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bambuntu

13:01

gdm, but I checked it on light too, same thing

Octavian Damiean

On lightdm @htorque's answer is supposed to work.

bambuntu

Well, it's easy to test. Open users-admin. Open /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (or light). Check the Don't prompt for password box. You'll see it does not alter the config file, yet if you log out then back in, it works right away. open the config file and it will e unaltered

rlemon

@jrg shoot

nvm i see you've fixed it

jrg

Now I need a fart app icon. groans what kind of an icon would that be?! :P

Octavian Damiean

@bambuntu I don't have users-admin nor /etc/gdm/*

bambuntu

13:05

It's the password program. and /etc/lightdim/lightdm.conf

Octavian Damiean

@jrg A brown-greenish cloud.

Cartoonish.

rlemon

3< <- bum farting | 3-- <- bum pooping

jrg

well thats the default one M$ gave me, I kinda like it.

Octavian Damiean

@bambuntu If you set that Automatic login option then the config file /etc/lidghtdm/users.conf will be altered.

bambuntu

That is not my experience.

Octavian Damiean

13:08

What Ubuntu version do you use?

Do you use Unity3D?

bambuntu

I'll fire up 12, so I'm using lightdm, but this does not work for gdm. I'm going just verify it again.

Not sure what that is.

jrg

5.4 Your app must not contain or display content that a reasonable person would consider to be obscene - So um, we're all reasonable people here, are farts "obscene"?

Octavian Damiean

@bambuntu lsb_release -r will return your Ubuntu version.

@jrg Farts are not obscene at all.

It is something totally natural.

jrg

ok, i'm ok then.

rlemon

how's that for a fart icon

bambuntu

13:15

I'm firing up 12

jrg

@rlemon I like it...

bambuntu

My browser is on a slow computer, so I'm crashing alot

Octavian Damiean

Let me guess, Windows. :)

rlemon

@jrg there is no fire... so i dunno.

wonders if he can still find his Lindows disc

jrg

Heh.

Unfortunately, my dreams of a 5-star fart app are short lived. :( Microsoft wants me to be 18 in order to submit it to them.

Octavian Damiean

13:20

Otherwise they can't sue you.

You sure want to be able to sue your developers. :D

bambuntu

ok, just tested

rlemon

@jrg 50/50 i'll submit it for you ;)

jrg

I'll just talk Dad into doing it for me. :)

rlemon

we'll start a company... call it J.R. Gee why did I ever partner with rlemon

3

jrg

@rlemon its a free app, 10 lines of html, and 8 of css that could be squashed into 1.

Octavian Damiean

13:23

heh

jrg

ITS A TRAP!

rlemon

►

lol

Octavian Damiean

heh

@rlemon Admiral Ackbar hi5! o/

jrg

just to uh, fit in with the memes there. >_>

Octavian Damiean

Meme peer pressure?

rlemon

13:25

> 10 bucks says this is the next scene Lucas ruins

best comment i've seen in a youtube post in a while.

Octavian Damiean

Neva.

50 mins ago, by Octavian Damiean

Does that give the impression of inset text to you guys?

Do you know how I could make it a bit prettier?

The shadow.

Allan

@OctavianDamiean imdb.com/title/tt0111143

Octavian Damiean

Good idea, I need a picture of the cover of The Shadow on that site. :D

rlemon

@OctavianDamiean looks good to me.

playing around with the colours may help

i'm assuming you've seen this

Octavian Damiean

O HAI! No. :D

Thanks.

bambuntu

13:36

@Octavia, checked Ubuntu 12. Does not work.

Octavian Damiean

I probably don't understand what you're trying to achieve then.

bambuntu

It's gnome-system-settings->user accounts. autologin checkbox. It does not affect the /etc/lightdm/user.conf file.

Octavian Damiean

It does for me though.

I'm on 11.10.

bambuntu

How did you test?

Octavian Damiean

By performing the actions and checking whether the file got changed or not. :)

bambuntu

13:39

I've got 11 too, I 'll give it a try.

Octavian Damiean

The 11 is not as important as the following numbers.

