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i installed LXDE on my ubuntu server, that way i could run a desktop if i needed to use a browser. after running it all i get is this black screen and a trash icon. Clicking in restart makes the screen flick and i can see the actual wallpaper for a second, like the black screen is covering it. nothing executes, general settings window does but there are no categories. also tried the lubuntu-core pkg, same result.
Looking for a wireless controller for lutris/retroarch HTPC/console thing. I like symmetrical designs like the DS series, would the 2017 shield controller work well? I can only find info on the 2015 version, and dualshocks have been fickle bitches.
Chase Ortiz
I don't use lxde but I'm pretty sure you got it the other way around. Whatever you think the wallpaper is, my guess is it's the residual image from something else (e.g. your login manager) and it is drawn over with the real X window which is most likely initially black.
A lot of window managers are like this, they're extremely minimal.
Christopher Smith
is there any image/video gallery program? i just want thumbnails for my videos and images so i can easily scroll around them without opening with feh. also what is the mspaint equivalent for music, in linux? using fedora btw
Henry Allen
Install lubuntu-desktop if you haven't that will grab the desktop stuff in case you just installed lxde by itself. After which programs in the right click applications menu should all work. You will probably need to set up a titlebar and stuff manually if you want that stuff.
Eli Rivera
you only have openbox installed with pcmanfm running as your desktop. go into preferences in pcmanfm to show the context menu in the desktop.
Colton Collins
You're going to have to be more specific user, because right now as best I can tell the answer to your questions are to just install any random file browser and mpv.
Gavin Russell
Sounds like just using a file manager and zooming in would accomplish what you want. Or if you want an actuall gallery program use something like gthumb.
yeah i should have been more specific, im a minimalistfag, so something with as little dependencies as possible is my goal. i will take a look at gthumb though, thanks.
Ayden Walker
Is there anyway i can bind my F1 LED to caps lock being activated? On my T450 i forget wether i left it on caps or not. Is this possible on Linux?
Jeremiah Ortiz
that that you mantioned, it makes sense
didn't want to install lubuntu-besktop becouse it's too heavy (800mb+), that's why i tried lubuntu-core wich was about 250mb. didn't work though. i was trying to set up a taskbar but all the desktop settings are either incomplete or simply wont launch. firefox doesn't launch either, so maybe it's a window manager problem.
that's strange, i installed the xfce package, shouldn't it be overlaying the wm? and if pcmanfm was indeed running as desktop wouldn't i be able to actually open the fm?
Easton Garcia
You have an LED on your F1 key?
That's kind of non-standard you know, which makes me think that this isn't something the OS would readily have access to. I mean, you can rebind your keys in various ways (I have my escape key turn on my capslock, and my capslock is escape) but the LED's are handled by the keyboard itself and it still uses my capslock LED whenever capslock is enabled, regardless of which key enables it.
What kind of keyboard is it?
Juan Bailey
The lenovo keyboard for my laptop. F1 LED turns on when you tap it. The other two don't light up unless the laptop is booting.
Actually it might be possible. Apparently "xset" can change the LED states. I can't figure out how to list all available LED's though, but I guess you can try with trial and error Try running both of these to toggle all LED's on and off: >xset led >xset -led If the one you want is turning on and off when you run that then you can try to pinpoint it with "xset led 1" and "xset -led 1", and try changing the numbers
Adrian Taylor
Reposting from the last thread. >When using s3fs, do you need an equal amount of cache/space as the file you are putting/creating in the bucket? A little more explanation. Trying it out with torrenting, but started filling up my VPS so much so that I had to pull up the terminal on my hoster's site to fix it.
Adrian Murphy
Fn turns on when you old it and press Esc. F4 probably works if you bind is to something.
Nathan Smith
did the arch wiki just fuck up their certificate or is this on my end?
Sebastian Jenkins
It's almost always you.
Jayden Harris
I have both the F4 and F1 led on but it says its off?
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ xset q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 XKB indicators: 00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off 03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off 06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off 09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off 12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 33 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffefffedffff 9fffffffffffffff fff7ffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: default colormap: 0x23 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff Font Path: catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,built-ins DPMS (Energy Star): Server does not have the DPMS Extension
James White
i mean it doesnt say its off, there is just no option
Christian Foster
Hey, I just set up a PC with Arch ARM and I can't decide which DE to pick. What do you guys suggest?
I would recommend herbstluftwn or if you're feeling a little adventurous perhaps bspwm, openbox if you're looking for a stacking wm, all of these options are very lightweight. dwm's decent but very annoying to configure as it must be recompiled each time it is configured since configuration entails modifying source.
