[05:06] <bathyphila> Hello, could I get some help getting Wifi working on a new Xubuntu install? The system is a Lenovo Ideapad 130s-11IGM, and I wiped the drive and loaded Xubuntu 18.04. The wifi won't work because there aren't drivers included in the distro for the Realtek RTL8821CE. There are drivers available on the internet, but I've been unable to install any of
[05:06] <bathyphila> them over the last couple hours. They all have dependencies, and when I try to install the dependencies they fail (whether from a lack of Linux experience on my part or futher missing dependencies). The biggest problem is that this particular system has NO ethernet port, so I can't plug it into my router and use an internet based package manager. A
[05:06] <bathyphila> ny help would be appreciated!
[05:09] <well_laid_lawn> bathyphila:  https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/realtek-rtl8821ce-driver-4175645007/
[05:09] <well_laid_lawn> suggests there is a driver on github
[05:14] <well_laid_lawn> and a youtube vid that should hopefully help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPfLVsyQU_A
[05:14] <bathyphila> Yes, I have tried to use that driver. The problem is that the driver requires DKMS to install. I downloaded dkms_2.3-3ubuntu9_all.deb, but when I attempted to install that it bombed out saynomg gcc, dpkg-dev, make, and build-essential were not installable.
[05:15] <bathyphila> The youtube video assumes that you have an ethernet port to connect to the internet, which this machine lacks.
[05:19] <guiverc> bathyphila, you may have to use old-fashioned sneaker-net, ie. download on another box, write to thumb-drive & walk them across to that machine
[05:19] <bathyphila> That
[05:20] <bathyphila> Sorry, that's what I've been trying to do but I can't get the drivers and packages I download and transfer to install.
[05:21] <bathyphila> And where I think I may be going wrong is it appears that some of the packages are already on the machine (like gcc), but DKMS refuses to install.
[05:22] <well_laid_lawn> the actual error will help
[05:23] <well_laid_lawn> "refuses to install" is impossible to diagnose
[05:23] <bathyphila> Let me try to rerun the difference packages and get them for you.
[05:30] <bathyphila> Here's the device when I run lspci -v: Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter	Subsystem: Lenovo RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter	Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 255	I/O ports at 1000 [disabled] [size=256]	Memory at a1100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]	Capabil
[05:30] <bathyphila> ities: <access denied>
[05:31] <bathyphila> This is the result of me trying to install DKMS: andrew@ideapad-130S-11IGM:~/Desktop$ sudo apt install '/home/andrew/Desktop/dkms_2.3-3ubuntu9_all.deb'[sudo] password for andrew: Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree       Reading state information... DoneNote, selecting 'dkms' instead of '/home/andrew/Desktop/dkms_2.3-3ubuntu9_all.
[05:31] <bathyphila> deb'Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstabledistribution that some required packages have not yet been createdor been moved out of Incoming.The following information may help to resolve the situation:The following packages have unmet dependencies: dkms : Depe
[05:31] <bathyphila> nds: gcc but it is not installable        Depends: dpkg-dev but it is not installable        Depends: make but it is not installable or                 build-essential but it is not installable        Recommends: fakeroot but it is not installableE: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
[05:33] <well_laid_lawn> so from that you need package for build-essential
[05:34] <well_laid_lawn> as well as dkms
[05:36] <well_laid_lawn> bathyphila:  https://itsfoss.com/install-deb-files-ubuntu/
[05:37] <bathyphila> Thanks, I'll try installing build-essential and report back!
[05:40] <well_laid_lawn> luck
[05:41] <bathyphila> Comes up with more dependencies that need to be installed.
[05:43] <well_laid_lawn> yep. it's called dependency hell and the reason package managers were built
[05:43] <well_laid_lawn> you will just have to keep getting the packages via sneaker net
[05:43] <bathyphila> Yeah, just incredibly frustrating that it is assumed that you have an internet connection.
[05:45] <well_laid_lawn> only to update and install
[05:45] <well_laid_lawn> :)
[05:45] <bathyphila> Good god, there might be dozens of dependencies.
[09:15] <gidna> Hello
[09:45] <xubuntu81w> hello. i have problem. Xubuntu 18.04.2. When i install nautilus, set it as default file manager, and delete Thunar,  i trying to open some file(.png for example), but it failed. Then, i install Thunar again, open NAUTILUS and i trying to open some file(.png for example) and its's successfull. What's happening?
[09:48] <brainwash> xubuntu81w: where do you open the file?
[09:49] <xubuntu81w> in the nautilus file manager
[09:52] <brainwash> bug 1778069
[09:54] <brainwash> see if applying the suggested changes from comment #8 helps
[12:33] <PoolShark_> Hi all.. i need some help with sound... how do I tell xubuntu 18.04 not to change everything when I plug in a new sound device? My setup is that I have 5 sound devices on the system, and I need to do two things: 1) give them all a unique name so I can identify which is which and 2) get the system to stop changing everything around when I plug one of them in. For example, I have applications listening to each sound device, and when I plu
[12:33] <PoolShark_> g a new one in, pulseaudio will change one of those applications to output to the new device, or change the device one or more of the applications is listening to. This is beyond annoying.
[12:34] <PoolShark_> I tried to do this via udev but xubuntu seems to be completely ignoring my ruleset
[12:35] <PoolShark_> I don't want pulseaudio overriding the connection between applications and sound devices
[12:35] <PoolShark_> I can tell my applications to look for specific alsa IDs but pulseaudio thinks it knows better hah
[12:38] <PoolShark_> pavucontrol is a little useless because it just has 5 identical instances of the same sound device, and doesn't distinguish which is which in any way whatsoever
[12:42] <PoolShark_> brb
[12:50] <xubuntu25w> Hello, I need help on with a non booting grub
[12:52] <xubuntu25w> After creating a partition with a filesystem on sd3, I rebooted my computer and grub open the grub> prompt command
[12:55] <xubuntu25w> I can see the files only thought tab completion, ls doesn't display anything
[12:56] <brainwash> xubuntu25w: probably best to ask in #ubuntu
[12:56] <xubuntu25w> Ok thanks
[14:04] <Armageddon> I'm having a weird issue where the display settings windows keep popping up multiple times
[14:04] <Armageddon> is this a known issue ?
[14:11] <brainwash> Armageddon: something like that has been reported as bug, yes
[14:13] <brainwash> bug 1264629
[14:13] <Armageddon> brainwash, thank you
[14:13] <brainwash> see comment #8
[14:23] <Armageddon> brainwash, testing it out
[14:33] <Armageddon> brainwash, works thanks :)
[14:33] <brainwash> great :)
[15:44] <devilspie> Hi
[15:46] <devilspie> Could anyone tell me how I can bind "Super" key to open XFCE whisker menu?
[15:47] <Andrio> devilspie, consider using ksuperkey
[15:57] <devilspie> Cool! that worked.
[15:58] <devilspie> @GridCude, Thanks
[19:34] <roadrunneratwast>  hi.  i keep on hitting some key combination while in emacs that magnifies the display bigger than the screen size.  I assume this is for accessibility.  What is this key combo?  How do I undo it?
[19:36] <roadrunneratwast> ok. got it. "alt scroll"
[19:53] <Spass[m]> roadrunneratwast: hi, you can change Alt to a different key if you want in the settings - https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/4.12/wmtweaks#accessibility