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Hi Jow Forums! I'm new-ish to Linux and I'd like to get Twinview or Xinerama or honestly anything working on Ubuntu 16.04 to be able to play games fullscreen across my multiple monitors with my NVIDIA card. I've looked around and tried a few things to no success, but most forums users seem to just think I'm fucked for attempting this. Am I fucked?
Joseph Morris
How to take a screenshot of the framebuffer/tty (not in VM)?
I have looked through the recommended distro pic. I have tried mint, xubuntu, and ubuntu. I'm using a t420. If possible I'd like a distro that increases performance but allows me to rice in the standard Jow Forums minimalist fashion. I'm not sure if I'm ready for debian but I have never tried it.
Ryder Robinson
Why would it be different in fish? Also: man grep.
Jace Gutierrez
Linux is a kernel.
Ayden Jenkins
Just give it a go in a VM to feel safe, then go balls deep.
Christian Garcia
Hmmm, I never thought about it this way.
Nathan Turner
fish has its own syntax highlighting. if I run grep in another shell it won't highlight the matching text the same way
Robert Moore
I saw Deepin OS on someones laptop and it looked kinda neat. What are Jow Forums's thoughts about it? I liked the clear look and it looks like it could be quite minimal
Isaac Watson
Looking for a distro that's like KDE Neon (i.e. latest KDE but stable everything else).
Can I install debian stable and somehow get the latest KDE releases?
Jordan Young
You could try Kubuntu 18.04 + backports
Matthew James
pretty sure the issue is whatever kernel 18.04 is using since I didn't get the issue with fedora, arch, manjaro.
Nolan Cox
the distro itself doesnt really matter
if you want to focus on saving resources, you choose an efficient window manager. dwm for example.
Liam Flores
should i learn to compile programs, do you know what to put in the command line when you want to compile a program or do you just copy and paste?
Ian Cooper
Hey guys, I'm using mupdf on Lubuntu and all the keyboard shortcuts work but I'm having trouble copying/pasting text. in the man page it says that text can be selected using right click + drag and then consequently copied using ctrl + c, problem is the output is always some messed up mangled text (from the same document) but not the selected text itself. Does anyone know how to fix?
Is there a way for debian to scan my system to install non-free drivers?
Thomas Bennett
just enable non-free and install linux-firmware-nonfree linux will detect things on it's own, debian just doesn't ship with non-free firmware files by default
Caleb Williams
Then what you could do is install ukuu and use a newer kernel that way.
Michael Lopez
What's the best distro? I don't want to fall for the memes.
Lucas Reed
Ubuntu with a lightweight DE
Joshua Diaz
Debian/Devuan. Dont know which one for bleeding edge though.
Logan Bailey
Too shady
Nathaniel Johnson
>I don't want to fall for the memes. Then maybe you should ask someone else.
Which is better for noobs; i3, Awesome, dwm, monsterwm, or something else?
Luke Fisher
i3
Juan Martin
My laptop running debian randomly teleports up/down the page when I go to scroll after a bit of leaving it. i.e. I'll go to scroll and immediately jump to a part of the page. Why does this happen and how can I fix it?
why aren't you running a DE entirely made in html/css3/js, user?
Jace Nelson
fuck the kernel
Daniel Ward
Got a new mouse.For like the first 10 minutes after booting, all the extra buttons give assignments, but suddenly 2 of the buttons stop responding in xev and various programs. What could cause this?
c-can I learn linux straight from ubuntu server or should I use a normal non-server distro first
Adrian Scott
Yes, ubuntu server is just another metapackage from ubuntu.
Joseph Garcia
I wouldn't know how to fix that, I just wanted to say that I tried mupdf and couln't get used to it, but I found zathura with the mupdf plugin a much better alternative for a lightweight pdf viewer. Maybe you should check it out.
Juan Sanders
Still looking for help getting all the settings modules to show in conqueror on Kubuntu 18.04. Any way to make KDE not suck?
James Hall
mega link is dead
Brody Wood
How
Colton Cook
Thanks man it looks snappy, I'll try it out
Elijah Ward
I'm going to use OpenBox. Fuck the system!
Aiden Jones
Xorg is broken
Josiah Nelson
>arch based os >xorg is broken ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nathan Clark
In fact that's the first time i see that, i never had problems with Xorg before and i use arch since few years. The logos installer is 2-3 years old so that's surely the main reason.
James Lee
I've been using Windows all my life and upon realizing I don't actually need Windows for too much, I think now's the time to switch.
I tried Xubuntu in virtualbox as the internet/wiki recommends it as a good starter and I want to test the waters. Is it normal for youtube videos to lag for 2 seconds when pausing & playing? Or is that a VM thing?
