/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

After looking for window-managers/desktop-environments I started using xfce with the i3 window manager, but, xfce-panel doesn't interface as well with i3 as i'd hope, and would now like to go to standard i3

However I like the "just werks" aspect of whiskermenu and would like to know if there is any application launcher that interfaces with i3bar/whatever-else-is-compatible-with-i3 well, and has a customizable icon

Any suggestions? I'm still relatively new to loonix, and was drawn to it by it's modulability

First for try Devuan.

>>55998765

So the argument is standardization. Why not runit?

>>55998805
nah.

bspwm + lemonbar master race reporting in

>>55998807
The argument is "because". When you have a corporation pushing for one system and one system only you have to use the gray matter between your ears.

>>55998807
> why not runit

systemd got here first and has Red Hat backing it. Having never used runit I can't say which is better.

There's also the fact that systemd is more than just an init system - its a software suite composing an entire low-level system.

daily reminder:
>>55907440

>>55998765
Low-level standartization is great, but the way it is implemented now is a cancer in itself, because systemd will lead to the unitary ecosystem ran by corporations, with appstores, late security fixes, NSA backdoors and all the shit we can see in Windows or OSX, only even shittier and with greater choice of DEs. They should have standartized APIs and keep any "standart" software, as long as it is absolutely necessary, as slim as possible. Instead they are basically writing Windows on top of Linux kernel and telling everyone it's good.

>>55998851
>systemd got here first
not true and you know it

Silly question, but can you force screenfetch to show GPU details also? Mine doesn't display GPU details at all in Ubuntu, and in Arch it only showed one, though I have two (laptop - one's the shitty integrated Intel graphics, and the others is Nvidia). I'm using proprietary drivers from both Intel and Nvidia, yet screenfetch doesn't show any of them

If I choose to install a WM over an entire DE what other software should I install that comprises a DE?

>>55998894
Your screenfetch is possibly outdated.
Use screenfetch-dev from github.
Also read the manpage: man screenfetch.

Would you leave GNU/Linux if it became mainstream like Windows? Would developers have to start pandering to the mainstream crowd for you to leave, or would the "normie" infiltration/destruction of the community be enough to drive you out?

>>55998887
Last time I checked Systemd was still FOSS. It's true that it will further consolidate Red Hat's dominion over the Linix world, but I sincerely doubt that things will get as bad as Microsoft/Apple. Late security fixes are never an issue with FOSS, and the NSA has a substantially harder time backdooring it. I also have yet to see any evidemce that Red Hat works with the NSA (Selinux having originally been developed by them is not evidence; it too is FOSS and has been audited many times).

So while some of your concerns are valid, I think that the open-spurce ecosystem will handle it.

>>55998917
Oh thanks, I'll get right to that when I'm finished attempting to set up xSwipe; I just ran apt-get install screenfetch and though the latest version would be in the repository, but I'll check out the github

>>55998935
There isn't really anything to leave it for at this point. It's more possible for Linux itself to split to normalfag part and "true" part, with them becoming largely incompartible..

>>55998935
I use it for freedom and because it's simply better. I don't care about market share. Mainstream may add more support for drivers and games, which isn't a bad idea tho, but it will also breed bad distros (retard friendly instead of user friendly).

>>55998935
I think widespread adoption would be a very good thing because it would drive corporations to take an interest in FOSS and make hardware support better.

There will always be minimal, anti-normie distributions for people who like old-school (shit, Slackware is still going strong after 22 years).

>>55998943
>the NSA has a substantially harder time backdooring it
True, but the spaghetti code makes it hard to find backdoors too, FOSS or not

Some things about init freedom:
https://devuan.org/os/init-freedom/

>>55998943
Yes, it may not be as bad as I think, but still there's no real reason to like systemd. Especially considering a number of retarded decisions made through its development, turning it into a bloblike bloatware. I already sperged about binary logs in one of the previous threads, afair.

>>55998887
>systemd will lead to the unitary ecosystem ran by corporations, with appstores, late security fixes, NSA backdoors

Red Hat already employs developers in critical Linux projects with MUCH less diverse contributions than systemd. Why is systemd suddenly different and bad?

The Linux kernel itself is about 85% run by corporate developers, and certainly practically everybody in a decision-making (apart from Torvalds) works for some company or other, and Torvalds trusts these people hugely.

SystemD sucks. http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd

>>55999021
Torvalds is actually pretty much triggered by systemd stuff like binary logs.

>>55999040
According to what?

That doesn't even matter anyway, it's completely tangential to my point.

>>55999021
What Linux projects are as critical as systemd? Corporation having control over the only init (and not only init) system is the corporation holding the whole linux world by its balls.

>>55998768
how to make this kind of images?

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>ls -l videos/
>one video is executable

-rwxrwxrwx  1 user group 153M Sep 10  2013 'hc_likes_it_rough.mp4'

>>55999303
Here's a bash function:

magick_thumbnail() {
    thumbnail="$1"
    payload="$2"
    output="${3:-magick.png}"

    convert \
      \( "$payload" +level 4%,86% -colorspace RGB -gamma 50 -write mpr:orig \) \
      \( "$thumbnail" +level 0%,82% -gamma 0.9 \) \
      \( -size 2x2 xc:white -draw 'point 0,0' -write mpr:pat +delete mpr:orig -tile mpr:pat -draw 'color 0,0 reset' \) \
      -composite +gamma 0.023 -depth 16 "$output"
}

$ magick_thumbnail thumbnail_pic.png enlarged_pic.png output.png

>>55999356
You got that from some NTFS-infested drive, didn't you?

