[00:41] <plaindave> I'm just curious. If 18.04 comes out this april, why isn't there a "beta" version?
[00:41] <Unit193> Because it's still too early for that.
[00:41] <plaindave> oh okay
[00:42] <Unit193> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule
[00:42] <plaindave> oh thanks
[00:45] <plaindave> Unit193, Is that just talking about Ubuntu and not Xubuntu?
[00:46] <Unit193> Same 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.
[00:47] <plaindave> oh okay
[09:13] <cymen> Is there any way to get rid of blinking taskbar windows?
[09:14] <cymen> I get blinking even for windows on a different desktop and it's annoying.
[09:16] <bazhang> cymen, did you mean a certain app has notifications set to blink
[09:27] <cymen> bazhang: I'm not sure what the right terminology is...
[09:31] <bazhang> cymen, for example, using hexchat, I can have it blink when someone hilites me
[09:55] <cymen> bazhang: Yeah, I don't want to deal with every individual application I just want the taskbar blinking off. :)
[10:02] <FernandoBasso> I 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] <FernandoBasso> But I could never find a solution (didn't search much, tbh)
[10:06] <bazhang> cymen, 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 best
[10:06] <cymen> FernandoBasso: I ended up setting the panel config to only show minimized windows. :p
[10:31] <FernandoBasso> cymen, If that is okay with you, then, it is okay.
[10:31] <FernandoBasso> :)
[10:31] <FernandoBasso> My solution was go use windows xp.
[10:32]  * FernandoBasso runs and hides behind a bush.
[10:32] <cymen> Nah, XP was okay
[10:32] <cymen> but Win7 was really the shit
[10:33] <cymen> but then Microsoft was like: hurr durr derp let's fuck up everything as much as possible
[10:33] <cymen> the apparently ran out of room for improvement for their internal performance evaluation so they needed to reset :p
[10:34] <FernandoBasso> cymen, I apologize I started this, but I am in #xubuntu-offtopic as well.
[10:38] <cymen> Well, here is something on-topic: Is it possible to make the window switcher switch immediately instead of just showing blueish outlines?
[10:40] <cymen> With a lot of terminal windows open neither the blue outlines nor the small version are very helpful in finding the right one :p
[14:23] <kaerhon_mobile> hi #xubuntu
[14:25] <kaerhon_mobile> i 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 true
[14:25] <kaerhon_mobile> oops sorry, mobile typing u_u
[14:27] <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?
[14:29] <kaerhon_mobile> (also I'm using xubuntu 17.04)
[15:10] <FernandoBasso> kaerhon_mobile, Just post them somewhere.
[15:12] <kaerhon_mobile> thanks FernandoBasso, here they come : 1/4 : https://lut.im/QOD5VT6lzW/ntffh8hcbnbzu0bj.jpeg
[15:13] <kaerhon_mobile> 2/4 : https://lut.im/gallery#WoTTv7HgDg/8OzQm4hh0wwLCkV6.jpeg
[15:14] <kaerhon_mobile> 3/4 : https://lut.im/1HHsu1AIWo/fYMlz01uEffcZwkc.jpeg
[15:15] <kaerhon_mobile> 4/4 : https://lut.im/FFMglWjbA6/oLnzVX69qrANk1xm.jpeg
[15:18] <kaerhon_mobile> I 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 stuck
[15:29] <kaerhon_mobile> also, this happened before AND after a complete reinstall of the OS. and sometimes the
[15:29] <kaerhon_mobile> oops
[15:30] <kaerhon_mobile> sometimes there are two short beeps coming from the case
[15:35] <FernandoBasso> Does boot fail from the live dvd?
[15:35] <FernandoBasso> Looks like your hard drive is at fault here.
[15:38] <kaerhon_mobile> I can boot from a live USB with no problem (I have no DVD to try)
[15:41] <FernandoBasso> kaerhon_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-sector
[15:44] <kaerhon_mobile> thanks, but I tried running fsck on /dev/sdb2 and nothing happened
[15:53] <kaerhon_mobile> oh, 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?
[15:54] <FernandoBasso> It 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.
[15:56] <FernandoBasso> People seem to talk about smartctl to check HD health.
[15:56] <FernandoBasso> https://superuser.com/questions/171195/how-to-check-the-health-of-a-hard-drive
[16:00] <kaerhon_mobile> OK I'll run those too, and start searching a potential replacement for my hard drive. thank you so much FernandoBasso
[16:01] <FernandoBasso> kaerhon_mobile,  You are most welcome.
[17:40] <plaindave> Is there a keyboard shortcut to show desktop in xubuntu? (minimize all windows)
[17:54] <flocculant> ctrl+alt+d
[17:55] <zleap> that works on mint too
[18:01] <plaindave> Cool thanks!
[18:06] <zleap> np
[18:15] <FernandoBasso> I set that to super+d, and I like to set super+w to xfdesktop --windowlist, which I find very useful.
[18:20] <CoderEurope> how do I set that ?
[18:25] <Menzador> Keyboard Shortcuts
[18:25] <Menzador> In System Settings > Keyboard, to be specific
[18:29] <FernandoBasso> Or xfce4-keyboard-settings from a run dialog or shell.
[18:30] <Menzador> (aw, someone doesn't trust Occam's razor) :P
[18:31] <FernandoBasso> ☺
[18:39] <plaindave> Is there a way to open terminal with the last sizing and position used? Is there a way to save position?
[18:41] <plaindave> Forget it. I just figured it out.
[18:41] <FernandoBasso> How?
[18:43] <plaindave> I simply forgot to edit terminal preferences.
[18:44] <plaindave> I'm able to save window size, but not position.
[18:50] <FernandoBasso> plaindave, You can use --geometry 100x30+0+0, for instance, although that is not your original question.
[18:50] <flocculant> plaindave:  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 default
[18:50] <FernandoBasso> or --geometry 100x30+20+50, or something like that.
[18:51] <FernandoBasso> flocculant -= -1
[18:51] <FernandoBasso> I do the same.
[18:52] <flocculant> --geometry=145x50-0-0 < opens terminal 145x50 anchored in bottom left corner
[18:58] <plaindave> awesome thanks
[22:52] <plaindave> I've tried almost every flavor/distro of Ubuntu, and Xubuntu is the only one that works flawlessly on my laptop (low resources)
[23:33] <drleviathan> I'm curious: what is considered to be "low resources" laptop these days?
[23:34] <drleviathan> Core-2-Duo with 2GB ram?  or even lower?
[23:40] <plaindave> drleviathan, mine has a Core i3 w/ 4GB RAM. Very slow. Can't even handle Win10.
[23:42] <drleviathan> huh, 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 date
[23:44] <plaindave> wow, that's quite a long time