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Byte Commander

12:05 PM

Is XFCE also built on Compiz? askubuntu.com/q/868870/367990

Journeyman Geek

I don't think so

Byte Commander

To me that question looks as if OP is going to hurt themselves badly...

(virtually, not physically)

Zacharee1

0

Q: Xubuntu and Compiz XFCE

I installed Xubuntu yesterday and made some changes to my desktop, its original xfce, i installed Docky and i've read about bluring, needs Compiz, so i've installed an older version that has Blur Plug-in. I edited it a bit and Enabled it. Now, when i for example want to start compiz, it starts, ...

Serg

god, i hate it when I know i answered something similar in the past, but I cannot find it in the sea of my old answers

edwinksl

i think there may be a dupe target for this q&a? askubuntu.com/questions/869040/…

Jacob Vlijm

12:16 PM

@ByteCommander I know you don't like to decode, I love decoding :), it's the joy in my life!

@Serg You probably know this, but search for:

<keyword> user:me is:a

Serg

@JacobVlijm i know, but i still cannot find it. Either i am entering wrong search term or the user deleted their question

Zanna

@edwinksl where's the canonical flash in 16.04 question? I very much doubt Xubuntu is any different to other *buntus

edwinksl

i don't know, i thought i saw one before, but i haven't searched for it yet

Zacharee1

bunutu

Serg

What's worse is that I cannot remember user's name

They were quite a frequent user a year ago

Yay, found it !!!

Zacharee1

12:31 PM

edwinksl

zach with the memes early in the morning

Byte Commander

A meme a day keeps the ~~doctor away~~ psychiatrist near.

@JacobVlijm You've got strange joys... :P

Zacharee1

@JacobVlijm decode this: helu jacb hao r u am gud am u gud

edwinksl

that is too easy

surely you can do better

Zacharee1

@edwinksl 4 felow nubcake iz very easy

edwinksl

12:35 PM

pls there is only one nubcake

Zacharee1

but vlim iz not nubcake

jokerdino

Yeah, Oli's busy these days.

Zacharee1

@jokerdino wat

jokerdino

Otherwise, he will hand out candies to Zach.

Jacob Vlijm

@Zacharee1 deeeepends on the language...

Zacharee1

12:36 PM

@JacobVlijm derpish

Jacob Vlijm

wait, let me answer don.joey

Zacharee1

classic avoidance

Byte Commander

@Zacharee1 I guess running that through base64 will make it easier to read... :P

Which direction shouldn't matter.

Zacharee1

@ByteCommander probably

Byte Commander

Anyway, tank time!

Serg

12:37 PM

@Zacharee1 nothing to wait for, package unavailable in 16.04 repositories :/ so . . . yeah, it was pointless

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 y u edgelord

Zacharee1

@edwinksl wat

@Serg lel

Zanna

@edwinksl maybe their solution is good and unique and we should tell them to fix their post?

edwinksl

@Zanna the post is fixed but there are a couple others who question OP's method

Serg

ok, lol, bye, sleepy much very . poof

Zacharee1

12:42 PM

by derpwofl

Zanna

@edwinksl I saw the other solution in many posts, for example askubuntu.com/questions/576562/…

Byte Commander

how poetic Serg becomes when he's sleepy...

Zacharee1

hibanate askubuntu.com/questions/869055/…

Byte Commander

Neo-Shakespeare style.

Zacharee1

it's no hibernarnate though

edwinksl

12:44 PM

@Zacharee1 OP writes like you do

Byte Commander

Y no hypernate?

edwinksl

ask and you shall get...

Zacharee1

@edwinksl ah'm frum the sowth, ah say hibahnate

Byte Commander

hibananate

edwinksl

need more "na"s

you can even stick in "zanna"

Zacharee1

12:46 PM

hibananazannanate

2

edwinksl

that is truly art

and guess who edited that post

Zanna

Hahaha ^_^

Zacharee1

lol

Byte Commander

Easy find question askubuntu.com/q/869059/367990

I'm busy though

Zanna

Not at my box, so can't test :(

Haha I just tested it with Termux but @terdon was too quick for me, should have trusted my knowledge :)

edwinksl

1:05 PM

already sniped by terdy

Zanna

Ah well, I wouldn't have fancied it up with man page stuff, so his answer is better than mine would be :)

edwinksl

but you are also away from box

Zanna

poor lonely toaster...

