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help with thinkpad volume/mic buttons please? I was customizing kde and when i tried the volume buttons they werent working. Acpi detects them but im not sure how to rebind them or why they got unbinded
Is there any file manager that supports instant search like Nautilus(GNOME files) within the program. I have a lot of images with basic tags (in the filename) and want to be able to filter it quickly. Nautilus works fine but has other issues I don't like.
ok that was simple, thank you interesting, I'm bookmarking that page
Gabriel Barnes
this might be too stupid for even this thread
I'm setting up some vim configs for editing latex, and running into some trouble due to the AutoPairs plugin. I get this error when opening files. My vimrc just has a few noremap/inoremap's, and they all work even though I get this message. I think the error has something to do with overwriting keybindings, but I can't find any relevant keybinds in AutoPairs (for remapping F3 gives me a problem). If I am overwriting, then I really don't give a shit about AutoPair's keybindings anyway. Is there any way to suppress these messages completely? Thanks friends
sudo tee /dev/sdX < /path/to/distro.iso can you kill me now
Bentley Watson
That'll fuck up your shell.
Leo Young
sudo tee /dev/sdX > /dev/null < /path/to/distro.iso done
Anthony Hill
if you cant see it with sudo fdisk -l you're fucked as far as I know
Colton Perry
>install new opensuse leap >pick encrypt disk while installing >grub now also asks for the password >have to enter the same password twice wasnt an issue with leap 42.3, what an awesome release. I'm so close to quitting OpenSUSE especially since it fucked up my encrypted disk yesterday.
Austin Taylor
Using AMD 98e4 and Ubuntu 18.04, why might quiet splash fail for me but nomodeset work?
Elijah Hill
I need a cheap wifi adapter compatible with linux (arch) for my laptop. My shitty realtek rtl8723be is disconnecting and has low signal.
Matthew White
Atheros chip based ones are linux-libre friendly. Ralink adapters work with freedist firmware and libre drivers.
tl;dr go Atheros
Jose Richardson
I found some adapters with atheros chipset but the newer versions have realtek. Anyway thanks, i will keep searching.
Ryder Hernandez
so i have a college project to do, we need to make an webchat in python using flask, already triend to look up some stuff, but i'm dumb as a brick, got any easy to follow guides?
Jaxon Parker
Also, what would cause it to boot fine but display only a black screen from a suspended state?
Hunter Rodriguez
i want to run this program... how do I compile it and run it?
im running off a live usb so when i try apt or apt-get it doesn't work...
I have a pc with the rt-3290 video and BT card. I see it has issues with Linux, and that it is pretty common. Which distro will it work in? Also, which distro should I run on a usb?
Angel Clark
Check the mint instalation procedure, they use one that is simple and decent looking. I
Camden Miller
>Which distro will it work in? Doesn't matter. All distros have access to the same kernels and binary drivers.
Benjamin Diaz
So then I assume I should just download an older kernel and version and just go up from there until it works? What i read is that newer kernels break the driver and it only works for either wifi or bluetooth or neither, based on various user reports. I'll try and see what happens then
Julian Ward
whats the best audio player on linux?
Bentley Wilson
Is there a better guide than this for encryption in Gentoo? wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Full_Disk_Encryption_From_Scratch_Simplified This one doesn't seem to include a swap partition for some reason? I have 6GB of ram, do I even really need one? I have no fucking clue what I'm doing with all this LUKS crap, I've always just used simple schemes... pls halp
>This one doesn't seem to include a swap partition for some reason? I have 6GB of ram, do I even really need one? Just create a swapfile on an already encrypted partition. A few GB just to be sure.
Kevin Stewart
1.5 to 2 times the ram if you want to use hibernation
Adrian White
How does me dualboot Arch with Windows 10? I have already installed Win10 to my SSD. I want to install Arch onto the same SSD. I checked msinfo32 and my BIOS mode is set to Legacy. When I type fdisk -l in the Arch installation it lists my SSD as GPT.
Lincoln Hughes
I mean, it runs pretty much 24/7 and I never really use more than 3 or 4 gigs at most..
I have many issues installing a desktop environment to my fresh install of Arch. What do? I installed it all correctly.
>gentoo
Isaiah Thompson
Is this because my BIOS mode and SSD are in conflict? I have a spare HDD to install arch on but I wanted to have both OS on the same drive.
Logan Reed
>ubuntu Of course it's failing you. The NSA is using it's Ubuntu backdoor to subliminally tell you to reinstall Windows 10 by fucking up your shit.
Lincoln Long
The only disks ubuntu is letting me access are efi, Filesystem root and the rest of the disk that ubuntu was installed too, how can i get access to other HDD's and usb's? I can see them in gparted but I cannot select the option for mounting the hdd. The issue occasionally goes away if I restart my computer.
