/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

pls no

HELL YEAH

I just came home, what did i miss?

Lennart Poettering did nothing wrong.

Is there a way to make giant-ass folders faster to load? I'm now on lubuntu and I noticed my reaction folder loads painfully slowly, even without thumbnails.

>>57172467
le epic h4x0r just hacked the last thread and created this one.

>>57172518
Use a command line instead of a GUI.

>>57172518
Use a different file manager

>>57172518
Use the terminal, n@@b.

>>57172518
Try Thunar (xfce's default file manager)

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So, /fglt/, how do we fix GTK?

>>57172518
Make your already generated thumbnails stay in ram and never shutdown. or change the limits. Which thumbnailer do you use?

>>57172603
found the guy who can't read

>>57172598
From the /g/ copypasta:

Tippers:
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jkisielewicz/gtk2-filepicker-iconview/

Amazuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~helkaluin/+archive/ubuntu/gtk2-filechooser-iconview

Arsch Linux:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk2-patched-filechooser-icon-view/

Absolute Madmen:
https://gist.github.com/ahodesuka/01213036b58e510dc074
https://gist.github.com/ahodesuka/49c1d0eea4b64f24c4c7

>>57172598
Werks fine for me, because i am not retarded enough to use a filepicker when i could bind my whole filemanager to a key combination and drag and drop one or multiple images.

>>57172629
>drag and drop
That makes me
a) feel like a cripple
b) panic to accidently drop a file into a random directory, being lost forever

>>57172629
Just make your filenames useful insted of a unix timestamp, you won't need any filepicker thumbnails

>>57172647
>things with more features make me feel like a cripple
Sucks to be you then.
you can change the default action of dragging files to be copy instead if you are that much of a pussy. This never happened to me in the two years i have been doing it.

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>>57172679
>removing the holy timestamp

>>57172679
i find unix timestamps to be pretty useful in a decent folder structure. Because even then they sort by date.

>>57172701
wtf is this cat(?) doing?

>>57172708
Actually not real unix timestamps. Real unix timestamps only have seconds, but 4chan timestamps have added milliseconds.

>>57172730
autism

>>57172559
Thanks, Thunar is way faster.

>>57172730
i always thought the last 3 digits were random. Thanks for clearing that up.
>>57172774
Spacefm could also fit you.

Made this a while back.

deunix() { printf '%(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z)T\n' "$((${1%.*}/1000))"; }

$ deunix 1463352198948.png
2016-05-16 00:43:18 CEST

>>57172598
KDE fixed the godawful Qt filepicker

BASED KDE

>>57172843
... and today I know this could be much shorter. Damn.

deunix() { printf '%(%F %T %Z)T\n' "$((${1%.*}/1000))"; 

>>57172903
You can use date +... instead of printf

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>>57172598
Is my filechooser patched? I can see small thumbnails, but idk why.

>>57172946
Too slow!

This banner competition thing is pretty cool

>>57173024
I have banners hidden.

>>57172725
it's clearly a dog.

>>57173035
Your loss. They're not ads, they don't get blocked by uBlock0

>>57173074
>it's clearly a dog.
Yeah, just noticed that.

ive installed smplayer, when i open video separate window opens for mpv and smplayer, how do i merge them? options in smplayer doesnt seem to work

>>57172976
Your filepicker is unpatched. Those are the built-in thumbnails that are too small and not very helpful because it only has a list view.

I guess now GTK filepicker needs an icon view, since it technically has thumbnails.

So my idiotic family member just unplugged my computer while running dnf groupremove lxqt.

I re-ran the command and about 14 packages where left. are there any commands i should run to tidy things up?

Hey /g/, a while ago I asked for a program to install and manage .deb packages, and someone suggested one but I forgot its name, it was wdebi or debi-install or something like that I think.
It had a really easy way of installing and removing .deb packages, finding dependencies automatically and stuff.

Anybody know its name?

>>57174539
Aptitude, dpkg and checkinstall are all you need.

>>57172362
I was trying to setup an irc client for linux to download stuff,and I chose irssi,when ever is try to enter "dcc_autoget = ON" it only seems to work in su or sudo,but not in normal form where I just enter irssi in the command line.When i attempt it just says OFF. Does anyone know why this is? Do i have to run irssi as sudo to download crap?

>>57174588
>Aptitude
Why is everyone using it? Been using just apt since ever, don't miss anything, do I?

>>57172518
Use a file/folder indexing system like tracker, I think it supports Nautilus integration.

You could cache the folders if you had unlimited ram, which you don't.

Or you could just get a SSD. They don't just increase sequential transfer speed 5-10x, random reads/writes are about 100-1000x faster than traditional hard drives.

>ls

>>57174539
Synaptic

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I have a problem with custom services in Ubuntu 16.04, where I can start services just fine, and even on startup, but when I try to close them with

service customservice stop

but no message whatsoever is printed on the terminal and upon checking top, the service is still running.

I added the service making a copy of /etc/init.d/skeleton and changing the DAEMON variable with the absolute path to the script I want to run, and then using the command

update-rc.d servicename defaults

The service most definitely works, because it is run on startup. I could just stop it sending a SIGTERM signal, but I'd rather not have to check for its pid each time.

Also, I'm aware of the existence of upstart in 16.04, but I want to use RC this time.

>>57174615
Sounds like the config file/script that setting writes to/calls is set to root as owner. Find the file/files and change their permissions/ownership.

