/flt/ - Friendly Linux Thread

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Slackware/XFCE

How the fuck do I change the color of window backgrounds? Literally checked every editing app and googled it and nothing says how. besides of course installing someone elses theme.

I just want to change the background color god damn it.

>>56312440
asked this in a previous thread

>>56313336
So in the previous thread I was wondering why my arch would not allow me to go into xfce, I installed everything but it prompted me with a cursor and a black background, currently writing this in the startx de.

>>56313359
have you tried using a display manager to boot into the xfce DE?

>>56313359
Does it say anything about xauthority when you try to load xfce?

>>56313384
Like lxde? if so then yes

>>56313336
For what reason would someone want to make a LFS install?

>>56313356
Sorry senpai, don't know. Goodluck

Should i install arch?

>>56313450
I just did and I am having problems but hopefully they will get fixed.

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>>56313450
everyone right now is going to say memebuntu

im gonna say arch because i want you to go through the headache of installing it and understanding it
>inb4 archkiddie

mangina fags on suicide watch

>>56313472
need I say more

>>56313481
i already installed on a vm but i dont know how to autostart x

>>56313481
Arch is like 10 commands to install. you really want anon to suffer, always recommend gentoo.

>>56313503
so easy yet people still fail
see >>56313359 >>56313472

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>>56313503
>linking two people
>linking someone who is clearly trolling

Is Debian goat?

>>56313571
no
gentoo is

>>56313481
yin <3

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which one do I pick

>>56313727
kde is gay
dont get it

Forgive me, Akari

>>56313727
xfce

Is there any way to install steam without getting raped by GBs upon GBs of 32bit libraries that only steam uses?

>>56313523
I see far more debian and RHEL* then arch at any given time
>ib4 wm boots of arch for shippostings

>>56313833
Recompile all needed 64 bit packages with 32 bit support.

>>56313727
netinst
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.5.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso

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>install gentoo
Nah
> install arch

Would extracting a filesystem squashfs image, in to a vb image/ chroot work?
Either it cant or i cant find out a way

gahnoo fags caught sleeping i see

What's the best DE tha maximizes vertical screen space?
The majority of DE's have a gigantic header for windows.

>>56314170 Newer/Alternative Thread

>>56314191
Why?
>friendly linux thread

I think my question fits the current thread.

>>56313928
>all this wasted space
nah

>>56314211
this is not an official /fglt/ thread.
the /fglt/ team only posts in threads where we make money "shilling" for our favorite distro.

We also accept donations!

>>56314263
Shut the fuck up you retard.

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>>56314267

>>56313928
Get some taste, anthony-kun

>got nothing better to do
>lets meme debian
>go to download
>ctrl+ f torrent
>no results
>ctrl + f magnet
>no results
>trash

>>56314312
okay, saves us from your inevitable stupid as fuck questions.

>>56314250
Why? I mean I do respect others such as Debian and Fedora
>>56314311
Well I just finished installing it on the first round (first time ever installing it) cut me some slack.

>>56313352
settings -> apperance or window manager
color options are somewhere in there

>>56314353
>cut me some slack
no, lurk moar before posting desktop. that's embarrasing. >>6683241

>>56314413
Thanks but I already checked those. No option for changing background color. at least on XFCE4

>>56314423
I am sorry senpai.

>>56313450
Arch is only hard if you're dropped into it with no external resources. If you have a second screen on which to RTFM and follow along with guides on the net, and have some patience, you can manage.

That said, if you want a distro to ease you into Linux, Ubuntu's your waifu.

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>>56314447
background color is controlled by the 'appearance' setting. but you have to get a theme with a dark background. I use blackbird, because it's the best dark gtk2 theme. greybird if you want light (mac style)

>>56314423
>>56314494
>dead link
np i meant to link the desktop thread in /wg/ but i'm shit at linking. you can find it yourself.

Screen tearing

>>56314494
sorry dude didn't mean to reply to u, meant >>56314470

>>56314509
Aye, but how do theme makers change the color code?
I want to make mine semi-transparent without downloading a theme

>>56314553
I know but it looked intimidating as a first time installer, I know it isn't a great achivement but I am happy that I did not mess anything up.

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>>56313336
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Pointless ramble. Booted up Windows for the first time in forever. Damn thing's stuttering all over the place. Can barely scroll smoothly in Firefox. Dolphin (the emulator) is somehow worse on Windows than on Linux with the FOSS drivers.

Yep. Never doing that again.

>>56314576
>semi-transparent without downloading a theme
go to 'Window Manager Tweaks' from the settings menu. go to 'Compositor' and you can control all transparencies from there.

>>56314598
FACT:
Richard Stallman only created a text editor and a couple other HIGH-LEVEL shit. He could not create a kernel or anything important.

It wasn't until 9 years later that linus came around and made a kernel for it that made it is today.

Richard Stallman does not deserve credit for anything and linux should not be prefaced by GNU.

>>56314648
NEGATIVE. None of those effect backgrounds of windows, unless I have something else set that is preventing me from seeing the transparency.

