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reversiblean

4:01 PM

@GeoMint It's Ubuntu Touch, so it won't probably look good in a desktop.. now I guess. news.softpedia.com/news/…

Mateo

the name of the icons is suru - let me see if there is somewhere to get

GeoMint

@reversiblean wow

Zacharee1

uh oh @ParanoidPanda is here

user136984

@Zacharee1: Hmm... I hope you haven't been telling people bad things about me or the rest of Pandas... :P

Tim

...

dun dun derrr

Zacharee1

4:09 PM

:p

Tim

hitchins.tk/demo2

Scroll down to the Hard Drive

kos

o/ all

GeoMint

@Tim takes time to load

reversiblean

@GeoMint got it. It's Unity8. see plus.google.com/+PopescuSorin/posts/…

GeoMint

nice

wait for 16.04 :P

or use alpha

cl-netbox

4:16 PM

Hi @Tim - just wanna say : a really GREAT gesture ! meta.elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/163/…

GeoMint

@reversiblean cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current

reversiblean

diolinux.com.br/2015/08/… beautiful :o

GeoMint

its awesome

Mateo

oh, you can only get the system icons right now it seems - news.softpedia.com/news/…

GeoMint

+ discourse.ubuntu.com/t/suru-icon-theme-for-desktop/1813

First alpha versions of Suru-ambiance and Suru-radiance icons for desktop (Suru-radiance will stay great with any light theme). Download HERE: copy.com/FdlKwVeqqopM/suru-desktop.tar.gz

its a developer link.

Mateo

4:21 PM

yeah, that is just the system stuff so far, no app icons

GeoMint

@Tim this is my webpage :P csd.uoc.gr/~csd3261

reversiblean

bookmarked :D

Tim

@GeoMint My webserver does all sorts of useful things

e.g. I can remotely access my files from my phone etc

Anyway, work to do

Ravan

@Tim o/

@GeoMint Hello :)

GeoMint

@Ravan hey :)

@Tim this is my space at university servers. i can connect to it via ssh / sftp

Mateo

4:26 PM

oh, then they just simulated the curve...

ohh ok

so not quite...

@Mateo o/ Evg/Mng

hi

@Rinzwind OK, but I've heard Swedish spoken and I can't understand it. I am guessing you are getting the vocabulary from another language.

Serg

4:33 PM

@Mateo nice icon theme,what's the name ? Is that from noobslab ? I've a couple of theirs

reversiblean

Any sys admins here?

GeoMint

@Serg he found it at softpedia

@reversiblean what do you need?

Serg

@GeoMint ah . . .then i was mistaken . . . oh well . . .

GeoMint

it is alpha version i think

Serg

@reversiblean what's going on ? I doubt any sysadmins are on right now . . .

Let us know what's the question , maybe we can help

Mateo

4:38 PM

@Serg flattr

r3zaxd1

hi everyone

Mateo

plus ultra-flat-theme for the windows

GeoMint

@Mateo i like arc theme with super flat remix icons

reversiblean

@Serg no worries. just asking :) I thought most of you guys here are sys admins : ))

Serg

@reversiblean well . . . I'm kind of a sys admin for my home :p

Anyhow , back to translating stuff

terdon

4:40 PM

@reversiblean I don't think any of the regulars here are sysadmins. We have a few on the Unix & Linux chat and, of course, there's always Server Fault.

Still, while not necessarily professionals, many of us have sysadmin experience/knowledge.

6

reversiblean

Yup I look in to SF recently, its great

r3zaxd1

I have a weird problem with plasma-pa applet, sometimes after login there is no audio icon but after an enable/disable it gets back (kubuntu 15.10)

I found that these people have same problem but on different os (manjaro) : forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=26819.0

have any one faced such thing in kubuntu ?

user136984

Ooh! What's with all the new people here? :D

Mateo

ooo, this looks nice

user136984

@r3zaxd1: Why don't you ask on the main site?

Mateo

4:47 PM

@ParanoidPanda its fun and lively in here ;)

GeoMint

@Mateo you use hangouts via chrome?