>>57175179

Why aren't you using systemd since it's already there?

>>57175224
I don't expect to be working with modern systems, so I wanted to try an older approach which is probably what I'll find at a future workplace.

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>tfw /fglt/ is the only reason why I come to /g/ nowadays because I genuinely like helping people get around shit quickly instead of wasting hours researching uninformative and outdated forums like i had to do
>tfw i use windows xp

does anyone else know this feel?

>>57175309
/fglt/ is the last good thread, teaching, learning, laughing

/g/ became pretty much 9gag tier
>what should I buy
>lol he bought
>he fell for the %s meme
>speccy thread

Thanks for reading my blog.

>>57175309
sort of.
The only reason I visit /wg/ at all is to help people out on the image modification threads.

okay I know this is the wrong thread but how do I install windows 10? I kinda sort of wiped my old windows install and whenever I sued the pirated version the boot loader breaks itself. I'm asking because Ive been using linux exclusively for like 4 months, and I have windows programs I need to use, and all I have is linux to make this possible

>>57174640
Aptitude is more polished and makes it harder to fuck shit up.

More information: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html

How does one set up a virtual machine for windows on Xubuntu and what VM should I use?

>>57175686
there are plenty of solutions and all depend on what you want to do. If you don't care about 3d acceleration I would recommend libvirt + virt-manager

>>57175686
Because you're asking that question you should use VirtualBox. It's really simple, get a Windows ISO, create a virtual machine, boot up machine with the Windows ISO, install Windows, then you'll need to install the VirtualBox guest additions for some extra functionality but that's it.

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Thinking about creating a Manjaro VM so that I can ease my transition back to Linux from wangblows. What DE should i choose, between xfce and kde?

>>57175841
Can you share this wp? ty

>>57175876
I googled "manjaro windows wallpaper"
http://nextsource.deviantart.com/art/Manjaro-Linux-Wallpaper-Windows-10-inspired-577543948

I'm currently using Manarjo w/ xfce. I turn Pointer Speed: Acceleration to 0 and the mouse gets super slow(can't even get across both monitors without lifting mouse). Where is a settings that allows me to set the point speed higher without having the acceleration.

>>57175841
I REALLY like XFCE.

>>57175841
XFCE is very simple, straightforward, and hasn't had a major update for awhile because it just werks. It isn't ugly, but it isn't very polished either.

KDE is very full-featured, polished, and it actually gets frequent updates and changes.

Other than that, they're pretty similar. Both can be riced, if you care about that sort of thing.

>>57175841
as someone who's used manjaro before, if you want more of a GUI installer for arch than anything i'd go for antergos. after using both antergos is much nicer imo. their changes are contained to their own repo and otherwise everything is default arch.

>>57175979
>>57175985
>>57176042

Thanks, /g/entlemen.

I guess I'll go with KDE for now (I like updates and such), but I'll also download antergos to check out as well.

Bought a new laptop with preinstalled Win10. I shrank the disk and wanted to install Ubuntu on it. The ubuntu does not recognize the free space.

The disk is NOT dynamic.

>>57176910
ok, understood

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I absolutely love automation and writing little scripts that make my life better.
But I fucking despise Shell scripting. The syntax is retarded, makes me want to kill myself whenever I go a few months without practice. It's way too complicated for something that just needs to run a few commands, loops, and ifs. Makes me feel like I'm doing chores instead of improving my life.

I basically want to combine Python's syntax with the low overhead of a Shell script.
Are there suitable options for me?
I really don't want to spend weeks writing a translator from a sane pseudo-language to Shell.

>>57176910
you probably have secure boot enabled

>>57176910
Is the space unallocated?

>>57177118
Yes.

>>57177011
You were right. I went to BIOS and disabled it. But the Ubuntu still only detects 4GB of free space.

>>57177004
Just write pythons scripts then?

>>57177324
Running commands in Python isn't as simple as it is in Shell, that's what was stopping me.
But that's still the best solution, to be honest. I did some benchmarks, and even though Python is about three times as slow (especially on start-up) and twice as CPU-hungry, I can forgive it that because my sanity is worth more than saving some CPU cycles or 5ms of start-up time per script.

>installing Arch on the old laptop again
>get driver and firmware loaded on wireless card
>ip link set that_bad_boy up
>try finding the network
>card says it doesn't support scanning when I use iw, wpa_supplican doesn't work either
>fire up wifi-menu
>just werks
Is there a way to find out what I forgot to do that wifi-menu managed to do by itself?

>>57177404
I use dash for simple scripts and if there isn't a simple way of doing it in dash I just use python.

I installed Arch, now what? This literally wasn't even hard to do, all I had to do was follow instructions.

>>57177955
Install gentoo.

No seriously, that's the "hard" one. Arch is about as easy as any other loonix distro.

>>57177955
now install gentoo

>>57177962
>tfw I thought gentoo was easier than arch
But that was a couple years ago when I first tried. the handbook was all over the place with instructions and jumped around alot. It's a lot better now

>>57178032
It's not really "hard", which is why i put it in quotes. It just has a lot more steps.

If you aren't retarded, its fine. Just time consuming.

>>57177962
>>57177963
Nice meme. I meant more along the lines of is there something cool I could program/do? I'm enjoying how this is way faster than Windows 10, and less bloated than Ubuntu. Recommended DE? I'm using gnome for now.

