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12:14 AM
Good morning!
 
@msPeachy morning. there was a relatively stern warning earlier to keep it on topic, just so you know
 
@msPeachy hello :)!
@aking1012 from?
 
Oh okay
 
maybe i misread the implication...looking through the log
 
For the record, I have no problem remaining on topic.
 
@RolandTaylor looking back at it, it was probably trying to stem off a link-bombing back and forth
@GeorgeEdison is it a failed include parse? it's supposed to be provided by xdgmime.h i think...unless someone is reusing a constant name
 
@aking1012 Are you sure? There's a file in the GLib source directory containing a file xdgmime.h that declares that identifier.
 
@aking1012 Oh I see
haha blue make-up?
Some people choose some funny names...
 
@RolandTaylor I guess, maybe he/she loves to put blue mascara on.
We should stay on topic! :))
 
Lol...
4 mins ago, by aking1012
@RolandTaylor looking back at it, it was probably trying to stem off a link-bombing back and forth
If you think we're drifting off topic, let me know.
 
12:26 AM
@RolandTaylor I have nothing to say that is on topic right now, so I'll stay quiet :((
 
@msPeachy :(
Then the room will die...
I know what you can do
 
I'll create my room and talk as much as I want then, lol
 
Read this and comment on it :P
 
@RolandTaylor oh don't rag me about that forever. i admitted i might have read it wrong
 
@aking1012 o_O
I wasn't on you, I was telling @msPeachy your explanation
Then I said to her if I'm drifting off topic to let me know
 
12:30 AM
@GeorgeEdison another project that cross-builds with mingw includes that header...just saying
 
Well it's possible.
 
I'm certainly not ruling it out.
 
Oh it does seem really weird, to be sure
yeah, looks like they include that header, but then define different source files for it
or they did at one point:
+if OS_WIN32
+xdgmime_win_sources = fnmatch.c \
+		   fnmatch.h \
+		   safe-ctype.c \
+		   safe-ctype.h
+endif
and then somewhere later in the build link it funnily
 
jrg
1:22 AM
The Copy-on-Write part of btrfs bit me hard today. :(
 
askubuntu.com/questions/176355/… @jrg @aking1012 @GeorgeEdison @RolandTaylor @BrunoPereira @EliahKagan @HackToHell @WilliamHilsum
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Q: How to use Gnome/Unity menu .xml configuration file to configure Openbox menu?

ZigndHey guys I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and I just installed the Openbox (Desktop Environment), but as I never used it before I'm having some difficulties on configuring the menu (Right-Click). As I saw on the internet some people have a Right-Click menu like this one: How can I have one like that? ...

 
Oh please, stop pinging everyone !!
 
Mass ping == frowned upon.
 
jrg
Mass pings aren't ok.
 
1:28 AM
@Zignd it was asked 15 minutes ago. if it winds up off the front page and has low views, then start pinging people...one at a time
 
jrg
Ok, time to figure out how to get paypal.
@aking1012 what's your goal?
 
@jrg i didn't set a goal on the thing. i'm just working on it pretty solid as long as i can to put it in app stores
 
jrg
sorry, let me rephrase that: What do you need to get it into the app stores?
 
hrm idk really. into launchpad will be EASY. it's rewriting it prettified with kivy that could trip me up
i like the interface here: cryptograms.org/play.php but it's not available off-line, no trophies, and you can't "choose"
 
2:15 AM
@jrg i was trying to raise something like a month of living expenses in normal rural US conditions, but i'm not horribly comfortable trying to put a dollar amount on it
 
2:53 AM
Wow. This room is rather lively tonight.
 
:) it is
 
I can hardly keep up with all these... messages.
 
hello @izx
 
izx
@msPeachy o/
 
@RolandTaylor what messages? :))
 
2:57 AM
@msPeachy lol
hey @izx
 
izx
@RolandTaylor o/
Likes these personalized waves better than the impersonal "Hello all" :)
 
@RolandTaylor you didn't respond to my message
 
@msPeachy which one?
oh I see lol sorry
 
@izx only amith says hello all
 
@msPeachy Obs started it earlier too
 
izx
3:00 AM
Mitch does it...occasionally
 
Obs?
 
