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What are some non-obnoxious terminals? xterm and st are both fucky on my system and don't support scrollback even after patching
Isaiah Lopez
just grab urxvt. less bloated than xterm but should give you the functionality you desire
Isaiah Sullivan
That was my original choice, same problems. I can't get scrollback working, it always just spits garbage onto the console. I'm all for avoiding bloat but at this point I just want something that does its job while I figure out why the others are being dumb
Samuel Murphy
xfce4-terminal is the only usable terminal emulator in the entire GNU/Linux ecosystem
William Nelson
>that pic
didn't there used to be 'hacker man' general threads here? what happened to those?
Levi Flores
use tmux within st
Matthew Jackson
Not even a single one in the archive. I remember seeing them all the time just a few weeks ago.
Brody Murphy
Does anyone have any idea why I could be getting an error while trying to install Cinnamon on RHEL7? When I run "Yum install Cinnamon -y" I get an error that I require pexpect, network-manager-applet, and lm_sensors.
I have EPEL set, and tried setting 'notify_only=0' in search-disabled-repos.conf, but that just gave me a bolean error. I'm at a lost here what I'm messing up.
I stopped making them after the general population of this place turned them into a shitfest of people larping, wanting more and more pasta without ever digesting any of it, and constantly, repeatedly asking about certs while still not studying.
there is no point in going that far ricing your desktop unless if you enjoy flopping your epeen to shit like this
Asher Edwards
oh, that's a shame. I just started watching mr robot and wanted too to become a 1337 hackerman. Seriously though, could you point me in the direction of some good resources? I'm a bit of a brainlet.
Xavier Davis
Well got it to get the last two, but still can't get pexpect.
Terminator. There is no other choice. >Inb4 bloat comments
Joseph Price
what does Jow Forums think of windows subsystem for linux? Trying to learn linux with its bash shell
Dylan Taylor
trying to learn the command line *
Brody Harris
I tried to use the ssh binary on windows a few times It doesn't work all that well for me, but maybe I need to configure it to do what I expect when I press navigational keys
Jaxon Garcia
literally why would I ever want a terminal that does anything more than just executing commands that I type into it? I truly have no idea. What I want in a terminal: 1. executes commands 2. is an emulation of the shell 3. exists in a window Why are there so many terminals?
Nathaniel Turner
You're trying to learn GNU with GNU bash. The WSL doesn't contain Linux.
> what does Jow Forums think of windows subsystem for linux It's like heading to a gay club in order to have sex with a girl.
Jonathan Howard
rice
Brandon Harris
I've been using st for a while and have just been using tmux to handle the scrollback
Adrian Edwards
Switched from Windows 10 to Ubuntu because windows 10 was tooo fucking slow on this 7year old laptop.
I need word and onedrive, how do I use this on linux? (online not good enough and libreoffice doesn't have enough of the features I need).
Jaxon Evans
I just ordered a raspberry pi b+ to mess around with and have for my tv. I've never used Linux before so what distro would you guys recommend?
Christian Martin
>word WPS Office. >onedrive I don't know if there's a way to get this to work on Linux, good luck.
Nicholas Garcia
>WPS Office would love to but use zotero for my research which I think only works on word or libre
>onedrive I was looking it up and I think it can but I want to sync because my calibre library is on it.
Zachary Martinez
Retropie for games, Raspbian for anything else. Unfortunately, those are pretty much the only good options for the Pi... Actually, I haven't tried Alpine on it yet, but that wouldn't be any good for a noob anyways.
Carson Roberts
building a new pc and going to run Ubuntu. Ive only started using linux so is there something i should really look out for while picking parts? Money isnt really an issue so i wouldnt mind going ham
Joshua Cook
Should I really go for that? I have a 128 gb micro sd card and a 1tb flash drive so space isn't an issue. I'd like something that I can spend time learning and be proud of my development in. I don't want something easy but I don't want something ball crushing hard. Just starting my CS degree if that helps.
Daniel Wright
>would love to but use zotero for my research which I think only works on word or libre You can install the actual ms office with playonlinux. It's been like 4 years since the last time I last did that, but it should still work I guess...
Jack White
Yes, I've tried a lot of distros and most of them are slow as shit or/and barely have any documentation. There's Raspbian Lite if you want to install things from scratch (that's usually what I use), but yeah I wouldn't recommend that for someone that has never used Linux before... Just go with vanilla Raspbian then try something else when you're confident enough. And yeah I remembered that Ubuntu Mate was also okay, but I still recommend Raspbian.
