Ubuntu Global Jam (2 - 4 September 2011)

Roland Taylor

03:23

How do you add the comments to the script?

nvm figured it out

htorque

07:26

it always surprises me when question title and question content describe totally different things :D

moderator gods, please close

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Q: Overlapping text in Software Center

As can be seen from the image, some text gets overlapped in the Description field of the software. Has anyone else experienced this? Should I report a bug against software-center?

and

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Q: Why are oneiric-backports enabled by default?

I installed the 11.10 desktop beta version and noticed that oneiric-backports were enabled by default in Software Sources. Now I know that there will not be any backports until 12.04. Also, backports are not recommended for normal users (read: non-power users). So, will these sources be disable...

11.10 software-sources backport

Allan

08:53

0

A: Focus a window without bringing the window forward

You can change the focusing habit of windows in Ubuntu like this First got to: System -> Preferences -> Windows Then Check "Select windows when the mouse moves over them" Make sure "Raise selected windows after an interval" is deselected. Hope this helps.

one down

htorque

10:40

what to do with questions like this:

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Q: How do I set up a Danny tech:USB TV box?

I have an External USB TV tuner box, That I used to use with Windows . But now after migrating to Ubuntu, I can't get it to work on Lucid Lynx since its drivers are for Windows only. I tried running it with a XP installation in Virtual box and it worked but the video output there was very slow/l...

10.04 tv-tuner

it's old, not getting feedback from the user - it won't ever be answered.

i'd close this as "abandoned" if there were such an option...

Allan

11:09

@htorque It would be handy :)

htorque

11:55

i'm sure we could close the older half of the unanswered questions without anyone complaining :)

jrg

12:19

@htorque Can we close as too localized?

htorque

i don't know, if close this, we can close hundrets of other questions

jrg

@MarcoCeppi You awake yet? We have a question. :)

Can we safely close this as a duplicate of this (or vice-versa)

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Q: Blackboard (WebCT) takes ~2 min to load. Any tricks to make it load faster?

I'm running stock OpenJDK on Ubuntu 10.10 and webCT in firefox loads very slowly. I haven't found anyone else complaining about this so, I'm wondering how to go about debugging this. Anyone else have this problem? Thanks.

10.10 firefox java

^ too localized

askubuntu.com/questions/15373/… - same deal

askubuntu.com/questions/22669/… - not a real question

Bug report, should be closed - askubuntu.com/questions/22925/…

Marco Ceppi

12:43

Morning

jrg

Good morning. :)

The question we have is this: "can we close abandoned/old questions as too localized?"

And if it's too early for straight thinking, then feel free to delay/stall. ;)

Marco Ceppi

@jrg yes, if it's really old and the subject matter is, more localized than not

Otherwise, if it seems like a complex question, or a poorly asked one, trying editing it. That'll bring it back to the top and give it a second chance

jrg

Alrighty good.

askubuntu.com/questions/22989/… - offtopic

askubuntu.com/questions/23092/… - localized, it's not Ubuntu's fault!

@htorque Abandoned option? - meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/92809/…

htorque

15:35

@jrg that's stupid. someone with the same problem likely has 1 rep and will as likely leave a "me too" answer and that's it.

Roland Taylor

15:46

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Q: Is there any sort of format and style themes/templates in LibreOffice?

I am wondering if there's any kind of predefined themes or templates for formatting styles (Default, Heading 1/2/etc) in LibreOffce. If there are, how can I apply them?

themes libreoffice

I'm getting tempted to vote to close that one.

Oxwivi always does this - takes us on a merry go round that leads to no where.

Allan

@RolandTaylor I've noticed that too

Roland do you still use Kubuntu?

Roland Taylor

No, I use Ubuntu with all major Desktop Environments installed. Unity is my main.

Allan

16:02

@RolandTaylor Just wondering if you would be able to answer the bangarang question

Roland Taylor

Ah, point me to it

Allan

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Q: I need a plasma widget that display at least the title of now playing song while using Bangarang

i've switched to Bangarang as my default player in Kubuntu, but i can't seem to find a now playing plasmoid that works with it. any suggestions?

kde widget bangarang

Roland Taylor

Oh... well in a case like that - nope :)

Allan

@RolandTaylor There are a lot of questions where the answer is going to be really short "No"

Roland Taylor

Yeah lol

Justin Andrusk

16:51

Does QA testing for Oneric Alpha 3 make sense for today since Beta 1 is going to be released next
week?

Marco Ceppi

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Q: When are questions about "ubuntu+1" appropriate?

"ubuntu+1" is the developmental release of Ubuntu, so it changes every day so it can cause people to have lots of problems and ask for help. So for example people asking 11.04 (aka natty) questions months before the release, etc. I think a bunch of us agreed in chat on how we handle these kind q...

discussion scope

They're basically off-topic for this site

If it's bug report link them here:

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Q: How do I report a bug?

