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Mateo

00:01

maybe, backup - because it might not work

user320

if it fails i re-install, no problem

thanks guys, bye

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

01:10

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Q: Remove user space quota in Ubuntu 12.04?

I'm trying to install Unity3D but I only have 1.5GB free space left in my home directory. How can I remove/extend my user quota?

Seth

02:09

Anyone around?

Braiam

@Seth just ping everybody... ¬_¬

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Seth

lol. I know how annoying that is.

Happens a lot in the SO rooms.

@Braiam got a sec to help me?

Braiam

deppends, is a short PEBKAC problem or something more complex?

Seth

It's kinda strange..

I can't use Ubuntu right now because my wireless stopped working, and I need some info from a program.

Actually, never mind.

It would be nice to get my wireless working, though I don't have time to troubleshoot it :-/

Braiam

late night?

normally my system breaks before I go to sleep... and I leave it like that

Seth

02:21

lol.

I'm busy with studies etc

Braiam

maybe... I change my gravatar...

Seth

Might be a good idea. I need to change mine.

hbdgaf

06:29

@jrg - ever played with gitlab? it seems interesting, and you're the resident ruby guy github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq

John ツ

08:27

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Q: How to start an application with bottom most property?

I want to start an application with bottom-most property. That means that the window will remain always in the bottom of the other windows. Is this possible? I think that there must be an application that does such a thing, but I have not idea how to find it... For example I want to start chrom...

12.04 13.04 software-recommendation software-center

fossfreedom

@Johnツ what a bizarre request - why?

We0

08:56

Hey guys
I have ubuntu and a ubuntu vm
I tried to share my web folder with my local machine but can't get it up
now I want to install samba and use it as a network drive rather
how do i do that? all guides show with Windows

fossfreedom

@We0 suggest ask this on the site as a question.

John ツ

09:24

@fossfreedom I need that... It's a personal project.

fossfreedom

@Johnツ weird - couldnt think of anything more annoying than windows opening from the bottom!

John ツ

But... I really need that...

Isn't there any solution?

fossfreedom

maybe - maybe something like devilspie will do this - a script similar to this, but you'll need to look for a "bottom" property. askubuntu.com/questions/92190/…

John ツ

copy and paste the following: is that code written in Python?

What language is that?

fossfreedom

that is the devilspie syntax

John ツ

09:33

I understand. Interesting. This is helpful. Please post an answer to my question and then expand with new information if that is required, so future users will see it.

Thanks!

I will look into it.

fossfreedom

hmm - I'll leave that with you - look forward to seeing your research.

John ツ

Ok. Thank you for suggestion!

jrg

10:51

@hbdgaf Yes, I have.

We will be using it at work in a week or two, when I find 3 hours to go and deploy it.

We did the math, and one hour a week (tops) of my time to maintain it is still cheaper than the GitHub plan that we will have to be on

And it's nice. We used it briefly before we could afford GitHub, and then we went to GitHub because of guys who didn't know how to use the got CLI and wanted the GitHub for $platform GUI.

(Non technical guys)

Sosi

11:59

hello everyone

could someone give me a hint on why my Rythmbox crashes after I start it?

(I honestly don't know how to debug this)

fossfreedom

ubuntu version? version of RB? error message after launching from a terminal?

Sosi

@fossfreedom hi! thanks for helping. let me try to find all of that

so ubuntu is 12.10

RB is 2.97 i think

let me try to launch it from terminal

Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_label_set_markup: assertion `GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed
** Message: console message: https://one.ubuntu.com/music/store-no-token @10: Viewport target-densitydpi is not supported.

**
RhythmDB:ERROR:rhythmdb-tree.c:1517:remove_child: assertion failed: (g_hash_table_remove (parent->children, data))
Aborted (core dumped)

fossfreedom

hmm - try the two answers from here ... you'll need to reimport all of your music, preferences, playlists etc again if you do though. askubuntu.com/questions/7979/…

Sosi

that won't be a problem, as long as it works back!

ok, it is importing everything again and is working for now. What do you think was the problem? some weird preferences?

fossfreedom

sometimes the database can get corrupted - usually that causes the issue

Sosi

12:15

@fossfreedom I see! thank you so much little mouse!

fossfreedom

:)

mojo706

12:39

hello all.