William Martin
what's the difference between Lubuntu minimal installation and Lubuntu minimal installation (GTK part) ?
For pictures, check out nomacs, comes with a gallery mode. For video, I don't have any names but maybe check out a media center? That is if you don't find redundant having a second video player.
Chase Butler
Why would you even configure dwm? Even if i did configure dwm, i would just bring the dwm bar down and customize nothing else.
You might as well use i3 and spend your fucking days ricing 24/7 if you want to customize.
Jeremiah White
What do you mean by "gtk part"
Justin Martin
I highly recommend Hydrus, it allows you to manage your media library in a tag based system which is really cool
I don't know much about dwm but I assume that keybinds are in the source. I'd rather not recompile just to add a goddamn keybind when in herbstluftwn I could go as far as to just use the herbstclient program to make keybinds on the fly if I want to. The config is also a shell script which makes it incredibly flexible.
Oliver Allen
If I remember correctly, DWM requires patches to prevent it from crashing when unicode characters are displayed, like an iPhone.
Charles Perry
Lubuntu desktop with GTK applications? I assume.
James Gonzalez
Nice try shill. Dwm never crashes ever. I only use like 4 keybindings, there are more but i never gave a fuck about em.
Jacob Adams
You mean this one user? github .com/hydrusnetwork/hydrus Not that user but I got interested. However I keep getting results for another piece of software but for water simulations or something.
Not sure if this is a troll but whatever. It's not, although its minimal install option is quite popular and indeed very minimal so it's often compared to Arch but it's a completely independent project. At the moment most of the attention it's getting is as the "systemd-less saviour", but quite honestly it's just a good distro regardless of that.
Noah Nelson
that's the most hideous thing I've seen in my life
Tyler Brooks
>Bloat It's just a little fetch-like script I wrote that prettily formats some info about my desktop, ncmpcpp+mpd which is a genuinely good music player, a script which displays the current mpd track's album art, Vim which is a genuinely good editor, and ranger which is a pretty good TUI file manager for doing bulk file operations in terminal. The terminal is the relatively minimal termite. These are all things that I use very heavily and are extremely lightweight, please clarify how my desktop is "bloat".
it's possible that it's not a real font, the official svg in ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/voidlinux/logos/void.svg just uses fills and paths for the text i answered some questions on identifont.com based on that svg and the somewhat-obscure xbps logo but couldn't identify it maybe ask in their irc channel
>It's just a little fetch-like script I wrote that prettily formats some info about my desktop, ncmpcpp+mpd which is a genuinely good music player, a script which displays the current mpd track's album art
Just use cmus and shut the fuck up
>Vim which is a genuinely good editor I use vim as well
>and ranger which is a pretty good TUI file manager for doing bulk file operations in terminal.
Ranger is bloat. Just use file operation commands.
>The terminal is the relatively minimal termite. St is better
>how my desktop is "bloat". Cause you're a reddit ricing nigger.
Ian Ward
st is fucking ass to configure because recompilation and patching just for shit like scroll back is actual aids and honestly termite's minimal enough, st's popularity is a circlejerk of who gets to say they have the *most* minimal terminal which is just stupid.
ranger is indeed a little bloat compared to some of the other things in the screenshot but sometimes I need bulk rename so it's good for that and also for browsing image galleries since it has w3m image previewing.
In my experience, cmus fucking sucks. ncmpcpp's pane based UI and playlist system make far more sense. I also usually have many instances of ncmpcpp open, I'm not sure if all cmus instances operate independently but since ncmpcpp just interfaces to mpd this works very well for me.
>Reddit It was once an okay site but as of recent it's been consistently going down the shitter, Jow Forumsunixporn is just a massive fucking "HAHAHAHAHA GUYSS FIRST I3 ARCH GAPS RICE" circlejerk which I would be disgusted to participate in.
Brayden Thomas
Why do so many people think that?
Henry Young
Linux is a kernel
Lincoln Russell
It's like I said, the minimal install is popular and Arch's only minimal install basically, they're also both kind of niche (Arch increasingly less so but it still retains that image). I imagine people would confuse Gentoo and Arch as being related projects as well if Gentoo wasn't so distinguished.
Zachary Moore
Are we going to start fighting now over which distro is better for lesbians?
My vote goes to GuixSD
Elijah Gray
I like it
Cooper Cruz
been about 2 years since i've used arch as my daily driver. does Xorg still handle what GPU driver i'm using? want to test out the xf84 drivers for my thinkpad instead of mesa.