There is 11.04 and 11.10.

bambuntu

Do you have more than one user? Because I do, and there are not entrie for each user

Octavian Damiean

I have only one user.

jrg

So, here it is. @rlemon

rlemon

@OctavianDamiean jsfiddle.net/rlemon/jptpC/1

does that look a little more embedded for you?

Octavian Damiean

13:41

@bambuntu Oh god, I'm sorry. I meant the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

bambuntu

I just check 11.04. Doesn't change that file.

Octavian Damiean

That file gets changed, not the users.conf ...

jokerdino

make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

!@#$

bambuntu

ok, I'll check that. That's what I've verified already on 10.04 and 10.10

rlemon

bambuntu

13:42

doesn't work on those.

Octavian Damiean

@rlemon Yup but I can't use background-clip. :)

rlemon

@OctavianDamiean that sucks.

Octavian Damiean

@bambuntu How can you verify a lightdm setting on 10.04 and 10.10?

Did you install lighdm yourself on those versions?

rlemon

jsfiddle.net/rlemon/jptpC/3 <- @OctavianDamiean version 2.0

Oli

@jokerdino has that allocation gone yet? Just pushed the fixes to help stop it happening in the future

jokerdino

13:45

Yes, it got removed. Thanks!

Octavian Damiean

Man, it looks so much better with background-clip. :(

rlemon

why can't you use background clip

Octavian Damiean

Because Firefox doesn't support background-clip text.

rlemon

But It's SOOOO Sweet!!!!

Octavian Damiean

I know, it is friggin' amazing. :D

rlemon

13:47

has anyone used the SimpleOpenID.class.php

Octavian Damiean

@bambuntu paste.ubuntu.com/865080

That is the diff of lightdm.conf before and after ticking that checkbox.

bambuntu

I'm seeing that is changing it on 12. But, it seems to only contain one user at a time.

I created a new user, and checked autologin, and the other entry dissapeared. It seems to toggle them. I'm lookingfor the real config file.

Octavian Damiean

@bambuntu Well you can't have multiple users auto-login apparently.

That is the real config file.

bambuntu

Sureyou can.

I've had a whole list of them do it.

Octavian Damiean

How would that work!?

bambuntu

13:54

Creates x number of user. check the box.

Octavian Damiean

Automatically login means that it doesn't even show the unity-greeter.

You mean passwordless login.

bambuntu

Yes.

Octavian Damiean

That is a totally different story then. ;)

bambuntu

Ok, so I've confused them.

Octavian Damiean

Yup.

Give me a second, I'm sure that question was already asked.

bambuntu

13:56

They seem intuitively the same.

Octavian Damiean

@jrg Is it possible that we don't have a question dealing with enabling passwordless login?

jokerdino

It is possible, I reckon

bambuntu

I also see the terms are being smattered. As I was doign.

I guess I could ask a question that differentiates the two, so it's atleast up.

Octavian Damiean

Well you could convert your current question.

It is what you wanted to ask.

I'll write an answer.

bambuntu

That's true, but I don't find that fair for those who commented after. Unless it's just grammar or clearity.

It makes them lookliek they answered or commented poorly.

Octavian Damiean

14:09

@bambuntu Comments can be deleted.

bambuntu

By others who have not commented?

rlemon

OpenID anyone

anyone

common

:P

Octavian Damiean

@bambuntu By moderators. ;)

bambuntu

Oh, ok. Well, if it could be cleaned up I'll just rewrite it.

I'll go ahead and get it started. It like, really important I get the answer.

I tried strace to find the file, but I'm just not guru

jokerdino

I did it! lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2012-March/…

Octavian Damiean

14:13

Alright, so the question still is how to enable passwordless login from the command line right?

Could you please generalize it a bit? Asking for a GUI and command line method?

That way we can cover both and have a canonical question for that topic. :)

@StefanoPalazzo o/

Have you read my GTalk message to you?

Stefano Palazzo

hi :)

@OctavianDamiean that is pretty cool!

Octavian Damiean

heh

There is also this add-on. Python shell for Google Chrome

bambuntu

@Octavia. Sure. And thanks. Pardon my bad connection.

rlemon

can someone check to see if my openid auth works for them? chat.rlemon.com I'm not storing anything... just dumping all request vars back upon successful authorization.

jrg

@OctavianDamiean Maybe.

