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why is bash such a clusterfuck? What did they gain by designing this way? What's a better alternative that actually looks and feels like a real programming language?
Ian Rodriguez
I have Luke's build of st and i can't see pics in ranger, i tried w3m and ueberzug modes but they both didn't work. Is it a problem on my side or it's just his build?
Daniel Ramirez
fish hehehe
Jacob Nelson
what DE or WM are you on ?
Lucas Adams
bspwm
Leo Watson
hmmmm...if you have w3m or ueberzug installed then it should work try it on another terminal just to be sure the issue is not frpm st make sure you have this in rc.conf set preview_images true set preview_images_method w3m
those are the only variables i can think of. Personally I don't use either because kitty has its own preview method. Terminator I think does too. There are other methods from ueberzug and w3m
>why is bash such a clusterfuck? Legacy on top of legacy on top of... > What did they gain by designing this way? Retrocompatibility mainly, and wide support > What's a better alternative that actually looks and feels like a real programming language? Unironically zsh if you're still looking for a bash-like language, fish if you're ready to go full retard like I did lately. Its configuration is easy to maintain in stow and nicely split, and code is waaaaay easier to read. Also muh plugins.
Eli Hughes
It's the free software community, and it's called "help" if you're unaware of it. This is how the free software community sustains itself. Please stop spreading your garbage corporate logic here.
Andrew Rogers
Is this a joke? Anyway, mksh is cool and minimal.
Ethan Long
This is Jow Forums Not your helpdesk Not your army Fuck off
Zachary Reyes
>fish if you're ready to go full retard like I did lately. Its configuration is easy to maintain in stow and nicely split, and code is waaaaay easier to read. Also muh plugins. Only useful as an interactive shell.
Jaxson Gomez
This is /fglt/ first and foremost.
Ethan Myers
Ignore the other guy, I WISH more people would support their favorite software here. It would add more to the thread.
Jayden Clark
What's up with the update to xfce?
Ian Gutierrez
I heard GTK3 support is up
Daniel Bell
It became fully proprietary EULA software and now costs 100$, or 89$ is you upgrade from xfce 4.12.
Daniel Brooks
Well that's nice. Did you try it? What can you tell?
Nathan Richardson
I heard it on the linuxtube, cant tell much more if I have it use it in like seven years.
Robert Reyes
I have this in my rc.conf file and it works with urxvt, maybe it's st :/ i'll try building my own st but the problem is the scroll patch somehow doesn't work
Xavier Evans
if it works on urxvt then the problem is definetly from st normal st I remmeber can run previews just fine but I'm on wayland now so I wouldnt know
Carson Martinez
Unanswered question from last 2 threads.
fdisk and cfdisk both now support GPT. However fdisk, gdisk, and parted all have different methods af creating partitions.
fdisk: Create a partition with partition type EFI System. gdisk: Create a partition with partition type EF00. GNU Parted: Create a partition with fat32 as the file system type and set the esp flag on it.
EFI vs EF00 DOES IT MATTER?
Aiden Price
I agree. You can switch back to bash or zsh whenever you need to though.
i'll wait a year and see how it progresses. right now guix is too premature for me to leave nixos
Samuel Young
BIOS* instead of UEFI. MBR instead of GPT*
You got mixed up user. No need to comment an unrelated oppinion though. It's not like we're on FB.
Still unanswered.
Jose Martin
help me friendos I'm dualbooting mint with w10 for gaymen and whenever I boot in linux I can't do shit with files that oare not on the linux drive because somehow, even though in properties I have root read/write privileges all the files have lock icons over them and I can't move/copy/erase anything from the shared drives how is this fixed?
For write support. There's a ntfs driver in the kernel, but it's read only. You need to install ntfs-3g and set the fs type field in your /etc/fstab to ntfs-3g or `mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/whatever ...`
Kayden Lewis
neither has manjaro by the looks of it
and its still not working? I remember there being a fix but youll have to google, i cant remember. My advice is use manjaro, it comes with all the proprietary stuff and just works. Less config needed than any debian based (ubuntu) distro.
Owen Russell
You are an idiot. You don't seem to know anything about shell scripting, but you know already that bash is bad, how? The fact that you compare it to a programming language and claim that bash claims to be a programming language is the kind of stupidity that actually makes me angry. Please fuck off over to /sqt/ with this inanity.
Elijah Flores
it doesn't tried viewing cat /etc/fstab but it doesn't see the drives that aren't the ext4 drive although I can see and use the files on the ntfs drives just fine, just not move or remove them
David Reed
have you tried mounting manually like suggests? Im pretty sure its the failsafe way to do it, its just too tedious for normal use imo.
i rarely do, if ever. I just remember this one problem happening to me back when i used debian based distros. (like 2015-16). Honestly I dont think its got any place in a desktop environment, but thats just me.
