/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

mate is good for stone age PCs and craptops, try that first.

Help.

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Are you running multiple monitors? I forget the exact details of when it happens but I know that several screens on AMD GPUs have caused that exact problem in the past.

I am running two monitors, but I tried it with just one several times and it doesn't fix the problem. Do I have to boot with only one?

I'd try that and see if it works. if it does, well, you can't do much except wait for the next kernel and hope AMD's driver team gets around to working on it, if it doesn't, then you'll have eliminated that as the problem.

Hope you have copyright permission to use that right panel

Return the amd shitpu and get a 20X0

I've seen many times here both arch and i3 get mocked. Why should i switch from arch+i3 to something else? I will probably stick to tiling wms and minimal installation distros

If it works for you, don't bother changing. But that exact combination is the hallmark of a (probanly underage) retard that knows how to do exactly nothing except copy configs and mindlessly copy/paste commands so they can show off their desktops and pretend it's art or something.

Nvidia's binary driver is, in addition to being nonfree, a buggy shitheap.

I see your point, thanks. And what about other distros like gentoo, void linux etc.? How are they any different than arch?

If it works for you, don't switch.

The ones getting mocked are the idiots who install those who don't have enough knowledge about gahnoo + linux, but jump straight into arch+custom wm setup.

This is by far the biggest problem with linux.

Nvidia binary drivers are both proprietary and a mess.
Nouveau has shit support for anything remotely modern and are a reverse-engineered mess because Nvidia sucks.
I've never actually used AMD because I'm still using an older card I bought before switching to Linux, but my understanding is that while their drivers are fine (but not great, hence the original user's question) quality-wise, the hardware is mediocre at best.

The primary differences between any linux distros are package management/tooling and release philosophy. On this specific topic I'd recommend a brief google search on source-based vs binary-based, rolling vs fixed release, the various package managers, etc rather than letting the opinions of random anons here try to convince you their preferred philosophies are superior.

It is pronounced as one syllable with a hard g, like “grew” but with the letter “n” instead of “r”.

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Yeah, if I boot with only a single monitor plugged in, it works. The voltage stays mainly at 0.75V and the memory goes down to it's usual idle clock of 167MHz. I usually have the other monitor disabled and when I plug it in, it's still fine until I enable the second monitor, after which it reverts back to higher voltage and memory clocks.
Sorry, I went back to AMD to get away from Nvidia.

Sounds like you have enough information to file a bug with. Godspeed, user.

But where? This is amdgpu related, right? Or the kernel/firmware?

Honestly, a quick 10 second search finds nowhere official looking to report it to amd. Considering that, I'd personally consider reporting it to the kernel bug tracker with a request that they point you in the right direction if that's not the right place for it.

Any suggestions of a gray-ish easy on the eyes GTK+ theme? Pretty much all the popular ones are either #FFFFFF or some shitty shade of blue or green with poor contrast.

I've been slowly editing "Materia", but it is inconsistent and is slowly making me want to kill myself.

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what theme is that?

>away from Nvidia.
And now you regret it :)

I traded several problems bigger problems, a binary blob and leather jacket man's dick for a minor annoyance. :^)

>a minor annoyance
Not being able to control the voltages of your shitpu isnt a minor annoyance , it is a major hardware defect

Is there a linux version of lenovo nerve sense? i got a y520 as a gift and having installed tp fancontrol and lm-sensors does not let me detect the extra fans, let alone turn them on

What is the best text editor?

vim

Numix

That is a recolored MateriaGTK, there's a program called oomox that allows you to change some of the colors.

How is that when I download a video from vimeo.com through ytdl using: youtube-dl -f 'bestvideo[height

I'm thinking of buying a 2 in 1 laptop and using either ubuntu or debian on it.
Now besides android I've never used an OS for touch. Is it supported at all? If desktop usage isn't great that wouldn't matter much. I just need to takes notes, sketch, and draw.

nano

emacs

Nvim

memeware

standard size for root partition?

that's how it is. Some video sites store video and audio data separately.
youtube-dl should merge them to one video container, if it doesn't consider installing ffmpeg.

Is there any way to get rid of the graphic issues when using Nvidia? Even with full composite pipeline there is still some lags.

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I'm gonna do 30 just to be safe thanks user

Is there anything wrong with using a single partition for the whole OS?

graphical or console

Not at all. The only argument I have against it is that a separate /home makes distro hopping, dual booting, reinstalling, etc harder, but if you have no plans for that, it's the simplest setup.