I messed with everything in the compositor and the background never changes. only title bar and inactive windows etc.

>>56314655
an operating system is not a kernel

>>56314681
Excuse me, but what you're referring to as GNU Operating System is actually Text+Editor.

>>56314674
ah so you want your active windows to be semi-transparent. sorry my dude i don't know how in xfce. i don't like transparency so i never looked into it. maybe someone else can help.

>>56314726
No problemo Senpai+Lee.
Thanks for the help.

I probably should have mentioned Active windows specifically.

>>56314655
did you ever compile a kernel?

>>56314761
Yeah, I literally make kernels in my lunch break my main dude. I am the top coder at my help call center job in india.

>>56314655
Stallman isn't the only person on the GNU project you retard
Also he wrote gcc

>>56314824
>it took a team to write emacs

laughing-face.xpm

>>56314674
~/.themes/
or /usr/share/themes/

this should be the locations of your GTK themes which in turn make your windows background color, you can edit them, they are css files. good luck they're hard to deal with at first.

>>56314883
Thanks. I'll try.

>>56314674
>>56314883

oh, and if you want transparency you should really look into compton, it's pretty simple on compton

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>>56314859

>>56314900
This guy worships a text editor creator

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how do i change the color of the menu bars for various apps?

Remember to report these guys who made a duplicate thread an hour or two later.

>>56313475

>>56315121
Change the theme.

>>56315319
hey im the op of that thread and i actually made it like 2 minutes after this one because i didn't think to check 'flt' instead of 'fglt'. i actually like 'flt' better so i'm happy this thread has prevailed. let the other one die. also fuck you retard, it wasn't an hour, it was literally 2 minutes. learn to tell time you fucking piece of shit. thanks.

>Running Kubuntu on my main tower and playing Steam,

>Running Ubuntu on my HTPC with VLC & Kodi as well as HDD storage.

>Have a dedicated Win10 laptop and a Lumia 635.

No problems with my gear, lets see how friendly the thread is now.

Seriously, I hate the complaint threads.

>>56315592
Do you have a problem or are you just blogging?

This might be a stupid question but do you absolutely need a blank CD/USB to be able to dual boot?

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>>56315492
>it wasn't an hour, it was literally 2 minutes. learn to tell time you fucking piece of shit. thanks.

>yours 20:06:52
>this one 19:55:31
>literally two minutes

You're literally lying to me right now.
Don't ever talk to me or my son again.

also, yes, /flt/ is superior. Where did it all go so wrong? reminds me of /lgbt/

>>56315713
No. You use GRUB or LILO to create a boot menu like in OP picture.

>>56315491
I am running openbox at the moment and fbpanel. Changing the openbox theme doesn't change the color of the menu bar. Obviously I am missing something here

>>56315737
ok so 11.21 minutes. longer than i thought. still not even close to an hour or two.

>>56315763
The gtk theme. Install lxappearance and go to gnome-look.org and download themes from there.

>>56313352
>>56314883

found it. it was one of these.
just have to narrow it down

 
     base[ACTIVE]      = "#CA1010" 
    base[INSENSITIVE] = "#CA1010"
    base[NORMAL]      = "#CA1010"
    base[PRELIGHT]    = "#CA1010"
    base[SELECTED]    = "#CA1010"

Thanks

>>56316148
cool!

>>56316189
Yeah now the issue is figure out how to make it accept an opacity number

>>56315996
Thanks. Can you explain where gtk fits in relation to a WM and a DE?

>>56316351
you need to patch gtk for rgba support, and then use a theme engine which supports it (such as murrine) then you just add the 2 hex digits for opacity to the end of the color.

My gnome terminal recently stopped forcing the window to remain in geometry that doesn't leave unused space in the terminal area (ie. it stopped snapping to WxH character sizes).

Running Arch with Gnome Shell. Anyone know how I might fix?

>>56316557
Thanks

>>56313501
try lightdm
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM

or if you're too 1337 for graphical login screens, see
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit

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>>56313336

What is the best distro for learning? Which will allow you actually get good at Linux? I don't want my hand held but I also don't want one so difficult that it is frustrating.

>>56313336
>Too retarded to look up archive
wew lad

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See these windows open? How can I drag them so I can switch their places, similar to windows?

>>56317709
Fedora, Debian

>>56317910
How do they teach Linux?

>>56317709
>best for learning
debian
>best for get gud
centos, debian again
>best for autism
arch, gentoo, mint

derivatives are fine, but second derivatives are bad

>>56317916
it teaches linux by virtue of being

>>56317933
>>best for learning
>debian
Elaborate

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>>56317942
>He has no answers

>>56317942
It's not very complicated, and is popular and well supported. Try Xubuntu for a batteries-included adventure.

>>56317983
i'm not some kind of filthy italian pasta chef

>>56313352
check source/l/freetype.SlackBuild, recompile freetype, and have good font rendering

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Well I've tried every method I've been able to find online and I still can't get rid of Arc Dark.

>>56318306
what is this?

>>56318330
KDE desktop themes.