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>>55998768
Two questions: One relevant, one not relevant.

1. How do I make pictures be different pictures when clicked on in 4chan? (like OP's image)

2. Has anyone here managed to get a custom kernel to run Fedora? I used to be able to use Grsecurity then one day it started throwing kernel panics, even if I just downloaded the kernel, loaded the system's configuration, and compiled that with no changes.

Will post more good stuff in exchange for answers.

>>55998916
openbox pcmanfm lxappearance lxrandr lxdm lxpanel
>or
i3 pcmanfm lxappearance lxrandr

>>55999388
maybe...

>>55999356
>whatdo
Open it.

>>55999391
>Will post more good stuff in exchange for answers.
sauce first

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Whats the best dock
im on xubuntu if that matters

>>55999591
none

use dmenu or hotkeys

>>55999616
dmenu?

>>55999627
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dmenu

I finally decided to stop using Mint and made the switch to Debian. However, the install crashed half way through and my laptop shutdown. What do?

>>55999587
> sauce first

Fair enough. She's Amanda Love. Check pornhub for the video.

>>55999755
>What do?
Post errors, maybe someone will help.

>>55999755
Try to install it again? Make a new livecd/usb with a new iso? Try a different distribution?

Or do you mean your laptop like won't even boot? Because that really, really, really shouldn't happen.

Anyway, obligatory install Gentoo.

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>>55999374

linux newb here

>NetworkManager-Message: <info> No config file found or given; using /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

how to get rid of warning? I can connect just fine, still want little to no warnings or errors though

>>56000285
Warnings are not errors, they can be ignored. If it's not a problem and it doesn't shove it in your face constantly or something then just ignore it.

>>56000138
>>56000138
>>56000138
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux#Linux_Mint

https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/

This is why you should switch from Mint tbqh

>>56000310
Alright then

>>56000318
If that's your concern you couldn't use most distros

What's the currently best tool to compress PNGs?

>>56000383
>Thirdly, while they import packages from Ubuntu or Debian, they hi-jack package and binary names by re-using existing names. For example, they called their fork of gdm2 "mdm" which supposedly means "Mint Display Manager". However, the problem is that there already is a package "mdm" in Debian which are "Utilities for single-host parallel shell scripting". Thus, on Mint, the original "mdm" package cannot be installed.

That's my main problem, it particularly triggers my autism

I would suggest Linux Lite, however I don't know if it does the same

>>56000411
pnggauntlet

Fedora 24 or Ubuntu 16.04 ?

>>56000411
optipng

>>56000411
The one I'm using.

>>56000566
Gentoo.

>>56000566
I would suggest Fedora
Don't use normal Ubuntu
use Xubuntu or Kubuntu or something if you want

Or use Gentoo like I am :^)

Is there any "better" programming languages for linux?

>>55998768
>>56000084
>>55999374

Why do these pictures always only work in the browser, but in no image viewer I've tested so far?

>>56000566
Fedora KDE spin over here.

I've used their LXDE, Cinnamon, MATE, and GNOME spins. The GNOME one runs the best - I'd just install that and install KDE manually.

> dnf grouplist -v
> dnf groupinstall [kde package]
> select plasma from lock screen menu
> profit

I just used the netinstall, personally.

>>55999787
> give sauce
> get no answers

Fuck you guys.

>>56001161
If this is a complete asspull someone correct me please, but I think it works through color correction metadata that gets interpreted by your browser but most image viewer ignore it?

Do I need to create mount directories for every partition?

I have 4 partitions, one for grub, boot, swap, and root. I'm thinking I only need to actually mount boot and root but I'm not sure. If I need to mount grub and swap, what should the directory names be called?

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>>56001161
The magic is the gamma attribute.

4chan converts pictures to jpg thumbnails (without gamma), therefore you see RMS instead of Linus. If your image viewer supports changing the gamma, you can view both pictures (git related shows mpv).

Reminder for people who compress their PNGs: If you compress them, make sure NOT to strip this attribute (which is mostly stripped by default) or the magic is gone.

>>56001458
Thanks.

mpv was one of the "image viewers" I tested, did not think of changing the gamma.

>tfw forced to use Arch because muh bleeding edge and systemd is the future

Does nothing really compete with Arch? Why isn't Debian Sid more popular than it is?

>>56001609
http://systemd-free.org/

never tried it but at least a sort of community and support exists

>>56001609
I hear a lot of good things about Void lately. Maybe it will get more popular, who knows.

>>56001641
I know I don't have to use systemd right now but as time goes on systemd is going to become more and more prevalent. Being a rebel will be a PITA as time goes on and I don't want to deal with that. I might as well learn systemd and get used to it.

>>56001609
>Why isn't Debian Sid more popular
Because there's no debian-sid.iso

>>56001666
Yeah, I might switch to it in the future depending on how it and the Linux ecosystem develop.

clicking on any notification on xubuntu, let it be firefox or wifi notifications, makes qbittorrent pop up. what do?

>>56001697
I know, but I always see Testing being recommended over Sid.

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/r/equesting that image of richard stallman photoshopped in front of a computer with this face

lost it and I really need it back

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>>56001730
Please avoid using the term “photoshop” as a verb, meaning any kind of photo manipulation or image editing in general. Photoshop is just the name of one particular image editing program, which should be avoided since it is proprietary. There are plenty of free programs for editing images, such as the GIMP.

