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plaindaveI'm just curious. If 18.04 comes out this april, why isn't there a "beta" version?00:41
Unit193Because it's still too early for that.00:41
plaindaveoh okay00:41
Unit193https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule00:42
plaindaveoh thanks00:42
plaindaveUnit193, Is that just talking about Ubuntu and not Xubuntu?00:45
Unit193Same difference, as far as timeline.  We may or may not opt-in to the alphas or betas though.  We tend not to do the first alpha.00:46
plaindaveoh okay00:47
cymenIs there any way to get rid of blinking taskbar windows?09:13
cymenI get blinking even for windows on a different desktop and it's annoying.09:14
bazhangcymen, did you mean a certain app has notifications set to blink09:16
cymenbazhang: I'm not sure what the right terminology is...09:27
bazhangcymen, for example, using hexchat, I can have it blink when someone hilites me09:31
cymenbazhang: Yeah, I don't want to deal with every individual application I just want the taskbar blinking off. :)09:55
FernandoBassoI had that problem with vlc. Every time a new item would start playing, it would show a blinking window button in the current workspace even though vlc was in another workspace.10:02
FernandoBassoBut I could never find a solution (didn't search much, tbh)10:02
bazhangcymen, then set the app that blinks to not do so, not all do by default, so there's not much in the app by app. perhaps two at best10:06
cymenFernandoBasso: I ended up setting the panel config to only show minimized windows. :p10:06
FernandoBassocymen, If that is okay with you, then, it is okay.10:31
FernandoBasso:)10:31
FernandoBassoMy solution was go use windows xp.10:31
* FernandoBasso runs and hides behind a bush.10:32
cymenNah, XP was okay10:32
cymenbut Win7 was really the shit10:32
cymenbut then Microsoft was like: hurr durr derp let's fuck up everything as much as possible10:33
cymenthe apparently ran out of room for improvement for their internal performance evaluation so they needed to reset :p10:33
FernandoBassocymen, I apologize I started this, but I am in #xubuntu-offtopic as well.10:34
cymenWell, here is something on-topic: Is it possible to make the window switcher switch immediately instead of just showing blueish outlines?10:38
cymenWith a lot of terminal windows open neither the blue outlines nor the small version are very helpful in finding the right one :p10:40
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kaerhon_mobilehi #xubuntu14:23
kaerhon_mobilei have a problem I'n not skilled enough to understand : for days I've had issues booting, most times I couldn't reach the login screen. the things happening vary between true14:25
kaerhon_mobileoops sorry, mobile typing u_u14:25
kaerhon_mobile...between tries. I had some minutes ago the choice to boot in safe mode, which I did, and took pictures of the screen (at least the parts that weren't moving too fast to get. can I show you?14:27
kaerhon_mobile(also I'm using xubuntu 17.04)14:29
FernandoBassokaerhon_mobile, Just post them somewhere.15:10
kaerhon_mobilethanks FernandoBasso, here they come : 1/4 : https://lut.im/QOD5VT6lzW/ntffh8hcbnbzu0bj.jpeg15:12
kaerhon_mobile2/4 : https://lut.im/gallery#WoTTv7HgDg/8OzQm4hh0wwLCkV6.jpeg15:13
kaerhon_mobile3/4 : https://lut.im/1HHsu1AIWo/fYMlz01uEffcZwkc.jpeg15:14
kaerhon_mobile4/4 : https://lut.im/FFMglWjbA6/oLnzVX69qrANk1xm.jpeg15:15
kaerhon_mobileI tried a live usb of xubuntu and it boots well, so I suspected a hard drive problem, but I have no skill to be sure of it. I searched a bit, and running fsck on /dev/sda2 (which seems to be the incriminated partition) gives no error, so now I'm stuck15:18
kaerhon_mobilealso, this happened before AND after a complete reinstall of the OS. and sometimes the15:29
kaerhon_mobileoops15:29
kaerhon_mobilesometimes there are two short beeps coming from the case15:30
FernandoBassoDoes boot fail from the live dvd?15:35
FernandoBassoLooks like your hard drive is at fault here.15:35
kaerhon_mobileI can boot from a live USB with no problem (I have no DVD to try)15:38
FernandoBassokaerhon_mobile, I would trying something like described here. I do think your hard drive is the problem, although I can't be sure, naturally. https://askubuntu.com/questions/241944/how-to-fix-the-hard-drive-bad-sector15:41
kaerhon_mobilethanks, but I tried running fsck on /dev/sdb2 and nothing happened15:44
kaerhon_mobileoh, it boots now. thanks FernandoBasso! one last question : did i understand well and this drive might fail again, so i should consider buying a new hard drive soon?15:53
FernandoBassoIt will certainly stop working at some point, I'm just not sure if your problem was some isolated situation or your hard drive is really old or damaged.15:54
FernandoBassoPeople seem to talk about smartctl to check HD health.15:56
FernandoBassohttps://superuser.com/questions/171195/how-to-check-the-health-of-a-hard-drive15:56
kaerhon_mobileOK I'll run those too, and start searching a potential replacement for my hard drive. thank you so much FernandoBasso16:00
FernandoBassokaerhon_mobile,  You are most welcome.16:01
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plaindaveIs there a keyboard shortcut to show desktop in xubuntu? (minimize all windows)17:40
flocculantctrl+alt+d17:54
zleapthat works on mint too17:55
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plaindaveCool thanks!18:01
zleapnp18:06
FernandoBassoI set that to super+d, and I like to set super+w to xfdesktop --windowlist, which I find very useful.18:15
CoderEuropehow do I set that ?18:20
MenzadorKeyboard Shortcuts18:25
MenzadorIn System Settings > Keyboard, to be specific18:25
FernandoBassoOr xfce4-keyboard-settings from a run dialog or shell.18:29
Menzador(aw, someone doesn't trust Occam's razor) :P18:30
FernandoBasso18:31
plaindaveIs there a way to open terminal with the last sizing and position used? Is there a way to save position?18:39
plaindaveForget it. I just figured it out.18:41
FernandoBassoHow?18:41
plaindaveI simply forgot to edit terminal preferences.18:43
plaindaveI'm able to save window size, but not position.18:44
FernandoBassoplaindave, You can use --geometry 100x30+0+0, for instance, although that is not your original question.18:50
flocculantplaindave:  look at devilspie perhaps, on the other hand I have a terminal running irrsi from a specific key shortcut, that uses geometry to open only THAT terminal in a specific place, others just open in default18:50
FernandoBassoor --geometry 100x30+20+50, or something like that.18:50
FernandoBassoflocculant -= -118:51
FernandoBassoI do the same.18:51
flocculant--geometry=145x50-0-0 < opens terminal 145x50 anchored in bottom left corner18:52
plaindaveawesome thanks18:58
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plaindaveI've tried almost every flavor/distro of Ubuntu, and Xubuntu is the only one that works flawlessly on my laptop (low resources)22:52
drleviathanI'm curious: what is considered to be "low resources" laptop these days?23:33
drleviathanCore-2-Duo with 2GB ram?  or even lower?23:34
plaindavedrleviathan, mine has a Core i3 w/ 4GB RAM. Very slow. Can't even handle Win10.23:40
drleviathanhuh, I would have expected such a machine to be able to handle some of the other window managers available on linux, but I've been on xfce for about five or six years now so I'm probably out of date23:42
plaindavewow, that's quite a long time23:44

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