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does it have some kind of a theme customization menu?
Joshua Hernandez
no. what do you mean bad?
Jeremiah Johnson
What's the normal way one goes about installing microsoft office fonts
Nathan Gutierrez
dumb rice question, is there a way to have xwinwrap work in i3 ? when I use it even with the -b(ackground) option the gif still acts as a floating window and shows up above tiled windows command I'm using if it matters : xwinwrap -g 680x453+2760+495 -ni -s -nf -b -un -argb -- gifview -w WID /home/user/Downloads/nier-wp/80b.gif -a &
Can you guys recommend me some Linux software for checking my computer (CPU, GPU, etc) temps/hz etc. CLI, GUI, TUI, whatever. Something similar to Speccy, cpuz, gpuz on Windows.
Nathaniel Carter
acpitz-acpi-0
Levi Thomas
user, I hope you can solve my shell completion crisis.
So you know dmenu? The way I have it configured is it's a horizontal line that allows me to launch programs by typing a part of their name and selecting the needed one from the fuzzily narrowed down list. After being annoyed for way too long with completion provided by Zsh, I had an epiphany. The loop of "type something, press tab, hope Zsh figures out what you mean, repeat if it did not (and it probably garbled your input as well so retype the whole thing)" is absolutely terrible and unproductive. I need a shell that has something like code completion but for picking binaries, options, files, etc. Like fzf+dmenu or something (but not like fzf's Ctrl+T or **, since it doesn't understand directory boundaries). Not like fish where it completes what you write if it has a match with that prefix (and lets you do the same tab dance otherwise), but I want it to show all fuzzy matches in one line (or a few lines) before I even press tab. (though I just noticed that completion in fish is better than in Zsh, so I'm tempted to give it a real try)
Kind of an open-ended question. Just fishing for your guys' thoughts on Ubuntu. I'm thinking of trying it out again today for the first time in ten years.
It seems very polished and has a huge community.
Sebastian James
It's a good option if you want a stable well-maintained system.
Wyatt Jackson
Well gosh, doesn't everybody want that?
Bentley Gomez
Advanced cunny penis interface.
Hudson Davis
nope, many people want bleeding-edge experimental systems with small communities.
When a program is stalling my computer and I can't get it to stop
Nathaniel Murphy
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Juan Jenkins
alt-sysrq-e If that doesn't work try alt-sysrq-i Keep in mind that it's not safe to use the system after that point. Once you've got the program to stop you should reboot normally. If all that fails, REISUB.
Elijah Gonzalez
>When a program is stalling my computer often a program that freezes doesn't freeze the rest of the system, it's not Windows
Jaxon Davis
It can if it's thrashing the swap or page cache.
Aaron Diaz
You can switch to another tty with Ctrl + Alt + F1/F2/F3/..., there you can login again without a graphic user interface and terminate whatever program you want to terminate. After that you can switch back to the graphical user interface, which is also on one of the tty's on my system it is Ctr + Alt +F7
Luis Mitchell
There is no normal way. You can simply install a package with MS fonts, or just copy them, either to your /usr/share/fonts/ (requires sudo access), or ~/.local/share/fonts/, if you want them for you.
I wanna setup RAID for fault tolerance. (Gotta make sure those anime titties are safe). The setup I have in mind is an array of RAID1 pairs which are all added to an LVM volume group. I have also thought about making a writethrough SSD cache LV to speed up reads. I imagine write performance to be impacted but it's a sacrifice for fault tolerance I am willing to make. >why LVM Ease of adding new RAID1 pairs to expand storage. I also thought about using RAID1 3-tuples instead of pairs. Pic related is a drawing of what I have in mind.
"So there was that patient that while getting heaved on the surgery table and receiving the anesthetics in order to sleep, heard the boot jingle of the hip prosthesis navigation PC and said 'What?! WindowsXP?!' and went sleeping afraid."
Leo Gonzalez
It's just temporary to convert my 5GB of school ms office presentations and documents into pdfs without having out of place fonts
Dylan Rodriguez
sort of. there is edje but I never got it to successuflly compile. there is a package for it on debian, fedora and arch and others. I never used the application
Hunter Wright
so, you can't alter your theme with a default install?
Blake Hall
pretty sure you can, also I fucked up. the program is eflete and it doesn't have any official packages
Brody James
So I'm using Ubuntu and then Debian for over a dozen years now. My job is moving over to RHEL in next couple of months. Someone has a quick and dirty inforgraphic on apt vs dnf and all the other obvious diffirences I should start getting to know? I am planning to switch my home server and laptop to fedora since they do nothing important and I can test there.
Guys whenever I want to update and/or upgrade anything I get an error from DPKG saying the database is absud or new. I'm using ubuntu 18.
Asher Perry
yeah but you have to compile it from source and that usually fails. they really have to work on that
Parker Morgan
perhaps it's better now. What version of Enlightenment did you have?
Jeremiah Hall
also, sorry. what I meant by "official packages" is if it's available in a distro repository. I was using it on gentoo and it's one version behind (0.22.4). may compile successfully on a distro like arch
Cameron Perez
users on the site say that it has to match efl's version, or else it won't work
Grayson Jenkins
>DPKG saying the database is absud or new This is a translation from spanish, by the way. I keep googling the error but can't find anything about it. It literally says >el formato de la base de datos de información (2) es absurdo o demasiado nuevo; intente obtener un nuevo dpkg The format of the information database (2) is absurd or too new; try to get a new dpkg
Charles Richardson
Actual english line would be >dpkg: error: info database format (2) is bogus or too new; try getting a newer dpkg How the fuck do I get a newer dpkg?