>>56001747
okay

/r/equesting that image of richard stallman GIMPed in front of a computer with this >>56001730 face

lost it and I really need it back

there :^)

>be a boring autistic retard
>fork a kernel back when kernels were simple as shit because you're bored
>gather a cult following because you're the first dude to do what he did
>be famous and revered all around the world based on other people's work

lol what a lucky faggot

Anyone else wish Torvalds was more interesting as a person? All of his interviews are terrible.

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> Have shitty old netbook, replace HDD
> Fresh install of Win 7-32bit
> "No wireless drivers m8"
> Go to samsung website on PC
> None of the driver packages execute properly
> Pull my hair out trying loads of them


> Install Linux Mint
> "Here are your drivers senpai, ready and working"

How is this shit possible? How did Win 7 miss such a basic thing? Why are Samsung offering up broken / non-installing drivers? Why did mint "just werk?"

>>56001794
>Mint

into the trash it goes

A day or two ago I was lurking this thread and somebody posted a terminal command that brought all the files within a folder up the same directory as the folder. Can somebody tell me where I can find the archive, or if the person that posted the command, can repost it? It was for .jar files.

>>56001790
> be finnish coder
> write your own kernel because there's none that suit your needs
> integrate it with another OS project
> create best operating system yet

He's very interesting; you should read his rants on github and other places.

>>56001747
I gimp pictures and images all day

>>56001794
> mint
Please love yourself. Install Ubuntu if you want that sort of distro.

>>56001811
searched the archives and found this

find . -type f -name "*.jar" -exec mv {} . \;

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>>55998768

>>56001814
Where are they?

>>56001868
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=shit

Here's one fun thing.

https://adtmag.com/blogs/dev-watch/2014/04/linus-torvalds-rants.aspx

Here's some actual yelling.

What's a screenshot application that allows me to set hotkeys and automatically upload to Imgur? I used SnippingTool++ on Windows. The only thing I found for linux was the XFCE screenshot, which I installed, but then it installed XFCE Panel and XFCE Util that adds a bunch of useless shit that I don't need.

Are there any screenshot tools where I could quickly upload to an image site with hotkeys for full screen, active window, and optionally draw a selection box.

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i3 or awesome?

>>56001931
openbox

is linux good for games? i don't want to sound like a huge faggot but gayming and vidya is a hard habit to kick... so, straight up leenuks or dual-boot w/ wangblows?

>>56001948
this desu.

>>56001803
>>56001832

Last time I checked, which was a long time ago, Ubuntu was a meme distro and nothing worked. Thought I would give mint a go and it was fine.

Getting curious about Ubuntu now. Its been about 10 years since I last installed it.

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>>56001931
i3, of course.
and i3-gaps if you wanna get aesthetic

>>56001962

I don't play any Windows games on my Manjaro laptop to be honest so can't help you. I only play Minecraft with my niece and CS:GO on Steam, and both perform better than on my Windows 10 gaming desktop.

How long does unpacking the gentoo stage 3 tarball take

It's been a sort of long time

>>56002002

How does it feel using a WM taken over by Pajeet refugees

>>56001962
Start playing Dwarf Fortress.
It works fine on leenuks and will consume your desire to play anything else.

>>56002027
wot's this about pajeets
WHAT'S THIS ABOUT REFUGEES
pls tell me
please

>>56001962
I would install linux as the host os and install windows as a guest os in virtual box or whatever and then try to get a vga pass through going.
Also if you only play older games, wine should be more than enough

>>56002027
I hadn't heard that but I don't really care.

What's the story though?

>>56001995
Personally I run Fedora but Ubuntu is widely regarded as the "Just Werks" distribution of choice.

Fedora is about as easy to use and is closer to the bleeding edge, if that's your thing.

>>56002077

What is this "bleeding edge"

I've been using Ubuntu flavors since 10.10 and hardly notice any difference in updates besides added applications that I don't even use.

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>>56001895
kek

>>56001923
don't upload to imgur, it lowers the image quality, the more people upload to imgur, the shittier the internet's images will be in the future (thanks reddit)

>>56002196

I asked for a screen shot tool that uploads to a image hosting site. It doesn't have to be Imur.

i3 or bspwm?

>>56002257
bspwm for dynamic gaps

>>56001923
A shell script using imagemagicks import, a pipe and curl. Get creative, that should be simple enough.
Otherwise shutter.

So why wouldn't

systemctl start mpd.service

not start mpd?

>>56002026
Pls respond I don't know why it's taking this long

>>56002196
this. how did the reddit+imgur marriage happen anyway

it's a bunch of bullshit

>>56002306
This.

>>56002305
Dynamic Gaps?
New to loonix and currently using i3 because muh autism
any side by side comparisons?
any guides on setting up bspwm for normies?

>>56002438
The end of the video shows dynamic gaps (shrinking/enlarging):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U17CLayt_aA
Guide for dummies:
https://github.com/windelicato/dotfiles/wiki/bspwm-for-dummies

If you want to keep i3 and enhance it, you can also use i3-gaps: https://github.com/Airblader/i3

>>56002482
how is that done though? bind the bspc for gap resizing to the mousewheel?

>>56002482
Thank you!
Currently trying to think of a way to make a small launcher on my status bar, so this custom launcher.svg icon I made doesn't go to waste

Anything like that for either i3 or bspwm?

Already tried xfce-panel in i3 and it just doesn't integrate that well

>>56002482
god damn, that has to be the best tiling wm

>>56002544
>best
There exists no such thing.

>>56002565
Of course there is. That's not to say that it can't be improved but I haven't seen anything as powerful as bspwm. This whole subjectivity/preference/YMMV nonsense in software needs to be thrown into the trash.

>>56002339

it's still going

what's taking so long?

