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j0h

20:00

perhaps you need to install it?

ByteCommander

root@AlkaliMetal:~# apt-get install dbus-x11
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
dbus-x11 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

j0h

its weird you have the man page, but not the command

ByteCommander

@j0h According to apt-get, it is up to date.

Something comes to my mind!

I used to fiddle around with some make packages.

Some of them contained dbus stuff.

I uninstalled them after that again.

So might it be that I accidentally removed more of dbus than I should have?

How can I check it?

Seth

@ByteCommander sudo apt-get install --reinstall dbus-x11

ByteCommander

Or just sudo apt-g... ^ what you said.

j0h

20:03

apt-get install dbus
(thats a guess)

ByteCommander

@Seth I did, but the output of locate is still the same.

Seth

locate might take some time to update.

j0h

its odd, dbus-laucher man page doesnt list its parent package

Seth

Try which. which dbus-launch.

ByteCommander

@j0h Did not change it either.

@Seth Tells me which.which: command not found.

Seth

20:06

lol

it's just which.

I meant "Try which end of sentence --- new sentence which dbus-launch"

ByteCommander

Oh! :) I can't really distinguish the code font from the normal font here in chat...

root@AlkaliMetal:~# which dbus-launch
/usr/bin/dbus-launch

@Seth @j0h I think it works now!

Any of the reinstall commands seemed to solve it.

Now root@AlkaliMetal:~# cat /home/bytecommander/dconfgedit.bak | dconf load /org/gnome/gedit/ worked! :D

j0h

cool, Im glad it works for you

ByteCommander

And after that, also my gedit problem is nuked! :) :)

Yippieh! :D

Seth

Glad things are good! :D

ByteCommander

I hope my logout problem also has vanished...

Will have to find out later.

@Fabby Good news!

gedit continues its job! :)

I reinstalled dbus (which I probably messed up with some make install and uninstall) and then copied the dconf:/org/gnome/gedit/ branch of my user to the root dconf and now it works!

Solving problems feels good.

@Fabby So my system is not thaaat messed up anymore. Maybe I can save it!

Fabby

20:15

@ByteCommander :) :) :)

ByteCommander

Yay! :)

Fabby

Here's one for you: youtube.com/watch?v=AteCdXvZOZc

ByteCommander

@Fabby Naah, too mainstream. You know I need hard music!

Are you familiar with LibreOffice Impress? (= PowerPoint for free)

Or anyone else?

TheX

BoA blows

ByteCommander

I can't figure out how to set the background colour of a slide... :-/

TheX

20:24

Don't have it installed sorry, what are you trying to do>

do?

@ByteCommander?

ByteCommander

Preparing a presentation for school.

Fabby

@ByteCommander yes

ByteCommander

I wanted a background color different than white. Same for all slides, so I would apply it on the master.

Fabby

Ah... Lemme look

ByteCommander

I found the master, but not how to change background color.

I can (probably) set an image as background, but I did not find how to set a simple color or color gradient...

Fabby

20:27

F11

Right-click on background

modify

ByteCommander

Hey! Thanks.

Can I reach it through a menu too?

Fabby

fill - colour

yes!

format - styles and formatting

At least I've been of some help to you today!

ByteCommander

;)

Fabby

(and I should have continued with my first steps)

ByteCommander

Do you also have only one single slide template?

Fabby

20:30

(because I wanted originally to copy gedit stuff over from a user where it worked and then got sidetracked by raspberry Pi designs)

ByteCommander

Aargh! That would have saved so much trouble effort and time!

Fabby

@ByteCommander Heh? Was? Ich verstehe Dich nicht!

ByteCommander

Format menu > slide templates

I only have one template to chose from.

@RPiAwesomeness Where are you and your annoying Pi? I want to throw Unicorns and Gnomes at you!

Fabby

I don't have that menu

ByteCommander

?

Screenshooting...

Fabby

20:33

Format:

ByteCommander

(to train your German... ;D)

Fabby

Click on there then on load

ByteCommander

Fabby

it's "slide design" in EN

Laden

ByteCommander

Aah! Why is this so complicated compared to M$ PPt?

Fabby

20:35

Nah!

It's not more complicated!

ByteCommander

Who told them to hide it behind 2 Billion menus?

jrg

it's just as complicated

Fabby

You've just worked more in PP and are more familiar with it!

ByteCommander

True. But PPt 2000!

jrg

just in different ways

Fabby

20:36

@jrg for once: I AGREE! :D:D:D

ByteCommander

@Fabby Are you still familiar with colourants (chemistry)?

Fabby

I used to design them, why?

ByteCommander

presentation about them in 2-3 weeks

Could you explain pi-orbitals to me?

Fabby

>:-) I wish my 60GB HDD of my 286 hadn't crashed about 25 years ago!

Oh God!

In relation to colourants?

ByteCommander

60GB????????? (jaw dropping)

Fabby

20:39

in broad terms, yes...

Hey, the machine had 2M of RAM!

60GB was all you needed with Lotus 123 and WordStar!

(and ASM, turbo-pascal and GWBASIC (puke) )

ByteCommander

What was the average disk size in 1990? 60MB or something like that?

TheX

@ByteCommander you need to use Microsoft Sway.

ByteCommander

@TheX And that is?

TheX

I am not really sure...

Fabby

20 MB was the standard...

TheX

20:41

But I have an account lol

Fabby

and 1MB of RAM

I had a very fast big machine in...

ByteCommander

So you tell me that 60GB is all you need? 3000x average is... wow.

TheX

@ByteCommander sway.com

Fabby

1988

1981 or so was the first IBM PC...

