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pourjour

15:05

people

I need help

I have over-layered text in my desktop

Seth

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Q: failure to install ubuntu one on pinguy 12.04

The installer opens then freezes on the third orange loading ball, the window then goes blue and shuts down. It sometimes takes out the docky and side panels with it. I've uninstalled and reinstalled via terminal and software centre but the same fault persists. Is it just Pinguy? Also installed ...

ubuntu-one

@fossfreedom @jokerdino

Oh. Nevermind.

Reviewer got it.

fossfreedom

\o/ for the reviewers

pourjour

Seth

@pourjour The icons?

pourjour

@Seth yes the text under them it's too large

I changed the font size

@Seth yes the text under them it's too large

but it still too large

any suggestions

Seth

15:11

No.. not really.

pourjour

@Seth I remember there is a property in dconf-editor to change

fossfreedom

use unity-tweak-tool to change fonts and font sizes

pourjour

@fossfreedom I already change it

I change it from 11 to 10

it's fine but the text label is large

that's why I hate ubuntu it still use the damn nautilus

fossfreedom

?? so use another DE then

pourjour

@fossfreedom do you know any?

fossfreedom

15:22

lots - askubuntu.com/questions/65083/…

pourjour

I just wanna change the files manager

or jsut change the number of character per line for all folders and files names

fossfreedom

you'll need to get your hands dirty and make those changes yourself by modifying the code.

pourjour

@fossfreedom do u mean the source code ?

fossfreedom

yes

pourjour

damn it

fossfreedom

15:28

beauty of opensource - dont like something - change it.

pourjour

@fossfreedom do you feel like if this is a problem in nautilus

windows have good way to deal with files names

fossfreedom

nautilus is the desktop manager - so yes.

pourjour

@fossfreedom they must give some importance to that shit or it will ruin ubuntu reputation

fossfreedom

they being who?

nautilus is gnome

pourjour

@fossfreedom developers of ubutnu

@fossfreedom btu it's used in unity

@fossfreedom developers of ubutnu

fossfreedom

15:33

the unity devs can only integrate what they have been given - its the gnome devs who have been steadily "refining" the experience

pourjour

@fossfreedom I see gnome... gnome shell = shit

it used a lot of space for title bars

fossfreedom

that's the second ... mind your language please - public forum

Call me V

\o/ new job starts monday... so i have a week to firm up all the other stuff

pourjour

@fossfreedom any alternative?

fossfreedom

@CallmeV congrats!

Call me V

15:37

@fossfreedom ty

fossfreedom

@pourjour alternative to what? if you want to stick with unity - then you'll need to hack nautilus.

otherwise use xubuntu and thunar

or lubuntu and pcmanfm

Call me V

i sort of want to make the top bar+buttons huge so it's usable on the nexus7 desktop image... any ideas on that front? i know how to make the unity launcher fatter, but top bar+notification icons i have no idea

fossfreedom

@CallmeV good question - dunno though.

pourjour

@fossfreedom ok I will the time I become big c dev

FEichinger

15:52

Steve Wilhite has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Webby Awards, for inventing ... the GIF.

Call me V

at least now i know who to thank for this:

Xxx Xxx

can i upload this pic to my answer ?

Call me V

i wouldn't. in fact i might edit it out of chat, despite it being all over the place

FEichinger

@XxxXxx I'm gonna go with "No."

@CallmeV Indeed.

Xxx Xxx

okkk

FEichinger

15:57

Full award list here, btw.

Call me V

to be fair, at least nvidia has a way to run opencl apps in a virtual execution space for testing whereas ati stream-sdk does not (my only complaint with amd/ati)

Xxx Xxx

hmmm

ya thats true

FEichinger

Dumb Ways to Die got both Webby and People's Voice for Best Animation.

Call me V

has anyone heard anything new on the "torrent-video-streaming" thing that they were working on and had a demo for but no product?

Xxx Xxx

if u have windows u can do it in bittorrent

Call me V

16:05

there were bolt-ons and view during download if you got it sequentially, but it was a broadcasting solution...so different on an proto level if i remember correctly

Xxx Xxx

hmm

live.bittorrent.com

Call me V

yes that. i hadn't heard/seen anything about it in a while. didn't know if anyone had used it

ændrük

16:35

I'm pretty sure my question is about a bug and should be closed as such, but someone else has already opened a bounty on it. What happens to that?

Amith KK

BBT

Good Night

jokerdino

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Q: How to edit , read kannada documents created on microsoft word with Nudi Ekabhashe fonts on ubuntu? And vice versa?

How to read, edit Kannada documents created on Libreoffice with Unicode fonts (kedage lohit etc) on Microsoft word in Windows.How to ensure inter-operability in both ways?

libreoffice

I almost spamblasted it.

ændrük

16:52

Hmm. "This question has an open bounty and cannot be closed." So should I just mark my calendar and come back later?

jokerdino

What is it?

ændrük

11

Q: How can I remove the gray boxes around custom folder icons?

When I set custom folder icons in Ubuntu 13.04, gray boxes appear around them: How can I make the icons just look normal?

nautilus icons customization 13.04

jokerdino

I can refund the bounty and close it.

But is that preferable?

FEichinger

The answers at least indicate that there might be a lot of solutions for similar problems.

ændrük

I'm not sure what the precedent is for things like this. I suppose we could change the question to be about immediate workarounds.

FEichinger

16:58

Well, the question does ask for a fix.

ændrük

Two answers are "use something else" style workarounds.

