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Jorge Castro

00:03

1

Q: How do i add a "new window" entry to the nautilus quicklist?

Possible Duplicate: List of custom Launchers & Quicklists for Unity When I right click on 'file manager' in the launcher I can select 'home folder', but it takes an open nautilus window and displays the home folder in that window, often shunting me back to a different workspace. H...

not a duplicate!

Thomas Ward

01:56

I greet thee!

Roland Taylor

02:22

Okay...

I have the oddest bug...

I can maximize windows in xfce with the touchpad by double clicking...

but I can't do it with my external mouse O.o

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Can you answer this? How to set up a loop device at boot time? http://askubuntu.com/questions/54970/how-to-set-up-a-loop-device-at-boot-time #boot

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George Edison

03:32

0

Q: Possible negative side effects of increasing the virtual address space for applications?

Here is my system's configuration: Windows 8 Developer Preview (32-bit) 2 GB RAM Nvidia GeForce 8400 M (w/ 256 MB RAM) In order to run a memory-intensive application, I needed to increase the virtual address space from 2 GB to 3 GB. (Note that this has nothing to do with virtual memory - a co...

performance windows-8 virtual-address-space

How does the Linux kernel deal with virtual address space?

Does it allocate 2 GB for applications like Windows?

George Edison

04:27

Wow... these Intel SSDs hit over 1.2Gbps. That's pretty fast.

Joshua Robison

05:00

im connected to the wireless network at my house. the company's dsl modem is connected to the company's router which is connected to my own wireless router which then connects to my computer wirelessly

I want to access the router's configuration but neither 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.24.1 work

does anyone know how I can get into any one of my routers so I can configure the settings?

i guess my best bet is to get into the wireless router since that is at the top

Alf P. Steinbach

i don't know, but with my own router i can just browse to 192.168.1.1 in e.g. Firefox. then it asks for username and password. which i'm too lazy to look up, i think it's printed on the underside of the box.

user26781

05:22

Can someone help me?

user26781

How do I properly install and configure BURG?

Alf P. Steinbach

i think maybe you can find that in the documentation

what's an "Ubuntu member"?

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Bounty offered: Video playback not working unless I delete ~/.gstreamer-0.10 directory http://askubuntu.com/questions/77750/video-playback-not-working-unless-i-delete-gstreamer-0-10-directory #nvidia

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jokerdino

07:52

I managed to create an AskUbuntu search button in gnome-shell. Yay

Alf P. Steinbach

08:06

how do you do that?

jokerdino

I am documenting the steps in the site. Hang on.

jokerdino

08:19

3

Q: How to create an AskUbuntu search button in gnome-shell?

On the overview in gnome-shell, there are two search buttons for Google and Wikipedia. Is it possible to create a similar button for AskUbuntu?

11.10 gnome-shell

I am waiting for someone to answer the question.

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08:35

Bounty offered: Why am I getting this "Connection to PulseAudio failed" error? http://askubuntu.com/questions/70560/why-am-i-getting-this-connection-to-pulseaudio-failed-error #sound

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 13, 2011 at 8:19 AM

user26781

How do I update BURG?

Alvar

09:00

does anyone know a mincreaft creators tool?

like makeing building plans etc?

jokerdino

I think there was a similar tool available in Lubuntu.

0

A: How to create an AskUbuntu search button in gnome-shell?

After a bit of messing around with gnome-shell, I think I have figured out how to do it. I have found fossfreedom's answer to create a DuckDuckGo search button in gnome-shell to be useful and I have used it as a base to answer this question. Go to the directory where the XML files used for the...

Help me verify the answer. :D

@Alvar You are referring to minecraft right?

Alvar

@jokerdino what else?

jokerdino

I got confused. I don't know if it was a typo.

I am guessing there was a tool available in Lubuntu. I am not sure if it was specifically for creating Minecraft.

Alvar

found it..
http://minecraftstructureplanner.com/

jokerdino

Nice!