Zacharee1

toaster?

Byte Commander

1:20 PM

1832

Q: Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?

I've inherited an old PC from my girlfriend's dad and when setting up the printer I got a bit of a surprise: Two questions spring to mind here: Why does Windows think my wireless keyboard is a toaster? Why does Windows even have an icon for a toaster in the devices menu?

windows-7 device-manager

Journeyman Geek

lol

that classic

edwinksl

lmao

Zanna

Lol!

@Zacharee1 my machine - 32GB storage, 2GB RAM == toaster

Zacharee1

ah yes

@ByteCommander that answerer lost so much rep to caps

user136984

1:39 PM

I have a new and special hat! :D

Zacharee1

wat

@Serg watching the Markiplier animated shorts

I wonder if I can take over the starwall a second time

edwinksl

@Serg so much for sleeping

Zacharee1

@edwinksl wat

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 askubuntu.com/questions/868373/…

user136984

@ByteCommander: Reason 2 is clearly the answer:

user136984

1:42 PM

1806

A: Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?

Reason 1 Because Microsoft made a toaster driver sample. In the sample there is the line <DeviceIconFile>Toaster.ico</DeviceIconFile> and there is a chance that your keyboard manufacturer took that sample. Reason 2 Look at the back of the keyboard for some place to insert a slice of bread…

Zacharee1

Sleep-answering

user136984

:D

Zacharee1

it's an issue

3.1415926535897932384626433832

3 1 8

3 rep too

hi

hi?

1:47 PM

Any android apps good for flight tracking?

Zacharee1

uh

@jokerdino maybe play.google.com/store/apps/…

user136984

Ah, Shog9:

user136984

243

Q: If you're gonna talk Politics, you must respect those who disagree

This is sort of a follow-up to two past discussions: Toward a philosophy of Chat Does the Be Nice policy require SE users to "be nice" to people who are not SE users (e.g. public figures)? Over the past year, there's been an uptick in discussions of politics in chat. JUST LOOK AT THIS CHART! ...

discussion featured chat etiquette

user136984

We haven't had too much of that in here lately have we?

Jacob Vlijm

Aha, now I understand why I never became a politician :)

jokerdino

1:55 PM

@Zacharee1 hmm thanks

user136984

:D

Zacharee1

@JacobVlijm too honest? Happens to the best of us

Jacob Vlijm

:) I tend to be too certain of my point of view. At the same time, I am never truly asking someone to agree, although it may seem that way.

Zacharee1

ooh I love key changes in songs

@JacobVlijm :p

they're so much fun

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: Is there any need to install nvidia graphics drivers if I am running Ubuntu Server? by raah on askubuntu.com

Serg

1:58 PM

@edwinksl lol, i fail at sleeping . . . and at trying to close all my AU tabs

@Zacharee1 Some of the animations are just priceless, like octodad and the blacksmith

yes

ok im gone now

orly

You're gone... and back.

jokerdino

@SmokeDetector lol

Zacharee1

2:00 PM

@jokerdino raah

rrraaaaaahhh!!

raaaahhh?

rah

RADDA RADDA

pls

2:04 PM

Cartoon Network before it turned to trash

barely cutting it though

jokerdino

Wah? :(

Zacharee1

in terms of time :p

jokerdino

I used to watch it when I didn't understand a single word they spoke.

Zacharee1

lol

1080i o_O

most of the staff went to this show en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Hooks

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Shortened URL in answer: Why can't I start gnome-terminal after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? by Kenneth Brubaker on askubuntu.com

Zacharee1

2:25 PM

I'm crying xD youtube.com/…

Anwar

4:09 PM

hi

towc

having issues finding bluetooth devices on my ubuntu machine

neither bluetoothctl, hcitool, or blueman was able to find devices that I know are there, and more mature debian installs on other laptops find them without issues

dmesg says this: bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM.hcd failed with error -2

although I don't know what to do with that

terdon

@towc Please ask a question on the site where everyone can see it and you have more chances of getting the attention of the expert(s) who can help you.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: What tag should be used for "first-timer" questions?