Adrian Ramirez
Want to install Kubuntu. Should I just wait for 18.04?
Austin Morris
No need to, just install 18.04 beta now. After it gets officially released as stable do a normal apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade (or equivalent upgrade with other tools) and boom you have 18.04LTS
Michael Wilson
How can I blow up the computer of my mortal enemy?
Henry Smith
Alright, I'll probably just wait until the final beta since it's only in a few days, just to be safe.
Julian Campbell
How would one go about writing to a terminal (suckless) screen through a named pipe?
Noah Myers
Go for an AMD GPU, nvidia linux drivers suck ass.
Kevin Myers
what's a good alternative to musicbee. don't know how to WINE. just need something that looks nice, is a library rather than playlist thing and can sync my songs to my android easily.
Liam Ward
I use void currently since don't want to deal with systemd on arch and other distros. Might just give up on the non systemd meme since the distros without systemd are literally autistic. I would like to try Debian but I hear their packages are pretty far behind and I want to be on the latest and greatest. So wat do now? Am I stuck on void?
It does (the newest versions of software are usually marked unstable aka. masked but it takes one command to unmask them). It also has a lot extensions for portage called overlays (similar to Ubuntu PPAs and Arch AUR) also a lot of packages have a 9999 version ebuild which pulls the source code to compile right from the devs VCS.
Aiden Baker
Eh but still, getting sick of spending days configuring shit, let alone trying to compile stuff..
Nicholas Brooks
I do not have any external media to use for Linux image boot.
I have Ubuntu .iso and left over partition scheme from previous installation that I never deleted
Is there any way install Ubuntu with my setup?
Elijah Brooks
Go outside and buy a usb stick for a couple bucks
Jose Fisher
The closest shop where I could get USB stick is almost 20 kilometers away..
Jack Myers
you could use a walk
James Jenkins
when I was a young kid I took a 5,56×45 mm to my hip in a war and I can not walk without pain in my home, let alone 20 km. jog
Jeremiah Baker
oh i'm sorry user
Leo Howard
I'm afraid.
Nolan Edwards
I have a theme I so like, but it only exists for gtk2. is there a way to port it to gtk3? can I do it by myself but without to understand gtk as a whole ffs im a brainlet but i want this theme. github.com/urukrama/Themes/tree/master/Erthe
John Cook
Do you have a working system on that computer?
Logan Smith
Yes, Windows 10.
Bentley Garcia
Here is a method I used a few times. Absolutely no warranty.
1. download and install Neosmart EasyBSD (free as in free beer) 2. start easyBCD, inside it set windows to not use the metro bootloader screen and set boot menu to count down (from 5 sec for example) 3. in the add new menu item add Neosmart GRUB (basically grub4dos, based on GRUB 0.97) 4. Go to help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD and grab a mini.iso for the ubuntu release you want to install 5. from the mini.iso extract two files: "linux" and "initrd.gz" put them to an easy to access location like C:\ubuntu 6. reboot, from the windows boot menu select neosmart grub 7. Now you are in the grub prompt. start ubuntu installer with root (hd0,0) kernel /ubuntu/linux initrd /ubuntu/initrd.gz
change hd0,0 and /ubuntu/ as needed 8. press F10 to boot. The text mode ubuntu installer will start, proceed as usual. This is netinstall, it will download files from the internet as needed. You will have the choice to install any of the ubuntu flavours (desktop, server, xubuntu, kubuntu, ubuntu-mate etc)
I'm learning C# for my new job and I realized, that I can just run the executables without using mono explicitly under GNU/Linux. Does someone know what kind of black magic mono is doing to be able to let me implicitly run Windows .EXE files under GNU/Linux this way?
How do I create useful stuff in the terminal itself? I don't have the time to work with GUI. Any good libraries which work with C? I want a value to change multiple times in top right corner, is there a better way do this other than clearing the whole screen when updating top right with a new value?
Justin Barnes
ncurses is what you want
Daniel Peterson
Thanks!
Dominic Price
debian: literally replace four words in apt list, dist upgrade and you have unstable; copy paste one line from wiki and reboot to use openrc
Lucas Lopez
>not glorious GuixSD Pathetic
Parker Ross
Hello, I want to set my server on x220 in order to learn sysadmin stuff. I have no experience in managing those things so don't be cruel to me I'm doing everything like in this tutorial howtoforge.com/tutorial/perfect-server-debian-9-stretch-apache-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3-1/ I think I have a problem because my output in point 4 and 8 differ form mine. I get only server1.example.com instead of root@server1:/tmp# hostname server1 root@server1:/tmp# hostname -f server1.example.com and tcp6 0 0 [::]:mysql [::]:* LISTEN 17776/mysqld instead of root@server1:/home/administrator# netstat -tap | grep mysql tcp6 0 0 [::]:mysql [::]:* LISTEN 17776/mysqld root@server1:/home/administrator# Am I doing something wrong?