I'm having an issue with Network Manager or just my connection. It is suddenly very slow on Ubuntu. On Windows its good but on Ubuntu slow AF.

Braiam

13:52

maybe some process in background (apt is the usual suspect)

jrg

apt is always a good suspect for that

because apt tries to be smart about everything.

and it isn't smart.

Braiam

apt is the supercow!

btw, could you give some love askubuntu.com/q/351319/169736 here @jrg?

jrg

what, merge?

i'm confused as to what you want. :)

Braiam

yeah...

jrg

k done

Mr. SQL, make it so.

Braiam

13:57

ajax.googleapis is lagging for me... :(

funny tag super-meat-boy

Mateo

15:29

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Q: Set windows `always below bottom-most`?

There is an "Always on topmost" menu option for windows. I'm not sure if it's related to compiz or metacity. I want to set the Totem player or Cheese the WebCAM player, always below the bottom-most, so I can view the movie when I'm working. And, let the "Always below the bottom-most" windows b...

ubuntu window-manager development

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

16:13

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Q: dpkg / apt-get wants to install and overwrite different package

I want to install Pound. apt-get install pound. doing this: produces this: Setting up mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.32-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ... Configuration file `/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. mysql-server is installed and running. I do not ...

ubuntu apt dpkg

Amith KK

BBT

Good Night

Little Child

16:45

Good evening. Anybody here ?

@Braiam

John ツ

@Mateo This sounds the best! Thanks!

user320

17:28

So i am looking for a file called xorg.conf

I am following this thread herehttp://askubuntu.com/questions/8506/decrease-mouse-sensitivity-below-the-standard-limit

But i just can find it in my x11 folder

do you guys have it

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Seth

17:46

This should be killed with fire:

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Q: Please help me, give me a 64 bit myeclipse8.5.tgz package, I cannot download at home

Please help me, give me a 64 bit myeclipse8.5.tgz package, I cannot download at home(china). please please . my email : [email protected] please help me I have used this version

installation

@user320 There isn't a xorg.conf file by default anymore.

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Q: Where is the X.org config file? How do I configure X there?

As Ubuntu 10.10 seems to neither detect my graphics card (Intel 82852/855GM) automatically nor use the corresponding Intel driver even after manually installing it, I am looking into manually configuring X (shouldn't I?). Where can I find the configuration files I need to edit?

xorg intel-graphics

@hbdgaf Wow, that looks pretty awesome!

Braiam

man, is incredible the amount of people that come around this question and nobody seems to vote any of the answers... :(

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Xspim not starting

Ubuntu 12.04 on an Asus Aspire One netbook. I installed xspim from the software center; it shows as installed; was added as applications/science/xspim. If I start the program from Applications, nothing happens; if from the command line by typing xspim, the following output is printed (but xspim ...

ubuntu

Seth

btw, my wireless suddenly started working again....

That's what I get for running development I guess ;)

Glutanimate

18:36

Hey, I don't think this one is a duplicate. I'd rather say the other Q&A is a subset of the first, at least in its current state.

Seth

19:07

@jrg around?

Thomas W.

where's the canonical "How do I install software from source" question

also why do we (Ask Ubuntu) have a trello

maybe you know the answer to those, @Seth

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: devilspie detect if application was started with a flag

How can I set devilspie to detect if an application was started with the flag --hello-world from terminal? For example window_name detects the window title. How can transform in devilspie the following sentence: if one of flags is --hello-world? (if (is (window_name) 'My-title') (begin ...

linux bash ubuntu daemon application

jrg

@Seth yes

Seth

Hmm. Yeah.

jrg

@ThomasW. we have trello for management of community promotions and stuff

basically, we had a active board, now it's just there.

Thomas W.

19:09

i see.

lol, so now it sits there doing nothing :P

Seth

@jrg Could you dupe this to the Q suggested by Braiam?

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Q: Please help me, give me a 64 bit myeclipse8.5.tgz package, I cannot download at home

Please help me, give me a 64 bit myeclipse8.5.tgz package, I cannot download at home(china). please please . my email : [email protected] please help me I have used this version

installation

Thomas W.

i only noticed because trello popped up with a note about it.

Seth

There's also: trello.com/b/td8LKVmo/ask-ubuntu-janitor

Thomas W.

now, new question. I need the question that is canonical for "How to install software from source"

someone has gold o.o

Seth

oh yeah. jokerdino I think.

jrg

19:11

yeah, duped.

