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I have a server that I ssh into with certificate authentication.

I am out at work, and I accidentally left OpenVPN on my server, so I don't know how to connect to it.

How do I do it? ssh user@WAN doesn't work.

If I'm dual booting Debian/Windows 8.1 and I decide to switch Debian to Ubuntu (I need the newer packages) will simply overwriting the Debian partition work?

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I'm trying to get sound in qemu with a Windows XP guest. I've tried '-soundhw hda' and exporting QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=alsa, but it doesn't work.

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Sound
says Windows XP sound should be recognized automatically. I see no "Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1370" is Windows hardware or sound options.

>>55742217
>Debian to Ubuntu (I need the newer packages)
Nigga what are you doing? Just upgrade to testing or Sid or build the packages yourself.

>>55742150
what error are you getting? Are you using the right port?

>>55742428
No error is returned. It just times out and hangs.

For example if I try ssh as root (which is on right now) ssh [email protected] (my non VPN address) it.

SSH is setup to use the default port (22).

I have turned openvpn on and assigned an ovpn config. However I have not done anything else, and i think I need to have done an iptable somehow on the server - but I have no idea how to do that.

The only reason I need openvpn on my server at any time is to use it with transmission

>>55742561
>>55742428
If I manually specify the port as 22, I instantly receive the error ssh: Could not resolve hostname xxx.xxx.xx.xx:22: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

I understand that Linux has numerous different Desktop Environments. Can you switch between them on any distro? Or does the distro have to specifically release with that DE?

Wangblows user here. I want to switch to Linux, I spend 90% of my time on a computer in baka m player, Firefox, and osu so program support isn't that much of an issue. Ive played around with Linux before, and the only issue that I see is that most of them look like dog shit. /g/ says the customization is one of the reasons it's so good. But, how do I customize it? Is there a guide to ricing Linux anywhere?

I'm not looking for a specific distro, but how to make it suitmy tastes. Unless there is a pre-riced, with /g/ approved aesthetics distro


>tl;dr, how does a Windows user learn to rice Linux

>>55742887
correct me if i am wrong but i believe you can but depending of what distro you're using its not recommended

>>55743015
Before you can rice Linux you need to understand how it works, on some core essential level.

Install one of the big distros, futz around, and then once you get a hang of things you can dig down deeper into how customization works.

>>55743015
It's not hard, man.

For the basics of the basics, just download GNOME 3 as a desktop environment and learn how to download and change custom shell themes, gtk themes, and icon themes.

Then download i3 and do pretty much the same thing.

Once you learn how to do these, ricing on Linux doesn't really get much more complicated than that and you can move on to actually putting together something that looks nice the way you really want it.

Returning user here.

I remember a long time ago I used crunchbag but that distro died.

Anything around these days that's small and lightweight?

>>55743817
There was ArchBang a while back, think it's dead now though

Pure Arch can be as lightweight or as bloated as you make it, if you don't mind the installation hassle.

There's also... Puppy Linux?

And Damn Small Linux

>>55743817
Check if archbang is still a thing

>>55743817
>>55743836
Scratch that, I just googled what was actually in CrunchBang and ArchBang

Yeah, just use Arch and install Openbox on it. Literally the same thing.

>>55743817
here, decided to do a bit of googling on what happened to crunchbag

apparently some members of the community decided to continue the project, calling it bunsenlabs

excerpt from the distrowatch review:

>The only item in the Bunsen application menu that did not seem to function properly was a program called "About Bunsen Alternatives". Launching this program would open an empty window with no content. I'm not sure what this program was supposed to do, but it didn't do anything (good or bad) when I ran it.

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Using KDE Plasma 5.7, does anyone know how to make these buttons on the panel square instead of rectangular ?
I figure it's something to do with theming, but the solution eludes me.

Does i3wm have bad multi-monitor support? I wanted to try it out but as soon as put something on my second display all graphical shit gets laggy as fuck.
This doesn't happen with openbox though so it's not hardware related.

>>55744211
>Does i3wm have bad multi-monitor support?
No. In fact I think it's specifically designed with multiple monitors in mind.

>>55744225
Then I have no idea why it gets all laggy on me.

got a used thinkpad t510, came with windows 10, even though i will only use it once in a decade i kept it installed by dual booting linux mint 18 cinnamon. i did have to use boot-repair from the yannubuntu ppa first in order to get grub to work.

then later i decided im almost never gonna use windows 10, made the win10 partition smaller with gparted, had to download a windows 10 iso and use winusb to fix the win10 boot, linux mint 18 is still working and all my files are intact.

works bretty good desu senpai

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>>55742078
It's Linux.

>>55744981
>he brought the HURD into this

That was just uncalled for. :(

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Hi guys.
What are id and type for in partitioning ?
Is it used or just for info ?
> pic related, cfdisk

>inb4 1GiB lol
It's just a test in a VM

windows 10 has been super fucking buggy lately, so I'd like to set up a dualboot setup, since I still need W10 for work-related stuff. Thinking about going with Fedora, any other/better suggestions? Mostly to surf the web, some embedded c development, some dsp development. Not sure if GNOME isn't too bloated. Running a Thinkpad T450s

>>55745014
It's fake.