Entirely possible.

Stefano Palazzo

14:22

6

Q: How do I make Ubuntu not ask me for my password?

I'm confident that I do not need a password for my computer. How do I remove passwords for things like when the screensaver activates and installing software?

like this?

heh, @Octavian you commented on this as well :)

Octavian Damiean

@StefanoPalazzo Oh boy ...

Just posted my answer.

DAMN!

TheX

@jrg yeah but why does it do it repeatedly over and over again? (Google talk), and only for you?

Octavian Damiean

0

A: Enable/Disable Prompt For Login Password Via Command Line

Here is how you can enable passwordless login from Ubuntu 11.10 onward. Go to System Settings → User Accounts Unlock the administrative functions by clicking the Unlock button in the top right corner and entering your password. Select the user for which you want to enable passwordless login....

:(

You reckon I should post that as an answer to the first one?

Allan

Just submitted an apport-collect from tty1 using a text browser O.o

jokerdino

Say whaa?

Octavian Damiean

14:30

:D

You should get a heroic bug reporter badge. :D

rlemon

Ugh... Why does openid suck for me

bambuntu

@Octavian. In your answer, I see that the thing you clearified with me, is sort not the way you worded it.

Octavian Damiean

@StefanoPalazzo Rereading the question you've posted I think it is not really the same question. :/

Not sure which answer to undelete.

@bambuntu What do you mean?

Stefano Palazzo

if you undelete your answer on the old one, you could flag the new one as a duplicate

bambuntu

Ok, I was confused about passwordless login and auto login. Your answer is about auto login, but you use the term passwordless login.

William

14:38

Oli

@bambuntu What is the question? I've just submitted an answer but I'm still not sure it's what you're after.

bambuntu

Ok, just a sec. I have to read.

William

My notes re gone!

NOOOOOO!!!!!!

Octavian Damiean

@StefanoPalazzo The question is where it is more correct? :)

rlemon

@Oli or @OctavianDamiean can one of you check something for me?

Octavian Damiean

14:39

Sure.

@bambuntu My answer is about passwordless login, not auto-login.

Oli

We need an ubbottu-style !ask command.

@OctavianDamiean What's the difference?

Stefano Palazzo

@OctavianDamiean not really, the old questions is about disabling password prompts everywhere, but it'd be easier to find there anyway

rlemon

!ask openid --login http://chat.rlemon.com

Octavian Damiean

@Oli Auto login will automatically log the specified user in without presenting the unity greeter.

Stefano Palazzo

and the new question is a dupe, isn't it?

Oli

14:41

@William Notes are no longer shown on the Web UI (happened yesterday IIRC) but Tomboy can still sync them

@OctavianDamiean Is that not just setting the timeout?

rlemon

only my launchpad openid credentials are working.

Octavian Damiean

@Oli I'm not sure what technique is used to achieve that to be honest.

I didn't even know that there is a timeout.

Allan

@rlemon did you get my message earlier?

rlemon

@Allan likely not.

gist.github.com/23632e8ba6819cd11016

Octavian Damiean

Time to fire up my VMs

Oli

14:43

@rlemon hm?

Argl the PHP... She burns!

rlemon

@Oli trying to figure out this openid thing.

jrg

@rlemon chat.rlemon.com hangs

Allan

@rlemon I think your problem is with a bios setting

rlemon

@jrg give it a minute or two.

@Allan what setting are you thinking :P

Allan

@rlemon sata

jrg

14:44

ok, so now I got a array with my lp openid stuff

bambuntu

@OctavianDamiean I thought when you were passwordless login, you don't have to enter a password, you just enter, whereas autologin, I'm guess you don't get the greeter.

That's what I thought you made clear to me.

Octavian Damiean

That is what I believe as well, yes.

I'm testing it in a VM.

rlemon

@jrg ok. but why does it not work for g+ or facebook?

Oli

@bambuntu Yeah, I think the only difference between the two is that one has a shorter timeout set. The greeter is still running, it's just doing its auto-login quicker.

bambuntu

Ok, nice answer, you should put it back.

jrg

14:46

No idea.

rlemon

@Allan ok I am also noticing that is setup for a Non-OS2 OS

bambuntu

Time out?