>>57178111
The "hardest" part was really just getting confused trying to figure out the USE flags. The first time I would add whatever USE flag emerge was complaining about and kept trying until it worked.

When I drag my window and it hits the top of the screen it maximizes the window. How do I disable this.

I'm using Manjaro with XFCE

>>57178359
>Settings Manager > Window Manager Tweaks > Accessibility > Automatically tile windows when moving toward the screen edge

>>57178468
>can't move top of window out of screen

ok, so I tried to install linux by net install but it failed, because I used all drive, it leave in a broken system my pc.

I had to install ubuntu using a really old dvd.

how do I upgrade and update my pc?
is an ubuntu 10 version.

apt-get update doesn't work because the sources are too old.

Anyone know what quality WhatsApp downscales videos to before it sends them?

Also, is it worth re-encoding my family videos with HEVC to save space while keeping the resolution mostly decent? They take up a huge amount of space at the moment,

>>57178509
Why did you use a really old DVD? Download a recent version of Ubuntu and install that.

>>57178588
the net version failed to install and leave my pc broken, I had to find a really old dvd to finish the installation.

>>57178608
What "net version"? Anyway it doesn't matter, you can use that old version of Ubuntu to download the most recent version of Ubuntu and burn that into another DVD with Brasero and then install that.

>>57178698
I don't want to reinstall silly.

I want to update my distro.

how do I update offline my sources?

>>57178725
What version of Ubuntu is currently installed on your computer?

>>57178822
11.10

>>57175296

>i don't expect my workplace to keep up with the latest technology

>>57178725
That version of Ubuntu is 5 years old so you should just do a fresh install.

If you still want to upgrade though, try opening a terminal and running

sudo do-release-upgrade

That is your best bet at having a working system afterwards.

>>57178946
I got it working by manually updating my sources file on the synatic app.

gotta redownload all that shit now.

Anyone know of a good connection blocker tool?

Let's say I want to totally forbid connections to, say, google.com or any subdomains. Any easy tool for this?

>>57178975
A firewall?

>>57178975

Host file.

>>57178162
Xfce

>>57178975
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uncomplicated_Firewall#Black_listing_IP_addresses

What's your favorite font for a terminal? Realized Inconsolata was fucking with w3m in ranger.

>>57179166
>asking for favourite terminal fonts
why

I use source code pro

>>57179166
Terminus.
Go bitmap or go home.

>>57179166
DejaVu Sans Mono

>>57179166
I just use whatever it ships with.

>>57179204

Indeed. I was using Terminus for a year, but my eyes couldn't deal with the tiny font sizes (increasing it made it look worse). So I switched back to DejaVu for everything.

>>57175706
I'd say if you DO care about 3d acceleration, you should use libvirt. Thanks to vfio/qemu-kvm/iommu it is your best option for full GPU pass-through, resultin in 99% native performance.

What's the difference between Arch and Manjaro?

how do i leave a process running during a ssh session after i disconnect?

so i want to ssh somewhere, run a process, then turn off my machine. i tried $ nohup run_script.py & but the nohup.out seems empty

>>57179678
manjaro makes the installation easier or something ie arch for casuals ;^)

>>57179678
Manjaro takes arch packages, holds it back for a couple of weeks for testing(?) and releases it

>>57179700
screen

>>57179705
>holds it back for a couple of weeks for testing(?) and releases it
more likely they just wait to see if anyone on arch complains about shit and then releases

>>57179711
how? like this? ssh root@remoteserver screen -d -m ./script? i dont use screen

>>57179726

And what does that accomplish? How is holding it back fix things? If they DO hold things back, it also means they're holding back packages with security updates.

>>57179801
holds back until someone else fixes the issue or updates selectively (same with security)

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It's time for some Friday evening fun and I'm trying (again) to set up a gigabyte Slackware machine, with X, network and gcc.
Will /fglt/ guide me in this hard way?
I only set A, AP, F, N, X, XAP and Y packages.

Is there any binary distro worth using besides Debian and Arch?

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This might be a little bit of a stretch here, but how well would this thing work on the average linux distro?

I'm on Xubuntu right now. I have this trackpad just sitting there collecting dust for months and it'd be nice to put it to use.

>>57179874
gentoo

>>57179874
also, it needs to have a good package manager, so no slackware.

>>57179726
>how? like this? ssh root@remoteserver screen -d -m ./script? i dont use screen

just ssh in like you regularly would then either run screen (no args) to drop you into a shell or run screen with your command

e.g.,

screen ./script

the difference is if you run screen with no args it won't terminate the screen session if the "script" fails but if you run screen ./script when the script fails the screen session will close and you'll get output

press ctrl-a-d to detatch from the screen session then attach with with screen -rd (or whatever reattach args you want to use, there's dozens of them)

screen -U (for utf-8) is pretty nice to have regardless of whether you plan on using utf-8 in your session

>>57179818
But why? If a newer package has some issue you can just downgrade it back to the last version.

>>57179894
but gentoo is trinary O.o

>>57179912
>you'll get output

you'll get no output* typo

how to install gentoo (the easy way)

>>57179961
Calculate Linux

>>57179982
Ooh
I see...

>>57178899
Quite frankly, no. A look at your local government facilities would tell you that.