>>55743987

>unlock panel
>increase panel height (in your case, for a vertical panel it's width I guess)

Problem solved.

>>55745519

Yes.

>>55742078
I want to buy a game but the store page says I need these packages installed.

Requires the following packages to be installed: libc6:i386, libasound2:i386, libasound2-data:i386, libasound2-plugins:i386 and dependencies.

I'm using Fedora 24 and I don't think they're available on the repositories. How do I install them? Is it even worth it or I should just try to run it on Wine?

>>55745988
These packages should all be available (or even already be installed).

Ususally games ship their own libs, strange enough.

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>>55745967
Problem is, that's exactly what I don't want to do. I know they'll turn into squares-ish if I increase the width by enough, but it has to be unreasonably wide for that to happen and that's a little silly.

>>55742078
Any DNSMasq users? What are you using?

How do I set Scrot to printscreen instead of gnome-screenshot?

>>55746048
i can't find them when i search on Yumex, I tried installing them on the terminal but it didn't find those packages too.

>>55746896
Uninstall GNOME screenshot. Add a custom keyboard shortcut that gets triggered by Printscrn and performs $scrot -s
Cinnamon?

>>55746936
How do I add keyboard shortcuts on LXDE?

>>55747017
>LXDE
To see what keyboard shortcut bindings are currently set, and to add more without using xbindkeys, you can dig through the following file and edit it:

/home/<user>/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml

I imagine you can figure it out just fine, but for a quick start, at least on PC hardware,
A- means "Alt+"
C- means "Ctrl+"
S- means "Shift+"
W- means the "Windows" key
so, for example, C-A-T is ctrl+alt+"t", which runs a terminal window.

I found the meat of this information (and a bit more) here, on the lxde forums: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=457

There might be even more on the openbox forums, but I'm happy with this solution.

>>55747017

First start by reading this:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-tips-for-smarter-more-efficient-internet-searching/

Then do those and you should be able to find the answer to your ridiculous, spoonfeeding question. In case you're not absolutely retarded, you might even skip reading the above link and quickly search the internet on your own.

>>55747146
To his defence, LxDE actually doesn't have a GUI shortcut manager

>>55744981
Who cares. Literally not important at all. Fuck that stupid pointless argument that will never end because both sides won't do to see that it's not worth arguing about

>>55743817
BunsenLabs as noted. Crunchbang++ exists, and it's basically exactly like #! but with newer Debian stable.

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I have this little Linux computer with Debian, it has built-in wifi and bluetooth.

At home, it's setup to automatically connect to my network over wifi and I can login to it remotely via SSH without having to plug in a monitor or peripherals.

I was wondering. Do you know a way that I could access and control it over bluetooth using my phone? I can plug it into a monitor and give it a mouse and keyboard, but that's so troublesome.

Have an ec2 instance running amazon linux ami. It's currently running as a webserver and now I'm trying to get qbitorrent-nox on it.

Constantly getting missing dependencies when I'm trying to install it through yum. Should I just change to an ubuntu instance (just werks) or is there some big repo I'm not seeing on amazon linux.

>>55747412
I assume this is applicable
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/25c1ok/how_to_ssh_over_bluetooth_to_an_rpi/

>>55747177

Searching the internet would have revealed that to him and he would have realized to modify Openbox's shortcuts with one of the tools or directly via the config file.

How does the firewall (iptables) work with ssh?
I can access ssh fine on the local network, so it opened the port 22 for local, how do I know if it's open to the internet (ignoring the router)? Does iptable make a difference?

Secondary question : should I replace iptable with ufw?

>>55747121
Thank you.

>>55748100
Ufw is basically iptables, just made uncomplicated hence the U part. Open the port in your router and forward it your SSH machine.

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I just installed openbox with xfce and now when I go to chage the desktop background eveything is greyed out and I can't figure out why. I can access all of the folder on the drive through thunar and in the select a file window for the background I can click on create a new folder and a new folder is created, this leads me to believe that it's not a permissions thing. What am I fucking up?

>>55748191
Thanks, if I change the sshd port (server), should I open it on iptable or will it open itself?

>>55742404
Most retarded advice I've heard here

>>55748300
Depends, if you set up your iptables to deny incoming by default, then you have to open it.

>>55748275
try setting a wallpaper with feh

>>55748327
Right. iptables -L return "policy accept". That means every port is in fact open?

>>55748366
Yes

What's the best distro for conservatives?

>>55748360
I just tried opening a jpg in feh - when I righ click and try to apply the picture as a background, nothing happens.

>>55748275

What does Openbox do that Xfwm4 doesn't?