>>56318353
>>56318306
Post this:
history | tail -n 150 | grep -i arc

>>56318536
Here's all that was sort of relevant. I installed the theme using the "Get New Themes" menu.

906  apt search arc
  907  apt search arc dark
  908  apt search numix
  912  apt search xdg
  918  apt search paper-icon-theme
  921  apt search arc dark
  922  apt search arc
  923  apt search arc-dark
  925  sudo apt remove arc-dark
  927  apt search kcm
  928  apt search kcmshell
  931  history | tail -n 150 | grep -i arc

>>56318575
Reminder that apt can't actually remove packages

>>56313359
did you install/enable a DM?

Everytime I open an audio file, it opens up mpv.
How do I setup default applications to specific extensions?

>>56318662
slide in the DMs

>>56318683
what?

>>56318712
He browses /pol/ too much

>>56318717
>implying i browse /pol/
How would you even know /pol/ says that?

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How do i change Window Manager theme so its monotone ?
Pic retarded

>>56318772
>Those massive window buttons
wew

>>56318772
that's one retarded pic

>>56318536
I was able to get rid of it by deleting the folder in

~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/

>>56318670
Depends on what DE and file manager you are using

>>56313336
how do you guys usually install a new distro on a physical machine?
i use to wipe the harddisk(s) with gparted on liveusb and then i install my new distro on a blank disk.
is that even necessary though?

>>56319408
No, distro installers usually come with partitioning tools

I usually install using my pervious system as a host

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>Follow the guide a very nice anon gave me about installing debian minimal
>try in wm
>When I try to install dwm this happens
Maybe I should have gone for a Net Install iso instead os a live one?

>>56319609
Also, installed xfce as I couldn't get to compile dwm

>>56319621
>>56319609
Just read the error, you are missing X11/Xft/Xft.h
Before compiling things you need to install the required development headers
On Debian you can go the easy route and

sudo apt-get build-dep dwm

to install everything needed, then try to compile again

Reminder to always read the error messages

>>56313336
>Look at me I am a faggot that needs to change a general name to increase the amount of fighting in the GNU/Linux community

>>56319609
Compile with checkinstall, read the errors.

why is debian good again?

>>56317899
You're implying I give a shit about autistic shit like that

>>56313336
is that klingon?

>>56313877
yes, all 92503482395818589137813578935 of them.

We should let the thread already die. It hasn't been friendly to newcomers and informative in a long time. It has become satire just like ever other neo /g/ thread
>> %random distro
> found your problem
> %cucks BTFO
> %distro is for hipsters
> Arch breaks
> Debian is old
> install Linux Mint

r.i.p.

>>56320920
Thanks for sharing, you can go back to plebit for your hugs now.

>>56320906
>never seen japanese in his life

how

>>56320264
>change the name

it was originally /flt/ you fucking new fag
get lost

>>56321023
He's obviously joking, you autist.

Does anybody here dual boot Linux and Windows on a laptop? Is there any difference in battery life? I plan on getting a new laptop soon and I might end up dual booting Linux and Windows and use Linux for day to day tasks and Windows for things like Adobe Creative Suite and DAWs. I have a 2011 Macbook Pro right now and the battery takes a nosedive when I've tried running Linux on it.

How stable is Neon? More so than Kubuntu 16.04?

>>56321035
No, I wasnt.

>>56313411
If you want to get a good idea of how all of the pieces go together, there's nothing better.
Wouldn't run it though... These days, I'd have a hard enough time keeping Slackware current & uptodate.

I have home server with linux, but i only download torrents on it and use it as samba/web server (rarelly access it tho)
what are some cool services i can run on it except game servers?

>>56321023
>>56321029
it looks more like klingon than japanese to me. ok if its japanese then what does it say?

>>56321071
Options

>>56319444
I'm using Xubuntu live as a host, run terminal then start my written scripts, which prompt some questions like a hostname, a size and so forth, then they partition a disk, install a Gentoo base system, chroot, install grub et cetera. Then I reboot into the installed minimal Gentoo system, run another script which installs all my software and configs. And the system is up and running for work and fun.

What DEs should I consider if I want something riceable and lightweight, other than XFCE? Gnome feels bloated as shit. Is Cinnamon any good?

How compatable are acer laptops with linux. I'm getting a new laptop and looking at maybe dual booting

>>56316557
Can you or anyone else go into a bit more detail?
I downloaded murrine, and murrine themes.

I selected a murrine theme, edit the gtk.
RGBA= TRUE in the gtk file.
when I edit the background like so

    base[ACTIVE]      = "rgba(63, 80, 191, 0)"

Nothing changes.


Can you elaborate on how to "patch GTK to allow rgba? or what am I doing wrong?

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>you are on an alium sapce ship
>it is charging its death beam about to blow up earth
>you plug your thinkpad into the nearby quantum usb interface
>you wait for the gentoo to load the necessary drivers
>shit alium guards found you
>you only have time to input one command
> fuccboi@chinkpad ~ $ _

>>56321220
startx

>>56321220
>apt-get dist-upgrade
then you have about 10 minutes depending on how fast the alien internet is, before the ship explodes

>>56321220
yes

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going to be installing my first linux distro (that I will actually be using)
I've spent the past month installing and uninstalling distros for aesthetic reasons but now I just don't give a shit anymore and want to use my laptop

I've narrowed it down to either ubuntu mate or kde neon
Which should I go for?
Other suggestions welcome

>>56321424
Just pick a distro and rice it to how exactly how you want it.