Thomas W.

seriously, it's needed, like, yesterday.

jrg

i thought it was marco

Thomas W.

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Q: Installing tar.gz

Greeting Humans I am new to ubuntu and Linux in general.I am running Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail). Whenever I try to install something from the internet vs Ubuntu software center I get it in a tar.gz file. I am able to extract the files but I don't know what to do next. I don't know how to actu...

installation

i KNOW we have a question for that somewhere...

jrg

yeah, and it's duped already

Thomas W.

ah, missed the close (lag!)

nice, thanks jrg

Seth

19:12

@jrg Marco runs the Community one

BTW, if anyone wants to help, this project needs more people: trello.com/c/44rYkUOl

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@jrg Great thanks. What do you think about merging this with the dupe or vice versa? askubuntu.com/questions/351467/color-picker-for-entire-screen

Thomas W.

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Q: Ubuntu is overheating computer !! Windows is NOT

So, how can I solve that problem ? Computer: Intel i3, 2.66 GHZ, nvidia geforce gt540m cuda 1 GB, 4 GB RAM Medion, Akoya Ubuntu (13.04) is overheating computer and I have unexpected shutdowns. In Windows it is all normal.

13.04 overheating

^ can we just close this as offtopic:bugreport?

there's a billion bugs and reports on this

we don't need any more

Braiam

20:17

@ThomasW. about that kind of question we might need a guide like this one about them, no?

@Seth your comments became obsoletes since John marked Radu answer as answered... I really don't know how to say it...

sadmicrowave

hey guys! longtime no talk. I'm setting up my first upstart script and am having some issues with it running at boot up. The start|stop|restart commands work flawlessly, but the process does not start on startup. My config has the following stanza: start on filesystem or runlevel [2345]

oh wait, nevermind, I just checkout out the logs and found some mysql errors, which indicates that the mysql service is not running at the time this is getting started... I need to wait for mysql :)

sadmicrowave

20:39

alright, changed my startup stanza to: start on started mysql and filesystem

user320

21:25

I am using nvidia on my laptop. There are a lot of drivers to chose from which one do i pick the open source or proprietary one?

jrg

Try the proprietary one.

they started work on optimus support, my laptop is still cruddy but overall i've been told it's improved a lot.

user320

from the proprietary i should chose the newest one right?

jrg

yes

preferably directly from nvidia

user320

?

I will upload a screen shot one sec

hold one, flash is being annoying

jrg

k

Seth

21:34

Man, I miss even Python errors now that I have to deal with Java ones :-/

user320

imageshack.us/photo/my-images/809/orkb.png

Seth

I'm using the 319 one

screen brightness doesn't work though

at least, not on saucy.

user320

the proprietary one?

jrg

@Seth dude, java has some fantastic errors. I <3 working in jruby.

@user320 Mine is new enough that it doesn't work, but you should almost always use the proprietary nvidia if you can.

user320

Thanks

Cristiana Nicolae

21:42

Hello uys!

Any Zorin OS user out there?

user320

yes me

I am using it right now

i love it

Cristiana Nicolae

Good! I love it too, that's why I stick with it.

Braiam

@CristianaNicolae doubtful, any question you could have better in Unix & Linux

Cristiana Nicolae

I find it better than ubuntu in a way.

user320

agreed. I do not like the unity look

fossfreedom

21:43

zorin is distinctly off-topic

Braiam

@user320 are you using Zorin right now?

user320

no

no at this instant

Cristiana Nicolae

@Braiam Thanks for the tip. But I stick with ask ubuntu chat because most of my Zorin problems received answers from ask ubuntu forum not from unix and linux forum.

user320

I have it though

zorin is based off ubuntu

Cristiana Nicolae

@fossfreedom Sorry, with all the respect, but I don't aree with you. I am using Zorin for several months and I could see very well that it is so simlar with Ubuntu that I can call it an Ubuntu with blue face instead of orange, if I can say.

I cannot consider offtopic a distribution that it is so similar with Ubuntu.

fossfreedom

21:47

its off-topic - whether you agree with me or not. Try to keep conversations to ubuntu and the official variants please.

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Braiam

@CristianaNicolae please read askubuntu.com/help/on-topic instead

Cristiana Nicolae

Like I said, when I have a problem with Zorin, I find the answer on Ask Ubuntu, most frequently.

user320

do you have a problem?