I do it on rare occasions
 
izx
@aking1012 That's the only sane way to do it. What the OP wants is not possible without ACLs (may want to add that, with the mount options caveat, to make it the perfect answer)
@RolandTaylor It's the crazy folks that do it when they've been idling for an hour and pop up that are an annoyance ;)
 
@izx lol
@msPeachy ObsessiveFOSS
 
oh, so the younger ones tends to do it
 
3:04 AM
lol yeah
 
How to use Gnome/Unity menu .xml configuration file to configure Openbox menu? http://askubuntu.com/q/176355?atw=1 #configuration
 
wait what?
I'm young but I'm not "amithkk" young
 
lol
young at heart
 
izx
LOL!
 
yes you are young
 
izx
3:05 AM
@RolandTaylor We still love you the same... :P
AmithKK isn't "young", he's a child :D (a very smart one at that, though)
 
@izx he is
 
I guess 24 going 25 is still a child :}
@izx true
 
@RolandTaylor it isn't
 
aww dammit, now I have to throw away my prank kit
 
izx
3:07 AM
@RolandTaylor What, adults don't prank? No one said you had only two choices (a) child or (b) business-suited sober adult ;)
 
3:33 AM
Oh look the party just arrived
 
@TheX well hello! :D
 
/me gets his boom box out...
 
/me puts up the disco lights
 
/me turns on some smooth jams...
 
/me sees Marco Ceppi...
/me had nothing to do with it!
 
3:35 AM
/me unplugs his boom box and hides
 
@TheX was it you, who started the bonds film game some nights ago?
 
Yeah it was...
 
@msPeachy @TheX is my partner in "crime"
 
I don't know who won, but @RolandTaylor lost
 
3:36 AM
I won!
 
i am not @RolandTaylor partner.... that is just wrong...
 
u_u
takes off his ring and throws it on the ground in a rage
I can't believe this!
 
@msPeachy no... you see... I always win.... that is just how the rules to my games go...
@RolandTaylor lol.... it will be okay...
 
@TheX yeah, so long as you pay for the trip to Mexico
 
3:37 AM
@TheX You disappeared and I was still here, so you lost
 
@msPeachy doesn't matter, I always win... end of story
 
youtube videos won't work for me on Chromium.... weird
 
launch it in firefox
 
@TheX well, I won't join in your game next time, if you always end up winning...:))
need to go
bye bye
 
chromium is a waste of space...
3
@msPeachy good night
and I was joking about all that...
 
3:40 AM
@msPeachy adios!
 
@RolandTaylor I hope she wasn't taking me seriously....
 
@TheX lol nah
 
izx
Quick community opinion: would you agree with a flag to close this answer as "not an answer, should be a comment?"
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A: Why is my background image always disappearing when I log in?

Mauri Olivaresmm that happened to me once the solution for me was changing the picture of folder and that is all

 
Hey I have to go to bed... I just realized what time it is...
 
@TheX lol I'm going in shortly myself
 
3:42 AM
Good night...
 
cya bro :D
 
izx
@EliahKagan: if you edit or "disapprove" flagged answers because they appear to be legitimate attempts to answer and the parent question has no upvoted answers or an accepted one, please considering upvoting said answer so that the question is removed from the unanswered list.
 
Anyone getting youtube problems?
okay folks, I'm heading off
 
izx
night...
 
4:05 AM
Hello all
Wow @MarcoCeppi Did you design that theme?
Oh, It's the retro theme
 
4:30 AM
@ObsessiveFOSS A person once said "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
 
Hey guys, do you mind if I ask you a general linux question?
 
@DerekSmith Shoot :D
 
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Q: What's a reasonably stable and elegantly customized Ubuntu based distro?

Behrang SaeedzadehAfter 2 years of not having used Linux at all, I am now using Ubuntu 12.04 at work. However there are two things I don't like about it: Tab switcher: it is very difficult to know which tab is currently selected as the tab switcher's color scheme is awful. Mixing multiple windows of the same ap...