I need to install 2 Arches on the same machine.
How do I make them distinguishable from one another in grub?

how to have thumbnails in your file picker (the windows way)

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>>57180024
change your grub entries

>>57180062
Install KDE

>>57180091
>install network utilities
>network manager
lol

>>57180115
>Network manager
>Not a network utility
autism

>>57180125
let me rephrase that
>using "NetworkManager" (tm)

>>57172362

friendly? more like niggerly

>>57180146
>look at me mom, I'm too 1337 for NetworkManager, where is my snowlfake points :DDDD

>>57180173
*5 snowflake points have been added to your account <:^)

>>57180173
>not using the superior systemd-networkd for networking

>>57180091
that's quite a useful chart
thanks

>>57180193
It doesn't replace NetworkManager

>>57180184
meant for >>57180146

>>57180224
>polluting your GNU/systemd+Linux with NetworkManager for a silly desktop applet

>>57180275
NetworkManager utilizes systemd-networkd and they are kinda symbiotic these days.

Based systemd

please get along ;_;

>>57180210

You'll love this then:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide

>>57180293

>NetworkManager utilizes systemd-networkd
[citation needed]

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>>57180321
>anon doesn't know how to google

>>57180341

No, I want you to tell me, because you apparently know more than internet search engines.

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praise Lennart our lord and shepherd

>>57180321
NetworkManager dispatcher and wait-online are merged into /usr/lib/systemd/

>>57180375
epitome of an ugly nerd

>>57180383
Further more NetworkManager is a GNOME project

>>57178899
have you ever worked in IT in your life

>>57180399
he makes my wee-wee wiggle

>>57180391
he looks more like a bitchy faggot honestly

The GPU entry on screenfetch on my end shows as follows

GPU: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.46.0 / 4.8.0-26-generic, LLVM 3.8.1)[/spoiler]

That's hella long. Can I change that?

>>57180359
I honestly was just chiming in with that gif, I wasn't that og op. Sorry

>>57180433
You post like a bitchy faggot honestly

>>57180435
screenfetch -t

>>57180383

What, the service files?
There is so much wrong with your post, where do I even begin.

Those are service files. According to you, KDE's dolphin is merged into the systemd project because i wrote a service file for it. I don't even know what you mean with /usr/lib/systemd. That's just a direcetory path.

>>57180452
yea I post exactly like pottering

>>57180399

YOu just keep saying more and more stupid things. Network Manager is NOT part of the GNOME desktop environment.
You're an idiot who thinks that all software that uses the GTK library is part of the GNOME desktop environment.
Kill yourself, so you can stop spreading wrong information on here. That way others won't have the same idiotic fate as you did when you believed other people's retarded shit on here.

>>57180495
He didn't say it was part of the GNOME DE, he said it's a GNOME project, which it is.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager

>>57180472
I said this earlier, NetworkManager utilizes systemd, are you unable to read?

>>57180495
First week in Linux?
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager

>>57180452
Thanks. I also need to go to bed, that spoiler tag shows.

>>57180495
it's a gnome project and it's a dependency for gnome in pretty much every distro that packages it

>>57180495
Holy shit you are an idiot

>>57180522

Wicd can also utilize systemd. Netctl too. Are they part of systemd too?

>>57180495
you make me sad

>>57180548
Fucking retard. I said NetworkManager utilizes systemd, not "NetworkManager is a part of systemd"

NetworkManager is not systemd, however it being a GNOME project, we might see it become dependant on systemd.

Not that employed people would care

>>57180571

No, you claimed that NetworkManager utilized systemd-networkd here >>57180293 and that they're symbiotic. In fact, using both can lead to problems and it's useful in only a few cases (for containers). The majority of people don't "utilize" both and they're not symbiotic these days.

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>>57180614
>the "anti-systemd" camp are NEETs meme

is Zorin the new meme OS or is it good?

also
>paying 10 euros to get a "full experience"

why!?

>>57180650
Are you emplyed?

>>57180679
My step dad pays me to do things around the house while he's at work. So Yes!

>>57180685
Just as expected

>>57180694
I'm his stepdad, don't talk to me or my wife's son EVER again.

Anyone who installed ubuntu 16.10 could give me a review of how is it working so far? Is it worth installing?

>>57180760
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XqY6lAUFCk

>>57180795
Who is this semen demon

What's some good Linux distro for 2 GB HDD and 64 MB RAM machine?
pls no puppy linux, it uses some strange packages

>>57180885
>What's some good Linux distro for 2 GB HDD and 64 MB RAM machine?
Throw that shit away

>>57180885
Puppy Linux.

>>57180885
slitaz

>>57180885
What strange packages? Puppy would be what i'd use.

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>>57180885
>pls no puppy linux, it uses some strange packages
I mean.. you're gonna have to compromise with the specs that you have. If you go through the long process of installing Gentoo, then you can probably get a functioning system that fits/runs on your potato.

>>57180933
I don't know if I'll be able to use Slackware packages with Puppy Linux.

>>57180911
It works, why should I lol

>>57180942
>If you go through the long process of installing Gentoo, then you can probably get a functioning system that fits/runs on your potato.

Gentoo installation process takes more space than any other distribution period retard.

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Considering installing Gentoo for my first distro.

What are the benefits of Gentoo over Arch/Fedora/etc? Is it really worth going through all the effort? I understand that it's a valuable learning experience, but is the end result worth it?

>>57181127
Is it really worth going through all the effort? I understand that it's a valuable learning experience, but is the end result worth it?

No. It's like submerging your computer in mineral oil for lower temps.

