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I have just finished installing Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS on my laptop. I have performed apt-get update and upgrade and rebooted. The mouse movement on the login screen is very slow. After logging in it works fine. How can I troubleshoot it?

Lucio

I got to go now, but have in mind that to help you, you need to bring all the possible information.

ruda.almeida

@Lucio I will update the question with the laptop model. Other than that, is there any info that could help?

Lucio

12:08 AM

@ruda.almeida maybe the model of your mouse

but the important part is on the question.

ruda.almeida

@Lucio Thanks for your help!

JohnMerlino

1:11 AM

I like to use the package manager as much as possible, but then I always get a little discouraged when reading things like "The suggested way of installing Redis is compiling it from sources as Redis has no dependencies other than a working GCC compiler and libc. Installing it using the package manager of your Linux distribution is somewhat discouraged as usually the available version is not the latest."

Andrew

2:00 AM

Did you see

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Q: Installed as a dual boot ubuntu 13.04 alongside win8 and no grub?

i previously had windows 7 on my machine when i bought it i installed win8 now but i wanted to try out ubuntu so i installed alongside win8 but there was no grub screen to choose ubuntu.. if anyone knows of a way to fix this please let me know !! THANK YOU

13.04 grub2 windows-8

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Mateo

2:45 AM

spam alert

Andrew

2:57 AM

Humm

It's gone.

okay

later

3:48 AM

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Q: Some problems with pro-forma comments

I installed Pro-forma comments yesterday and it worked fine, I really like it. But today something is wrong. I can not see auto link near help. Also, when I flag question as duplicate, there does not appear comment "possible duplicate of ..." I reinstalled the script, checked if JavaScript is ena...

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Seth

4:06 AM

I think we should re-pin the message about the Ubuntu Forums being hacked...

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Seth

4:18 AM

Who starred that? (may I ask..)

Eliah Kagan

I did. I can unstar it if you're concerned about it being starred causing the Ubuntu Forums pin to drop down farther; but the original Ubuntu Forums pin is probably still high enough to be visible in most people's browser windows.

Nathan Osman

4:30 AM

I think I found another bug in Chrome. For real this time.

Seth

@EliahKagan Oh it's fine. There are so many chat mods around though I thought one of them might have and they could re-pin the message ;)

@NathanOsman cough --^ cough

Nathan Osman

What do you need me to do?

Seth

Could you re-pin this?

Jul 20 at 23:09, by Nathan Osman

Ubuntu Forums appears to have been hacked - if you used the same password elsewhere, you are strongly encouraged to change it.

I think it should still be pinned for now.

Nathan Osman

It is pinned. At least the only option I see is "unpin this message".

Seth

Hmm.. No it's not pinned.

Nathan Osman

4:44 AM

I can't fix it then. Let me make a new one.

Oh now I figured it out. Hang on.

Seth

OK.. that works too.

@NathanOsman Oh.. what happened may I ask?

Nathan Osman

Er...

> "You have already voted, but the voting has been cleared by a moderator"

Seth

Hmm.

Nathan Osman

I AM a moderator. Le sigh...

Seth

I wish I could see.

Nathan Osman

4:45 AM

Let's try it all over again.

Ubuntu Forums appears to have been hacked - if you used the same password elsewhere, you are strongly encouraged to change it.

Seth

Hmm. I'm getting that error too in a room I'm owner off.

I'm sure this is new.

Nathan Osman

Should I clear the stars on the original so that it doesn't show up in the side?

People might be confused by two.

Seth

Probably.

Thanks.

Nathan Osman

I don't get this.

The orange cell should not have red underneath it.

Nathan Osman

5:02 AM

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Q: Why does increasing padding in this <a> increase the vertical margin?

This is probably the most unusual CSS behavior I have ever seen: I have an extremely simple table that consists of two cells - one with plain text and another with a link: <div class="content"> <table> <tr> <td> Hello, world! </td> <td> <a href="#">Hello,...

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I guess we'll find out what I did wrong.

