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⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Optical Mouse id=8 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE id=10 [slave pointer (2)]

Amith KK

4:11 PM

Ok. which is the new one?

The PIXART?

aking1012

PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE id=10 [slave pointer (2)]

Amith KK

@aking1012 run xinput create-master Auxiliary

aking1012

got it...and then?

Amith KK

run xinput list again

aking1012

⎡ Auxiliary pointer                       	id=11	[master pointer  (12)]
⎜   ↳ Auxiliary XTEST pointer                 	id=13	[slave  pointer  (11)

Amith KK

4:14 PM

Great!

@aking1012 run xinput reattach 10 "Auxiliary pointer"

aking1012

It responded as you would expect and I have two pointers

Amith KK

@aking1012 run xinput set-button-map 10 3 2 1

aking1012

i just crashed gnome-terminal...just a sec

okay...done

jrg

@LordofTime Relax. ;P

Amith KK

Ok, now a utility to distinguish the pointers

@aking1012 run git clone git://git.ao2.it/xicursorset.git

aking1012

4:20 PM

okay it compiled fine

Amith KK

@aking1012 Wait

You finished running make?

aking1012

yes, it builds as you would expect (i already have a bunch of -dev libs installed)

I think we may have gotten Aux backwards though. Paste/window selection and the like only works from the second(new) mouse

Amith KK

@aking1012 No, The other cursor is running on Left hand mode

so the switches are switched

aking1012

that's not what i meant. if i use my primary cursor to select the and paste(Right hand one) paste and context based window selection no longer works...but i'm pushing through it. keep going

Amith KK

Ok now, try multitouch

Taken from the Poor Man's Multi-touch using MPX guide

aking1012

4:29 PM

Okay, both pointers work, but the meat of the question is a multi-touch extension for the browser or a browser that supports multi-touch

...preferably native...

Alvar

11

Q: How do I set fish as the default shell?

Is there a way to set fish as the default shell in ubuntu netbook remix? I put in my .bashrc to run fish, which works fine, but ubuntu recognizes it as fish running inside bash, which means that when I try to close the shell it warns me that a task is still running. It doesn't pop up as a new ap...

Amith KK

@aking1012 Did you try rekonq

Alvar

I first read the title as "how much is the fish?" .. :D

aking1012

@AmithKK I haven't.

Amith KK

@aking1012 Well.. I guess you can try

It probably will pull out some kubuntu dependencies

aking1012

4:33 PM

google-ing about on it, it seems it may be supported in the future just not yet

mail.kde.org/pipermail/rekonq/2011-July/003039.html

giving it a shot though

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aking1012

@AmithKK yeah no dice on pinch zoom, just got 2 cursors

Amith KK

Looks like there are very very few multitouch browsers

Or, Try the emulator

BBL

Windows Time

aking1012

Okay. Pinch-zoom doesn't work, but you're about half way there

tgm4883

So this sucks "Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
this question has been deleted; no new answers will be accepted"

As much as I didn't think I would case when i first started using AU, I do actually care about my reputation

s/case/care/

So I take my time and try to write a good answer and this happens

Yes I'm essentially complaining about missing karma

Amith KK

4:55 PM

BBT

Good Night

htorque

hi all!

is there something like networking.SE?

aking1012

hi @htorque

jrg

@htorque networking as in Ethernet cables, switches and routers?

htorque

yay

jrg

@aking1012 You're the eclipse guy, is this a dupe? askubuntu.com/questions/144549/…

@htorque serverfault might be a good guess

aking1012

5:03 PM

@jrg yes, there's a canonical how do i install eclipse question

htorque

do they like linux guys?

is it an eclipse or java issue with sticky/hovering dropdown menus?

aking1012

@jrg that's not the canonical question

htorque

(not disappearing, on top of the desktop)

aking1012

8

Q: How to install Eclipse

I want to install Eclipse 3.6.1 (latest) but software centre contains old version. Is there a PPA or some other way to install latest Eclipse? Please describe the steps for full installation.

installation ppa eclipse

jrg

@htorque they're mostly IT infrastructure people over there, *nix servers are predominant (as are Windows desktops).

