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5:17 AM

Didn't know what t was until it was too late XDD

So far, no numlock problems. I'll give it one more day, so that I can read into what NumlockX does for Ubuntu

dessert

6:13 AM

@dgood1 yay! :)

when abiword is started without a running X server it fails with (among others) this error message:

> ** (abiword:2020): WARNING **: clutter failed 0, get a life.

@Zanna does “get a life” mean anything different in this context or is this a rude pun?

Rinzwind

6:28 AM

@dessert not an error. a warning,.

warnings are benign.

what does ldd /usr/bin/abiword show?

dessert

6:49 AM

a whole lot of libraries – what do I search for?

Rinzwind

missing libraries ;-) but if there is a list that is good

@dessert but... what he needs is manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/xinit.1.html

dessert

@Rinzwind Just once I wanted to write about framebuffer image viewers, so I took the chance. ;) Requested clarifications from OP there, their setting and goal is not really clear.

Rinzwind

ha just killed my desktop

dessert

@Rinzwind yes, that’s why I told OP to run startx – that doesn’t work without Xorg installed obviously though, which is what I assume

Rinzwind

cool :) you'll get there

dessert

6:59 AM

@Rinzwind how did you do it this time? I did that yesterday with systemctl restart systemd-logind – I recommend it. :)

Rinzwind

with xinit on tty1 ;)

tried to start a video but it failed

eh AU chat is acting weird :P

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:05 AM

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Q: Is it possilbe to add custom buttons to any window on ubuntu 18.x (Gnome)?

Using the dconf editor I'm able to remove or reorder the windows title bar buttons Ex: :menu,minimize,maximize,close Is the any property or value to add my custom button apart from these, so that I can launch an application do some action like send to another workspace of sorts of ?

Zanna

8:48 AM

@dessert lol clutter failed 0 doesn't mean anything to me. I can't think why abiword is telling you to get a life here XD

dessert

9:06 AM

@Zanna me neither. no X server, no life – is that the implication? :)

DK Bose

9:23 AM

@Rinzwind Calling the Budgie man: askubuntu.com/questions/1145596/…

Rinzwind

9:49 AM

@DKBose :P

only thing I know is that you need to enable it for the normal desktop

@JacobVlijm I spotted a bug! :+

Zanna

10:06 AM

@dessert hahaha maybe

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:24 AM

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Q: Embedding in iframe web-application at a port on another application in the same server

I have an application at say port 5000 which can render embedded iframes. https://host-public-ip:5000/ I have a second application on say port 6000. I would like to embed this page in an iframe in the first application. https://host-public-ip:6000/ This works perfectly when i use the iframe sou...

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DK Bose

11:09 AM

Can someone please help out here: askubuntu.com/questions/1145293/… ? The poster can't run AppImages. I asked for a list of files owned by root. A pastebin has been provided. One of the many items owned by root is ~/.dbus. It isn't owned by root on my system. Could that be a problem for the poster?

@DKBose, i don't think it's that much, mostly two application subdirectories. i've added a pastebin link for the full output in the post and this comment: pastebin.com/nKmF0sPn — Massi Gest 16 mins ago

dessert

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Q: Why does abiword tell users to get a life?

When the word processor abiword is called on a headless machine, one of the issued warnings reads (emphasis mine): ** (abiword:2020): WARNING **: clutter failed 0, get a life. Is this an easter egg? Why does abiword make this snarky remark? No GUI session, no life – is that the implication?

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Jacob Vlijm

@Rinzwind That is impossible of course :) Where is your mistake?

Jacob Vlijm

11:39 AM

@Rinzwind Wait, I see. must be an upstream issue, nothing that relates to budgie. We can work around apparently, but should be filed. I cannot reproduce though.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:03 PM

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Q: How to reset all brightness modifications?

I have followed many instructions in the past and now things are bad. Like: Suppose if I sleep and wake up my laptop, I have to toggle the brightness again in order to make my PC realize what was my brightness level. This happens also when I restart or start my laptop. The weird thing is there ...

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Kulfy

Editing question to add solution because question is now closed. Is it acceptable?

dessert

@Kulfy no, it’s closed for a reason and questions are questions, not answers

link?

Kulfy

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Q: Super and arrow key has started switching tty

I normally use Super and Arrow Key to snap a window to one-half of the screen or the other. About 5 minutes ago, it started to switch between tty consoles. I gather that this is intended to happen when Alt + Arrow Key is used, and Alt + Arrow key does have that behaviour. How can I stop my Supe...

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See last 2 revisions

I rejected the last revision but Tim approved

I agree with close reason after reading the comments but considering votes and last revision, I guess issue is reproducible

dessert

exactly, so it should be reopened and then Tim can answer – RO vote cast

Kulfy

I think the editor should also be pinged after reopening so that they can also post their answer.

dessert

2:16 PM

oh, that wasn’t Tim himself – you’re right

Kulfy

There are basically 2 edits which added solution. One by Tim and one by OJ

dessert

why did Tim himself vote to close? xD

Kulfy

Cause it was not reproducible I guess. And @Tim looks experienced user here.

Zanna

3:17 PM

@dessert awesome:D

Reminds me of the most popular U&L question ever

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Q: Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30?

We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message "gimme gimme gimme" in stderr, which wasn't expected. Why are we getting this output?

date man

Thanks for asking about it

Sorry for delayed responses. If I had a real job, I would have called in sick today

@Kulfy I am actually ok with that if the question is unlikely to be reopened and unlikely to be deleted

It's obviously not ideal, but something I am willing to let slide here and there

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Where can I find the Application-Library-Allowable-Codebase Attribute for Java?