I fucked up my xorg.conf and now my systemd arch won't boot and stalls in one of the [ok] prompts.

How can i get to the terminal to delete the xorg.conf and fix things again?

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>>57181127
It's not worth installing Gentoo if you don't know why you want it.

>>57181272
Is baiting really that necessary?

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>>57181302
Anon i wish i was baiting but I'm not

Please help

>>57181347
have you tried ctrl + alt f2

>>57181347
>I fucked up my xorg.conf
What did you do? Did you keep a back up in /usr/share?

>>57181371
Fuck I'm retarded

>>57181382
No i made one in /etc/X11/ and added a bunch of shit so that the tablet elements of my laptop would work

Is there a way to learn shell scripting fast? I have an exam in 12 hours

>>57181423
Rice

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Hi guys how is it going?

I would to ask for some help. I was messing around with screen adapter in Hyper-V since I'm always trying to get a little more resolution, when I somehow broke X.

I usually, log in Void and xinit drives me to my i3 conf. Nothing hard, but now it loops saying "No protocol specified". Seems like it is using default directories but idk why.

Pic related for help.

>>57181453
Get a job

>>57181464
I'm waiting a reply from one interview while doing a curse for a double certificate. How is that relevant now?

any mpd/ncmpcpp users here? can play audio fine if it's in the standard music directory but mpd gives a "config: Failed to stat directory "/media/storage/media/music": No such file or directory"" if i try to set the music directory to an NTFS drive? using debian.

>>57181453
for resoultion in hyperv in /etc/default/grub on the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

add: video=hyperv_fb:1366x768"

replace 1366x768 with whatever your screen size is.

As for your question check that /var log

>>57181933
forgot, after adding that line update grub

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>>57181933
I was about to check that when I tried to log in for last time and X was already fucked up.

Also, I always though that lane will be on GRUB when booting, and I always checked it in the wrong place. I have pic related. Should I still try CMDLINE or just to change "GFXMODE"?

Pic related.

>>57181981
Yeah try gfxmode first and remember to remove the # in front of it. If that doesn't work try cmdline.

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>>57182031
It keeps saying the same. I add pic related just in the case I fucked it up.

Reading the errors says it is using the default system config, but I already have mine in home, why it stopped using it?

>>57182182
check the ownership of the home one

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>>57182378
>>57182378
I have the full ownership.

Maybe it helps, I did read out there some people deletes versions of .Xauthority. I don't have such files, just .Xauthority, but its permissions are -rw------- even after I change them to 770 and run startx.

Also, if it helps, it returns this if I run "xinit"

>>57179840
You most likely need the L package too, the shared libraries. Basically there isn't too much more to do, format your partitions, install it including gcc, the networking might give you trouble at first depending how you want it/the DE (but doubt it), "xwmconfig" to select which one you want to use, and "startx".

After that you can make it drop to the wm by default and have some fun with it. all up to you

>>57182463
did you try deleting that /tmp/.X0-lock then starting it?
what about trying to start it as root.

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>>57182621
I tried and iirc did nothing, tried again.

If I log into root and I type startx it does the same.

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>>57182648
Log if you need it, pal.

>>57181453
can you check what the display is on, for example ":0" or ":1" or whatever, "echo $DISPLAY

>>57182723
I guess the return will be zero but I can try.

Just "echo $DISPLAY" doesn't work on terminal. Should I add something to it or run it in some different way?

>>57176910
What did you use to shrink the partition?

>>57182737
oh yeah its not working duh, check htop or top or ps or something and see if it gives you it there, like "xinit .... /usr/bin/X --display :0" I'm thinking something along this might be your problem is why:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85782/error-no-protocol-specified-when-running-from-remote-machine-via-ssh

or some issue with X trying to go to a remote port because of the virt machine. Just a guess

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>>57182787
Right now should be :0 if I understood it right.

htop for more detail.

How can I restrict a given application to certain ports, and open up ports only to said application? I tried using UFW, but apparently it cannot filter by application. E.g., if you need an incoming traffic to an application, UFW only allows to open up the port(s) for all applications, not for just one.

>>57176910
its probably an ntfs partition, or has some of the typical windows fuckery, you can try to find it with "blkid" , then mount it manually, or fixing it with "ntfsfix" from (ntfsprogs), but most likely your going to have to delete the partition and add a new partition with an ext4 filesystem or something.

you can use gparted, cfdisk, or whatever ubuntu comes with.

>>57182805
try deleting the serverauth file if you havn't already, or copy it somewhere else to be safe, I'm not sure what distro your running. It should respawn, but whats weird is that should be in your users home directories not a tmp file.

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>>57182873
The thing is there's no serverauth in tmp. I have inside pic related in terms of directories, and the lock files, whatever they are.

I'm using Void, and it is the 1st time it breaks something, although I always had kind of issues with resolution in Hyver-V

PS. I will have to go soon.

>>57182805
you could also try setting the authfile to your "~/.Xauthority" file, if your using "startx" open it with your editor and change the xserverauthfile=$Xauthority or alternatively xserverauthfile=$HOME/.Xauthority.

I'm really thinking that auth file is whats screwing you up because if you terminated it may lock you out.

>>57182920
Where should I add that lane? In .Xauthority? It is empty right now.

>>57182907
I'm not really familiar with void, its kinda a new path for a distro so there might be some things i'm not aware of, but you should try and change the group on those X1 lock files to root and delete them "chgrp root X1..." "rm X1..." and keep trying.