Bentley Fisher
Give it to me straight, XFCE, Gnome or KDE on Debian?
Chase Cruz
lxde
Jason Anderson
xfce or MATE
Adrian Wood
hell no, it bills itself as lightweight and user friendly, but it's neither of those things. honestly how can anyone say it's user friendly with a straight face about something you have to google a code to enter to change the clock from 24hr to 12hr
Hunter Williams
Mind making a case for them over the other two?
No thanks
Anthony Howard
I say gnome-shell. it's gnome without all the crap preinstalled that breaks gnome if you uninstall them
Aaron Moore
>Mind making a case for them over the other two? Subjective, whichever looks better for you. Literally. MATE if you prefer the old GNOME2 look. XFCE if you prefer the xfce look or the win9x look.
Thomas Sanders
turns out it WAS too stupid for this thread, I just had a syntax error in my config file, just strange that it started referencing a plugin that I had installed. thank you to all that ignored my post for letting me figure this one out
Colton Russell
>thank you to all that ignored my post any time
Hunter Allen
About to format and set up an old 32GB SSD for a dm-crypt+LUKS secured Arch install. What file system should I go with? The laptop will mainly be used for experimenting with Arch and learning as much as I can about Linux. I'm just not sure where to start here.
Alexander Diaz
Arch is pacman, Ubuntu is apt-get.
Thomas Bailey
XFCE or KDE?
Mason Wood
xbps-install -S
Jayden Jones
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
I've decided to do this with a new laptop I have, but I'm apparently too retarded to configure the wireless setting during installation of Arch-Linux to download the packets faster than 10kb/s. I'm completely new to linux so Arch was probably a bad first choice, and now I'm considering Fedora because I want to learn web development. Is this a better choice or are there others you guys would recommend? I also want to use media software for memeing and making webms, are linux programs good or should I just run Adobe in a VM?
Zachary Bailey
Arch is a terrible first distro. Just start with Ubuntu. Almost everyone does and its the most likely to "just work".
Gimp is the gnu/linux way to edit photos, but there's a bunch of guides on getting photoshop working with wine.
/usr/bin/paccache is missing from my computer all of a sudden. I've been running arch for years, used it weekly after updating. Did it get removed from the pacman package or something? I couldn't find it in the changelogs, and pkgfile says it's still in core/pacman. I tried installing pacman, didn't change anything.
Hunter Rodriguez
Arch probably isn't the best idea for someone new to linux. That being said, it does force you to learn a lot about the linux OS in order to get it working while other distros will hide everything away and offer "idiot proof" GUI tools for everything. Either browse around the arch wiki or arch forums for help and tips or use an idiot-proof distro for people who want linux but don't want to have to configure anything manually.
Xavier Cooper
For a pleb user like me does the choice of distro/wm really matter? I've got a x220 and t420 and a desktop, mostly use the x220 and desktop but is there a specific distro/wm that would make me more productive on one computer vs the other? i'm using i3wm on my laptops and gnome on my desktop but i just don't see the point anymore, it's like having an unwieldy secret fort.
Aaron Myers
Cant reproduce, the file is part of the 'pacman' package Try running the PKGBUILD file manually and see if you can grab it out of the pacman tar.gz
>I've been running arch for years, used it weekly after updating >used it weekly after updating >used it weekly >complains 2 years later after file is removed Dont lie next time
Daniel Parker
arch
John Campbell
pacman5.1 just came out, retard
Luis Cooper
How is you claiming to use a script every time you update, and suddenly it dosent exist, yet it was pushed to a secondary file 2 years ago?
Why do the whites/blue light appear brighter on Linux than Windows on the same monitor on a default install of both OS?
Julian Smith
You clearly don't use arch, your nonsense is irrelevant.
Jaxson Jenkins
Conflicting answers. Shit.
Nathaniel Harris
I do use arch, and i updated pacman to 5.1. It has absolutely nothing to do with paccache being moved to pacman-contrib 2 FUCKING YEARS AGO. And somehow in your broken partial updated system, you claimed to use it "every time i update" yet thats a lie since it was removed TWO WHOLE FUCKING YEARS AGO.
Isaac Wood
I'm not lying, and you're quite stupid. You should look up the 5.1 patch notes yourself.
Nothing there about a 2 year old script being pushed to pacman-contrib. 2 years ago. Which means it wouldnt have been in your system for 2 years now, but you suddently realize its gone, despite using it "every time i update". But its been 2 years...
Michael Turner
You shouldn't use arch if you need this level of hand-holding, but here you go
It's a huge fucking crapshoot. I did it from a clean wipe doing windows first then arch and it still didn't dual boot properly. As long as you can switch between boot loaders via bios it really doesn't matter
