Ask Ubuntu General Room

edwinksl

4:10 PM

good question askubuntu.com/questions/816315/…

Anwar

Kubuntu has those

James Tobin

I am back

Anwar

have you changed the answer? @JamesTobin

James Tobin

I am working on it

@anwar I'm so sorry for leaving without letting you know, my bad. So I have run the commands... do I need to restart WM? the function still does not work

Anwar

logout and login

James Tobin

4:24 PM

kbrb

well... my logout function is going pork

wont log out

well it finally logged out.. but the function still does not work

Anwar

hold on a min plz

James Tobin

sure

Zacharee1

Who else has seen Adam Ruins Everything?

James Tobin

what's that?

Zacharee1

look it up

edwinksl

4:36 PM

based on CH? hmm i don't like CH

James Tobin

hmm

Zacharee1

@edwinksl no, it's just some people who were on CH

James Tobin

funny but true

the next up I totally disagree with. I believe in life after death

Arronical

@Zanna Terry Pratchett had a good version of this which was 'The kind of person who couldn't find their bum with both hands.'

Anwar

@JamesTobin can we move to other room?

James Tobin

4:47 PM

back

@anwar maybe.

do you have skype?

Anwar

i mentioned from here

brb

Zanna

haha @Arronical I have read many of his books, but I don't remember that one

similarly, but more whimsically, my mum says of my brother (shhh) that "he couldn't organise a paper bag party in a paper bag"

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: .Run file taking too long to load on Budgie-Remix

up vote 0 down vote favorite I have opened a .run file (Momentics IDE for BlackBerry), but it takes infinitely long and I am always stuck on the loading screen. I am using Budgie-Remix https://budgie-remix.org (which is based on Ubuntu). To install the application I am double clicking the applic...

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Q: Unable to install virtualbox in Windows Bash -Ubuntu (Windows 10)

Trying to install virtualbox inside Windows Bash (Beta), below is the persistent error message. somasundaram@host:~/kernel34$ VBoxManage --version WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate headers, ...

bash ubuntu windows virtualbox

James Tobin

how that windows 10 thing get here?

edwinksl

5:08 PM

naa askubuntu.com/a/816331/15003

terdon

5:20 PM

@JamesTobin Questions from Unix & Linux that are tagged with ubuntu are automatically posted here.

Also, we've decided that BoW is on topic.

edwinksl

i have seen this question on SO, U&L and it is finally here on AU

terdon

There's no consensus on this yet on U&L so I migrated that question here instead.

James Tobin

oh ok :)

Rinzwind

@terdon nobody asked me :(

and what he wants is likely not possible

Zacharee1

WAIT

UH

terdon

5:27 PM

@Rinzwind Yeah, tell me about it. Apparently, the consensus on AU is that if it's Canonical, we support it.

James Tobin

hmm?

terdon

Aug 19 at 13:51, by terdon

Basically, we have to draw the line somewhere, so we may as well draw it at Canonical's doorstep. If it ain't by Canonical, it ain't on topic.

Zacharee1

The Note 7 Might have IR!!

Rinzwind

@terdon dont remind me. I am sooooooo ignoring that monstrosity

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 you are the biggest mobile device nerd i have seen so far

Zacharee1

5:28 PM

@edwinksl shhh

Rinzwind

my boss likes it. BoW is -excellent- for mounting google instances. In Windows itself is it crap.

Zacharee1

darn

it's for the iris scanner

Rinzwind

anyone uses BoW? >:=D

edwinksl

@Rinzwind i might try that in virtualbox... just because reasons.

Zacharee1

Starts at the funny point youtu.be/652OiKN6x3U?t=2m6s

Rinzwind

5:38 PM

anyone got problems with this ->

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A: Unable to install virtualbox in Windows Bash -Ubuntu (Windows 10)

VirtualBox relies a lot on the hardware it is running on and it does not understand Bash on Windows. Running Vbox on BoW is never have been the intention of either Canonical, Microsoft or Oracle. As explained by Microsoft: This is a developer toolset to help you write and build all your cod...