I am tryig to remove a password from a laptop, so I plugged in my puppy usb but I can't mount the drives because they have fast restart on, I also cant turn it off the normal way because of the afore mentioned password. Any workarounds for this?

>>55748462
Ok. I just removed openbox and set xfwm4 as default and I'm still having the same problem.

>>55748414
TempleOS.

>>55748442
use the --bg-scale option

Hello,

so I got my first ThinkPad (X220) and installed Arch on it. It's great. I love it. Today a little problem occured. I was trying to copy some files on my usb-stick when I was told I don't have permission to write. How can I solve this? I serached the forums, but either it was way too complicated or the problem was different from mine. Hope someone can help. Thanks.

>>55748611

chown yourUsername /path/to/usb

>>55748574
just tried this from the cli and nothing changed

>>55748681
You did "feh --bg-scale /path/to/img" ?

>>55742887
IIRC, you can switch the DE at the log in menu.

>>55742887
Yes you can switch them easily

>>55748681
disable xfdesktop and try to set a bg. if that works reinstall xfdesktop and start praying

>>55748736
Yep. I was able to open an image from the cli but when I ran that command nothing changed.

>>55748611
when you mount, you can set user/group by adding on option to set uid/gid

mount -o uid=<uid>,gid=<gid> ...

To get uid/gid of a user, just do

id <user>

an alias may be useful

>>55748555

Obviously, because the window manager has nothing to do with your problem.
Post the output of "ls -l" of that directory where your pictures are and which directory it is.

Thinking of replacing Thunar on XFCE. Any suggestions?

Antergos is officially my favorite distro, it just werks and looks nice

>>55749016
All file managers are shit. Stay with Thunar since it can open up a directory with 50k unsorted images without shitting itself.

>>55748971

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  285698 Sep 18  2014 ondasblue.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  298554 Sep 18  2014 opole-sky.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   90721 Sep 18  2014 paltanen.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  228257 Sep 18  2014 park.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  632001 Sep 18  2014 primulag.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  576099 Sep 18  2014 Squirrel.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   61761 Sep 18  2014 Szarkakoi_fa.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  246814 Sep 18  2014 tipas.jpg
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  294955 Sep 18  2014 vect_or.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  591808 Sep 18  2014 Violet.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  197011 May  7 01:00 xfce-blue.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   99907 Sep 18  2014 xfce-evil.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  445913 Sep 18  2014 xfce-gradiented.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  312080 May  7 01:00 xfce-teal.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1129127 Sep 18  2014 xfce-transparent.png

Does Linux Mint still bundle non-free components with the installation ?

>>55748275
>>55749107

>This is because from that dialog you're supposed to select a folder. When the folder is selected, the wallpaper from that folder is displayed in the dialog and you can click on the wallpaper in the dialog to select it.

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226842

Learn to search the internet.

>>55749245
It also comes completly broken.

>>55749369
>https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2226842

I have searched. That link isn't helpful. The dialog isn't able to select folders since they are greyed out as well. The desktop settings dialog is unable to even set a gradient or solid color. Not to mention that feh is unable to make changes. When I run

xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -lv

I can see that the background is being set for a gradient but I don't see any changes.

I just made a Fedora live usb and I'm about to reboot into it. I've never used anything other than Windows in my entire life, wish me luck.

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If i wanted to install mpv on manjaro or any arch based distro

sudo yum-install mpv, or whatever

and done.


on ubuntu based distros, iave to instrall a fuckton on dependencies and libraries by hand

fuck this

>>55749693
>yum-install

what the fuck are you on about?

>>55749495

Create a new user. Log in as that user. If you can change the background it means your configs are to blame. Then delete your config files and start from scratch.

>>55749718
my mistake. i forgot what's called, but the point is on arch you install things like in a one-liner. from AUR.

on ubuntu i have to type a lot of commands to to the same.

it sucks

>>55749757
Well, ubuntu sucks. Lesson learned.

>>55749757

You're an idiot. Ubuntu's package manager only requires 1 line to install something, the same as any other package manager out there.

>>55749757
You clearly don't know wtf you're doing. Do you even use any of these distros?

pacman -S mpv
apt-get install mpv

Either way, it's gonna install mpv, with one command. What the hell is the problem?

Is there an way to make a folder with new files to chmod 777 automatically?

>>55749842
umask

>>55748663
>>55748807

Thank you.

>>55749803
>>55749804
what if the application is not in Ubuntu's package manager?

>apt-get isntall mpv
>E: Unable to locate package mpv

i already have mpv, but i had to install it by source , along with ffmpeg

>>55749879
Aren't Ubuntu's repos just built on a clone of Debian Testing? mpv is in there.

>>55749905
dunno. i'm using ubuntu 12.04, it might not be there

>>55749935

There is absolutely no reason to use Ubuntu 12.04. mpv isn't in its repository, but that's not the reason. There's a new LTS out.

