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12:03 AM

How's everyone's day?

I spent the day figuring out how much money the government stole from me last year.

12:29 AM

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LG wtf

@NathanOsman they didn't steal. Just a permanent loan.

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1:18 AM

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Q: Why was this suggested edit adding the software recommendation tag rejected?

Why was this suggested edit adding the software recommendation tag rejected? The reason of the rejection is: This edit introduces tags that do not help to define the topic of the question. Tags should help to describe what the question is about, not just what it contains. Doesn't the tag...

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Proof of ownership for a domain name should be considered proof of ownership for email addresses ending with that domain, correct?

idk

what are you doing

Nothing.

mhm

WinEunuuchs2Unix

2:20 AM

The bubble sort is driving me crazyyyy

Three nights spent on what should have been a three hour subroutine :(

3:04 AM

The Arduino IDE really needs help.

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Q: Why don't we have to enter the password for software installation in app store on Deepin?

When I install software in Ubuntu software center, I have to type my password for the installation. But we do not have to do it in the app store on Deepin. Why? And, what is the advantages and disadvantages?

Yay, my temperature sensor works.

\o/

3:53 AM

Humidity sensor seems to work as well.

Breathing heavily on it seems to raise the percentage quite drastically.

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5:14 AM

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Q: How to Custom build and integrate subversion with Apache as non root user

I've a machine running Ubuntu 16.04 in which I don't have root access . I am trying to set up subversion running behind apache . I've managed to compile, build and install apache and subversion from source. Apache is up and running . Now I want to integrate svn and apache . I dont have root acc...

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6:24 AM

@GeorgetheDev is images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com down?

@NathanOsman images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com seems to be down

Thought so.

6:52 AM

Where are the commands for George the Dev?

7:25 AM

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8:44 AM

helou

Houla

Hoop

9:44 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Ubuntu doesn't boot. Black flashing screen. No cursor by damn on askubuntu.com

9:55 AM

Hello, do you use NetworkManager on server?

Journeyman Geek

@Sinoosh you could use nmcli

10:15 AM

Hi @HammadHassan

Hi

So, please show me an example. I need you to open a new terminal and then:

1. Run `pwd` and then `ls -a` as your normal user.
2. Switch to root with `sudo -s`
3. Run `pwd` and then `ls -a` again.

Copy everything from the terminal directly into this chat.

This issue came in a 3rd party tool folders. Can I mention its name and its file which is starting with dot name?

Yes, why not?

Issue came in Maven file.

.m2

10:18 AM

But I need to see the exact output and any error messages to understand what you're doing.

sure

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy If I was looking for a way to distuinguish usb devices, I am pretty sure I would have passed the two links you mentioned without finding my answer :( askubuntu.com/q/909346

pwd
/home/hammad/.m2/repository/edu/stanford/nlp/stanford-corenlp

ls -alh
total 12K
drwxrwxr-x 3 hammad hammad 4.0K Feb 26 22:28 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 hammad hammad 4.0K Feb 26 22:28 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 hammad hammad 4.0K Feb 27 01:05 3.6.0

At this time only one folder exist. 3.6.0 Right?

This output is with normal user.

Without root.

Now I am shifting to root using, sudo -s and will paste results of above commands again.

pwd
/home/hammad/.m2/repository/edu/stanford/nlp/stanford-corenlp

ls -alh
total 12K
drwxrwxr-x 3 hammad hammad 4.0K Feb 26 22:28 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 hammad hammad 4.0K Feb 26 22:28 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 hammad hammad 4.0K Feb 27 01:05 3.6.0

This is output with root user using sudo -s.

Still one folder 3.6.0

Now I will become root user using sudo su - root and will show results.

pwd
/root/.m2/repository/edu/stanford/nlp/stanford-corenlp

ls -alh
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Apr 27 14:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 23 18:16 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 8 17:43 3.6.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 27 14:45 3.7.0

These are the results with sudo su - root.

Now 2 folders are shown.

@HammadHassan Yep. Notice anything different?

3.6.0
3.7.0

10:23 AM

You are in a different directory so of course you have different results.

Since you're running su -, you are starting a login shell and moving to a different directory. Just like I explain in my answer.

Look at the output of the pwd command.