My machine until 1988 had 64KByte of RAM

and a whopping 1.2 MB floppy drive (8 inch)

TheX

I wasn't born until 1982...

Fabby

20:43

=20 cm

@TheX Hey you! KID! GET OFF MY LAWN!

>:)

TheX

I'm just saying....

Fabby

I've dated girls younger then you though! >:)

ByteCommander

:) And what shall I do then? '96! But grew up with computers that were in average a decade older than I

TheX

Me too...

I am married to a girl younger then you :-P @Fabby

ByteCommander

@TheX I hope you addressed this sentence to Fabby... >.<

;)

Fabby

20:46

@TheX :D

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander o.O

Why on earth?

ByteCommander

I need a break. How long will you stay on tonight, Fabby?

@RPiAwesomeness Sorry! ;) Nothing serious.

TheX

Well its about go home time...

RPi Awesomeness

lol

ByteCommander

@RPiAwesomeness You interrupted Fabby solving my problem - and made him forget the correct solution

Fabby

20:48

@ByteCommander another hour or so?

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander lol :D

ByteCommander

It took me a few hours to get the same idea myself...

TheX

how do i sign out of hangouts on chrome?

ByteCommander

But now it works finally.

Fabby

@TheX uninstall chrome???

>:)

TheX

20:49

lol no there has to be a way...

RPi Awesomeness

:'( I haz sadz because I wants to watch WarOwl stream, but our internet sucks so bad I can't do it whilst my mother is on the internet :(

ByteCommander

But I still fear that my "make uninstall" odyssey left more harm than I thought...

Fabby

@Seth: I just got a blue Icon and some screen popped up:

ByteCommander

Any idea how I could check if some packages got damaged?

TheX

Oh there we go...

Fabby

20:50

@RPiAwesomeness bring her a nice cup of tea with some Valium

But when I clicked "invalid"

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby 10k chat user - you get chat flags from any chat room ever

TheX

Tea sounds good actually @Fabby

ByteCommander

Or try Sodium Pentothal.

Fabby

I've got 10K?

@ByteCommander that's much harder to get...

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby ...good luck with that. My mom is not the easily persuaded type :P

ByteCommander

20:51

I don't know. I read about it in a book.

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness That's why: make her fall asleep with some valium in her tea!!!

RPi Awesomeness

Ah. Isee

ByteCommander

"The Murder Room" by Michael Capuzzo

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby SE-wide?

Fabby

I've only got 9400 and change...

I dunno!

lemme look!

Doesn't it show here?

Oh!

I do!

Nathan Osman

20:52

Looks like properly deploying CoreOS on Digital Ocean involves setting up a CA.

ByteCommander

Your SE profile shows 10.5k

Fabby

10.5K ...

Wow... Where has the time gone by when I was trying to get my first 50 to be able to upvote!

ByteCommander

I'm having a late diner now... Will you still be awake in half an hour @Fabby?

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Hmmm....I thought it was 10k site-wide for chat flags. Could be wrong.

TheX

Is that your aggregated total from all the StackExchange sites?

Fabby

20:54

@ByteCommander Gutes Fressen! :D

@ByteCommander Jawohl!

TheX

@Fabby is an old man... he will be asleep in 5 mins if we all leave him alone...

:-P

ByteCommander

@Fabby Hey! I have table manners!

;)

Fabby

@TheX Do you know what the unix command is to start a store-and-forward mail server to start delivering mail to an otherwise off-line server?

@ByteCommander ;-)

Seth

@Fabby Lemme guess.. it said you could only vote on things that are flagged?

RPi Awesomeness

Yet another version ('cause @Mateo liked the 3rd version)

ByteCommander

20:55

@TheX Then keep him awake! I guess I will need him later... ;-)

Nathan Osman

I have almost 100k network-wide rep.

Fabby

@Seth "You can only counterflag messages that have been flagged"

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in answer: COMRESET failed and slow boot times by user193243 on askubuntu.com

RPi Awesomeness

Nathan Osman

@SmokeDetector False alarm.

Fabby

20:56

@NathanOsman You're a god! I bow to you!

RPi Awesomeness

I don't particularly like that one :P

TheX

the only command I know is: rm -rf /

Fabby

@NathanOsman I'm worth 1/10 of you!

TheX

@Fabby nah you make 10 of me...

Nathan Osman

Nearly 20k of that is from Stack Apps.

TheX

20:57

@Fabby I am a noob...

Fabby

@TheX Me too!

RPi Awesomeness

And this one, which is better, but still not amazing

Nathan Osman

stackexchange.com/users/65895/nathan-osman?tab=accounts

Fabby

1 year and 3 months of Ubuntu!

RPi Awesomeness

Seth

20:58

@Fabby yup. That's because by the time you clicked the button the flags had been handled. It takes a minute or so for the dialog to disappear.

Fabby

@TheX so do you know the answer to "Do you know what the unix command is to start a store-and-forward mail server to start delivering mail to an otherwise off-line server?"

TheX

Well..okay I am not that new...

@Fabby but I still don't know what I am doing with Linux...

Fabby

@TheX I'm learning and getting stuff done in the mean time...

TheX

@Fabby no I have no idea... is this a trick question?

jrg

@Fabby nope! Why should anyone run their own non-exchange mail server?

Fabby

20:58

@TheX the answer is:

finger

TheX

On...I won't...nevermind...

Fabby

@jrg :D :D :D

Correct!

Seth

So how'd the game go @Nathan? (I forgot what it was called.. the one with you and your brother..)

Fabby

@jrg It was for M$ Exchange!

hbdgaf

@jrg insert random Hillary joke here

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