[07:23] <Babloyi> ugh...windows has such bothersome problems dualbooting. I have all my data, including music on a different partition from either OS, and in windows I selected it as the Music folder, and now its blocked me from accessing the folder in xubuntu
[07:23] <Babloyi> no idea if that's the reason
[07:36] <diogenes_> Babloyi, boot into windows then from windows reboot the pc, it will go straight to xubuntu and all should be fine
[07:36] <diogenes_> also you could disable fastboot in windows
[07:41] <Babloyi> no, the booting is not so much of a problem, it loads into xubuntu by default
[07:41] <Babloyi> just that I can't access my music on what should be a neutral drive :/
[16:46] <mouses> Having a issue that is a little beyond me here.  Older Acer Aspire V5, running xubuntu 18.04 -> all was fine for 2 weeks post install.  Had system setup to autolog in the primary user.  Suddenly, as of today - it boots fine, puts me in a GUI login screen.  I enter the user name and password (which I am 100% sure is correct).  Screen goes back for 3 seconds, and then pops back on with the same login screen.
[17:04] <mouses> Problem solved, nevermind!
[17:21] <Spass> mouses, what was the issue?
[17:22] <mouses> Spass: Like a bad user, I was making some changes to xinput to disable a faulty touchscreen, was doing so from a non GUI boot.  After making changes, I didn't reboot or startx, I did a sudo startx
[17:22] <mouses> Spass: so ~/Xauthority got chowned to root:root
[17:22]  * mouses hangs head in shame
[17:24] <Spass> ok thanks, always good to know how to fix things
[17:26] <mouses> Spass: One more issue that is a small thing -> can't seem to set behavior of 'stop blanking the screen/turning off displays/doing *anything*' when I close the lid
[17:27] <mouses> Spass: happen to know how to totally disable doing anything at all whatsoever based on laptop lid status?
[17:29] <Spass> mouses, I'm not on my laptop at the moment, so hard to tell, but I assume that options in "xfce4-power-manager-settings" don't work for you?
[17:31] <mouses> Spass: Nah, there's only 3 options under 'when laptop lid is closed' (switch off display, suspend, lock screen)
[17:31] <mouses> Spass: problem is, when I have this system hooked up to a TV to play movies or whatever, I have to keep the lid open...
[17:32] <mouses> as all 3 settings will turn off all displays
[17:32] <Spass> hmm, let me check on my laptop, 1 sec
[17:32] <mouses> Spass: I seem to want to remember earlier versions had a 'do nothing' in that list
[17:35] <knome> mouses, there definitely should be "Do nothing" in the list on power manager settings
[17:37] <Spass> mouses, can confirm, I don't have "Do nothing" on my laptop too
[17:37] <knome> i also have the label for display brightness keys but no dropdown (i don't have display brightness keys, so that's fair...)
[17:37] <knome> but the label shouldn't be there either ;)
[17:38] <mouses> so weird
[17:38] <mouses> why does my power manager not have a 'do nothing' setting?
[17:38] <mouses> I can take a picture of it if you want to see
[17:38] <knome> a bug?
[17:48] <mouses> knome: it's a super fresh install of xubuntu 18.04 on a acer aspire V5
[17:49] <Spass> in my case fresh 18.04 install, Dell Latitude E6410
[17:49] <mouses> Wonder if there's a way I can manually do it via some creative editing of things, i'll dig around
[17:50] <mouses> google to the rescue!
[17:50] <mouses> http://tipsonubuntu.com/2018/04/28/change-lid-close-action-ubuntu-18-04-lts/
[17:50] <mouses> it might apply, we'll see ;)
[18:03] <mouses> hmm no luck :(
[18:03] <mouses> Anyone happen to have any idea how I can force 'do nothing' behavior re: laptop lid open/closed?
[18:07] <Spass> mouses, another thing worth trying - in /etc/UPower/UPower.conf change "IgnoreLid=false" to "IgnoreLid=true"
[18:08] <mouses> Spass: on it!  let's see..
[18:09] <mouses> Spass: that same file also exists in /etc/UPower.conf - do I need to change both?
[18:10] <mouses> Spass: oh wait, nevermind mind - i'm brain dead today.  It does not, I just need more coffee before using the ls command :P
[18:11] <Spass> ok cool, I was just writing that I don't have that file
[18:12] <mouses> Spass: nope, it's still turning off all displays on lid close
[18:12] <mouses> (did a reboot after the change before testing)
[18:12] <mouses> maybe it's a hardware thing
[18:12] <Spass> will see on my laptop
[18:13] <Spass> hdd, so give me 10 minutes... :/
[18:14] <mouses> hehehe the laptop I am making these changes to is also HDD, I am so spoiled by systems with SSD and eMMC now - anything more than 5-10 seconds to boot just feels like I am a caveperson banging rocks together
[18:15] <mouses> thinking this might be a hardware thing, going to approach it from the 'stop disabling HDMI when lid closed' angle and see if that works
[18:18] <mouses> Spass: While the laptop display does turn off when lid is closed still, the changes we made = HDMI stays on!
[18:18] <mouses> Spass: So I'm 100% happy now, don't worry about helping me anymore :)
[18:18] <mouses> Spass: thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction!
[18:19] <Spass> no problem, well, that UPower change doesn't do anything on my laptop too, it still suspends
[18:19] <Spass> probably a bug
[18:20] <mouses> hey, now I can close the lid while using VLC on a secondary display, so... i'm a happy mouses!
[18:20] <mouses> \o/
[18:21] <Spass> ok, now I don't see lid options in GUI power manager settings at all, hat's one change :)
[18:21] <Spass> *that's
[18:23] <Spass> I wonder if it's a bug with UPower, systemd or xfce4-power-manager