Nathan Osman

5:17 AM

This guy has no idea what he's talking about.

Bruno Pereira

9:23 AM

@NathanOsman Its funny because of the "he tested it, so it must be true" fact

Greg

10:34 AM

Have the ubuntu forums been hacked or something?

Mochan

@Greg They were.

6 hours ago, by Nathan Osman

Ubuntu Forums appears to have been hacked - if you used the same password elsewhere, you are strongly encouraged to change it.

Greg

I'd just leave them offline until Ubuntu Discourse is finished

hbdgaf

o/ all

thinking about making a wizard for multibooting my raspi with berryboot. seems like people could find it useful if i finish it.

Journeyman Geek

amusingly, I think has the password that got leaked when last.fm got hacked

hbdgaf

@JourneymanGeek at this point, i just consider passwords to be best practice, but effectively useless. everything should support openid and just call it a day.

something bad happens, just reset one password and you're done

Greg

10:51 AM

@hbdgaf I've got an army of pis on my desk right now :) No berryboot though, just Debian.

@hbdgaf OAuth2.0

hbdgaf

@Greg neat. i was thinking that it would be interesting for laypeople to be able to say "want to try xmbc" or "want to try retro game distro" etc etc. so yes, the initial install would be debian, but letting lay people try out all the single purpose distros could be interesting.

@Greg yes

Amith KK

appears

Greg

@hbdgaf I guess, but for the price of individual SD cards with the distros pre-installed, I'd just swap the SD card

hbdgaf

@Greg fair point. i just think it should have a button. my use case is, i have one pi. i want to try xmbc, definitely use it as a file server, and have the retrogame distro with all the kinks sorted out. if someone already did all the hard parts, i can then just say: switch boot option to file storage. reboot pi. rsync. when finished, reboot as xmbc because paying for TV is silly with all the streaming video providers.

Greg

@hbdgaf I'm sure if you do a good job of it you'll get lots of users.

Journeyman Geek

11:02 AM

@hbdgaf and not use VBB

its a piece of shit which people who don't know better use.

hbdgaf

django bulletin board apps exist... just saying.

with the right settings and design patterns, django can be sqli-proof.

Journeyman Geek

@hbdgaf: or smf or phpbb or.....

hbdgaf

they're going to look at me silly when i go in to the bank and want to set up several accounts so i can auto-draft my budget categories...probably

Amith KK

11:23 AM

hbdgaf

@AmithKK we all need heroes. when your heroes become human, the world gets a lot darker. this is why the entertainment industry exists, so you can escape and have a hero that could never exist in the real world.

Amith KK

O.O

hbdgaf

/philosophical moment

Greg

How come my tab-to-complete doesn't work in the terminal any more?

Amith KK

BBL

hbdgaf

11:29 AM

@Greg what term emulator? and which tab completion?

tab completion breaks in lots of ways... some cases with sudo and pipes come to mind. there was a question around on writing your own tab completions as bash functions i answered somewhere at some point.

Greg

@hbdgaf just the standard gnome-terminal. Only directory completion works, nothing else. For example, on all other machines, when I checkout a new branch on git, I don't have to type the whole long branch name. Example: git checkout 98-[tab] -> git checkout 98-AsyncHttp-Improvement

another annoying one is sudo apt-get install php5-[TAB] should list all matching packages. It doesn't

hbdgaf

your apt doesn't have super cow powers i think.

Greg

it does! it tells me it does in -h

hbdgaf

then i have no idea... do you have something in the directory that starts with php5- or something? it might be a search path problem for the auto-complete

or a command that starts with php5- or any number of other completion path search problems. i think it's probably related to finding another match for php5- that isn't a package name.

Greg

hmm, I might just create a new user. Seems to do the trick most of the time.

hbdgaf

11:37 AM

it may. hope you work it out. i'm trying to build qt5 for android dev atm. just reinstalled my box, so i'm going through all the configure everything steps yet again.