Mateo

yep it's cool

GeoMint

:)

r3zaxd1

@ParanoidPanda just wanting to know if anyone else has such problem as it is not that much annoying and maybe filing a bug to kubuntu would be more helpful

Mateo

too bad chrome isn't compiled to support rgba...

otherwise it would work with transparancy, the interface can already changed via css

Tim

4:52 PM

@Mateo is that image on mobile?

Mateo

on my laptop desktop

Tim

hmm how do you get sms convos on desktop?

Mateo

it just carries it over somehow from the phone

GeoMint

lol, thumbs up for that

A.B.

Answers or not. Low quality or not. askubuntu.com/q/701177/367165

Mateo

4:55 PM

I even answered my phone from the desktop once...

GeoMint

@Mateo this is spyware :P lol

reversiblean

What's the issue with unmet dependencies in 14.04.. I'm seeing these a lot. A bug?

Seth

@hbdgaf epicness right there.

GeoMint

@Mateo i am using that:

user136984

@reversiblean: Which unmet dependencies and for what?

Serg

5:00 PM

stylish

GeoMint

:P

reversiblean

@ParanoidPanda I mean lot of posts about unmet dependencies

GeoMint

i feel better without android somehow

user136984

Oh right, well, it's a reasonably common problem.

user136984

Especially among those who have no real clue. :P

Serg

5:02 PM

@reversiblean That happens when a package you try to install requires another package, but the version they have in a repo is different or they dont have the package at all . . .

Seth

@GeoMint The 130 is pretty cool.

user136984

I've only ever had it a few times.

A.B.

@terdon brilliant askubuntu.com/a/701194/367165

GeoMint

@Seth the only thing i don't like about that phone is dual sim. just waste :P

Serg

@A.B. @terdon awk answer incoming

GeoMint

5:03 PM

its a phone... if i need internet i can get a laptop with me

Seth

@GeoMint doesn't hurt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

terdon

@Serg Why am I not surprised :)

GeoMint

:D

Serg

@terdon my question ?

terdon

@Serg Um. No idea how that got there

I must have pasted by mistake.

Serg

5:04 PM

Oo ?

terdon

@Serg That's what I meant to say.

A.B.

@Serg Where is your awk magic? askubuntu.com/a/701195/367165

^^^waterproof with awk @terdon

=)

terdon

True. You could also simplify to awk '{print "" > $0}' file

That way, you don't need to fool around with the quotes.

Or, to avoid printing an empty line: awk '{printf "" > $0}' file.

A.B.

@terdon great, even easier than mine version

GeoMint

the awk masters :P

Serg

5:06 PM

@A.B. lol, we both posted awk answers at the same time

dang it

A.B.

@Serg :P =)

Serg

@A.B. an answer , not a answer

A.B.

@Serg =)

corrected =) @Serg

@kos Where is your Perl and awk magic? =) askubuntu.com/q/701142/367165

@terdon Perl version?

GeoMint

@A.B. can you print "Hello World" just from 1 command? not using file

A.B.

a great question for perl one-liner =)

@GeoMint ?

GeoMint

5:12 PM

a command like echo "Hello world"

A.B.

printf "%s\n" "Hello World"?

or with awk?

GeoMint

with awk

A.B.

awk '{}1'<<<"Hello World"

GeoMint

wow :D

A.B.

awk '{print "Hello World"}'<<<''

GeoMint

5:14 PM

nice :D

terdon

@A.B. Added: perl -ne 'touch "$_"' file

A.B.

@Serg More?

Serg

@A.B. added tee

A.B.

@terdon =)

@Serg Great, I forgot tee

Serg

OK, back to translation, but first - smoke

GeoMint

5:25 PM

How can i edit the GDM (ver. 3.14.1) login screen?

kos

5:38 PM

@A.B. Simply bash availed there. :)

$ cat in
john lennon
george
james
stewert
$ echo "" | tee "$(cat in)"

$ ls
in  john lennon?george?james?stewert

@terdon @Serg ^^

Serg

@kos yes, because you quote the parameter expansion

without quoting it will be effectively as echo "" | tee file1 (press enter) file2 (press enter) file3

kos

Also @terdon when I find apparently strange things on your answers is usually because I'm missing something myself, but why the pipe? Why not just using -a or redirecting stdin in xargs?

