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lazyPower

15:02

Ahoy @user1294628 o/

jokerdino

:( < 20 rep

lazyPower

its my intern

sadface

jokerdino

Oh?

hey lazy's intern!

lazyPower

he needs to go interact with the site

jokerdino

Quickly edit a bunch of posts or create an account in 15 other sites.

Ok, I cut that down to 10 other sites.

hey @RolandTaylor

Tab fail

Roland Taylor

15:04

@jokerdino hey

jokerdino

sup homie?

Roland Taylor

Shaking off the sleepiness and getting into the day lol

Did msPeachy and Anwar get the .hidden thing working?

jokerdino

heh that sounds like a terrible thing. go back to bed :P

@RolandTaylor yes and yes

msP was looking for a solution for a different partition

jrg

@user1294628 Ahoy intern!

Roland Taylor

@jokerdino Oh cool ^_^

lazyPower

15:06

@jrg he needs more rep to talk :|

jokerdino

@lazyPower Just fed him 15 rep.

Roland Taylor

@jokerdino the partition is ntfs?

lazyPower

i upvoted a signpost on SO for him

nice

ty @jokerdino

jrg

@lazyPower according to what I'm seeing, he can talk. :)

jokerdino

@RolandTaylor Anwar's was. Not sure about msP but they both got it solved.

Roland Taylor

15:07

@jokerdino awesome

user1294628

hello all

thanks for the upvotes

jokerdino

@lazyPower OK I only gave him one upvote. There are two other nice hearts around.

@user1294628 :)

Why the sad face in gravatar?

lazyPower

LOL the waffle

jrg

@user1294628 you're welcome, and welcome to Ask Ubuntu general room - land of the off-topicness, and the @lazyPower-aka-boss-man abiding.

Anwar

same problem

smartboyhw

15:09

Yo @Anwar

lazyPower

not so much the boss - more the mentor :)

smartboyhw

Hello @user1294628

user1294628

hello

Roland Taylor

@user1294628 hi

user1294628

brb im going to change this name

jokerdino

15:09

Somehow you remind me of the dude with pink elephant as gravatar.

@user1294628 Thanks much <3

userxxx is a terrible name.

@Anwar what problem?

Anwar

ok

i again tested with ff. it's same

jokerdino

You can't see things?

Oh, how about 10 second bounty offer? :P

Anwar

only in Chat

aking1012

monochrome screengrab application icon...

Anwar

@jokerdino good

lazyPower

15:11

@aking1012 o/

jokerdino

@aking1012 that looks nice-ish

smartboyhw

@aking1012 Good

jokerdino

@Anwar :P

Roland Taylor

A bit wide though

smartboyhw

@RolandTaylor Agree

lazyPower

15:12

Put a mustache on it

Anwar

@RolandTaylor thanks to you for the tip.

aking1012

@lazyPower hi. jok yeah, it's not supposed to be pretty, monochrome...and i should probably slim it down some...

Roland Taylor

@Anwar you're welcome

Anwar

jokerdino helped with the guess

jokerdino

why me?

@RolandTaylor your* (mimicking haker)

3

aking1012

15:15

Roland Taylor

@jokerdino :)

aking1012

better?

smartboyhw

@aking1012 No

jokerdino

@RolandTaylor :))

Roland Taylor

@aking1012 I hardly noticed a difference lol

jokerdino

15:16

That got two stars?

smartboyhw

@RolandTaylor Same for me

aking1012

how narrow then?

jokerdino

@RolandTaylor slightly less wdie

Anwar

three

Roland Taylor

@aking1012 actually, tbh, it doesn't convey "screencasting", it's more like a screenshot icon

jokerdino

15:16

Is Mahesh around or what?

@AmithKK good try :P

Amith KK

:P

smartboyhw

@AmithKK You want us to star that message?