Greg

That's what I like about Ubuntu now though, the default OS is really capable of most things, and I don't find myself wasting hours of configuration each time I install a box.

hbdgaf

definitely. i just need to make a pseudo-package and write a couple of scripts. i install a half dozen packages, add some ppas, and a few other details. the only things i can't solve with a pseudo-package are java cough crap cough related.

Greg

How do you find the open jdk?

hbdgaf

i use it on principle. if the app doesn't work with the openjdk, it's a problem with the app or the jdk which should be fixed... not a reason to switch to the oracle jdk

Greg

I see. I don't do enough Java-based stuff to notice the difference to be honest, but my colleague always installs Oracle's.

hbdgaf

11:46 AM

well, everything ever written in java warns you that it's unsupported. i haven't noticed any oddball behavior. stock trading apps, eclipse, android studio, etc all seem to work fine... although they all warn about it. i have heard that some people that use loads of threads experience better performance from oracle java though.

oh and burp

when someone figures out usb passthrough and high-speed usb for openbox, i won't use the oracle version any more. (they have it working for open on BSD...just an fyi). that just leaves flash, which is something i don't see getting fixed until the DRM extensions for html5 get ratified and adopted (although that's adobe, it's a similar principle).

example: at least some N wireless cards don't work right in virtualbox VMs if you're not using the oracle version with the host side extensions and the guest side extensions. i know this to be true. i haven't seen anything similar with java.

Greg

Yeah I use Oracle's virtualbox. Didn't get anything working in Openbox.

hbdgaf

crap, typo. you know what i meant

openbox is my jam on my other laptop. this one is stock ubuntu mainline

nvidia runs hot with unity. intel doesn't. so it's a choice.

brief aside: i wonder if the same people make all the delay strategy games that are civ-like on facebook. if not, they should. it would just be a graphical asset swap and they'ld have another game with the same gameplay, but stupid users would like one more than the other because they hang up on futuristic ultratek, swords and sorcery, steampunk, or other.

Greg

12:04 PM

:|

hbdgaf

@Greg ? because i said stupid user out loud or because i play a facebook game?

Greg

@hbdgaf because you are on your soap box :)

hbdgaf

kk, i'll shut up.

Greg

no problem, just I don't have the energy to contribute

hbdgaf

12:28 PM

needs migrate votes: askubuntu.com/questions/324378/…

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1:32 PM

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hbdgaf

2:46 PM

@AskUbuntuMeta and the same question needs a second close now that it's in the right place...because kbd tag questions have been asked before on meta...

jrg

3:32 PM

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@hbdgaf fixed

and you always are on your soapbox. most of us are used to it and contribute and have fun with it. :)

RolandiXor

@jrg hi!

Amith KK

4:00 PM

codetest0

Mateo

4:40 PM

Mark is going to be on reddit doing an intervew on the Edge today.

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Q: How do I make my laptop sleep when it reaches some low battery threshold?

I'm using Ubuntu, but I have i3 as my window manager. Under i3, when my battery reaches 0%, the computer will just abruptly shut down, no warning or anything. Is there a simple script or configuration I can set up so that it goes to sleep at, say 4% battery?

ubuntu power-management suspend battery i3

Mateo

@NathanOsman just start setting everything you can think of and not using to "0"

Hm, I read a bit more... probally not a default getting in the way then...

Nathan Osman

I finally got something working.

@jrg I hope it works on 4.0.4.

Mateo

Nitroshare?

Oh, stackexchange app

RolandiXor

The jokester is back:

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Nathan Osman

4:55 PM

\o/

hbdgaf

@RolandiXor what's the fun in no widdershins dancing?

Nathan Osman

We're approaching $6 million.

RolandiXor

@hbdgaf :D

@NathanOsman slowly though

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman i hope if they get the funding they don't abandon the nexus platform...i mean i bought a nexus to run ubuntu on a handheld/tablet.

buy our device would be as bad as apple.

RolandiXor

@hbdgaf they won't.

