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| friendlyGoat | hello, you all know how when youre logging in how the login screen has youre wallpaper in the background? i was wondering if there was a way i could set the picture in the background on the login screen to a different picture than my actual desktop to spy things up a bit | 07:52 |
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| friendlyGoat | is that doable? | 07:52 |
| friendlyGoat | also if you respond please mention me so i can see, im rather easy to distract when a chats not very actuve | 07:54 |
| friendlyGoat | hello | 08:02 |
| swizzy | Good evening everybody, I am new to Xubuntu and just installed 18.04 LTS yesterday night. So far it has been a very lovely experience and I'm happy with it. However I seem to have run into an issue with getting the Cairo-Dock to run on startup. Now the program itself has an option to run it on startup, that seems to do nothing for me. | 15:21 |
| swizzy | I've found that you can also add programs manually to your startup, however it is asking me for a command which I lack. I tried putting just cairo-dock (as putting that into terminal does open it) but that doesn't seem to be working either! | 15:21 |
| diogenes_ | swizzy, copy this command to terminal and hit enter | 15:27 |
| diogenes_ | https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/nx46yfvxjT/ | 15:27 |
| diogenes_ | tel me when done | 15:28 |
| swizzy | I was away from my laptop for a moment. I did it now @diogenes_ | 15:31 |
| diogenes_ | swizzy, ok now run this one: cat ~/.config/autostart/cairo.desktop | nc termbin.com 9999 | 15:32 |
| diogenes_ | you gonna get a link in the terminal, share it here | 15:32 |
| swizzy | https://termbin.com/c2v6 | 15:33 |
| diogenes_ | ok now run: chmod +x ~/.config/autostart/cairo.desktop | 15:34 |
| swizzy | I did but got no response at all from the terminal? | 15:34 |
| diogenes_ | yes that's fine | 15:34 |
| diogenes_ | when you get no output it means that the command went fine with no errors | 15:35 |
| swizzy | Well that's good news then :sweat_smile: | 15:35 |
| diogenes_ | ok now run: thunar ~/.config/autostart/ | 15:35 |
| diogenes_ | it will open the file manager in that folder | 15:36 |
| diogenes_ | and btw is cairo running at the moment? | 15:36 |
| swizzy | Yes it is | 15:36 |
| swizzy | The File Manager opened and there's two files there. blueman and cairo | 15:36 |
| diogenes_ | kill it and double click on cairo from that folder and see if it's starting | 15:36 |
| swizzy | Yes it does | 15:37 |
| diogenes_ | ok then now a re-log or reboot and it should work | 15:37 |
| swizzy | Will do! Be right back | 15:37 |
| swizzy | Great that seems to have worked. | 15:40 |
| diogenes_ | good :) | 15:40 |
| swizzy | Thank you for your help | 15:41 |
| diogenes_ | you're welcome | 15:42 |
| swizzy | Though there is another issue I am having with Cairo Dock where it doesn't seem to like the Hexchat applet very much. I add it like I do with any other applet (create desktop shortcut and then pull that to the dock) but when I quit the dock and start it again the hexchat applet is gone. | 15:43 |
| swizzy | For the time its open it works just fine though | 15:44 |
| swizzy | And I do not have that issue with any other shortcut so far. | 15:44 |
| diogenes_ | swizzy, it's been ages ago since i last time used cairo but as far as i remember, you can right click on the dock and click on add a new itel )or shurtcut or something) | 15:46 |
| swizzy | What I did now is add a custom-launcher to it that just runs "hexchat". That doesn't disappear. | 15:50 |
| swizzy | And seems to work, just lacks the proper icon for now >.< | 15:51 |
| diogenes_ | right click on thta launcher and there should be edit and there you can add any icon you want | 15:51 |
| diogenes_ | that* | 15:51 |
| swizzy | Do you know where the programs are usually installed to? Because its asking me for a path. | 15:52 |
| diogenes_ | you can just download any picture.png from internet, place it in a folder you want to and just provide that path: e.g /home/username/Documents/my_icons/picture.png | 15:54 |
| swizzy | But shouldn't there be a fitting picture for desktop icons in the hexchat folder? | 15:55 |
| diogenes_ | swizzy, you can give it this path: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/hexchat.png | 15:56 |
| diogenes_ | there is the folder that keeps all the icons for programs | 15:56 |
| diogenes_ | /usr/share/icons | 15:56 |
| swizzy | Had to get something out of the oven real quick, will try that now | 15:59 |
| diogenes_ | XD | 15:59 |
