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I installed pulseaudio-equalizer on Debian buster, but it doesn't show me the dB for the bands. I've seen images online that show it displaying the dB at the bottom. How do I get it to do that?

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>GNU/Linux
No thanks. I use OpenBSD.

k, thanks for stopping by.

But mpv already has a built-in equalizer with ffmpeg

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I want a system-wide eq, not program-specific eq

How can I make a script that will be able to re-install all my shit and configurations how I had them?

install nixos

there's like 10 /fglt/ threads right now
must be win10 gifpicking damage control :^)

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mpv is system wide tho unless, oh wait, unless you actually waste your time "using" something else.

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pls halp

Does it effect the sound coming from web browser?

How do I make xfce objectively pretty

>OpenTard thinks he is superior to anyone
Oh well, it's not your fault, your opinions are just as out of date as your software.
t. Superior NetBSD

Absolutely
mpv youtube.com/watch?v=

what's the comfiest linux program I've never heard of?

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No i want to make a script for when i want to do a new install let's say

Guake but you prolly heard of it.

So would I have to copy/paste the url into a command line every time I wanted to watch a video?

dumb ricer

>comfiest linux program

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Are the backdoors removed already?

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So should i go for MATE or KDE?

No man, write a greasemonkey script that pauses the video and automatically opens it in mpv whenever you go to watch something.
>this mad
LXDE

>Dec 21, 2010
are you retarded?

Can you post your config please for easy copypaste purposes?

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gnu.org/gnu/gnu-users-never-heard-of-gnu.html

Shit, I was just meming man but if you're serious, I could whip something up right fast. Only thing is the web browser security model won't allow local applications like mpv to be started up automatically. The way to get around that is run a local web server (not as intimidating as it sounds) and have greasemonkey send the url to that to then be handed off to mpv. Fully set up it would be seamless.

I just got a rx570 and used command line to install drivers.

I've looked online and every video seems to stop short of this question, or just about driver install.
Does the GUI interface "catalyst control center" exist for Linux (It seems so?) and how do you ONLY install the control center if your drivers are already in and working?
Can't seem to find an answer or package containing just the control center.

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github.com/marazmista/radeon-profile

I just want your mpv equalizer hotkey. This is neat.

>old backdoors are fine

Oh, okay. Cool.
The path is
/home/user/.config/mpv/input.conf
Just put this in it:
F2 cycle-values af "lavfi=[firequalizer=gain_entry='entry(63,-5);entry(125,-5);entry(250,-3)']" "lavfi=[firequalizer=gain_entry='entry(63,4);entry(125,4);entry(250,3);entry(500,1);entry(1000,-1);entry(2000,1);entry(4000,2);entry(8000,4);entry(16000,4)']" ""

I'm looking for a Qt version of Qalculate, searching for qalculate in the AUR and the official reps only yields the thing itself and a gtk backend, help pls

Then when you press F2, you get the equalizer. The first eq takes out the bass for when your girl is trying to sleep once you laid that dick to her, nawwhat I'm sayin. The second one is the regular eq with extra bass and treble.

Is the sudo program inherently oppressive?

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Why not just write your own shit like I did? Then you can calculate however the FUCK YOU WANT NIGGY

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I have a few rows in a spreadsheet that i need to be part of the data set, but dont need to be part of a few SUM functions i have

How do i skip those cells?
I've tried
=SUM(A1:A10)+SUM(A15:A20)
But it dosent work
I tried
=SUM(A1:A10)~(A15:A20)
And it still dosent work.

Thank you, fren.

This one that I'm running everything through with jack has that. But I rarely use it.

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What does this question have to do with GNU or Linux?

Anyone, please?

Spreadsheets=programming
LIbreoffice=Linux

gnu stow and dotfiles

The question is very specific. Hence no answers. Read the docs of your package manager, make a list of your configs. Script everything up.

You need to run
apt list --installed
to get all your packages reinstalled.
For the configurations, you need to cozy up with the man page of a little something called rsync

ur mom is linux

umm you just write it?
what kind of an answer are you looking for lol?

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that shit is ass
use pulse-effects

I just meant where to get started but i got some answers now thanks

> not using alsaequal
newfags

Any PowerPC tards in here? I can’t get GPU hardware acceleration working on my iBook G3 with Debian ports Sid. This iBook has a mobility Radeon 7500 GPU. I know it’s possible to get it working, but it works flawlessly on Wheezy.

bruh. brb also writing my own OS because GNU/linux suck ass

I tried out Elementary and as much as people like it, i just found small niggles, like the calendar feels totally anaemic, and i feel Gnome's notification centre is far more practical.

Is it safe to install sketchy drivers from github? What are the chances of it being malware of some sort?