/home/hammad/.m2/repository/edu/stanford/nlp/stanford-corenlp != /root/.m2/repository/edu/stanford/nlp/stanford-corenlp

If I want to shift to root then every root command should redirect me to that folder /root . Right? If I am not redirected to /root then what is benefit of becoming root user through sudo -s

I mean every root access command should behave same.

@HammadHassan You seem to have moved yourself. I don't know how your system is set up. My point was that sudo su is ugly and inelegant and pointless. It's not wrong, just ugly. And that is not your issue here.

@HammadHassan They do. The difference has nothing to do with root, it's the difference between a login shell and a non-login shell. sudo -s or su - start login shells so they do everything as though you had logged in as that user.

Including reading any initialization files. From what you describe, it sounds like you either have a non-standard $HOME set for root or you have a cd command in one of the initialization files.

But there is no difference in the permissions, the rights, of the user. Any form of sudo gives you the same access. The differences are in what kind of shell you have started.

@JourneymanGeek i read that i should disable NetworkManager in some books and answers,but i can not realize why in server network.servise is better than NetworkManager.service.

Oh, and @HammadHassan, it looks like you were redirected to /root. But you then ran cd .m2/repository/edu/stanford/nlp/stanford-corenlp but since you were in /root, that took you to /root/.m2/repository/edu/stanford/nlp/stanford-corenlp

So exactly what you wanted.

@terdon then what is the conclusion? Every user will not note this thing that when it is converting to root user his path is started from /root or it is still at old user like it happened in my case. Then would not be it safe that we always shift to root using sudo su - root. OR sudo su -

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:35 AM

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Q: keyserver recieve failed (on every keyserver available)

I recently installed Ubuntu 17.04 and I'm not able to add any ppa. I tried to manually add keys using different keyservers but on every attempt I'm getting keyserver recieved error: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 0F164EEB Error Recieved: Executing: /tm...

@HammadHassan I don't understand. If you want to start a login shell, there is no difference between sudo -s and sudo su -. If you want a non-login shell, there is no difference between sudo -i and sudo su.

Journeyman Geek

@Sinoosh Matter of different philisophies I guess

Network manager is somewhat more flexible when changing things dynamically, and some features took a little longer to port

The only difference is that when you use sudo su or sudo su - you are using 2 separate programs to do the same job you can do using only one. It's inelegant. But no big deal if you really prefer one over the other.

could you tell me what is the relationship between network.service and NetworkManager.service ?

In my scenario the problem is solving with 2 separate programs so I will have to use it unfortunately.

10:44 AM

@HammadHassan You're not understanding me. There is absolutely no difference between sudo su - and sudo -s.

If you want to change to root's directory, use sudo -i, not sudo -s

Argh! Sorry! I had it the wrong way around. I meant there is no difference between "sudo su -" and "sudo -i".

Here comes up another thing. First just to clarify login shell commands for shifting to root will ask for password but non-login shell commands will not ask for password. Is it right understanding?

@terdon Is this understanding correct?

@HammadHassan No. Everything will ask for a password.

Have a look at these posts to learn more about the difference between login and non-login shells:

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A: Interactive login and non-interactive non-login shell

The only real misconception you seem to have is about what constitutes a non-interactive, login shell. Briefly (see here for more details), with examples: interactive login shell: you log into a remote computer via, for example ssh. Alternatively, you drop to a tty on your local machine (Ctrl...

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A: Sequence of scripts sourced upon login

This is kind of complex. First of all, the details depend on what kind of shell you are running. To plagiarize myself: When you open a terminal emulator (gnome-terminal for example), you are executing what is known as an interactive, non-login shell. When you log into your machine from the com...

Basically, login shells read different initialization files (~/.profile instead of ~/.bashrc).

Open a new terminal. Try all 4 commands, 2 for login shell and 2 for non-login shell. First time they will ask for a password.

Then do exit. And try to login again it will not ask password for any of those 4 commands.

sudo -s
sudo su -
sudo -i
sudo su

@HammadHassan Yes, that's because sudo remembers the password for a few minutes.

Why password asking just 1st time. Why not 2nd time?

10:55 AM

If you run sudo -k which makes it forget the password, it will ask every time.

How to check that number of minutes value?

sudo grep timeout /etc/sudoers

sudo -k does not work if we run it through root user. It works when we exit from root and at normal user terminal run it.

sudo grep timeout /etc/sudoers is showing nothing.

