/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

I just use gucharmap whenever I need to type a special character.

That does look useful, thanks.
But the thing is, I'll be needing to use this fairly consistently and wouldn't like to do this every time, I was originally using a compose key but I ended up finding this too cumbersome, and I'm looking to do this to avoid having to do that.

anybody around here know of a good alternative to lm-sensors that works with zen2 cpus?

Sounds unfortunate if so! I have both the tiny wireless receptor dongle in one port and the main charging cable in another, so if both were put to sleep that would be odd. My keyboard (also USB) worked fine though and so did the Playstation 4 controller I used to control the cursor, lmao
Thanks lad, I will try those newer version. Just went for rc-1 because that's the only one I found a guide for how to install online. Will do some digging to get the absolute latest. Also, am not on Ryzen 3000 yet. Still waiting for 3950X.

Why did you people not tell me about KDE sooner?
It's fucking great.

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I've been toying with Mint for a few weeks now. Most of my experimentation has been learning how command line operations work and tweaking Xfce. What other distros might I mess around in to get a better feel for Linux?

I eventually want to get into Arch and fully customize it but I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet.

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My understanding is that GUIX is the most powerful distro.

>2) Don't dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
Why? I just dual booted Ubuntu with Windows 10 as my first Linux install. What's wrong with dual booting?

stop dual booting

some people have troubles with grub
some people claim that if you experience a problem you'll just go back to windows

>Just went for rc-1 because that's the only one I found a guide for how to install online
What fucking distro are you using that you need a guide to install a kernel?

Using IM i suppose
I have a watermark that i want to apply to every image.How do i dynamically apply it to images of different sizes when the watermark png is in hd. So say i want it at -0+0 center of every pic
Some pics are widescreen some are portrait some are from phones(1440x2560)
I want a one liner to proportionally scale the watermark file down to fit in the image to be watermarked
How?

how do I setup Gnome to auto run xmodmap and xcape at startup?
It doesn't listen to xinitrc nor .xprofile nor .xsession
I also fail with putting a script in .config/autostart
Using the gnome tweak doesn't work either

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How to change file picker in Xfce?

How good is KDE on Void linux? I've been thinking about switching.

it worked fine when I was using it on void, it had a long load time but I don't know if that's normal for KDE

How long is the load time for you? On my current machine it's 3-5 seconds at worst.

about 10-15 seconds of loading KDE after the boot and login, I have a mid-range PC
my time from power button to this stage is probably about the same
XFCE starts after about 1-2 seconds, after startx, for comparison

Are you booting from an HDD or does it have something to do with Void's init system?

I boot from an SSD
I think it's because KDE has some kind of systemd integration, which is why void doesn't provide KDE and gnome .iso files, but I'm not sure, I know this is true for gnome though.
you should just give it a go, I guess, it'll only take one boot for you to decide if it's too slow

I finally got WSL going on my windoze machine. I'm surprised how easy it is. I love how seemless it works inside VSCode. I have a real terminal now n sheeit.

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The files you are looking for are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
In each file there can be multiple variants (e.g. us has us_intl, us_dvorak etc.). Each of these variants is a list of keys with associated symbols (letters). On example would be:
[a, A, ä, Ä],
This would mean that a=a, Shift+a=A, 3rd_lvl+a=ä and 3rd_lvl+Shift+a=Ä. What key is assigned the functionality of 3rd_lvl is usually set at the bottom of each variant, with a line that looks something like
include (ISO
_3rdlvl_alt)
Or something like that. The default uses AltGr to access the 3rd level, but I changed mine to Menu. It's also your choice which layout/variant you change (I used the eu layout, because it's already meant to be a US layout adapted for european languages. I just changed a few letters), just make sure you have a backup of both the original (in case your version breaks it) and your changed version (in case an update to xorg-xkb overwrites it).

Justa heads-up: the code snippets are probably not accurate, since they are from my memory (Not at my pc rn). Also, Good luck chamging your layout. It micht seem complicated at first, but it's definitely not a hard thing to do. (Adding a custom layout is though, and I had to give up trying that as it went way over my head).
>WSL
why would you use malware?

I'm on Ubuntu LTS 18.04 right now, and I wanna know if you think there's a reason for me to switch to something else.
What I want from a distribution:
- should require relatively low maintenance work
- should offer reasonably up-to-date software
- installing new software should be easy (which on Linux mainly means the repositories need to be big, I guess)
- needs an easy way to install the build-dependencies of a program (like Ubuntu's deb-src command)
- non-free nVidia drivers must be easy to install/update

I use i3 as my WM and mainly use this computer for web-browsing, hobbyist software development (in C++, BASH and Android Studio), watching videos and occasional gaming. I'd be fine with reading a manual when first setting up the system, so I'm not afraid of Arch or Slackware, but I'm not sure I'd get any benefit out of using them.