@aking1012 thanks

ok, one down. another bajillion tabs to go

htorque

5:05 PM

well, i'll give it a go. thanks @jrg!

aking1012

@jrg np

jrg

The Matrix has good credits music.

aking1012

@jrg Has good music in general

jrg

@aking1012 Very true.

aking1012

I'm wondering when games are going to stop choosing your soundtrack for you and just let you select an mp3/wmv/whatever-per-platform playlist

jrg

5:10 PM

Already has that on iOS.

aking1012

Would also reduce development costs

jrg

Gameloft has that for the majority of their games.

aking1012

Good idea

htorque

GTA

get in a car, listen to your music

jrg

Whoa... Jono Bacon reshared that picture of the Microcenter ad. My life is nearing completion. :O

(I know, I'm very ambitious.)

aking1012

5:15 PM

<-- is eagerly awaiting the first real web-gl game development platform

jrg

@aking1012 That'll be the day...

aking1012

It would be epic

George Edison

5:27 PM

@aking1012 Sounds good to me.

Hey - when did Chrome get autocomplete in the JS console?

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison a few releases ago

George Edison

I'm afraid that just goes to show how much I use Chrome anymore :P

Komodo Edit sometimes amazes me: it's warning me, as I type, that the function I'm writing doesn't always return a value.

George Edison

5:57 PM

Linux has a pretty good showing there.

tgm4883

@ak

@aking1012, while that should be an option, the soundtrack for many games is carefully chosen to reflect what is happening at that moment in the game in order to better connect the player to what is happening, possibly triggering an emotional response

I don't think I would have had the same response to many of the scenes in the mass effect series had I been listening to the bare naked ladies instead

htorque

no way, immersion is dead. way too expensive.

tgm4883

With the amount that is spent making some of these games, I don't think "too expensive" is in their vocabulary

Lord of Time

yawn

i hate having to diagram stuff with Vizio

its a pain in the [CENSORED]

and not just because its Windows software

izx

6:47 PM

@LordofTime TikZ + TeX FTW!

Lord of Time

@izx on Windows?

that's why its a pain - i have to use Vizio for sharepoint workflows

izx

@LordofTime On any platform, yes, but my experience is limited to general flowcharts and EE/CS diagrams - I imagine with sharepoint you have no choice but use vizio

Lord of Time

or custom code, or InfoPath (Which is even more evil)

Mitch

7:16 PM

Hello all

Can I host Wbui on my site for download?

Lord of Time

i'd not

i mean, you can, but make a note its an unofficial mirror when yuo offer it

so it may be out of date

Mitch

K

I downloaded 12.10 today, and installed it inside a VM, but is says 12.04. What gives?

Lord of Time

12.10 is weirdish

its only in alpha 1 anyways

call it a fluke or a bug :P

Mitch

It might be, but it runs very good

Lord of Time

doesn't matter, as long as the /etc/apt/sources.list stuff refers to quantal you're fine

Mitch

7:20 PM

More that I can say for 6,7, ???

it does

Lord of Time

well let me put it this way:

Alpha 1 only came out a few days ago

they havent really added anything new

but they will

so when they add new things, well...

Mitch

Oh, I very sure of that

Would it be OK if sometimes a person asks a question, but their English isn`t all that great, to maybe answer them in their own language?

Of course if you know their language.

Lord of Time

if and only if you include the english translation

failure to comply is bad

jrg

Anyone used a tiling window manager before?

Jorge Castro

No, I bathe regularly.

Lord of Time

7:27 PM

nope

can't say i have

Jorge Castro

sorry, I had to

Lord of Time

@JorgeCastro lol

George Edison

@JorgeCastro Quick question... would you happen to have a tracking number for the package?

Lord of Time

@Jorge bdmurray answered the question i had about bugcontrol applications :)

Jorge Castro

@GeorgeEdison I looked, but couldn't find it

jrg

7:27 PM

@JorgeCastro LOL

Jorge Castro

@GeorgeEdison I'll head over to the fedex store tomorrow

it should be there by now

jrg

Dangit. I guess I'll need to stumble through this project on my own. Compiz is too resource heavy, and i need something with some sort of window snapping. :(

Marco Ceppi

@jrg I've used Ratpoison from time to time

George Edison

Wow... Python stack traces are hard to read.

Things get complicated when the call stack has about 100 entries.

Lord of Time

@George paste it here, i'll see if i cant help :)

George Edison

7:33 PM

Actually I just figured it out.

Lord of Time

lolol indeed

George Edison

I'm just saying... I was looking for the error in the wrong file.