Changing distros doesn't really make sense. Everything can be riced to your liking if you spend of enough time on it.

>>56321448
that's the problem, I've been trying to rice but because I have next to no linux experience it's futile, I decided it would probably be a better idea to actually use linux and get comfortable before tinkering to prevent pulling my hair out in frustration

>>56321483
Well first you should get a theme manager.
Then pick a theme/icons from
"kde look .com" / "xfce look.com"

then install them (some managers let you drag and drop onto the manager)

Then you go slowly from there googling what you want to change, by editing the gtk file)

>>56321548
Also composite editor.
Depending on the distro or whatever, you may even be able to download a theme editor or something easy to use.

>>56321483
I'm new to linux as well, and just googling stuff etc on how to rice, I've learned alot of useful commands that will help me in the future.

>>56314598
/thread

Are there any wallpaper setters I can download that has useful options like being able to select the walpapers I want changed every half hour?

Think feh should be able to do that

>1
>2
>3 4

I installed base virtualbox package in mint. I dont see any new icon in menu. I dont know what command to type to run it. Anyone can help?

How do I get my router to resolve LAN hostnames?
I'd prefer not using a seperate device because of fear of uptime.

I really like the right click menu in openbox. Are there any similar programs that you can use with any wm?

How can i make my system more minimalistic? Like using command line and just opening programs in graphic windows (eclipse, firefox, movies, pics etc)? So far i only used debian/ubuntu like distros.

>>56321029
I have been in these threads since the beginning, adopting GNU/Linux was a thing of neutrality.

>>56322945
Install dwm, suckless tools and stterm on your minimal debian install.

>>56313336
How can something as simple as Browsing the web be more taxing on my CPU over Windows machines?
>Acer Aspire 5560G (I know it's a piece of shit but Windows seems to run faster.)

>>56322947
why cant /dpt/ come to a cease fire?

>>56321150
LXDE?
>>56321168
Acer laptops are shit

>>56321067
printserver
playing music as an alarm
filesharing over the internet
DIY video surveillance system

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I'm running WindowMaker Live in a VM [thinkpad is in the mail] because I want a NeXT-like workspace and I'm too new to GNU/Linux to build one from scratch. How come when I save a file to my desktop, it doesn't actually appear on the desktop? It's in the 'Desktop' folder in my file manager, but I can't actually see it on the desktop itself, I don't get it. Is it supposed to be like that?

>>56323103
find the option somewhere that switches desktop icons off and on.

or 2,
"viewing hidden files"

>>56322947
I just remember the quality of posting dropping during the holy gnu crusade, but it got better after the first week or so.

But if the argument has to start again it'll be a good while of two generals both filled to the brim with shit though

>>56323228
Remember that this was mostly caused by people hating on gnu and free software, people responding to them and shitty apps guy still being a thing.

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I was at my brother's place for 4 days and I used his computer (Mac) and it had this keyboard. I really like this keyboard and prefer everything about it over my HP keyboard.

Can it be used with Linux? There's one person on Craigslist selling a brand new one one block away from me for $40. I'd pick it up if if it can be used on a PC with Linux.

Anyone know for sure?

>>56316604
Fuck, I use Xinit because I'm too lazy to examine the syslog.

>>56314494
It's like nobody who has enough free time to configure arch can figure out that you can use a goddamn blackberry to get the instructions.

>>56323292
It was all worth the extra letter in the name of the general though, I'm sure

>>56323312
Keyboard drivers are not exactly complicated, just look out for proprietary connectors, apple uses them a lot.

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Linux Mint has way too much chrome on top of windows. Just look at this wasted space! Look at this disgusting typesetting of tab names!

How do I fix this? Are there any settings in Cinnamon that would allow me to shrink some of this?

>>56323312
buy it, if doesn't work then make a driver and help the community, faggot

>>56321071
Rinakusu aka linaks aka linux

>>56323456
>proprietary connectors
it's USB. look at it.

but yeah, I don't see how this keyboard wouldn't work but wanted to double check.

man, clickety click keyboards are fucking painful on my hands. this chicklet-style is so damn easy to type on.

>>56323487
>buy it, if doesn't work then make a driver and help the community, faggot
good point. I might make xmodmap script for it if it doesn't exist already.

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>>56323509
Depends on the switches, gateron clears for example are also really easy on your hands.
Are you sure about it being usb? Because apple pulls things like pic related on a regular basis.

>>56323031
What are some nonshit laptops for less than 600$ that I don't have to buy off craigslist

>>56323551
>pic
what connector is that? never seen it in my life!