And even if they did, the community wouldn't, as it's open source.

hbdgaf

4:58 PM

yeah, but then it becomes an unofficial blah blah blah

RolandiXor

It's technically not official now ;)

hbdgaf

anyway, i'm going to stop thinking about pink elephants.

RolandiXor

Reason being, it's just a test bed platform.

Mateo

@hbdgaf or orange elephants

hbdgaf

i suppose i should just target android for dev instead then? that's what that mentality makes me think the best course of action is until things stabalize.

@Mateo you know the reference?

Mateo

5:01 PM

You're not drunk, right?

hbdgaf

"How do you make a person think of pink elephants?" -- "idk" -- "Tell them not to think about pink elephants..."

3

@Mateo no. most assuredly not

Mateo

That is when cartoon charecters start seeing them.

hbdgaf

;)

iirc it was from ghostbusters.

RolandiXor

42.

Mateo

The answer!

RolandiXor

5:06 PM

Takes a bow.

Lucio

Issue is equal to Bug for GitHub?

Mateo

:10495484. it has been a while since saw that

hbdgaf

@Lucio bug on launchpad == issue on github yes

@Mateo it was the scene with the marshmallow man towards the end of the movie. i didn't quote it perfectly, but you get the idea.

Mateo

Stay Puft!

amazon.com/grocery-gourmet-food/dp/B0042KWG6K

hbdgaf

not a big fan of marshmallow except to make peeps jokes.

RolandiXor

5:10 PM

@Mateo yum!

see yum --help

O_o

What?

yum -my

Mateo

@RolandiXor at this rate it will probally run out of steam around the 31st, we'll see if marks interview helps any today.

RolandiXor

@Mateo yep.

hbdgaf

we'll see. i wonder if there will be any hard pitches on reddit, or if it's going to be mostly lobs that are easily knocked out of the park?

i won't jump in it, because i don't want to be a part of torpedo-ing something because i'm paranoid and frustrated. i just wonder about other folks.

Mateo

I bet someonee will ask some thing similar, I don't think they made a phone os just to put on one phone

hbdgaf

that's a fair assumption. it doesn't stop the scared it'll happen and depend on community support to get it working somewhere else though.

so design decision question: you're building something that uses images/blobs from other projects. cache them via some static thing like github that you control to make it stable? or try to maintain a link list?

Mateo

5:27 PM

Like linking to a library, are we talking open source?

hbdgaf

it's open source, but raspi images. working on a multiboot raspi gui to let people get one raspi with one sd card and toggle around the different functionality to see how awesome raspis are.

Mateo

Cool, so you would need to pull in the images on booting

hbdgaf

not really. like an sd card editor that could grab some stock images and set up multiboot or put them on usb and sort of chainload that with existing projects

7 hours ago, by hbdgaf

@Greg fair point. i just think it should have a button. my use case is, i have one pi. i want to try xmbc, definitely use it as a file server, and have the retrogame distro with all the kinks sorted out. if someone already did all the hard parts, i can then just say: switch boot option to file storage. reboot pi. rsync. when finished, reboot as xmbc because paying for TV is silly with all the streaming video providers.

^ I think that quote explains it.

RolandiXor

@Mateo did you watch the videos?

Lucio

@jrg Done: github.com/jrgifford/Ubuntu-Book/issues/9

Mateo

5:32 PM

howtogeek.com/141325/…

RolandiXor

@hbdgaf you too.

Mateo

I saw the first one, andmost of the other, need to watch the rest

hbdgaf

@Mateo yes, that image is a depend. that gui runs on the pi though, not on the host. so it's not a proper sd image editor and doesn't support many images to begin with.

Mateo

Oh, on a host, that would be cool.

hbdgaf

the project page is here: berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot , but i'm looking at making it even simpler. say you could tick boxes and have it push a multi-boot image to an sd card instead of having to run it on the raspi. that's where i'm going.

side-note: i now have hot water at home. yay.

Mateo

5:42 PM

Maybe cache them, if want to provide diffrent versions of the same, would solve problemsof moving download pages, newer versins breaking, just to try and find archived download pages... posibally a list if you just want the one image of each - maintain the list...

