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Does anyone use Openbox? Is it any good? I used it back when #! was a thing, but switched over to i3 on debian after it died. Just wondering if it's worth another go
Ian Morgan
I use it with lxqt de on my archiso live. it's pretty much not openbox at that point but you can still apply themes
Christopher Bell
>when you pay for 4chin pass to support hiroshimoot but the website has gotten fucked 3 times in 1 week already
I'm trying to figure out how to edit the sourcecode for lightdm, but this is the first time I've done anything more complicated than fucking around with .conf files and I'm already totally lost. I've downloaded the full package and for the right version but have no clue what to actually do with them. I've checked the wiki and google as best I could, but I don't think I'm even using the right keywords (it doesn't help that the first two pages of results are all "HOW DO EDIT .CONF?!?!!?"
Can anyone point me in the right direction? All I wanted to do if have the greeter truncate the user name to skip any whitespaces at the beginning. I figured that would be a nice first step that'd let me dip my toes into more serious stuff, but I'm already floundering.
Justin Davis
whats the difference between .local/share/bin and .local/bin ?
Jaxon Cruz
who /Qubes/ chad here
Samuel Reed
idk i use windows 10
Nathan Johnson
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Dylan Lopez
Lads, I'm scared. I tried using bluez to connect my new chink headphones. I tried it on w10 before and in Ubuntu 18.04. Now I decided to get it running on gentoo. Using bluetoothctl I followed the instructions and ended up with Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.AuthenticationFailed
Even worse happens when I run "discoverable on" with my controller, it just sits on "Waiting for bluetoothd..." infinitely.
The bluetooth service is started on boot and definitely running.
Hunter Bailey
bluez sucks balls, even when I can get it to pair with my bose headphones it takes about 2 minutes for it to pair
Thomas King
I noticed that it sucks, but I'd still like to not have to reboot to use my headphones.
Is there no alternative?
Alexander Russell
if they're both in $PATH then who cares I think share means platform independent, just by googling the path name. so you could take that folder from one computer and use it in the home directory of another computer. why have white spaces to begin with
Wyatt Cooper
whats some >confy xfce themes? trying to pimp ma ride
Brandon Murphy
Not as far as i know, this is the only Bluetooth stack for the Linux kernel so far. And yes, it's state is absolute mess, developers know that and nobody seems to care.
Christian Russell
I have a habit of tapping the space bar a few times to wake the computer up, and this normally puts a space or two before the user name. It's a minor annoyance when my password isn't working because the field is " user01" instead of "user01" or whatever.
Yes, I can just learn to wake my machine up differently or start a new habit of hitting backspace a few times, but I decided to use this as an opportunity to advance beyond basic end user junk. Figured it was about time, y'know?
Benjamin Lee
Awesome. What a piece of shit, I spent like 3 hours fucking with this thing and it doesn't budge.
Thanks anyway, maybe one day
Landon Gonzalez
the systemd file-hierarchy only mentions ~/.local/bin ~/bin is a convention used by older stuff I've never seen ~/.local/share/bin, but I know Debian's bash profile will add the others to your path
Charles Powell
>but I decided to use this as an opportunity to advance beyond basic end user junk. Figured it was about time, y'know? ok well it's written in C and the source code is on github. you might be able to figure out where in the code the greeter parses the input and just add some code to remove or ignore whitespace. github.com/CanonicalLtd/lightdm probably best to go to
Brandon Wright
Is there a program to run custom scripts (e.g. a script to select a monitor, a script to open a program with certain options, etc...) graphically? Just a Launcher where you type and it maybe has a small prompt, nothing more.. Something similar to dmenu (but dmenu is not actually built for this).
Jace Jackson
It's a start. Thanks user.
Henry Jenkins
Why not dmenu? Just put the folder with your scripts into your PATH and dmenu will regpnize them. Anyway, look into rofi.
Brandon Jenkins
When installing new font should I use the opentype or truetype version?
Kevin Phillips
Why not dmenu? Just put the folder with your scripts into your PATH and dmenu will reopnize them. Anyway, look into rofi it's a more advanced dmenu.
Grayson Barnes
When installing a new font should I use the opentype or truetype version?
Justin Foster
If I rice my Arch installation on one user, it will change for the others users?
Easton Cruz
Zenity
Christian Lewis
Depending on where you "rice". Everything in home directories stay user specific. Things set in global directories such as /etc are system wide.
Christopher Collins
hey guys I installed kubuntu 18.04 and loving it so far. is KDE neon as stable as kubuntu?
Easton Cook
dmenu is juat a generic menu. It can do this just fine.
Brandon Reyes
Is the GnuWin32 toolset the only reliable way to get Flex and Bison working on windows natively?
Easton Gomez
wow first time i see my oc used by someone else on Jow Forums feels good desu
Brayden Reed
Okay, thanks.