@Serg Yes, I'm a fool. :)

user136984

Oh dear... I think I'm going to be stuck on 9.3k for ever... :(

Serg

@ParanoidPanda well answer some questions , and gain the rep yo !

Also bounties !

user136984

I don't think the term "yo" is used in that way... :P

kos

5:45 PM

@Serg Fixed that with an upvote, however can I suggest </dev/null tee $(cat in)? echo | tee looks ugly.

Serg

yes . . . .but also we're not english.stackexchange.com :P @ParanoidPanda

user136984

Yo yo yo, I got a yo yo!

user136984

Or do I?

user136984

You will never know! :P

Serg

@kos appended to the answer. . . . I don't understand why people say piping is bad . . . it's a basic unix tool and has been working for years and doing the job

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:50 PM

0

Q: How to make the DRM-protected video stream of Amazon Video run on Debian Jessie?

I want to use Amazon Video on Debian Jessie but can't manage it to run. I have the following hardware setup: CPU: 2 cores at 3 GHz (Intel Core 2 Duo E8400) RAM: 6 GB RAM GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (MSI N650-1GD5) I am using the sudo command. For the GPU I am using the proprietary drivers ...

Serg

@JacobVlijm please undelete your answer askubuntu.com/q/701142/295286 , even though it's python, it still can be used in terminal

Zacharee1

Well, it seems like I'm going to Sprint

KGIII

@ParanoidPanda I can yo-yo a little bit. I can do a few tricks that are reasonably fun, like the Cat's Cradle, Eiffel Tower, Walk the Dog, Around the World, etc... I am not so fancy as to do some of the really complicated tricks though. :/

o/ @Serg & @Zacharee1

kos

@Serg Piping is great, but if you can avoid it is better. Now in that case echo is a built-in, but normally piping if not needed spawns additional (unuseful) processes, and passing output through processes itself has a cost. Often it can be irrelevant (like in this case), but if you can avoid it there's no point in using it

KGIII

Err o/ @kos too.

Zacharee1

5:55 PM

@KGIII o/ \o o/ \o

:p

Serg

@KGIII o/

Zacharee1

lol

kos

o/ @KGIII

user136984

@KGIII: I thought you could only go up and down with it! :D

KGIII

chuckles

user136984

5:56 PM

And I'm not even very good at that!

user136984

:D

Zacharee1

ō_ô

yo-yos?

Serg

@kos is there a comprehensive guide you have on that topic ?

KGIII

@ParanoidPanda Nah, there's lots of tricks to be done. I'm sure there's a billion and three such tricks on YouTube.

Serg

@Zacharee1 yoyoyo . . .. yolo !

:D

Zacharee1

5:56 PM

How much more off-topic can we get then yo-yos?

@Serg -_-

KGIII

I've never actually checked YouTube for yo-yo tricks.

I want to yo-yo in the terminal @Zacharee1! Kind of like SL instead of LS.

Zacharee1

uhh, k

KGIII

Panda's probably typing up a question now. :/

Zacharee1

:P

Serg

Is it a question about yoyos ?

Seth

5:59 PM

lol

KGIII

The lobby has a whole crapload of people in it including some reporters. I don't know why the reporters are here, they were here on Friday or so. The good thing? I can leave tomorrow afternoon but I'll probably leave on Tuesday morning.

kos

@Serg Nope sorry, those are just pieces put toghether.

Serg

OK, back to translation stuff . . . .I actually usually hate translations or editing translations, but this one is about watt-meters, which is related to my major in college, so i am enjoying it

if only i had enough energy , that would be even more enjoyable

solsTiCe

hi. Can I ask for a software recommendation on askubuntu or is it too broad ? I am looking for a replacement for vino/remmina which perfomed very laggy on 2 decent DSL connexions on 2 ubuntus 15.10. Open source is better

Zacharee1

@solsTiCe too broad. You can try Software Recommendations

terdon

6:07 PM

@kos No reason, they just didn't ocur to me. Thanks, I'll edit.