@HammadHassan OK, then it should be five minutes, the default value (if I remember correctly)

@HammadHassan Yes, that's normal

Thank you. It was a very great discussion with you. Can you please refer some book to me about linux so that I can also have grep on the things as you have. You have a great knowledge. What is the road map I should follow to come at this stage that I came to know a lot of things?

11:02 AM

Spend time on Ask Ubuntu and Unix & Linux and then spend a decade or two using Linux every day :)

Journeyman Geek

or the other way around ;p

Thank you. :)

@JourneymanGeek True :)

11:44 AM

Hello :)

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12:57 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in body: Windows 10 Boot error - samsung recovery solution by doddman1 on askubuntu.com

I think 51k + users should be able to see deleted messages in chat.

Hey Anwy

hi :)

But I'd vote for 44k rep

1:12 PM

I can agree with that :)

@JacobVlijm they can. become a mod :)

@Rinzwind :) They won't let a crook like me

hi Rinz! Today was supposed to be your day off here

This is what a day off looks like for Wimzy.

Oh. I see!

1:21 PM

@Anwar eh? day off from WORK :+)

Oh. You said about friday.

Helou

guys and girls

@Anwar that too

@lewis4u only sirs here :=)

hehe ok

how to install ubuntu with only wifi?

you can install even without a wifi

1:24 PM

and it doesn't even recognize it on the start

i did install it

but now i don't have internet

and i need this wpasupplicant

how in the hell am i going to get it :D

sarcasm

So the question is how do I install software offline, right?

hmmm maybe yes

yeah

how to get that package

on some machine without internet

Question no: 974 askubuntu.com/questions/974/…

ok thanks....now i know i would be downvoted or duplicated if i would ask that question on ask ubuntu

:)

You're downvoted invisibly :)

1:28 PM

@lewis4u naaah we don't do that. we just deleted it >:)

hehehe

oh there is one more thing

it's a server

hmmm did you not get wireless to work during the live session?

so no GUI

cool :=D

my wifi works after installation when i do ifconfig up

but it doesn't recognise it during install

i suppose because it is off, and i don't have any hardware switch

1:30 PM

oh that doesn't really matter then :=D
You can do all you need to do after installing

can i turn it on

@lewis4u do you have netctl installed?

no nothing

but a server with wifi? :D that's a 1st

not even nano

it's my laptop

i am experimenting

i have done this only with virtual machine

and i dont have rj-45 on this laptop

can i turn on wifi somehow during installation

1:34 PM

do you do the text install ?

yes

command line only

purple one

"purple one"? o_O

there is a key you can press where you get a menu with options :P
that also has a setup for wireless.

TERDY!

whereee

@lewis4u what are you trying to accomplish?

1:35 PM

RINZY!

install ubuntu-server on laptop

without lan

and why are you trying to do that

and wifi not recognized

like, why?

do you simply want a lightweight linux setup?

yes sort of

1:36 PM

Oh, then check out arch

NO @Avery

but i like ubuntu

off topic :=D

go away

and i always had it as a virtual machine

fine >_> #archlinux at freenode awaits you, young padawan

1:37 PM

@lewis4u is there a problem just doing the rest of the install post-install? :-)

no...i could do it

but wanted to know if i could somehow get it to recognize the wifi adapter during installation

I dont know how ;-) every server I know had a wired connection :D

Server isn't "light", as such. I mean, yes, it is but it is aimed at servers so also lacks some other things.

yep

can a desktop version be installed without anything

but I do remember you can get a menu during text install

1:39 PM

just simply command line

@lewis4u normally that would mean removing the desktop afterwards

But there are versions w/o any desktop (like minimal and server)

ok wait now

ubuntu desktop minimal

would that work from a stick

usb flash drive

normally you'll get the full blown desktop from usb stick (iso)

@lewis4u yes

but like Rinzwind said, you can remove the gui later

1:41 PM

i don't want bloatware

@lewis4u a gui is not bloatware :=D

when i install my virtual machine it has about 1,8GB

additional software

@lewis4u then check out ~~arch~~ desktop minimal

ok

I cant find pixs of server text install on google images :D weird

@lewis4u help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD minimal cd install

1:43 PM

yeah i'm right now on that page downloading

ok bbl Need to watch Boruto

Always wondered why people hate bloatware but still want lots of unnecessary things in their life!

@Rinzwind I think it's a dupe askubuntu.com/q/909573/61218

@Rinzwind Going to watch your burito?

