[05:22] <Guest26853> Einen guten Morgen aus Germany Munich-Ich bin Neu hier,und habe getestet Ubuntu Mate. By by
[08:36] <serialnuts> Hi is there a way to aligh the screens manually instead of using the Display Settings on MATE. I'm having difficulty aligning threee screens (one horizontal middle screen and two vertical on each side)
[08:39] <serialnuts> Right now it looks like this and I cannot put them in a (tie-fighter like formation) http://imgur.com/a/j6Up6
[08:43] <alkisg> xrandr --output VGA-1 --right-of HDMI-1 etcetc
[08:43] <alkisg> You can do it with xrandr commands
[08:47] <serialnuts> Thanks I'll look it up and try it thanks alkisg
[09:21] <janbanan> I have 2 computers that I want to connect to each other PC1 have windows 10 PC2 have Ubuntu MATE.  PC2 finds shares on PC1 but not vice versa. I guess its because samba don't have user / password set up for PC. Question is since Ubuntu mate have Caja (as the graphical windows noob I am) what do I do ? Tried installing samba and pc says all files in
[09:21] <janbanan> stalled and up to date
[09:41] <serialnuts> janbanan, are you sharing anything from the MATE computer?
[09:49] <janbanan> I'm saying that I think I have to do some black voodo in some config file on the MATE computer yes
[09:51] <janbanan> I have set up shared folders on both computer and the Idea was to migrate files from the windows computer to the MAte computer. So far I can read the files on the windows computer
[10:04] <janbanan> clue here is that im trying to set up user / password for the windows computer for samba. And it seems samba are not installed or missing files. But when I try install samba it says its already installed
[10:06] <janbanan> and yea I know my english is crap
[10:09] <alkisg> janbanan: I think you need to install the caja-share package
[10:09] <janbanan> already did
[10:09] <alkisg> So then there's a "Sharing options" menu
[10:09] <alkisg> And if you go there, do you get an error message?
[10:11] <alkisg> (I mean, caja => right click on folder => sharing options)
[10:12] <janbanan> all seems fine in MATE, but I think I need set up a user with password in Samba for the windows 10 pc. Because when I try connect to the the shared folders on MATe comp I just get an error message
[10:12] <palasso> Hi alkisg, I got news from yesterdays issue I had with hardware accelaration of video playback on VLC on a RPi 2. So this time I enabled OpemMAX IL and also disabled window decorations. This means when I open a video file it plays smoothly but it's full screen and without any controls from VLC. I'm wondering if you were able to get any controls (GUI) when you were using the RPi 2 like that
[10:13] <alkisg> palasso: in general, i'm using marco --no-composite, while i think than now rpi3 defaults to compton or something
[10:13] <alkisg> try running: marco --no-composite --replace
[10:13] <alkisg> And see if it works for you
[10:14] <palasso> Ok I'll try it out
[10:14] <alkisg> janbanan: can you connect to your share from ubuntu? like, from the same mate pc that the share is?
[10:15] <janbanan> yes
[10:15] <alkisg> ok then it sounds like a windows issue indeed...
[10:16] <janbanan> yep
[10:16] <alkisg> janbanan: see this topic, the reply just before the last one: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/sharing-folders-on-windows-network/2644/4
[10:17] <janbanan> thanks
[10:34] <palasso> alkisg: with no composite it will go to full-screen with no controls. with composite and disabling window decorations in VLC (it's a VLC setting in the video section) it will also do the same. With compositing and without disabling the window decorations it won't play the video, only the audio
[10:34] <palasso> btw it's a RPi 2
[10:35] <alkisg> palasso: that's all the knowledge I have on the issue; as I said, rpi2 was so lame that i ditched it and I'm using x86-based clients now... 50 times faster with the same $$
[10:36] <palasso> alkisg: when you had the rpi2 were you able to produce smooth video playback WITH controls from VLC or was it just a full-screen video playback with no controls?
[10:36] <palasso> I suspect it might not be possible to have both controls and smooth playback in Ubuntu-MATE
[10:36] <alkisg> I think it was a full screen video, and the controls worked with the keyboard as long as the vlc window (which has behind) had thefocus
[10:36] <alkisg> Not in ubuntu-mate, but in rpi :)
[10:37] <palasso> That's exactly the case I'm at it right now
[10:37] <alkisg> It's not a problem with the os, but with the hardware...