:)

James Tobin

get that atta here

Rinzwind

oh man there will be an exodus happenng this weekend
50.000 dutch going to spa for the F1 race

edwinksl

50k sounds like a lot

Rinzwind

it is

edwinksl

5:53 PM

Can someone talk to Peter Mortensen and get him to stop adding useless Wikipedia links? Case in point: askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/608526.

Zanna

ugh I don't think I ever want to talk to him :(

edit: think and talk

:D

lol

hahaha thank you @dino I now realise my statement needed some context

James Tobin

6:10 PM

arg

didnt want to preview dang it

edwinksl

@Zanna one day he will reach 2k rep and...

James Tobin

@anwar please link me your group again. my browser pages didnt restore

dino

PeterM is a very popular figure in SO circles.

Zanna

@edwinksl and we can forget all about it ;)

Anwar

dino do you meet amitkk these days?

dino

6:13 PM

I see his posts on FB, that's about it.

Anwar

oh! don't know how he got my linkedin (or really got it) and send an invite!

dino

lol

I have managed to not make a profile on LinkedIn.

Anwar

I made it, left for a long time.

edwinksl

@Zanna it is freaking annoying

surely he has better things than to add "context"

dino

@edwinksl reject it and he will have a hammer on his head

Anwar

6:15 PM

forced to update it. that's all

edwinksl

i already rejected

dino

I think LinkedIn auto invites everyone in your address book.

Anwar

Nah. i am not fool to share my address book there

edwinksl

@dino it is not automatic, you have to click a button

dino

@edwinksl my bad, obnoxious button from LinkedIn recently bought by Microsoft invites everyone in your address book.

Anwar

6:18 PM

oh. i got it

He shared his address book and that's working...

James Tobin

all I ever use from McRiosoft is bing-a-ding-a-ling

dino

How every question on SO looks like

3

James Tobin

so I can get bing rewards and put in for skype credit lol

dino

@edwinksl @zanna ^^

edwinksl

@dino hahahaha peter mortensen features in it, awesome

James Tobin

6:19 PM

question: why is by default the unity dock so HUGE?

Zanna

@dino hahaha so much

dino

Anyway, that entire image is full of gems.

Zanna

"WTF Look At My Points"

James Tobin

looks wierd

Zanna

haha even the ads at the side are jokery

edwinksl

6:25 PM

"There really are jobs for coders available! Not for you though." lmao

Serg

Aaand, i am on webupd8 again ! webupd8.org/2016/08/…

7

edwinksl

cool, time for me to get my reddit points

Zanna

^_^

dino

Neat

@edwinksl downvotes

edwinksl

nuuuuuuu

Serg

6:29 PM

Silly, though, the author of the article packaged the indicator into deb file and got ppa set up for easy download. I need to start doing the same :\

Zacharee1

@dino How every question looks or what every question looks like

how and like don't go together!

one of the most annoying things for me

edwinksl

<3 from reddit to AU reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/4zcpzf/…

dino

@Zacharee1 Found PeterM's successor.

Zacharee1

wat

Kaz Wolfe

@dino Reddiquite much?

dino

6:35 PM

@edwinksl you found me ;)

Kaz Wolfe

You only downvote useless comments that contribute nothing :P

dino

Don't tell me what to do with my downvotes.

/me downvotes Kaz.

Kaz Wolfe

MODS

dino

I have a lot of friends who are mods. Bring them on.

