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Serg
Serg
12:04 AM
I'm starting to think it's my board
 
SQuirel
SQuirel
12:21 AM
hi
 
Serg
Serg
hi again, SQL squirrel
 
SQuirel
SQuirel
does anyone use postgresql?
Anyone know how to pronounce it?
 
SQuirel
SQuirel
12:58 AM
Hi
Anyone going to the ubuntu summit?
 
Seth
Seth
1:16 AM
I'm going to try and make a few
 
SQuirel
SQuirel
hi
 
Mateo
Mateo
Too bad it didn't start today, although tuesday/wed are sometimes eairly days
ill have to see..
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
1:37 AM
0
Q: Extension “RANDR” missing on xvfb

kekitMy system: $lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty Xvfb: $ dpkg -s xvfb Package: xvfb Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 2140 Maintainer: Ubun...

ubuntu xrandr framebuffer xvfb
 
Serg
Serg
That serial connection is gonna drive me nuts
 
Mateo
Mateo
@TheBrownOne ever listen to sing-sing
 
crimsonspectre
crimsonspectre
I want to do some investigation prior to posting a question but I need some help finding information:

I am using the spectrwm window manager (with Ubuntu 14.04 under it) and I want to disable the suspend that occurs when I close my laptop lid. I have changed the setting under Gnome, and it functions correctly. However, when I use spectrwm, this setting isn't used and it puts the laptop into a suspend.

Where should I look first to diagnose this issue?
 
Serg
Serg
logind
There's a file for that in /etc directory but i can't recall is off the top of my head
 
Mateo
Mateo
I just did a script... Hang tight a min
> #!/bin/bash
awk 'NR==38 {$0="IgnoreLid='$1'"} 1' /etc/UPower/UPower.conf > lid_changes
cat lid_changes > /etc/UPower/UPower.conf
service upower restart
save that, then call it like ->
gksudo bash lid.sh true
or
gksudo bash lid.sh false
I then put it in a desktop file too ;)
 
crimsonspectre
crimsonspectre
1:51 AM
@Mateo, could I just edit the UPower.conf file to change IgnoreLid to true?
 
Mateo
Mateo
sure, then just do the:
service upower restart
to make the change active
but now I have this:
 
crimsonspectre
crimsonspectre
So if I go back into Gnome and try to enable the laptop suspend, it won't work, will it?
 
Mateo
Mateo
 
crimsonspectre
crimsonspectre
service upower restart did not work. "upower: unrecognised service"
 
Mateo
Mateo
yeah, something like that - all or nothing... so I made sure I could switch back and forth
ah, interesting. so it must be using something else...
well, that is the way I found for unity...
 
crimsonspectre
crimsonspectre
1:56 AM
acpid cups-browsed networking rsync udev
anacron dbus nmbd rsyslog umountfs
apache2 dns-clean ondemand samba umountnfs.sh
apparmor friendly-recovery pppd-dns samba-ad-dc umountroot
apport grub-common procps saned unattended-upgrades
avahi-daemon halt pulseaudio sendsigs urandom
@Mateo, those are the services I have
 
Serg
Serg
@Mateo that's a good idea for a script. Don't mind if i take it further ?
 
Mateo
Mateo
any way you want to improve would be awesome
@crimsonspectre what about this one: ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1875183.html
@Serg I use it when I'm playing a steam game via hdmi on a big screen - but want to close the laptop lid
here is the mega canonical question if you come up with something:
135
Q: How can I tell Ubuntu to do nothing when I close my laptop lid?

badpI would like closing the laptop lid to be a no-op. How can I do that?

power-management
some of those diffrent answers might help you @crimsonspectre
it differs quite a bit between versions, and flavors
well, night I'm out
 
crimsonspectre
crimsonspectre
@Mateo, thank you so much :)
@Mateo the link http://askubuntu.com/questions/15520/how-can-i-tell-ubuntu-to-do-nothing-when-i-close-my-laptop-lid worked for me.

As soon as I restarted the service, I closed the lid and it didn't suspend :) Also, VLC kept playing :P
 
chaskes
chaskes
2:19 AM
@Mateo How did you get a screen shot with the context menu active? I can't get it to work.
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
 
Seth
Seth
2:48 AM
Wow, RHEL is a billion dollar company with only 3.9% market share?
Thank you Debian for not being commercial..
 
Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall
Well they capture a lot of value that they create. Ubuntu should be able to capture some value too, but they're certainly capturing market share...
 
user139252
3:17 AM
@Mateo not before now, but like it
 
hbdgaf
hbdgaf
3:43 AM
@Seth They make a lot of money for "corporate support" on enterprise workstations. Where the debian derivative communities tend to be more like "Fix the bugs and get packages stabilized before freeze" I see the RPM based forks/distros as "let the open source guys beta or alpha everything with Fedora Core. After they work all the kinks out for us, then we'll freeze and charge for support. If you want recent packages have fun dependency hunting on rpmbone or wherever"
The old market for Suse used to be in Windows interop, but as interop keeps getting better - it looks like they're losing ground too.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@Seth RHEL licences tend to be pretty pricy
In a sense, the free versions also get people hooked, then they pay for support
and for critical things that's handy
 
hbdgaf
hbdgaf
Price guide here, and you should get ready to cringe if this is the first time you've seen it.
o/ @JourneymanGeek
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
4:00 AM
hi
 
hbdgaf
hbdgaf
4:28 AM
Heh. That's interesting askubuntu.com/questions/127551/…
 
Ask Ubuntu Meta
Ask Ubuntu Meta
4:42 AM
0
Q: What to do when you get a comment "for OSX just do this..."?

hbdgafThe example is here I know in the interest of being friendly, you just let it ride. However, do we need to think about the policy of "this was the top google hit, so I posted something relevant as a comment" as okay? I'ld tend to say, until the imaginary problem becomes a real problem, just ...

discussion
 
 
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SQuirel
SQuirel
6:14 AM
Hi
 
 
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Ask Ubuntu Meta
Ask Ubuntu Meta
7:19 AM
0
Q: When do comments become an answer?

Zzzach...I find myself solving someone's problem step by step through the comments. When I finally find the solution, should I move the final solution to an answer and delete the comment or leave the comment there as well?

discussion comments answers
 
 
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Serg
Serg
9:11 AM
is convinced that his file icon is not being set because .py extension doesn't magically have an effect on the file . . . .Freakin Windows people . . . .
but then again . . . i'm cranky . . . and i used to be a windows user myself . . .
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
9:26 AM
xD
good morning serg
its quite eraly for you
did you figure out whats up with you project? did you have by any chance another MC bboard to test your theory of a maybe faulty board ?
 
Serg
Serg
No, I will have access to another board only on wednesday
I didn't sleep
I have homework assignment which I should have done long ago
But I don't wanna loose points
so . . . here i am
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
Oh wow, then i wont keep you from doing it
 
Serg
Serg
i just make poor choices when it comes to homework assignments
also when it comes to schedule
never again shall i take 8 am class
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
seems this is not your preferred time, as it is not for me for sure :)
 
Serg
Serg
eh, let's just say i am not a morning person, more of a night owl
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
9:36 AM
hehehe same here
btw i found an interesting and nice function to include to bashrc
 
Serg
Serg
oh ? which one ?
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
 
Serg
Serg
speaking of bashrc, i am going to clean up and put my .mkshrc on the github. It's not that spectacular, but it has some useful functions . Also, it seems to work nicely in any shell
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
oh cool i definetively will have a look into
 
Serg
Serg
ah, haha ! I know this one. It's just amazing. Memorizing tar commands can be a pain
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
9:39 AM
yep it is
compressing with tar is easy its just -caf and giving the extension you want but extracting ... not so easy even -xf seems to work in 99% of all cases
 
Serg
Serg
Here's a function from my .mkshrc , might be interesting 
goup() # go up x number of dirs
{
  num=$1
  while [ $num -ne 0  ];do
    cd ..
    num=$( expr $num - 1   )
  done
}
# ---
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
yyeah thats a good one
 
Serg
Serg
10:07 AM
i am not sure what i hate right now, myself because i always do homework late or homework because it's so annoying .
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
you should definetively start doing homework earlier
xD
 
Serg
Serg
yes . . . that's a good idea . . . i'll do it later XD
if i take a nap now , i won't wake up, thats for sure
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
then maybe a strong coffee would be the better idea
and maybe a hot,cold,hot shower
 
Serg
Serg
time machine would be nice too
 
Serg
Serg
10:22 AM
i so hate assembly
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
:)
Au review page hates me
5 tests in a row
from a review ....... I have a Toshiba Satellite with Pentium 4 (2.6 GHz), 512 Gb RAM, with only Windows XP on the entire HDD (160 Gb........
this will cheer you up if you find it
 
Thijser
Thijser
10:59 AM
Hello, people, quick question, I'm running low on disk space but my disk is encrypted and the disk usage analyser is only giving me a .private containing a lot of ecryptfs_fnek_encrypte files, any idea how to see what is eating my disk?
but sudo du /home>find.space.txt isn't really human readable
 
terdon
terdon
@Thijser What's wrong with it? Do you mean you want human readable sizes like 1G and 102M?
 