Zacharee1

Or opinion-based @solsTiCe

terdon

@solsTiCe you can as long as you make your requirements clear.

Software recommendations are on topic:

19

Q: Are software recommendations on topic or not?

There are presently over 2 300 questions tagged with software-recommendation at Ask Ubuntu. However, now and then questions are closed on the basis of this tag being off topic. As an example, Thomas W. recently closed this question claiming: I'm voting to close this question as off-topic bec...

discussion scope

Zacharee1

@terdon Wouldn't Software Recommendations be better though?

solsTiCe

or may be it's configuration problem, or a bug ? scrolling a page was taking 2 seconds to display the refreshed page. unasable

terdon

However, in your case, it sounds like you will indeed generate a list so that would be too broad here. If you can rephrase it to ask for "I need a vino replacement that can do a, b and c" it should be OK.

@Zacharee1 Probably, yes. I just wanted to point out that such Qs are on topic here as well.

Zacharee1

6:09 PM

@terdon huh

GeoMint

Cool feature 16.04 alpha

Zacharee1

Ooo

solsTiCe

aynone having experience with vino/remmina ? I assume it's one of them or the 2 that perfom poorly.

GeoMint

@Zacharee1 i installed virtualbox guest utils but VBoxClient does not exist

now it has VBoxControl :/

@Zacharee1 alpha daily version :/

could not install virtualbox-guest-x11

lol

Serg

shoot , i messed up my passwd

Serg

6:28 PM

OK, translationis done . . . recovery mode, here i go . . . .

kos

@terdon Also a heads up, notice that OP actually wants to add a .txt extension to those files.

Although it's not clear if they actually care or not since they mention "text file like john.txt". Maybe the .txt thing it's just a consequence of the misconception that the extension is required.

GeoMint

@Zacharee1 i am ready now to use arch as a main OS :D :P ( XFCE )

Zacharee1

:)

GeoMint

A.B.

6:47 PM

A DV wow =) askubuntu.com/a/701195/367165

Seth

@GeoMint is that xfce? Nice!

yeah :P

o/

\o

@A.B. Someone doesn't like you, the others weren't downvoted

@ByteCommander o/

A.B.

6:50 PM

@kos -_-

He @ByteCommander =)

Byte Commander

Hey. Did I miss anything yesterday or this morning?

A.B.

@ByteCommander Yes, a competition

Byte Commander

That means?

A.B.

5

Q: Add update channels in an easy terminal way

I know there is a GUI in Ubuntu Software & Updates to enable the update channels updates proposed backports security as shown in this screenshot: I am looking for an easy way to do this from within a terminal using commands such as apt-add-repository. Maybe something like: sudo apt-ad...

apt

@ByteCommander I will start a bounty (250) in 22 hours =)

Mateo

oh I just saw how to do that

A.B.

6:56 PM

@Mateo what? =)

GeoMint

hashbang.gr/breaking-the-4th-wall-with-minecraft wow

Mateo

hold moment on phone, will find for you

Byte Commander

@A.B. And where's the competition there?

edward torvalds

hi, all Legendaries and people o/

GeoMint

hi

Ask Ubuntu Meta

7:03 PM

0

Q: Migration of Question on stackexchange

I recently asked a question on ask ubuntu(main site) which was migrated to ask ubuntu(meta). Can anyone tell me how it happens.

discussion

Mateo

15

Q: How do I enable the "Universe" repository from the command line?

How do you use terminal to enable Universe source? Or any those 4 from Software Sources: Main, Universe, Restricted, Multiverse Main is on by default and Restricted is on if durring Ubuntu installation i tick Enable Restricted Formats. Answer with line where version checked so it auto detects it....

command-line package-management software-sources

Serg

0

A: Pipe users to change their passwords (bash)

It's possible with usermod -p PASSWD USERNAME and while loop. Problem is that PASSWD cannot be in plain text, it has to be encrypted password. For that purpose you can use mkpasswd with salt flag. That way "newPassString" is encrypted , and remains the same for all users. Here's example of what...