>>56002603
No, for some people who want to understand things and have things non-bloated bspwm could be a terrible choice, especially if that person dislikes the idea of borders.
For people that are oriented purely on feature richness it is a good choice, but not necessarily the best.

>>55998768
There's this simple Windows Tool called Anti-Twin
Is it possible to run it with wine on linux?
would there be any problem like it not running at all or wrong file system?

>>56002752
Why not fdupes or findimagedupes? Even a simple shell script could do the job.

You should basically avoid running binaries when you can, but if you really need, I guess WINE will work.

wine program.exe

>>56002784
>fdupes or findimagedupes?
the functionality of Anti-Twin is kinda nicer
I like the UI a lot more.

>>56002784
>binaries
*stuff without source

>>56002794
If you like a GUI, try https://sourceforge.net/projects/geeqie/

>>56002819
>not using fslint

How can I disable kernel modules I don't need anyway? I'm on Arch if that matters.

>>56002901
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_modules#Blacklisting

>>56002915
Thank you.

I'm using dmenu since a while and I really like it, but I'm missing my aliases and functions. Is there a way to use/source them with dmenu?

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Is there a way to put an icon on lemonbar/i3bar/whateverelse which opens dmenu

Please tell me, my entire loonix experience rests on this answer

>>56003004
yes

>>56003004
icons: use a font with icon glyphs (read the OP copypasta)
clickable: lemonbar can do this (read the manpage how)

>>56003011
thank you.

>>56002819
not bad, but anti-twin isn't just limited to pics and it's faster.

>>56003025
i was thinking more of a .svg type icon
Migrating from xfce-panel and need a place to put this shitty gentoo.svg file I made onto a different bar

I've already tried putting the xfce panel in i3 and it just doesn't feel right

>>56003052
I believe tint2 has support for icons.

>>56003052
Not sure but I guess lemonbar supports .xbm maybe you can convert it.

>>56003085
thanks again

>>55998794
Have you checked out dmenu? You press mod key+'d' by default, type the name of the program you wish to execute and press enter

>>56003280
see
>>56003052
I just wanted a place to put a basic flat gentoo icon I made onto a bar

since I thought it looked nice on xfce panel

was gonna get dmenu anyway tbqh family

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Hey folks, I wanted to ask for your guidance.

I have a desktop and a laptop. I'd like to make a simple script for rsync (or something else that works over local SSH) so that everytime I run it on my laptop, a certain laptop folder is sync'd with the same folder on the desktop. Take it as: I do my daily college notes and work over there, and I'd like it all automatically sync'd to my desktop computer so I can continue going over my work there, without having to manually do it everytime.

How would I go about setting this up?

It doesn't have to be an rsync script, it could be anything from a terminal solution to a GUI-based solution. I'd just like it to be the simple

>>56003914
Her nose is so weird

Newbie question, how do I properly set up upstart to init Debian? I installed the upstart package, but it keeps running systemd instead. Do I need to modify the grub settings? If so, how?

>>56002834
I also recommend fslint. It's not in Gentoo's repo though.

Do you use any firewall?
or iptables is all you need?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singing-stallman/

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>>56001760

>>56004222
Oh thank god
Best image ever
thank you family

>>56003914
whats your distro? btw: I assume you want to run this script every time you boot your computer.

>>56004252
https://u.teknik.io/xOyPG.webm

What the fuck is wrong with kubuntu at the moment. I just had a good working version which suddenly dropped me to a shell on boot. I couldn't get sddm to work so I thought it would just be quicker to install again, so I did that, updated and installed the packages I need, reboot and I get a black screen. I saw some mentions that sddm user needs to be added to video group but they solved nothing. I was really happy with it before this but it seems to be fucked even on a fresh install.

>>56004339
It's Debian.

And no, not necessarily. The thing is that I don't have a public IP at home right now, so all my SSH sync'ing is going to have to be done exclusively when I get home everyday.

So it can be as simple as just me opening up my laptop, connecting to my home router, and typing some alias into the terminal to have X folder (and subfolders) in laptop sync'd with X folder (and subfolders) in desktop. I can get fancy later, but for now I just need it quick and simple like that

what does irqbalance do and should I download it?
Total newfaggot here

Is there a way to make it so Dolphin opens when I press "Save As" instead of the firefox file manager? I don't like the limited options that it gives you and it doesn't sync up with my theme.

>>56004749
Decided to download it anyway
Ran the daemon and suddenly my linuxbox runs faster

Got the recommendation to download it from here: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software

Is that what irqbalance is supposed to do?

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>>56004119
Install ufw.

God damn xfce is awsome. It's like the best of both worlds from a full WM and other DE's

>>56004920
Unrealistic gif, the shirt isn't red.

>>56004881
please need an answer
will I break my pc if I leave it on?

>>56005001
Read the man page or documentation. Why would you install something of you have no idea what it does?

>>56004708
alright, I think this is what you want.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories-on-a-vps

(scroll down to "How To Use Rsync to Sync with a Remote System")

and

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2

yea, its a little longer than I expected. Perhaps you'll have better luck doing this manually with bftpd on your host and lftp on the client(s)

>>56005023
I know what it does now thankfully, makes multicore cpus werk better, but now I need to know if it's compatible with my cpu or not

It's apparently a default on all redhat distros, and most other distros, however I am using an autist distro so I didn't have it as default

>>55999391
>>56001188
I don't give a shit about your porn, but I'll attempt to answer your questions anyway:

> How do I make pictures be different pictures when clicked on in 4chan?
Read the thread, it was already posted by >>55999374 as a bash script

>Has anyone here managed to get a custom kernel to run Fedora?
I don't run Fedora, but have you seen this page (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel)? I dunno if it'll help, but better than nothing.