Thijser
Thijser
Well the default disk usage analyser tells you which folders contain a lot of data (recursively)
so many of my folders contain things like 1000s of files in which case sorting by size is unlikely to work
So I'm looking for something that is capable of using the data from du to actually visualize it
 
Serg
Serg
@Thijser try ncdu
written in ncurses
 
terdon
terdon
@Thijser 1) Why don't you use the default disk analyser then? 2) You can try du -ch /home | awk '$1~/G/' that will show only the directories whose size is in the gigabyte range.
 
Serg
Serg
 
Ask Ubuntu Meta
Ask Ubuntu Meta
11:12 AM
0
Q: Special "category"?

Android DevI see a TON of questions like this one: Accidentally deleted ubuntu 14.04 I'm wondering if we could make a special "category" or something these questions could go into, OR: Maybe we could collaborate to create a massive community wiki discussing what to do in situations like this, with specif...

discussion feature-request
 
Thijser
Thijser
@terdon the default disk usage analyser would be fine but it just shows me that there is a large number(90%+ of my disk) block of encrypted files
 
terdon
terdon
Ah, so it doesn't show their size? OK.
 
Thijser
Thijser
well let's see how long ncdu takes, it's currently at 0.5 gb out of 150 total
(for some reason my disk ssd becomes really slow when it reaches 95%+ full)
ah ncdu does seem to work, thanks @Serg
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
askubuntu.com/questions/766819/… mhmm why keep people telling that apt-get will be replaced by apt in 16.04 ? i got both and this will likely be that case untill end of time since linux tries to be backard compatible
 
Serg
Serg
@Videonauth because people like to freak out
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
11:27 AM
xD
oh god it being replaced, oh got this killed kenny, you basta**s .....
 
Serg
Serg
11:38 AM
HW #8 is done . . . something that should have been spread out over a week has been done overnight . . . again . . .
Now I just need to survive the day
Go to class, then pass out somewhere
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
hopefully not in classroom :)
 
Serg
Serg
that will be a question of fatigue and luck
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
hehe im actually trying to figure out how sed works to exchange strings within a file
 
Serg
Serg
reading its source ?
I should publish that gedit downgrade script at some point but i have no energy for anything
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
well i try to improve my answer here askubuntu.com/questions/766055/…
 
Serg
Serg
11:52 AM
I wish I could just email this to my professor and go to sleep, but i guess i need to be there . . .
last week
see ya guys
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
late mate
 
blade19899
blade19899
12:07 PM
I'm running Ubuntu Mate as a Virtual Machine on my work pc, and seriously thinking about switching to it!
 
 
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terdon
terdon
1:12 PM
@blade19899 Yes, anything is better than unity, after all :P
@Videonauth For one thing, it would be better to escape the . on the left hand side of the substitution operator. s/1.2/foo/ will match 1, any character, 2.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
in my answer ?
well im pretty new to sed so feel free to edit it
@terdon
in fact im only since around 2.5 months a linux user
computer savy yes but new to bash and all
 
terdon
terdon
You seem to be picking it up quickly :)
Anyway, the point is that sed's s/// operator uses regular expressions and in regular expressions . means "any character". So, if you want to match a literal ., you need to escape it: \.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
well im using computers since 36 years :) and i even find my way around in windows so that it runs withou hitches for a month in one go
ah ok so a \ before each dot ?
 
user35060
user35060
With sed, there are times I need to replace path names, and tend to use sed s,,, instead of sed s///
 
terdon
terdon
Well, that's more than I ever managed to do. Although, to be fair, last time I used Windows as a primary OS was circa Win98 so...
@Videonauth Yes. That's how escaping works. It's pretty much universal.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
1:22 PM
oh ok its only needed at the search expression side ?
kk now i understand that one
 
terdon
terdon
@Videonauth Yes, since the replacement can't be a regex, it is interpreted as a string.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
i just wanted to get rid of the possible pitfall to advise someone to use sudo nano and then change around values by hand
so i worked out those lines which exactly switch out whats needed will be better
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
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Q: Resize system partition