Elijah Sanchez
How do I do network stuff in terminal? And in general how do I into networking such as setting local IP and whatnot Like tracert and such
Wyatt Fisher
using solus linux. gimp has gone all fucky for some reason, but when i try to uninstall it i get pic related. couldn't find any info on this in google. anyone know what i can do?
I'd like to schedule a cron job for a program installed with pip3. When cron runs the job, it cannot find the program. How can I get cron to use pip3 instead of pip?
Brody Davis
never mind lads. the phrase i needed was "broken package". was able to reinstall it after doing an eopkg rebuild-db.
Benjamin Ross
I got a pi-hole rpi setup in which I connect with ssh with a public key. Is this a security risk to leave the rpi running 24/7? The ssh password login is disabled and the port is changed so chinks shouldn't be able to try to crack it right? I don't know why but the thought of leaving a ssh server running 24/7 always scared me. Actually now that I think about it, my routers firewall should be configured to only allow local connections.
Gavin Powell
repostin' Apart from manually removing them after the fact, how do I get bash to not record command and command with a space afterward as two different entries? Gives me a touch of the tism when going back in history.
Aiden Cruz
Is the MATE Debian Live Stable image the best way to get a stable OS running MATE onto a currently blank PC?
Joseph Baker
Doesn't the standard image have mate as well? Live image should be fine too but the basic cd image should be ok if you are not going to use it "live". I usually just use the non-free image though because there is always some non-free firmware to load.
Benjamin Brown
i have a local server and a private vpn with the server connected if i ssh into the vpn's ip, im connected to my server, which is kinda cool because thats mostly what i want, but how do i ssh into the vpn? also, if someone could actually explain whats happening under the hood that would be great, because my current understanding is that there are two sshd's duking it out on the same ip and the server wins for some raisin
Luis Collins
wait nvm im stupid "ssh {vpn ip}" connects me to the vpn not the server ok so how do i make it so that it connects me to the server? is it even possible?
Grayson Campbell
Why the fuck does snap think its using windows xp? Is there someway to make it use windows 7? When i just use wine to launch said program it works perfectly.
I installed the deb for ungoogled chromium and it shows up as installed but it won't run when I type it in the terminal and a shortcut hasn't shown up What do?
Josiah Price
What is the keybind name for the "keys" file in FEH that controls the "Keep in Place Rotate CW" and "Keep in Place CCW"
Ayden Sanders
Finished a funtoo install on the other night, when I rebooted the console font looked wide as shit, did I screw something up? The rescue cd's resolution is fine so I'm clueless. I did some looking around and I might have to tick some kernel options?? Do I really have to, or am I just looking at this the wrong way?
Ryan Jones
Not really any such thing. Packages are packages.
Christian Wood
well you clearly don't have any video drivers installed funtoo.org/Video though if you have amd graphics you may have to configure the kernel a bit though to enable the blobs
I am aware that intel ipgus can scale memory used as vram but which one of them is, a possible to allocate memory limit, and is any of those even such a limit
Xavier Barnes
I'm going for debian + lxde as daily shitbox, what I'm in for?
Camden Sullivan
ouch how did I even miss that, I have intel gfx though, thanks
Got this error on a new install of void (usually run debian stable but thought id try sth new) When i run qutebrowser i get:
/usr/bin/python3: Relink `/usr/lib/libwayland-server.so.0' with `/usr/lib/librt.so.1' for IFUNC symbol `clock_gettime' /usr/bin/python3: Relink `/usr/lib/libmount.so.1' with `/usr/lib/librt.so.1' for IFUNC symbol `clock_gettime' /usr/bin/python3: Relink `/usr/lib/libwayland-client.so.0' with `/usr/lib/librt.so.1' for IFUNC symbol `clock_gettime' /usr/bin/python3: Relink `/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2' with `/usr/lib/librt.so.1' for IFUNC symbol `clock_gettime' Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault
Aiden Gonzalez
Is it normal to feel productive using Linux even if you aren't doing much with it?
Ayden Walker
yes. you're actually doing shit instead of installing another distro or ricing your desktop every day
Matthew Richardson
bump pls help c:
Landon Martin
Sounds like you switched from a tried, tested, and true distro for one that might work or might not. Stick to popular packages, it's possible that nobody has tested qutebrowser, but Firefox should work because it has more eyes on it. but really you should just go back to Debian/Ubuntu.
barebones DE but it should be quite stable. You might want to look into compiling skippy-xd and setting a hotkey for it to get faux expose (like in better DEs).
how did you install it?
go into terminal and type
sudo apt -f install
It's possible it's missing dependencies, this will correct it.
sounds like this is your first experience with Solus' shitty package manager. It's trying to remove a directory that it can't find.. I'm not sure why. Install something not made by an AFK lead.
It's pretty easy, just google equivalent commands. nice thing is dnf does delta-rpm updates, so it doesn't download the whole program again just the diff. Basically you just have to add RPMfusion for anything involving encumbered software, and the firewall is a piece of shit. Good luck, I'm not sure if RHEL is using dnf yet but I'm guessing probably.
>Since much of the real-time patch has now been implemented into the vanilla kernel, and considering the difficulties in maintaining linux-rt, Ubuntu Studio decided on using linux-lowlatency in its place. Where can I find out more about the real-time patch now being a part of the default kernel?
1. use xwinwrap from this repo github.com/ujjwal96/xwinwrap 2. use sxiv, gifview is garbage example command: xwinwrap -fdt -fs -- sxiv -e WID -g 1600x900 -b -a /path/to/your/gif/wallpaper.gif
add the -s flag to sxiv to set the scale mode ([d]own, [f]it, [w]idth, [h]eight)
Ryder Hall
So?
Aaron Thompson
Is there a way to continue the build process using ninja changing none of the configuration files and having all of the build files in the same location where it was built?
