[01:37] <n-iCe> hi
[10:52] <apastega> hello
[10:52] <apastega> I'm encountering a strange problem with XUbuntu 18.04 and a new Benq PD2700U monitor (4K)
[10:53] <apastega> after login, desktop background appears, but panels, icons and windows are transparent (hidden)
[10:54] <apastega> if I switch to virtual terminal with ctrl-alt-f1, then back to xorg with ctrl-alt-f7, windows appear
[10:55] <apastega> this behavior is related to 4k resolution,m it doesn't happen when resolution is lower, e.g 1560x1440
[10:55] <apastega> tried to delete session files and cache.. nothing changed
[10:55] <apastega> any ideas?
[10:55] <apastega> thnaks
[10:56] <pmjdebruijn> do you have any HWE activated?
[10:57] <apastega> I don't know
[10:57] <apastega> how check this?
[10:58] <apastega> hwe-support-status --verbose Your Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is supported until April 2023.
[10:58] <apastega> so yes
[10:59] <apastega> other strange effect, don't know if related, is that virtual terminal has strange colors
[11:00] <apastega> background is green-ish, text is pink-is, as if some wrong bit map were used to unpack data from HDMI
[11:00] <apastega> text at BIOS start is correct
[11:13] <pmjdebruijn> no well
[11:14] <pmjdebruijn> what does uname -a say?
[11:15] <apastega> Linux shadoooo-P4 5.3.0-53-generic #47~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 7 13:10:50 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[11:15] <pmjdebruijn> ok, so that's current
[11:15] <pmjdebruijn> what might be interesting is to boot a live 20.04 and see if it still happens there as well
[11:16] <apastega> standard XUbuntu 18.04 with updates
[11:16] <pmjdebruijn> might just be some old xfce bug that already got fixed upstream
[11:16] <pmjdebruijn> apastega: hwe don't install with updates by default
[11:16] <pmjdebruijn> which is why I explicitly asked
[11:16] <pmjdebruijn> hwe's are integrated into new install media though
[11:16] <apastega> should try to prepare an USB
[11:16] <pmjdebruijn> but again, try 20.04 live, and see if it happens there as well, that's quick and easy to try at least
[11:17] <apastega> ok, will try
[11:18] <apastega> beside this, there could be something I could try to completely delete actual monitor settings, so it will recreate from scratch?
[11:18] <apastega> maybe it's caused from a dirty configuration?
[11:19] <apastega> I had another monitor before this, then added the new as second monitor, now second monitor becomes the one and only
[11:20] <apastega> maybe the change broke something...
[11:20] <brainwash> create a new user account and do a quick test
[11:20] <apastega> apart from session cache, don't know if something else could affect
[11:21] <brainwash> you want this one ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml
[11:22] <apastega> ok, will try with new user
[11:22] <apastega> displays.xml seems ok... but I could try to delete it?
[11:22] <brainwash> you could
[11:23] <brainwash> ideally, when the xfconfd process is not running
[11:23] <brainwash> otherwise, it may recreate the old file
[11:25] <apastega> ok, I will try this
[11:25] <apastega> thanks by now
[11:25] <apastega> I'll be back if nothing works
[14:53] <rangergord> from a Ubuntu Server install, I wanted to use a bare minimum Xubuntu, so I installed xubuntu-core. It pulled NetworkManager while server already has networkd (which is what I want to use). Can I safely remove network-manager or will that break the core desktop?
[14:56] <pmjdebruijn> afaik you don't need the metadata xubuntu-core to have working desktop
[14:57] <pmjdebruijn> the question, does purging networkmanager also tell you other stuff is going to be removed
[14:57] <pmjdebruijn> running a GUI on a server is a bit of a cornercase I guess
[15:15] <rangergord> Well, it was only suggesting NM-related packages, so I did it, things seem fine. Although the shutdown menu seems to have been replaced the multiple choices (reboot, save session) with just a shutdown
[15:18] <rangergord> changing network configuration via netplan doesnt work anymore
[16:14] <pmjdebruijn> rangergord: does your netplan configu say renderer: networkd
[16:15] <rangergord> sorry, I already fixed the issue, it was my mistake.
[16:16] <rangergord> I'm glad that removing Network Manager doesn't break Xubuntu otherwise :)
[21:20] <Fernando-Basso[m> I can't add a VPN network.
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[21:20] <Fernando-Basso[m> “Save” button is always greyed out.
[21:23] <Fernando-Basso[m> I have these packages installed:
[21:23] <Fernando-Basso[m> network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-openconnect network-manager-openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-pptp network-manager-pptp-gnome
[21:33] <diogenes_> Fernando-Basso[m, try one of these if they work https://www.vpnbook.com/
[21:33] <diogenes_> openvpn tab.
[21:41] <Fernando-Basso[m> diogenes_: I will, thanks. But I'm really shocked it is not working. My Arch Linux box is able to create and use VPNs without any problems. I wonder if I am not in a required group, or some other dependency is missing.
[21:57] <Fernando-Basso[m> Was missing libnm-vpn-plugin-openconnect-editor.so, which comes with network-manager-openconnect-gnome.
[23:06] <n-iCe> hi