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first for freetards are dildoheads based dildoheads
Ian Cook
Second for first is wrong. This post can’t be countered
Jordan Barnes
Third for Debian Stable + Xfce is maximum comfy.
Brandon Sullivan
I'm working on a script that opens or reloads specified document in mupdf. It that can be used in 1) Makefiles for pdf, for example INPUT=in.md OUTPUT=out.pdf PANDOCFLAGS=-V geometry:margin=1in
2) Terminal, to open the file quickly. I have the script aliased as mup for quicker use. #!/bin/bash
if [[ "$#" -ne 1 ]]; then echo 'USAGE: mupdf_open_or_reload.sh ' exit 1 fi
# get filename w/o extension filename=$(basename "$1")
# get $PID of existing instance PID=$(pgrep -u $USER -xf "mupdf.*$filename") if [[ -z $PID ]]; then # start mupdf, wait for the window to be created mupdf "$1" & disown sleep 0.1 #PID=$! # make window visible in case it got stuck under other windows, adjust to screen height #xdotool windowraise $(xdotool search --pid $PID) key H xdotool windowraise $(xdotool search --name "$filename") key H else # make window visible in case it got stuck under other windows #xdotool windowraise $(xdotool search --pid $PID) xdotool windowraise $(xdotool search --name "$filename") kill -s HUP $PID fi
There are three issues with the script: 1) windowraise doesn't seem to work on KDE and I don't want to use activate or focus, as it'd make no sense to my use case. 2) I'm using way too many tools, I feel like it could be improved significantly. You can see the 3 commented lines I wanted to use instead of xdotool search, but for some reason they don't work with mupdf. 3) sleep 0.1 is just dumb, it may or may not work I'm looking for directions on how to fix / improve it.
David Carter
I'm trying to make Conky display the number of unread messages in my email inbox. I have a Conky object that represents that number, and I can make it display "0 unread messages", "1 unread messages", "2 unread messages", etc. What I would like is to make it say "message" instead of "messages" when there is only one. That is quite a common occurrence, and the poor grammar is not very aesthetic.
Conky allows you to run Lua scripts from within the configuration file that can do processing on Conky objects, and I could generate the correct output that way, but I do not know how to feed it back to Conky. The Conky documentation suggests writing directly to the screen from the Lua script using Cairo, but Conky will not compile with that feature enabled.
Conky also includes an object that displays the output of any program, but I don't think that Lua scripts run this way have access to Conky objects, and thus there is so simple way for such a program to know the number of unread messages. If it was possible to pass a conky object to a script as input that would solve my problem, but I have not been able to figure out how to do that.
It seems that I can either get the necessary info into a script but not out of it, or vice versa. Does anybody know what I should do?
Robert Brown
This, freetards are not based. Fuck freetards, acidic fucks. Glad there are people like you who speak the truth.
Gabriel Hughes
while no mupdf window; sleep; done
Liam Lopez
Just got a job as a redhat sysadmin; what are the essential resources
>finally have some money >dont actually want the money just doing work to get family off my back >decide i want to just donate to fsf and arch linux >fsf donations page is a dickwaving contest, doesn't feel like its actually appreciated when higher payers for some reason get special treatment like they were buying shares or it is a patreon page or something which sickens me >arch linux donations dont even really go to them despite me actually wanting to SUPPORT THE DEVELOPERS by giving them some fucking fun money, it "goes to server costs" fuck you
ReText's fakeVim mode has this nifty thing where the current command is shown on the bar. Is there a similar config setting for Vim's Airline or any of the statusbar plugins?
Depends, if ur not gonna be throwing a bunch of cool stuff on it, probably debiandog. Even an idiot can use it.
Best lightweight distro for a power user is an impossible question, though. I have not found one myself yet.
Levi Collins
here are the list of my on going issues: steam client STILL requiring me reinstall/purge to get stop it from stuttering Thumbnail images take forever to load even though I am using a NVME Firefox for whatever reason stutters when I am typing sometimes still not easy way to shortcut upload a webm
arch linux. im new and figured it out. the hardest part is debugging everything once you get it set up. for instance downloading wifi utils and connecting to wifi, my mouse didnt work the touchpad wasnt functioning etc.
Carson Sanchez
what's the best looking dock for KDE?
Samuel Wright
docks are for fags
James Rogers
correct
Carson Harris
What is the best distro for an absolute retard that can't into tech, and just wants things to WERK while he slowly figures out how to master the black fingolian magic of LUNIX. xubuntu? tried gnome once and hated it.
>tried gnome once and hated it. You're out of fucking luck, there is no hope for you. On a serious note, try Ubuntu or Fedora with KDE. May I ask why you didn't like GNOME? I don't love it, but find it useful after tweaking it a bit. It just werks.
Robert Brown
Is there a way to keep logs of the terminal inputs outputs? Something like the history command, but that also keeps records of the outputs and errors.
Sebastian Harris
>gobborin.jpg The official japanese goblin distro is Guix System
Since when does mpv support vaapi on wayland? Is this an error? CPU usage is higher decoding the same video on wayland than on x11, but still lower than disabling hwdec completely. not a KDE user, but I know a lot of people use latte dock.
>Stop using ls in scripts. >Quote your variables. >Always read with -r. Why did you even reply? I made a quick example to ask about clearcache not changing outside the loop, not any of this.