FEichinger

It's not a "Why is this the case?" - which would make it a bug, and a bug only - it's a "How to fix this?", which include workarounds. Bad workarounds get ignored/downvoted, good ones get upvoted, and whoever gets closest in the eyes of the community/the bountying user gets the bounty.

I'd say keep it the way it is.

ændrük

@FEichinger Okay, works for me.

jokerdino

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Q: How should we deal with bounty questions that are confirmed bugs?

This question is with reference to this bounty question: How do I theme the Sound Menu playback buttons? As the OP has indicated, this is technically a bug - there is a launchpad bug-report, confirmation that it is a bug and in this case it looks like a possible workaround by moving to Quanta...

discussion bounty

Gui

18:01

Do you know what it is called when a byte is scared?

Seth

19:57

Hmm. Link queue has been pulled.

j0h

Can i ask, Ask Ubuntu about things like Mate? Whats the cut off for specificaly ubuntu questions? Specificialy, my question is: Under "system> prefferences" There is no place to edit user accounts. Is it something im missing? in gnome2 there was an option to use a gui user permissions editor. For Mate1.6, what is there?

Seth

I guess @jokerdino you might want to remove the stars from that message since it only leads to a 404 now..

Mint is off-topic, but Ubuntu running Cinnamon/Mate is okay.

You could always ask on Unix & Linux if you'd rather.

j0h

I installed mate in ubuntu. Im not using a remix of any kind. (if one exists) @Seth

@Seth

Seth

Okay you should be fine then :)

Jorge Castro

Cinnamon isn't offtopic is it?

Anything that runs on ubuntu is pretty much ontopic I thought

jokerdino

20:09

Cinnamon isn't offtopic if installed on Ubuntu.

Lucio

21:12

@Uri are you around?

@jokerdino Do you remember when we deleted more than 50 SPAM post in less than an hour? Thanks to the great work of @Marco @Jorge and several users :D

Seth

21:40

@JorgeCastro Whoops. I meant "Mint" not "Cinnamon". Can you edit that @jokerdino so that it's correct? I don't want to confuse anyone...

fossfreedom

edit what?

Seth

21:56

@fossfreedom This message:

2 hours ago, by Seth

Cinnamon is off-topic, but Ubuntu running Mate is okay I think.

I meant to say that Mint is off-topic, not Cinnamon.

(and the message before it)

fossfreedom

ok?

Seth

Can you do the one before that too?

2 hours ago, by Seth

@j0h Depends. Are you on Cinnamon or Ubuntu w/ Mate?

Should read: "Are you on Mint or Ubuntu w/ Mate?"

Deletion works too.

Thanks :)

fossfreedom

just installing Fedora 18 in a VM ... the anaconda installer is terrible - buttons all over the place. Not logical as the ubuntu installer.

Seth

Hmm. Is 18 the latest version?

Nathan Osman

o/

fossfreedom

22:04

dunno - I'm not a fedora person - thats the first thing I saw on their website.

Seth

Looks like it is.

\o @MarcoCeppi

Hmm. Is this an update GRUB problem?

0

Q: Installed Ubuntu, windows 7 boots up by default?

I have windows 7 installed in my C:\ partition .Now I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my D:\ partition ,but I don't know how to boot to Ubuntu.... ? Any help is much appreciated !

installation boot 13.04

fossfreedom

comment at the bottom - says he didnt install grub

Seth

oh..

mateo_salta

do we have a default "how to use wine" q

fossfreedom

use wine to do what? how to install wine? Questions need to be specific.

mateo_salta

22:17

yeah, the normal how to use a windows program in ubuntu... found it

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Q: How can I install Windows software?

Can ".exe" and ".msi" files (Windows Software) be installed in Ubuntu?

windows wine

Call me V

@Seth it's probably latest stable. they generally refer to alpha/beta as rawhide.

Seth

Mkay.

I know someone that uses Fedora..

Call me V

who me? no, i started on fedora and decided i liked canonical over redhat

askubuntu.com/questions/288784/… NARQ?

Seth

@CallmeV Nah, a relative.

@fossfreedom You might review this since it's been edited: askubuntu.com/questions/288300/should-i-change-my-installation

Call me V

oh. your brother from another mother @jrg ? he was talking about fedora for a while...

Seth

22:27

(I haven't read the revised question yet)

@CallmeV Was that directed at me?

Call me V

@Seth yes.

it was a joke...

Seth

>:|

I can tell...

Anyway, the answer is: no.

fossfreedom

@Seth I've edited it and reopened... think that is what the OP is really asking

Seth

@fossfreedom Sounds good.

Seth

22:52

omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/04/lightworks-enter-public-beta

Nathan Osman

I wish I could figure out how to use Lightworks.

I tried it on Windows a while back and... I couldn't figure out how to use it.

Seth

Well I'm not making an account just to test their software.

So I can't really help you there :P

Call me V

23:13

@NathanOsman good call. looks interesting, if kdenlive would just be a little more stable i'ld be good with it

Nathan Osman

Allow me to put in a good plug for kdenlive.

It works amazingly well for simple transcoding - I use it to convert WMV files to MP4 videos for my Android phone.

Call me V

I like it for splicing and minimal transitions. Everything else is just avconv/ffmpeg with presets for output for me.

e.g. the transcoding you speak of and syncing/chopping

Nathan Osman

Exactly. It offers some very well-tuned presets.

Call me V

That it does.

Most "problems" I see people have with kdenlive is that it doesn't install with all the plug-ins or you get version mismatches, or dangling bits of configuration you need to do. It's relatively nice if you get it working as if it was a static build.

speaking of... does ubuntu-studio come with it working out of the box and installed by default? if it doesn't, it should

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