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It was failing to open the "6x10" font, but I literally "fixed" if with the "fixed" font name. Thanks anyways user
John Lopez
What's wallpaper managers work with Plasma? I need it to support multiple monitors (two horizontal, identical resolution.) and for it to hopefully be able to cycle through a folder of images.
Eli Kelly
Is there a way of reinstalling every package on ubuntu?
Isaac Reyes
I am sure you can easily get a list of installed packages on your system and do a litlle script if you try
Jaxson Howard
alright im trying to get this done but its not working and every time i try to it j
Joshua Mitchell
nice b8
Lincoln Ward
Everyone poops on i3, I'm finishing up restoring a POS x200 and it's sorta geared for that. What tiling wm do you guys* suggest?
Recs for a replacement for NetworkManager? I tried Conman briefly and didn't love the experience on goofy university wifi networks (although I'd consider going back to it). Suspending my laptop fucks up NM so I need to find an alternative
Jordan Johnson
Hi guys, installing gentoo atm, and I'm wondering what I have to do differently from the guide for full disk encryption. I gather that I have to use dm-crypt and lvm, but how much of the stuff needs to be done during disk partitioning and what can be done later?
ratpoison, if you mostly just have one window on fullscreen at a time anyway.
Bentley Kelly
Hi friends, Since when has this been available on GNU/Linux systems?
"New features in this terminal include support for multiple tabs, multiple profiles, and even GPU accelerated text rendering – which allows the use of emojis."
i3. take a little time to customize it and it's very comfy. if you're stuck this early on you aren't ready for gentoo. install arch and follow the install guide on their wiki.
Jeremiah Collins
Is there ANY distro that can handle sleep/suspend without any bugs? I am on Ubuntu for a couple of years now and it can never wake up from a suspend. The computer starts up and the screen remains dark. alt+f2 or whatever isn't showing anything either.
The former two have been standard features for terminal emulators (Konsole, GNOME Terminal, Xfce Terminal) on the last major iterations of the most popular DEs beginning in the 90's, and the latter for about a decade since the Cairo library underpinning GUI toolkits became popular for accelerated 2D rendering. Emojis are a fairly recent addition but have been supported at least on the last few versions of GNOME, too.
Josiah Morales
Thanks. I hate to sound like a lazy bitch, but could you specify years? Or at least sources
Brayden Jones
weell suspend finally works on my gentoo machine i have problem with this on ubuntu too, when i close the lid i cant wake up ubuntu anymore have to restart but on gentoo it works fine i dont know why i use same DE WM as on ubuntu
Do you happen to have an nvidia GPU? I have a 1050ti and use the proprietary drivers and I worry it might be the cause. But if gentoo does manage to wake up I might actually give a try to a gentoo-based distro.
Christopher Williams
It looks like Cairo as a C library is rather prominent in the GTK+ and FLTK ecosystem, while Qt ships with its own drawing engines which support OpenGL acceleration. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics)#Notable_usage
Rendering on Windows on the other hand was software-only for a long time since XP introduced GDI+ and compositing on Vista made everything software-rendered until Direct2D was introduced. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface#Windows_XP
Regarding tabs and profiles I can't say much except that they were definitely already there in the GNOME 2.x and KDE 3.x series.
Oliver Bailey
well on my gentoo machine i have 1050 ti but on my lpatop i have some AMD GPU where it doesnt work anyway
its installer fucks up at some point and JUST forgets to install coreutils. I've seen people migrating to NixOS because of amount of bugs GuixSD has. there's threads about it but the devs remain silent.
Aiden Nelson
After apt update and upgrade I'm getting a really annoying issue with my keyboard in i3. When I press h in gnome desktop xev gives pic related, but when in i3 I get KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001, root 0x4e6, subw 0x0, time 15939712, (377,144), root:(381,1118), state 0x0, keycode 47 (keysym 0x3b, semicolon), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (3b) ";" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (3b) ";" XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001, root 0x4e6, subw 0x0, time 15939852, (377,144), root:(381,1118), state 0x0, keycode 47 (keysym 0x3b, semicolon), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (3b) ";" XFilterEvent returns: False
I don't even know where to start fixing this... Ubuntu 16.04 btw
Landon Russell
Do you guys use an archive viewer? Which one?
Jacob Morgan
forgot pic :DDDDD
(this is when I press h in gnome) Oh, on a qwerty keyboard it's the : : key, I've remapped it, but all the other remaps work in i3
Any cool recommended software image for GNU/Linux?
Robert Bell
ddrescue (create image from defective medium) and foremost (file scanner used by law enforcement).
Chase Miller
Thanks friend
Landon Gonzalez
What is the point to install linux now that Windows is getting a terminal?
Jason Cox
Works on Arch. You're referring to suspend/sleep, not hibernate/suspend-to-disk, correct?
Eli Jones
Some of us just don't like dick in our mouths. That's all. But some people do, and I'm not here to judge.
Jacob Russell
not having one shitty desktop environment theme for years? not using an all-proprietary basic OS? not depending on one corporation's whim when it comes to massive changes? not having to pay anything to anyone?
Luis Roberts
>there's threads about it but the devs remain silent. Threads where? They have no forum. The mailing list is pretty active and they've already patched the installation instruction documents with notes about the bugs and how to work around them.
But yeah, bugs are to be expected. It was also probably not a good idea for them to introduce the installer for the very first time at the 1.0 release. It was a totally new thing, the previous version never had it.
Lucas Rodriguez
without any troll attempt... > WSL 2 will be even more powerful > Terminal will be super awesome But...