| swizzy | Earlier I had a problem with Xubuntu 18.04 LTS. My Laptop turned the screen off due to inactivity - but when I came back to it, it didn't turn it back on and got stuck in energy saving mode. | 17:24 |
| swizzy | I turned off the feature for now. | 17:24 |
| xubuntu99w | hi | 19:19 |
| xubuntu99w | Please help me. | 19:19 |
| xubuntu99w | Hello. | 19:22 |
| xubuntu99w | Hello | 19:23 |
| Spass | hello xubuntu99w, you have to be more patient and first of all - describe your issue to us | 19:25 |
| xubuntu99w | Alright, i'm going to write. | 19:25 |
| xubuntu99w | Yesterday, I downloaded Xubuntu, it's the first i use Linux, so i had no previous knowledge about this system, when i downloaded it and installed, the setup process required a partition to install the root or boot files, (i came from windows10) so i had C: where my Windows is installed and D: where i keep some of my files, and i found that there was a small partition of 8go, i created it long time ago and forgot about it, so i | 19:39 |
| xubuntu99w | was fine til today when it asked me clear some memory, then i realised that the 8go were full, so i opened a software called Gparted and tried to increase the Partition, but i couldn't because there were no free space available, so i was messing up with the other partition of C: and D: but the option to change were unavailable, so i rebooted my computer and went to my windows 10 and reduced the capacity of D: by 10 go, then i w | 19:39 |
| xubuntu99w | increase the size of the 8 go partition, but i couldn't so i started to mess a bit with the settings then i noticed that i had deleted the data that was stored on D:, I panicked, and saw lot of tutorials online to get the lost data back, but i couldn't find a find to recover them, i tried to restart the computer and go back to windows, and this were things got real messed up, i couldn't boot the windows i had errors like "error | 19:40 |
| xubuntu99w | partition type to 0x83, invalid signature.... i rebooted to linux and downloaded a software called Boot-repair, but it did not work, now when i boot my pc, i don't have the choice to choose between Win10 or linux , it goes directly to linux,,, When i use Gparted , i notice that i have the C: and windows written next to it and the data is not lost, but it can't boot to it. | 19:41 |
| xubuntu99w | That's it, please help, i have important files on my computer | 19:46 |
| Spass | can you access your Windows partitions from Xubuntu? from the file manager | 20:34 |
| xubuntu99w | Yes, i can see on my desktop a shortcut to windows, and when i enter, i find all the files | 20:36 |
| xubuntu99w | users, programe files, folders ect... everything is there | 20:37 |
| Spass | so it's probably a good idea to copy those important files on some external hard disk or USB drive | 20:38 |
| xubuntu99w | I don't have acess to any of these devices. | 20:39 |
| xubuntu99w | so my problems now are 2, the first one is that i lost access to my windows 10, and the second is that i accidentely deleted my D: partition, i want to get it back | 20:40 |
| xubuntu99w | well it's there, but it's empty. | 20:41 |
| Spass | sorry, but I don't have any experience with the data recovery software, so you should wait for someone else to help you with that, and maybe try looking on the internet in the meantime | 20:45 |
| xubuntu99w | and what about the windows 10 boot | 20:50 |
| xubuntu99w | can u help me there please? | 20:51 |
| Spass | try #ubuntu | 20:53 |
| Spass | more people there that could help you quicker or give you some hints at least | 20:54 |
| Spass | it's not a Xubuntu specific issue and it seems like there's no one here at the moment, that can help you with your problem | 20:55 |
| xubuntu99w | Thanks, i just posted my issue. | 21:06 |
| xubuntu99w | do you know other places where i can find good help? | 21:06 |
| Spass | askubuntu.com for example, but if you want some quick advice try on #ubuntu | 21:11 |
| xubuntu99w | i tried ubuntu, but people are helping each other, but ignoring mine | 21:17 |
| Spass | well, your issue is not super easy to resolve unfortunately, you can also try creating a new post with a description of your problem here - https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/ | 21:23 |
| xubuntu99w | Do you know how to expend a partition size? my linux partition is only 8go. | 21:36 |
| xubuntu99w | i'm currently using TestDisk, i'm able to recover my D: data but i can only copy the data to my linux Partition which is small and full. | 21:37 |
| xubuntu99w | i need to increase it and copy, this way i will recover my data and solve the second problem. | 21:37 |
| n-iCe | hi | 23:36 |
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