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I had a wierd thing happend today. Tried googling about it, couldn't find anything. Not sure when, but sometime today a ~80Gb mailfile was created in /var/mail, by the user "logcheck". Does anyone know what migth cause this large amount of data to build up suddenly, like over a few hours? logcheck apparently scans logfiles for suspicious elements. Can't see why it would need to write 80GB in that short a time though.

IMO you shouldn't distrohop if you are happy with your current one.
What's inside the file?

Thanks, user

Besides the set-up, Arch (and Manjaro to some extent) are the stuff to go for low maint, up to date stuff. Just don't be an AUR-abusing retard and nothing should break.
Manjaro maintains its own driver-installing tool, keeping the drivers working is stupid easy there.
OTOH, what said is by far the best option.

>don't have the means to install a free bios rn
>don't want to replace components on my t420
>go to install Debian
>get a hang-up on the network part
I don't care about freedom right now, I want to install GNU+Linux on my system.
Give me a retard proof way to install something with Xcfe preferibly.

what distro?

About 1/4th of the time my soundcard isn't detected by alsa. What the fuck? If I reboot, it's usually, inexplicably, fixed.

>What's inside the file?
I tried looking inside with vim, but 80GB, so you know. Should have tried sed or something. unfortunately I don't know, cause I stupidly deleted it.

hey
What do I need if I want to get near native GPU and CPU performance in a VM running ontop of a gnu/linux distro? Don't care which distro, I have extensive experience in general on linux so I can get any one to do what I want.
My current assumptions are that I will need two GPUs which is fine as I will be using a Intel K series CPU and have a back up GTX 760 should I switch to a 3800X in the future.
I want to basically give the VM full control of 6 of the 8 threads on my 9700k and full control of my GPU(I haven't bought one yet but am leaning on the 2070s as my monitor supports only gsync).
Do I have everything I need to make it work by just flipping some switches in vmware and my bios?
I so strongly prefer computing on gnu/linux but I've been primarily using Windows for a very long time because rebooting every time I want to play a game is no fun.

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You'd be even more surprised how easy it is to go balls deep into GNU/Linux

Watermarks are cancer. They're alsolute cringe and everyone will hate you.. Don't do this.

They are my images and it links to my content

Watermarks are needed

photoshop action

No hesitate. Just say Linux.

>linux thread
>photoshop
No
Image magick can do this with composite, but the dynamic scaling watermark i dont know how to do

no fuck off

ubuntu 16.04

GNU/Linux*

Its literately 3x 25% opacity words

it doesn't matter, even a 1x1 pixel is a cringe attempt to be a faggot

Just make an CSS overlay, senpai. Watermarks are gay.

You still have malware on your computer.

And to advertise it on places where im not the admin/server owner and have zero control over the website?

How can you literally be this retarded

did you run the detection?

yeah

$ yes | sudo sensors-detect
(...)
Next adapter: NVIDIA i2c adapter 8 at 2d:00.0 (i2c-9)
Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively):
Sorry, no sensors were detected.
Either your system has no sensors, or they are not supported, or
they are connected to an I2C or SMBus adapter that is not
supported. If you find out what chips are on your board, check
hwmon.wiki.kernel.org/device_support_status for driver status.

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What GNU hardware can we buy ?

Udpated to ffx 69
Now every one in 3 pages i have to manually stop wait 2 seconds and then reload or the page just sits there infinetly loading never doing anything

Why the fuck is this happening?

It's not much but it's comfy.
And a bit sluggish on input

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>WSL
There is no such thing. You're probably referring to WSG, the Windows Subsystem for GNU.

Linux is literally the 1 thing that isn't present in that subsystem. You're using the Windows kernel. Not Linux.

do something like this.

convert input.jpg watermark.png \
+distort affine "0,0 0,0 %[w],%[h] %[fx:t?v.w*(u.w/v.w*0.8):s.w],%[fx:t?v.h*(u.w/v.w*0.8):s.h]" \
-gravity center -composite output.png

Did nothing
Image outputs but nothing is watermarked

I'm trying to make XFCE /comfy/ Anons and it's just not clicking with me, which is annoying to say the least as this Laptop I was given is running on a 5 year old Celeron dual-core so running anything higher than a Xubuntu or Lubuntu is seemingly a pipe dream.

must be something wrong with your watermark then, post it here

Nope, not a damn thing wrong with it

This works fine
convert 1.png ~/mark.png -gravity center -composite 2.png

Is there any way I can just conveniently switch my audio source, primarily alternate between front and back audio outputs? Windows has this, but it looks like I need to write a bash script if I want to get the same thing done in Linux or open up alsamixer and manually do it.

