example one of those joysticks to be a mouse
[08:02] <alkisg> raspberry: here is an example of what I'm saying, this person created a kernel module to implement a joystick in rpi: https://github.com/recalbox/mk_arcade_joystick_rpi
[08:04] <raspberry> hmm so I need to create my own kernel module? Don't know if it isn't too hard for me, but I will try
[08:18] <emilio> hola
[08:18] <emilio> hi
[08:18] <Guest77912> ciao
[08:18] <Guest77912> hallo
[08:19] <Guest77912> arigatou
[10:41] <kopias> could someone help me why when i press fn+up (brighness up) it also inputs this character: "±"
[10:42] <kopias> any tips howto debug this would be great
[10:42] <kopias> this charater is useless for me so maybe dirty way would be to remove it from charater map, but i dont know howto
[10:43] <kopias> its lenovo u550 laptop on ubuntu mate 16.04
[11:37] <nightwing09> how to download themes for mate?
[11:53] <jinsampi> any korean?
[11:54] <jinsampi> Any korean here?
[11:55] <jinsampi> tlqkf dkaneh djqtsi
[12:08] <ouroumov> !ko | jinsampi
[15:03] <DarkPsydeLord> hi terrans!
[16:00] <rahtgaz> lol! I didn't want to reply to stevecook on the forums, because it would derail the thread too much, but if people actually voted in Britain, instead of having close to a 70% abstention rate, they wouldn't even be facing the Brexit
[16:00] <rahtgaz> https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/all-servers-have-been-migrated-to-bytemark-hosting/8325/6?u=marfig
[16:33] <Langley> Hello, I have some problems playing video on my external TV: SMplayer wont output any audio, unless I have played a video with VLC first. I would just use VLC, but it's not filling the window out in full screen
[16:36] <Langley> Oh I fixed VLC, but still dont know about SMplayer
[18:37] <snietfeld> Anyone know how to remap CapsLock to Ctrl? New to MATE and none of the regular methods (gnome-tweak-tool, gsettings) seem to work.
[18:44] <nomic> you can remap keys
[18:44] <nomic> using linux cmd
[18:44] <nomic> trouble is
[18:44] <nomic> capslock is always a bit dfferent
[18:44] <nomic> cos its not like other keys
[18:45] <nomic> xmodmap
[18:45] <nomic> http://www.fascinatingcaptain.com/howto/remap-keyboard-keys-for-ubuntu/