Amith KK

Yeah

lazyPower

What if you did an icon that has the ubuntu purple bg with a flimstrip over it?

that would signify more that its a screencasting app

jokerdino

@lazyPower its a monochrome

Anwar

15:17

Is 200 a use in chat?

lazyPower

That or just rip the head off of cookie monster and call it a day

Amith KK

Oh, just star it to find out

smartboyhw

Is there a downvote feature here?

lazyPower

3

smartboyhw

I wanna downvote @AmithKK's message

@lazyPower LOL

jokerdino

15:18

@lazyPower That's gonna haunt my night and the dreams.

Amith KK

@lazyPower lol

lazyPower

@smartboyhw no but we can pantomime the actions to feel better about it.

Amith KK

BBL

aking1012

@RolandTaylor yeah, i know, but a monochrome video camera? i don't see it happening. maybe the profile instead of the head on?

Anwar

bye @AmithKK

hit and run (izx's word, blame him)

:P

smartboyhw

15:19

BBL @AmithKK

@Anwar LOL

lazyPower

@JoshuaRobison E17 is beautiful. I haven't run E since my time in slackware though... I did however fund the project by buying a copy of their EOS

Anwar

@jokerdino ^^

aking1012

@lazyPower filmstrip could work

jokerdino

e17. how do you use that thing?

IAMA Sockpuppet

Hey!

lazyPower

15:21

You configure and customize it. Its just as flexible as fluxbox and its variants

jokerdino

I log into E and I see a wallpaper.

lazyPower

right click, get your menu driven interactions on.

jrg

I <3 bodhi linux. so freakin' powerful.

lazyPower

There are also several components to work with.

jokerdino

I say thanks and restart x.

jrg

15:22

@IAMASockpuppet I've got my eyes on you... ;)

jokerdino

Oh, you right click?

IAMA Sockpuppet

@jrg :)

jokerdino

It looks too scary. I don't know how to use anything >_>

Gabriel

Quick question everyone

jokerdino

@Legomyego Pong.

Anwar

15:23

:P

lazyPower

Its not for the feint of heart. Rasterman was building a beautiful desktop UX back in the 90's that has evolved into 'this'

Legomyego

@jokerdino Ping?

lazyPower

i don't even know how active in E development rasterman is anymore.

jokerdino

@Anwar You are evil.

smartboyhw

@Gabriel Pease do so

@jokerdino I do agree. @Anwar is the evil king

lazyPower

15:24

@user1294628 you will need to exit and re-join chat for your username to update.

Gabriel

I just realized clickin on the icons in the Unity launcher now effectively minimizes open windows.

Is this a new feature?

jrg

@Legomyego I <3 your new name.

Gabriel

I'm referring to this question in particular: askubuntu.com/questions/36433/…

jokerdino

That sounds like a bug to me lol.

Legomyego

@lazyPower ooo ok ill brb and @jrg thanks

Gabriel

15:24

Or this bug: bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349

IAMA Sockpuppet

@jrg Do you have the all seeing eyes?

Gabriel

Anybody else noticed this in their system?

jrg

@IAMASockpuppet I can see multiple things.

jokerdino

gnome-shell doesn't do that.

Roland Taylor

@aking1012 yeah profile would do it

Anwar

15:25

@Gabriel i used a PPA to achieve this

IAMA Sockpuppet

@jrg Nice.

Hey @RolandTaylor!!!

Gabriel

@Anw

sotty

sorry dammit

@Anwar which one?

Legomyego

did that work

Roland Taylor

@IAMASockpuppet hey!

aking1012

@Gabriel my understanding is "everyone" has that bug because it's not a bug. it's status-by-design

lazyPower

15:26

sure did. i see it

Anwar

2

A: Why can't I use the Unity launcher icon to minimize applications/windows?

There is an experimental patch for 12.04 that enables this behaviour. It is for testing purposes only. Since it wasn't even considered adding minimize on click as an option, Jonathan French has created a PPA with the minimize on click patch. https://launchpad.net/~ojno/+archive/unity-minimi...

Gabriel

@aking1012 exactly, that's what I thought too.

IAMA Sockpuppet

@RolandTaylor How are ya?

aking1012

@Gabriel so what's the question?

jokerdino

@lazyPower was that in 12.04?

Roland Taylor

15:27

@IAMASockpuppet I'm cool and a wee bit busy lol

lazyPower

@jokerdino ?

