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I installed anki on chroot. How do I put it in my program list in xfce? I currently only can by running the command schroot -c anki -- anki on the terminal.
Gavin Parker
What distro are you using? I love Debian but currently I am using Linux Mint 18.1 serena
Grayson Gray
I'm using debian as my first linux distro ever I'm liking some aspects of it, and disliking some other which are probably my fault for not knowing much about it (I make some stupid mistakes)
Blake Butler
Bogpill me on the x32 architecture /fglt/ (it's a weird combo between i686 and amd64 where the system is 32bit but programs have access x64 only registers and such). Is it worth using on an older 64bit system with
Hunter Wilson
>implying mint isn't based on debian
Elijah Morris
no such thing, son stop believing in myth
Isaiah Foster
How can i make linux boot without showing those texts on the top corner of my screen?
Tips for making it boot faster would be nice as well.
Logan Roberts
it's pretty cool, though it's hard to justify on a system where you also have some programs that need to access >4G of ram, as those will need to be compiled for amd64, along with any libraries they need x32 is effectively it's own architecture, so it has it's own libraries as well
Why does my LUKS encrypted flash drive sometimes become read only? I unlock and mount it as read-write but it always eventually becomes read only so I have to unmount it, re lock it, unlock it again, then remount it. Is the drive dying? Should I buy a new one before I lose all of my data?
if [[ "$UID" -eq 0 ]] || [[ "${LANG: -6}" != ".UTF-8" ]]; then export PS1="${TITLEBAR}${ps_color}[\w]\\\$${normal} " else PS1="${TITLEBAR}${ps_color}┌─${ps_exitcode}[\w]${normal} ${ps_color}└─▪${normal} " PS2="└─▪ " export PS1 PS2 fi } if [[ -z "$PROMPT_COMMAND" ]]; then export PROMPT_COMMAND="prompt; history -a; history -c; history -r" else export PROMPT_COMMAND="prompt; history -a; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND" fi
Kayden Diaz
>>>/global/rules/3 enjoy your ban faggot
Julian Gonzalez
why would you export ps1 and prompt?
Chase Lewis
Thank you. Friendly thread.
Logan Cox
>buffer IO error replace ASAP
Liam Clark
Looks like something wrong on the drive.
Nathan Bailey
conditional PS1 (i.e. when your last command returns non-zero) is only possible using $PROMPT_COMMAND
Jackson Lewis
Will backup rn and pick up a new one as soon as I can that's what I was thinking. I though it might just have beel LUKS fucking stuff up but I guess not
Connor Walker
Wow, you're so cool. I like how you posted a screenshot to prove that you're not using a certain piece of software in a totally useful way and not to brag about using software that other people wrote. Wow, you are the coolest person ever.
Easton Nguyen
>how to spot someone who doesn't use his terminal emulator/shell for anything other than desktop threads
Jacob Martinez
Could you post a POSIX RegExp that will match c(", " and ), please?
Opinions on Gallium OS? I know it's a fork of of Xubuntu but is it faster or lighter?
Jason Morales
Let me explain. systemd is shit. It's like a child in a sandbox that shits his pants and pisses in the sand and then goes home to take a bath and shit in the bath and then shit on the toilet not in it and then shit out a stupid fucking error message that makes no sense "oopsie me poop me pants" and then shits all over the place good job using shitty software...
I'm trying to add a shell command to ranger to copy an image to the clipboard. I thought of using xclip, but apparently it only copies text. Any suggetsions?
Brandon Gonzalez
>packages.gentoo.org is down i'll freeze to death now
Trying to copy it from ranger to a chromium window, not to another directory.
Jackson Rodriguez
Tell me, I'm a debiant myself. What problems do ya have?
Austin Perez
I meant, why do you use 'export'?
Logan Johnson
so maybe should use yy
Jayden Jackson
to export the variable
Ethan Flores
...
Dylan Hernandez
GNU/Linux*
Christopher Smith
but that alias was useful retard
Samuel Russell
But why?
Aaron Cook
Friendly thread.
Dominic Cox
Friendly GNU/Linux Thread*
Henry Brown
xclip can do this, but you need to tell it to use the image protocol. Read the manual. Stop using chromium.
Jordan Moore
Why so many lowercase posters ITT?
Jack Lee
Back up. Plus you had emerge, equery and q all along.
Brandon Rodriguez
Trying to run "emerge -avuDN world" for the first time in a while. A very large number of packages fail with an error message regarding the apparent absence of something called "libstdc++.so.6", e.g. error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I've been googling these errors for hours and I've got nowhere.
Any idea what's happening here?
Landon Parker
okay little shit you win, let me spoonfeed you you need to shit first: $ cat
Chromium works the best out of all the ones I have used. It is the most keyboard friendly.
Levi Cook
>I don't use SSH y
David Johnson
>no >i don't use ssh lol, loser. I've increased my workflow tenfold with socks secured key-based ssh, now i can program on my desktop from anywhere in the world through my laptop, try and beat that faggot
John Lopez
But why would you export your prompt?
John Long
Wow, you've done a basic computer thing, totally amazing, totally worthy of a screenshot, wow, you use a terminal emulator and you typed in some text, wow, you are so cool and a hacker, please don't hack me ha ha. Fucking disconnect from the internet you fucking retard and stop wasting everyone's bandwidth on your retardation.
Matthew Butler
prompt() { } is to declare function
Nathan Jenkins
Google Botnet
Nicholas Johnson
I am
Jonathan Gray
I meant, why would you export your PROMPT_COMMAND?
William Barnes
Revdep-rebuild against that lib. Also you can google this for seconds and you already get results.
Mason Thomas
I'm not using linux to avoid the botnet, I'm using it for productivity increase.
I don't need it please teach me how to be successful like yourself, fucking trash
Ethan Gonzalez
Stop recommending the Google botnet.
Hudson Brooks
can't you read little shit
Chase Cooper
>I have only tried chromium
Adam Sullivan
why the hostility user? >friendly linux thread
Kayden Powell
How am I supposed to know what package provides libstdc? I know how to figure out what package a file belongs to when it exists, but not how to figure out what package provides a file that doesn't exist.
revdep-rebuild only tries to emerge media-libs/mesa, which also fails to compile, albeit for a different reason: configure: error: --enable-llvm selected but llvm-config is not found I have already tried to emerge llvm, but it fails because libstdc++ is missing.
>Also you can google this for seconds and you already get results. There are lots of results, but none are helpful.
Christopher Carter
read the manual, xclip wasn't working so I just ended up using copyq
Luke Parker
>friendly linux thread Not friendly for reddit standards
Cooper Collins
isn't it redditors who think every post on Jow Forums has to be hostile
Thomas Powell
open sorse pls go
Aaron Reed
> calling other users reddit Why the hostility user?