[00:33] <JoshuaD> How come Xubuntu prefers snapfish to gnome-search-tool?  I feel like the latter works better, where snapfish has a weird UI and never works too well for me. Just curious.
[00:34] <Unit193> (Catfish)
[00:34] <JoshuaD> ^
[00:35] <Unit193> What's the package name for the GNOME tool?  That doesn't exist.
[00:35] <JoshuaD> I had to install it manually. It used to exist and was removed in some previous version of Ubuntu.
[00:35] <JoshuaD> let me see
[00:37] <Unit193> ...Well that'd kind of explain it then.
[00:38] <Unit193> catfish is losely an Xfce project, it's still maintained and the GNOME depends obviously aren't there.  It seems to work for most people.
[00:39] <JoshuaD> i'm having trouble finding how i installed it now. Maybe I just downloaded a .deb and installed manually.  I know it wasn't in the main repository
[00:40] <JoshuaD> I guess its just a preference thing. Catfish was un-usable for me, but gnome-search-tool is exactly what I want.
[00:46] <Unit193> JoshuaD: catfish has both a find and locate backend, did you try both?
[00:47] <JoshuaD> No. My two main complaints with Catfish is that it used that minimal gnome UI look, which doesn't match the UI of the rest of my XFCE system, and then it used indexed search, which I don't prefer.
[00:47] <JoshuaD> Does one of those use non-indexed search?
[00:49] <Unit193> find
[00:53] <JoshuaD> oh sweet. Let me try that out and see how it feels. Thanks
[00:53] <JoshuaD> I'm looking at catfish.  I don't see any options to change the backend
[00:55] <JoshuaD> https://i.imgur.com/qYWpJI9.png
[00:56] <Unit193> I'm not seeing it either, so I could indeed be wrong on that.. :/
[00:57] <JoshuaD> ohwell. I'm happy with gnome-search-tool. It is literally exactly what I wanted. Just surprised that it was so hard to find and install
[01:27] <bluesabre> Catfish recently restored the titlebar layout for Xfce. It has a couple backends that it automatically switches between
[01:27] <bluesabre> (yes, I know I'm late to the party)
[01:29] <Unit193> OK, so I'm not entirely crazy, you just can't select backend.  And yeeah, noticed on Disco it really wasn't to my preferences. :3
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[06:05] <rev> hi. i just installed xubuntu but cant connect to wifi, when i click on the icon it says wifi networks disconnected but i cant even click on it. its greyed out
[06:07] <well_laid_lawn> !wifi
[06:07] <ubottu> Wireless documentation, including how-to guides and troubleshooting information, can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs
[08:52] <EvaristeGalois> It happened again. I uninstalled some default program like 'mail reader' and my desktop environment wont load anymore
[08:55] <Unit193> Let me guess, you used GNOME software to do it?  I presume that took the liberty of uninstalling exo, which..Yeah shouldn't be done.
[08:55] <EvaristeGalois> That was probably the case yes
[08:55] <EvaristeGalois> Any command I can use to reinstall exo again?
[08:55] <EvaristeGalois> Before I completely reinstall xubuntu
[08:56] <Unit193> Well you could install exo, but it'd be better to just  sudo apt install xubuntu-desktop^  to install the xubuntu-desktop task, pulling whatever else was removed back in.
[08:57] <Unit193> Personally I'd recommend a package manager that shows a little more what's going on, and isn't so terrible, but that's my own opinion. :)
[09:13] <EvaristeGalois> Thanks Unit193, yeah I'm normally using synaptic package manager, but hadn't installed it yet
[09:15] <EvaristeGalois> lol, I can't open the terminal because exo isn't isntalled
[09:16] <EvaristeGalois> No, the shortcut just doesn't work because of it
[09:19] <EvaristeGalois> alt + f2 worked, nvm
[09:22] <EvaristeGalois> As for "Let me guess, you used GNOME software to do it?  I presume that took the liberty of uninstalling exo, which..Yeah shouldn't be done."
[09:23] <EvaristeGalois> Isn't it possible to disable that in fresh installs?
[09:24] <EvaristeGalois> Because I imagine, people who aren't that adept with computers, would be at a loss if it happened to them
[09:24] <Unit193> I think one can add something to the .desktop files to say "Hey GNOME Software, don't list this!", I think later exo versions do.
[09:25] <EvaristeGalois> hmm, k
[09:26] <EvaristeGalois> It's the only remark I have on xubuntu, for the rest; best OS I ever had
[09:26] <EvaristeGalois> And I started on windows 3.1
[12:28] <EvaristeGalois> Lol, I was about the try windows 10 for the fifth (as a dual boot next to xubuntu)
[12:29] <EvaristeGalois> But then I looked up a youtube video on the state of affairs of Win 10
[12:29] <EvaristeGalois> and joyfully stood up and grabbed my win 7 DVD
[12:29] <diogenes_> which will be end of support as of january :)
[12:31] <EvaristeGalois> Don't care. I refuse to use malware as an operating system
[12:31] <diogenes_> windows is a scam.
[12:32] <ondondil> most of the telemetry got backported to windows 7 and 8 anyway
[12:34] <EvaristeGalois> I don't know what that means ondondil
[12:34] <EvaristeGalois> (I only use Win7 to play Worms Armageddon and THPS2)
[13:36] <Spass[m]> it means that most spying funcionality from win10 is now in win7 and 8 also
[21:53] <Mead> just block it at the firewall