[01:34] <kekchup> how can I install kubuntu on a second drive within windows 10
[01:34] <kekchup> my usb drives have stuff on them so
[01:35] <kekchup> I cant just make a bootable usb
[06:15] <lordievader> Good morning
[08:14] <Snorghma> hi kubuntu people, what do you all use to make bootable iso's?  I need to make a new usb bootable to put on a laptop using a usb stick.  What software do you all use for this?
[08:16] <diogenes_> Snorghma, etcher.
[08:17] <Snorghma> the ubuntu page suggests Startup Disk Creator but this is 1) gnome and 2) uses an iso 9660 fs which seems to be an issue for me
[08:17] <Snorghma> ok cool thanks
[09:20] <M_aD> Snorghma: if already on Linux then there's also the dd command...
[09:27] <jimtendo> Hi all, was hoping someone may've bumped into this before: I use a Lenovo X1 Carbon and run Kubuntu 19.04. However, I've had long-standing issues with the Compositor if I try to use OpenGL (2.0 or 3.1) in that my desktop becomes very laggy to render anything. Using XRender (which, as I understand, disables many compositing effects and delegates the work to CPU) seems okay. Does anyone have any idea what the cause might be or if there is any fix?
[09:50] <xtavras-M> Hi, I have some strange problem, I've used  nouveau drivers on my laptop, then I wanted to try nvidia, but didn't like it, so I#ve removed them and installed nouveau again, but now I just boot in command line instead. if I login and run "startx" it's working, already reinstalled xserver and kubuntu-desktop, nothing. Kubuntu 18.04.2
[09:59] <xtavras-M> can you help with troubleshooting, I can't se anything bad in Xorg.log and sddm looks fine (see that is starte in journalctl logs)
[10:13] <viewer|74> Buongiorno a tutti: sono nuovo della Community
[10:30] <eh> have Problem with 19.10, plasma not starting
[10:38] <jimtendo> Hi all, I was here a little while ago asking about why I got such bad performance when using OpenGL + Compositing on my Thinkpad. Turns out this was due to the xserver-xorg-video-intel package. There is something in newer Kernels called "modeset" which means this package is no longer necessary for Intel Hardware. The xserver-xorg-video-intel package itself is hardly maintained any more (and should not be used with post-2007 hardware), hence it
[10:38] <jimtendo> basically cripples performance.
[10:42] <eh> back now to 19.04 and no problem to boot
[10:58] <lordievader> Were you actually using the intel xorg driver though? Having both installed the modesetting driver is still preferred.
[11:38] <BluesKaj> 'Morning folks
[14:11] <jimtendo> lordievader: Yes, I was. It looks like the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver will still take precedence.
[14:11] <jimtendo> ... if it is installed.
[14:11] <jimtendo> Things are running very smoothly now.
[14:13] <jimtendo> So good in fact, that I feel like throwing the Macbook I have to use for work in the bin.
[17:08] <Oderus> Hi. Got a new hard drive, and want to put kubuntu back on my system as it was before. Are there any preperations I need to make? E2fsck or fsck before I use the kubuntu installer?
[17:10] <Alabalistic> hi
[17:10] <Oderus> Hello Alabalistic
[17:11] <Alabalistic> You change the drives and you want the exact copy of is ?
[17:11] <Alabalistic> or you want a new install and the same /home
[17:12] <Oderus> While that would be ideal to transfer my stuff over, I am not sure it would be possible with my previous drive having bad sectors.
[17:12] <Alabalistic> I did use a dd to make a copy of my old disk to my new ssd
[17:12] <Alabalistic> Your bad sectors were detected with SMART
[17:13] <Oderus> Yes and i ran e2fsck and fsck on each partition as well
[17:13] <Alabalistic> if so this mean there is no data loss
[17:13] <Alabalistic> is it a Laptop or a PC
[17:13] <Oderus> Desktop
[17:14] <Oderus> Old drive is 1tb, new is 2tb
[17:15] <Alabalistic> I did open the box connect two drives via SATA run a live usb and did dd bs=4M if=/sda1 of=sdb
[17:15] <Alabalistic> and the transfer speed was 100 MB / S, when you do it you still have your old drive as a backup
[17:16] <Alabalistic> next step is to open gparted and expand your partition or make another as you wish
[17:16] <Oderus> Hmmm i am going to pick the new drive up later from the post office, I wonder of it came with a connector
[17:17] <Alabalistic> do you have a CD rom? use his SATA cabel
[17:17] <Oderus> Ohhhhh good idea!!