It's either an Arch logo or a man-boob sweat stain, but what's the difference am I right?
Kevin Collins
xf86*.
Wyatt James
Arch is kinda on a downward spiral atm as I see it, would not recommend. Try out Void honestly, they even have a pkgbuild thingy equivalent called void-src or something, it's p nice and there's an AUR helper-esq wrapper for it too, it's really good and I'm probably going to make it my daily driver soon when I get a SSD for my laptop.
Christopher Morgan
>not properly titled Fuck OP, he is a troll and did it on purpose
Samuel Ramirez
wow i made one today too not lesbian related thou but still
i get my ``appimages'' from the nix package manager
William Garcia
I don't really understand what it is. Is it kind of like a framework for building "decentralized" programs? Decentralized in the sense of distributing your traffic through everyone else using gnunet apps kind of like Tor?
That concept never really sat well with me, I just don't like the idea of all that traffic going through me and prefer my network to stay nice and quiet when I'm not using it, but I guess I understand why it's needed.
Jaxson Bennett
idk, but I'd say that "step 1" is to decide if you want to learn actual emacs hotkeys or vi hotkeys. If the latter then install evil-collection
Jace Collins
Now I get diagonal screen tearing.
David Bailey
Augment your wrists. Or learn vi first, then evil mode.
>wanted to upgrade one buggy package from testing->unstable >accidentally did sudo apt upgrade on whole system >currently on unstable did i done fucked up what do i do now
Mason Price
You're using unstable now. Upgrading is a one way ticket.
Elijah Wood
ah shiet! time to backup&reinstall. I can't handle the dangerous life of the unstable
Why not try it for a while? Check apt listbugs before upgrading and you should be safe. It's not worse than using Arch.
Dominic Gonzalez
Alright boys, I got a weird one, Im having problems dualbooting opensuse and fedora, with fedoras grub, I don't get snapper, but with opensuses grub, I dont get the latest kernel for fedora, vms are out of the picture because the laptop only has one gpu and can't pass it through, does anyone have any ideas on what to do?
Cameron Gomez
>boys rude
Grayson Hernandez
>with fedoras grub, I don't get snapper, but with opensuses grub, I dont get the latest kernel for fedora You should only have 1 grub. Are you saying this is what happens when you install grub from within one distro or the other? Also what the hell is snapper? Random search leads me to believe it's a snapshot tool?
Levi Clark
Sorry if what I said was confusing and yes, that is what I mean, tried to rebuild grub on either end and still nothing, im a bit at a loss. Also yes, snapper is a lifesaver built right into it, in case anything shits the bed.
Mason Rogers
I find it very strange that when installed from opensuse you would see all other kernels from fedora except the latest one. Can you verify that they're all in the same place? In /boot on fedora? Does the latest one have some weird naming convention that differs from the others? Are you manually running grub-mkconfig to auto detect everything?
Also, for the record you can manually edit grub.conf. So worst case scenario: you just manually add entries for the stuff that's missing and it should work.
Bentley Garcia
That's where this hole gets deeper, it only sees the kernel when fedora is first installed, so it would be 4.18-something on 29, I can always manually add them, was just trying to avoid it, becuase when I do grub2-mkconfig, it tells me the newer kernels are there, but when I reboot, only gives me 4.18 when I choose fedora. And no, none of them are weirdly named from the next, and they are all in the same place, maybe nothing just wants to play well together. I'm just lazy, but manually doing it isn't a chore.
>it only sees the kernel when fedora is first installed This really just sounds like "grub-install" isn't getting run. I'm guessing your package manager is supposed to do it, so something might be fucked up. Or maybe your package manager doesn't handle that and you're just forgetting to do it yourself? >when I do grub2-mkconfig, it tells me the newer kernels are there Can you actually open up grub.conf and see if there are references to the latest kernel?
Another possibility is that grub2-mkconfig and grub-install are looking at 2 different grub.conf files for some reason. So mkconfig is updating a file that isn't getting used by grub-install
Christopher Williams
I ran a command with &, making it a background process. Then started a rsync with --info=progress2, which shows a live progress in percents of the copying process. Then the background process outputted some messages to the terminal for some fucking reason. And now my rsync output won't update.
1.) Why does a program still output to terminal even though I used & 2.) How do I check if the rsync is still going 3.) How do I check how far along the rsync is 4.) why doesn't anything ever go the way it's supposed to
Luis Reyes
Use tmux or screen and just detach. Then you can reattach at a later time and see the rsync progress.