Jayden Jenkins
Trying to use xwinwrap, but mplayer goes over all applications instead of behind. Any ideas?
Gnu project Xfce Lets encrypt Wikipedia Libgen Guix
Jordan Evans
Cinelerra
Oliver Morgan
Xubuntu or kubuntu. Nobody likes gnome.
Colton Cox
What are the benefits of using Debian over Ubuntu?
I have Debian but the resolution is all fucked and has other problems.
Gabriel Morris
Xubuntu or Ubuntu Budgie. Both are stable and absolutely fucking stellar. Don't listen to anyone else because they're retarded and this community always looks to me first when making decisions.
Jackson Bailey
all developments are done in debian ubuntu devs don't do jackshit
Jeremiah Adams
What to do if i want to keep SOME folders in home directory on another drive. For example i want /home to be in /dev/sda and /home/user/Documents and /hpme/user/Music both point to /dev/sdb Creating different partitions for them would suck
default debian settings kinda blow, always had problems out of the box with it that distros like void and arch didn't.
Eli Anderson
post ~/.xinitrc file
Logan Fisher
So I installed WoW through Lutris and when I launch it, Battle.net doesn't launch, it crashes. However if I disable DVXK it works but the performance in WoW is really bad. Is there a way to disable DVXK for Battle.net and have it enable for Wow? Or does anyone know a fix?
Liam Ramirez
its just the default with the gnome config bit at the end
I think I found the problem. "Call from 0x7bc8f981 to unimplemented function vulkan-1.dll.vkGetInstanceProcAddr, Aborting"
Christopher Perry
how i change ownership of directory? trying to build a package but it say you do not have write permission there?
Isaiah Rogers
holy shit termite just fucking works out of the box, thanks user
Nicholas Brown
hello if i build where should i put that directory in after the package is built?
Jayden Rivera
Can someone tell me (or point me in the right direction) how stuff like gimp/firefox/gpaste/copyq puts images into the clipboard? The problem I have is that when using xclip -sel c -t image/png image.png everything works fine if I paste into something that expects images(gimp/some upload site) but when I paste it into the url bar in firefox it just pastes the raw data but when I copy an image in firefox it won't paste the raw data no matter what, only the image if that's the desired behavior. I know that stuff like firefox copies more stuff (pic) and xclip creates only the image/png object but is there a way to "force" xclip to do that?
It's hard to escape the conclusion that the FOSS movement is falling further and further behind the hardware in popular use. Coreboot and libreboot only work on decade-old motherboards, free wifi firmware is also only possible on ancient hardware, etc. GNU/Linux is worse on laptops than on desktops, and almost non-existent on phones, with a clear decline in its relevance year on year as laptops replace desktops and phones replace laptops. The Gnome devs are apparently more interested in making a laptop seem like a smartphone than in actually adapting to smartphones.
Will Linux even exist in twenty years time, outside of a small community of hobbyists still tinkering with Thinkpads from 2011?
Jason Thomas
based
Kayden Harris
Got a Raspberry Pi to try to run as a hobby webserver and DB. Except neither MariaDB or MySQL have update-to-date builds for Debian/ARM.
Trying to decide whether to downgrade my SQL to make it compatible with MariaDB 10.1, or just run my desktop 24/7 instead. I guess Linux development on ARM isn't as progressed as I though it was.
Isaac Thomas
>free software movement >Coreboot and libreboot not sure if stupid or trolling
I was waiting for the mascot to accidentally btfo him
Ayden Powell
nice try jack
Jack Sanchez
Is there a software that I can use to stream music from my PC to my phone with Lineage? I know Spotify does this but I have a lot of tracks that I can't find on there.
Jack Lewis
G O O D P O S T
Jackson Thompson
mpd + a lineage client.
Henry Turner
My guess is that in your example firefox would copy the url, the receiving program would then identify and fetch it.
Zachary Fisher
Which start menu? Which kind of settings? If custom lauchers then they are all under ~/.local/share/applications.
Grayson Morris
>start-menu and start-menu settings Are you sure you're not using Windows?
Replacement of proprietary blobs isn't a FOSS thing?
Noah Clark
I never know wether he's a fun guy to be around or really annoying. He seems to have a sense of humor and he seems not to have it.
Is RMS in superposition?
Aaron Evans
hes a fucking cringelord
Jayden Hill
So I got a Sempron 2600+ with 1GB laying around, any hopes of running anything with decent speeds? Or anything running at all without a GPU (it got a SiS Integrated graphics)
Nicholas Rogers
Anyone found a good replacement distro for Antergos? Don't want to configure 70000 things after I install it.
Charles Morgan
Anything with Xfce or LXDE. Guix.
Owen Barnes
he's a programmer
Connor Perez
>Anything with Xfce or LXDE. Yeah, maybe. But I'm more concerned with the SiS thing
Dylan Turner
I don't know what's a "foss thing", and I don't know what is this "foss" organization.
Christian Reed
so not fun to be around then?
Justin Garcia
he's autistic
Gavin Gomez
he's something. he looks like he descended directly from karl marx i imagine they shared a the same personality too.
Blake Powell
*was
Jace Williams
Marx was a big baby too, but probably not as autistic due his social status