I found a few questions erroneously tagged with ubuntu-one where OP seems to have intended to express "I am new"... e.g. Novice computer user - How will it effect how I use my computer? Startup error Uncleared pch fifo underrun on pch transcoder I had updated ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 but thats not...

discussion

edwinksl

4:25 PM

"Nobody's an expert in newbies." -- terdon

towc

@terdon ok, sure

0

Q: Ubuntu 16.04 can't find bluetooth devices

Recently got a new laptop and successfully installed Ubuntu on it. However, unlike my other debian laptops, this one seems unable to discover my bluetooth headset. I tried using bluetoothctl: power on agent on default-agent scan on no error messages, but no results came out. Then I tried hci...

bluetooth headset blueman

Fabby

4:57 PM

@towc duplicate vote added...

Android Dev

5:23 PM

OT: askubuntu.com/q/869132/518562

@ThomasWard - OP wants a mod to migrate askubuntu.com/q/869101/518562

muru

5:43 PM

@George please don't use >` ` to mark code. Instead, indent by four spaces, which can be done by selecting the text and pressing Ctrl-K or clicking on the {} icon in the editor toolbar

terdon

Am I the only one who never uses the editor buttons then?

I just select the code and hit tab.

Although I might have an extension for that.

This one, probably:

64

Q: Better handling of indentation and the TAB key when editing posts

About This user script changes the behavior of a few keys (most notably the Tab key) within the post editor to behave more like it does in IDEs or text editors: When multiple lines are selected, Tab and Shift-Tab indent and dedent these lines When nothing is selected, Tab and Shift-Tab i...

script editing keyboard-shortcuts

edwinksl

the only button i use is the image one

terdon

Same here.

Nathan Osman

6:09 PM

Same here.

I've memorized all the markdown shortcuts by now.

What does Ctrl-R do?

<H1>, I think

No.

@muru sure

@jokerdino Oh? It inserts --------

jokerdino

6:22 PM

Yeah, it inserts HR.

terdon

Ah yes, sorry. That's what I meant. I haven't actually used the <hr> tag in many, many years.

edwinksl

i just type these dashes like a noob

muru

@terdon easier to suggest the editor button than to explain about userscripts and all

jokerdino

H1 is headings, isn't it?

terdon

@muru True, I thought it was default behavior, I've had the script for so long.

@jokerdino yes

jokerdino

6:24 PM

All right, all clear now.

muru

I just copy to an external editor (usually Vim) and do my editing there. It's the only way to correct repeated formatting mistakes and stay sane.

Sometimes you need to do :s/*//g just to get readable text.

jokerdino

Yeah definitely. Replacing > with 4 spaces manually is a killer.

Zacharee1

it is really snowing

BREAKING UP THE BLUE

TheXed

it snowed yesterday, but nothing collected.

Zacharee1

6:39 PM

except disappointment

edwinksl

lel

Nathan Osman

It snowed here yesterday.

Zacharee1

you're in canada of course it snowed :p

Nathan Osman

Not all of Canada gets this much snow.

The west coast usually gets rain.

Although this year was unusual.

chaskes

Saw this today

TheXed

6:56 PM

Windows XP?

No, Windows Embedded...

chaskes

That sounds right

TheXed

Pretty much the same thing...same Kernal IIRC

Zacharee1

yeah

Byte Commander

7:09 PM

wat? askubuntu.com/q/869170/367990 unclear IMHO

chaskes

I don't think it's unclear but it's a dupe.

Tom Brossman

Any youtube-dl users here know how to make it play well with ffmpeg?

RolandiXor

I'm getting torn up on omgubuntu's comments on a particular article because I said some unpopular things.

But I dare anyone to prove to me that some of the things I said aren't true.

chaskes

What's the link?