@Rinzwind y u google & not AU? Hi o/

@lewis4u Why would you want that? Just use another distro instead. There's not much point in forcing Ubuntu to be something it is not.

@lewis4u Then, seriously, don't use Ubuntu.

1:47 PM

i have already done this for the past 2 years

and now i want it on my laptop

all would be fine if i had rj-45 on my laptop

Journeyman Geek

@lewis4u I often start my builds off minimal or server

that said ubuntu minimal installer dosen't do UEFI so if its a modern box, you're going to have to yank the UEFI folder from a desktop or server installer

@terdon I'm convinced minimal isn't any lighter than server - minimal just pulls in packages off the internet.

Citation needed of course.

If you want lightweight and no bloatware, then you don't use Ubuntu.

hi

That's just not what it's for.

It's like trying to find a low-calorie, full-fat ice cream or something.

The whole point of Ubuntu is to make it relatively easy to use and that doesn't fit with minimalism.

Can anyone help me with grep? I have a large file of a e-mail history and would like to find all lines that contain an adress. the postal code of 5 number characters and then the city name that could be one word containing alphabetic characters or two words containing alphabetic characters.

my solution so far:
grep [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" "[[:alpha:]]|[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" "[[:alpha:]]" "[[:alpha:]] '/home/martin/Downloads/emails'

unfortunately it does not work... the second part of the command does not get recognized..

Journeyman Geek

1:57 PM

can you generally grep a directory like that? You can grep files.

the file has no extension

simple grep commands work

Journeyman Geek

ah

@jublikon i) please ask questions on the main site where you can give all the relevant information and we don't need to ask for it bit by bit in chat. ii) we can't know if that should work if you don't show us the input file.

it is a 200 MB text file...

iii) grep doesn't understand |. You either need \| or grep -E or grep -P.

1:59 PM

even for the main chat it would be too large

@jublikon yeah, so show us the bit you are looking for, not the entire file!

How can I tell you if your regex makes sense without knowing what it is supposed to match?

ok so here you are:

Return-Path: boguejiofor@yahoo.co.uk
Received: from web4304.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.104.196] verified)
by watervalley.net (Stalker SMTP Server 1.8b8) with SMTP id S.0005545161
for ...; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:05:28 -0500
Message-ID: [20000411130512.1973.qmail@web4304.mail.yahoo.com]
Received: from [216.6.119.188] by web4304.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:05:12 BST
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:05:12 +0100 (BST)
From: Ben Oguejiofor [boguejiofor@yahoo.co.uk]
Subject: very urgent
To: serious@business.de

For what you describe, you want something like grep -P '\d{5}\w+ *\w*

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@jublikon OK, and what do we want from there?

I would need an example of both formats.

2:01 PM

I would like to find all lines that contain an adress. the postal code of 5 number characters and then the city name that could be one word containing alphabetic characters or two words containing alphabetic characters.

@jublikon Please show me the line.

I do not know where the line is. It is a task were I am just given that file of the mail history. I only have been told that the lines with adress look like: 5 numbers of characters and then one or two words

What's before the 5 numbers? A space? A tab? The beginning of the line? Other numbers?

What's after the numbers and before the words? A space? A tab? etc?

that is not given. I think it could be everything

What's a "word"? Is it only letters or can it also contain -?

2:05 PM

I guess without -

@jublikon of cool, you get 20% of $26,.5 million, and they get... 70%? wat

@Avery I do not get you point

(I'm joking about the bad maths in the scam mail)

@jublikon this might work. Or it might not. I don't know.

grep -P '\d{5} [a-z]+ *[a-z]*'

It does what you describe but I am afraid you don't describe it very well so that's as good as it gets.

It makes a lot of assumptions.

it works. although it is much more than I understand of grep ^

^^

2:09 PM

Well, the -P enables perl-compatible regexes, the \d means "digits", the {5} means "exactly 5", the space means a space, the [a-z]+ means "one or more lower case letters", the ` *` means "0 or more spaces" and the [a-z]* means "0 or more lower case letters.

Thank you. You really helped me.

you're welcome

weird ->

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Q: Windows CMD for Linux?

