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jrg

00:19

@rlemon Trendbar? IDK.

@JorgeCastro I do. I just can't access the nice parts of it. :P

Icedrake

Heyheyhey.

Quick question: How do I get 11.10 to show all of the system startup items that showed up in 11.04's Startup Applications?

Because 11.04 showed quite a bit more startup items than 11.10.

Roland Taylor

Short answer: you can't.

Icedrake

What about this?: askubuntu.com/questions/66910/…

Roland Taylor

I'll take a proper look in a few minutes (brb)

@Icedrake that should work.

Icedrake

00:35

Yep

Second answer worked

wisemonkey

01:00

how do I stop imap service ? the problem is I don't know which service under /etc/init.d/

?

jrg

@wisemonkey try something like sudo service imap stop

wisemonkey

ok

nopt unrecognized service

nope*

jrg

ok, type sudo service and then hit tab twice.

that'll show you everything.

wisemonkey

yup shows everything thats in /etc/init.d

jrg

your imap thing doesn't showup?

wisemonkey

01:04

nope the problem is I don't know wat I installed to get it started :-/

Oli

Some good games in the latest HIB. Really enjoying Shank and Gratuitous Space Battles

jokerdino

What is this help doing here?

wisemonkey

yup I wanna play shank waiting to go home

jrg

@jokerdino it's a useless tag, so if you want some rep edit it out of all of them. :)

Icedrake

Hey guys

jokerdino

01:05

I request that the help tag to be blacklisted!

Icedrake

Is it possible to get the "Add Your Favorite Places as Quicklists for Home Icon in Unity" in 11.10

techdrivein.com/2011/05/…

jrg

@jokerdino Already requested.

Icedrake

My "Home Folder" icon isn't named Home Folder, it's named Files.

jrg

7

Q: Why do we have a "help" tag?

help is kind of a pointless tag, no? There's 36 questions which have it, each of them is asking for support with something different. There's no real purpose for it, since this site is for support and help anyways. Should it be removed?

Icedrake

I removed the Home Folder launcher a few days ago and have got it back but it doesn't say Home Folder and says Files instead. Now I'm not sure if the quicklists tweak will work anymore.

jrg

01:07

@Icedrake hangon

you want the 11.10 one, right?

Icedrake

yea

jokerdino

OMG. only 36 questions needs help?

jrg

gist: 1474738, 2011-12-14 01:09:32Z

nautilus-home.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Home Folder
Comment=Open your personal folder
Exec=nautilus
Icon=user-home
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Core;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=nautilus
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.0.0
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=nautilus

Icedrake

@jokerdino WHAT HAVE WE BEEN DOING AT ASK UBUNTU FOR THE LAST FOREVER?! :O

jrg

there you go.

Icedrake

01:10

Sorry for my ignorance, but how do I make use of the stuff you pasted

I need to start learning all of these advanced Ubuntu stuff.

jrg

ok.

open gedit,

and then paste that into gedit

wisemonkey

sudo netstat --inet -pnl

jrg

save as nautilus-home.desktop

wisemonkey

\m/

jrg

and then put it somewhere safe. then, drag it onto the launcher

@wisemonkey for me, cupsd, dropbox, and avahi-daemon.

nothing fancy.

Icedrake

01:13

saved it

is it possible to put that in the default place where Ubuntu stores other icons like that?

jrg

@Icedrake or,

wisemonkey

@jrg: yup thats the way to know wats running on particular port :D

Icedrake

Just in case I go on another deleting spree of mine. :D

jrg

you could do a unity --reset-icons

@Icedrake don't try that

Icedrake

Too late..

jrg

01:14

because dpkg/apt-get will freak out that the file was edited by somebody else, if you were to move that .desktop into the default place.

Icedrake

Just kidding. ;D

mhm

jrg

heh.

Icedrake

so I should just do a unity --reset-icons?

jrg

yes

that should reset the launcher icons

Icedrake

sounds good

so uhh

it worked

My terminal seems to be freaking out with cannot call things and unable to load things.

should I just close it?

Actually I'll just restart my computer, brb.