4m1nh4j1I would like to re-size xvda1 to 300G. I am using aws ec2 with Ubuntu 14.04. NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvda 202:0 0 300G 0 disk `-xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part / xvdb 202:16 0 100G 0 disk /data I tried: sudo resize2fs /dev/xvda1 The output was: resize...

ubuntu filesystems amazon-ec2 resize2fs
 
blade19899
blade19899
@terdon Would not go as far as saying that, not until I have played with it for a good month os so!
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
btw how can i make a bash script really only continuing when a command has ben worked ? by adding && ath the end of before line ?
 
terdon
terdon
1:43 PM
@Videonauth Yes. command1 && command2 means "run command1 and then command2 but only if command1 was successful."
You might be interested in this:
57
A: What are the shell's control and redirection operators?

terdonThese are called shell operators and yes, there are more of them. I will give a brief overview of the most common among the two major classes, control operators and redirection operators, and how they work with respect to the bash shell. A. Control operators These are tokens that perform contr...

 
Videonauth
Videonauth
Thank you
my question was more like will a bash script like this do the same
command1 &&
command2 &&
and so forth
where each command has a new line
or will this be interpreted as & which detaches them
 
terdon
terdon
@Videonauth Oh, no, a && will never be interpreted as a & unless there is whitespace between the two &.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
ok
 
terdon
terdon
Also, || and && act as line terminators. Therefore 
command1 && command2
is the same as 
command1 &&
command2
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
1:58 PM
ok good to know now im going to make a script to add to my answer which does the instalation interactively :D
just needed to make sure the long running commands are done before proceeding
 
blade19899
blade19899
2:48 PM
HOw to connect to a Windows PPTP VPN connection from my Ubuntu?
 
user139252
2:59 PM
Network manager > VPN > new connection @blade19899
 
Seth
Seth
wow. Anyone remember vasa1?
He/she is now a forums moderator.
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
nice.
I think he ragequit our site.
 
Seth
Seth
I know he got is account deleted.. I didn't know why though :/
 
chaskes
chaskes
Wasn't he the one that got upset that people were editing his answers and then deleted his account?
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
dont know
 
blade19899
blade19899
3:15 PM
@TheBrownOne That does not work. Been reading a tone of tutorials, but no luck!
 
Seth
Seth
did we just get some spam?
I saw a spammy title just as I reloaded the page.
 
chaskes
chaskes
I didn't see any
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
not me
 
Seth
Seth
hm
 
terdon
terdon
@Seth You're kidding!
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
3:30 PM
He already was regularly visiting the forums when he joined this site.
If I can become a moderator within a year or so, anything is possible.
 
Seth
Seth
@terdon huh?
 
terdon
terdon
I seem to recall vasa1 as a particularly hard to deal with user. I may be wrong.
 
Seth
Seth
Oh.
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
because that user doesn't exist, I cant find any records.
 
Seth
Seth
I thought they left before terdon became a regular, but I really don't know. I only found out their account was deleted when I went to update an answer on one of their questions.
 
Mateo
Mateo
3:38 PM
Ubuntu phone in app purchases ^^
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
oh noes ....
 
terdon
terdon
@Seth The name rings a bell and brings up some negative associations. Both mild though, so I might be confusing users.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
Question for you cracks here, while im easily able to install build dependencys of a package with sudo apt-get build-dep <packagename> is there any way to find out if it is already installed ? something like apt-cache policy maybe ?
 
Seth
Seth
@terdon Eh, you're probably right. I got the feeling there were some issues, but they never surfaced around me.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
o/ cl-netbox
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
3:46 PM
Hello everybody ! :)
@Videonauth Hi ! :)
 
chaskes
chaskes
@terdon My memory is that he got upset when people edited his answers
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
Guess what @jokerdino ? ... the stone old fart crawled out of the bed ! ... hahaha ... :D :D :D Hi my young friend ! :)
 
user136984
@cl-netbox: Good! I can see your profile picture today! :)
 
user136984
@Fabby: With our strange talks last night you made me have very strange and unusual dreams. :D
 
user136984
The OpenSSL update has just come out by the way so you should all upgrade as this is a high-impact vulnerability.
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
3:52 PM
@ParanoidPanda Nice ! :) Hello my friend ! :) But I can't see you in tox ... blocked instead ? :D
 
user136984
@Nathan: Perhaps you should change your pinned stared message to indicate that it has already been released. :)
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
4:07 PM
anyone here with a relatively clean install of 16.04 ?
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
@Videonauth extremely clean ! :D
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
can you put me the output of apt-get -s build-dep gedit gedit-plugins on paste.ubuntu ?
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
cl@cl-UW-1:~$ apt-get -s build-dep gedit gedit-plugins
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
 