Leo Sanchez
Anyone care to help out why Fedora won't allow me to system-upgrade?
danger of having cups/avahi deamon installed? forgot to remove it, how fucked is my pc? ubuntu
Noah Hughes
Why are you scared? Gentoo can't break
Matthew Gonzalez
Enjoy doing that with xfce lol I only use it when space is a concern
Brody Ramirez
I am having trouble remembering some of the hotkeys in vim surround. For example, to add quotes around a word you type ysiw Why ys? It's not yank. Did the author just make this up?
David Lee
what are all the packages i need to get the different panel layouts on mate tweak to work on arch?
Josiah Cook
is the fedora KDE spin a minimal installation? or its just like Kubuntu?
Kevin Howard
looks like snapper failed, unknown config. snapper configs should have been part of your installation I assume /etc/snapper/congfigs should have them. I don't know what they're defaults for fedora is.
Robert Walker
you can use the network installer and select just the desktop environment and it shouldn't come with extra programs (haven't tried kde but i know you can do this with xfce)
Jaxon Rogers
you're going to need to compile and install it yourself. you should probably try compiling the source code as is and seeing if it works. probably has some distribution specific patch or configuration you'll have to also follow.
Ryan Wood
Can anyone recommend a good browser for an old laptop? Compaq evo n400c, 256 MB RAM. If possible, one good for google docs and/or youtube.
Grayson Clark
why the fuck when I installed debian, in my OpengGL settings it said something like VMware someshit?
Jacob Ross
Is anyone else seriously annoyed sometimes that there is no way to mount a remote filesystem and see an accurate representation of the users and groups on the server?
Most protocols just completely throw it to the wind. And the ones that at least faithfully enforce the permissions and users/groups ownership rules still cannot allow me to see the real usernames or groupnames. Since all you actually get is the uid/gid as integers and your machine tries to map names to it from your own local machine.
It might be a minor thing, but it really upsets the shit out of my autism to see files appearing to be owned by the wrong users. I know they can be correctly mapped, but it should be automated. Otherwise there is no guarantee that you have the most up to date map.
Joshua Fisher
Ricing question: what's a good sound that I can use in place of the default KDE error sound.
Ryan Williams
any KDE neon user here? whats the plasma version of the current user release? is the distro stable?
Landon Martin
None
Benjamin Richardson
kerberos or ldap and nfs
Carson Harris
GNOME error bloop is the best
Landon Moore
I don't know if this is possible, but I want to know if the mPCI-e slot on my laptop (HP 8470p) has a sata controller or not. Is there anything similar to lspci that would list that?
William Gray
lspci only lists one SATA controller (assuming that's for the 2.5" bay) but I know that the CD drive can take a hard drive so it's either not listing that or it's part of something else. Just wondering if that's the case with the mPCI-e/mSATA slot. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family KT Controller (rev 04) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04) Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 30) 23:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller (rev 30) 23:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller (rev 30) 24:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)
sata and pci-e are two different buses your question really doesn't make sense
Ian Myers
It's late sorry The machine has 2 pci-e slots, one occupied by the wifi card and another I'm assuming is for a mobile data option. I know some laptops like the x220 can take an mSATA SSD in the latter so I'm trying to figure out if this machine can do the same. I'm seeing conflicting reports online, elitebooks aren't as popular as thinkpads sadly.
Nicholas Roberts
Why youtube cpu usage on linux is much higher then on windows? I guess it has something to do with gpu acceleration. How to fix (I am already using proprietary nvidia drivers)?
your motherboard or laptop manual will tell you the bus type/version and if it shares bandwidth with another bus or port.
as long as what you want to plug in fits it should work, unless your hardware isn't backward compatible with the motherboard bus version.
Leo Price
I tried to set up Debian sid with KDE, and it worked for until the KDE update manager started updating. The process was interrupted by my host turning itself off, and now Debian only boots into console (pic related).
What happened: 1. Set up Debian sid (as described in: youtube.com/watch?v=7khNDpDVMZ4) 2. Finish aptitude updates/upgrades, which took quite a while 3. After everything was done and looked good, the KDE update manager said there are still 628 updates to install 4. Open KDE update manager and click on update everything 5. During the very long installation process, the host machine turns itself off 6. After restarting everything Debian now only boots into console
I don't want to do a fresh install right away, because of how long it took to set everything up, plus I don't want to repeat whatever mistake I might've made.
bitmap fonts don't render correctly in urxvt when i disable aliasing, how do i fix this?
Hudson Diaz
the easiest way is to just remove the kde group and reinstall then enable sddm with systemctl
Luke Young
>After everything was done and looked good, the KDE update manager said there are still 628 updates to install >4. Open KDE update manager and click on update everything this is where you fucked up
Charles Kelly
/usr/share/applications -> ~/.local/share/applications /usr/share/man -> ~/.local/share/man /usr/share -> ~/.local/share /usr -> ~/.local which means: /usr/bin -> ~/.local/bin makes sense now?
Ayden Miller
I want to squashfs a 11gb directory. Will this melt my toaster?
Dylan Smith
A gnome person wrote an article trying to defend gnome developers. lmao archive.is/kk3GM
I literally want gnome developers to die in accidents. I'm not just being edgy, I want tragedies to befall them for what they've wrought on the linux community. Yes, no software is better than bad software.