@hbdgaf \o/

hbdgaf

@Mateo i was thinking cached images, but automate the downloading/building/updating in qemu and check for errors with testing before updating the cache

so broken links don't immobilize the project or make people angry.

Mateo

Yeah, gives a buffer

@RolandiXor I already put in money for one ;)

hbdgaf

i'm walking away before i really fly off the handle about expressing my opinion on this one.

Lucio

6:08 PM

I don't like the SO community.

A lot of people.. A lot of trolls..

Why just created a question it receives downvotes?

Oh, right. This never happen if the OP was Jon..

JohnMerlino

6:23 PM

the stackoverflow chatrooms have a lot of egomaniacs. the linux chatrooms, superuser chatrooms, mathematics chatrooms, and others do not have the chatrooms full of condescending and disparaging commentary, or at least at the same degree as SO

Lucio

It is like a competition to see who is better in something, instead of help between each other.

JohnMerlino

I agree

or it's about how "ruby sucks" or "php sucks" or "java sucks"

Lucio

right

JohnMerlino

but if you go to unix forum, you dont get stuff like "ubuntu sucks" or "fedora sucks" or "centos sucks"

Lucio

They are waiting for the next user that make a mistake. That doesn't help at all.

The philosophy is the root of the problem, or the lack of one

Rinzwind

6:41 PM

@JohnMerlino those people are not coders. A true coder does not care about the language. A true coder chooses the language he believes is fit for the task at hand. I myself several times decided it was best to use perl on some occasions where I never coded in perl. Just reading example codes I could create what I needed (a MySQL connector with some things that where specific for my task).

@JohnMerlino I do not understand a lot of the power of perl and why it is like it is but when I need specific things I can search for them

I said what I had to say :=D

6 million reached on Ubuntu edge :D

Lucio

@Rinzwind Where is the ship price list?

1250 out of 1250 claimed

Rinzwind

@Lucio it starts here: indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge?c=home

Ouch!

1250 are gone indeed

@Rinzwind where?

6:46 PM

and the 725 are going up too

ship price list? you mean shipping cost?

Lucio

yep

Rinzwind

I read somewhere 30 usd for US and UK

and something extra for outside

Lucio

I got it

Rinzwind

1 sec

Lucio

Free for US & UK, and $30 for the rest.

Rinzwind

6:47 PM

yes for the 625

Lucio

Also for the 725

Rinzwind

hmmm all of them it seems

10k is free for all

Lucio

yep

Rinzwind

but .... who needs 10k worth of phones

4 ppl do...

I bet 1 of them is Mark himself

Lucio

haha

@Rinzwind I was going to say that :P

Rinzwind

6:49 PM

lol

Lucio

@Rinzwind He was desiring the interview

What is the difference between 725 and 775?

Rinzwind

"Mark how are you doing"
"Fine Mark Fine!"
"Do you like your new phone?"
"Yes I do!!"

Mateo

Price

Lucio

"Would you buy my phone?"
"No way! I created it :P"

@Mateo good for you :)

Rinzwind

@Lucio only the price. I think they added some extra prices shortly after they started.

and I also read somewhere the 775 are getting 50 back

Lucio

6:52 PM

That means that you have to hurry to get it cheap.

Mateo

Yep, yep

Rinzwind

yes you do

though I recently got an S3 ;-( and that has to last for at least a year

Lucio

haha

Rinzwind

bbl

Lucio

It is also a good advertising for indiegogo.

see you later!

Alvar

7:16 PM

@gertvdijk your name is very hard to spell, too bad I'm not dutch! :P

Mateo

7:28 PM

6 million!

mojo706

developer.ubuntu.com/2013/07/ubuntu-sdk-beta-released

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gertvdijk

8:00 PM

@Alvar LOL

@Alvar Is it because of the ij?

hbdgaf

@Takkat - I know you're big on the audio troubleshooting. I recently had a weird one where audio was glitched to muted and normal service restarts weren't working. I had to edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and turn off the three modules that deal with restoring device state, reboot, mute and unmute in both alsamixer and the sound control panel, uncomment the restore state lines, and reboot again.