Alvar

09:08

it'says I need java-3d ...

it's a bin file... hmm

jokerdino

09:27

Yay, 1k rep. :D

brunopereira81

09:45

@jokerdino gz!

jokerdino

Thank you :D

brunopereira81

10:07

0

Q: Problem connecting to Webmin

I have installed Webmin with the view to try an understand what is all running. Yesterday I had it setup with login and password, but today when I try to get access to the server with: https://ubuntu:10000/ in order to login, I get unable to connect, the page does not load. Seems like there is n...

webmin

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11:27

Bounty offered: How to limit/control evolution IMAP to not download mail attachments bigger than X b... http://askubuntu.com/questions/77459/how-to-limit-control-evolution-imap-to-not-download-mail-attachments-bigger-than #evolution

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Tom

12:42

So yesterday I tried to remove my ATI drivers on ubuntu 11.10, to install a newer version (the newer version told me to!). When I rebooted (before installing the new one, because it still told me the old one was installed), it did not show up an interface at all. I had to start in recovery mode to get into terminal, then I ran the driver install. Now I do get a ubuntu loading screen but it gets stuck at 5 dots of loading...

Currently I am back in windows :x anything I can try to get past the loading screen?

These commands caused it:

sudo apt-get remove –purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
sudo apt-get install –reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri fglrx-modaliases
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install –reinstall xserver-xorg-core

Oli

I assume you mean -- instead of - for those reinstall and purge arguments? I'm not sure how that would effect it.

Tom

@Oli hmm, yes I think so.. not sure whether I used -- or - anymore

Oli

Drop to a terminal (control+alt+f1) log in and then check to make sure the reinstalled packages are still installed using apt-cache policy libgl1-mesa-glx, etc

Tom

I think I just need a set of commands that will completely re-install everything graphics related (xserver, gnome,drivers)

@Oli alright, thanks. I need to reboot to do that so I will be back in 15 minutes or so

what do I need to do afterwards?

Oli

@Tom Hang on a second.

Tom

12:54

ok

Oli

@Tom Does the computer have a wired internet connection?

Tom

@Oli hmm, no, I'm afraid not

Oli

That's a shame. I was going to suggest you upload a few log files but your wireless networking won't come up automatically (it needs the graphical network manager to load up).

Tom

@Oli can I access those files from windows?

I have a dual boot setup

Hmm, I guess not, I cannot see my ubuntu drive on my windows installation

maybe I could copy them to my windows drive from the terminal (I can access the windows drive from ubuntu)

Oli

Well in that case, run ls -l /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You should see a date. If it's today's date (and close to the time you booted) we know X is trying to load. If it is today's log have a look inside to see what the problems are (using less /var/log/Xorg.0.log). Scribble those down (the end of the file is where all the useful schnizz happens)

Amith KK

12:59

Yes!

amith-desktop is back on

Tom

@Oli what's the command to copy /var/...0.log to /media/sda3/....0.log ?

Oli

@Tom If you have it fsab-mounted, that's great. If not, it won't have automatically mounted. You can still mount it, you just have to learn how to use the mountcommand :)

Tom

doh I guess you are right.. I setup ubuntu to mount it on startup but that probably requires the xserver

Oli

@Tom cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /media/sda3/

Tom

thanks I will try these things then. I am on this chat on my smartphone

Oli

13:01

@Tom That's no major issue just run sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/sda3

Amith KK

Congrats @StefanoPalazzo @Oli !

Oli

If mount moans about /media/sda3 not existing, just mount it on /mnt and copy there: sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt and cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /mnt/

And you might need sudo for the cp depending on how mount decides to mount things.

Tom

How do you exiy from less?

Oli

q

Tom

Exit*

Amith KK

13:05

Am I invisible?

:P

Tom

Great rebooting now.

I copied log files.