So I installed Kali to test it out (it's decent). I want to make a Debian Live USB, boot into it, and install Debian over the Kali partition (after formatting it, obviously). Would this be OK, or would it fuck up Kali's already-installed GRUB screen?

>>55749992
i forgot to say i'm using Xubuntu 12.04 not ubuntu 12.04

so should i install Xubuntu 14.04?

>>55750030

You're "smart" enough to hack the world with Kali, but you don't know some basic installation/partitioning stuff?

>>55750053
I didn't plan on keeping Kali long-term, I only wanted to test it out for a while. I originally tried running it off of its own live USB, but some applications weren't working (specifically ones involving wireless adapters), so I figured I might as well actually install it

And for fuck's sake, just answer the question

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>>55750142
sorry wrong thread

2 questions:

-How's AMDGPU driver support for GCN 1.0 currently?

Aside from Ubuntu, which distro do you think has better font rendering by default?

>>55750034
16.04 is out senpai.

>>55750187
nah, that's too new and probably filled with bugs

like, why they put thinkpads on the space station and not a mac bookpro?

know what i'm saying?

Is making /home its own partition necessary if you don't want to back anything up when installing a different distro?

>>55750365
Making a mount point partition is never necessary

>>55750365
>>55750541
Nothing is ever truly necessary.

What is the best Distro for my x220?
Currently running ubuntu 16.04 and it seems comfy. Is there somthing better?

>>55750618
If it suits you, keep using it. The most important thing is if you can get shit done.

>>55750638
b-b-b-but it has n-n-non f-f-free software in it, r-r-r-right?? ;_;

For emacs, does switching the ctr and caps lock key avoid the emacs pinky?

>>55750681
>sudo apt-get install vim
does avoid the emacs pinky, m8. It seriously does.

>>55750700
But I want to use emacs over vim.

>>55750708
But that's objectively wrong?

>>55750720
No, I want to use emacs over vim.

>>55750724
Well we don't want you to. Don't you think you're being a tad selfish?

>>55750724
Use spacemacs then :^)

>>55750759
I have heard that spacemacs with evil mode is great. I'll give it a try anon. Thanks.

>>55750782
For me its perfect, because I know that I want the fancy stuff I can get with emacs but I just cant be arsed to configure it myself. Also why not have someone who knows about the fucking layer configure it for you and just use it.

If you dont want this, you can still build your own.

I'm on Fedora 24 and I need to switch Caps Lock with Esc (for vi and evil-mode editing). On Windows it was so easy, just a trivial registry key change.

So I know it can be done with "$ setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape" but how do I get this command to run after X starts up?

(No, can't use .xinitrc cause I'm using GNOME.)

>>55750850
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8247706/start-script-when-gnome-starts-up

I'm running a dual boot of Windows 10 and Xubuntu 16.04, is there a possible way to run my Windows partition in VirtualBox so I don't have to reboot my PC just to do 1 or 2 tasks?

>>55750268

Nigger, seriously, if you're using outdated distros, don't cry about outdated packages!

>>55750960
Yes. Create a virtual device that points to the physical win10 partition and assign that to the VM.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk

>>55750991
thnx, senpai <3

>>55750875
that did it, thanks anon

>>55751001
Knowing windows there will probably be some boot fuckery; you might need to add in some bootloader somewhere as well.

>>55750991
What the fugg, didn't even know this was possible. Gonna try that one out. Thanks, anon!

Has anyone tried god-mode for emacs? What is it like?

>>55751089
>god-mode for emacs
Whats the dl;dr on this? Is it morphin emacs keybinds into vim modal style stuff?

>>55751016
>>55750991
Not sure if this is the same anon, but, I'm getting an error when I run the command given on the page. It states that I don't have virtualbox-dkms and linux-headers-generic installed even though both packages are installed and just recently reinstalled.

Any ideas?

>>55751116
https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode
Global minor mode for entering Emacs commands without modifier keys. Spacemacs comes with it.

>>55751145
Correction, I do not believe that spacemacs comes with god-mode by default.

I'm using the Midori browser but the search bar still show suggestions from my duckduckgo searches after I deleted my private data. How can I delete those searches?

>>55749022
Architect, for me

What happens if I kill systemd?

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Hey guys,
I'm currently trying to install Ubuntu from a USB. On my laptop, it works exactly as it should. On my desktop, however, on boot, it loads into grub first (which it doesn't do on my laptop), then after selecting an option it just goes to a black screen and my monitor goes into sleep mode.
Why might it be booting differently, and how can I fix this? Thank you.

What makes Source Mage better than Gentoo?

>>55743817
Bunsenlabs is the shit. Even better than crunchbang was.
If you want something more oob you should consider Ubuntu Mate or any distro with xfce/mate.

>>55752381
Try a different distribution like fedora to see how it goes. I've had some strange issues with ubongo on laptops.

>>55743817
If you use Arch or Gentoo with LXDE then you practically get the same thing.

