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| Maakuth | hi all. i'm having trouble with a thinkpad t460s, docks and multi-monitor | 05:42 |
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| Maakuth | when I boot up my machine and stick it to the dock, everything works nice, getting picture on both of the docked monitors | 05:42 |
| Maakuth | however, if I then move the machine to other dock with different display configuration, it seems that the displayport topology isn't probed again, but the old one is used | 05:43 |
| Maakuth | resulting in one monitor (which has the same DP port) having picture while the other has not. and then there's picture on the non-connected monitor, by the looks of xrandr and KDE system settings | 05:44 |
| Maakuth | is there a way to force X11 (or whoever is responsible for this DP probing) to reprobe all the display outputs without restarting the X11 server? | 05:45 |
| Maakuth | it's with the intel gpu: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07) | 05:45 |
| Maakuth | there is no difference whether I suspend the machine while docked and only wake up after re-docking, or if I undock, use in laptop mode and then re-dock | 05:47 |
| hateball | Maakuth: which version of kubuntu are you using? | 05:52 |
| Maakuth | it's the latest LTS with latest patches | 05:54 |
| Maakuth | I added ubuntu-x-swat-ubuntu-updates and kubuntu-ppa-ubuntu-backports ppa's to see if newer versions helped, but no | 05:55 |
| hateball | Maakuth: Ah, that was going to be my suggestion, as default 16.04 has issues with multimonitor | 05:56 |
| hateball | due to both plasma and qt bugs | 05:56 |
| hateball | I am running 16.04 + backports myself, and... it's not perfect | 05:56 |
| Maakuth | yeah. KDE works quite a bit better after installing those packages, but this issue remains | 05:56 |
| hateball | I dont know if reloading plasmashell would trigger a rescan | 05:57 |
| hateball | "kquitapp plasmashell && kstart plasmashell" | 05:57 |
| Maakuth | it doesn't unfortunately. I do that almost always after re-docking, as plasmashell tends to crash | 05:58 |
| Maakuth | I've got this gut feeling that this is responsibility of some lower level X11 component, as xrandr also displays outdated display configuration after re-docking | 05:59 |
| Maakuth | this is my working machine, so I wouldn't like to update to some other version just for fun | 06:00 |
| Maakuth | or just for trying it out I mean | 06:00 |
| hateball | Possibly you could liveboot 17.04 or 17.10 tho | 06:01 |
| hateball | being that no binary blobs are involved, it should work as expected ootb | 06:01 |
| Maakuth | that is true. however, these docks are 100km apart | 06:01 |
| Maakuth | so I have to take care not to crack out a usb connector with the protruding usb stick | 06:02 |
| hateball | 100km is a bit far | 06:02 |
| Maakuth | a bit longer commute :) | 06:02 |
| hateball | I mean it's far in the context of troubleshooting :D | 06:03 |
| Maakuth | yes. it's not impossible to do, just have to be careful. but that is why I haven't done it yet | 06:04 |
| Maakuth | the productivity hit of shutting down and starting again everyday is surprisingly small though. the browser and the editor remember their tabs, just have to restart some ruby interpreters :) | 06:05 |
| hateball | Maakuth: yeah I personally never use suspend et al | 06:15 |
| Maakuth | just keep it running? | 06:17 |
| Maakuth | or shut down | 06:17 |
| hateball | Maakuth: shut down | 06:29 |
| hateball | 90% of my work is in a browser so | 06:29 |
| Maakuth | yeah | 06:30 |
| hateball | the other 10 in a terminal :p | 06:33 |
| hateball | pretty much | 06:33 |
| mykl | Hello all, Hope all is well today. I just want to know what are the system requirements if you would like to install KUBUNTU on a virtual environment? | 07:45 |
| hateball | mykl: Minimal or recommended? | 07:47 |
| mykl | recommended | 07:48 |
| hateball | It's nice if your hypervisor allows for 3D accel | 07:48 |
| mykl | i am creating a virtual kubuntu now using vmware version 10 | 07:48 |
| hateball | It's all down to what you'll use the system for I suppose, but 4GB ram and 2vCPU should be plenty for everyday use | 07:49 |
| mykl | oh 4GB Ram? alright then. and for the recommended disk storage? | 07:49 |
| hateball | Well you could perhaps go with lower RAM, but open some browser tabs and apps... and you'll be swapping | 07:49 |
| hateball | mykl: That's impossible to say, it all depends how many programs and user data you intend to store | 07:50 |
| mykl | I am going to lower it down from 4GB to 2GB | 07:50 |
| mykl | so far i will use it for my python lessons and testing | 07:50 |
| mykl | i am thinking if 100GB will be plenty for a VA | 07:51 |
| hateball | lol | 07:51 |
| hateball | I was going to suggest starting with 20GB | 07:51 |
| hateball | Even that is overkill if you dont have much userdata | 07:51 |
| mykl | ah alright.. lol | 07:51 |
| hateball | It's easy enough to grow the VMDK and then grow the filesystem anyhow | 07:51 |
| mykl | i'll do that in that case. so is it possible to increase the drive space without affecting the installation right? | 07:52 |
| mykl | i mean the OS itself | 07:52 |
| hateball | Yes | 07:52 |
| hateball | Shut down VM, grow disk, boot it up again, run resize2fs | 07:53 |
| hateball | Assuming you do an install with a single / on ext4 | 07:53 |
| mykl | cool no worries. thank you so much for the help. apologies for making some noises here ahaha | 07:53 |
| mykl | ah yeah | 07:53 |
| hateball | If you add LVM or split partitions etc... there's more complexity | 07:53 |
| mykl | ill save those tips | 07:53 |
| mykl | so just stick with the default partitions from the wizard then? | 07:54 |
| mykl | rather than doing manual partition | 07:54 |
| hateball | Yes unless you have specific needs | 07:58 |
| hateball | And if you do, then you'd already know :) | 07:58 |
| mykl | cool no worries | 08:07 |
| mykl | thanks again @hateball | 08:07 |
| jati | hi, i would like to install plasma 5.9 in my kubuntu 16.04 LTS. what should I do? | 09:40 |
| BluesKaj | Hi all | 11:24 |
| jati | hi bro | 11:33 |
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| IrcsomeBot | <DGUERRERO> Good Day Everyone! | 15:27 |
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| Lord_of_Life | Settings like taskbar position, widgets and backgrounds do not save. No restart or shutdown option. What do, what do? | 17:21 |
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