Serg
Serg
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
Hey @Serg ! :) a new picture ... :) Hello my friend ! :)
 
Serg
Serg
4:14 PM
@cl-netbox yup, new picture since yesterday :)
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@cl-netbox ah ok, another thing to sort out, making sure the package sources are activated
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
@Serg nice ... nice ... :)
 
terdon
terdon
@Serg Why?
And nice beard!
 
Serg
Serg
@terdon 1) unclear 2) off-topic , general coding question, has no relation to administering an Ubuntu system
And thanks :D
 
terdon
terdon
@Serg 1) fair enough 2) not coding at all, pure bash and directly related with administrating a system, the user is trying to define an environmental variable in their .bashrc.
It doesn't involve any coding whatsoever, not even bash scripting.
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
4:17 PM
Hi terdon ! :)
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
@cl-netbox hi
 
terdon
terdon
Hey cl-netbox!
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
@jokerdino slept well ? :)
 
Serg
Serg
OK , maybe i wen't to harsh on the administering the system part. Still seems to ask about concatenating strings, which is like . . .meh, ,whatever . . .
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
uber hot. Sleeping in short bursts.
 
terdon
terdon
4:18 PM
Oh, actually, I think I see the problem. He's trying to add files to $CPATH instead of directories.
 
Serg
Serg
alright . . . go ahead and answer that then @terdon :)
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
@jokerdino hot is better than cold ... for me at least ... I prefer sweating to freezing :)
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
I hope you guys know what we call hot.
consistently 100+ F and 70+% humidity.
 
user136984
VTC this Minty question as either off-topic or dupe (couldn't find the dupe though).
 
Serg
Serg
Already voted
 
terdon
terdon
4:23 PM
Guys come on!
There's nothing Minty about that question whatsoever. just change the hostname to "ubuntu" and it's perfectly on topic here.
 
user136984
@terdon: As I said, "or dupe".
 
Serg
Serg
So we allow Mint here now ?
 
user136984
@Serg: No, but if the flavour doesn't matter and has no impact on the question nor the answer it will get then it's probably fine just to remove the Minty bit from the question.
 
terdon
terdon
@Serg Well, if the question is 100% relevant to Ubuntu and the OP just happened to make the horrible mistake of mentioning the M-word, then yes. It is much simpler to just edit the Minty bit out than to close. The next person who wants to change their username might have the same question.
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
close it as dupe and no one will care.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
4:28 PM
sometimes it really funny to follow the chat here xD
 
terdon
terdon
@Videonauth You can use sudo hostname foo to change the hostname. No need to manually edit /etc/hosts. Also, please don't just airily mention "there are tutorials online" in an answer. Either actually provide a solution or ignore that part of the question if you must.
 
Serg
Serg
I just think it sets out a bad precedence. "Oh, this is Ubuntu place, but I can ask Mint questions here" . Then the next time OP asks something Mint-specific : "But isn't Ubuntu and Mint the same ???? U didn't cloz my last question"
 
terdon
terdon
@Serg "No, but notice that we did edit it so that it was no longer about Mint"
 
Serg
Serg
Can we at least add a note , something like : " This question is not Mint specific, but it should be noted that Linux Mint questions should be asked elsewhere "
Anyhow, I came to take a nap
And so I will
o/
 
terdon
terdon
@Serg I have removed any and all taints of horrible green mintiness from the question and have brought it to a condition of orange blissfulness.
 