Hey /g/, I just installed Debian on my X1 Carbon and I'm having troubles with Firefox Nightly and the touchscreen. I can use the touchscreen just fine to scroll and zoom with Chromium. But when I try to scroll on Nightly, it gets registered as me holding and moving the cursor, so it just highlights text. I've looked this up and tried various "fixes," but nothing seems to work.

I really like FF so I'd prefer to use it over Chromium, but not having touchscreen scrolling is a huge problem. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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>>55752875
>arch

>>55752819
Thanks, I might try a different distro if it comes to that. I think it has to do with some stupid UEFI bullshit, though. I'll see if I can figure it out.

>>55752883
Do you have the same issue with beta or developer edition?

How do I trust [linux distro] doesn't share my personal data with [third party]?

does anyone know how to run deez loader on linux

Where can I download linux?

do I need to pay for linux

>>55753112
Yes, with your social life

>>55753112
yes.

any recommended antivirus programs for linux?

>>55753152
Clamav is the only one I know of. I don't use one.

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Should i go for bspwm or i3?

>>55753112
Almost all distros are free
>>55753152
You really don't need one, it's more secure by design

>>55752891
>He is still salty for not being able to install Arch
Sour grapes

>>55753312
bspwm is amazing, i3 has less features, but works out of the box. for your first tiling wm, i guess you should try i3

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>>55752939
Here is my netstat in comparison to pic related

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State      
tcp        0      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:59500 192-168-1-8.tpgi.c:4344 ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:40452 syd10s01-in-f4.1e:https ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:59796 104.16.65.203:https     ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:59498 192-168-1-8.tpgi.c:4344 ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:50362 tf-in-f188.1e100.n:5228 ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:56420 syd10s01-in-f110.:https ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:59304 104.16.111.203:http     ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:56304 syd10s01-in-f110.:https ESTABLISHED
tcp        1      1 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:59776 104.16.65.203:https     LAST_ACK   
tcp        0      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:56332 syd10s01-in-f110.:https ESTABLISHED
tcp      342      0 192-168-1-4.tpgi.:52566 syd10s01-in-f3.1e:https ESTABLISHED

(The 198.168.1.4 is my file server)

>>55753312
bspwm
>>55753369
>Look everyone, I followed a guide, I'm a hacker now

>>55742078
Is there a way to install this as a user?

>>55753421
>Look everyone, I couldn't even a guide, I'm an idiot

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>>55753421
>he thinks arch users think they're 1337 h4xx0rz

>>55753434
https://github.com/seenaburns/dex-ui

>>55753460
Are you illiterate? Your comment has absolutely nothing to do with the one you're replying to.

>>55750850
>(No, can't use .xinitrc cause I'm using GNOME.)
What did Gnome fuck up now again?

I tried dual booting Mint 18 with Windows 10. It installed and I can select it from the boot menu but now the damn thing won't even boot. It shows the mint logo and some dots but it doesn't do anything after it reaches three dots. I think I fucked up with partitioning or something, I don't even know.

>>55750850
~/.xprofile

Hey! After giving a good search, i still don't know how to properly install stuff.
I'm using Manjaro, which is based on Arch, so if i wanted to install this, for example:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/focuswriter/
How would i proceed about it? Thanks.

>>55753610
1. Go and download the snapshot
2. Open terminal in the download directory
3. tar -xvf <<tarball>>
4. cd <<extracted folder>>/
5. makepkg -sri

6. Install Arch/Antergos instead

>>55753610
Just read the Manjaro wik--- oh right...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Aur#Installing_packages

>>55752918
Yeah

Best music player on linux

>>55753817
VLC

>>55753817
mpd

>>55753826
VLC doesn't even have gapless playback support

>>55753817
rhythmbox

>>55753091
>>55753112
kernel.org

>>55753878
>gapless playback
Needless placebo. It does have the feature, it has to be activated

>>55753964
>Needless placebo.

What the hell are you talking about?

>>55753982
Use google

>>55753417
Neat. But is this normal and expected from all linux distros?

>>55753990
>google

fuck off Agent

>>55753817
Clementine, Banshee, Amarok, Rhythmbox - whichever you like best. I don't see why anyone would go through the trouble of setting up a fucking server on their computer just to listen to music.

>>55753649
>>55753645
Thanks!
The reason i'm using manjaro is because it is my first experience with Linux and i'm basically using it because Windows 10 is a bit slow on this netbook.
Still, i'd love to some day, when i'm a bit more familiar with the system, install actual Arch or something else, it is just that i went with the simpler distro.

>>55753995
I don't know, there are hundreds of distros.

If you have data feedback enabled on fedora or ubuntu you might see an alien connection. However I am pretty certain that the feedback will have only one IP that it tries to connect with

>>55754021
You set up a fucking server on your System just to have a GUI as well.

>>55754021
>>55754049

Go easy, he clearly doesn't understand what a 'server' really is.

>>55754049
>>55754061
A daemon is essentially a local server.

>>55753817
cmus

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I hope that you're all building the 4.7 kernel or using it if already built.

