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I think that the easiest way to do this is by pressing jk which just moves the cursor up and down and allows you to find the cursor position. You can change the cursor color in order to locate it immediately. Also you can type V which highlights the line that the cursor currently is. Hope this...

haha. the answer is "press jk, and no, I'm not kidding!"

muru

@Seth I'm just waiting for him to delete the "thanks" before I flag for bumping

Zanna

5:10 PM

haha I'd tell them to find it by typing dG

Seth

@muru ughdskfj483tr8whd;oijgrjsadf. vim+bumping means he's probably our friend...

muru

Yep.

Cyber_Star

Hhahaha :p

Seth

also, he asked the same question earlier, got an answer, then deleted it? askubuntu.com/questions/889692/fentesist-cursor

Zanna

troll

muru

5:13 PM

Yep, and cross-posted, got closed, and then deleted on Vi

muru

5:26 PM

I like this:

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Q: Is asking "why" on language specifications still considered as "primarily opinion-based" if it can have official answers?

I just found this question and answer about why Java uses UTF-16, but now it is closed as primarily opinion-based. I know, a similar issue is discussed here and some people say this type of question usually attracts opinion-based guesses as answers. But I think this case is a bit different, beca...

We should adopt this

And, of course, that's in reference to:

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Q: pip module not installed in the default Python 3.4 installation of Ubuntu 14.04

Why is the pip module not installed in the default Python 3.4 installation of Ubuntu 14.04? In the official docs it says that: pip is the preferred installer program. Starting with Python 3.4, it is included by default with the Python binary installers. In a virtual environment though (u...

14.04 python3 pip

Zanna

People usually ask "why isn't it like this?" here when they mean "how can I make it like this?"

@jokerdino thanks ;)

muru

And for Qs like that, I say: file a bug report! and then they say: no, I want to grow a beard, go to the Himalayas, gain wisdom and know the deeper reasons behind why

Serg

OP apparently refereed to Elementary desktop because Elementary uses Pantheon : askubuntu.com/q/889852/295286 Shall we nuke this one and vote to reopen the old one ?

Or is it better to keep the open one and keep the other one closed ?

Zanna

@muru yes >_< to which we should indeed say, "very nice, go along then" and close the question

muru

as ... POB? Unclear?

Zanna

5:35 PM

maybe we need a close reason for "too metaphysical"

anyway, I VTC the pip one as unclear

@Serg seems... odd

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:50 PM

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Q: Linux mint hangs on power off but not on reboot

Power off hangs on UI power off or using poweroff command. However reboot command works fine. I am not using any proprietary driver. Thinkpenguin Galapagos Penguin GNU/Linux Laptop Linux Mint 18 - 4.4.0-64-generic #85-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 20 11:50:30 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux syst...

linux ubuntu linux-mint

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Q: How to find the number of lines in a text file given input in a program

We have to create 2 programs "sortwords.c" and "print_anagrams.c" We are then supposed to type the command (to obtain the output): ./sortwords < wordfile.txt | sort | ./print_anagrams > anagrams.txt In the "sortwords.c" program, I'm using gets() function, but I don't know how many times I shou...

ubuntu c

Seth

@Zanna There's really no reason for that question (--^) to have the ubuntu tag either, since you already edited it.

jokerdino

Zanna showing off her editing privileges I see.

Zanna

@Seth thanks! I usually edit tags with my 10k wand I guess. But I miss many things when editing as standard...

@jokerdino abusing could be more accurate...

Serg

6:06 PM

What pisses me off about American students is that they complain and argue about privacy and rights, but when it's for school project - oh, sure, we'll just stumble randomly into computer lab, aka public place, and try filming our project , without realizing that other students might not want to have their face on camera

WinEunuuchs2Unix

^^^ hehe You are an American complaining that Americans Complain :P

Serg

So, in other workds: screw everybody else's freedom unless it's my own

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I am an American, but that doesn't mean I have to put up with hypocrisy of others.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

My secret to complaining and getting most people to agree with me is to complain about my own failings :)

Serg

Also, o/ hello Fabby

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Hello @Fabby our fine-feathered-brussels-born-living-in-Germany-friend! Long time no chat across time zones :)

Fabby

6:12 PM

:)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I hate it when I find I made a bug and have to dig back through all my answers to fix it. Not only is it embarrassing but time-consuming as well...*sigh*

What's new Fabby? Where have you been hiding?

Fabby

On a call. This page opened by accident.

