| mate|43047 | hello everyone! i am using Ubuntu Mate on an almost 12 year-old notebook. Is there any thing that i can do to turn Ubuntu Mate a little bit smoothier for my old friend here? | 00:35 |
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| jb_ | bsr | 00:45 |
| jb_ | salut | 00:46 |
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| Guest5199 | Hi. Dropbox won't connect after initial installation, Caja and Nautalis. This is for both of the ubuntu mates 16... It work fine with linux mint on the same machine.. | 03:44 |
| Guest5199 | It says it can't Caja has a restart spashscreen, the other a configure proxy flag. Can anyone help me. Please:-) | 03:46 |
| Guest5199 | I guess I better identify faster next time. | 03:47 |
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| vlt | Good morning! On Ubuntu 16.04 MATE every user gets an (annoying) notification whenever someone (else) prints something. How can we disable this? | 07:13 |
| ergosomnic | What's the reason for using Caja rather than Nemo? Nemo SEEMS to have more features and integration. | 13:50 |
| ali1234 | nemo is from cinnamon project | 13:58 |
| ali1234 | caja is from mate project | 13:58 |
| noah_ | hey | 14:16 |
| ergosomnic | I understand that nemo is cinnamon, but if it is "better" then shouldn't Mate adopt it? Is there a technical reason for maintaining a inveterate, but possible inferior project? | 14:26 |
| ergosomnic | s/inveterate/seperate/ | 14:27 |
| ergosomnic | stupid spel-chek | 14:27 |
| alkisg | mate is not a distribution to go around and collect unrelated software | 14:27 |
| alkisg | It has software that is inside its own codebase | 14:28 |
| alkisg | What if they want to apply a theme or a patch and nemo doesn't accept it upstream? They keep maintaining a fork? | 14:28 |
| vlt | Hello! On Ubuntu 16.04 MATE every user gets an (annoying) notification from CUPS(?) whenever someone (else) prints something. How can we disable this without disabling the whole notification framework? | 15:04 |
| wmueller | Hello: I just upgaded my RPI 3 to 16.04.2 and now the chromium browser is crashing, actually the extensions a re crashing , has anyone else seen this and is there a fix or work around for it?? thanks. | 15:08 |
| tewlah | hi, is it possible to change the Ctrl-Alt-T shortcut to a different terminal other than MATE-terminal? | 16:56 |
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| john69 | hello... just installed Ubuntu mate on my thinkPad T410 | 17:57 |
| Akuli | nice :) | 17:58 |
| john69 | when i close the lid the main screen doesn't switch to my external monitor | 17:58 |
| Akuli | i like thinkpads, cheap and good computers | 17:58 |
| Akuli | what do you want it to be like when the lid is open? | 17:58 |
| john69 | my laptop screen stays main screen | 17:58 |
| Akuli | so when lid is open you want and have both screens | 17:58 |
| john69 | i want to just use my external monitor... not the latop screen | 17:59 |
| Akuli | and when lid is closed you have both screens even though you dont want the laptop screen? | 17:59 |
| Akuli | ok | 17:59 |
| Azulflame | john, check the actions in Control Center > Power Management > and then both on AC and battery | 17:59 |
| john69 | ok... lemme take a look | 17:59 |
| Azulflame | for what you want, I think you need to have the external monitor already used, then select "do nothing" for the "When laptop lid is closed" option | 18:00 |
| john69 | ok... right now it says to suspend | 18:01 |
| Azulflame | change and test? | 18:01 |
| ouroumov_ | In the display settings you can kill your built in screen btw. | 18:02 |
| ouroumov_ | And set witch screen to use as main screen. | 18:02 |
| Azulflame | I wasn't sure if "Blank Screen" would blank the internal screen or all connected screens | 18:02 |
| john69 | thanks... for the pointers... just new getting around this version on ubuntu | 18:02 |
| john69 | had "normal" 16.04 installed for a month... | 18:03 |
| Azulflame | and ouroumov_ I'm not seeing that option in my displays menu | 18:03 |
| john69 | and it just "worked" out of the box | 18:03 |
| john69 | hmmmm... | 18:04 |
| Azulflame | then it's definitly possible, but MATE may not default to the same settings | 18:04 |
| john69 | closing the laptop lid does nothing | 18:04 |
| Akuli | i guess you could get the default settings from a "normal" ubuntu and put them in ubuntu mate | 18:04 |
| Azulflame | so if you are unlucky, then you may have to dick around in the terminal and X server settings to get it how you want | 18:04 |
| Akuli | if nothing else works | 18:04 |
| Azulflame | Also, if you are going to distro-hop like you insinuated, then I'd recommend making another partition (/dev/sdaX) and mount it to /home so that if you install a new version, you can keep your files | 18:05 |
| john69 | oy vay... X server settings... ;) | 18:05 |
| john69 | ok... if i have too... :-) | 18:06 |
| Akuli | https://xkcd.com/963/ | 18:06 |
| Akuli | lol | 18:06 |
| Azulflame | If I wanted to be a moderate dick to a guy (reasons withheld), would dd if=/dev/zero of=<link to xorg.conf> do what I think it does? | 18:07 |
| Azulflame | or would it write zeros until the end of the hard drive | 18:07 |
| Azulflame | ? | 18:08 |
| Akuli | or you know, $ rm xorg.conf && touch xorg.conf | 18:08 |
| Akuli | yes it would write zeros until end of hard drive | 18:08 |
| Akuli | /dev/null represents emptiness, use that | 18:08 |
| Akuli | also supports writing, the writes simply go nowhere :) | 18:08 |
| Akuli | $ echo hi > /dev/null | 18:08 |
| john69 | um yeah... not TOUCHING that "dd" command... | 18:08 |
| Azulflame | yea john69, dd is a fickle beast | 18:09 |
| Akuli | well not much different from cp | 18:09 |
| Akuli | kind of like cp except that doesn't delete destinations and displays nice stats when its done | 18:09 |
| Azulflame | it's just bit operations instead of file operations | 18:09 |
| Akuli | well no, the two are the same thing | 18:09 |
| Azulflame | you don't run "cp /dev/random /dev/sda" | 18:09 |
| Akuli | well, you can | 18:10 |
| Akuli | it works | 18:10 |
| Azulflame | well there's an idea | 18:10 |
| Azulflame | Now I have to close a VM | 18:10 |
| Azulflame | brb | 18:10 |
| john69 | ok guys (or gals)... have fun "geeking out" i'm gonna reboot and see what my setting changes bring me... | 18:11 |
| john69 | thanks for the help! | 18:11 |
| Akuli | john69, just log out and back in | 18:11 |
| Akuli | if you didn't enter your password anywhere that does the same thing as rebooting | 18:11 |
| john69 | thanks | 18:12 |
| Azulflame | will a logout refresh the X server configs, if they only logout to lightdm? | 18:12 |
| Akuli | if lightdm does something weird with this (i doubt it) then we can stop and restart it | 18:14 |
| Akuli | i use my systems without a login manager so i don't know | 18:14 |
| Azulflame | I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu Mate uses LightDM by default | 18:14 |
| Akuli | yes it does, but i haven't felt like needing it for a while | 18:15 |
| Azulflame | pacman -S toilet | 18:15 |
| Azulflame | ignore that | 18:15 |
| Akuli | that happens to me all the time | 18:16 |
| Azulflame | IRC, VM, and Terminal all running at the same time | 18:17 |
| Azulflame | the biggest problem is that I thought I was in Terminal, and I'm running Ubuntu, not Arch | 18:17 |
| frsync | hello | 19:16 |
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| nomic | z. | 23:41 |
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