[02:37] <tommie_> hay
[06:27] <mate|52019> Hi
[07:23] <mate|joe> wzzsup mate
[07:37] <Guest33458> Hey, all. Running into some issues with Ubuntu-Mate. Just installed, and transfered my files from a USB drive. When I did that, not only was the file transfer painfully slow, but it seemed to hold my system hostage and caused it to almost freeze until it finished.
[07:37] <Guest33458> Also, I'm running into another issue where it says my battery may be broken (which it's not). And is constantly changing the battery percentage it has
[07:39] <Guest33458> I'm also wondering if there is any way to group windows by program like in Windows 10. I hate how it displays each window I have open, and the text of the windows name
[07:50] <kevin_> Hey, all. Running into some issues with Ubuntu-Mate. Just installed, and transfered my files from a USB drive. When I did that, not only was the file transfer painfully slow, but it seemed to hold my system hostage and caused it to almost freeze until it finished.
[09:04] <vlt> Hello. I have a file that is read without any errors by "less", "libreoffice", "iconv" or Python's file.read() function. Pluma refuses to open it: "Could not open the file ... Unexpected error: Incomplete multibyte sequence in input". Any idea how to troubleshoot this?
[10:22] <sigurdson> Hiya! Does anyone know if the latest ubuntu released soon can be upgraded on a ubuntu-mate distro?
[10:25] <sixwheeledbeast> not sure I understand?
[10:28] <sigurdson> i just saw that ubuntu is comming with a new release.. will it be available for ubuntu-mate?
[10:30] <sixwheeledbeast> yes
[10:31] <sigurdson> allright :)
[10:32] <sigurdson> my terminal display *computer needs to be restarted* so i best do it :)
[10:32] <sixwheeledbeast> it isn't an LTS and I am not sure about RPi, but yes
[10:32] <sigurdson> later
[13:23] <vlt> Hello. I have a file that is read without any errors by "less", "libreoffice", "iconv" or Python's file.read() function. Pluma refuses to open it: "Could not open the file ... Unexpected error: Incomplete multibyte sequence in input". Any idea how to troubleshoot this?
[13:23] <mate|43810> hi
[13:24] <alkisg> vlt: iconv -f utf-8 file
[13:24] <nemo> vlt: yeh, what alkisg said - it's invalid unicode - probably utf-8 but not necessarily
[13:24] <nemo> could also be utf-16
[13:25] <nemo> strict unicode validation is rejecting it
[13:25] <nemo> obv less and python would not care
[13:25] <nemo> mildly surprised libreoffice said nothing
[13:25] <nemo> maybe they just quietly do it on stderr given how easy windows makes it to accidentally create invalid unicode
[13:26] <nemo> (windows uses utf-16 by default, and will blithely allow users to erase half of a surrogate pair)
[13:26] <nemo> https://utf8everywhere.org
[13:26] <nemo> vlt: his instructions would be if it is utf-8  check what "file" thinks the encoding is
[13:27] <nemo> Rust deals with the problem like this ☺ https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
[13:28] <nemo> (well, with the utf-16 problem, you can still generate invalid utf-8 - which is what this might be simply 'cause so much is utf-8 these days)
[13:28] <nemo> it's kinda like... utf-8 is more common, so invalid utf-8 is more likely, but utf-16 is easier to screw up 😉
[13:29] <nemo> (just 'cause of stupid assumptions programmers make about it being fixed width)
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[15:20] <chantomi> hi
[15:23] <nemo> bye
[16:11] <Pomilpetan> Good evening everyone, I am a holder of a raspberry pi3b with touch screen 7 "Internal and installed ubuntu mate. I have a problem with using the external monitor with HDMI connection.
[16:16] <Pomilpetan> someone can help me?
[16:33] <sixwheeledbeast> whats the problem
[17:01] <Pomilpetan> i have connect a external monitor with hdmi connection but i can't use it. the system don't see it
[17:04] <Pomilpetan> i see only the internal monitor. when i see the monitor setting the system tell me unknow with 800x480 of resolution (is correct for the internal display)
[17:05] <Pomilpetan> but i can't see the external display
[17:26] <sixwheeledbeast> Pomilpetan: So you only have one monitor in Monitor Prefs?
