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I'm trying to learn stuff but sitting here gives me the piles so is there any terminal command that removes them?
Daniel Sanders
There's probably a higher level solution to this, but my reaction as a wmfag would be to write a unit file in ~/.config/systemd that runs `feh --bg-fill ` or whatever. The pattern for it is discussed here unix.stackexchange.com/a/227293/275404
Nathan Taylor
What's the best way of tagging files (memes, more precisely)? I don't wanna use Hydrus because it's too bloated for my needs. I just wanna tag files with a couple of key words and search based on them. There has to be simpler way. I'm using Thunar file manager btw.
Zachary White
A basic way could just be to rename the file itself to include the word
Wyatt Mitchell
>I just wanna tag files with a couple of key words and search based on them. Thats what hydrus does.
Samuel Roberts
Found this, does the same, just with a special interface. >xfce-look.org/p/1131626/ Would prefer not to rename files, though.
Hydrus also does a gazillion of other things I don't need and won't ever use, just taking +250MB of my space.
David Morris
>don't need and won't ever use So dont use them. You dont even use every feature in a browser yet you use it everyday. You dont use every feature/driver in your OS, yet you use it everyday
>250mb OH LORDY DID WE TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO THE 60'S WHERE 32KB IS ALL WE EVER NEED? >the year of 1000+1000+10+5+3 250mb means fuck all, you are wasting more space with with your browser on a filesize:feature metric usage then you would with hydrus.
I have already installed the amdgpu-pro driver, but I want to run and write opencl 2.0 stuff, do I just need to install this support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/OpenCL2-Driver.aspx on top of the current driver or do I need something else?
Trying to compile rmd to pdf, but I keep getting this error. Made sure that my pandoc and R(Rmarkdown) are up to date at least up to date by Debian repos.
You arent showing us anything lol. Look above the error to see if anything failed
Jackson Moore
Can an user help me to resolve a problem?
Each times I disconnect from a wifi network, and then try to reconnect, nm-applet fail and tell me "device not ready", and I have to do "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart && sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart", to then be able to reconnect to my wifi, every times. This problem didn't exist before, and I don't recall upgrading anything before it happened.
I tried to use wicd. When I connect to a network with wicd-gtk, it loads, and I can see the texts on the left-bottom corner, after "Authentification", it tells me "connection estabilished", and finally suddenly tell me "not connected".
Thank you.
I'm on Debian GNU/Linux 9.
Caleb Davis
Add a custom xattr?
Gavin Evans
I installed xfce and now my mouse sensitivity is way too high. I tried lowering it in settings manager but it didn't help. How can I lower it more?
Jason Sullivan
Thanks for helping, but it magically started working. I did update before trying to compile again, so maybe the devs fixed the problem.
Benjamin Ramirez
anyone know how to fix screen tearing in void linux
im using i3 with nvidia drivers with forced composition
Juan Torres
Cant even build hydrus, its deps are all fucked up and nothing compiles
Installing compiz on xubuntu 18.04.1, I get it working but I can't set the window frame theme correctly. I looked around and the only tip I found (installing the gnome tweak tool) didn't work. This is the exact warning: Warn: No default decoration found, placement will not be correct
** (gtk-window-decorator:1247): WARNING **: 12:32:22.346: Failed to load metacity theme
Any ideas?
Austin Cox
user, thank you, but I already said that I restarted my network-manager service. I'm looking for long term solution
For a gaymen mouse I had to set it to a negative value, IIRC -0.5 Try out what works for you then save the correct command and autorun it each time at logon.
Benjamin Clark
Been running Mint for 2 days straight now. I believe this makes me an expert at gnu/linux.
Jose Ramirez
Which loonex distro just werks with optimus thinkpads? I tried fedora, and both of the following packages doesn't detect the hardware after installing nvidia-settings and nvidia-drivers from negativo17 repo; I installed both in optimus mode (set from BIOS) and booting up in either BIOS or discrete(dedicated GPU) mode fails to detect the hardware either. I don't mind not having the seamless switching, I just want to run either only the intel card or the nvidia card. That means the PRIME thing from ubuntu is out too, since that actually has both cards active and taking energy, even if only one card is actually used by the OS.
Levi Long
why won't my Debian vm boot when i enable 3d acceleration? I get stuck on a black screen with a cursor after GRUB. Disabling 3d acceleration fixes it, though.
Is there a way to switch between DE's without loging out?
Say I want to switch from i3 to xfce, how could I do it?
Chase Price
You can just start an xterm, and run the DE from that xterm, but you have to keep the xterm. Some DE accepts to be replaced by other DE (like TWM), but it's rare.
Asher Ramirez
Edit your xinitrc and launch from a different tty
Sebastian Flores
Only console users are allowed to run the X server
Oliver Carter
I don't understand your answer.
Kayden Mitchell
You can launch multiple DE / Xorg sessions under one user account.
You can't really switch WM/DE with all your applications still running and their GUI windows still active, so it's effectively not too different. Sure, you don't log out but just log in one more, but yea, not really different.
Colton Nelson
(cont'd) BTW I seriously question why you'd want to do this.
Personally I never had the urge to switch between Awesome WM and a mouse pushing WM. I could set windows to floating mode and push mouse on Awesome WM if I wanted, but it really basically never happened.
Wyatt Clark
Posting because of a thread earlier today. What desktop environment has the least padding? Tiling wms don't count, they're nice but I want a more classical solution right now.
1) aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=hydrus install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/opt/hydrus" what's pkgdir supposed to be? Arch wiki says >This points to the directory where makepkg bundles the installed package, which becomes the root directory of your built package. but it's empty since I have the files in /opt/hydrus 2) Where can I read what install -m755 does? 3) how to git gud at vim after vimtutor?
Jason Sullivan
Why people still use install instead of cp. I don't get it.
