[07:52] <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] <friendlyGoat> is that doable?
[07:54] <friendlyGoat> also if you respond please mention me so i can see, im rather easy to distract when a chats not very actuve
[08:02] <friendlyGoat> hello
[15:21] <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!
[15:27] <diogenes_> swizzy, copy this command to terminal and hit enter
[15:27] <diogenes_> https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/nx46yfvxjT/
[15:28] <diogenes_> tel me when done
[15:31] <swizzy> I was away from my laptop for a moment. I did it now @diogenes_
[15:32] <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
[15:33] <swizzy> https://termbin.com/c2v6
[15:34] <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
[15:35] <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/
[15:36] <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
[15:37] <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
[15:40] <swizzy> Great that seems to have worked.
[15:40] <diogenes_> good :)
[15:41] <swizzy> Thank you for your help
[15:42] <diogenes_> you're welcome
[15:43] <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.
[15:44] <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.
[15:46] <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)
[15:50] <swizzy> What I did now is add a custom-launcher to it that just runs "hexchat". That doesn't disappear.
[15:51] <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*
[15:52] <swizzy> Do you know where the programs are usually installed to? Because its asking me for a path.
[15:54] <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
[15:55] <swizzy> But shouldn't there be a fitting picture for desktop icons in the hexchat folder?
[15:56] <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
[15:59] <swizzy> Had to get something out of the oven real quick, will try that now
[15:59] <diogenes_> XD
[17:24] <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.
[19:19] <xubuntu99w> hi
[19:19] <xubuntu99w> Please help me.
[19:22] <xubuntu99w> Hello.
[19:23] <xubuntu99w> Hello
[19:25] <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.
[19:39] <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
[19:40] <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
[19:41] <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.
[19:46] <xubuntu99w> That's it, please help, i have important files on my computer
[20:34] <Spass> can you access your Windows partitions from Xubuntu? from the file manager
[20:36] <xubuntu99w> Yes, i can see on my desktop a shortcut to windows, and when i enter, i find all the files
[20:37] <xubuntu99w> users, programe files, folders ect... everything is there
[20:38] <Spass> so it's probably a good idea to copy those important files on some external hard disk or USB drive
[20:39] <xubuntu99w> I don't have acess to any of these devices.
[20:40] <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
[20:41] <xubuntu99w> well it's there, but it's empty.
[20:45] <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
[20:50] <xubuntu99w> and what about the windows 10 boot
[20:51] <xubuntu99w> can u help me there please?
[20:53] <Spass> try #ubuntu
[20:54] <Spass> more people there that could help you quicker or give you some hints at least
[20:55] <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
[21:06] <xubuntu99w> Thanks, i just posted my issue.
[21:06] <xubuntu99w> do you know other places where i can find good help?
[21:11] <Spass> askubuntu.com for example, but if you want some quick advice try on #ubuntu
[21:17] <xubuntu99w> i tried ubuntu, but people are helping each other, but ignoring mine
[21:23] <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/
[21:36] <xubuntu99w> Do you know how to expend a partition size? my linux partition is only 8go.
[21:37] <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.
[23:36] <n-iCe> hi