I think it was related to a client.conf to make pulse not automatically restart when killed, but I can't replicate the problem now.

Takkat

@hbdgaf yeah the device/stream restore modules are somewhat obscure.

They take parameters which are nowhere documented :/

mojo706

anyone know why the brightness on 12.04 keeps resetting itself?

Seth

@mojo706 graphics issues I would say. Mine does it too.

After every suspend and shutdown/restart.

@MarcoCeppi around?

or @BrunoPereira ?

mojo706

hey @Seth any workaround?

Seth

8:12 PM

Not that I know of...

mojo706

:(

Seth

You might try changing your graphics drivers, but that's risky.

It never bothered me enough to try and fix it though ;)

gertvdijk

@mojo706 Please be more specific. I have a new Nvidia card (kepler) and it requires also 310.x+ and a nvidiabl package for proper not-resetting brightness.

hbdgaf

@Takkat i just thought "hey my device is in an inconsistent state...restoring that state would be quite silly", but i didn't see it as a troubleshooting step in my google-ing. i was just reading config files and guessing at that point.

mojo706

@gertvdijk IntelHD 3000 is my graphics card if thats what you're asking

Takkat

8:14 PM

@hbdgaf I remember my weirdest sound bug ever when I had no sound for one user only. Only solution (no conf editing helped) was to unplug my speakers, reboot, plug speakers back in. I believe this was an issue with some of the device restore features too.

mojo706

@Seth if you find marco ask whether he removed login with persona on discourse.

hbdgaf

@Takkat yeah, that sounds like an oddball jacksense bug. let me guess intel-hd audio? i think i had that bug too

Marco Ceppi

@mojo706 I did

@Seth what's up?

Seth

Hey Marco, can you reopen this? askubuntu.com/questions/322809/…

User removed Mint and installed Ubuntu now.

Marco Ceppi

@Seth sure

Takkat

8:15 PM

@hbdgaf Pulseaudio sits very deep in the system. Yeah it's an Intel.

mojo706

oh ok

Seth

@MarcoCeppi Could you also clean the comments up? The first two and the last one should stay, but the others can go.

hbdgaf

@Takkat yeah, i turn it off from time to time to play games that don't bear the latency it introduces very well. however when it doesn't come back i always get all "oh noes. i breakeded it."

Seth

I was gonna say..

hbdgaf

@Seth you hit enter at precisely the same time i clicked the reply button

Takkat

8:17 PM

@hbdgaf pasuspend-er?

Seth

@hbdgaf lol

hbdgaf

@Takkat i'll use that in the future. client.conf was a hacky workaround, and i didn't properly shut it down anyway with pulse -k i just killalled it. so i brought the problem on myself

gertvdijk

^-- good grief. 66.

Takkat

@hbdgaf never touch pulseaudio once it runs it all.

gertvdijk

Now that Ubuntuforums is down we get all the troubleshooting questions here, I guess? :P

Seth

8:19 PM

@gertvdijk It was 70 a minute ago.

@gertvdijk The funny thing is they don't mention AU on the updates page, but they do mention Discourse.

gertvdijk

@Seth indeed. that's a good thing I guess.

Seth

I guess.

gertvdijk

This site is about Ubuntu, not about Windows. — gertvdijk 21 secs ago

^-- sigh.

Alvar

@gertvdijk actaully the whole name is annoying :P

Seth

What the... is that supposed to mean?

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gertvdijk

8:24 PM

ofcourse but many users use windows besides ubuntu, and more help is not bad idea — Yousef's 44 secs ago

^-- sigh.

Seth

Thanks @Marco

\o/ new SE podcast!

gertvdijk

Sorry if the following has already passed here in the last days. Is the "AutoReviewComments" browser extension broken since a recent SE build? Is there an updated version? I have no auto button with the comments since two days or so.