 
I'm stuck with no trackpad on this laptop at the moment... sorry
I'm trying to copy&paste a link... not as easy as it should be!
 
Elaborate?
 
4:42 AM
So anyway, my trackpad is not working after login. I found a guy that tried logging in with the Guest account (Ubuntu 12.04) and the trackpad worked. So I tried it, and it also worked.
What he did was backup all the files in his home directory and deleted them, then logged out and back in.
 
12.10, looks fantastic.
 
I'm wondering how I would go about backing up all files in my home directory via command line.
So the assumption is that 1 of the files is turning off the trackpad...
 
Hmm
 
I've tried turning it on via xlist with no luck.
I just want to backup and delete... via command line. Possible?
 
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true
@DerekSmith --^ try running that
 
4:45 AM
yup, tried that too
 
Your's is a synaptics?
 
I use a usb mouse at work, but left it there today
ummm
I can grab the line from xlist... would that work?
 
Yeah
 
sorry, xinput. AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad
This is a Dell laptop
I believe it worked fine in 11.10 but got in the way of typing so I would disable it via xinput set-prop... and that worked great.
When I do xinput list-prop I see Device Enabled 0
But anyway... I just want to backup and delete at this point... any pointers or links would be great
 
@DerekSmith Try running rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty ~/.config and reboot
That should regenerate the config files
 
4:50 AM
ahh
you sure?
:)
 
Yeah
 
sudo?
alright... rebooting
 
\o/
 
so odd
trackpad works great at login screen... then at some point during the login process it stops working
thanks for trying
 
5:06 AM
@DerekSmith Still there?
 
damn... I feel stupid... I fixed it
yeah
 
@DerekSmith How?
 
Fn+F5... ha
I've never used that before though
and the Guest account worked like normal (as in enabled by default)
The last comment... the guy mentions Fn+F5
geeez
I really appreciate your time though. Thanks again
Well, goodnight :)
 
@DerekSmith np
@DerekSmith Good Night :D
 
okay so kivy is confusing for about the first five minutes. then it's epic
@AmithKK u still there?
 
5:18 AM
@aking1012 Yeah
 
The daily build for 12.10 is awesome, but 12.04.1 is a good fit for now.
 
it lets you use percentage of parent space as widget size ... that's pure easy layout
 
@aking1012 That's nice
 
5:32 AM
I had to disable the DirectX8 renderer, but I may have just got Irrlicht to compile.
Wait a minute... looks like Geany messed with the indentation on those files.
Le sigh.
 
@GeorgeEdison :( you're making progress though
 
Wait wait wait.
Voting for the Ubuntu App Showdown has started?
 
yes
 
hey all :)
@AmithKK no school today?
 
@nitstorm Nope
 
5:44 AM
@AmithKK Independence day hangover? :P
 
@nitstorm Shab-E-Qadar
 
@AmithKK No idea what you just said just now... Pre-ramzan celebrations?
 
@nitstorm Yeah
 
@AmithKK Cool :)
 
Wow... I totally lost my concentration on what I was doing :P
Oh well, Irrlicht is still building so time was not lost :)
/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld: cannot find -ld3dx9d
...what???
libd3dx9d.a is missing from the 64-bit libs directory!
(But it exists in the 32-bit libs directory.)
 
5:59 AM
Now, this was my first mountain of the day -
 
izx
@AmithKK That's a school holiday in Karnataka?
 
@izx Looks like a school holiday in India :)
But would mostly depend on the school and the management if they wanna declare a holiday or not though...
 
izx
@nitstorm I don't remember ever getting that holiday -- musn't be mandatory (of course, the fact that mine was a Jesuit school probably had something to do with it -- did get ~8-9 day Christmas vacations :)
 
@izx Me neither! and me too!!! :D Once I had to attend school on Diwali, and sometimes on other festival-days, didn't mind it though :P
btw, @izx you from India? Where ?
yells out a big HI to @jokerdino
 
Heya @jokerdino
 
6:06 AM
@nitstorm @AmithKK hi
 
:D
on school-um leave ah macha? Illa-na jolly-ah class lerindhey log-in panraya?
 