No @Amith

@Oli

gist: 1362094, 2011-11-13 13:07:28Z

gistfile1.txt

[    17.465] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
[    17.466] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fglrx
[    17.466] (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx"
[    17.466] (II) Unloading fglrx
[    17.466] (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0)
[    17.466] (EE) No drivers available.
[    17.466]
Fatal server error:
[    17.466] no screens found

Oli

Well that seems simple enough. It's hunting for fglrx which obviously doesn't exist any more.

Where are you installing the new drivers from?

Tom

Hmm, but I did run the property drivers in the terminal

@Oli from /media/sda3/Downloads/ati-...-x86-64.run

Oli

Right. Hm. And what did the installer do?

Tom

@Oli it installed, successfully I believe.. got no error messages or so

Amith KK

13:11

Hello all

Tom

and then it did show the GUI

but it gets stuck at ubuntu loading screen

Oli

I've no experience with ATI hardware (since Ubuntu 7.04 when things were quite different) so I'm not sure what it's supposed to say.

Tom

before the installation it did not show the loading screen

@Oli can I remove everything and install the default drivers, like when you have a fresh install?

Oli

@Tom yeah that should be as simple as just [re]moving the /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file

I suggest something like: sudo mv /etc/X11/Xorg.conf{,BACKUP}

Just so that if that doesn't work either, you can move it back

Tom

@Oli oh, great.. rebooting again then

Oli

13:15

What's up @AmithKK - you seem a little restless.

Tom

@Oli. it says no such file or directory

Amith KK

@Oli Yes, I was ubuntu deprived for 3 days

Tom

/etc/X11/Xorg.conf

Oli

@Tom no capital on the second X!! (Completely my bad!)

sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf{,BACKUP}

Tom

Thanks

Oli

13:17

@AmithKK What happened?

Amith KK

@Oli You know, Cooler stopped

Luckly the Pentium 4 wasn't damaged

Oli

Oh yeah - surprised you didn't just rig up a desk fan or something like that. I did that while ago

Amith KK

@Oli Me No Haz Desk fan

Oli

Fair enough

Woot. Ubersplit on its way to Freenode.

Amith KK

Ubersplit?

Oli

13:19

A very large netsplit while they do network upgrades.

Tom

@Oli. I am in ubuntu now but there is no launcher bar and when i start a bbrowser it brings me tp desktop

When i do ctrl alt f1 i cannot go back to gui with ctrl alt f7. it gives a black screen

Also there is no clock etc in the top bar

Amith KK

-Martinp23- [Global Notice] Hi folks. Over the next 30 mins or so I'll be doing some network upgrades. This will be in two stages. First, there will be a huge netsplit, followed by smaller netsplits. About 2700 users will lose connections as a result. I'll send messages directly to users on servers which will be restarted in a moment (zelazny, kornbluth). Thanks for your patience and have a great sunday.

Tom

No configure button either

Amith KK

⇐ jrgifford (~jrg@ubuntu/member/jrgifford) quit: *.net *.split

O.o

O.O im the only one alive on #2buntu

jokerdino

I am there.

Just lurking for the time being.

Tom

13:27

Where did oli go, my savior is gone ;(

2

jokerdino

Savior? yes!

Oli

@Tom It might have slipped onto control+alt+f8 (sometimes happens if the first X display crashes out)

Tom

Nah it didnt. but that is not the main problem

Oli

@Tom So what's the current status? Unity not showing? Can you install the proprietary drivers?

Tom

@Oli see above img

What does that mean?

Oli

13:34

Okay that top bar is a bug in nautilus/the-way-unity-is-hacked-in. Don't worry about it. Unity isn't loading. And that's because you don't have accelerated graphics.

Or at least the drivers for them

The next step is to ignore that and install some drivers.

Assuming you have networking, run back to a terminal and run sudo jockey-text

That'll download and install the proprietary drivers. One more reboot and you should be where you was before you nuked fglxr :)

Tom

I am instqllin proprietary drivers now

Installing

Oli

This would have been so much simpler if network manager had a command-line client to start a wireless connection. You could have done this right away and have been back in business about an hour ago.