Also, I want to use one of the brainlet-tier distros and read the babbies page on the wiki, but I'm hearing they're becoming more and more compromised? I also heard systemd should be avoided at all costs. What's this thread's consensus on these?
Joseph Sullivan
Also, is this still relevant?
>On 20 February 2016, Mint's website was compromised and backdoors were planted in the downloads, the database for Linux Mint forums were also compromised., some have raised concerns for this, warning people not to use Linux Mint.
Im on a laptop with mint installed, how can I make it portrait mode? (basically 768x1366)
Thomas Bennett
>shitpost >get called on it >no response the classic /fglt/
Ryder Walker
xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate left (adjust "LVDS1" to suit, run "xrandr" to find out the names of your outputs)
Levi Diaz
How do I fix this awful looking text on Debian? Some letters are randomly bolder than others and the whole thing looks like jaggedy shit. How do I fix this?
I have just installed xfce4 on arch linux. When I tile my terminal (xfce terminal) I get gaps. Does anyone know how to solve this? Using another terminal emulator solves the problem.
meh 2much werk i3 is lazy, add workspace_layout tabbed hide_edge_borders smart and you're done
Wyatt Gutierrez
eeyyaaahahhhh!!!
Alexander Morris
I'm out of function keys to bind, what other keys arent used?
Charles Reed
xev
Kayden Sanchez
Do i need to install the non-free intel-microcode package for the x220 on Debian?
Gabriel Richardson
Yes, i am using xev. I have f13-f35 bound but i have 2 more buttons i need mapped. What other keys can i use? I dont want to use XF86 keys in case i need them properly mapped for desktop functions
Lincoln Rodriguez
>need no >should If you don't mint nonfree firmwares, yes. They contain updated microcode with fixes for known vulnerabilities and problems.
John Mitchell
>They contain updated microcode with fixes for known vulnerabilities and problems. And none of these fixes are in the kernel or firmware-linux-free package? I just kind of wanted to try and see if i could go full freetard on my thinkpad but i guess i cant.
Juan Hall
>she censors his filenames >she uses edgy middleschooler raection gifs >theres nothing wrong with *ubuntu C*te!
sorry but Im clueless about the terminal, can you explain that in simpler terms?
Robert Russell
>And none of these fixes are in the kernel or firmware-linux-free package? No. Processor firmware are proprietary. The kernel code may contain workarounds and mitigations for certain processor vulnerabilities but those aren't real fixes, only patches on the side of a damaged ship.
Hunter Edwards
I guess its not possible then to go full freetard is it?
Nicholas Edwards
For laptops like Thinkpads, do you need to install a separate driver for wi-fi to work?
Liam Diaz
Most of the time yes
Michael Russell
Depends on the laptop. My T400 has an Atheros wifi which works OOB with any modern distro. Others might have freedom hating intel or broadcom wifi where you need proprietary drivers or use alternative methods to access wifi, such as a freedom respecting wifi dongle. If you libreboot/coreboot the laptop you can replace the internal wifi hardware to something that doesn't shit on free systems.
Thomas Long
>Or is that a VM thing?
Best way to check it out is to make a LiveCD/USB and test it that way. Virtual machines can be very laggy on slower machines.
Jackson Thompson
nop
Nathan Mitchell
any materials on learning vim? should i just go for anything i found on yt?
Andrew Lopez
the reason it does this is because it tells the window manager to only resize it in multiples of the character width/height. I don't know if you can override that from the outside. you could change it in the source somewhere, but I don't know if the program will still work properly if you do that.
Wyatt Garcia
Run vimtutor, faggot.
Zachary Martin
use qutebrowser for a couple of hours. you’ll become a god at vim
Luke Gonzalez
I fixed this for my urxvt a while ago by telling it not to send sizehints. Copy pasted a patch from some "urxvt something something sizehints" package in the AUR and recompiled for Debian. I was so proud, lel.
Lincoln White
thanks
Michael Murphy
>she censors his filenames >she uses edgy middleschooler reaction gifs Holy shit choose one you bipolar autist
I want to use Debian Testing but i'm a bit confused about the security updates and setting up my sources.list. On the wiki it says to remove the security updates from sources.list meaning I won't receive security updates. I've also read that testing can receive security updates, but its always delayed and is not a priority compared to stable. So what is the proper way to setup testing with security updates?
Aiden Martin
I'm trying to get grub menu to not show at all and boot directly into loonix but it just doesn't works.
I have set GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true And sudo update-grub2 but it just keeps the 10 seconds timeout.
Xavier Gutierrez
>free girls use ubuntu >free girls Hookers, but without paying. Amazing.