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I ran into a weird problem.
I'm on arch. I'm using AMDGPU. Using KDE (no bully)
I launched a game through steam with the "stream" option so it ran off a windows PC. First time trying this. After playing a bit and closing it out, it seemed like my DE was all.. stuck.
Like I couldn't minimize windows. I couldn't alt-tab. I could right click on windows, but clicking "close" did nothing. But I could close them with their close button for most of them.
I ended up having to reboot the machine to "fix" it.
Scares the shit out of me to have a problem like that.
When I tried again, the same thing didn't happen, which just makes me feel even more uncomfy.
How do I properly use convmv https://www.j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/ ?
I've got a .zip downloaded with some japanese filenames but they show up as scrambled letters, what encoding options should I use to make the filenames how they're supposed to be?
I'm trying to setup a systemd unit file to increase the sensitivity of the trackpoint on my chinkpad at startup, which is dog slow by default. tpspeed.sh works when I execute it directly as a root but I keep getting permission errors when I try to use the service I made and dosystemctl start tpspeed. I really don't know much when it comes to systemd (or plain sysv init for that matter).
/etc/systemd/system/tpspeed.service[Unit]
Description=Adjust TouchPoint speed.
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/tpspeed.sh
User=root
Group=root
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
/usr/local/bin/tpspeed.sh#!/usr/bin/sh
echo -n 225 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/sensitivity
echo -n 225 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed
journalctl -xe gives:May 06 13:34:02 purgatory.mbase.int audit[2318]: AVC avc: denied { execute } for pid=2318 comm="(speed.sh)" name="tpspeed.sh" dev="dm-1" ino=789671 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tco
May 06 13:34:02 purgatory.mbase.int systemd[2318]: tpspeed.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/local/bin/tpspeed.sh: Permission denied
-- Subject: Process /usr/local/bin/tpspeed.sh could not be executed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- The process /usr/local/bin/tpspeed.sh could not be executed and failed.
--
-- The error number returned by this process is 13.
I don't know what I'm doing and fighting permissions errors is boring
What does Gentoo Hardened actually entail? Is just Gentoo but pre-configured with basic security measures like changes to /etc/ssh/ssh_config or boot.log? Also, can anyone point me to a good guide on qemu - maybe a video tutorial? Shit's confusion.
>>60246810
Probably-f shiftjis
>>60246559
Which one of you fuckers sent a Stallman copypasta to the Giant Beastcast?
It starts at 01:43:45
https://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/the-giant-beastcast-episode-102/1600-1961/
Can you ditch out systemd from distros bundled with systemd?
>>60246860
grsec, PAX, SELinux, hardened flags, some other stuff. The first two are gone from the open source now though
>>60247009
debian - devuan
arch - manjaro (openrc) or just set up runit with the guide
>>60246559
>be me wants to install lunix on grandma's ancient rig
>it's pentium m (non pae) with 512 mb ram
What distro to install aside puppy?
>>60247269
Debian GNU/Hurd
>>60247030
>>60247009
>le systemd a botnet meem
>>>/r/eddit
>>60247332
try again
Is it unethical to charge for Windows binaries, and to include GNU, FSF, and Linux adverts in them?
>>60246821
Nevermind, fixed it.
>>60247385
better res?
>>60247428
>>60247428
https://photofunia.com/effects/retro-wave
>>60246719
rare katya?
When I open a .swf file with Firefox in Debian 8, it works fine. However, if Firefox is set as the default program, it won't open, and gives me the "you have chosen to open whatever.swf" that happens when flash player isn't installed.
How do I fix this so I can just open a .swf by double clicking it?
>>60247594
You can use Linux without GNU.
You can't use GNU without Linux.
>>60247563
>swf
is this 1998?
>>60247600
kill yourself
>>60247600
What is BSD? What is Hurd?
>>60247600
>GNU/Solaris
>GNU/kFreeBSD
>GNU/Hurd
>>60247639
I've never heard of a usable Hurd.
I just upgraded my distro, how do I get rid of telemetry and ads?
Oh wait, I'm not using Windows. False alarm!