Mateo

,this one is fun if you want automated updates

6

Q: How do I enable automatic updates of all packages?

I'd like to use unattended-upgrades to install all updates to Natty beta packages daily. Whatever I try, unattended-upgrades seems to ignore updates to packages in "main". Here's my current Allowed-Origins section of /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins ...

updates automation

Serg

@ByteCommander I've a script for that competition already, you better start typing yo !

Byte Commander

Probably no time today...

KGIII

7:07 PM

@Serg Does it need more than adding a line to the sources.list?

Rinzwind

@GeoMint too much Windows for me :-)

Serg

@KGIII kind of . . . The thing is GUI removes lines, so just commenting and uncommenting stuff doesn't work. If a line is not in a file, it wont be uncommented

My script basically adds and removes lines

But with a lot of error checking

KGIII

Alrighty. I figured it was somewhere along those lines. It doesn't seem like it would be overly complex unless one wanted to make it so.

GeoMint

@Rinzwind :P

Serg

@KGIII it is not complex, but it took me a bit of time to figure out what software-properties-gtk does when you check-uncheck those lines, and the format that the file has to be in

@A.B. do you have a pastebin of my testrun of that script ? I wanna show to @KGIII

but not the source code yet

I need to fix that

KGIII

7:12 PM

@Serg That's kinda what I was thinking would be the time sink. I think I saw an application, quite some time ago, that monitored system changes so if one ticked a box and applied the changes it would show you which files had changed and, maybe, where they had changed. Some system file monitor type of thing. I've no idea what it was called, however.

A.B.

Magic =) askubuntu.com/a/701228/367165

@Serg No =\

Serg

Found it

@KGIII paste.ubuntu.com/13434218

KGIII

@Serg reading now

Hmm... Is there an automated function to pipe content to paste.ubuntu.com? (Slightly, tangentially, related.)

cl-netbox

goodbye :)

user136984

@KGIII: I believe that I have used a command (or something of the sort) before to do exactly that... But I can't for the life of me remember what it was! Sorry! :D

A.B.

7:18 PM

@KGIII yes, there is a script

@cl-netbox sleep well my friend

user136984

@cl-netbox: Bye! :)

KGIII

Later @cl-netbox.

A.B.

pastebinit -i <my_file> -b paste.ubuntu.com
http://askubuntu.com/a/640698/367165

KGIII

@ParanoidPanda I'll have to Google for said script. Unless @A.B. has it handy.

Ah - will check that next. :D

Thanks. :D

A.B.

@KGIII Don't thank me, give me an UV =)

I have to catch @Rinzwind =)

KGIII

7:25 PM

LOL Consider it done. >:-)

Rinzwind

@A.B. not gonna happen

A.B.

@Rinzwind No? I need 1/2 year =)

@Rinzwind ok, perhaps 9 month

Serg

Hot dang it ! I am logged in as testuser and editing my damn file. Any way I can still save changes in vim ?

A.B.

@Serg You have write permissions for the folder?

Serg

@A.B. not for the testuser

A.B.

7:26 PM

@Serg meh

@Serg stat folder please

Rinzwind

@A.B. at some point you will reach the same problem as me: questions seem to be not for me. Or are so bad it is better to flag :)

A.B.

@Rinzwind Oh yes. that can be =\

Rinzwind

Plus other stuff gets more important _O-

Serg

xieerqi:$ stat $HOME
File: ‘/home/xieerqi’
Size: 12288 Blocks: 24 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 5795106 Links: 78
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ xieerqi) Gid: ( 1000/ xieerqi)
Access: 2015-11-20 17:43:52.868156025 -0700
Modify: 2015-11-22 12:27:57.637366799 -0700
Change: 2015-11-22 12:27:57.637366799 -0700
Birth: -

Rinzwind

like getting to level 9999 in Disgaea 5 :X

A.B.

7:28 PM

@Rinzwind But I also want a coffee cup

KGIII

paste.ubuntu.com/13453980

(Do not show that to @ParanoidPanda!)