@izx well, i wrote the question and the answer anyway. so i had to improve it.
@nitstorm school got over a while ago boss
 
@jokerdino Kalaku kalaku :D
 
:D
 
you coming down to India for the hols?
 
6:11 AM
yeah
around dec
 
Super :)
 
:))
 
btw, xterm is available on all distros all environments right?
by default right?
 
not sure
i guess it is
 
Best packages for theme management http://askubuntu.com/q/176414?atw=1 #unity
 
6:13 AM
Cool
 
6:31 AM
 
click yes
 
I did, twice already
 
ok what are you doing?
 
creating a liveUSB for Quantal
 
redownload the ISO then.
 
6:34 AM
i checked the checksum it does match, I did md5sum, here's the result f35dbb8f14f3aac98e0440d34ee8f1f4 which is the same from the ubuntu site
 
hmm i got no idea then.
 
okay, will try another USB
thanks anyway
 
okay
 
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Q: Do I use WUBI to install Ubuntu 12.04 on a logical partition?

Thor's SonI'm running a 750GB system with a 240GB OS primary (C:) with Win7 on it, and a 380GB Data logical (D:). I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 on the logical partition, or at least a part of it. So do I use WUBI and just select "D:" during install? Or do I need an .iso? Also, will resizing the logical ...

 
@msPeachy The Live USB you created ain't booting or something?
 
6:46 AM
@nitstorm the checksum doesn't match
 
@jokerdino but the md5sum matches?
 
izx
@nitstorm grew up in Ahmedabad, left after high school (XIIth)
 
@nitstorm don't know. ask her.
 
izx
@jokerdino Well, I told him I'd give him a bounty if he did it...but you did...
 
@izx Oh cool :) Where do you live currently?
 
izx
6:48 AM
California
 
@izx Woah, cool!
 
@izx he wouldn't have been able to do it. he is not on precise.
blah.
 
@nitstorm it's not created yet, it's halfway through the process of creation with Startup Disk Creator but I always get the checksums does not match error.
 
izx
@nitstorm You'd think so, but I have to drive a couple of hours to get to the good parts of Cali ;)
 
@izx lol :P
@msPeachy hmmm... Does the error stop the creation half-way?
btw, best question I've read so far today -> My LAN works, but I am unable to access the internet.
 
izx
6:52 AM
@msPeachy: use Unetbootin and forget the Startup blah blah thingy
 
Felt a bit like it was my fault and I was obligated to fix it :P
@izx Even better, use MultiSystem
 
izx
How did you break someone's internet with an AU answer?
 
@nitstorm well it displays that dialog box, if I click yes, it retries then encounters the error again, did clicked on Yes twice, the third time I opted to just quit it.
 
@izx I didn't, just reading the question made me feel like that :P
@msPeachy Multisystem
 
startup disk creater helped me create a liveusb
i have one for precise
 
6:53 AM
@izx okay will give it a go, I just didnt want to install another app, when there's a default one
 
I always have some weird problem with Ubuntu Startup Disc creator, Unetbootin and all that, but MultiSystem always comes through :D
 
izx
@jokerdino ^^^ it saved a child from drowning! :P
 
@izx lolz :P
 
izx
@msPeachy It's portable, no need to install.
 
@izx And a forest from burning! :P
 
izx
6:54 AM
If only it would solve the global economic crisis!
 
Patches welcome.
 
@izx maybe if you break it open to unleash the unicorns inside it could...
 
shouldn't we flag answers with mere links or answers without technical details on how to do something as low quality answers, since we can't flag it as not an answer?
 
izx
@aking1012 I've been trying to write a Quickly app to do that but it claims there's this dependency problem...
 
@izx quickly ... shrugs
 
izx
6:58 AM
@msPeachy Yes, I would do that. Too many one-line answers-but-not-really-maybe littering the palce.
 
@msPeachy don't be surprised if it is rejected.
the mods are slightly optimistic
 
such as this
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A: How to get cursor click effect?

Mr MisterInstall e17 and you'll have this effect.

@jokerdino Oh they are?
 

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