Lord of Time

hehe, yeah that can be hard to read :)

jrg

@GeorgeEdison ruby is similar.

@MarcoCeppi like it?

George Edison

Next question: why is Django escaping HTML that I've marked as safe???

@register.filter(name='markdown', is_safe=True)

Instead, the HTML is getting escaped to the page.

Marco Ceppi

7:42 PM

@jrg Yes, it's based on GNU Screen bindings

Jorge Castro

@jrg 'awesome' is highly regarded, look there first

it's what googlers are into

Lord of Time

@Marco @jrg should 'bugs' be a synonym of 'bug' ?

in tags

Marco Ceppi

@LordofTime bugs and bug should die in a pit

Lord of Time

@MarcoCeppi i agree with you :P

go purge them and have fun doing it

jrg

@JorgeCastro Ok. Thanks!

Lord of Time

7:44 PM

while you're at it, grep them for any links to LP bugs and give me the list of what LP bugs for ubuntu are linked to those posts :p

aking1012

@tgm4883 valid point. i more meant for less scripted games

Lord of Time

hey @jrg did your internet die to irc or something

because @jokerdino's died too

so...

jrg

irccloud did die, yes

Mitch

@EliahKagan it has been filed.

Lord of Time

@Mitch what was filed where?

aking1012

7:55 PM

@AmithKK you were looking for a sonic-ish rigged character: opengameart.org/content/theo-the-teddy

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Mitch

A bug report about Wubi

Lord of Time

link please

is on bug squasher duties

Mitch

Wubi download is in a loop

Browsing through askubuntu.com yesterday, I found out the users can`t download Wubi. So I went to the site and tried downloading it myself, and it was going in a loop. I file a bug report via E-mail. Email content were as follows: Browsing through askubuntu.com unanswered questions, I found this question: Windows installer for Ubuntu Desktop when I click on " start download " in "http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer " it does`nt work and it guides me for installing ubuntu desktop in this page : http://www.ubuntu.com/download what should I do ? thanks I started to see what the problem is, and found out the site is in a loop, and it will not allow the download of the windows installer. Please can you have a look? Thanks Mitch I got a replay saying that information is missing so I replied back with the information needed. I have not received any response back yet, and I can`t see it in my account. Can you please help. Thanks

Ubuntu

Undecided / New

Lord of Time

you know they already know right?

jrg

8:00 PM

Request for comments on summer plans for Ask Ubuntu.

8

Mitch

I never doubted that they did not, but just to be on the safe side

Lord of Time

@Mitch its been around for 3 days so...

jrg

@GeorgeEdison so you don't think i'm being overzealous?

George Edison

@jrg Not really.

If anyone can do it, you can.

aking1012

@jrg best of luck

jrg

8:05 PM

Have you seen how many questions are in those tags combined?

it's like, 1K+. :P

Lord of Time

about a bazillion :P

jrg

yeah, exactly. And that's not counting the dupes. It's entirely likely I'll end up spending most of june doing those tags, most of july/august closing dupes, and then most of september sleeping. ;P

Lord of Time

looks like your summer is planned out.

i'm on bugsquasher duties now so... :P

jrg

> I will be programming my merry heart out when suddenly nothing I type makes sense.

Welcome to the zen.

aking1012

That's usually right after I walk away for 5 minutes or so and come back to give recent progress a WAT

Ask Ubuntu Meta

8:15 PM

4

Q: Summer cleanup, feedback wanted, etc

Basically, what I'd like to do is get community 'permission' to do the following over the next few weeks (for whats left of June, and then thereafter whenever I have time): Completely destroy and utterly eradicate the following tags: error crash bug Try and clean up our duplicates, primarily...

discussion

jrg

@AskUbuntuMeta You're late to the party, as usual.

Lord of Time

hehe

aking1012

Thought you might get a kick out of this
This is my IDE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My IDE is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

My IDE, without me, is useless. Without my IDE, I am useless.
I must use my IDE true. I must implement more logically than my enemy who is trying to generate bugs.
I must meet deadlines before he generates bugs. I will...

My IDE and myself know that what counts in this war is not the lines of code, the number of iterations, or the refactoring we do.

jrg

@aking1012 LOL

aking1012

I'm glad someone got the reference...

George Edison

8:30 PM

A few minutes ago we rolled out support for Markdown syntax in comments. Please let us know if you encounter any problems using it.