That said, I'd advocate an entire separate drive for /home these days. Small ssd for root, large drive (spinning or ssd depending on budget) for home, maybe another large spinning drive if you hoard data/media. Though in your context, including /home on the smaller drive does also work.

graphical console

Help guys, i tried to dual boot ubuntu mate on my lenovo ideapad 510, now when i go back to my windows 10 version when i select what os I want when i turn my pc on, the task manager says my memory usage is 100% and everything slows to crawl. My linux is fine so I can survive but idk what to do

Should I download the .otf or the .ttf?

>hdd with win7 suicides after a drop
>literally 10% is bad sectors and mbr annihilated completely (platter was scratched? seems to read/write fine on the other 90% though...)
>use lubuntu 18.10 live usb instead

Not bad. Could even switch entirely if I can get reaper and the dozens of pirated vsts I have to run normally.
However, how do you actually turn off mouse acceleration? The default gui does jack shit. xset m 0 0 doesn't seem to do much as I can still feel the dreadful enhanced pointer precision. For something so simple things are turning out to be spectacularly complicated. Values other than 0 0 don't feel different too. Could it be related to using persistent live usb?

>reboot
you are right, it (cron) would be executed every reboot
>login screen
pls explain more your use case, because I see the login screen only after booting or after a long break (suspended system) or changing user

Read arch wiki on mouse accel

>XFCE

Anyone know where the env for extra GTK modules is set? E.g like accessibility trash from Gnome?

Specifically

dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge

All of the related stuff I could find (going through xfce, gnome shit, systemd) is apparently inapplicable, empty, or missing so I can't change it.

If it's relevant I already have NO_AT_BRIDGE & QT_ACCESSIBILITY set, I just can't find where GTK gets the shit to load gail/atk.

Xfce*

>xinput --set-prop 10 'libinput Accel Profile Enabled' 0, 1
I'll be damn this actually worked. You have my thanks, user.

pls

I was working on my raspberry pi for a network OS class when the campus internet shit the bed. Ever since my wpa_supplicant.conf file has given me a weird error when I try to open it with nano, and it appears to be empty.

I've tried deleting and remaking it but every time I re-open the file it's emptied again. Could I just get a clean version of the wpa_supplicant folder from somewhere and overwrite mine with it?

Is raspberry pi stallman-approved or is it compromised like modern x86?
I want a comfy low-power shitposting machine

You mean not having a separated /home makes it harder, right?

>wikipedia
>Firmware
>The official firmware is a freely redistributable binary blob, that is closed-source.

According to stallman.org/stallman-computing.html it's absolutely haram.

Yes. Or that having one makes it easier. Was thinking of both simultaneously and the wires got crossed.

what the hell does that mean? and i see nothing about raspberry pi there

Closed source firmware means it's not free. You cannot trust it. Wikipedia has an article on raspberri pi and states that it has parts with closed-source firmware, ergo non-free. That cannot be stallman-approved.

Fuck.
Are there any single-board computers with open-source firmware?

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Here's the error btw, I can still get online using wired connections but the wireless stuff is fucked.

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youtube.com/watch?v=js2y1MpOuDk

>20 minute video whining about bullying, and being bullied
This is why I endorse bullying.

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I've wasted about twenty minutes now trying to figure out why my custom wallpapers.xml isn't working and I'm not sure if I'm dealing with a gnome issue, ubuntu issue, or if PEBKAC.

Location is fine, /usr/share/gnome-background-properties/user-wallpaper.xml. Formatting of the file is fine, mimicking the stock files. The first image even shows up in the system wallpapers - just none of the rest. I can comment that out and the next one shows up - still not the rest. Noticed a space in a filename down the line, commented out every block from there down to see if that could be causing an issue - still just the first image.

I haven't tried moving all my wallpapers to /usr/share/backgrounds, where the stock ones are stored, simply because it doesn't seem to have an issue seeing images in the folder I've specified. I may try that still. My end goal was to create a couple custom .xml's for automatic wallpaper rotation but I can't get past this.

Also if anybody knows where to change the location for or just disable how gnome scans the /home/Pictures folder by default when manually selecting a wallpaper that'd be peachy. Plenty of shit in there I don't need loading just because I decided to manually pick a wallpaper. The fact that manually selecting a wallpaper automatically creates a copy in /home/Pictures/Wallpapers instead of just looking for pictures in that folder by default prompted all this. Fucking infuriating.

bullying never solves anything
it only makes things worse

>it only makes things worse
>muh fee fees
Please.