Anwar

@aking1012 i think, he missed ping

jokerdino

You minimized by clicking the icon in 12.04?

Gabriel

@aking1012 that I didn't use any PPA and now clicking on the icons minimizes windows

Anwar

@jokerdino yeah

aking1012

15:28

@IAMASockpuppet i know at least one person can dual-wield browsers

IAMA Sockpuppet

@RolandTaylor Will talk to you later ;)

Gabriel

@jokerdino yes, I couldn't do that two days ago

Anwar

@Gabriel great!

lazyPower

yeah, but i wasn't the one that asked. that was @Gabriel

IAMA Sockpuppet

@aking1012 I am phoning home. ET is calling me. Bye.

Anwar

15:28

I am doing it for at least 2 months :P

aking1012

@IAMASockpuppet heheheh

Anwar

bye @IAMASockpuppet

Gabriel

@Anwar but you used a PPA to do this

I didn't

jokerdino

@Anwar @Gabriel Weird. I probably dont use the launcher enough.

Gabriel

that's the nature of my question: has this been incorporated lately?

Roland Taylor

15:29

That's insane... it's not happening on 12.10...

Anwar

@Gabriel If you think, i've downloaded a lots of things by using that ppa. sorry :P

aking1012

it's same as always for me. not minimizing

Anwar

i didn't

jokerdino

Someone is taking E.

Anwar

I just downdoaded and installed the package without sudo apt-get upgrade . he he

lazyPower

15:30

@RolandTaylor on Unity3d its giving me the window picker. Is that what you see in 12.10?

Gabriel

@Anwar ok but I did not install anything extra and this was not happening two days ago

So this is not a new feature?

Roland Taylor

@lazyPower yeah, but only if I have multiple windows of the same app

Gabriel

I'm seeing some glitch?

Roland Taylor

@Gabriel that sounds almost like a bug O_o

lazyPower

looks like it

Roland Taylor

15:31

Check your sources.

jokerdino

I am gonna boot into 12.04. One sec.

Roland Taylor

(Repositories)

Anwar

@Gabriel You even didn't use the workaround given in the other answer?

Gabriel

haha ok, but I like this bug!

jrg

@Gabriel I <3 all bugs that are features.

aking1012

15:32

probably. i saw some weirdness the other day where it was showing all my workspaces in the alt-tab switcher and clicking on icons in the launcher moved me to the right workspace...i can't replicate it now though

Gabriel

just to be sure let me quickly check my PPAs

Anwar

LOL, what's this?

jokerdino

on 12.04

Anwar

on 12.04.1

aking1012

@Anwar 1 rep user tried to post a link and it was sanitized

Gabriel

15:33

nope, no trace of the ppa:ojno/unity-minimize-on-click PPA

jokerdino

@Anwar spam

jrg

it's one for the history book.

jokerdino

spammer forgot his link

The Interrupter

Great answer: What are mailing lists and how do they function? http://askubuntu.com/a/181311?atw=1 #development

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on September 8, 2012 at 3:01 PM

Anwar

yeah. flagged

@jrg thanks

lol

jrg

15:34

For those who missed out

smartboyhw

@jrg That IS clearly a spam OMG

jokerdino

@Gabriel How does this work for you?

Anwar

page from a hidden history ^

lazyPower

wow, SE is getting spammed huh? I wonder what id10t company decided THAT was a good idea

jokerdino

i can't get this for whatever reason.

Roland Taylor

15:35

@Gabriel weird

Anwar

@Gabriel can you post the output of apt-cache policy unity here?

Gabriel

@Anwar Well it's a bit buggy. If I have two windows open, say 2 Chrome's, then clicking once will display both windows tiled

but one of them will be blank

clicking again will minimize both

if there's only 1 window opened, it will display/miknimize on click

Roland Taylor

@jrg I should marry his sister, she sounds rich.

Gabriel

@Anwar sure, could you tell me how? :)

Roland Taylor

@Gabriel did you apply any updates?

