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6:00 PM
@suli8: also read this (if you haven't yet): launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
 
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Q: Al cambiar de escritorio se cierran las ventanas o no se mueven del suyo

user27599mi problema esta en que cuando muevo una ventana a otro escritorio, esta permanece en el que estaba y soy yo quien cambia de escritorio, cuando la intento mover haciendo clic con el botón derecho en la parte superior de ella y le doy a mover a otra área de trabajo (escritorio) se cierra la ventan...

What should the close reason be for questions in other languages?
 
@suli8: from terminal you can install: sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
Then you can safely remove any ppa that may have caused troubles and restore the default settings.
by: sudo ppa-purge <badpackagename>
 
pa-purge has no installation candidate
 
ppa
 
@Takkat i think i have no ppa like this.
@Takkat yes, i miss wrote it here... i did ppa
it's not available
 
6:04 PM
ppa-purge is still in the repos fro oneiric, I just checked that.
If you had installed xorg-edgers you may want to sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers.
 
@Takkat it says: package is missing has been obsoleted or is only availabe from another source
 
you're on 11.10?
 
yes
 
I mean I just installed it the other second... :/
 
after ifollowed that askubuntu.com/questions/67792/… it got worse and i can't reach the lightdm.
 
6:07 PM
it's in universe repos, maybe not activated?
gksudo software-properties-gtk
 
@htorque i will try now
 
tick the universe repo if it isn't ticked, sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
 
@htorque i can't get any gui
 
Hi @htorque :)
 
hi @Takkat!
 
6:09 PM
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Q: What will happen if I install Wayland?

George EdisonI am curious about the progress being made with Wayland and would like to perhaps give it a spin. According to the Launchpad page, it is packaged in Oneiric (and has actually been packaged since Natty). Therefore I can simply install it by running: sudo apt-get install wayland-demos However, I...

 
@suli8 oh, sorry, missed that
 
@htorque it says gtk warning cannot open display
i'm in netroot "drop to root shell prompt with networking. is that where i'm supposed to be?
 
do: cat /etc/apt/sources.list
find this
deb archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main restricted multiverse universe
if it doesn't exist, create it (sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list, edit, ctrl+o, enter, ctrl+x)
 
@htorque it says bash: cat/etc/apt/sources.list no such file
@htorque ok
 
there should be a space after the 'cat'!
 
6:14 PM
@htorque i'm in the nano. i can see the list
 
This is wrong:
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A: Will the switch to Wayland fix not being able to paste from closed windows?

SergeyWell, I don't think it's a bug as such, it's rather a feature which has some unintended consequences :) Moreover, my understanding is that other "clipboard managers", i.e. in Windows, work in a very similar way - when Copy operation is performed, the application just notifies the clipboard manage...

> "...Moreover, my understanding is that other "clipboard managers", i.e. in Windows, work in a very similar way..."
 
do you see other stuff?
 
@htorque what should i look for?
 
@suli8 it should contain those lines: paste.ubuntu.com/713487
plus some comments (lines that start with "#")
 
@htorque yes yes
 
6:23 PM
@suli8: are all of the lines htorque pasted for you in your sources.list?
 
@Takkat i have main, main restricted mltiuniverse. yes
 
you need universe
in fact you need main restricted universe multiverse
 
which lines i should add?
@Takkat no universe just multiuniverse for me here.
 
that does not exist.
 
@suli8 just add universe to the lines
then save (ctrl+o, enter) and quit (ctrl+x)
 
6:29 PM
@htorque add universe before every multiverse with all the lines?
 
you can put it at the end as well
 
@htorque done
 
save, quit
sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers
 
no sudo needed when in root shell ;)
 
ah
only read half of the story
 
6:34 PM
But we are all so much used to sudo...
 
yeah, i need a root shell maybe once or twice every cycle
 
@htorque it is not working
 
what is not working
what error do you get
 
@htorque i added universe but when i install the ppa-purge it says, that it's not available, means it's missing or obsoleted etc... ppa-purge has no installation candidate
to say the truth, i don't remember that i had the edgers ppa.
 
-.-
try this: apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-standard ubuntu-minimal
 
6:39 PM
i got an update from recommended updates. and it failed
@htorque ok
 
if it says something like "bla bla, you must manually run 'dpkg -- configure - a' to correct", then run that command.
 
@htorque after i do "y". it failed to contact the server
thank you so much for your time. even if the problem still there. i have to go to work now :(
i posted a question, and will check your suggestions there
 
good, cya
 
thanks. no matter what i love the community and linux
 
back (boy poured a full mug of hot chocolate all over the carpet)
 
jrg
@Takkat Sounds like something my brother would do.
 
In our family there is only one person that does this regularly... :/
I did that as well when I was a boy :D
@jrg you have a nice brother then!
 
if he does that regularly, then 1. why do you have a carpet? 2. why does he still get choclate? :D
 
Because I love him?
 
jrg
@Takkat Yup. :D
 
6:49 PM
always that...
:D
 
All people that are capable of pouring chocolate are nice!
 
