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anyone here using cmus? how do you correctly add cuesheets to your library? suppose a directory layout like this: ~/music/Artist1 - Album1/Album1.flac ~/music/Artist1 - Album1/Album1.cue i enter the file browser view (5) and navigate to ~/music/ now when i highlight the only folder in there and press a (to add to the library), it adds both the whole flac file, but also adds each track separately based on the cue file (at the same time) so basically if the album consists of 10 tracks and lasts for 60 minutes total, then after adding the directory to the library, the total library play time is increased by 60*2 minutes, and the total track count increments by 10 + 1 how do i make it so that only the separate tracks from the cue file make it to the music library? if i enter the Album1 directory with the file browser, it only lists the .flac file there and the .cue is invisible
Joseph Anderson
Ubuntu minimal install or Arch?
David Brown
how
Xavier Sanchez
Alright for a bit of fun but no breeding, eh?
Benjamin Wright
is there a dash/toolbar icon thing for thunderbird feeds for gnome?
Justin Edwards
Fap to whatever you usually do, then at the point of no return switch the image to an unmarried, virgin, aryan woman in the missionary position.
Bentley Mitchell
I'm considering installing Gentoo, mostly inspired by a deeper curiosity over how the OS works. I'm reasonably comfortable with software development, the command line and the system internals of GNU/Linux. I'm most familiar with Debian/*buntu distros.
My main concerns are:
* What are the benefits as opposed to Void or Debian? * Can one reach a level of daily-driver usability matching that of Ubuntu?
I mostly use my system for browsing, development and listening to music. A stretch goal might be to install Proton for Steam.
Asher Wilson
Honestly, you don't learn that much by installing Gentoo beyond how to be patient while it compiles software. My recommendation, if you really want to try Gentoo, is to do it in a QEMU VM. Actually installing Gentoo involves waiting a weekend or even a week for compilation before you have a working system with X and a browser and things like that.
And you quite frankly do not learn that much about the bare metal by installing Gentoo anyway, It's not like you have to ./configure --options=whatever and make, you just type emerge packagename and wait. It's just like dnf install package or apt install package except it takes longer.
And Gentoo's not very actively developed these days.
If you really want to try a OS which is source-based then try Guix. It's easier to install and use and though there are pre-compiled packages you can install them yourself.
Im trying to setup a server for Universal Media Server for streaming to different devices but the problem is that I can't run any .jar files. Im using Ubuntu 16.04 and have installed Oracle JDK 9 but even when running the .jar file in a terminal nothing happens but I did get an error earlier saying something about Oracle Java Virtual Machine. I've tried finding a way to install it but every source I can find says the package is missing. Is there any solution to running .jar files in Ubuntu/Debian?
Robert Martin
apt-get install openjdk-9-jdk
I'm not sure why you would want to use Oracle's flavor and I never tried that. With openjdk you'd just run java -jar myprogram.jar
Tyler Gray
I did try that before but I just get Error: Unable to access jarfile ums.jar
Nathan Morales
How do i stop firefosx from raping my system resources with 3 god damn tabs open after 10 minutes?
Jaxson Morgan
bump
Wyatt Morales
Does it need to be executable? Chmod +x ums.jar
Lincoln Ramirez
Well in Nautilus I did check it as executable and even running open jdk 9 nothing works.
Thomas Butler
Newfag here, only switched to Linux a close to a year ago. Been using Ubuntu this entire while and i dont care what any body says i like it. But im getting curious about what else is out there. Whats a good distro to try out for an beginner/intermediate level user, i'd prefer something that gives me access to bleeding edge software and also doesn't try to ram my asshole when i try to install NVIDIA drivers. Should i go with Manjaro or Fedora? Other suggestions welcome. >inb4 if youre not using Gentoo from the get go youre literally using bloated malware
please no memes, im looking for serious suggestions lads
Liam Green
I'll take a look at Guix, thanks user.
Evan Diaz
How do you get the daily latest version of blender 2.8 on arch? Devs update blender everyday but arch only has 2.79. I've been manually downloading 2.8 it every few weeks like a brainlet but this is what arch is supposed to be good at right?
Ayden Wright
void. very easy to use, but no system d is a big change. plus you can do lots of tinkering with xbps.
Wyatt Lopez
Running minidlna on ubuntu but whenever I try accessing the server from a compatible device none of the folders show any content. Any solutions?
Chase Brown
Are you running it as a service? If so youll have minidlna running as its own user and your media under your user.
So you'll either have to run minidlna as you, or give the proper permissions for minidlna to access your media. Usually adding thr minidlna user to your group is the easiest way.
Jonathan Cooper
did you rescan the shared folders after setting it up? I have an alias for mine to do so whenever I change something
alias superminidlna='/etc/init.d/minidlna stop && minidlnad -R && /etc/init.d/minidlna start'
Levi Cooper
It's just currently running but I made my music,video,and pictures folders shareable through nautilus. I also went to var/lib/minidlna and tried making it shareable in nautilus but only got " Could not change the permissions of folder "minidlna". So not sure if I addeded it to a group.
Asher Peterson
Is there a better alternative to Openbox? It's pretty heavy for a WM and XML is pure AIDS.
How do I add simultaneous microphone input to my mpd html output?
Asher Brooks
Fluxbox doesn't use xml and is like openbox. However, if you think openbox is heavy you have brain problems.
Nicholas Nguyen
I downloaded Kdenlive video editor for Linux Mint from the software center, but it is not the latest version. How do I update the software?
Matthew Hill
Who should be the owner of my mounted non-removable hard drives? By default it's root, but then I have to change the permissions and make them writable to everyone. Is it smart to just change ownership to my user or usergroup? I'm asking in case there is some interference or something. Pic unrelated.