Tom

Oli I installed driver successdully but after reboot its still the same

Typing on phone is hard :(

Oli

@Tom Installed from jockey or from your own download?

Tom

my own

But without sudo

Trying again wiyh sudo

Oli

13:41

@Tom Are you following all the steps of the installer? I've just seen this: help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

Looks like it's a lot more complicated than just running a few things - you have to make it build you a set of fglxr packages.

And note that command contains Maverick-specific things. At the very least you'll need to change maverick for oneiric

Tom

;( I just want to go back to the default drivers

Like when you install a fresh install

Oli

@Tom I honestly don't know how to revert a system to the open source drivers. I'd tell you if I did. But the quickest way I can get you up and running would be just to run jockey-text as root in a terminal. That will run off, install fglxr from the repos. If you want to persist with the latest driver, this is the best documentation I can find

Tom

I will try jockey

@oli it returns nothing

Sigh

Takes so long to copu the img url

Finally @Oli

Oli

13:57

You might need to stick --check or --auto-install on the end of sudo jockey-text

Hell, you're in a graphical environment now, you could just run jockey-gtk

Tom

Again nothing returned

Nice

I love GUIs, I think.

My memory does not like commands.

Portablejim

@Oli Can you summarize the history with @Tom for me (i.e. what has been done) ?

Oli

14:14

@Portablejim He removed flgxr, etc in order to install the latest driver from ATI. On rebooting, X wouldn't load because its config wanted fglxr still. We nuked the xorg.conf and X loads but Unity doesn't (I assume it's on the VESA driver and/or the open driver doesn't support the hardware - but we haven't checked). I suggested just reverting to the repo version of the ATI closed driver through Jockey or following the full instructions for manually installing the closed drivers.

Not sure where we are now. Any news @Tom?

Tom

@Oli everything works again, thanks for your continuous support!

Though I have a feeling these drivers are not that great, when I drag icons around it stutters a lot. This is why I tried to install the binary drivers in the first place

but at least I am back in business

Oli

@Tom I think that's a Compiz/mouse-polling bug. I get the same with Nvidia.

Tom

@Oli ah right. I just upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 -> 11.10. My workflow seems much more clutterly/less smooth

It feels better on windows :p

hey

hello, how to import everything to chrome from mozilla?

I tried to do it in Chrome, but it imports only bookmarks, and I choose everything to import

jokerdino

one second hey

Seems like you can only import bookmarks.

hey

14:18

damn it... :[ I need passwords too

ok, I will just have to do it by hand, thanks

Oli

@hey You have to install a sync plugin for both Chrome and Firefox.

Tom

Ubuntu keeps putting the active window's control in my title bar... I always used the top bar to navigate but now it gets replaced by the active window

Oli

I say have to... But you can. A lot of sync services will let you copy everything over between browsers. But there's no built-in method for pulling the stuff over.

hey

ok, thanks, I will try to find that plugin

Oli

@Tom For the dragging issue, some people report success with the workaround in the third-from-end post in here: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/764330 (the second-from-end post also has some interesting information)

Tom

14:21

When I try to install the driver with (post-release updates) behind it I get this error log from jockey:

gist: 1362160, 2011-11-13 14:21:31Z

gistfile1.txt

Oli

@hey xmarks-sync is one suggestion (from support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/793675 )

hey

thank u very much

jokerdino

How do you use this easystroke aaarggh

Oli

@Tom I thought you said everything was working?

Tom

@Oli yes, with the normal drivers. However there is also a version with post release updates in the list. That one does not seem to install

Oli

14:28

@Tom I see - That appears to be a known bug: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/873058 (no idea why "nvidia" is in the URL)

Tom

@Oli ah right. Funny, I purposely waited several months before I updated from 10.10 to 11.x

But it seems like there are still some obvious bugs around :p

Oli

@Tom Can't disagree with you there! Yeah Natty and Oneiric have certainly had their share of issues.