>>57182944
"whereis startx"
"less startx, or give me a screen shot"
the line should be in the startx file (its a bash script normally)
But first try a reboot, killing the X process and restarting it, deleting the X1 lock things, the serverauth file being missing is odd, it should try and generate in the home directory, if all else fails try adding that line in and (hopefully) it will generate the equivalent of serverauth in the Xauthority file, or at least let you start it.

>>57182907
beyond that i'm really not sure, you can check all the permissions for the X configuration files in your home, and make sure they belong to the user your starting it from

>>57182907
hopefully someone more familiar with void can give you a hand with this, because its kind of strange. If its not configuration files its something to do with permissions or a service needing to be restarted.

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>>57183093
I did add that line on startx and now them both are giving me pic related.

In the bottom of pic related are the Xauth permissions.

>>57183144
>>57183114
>>57182958
Don't worry, pal, I'm enough glad of you 2 are helping me. Pic related are permissions from X1 after I restarted and killed OS and X0.

I can be a little more around here only, tell me what do you need and I provide the info needed.

>>57183200
its telling you that you already have a process running, did you kill it in htop? Go to it, f9, 9, enter, then try to restart.

>>57183200
do you have an "empty" group in your /etc/group file, if not than you most likely need to change that to "users" or whatever void's version of this is.

>>57183260
Ok, fresh news. I deleted the thing I missed it from deleting (in htop) and now I have a half-working xinit, which is great.

I rebooted, but it is still the same, which is weird because I have xinit on logon.

Pic related are the X11 process on fresh reboot.

So I tried deleting them and starting xinit manually and now it is full working. I tried my neofetch for some testing and it is not showing the background, so maybe I have some paths fucked up without knowing. It will be the very 1st time but it can happen I guess.

>>57183341
I have the enough groups, however, I forget how to check if I'm on them (which I should be). How can I check it without going to groups file?

>>57183389
okay, cool, everytime you have to retry it do that.
don't use xinit, use startx instead
>groups
well your files should be owned by the user, and your user should belong to the group the file is associated with. So "ls -la" to see if they are, it goes "permissions, user, group" so if void has an "empty" group as well as a user, and your running it from that you should be fine.

>>57183389
for what groups your user belongs to : "groups"

>>57183434
>don't use xinit, use startx instead
Startx still don't work, but for some reason, xinit works perfect.

Also, I'm part of the groups I had created and I'm the owner of them. Still, I can provide screenshot if you think I'm wrong. I won't be surprised of fucked it up again lol

>>57183457
Well, I have two, one with same name as user, and another one sudoed which was created with the install. Still, tell me where to check it and I will provide.

>>57183489
well xinit just looks for the configuration file and starts it, startx has some other configuration/authentication settings in it and then calls xinit anyway. You should be fine with xinit, but a screen shot of the startx script couldn't hurt.
>groups
yeah you should be fine there.

>>57183489
the startx scripts vary alot distro to distro

Can we beat the wordfilter, f

How come goddamn KDE has its own BitTorrent client but /g/ doesn't?

>>57183616
/g/ is not a complete desktop environment, KDE is.

>>57183594
You just did desu

>>57183616
/g/ is made of a few clueless faggots with social problems. KDE is made by devs with social problems.

>>57183640
How can you tell they have social problems?

>>57183659
They are here.

>>57183568
Ok, I'm going so I'm providing script. It will use pastebin since it is very large and I don't know if you need something in concrete.

>Link
>http://pastebin.com/aujn9skh

Also, I have to have something little which breaks other things since sometimes suggestions on altmenu doesn't show up.

>>57183675
I mean the KDE devs

>>57183694
They are devs.

>>57183706
are you implying that RMS and Linus have social problems?

>>57183730
Linus yes, RMS is not a dev.

>>57183736
He created Emacs

>>57183736
Both are retired from active developing

>>57183750
Is that supposed to mean something?

>>57183736
>>57183750
And gcc

>>57183763
lol things were pretty different when he did anything to it

>>57183757
>https://github.com/torvalds

>>57183778
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFX7g0Aq2mg

>>57183680
>http://pastebin.com/aujn9skh
line 173 has xserverauth set as 'mktemp -p serverauth.XXXXXXXXXX', try changing that to

xserverauthfile=$HOME/.Xauthority
or alternatively
xserverauthfile=$HOME/.serverauth.$$

and delete the one you added at the bottom

>>57183792
>tfw it's actually 4am here now
I should probably go to bed

>just works

>>57183830
It does, except for Void

>>57183634
>>57183640
What about /dpg/, aren't they good for something? And why did the /g/ gTorrent project fail? I remember it looked promising at some point.

>>57183776
Not him but just for gcc, emacs, and the GNU project/license alone he kinda earns some respect/self-entitledness. So much good spawned out of them and was able to start because of them that alot of FOSS software owes its lineage to it. That said, i'd like to see more development/projects.especially with hurd

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OK so I know my way around hardware well enough, I want to build some new systems based around Zen + Vega. I want to make them all the same parts since all my hardware is outdated , and so failures are easier to deal with.

Desktop/Workstation - ??? Linux. Gaming, Media, Internet, Development,
WAN server - Debian? CentOS?
LAN server - Debian? CentOS?
Router/AP - pfSense

My big question is what kind of time frame can i expect for linux spins to have drivers down for the new hardware? what about freebsd and then pfsense?