Serg
Serg
4:31 PM
Sure . . .as long as everybody is happy
Personally, if I see Mint tag but non-mint specific question, I'll be adding that comment I just posted
we need to keep at least some consistency
OK, nap
 
terdon
terdon
And most of them should indeed be closed according to the site rules. Although I doubt even one question in 100 is actually specific to Mint. It just seems silly to change things that are the same on every distro under the sun just because they OP was foolish enough to mention that they're not on Ubuntu.
I mean, if I ask "How can I change the desktop background on Unity" and tag as Mint, that doesn't mean I can't use the exact same solution on any system running Unity.
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
MATE questions were rightfully closed as OT back then.
 
terdon
terdon
@jokerdino You mean before Ubuntu Mate?
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
yes, back then when MATE was only available if you were on Mint.
 
user136984
@terdon: I think I'm starting to see something bad developing here though, though I take your point and think that you are probably right in terms of this, if we just remove the Mintyness from a question and then allow it, people will get the idea that you are allowed to ask questions about other Linux distros here as long as one pretends to be running Ubuntu or doesn't mention that they are running something else...
 
user136984
4:37 PM
And there will be some differences between Ubuntu and Mint so answers may not always work the same on Mint as they do on Ubuntu... So this way might not work out so well...
 
terdon
terdon
@jokerdino That was never the case. You could always install it on any distro. Just like any other DE.
@ParanoidPanda That really happens very, very rarely. But yes, agreed, when in doubt close. All I'm saying is that it's silly to close things that are 100% distro-agnostic. That would work in the same way on Ubuntu, Mint, Arch, CentOS or Deepin or whatever.
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
@terdon yes of course but you say you are running Mint and you have a MATE question, then I would have closed it back then.
 
terdon
terdon
I know, I know. I still disagree but have accepted that I'm in a minority. I've closed a fair number of those myself. My only point here is that we shouldn't take it to extremes.
We should actually at least read the question and if we can be sure it is not mint-specific, edit it. If we are not 100% sure, close it.
 
user136984
@terdon: But then lots of people might get the idea it's fine to ask about other distros as long as they don't mention that they are not running Ubuntu, and then we may get many questions and answers asking about them which could cause a lot of confusion. Though this probably isn't happening so much at the moment, if we carry on giving the message you are now, it may get worse. So perhaps there needs to be some sort of announcement on this or Meta discussion.
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
You think people already don't do that?
 
terdon
terdon
4:42 PM
^^
In any case, that's not really a bad thing. The answers will work for Ubuntu. If they don't work for the OP, that's their problem. The sire is still richer by one Ubuntu answer.
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
The reason we close non-Ubuntu questions is that we need to draw a line somewhere and we make it as strict as possible.
We are already overflowing with questions.
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
@jokerdino oh ... now I can understand you ! :)
 
terdon
terdon
@jokerdino Yes. And I'm not arguing against this. I'm only saying that we should use some common sense. It's like the situation with older versions. Some things really are distro and/or version agnostic and jumping to close them is not always the right thing to do.
It often is, just not always, is all.
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
When you get cases of legit questions getting closed, you can't really expect people to put in that extra effort to see which are and which are not distro/version specific.
 
terdon
terdon
4:58 PM
Too true.
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
hmm did the system use inotify to warn about updates before or is that something new?
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
5:16 PM
heyo, this one is not a dupe of that one -- askubuntu.com/questions/766959/…
but it still should be a dupe somewhere. Can someone help me find the right one?
 
terdon
terdon
@jokerdino The OP seems to be pleased with this one: askubuntu.com/questions/558669/renaming-user-name
Based on their comment:
Yes excellent! This worked great thanks guys! — beepandrew 5 mins ago
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
Thanks.
 
terdon
terdon
np
 
cl-netbox
cl-netbox
5:36 PM
goodbye :)
 
user136984
@cl-netbox: Bye! :)
 
user136984
Does anyone know where qTox and VLC Media Player get their file chooser dialogs from? Because they are the same, but the only ones of that old not very good type on my system...
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
qt probably
 
user136984
Right, what exactly is qt? Does it have any relation to GTK?
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
Qt is a toolkit like Gtk.
They are different and so they look different.
 
user136984
5:41 PM
Ah... I am wanting to suggest to qTox that they improve their file chooser dialog, but is it not possible as it's the default Qt one?
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
At one point of time, there were 5 different toolkits used in a default Ubuntu install. Gtk, Qt, the one used by Firefox, the one by LO and then nux.
@ParanoidPanda yeah
 
user136984
Ah... They probably won't like me suggesting they switch to GTK... :D
 
user136984
But I could still make the point of the fact that the current Qt file chooser doesn't look very good... Or wait, would it be better to suggest an improvement to Qt?
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
Gtoxk doesn't sound well.
 