Let us assume that I am not in my right mind, as no one who has used a good shell like bash, fish or oh (or any of the other shells listed here) would want this. Nevertheless, seeing as one can have bash on Windows, has anyone tried to create CMD.EXE for Linux? If so, where can I get it from, an...

command-line bash fish

Totally

2:32 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Is there something like batch file in Ubuntu? by Hannu on askubuntu.com

@SmokeDetector Not spam!

Next will be "Nightmare - my Ubunut suddenly lost its START button" - that scares me so, gotta leave now.

:)

@terdon aghhhhhhhhhh that's my bad. Deep apologies to everyone.

@Avery It was a bad answer, mind you. Just not spam.

On the contrary, that's by far the best resource for shell scripting I know of. Absolutely wonderful site.

2:45 PM

@terdon the post was really really spammy and i didn't click the link to check (as most spam are quite intrusive and the nsfw ads and stuff). Only realized a split second before it got nuked.

OK, but please be careful with spam flags. Only use them if you're sure. They carry an automatic downvote and can result in users getting banned.

If in doubt, use a custom flag instead.

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Q: How can I replace a Ubuntu partition with a Fedora Workstation 25 one?

I am currently running a dual boot machine with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 16.04. I want to leave the Windows partition as is, and completely replace Ubuntu with Fedora Workstation 25. I have created a USB to boot Fedora from and started working through the "install to hard drive process". That part is...

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@terdon If you still have time - I need some help again..

The task was a bit more extended, but somehow I get an empty result.
The whole structure is:

Lastname, Firstname
Street NumberOfHouse
Postalcode CityName

do you see a mistake in my grep command?

grep -P '[a-zA-Z]+ [a-zA-Z]+ \n [a-zA-Z]+ [0-9]+ \n \d{5} [a-zA-Z]+ [a-zA-Z]+' '/home/martin/Downloads/emails'

@jublikon Please ask a question on the main site as I asked you to do in the first place. That way, you can explain everything well from the beginning and others can benefit from the answers you receive.

^ this

2:56 PM

okay :)

But you have to show an example of your input file and the output you would want from it. Not this guessing game.

3:46 PM

@terdon it is there. the line namely shows it highlighted. The match is in the middle of the excerpt. 'Arthur Dent Galaxy 7 74369 Third Orbit' — jublikon 1 min ago

@jublikon it feels like you're doing it on purpose. EDIT your question and show the exact output you expect from this. We can't help otherwise and you seem to expect people to guess what you need.

user136984

@terdon: Hey, by the way, my world view has got a lot more peaceful since a not very nice discussion that we had a while ago. Just to let you know. :)

user136984

You may have no idea what I am talking about...

user136984

But anyway! :D

"not very nice"?

user136984

Yes, there was some terrorism... And I had a rather unpleasant discussion with you. Maybe I was more unpleasant in the discussion, but the point still stands.

user136984

3:49 PM

Anyway, I thought I should tell you in a discrete way that my views have changed to a much more peaceful world view.

user136984

:)

Ah, last year. Glad to hear that.

user136984

I was about to say, if you couldn't remember the fact that I had said views, then that would do as well. :D

4:06 PM

@trendon I wrote this find /media/shamsad/1E8A00A88A007E91/ -name '*.json' \
-exec mongoimport --db twitter --collection twitterCol --file {} \;

@sphoenix OK, so what happened?

it generates the error find: paths must precede expression:
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec|time] [path...] [expression]
./db_script.sh: line 2: -exec: command not found

Ah! You are absolutely right, my bad.

one sec

I had a space after the \

The \ is just a trick to let you write one command on many lines for readbility but it can't have a space after it.

--file{}\ this one?

No, the first one. So, try this:

find /media/shamsad/1E8A00A88A007E91/ -name '*.json' \
    -exec  mongoimport --db twitter --collection twitterCol --file {} \;

The command is actually one long line:

find /media/shamsad/1E8A00A88A007E91/ -name '*.json' -exec  mongoimport --db twitter --collection twitterCol --file {} \;

But that is hard to read since you have to scroll on the main site, so I used `` to break it:

find /media/shamsad/1E8A00A88A007E91/ -name '*.json' \
    -exec  mongoimport --db twitter --collection twitterCol --file {} \;

4:11 PM

thnaks a lot, I'm new in ubuntu, just using it like 4 months, don't know many things , thanks for your help

snacks for your help :)

@sphoenix Welcome aboard! :)

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5:15 PM

Is the SE app open source?

ios/android one?