What OS' do you recommend for these? I'm still pretty green to linux.

>>57183940
When is Zen coming again?

>>57183940
Linux will be first to support Zen, probably Arch, then Fedora

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>>57184005

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>>57184005
2

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>>57184117
GPUs

I'd still wait after Zen is out and let the dust settle.

Just get a broadwell-E my man, unless Zen costs less

>>57178509
Add xenial to the repo list and try doing a distupgrade.

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>uses linux
>uses linux on intel ME/AMD AMT hardware-backdoored systems
I seriously hope you don't do this.

I recently decided to take the plunge and am installing Debian on an old (early-2008) MacBook Pro. I'm following the Debian wiki page for MacBook installation (dual boot). I got through the process but now, on my first boot, I seem to be stalled at a black screen with this:

[ 1.591462] i8042: No controller found
Loading, please wait...
Debian: clean, 25715/6062080 files, 574813/24248291 blocks

Numbers haven't been changing for awhile now. It's Debian Stable and I chose the minimal installation. Thanks!

>>57184778
Don't fall for debian meme.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook4,2_(late_2008)

>>57184840
/g/ makes it look a lot more like Arch is the meme.

Besides, I freely admit I'm a fucking noob so would rather start out with something a bit easier. I liked the live USB of Debian I tried so it's not completely blind, either. Maybe Arch will be my next project.

>>57184778
Forced a shutdown and tried again. Same numbers but ending in 35 and 39 instead.

>>57184941
Try Ubuntu MATE or Manjaro

>>57184983
I appreciate the suggestions but, again, I would really like to go with Debian for this go-around.

When the hell will netflix run natively in firefox? Pipelight is being a bitch, and widevine doesn't seem to be doing anything

free as in freedom fglt
https://_freech._net/_tech/res/274.html

>>57178510
>Also, is it worth re-encoding my family videos with HEVC to save space while keeping the resolution mostly decent? They take up a huge amount of space at the moment,
perhaps, what format are they right now?

>>57180435

% screenfetch | sed -r 's/Gallium.+\)/AMD Radeon HD7850 (2GB)/'
                   -`
                  .o+`                 mikurok@mikurok-main
                 `ooo/                 OS: Arch Linux 
                `+oooo:                Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.7.8-1-ck
               `+oooooo:               Uptime: 4d 18h 7m
               -+oooooo+:              Packages: 1112
             `/:-:++oooo+:             Shell: zsh 5.2
            `/++++/+++++++:            Resolution: 1920x1080
           `/++++++++++++++:           WM: OpenBox
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`         WM Theme: Victoria Park
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`        GTK Theme: Aurora [GTK2/3]
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`       Icon Theme: Faenza
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.      Font: DejaVu Sans 9
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.     CPU: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.9GHz
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-     GPU: AMD Radeon HD7850 (2GB)
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-   RAM: 8482MiB / 20068MiB
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso: 
 `++:.                           `-/+/
 .`                                 `/

>>57185815
You sed it, friend.

>>57186023
+1

>>57184778
Start with nomodeset and fix your display driver settings.

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what do

>>57186397
How are you starting the session (starting X)?

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Just went from Windowser to GNOME user.
I'm at entry lvl, but I really love this still.

Q: What are some key BASH SHELL COMMANDS I need to know?

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>>57186812
Here's an infographic I saved from an older thread.

>>57186812
it's difficult to only learn a few bash commands. Better way is to learn how to do basic stuff (ls, mv, cd, touch, mkdir, rm, rmdir, cat, less..) and then learn more useful commands that you might want to use for some specific stuff, like find, grep, top, chmod, etc.
For me the two commands people should know about are find & grep.

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>>57186812
>>57186867
And another. Also I highly recommend reading "The Linux Command Line" which is free to download: http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

>>57186812

You'll know when you have to.

>>57186798
with lxdm

additional dbusses appear when i logout/killX and return to lxdm to relogin with different session/user

i was thinking to add something in /etc/lxdm/PostLogout to kill dbus but dont know what exactly

cat /etc/sv/dbus/run
#!/bin/sh
[ ! -d /run/dbus ] && install -m755 -g 81 -o 81 -d /run/dbus
dbus-uuidgen --ensure
exec dbus-daemon --system --nofork --nopidfile

Quick question.

I had a failed install of Debian stable and I'm too much of an idiot to be able to extensively troubleshoot it. If this is a dual boot setup, can I just run the installer again right over it and have it work out? Seems like an obvious answer but I've heard shit about GRUB and bootloaders and don't want to accidentally fuck over my main OS (yes, it is backed up but I would rather not go through restoration).

Also, my laptop wireless card requires non-libre firmware. I found the package for it and downloaded it, but the flash drive isn't showing up when it prompts me for the network firmware during the graphical installer. Am I able to just dump the package on the USB that I have running the installer and have it pick it up?

Thanks, /fglt/.

Is anyone else getting a slight pop of sound when it turns on? It's an incredibly minor annoyance and only started happening within the last few days.

I'm on Debian Sid.

>>57186936
What you want to do is start the session like this

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session <whatever you use>

so that when you logout dbus exits.

Is there a way to make lxdm source xinitrc? I'm not familiar with it.

>>57187020
1. Installing/reinstalling Debian shouldn't affect your Windows OS. I've never had it fail at detecting the Windows partition (and if it doesn't, you can just run the os-prober command + grub-update after booting into Debian)

2. Are you using the nonfree installation ISO?
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.6.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/
If it still needs firmware & isn't detecting your other USB device, then a surefire way to make it work is to put the firmware (.deb file(s)) into the /firmware directory on the netinstall drive.