I am using Ubuntu to run an amazon webpage, the page is trying to load a java program and it fails when it tries to open. This opens perfectly in Chrome on Windows but we are looking to go Linux. the error I am getting is: "net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: The resource from https://images-na...

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Zanna

Reopening looks good in this case though - added my vote

Kulfy

@Zanna But we should at least stick to SE's model of Q&A.

@Zanna Thanks :)

Zanna

@Kulfy sure, wherever possible, but I see cases where people remove info about a solution from the question when reopening isn't going to happen and the question isn't going to be deleted either - then I think, just leave the answer in the question if we can't manage to do it properly, no need to destroy it just for the sake of protocol

If we can reopen and even make a CW answer that's much much better

But sometimes the question has no chance of getting reopened and in fact shouldn't be reopened

Just thinking of a few edge cases out if all the thousands of questions I've seen

Kulfy

Can we do 1 thing? Call a mod or flag the question for mod attention. They open a question just for answering the question and then reclose it. Long procedure but I guess it can be followed if we need to strictly stick to the protocol.

Zanna

3:30 PM

I'd only consider that if I was certain the solution was upvoteable

Like, if I could verify and upvote myself

Sometimes those self-answers-in-the-question are not worth all that effort but it still seems counterproductive to delete them

Good thought though

Just my (mal)practice, not policy :)

Anyway that one you found was totally a reopen case

Kulfy

I see a problem in my suggestion. mod needs to be dependent on OP/editor to post the answer and then reclose it. What if they never returned? Or mod forgets about the question? I know mods are very responsible people but still. whispers "Bad Idea"

I may raise this issue again if I find a question with no re-open case

Zanna

The mod could make a CW answer

dessert

@Kulfy I’d stick to the protocol by either not answering anywhere if the Q is rightfully closed or reopen and answer in an answer post if the Q is not rightfully closed. There’s not much room for interpretation IMO, and that’s good.

No need for muddy-moddy workarounds.

Zanna

The mod could make a CW answer, after waiting a day or so for someone else to do it if they felt like it

dessert

@Kulfy but in this case the answer has no place on AU too!

Kulfy

3:42 PM

@Zanna Since mods can edit locked posts. Can they post answers on closed question? Sounds like a stupid question

Zanna

Haha by reopening and then answering

But closing prevents answering, that's its function in theory

dessert

I don’t think a mod should just ignore the community’s decision to close a question, especially if the close reason is valid.

Zanna

Indeed!

Kulfy

@dessert I'm not considering this question. Just a general case. IMO you should answer the question even if it's a silly answer in any case. May be in comments in the earlier case

dessert

no matter whether they can or how they could do that

Zanna

3:47 PM

It would be a terribad abuse of power to go around answering questions nobody else can answer

dessert

@Kulfy questions are not closed because there’s no answer, they are closed because there’s something wrong with the question

Kulfy

@dessert But they should raise their concern (if it's there) and discuss with the community just as I do when I'm in confusion.

dessert

there are plenty of good answers to “Why is Ubuntu better than Windows?”, but that doesn’t make it any less opinion-based

Kulfy

Indeed.

dessert

@Kulfy that’s basically what you do with a reopen vote, yes :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:02 PM

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Q: Switch back to root after switching using SU

I connect to my Ubuntu EC2 instance over SSH and authenticate using a private key. I am in the process of installing Cowrie on my Ubuntu instance and as per the instructions here: https://cowrie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/INSTALL.html I create a non-root user using the following command: sudo ad...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

6:41 PM

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Q: Save output of multiple commands to the same file

For example whoami and date. I can do this that way whoami>/home/user/folder/file date>>/home/user/folder/file But i'm sure it can be done in one line without typing path two times. I have tried using | but always first command is ignored.

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Q: How can I upgrade the kernel on my pinebook now that support has been mainlined?

I have a pinebook running the official KDE neon image with the really old official 3.10 kernel. In 4.17 support for the pinebook was mainlined, so technically I should be able to build the latest mainline kernel, package it as a deb and install it, right? Only issue is that I can only find instru...

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Fabby

Hrmpf...

Even adding "Star Trek" to the title of my video editing question doesn't attract any upvotes let alone answers!

Byte Commander

7:49 PM

Tim

8:12 PM

Thanks @Zanna, @Kulfy, @dessert. You’re right, answers really shouldn’t go in the questions (and normally I’m a stickler for the rules) but I’d tried to reopen it a couple times already and it hadn’t gone anywhere, and I wanted the information visible. I’ll post the answer later today; thanks for reopening it!

dessert

@Tim I’m glad we could help!

Kulfy

@Tim I left a comment on your question a while ago for you and the editor OJ

Tim

Yeah just seen it... had a tiring day with my phone turned off to prevent distractions! I’ve posted my edit as an answer

@dessert oh yeah, I couldn’t reproduce it, and nobody else had the issue, so I decided to close it too!

@Zanna I’ll give OJ a chance to post, and post as CW tomorrow around this time if they don’t

@Zanna yeah I’ve been voting to reopen a few times now! Thanks for the assist.

Zanna

@Tim perfect :) thanks!

@Tim it's frustrating that you only got the help when you tried to do something "wrong" hahaha and not earlier when you were trying to do it right.