All of the icons I had before the reset vanished when I restarted my computer but I easily added them back on. The icons that were created upon the reset were the only ones there.

jrg

01:26

so... is it back?

Icedrake

Yep.

Thanks.

jrg

you're welcome.

those unity --reset and unity --reset-icons work wonders.

(and yes, i understand thats what they were supposed to do. :P)

Icedrake

Out of curiosity, what does unity --reset do (I mean what settings does it reset)?

jrg

everything related to unity.

so, the icons, the laucher size and autohide behavior, and a bunch of other stuff.

Icedrake

Ah.

jrg

01:34

on some levels, it's great seeing a tweet about a mac user having to use a Ubuntu VM to do something, but on others, it's horrible.

jokerdino

5

Q: Why is it taking so long to open the Ubuntu Help Center?

When I click on the Help Center Icon in the 'System' menu, it takes more than a minute to launch the program. More than a minute, for a text only program seeming like a website! All my other programs work fine, and I saw this problem also on other computers. Is there a reason for this? Will it ...

gnome help

This question seems to have a valid help tag.

jrg

@jokerdino well then, you might just be able to roll it back.

I think I just did an edit.

9

Q: What Ubuntu / Linux podcasts are most helpful?

Which podcasts in either the Ubuntu or general Linux categories are the most helpful or most enjoyable. One podcast per answer which could be voted independently would be useful and possibly mentioning if it is highly technical, generally informative, or just fun.

opinion

LIST QUESTION. DESTROY!

My edit messages are so descriptive... killall tag:help

jokerdino

Haha.

You just flooded the main page @.@

jrg

pretty sure this is a duplicate.

0

Q: How do I install Ubuntu 11.04 onto a 4 GB usb drive?

So a .iso is currently downloading onto my flash drive. After that, what do I do? I'm just scared of deleting Windows 7 and all my files.

11.04 installation

@jokerdino AHHHH YEAHHHH. I'm getting up to Jorge castro level there dude. :P

2

jokerdino

Hehehehee

jrg

01:46

it's a duplicate of askubuntu.com/questions/16988/…

jokerdino

I can't really do anything about it.

jrg

I know you can't. but somebody else might.

ok, help should be pure.

jokerdino

Looks much better.

jrg

I flagged one of them to have the tag removed, since I can't do it.

stupid merged posts.

jokerdino

BBL. Bye.

jrg

01:56

cya @jokerdino

@JorgeCastro did you mean to do [yelp] instead of [help] for that edit?

i'm like, whut.

Jorge Castro

yes

yelp is the program that runs the help

jrg

ohhh....

Jorge Castro

his problem was a bug with yelp

jrg

ok. rolls back his edit :P

Jorge Castro

good catch though, high 5.

jrg

02:04

thanks.

annddd... now i broke the css for AU.

Jorge Castro

02:24

0

Q: Asus EEE Traansformer never gets a GPS fix unless I reboot it

I have an Asus EEE Transformer (not the prime) that has unreliable GPS performance. I usually just fire up Maps in my car and use the navigation but the Prime always gets stuck with "Searching for GPS". This can go on for over 30 minutes in which the tablet either won't get a signal at all, or mi...

gps asus-eee-pad-transformer

Marco Ceppi

02:37

@JorgeCastro I'm probably going to get a Prime :D

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George Edison

03:15

Stupid Internet Explorer.

George Edison

03:29

Lol:

> "If you're murdered at some point in your life, odds are it'll be at the end."

rlemon

04:31

to anyone who has visited my blog please clear your cache and check it out again. rlemon.com/blog

just upgraded to the new wordpress - seems faster to me.

am I just crazy ??

George Edison

Wait - you're a Canadian?

rlemon

@GeorgeEdison me - yea

ontario

George Edison

Ah, cool.

I'm on the west coast.

rlemon

yea my uncle was out there - i have family in Vancouver

he's senior architect or something at Zynga - recently shipped him to cali.

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05:45

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George Edison

07:04

/// One hour
const Hour  = 3600;
/// One day
const Day   = 86400;
/// One month
const Month = 2592000;
/// One year
const Year  = 31536000;

Documentation comments at their most helpful :)

George Edison

07:28

Night all.

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