>>57187020
As long as you don't delete or install over the partition that contains your main OS you should be good. Basically, pay close attention to what you're doing during the partitioning phase.

The flash drive's file system needs to be something Debian can recognize, like FAT32 and the firmware needs to be extracted (common mistake not to do this) to the root of the flash drive. Oh and you should've used the non-free ISO (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/) to avoid having to do that.

>>57186397
>>57186936

Enjoying that runit?

>>57187082
>>57187092
Whoops, thanks guys. I was so hung up on seeing "minimal installation" that I never noticed that there was a version with that added firmware. I'll try that version next.

And you're also right that I didn't know about unpacking it. Good to know for the future.

>>57186812
Thanks for the replies all. I'm collecting, and collecting vigorously.
Keep em' coming if you got some good ones

>>57187128

>>>/t/713097

>>57187127
I didn't know it existed until after I installed Debian too, Debian's website is a bit shit.

>>57187133
Yeah, that was the main problem. The content is good, but the rest not so much.

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Also, I got a QUESTION.

How do I quickly choose to cd into
n element i get from $ls.

I get a list.
If the file/dir is long I gotta type it (all) -- there has to be a more efficient way. Like enter first element in ls.

Got any primers?

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Why is my icon text color black? I looked this problem up online and got a couple of solutions but none of the solutions worked (changing a couple of lines in the CSS files of my theme, etc.).

I'm running Debian Jessie with Cinnamon as my DE.

>>57187176
KDE doesn't have this problem

Any RSS reader that I can add as my wallpaper/widget?

>>57187201
I don't like KDE, honestly. KDE's start button is ugly (unless I can change it to something similar to Cinnamon).

>>57187160
Try tab completion. If you type the beginning of a command or file name, then tab will complete the rest of it for you.

If tab does nothing, then there's more than one match. Press tab a 2nd time and it lists all the possible matches so that you can be more specific.

>>57187215
>unless I can change it to something similar to Cinnamon
there

>holding down my middle trackpad mouse button and pointing the little clit up and down scrolls

Weeeeew

>>57187205

Conky.

>>57187176
Have you tried this?

~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

.nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item {
color: #fff;
text-shadow: 1px 1px @desktop_item_text_shadow;
}

.nemo-desktop.nemo-canvas-item:selected {
background-color: alpha(@theme_selected_bg_color, 0.8);
background-image: none;
color: @theme_selected_fg_color;
text-shadow: none;
}

>>57187249
Tried this and it did not work, but I'll try it for one last time.

>>57187260
What's your GTK+ version?

Run

dpkg -l | grep libgtk-3.0

If it's lower than 3.13.3 you'll have to apply the CSS rules to the theme itself like so:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cinnamon#Desktop_icons_text_color

If I have Debian dualbooted, how would I make sure that I get rid of GRUB if I want to uninstall it all?

>>57187294
3.14.5

By the way, I don't have a gtk.css on ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css so I created one.

>>57187320
Once you go GRUB, I don't think you can go back to the Windows bootloader unless you reinstall Windows. But I'm not 100%.

Why not just stick with GRUB, even if you're done with GNU/Linux?

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>>57187249
Holy fuck, anon, it worked! I logged off and then logged on and it worked. I think the reason why it did not work the first time was because I was applying it to every theme and I did not bother looking for the gtk-3.0 folder.

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>>57187361

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>>57187361

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>>57187361

A friend gave me an old IBM ThinkPad (T42 2374).
The windows installation is fucked and its stuck in a boot loop.
I'd like to put mint on it. How do I go about this?
Do I just look for the latest version and put it on a USB stick and try to boot from that?

>>57187082
>>57187092
Great, it's apparently not in there so I'm going in to add it to this new image. This shit.

>>57187339
It's dual booted with OS X. I don't particularly mind since it will obviously work, but it's more about knowing exactly how to undo everything and/or have a clean slate.

>>57187402
Are you not putting the netinstall ISO on a USB? I was able to just add/remove files to/from it easily that way.

>>57187426
Yes, that's what I'm doing and where I'm going to add it. There are two .tar files (control.tar.gz and data.tar.xz), though, so I'm not exactly sure what level of unpacking I'm supposed to be doing.

Two Easy Ones:

1. How do I display text on my desktop background?
2. How do I display pictures on my desktop background?

Should be very simple. I see this everywhere. Some app and/or some command.

>>57187484
Imagemagick

>>57187124
yes

>>57187038
thanks man

it works now

Is there a way to get netflix working on linux using firefox? I don't really want to install chrome just for netflix. I've tried switching useragents and it just gives me an error

Is it true that because Debian Testing doesn't have a dedicated security team, that the dirty COW kernel bug will be present until the kernel from Sid comes through to testing?

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>>57187948
ff49 brought this option

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>>57188121
and then enable this plugin.

>>57187609
ok maybe it worked maybe it didnt because notifications were kill

there is # reset =1 in lxdm.conf
uncommenting it took care of dbus but spiked getty-1
sv reset getty-1 in PreLogin took care of that

>>57187339
Grub panics if no Linux is detected not allowing you to access Windows. To get rid of grub you need to boot into the windows recovery disk and open up the command line to repair the boot loader