>>56005178
Sorry about the link, I suck:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

>>56003958
No one? I just want to be able to use Debian with Upstart, is that unreasonable?

>>56005031
Thank you kindly man. In my own searching I found this simple command but I'm gonna give these a read

rsync -avz -e "ssh -p 7851" /home/anon/Documents/ [email protected]:/home/anon/Documents/

>>56004873
Can someone help me with this?

>>56005285
No, it's not possible.

>>56005503
Ok thanks for replying anon.

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How well does nouveau work nowadays?

Is it now good enough to make my cheap GF 720 run two monitors and play chinese cartoons? I remember having problems when I got the thing after my old 9500 GT bit the dust, so I used the proprietary driver, but that was over two years ago.

Ugh linux is amazing. So glad I made the switch from windows

>>56005214
have you seen this webpage?
https://wiki.debian.org/Upstart

I need libxcb-sync.so.0()(64bit) for my desktop on Fedora Linux but i can't seem to find it

I downloaded the wrong one from here - https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxcb-sync.so.0

Please help

>>56005555
Its still shit on any generation

I want to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Xubuntu

Is that a bad idea?

>>56005946
No, why would it be

>>56005971
Idk

I'm new to Linux. Could I have separate partitions on the HDD or would I need two separate drives?

Are there any reasons not to use Fedora?

>>56005981
>Separate partitions on HDD
Yes, you can

Heeeere you go champ.

http://pastebin.com/Cr4XfwdS

>>56006000
>>56005981
Also since you haven't done it before, before following that copypasta, google how to shrink your Windows partition, so you can cut it up as you see fit and leave the unused space free for Linux. Then follow that guide with the free space.

>>56006000
Thanks!
I'm assuming that works for any mainstream 64 bit distro?

>>56006019
Read the first paragraph, brohirrim
Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I'm assuming even Ubuntu would have LVM support.

If it doesn't, then just do it without LVM's and that's it.

Also, since you're on Win8.1, I'm not sure whether your Windows made an EFI partition. If it's GPT like Windows 10, then yeah just do as the guide says.

>>56005999
Fedora is totally fine and everyone recommends it. I guess an argument is that it's less popular than Debian, but not by much.

>>56005999
You'd affectionally be called a "tipper".
That's about it. I personally prefer Debian but there's nothing wrong with Fedora.

>>56006098
>>56006111
Thanks. I think I can handle fedora jokes. I used Ubuntu before but went back to Windows after unity became a thing.

>>56005999
fedora is f and f starts with freud

>>56005888
bumping

using xubuntu
are there steps I can take to improve font rendering?

>>56005999
Red Hat/NSA paranoia

>>56006145
>I used Ubuntu before but went back to Windows after unity became a thing.
Explain? What was so bad?

>>56006689
He probably just didn't like the interface
It feels too much like a tablet
The "amazon spyware" was a thing back then too right?

>>56006740

pllse repsojnf

Jesus Christ, this is depressing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDfy0_xUA88

>>56001678
>I might as well learn Windows and get used to it
There are enough people who hate systemd to maintain systemd-free distribs. Use Gentoo.

>>56007024
Am I supposed to know who this is.

>>56007062
>>56001678
Remember to put -systemd in your make.conf and put systemd and udev in your package.mask as per Gentoo Handbook instructions

>>56007080
A guy who made linux tutorial videos, not very well known though.

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What are the best rhymes for Linux? Particularly Linux, not GNU and Linux or GNU or Linux.

Here are my suggestions:
>fiddle me reeee
>fiddle me roooo
>that's why I chose gentoo

>Windowsfags reeeeing out loud
>while tux rapes their data in the cloud

>dependencies are what I look for
>but oh no what has happened
>have I to find on the screen of me computohr
>that some libtard has been outnumbered

>birds underwater are cool to look at
>especially with the emacs textfile app

We need a linux rapsong for the new [s4s] albume

>>56007123
>you may call me a fool you may call me a noob
>ill admit i use *ubuntu
>but unlike you Arch fag
>i don't have man boobs!

>>56007123
You need to be 18 to use this site

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Is there an easy to (inexpensively) refill printer compatable with linux?

I just want to print some A4 pages to read on paper instead of the screen but ink is way out of my pocket.

what can i do about improving the battery performance on my laptop?
im running manjaro, but id be open to switching if there are signifigant advantages
>inb4 manjaro
yeah yeah i know, its comfy and arch based sans autism

What are some good online tutorials/websites to learn linux commands and how to use the terminal?

>>56007184
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-the-command-line

>I let niggers collect my coffeebeans
>I let them suffer I let them scream
>so that I can enjoy the finest free memes
>whilst collecting the toppest cream

>people still wondering if the holocaust happened
>while the koolest kats enjoy the maddened
>looks of the iKeks
>collecting welfarechecks

>serverfarms are what we train for
>trying to be unseen by others
>being the gentleman type predator
>of pics from winbabbies and mactoddlers

>>56007143
top kek

>>56007152
shut up sarah, we're in the middle of something here

>>56007184
http://fglt.nl/resources.html

>>56007221
At least try to not act like a dumb teenager

>>55999388
don't be silly, nobody is dumb enough to mount an ntfs drive without noexec

>>56007244
thanks, but that's impossible with hiphop and rap

the biggest names in the hiphop industry still look like babbies to me

>>56007271
Which means that don't bring this shit here at all.