>>55754106
how do i update my kernel?

>>55754118
donwload configure build install and reboot (some say that last step is optional).

>>55754118
Your distro will do it for you

>>55754106
I'll wait until they fetch it to the repos. Actually, how would building one affect other things? Stuff like Linux headers and what not?

>>55754208
I notice zero problems when using custom kernels.

>>55752883
Please help.
I tried running every Firefox build besides Nightly and I still have this issue

>>55754208
You need build dependencies to build it.
It's pretty pointless if you'd just use standard anyway though

>>55752939
iptables
Allow ports or filter programs them selves

>>55749022
Nice blogpost
>>55752883
Have you looked through about:config for touch settings?

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I'm trying to force my Ubuntu live usb to boot into legacy mode as opposed to UEFI (my BIOS doesn't seem to have a provision to allow me to pick, and when I try to enable CSM and change the general boot modes to Legacy Only, the computer just skips over the USB when I boot).

To this end, I'm trying to delete the EFI folder on the install medium. The USB is mounting as read-only, however. So, first and foremost, is there a better way to force the install medium to boot into legacy mode? If not, how can I set the USB to RW?

Also, is it possible that the USB is mounting as read only because it's damaged? I noticed in gparted that it has ~27GB of unallocated space, even though the drive is only 8GB, so maybe something is fucked up.

>>55753533
Help my dumbass pls

I just migrated my Ubuntu 16.04.1 installation from an ageing 128GB Samsung PM800 SSD from 2010 to a 250GB 850 EVO.

After a few false starts (EFI is a bitch), I got everything up and running with my partitions fixed, but now my boot times have gone from a few seconds to almost two minutes. The drive's performance is fine but there's something causing booting to take forever.

I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting this - where is init/boot stuff logged? I don't have any kind of display while it's sitting there, so I can't see if it's throwing errors while it's actually booting.

I'm also getting weird display issues, but I'm pretty sure that's an i915 driver regression. I'm using an i5 520M (Arrandale, the mobile die shrink of Nehalem) with Ironlake graphics, so I'm kinda stuck with whatever I've got.

>>55745453
They are denoting the type of filesystem.

>>55750187
A lot of people have issues with 16.04 for whatever reason. Also, not all long-time Xubuntu users are happy with the latest release.

>>55755153
Can't you select to boot from legacy in the boot menu (not bios settings)

Anyone can help me with an error I get with ubuntu 16.04? at startup it says Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.

>>55756194
Boot into the Fallback kernel, install a new one

>>55756212
But there is no problem I'm using it right now it just says that.

>>55756237
Figure out what kernel modules failed to load

>>55755672
dmesg
journalctl -p 1..4
systemd-analyze blame

The last two might be wrong, I haven't used systemd for a while.

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>my web browser is the only reason I need a mouse
I can only blame a certain race for this

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Nobody answered when I last asked.
I am using Fedora 23 with a bunch of third-party repos.
I want to upgrade to F24, but not if it'd take much more than the fedup command.
Would I be safe upgrading as it is?

Also how do people like Ubuntu Studio? Are all the tweaks and optimizations out of the box worth the it being Ubuntu?

so are snaps gonna win?

or does red hat have something up its sleeve?

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I want to make a daemon ai that reminds me to do tasks, records diary entries, picks music to listen to, etc.

What language should I learn to do that? C? Python? clisp?

>>55756805
Bash and crontab

>>55756815
Ok.

>>55756805
>he wants to make a daemon A.I.

>>55756839
Is there a better way to do this? I don't know how to program.

>>55756805
Emacs.

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>>55756849

>>55756805
Python

>>55756805
Use notify-send and cron. eg

* * * * * notify-send "Why haven't you got a job yet $USER ;)"

You'll also need something like dunst.

This is by no means AI though. You should probably spend some time ricing that stock dwm there.

>>55756844
>I don't know how to program.
>I want to make a daemon ai

At least you have high goals.

>>55756266
Thanks! I haven't fixed everything, but the 90-second timeout while systemd looked for a nonexistent swap partition is gone. Hitting 10-15 second boots now.

>>55756255
I did find out which module was fucked and it showed w83627ehf some shit about psensor I removed psensor but I still get the error message at startup. What should I do?

>>55756383
Vimperator alleviates the pain somewhat.

I couldn't live without it.

>>55756383
Mouses are deprecated, why do devs need to keep pushing them?

>>55757596
The NSA is pushing them from the shadows because it's easy to backdoor the proprietary blob drivers.

why is my audio output volume so low in ubuntu
can barely hear anything even at maximum volume

>>55757679
What DAC does your motherboard use? There might be driver issues.

>>55757627
I'm scared now. Should I remove every package that requires mouse drivers? How would I go developing my own mouse and driver?

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Is there any way to channel all my sound to my server like some kind of "speaker server"?

I don't want my laptop to make any sound. I just want my speaker (connected to desktop) to play music

>>55757679
Go into alsamixer and turn PCM all the way up.