I found a problem with a application on Ubuntu. How do I best report the issue? What sort of information should I provide?

launchpad debug bug-reporting

Justin Andrusk

Thanks.

Beta 1 is out anyways. Can't believe I missed that.

Getting ready to install it on my ASUS e1000 netbook.

Roland Taylor

remember to install updates right after.

Justin Andrusk

17:20

Right on.

htorque

17:54

2,120 → we are losing the battle! retreat!

:D

Roland Taylor

18:09

No worries, I have a star cannon. Point me to the target!

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Q: Are there any sort of format and style themes/templates in LibreOffice?

I am wondering if there's any kind of predefined themes or templates for formatting styles (Default, Heading 1/2/etc) in LibreOffce. If there are, how can I apply them?

themes libreoffice

burn this with fire!

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Q: Sound issues (Minecraft, eSpeak)

Being a new Ubuntu user, I've no idea where to begin to solve this problem. I installed Ubuntu into WinXP with Wubi. Tried downloading Minecraft and installing Sun Java, and everything worked well. Then I played around to get Adobe Flash to work correctly, installed some sound packages and some...

sound java minecraft

Suggest a reinstall?

-1

Q: Firefox awesome bar unreadable

This seems to be a very old problem for Firefox users on ubuntu but with no solution, Editting userchrome.css but there is no chrome folder in my firefox Creating a new profile

firefox

burn.

Allan

@RolandTaylor oil on the fire

Roland Taylor

\o/

Justin Andrusk

18:55

Just curious as to why during the Oneric B1 install on the Netbook, why am I being asked to connect to wireless after it checks to see if you have a working Internet connection to download updates during the install. Any ideas on this?

Roland Taylor

It's likely a bug in the installer as that feature was recently added.

Justin Andrusk

So by design it should not be going it in that order?

Roland Taylor

By design it "should" - that is, if it doesn't detect ethernet, it should attempt to find wireless - but it seems to be a bit broken (from what you describe).

Justin Andrusk

Also, gave me no choice, but to encrypt my home directory.

Roland Taylor

19:14

oh?

That's odd....

Did you report a bug?

jrg

is now available

Justin Andrusk

In process.

jrg

@JustinAndrusk Nice answer on my SSL certificate question. :)

One more vote needed to close:

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Q: How to remove the old gdm

I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 beta and all of its changes are now working and let me testing them, but the only missing thing is the lightdm's new theme which doesn't work and insted I have the old gdm login screen. My question is how to replace it with the newest lightdm.

login gdm 11.10 login-screen lightdm

Two more needed:

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Q: Heat issues on 11.10 beta?

I am running an old Gateway laptop (7330gz) with 1 gig of RAM and 80 gig HDD, when I went to try 11.04 I found myself overheating frequently and ended up returning to 10.10. Has anyone noticed any problems with overheating in the 11.10 beta 1?

11.10 overheating

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Q: How do I fix my theme?

After installing and using Ubuntu 11.10 for while I decided to install gnome shell. After Installing and rebooting my system I saw that Ubuntu light theme (ambiance/radiance) is gone. I check /usr/shar/themes and /usr/shar/icons, it seems that the light themes and mono icons exist. I even reinst...

gtk 11.10 gnome-shell theme

^^ three more

Justin Andrusk

@jrg Cool.

Submitted Bug #840570.

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jrg

19:29

@JustinAndrusk Can you edit your bug with what format you have? ext4, btfrs, etc.

Justin Andrusk

@jrg Added it as a comment.

jrg

Hmm.... odd.

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Q: skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I am using ubuntu 11.10 64bit, skype was working however after running sudo apt-get autoremove skype is throwing skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory How can I fix this?

64-bit skype 11.10 shared-library

^^ too localized. And it's a 11.10 question.

Roland Taylor

voted

jrg

@RolandTaylor Comon Roland, you know better. :P askubuntu.com/questions/59594/…

Roland Taylor

XD

jrg

19:39

It's obviously both localized and a duplicate.

As such, you can vote to re-open it after release day! Comon!

Roland Taylor

it's a dupe? :O

jrg

It's a dupe of "There's an issue with an Alpha/beta release of Ubuntu, what do I do?"

(that question has the most duplicates)

Roland Taylor

lol

Well, I thought it was exempted as I thought it was a feature no longer available in GNOME 3.2

jrg

We'll see what happens on release day.

Allan

@RolandTaylor Because all the other "options" were removed?

Roland Taylor

19:41

Yeah!

Allan

20:08

@RolandTaylor There is one thing I'm a bit confused a bit about

The global menu was to utilise the vertical space on the screen more efficiently yes?

So why has it now been replaced by these huge mostly useless grey bars which use up more vertical space than the menu bar that was there to begin with!

jrg

20:25

@Allan you ask thought-provoking questions that I've been asking for awhile.

The answer I've come up with is this:

"Unity Developers think we can read minds"

Roland Taylor

can read minds

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Ubuntu Global Jam (2 - 4 September 2011)