[17:18] <Alabalistic> before pluging your new drive do a lsblk and check your current state, just do not mix the old with the new doble check
[17:18] <Oderus> What do you mean by do not mix the old with the new
[17:19] <Alabalistic> if you swich your if - input file and of output file, then you gonna write zeros on your old HDD
[17:20] <Alabalistic> do you know the Linux disks sda sdb sdc1
[17:20] <Alabalistic> mmc
[17:20] <Oderus> Ohhhh ok I understand what you mean.
[17:21] <Oderus> Make sure I dont overwrite my old drive with the new one
[17:21] <Alabalistic> yes
[17:22] <Alabalistic> but the speed is great, otherwise with usb cable there is days of waiting, just plug them direct on the motherboard
[17:23] <Alabalistic> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
[17:23] <Oderus> No I do not want to transfer that much data by usb. Sata is much faster. What does the bs=4M parameter mean
[17:23] <Alabalistic> this is the command if your old hdd is SDA and the new is SDB, but there can be a mix if you put it in the second slot in the mainboard
[17:24] <Oderus> I will make sure i know which is which before copying
[17:25] <Alabalistic> this is the block size, some use 100 some 32 some others
[17:25] <Oderus> Just running e2fsck on a 1tb drive took 20 hours
[17:25] <Alabalistic> its not so clear depends of the size of the files, what I know 4M is kind of default
[17:26] <Oderus> Ah ok
[17:27] <Oderus> I already moved my non operating system data to an external drive so it would just be moving the os, boot, swap, and home partitions
[17:27] <Alabalistic> Oderus, dd is my go to for bootable usb and all sort of things, read man dd in the terminal and use your auto completion tab
[17:27] <Oderus> Ok will do
[17:27] <Alabalistic> If I was you I will do a fresh install
[17:28] <Alabalistic> on the new drive
[17:28] <Oderus> Yes that is probably a better idea
[17:28] <Oderus> Since i backed up my data. I have Kubuntu 19.04 on a bootable usb ready to go
[17:30] <Oderus> Is it safer to make seperate partitions for home, root, and swap? That is what I have done in the past
[17:30] <Oderus> And then another seperate partition for file storage
[17:33] <Alabalistic> Yes I do the same
[17:34] <Alabalistic> if your files are important it is better to keep it under your home dir
[17:34] <Oderus> Ok ty
[17:35] <Alabalistic> and if you have more then one disk in your computer do the swap 50 - 50
[17:35] <Alabalistic> linux use the faster swap file
[17:35] <Oderus> 50% on each drive?
[17:35] <Alabalistic> yes
[17:35] <Oderus> Interesting, okay
[17:35] <eh> is a bug im kubuntu 19.10 ? After boot I have only a black screen with the cursor, No more actions are visable
[17:36] <Oderus> Eh: very possible, its not even in beta yet
[17:38] <eh> I have a nvidia card with nvidia-390. No I am back to 19.04 and all is function excellent
[17:42] <Oderus> Have you tried booting 19.10 with the grub option -nomodeset
[17:43] <Oderus> I heard it comes with nvidia support, but I dont know if that includes whay you have
[17:54] <tomreyn> !19.10
[17:54] <tomreyn> !ubuntu+1
[17:54] <tomreyn> eh: ^
[17:55] <tomreyn> generally, don't expect proprieary drivers to work on pre-alpha releases
[19:19] <tuxine1> Hi
[19:55] <perr-paranoic> Hi, I need help for this issue https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/drsvR2NXZD/ I can't open a old program with new java i suppose...
[20:15] <user|86131> Hello, guys!
[20:20] <Alabalistic> hi
[20:42] <eh> #ubuntu+1
[22:21] <Snorghma> hi all, do you know if it is possible to change the panel bar so that the virtual desktops are in a 2x2 if I had 4 of them rather than a 1x4?