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>I eventually want to get into Arch and fully customize it but I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet.
Manjaro, then. It'll be the most directly applicable to Arch but it comes preconfigured.

Consider Trisquel

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Guys I have a serious computing problem.

I was trying to install vs codium via rpm and i accidentally opened the file in a text editor. It rendered windings and I got a popup warning me that the line exceeded the charlimit.

My computer kept running but at this point the graphics cut out.

The BIOS stopped responding and I had to kill it via the PSU. I have been trying to reset the CMOS for 30 minutes and still no power cycle.

Is my workstation bricked bros? Should I be a tryhard and disassemble the whole thing and try to power it up with just the mobo and cpu?

I dont think it was a coincidence that my BIOS died at that moment. What could have happened to my computer?

use MATE.

echo 6b79732066616762616c6c730a | xxd -r -p > ~/.imagemagickrc

pavucontrol

install Gentoo

I will fucking kill you.

Does anyone use Elementary OS? How is it?

> In university
> have to run e-text labs to pass my courses
> had to recommission my old Ubuntu Machine because I refuse to botnet my everyday machine and refuse to pay money for a windows license

I can't believe they make you run flash in year of our lord 2019.

it's ubuntu with pantheon DE

Seriously though how could this shit have caused a hardware fault? Any fedorafags here?

Trying to install Debian 10 KDE on a live image but I get this error.

(part 1)

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Despite having these settings flagged, the next button is grayed out after I click ok.

(part 2 - final)

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Should this be a separate partition?

(part 3)

Yes, it's a separate partition. Make it 500MB and look through the filesystem list. Sometimes they have an actual EFI entry.

What are your problems with XFCE?
Did you try LXDE/LXQt/WM + your choice of tools?

What are the benefits of POSIX over win32 besides being standart? All this mess with /usr /etc and /bin seems strange.

I can’t fucking believe accidentally opening that codium rpm in a text editor literally bricked my computer.

gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html
you were warned

go back to india

The fileststem heirarchy makes perfect sense if you understand where it came from. You have a few directories that serve different functions. Binaries, Program Data, and Configuration Files. The only confusing part is the /usr directory. The reason it exsits is that on the original unix machine at bell labs, the disk that held / was running out of space, so people started using the secondary disk, which held user data, mounted at /usr for globally available things, like binaries. Later they got a third disk they mounted at /home and they moved the user data over there.

The important thing to know is this:

/bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, and /home/user/.local/bin for binaries.
The first two are interchangeable (most of the time) and one is sometimes even a symlink to the other. They hold binaries for the base system (all UNIX-like systems) and binaries installed by the package manager (Linux, but not BSDs).
The third one holds binaries that are seen as additional. This usually means things compiled from source on Linux and packages from the package manager on BSDs.
The last one are users' own executables.

/usr/share, /usr/local/share, and /home/user/.local/share hold Program Data (the name sshare means it can be shared between processor architectures, unlike executables)
The levels are the same as with the /bin dirs.

/etc, and /home/user/.config hold configuration files.
/etc originally stood for et cetera, because it was the directory for things that didn't fit anywhere else. It holds global config files. These get overwritten by users' config files in ~/.config.

Another tidbit: ~/.config and ~/.local are rather new inventions, so sometimes ~/bin instead of ~/.local/bin is used; packages put their config as ~/.pkg.config or ~/.pkg/config instead of ~/.config/pkg/config and their user-specific shared data into ~/.pkg intead of ~/.local/pkg.

how bad are the flavors of ubuntu as far as privacy is concerned? theyre not listed on privacytoolsio.

where would you start with compilation of android? i have a sony phone that has a aosp thing going on from sony and i want to compile replicant for maximum autism but i just don't know where to go from there. any pointers would be appreciated.

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I prefer Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

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My shithole country's bank requires you to install proprietary malware to use internet banking, so I set up a VM to prevent that and found out the type of shit it does by running wireshark on the host
what are some good wallpapers/files I can add on the VM to fuck with the cia nigger that checks the files
>inb4 c*nny

just found out you can have the latest kernel on nixos just like arch after like 6 months of usage
I feel like a brainlet

Debian is old, broken and not supported upstream, and a ton of their packages could be installed with language specific package managers if there was any way to be sure it wouldn't break some Debian specific bullshit. But the alternative is Arch, which will fall apart after a week of not updating.

So much lying in just a couple paragraphs. Aren't you ashamed user?

what the fuck are you on?

How do I get neofetch to show the date i installed my OS

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redhat distro is the standard