>>56313336
LINUX WHY YOU NO PLAY VIDEO GAMES IM STUCK BETWEEN YOU AND WINDOWS 10 WITCH LEAVES ME ON WINDOWS 7

>>56322594
i have problems with getting virtualbox to run on mint.

>>56323584
Still usb, but only some old apple bullshit fits because of that thing.

>>56323603
Make your own vidya games :^)

>>56321424
Mate is as smooth as a brazilian. If you don't like it, aptitude install ~t^desktop$ ~t^kde-desktop$

How do I record a webm video of some shit that I'm doing on my desktop?

I have an issue with "swimming" text in Chrome. When I hover a mouse pointer over a link, text sometimes shimmers.

Also, sometimes when I type into a text box, text moves around all the fucking time. It's driving me nuts.

Also, Linux has shit kerning.

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>>56323653
>Also, Linux has shit kerning.
here's an example of how my text looks. kerning is just shit and the letter "i" is the biggest culprit in many instances.

how do I fix this?

>>56323653
>How do I record a webm video of some shit that I'm doing on my desktop?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications#Screencast

>>56313727
gnome is the obvious answer

>>56313727
Netinstall

Where can I get firefox without the linux mint search engine bullshit? See https://www.linuxmint.com/searchengines.php, this is where "add more search engines" in ff settings takes you.

>>56323888
From the debian repo or from the mozilla website. Use searx.me

>>56323470
Try looking through the theme folder (/usr/share/themes/your_theme/cinnamon) and playing around with the image files with a text editor. Might be best to try that with a theme you don't use first.

Worked for me in xfce. I had these beautiful 1 pixel bordered windows.

I switched to openbox though and now I can't figure out how to remove the title bar.

>>56323970
Thanks. I'll see if I can fuck with that a bit and fix this.

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>>56323734
what browser are you using?
Firefox here. I think I once did something to my OS's font rendering but I don't remember what it was. Sub-Pixel rendering or something.

>>56313356
Screen tearing is a driver thing, that'll be an Xorg option.
It'll vary depending on your hardware, for me with a Radeon 6400M the fix was to make a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with contents:

Section "Device"
Identifier "gpu"
Driver "radeon"
Option "TearFree" "on"
EndSection

TearFree here is a driver option for the radeon driver. Apparently for Intel it's a little different:
Option "TearFree" "true"
But I haven't tried that, it's just secondhand information.

Are there any downsides to disabling AGP support when compiling the kernel? My PC doesn't even have an AGP port, and it sure as hell doesn't use it internally.

>>56323998
>what browser are you using?
Chrome

>Firefox here.
Sometimes I use FF as well but I prefer Chrome. Haven't noticed much rendering diff.

>I think I once did something to my OS's font rendering but I don't remember what it was. Sub-Pixel rendering or something.
Hmm.. I'll see if I have anything like that enabled.

desktop application "memory is basically free nowadays" programmers will be the death of GNU/Linux

>>56321052
Some versions ago there was a difference, I would get terrible battery life with Linux. That's a lot better now, and with Powertop I get slightly better battery life with linux than with windows.
I highly recommend powertop, it'll try to determine what's using power and offers some options for tuning. I can get down to 11 watts running Debian/Openbox on an elitebook 8560p.

>>56315713

My last dual boot I set up the installation 'disks' and install partitions all on one disk. Basically where it would install everything onto itself.

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Is it possible to assign volume up & down to two Function keys? I find function keys fuckign useless yet on win/mac, you can use those as media keys...

>>56324224
X11 has an option for it, but fuck if I know how it's done. It'd help to know your distro and desktop environment.

>>56324242
>X11 has an option for it, but fuck if I know how it's done. It'd help to know your distro and desktop environment.
It's mint with cinnamon.

I saw this:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2187155

but it seems to be Pulse Audio specific. I use Alsa tho...

>>56313727
depend son system but i'd go for icnnamon or openbox

>>56324303
man amixer
man xmodmap

>>56324342
thanks anon

>>56313359
for xfce you use

startxfce4

as opposed to startx

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Xubuntu 16.04 with AMD drivers keeps freezing, even after installing this, some anon suggested last thread:

https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers

what do?

Should I reformat my external HDD in ext4?

I'm using Debian, and I had some errors with my external ntfs HDD (I was watching some anime that was on it while downloading more anime on it at the same time, causing some kind of filesystem corruption), so I had to go back to windows and use chkdsk to fix it.

Can someone explain briefly the advantage of the ext4 filesystem in comparison to the ntfs filesystem?
I have a lot of anime there and I don't want to move all of that and reformat for nothing.

I changed the permissions for an ext4 partition and somehow created this problem for myself (df -h output):

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       147G  138G  1.4G 100% /media/anon/ext4-drive

See how I should actually have ~9 GiB of free space, but is says 1.4 GiB is available and it also says that 100% is being used?
I tried to fix it with gparted, but it didn't work.
Help pls?

>>56325109
btw, initially 0 GiB was available, then I deleted 1.4 GiB worth of content and it still says 100% in use

>>56325134
man sync
man lsof

>>56325109
sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1

>>56324303
Settings > Keyboard > Sound and Media

I tested using GNOME, but it should work on Cinnamon which is basically GNOME.