Adam Hughes
I forgot to mention that I changed server1 and example to other names
Nolan Hall
Why do they hate Linux mint?
William Foster
because it is bloated with priopretary software
Matthew Moore
>Am I doing something wrong? Not sure what you're even trying to do. What is output of cat /etc/hostname or hostname to and why would it matter anyway?
Noah Sanchez
Sorry meant to say hostnamectl in 2nd code brackets
Ethan Phillips
This
Benjamin Myers
>meme dragon distro but it just werks I liked the light version without the tools, it was a real comfy distro. Now I use Ubuntu Server with i3.
Matthew Rogers
output ot the first command is my hostname bu the second command gives me Unknown operation to
Brayden Foster
>still, getting sick of spending days configuring shit >let alone trying to compile stuff Why the fuck did you install Gentoo then?
Isaiah Collins
>Unknown operation to
Jeremiah Watson
How bad is it to have ZIL SLOG and ARC2 on the same SSD?
Owen White
I typed it like you said
Matthew Sanders
hello I'm tying to use Syslinux to boot a Gentoo system in ext4 partition.
I'm having this error message "Failed to load ldlinux.c32"
And yes, I copied all the *c32 files
I tried symlinking /boot/extlinux to /boot/syslinux and its config file but its no working
inb4 > he fell for the meme > just use grub :DDDDDD
I thought debian had systemd but if you don't have hostnamectl then idk wtf you got goin on
Mason Thomas
okay I fixed it. I had to make a separate boot partition with ext2. Did a backup first using tar, re partition the drive, untar again, and move boot to that partition.
Apparently there's some 64-bit stuff with ext4 that extlinux does not likes.
Nolan Perez
i installed kde using
apt install kde-standard
and now i cant remove this shitty bloat ;_;
how do i git rid of it. xfce is far superiour ty
Mason Myers
Try these commands as root:
apt-get remove kde-standard apt-get -y autoremove
Last command removes orphan packages. Aka those who depend on kde but now kde is kill.
Any i3wm users in here? I'm trying to get a specific webpage to open on a specific workspace every time. Problem is I already have assign [class="Firefox"] $WS1 How would I bypass that?
Adam Campbell
nvm got it working
Alexander Hall
>implicitly run Windows .EXE files under GNU/Linux this way Those are .net executables, not windows. Mono was designed to work with that.
Lincoln White
Is there something liked trinus for Linux? Want to control linux with phone's orientation sensors. Or perhaps a c library?
Michael Baker
Or some way to connect a gyroscope (+ pi? ) to Linux to control it
Elijah Bell
I just installed KDE Plamsa on Debian via the kde-full metapackage. I don't see the battery indicator nor do I have power management in settings. Any advice?
Isaac Morris
Finally getting around to installing linux on my desktop, and holy shit is W10 a pain in the ass to get rid of. It's turned on secure boot by default, which means i cant install the distro i want if it doesnt have a key for secure boot. I can load into it via usb, but its locked off from accesing other drives so i cant wipe and install. so I'm having to dual-boot with openSUSE, which does have a key, so that I can wipe the part of my disk with windows, and then finally install manjaro like I want. And thats assuming openSUSE will have acces to the windows partition, which if it doesnt i will personally walk to Bill Gate's house and slit his pupils with broken redhat cd's. god fucking damn.
Landon Howard
Having trouble with wifi, copy pasting issue Hey, solus works great but if I switch on WiFi and connect to my phone's hotspot, the laptop crashes after a few seconds/minutes. Internet does work during these seconds/minutes. This does not happen on Windows so I assume it is a software issue. Any drivers which I can reinstall from the package manager? Device is a Thinkpads L. Internet does work without crashes when I use USB tethering. By crashes, I mean everything freezes. I have to long press the power button to force shutdown. (Can't access the cltl alt terminals either). Log -ghostbin.com/paste/574og
Jaxson Stewart
you're defo doing something wrong check your bios settings for secure boot or disable it in windows
Noah Ward
Sorry, I don't use KDE, but "powerdevil" seems to be available on the debian repos. Tried installing that?