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Does any one know how to set Compose keys using dconf-editor ? I made [this](http://askubuntu.com/q/648659/497359) but OP keeps editing his question adding extra tasks to do. Now he hates GUI and he wants to set the compose key using a script.

Does any one know the schema for this ? org.gnome.... etc ?

wha...?? i am not able to embed that link

Seth

hi @StefanoPalazzo! Been a while :)

muru

3:30 PM

@SeverusTux use gsettings

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options '[compose:foo]'

Severus Tux

@muru Thanks :D

muru

@SeverusTux for available keys, see AB's answer

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A: How to configure the Compose key on Ubuntu 15.04?

There is no official way. Install and open the dconf editor: sudo apt-get install dconf-editor dconf-editor Go to org.gnome.desktop.input-sources and change the entry for xkb-options, eg: ['terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp','compose:menu'] Replace the value for menu in 'compose:menu' if you need ano...

Severus Tux

wow! thats exactly what I was searching for :D

@mure I still have a problem :|

severus@Tux:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options ['compose:ralt']
unknown keyword:
[compose:ralt]
^^^^^^^

any ideas ??

muru

Looks like you have to wrap the quotes in quotes

Severus Tux

ah

muru

3:40 PM

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['compose:ralt']"

Severus Tux

severus@Tux:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options [\'compose:ralt\']
severus@Tux:~$

:D Thanks

Stefano Palazzo

@Seth how's it going :)

Seth

not bad, not bad. Planning on sticking around? :)

Stefano Palazzo

I'm here all the time :D

I'm about ready to leave work though

Which is where my computer is (:

terdon

@StefanoPalazzo Whaaaaat!!?? No computer at home? That's like -3000 geek points right there!

Stefano Palazzo

3:45 PM

@terdon I was exaggerating

terdon

Phew...

Stefano Palazzo

Let me get some points back, hang on.

terdon

+5000. Nice! Whatever it is :)

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Q: Resize a specific window to a specific size and screen location from within a script

I've seen similar questions but not identical ones, how do I resize a specific window to a specific size and location on the screen from within a script? I've seen the use of Resize and Printf but haven't been able to make anything work. Does it matter what type of window it is?

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terdon

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Sometimes I feel the only thing you're good for is alerting me to mistagged questions on U&L.

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Q: Accepted answer that you don't agree with during review audit

As I was going through and reviewing posts, I saw this one. I downvoted it and then got this message: STOP! Look and Listen. This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass. Your review was inappropriate. This was a high quality post and you should h...

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jokerdino

I am going to post about our election on Planet. Here's a draft of it. If you got any feedback, please send them my way.

Stefano Palazzo

@terdon It's four raspberry pi 3 boards running ubuntu for an MPI compute cluster.

muru

@jokerdino would questions be tagged discussion+election or support+election?

terdon

@StefanoPalazzo Sweet!

jokerdino

most election questions seem to be tagged with discussion+election. Let me recheck that.

@muru I guess we can retag the questions as appropriate when they come.

terdon

4:11 PM

@jokerdino "If mod work is not your cup of tea but still looking for a way to help" ==> "If mod work is not your cup of tea but you're still looking for a way to help"

jokerdino

@terdon Edited

terdon

Although, are you sure you want to advertise the elections off site? Do you really want more candidacies from users who don't really spend much time here? Experience with the site and its culture is quite important for modwork.

jokerdino

It's nearly customary for us to post about elections on Planet. We need to report to Community council too.

terdon

Ah, OK, Ubuntu stuff. Fair enough.

jokerdino

Besides, I doubt you will get any new candidates because it's there on planet. It's almost only for sharing news about things happening in the site.

Soo, looking good?

Seth

4:18 PM

yes!

muru

Only nits.

jokerdino

Posted but you can still pick your nits.

terdon

I will not make snot puns. I will not make snot puns

jokerdino

ye shall not

Seth

@jokerdino so turns out distutils was deprecated in Xenial in favour of setuptools.

That's one reason my UTT snap was failing (apparently).

jokerdino

4:24 PM

ah what

are we supposed to switch to setuptools now?

Seth

what with that and Nathan's bug in the setup.py it should probably be scrapped and rewritten to use setuptools. I guess that will be my first line of business when I'm less busy. If we can get it snapped we can release updates whenever we want, no more SRUs :D

@jokerdino we don't have to, but I figure no more SRUs would make you happy ;)

jokerdino

lol I dont remember we managing to land SRUs before.

Seth

(well, s/no more/less/)

I'm using it as a general term :P

Still have to write a testimonial for fossy.. Gotta get that done today.

jokerdino

yeah that one is still not done.

Severus Tux

5:04 PM

[Ten tips to handle your question in the worst possible way](http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/15344/ten-tips-to-handle-your-question-in-the-worst-possible-way) seems to happen again and again .... ;( OP never tells if my solution worked. instead he re-edits his question and adds something new. Tells me to edit my answer because of many **bold** letters. Tells me that he hates GUI and needs a commandline alternative for that.

PUH.., one thing he never tells is if the solution work.

Bharadwaj Raju

5:16 PM

@SeverusTux That happens way too many times. My biggest irritation is questions like this where muru posted an answer, only to find it doesn't work because OP was doing it on iOS. And Jacob's didn't because OP was doing that on OS X. Do people not read the name of the site?

Android Dev

:30186 @terdon - Looks like a Raspberry Pi mining cluster :)

@StefanoPalazzo Is that a Raspberry Pi rep point mining cluster?

Nathan Osman

6:06 PM

So...

I can now confirm that this works with my Raspberry Pi.

It fully supports master mode and I can create a usable AP with it.

So long, Realtek. Hello, Atheros.

What does everyone think about this template?

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