7:03 PM
so that makes me super nice? my aunt used to have a chocolate shop and I can pour like the best >:)
 
This indeed makes you super nice :) Hi
 
i don't see this
 
jrg
Unity 2D vs. 3D bug then?
 
he's using 3d
rounded ubuntu launcher icon = 3d
 
jrg
7:07 PM
Yeah, true.
I'd say it's a bug then.
 
Great answer: Is it possible to burn a 64-bit Ubuntu Live CD on a 32-bit computer? http://askubuntu.com/questions/68347/is-it-possible-to-burn-a-64-bit-ubuntu-live-cd-on-a-32-bit-computer/68352#68352 #64bit
 
maybe some upgrade fail
existing modified theme file or what do i know
 
In Vbox it's in 3D too...
 
jrg
Ooooohhh.... good question. - askubuntu.com/questions/69362/…
 
indicator-multiload
what's "apps bar"
 
jrg
7:10 PM
@htorque Launcher perhaps?
 
apps apps apps - how i hate that word... :P
 
The should be called Progs
 
App's Bar: a place to talk and to drink ;)
 
like Moe's Bar
26 bounties?
 
Prog's Bar sounds not inviting...
 
7:12 PM
you have 5 votes left...
 
jrg
Who has 5 votes left?
 
you
(so it says)
 
jrg
so what says? I still haven't gotten a notification about that...
And also, Y U STALKING MY VOTING HABITS?! :P
 
vote again in 4 hours.
in 4 hours i'll sleep. :P
 
jrg
Ok, now I have 5 votes left.
Wait, that means I'm going to use all 40 for once. :D
 
7:16 PM
I've been out of votes since 10am, heh
 
jrg
I wasn't around most of the morning. :(
 
would drive me mad all day :D
maybe you should be able to buy some more votes
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jrg
@htorque I'd pay a buck to have another 10 votes.
 
they don't trade votes at ebay
 
jrg
Ok, I'm out of votes. Finally.
 
7:19 PM
I think that good flags should eventually add up to more votes for that day
 
i meant rep for votes :D
 
jrg
Lose rep, get more votes? Almost like bounties? :D
 
Or, rather, confirmed positive actions should gain you additional votes
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I might ask on Meta
 
you'll get the marshal badge
 
jrg
@JorgeCastro Be careful, Mr. 6383 edits. I'm coming up fast with 339! I'll have you beat in.... four years or so.... :D
 
7:20 PM
ok, you'll probably never get it. :P
first: 6383 edits, second: 843 edits
haha
 
jrg
;D
 
is anyone else correcting Ubunut Ubunto Ubutnu Ubunutu?
haven't seen one of those for days
 
jrg
People finally pretended to learn to spell?
 
Not I
 
Oineric beats Ubunut!
 
7:27 PM
OBOONUT
3
 
So slow today
 
jrg
I can excuse the Oineric ones - I type that all the time. :P
 
:D
 
jrg
OHBUNTOO.
 
jrg
7:42 PM
Wow, that guy is one of the stereotypical '90s linux guy.
 
jrg
/me backs away from the unity hater slowly
Almost as bad as Naughty Narwhal... :)
 
a good yardstick
that I use
is "every minute I spend with this guy I'm not spending with someone who needs help."
 
8:03 PM
he needs help. really. :P
 
Wow that guy makes me look like... idk...
 
I know that unity is unpopular with some people, but constructive criticism is good, not ranting
 
jrg
@RolandTaylor Makes you look like a perfect Unity loving angel. ;)
 
Makes me look... friendly....
Almost to the point of poke Jorge saying people cough might cough actually listen to me :P... poke poke
 
sure you are
I need to buy @JorgeCastro a beer or 5 :)
 
8:12 PM
:)... (:
And other news:
 
jrg
Anybody else unable to connect to the site?
 
main AU?
 
jrg
anything on the SE network
 
oh
Working fine for me...
 
works for me
 
jrg
8:21 PM
Odd, back now.
 
can someone explain what alt+` does in 11.10 ?
 
jrg
Doesn't do anything here.
 
it does here if you hold down alt
brings up a window switcher
 
jrg
Must be Unity 3D (or just Unity 2D with metacity)
 
oh, that would be nice if it worked with chrome
 
8:31 PM
it seems to be for switching between windows of the same application
 
I see how it works in thunderbird - shows open tabs, but chrome doesn't do anything
 
jrg
doesn't do anything here with terminal
Hm, looks like this is deserving of a bounty, since Thunderbird is the default, and I can't get any of these to work now... - askubuntu.com/questions/493/… (cc @Jorge, since you mentioned we should bring bounties to you)
 
8:44 PM
@RolandTaylor like that better
 
@jrg ooh awesome, on it
I am out of bounties, but next one I will do it
 
9:04 PM
@JorgeCastro have you heard from anyone using the AU lens?
 
not yet
no OMG coverage yet. :-/
 
it's ok, we want to make sure that they get the working packages
which means that I probably need to upload pygobject again
 
jrg
9:16 PM
Exact dupe:
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Q: Is there an AskUbuntu lens available for 11.10?

Schism430I have been searching around for an AskUbuntu lens recently that's compatible with 11.10. So, could anybody give me a hand and either show me how to get one, or tell me when one comes out? Help is appreciated!