[10:37] <alkisg> Just throw it away
[10:37] <palasso> And yeah in RPi. I may return to OpenELEC since I could have smooth playback with controls
[10:38] <palasso> I won't throw it away, I can already use it for small things and it's the only ARM device I got other than android phones and tablets
[10:38] <palasso> As a matter of fact I may buy at some point a newer RPi so that I have an AArch64 CPU
[10:39] <alkisg> Whatever you like; me, I'll keep warning users that rpi's are not good enough to be used for desktop tasks
[10:39] <palasso> Yeah totally agree with you
[10:39] <alkisg> rpi3 is 30% faster than rpi2, i3 is 5000% faster than rpi2
[10:40] <palasso> Yeah ikr
[10:40] <palasso> And you get USB 3 and gigabit ethernet etc.
[10:40] <palasso> proper SATA ports with proper SSDs etc.
[10:40] <alkisg> And no need for gpu-based decoding
[10:40] <alkisg> I.e. special programs to play video, youtube etc
[10:40] <alkisg> You can just use the normal code for whatever needs gpu acceleration
[10:41] <palasso> Yeah what you say is true but a RPi is quite cheap and having a AArch64 CPU for experimenting on stuff is good
[10:41] <alkisg> it's no cheaper than all those amd64 tv boxes with intel atom and 2 gb ram
[10:41] <palasso> I will probably buy one when most distros start releasing 64-bit binaries
[10:42] <alkisg> Those cost like 60€, same as an rpi3 with all the other stuff that's needed
[10:42] <palasso> Yeah it's no cheaper, probably it has better power consumption though
[10:42] <alkisg> I don't think so, latest intel cpus are better than arm in power consumption
[10:42] <palasso> That being said I used the RPi2 with openELEC and I can say it can work for video playback. So it can do things
[10:43] <alkisg> Sure, if you develop a whole lot of applications especially for this
[10:43] <alkisg> I could playback video in my ancient pentium 3 as well though that way
[10:43] <alkisg> Or even in my 486
[10:43] <palasso> For the CPU power you get you probably got better power consumption but if your CPU idles all the time it's more power efficient to get an ARM CPU
[10:43] <alkisg> True, if you don't want a desktop then rpi might be a good choice
[10:43] <alkisg> But desktops need cpu
[10:44] <palasso> Really? 1080p h.264 video on a Pentium 3?
[10:44] <alkisg> Sure, with a gpu
[10:44] <palasso> Ahhh that's the catch ;)
[10:44] <alkisg> That's the catch with rpi too
[10:44] <alkisg> Special programming that offloads things to the gpu
[10:45] <palasso> Yeah I replaced the openELEC with Ubuntu-MATE to be used still as a video playback machine but also have windows and additional features in the rare cases they're needed. Not for active desktop usage.
[10:45] <alkisg> I tried openelec and a few other distros before ditching rpi
[10:45] <alkisg> It was just not worth it, any 20€ android based tv box was better
[10:46] <palasso> And that's why I focused on smooth video playback. Because if I can get this to work I can keep Ubuntu-MATE and then I get to have the additional programs when they're rarely needed.
[10:46] <alkisg> So no rpi isn't good as a media player either
[10:46] <alkisg> If you tell me that it's good for *non* desktop and *non* media player usage, I could believe you, but not for those 2 use cases
[10:46] <palasso> Yeah, I even thought of it as a small NAS but having only USB 2 ports it's not good on that respect either
[10:47] <alkisg> Trying to find a use case for the rpi made my head hurt, until I decided that it wasn't a problem with me not finding a solution but with me getting an rpi in the first place :)
[10:48] <alkisg> Nowadays I only use it for VNC'ing to other computers
[10:48] <palasso> Basically I bought it to have it as a device for doing multiple low-resource usage things that might be needed to be open 24/7. I was thinking a small NAS with a torrent client and maybe run nextCloud and a few other things but with light usage
[10:49] <palasso> I might replace it with a RPi 4 or something like that if it'd come with at least USB 3.0. It'd be more powerful than that and I'd be able to do those stuff I've been wanting while keep it open 24/7
[10:51] <palasso> If I won't succeed to get controls with smooth video playback next distro I'll try out will be OpenMediaVault
[13:13] <madarchodscammer> hello
[14:44] <pedrobrandao> hello guys
[15:35] <ilkka__> Hello, is there a way to lock screen with keyboard?
[16:29] <tgm4883> Using 16.04, I've changed my background and login screen background, but the lock screen background is still using the default one. How do I change that?
[22:52] <eightfold> h there
[22:53] <eightfold> when i connect an external monitor (with a higher resolution) and then disconnect it again, my clock etc disappears from the top panel
[22:54] <eightfold> also, the "spaces" disappears from the bottom panel
[22:54] <eightfold> ie. anything that is outside the lower resolution of the laptop monitor disappears
[22:54] <eightfold> clues?