Parker Lewis
whenever you have /usr, /etc, /whatever, prepend $pkgdir to it, so it becomes $pkgdir/usr install -m755 is basicaly the same as cp -p file /new/path/ && chmod 755 /new/path/file start writing vimscript
Luis Nelson
>so it becomes $pkgdir/usr which is still /usr since pkgdir is blank, it changes nothing so why is it used in this case (in the whole PKGBUILD)?
nah, $pkgdir is redirected somewhere the point of $pkgdir is that so when you issue make install the files don't get installed to / that's why you pass DESTDIR like so make install DESTDIR=$pkgdir it's better to familiarize yourself with building from source using ./configure && make && make install before start writing any package
Dominic Collins
How do you get firefox/chromium to use self signed certs now?
Joshua Martinez
What? They refuse? Do you have an example of such a site?
Parker Nguyen
Its a local server that isnt ready to be pushed public. I need the browsers to use the certs that the server is using.
I'm sure that there is a way to force firefox to accept it.
Landon Murphy
I dont need a third party issuing certs, self signing was sufficient enough until recently.I refuse to accept that i need to get a third party for certs
I've played with the configs in about:config but literally nothing makes firefox nor chromium accept self signed certs.
Jordan Peterson
modify the source?
Michael Nelson
>makes firefox nor chromium accept self signed certs I'm really dubious.
Jack Gray
Linux seems to be a lost cause for me on my gaming PC. I've spent 2 weeks trying to make it work but it's just not on par with Windows. I don't get lower frame rates or anything but I get constant hangups. I don't know how ~130fps in a game can feel so laggy.
Liam Phillips
Yeah i have time to inspect of a million lines of code my self to use a fucking setting that should be default.
They dont
Adrian Jackson
>They dont I just did a test with pcwebshop.co.uk/ and I can add a security exception to bypass.
Oliver Long
Im not going to manually add every fucking website that is ever used manually.
Adrian Mitchell
It's just once or twice in your life.
Aiden Bell
Its for every single domain or ip that is going to be used.
What's the best MTP method? simple-mtpfs, jmtpfs? etc.
David Rodriguez
What are my choices if I want a distro that is well supported, stable and has a lot of rather up-to-date packages? Base install option is a must, I'm yet to find anything pre-configured with defaults I'd consider sane. Bonus points for rolling release, I'm getting a bit fed of arch, it's edge tends to bleed too much sometimes.
Andrew Hall
>it's edge tends to bleed too much sometimes. Such as? Did you incorporate the .pacnew's in to your config or did you simply ignore them and then blame the system for having outdated configs?
Jaxson Murphy
I done goofed and did delete some files accidentally. I did recovery using photorec and filtered files by type and size. How what I have is a directory with about 100,000 text files. How can I find files that contain urls and urls only, one per line?
Jose Collins
How annoying is gentoo after you get it installed? I remember updating sometimes took a while but that was on a netbook I thought could've used a bit more juice. Currently running a thinkpad x220 with void but the package names are kind've annoying when every other distro I've tried has the same name for a given package. Is openRC any faster than runit?
Didn't know about pacnew, I'll read about it later. Thanks! It's not related to the problem I'm sometimes facing though. Some packages (from kde group especially) provide bug fixes (which is good) and new bugs (which is annoying) after every other update. I don't remember this being the case back in the days when I were using fedora. Updates were wayyy less often, but at least nothing was broke after updating.
I want to use the latest stable version, not something that feels like beta.
I installed Kubuntu recently, and It's fantastic. But the image editors it came pre-installed were nice, but lacked the simplest feature I could possibly want "copy to clipboard". What's a good image viewer for Linux that can do this?
Jayden Peterson
grep
>I remember updating sometimes took a while It can take a while, but all you have to do is learn to run updates over night, or while you're at work, or whatever. I run updates on my i7-2700K desktop while I'm working with it and the only difference it makes is slightly increased fan noise, but I wait to run updates on my laptop until I'm not going to be using it for a while.
You can configure portage to keep going if any of the updates fail. That way you spend a few minutes glancing over the changes to be made and running the update, and when you come back to your computer you spend a few minutes running the command to remove obsolete packages, updating configuration files, and sorting out any build failures that might have occurred. It can take a long time, but it doesn't have to take any of YOUR time, since you probably don't use your computer 24/7.
>Is openRC any faster than runit Faster at what? booting? I use it on an old netbook and boot times have never been an issue for me. If they were, I would hibernate instead, because a full boot is only ever truly necessary when you update your kernel.
Juan Smith
There's definitelty something wrong with my install of Xubuntu.
Should I reinstall it, or get something else? (pc is from 2011, and I am fairly new to GNU/Linux)
James Garcia
>There's definitelty something wrong with my install of Xubuntu. like what?
Easton Hernandez
Terminal is definitely not the same as it was before, background keeps shitting out, programs keep crashing for no reason.. etc.
Sebastian Mitchell
>Terminal is definitely not the same as it was before I have no idea what this means. >background keeps shitting out I have no idea what this means. >programs keep crashing for no reason If this is happening frequently and you want t troubleshoot it you could run one of the troublesome programs in a terminal and use it until it crashes. The stuff that it writes to the terminal when it crashes might be useful. If you don't want to bother with that kind of thing, try Debian.
Justin Rivera
>Terminal It's a different terminal. I used the default Xubuntu Terminal, but now it's a different one. Didn't change anything to it. >Background of my desktop just vanishes from time to time.
Maybe I will try Debian, thanks brah.
Leo Parker
How do you bind keys in 2018? The keysyms are showing up as "KP_" keys but when i go to bind them in programs it dosent show up.All the keys show up on xev and show different keys, yet within programs its as if the key isnt being registered,but it registers a click on xev.