Allan

@rlemon sata controller type setting ide to ahci if thats possible in your bios

Octavian Damiean

@bambuntu Just tested it.

You don't see the unity greeter at all, you'll log straight in.

rlemon

@Allan nope - no options for that. however my device only takes CF

bambuntu

14:49

So, that is autologin?

Octavian Damiean

Yes.

Allan

@rlemon CF?

rlemon

@Allan Compact Flash (ssd)

Allan

@rlemon is that the one in the video youtube.com/watch?v=1CQboj6mmGM

rlemon

yes

Octavian Damiean

14:50

If you set passwordless login for an user you just won't have to enter any password when you login.

rlemon

@Allan jp.avalue.com.tw/products/EBM-LX800.cfm that is my device.

bambuntu

Now that's what I'm looking for. I have write a script that enables and disables it based on conditions.

passwordless, not auto

Octavian Damiean

Yup. I have added a GUI solution for that, let's see who comes up with a command line solution.

bambuntu

Thanks Octavia. Oli says it's a timeout difference.

I don't know what timeout is.

Allan

@rlemon do you think a network install might work? help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot

rlemon

14:54

2

Q: MinimalCD Network autoconfiguration fails

I'm attempting to get an Ubuntu MinimalCD Install working without much luck.. Working from the guide posted here I can get the CD to boot and I select the Command-Line Installer option. After selecting my Language and Keyboard settings the installer fails on Configure the network with DHCP with...

networking ubuntu-minimal modprobe

I can try

but I got held up on the minimal cd installer because it wouldn't load the proper driver.

bambuntu

@OctavianDamiean The gui solution would be easy for autologin, because the button is right there in your picts.

Allan

@rlemon does that board have an Ide connector

rlemon

> 2 x EIDE, 2 x SATA, 1 x FDD, 1 x LPT, 5 x RS-232, 1 x RS-232/422/485, 1 x K/B, 1 x Mouse

And i've put a plotech audio / usb board on it as well so I have 4x USB2.0

Octavian Damiean

@bambuntu Well of course you could also turn on auto-login but I didn't describe that.

I've described passwordless login. ;)

Allan

@rlemon linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-distributions-5/…

check the last post

Bruno Pereira

14:59

@rlemon Still no luck? :o

rlemon

i've read that thread. I do not have those bios options.

@BrunoPereira nope :<

> Onboard Lan Boot ROM

what would that do?

Bruno Pereira

That looks for PXE servers on the network to boot from

rlemon

ahh

yea that'll boot QNX

bambuntu

Is there a way to put pics in comments?

Oli

@bambuntu You can [link](http://.....) to them

Questions Feed

15:01

Bounty offered: What Application Indicators are available? http://askubuntu.com/questions/30334/what-application-indicators-are-available #unity

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM

bambuntu

Ok, Oli. BTW, what did you mean by timeout in your question?

Allan

@QuestionsFeed wtf O.o

bambuntu

In your answer.

rlemon

@Oli @bambuntu [link text](http://url/ "optional title") <- be complete ;)

Octavian Damiean

@Allan It's not QuestionsFeed's fault this time.

Allan

15:03

why the bounty thats nuts

rlemon

here are my bios options

Octavian Damiean

rcs20 did that.

rlemon

Oli

@Allan They say they want to reward a specific answer

rlemon

The cut-off option is the Onboard Lan Boot ROM option

Octavian Damiean

15:04

@Oli Does that even work on a CW!?

Bruno Pereira

@rlemon I dont think there are many BIOS settings that can be related with your issue :/

rlemon

@BrunoPereira lol

Oli

@OctavianDamiean Yeah. Bounties go to the person who started the post (if there's more than one)

Octavian Damiean

Interesting.

> alright this is crap see ya stackoverflow ...

Interesting description is interesting.

jrg

@OctavianDamiean oh, the MSO post?

Octavian Damiean

15:06

Huh?

Allan

BTW yesterday Shawn Powers from Linux Journal called me a hero I almost fell off my seat

Octavian Damiean

@Allan Link!

jrg

@Allan :O :D

Oli

@rlemon I think your only remaining option... it to put this little computer on a plane and also smuggle some snakes and some snake pheromone on too, and release the pheromone when the plane hits its max altitude. The snakes will kill everybody and your computer will end up rotting at the bottom of the sea.