RolandiXor

omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/01/…

BTW don't expect me to reply :)

Tom Brossman

7:27 PM

Comments with citations that support your position usually work better than asking people to disprove them, no? Having said that, I'm not having much fun with systemd either...

terdon

@RolandiXor You are? I only see one comment replying to yours and that's just noise.

chaskes

@RolandiXor Thanks for sharing the comments. I don't think you're wrong as such, but maybe a little overly pessimistic. But did I miss something, cause I didn't see a lot of response to you. Were comments deleted?

muru

Another user bumping: askubuntu.com/posts/869157/revisions He did that on another question, got downovted, then deleted. This is the second time.

Why do users who bump like the ubuntu-gnome tag so much?

RolandiXor

@chaskes probably.

People were being personal, though of course when I pointed that out the response was the usual "Who me?" :)

(And, no, I do not mean one person - I got the emails from disqus so I saw the comments from other people).

Anyways...

I just find the whole thing funny lol

I may be pessimistic, but at least I'm being honest.

terdon

Ah, never mind, found what you were referring to.

Seth

7:32 PM

@RolandiXor unfortunately I have to agree 100%. systemd is just a small part of this though (like you said)

and by small I don't mean it's not a big problem, it is, but rather that it's only a small part of the decay

RolandiXor

@Seth it's only one of the things I mentioned iirc. Oh and btw, since the switch to systemd, I've had two systems (one of them not even mine) be unable to use lightdm on startup.

It's been a joy! /s

@Seth exactly.

Seth

also hi! you gonna be sticking around? :)

RolandiXor

Yep

Seth

yay

RolandiXor

I was here (on chat) earlier this week but I didn't see you.

Zacharee1

7:35 PM

@muru insert GNOME insult here

Seth

Yeah. My life got a lot busier in 2016 and hasn't shown signs of slowing down anytime soon.

Zach, insulting GNOME? gasp

Zacharee1

sigh

RolandiXor

@Seth mine got busy toward the end of 2016 and is now settling back down.

Jacob Vlijm

@Zacharee1 you made a mistake, should be "si"+"hg"[::-1]

Zacharee1

wat

Jacob Vlijm

7:38 PM

you meant "sigh" I assume... Ah, you fixed it

Zacharee1

yehs

that's why I edited it

Nathan Osman

Hello.

Zacharee1

eek

Jacob Vlijm

You don't read enough python

Zacharee1

the Bacon Canadian!

Jacob Vlijm

7:39 PM

Hi!

Bacon or spam?

Seth

@Zacharee1 lol

@NathanOsman Hi!

RolandiXor

@NathanOsman nice...

Jacob Vlijm

Some people have great titles for their questions...

"How to resolve this problem?"

Tom Brossman

@JacobVlijm I like the ones that have "Help!" somewhere in the title.

Jacob Vlijm

@TomBrossman my favorites too!

chaskes

7:44 PM

The one that drives me crazy is the first line: Title says it all.

Nathan Osman

How's everyone this afternoon?

Jacob Vlijm

....Else you wouldn't know what to do.

@Chaskes yeah, and than the title is unclear as can be :)

chaskes

yep. :)

Jacob Vlijm

@Nathan Fine! (in the evening here) How is your afternoon during my evening?

Tom Brossman

@NathanOsman We're all this good right now:

Jacob Vlijm

7:47 PM

I am not sure he looks too happy ^

Tom Brossman

That's "Hide The Pain Harold" Try an image search for some lulz.

Jacob Vlijm

:)

Zacharee1

How about HELP MEEEE PLZZZZZ

Jacob Vlijm

@Zacharee1 that's the professional approach, often comes with....

Hizqeel

@JacobVlijm This user is copy pasting the same answer everywhere now 4 same answer http://askubuntu.com/a/869163/529390
http://askubuntu.com/a/869173/529390
http://askubuntu.com/a/869179/529390

Jacob Vlijm

7:51 PM

HELP ME WITH MY PROBLEM

Zacharee1

@JacobVlijm and then the comments every 5 minutes Help me plz, I need help!!!, etc

Jacob Vlijm

@Hizqeel I think a flag- candidate!

Hizqeel

I did already

Zacharee1

lolwut askubuntu.com/questions/869186/how-can-i-stunt-my-growth

Jacob Vlijm