Tom

Hmm, I really need to get used to this UI. I keep trying to move my mouse to the bottom and expect a bar to popup.

Aye, well thanks a lot for the help.

(And I wonder why there is no context menu when I right click on the top navigation bar....)

Oli

You can revert to a panel-based set up if you'd rather. Just trying to find the question that has the best answer for it.

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Command to see if a script was initiated http://askubuntu.com/questions/78816/command-to-see-if-a-script-was-initiated #script

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Oli

14:34

49

Q: How to revert to GNOME Classic?

I'm used to GNOME Classic and personally don't want to change to anything else, but it seems there is no more GNOME Classic in the Oneiric release. After apt-get installed gnome-session and all, though there comes back the GNOME Classic option in the session listbox, however, after logged in, it ...

gnome ubuntu-classic

Tom

Thanks, I will give this setup a week or so though, maybe I'll get used to it. But I think I will hide the top bar, I see absolutely no reason why it has to be cluttering my screen all the time

But when I right click it I cannot set it up or anything, and there seems to be no UI configuration when I do settings --> all settings --> appearance

Hmm, I should probably google for these things before asking here =)

Oli

@Tom Unity has very little configuration. All that there is is available through CompizConfig Settings Manager (search the software centre for that or ccsm), under the Unity plugin

Tom

@Oli hmm, that's interesting. I wonder how this is an improvement, but thanks I will install it

Oli

I'm the wrong person to ask if you want somebody to extol the merits of Unity. I'm firmly sticking with my panels thankyouverymuch :)

Tom

Heh alright

jokerdino

14:45

I dont know about others (other DE), but unity isnt that restrictive..

Tom

14:58

Jeez.. i have the same problem again.. unity is not loading .. but the driver is stil installed

jokerdino

Can you take a screenshot?

Tom

Jes sec

Oli

@Tom run unity --replace from a terminal and see if that says anything

Tom

Yes

@jokerdino ^

jokerdino

@oli You beat me to it. I was waiting for his screenshot.

@tom do as @oli requested.

Open a terminal and run the command 'unity --replace'

Tom

15:03

tommedema@tommedema-Aspire-7741:~/Desktop/Downloads$ unity --replace
unity-panel-service: no process found
Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
Checking if internal files need to be migrated ...no
Backend     : gconf
Integration : true
Profile     : default
Adding plugins
Skipping upgrade com.canonical.unity.unity.01.upgrade
Skipping upgrade com.canonical.unity.unity.02.upgrade
Initializing core options...done
Initializing bailer options...done
Initializing detection options...done
Initializing composite options...done

@Oli, @jokerdino ^

jokerdino

Is everything working now?

Tom

no, it's still the same

" compiz (core) - Warn: failed to receive ConfigureNotify event on 0x28003e4"

Notice this happend after using that configurator, also the configurator froze at some point and I had to reboot my PC.

Oli

That's not an error - that's just a warning (they're usually fine)

Okay, load ccsm again and make sure the Unity plugin is still enabled.

You might benefit from running unity --reset too

Tom

how do I load that without unity?

Oli

From the terminal, I guess

jokerdino

15:05

type ccsm in terminal

Oli

Probably the easiest way

jokerdino

i use synapse for initializing applications

Tom

I have to reboot. screen froze after stopping terminal

Oli

:(

Tom

So far the best i got from updating to 11.x is a nicer grub background color: purple

jokerdino

15:07

haha. grub2 looks better.

Oli

@Tom You also learned how not to upgrade your graphics drivers :)

Tom

True :)

The plugin was disabled

Now it works again. Thanks again

jokerdino

Now is it working ? :D

Tom

Im sure I did not disable the plugin

jokerdino

You don't need to disable the Unity plugin. It is an inbuilt feature to annoy new users.

5

Tom

15:12

Yey :p

Roland Taylor

Hi all

brunopereira81

@RolandTaylor hello

Roland Taylor

Anything special today?