James Tobin

exclamational point ops

dino

6:42 PM

@edwinksl @Zacharee1 askubuntu.com/questions/813493/…

Zacharee1

"While it won't solve your issue, have you tried it?"

o_O

psimeson

How to fix this error "error while loading shared libraries: libmng.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"?

edwinksl

@psimeson well you have to tell us what you were trying to do. post a new question on the main site if there is no duplicate

psimeson

I am trying to run 64bit version of software called icmbrowser.. I installed it but when I try to run it I get that error message... so tried to locate libmng.so.1 but I couldn't find it .... so I tried to run 32 bit version and got "error while loading shared libraries: libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" ... so i tried to locate libXmu.so.6 and it there "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6.2.0

So I do not understand why I can't run the software?

edwinksl

7:00 PM

@psimeson write a question on the main site

german post askubuntu.com/questions/816376/…

Zanna

oh I can't read

edwinksl

@Zanna so you ended up rejecting peter mortensen's edit :D

Zanna

yeah :S I hope he doesn't come edit all my posts

Zacharee1

@Zanna downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote downvote

edwinksl

dat copypasta

Zanna

7:13 PM

wah!!!!

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 you mean downvote

Zacharee1

uh

Zanna

lol!!!

edwinksl

@Zanna careful, Peter Mortensen might remove the excessive exclamation points

Zacharee1

why are you randomly pointing to Wikipedia?

Zanna

7:16 PM

hides under my bed

hahahahhaahahhaaha

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/608526

Zacharee1

wow

Anwar

1 hour ago, by edwinksl

Can someone talk to Peter Mortensen and get him to stop adding useless Wikipedia links? Case in point: http://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/608526.

Zacharee1

NAA askubuntu.com/a/816370/274320

NAA askubuntu.com/questions/224151/…

edwinksl

OT? askubuntu.com/questions/816384/a-laptop-or-desktop

Anwar

7:21 PM

POB

psimeson

askubuntu.com/questions/816385/… @edwinksl

edwinksl

@psimeson yup i saw

Zanna

how did you install it @psimeson ?

Zacharee1

@edwinksl Not even actually Ubuntu related

psimeson

@ Zanna sh icm-browser-3.8-4-linux.sh

Zacharee1

7:23 PM

@Zanna this isn't an answer askubuntu.com/review/low-quality-posts/608514

Zanna

I didn't even see what is was @Zacharee1 it was a suggested edit and I took out the excess gaps in it

Zacharee1

ah

Zanna

sometimes I notice that kind of thing when reviewing suggests, sometimes not >_<

thanks for pointing it out

@psimeson so you downloaded it where? what does the install script do?

psimeson

@zanna http://www.molsoft.com/install-browser-linux.html

Zacharee1

what askubuntu.com/review/low-quality-posts/608369

psimeson

7:29 PM

@Zanna download it from here:molsoft.com/download.html

edwinksl

@Zanna psimeson's question is here btw askubuntu.com/questions/816385/…

@Zacharee1 that beagleboard thing seems similar to a rpi

Zanna

sorry @edwinksl I should comment on the question... @psimeson you should edit your question with these details imho

edwinksl

@Zanna oh it is fine, i thought the details you need might already be in the question

Zanna

I read the question :)

psimeson

@zanna done

Zacharee1

7:34 PM

NAA askubuntu.com/questions/814137/…

edwinksl

^flagger of the week fo sho

Zacharee1

What? askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/608504

Elder Geek

Hello all! Can we re-open askubuntu.com/questions/814567/…

edwinksl

yup, though the question still needs some cleanup

Zacharee1

misinformed answer askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/608467

Elder Geek

7:39 PM

@edwinksl done

Zanna

but you can't uninstall ImageMagick without breaking stuff...

that is a really bad idea...

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 lel, probably one of those who thinks ubuntu = debian

Elder Geek

@Zanna what does it break?

Zanna

lemme show you...

paste.ubuntu.com/23086090

ubuntu-mate-desktop ? I think I need that...

Zacharee1

@Seth or @dino can I custom flag an answer that is incorrect?

or is that VLQ?

edwinksl

7:43 PM

@Zacharee1 i think flat-out wrong answers are to be downvoted

Zanna

brb

Zacharee1

lol askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/608467

Elder Geek

@Zanna interesting, I had no such issues on 16.04 (not using mate desktop here so that may be why)

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 same link as previous?