Tweeted by quickms on June 6, 2012 at 8:30 PM

aking1012

@GeorgeEdison Thanks

@GeorgeEdison small bug I think askubuntu.com/questions/147471/i-have-strange-error

fossfreedom

8:49 PM

@jrg ... that "linuxmint" closure ... FYI you can get that same error if the OP has installed the MATE repo ontop of ubuntu.

jrg

really? Guess i should try out more weird software.

aking1012

@fossfreedom Good to know

fossfreedom

:) if you dont mind - can I dupe it against the correct report?

jrg

that and he's now claiming he's not using mint.

@fossfreedom go right ahead

Marco Ceppi

We rule

4

jrg

8:58 PM

Wow. Impressive.

aking1012

There's a cryptography stack site? Who knew...no wait, I was the only one that didn't know

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Wow.

I never thought that day would come.

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison it's been like that since release, with no sign of slowing down

George Edison

That's excellent.

aking1012

given my recent mint misfire, i'm not voting this one...it feels like hedging though: askubuntu.com/questions/147487/…

fossfreedom

9:07 PM

... its an obvious OT - closed.

aking1012

I thought so, I just didn't want to get in to a two mis-votes in 20 minutes about OT thing if "but I'm using Ubuntu to make a respin of X" and get caught in an awkward place

jrg

Our site is like a jungle. Stay on the path and you're fine, get off the road and you're in trouble. :(

fossfreedom

... thats linux for you ... you get the power ... but also the bullets to shoot yourself not only in the feet but in the head as well...! :)

jrg

Yeah, that's why I like Ubuntu. It puts the bullets up on the top shelf. Apparently, we need to put it in a lockbox, and then leave the key on the top shelf. :P

aking1012

Kind of like: "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." -- Bjarne Stroustrup

but for Ubuntu I suppose

fossfreedom

9:27 PM

yikes ... launchpad is slowing down today ... I've built a number of packages today. The last two though ... one is due to build in 16 hours time ... and the other in 3 days!!

aking1012

the push for more developers for ubuntu apps and the app-store must be succeeding (or it has to do with a bunch of version bumps for Q)

jrg

@aking1012 i think it's mostly Q related

aking1012

I was being optimistic

Also, I just found out on the Sencha forums that they have in private beta a cross platform Ext4JS binary packager

jrg

by all means, be optimistic!

fossfreedom

damn ... a few hours was not unreasonable ... but 3 days!

aking1012

9:32 PM

@fossfreedom xn.pinkhamster.net/blog/tech/…

jrg

@aking1012 AH-HA! Just what I'm looking for!

Thank you sir!

aking1012

always happy to help

fossfreedom

... just been spending a few days understanding debian packaging ... dont think my head can take creating my own package repo as well !

aking1012

the packaging is harder than repo-making...but i take your point

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0

Q: game tag needs to be cleaned up

game needs to be merged into games. I've taken care of merging in ubuntu-games already.

discussion status-completed tags

aking1012

9:43 PM

brief aside...i find this very interesting: wiul.org

Frantumn

hey everyone. I have a newbie question.

How do I move text to a new line when posting in the Q/A

without pressing enter twice that is.

aking1012

Frantumn

Ahhh, thanks! time to clean up some answers lol :)

aking1012

I like using the whitespace to separate thoughts/steps though. It helps it not look like a wall of text with a spikey right edge

Frantumn

Oh certainly!

George Edison

10:12 PM

The W3C doesn't waste time - they're already drafting the spec. for CSS4.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

10:39 PM

0

Q: Line breaks in markdown

I have been seeing new users who copy/paste code or information into posts not add extra newlines(or even type without extra newlines) and make posts hard to read, wasting the time of a moderator or editor. Can this behavior be changed to make single linebreaks act as lienbreaks? Or is by design?

discussion feature-request design editing markdown

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10:51 PM

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11:09 PM

0

Q: What does the term Unregistered mean on the user page?

On some new users do I often see a grey text next to their name Unregistered. What does this mean? Does it mean that the user has removed his/her account? Because I've seen people log-in after that they've been marked Unregistered. Really what's the deal with this mark?

support

George Edison

11:21 PM

I need some advice:

Stack2RSS moved to stack2rss.stackexchange.com over a year ago.

I've been sending 301 Moved Permanently status codes practically forever.

...and yet there are still many many users using the old URLs.

Now I've started returning 404 Not Found.

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