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How do I get programs in mint to automatically find my second hardrive? I can see it in the file manager and transmission picks it up just fine but launchy qbittorrent etc. do not
It shows up in terminal just fine >Babby's 2nd attempt at linux
Sort of shocked that this is the only problem I've had so far desu, everything else has been fine, even the printer works
Connor Fisher
what directory is your second mounted to? go navigate to that folder in launchy/qbittorent check $ mount it might be /mnt or /media/bleh/something
Gabriel Walker
What is the most Virgin linux distro?
Owen Miller
Trisquel
Nathaniel Morgan
Fedora
Gabriel Scott
Found it, it was located inside media for some reason Why the fuck would it put it there?
Brandon Parker
$man hier
/media This directory contains mount points for removable media such as CD and DVD disks or USB sticks. On systems where more than one device exists for mounting a certain type of media, mount direc‐ tories can be created by appending a digit to the name of those available above starting with '0', but the unqualified name must also exist.
Liam Perez
The file-chooser should be able to share the "icon view" feature used in Nautilus, so that you can choose between list view and icon view (with thumbnails). I believe the Windows file selector already does this. Now how to do this I have no clue about, because I am not a developer. I guess either Nautilus should allow other applications to share this function (which could also be useful to file-roller e.g.), or it should be lifted out from Nautilus, making it a gtk widget or something?
>try to install debian on a virtual machine to start off easy and comfy >MACHINE_CHECK_ERROR >this has happened 2 times I have an msi laptop (ge72 2qd apache pro), what the fuck is happening? It's been always unable to run linacs (tried arch, ubuntu, bungie)
Luis Williams
>implying is my screenshot not some random picture from interwebs
no u
Christian Scott
Good thread.
Henry Evans
Why?
Zachary Ross
because it's fast and simple and i just don't care anymore
Grayson Gonzalez
arch t. arch user
Adam Parker
Linux is a kernel.
Julian Watson
IMO it's a good learning experience. Not the install, that's easy as fuck and there's a gillion tutorials. But want to print? Oh, install cups and configure it, there might be permission issues so you have to fuck around with it, etc. Want wifi, oh you didn't install diaload, iw, wpa_supplicant during the install. This daemon doesn't automount, did you start and enable the service? Just a whole bunch of little stuff. I got frustrated by things that "just-werked" on other distros. A lot of the times it's not as simple as just installing via pacman, you have to do config stuff.
I distro hopped quite a bit, but every time I would go back to arch, there's honestly something about it: there's a well-sized community, pacman is fantastic, the AUR is a god-send, etc.
Camden King
i3 nigger here, but I want to switch to dwm for dat tagging. I'm trying to patch it and some of them just refuse to work, namely systray and uselessgap I used both patch and git apply Is it possible to paste the code in manually? If so, how do I know where to paste it in? sorry for being a brainlet
Wyatt Murphy
What's the best way to convert/read a xlsx file in my terminal?
Dominic Nguyen
install ratpoison
Jason Barnes
>xlsx open it in libreoffice/google sheets and hope for the best.
Henry Anderson
honestly the only other tiling wm I'm interested in is xmonad but dwm is better
Sebastian Reyes
Did it using xlsx2csv. >based text formats Feels at home again.
Brandon Ramirez
About to install Debian, which DE should I go for? xfce doesn't have great multi monitor support, but the rest is mostly fine. I like that GNOME is being actively developed and is unofficially the Linux DE. Moreover when even Canonical dropped theirs and is now going with GNOME. KDE is a mixed bag for me. I've tried in two times, but didn't like it at all. That being said, that was a few years ago, things might have changed. Having a proper filepicker is also a plus.
I'm leaning towards GNOME desu, is there any reason why I shouldn't?
Is it possible to have a Vulkan capable mpv without compiling on a Ubuntu based distro? If so, how?
Xavier Allen
If it's been a few years then give KDE a try. Plasma 5 has come a long way: it's much lighter on RAM (still quite big in terms of package size) and is way, way, way less buggy than it used to be. I love the KDE apps like Konsole, Yakuake, Dolphin, Okular, etc. If you want the Dolphin file picker for firefox, you'll need to install the opensuse-patched version of firefox (firefox-kde-opensuse on AUR).
But I don't see any reason not to use GNOME. If you want to use wayland then GNOME hands down.
Jacob King
I have been using a laptop with L/Ubuntu for 7 years, but it just died. I'm planning to build a R3 2200g desktop to replace it. I starting having problems with Ubuntu when they moved to unity and moved to Lubuntu, should I stay with Ubuntu distros for my new pc or just move to another already? Which distro have the best support for the Ryzen integrated Vega card?
Terminals are mostly by preference unless I'm missing something. I haven't tried dolphin in a while. Might go for it since thunar doesn't have built in search, I'm a little worried it's going to shit itself with the root picture folder being more than 20k unsorted images. On that filepicker firefox, I'll be on the lookout for it, that sounds cash. Problem is the gigantic amount of tabs and windows I have open, would it be friendly just copying the .config or .local folders? Also, on wayland, would that fuck up something like GPU passthrough in the future? What of everything that still uses X?
Isaiah Sanders
yeah terminals are def personal preference. Dolphin is fantastic, I'm not sure about 20k of unsorted images though, never had this test case. You can copy you .mozilla folder (or at the minimum the XXXXXXX.default folder (in .mozilla) which is the firefox session folder. I don't know much about waland at the moment since it's very, very shit with KDE, so I don't bother.
how can i play a specific sound via a different port in pulseaudio? basically i have a script that plays a sound when my cripto shitcoins reach a threshold, but i want that sound to play via the speakers even when i have my headphones plugged. how do?
don't ask here is full of neets and shit advice. Truth is gnome is obviously a good desktop. Every major distro has it as default option, the keybinds it comes with are useful as fuck and natural, dynamic workspaces are kino, and is very stable. And it's getting more and more slimmer. With time I have no doubts it will be as polished as a mac (implying that's a good thing)
Josiah Sanchez
Is there a way to make sxiv's background color something other than grey? Can it be transparent?
Adam Ramirez
Can I make the window borders in i3 a gradient instead of solid colors?
If your drive is big enough for your needs sure lol