Zacharee1

ugh

edwinksl

7:45 PM

@ElderGeek it still removes cups and various printer things for unity

Zacharee1

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Q: Can't mount a partition

Thanks for the interest. I removed my ODD and changed for a aluminium caddy with a 2.5 SSD. In other word, removed the DVD reader for the laptop in exchange it got a HDD case. I haven't found the way to mount it, the first try was to format and since then GpartEd returns me errors. Suppose to b...

partitioning mount hard-drive

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 /deb...

Zacharee1

EOL askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/608557

NAA askubuntu.com/questions/468798/…

Elder Geek

@edwinksl Ahh, I see that now. Thanks.

Zacharee1

dupe answer askubuntu.com/questions/773601/…

edwinksl

7:51 PM

@Zacharee1 also seems like answerer has 2 accounts

Zacharee1

how so

edwinksl

editor's name is hasan

answerer's name is also hasan

what are the odds

Zacharee1

what?

edwinksl

???

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A: PHP mysqli extension in Ubuntu 16.04 not working after upgrade to version 7.0.6

You need to execute the following commands sudo apt-get install php-mysql sudo service apache2 restart

Zacharee1

oh

edwinksl

7:55 PM

i suspect sockpuppet but it is only +2 rep, whatever

Zacharee1

NAA askubuntu.com/review/late-answers/608573

Zanna

@ElderGeek yeah tbh mate-desktop is always threatening to walk out on me, its very touchy ;)

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 i just saw your post in r/ubuntu. why are you still a 1 karma noob rofl

Zacharee1

because I don't use Reddit

edwinksl

i gave you 1 point, now you are a 2-point noob :P

Zanna

8:00 PM

yeah I think we have to downvote answers that are just wrong :(

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: U+200C is not entered in KDE apps

There is a key assigned to ‌‌Zero Width Non-Joiner character, U+200C, but it is not printed in KDE-based (or probably qt-based) apps. For example, the key does not work in kate but it works in gedit. Is there a way to solve this problem?

ubuntu kde5

Zacharee1

Zanna

incompressible jizztrumpet?

Zacharee1

read the very top thing

Zanna

yes I get it, it's truly excellent

edwinksl

8:05 PM

wow i am going to steal some of those

Elder Geek

8:18 PM

@Zacharee1 ROTFL! Thanks I needed that. ;-)

Zacharee1

:p

edwinksl

mangled apricot hellbeast...

user136984

I am so exhausted... It's been so hot over here... I left my water somewhere and didn't drink for like 3 hours when I was out... Big mistake.

Zanna

I lurve the heat

user136984

I just feel so bad now. I'm surprised I managed to code anything.

Zanna

8:21 PM

it's never too hot for me in this country

aww :(

user136984

It just got too hot today, I feel like I need to sleep all the time.

user136984

Today wasn't too hot for you?

user136984

It didn't have water for like 3 hours though and was walking around the whole day so it's probably understandable that I feel awful now.

user136984

I need to do some big implementations in my coding project now... Don't know if I'll manage. But we will see.

edwinksl

how cold does winter get for you

Anwar

8:22 PM

what's this? he first said he can't download and now... askubuntu.com/questions/816385/…

user136984

I gave people my Vegan Carob Cake yesterday, some of them called me this morning to say that they couldn't get off the toilet in the morning and it was like chilli coming out of them... I think they thought I was joking when I warned them... :D

user136984

But I haven't had the cake for a while and I ate quite a lot and nothing bad happened to me like it did the first time... But maybe that is yet to come. :P

Anwar

bbl

user136984

I'm stuck because I can't think of any decent variable names. :D

Zanna

Fred

user136984

8:25 PM

That will have to do. :P

edwinksl

8:43 PM

Done dude. Can you please add me as a friend here, so that I can get help from you, if its alright. Thanks again — msourav16 5 mins ago

we social media nao

Zanna

hahaha

Serg

OK , so this answer : askubuntu.com/a/780733/295286 Link only, somewhat low quality, suggests installing another distro ( which is not useful answer ) Can we nuke this please ?