William Nelson
yeah, just rebooted too and issue is still there
Austin Cruz
>tried viewing cat /etc/fstab but it doesn't see the drives that aren't the ext4 drive So add the drive manually. Find it with `lsblk -f` if you don't know the device name. It's best to add the partition by its UUID (ie UUID=... in the partition field) so it still mounts correctly if the drive gets moved. See man fstab and man mount.
Carson Roberts
what? his method aint rebooting, its manual mounting.
Asher Moore
I have not had luck with image viewing through w3m in st. It somewhat works in w3m itself, but only very briefly on screen refresh so it basically shows the image very briefly every time you scroll. Don't think I ever got it to work when trying out ranger, not even with the blinking.
John Jackson
Whats a qt based rss feed with desktop popups (for kde)?
Carson Myers
Just wanted to thank the user that posted this works great indeed: parallel ffmpeg -i '{}' -q:a 1 '{.}.mp3' ::: *.webm
Michael Robinson
you're welcome
Ryan Morgan
ok fellers, fixed it turns out it was the w10 option "fast boot" that is enabled by default and inaccessible without runnig a run command that was locking all the files on the other drives. Disabled it and now they all permit read/write/execute like they had in permissions all along
Jace Torres
Can anyone explain this, please?
David Hill
ah of course. How could I forget about that idiotic feature. Windows has so many anti features like fast boot that just fuck the user around. Can I ask what your using your windows partition for? For me it just games (because I like keeping as much proprietary stuff off my main system as possible).
Colton Reed
Isnt EF00 just the hex code for efi?
Carter Robinson
if you have formatted a disk as GPT, you must set the EFI partition type to EF00 with gdisk. if you have formatted a disk as MBR, you must set the EFI partition type to EFI System.
it matters as in, you have to use gdisk with GPT disks and fdisk with MBR disks. but "EFI System" and "EF00" are the same thing, just different names in different programs (gdisk vs fdisk).
Samuel Green
EFI System, EF00, and esp flag all have the same effect the name of the partition is EFI System Parition, which is shortened to ESP, which is internally the type 0xEF00
Xavier Perez
>if you have formatted a disk as MBR, you must set the EFI partition type to EFI System. *with fdisk
Christian Ward
well I was expecting that so I have windows and linux on completely separate drives w10 is 120gb ssd and linux is 240gb ssd pretty much I'm only using it for games and maybe two pieces of software I haven't figured out on linux yet, one being mixxx with virtual audio cable software driver for plugging different sources as the second microphone input haven't found decent virtual audio cable solution on linux yet unfortunately. Other than that I find that default media player and VLC both have trouble decoding some movies that play on windows with mpc-hc just fine all the time so there's that
Kayden Ortiz
Thank all of you.
Jaxson Martin
>media player issues install mpv. seriously FUCK vlc. As for your other software ive got no idea what that is so soz there. Your current setup reminds me of my first real setup somewhat
120gb windows ssd 1tb ntfs drive 320gb laptop hdd for i believe mint was the first, before settling on fedora for a while.
Now Im pretty much mainlining ext4 500gb nvme drive manjaro 3tb external storage 3 x 1tb external storage 480gb shitty kingston ssd for windows 8.1
I keep my hdd off most of the time so a silent system. I keep the 3tb connected but its just idling so I can get torrent bonus points lol.
I had to fix my OMV NAS last week so I moved my old machine to work under omv and this is my fresh build, which is why I'm having all those issues I haven't had under w7 this PC is dualbooting w10/mint 19.2 system ssds are 120/240-gb respectively I have been moving drives around to maximise storage capacity and deskspace so I shucked old WD externals and put two more in my current pc for 2TB local storage (500+500+1+1) NTFS so both systems can use it and OMV has currently 4TB ext4 with plans to expand. OMV being a fresh build as well I haven't worked out all the kinks yet, especially with windows SMB support still being kinda sorta fucky but I'm getting ahead. Having lotsa trouble with deluge docker container since the most current 2.X.X versions isn't apparently widely supported with private trackers and the 1.X.X container is abandonware. I really like deluge and don't want to move to transmission though so I'm still working on it
Angel Martin
Why didnt you just set everything up under a hypervisor and run OMV (or make your own Debian nas) headless with control through via ssh or whatever have you? I agree about deluge, theyre fucking idiots I swear, the 2. release broke stat tracking as well. I switched to qbittorrent, i could never dig transmission (everyone in high school used it though, fucking macs).