Before this happened I mean

jokerdino

15:37

OK I am talking to my dad. I guess he will resolve this for us :P

Gabriel

@RolandTaylor I think so, yesterday but I don't remember what got updated

Anwar

@Gabriel open a terminal, do the command, copy and paste here

@jokerdino please send my regards to him :P

jrg

@RolandTaylor hahah

jokerdino

@Anwar nope. butterfingers from my dad

Gabriel

@Anwar sorry, what command? apt-cache policy unity?

jokerdino

15:38

will call my sister

Anwar

@Gabriel yes

This page needs updating

Gabriel

ok, here it goes:

unity:
Instalados: 5.14.0-0ubuntu1+ikarosdev2
Candidato: 5.14.0-0ubuntu1+ikarosdev2
Tabla de versión:
*** 5.14.0-0ubuntu1+ikarosdev2 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ikarosdev/unity-revamped/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
5.14.0-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
5.10.0-0ubuntu6 0
500 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

jokerdino

ikarosdev2!

Roland Taylor

I told you, it's a PPA.

jokerdino

PPA spotted

Gabriel

15:40

dammit! where?

Roland Taylor

That's why I said "check your sources" :)

41 secs ago, by jokerdino

ikarosdev2!

jokerdino

launchpad.net/~ikarosdev/+archive/unity-revamped

aking1012

@RolandTaylor starrificated

jokerdino

You are using that PPA.

njallam

@izx D: :(

Gabriel

15:40

I did! Bur I didn't see the one I was looking for

Roland Taylor

@aking1012 lol thanks :D

Gabriel

Which one is it?

Roland Taylor

>_<

Gabriel

I was looking for this one: ppa:ojno/unity-minimize-on-click

Roland Taylor

are we going to be dense now?

njallam

15:41

@izx wants rid of me?

Roland Taylor

I thought you didn't use PPAs at all from a previous statement you made

Anwar

@Gabriel this line says it's not from standard repo Instalados: 5.14.0-0ubuntu1+ikarosdev2

Gabriel

@RolandTaylor no I said I didn't have that ppa installed

Apparently I was wrong

jokerdino

@Gabriel not really your fault. don't worry. you are just using a PPA and giving you weird experiences.

aking1012

okay, afk to get coffee grounds and avoid the upcoming exchange so i don't get to feeling froggy

Roland Taylor

15:42

Yeah someone added something to their PPA that you wouldn't have expected - happens.

Gabriel

Oh, ok. I didn't know this could happen. How can I tell which PPA is doing this?

jokerdino

I had to reboot coz of you. My dear uptime... oh noes..

aking1012

@RolandTaylor added something that changed the behaviour of unity to a ppa that has unity-revamped in the name? i NEVER would have thought it would have an effect on unity /snark

3

jokerdino

@Gabriel you could check if you have any ppa installed.

@aking1012 go back to coffee machine :P

aking1012

skulks to the coffee machine

Anwar

15:43

@jokerdino :P

Roland Taylor

@aking1012 xD

I didn't check the PPA's link (was busy writing an answer ;))

0

A: How can I colour code my files like on a Mac?

This is not possible with Nautilus, but if you use Marlin or Pantheon Files, you can add colours to your folders. To install Marlin: GUI Method Add this PPA: ppa:marlin-devs/marlin-daily Refresh your sources. Install Marlin from the Software Center Optionally you can add the Dropbox and/or Ub...

takes a bow

@Gabriel well it didn't happen in this case as I thought, but you can tell by checking what the PPA provides in the Software Center

Alec

Feel when you buy a book on Amazon, and 5 days later you see "Shipping soon"

Roland Taylor

It's really not that big a problem most of the time.

@Alec lol

Alec

I just want my book on PHP :(

amazon.com/gp/product/1430232498/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

Roland Taylor

@Alec did you do the rain dance?

jokerdino

15:47

ok back on quantal gnome-shell with gdm

Prasad

hi all hi @anwar hi @jokerdino are you angry with me?

Alec

Nope, not yet.

jokerdino

36 secs ago, by Alec

Nope, not yet.