Zanna

wow beautiful pic in your answer

edwinksl

one hell of a wallpaper

Serg

@Zanna that one is by Chinese artist Benjamin . I forgot his exact name. He does all this colorful,beautiful computer art.

Anybody wants me to find his blog or site ? Cuz I remember he had something like that

Also, I've a new proposal on meta, please go see it

Zanna

8:55 PM

that would be awesome @Serg

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda Maybe it's like those diseases you can become permanently immune to

or maybe it hasn't been long enough

edwinksl

@Serg discourse.ubuntu.com is being sunsetted. i would recommend OP to go to ubuntu forums or r/ubuntu

also means your meta proposal is a no-go

Serg

Dammit, i just discovered it

duck !

Zacharee1

@Serg OP says they want to stay with Ubuntu, so it's NAA

user227867

@seth It's actually at least 26 C every night here, much hotter than there. So if you can't sleep, all the more I can't!

Serg

9:03 PM

@Zacharee1 you don't have to tell me that, just nuke that answer

Zacharee1

@Serg I'm giving you an excusable flag :p

user227867

Oh by the way, not many people know that gnome-disk-utility can be used to burn ISOs and mount ISOs, lol.

edwinksl

@Serg i would raise a custom flag to explain

Zacharee1

wait what askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/608582

Zanna

forgot password, made a new account, tried to edit own question? attempt to reply?

Zacharee1

9:07 PM

NAA

@Zanna no, more likely what @edwinksl

Wolf was the one who couldn't figure out how to delete his question

NAA askubuntu.com/a/816422/274320

Zanna

attempt to reply then ^^^^

edwinksl

nice, hard to catch that in mobile

Serg

You know what's the problem with encoding a password and then writing it down on paper ?

If you forget a character or two, you're screwed

Zacharee1

Are they spamming their own answers on this site? askubuntu.com/review/late-answers/608605

HTPT askubuntu.com/review/low-quality-posts/608581

Serg

@Zanna so here's the blog of that artist : blog.sina.com.cn/benjamin . You can use that, but it's a chinese blog. If you google "本杰明" AND "本色" for images, you will find tons of the same material

edwinksl

9:13 PM

@Zacharee1 what is HTPT

Zanna

@Zacharee1 yes and either they never actually did that or they have a really bad memory...

Zacharee1

@edwinksl having this problem too

wow cute giraffe!

@Zanna huh?

in the blog :)

9:14 PM

Found meself new wallpaper for today

edwinksl

your gf?

Serg

Nope, Benjamin's artwork

Zanna

that's awesome ^_^

Serg

Although my gf does have similar features . . . except she wears glasses and has long hair

Zanna

@Zacharee1 missed the part where you actually mount some filesystem to install grub

Zacharee1

9:18 PM

oh

user136984

@Zacharee1 Well, thinking about it, I don't think I've actually been today so I think I may be yet to find out...

Serg

discourse.ubuntu.com/t/closing-down-this-site-feedback-wanted/…

^ me posto

Zanna

me "like" ^^

Serg

^_^

Zanna

9:34 PM

I reckon they should just delete that file, seems like they didn't do anything else effective? askubuntu.com/questions/816432/…

edwinksl

@Serg i disagree subreddits are less credible. r/ubuntu is a well-run place

Serg

It's a well run place, but it's still a thingy that belongs to reddit . . . It's like referencing Wikipedia, instead of original source

edwinksl

uhh that analogy doesn't make sense to me

what's more important is to see what sites get most traffic

Serg

eh, well . . .maybe you're right. After all traffic brings revenue

edwinksl

last thing we want is to have Yet Another Site for People to Visit whose function is already duplicated by an existing well-visited site

James Tobin

9:42 PM

well tomorrow I leave for a trip... hoping the campground I will be at for a few days has wifi :o

Zanna

haha campsite with no wifi == where Zanna will go when she dies if she is very very very wicked

edwinksl

i am not against discourse if it had sufficient traffic, but it didn't

Serg

@edwinksl ubuntu forum duplicates AskUbuntu and allows for much more , even opinion based and too broad questions. Yet AskUbuntu exists and exists quite successfully, no ?