IIRC no.

user image

>.<

yes

@Avery darn

I want to see how they're doing the double drawer layout

5:44 PM

Just learnt that compiz won't run on wayland!

and read this interesting old article :D phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg0NjY

wait..."not very nice"...world view... am i in wrong room?

6:01 PM

Hi.

Hi Nathan! :)

Does anyone here know anything about cars?

:D

Just read something about Cars and Linux world

It's not just that there are multiple implementations of the wheel. There are multiple implementations of entire cars which do almost the same thing

I need qt5.7 in 16.04 Kubuntu? what would be the safest option? can anyone suggest?

I was thinking more about automobiles...

@NathanOsman [autorepair.se]

well there is a site for that anyway

user136984

6:09 PM

@Anwar Politics, don't ask...

wat

@ParanoidPanda ah. Okay then

@Seth they're not going to appreciate a question asking for a recommendation :P

6:25 PM

OP essentially wants to see the package contents without installing. So is a dupe imo. here and for the package description part, that's beyond our doing.

6:37 PM

I would strongly challenge this to be on-topic askubuntu.com/questions/152191/…. Why would we call it on-topic if we use xdotool, wmctrl or bash, but off topic if the word python is in the question? @ThomasWard

"if the word python is in the question" that's a mischaracterization.

Absolutely, but like python is not restricted to Ubuntu, so isn't xdotool or wmctrl. @Seth. The question is on how to do it on Ubuntu.

Anyway the community voted a long time ago to ban most programming questions:

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Q: Can we please ban unrelated programming questions?

This issue has been discussed in the past: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/5695/why-was-a-purely-programming-related-question-not-moved-closed But I disagree with Andrea Corbellini because I believe that the question Emit signal for GIO.DBusProxy in Python? is completely on topic, because it...

discussion feature-request scope

this would fall under that.

@Seth The title reads Can we please ban unrelated programming questions? This one isn't quite unrelated. Not more anyway than practically all bash, awk, xdotool and you name it language questions.

Also: "Any related to the Ubuntu System. Regardless the language the questioner uses, questions related with the Ubuntu System should be considered on-topic"

@Seth ^

Thanks a lot!

7:00 PM

retracted my vote from that Q and answered with basically a No :)

@JacobVlijm Obsolete post is obsolete, chaos shall ensure if we discuss further.

really needs caffeine

anyone uses valentian studio as a db management tool? their latest deb seems to be broken but I don't find older version of it

:)

7:25 PM

user image

Wtf is wrong with my system?

At first glance, it looks like you're using Unity.

rimshot

@terdon yes but the background is not what it's supposed to be

also what are those weird lines next to firefox?

More seriously, you might be facing this bug:

Nvidia graphics?

116

Q: Graphics issues after/while installing Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 with NVIDIA graphics

I installed or upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04, but I'm having some problems with my graphics card. The display is blank The display flickers Items on the screen do not display correctly Certain programs complain of graphics issues The computer boots to low-graphics mode Your specific issue may not be...

nvidia graphics

7:28 PM

Yes

nvidia 375

@terdon hmm that suggests installing nvidia 375 which I already have (this is ubuntu 17.04 btw)

Ah. Sorry, I haven't even really read that, I just know it seems to be a common issue.

GRRRRRR. WTH is it with websites (MEDICAL websites especially) NOT ALLOWING + IN PASSWORDS

alright then, I think I'm going to ask a question then, I noticed it mostly happens when low on battery but that might be coincidence

What sort of logs should I include?

Ehm. xorg.0.log maybe, but certainly ~/.xsession-errors if you have it.

Meaning /var/log/Xorg.0.log

~/.xsession-errors onlly contains a lot of dbus-update-activation-environment: setting

7:39 PM

Yeah, actually I'd be surprised if any logs contain much useful info for this sort of thing.

But ask your question and maybe some X expert will be able to guide you better.

ok

If I want to include a log that is too big for askubuntu, where can I upload it?

any pastebin you like

here is one choice paste.ubuntu.com

pastebinit

OK is this clear askubuntu.com/questions/909693/…?

@ThomasWard No problem of course :)

@Thijser On windows, you'd have to pay for these special effects :)

7:55 PM

@JacobVlijm Here my graphics card is showing off it has all of the best colours

Haha, exactly :)

@Seth let's hope they had the same order as I had when I had to make an online mail manager and was told not to accept any non alphanumerical input on any field.

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