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I have a Dell XPS 9370 running on Ubuntu 18.04.

The wifi has been a bit shit on and off. Most recently, when wifi is enabled I can connect to the internet but after 10-15 seconds the connection stops working. Wifi appears to be connected but sites just time out. If I turn wifi off/on, or connect to a different network, I can access the internet briefly before it dies again. Ethernet works fine.

I've tried turning off wifi power management and using different wifi drivers, no luck so far. Any suggestions welcome.

Wait if you drop your laptop it just dies? Don’t laptops and hard drives have like drop protection or something?

>Use Devuan
What if I want i3 gaps or sway?

Seeing some weird window glitches and artifacts when opening/closing windows and terminals using i3. What could be the issue?

Using compton btw.

Stop using screen tearing.
compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc

it's an unfixable bug that i3 fags just ignore

>weird window glitches and artifacts
Welcome to X11.

Speaking of, does Sway work fine as a non-tiling compositor if I'm interested in trying Wayland? I don't really want or need the entirety of Gnome/KDE, but as far as I'm aware Sway is the ony other reasonably mature option and I never 'got' the tiling thing.

Sway tries to emulate i3 as closely as it can. You can have floating windows, but that's not the main use case it was designed for.
Excluding weston and stuff which wasn't actually designed to be usable like Rootston, I haven't really being keeping up with any more minimal floating compositors. I know people are writing them, but they are nowhere near the level of completeness that sway currently is.

While disappointing, that's about what I expected to hear. Thanks.

>Even with full composite pipeline there is still some lags.
Compositing pipeline causes input lag. Turning it off causes tearing.
If you don't want either, get a compositor, such as Compton, and enable vsync through OGL. minimal input lag and hopefully no tearing.

what about people who try out nubuntu or something and switch to i3 because they like it.

t. void

My computer is dual booted and my internet speed seems limited to 100mbps in OpenSUSE but in windows 10 i can get 250+ mbps

does anyone know why this might be?

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I did a minimal install of Debian, and selected to install only the drivers that fit my hardware, not all of them. Now I'm interested in configuring my touchpad functionality, but can't figure out which program is responsible for it.

I did apt list --installed | grep input, and this is the output:
libinput-bin
libinput10
x11proto-input-dev
xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-input-libinput
xserver-xorg-input-wacom
Any of these responsible for my touchpad? If so, which one?

my favourite theme is Crux

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Is there a more detailed way of gathering how long it took to compile things other then time?
Something that can show each part's time being compiled as well as linking?

Running rcnetwork restart fixed this for me if anyone has a similar issue :)

not really, though you can't really do that anymore with UEFI, since it demands a FAT32 partition for itself
back in the early days, partitioning was useful or even required because hdd capacity outgrew filesystem size support (for example, FAT16 tops out at 2G per volume, so if you have a 4G hdd, you need 2 partitions just to be able to format it all)
that and hdd's are faster near the 'start' of the disk (the outer cylinders), so it can be beneficial performance-wise to put critical partitions like your OS at the beginning of the disk, using partitions to ensure data goes where you want it
today, SSDs are the same speed across the whole device, and any filesystem you're using will support the whole disk, so unless you need different filesystems for some other reason (like ext4 for /boot because grub doesn't yet support btrfs' zstd compression, for example), then you can use a single partition
the arguments with "easy to backup" are meaningless, you don't need to backup raw partitions, and picking "/home" at a filesystem-level works regardless of if it's on it's own or not

Any way to open the menu in Cinnamon with a hot corner?

In other words, is there a command to open the menu?

who gives a shit whether windows tear while dragging them?
i only care about vsync in video players and some games, and they can handle that on their own (compositors can even get in the way of that)
fuck compositors

>minimal
meme

>who gives a shit whether windows tear while dragging them?
People who don't have shit taste.
>i only care about vsync in video players and some games, and they can handle that on their own
Actually, no you can't. The X protocol has literally no concept of a frame, which is why it tears so fucking much.
Programs need to use a bunch of extensions and do other shit to get it "sort of" working, but it's still not perfect.

the only times i've had trouble with vsync in gpu-acellerated programs is when using a compositor
yes, X is shit, which is why most things try to avoid it as much as they can, stuff rendered on the gpu don't need to be downloaded into system ram for X to draw. see DRI
mesa only talks to to X to handle things like window size and position, not the actual drawing of buffers