Best outcome for everybody, really.

Octavian Damiean

lol

rlemon

15:08

my bios had a 'load failsafe options'

jokerdino

oops dupe guys askubuntu.com/questions/109405/ubuntu-one-notes-are-gone/…

Oli

Unless Samuel L. Jackson's a passenger too. He really doesn't like snakes on his planes.

Octavian Damiean

heh

jokerdino

@Oli High on caffeine?

Oli

@jokerdino Funny you should say that...

Allan

15:09

@OctavianDamiean plus.google.com/105150939957514807325/posts/…

rlemon

I also found the 'paraphernalia' section which allows me to turn on and off serial ports.

Bruno Pereira

@rlemon I had a look around and some people complain that the chipset in your network card is a bit tricky to work with, some report that "if the card is disabled in windows via the driver it will stay off an survive reboots". The best sugestion until now was really get another card and use that one instead :/

rlemon

@BrunoPereira it is embedded.

this is a core product. I will be manufacturing 500+ next year

I need the onboard hardware to work.

Bruno Pereira

Oo ouch

will keep looking

Oli

@rlemon We're going to need a bigger plane.

rlemon

15:12

NetBSD 5.x works. however there are other issues with it that are making me try to avoid netBSD

and I know QNX4 works :) that is what i'm trying to get away from however.

Oli

@rlemon I prefer this one (for the tagline)

4

Classic textbook gold.

rlemon

Octavian Damiean

oh lol

rlemon

ok enough of that.

i'm trying to boot now with all onboard irq's and serial and parallel ports not in use diabled.

Marco Ceppi

waits for someone to be offended

jokerdino

15:19

feels offended and flags the picture

jrg

@jokerdino so, those radiance menus in ambience are here to stay.

rlemon

@MarcoCeppi I'm offended. Wizards and any depiction of Magic, Wizardry, and general Hocus portray imagery of Acultism and therefore should be removed.

jrg

according to georgi, and I trust him.

rlemon

if the Americans can use that type of jibber jabber to remove the harry potter books so can I!

jokerdino

That's it, I am moving back to Windows 7.

4

jrg

15:21

:D

At least in the Radience theme, they fit in.

jokerdino

Ambiance sub-menus light like Radiance after latest light-themes update.

After the latest light-themes update today the menus for Ambiance are light as if they actually belong to Radiance. Some icons also end up having a orange box as a background as well but that's an entirely different bug. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release: 12.04 Codename: precise

light-themes (Ubuntu)

High / Invalid

rlemon

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG UBUNTU!!!!

SHE LOADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (disabled un-used ports)

jokerdino

It is a bug in Unity I suppose. Switching to gnome-shell to check

William

Yes, I heard.

jrg

just replicated it on gnome shell.

Bruno Pereira

15:25

@rlemon its alive?

Oli

Is there a known bug that stops a Precise LiveCD booting on Nvidia hardware? Is Nouveau [still] rogered?

jrg

@Oli AFIK, no. #ubuntu+1 might be a good place to ask though

Allan

@rlemon this calls for a success kid

rlemon

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Bruno Pereira

(he sounds happy)

Allan

15:30

3

William

Windows Didn't Load. Didn't load Windows.

Allan

You know that kid must be worth millions by now O.o

Bruno Pereira

Wonder how old he is now and if he really likes the idea

Marco Ceppi

Know your meme

He is around 5 years old now

William

Its weird how the internet takes seemingly random things and decides they should be popular.

Octavian Damiean

15:41

The really interesting thing will be when Sammy realizes what all that means once he is older.

I'm not quite sure if he'll like that.

William

Just think of what he could put on his college application...

...famous for making a fist at a camera.

rlemon

Ok so the problem is with IRQ 5, or 10, or 11... not quite sure yet.

Amith KK

Hello all

@William LOL

Octavian Damiean

15:56

@rlemon jsfiddle.net/mainerror/jptpC/4

loves CSS transition

I don't really understand why people always use jQuery for stuff like that.

rlemon

lol

Amith KK

jsfiddle.net/amith/gnMEn/1/embedded/result

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