> you still don't have a GUI with desktops and all > no KVM GPU passthrough > services and all that are still easier over Linux
Linux still has it's uses, but Microsoft really kicked the "desktop Linux" in the balls.
Caleb Clark
i3 if you want easy to learn/customize; awesome if you want to customize it like mad; any other obscure tilling wm (like ratpoison, bspwm, xmonad) if you are autistic
Ian Stewart
good for them, didn't know they've already mentioned this in manuals anyway, for me personally, it's not quite the full-fledged os I can use on a workstation. It's way too raw, and it's not easy to fix it manually since it greatly differs from generic gnu/linux, being based on its own general-purpose language. I couldn't even figure out how to configure basic ALSA. Maybe when they get closer to 1.5, we'll see
Brody Morales
>but Microsoft really kicked the "desktop Linux" in the balls. lol no
Joshua Martinez
turns out updating i3wm fixed it. ebin :D
Jordan Hughes
they ran Linux because of Docker and dev tools. they got dev tools with WSL1, now they have Docker with WSL2 and also a super modern tabbed Terminal...
and we can argue that yea, it's basedboy web devs who use these. but they at least donated.
Any idea why this happens? Some unlisted depenency maybe? Installing autogen doesn't help. Previous build works, but I can't update this one for at least 2 weeks now. I started to doubt that source / PKGBUILD is fucked. > yay -S megatools-git (...) ==> Starting prepare()... /home/:^)/.cache/yay/megatools-git/PKGBUILD: line 29: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting... Error making: megatools-git
Jack Lewis
But user, Linux is a kernel. WSL1's kernel was NT.
github.com/megous/megatools The PKGBUILD is outdated (it's literally marked as such) because the source code has moved from GitHub. Of course there's no autogen.sh anymore. Try updating the source to the new location: source=('git://megous.com/megatools')
Ayden Nguyen
I like not having 2.0/7.9 of RAM, and 40/240 of storage being used up passively. Also I don't like how Windows handles updates. It takes ages and makes the computer unusable. Meanwhile, my Xubuntu installation uses 0.5/7.9 of RAM and around 10/60 storage. It can update the system WHILE I am watching a video or browsing. Once in a couple of months it will suggest a reboot because some updates do require it, but it won't take forever to reboot like Windows does.
How can I check through the terminal if I have an internet connection?
Jaxon Long
Is goldendict the best dictionary?
James Torres
will the new windows/linux kernel mean I can run like run slackware inside of windows without a VM. or is it mainly just used to test linux programs your writing without having to actually install a linux partition?
Anyway, Debian 7 has been removed from the official mirrors and doesn't receive updates anymore, so you should replace your mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list with the Debian archive, e.g. deb archive.debian.org/debian wheezy main Comment out any wheezy-updates or security.debian.org lines, those don't apply to old versions either.
Adrian Watson
spectrwm it just werks :)
Tyler Morgan
is there any good safe browser(privacy, like ungoogled chromium) to use in ubuntu 19.04?
Samuel Sanders
When I open a new program in Ubuntu it doesn't get the focus automatically, which is annoying because I can't just start typing right away. It seems to be a bug since it only happens sometimes. Can this behavior be fixed?
I'm building a new computer and I'm thinking I'll take the plunge and install GNU+Linux instead of going to W10. But I'm not sure which GPU I should go for. I've heard that the NVIDIA drivers on Linux are much worse compared to AMD. I'm not too concerned about open source vs. proprietary video drivers because I figure a company would just put their backdoors on the card anyway.
Debian and Ubuntu is basically the same thing. Show me what you got.
Dominic Rogers
to have a build from 2k17? no thanks; i'd rather repackage it myself
line 29 of PKGBUILD if anything, autogen doesn't exist
Thanks, I'll look into that. Why tf everyone moves from github recently. It may be shit, but it works. Just make it your backup if you don't like it. Moving code back and forth and therefore limiting availability and redundancy is autism.
Usually, on Debian and Debian-based distros: if you get binaries, you put them into /opt, add /opt to your $PATH and profit. If it's sources code, you get the dependencies, built the program and run checkinstall to create a package for apt (actually for dpkg).
Grayson Price
The open source drivers for AMD is better and work better in general with Linux but in term of performance it's on par with the Nvidia proprietary software. Check out phoronix. They just did a benchmark
Pretty sure, but don't ask me where to find this setting. AFAIK you can choose between the normal behavior, Tür behavior you just have and focus follows mouse.
Easton Martin
Just install Android in Linux and put it into Windows, that way you get an agile Unix ecosystem with cloud support and blockchain security. It's pretty much industry standard by now.
Thomas Kelly
If you are talking about this, it doesn't fix the behavior.
WSL1 was a GNU subsystem for NT which translates API calls, i.e. Linuxspeak into NTspeak. With WSL2, you get GNU and the actual Linux kernel on top on a VM, so it isn't really a subsystem anymore, just a virtual machine. It's the reinvented wheel with a Microsoft badge.
David Sanders
Including the time it takes me to pick the Xubuntu boot it takes like 7 seconds until I see the login menu. Windows 10 is not much more if there are no updates, but there usually are updates and it can take anything from a minute to 20 minutes.
Elijah Perry
Ok so i have a old compaq laptop laying around with incel celeron and 2gigs of ram all i want to do with it is playing doom/quake 1 and melty and some osrs, no way windows would run on it in any chance so any perfect distro for this shitter?
asking again how do I solve this encoding issue? writing a resume with groff markup, upon compiling it turns accents and other (non-ascii?) characters into gibberish