Seth

Yeah it's broken.

It should be fixed soon.

@Seth You may want to post that (or something like it) as an answer. :) — Eliah Kagan 17 hours ago

gertvdijk

@Seth Thanks!

Seth

np.

I'm supposed to add an answer to that soon >.<

mojo706

8:54 PM

anyone know how i can find SublimeText3's packages folder on 12.04?

Mateo

@mojo706 set a perfered brightness on starrup via a script?

mojo706

@Mateo I'm not good at scripting. In fact I suck

Mateo

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Q: Brightness is reset to Maximum on every Restart

The brightness of my laptop is reset to Max on every restart. I tried the solution provided at this website but had no luck. http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-save-screen-brightness-settings-in-ubuntu-12-04-laptop/ This command cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness Returns c...

12.04 brightness

Might work, someonein comment said intel hd 3000

mojo706

@Mateo thanks I will test and see if it works.

@Mateo the solution works

Mateo

9:18 PM

Woo!

@mojo706 glad it did, one less thing to worry about

mojo706

yes :)

Mateo

Ok, discourse is not so good on my tablet, is there an app or minimal mode?

mojo706

not that I know off

Seth

9:35 PM

Anyone around who uses Netbeans?

Whoa! We can retract close votes now!!! (cc: @gertvdijk )

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JohnMerlino

I use eclipse now for pretty much everything since it works well with android and it supports plugins for rad-rails and web stuff. qt for c++ though.

Seth

:-/

gertvdijk

@Seth Oooh. nice!

@Seth I hate Netbeans. I hate Eclipse. One big NullPointerException for me. I just love text editors being a bit smarter than nano.

Seth

shrug. Maybe I should just get Sublime Text.

mojo706

SublimeText3

or just use Eclipse

Seth

9:43 PM

It's expensive though :/

(Sublime)

gertvdijk

@Seth Trial works indefinitely, just with a notice.

Seth

Yeah.. that's strange.

gertvdijk

@Seth I prefer Kate though. And Komodo sometimes for Python stuff.

Seth

Hmm.

I use Geany for Python stuff.

mojo706

I use the trial :p. My best are Python = Aptana Studio 3

PHP = Eclipse

HTML/CSS/JS = Sublime

gertvdijk

9:50 PM

@Seth Yeah, I'll have to try that some day too. :)

Seth

Hmm. I'm not getting any syntax highlighting for Java in sublime...

Ah, I bet I know why.

jrg

@Lucio thanks, now i just need to figure out how to get time to do it.

@Seth wait, we can retract them?!!!

Seth

@jrg yep

jrg

noice.

well, you can. i can't.

Seth

Well, you can't ;P

jrg

9:56 PM

i just reopen.

Seth

Oh, yeah.

jrg

i always could.

Seth

REOPEN ALL THE POSTS!

jrg

heh

Seth

That just looks weird now.

mojo706

10:00 PM

someone get me more rep I need to retract close votes :(

Seth

lol

mojo706

haha

gertvdijk

10:15 PM

@mojo706 haha. No, it's about retracting your own close votes. If you can vote to close, you can retract them as well.

I wonder how it works when retracting the last in line. It is effectively closed the moment the last one votes.

mojo706

hahaha

Seth

10:32 PM

Well I'm trying Eclipse.

I couldn't get Sublime's syntax highlighting to work with Java.

I'll need some time to get used to Sublime.

aaaand eclipse crashed. Am I surprised?

ARGH. All I wanted was a nice theme >.<

mojo706

10:51 PM

Sublime text 3?

or 2? @Seth

jrg

i'm not ready to move to st3 yet.

Seth

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Screen escape dollar sign

I'm trying to run a command using screen which contains the dollar sign, but the dollar sign does not get through. screen -d -m echo \$ > test.txt test.txt just ends up being an empty file...

ubuntu screen escape-characters

mojo706

@jrg why?

@Seth hmmm

jrg

@mojo706 plugins don't support it yet.

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