I'll be leaving in a few hrs to go to a Church event at z beach :D

Tom

Is it just me or are there no panel options in ccms..

jokerdino

There are no app menu

Tom

15:21

@jokerdino app menu?

Roland Taylor

@Tom panel options?

jokerdino

as in there are no menu options.

Tom

@RolandTaylor yes, like the top panel.. I think it is useless so I want to stop it from filling my screen

Roland Taylor

There are no options for customising that in Unity :)

Tom

doh, there was in gnome

is there no auto hide either?

even windows has auto hide

jokerdino

15:23

auto hide the top panel?

Tom

I need to be in 100% zen-mode or these interface items that I do not need start to annoy me

@jokerdino yes

jokerdino

You can go full screen

Tom

Hmm, my screen is always at its fullest..

What do you mean with go full screen?

Oli

Depends on the application. Browsers and Gedit support a fullscreen mode by pressing F11. Some other applications have similar things.

Tom

Ah right, nah I just don't want my operating system to force a bar at the top of my screen all the time

Every GUI I've seen until now had an option to auto hide these bars

Oli

15:26

I believe it's a work in progress but it's not ready yet.

Tom

Is it possible to install gnome 3 on ubuntu 11.x?

Oli

52 mins ago, by Oli

49

Q: How to revert to GNOME Classic?

I'm used to GNOME Classic and personally don't want to change to anything else, but it seems there is no more GNOME Classic in the Oneiric release. After apt-get installed gnome-session and all, though there comes back the GNOME Classic option in the session listbox, however, after logged in, it ...

gnome ubuntu-classic

Tom

Oh, thanks

Roland Taylor

@Tom 11.10 uses GNOME 3...

THAT annoys me.

Tom

@RolandTaylor hmm, I thought it uses Unity

Roland Taylor

15:28

When people ask if Ubuntu 11.10 can get GNOME 3

Tom

Disclaimer: I am an absolute newbie when it comes to these things.

Roland Taylor

@Tom Unity is based on GNOME 3, and it is a shell for GNOME :)

GNOME 3 as everyone refers to it == GNOME Shell

Tom

Oh

Oli

"Gnome" is like fifteen different things. A general umbrella development project (like "Apache"), a desktop framework (inc GTK, et al), a Desktop environment (was panels, now officially shell). It's easy to see why people get confused.

jokerdino

gnome is a set of tools.

Oli

15:30

Sigh. It's all of those things. It's not just one.

Tom

I don't want to be a whiner (which so far I have proven to be), but doesn't unity feel somewhat less smooth? Maybe it's just the window dragging that is influencing the overall feeling of it, though.

jokerdino

I don't know about you but it is just fine here.

Roland Taylor

@Tom are you on ATI graphics?

Tom

@RolandTaylor yes, and it fails to install the post-release drivers

Roland Taylor

It can be a bits sluggish under ATI graphics

I have a fix

let me find the post for you

Tom

15:37

Even this chat is "sluggish", when a new message appears it is not smoothly moving in but clutterish

Roland Taylor

2buntu.com/2011/11/08/sync-to-vblank-the-ati-performance-killer

Also you can try changing the texture quality - I found (surprisingly) turning it up actually makes performance better for me (strange I know)

Tom

Test

@RolandTaylor awesome-- everything is much better now.

Even without a reboot.

Thanks all of you.

I have to go now, probably back some other time ;)

Roland Taylor

:D

cya @Tom and glad I could help :D

Jorge Castro

17:19

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Q: Guest User Ubuntu 11.10 Guest User

How do I disable the guest user in ubuntu 11.10 when using sudo edit lightdm.conf I am not able to open the file Thanks

11.10 users guest-session

easy duplicate!

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17:38

How can I enable a face browser in LightDM? http://askubuntu.com/questions/78861/how-can-i-enable-a-face-browser-in-lightdm #loginscreen

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 13, 2011 at 5:19 PM

Alvar

18:08

why does this question have 14k views? askubuntu.com/q/22402/10698

i don't even get it...

brunopereira81

@Alvar it has the correct "keywords" ;)

Oli

@Alvar google.co.uk/search?q=Will+Ubuntu+work+on+my+pc

I imagine "will ubuntu work on my PC" is a fairly common query. And that's the first result.