>I'm asking in case there is some interference or something. Interference?
I don't understand what you think is going to happen, but you can do whatever you want with the permissions on your drives.
Noah Bailey
github.com/helmuthdu/aui Using virtualbox; am I missing something when the system wont go past "Booting..." after installing the base system using this script? I've installed Arch before following the wiki.
Nicholas Ward
Which version of linux is most friendly for old people?
My grandad just got internet and wants me to get him connected up but his laptop which has windows 7 on it is old and painfully slow so I'm just going to wipe it and install Linux so he can browse the net safely and also not get tricked by any Indians from Microsoft that phone him to fix viruses etc.
sorry for guetto ass picture, but is CloverOS broken ? Latest iso gives me this, tried on 3 different usb's, bios and UEFI, on my desktop and laptop, always gives me these errors anyone got a clue (or an older working version of the iso) ?
Archlabs seems pretty comfy to be honest. Good installer, good default theme, friendly community, no sperg autists repeating 'muh arch way' or telling that they use arch btw.
Hudson Flores
Just use sysrescuecd.
Its the only Gentoo based bootable distro worth using.
Dylan Parker
>SystemRescueCd is not intended to be used as a permanent operating system oops, forgot my filters
Carson Moore
Says the guy that is too stupid to feed a broken initramfs on a broken distro the path to his usb storage.
Kevin Hughes
It's a neat distro that 'just werks', but the development of it has gone into hibernation recently so dunno
Nicholas Edwards
He's not used it for years, he forgot his password and needed me to fix it and after fixing it I discovered it's very slow, he's now having trouble with it so thought it be best to install a nice simple safe locked down OS with a few icons for him to do basic stuff.
Aaron Harris
Idk, I'm still pretty much a n00b desu. I was wondering what are the best practices in this case.
Josiah Ward
Parabola if you're more on the edge side, Manjaro if you're more of a beginner.
Juan Hernandez
They are just taking some time off, apparently. It's a rolling release after all, just install and update.
thanks for the help trip, i'm glad i forgot my filters
Angel Davis
So I installed packet tracer and it works on cinnamon but not on KDE. The error it's giving is a segmentation fault, if running through command line. However when using the shortcut icon it seems to just freeze up the menu bar of kde entirely so I can't even check the error message. Any suggestions?
Ian Gray
Whivh reasons are there to install Fedora?
Joseph Murphy
How would i watermark a picture hosted on an http server dynamically upon the user accessing the image?
So i put a folder in /srv/http/images with 10 images. Then some script front end takes the image and does an imagemagick command to it and then serves it to the user
Jaxon Walker
it works pretty well. What reasons are there to install any distro, they all do basically the same thing.
Brayden Flores
It's the best distro for GUHNOME and Sway You can get pretty much anything the average person could ever want from the default repos + RPMfusion Popular enough that you can easily find the answer for your problems You could use Silverblue if you want an OS that literally cannot break
Ayden Smith
>GUHNOME Are you retarded?
Cooper Carter
Would do that with PHP personally.
Ayden Harris
Stop shitting up images.
Adrian Rogers
what do if I installed a program through the package manager, but there are newer stable builds available online? do I first remove/purge the version installed through package manager or simply download the new build and install it on top?
Connor Jenkins
how do you guys launch wine programs on dwm?
Logan Garcia
When will the first LTS 5.0 kernel be released?
Alexander Wright
>go to local microcenter to get used thinkpad >get a crazy deal on the scratch and dent floor model of "winbook CW140" (aka chinkbook 9000 with decent specs)
Laptop works like a dream once I get Linux running on it, however for whatever fucking reason I can only get the touchscreen to work on ubuntu 18 LTS.
I've tried: Fedora (works no touchscreen) Ubuntu 19 (works no touchscreen)
Debian + KDE Neon + X/Kubuntu wont even boot
Weirdly enough, if I try and install any other DE (even Vanilla GNOME) on Ubuntu 18, the touchscreen just stops working. I use Debian on all my other machines and I really just want vanilla gnome. Ideally I want to get Debian +GNOME working on it.
where the fuck do i start with this shit, i just want to find what touchscreen driver is being used
then read kernel documentation. gentoo does not make you learn anything important
James Sanders
retard, just use something like fedora it's easy as shit to build rpms and will be more useful
Hunter Cooper
>at this moment i'm euphoric
Nicholas Reyes
copy vs DICKDUSTER
Isaac Cox
>Gentoo's not very actively developed these days. Are there any good reasons to think this?
Nathaniel Hughes
Install blender-git from the aur, the arch repos are actually kind of slow, the aur is archs big advantage
Colton Hill
lspci -v, or lsmod
Isaiah Turner
It is just my opinion (not a commonly accepted fact) and here's why: I actually used Gentoo as my desktop system something like 2003-2015. It used to have ebuilds for new version of softwarez hours or a day after some new version of the softwarez was released. Updates became increasingly slower as time went on.
I haven't used it as a daily OS for some time but I have the Gentoo in a VM so I can plainly see that a lot of packages have _masked_ ebuilds for versions prior to those included in Ubuntu and Fedora. I can also plainly see that development of a lot of core packages like gentoolkit, genkernel and so on haven't been updated for years and years and are held together by glue and duck-tape.
If Gentoo works for you then great, enjoy. I just can't in good faith recommend it to anyone, not as a desktop OS anyway. As a curiosity in a VM.. sure, it's fine to use as a toy.
sup lads, im scripting something and need to determine if the machine is a laptop. any simple one-liner to do this? thinking about just checking for a battery but not sure if there is something better.