user136984
Oh... Now I understand the 'q'! I thought there wasn't a real reason for it being there before! :D
 
user136984
5:44 PM
Ok, where can I suggest an improvement to the Qt file chooser dialog?
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
to the qt project
 
user136984
Yeah, I know that, but I was wondering where exactly their bug tracker was? But I guess I could search first... :D
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
 
user136984
6:00 PM
@jokerdino: Ok, I've created an account there any everything now, you wouldn't happen to know which Project I should report it under there? There is a long list...
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
Can you list the projects?
 
user136984
@jokerdino: Sure:
 
user136984
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
Qt
 
user136984
And what issue type?
 
jokerdino
jokerdino
6:05 PM
No idea, ask the one who has the bug.
 
user136984
@jokerdino: Oh, it's fine, I will pick the "Suggestion" one, though I could have sworn it wasn't there when I just looked a few minutes ago... Maybe it was because a different project was selected though... You see for some reason the text colour of the fields in the fields is the same colour as the background of the fields so I can't actually see what anything is... :D
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
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Q: To Have Eclipse 4.5 in Path?

MasiI downloaded Eclipse Mars 4.5 in the official site here. I do Extract the tarball sudo mv eclipse /usr/local/bin/ where /usr/local/bin/ in my PATH sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/ eclipse Output and in Terminal Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discour...

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Videonauth
Videonauth
6:32 PM
@ParanoidPanda here you go askubuntu.com/q/767045/522934
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
0
Q: How to enable 5.1 channel playback on a Realtek ALC887-VD chip?

Nathan OsmanI have an ASUS F2A55-M LE board which includes a Realtek ALC887-VD chip. Stereo audio playback works just fine but I have a 5.1 speaker set that I would like to use. I am able to achieve full surround playback in Windows 10 using the same machine but I can't seem to get it working within Ubuntu 1...

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Fixed, yay!
\o/
 
user136984
@Videonauth: Thanks! :)
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
np yvw
 
user136984
@Nathan: Don't know if you got my ping earlier, but the OpenSSL update has been released so maybe you should update your stared pinned message to indicate that. :)
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
That's why I used a specific date.
Then it doesn't need updating.
May 3 is always going to be May 3 :D
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
6:37 PM
i wonder when that will hit the ubuntu security updates, today they shipped out another 1.0.2g
 
user136984
@Videonauth: Well, I got the update earlier today... Is there another one?
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
well is should have been version 1.0.2h not g
dunno isf they simply mixed up the package
i know they shipped an update today
michael@NEXUS-TWO:/tmp$ apt-cache policy openssl
openssl:
Installed: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.1
Candidate: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.1
Version table:
*** 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.1 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.0.2g-1ubuntu4 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
and when you lok into the anouncement mail they speak of 1.0.2h
 
user136984
Well, g comes after h so maybe they just made a last minute change?
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
ok maybe the panda world is different but for me h comes after g in alphabet :p
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
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Q: 2.7 Terrabyte Partition only 100G in Size

StefGood Evening I've just partitioned and mounted a new 3-terrabyte hard-disk under Ubuntu. Now the size of the partition shows up as 100G only. lsblk command tells me sdc1 is 2.7 terrabyte root@homecinema-xbmc:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 ├─sda1 8...

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chaskes
chaskes
6:41 PM
For me, g and h both come after a and r : argh
 
user136984
:D
 
Henry White Hat Hacker
Henry White Hat Hacker
Someone I need some help
Anyone?
Fine then I will take my question elsewhere!
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
Nobody owes you their time.
We're here as volunteers.
 
Henry White Hat Hacker
Henry White Hat Hacker
@NathanOsman Oh.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
anyone knows how i can obtain a complete unchanged sources.list file like it is a fter a fresh instalation of xenial?
 
user136984
6:51 PM
@HenryWhiteHatHacker: And I'm really just here to talk about Pandas... :P
 
user136984
@Videonauth: Look in the ISO file.
 
Henry White Hat Hacker
Henry White Hat Hacker
I'm really here to just ask Serg stupid programming question... :p
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@ParanoidPanda none found
 
user136984
@Videonauth: If you install Xenial in a VM you'll find out.
 
user136984
@Videonauth: I think I might have one though... Let me see...
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
6:59 PM
1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.19 is the update, right?
 
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