Alvar

aha

Jorge Castro

19:00

I'm surprised the question is still open

Been getting a bunch of shopping ones lately too

Alvar

@JorgeCastro it doesn't even have an owner...

Naruto

19:13

What is the difference between gconfig & dconfig

jrg

19:43

gnome 2 and gnome 3 - I think.

(respectively)

brunopereira81

0

Q: ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics install fails, how can I resolve the problem?

I want to activate ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release update), but there is a problem during installation. It says: Sorry, installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log How can I install this driver?

driver ati fglrx jockey

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Q: Unix (Ubuntu Server): $PYTHONPATH resets to blank when I reboot

Each time I set the $PYTHONPATH on my new Ubuntu server machine (old Thinkpad) and reboot, it's reset to blank. I'm setting it like this: export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.7 If I ask it after that to echo $PYTHONPATH it will. And it finds modules on the path. But it loses it when I reboot. An...

ubuntu server python path

Oli

20:25

I've got 7000 songs in Banshee and I left it playing on random from my library. I went into another room and started playing with our SqueezeBox playing various versions of All Along The Watchtower on Spotify.

When I got back to my PC, what is Banshee playing? Jimmy Hendrix, All Along The Watchtower. What are the chances?!

Well. I guess they're about 7000:1... But that was rhetorical.

George Edison

There are some definite trolls on G+.

Questions Feed

20:41

Bounty offered: How can I edit/create new launcher items in Unity by hand? http://askubuntu.com/questions/13758/how-can-i-edit-create-new-launcher-items-in-unity-by-hand #unity

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 13, 2011 at 8:19 PM

brunopereira81

21:25

@JorgeCastro Just saw the other answer where you say you will give a bounty to this one, I really did not copied it or intended to steal the information from the user, learned it yesterday while trying to move the launcher icons around after creating one for marlin, even created a script for that (its not finished so I wont post it, its work in progress). I understand if the bounty is not given or if the other user decides to make a better guide I'll delete my answer.

(and by intend to steal I mean that I only saw the other answer after making mine)

George Edison

I've put a bounty on this one:

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Q: How to comply with this guideline for submitting an application to the Software Center?

I was reading through the Ubuntu Developer Programme Agreement for submitting applications to the Software Center and stubled across the following clause: 3.1 You must first test Apps you submit to confirm they are compatible with all currently supported versions of Ubuntu (as listed on Canon...

application-development license application-submission

brunopereira81

@GeorgeEdison looks like there is already a very good answer there, you only disagree on the "download 5 versions" part?

George Edison

22:04

@brunopereira81 Well, bandwidth is a bit of an issue on my end.

brunopereira81

@GeorgeEdison send me a pm with an address, ill ship the cds/dvd to you (its an honest offer, really)

but I understand your point

George Edison

Thanks anyway, but that's okay.

If they allow chroot environments, that would solve all of the problems.

brunopereira81

maybe testing can be given to other ppl other then the developer? I understand that it would still be a lot of work but if ppl are available that can be possible. ( really dont know anything about releasing an app in ubuntu, just talking).

George Edison

Yeah, it would be nice if they explained exactly what they had in mind.

Thomas Ward

hello people

hows things

Icedrake

22:49

Awesome news guys! My new website is finally up (although not complete). If anyone wants to leave me a comment or two about it, that would be nice (as in what's wrong with it, what to change, etc.). Website is located at www.icedrake.co.cc

Questions Feed

23:21

Bounty offered: How to make Unity 2D show the whole application when clicking its icon? http://askubuntu.com/questions/76017/how-to-make-unity-2d-show-the-whole-application-when-clicking-its-icon #unity2d

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 13, 2011 at 11:19 PM

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