James Tobin

@zanna no, it is either heaven or hell.

Serg

And it also was well-visited

one more CV needed askubuntu.com/q/816411/295286

user136984

9:45 PM

Well, my rather large coding project is doing rather well at the moment. Well, it's not actual that large, in fact the actual thing this will attach to is very small, though useful. But there's just quite a lot to do and lots of code and whatnot so... Yeah, in this heat that feels like I am doing so so much. :D

Zanna

"You voted to close this question 1 hour ago" (and I have no memory of doing so whatsoever)

Serg

@ParanoidPanda and what does that project do ?

@Zanna @_@ you're having AUmnesia !!! Quick, log out from AU before you forget everything !!!

Zanna

hahahaha

edwinksl

@Zanna maybe your account has been compromised

user136984

@Serg: It's a plugin for an IDE which helps the user to quickly make standard line and column address sort of thingys.

Zanna

9:46 PM

hahaha no it's definitely what @Serg said @edwinksl

user136984

(Should that be "thingies"?)

Serg

probably @ParanoidPanda

user136984

I am going to expand it to give a lot more information, just need to work on this preferences GUI first which is taking quite a bit of work.

Zanna

All the questions look the same after too many hours at the box >_<

edwinksl

that sounds very questionist

Serg

9:49 PM

that does happen. My neck , however, also makes all questions look the same

Zanna

hahaha

Serg

BRB, smoke on the water ( or whatever is left of it outside after the rain )

Jacob Vlijm

@Serg Deep Purple is kind of the Ubuntu default wallpaper color...

Serg

10:09 PM

hehe , it is , but unfortunately for Deep Purple fans, Ubuntu doesn't ship with their soundtrack

@edwinksl 11 upgoats on your reddit post already :D

edwinksl

@Serg #sergjokes :D

@Serg indeed, thanks for the free points that i got from doing absolutely nothing

then again, reddit has a bias against people posting their own wares, so it may be better if i do it for you

Serg

@edwinksl yes, this is mush bettar, i don't wanna get banned

Just threw in another upgoat for that

edwinksl

lol unfortunately reddit karma means absolutely nothing

it would degrade into a truly unruly place if the mods were not doing their work :D AU and even SO are significantly more civil than most of reddit

Serg

Seems like typical internet site description to me

user136984

Goodnight folks! :)

Serg

10:22 PM

sleep tight , mr panda

Zanna

night x

edwinksl

dupe askubuntu.com/questions/816448/…

Serg

Well, that's um . . .interesting . . .somebody contacted me and asked if I wanna . . . .basically become a maintainer of an older project that is now abandoned . . .

Zanna

I like your flag tags eddy

bedtime for me too :)

edwinksl

night!

looks like the brits are all going to bed and it's up to us in murica to hold the fort

Zanna

10:32 PM

haha good luck!

Serg

11:46 PM

@ParanoidPanda Some time ago you had a question about having one window on top and another below , and interacting with the one below. Jacob's answer on that post is basically Alt+Tab shortcut reinvented ( no disrespect to Jacob though ). Consider taking a look at my answer here askubuntu.com/a/816468/295286 This is somewhat of a solution, although not ideal one either, but at least doesn't require switching , just moving the window around

edwinksl

i am not sure if there is a real demand for what OP wants

mouse events going through a terminal would be counterintuitive

almost feels like OP is asking the question just for the sake of asking it

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