Loging out! :P

WinEunuuchs2Unix

That's what @Zanna said last night when she opened this page in her sleep.

Zanna

haha sorry about that

Serg

AskUbuntu is like a cursed place - once you come here, you keep coming back :p

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Serg

6:41 PM

@terdon um . . . a bit of a question . .

$ perl -a -F'[:|]' -ne  'print $F[0] . "id" ' input.txt
Orderid
idOrderid
idOrderid
idOrderid

Oh . . .wait

blank lines in file. Got it

@steeldriver OP changed requirements: askubuntu.com/a/889889/295286

Zanna

steeldriver won't get that ping @Serg

better to comment on the answer

Serg

@Zanna he doesn't come to chat ?

or doesn't have chat account ?

Zanna

hasn't been in chat

if you can't tab-complete someone's name, they won't get pinged

I don't know how long it is... 12 hours or something

a mod could ping them, but that seems a bit excessive

Seth

6:59 PM

@Zanna been in the room in the last 3 days. Otherwise you can invite them from their chat profile to a certain room, but you can't tie that to a specific message.

@Serg Good thing this site is Ask Ubuntu ;)

Zanna

@Seth thanks again!

speaking of pings, did you see my comment on the broken image links meta post?

just checking, so you know where it's at...

Serg

@Seth sorry, force of a habit

Seth

@Zanna yep! I saw it.

Zanna

I saw this in LQP queue, but it seems to be fine. I gave it an upvote askubuntu.com/questions/889473/…

@Seth great :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu 16.10 akwardly slow at booting up after kali linux and Windows 10 triple boot

I had Ubuntu 16.10 and Windows (ubuntu's grub as bootloader) on my laptop, yesterday I decided to install Kali with it too, so I shrank the Windows 10 partition of 60 gb and filled the created space with kali, I installed kali's version of grub. The problem is that Ubuntu's booting screen (the p...

ubuntu windows kali-linux dual-boot bootable

Serg

7:14 PM

@ByteCommander @Seth so . . .you guys are both Comp Sci students, right ?

Seth

@Serg no I'm in IT. But I have some basic programming experience. Don't know advanced OOP or fancy stuff like algorithms, for example.

Serg

@Seth ah, well, my question isn't about OOP or algorithms really. I'm curious if there are things that you as IT/Comp Sci students wish to have on desktop . . .something like utilities for frequent tasks . . .

Just trying to find ideas for new projects

Seth

@Serg by desktop do you mean like conky?

Serg

@Seth well, by desktop I mean the whole desktop area in general. So wallpaper, unity panels, indicators, stuff like that

Seth

@Serg Ah. I like to keep mine as empty and clean as possible, to be honest

Zanna

7:26 PM

I like uninterrupted wallpaper

but oops, this survey isn't about me hides

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I like a Chrome window with lots of tabs, AU General Chat, AU questions, bash searches, etc.

Serg

@Zanna define uninterrupted wallpaper plz

@Seth mhmmm, OK

that might be one thing

Zanna

haha yes I rarely see my desktop, usually there's FF, Telegram and ~5 terminals

WinEunuuchs2Unix

The top screen is the TV and I just closed the tv program running there.

Seth

btw, does anyone know, off the top of their head, whether there is a dock application (e.g. plank) that supports custom keyboard shortcuts for items on the dock?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

7:28 PM

^^^ Bonus question does anyone know what a dock is?

Seth

Desperately trying to replicate Unity's super+<number> shortcuts on any other DE.

Zanna

@Serg I mean I like the desktop to be minimal and clean, just small panels, so mostly I can see the wallpaper

@WinEunuuchs2Unix nice! my monitor is very tiny though

Seth

@WinEunuuchs2Unix if you don't know what a dock is you won't know the answer to my question anyway ;p

Serg

is @terdon around ?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Seth Just trying to lighten the mood :p

Zanna

7:29 PM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix it's where the boats land

and people load and unload them

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Zanna it's a short place where I take long walks and end up wet :p

ie Take a long walk on a short dock used to be famous saying.