[17:33] <sixwheeledbeast> I can only assume it's a driver issue then. have you looked on RPi forums for this configuration?
[17:33] <Pomilpetan> sixwheeledbeast: yes i see only one monitor
[17:34] <Pomilpetan> yes. i have see but all configuration doesn't work
[17:35] <sixwheeledbeast> checked /boot/config.txt settings?
[17:38] <Pomilpetan> i have used that configuration:
[17:38] <Pomilpetan> hdmi_safe=0
[17:38] <Pomilpetan> hdmi_force_hotplug=1
[17:38] <Pomilpetan> hdmi_drive=2
[17:39] <Pomilpetan> hdmi_group=2
[17:39] <Pomilpetan> hdmi_mode=16(setting the external monitor with 1024x768 but i have also proved with =1 (VGA))
[18:55] <sigurdson> Hiya! I have made a partition ext4 on another disk that i want to use for some files, but i cannot copy anything in there? Is it the filesystem perhaps?
[18:57] <sigurdson> hmm i made it fat32 and that works..
[18:58] <sigurdson> But now some of the files will not copy
[18:59] <sigurdson> What file system should i use? Ext3? I am a bit lost here.. can someone help
[19:17] <nemo> sigurdson: well. it depends
[19:17] <nemo> sigurdson: what do you want to use the partition for?
[19:17] <nemo> sigurdson: and, the most obvious reason you had copy problems would be permissions
[19:17] <nemo> fat32 has no permissions...
[19:18] <nemo> sigurdson: if you'd made it ext4 and set the permissions on it to that of the user you probably would have been fine
[19:18] <nemo> sigurdson: apart from that, the main reason people use fat32 is 'cause it is the lowest common denominator that works basically anywhere
[19:19] <sigurdson> allright
[19:19] <sigurdson> nemo, but when i set it to ext4 i cannot copy files to it for some reason
[19:19] <nemo> sigurdson: as noted, most likely your brand new partition was owned by root
[19:19] <nemo> sigurdson: and you were trying to copy as, oh, sigurdson
[19:20] <nemo> sudo chown -R sigurdson:sigurdson /path/to/my/new/partition
[19:20] <sigurdson> nemo, how to set the permissions?
[19:20] <nemo> or use your gui tool of choice
[19:20] <sigurdson> like /dev/sdb?
[19:20] <nemo> caja can change permissions recursively for example
[19:20] <nemo> sigurdson: uh. no
[19:20] <nemo> sigurdson: the actual mounted partition name
[19:21] <nemo> sigurdson: is this partition only going to be used by linux?
[19:21] <sigurdson> nemo, its mounted in a folder with alot of special characters? Is it just the path to this?
[19:21] <sigurdson> yes only linux
[19:22] <nemo> sigurdson: yeah. that's a mount with the disc guid in it most likely, due to it being an automount
[19:22] <nemo> so yes. use that
[19:22] <nemo> and "sigurdson:sigurdson" would be your username obviously 😉
[19:22] <sigurdson> just the parent folder of this or the whole shabang?
[19:22] <nemo> everything up to the guid I'd say
[19:23] <nemo> since it is an automount, it should clean up everything under it anyway
[19:25] <sigurdson> Ok, its working now, thank you
[21:54] <JJ^4884> hi
[21:54] <JJ^4884> Does MATE support captive portals
[22:06] <sixwheeledbeast> Wouldn't that be down to the web browser?
[22:12] <mate|16019> I know Gnome supports Captive Portals
[22:12] <mate|16019> But is it in the Pipeline?
[22:12] <mate|16019> I always have to use Firefox to join my University Wifi
[22:12] <mate|16019> It uses Cisco AnyConnect
[22:15] <mate|16019> any suggestions?
[22:19] <tespi> mate|16019: install network-manager-openconnect-gnome and you can connect to cisco anyconnect from the network settings
[22:22] <mate|16019> ok.
[22:23] <mate|16019> No matter the modules used?
[22:24] <mate|16019> tespi: ^
[22:59] <mate|658> why is 6 afraid of 7 ?
[23:06] <barryadmin> hello
[23:06] <barryadmin> quick question
[23:06] <wrestleforballs> hey so did you guys see the news about the WPA2 protocol?
[23:06] <barryadmin> how do you enable open ssh on ubuntu mate?