I actually legit wrote and use this shit cuz parentheses don't work right on gcalctool and some other shit I can't remember doesn't work right on galculator. Finally I said fuck it and wrote my own. The upshot is now my calculator never changes and I like it

I've been trying for an hour and stuck at the qmake
it says "warning: unknown QT: charts"
When I find the qtchooser files they reference
/opt/Qt5.9.1/gcc_64/bin/qmake
but I don't see anything in /opt/ about Qt5
I tried installing a bit of dependencies and tryied to solve the charts thing, but I guess I don't know what the f to do
man.

Well?

Are you using pyqt per chance?

read the source or take the chance faggot

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MATE

Scratch that. Do you have libqt5charts5-dev imstalled?

yes, that is one that I installed and tried again - same errors

Also try installing qml-module-qtcharts

Throws an error
/opt/Qt5.9.1/5.9.1/gcc_64/bin/qmake': No such file or directory

this is the error I got when I manually selected the qt5 version using qtmake qt=[version#]
Its all installing qt version 5.11 - is it being picky about the newer version?

I'm thinking you get a better response in >>>/dpt/

KDE. MATE doesn't have Krunner.

It's a lot of lines of code and it's in C i don't understand it

PulseEffects, search it on Flathub

congrations!
it seems as if you narrowed your options down to 1

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I'm just asking about the likelihood of it being malware, is it low?

>Is it safe to install sketchy drivers from github?
>sketchy
idk post the repo daddy will see

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How to systemd containers?

It's this one github.com/EntropicEffect/rtl8822bu

I gave up, it seems like a fucked up way to install shit, I don't even know what QT is

Is there a PACKAGE that can control the Radeon rx570?

>wifi driver
looks legit enough
has enough eyes on it
no urls in the code
also learn to monitor your network traffic

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Thanks for the reassurance daddy.

>no urls in the code
Is there some easy way you looked through all or most of it for this?

>also learn to monitor your network traffic
How to do? Sorry im a brainlet

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urxvt with DejaVu Sans Mono font and en_US.UTF-8 locale won't output unicode characters.
what am I supposed to do?

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Man, I looked around and I'm coming up empty. I haven't had an AMD card in years or else I'd have something for you. I strongly suspect catalyst is available on Linux as it always has been I just don't know how to get it on there. One thing I can tell you is it almost certainly will come from AMD and should be part of the fglrx driver bundle.

>flathub
cringe

>make a list of your packages
>make a git with your dotfiles
>make a script that calls " install and then downloads your dotfiles from git to ~/

Linux is for losers.

this but unironically

That's not what your mom said last night

GNU/Linux*

Linux made me 500k last year. If that's losing I don't wanna win

That's a wierd behavior.

>Is there some easy way you looked through all or most of it for this?
clone the repo and do a regex search on the source files

>How to do? Sorry im a brainlet
software like wireshark

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Thank you

Sid is known for being broken, maybe there's some major change that hasn't been put in the repos yet. Not really something you want to use as a stable distribution. But I know people who run it.

elementary OS has a nice theme, and a decent wm (i like the way it handles workspaces, similar to others though), and some first party apps. But not all of these apps are any good, when I was running Loki I tried importing my music collection into Noise. It just froze up right away every time. I haven't touched it since, so it's possible it's better now.

It's a decent distribution if you just use regular GNU/Linux programs with it instead of elementary dog food ones. But vanilla GNOME has progressed quite a bit, and nowadays feels more modern and flushed out than Pantheon ever did. I'm back to using vanilla Ubuntu with GNOME now.

KDE for new and shiny, MATE for old reliable. Personally I like GNOME-shell. It's come a long ways since 3.0

It can't find the program qmake in that directory it's looking in. Is it supposed to be installed there or is it somewhere else? Try calling it with /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake directly, or wherever it's installed, that's for Ubuntu.

Okay thanks, aren't there suppose to be security features to protect me from malware? If i uninstall and remove the driver will i be safe again?

is your locale set to a unicode one? I had issues with Arch not setting the locale, it should be something like en_ca.utf8 if you were Canadian

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale
>Gnome-terminal or rxvt-unicode
You need to launch these applications from a UTF-8 locale or they will drop UTF-8 support. Enable the en_US.UTF-8 locale (or your local UTF-8 alternative) per the instructions above and set it as the default locale, then reboot.

depends on the malware and what it does
but I guarantee you that you are being overly paranoid

I'm pretty sure it is yeah

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Hmm, try setting LC_ALL, maybe this isn't it but it's worth trying.

How would you make your computer beep at every full hour?

cronjob or bash script like
sleep 3600; beep

Why do I always into scripts and setting up complicated shit that makes sense at the time and then several months go by and something goes south and I forget how I set everything up?

didn't work but thanks for trying to help

>3600
1h