Cristiana Nicolae

@fossfreedom It is not me who doesn't agree with you, is my Google results. Sory, but ask ubuntu solves my problem, not Unix and not even Zorin oficial forum.

user320

@fossfreedom to be fair there is a lot of other stuff beyond distros that would also be considered off-topic.

Braiam

21:50

ok, I don't know if they solve your problems or not, but abiding by the rules Zorin is off-topic here. Point. @user320 @CristianaNicolae

user320

I am using ubuntu

Seth

@jrg Well I don't know anything about ruby.. but it seems to be well written.

user320

ruby is a jewel

jrg

@Seth java error messages are maddening, just like anything. until you realize that they all have a pattern

and then you go and make ruby segfault. then everyone just is like "DUDE. HOWD YOU DO THIS?!!!1!????"

user320

I found that python's errors messages are the best

Braiam

21:52

@jrg make ruby segfault and show me :P

user320

@CristianaNicolae do you need help though with anything. I have had a lot of trouble with zorim myslef

jrg

@Braiam i can't show you that code, i'm not technically allowed to share that, because it was under NDA. :(

Braiam

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Cristiana Nicolae

@user320 Is the Movie Player that comes with the distro. I can't see well the videos with it. The image is stoping from time to time and the sound vanishes after a while. I have checked the files, they are ok. I can see the video in my foto cam but not on the netbook.

jrg

Trust me, if I coould, I would.

because it was pretty cool how we did that.

Cristiana Nicolae

21:55

@user320 I remember that last time I used Zorin I had to change this player with another one that alowed me to see movies and subtitles, but I don't remember its name.

Seth

@jrg That's probably true. I don't have enough experience to know myself.

Cristiana Nicolae

Anyway, the idea is the following: should I try to solve the problem with Movie Player ? Is any way to solve that bug? Or should I just purge it and look for another app?

user320

use vlc

its comes with zorin ultimate

Feeds

fossfreedom has frozen this room.

fossfreedom

enough

official ubuntu only.

jrg

22:00

Guys, it's part of the FAQ. We only support official, Canonical backed Ubuntu spins.

fossfreedom

This room was placed in timeout for 1 minute; the topic of this room is "General discussion around Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu & official Ubuntu derivatives." - conversation should be limited to that topic.

Feeds

fossfreedom has unfrozen this room.

user320

that was cold

jrg

I'm assuming every pun intended there. ;)

user320

ofc

jrg

22:08

we don't let you guys get frostbite.

Braiam

if you like to talk about non ubuntu go to chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux

Seth

Pretty dead there Braiam.

user320

@Seth thanks

Braiam

well, they will talk among themself and is not that dead...

user320

Whats the best image viewer in your opinion

shotwell?

nvm default seems to be the best

user320

22:24

god java is such a resource hog

its annoying

anyway to keep it low?

the RAM usage I mean

Seth

@jrg Do you remember me posting a link about a cellular carrier with something like $30 unlimited? I'd like to see if they're still around, but I can't remember what they're called.

Braiam

@Seth chat.stackexchange.com/…

Seth

@Braiam Yeah, I already tried searching around.

Can't find any keyword matches.

jrg

22:43

@Seth yes. tmobile

$30, unlimited data, 100 minutes of talk.

first 5GB of data at 4G speeds.

i had them until I started doing 300 minutes, then I moved to a different plan

user320

are there any cool interactive background savers for linux

or simply just non-static

Seth

@jrg No, it wasn't tmobile.. It was some other small carrier.

Thanks though :)

Cristiana Nicolae

23:12

Can anyone explain to a newbie like me why it is better to use the Terminal to install or uninstal apps instead of using Ubuntu Software Center?

Braiam

23:31

arg this is the worse clientsfromhell.net/post/62742097036/…

@CristianaNicolae there's no better way, is a matter of convenience... just that.

Cristiana Nicolae

Aha! Ok thank you!

Anyway, I'll stick with the little black window instead of the coloured one. :)

Alvar

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Q: How to boot Ubuntu 13.04 on iMac G3

This may seem a stupid question but I need help. I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 on an iMac G3 from mini.iso on a cd. I have finished the installation but as I don't know ubuntu at all the unix-style code list has me baffled. I am up to the (username)@ubuntu:~$ prompt but i am lost now! I am used t...