>>56325162
Thanks a lot, that worked.

>>56313450
>>56314494
I used mint and had 0 problems. Im worried that in arch id have too many problems. Looking for some lightweight, stable os. Going for minimalistic but im not expert with linux yet. Arch, Antergos, gentoo or mint?

>>56325202
also this pic wants to encourage me to debian >>56324489

>>56314470
Don't listen to him, it looks great

I use ubuntu purely for the large repositories. It doesn't really matter what it does since I force boot it to command line anyway. Oddly enough I really wanted Server edition, but the damn disk drive wouldn't mount itself even though it booted from that same very drive, but the desktop version installed perfectly with no complaints (except for the ubuntu bootloader being crap and my having to hit f10 every time). I almost cried over that wasted 5 gb.

>>56314598
>I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
>Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
>There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Just did a fresh install of Arch. None of my media is working. Probably a codec issue. At minimum, looking to get MP3 for gnome-music, and MKV and MP4 for videos.

>>56325601
Install vlc.

>>56314893

If I want to try a WM and see how things work without a DE is there a way to take a distro and strip it of the DE or that leaves a lot of bloat and loose ends to defeat its purpose (purpose being that im planning of taking an old laptop and turning into a NAS) ... or should I start from ground up and install just the stuff I need?

>>56325629
>>56325601
Seriously, do this. Even if you don't like vlc, it will install all the codecs you need to use mplayer, mpv, and the other autismo applications

>>56325516
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux is in fact GNU. Linux is not part of the operating system itself, but is the kernel that is not covered by the naming system of an operating system as defined by common sense.

Many users run operating systems such as Windows, OSX, and a variant of BSD yet do not use a cumbersome naming system that includes the kernel, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, GNU has been the exception to this for no reason and has just been called "Linux" for no good reason, and many others use the insane, cumbersome term "GNU/Linux", mostly because the GNU project doesn't want you to think that Linux is a part of GNU.

There really is a Linux, and it's not part of GNU, but it's a kernel, and no one really specifies using it. GNU is the OS; the actual base system you interact with, and is useful with any compatible kernel; it can function with many different kernels such as GNU Mach or even kFreeBSD, so the whole system should only specify the kernel when it matters, because all these kernels are really irrelevant regarding GNU.

>>56325516
>>56325707

Spamming my thread to hit the bump limit will just make me vindictive and want to make shit linux threads every day

Fair warning children

>>56325741
>my thread

>>56325757
Yes. I created /flt/ the very first one.

>>56325757
>>56325765
lies, I created flt

I'm here at my friend's house, we need to do a backup of some files, we booted up a Puppy Linux live cd, then we plugged the external hard drive to copy everything we need, but we can't manage to copy anything. We tried a flashdrive in FAT32 and we could, but apparently we can't use the external disk to copy because it's NTFS.

Any suggestions?

>>56325765
>>56325793
also I approve the change to fglt, I was new, young and dumb, now I know it better and think it's actually an upgrade, go with the time /g/ents

>>56325827
Wrong. I do not endorse /lgbt/ linux threads

>>56325827
This. That whole "waaaah, /flt/ was fist!!!111" thing is retarded. It's like preferring buggy old software.
>wahh why did you fix this bug, I already wrote a workaround that depends on it, assholes!

>>56325629
>>56325677

I installed VLC but still nothing works. In fact, vlc won't open.

hmmmmm.... I can't figure this out.

>>56325890
I like how you somehow think adding a "g" to /flt/ was necessary and bitch and moan about the original title being unnecessary.

>>56325928
no vlc always work

>>56322594
What menu did you look in? It might be under the SYSTEM tab

>>56325936
Well it's not only the 'g', we got a lot of better pasta, a website and better quality overall (apt vs pacman memes excluded). Check the archives. /flt/ was pretty bad in the beginning (recommended distro: Mint, and related crap). Freeniggers actually improved the thread.

>>56323470
>Cinnamon
you should have gone with MATE

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>oh look, it's another >lelelele fuck gnu, the ultimative trolle thread

what is the best terminal browser? w3m, links, something else?

>>56323470
find better terminal

linux newbie here. can somebody explain why mint is bad?

>>56325824
This might be dumb, but did the external HD mount itself?

>>56326147
mint is good, don't listen to these faggots, all they care is how their screenfetch looks - below 1000 packages and edgy distro

>>56326171
Yes it did

>>56326147
>First of all, they don't issue any Security Advisories, so their users cannot - unlike users of most other mainstream distributions [1] - quickly lookup whether they are affected by a certain CVE.

>Secondly, they are mixing their own binary packages with binary packages from Debian and Ubuntu without rebuilding the latter. This creates something that we in Debian call a "FrankenDebian" which results in system updates becoming unpredictable [2]. With the result, that the Mint developers simply decided to blacklist certain packages from upgrades by default thus putting their users at risk because important security updates may not be installed.

>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.