Parker Johnson
How would I go about diagnosing what is wrong with my pci-e wifi adapter? It seems to work just sometimes when I boot my pc. It works fine even if I suspend until I reboot again. It's a pretty minor nuisance but still annoying enough that I would like to solve it. The model is tp-link tl-wn781nd. They even advertise it as Linux compatible but I don't really see how it's supported more than any other adapter. They don't even offer any drivers/firmware for linux.
Cooper Young
I do control OMV headless via ssh and webui panel I'm pretty new to linux and I'm doing this step by step over the path of least resistance. Maybe once I learn more I can choose more sophisticated solutions for my use case. Thanks for the mpv rec, it decodes better but still freezes when trying to skip in files over 3-5GB in size. Doesn't happen on windows, this.
Jose Rogers
>They even advertise it as Linux compatible but I don't really see how it's supported more than any other adapte thats the biggest lie in the industry. Asus do the same shady shit. Is the issue only when your using a linux kernel though, or does it happen on windows? maybe iw dev could help
>it decodes better but still freezes when trying to skip in files over 3-5GB in size. Doesn't happen on windows, this. interesting, i havent had any negatives with it so ive got no idea. some sort of caching issue perhaps (with the ssds being different). Try running mpv on windows (desu i dropped mpchc for mpv and never looked back, i ended up getting a government department that i dont work at using it as well lol).
Christian Ramirez
smp player seems to work ok, reads subs and can decode ok and skip without freezing
Ethan Allen
I originally posted this question a few threads ago but I cant find the answer so im asking again.
I need to batch crop a bunch of pics, take x amount of pixels off the top, left and right sides. Whats that cli utility that lets me do a whole bunch at once?
What chipset? (lspci will tell you. networking companies have this obnoxious habit of sometimes changing the chipset but not the model number...) You might also compare what dmesg and journalctl say during a boot where the card doesn't work to a boot where it does. I had something similar happen one time, it was due to a race condition where sometimes systemd was trying to start the firewall when the interface didn't yet exist.
I realized right after I posted that I haven't actually checked if this is even linux related. I just kinda assumed. This is happening on a HP deskpro 600 though. I was thinking if there were some "safety features" preventing the use of non-whitelisted hardware or something like that but would be weird if that let it still work sometimes.
Brayden Ward
im not sure about wifi cards but i remember getting a tech job for some hp system one time. It was utter shit to work with, some sort of bios lock on pcie hardware. Nothing i could do.
Jacob Thomas
how the hell do I change preferred media player in mint, systemwide, or by associating a bunch of extentions with preferred player? default applications has only settings for browser, mail, terminal and file explorer and for video it appears I would have to go to each type and choose always use such and such for every type
Blake Rogers
Like most GNU problems, you read the Arch wiki and hope nothing about your setup is too buggy :)
Andrew Murphy
I looked online and sure enough in versions 17 and 18 there is more options to change but in 19 you can only change those four what's going on there isn't in the player any option to associate file types either
Wyatt Price
>You don't seem to know anything about shell scripting, but you know already that bash is bad, how? Just like I don't need to be a professional mechanic to see with my own eyes that ford did a fairly shitty job designing the engine of my car. I don't claim to know shell scripting as I was trying to learn to use that absolute clusterfuck and, while doing so, it made me think whenever this was an ok design. Now you can sperg as much as you want about muh semantics of that can be classified as a language and what not but to me it looks like one, as I can have pretty variables and modify the flow of execution, not to mention it can be executed.
Alexander Stewart
Don't use ntfs for shared drives. It's proprietary and the Linux driver, ntfs-3g is kinda hacky and can sometimes lead to corruption. Use udf instead. It's supported natively by both Windows and Linux.
Nathaniel Miller
man ImageMagick
Ian Russell
You probably need to do it with xdg-mime
Anthony James
Windows is not a kernel.
Levi Perry
*imagemagick
Angel Green
Windows NT, then.
Cameron Taylor
but UDF isn't mean for HDDs/SSDs at all. I've been using NTFS for shared Windows/Linux drives quite some time without issues.
Matthew Brown
GNU/Linux*
Eli Perez
What are some cool terminal commands?
Carson White
Source?
Ethan Reyes
man tree
Landon Ramirez
I'll show you my backup script #!/bin/sh # Destination. DESTINATION="$1" # Backup command. backup_command() { rsync -av --delete "$1" "$2" ; }
Obviously is longer but that'll give you an idea. Now the next restores from my backup. #!/bin/sh # Restore command. restore_command() { rsync -av "$1" "$2" ; } # Origin. ORIGIN="$1"