 
@jrg keep 'em coming! at least 20 more of those flags. :D
 
jrg
@htorque :D
 
9:33 PM
I need something to flag :)
 
should i add a fake "me too" somewhere? :P
 
jrg
@MarcoCeppi Are you running Unity 2D or 3D on your netbook?
 
@htorque sure, then we can get @MarcoCeppi to ban you ;)
 
registering a new user and getting all those badges again! cool!
 
don't worry, I fully expect to get thrown out of the ubuntu development team at any minute :)
 
9:40 PM
YOU ARE FIRED!
 
see what I mean?
ok, I'm packing up my toys & going home now
 
@ajmitch Did you guys get my update?
 
@GeorgeEdison which update was that?
about the AU data server?
 
Yeah.
I fixed the threading code and I'm working on storing the replay data.
 
OK
I'm tempted to just delete my whole launchpad bug folder, might be easier than reading them
 
9:53 PM
why not delete all launchpad bugs and start over? :)
 
that's what I just said
 
i wonder how many invalid bugs that would remove :)
not only YOUR bug folder :)
 
maybe a few
funny, that rabbit vcs question that just came through fits nicely with askubuntu.com/questions/69104/… which I answered yesterday
not really a dupe though
 
10:08 PM
Can you answer this? Subversion 1.7 Binary http://askubuntu.com/questions/65468/subversion-1-7-binary #ppa
 
People who were asking for a PPA the day after it was released... I looked for one then
 
10:30 PM
ooh nice work on that upstream link bug
 
would upvote, but "Daily vote limit reached; vote again in 1 hour."
good night all!
 
Goodbye!
 
@JorgeCastro yeah some quick editing in the gimp made it pretty simple - I felt that it really needed some images
some links on launchpad are still a bit hard to find :)
 
that rabbit one is a dupe
on the one one of the upstreams commented
 
oh?
I must have missed it sorry
voted to close
 
10:36 PM
found it
 
@JorgeCastro the LP lens should be semi-working now, I just scheduled another build for it in the PPA
 
rock
I'll update in a bit
 
vps.ajmitch.net.nz/~ajmitch/LPlens_.png for an example of it 'working'
it's slow & I need to find some way to interrupt searches
since I can close the dash & unity-launchpad-daemon can still be trying to fire results through
 
you might want to ping james_w
a while back he had a way to cache/offline lp queries
since they're basically brutally slow
 
yeah, and you can imagine what it's like doing it from NZ
 
10:49 PM
heh
 
at least lifeless understands my LP speed problems :)
 
he's been totally fixing them too
he's brutal
 
yeah, he's impressively dedicated with that
maybe we can get him to give a performance talk at kiwi pycon next year :)
I need to learn english better, I read the answers that I submit & wish that I had an editor sitting over my shoulder
 
11:07 PM
I've got like my own private table on this train. I think trains may be more luxurious than I thought.
 
with internets?
 
I'm on the train right now
Wifi and all
 
Not bad, is it free?
 
The train ride wasn't but the wifi is
 
Not better to start a private room and talk about the train there?
 
11:09 PM
So 'free' in that it's included in the ticket price
 
@ajmitch Correct. I'll be able to watch a movie and continue using Ask Ubuntu \o/
 
lunch time for me, I think I shall return to finding questions to answer later :)
 
Nice! File transfer progress on the launcher :D
 
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@MarcoCeppi Did you just now upgrade to 11.10?
 
Oli
I wish Intel would release the SandyBridge-E chips already. They know I'm going to buy one. I know I'm going to buy one. Let's just get this over and done with.
 
DoR
11:21 PM
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A: Make gedit embedded terminal colours the same as the default terminal

DoR Make sure you have the following packages installed: dconf-tools gconf-editor Open up gconf-editor and navigate to apps ➜ gnome-terminal and select a profile: Now open up dconf-editor and navigate to org ➜ gnome ➜ gedit ➜ plugins ➜ terminal and uncheck the use-theme-colors key: From gcon...

 
@RolandTaylor !!!???
 
Oli
Who owns the bit.ly URLs for the software center/package icons? They should point at i.stack.imgur.com, not i.imgur.com. I'm still seeing a whole load of missing images all over the site.
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DoR
@Oli what bit.ly urls are you referring to?
 
Oli
Good point. The ones for the software center icons
 
an update to 11.10 was running and I restarted, how should I find it to continue?
 
11:51 PM
@Oli According to bit.ly they cannot be changed once created.
 
Oli
@GeorgeEdison Well that's mildly vexing.
 
I am willing to lend a subdomain and host the images myself for the time being.
Would that work? Then if we ever change our mind, I can set up a CNAME record to point the domain elsewhere.
 
Oli
@GeorgeEdison That's not the problem - the problem is we have however many thousand instances of that URL throughout the site. I'll email Imgur and see if they can either indefinitely fix those images or put a custom redirect to redirect that URL to the i.stack version
 
@Oli imgur?
 
Oli
Where the images are hosted
 
11:58 PM
Ah, right.
Well, that's certainly worth a try.
 

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