I am a bit confused about ssh. If i log into my server over ssh and reverse redirect a port, does that mean that all users on the server can access that port now, or only the user as which the ssh is logged in as?
Benjamin Moore
Is there a way to share my computer's internet connection with my smartphone (Android)? Basically a reverse tethering kind of scenario?
I'm looking online and I haven't been able to find anything.
Joseph Moore
>all that hate Get rid of it.
Elijah Bennett
>user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. Why would i use a filthy snitch OS like this? At least windows values my privacy.
Kevin Martin
what is a wifi it's reported to /var/spool/mail/user
Nicholas Hughes
Hey /fglt/. I don't have a lot of money, and can't afford to really back up a lot of my files at the moment. Even so, I'm getting really interested in Linux and want to switch over for my desktop browsing. I have a 250gb partition on one drive (currently NTFS, the other partition on the drive is NTFS as well but I want to leave that one alone) that I can easily clear out and wouldn't mind using. My question is, is it that simple? Can I just clear off that partition, format it, and install Linux in that space? I was thinking of Fedora, Void, or Arch.
Thanks!
Austin Cruz
Bump.
Caleb Bell
check your browser settings about://flags or something
Owen Cooper
iirc: otf is adobe invention, while ttf is micropenis invention so whichever it is doesn't really matter >Can I just clear off that partition, format it, and install Linux in that space? sure but be sure to try out gentoo
Julian Price
The font provider suggests to use the truetype version for Windows and Mac but says nothing about Linux...
Juan Baker
Can anyone help me? I'm compiling my first project that I downloaded from github and I followed the instructions on the page but I'm getting errors
Hi friends, I'm on Arch and I just spent an hour troubleshooting and getting Oregano to work but it keeps crashing when I try to simulate.
Can anyone recommend a SPICE style circuit simulation program on the AUR?
Leo Carter
>what is a wifi My laptop's WLAN device can't create hotspots. I am disappointed because it's a Thinkpad T410 and I assumed Intel was better than this (they made the network device). I've also just found out that despite having a SIM card slot, my T410 doesn't have a WWAN device.
sorry where would that command go? I installed mpv through discovery.
Grayson Brooks
>inserting a useless "sudo" without knowing what it does or why it's used
Owen Ramirez
Copy selection-ctx and table.txt file to /usr/lib*something*/urxvt/perl. Put the following to ~/.Xresources: URxvt.perl-ext-common: selection-ctx and run: xrdb ~/.Xresources
thanks for your help. really new to linux. since I installed it through discovery/software centre I'm not sure where it went. I ran locate mpv but I'm not sure what I'm looking for, in windows I would look for a .exe in program files. pastebin.com/X4HEJDGQ
Adrian Bell
$ dpkg-query -L mpv $ dpkg-query -L libmpv-dev
Alexander Cook
Looking for a distro for my thinkpad x220. What is /fglt/'s thoughts on Manjaro? I'm thinking of using the Architect .iso since Arch Linux is too in-depth for me at this point in time.
Aiden Wilson
>since Arch Linux is too in-depth for me at this point in time. try to install it. If you can't, try something else. Giving up without trying is beyond retardation. You won't brick your hardware by installing or failing to install a linux distro.
Tyler Torres
I did try. I succeeded, I think. But it is too barebones. I don't want to install such-and-such a package and spend hours tailoring my x220. I would like to do it in the future as a big project but not right now. So I figure the Manjaro Architect image will be ok since it still seems basic but not as basic as Arch.
Blake Wood
Install Gentoo.
Jace Watson
>I did try. I succeeded, I think. And by this I mean that I installed the OS successfully. But the steps to manage wireless networking and specific drivers for the x220 seem too large right now.
Adam Lopez
okay so I found something in /usr/include/mpv because that's where libmpv was (pretty much the same output as my locate in pastebin). File "./waf", line 165, in Scripting.waf_entry_point(cwd, VERSION, wafdir) File "/usr/include/mpv/.waf-2.0.7-63e8685c267915c8f1b03d9a344b09f7/waflib/Scripting.py", line 101, in waf_entry_point set_main_module(os.path.normpath(os.path.join(Context.run_dir,Context.WSCRIPT_FILE))) File "/usr/include/mpv/.waf-2.0.7-63e8685c267915c8f1b03d9a344b09f7/waflib/Scripting.py", line 141, in set_main_module Context.g_module=Context.load_module(file_path) File "/usr/include/mpv/.waf-2.0.7-63e8685c267915c8f1b03d9a344b09f7/waflib/Context.py", line 356, in load_module raise Errors.WafError('Could not read the file %r'%path)
Could not read the file '/usr/include/mpv/wscript'
Starting to frusterate me because some of these commands I have no idea what they are AND there's no guide on mpv when things go wrong.
Carter Smith
...lspci is what lists it.
From my laptop: 02:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) 02:04.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller 30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4311 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
See the numbers at the start? Card reader is integrated, Wifi card is in a mini-PCI-E slot. Guess you should be able to see similar differences for your laptop.
Chase Morales
how do programs from github or tar balls get updated?