How the fuck can I make the file uploader in firefox show the thumbnails for each image instead of fucking one image every god damn time I select a file to the right. I'm using debian ,xfce ,with thunar.
>>60247686
http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/story/nvidia_adds_telemetry_to_latest_drivers_heres_how_to_disable_it.html
>>60247803
does this even affect lunix?
>>60247763
This has long been proven impossible with modern technology, sorry.
>>60247763
use the patched version of gtk2
>>60247763
install kde
>>60247844
>patched version of gtk2
Which patched version?
>>60247860
the filechooser one
>>60247866
i found it. now how do I use it?
>>60248038
You apply it to gtk2 source as well as the other patches needed.You may want to check your distro's third party repo's for the packages first as it seems you wont know how to properly patch
this is my favorite subreddit
Hello /fglt/! I want to permanently switch to Linux for programming purposes, I don't really game at all anymore. I was thinking about going to Kubuntu or Fedora. However the ONLY thing that is holding me back is that my motherboard is a bit fucked. I have an i7 6700k and despite the temperature never going above 35C my motherboard thinks BDPROCHOT is going and throttles my system. I have to run a program on Windows called Throttlestop to not have my processor downclock itself to 500MHz.
What can I do? Does something like this exist on Linux? I saw an UbuntuForum post where the programmer for Throttlestop posted the registers involved that he messes around with, but I don't feel comfortable enough with C to write a program to do what he did.
Am I forever destined to be on Windows?
Processor: i7 Skylake 6700k
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)
RAM: 32GB RAM
>>60248221
yes
Wtf do I do? cant update packages
I just wanted to look cool in screenfetch threads I didnt ask for this I need HAAAALLLPPP
>>60248487
>Arch
found your problem
>>60248487
>using a gui for pacman
>using gstreamer
>using gnome
Fix those things then come back
I use Arch Linux.
>>60247563
Here's the solution, turns out you don't have to reinstall flash player like it says though.
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2218732&page=2
>>60248725
install adobe-flashplugin
>>60248758
>suggesting nonfree malware
>>>/out/
I use Arch Linux and I am better than you.
>>60248064
i must be retarded cause I cant figure it out
>>60248994
Figure out how to patch it or figure out how to search your distro's repos?
>>60247269
bump
>>60249027
Both.
>>60249056
gentoo
>>60248821
I use Gentoo and I am better than you.
>>60248528
Not him but...
>using a gui for pacman
What package manager is even good with a gui that isn't zypper?
>using gstreamer
Is it really that bad
>using gnome
There is nothing better in my opinion now that unity is dead unless you prefer just a WM.
why aren't you using top instead of htop?
>>60249278
because i'm a human
>>60247594
>>60249601
neat, but the white borders kill it
how did you create it?
>>60249890
MMD
>>60249245
I don't remember what the fuck I was testing and also got stucked with gstreamer. As a gigantic noob I don't what the fuck it actually does and searching doesn't help.
>>60248487
>gstreamer 0.10
>using aur packages
>not knowing that it might cause problems
>still installing everything from it because he thinks it's some sacred grail of awesomeness and not a source for pitfalls for idiots
>>60249278
Configured it now. Took me 40 minutes to fully understand how it works and it looks pretty nice now. Thanks.
>>60249929
not the same anon that you are pretty much insulting on a fucking /fglt/ but I think I got stucked with it when trying to test a video editor.
>>60246559
I can't move files from my external hard drive Elements, to my second hard drive in my computer 'z'. What's the diagnosis?
>>60250151
Which file system is z?
Post output of "ls -l /mnt/z".
This script no longer functions,out of the blue.#!/bin/sh
mkdir -p "done"
for file in *.mkv
do
ffmpeg -i "$file" -c:a copy -vf "subtitles=$file" "done/$file" -threads 12
done
This is the error message.[Parsed_subtitles_0 @ 0x55ef783f8bc0] No filename provided!
[AVFilterGraph @ 0x55ef78337e80] Error initializing filter 'subtitles' with args ''
Error reinitializing filters!
Failed to inject frame into filter network: Invalid argument
Error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:0
Conversion failed!