>>56007174
T L P
L
P

>>56001995
>Ubuntu was a meme distro and nothing worked.
>ubuntu + cinnamon was fine

>>56001962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eab2UI1Iq2w

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>install Manjaro MATE
>it can't even update it's default packages

On a second thought, MATE is such as good lightweight DE, yet distros always release it full of shit like 2 web browsers, Thunderbird, 2 or 3 torrent clients, LibreOffice suite, 2 different versions of Java, 3 terminal emulators, 2 task managers, etc. Why the fuck do they do this? I've tried Ubuntu MATE and now Manjaro MATE, and both came full of bloat.

On a third thought, can I install Manjaro NET with a wireless internet connection and install MATE without all the extra shit?

>>56007221
Grow up.

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>>56007271
This looks like a baby to you?

>>56007654
If bloat is a big concern then just install Arch with MATE + whatever programs you need. This is what I did with XFCE because I was sick of Xubuntu packaging unwanted shit.

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How do I get normal alt-tab in xmonad? I mean, a shortcut to switch to the last-focused window, especially in fullscreen mode. I love xmonad but this is driving me crazy. I tried cycleRecentWindows but it doesn't work.

And if it's impossible in xmonad, does i3 or something else have it?

>>56007698
>On a third thought, can I install Manjaro NET with a wireless internet connection

Hence I don't have access to a wired connection. Sucks living on campus. If I could install Arch I would. Maybe I'll sneak into the computer lab one day and unhook the Ethernet from one of the desktops. Until then, what should I do?

Also, how do you like XFCE? My 2 year old potato used to run Lubuntu for many years but now they're pushing LxQT which I can't fucking stand. Theme setup on that is a nightmare. You have Openbox as a WM so you need to set a theme for that. Then you need a LXDE theme for LXDE packages. Then you need a LxQT theme for qt packages. And you can never find a theme that has all 3, so it looks like an ugly mess. I booted MATE up and liked the default theme it came with. The only thing I did was change the fonts and remove icons from buttons and toolbars.

Probably doesn't belong in this thread but how do you guys organize your projects? I'm happy with mine, but I've always wondered how others do it.

I have a ~/Workspace

Workspace
- Projects
--Project A
---1.0
--Project B
---1.1
---1.0
---To Do List.txt
- Snippets
--[Java]Some Class Template Snippet.txt
--[C#]Some Method I Use Often.txt

Basic. Snippets are just text files containing class templates, methods, etc. that I use often. I pretty much keep everything in the version folder. I use Xubuntu as my distro and Eclipse as my IDE. Mostly program in Java and Lua. I write Android apps for my company and do some Minecraft modding/OpenComputers as a hobby.

>>56007721
Never mind, found it here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20654507/xmonad-extension-to-cycle-recent-windows

>>56007852
If you use git, you won't need version folders.

Computer loses signal right after fedora 24 starts to boot?

i installed these 2 RPM packages

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/30610645/dir/fedora_20/com/libxcb-1.9.1-3.fc20.x86_64.rpm.html

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/27701784/dir/fedora_19/com/libxcb-1.9-3.fc19.x86_64.rpm.html

i installed the Fedora 20 and 19 cause i thought 19 didnt work, so i installed the 20 one, restarted my computer now i get this problem - i have made a video of my problem here. I don't think this program could've affected my video driver? I can open the Terminal from the boot selection.

here is the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SnCME1E6Gc

How can I check if someone is currently downloading something from among the files on my web server?

It's a small LAMP home server.

>>56008284

Check the logs.

>>56007852
I don't even go as far as you do, I don't keep past versions, since most of what I write nowadays are simple scripts, or just a file of notes saying "I set up such and such, here's what I put int the config file, so you can set it up again if you need to reinstall, or know where to look if it causes trouble"

So it's just a folder with scripts and notes in it, some of which are in subfolders by general category. (eg I have a folder with all my firefox customizations - my prefs.js with comments in it about all the stuff I added, bookmarks, exports of addon settings, etc)

>>56008169 has a point though, if you write programs complicated enough that you want past versions of them, put them in a git repo.

>>56007801
>pushing LxQT which I can't fucking stand.
>Theme setup on that is a nightmare.
How so?

LXQt allows you to easily select the look of Qt applications.
LXAppearance does the same for GTK+

>You have Openbox as a WM so you need to set a theme for that
https://dpaste.de/SB9c/raw
or Onyx, Syscrash or make your own

>Then you need a LXDE theme for LXDE packages.
First of all there is no "LXDE theme for LXDE packages" - it's called GTK+
which, you know, is what almost every other DE conforms to, including MATE

Adwaita or Breeze or any other actively developed theme based on Adwaita if you don't want to complain on internetz about "muh theme broke"

>Then you need a LxQT theme for qt packages. And you can never find a theme that has all 3, so it looks like an ugly mess.
Qt5 and Qt4 can emulate any GTK+ theme you have selected. There is also a native Adwaita Qt at least.

>>56004939

Are you aware that Xfce has a window manager (WM)? It's called Xfwm4. It's a "full" WM. It's NetWM and ICCCM compliant.

>>56008609

>Qt5 and Qt4 can emulate any GTK+ theme you have selected.
Not that guy, but that's horrible nowadays. Since Qt 5.7, they moved it to a separate package (it's just a minor inconvenience). What makes it horrible is that it's not "translating" it perfectly to Qt and the fact that it's using the GTK2 theme to get its info from.

I think I remember reading somewhere that they're trying to get a GTK3 QtStyle plugin, but I can't find that reference now.