>>55757968
yes, but it will hurt
pulseaudio network sink

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>>55758015
Thanks m8

>It'll hurt
I'll still try, no regrets

>>55758046
Did you even read his question?

bdo i need a usb/removable storage do install debian?

>>55758225
also when im installing i want LXDE do i need to change anything else? im scared as this is my first dive into linux. hold me /g/uys

>>55758225
it would help

>>55758297
is it NEEDED though? cause if so i have to buy one.

>>55758428
since you are just popping your cherry, yeah i would say you need one.

>>55758463
could i make a partition and just pretend its a flash drive?

>>55758690
just get a flash drive, how do you not have one already?

>>55758739
>tfw have no tech cause poor all life and finally have opportunity to learn.

>>55758768
you want pity?

you aren't the only poor one here.

you could have returned from the store with a flash drive and started installing it by now.

>>55758795
literally no cash. i got this laptop for free. i dont want pity, just gentle advice. :/ sorry

How hard would it be to migrate all my torrents in qbittorent to rtorrent?

I'm drawing a blank here.
My LC is completely fucked and I have no idea what happened.
I can't do most things because of it. For example, i3status returns "Could not set locale. Please make sure all your LC_* / LANG settings are correct."
So I checked which ones aren't (despite it working yesterday)
Running locale I get:

$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en.UTF-8

What's the fucking problem then?

>>55760215
'en.UTF-8' is not a valid locale. Check your /etc/locale.gen to see what ones you have available. 'locale -a' also shows this.

>>55760385
Now that you mention it, I didn't even notice that.
But now I'm even more clueless on how that happened because I didn't changed that myself (at least I think I didn't).
That did the trick, though. Thanks.

I have a stupid question. I am developing in Java and if i switch to gnu linux will be there any difference?

>>55760536
No, why should there be?
Java runs in the JVM. Not native. The only thing that might change is the IDE if there is no build for GNU/Linux which there usually is.

>>55760536
Every time I install something over open-jdk, such as android studio, it warns me that there are differences between it and oracle-jdk but to be completely honest I have yet to have so much as a compiler warning. I've also run large, 3rd party applications on the open version of java and again, flawless.

Oracle-jdk can be installed on linux too though, so even if it were a problem.

>>55754106
Where are the archniggers at?

>>55760536
You will notice that you are using nothing but free software because you chose an FSF approved distro, so your wifi might not work, your kernel's name will have -libre tacked onto it, and you'll have the openjdk instead of the oracle/sun JDK.

Install Linux without the GNU branding attached and you won't necessarily have those problems.

is slackware really the best for c/c++ programmers?

>>55758225
No

PXEBOOT
X
E
B
OOT

Stupid question: how do i install a linux distribution on a computer that CAN'T boot from usb or cd? All the tutorials i find are about creating a partition and then boot from it, but what if i have an old pc that can't do that?

>>55761719
you throw that piece of crud to the trash, where it belongs

>>55761109
there is no good distribution for programming.

>>55761719
So your PC has no USB interface working?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PXE
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Moving_an_existing_install_into_(or_out_of)_a_virtual_machine

>>55761719
See >>55761117

>>55752660
IDK. Do they have overlays?
>>55756988
Install a kernel, remove the older one that fucked up

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Reminder.

https://www.gnupg.org/
https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG

>>55762418
>tfw the recipient is always me since i have no one to email

>>55762426
You can use is to en/decrypt files too.

>>55762441
that's why the recipient is me anon. just use it for that.

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>>55762418
tl;dr

Any guides for setting up vim for serious programming? I don't want to install eclipse.

Can someone tell me how is it BSD?

>>55762615

vim hello_world.c

but before that, run vimtutor

basic setup: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vim

syntastic for syntax checking
fugitive for git integration
more: http://vimawesome.com/

How to compare two directories inlusive subdirectories?

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>>55762615

serious programming as in what? vim excels at anything light or anything ball breaking, conf files to basic scripting with something like ruby/python, or something less trivial like c, but if you want to do something inbetween those two or something verbose and full of boilerplate like java then just install a bloody ide

also check out vimgolf in addition to: >>55762681

if you think you'll be able to get away with hopping straight into vim with no knowledge and expecting anything more than a terminal editor you're severely mistaken, learning how to use vim properly is akin to becoming proficient at using an ide properly, you'll be expected to learn a lot of hotkeys and a lot more about the editor than you'd typically pick up just using it frequently

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>>55750850
Open gnome-tweak-tool, go to the Typing section, and either change "Caps Lock key behavior" to "Make Caps Lock an additional ESC"

>>55763078
Pretend I never said "either"

So i have Ubuntu 14.04 installed, is there any way to install for example Debian or Arch on my laptop but without CD or USB?
Using internet?

>>55762929
That picture is not funny nor informative. Whoever made it should seek professional medical help.