Serg

How do i unset linenumbering in vim ?

Rinzwind

@A.B. Disgaea 5 has coffee items :=)

They restore Spell Points :=)

bbl <3

A.B.

@Serg and the output of id

Serg

@A.B. mine or testuser ?

A.B.

7:30 PM

testuser

Serg

$ id testuser
uid=1001(testuser) gid=1001(testuser) groups=1001(testuser),27(sudo)

A.B.

and this user can write in your home folder? @Serg o_O

strange

Serg

@A.B. that's what i am saying, it can't. I started editing the file in vim, but i cannot :wq

A.B.

ok, but where is the problem? @Serg

the temporary file?

I don't understand. wq means write and quit

Serg

Found a solution !

:w !sudo tee % > /dev/null

VIM is awesome :D

nano doesn't have that

A.B.

7:34 PM

@Serg Ah, I understand

You can't quit vi.

Serg

@A.B. no, I was logged in as testuser, and ran vim sourcesSript.sh, made some changes, and when i tried to save with :w , I realized I am logged in as testuser, and testuser is not the owner of the file

A.B.

o_O great @Serg =)

Vi magic =)

I have to use vi

sudo apt-get purge nano

GeoMint

vim is awesome, vi is a bit annoying :P

Anonymous

hello all. I am used to Fedora/yum, but am using Xubuntu as a VM at home.

GeoMint

hi

Anonymous

7:44 PM

I like how yum displays the package name, repo, arch, and other things. How do I display such info from aptget?

Anonymous

@GeoMint hello. I like vim as well

GeoMint

apt-cache search <package_name>

let me think

Byte Commander

@HunterStevens apt-cache show PACKAGENAME

user136984

@KGIII: Do not show me what? :P

Byte Commander

(^ cc @GeoMint)

Anonymous

7:46 PM

Thank you, but I do not mean when searching, but when about to install.

KGIII

pastebinit @ParanoidPanda... ;-)

Anonymous

(But searching was my next Q!)

user136984

Anyone able to help me with my crazy question? :D

GeoMint

@ByteCommander thanks. i was thinking that

user136984

@terdon: You happier now? :)

GeoMint

7:47 PM

@ParanoidPanda fcking awesome

KGIII

LOL ALT+TAB Panda. ;-) That's what I use. I don't know of anything that will be quite what you're asking. It does sound like it might be beneficial, however.

Serg

@A.B.lol , I haven't purged nano, just chmodded it to 700, so that only root can use it and i cant. It's still a great text editor and very simple. I want to learn VIM because it's like . . . .everywhere

user136984

@KGIII: Ah, but then I have to look away from my code, then I forget what it is and keep on having to go back and forwards (I get a short memory when coding for too long sometimes)... :P

Serg

Ha, already typing :w before sending messsages, as if i was in vim

user136984

I need to be able to have them both filling the whole screen, and to look at them both at the same time when interacting with them.

KGIII

7:52 PM

There's also multiple monitors and there's the idea of splitting the window up so that you've the help documents (or whatever) alongside the terminal window.

I think you can "tile" the windows with just a click with a program that does so but, alas, I've forgotten the name and it doesn't appear to be a default with LXDE.

user136984

But if I have multiple monitors then I have to keep on turning my head and I'm too lazy for that... :P

user136984

I'm a Panda, remember! :D

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda tri-monitor swag :p

user136984

@Zacharee1:

user136984

    n.
    An ornamental drapery or curtain draped in a curve between two points.
    n.
    An ornamental festoon of flowers or fruit.
    n.
    A carving or plaster molding of such an ornament.

user136984

7:56 PM

?

KGIII

You can just move your eyes, panda.

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda wai u do dis wai u hev tu run evrtng

user136984

@Zacharee1: What?

user136984

:D

Zacharee1

:P

Anonymous

7:58 PM

apt-cache search <> does not seem to help. It does not show results similar ot how yum displays them.

Anonymous

I have read that Yum only accepts RPM, and is not truly compatible with Ubuntu. Is this true>

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