>>56008661
http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1333

i saw no issues with it when i was testing it some weeks ago

i did prefer windows style for Qt in the end

but i can see why they would avoid gtk3 for theming

So I discovered a package named 'ldm' helps you automount external drives. You just have to add your name to it's conf file

If you are not using a server disregard this post

>broadcom wireless drivers still need manual tinkering in buntu 16
oh cmon cant it just werk

>>56008882
>buntu
>just werks
Haha

What are you using for torrents /g/g?
I need some website which has sorting like kat or thepiratebay.se for TV SHOW's.
Sort them by showing seed, leach and upload time

>>56008768

It works, but it looks bad depending on which theme you use.
Adwaita looks fine, but other themes like Zukitre, look ugly. I'm getting weird dotted bars and some minor issues.

Just checked a script from an old coworker and this part

VAR4=$(echo ${VAR3%%??})

confuses me, what does %%?? do? VAR3 can contain integer values starting from 0.

>>56009326
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html
>${string%%substring}
>Deletes longest match of $substring from back of $string.

>>56009326
>>56009422
also, the echo is superfluous

$ VAR3=tester
$ VAR4=${VAR3%%er}
$ echo $VAR4
test

Is pirating a game for linux the same as on Windows?

>>56009326
>>56009422
in that specific case, it seems the ?'s are interpreted as wildcards/globs, that is, they each match one of any character

$ echo $VAR3
573484325
$ echo ${VAR3%?}
57348432
$ echo ${VAR3%??}
5734843
$ echo ${VAR3%???}
573484

>>56009559
yes

>>56008242
bump please help!

>>56009185
rutracker.org
t. slav god

I finished an install of Xubuntu, but I'm noticing some screen tearing when scrolling webpages and moving windows. I figure this is a grapics issue, but I have no idea what to do to get drivers working. I think it's complicated because I'm using a laptop with integrated graphics and an Nvidia 840M. Any ideas on fixing this tearing?

New with linux (ubuntu). Any suggestion for a TEX editor?

>>56009422
>>56009443
>>56009565
Quote your variables.

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>>56009559
>>56009582
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)

If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”

>>56010298
i do that when i need to

>>56009565
>>56009443
>>56009422
Thanks!

>>56010316
The problem is, beginners will copy your example and wonder why their scripts break.

>>56010680
i think it's better to not assume things for them
if i put quotes on everything, they'll just forget them once and get stuck, as they never knew why they were used in the first place

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Will the nouveau driver ever be decent, possibly as a result of this 2013 announcement by Nvidia?

I know it won't match the official driver, but will it catch up?

Also, will nouveau ever do Vulkan?

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2013-September/014480.html

The xrandr splash that appears when I setup multiple screens never disappears, what do?

It's over. Linus is finnish.

>>56010828
>Will the nouveau driver ever be decent, possibly as a result of this 2013 announcement by Nvidia?
>I know it won't match the official driver, but will it catch up?

no, as the post suggests it's literally only information nouveau devs have already reverse engineered but may shed some light on the cause and fix of some obscure issues or bugs

nvidia higher ups have zero intention of helping the open source driver beyond it actually working for most people since as far as nvidia is concerned they have unpaid neckbeards working on a driver that is better than anything the community effort open source amd drivers could ever deliver, amd drivers WITH help from amd developers no less, you'd think the new effort by amd of amdgpu a unified open source driver (still has proprietary blobs) might change things but in reality it's just a move by amd to play catchup and nvidia don't have to lift a finger for a few years until the mainstream start adopting cards that will be supported by amdgpu

there's an old meme that nvidia suck for drivers on linux and while it has always been true amd haven't had "good" drivers for well over a decade, perhaps even longer now, so there's even less incentive for nvidia to put the effort in

>>56011359
that's why I have stopped buying new pc hardware and switched to console gaming for whenever I do get time to play vidya, no one really gives a fuck about linux so fuck both nvidia and amd

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How can i delete everything about vim neovim?
I want to delete every fucking config file and do fresh installation.
I installed github.com/amix/vimrc
but shit aint working
>pic how my nvim looks after installation of amix

>>56011468
To do that, you must first donate at least $15 to children in uganda.

>>56011455
nvim's config is in ~/.config/nvim
vim's config is typically in ~/.vim
Try deleting them.

If that doesn't work and no one here can help, then ask the vim subreddit. It's full of people waiting to display their elitist vim knowledge to anyone and everyone (solving your issue is a side effect of this).

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>>56011500
i'm poor, im from Serbia :((((((((((((

>>56008242
Bump 2

Anon about compton.

>>55959954

Do you by any chance run it with the -b switch?

Like:

$ compton -b

This freezes my screen but the OS is fine and I can still turn it off with:

$ killall compton

You want to start it with & like:

$ compton &

This won't freeze your monitor and will run compton normally.

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Hello there, I am facing a weird issue with my home server / NAS right now.
I don't know when these problems emered, but recently these entries started popping up in dmesg

...
[    4.112197] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Stopping disk
[    4.116192] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[    4.598140] Adding 2097148k swap on /dev/sde1.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:                                                                               2097148k SS
[    4.636823] EXT4-fs (sde2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[    4.781326] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk

...
[   84.820219] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Stopping disk
[   91.807118] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:                                                                                (null)
[   91.807328] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Starting disk
[   98.987649] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:                                                                                (null)
[   98.987763] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Starting disk
[  106.018069] EXT4-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:                                                                                (null)
[  106.018185] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Starting disk
[  114.469978] EXT4-fs (sdd1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:                                                                                (null)
[  114.493616] EXT4-fs (sde3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:                                                                                (null)
...