>>56326147
>>56326246
>Another example of such a hi-jack are their new "X apps" which are supposed to deliver common apps for all desktops which are available on Linux Mint. Their first app of this collection is an editor which they forked off the Mate editor "pluma". And they called it "xedit", ignoring the fact that there already is an "xedit" making the old "xedit" unusable by hi-jacking its namespace.

>Add to that, that they do not care about copyright and license issues and just ship their ISOs with pre-installed Oracle Java and Adobe Flash packages and several multimedia codec packages which infringe patents and may therefore not be distributed freely at all in countries like the US.

>To conclude, I do not think that the Mint developers deliver professional work. Their distribution is more a crude hack of existing Debian-based distributions. They make fundamental mistakes and put their users at risk, both in the sense of data security as well as licensing issues.

>I would therefore highly discourage anyone using Linux Mint until Mint developers have changed their fundamental philosophy and resolved these issues.

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

Checked their github myself to verify. Here's said blacklist (4 and 5 never get updates): https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules

>>56326235
sorry

>>56326246
>>56326267
>tfw rm file.png actually runs "reboot mint"
is this the future

>>56326267
>>Another example of such a hi-jack are their new "X apps" which are supposed to deliver common apps for all desktops which are available on Linux Mint. Their first app of this collection is an editor which they forked off the Mate editor "pluma". And they called it "xedit", ignoring the fact that there already is an "xedit" making the old "xedit" unusable by hi-jacking its namespace.
>>56326409
xedit was renamed to xed to solve this issue

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>>56323653
~/.config/fontconfig

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>

    <!-- Default fonts -->
    <alias>
        <family>sans-serif</family>
        <prefer><family>Noto Sans</family></prefer>
    </alias>
    <alias>
        <family>serif</family>
        <prefer><family>Noto Serif</family></prefer>
    </alias>
    <alias>
        <family>monospace</family>
        <prefer><family>Noto Mono</family></prefer>
    </alias>

    <!-- Rendering -->
    <match target="font">
        <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
            <bool>true</bool>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match target="font">
        <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
            <bool>false</bool>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match target="font">
        <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
            <const>hintnone</const>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match target="font">
        <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
            <const>rgb</const>
        </edit>
    </match>
    <match target="font">
        <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
            <const>lcdlight</const>
        </edit>
    </match>

    <!-- Reject bitmap fonts -->
    <selectfont><rejectfont><pattern>
        <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
    </pattern></rejectfont></selectfont>

</fontconfig>

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What should I use at my main distro?
Currently using Windows 10 on my two PC and Debian/fork on my servers.

Tried Elementary OS last year, I had to reinstall twice because I fucked the OS trying to install nvidia drivers, and it was stone death after one week and half of use.
Is Ubuntu Mate any good?

>>56323653

>Linux has shit kerning
Linux is a kernel and has nothing to do with font rendering.

>>56326807
he's probably a winfag who's used to his os doing font rendering in-kernel

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I feel like the biggest autist because I cant decide on a DE to use.

Days wasted just switching between Xfce, MATE and Cinnamon for hours.

Not really a fan of Gnome or KDE.

Feel like Xfce is really solid, but also stagnating currently. Updates are rare and currently their objective seems to be to port the existing parts to GTK3, which pushes other improvements on its interface even further back.

MATE seems ok. Couldn't point anything out, that I particularly like or dislike about it so far.

Cinnamon looks nice, but I am wondering why literally no one seems to use it on here. A bit more restrictive with its integration to the Muffin WM also..


help

I run an LXDE desktop with Arch. I have a left monitor with DVI-I to VGA (1024x768) and a right monitor 1920x1080, running HDMI.

One of the pins on the VGA broke, and I can't seem to restore the panels to it even with the left monitor completely disconnected. It was always kinda screwy and I had to use a layout script to put the panel on the 1080 monitor, but it doesn't seem to work at all now, I tried a few permutations of it and still nothing. How the hell do I restore LXDE to use the default desktop layout?

>>56321220
screenfetch

>>56326738
Mint mate

Debian Testing or Arch?

>>56326975

They're fucking Desktop Environments. You can switch between them on the fly. Why do you care so much?

Just run Cinnamon. Nobody seems to run it on here because the people who do are the ones who aren't autistic enough to claim moral superiority over a desktop env. Cinnamon is stable and perfectly fine for 99.9999% of users

>>56327227
Arch testing

>>56327227
Very stable or mostly stable with possibility of waking up to non functioning X

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

Holy shit, i've never sat down and watched this hobo. What is wrong with this turbo-autist?

>Denies a theoretical setting from the journalist that would require administration of the directory.

>>56313336
> switch to Xmonad
> loving every bit of it
> watching TV with mplayer
> goddamned red border even on fullscreen

Can someone tell me how to make this go away?

>>56327331

>i get all my knowledge from internet memes
Kill yourself.

How do I properly setup netctl on arch? I've got it to a point where I can connect to a network manually but it has serious trouble doing it automatically. It takes fucking forever at boot and I get to just watch it try to connect to other connections I use but don't exist where I'm at currently. I think i might have read somewhere a while back that I'm supposed to disable all the netctl shit and only have netctl-auto enabled, is that about right? Or if there's something better point me towards it. I tried connman but had some issues with wpa2 connections.