>>55763149
see
>>55761806
or https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s04.html.en
or maybe https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s05.html.en

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>>55763205
ty anon <3

>>55750850
This is the proper way to do it. Add this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier         "keyboard"
    MatchIsKeyboard    "yes"
    Option         "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
EndSection

If a section like that exists, just add the swapcaps line to it.

>>55763391
>installing steam at all
Your problems are more serious.

>>55763391
Install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5
Install 32bit Nvidia libraries.
???
Steam?
I don't even remember if I had to do anything special to install it on Debian testing.

mint or ubuntu

>>55763709
fedora

>>55763709
gentoo or LFS

>>55763709
both are bad
mint is insecure
ubuntu is microsoft partner

>>55763743
Garbage

>>55763837
so it's red hat and suse but I don't think it means anything
the only community distro excluding the meme ones is debian
I just use ubuntu because is basically debian but easier to work around

>>55750030
the debian installer should take care of installing and configuring grub
if it doesn't work automagically you can still fix boot problems (mounting /proc, /dev, /sys, chrooting and installing and configuring grub manually) with the live usb

which image hosts respect privacy the most?

Is there a way to add a bunch of torrents as magnet links to a text file then some torrent client just opens the file and starts downloading the magnets it finds? Some user intervention would be okay

>>55764788
I guess all clients should be able to do this, read the manpages.

>>55764878
except Transmission which just happens to be the default client in Ubuntu therefore the most used torrent client on Linux..

Is there any way to run windows terminal applications in the linux terminal?
Can Wine do that, or are there other tools?

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Is this partitioning scheme good ?
Or is a simple 4 partitions enough (/, swap, /home, Windows) ?
I'm not sure of the use of the /boot partition.

>>55765135
/boot doesn't need this much.
Even 64MB might be too much. Unless you have a dozen different kernel versions.

>>55765275
Ok thanks.
Is there any benefit of a separate boot partition for this setup ?

how do i install nautilus on xubuntu without fucking up xfce desktop? last time i installed it gnome desktop took over and i couldn't even set wallpaper and shit like that.

Debian - I want to install one package from testing/unstable. (golang)
So I added the testing repos, added the pref file etc.
Now it says go needs three packages at version 1.6 but 1.3 need to be installed.
How do I tell him to also get those packages from testing?

It seems like I can install each of the dependencies individually without problem.

>>55765135
/boot isn't necessary if your / partition is plain old ext4.

If you're using a rotational hard drive, I would suggest putting the Windows partition before the /home partition, as they are faster at the beginning of the platters. On a SSD there's no difference at all.

Also you might want to allocate a bit more space to your Windows partition depending on what you want to do with it. You can cut your / partition to 20-30GB too, if you don't intend to play heavy games on Linux.

>>55765275
Well it depends on the distribution. Ubuntu for example tends to leave dozens of older kernels if you don't clean regularly, enough to saturate a 0.5GB /boot.

>>55765055
wineconsole

>>55765458
Thanks a lot.

The 50GB Windows partition is just in case I need to install it for dual boot (for games) and may delete it if useless.
That's why I put it at the end.

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>>55765678
>taking a screenshot with a phone

>>55765678
Have you tried inserting a bootable device?

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>make a keepassx2 database
>save
>close
>try to open it again
>Unable to open the database.Wrong key or database file is corrupt.

Every fucking time, is keepassx2 broken or something?

>>55765454

>apt-get install -t testing golang
Many package to download, even more that need to get updated.

>apt-get install golang/testing golang-go/testing otherdepsss./testing
install the same new packages, but won't update any.

Should I update the packages (cmd 1)?

It's confusing, I'd just like to keep as many package on stable as possible.

I just did cmd 2, and go works. Should I proceed like that everytime?

>>55765690
>he things he can screenshot a console

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>>55765749
no, you're broken m8

also, werks on my machine : ^)

>>55765678
From what I see, this is a laptop.
Did something happened before this ?

First try to reboot, if not done.
If it persists, you should check if your hard drive is well connected.
Happened to me when I fell with my laptop.
To do so, you will need to open a hatch at the back to access the hard drive.

Can the pentesting tools that come with Kali be used on any other distro? pls no bully

>>55765797
I don't get it, I've even made dummy databases with one character passwords and those don't work.

>>55765690
Tell me how to take a screenshot of the screen while still on the fucking BIOS faggot

>>55765820
Yes.

GNU/Thread: >>55765993

>>55765678
boot with a live usb stick and see if your hard drive it's still there with your data. If not it's probably killed but could be disconnected too

>>55765798
>Did something happened before this ?
i turned off uefi to legacy bios then turned off secure boot in bios. (inb4 fucking retarded, i know i know)

if i throw an iso onto a flash drive will it boot so i can repair it?

>>55766836
im currently looking for a flash drive to use. then im gonna go to a library, i just want to stop worrying.

>>55765889
like, just press the button on the keyboard

>linux
did you forget to program it yourself or something?