It starts and stops the disks a few times each before mounting them, which takes close to two minutes. That didn't happen before. I can't remember any changes I've made which would cause this to happen. The disks themselves are ok, no errors in dmesg or syslog.
Any ideas?

How do I edit a pkgbuild before resolving for dependencies using Arch?

>>56012476
never mind. :)

I'm on Debian 8 and I want to switch to Ubuntu MATE. I'm having a bit of trouble though. I made a bootable USB using Disks but the ISO has been corrupted twice now. Does this happen often or something?
Also, should I be using a different method for this?

>>56012187
nobody at Microsoft is a graphic designer. They fired all of them.

>>56012517
>I'm on Debian 8 and I want to switch to Ubuntu MATE
Why the fuck would you do something that retarded after being smart and using debian

At least switch to Testing instead if you need newer packages

also to answer you, no that doesn't happen often, you're doing it wrong, use something like mkusb

but really use fucking testing

Ubuntu is shit (I use it myself and going to switch back to Debian at some point) but Ubuntu MATE is a pure turd

>>56012929
I think I'm too dumb for it, personally. I've had a lot of trouble getting the damn wifi to work. Sound worked for a bit but now it doesn't.
Last time I switched to testing it failed to load something and would hang on that forever.

>>56012999
When was this last time? Wifi is a bit of a cunt on Debian unfortunately, but what has worked for me in the past is installing the base system without wifi and then it somehow just werks post-install.
Can't guarantee that happening for you though, but if it's been a while since you last tried Testing I'd definitely recommending trying the newest release.

>>56013174
Last weekend. I did a netinstall the first time.
I'm sure my wifi card or whatever works on linux since it worked when I tried it on a live disk on some other distro.
I don't really recall how, so would you mind telling me how to upgrade to testing? And should I uninstall anything I have now or does it not matter?

>>56013220
You can either just download the latest testing ISO here
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
or you update the sources file to use the word stretch instead of jessie by using something like gedit

do gksudo gedit and then just open the sources.lst file (can't remember the name, I usually just use the ISO)
Some other anon will definitely know more than me on this issue and may be able to solve your problem with the wifi on Debian so stick around or trying googling, Debian has fucktons of good up to date advice on forums out there.

>>56013220
The last option I would recommend is just using mainline Ubuntu like me, don't use MATE, the only reason people use those lesser-known variants is when they have less than 4GB ram and I'm guessing you don't have that problem.

>>56013313
Or, you know,just personal preferences.

>>56013296
I'll probably just use the ISO since it looks a bit quicker that way.

>>56013313
I have 8 gigs. I just thought it looked nice. Green's a nice color.

https://gtg.installgentoo.com/
Thoughts?

>>56008629
Yeah Duh, I really like the XFCE DE though

>>56012929
why did you feel the need to space out every sentence?

>>56013430
it's just how i type, makes stuff more legible

i also use photon as my style

>>56013389
Nice wirus

>>56013430
It's called "reddit spacing"

How often should one

sudo pacman -Syu

?

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Is getting a RHCSA worth it? How much work is it if you are a freetard?

>>56013463
>open source
>virus
>>>/out/

>>56013544
>open source
Not an argument unless you completely read every line of code.

>>56013559
>all open source software is popentially a virus, unless you read every line of code
autism

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>>56013544
>>56013559
>>56013582

>>56013471
obvious conclusion by a boring person

if you were smart you would have noticed the little photon joke, but you're clearly a bit dim

even if I was from reddit i wouldn't feel as bad about it as you or have the need to fit in as badly as you

i do go to reddit quite often these days though, does that make you hate me and want me to leave now? then good

xfce vs i3
Which one do you think gets work done faster? Picture eclipse, terminals, browsers, workspaces being used efficiently

>>56013582
>>56013582
>>all open source software is popentially a virus, unless you read every line of code
Correct.

>>56013701
>Which one do you think gets work done faster?
xfce because you don't have to waste time figuring out configuration and reading pages of documentation

>>56013790
Time to uninstall your OS I guess?

>>56013817
Why would I do that? My OS isn't the same as some random /g/ meme program.

>>56013808
Is that the only reason?

>>56013840
see >>56013790

>>56013855
Yeah so time to uninstall your OS.

>>56013873
I see you're just stupid.

>>56013889
Nope. There could contain malicious code in an open source program. Surely you don't blindly run programs you come across just because they're open source.

>>56013925
But you're running a whole OS full of open source programs and you run them blindly, so happy uninstalling.

>>56014016
Some OS-code could give you nightmares

>>56013296
Okay, I've got the netinstall ISO. Now, how do I make it so I can install it from a USB stick?

>>56014043
mkusb

or the good old dd method

sudo dd bs=4M if=faggot.iso of=/dev/sdc

Why can't no linux program take screenshots with mousepointer?

>>56014016
My point remains. You implied just because software is open source there couldn't be any sort of malicious code or "virus". This is flat out wrong, albeit rare.

>>56014075
Y'all niggas always forget to && sync

>>56014094
Why are you running an OS full of potential viruses?

>>56014113
Because I put more faith in the developers of my distro and which maintain packages, are you retarded? There is a difference to that and running some random persons program on Shit Hub.

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hi
anyone else having strange issues with latest stable debian release?

Both gnome disks and gparted is having issues creating ext3 filesystems on a gpt partition table. I managed to get ext4 up and running, i suspect the issue has something to do with ownership of the disk mount points or something.


The drives works flawlessly with ext4, i just found it strange. Gnome disks crashed while creating ext3 filesystems and gparted was just stuck forever on creating partition.

>>56015188
Any reason you want ext3 and not ext4?