>>56327227
I prefer Fedora, but between those two I'd go with Debian.

I just went balls deep wiping hard drive with Windows 10 and installing Ubuntu only.

It's pretty cool but I fucked up installing Wine and I don't know how to unfuck my shit.

How do I keep track of everything I install and everything I've removed?

How do I get gud, /g/?

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Gonna try Ubuntu.

What's this and do I need it on?

>>56327836
It's under troubleshooting on the arch wiki netctl page.

howto change xsane default? it starts off by choosing my webcam as default instead of the canon pixma scanner

>>56327864
Wine is not that stable but it works and use the terminal or package manager to keep track of the software you installed. I don't know the commands so google them.

>>56326985
>TFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE

>>56327864
Type history in a terminal, never use wine

>>56319343
I'm using xfce and the default file manager

>>56327378
>he went back to thinkpads

kek

>>56327865
it's a security measure and no. Probably similar to secureboot.

>>56327958
There was a bunch of things with the word "wine," I feel like some of those things came pre-installed maybe.

Regardless, I tried to kill them all and start over but there was something about a "broken package."

>>56327973
it's in the xfce settings in PREFERRED APPLICATIONS

>>56327972
Okay. But oh really? Can you ever run any Winblows programs then?

>>56313352
This is why we don't install meme distros.

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Linux nerds! How do I switch my Alt key for "Winshit" key? It's driving me nuts and I keep hitting it by a mistake. Everything would be fine if I could switch these things around.

Using Mint with Cinnamon.

Thanks!

>>56328028
If they are native, of course, but at least in the first month finding alternatives is important, if you start using wine all the time you might as well use windows.

>>56328028
Wine is fine, you must have made a mistake.

What is the problem exactly? Give me specifics not "lol it doesn't work"

>>56327202
>>56328058
read
>>56326246
>>56326267

>>56328086
I really just want league cuz I'm a faggot... I spent the last few months finding and testing Linux programs on Win10 and Android. It's really just LoL. And I'm just curious about Wine cuz I've read about it a lot.

>>56328097
I'm pretty sure it's because I need to make Wine for 32 bit architectures but I downloaded it for 64, then tried to change it to 32 after the fact.

But I think that's more minor. Right now I think I did a bad job uninstalling stuff and figuring out what is native and what I installed. So I get "broken" wine packages now i can't seem to get rid of.

OP here.
I give my blessing for you to create a new official /lgbt/ thread now.

May stallman be with you.

>>56328058
>>>/a/

>>56328137
kys
this is a friendly linux thread. I dont give a fuck about your bullshit.

>>56328155
>being this new
bump limit is 310 posts faggot

>>56328159
>comes on mongolian needlethread board, complains about anime
your life must be shit, kid.

>>56328175
Damn a whole 10 posts away!
>im the new fag

>>56328054

This is why you don't embarrass yourself by spouting wrong information you saw on 4chan and passing it as a witty, informed remark.
His problem has nothing to do with the distribution, but with his GTK theme.
Kill yourself, idiot.

>>56328207
THIS IS A FRIENDLY THREAD!
F
R
E
I
NDL
Y

>>56328225

A friendly thing for him to do would be killing himself so he doesn't spread more misinformation.

new thread: >>56328258

>>56328265
LET THE MEMES BEGIN

>>56328265
10/10

I want to try a Linux distribution that is installed in the RAM. I will use it for home use and programming.

Any recommendation?

On Debian Testing right now, just installed it and my audio is fucked. Can't hear anything, tried multiple fixes. I have Realtek audio. Help?

>>56325656
Start from the ground up. Start with a base debian system and go from there.
The packages "xinit" and "x11-xserver-utils" should get you started. RTFM xinit and learn how to use your .xinitrc.
I recommend don't start taking a distro apart because they make the whole thing more complicated than it needs to be. Start with the basics and do it nice and simple.

>>56330583
I'm getting a problem when typing make, it says Please, run the configure script as first...

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I have a Raspberry Pi running Arch without any GUI or WM installed, and I'd like to turn this into a media center of some sort. Right now it's connected to a large TV I'd like to use for the purpose.

My questions are:

>1) If I were to run the video on pi and stream audio to my desktop that's already plugged into a sound system, what's the tool I should look into for making the pi acting as an "audio server?"

>2) If I were to use the pi as a pure media fileserver and stream audio AND video to my desktop, what's the tool I should look into for achieving that goal?

>3) Somewhat unrelated, If I were to do any of the aforementioned streaming over WAN (say, away from home), which dynamic DNS service I should look into for locking my WAN address to a specific namespace?

after being a long time user of Ubuntu (I am not a poweruser) I tried openSUSE.

is there anyone here that use/used openSUSE before? how was it?

I had some problems to get the codecs working and GNOME3 fucking confuse me (installed LXDE in the end).

what are the advantages of openSUSE against Ubuntu?

Looking for a good independent image organizer / manager. Any recommendations?