Prasad

@jokerdino see a happy face...that means no :)

Gabriel

Ok, thanks for the help. It's great to know I can always come here to both get help and made fun of. Cheers.

jokerdino

15:48

@Gabriel Ouch.

@Prasad :)

Prasad

@jokerdino aaaaaaaaaa

jokerdino

@Gabriel No, we are a friendly bunch O_o

Prasad

I hate when there are two correct answers in a single question...

@Anwar he he...thanks for your help...

jokerdino

I am gonna try e17 one last time. Fingers crossed.

lazyPower

@jokerdino don't you like unity?

Roland Taylor

15:53

@jokerdino I wish I could switch shells :/

Alec

Any idea why I always get this error when I start gnome system monitor? It still starts up just fine.

anonymous@WORKSTATION-CUSTOM:~$ sudo gnome-system-monitor
[sudo] password for anonymous:

** (gnome-system-monitor:5021): WARNING **: SELinux was found but is not enabled.

Roland Taylor

My Lightdm is messed up and no one has stepped up to even attempt to answer my question :/

lazyPower

@RolandTaylor link

Roland Taylor

@Alec that's not an error.

3

Q: How can I configure my system to use Twinview correctly?

Story: I have a HP dv7 1020us with a Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT. My internal monitor is broken, so essentially I cant' use it, as I can hardly see anything through it. Recently, I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 (manually, using synaptic to upgrade packages bit by bit), and after getting most of the sy...

lazyPower

@HackToHell o/

Alec

15:55

Oh. Is it anything to be concerned about? And I tried to 'answer' your question as well as I'm capable of in AU chat but apparently it doesn't work.

Roland Taylor

Don't cry for me Argentina, my monitor is sad to look at :(

lazyPower

Ah, its ubuntu +1

Roland Taylor

@Alec oh yeah you did

HackToHell

@lazyPower \o

lazyPower

I have no system to test a fix on... :|

jrg

15:55

ubuntu+1?! KILL THE QUESTION!!!11!

Roland Taylor

@lazyPower it would have happened in 12.04 as well - the problem is because of nvidia's newest driver

smartboyhw

@jrg LOL

Roland Taylor

it borks twinview for EVERYONE -_-

lazyPower

glad I haven't updated then

jokerdino

@lazyPower I was giving another DE a try.

jrg

15:55

@RolandTaylor i know.

Roland Taylor

trust nvidia to get it messed up :/

jokerdino

@RolandTaylor same :O

lazyPower

it took me 3 months to get my twinview working

Roland Taylor

wow

jrg

6

Roland Taylor

15:56

With the older drivers it took me 3 minutes :P

lazyPower

trufax

jrg

Torvalds is so mild mannered. Except when he isn't.

Alec

I wonder if Nvidia tried sueing Linus for saying that.

lazyPower

@RolandTaylor well it worked, but not as expected. It gave me one huge surface area and apps were breaking when they tried to open in fullscreen

jrg

@Alec they didn't, he's just doing the free speech thing.

Roland Taylor

15:57

@lazyPower oh I had that problem too :/

@jrg lol

Alec

Seems more like a insult, a fact rather.

njallam

@jrg Well thanks for that (Offended)

jokerdino

@njallam Bye kiddo

jrg

@njallam I'm sorry. ;P

lazyPower

i managed to get it working correctly by having it inject a second unity bar on the second screen, with a mouse pointer lag between the two since the unity bar assumes nothing is to hte left of it.

Alec

15:58

I thought it was 10/10.

jokerdino

This is our way of repelling kiddos and new...

jrg

I just buy intel. SUCKAHS!

jokerdino

Intel ++

Alec

Intel is too expensive for desktop processors :/

smartboyhw

@jrg Yeah!

cya all

jokerdino

15:58

Intel® Ironlake Mobile

lazyPower

njallam

@jokerdino I'm probably the only kiddo offended by swearing though. Your plan if flawed unless that was targeting only me. :P

lazyPower

jrg

@lazyPower fixed that for you. ;P

jokerdino

@njallam aww :P

lazyPower

15:59

@jrg wanna hit the other? :D

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