Zanna

that can happen while using your smartphone and walking along at the same time

question is answerable I think... but the current answer is baaaad askubuntu.com/questions/889722/…

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Seth duplicate Elementary OS question with no answer (ie you're not alone): elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/9377/…

Seth

@WinEunuuchs2Unix that links back here too:

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Q: A dock for ubuntu that has keyboard shortcuts for open programs

I am looking for a dock application to replace the unity dock. The nice property that unity has is that, once you open an application, you can access it via a keyboard shortcut. (as in the picture) What other dock applications have this same property?

shortcut-keys dock

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Soo many questions.... so few answers

<<<< happily living in plain-vanilla Ubuntu 16.04 bubble

Seth

7:34 PM

I might offer a bounty on that later.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Perks up at bounty bait

Zanna

@JacobVlijm the U&L question you edited is in HNQs...

aha you answered it too

Should have checked earlier haha

Serg

@Zanna can I haz linkz ?

Zanna

8:01 PM

sorry, went for a shower... unix.stackexchange.com/questions/349243/…

Zanna

8:46 PM

erm... askubuntu.com/questions/889923/thank-you-mark-kirby

Serg

Yeah, you get one of those one in a while. Somebody posted a couple days ago thanking me as well , lol. Had to delete that as non-answer though

Jacob Vlijm

@Zanna WOW, unbelievable :) Haha, should go back to my guests, serving dessert :)

Zanna

@JacobVlijm :D enjoy!

Jacob Vlijm

Thanks! We will :)

Zanna

@Serg I was posting it in here so we could close it quickly and get it out of sight

Diogo

9:00 PM

Hello!

Someone can help me with this?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/889926/how-to-integrate-gnome-contacts-with-thunderbird

@zanna

@Zanna, thanks for the edit

Zanna

no worries... wish I knew the answer

David Foerster

9:32 PM

@muru Thanks and duly noted.

@Zanna Looks like we need "This is a comment on a different post" for questions too…

Does somebody know a terminal emulator that allows text cursor placement via mouse cursor pointing + clicking? (context: askubuntu.com/q/889569/175814)

Serg

ught . . . i hate it when my code doesn't work and i don't know why

Zanna

@DavidFoerster lol

David Foerster

9:48 PM

@Serg Ask the duck!

Serg

@DavidFoerster I have. . . .but it didn't help

And i think i found my error

except i don't know how to fix it

David Foerster

Sometimes the API documentation is poorly written or the call simply doesn't behave as intended (by the author).

@Serg Which technologies and libraries are involved? Maybe I happen to have experience with it.

Serg

@DavidFoerster Perl

David Foerster

@Serg Ok, I'm out then. I never wrote Perl.

Zanna

I also need a flag for "unclear what you're answering"

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10:03 PM

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Q: what can a low Rep. user do with an old forgotten duplicate post?

This post is a duplicate of My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? but has not been marked as so. I could: answer the question & it should get marked Down vote the question & it will be deleted it time Comment to the user to delete the question Flag it for mod...

discussion

Serg

@DavidFoerster yeah, i will probably have to wait for terdon to show up, because this is slightly above my level

Zanna

@AskUbuntuMeta how come you found the moderator attention flag but not the should be closed flag?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

10:22 PM

Then again you can just click the Close button no?

Zanna

hmm?

the close button only appears when you get 3k

Not enough people are reviewing close votes these days :/

looking at the stats page, I see 8 people

and it's mostly the same people every day, looking through the history

that's just not enough folks doing it... stuff won't get closed or kicked from the queue unless all of the regular reviewers agree

and see it in time

oh well, bedtime for me

later all xxx

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:47 PM

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Q: Ubuntu 10.04 reinstall

I know that the real answer is to upgrade to 16.10, but I have been told that I will lose all the emails in evolution. I am having problems with gradually losing things and have now lost the ability to connect to either wi-fi or Ethernet. It does work if I use my original download on a memory sti...

ubuntu

Zacharee1

11:00 PM

@Serg

Seth

why are you pinging Serg?

Zacharee1

@Seth he's "Russian"

Seth

11:15 PM

@Zacharee1 Pretty sure he's Ukrainian.

Zacharee1

Hence the quotes

Seth

I don't think Ukrainians have much love for Russia, Zach.

But I could be wrong.

Zacharee1

It's a joke, Seth

Serg

@JacobVlijm @Zacharee1 finally got it working in perl unix.stackexchange.com/a/349364/85039

Zacharee1

Got what?

Serg

11:21 PM

@Zacharee1 a small script to move a directory up several levels

@Zacharee1 Lol, totally Russians living there. Or maybe americans who are afraid Russia is going to hack them

Ok, now that i have figured that out, i can finally eat

Mateo

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Q: install Stor2rrd

I'm new to Linux. I need to install Stor2rrd and I'm trying to follow these instructions I'm confused about where I put that sentence in apache2.conf: