/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Niggets please help,reposting from last thread.


Well I'm back, I got xorg to work only under root, reinstalling does nothing. This is in arch BTW.

My problem appears when launching xorg.
Instead of launching it would show this.

Waiting for x server to begin accepting connections.
..
..
..
(Does that for a while)
..
..
Xinit:giving up
Xinit: unable to connect to x server:connection refused.
Waiting for x server to shut down.....
Xinit: X server is slow to shut down sending KILL signal
Waiting for server to die...
Xinit: x server refuses to die

Install GuixSD

What file manager do you use. I'm using nemo but it's shit so looking for a change.

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What are some cool terminal commands?

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Threadly reminder that NO ARGUING ABOUT SYSTEMD

Thank you.

>>61221072
gui: thunar
terminal: mc

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>>61221104
>SYSTEMD
its shite

>>61221104
can anyone make this transparent

>>61221093

sudo echo `python -c "print('.'.join(['127','0','0','1']))"` >> /etc/hosts

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>>61221173

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>>61221173
it was transparent originally

>>61221198
chuckled
>>61221211
ty babe

>>61221211
>>61221104
gnu should be wojak

I want to disable touch on my wacom tablet. everywhere I look tells me running

xsetwacom --set Touch touch off

or variants, should turn it off. but when I run

xsetwacom --list devices

It doesn't even list any touch input.

Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen stylus    id: 15    type: STYLUS    
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen eraser    id: 16    type: ERASER    
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pad pad       id: 17    type: PAD  

even though touching the pad makes the cursor move around which is really frustrating when trying to use the pen.

Has anyone encountered this? CTH-470 model btw

>>61221104
>mc
I remember, that's what command-not-found is annoying me into when I accidently not mv.

cowsay Meanwhile, in Australia | tac

>>61221270
>fat fingers
bugfix: >>>/fit/

>>61221211

Please post transparent nigger Tux he looks nice

>>61221280

flip() { 
    sed '
        y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ɐqɔpǝɟƃɥıɾʞlɯuodbɹsʇnʌʍxʎz/
        y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ɐqɔpǝɟƃHIɾʞlWNOdbɹSʇnΛMXʎZ/
    ' <<< "${@:-$(</dev/stdin)}" | rev
}
$ cowsay "$(flip <<< 'Meanwhile, in Australia')" | tac

>>61221059
>>61221059
Bump please help

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>>61221320
mh, some characters weren't posted.
Is this some new cloudflare faggotry or am I stupid?

>>61221320
Noice.

>>61221059
>>61221350
Install Fedora

>>61221388
stop shilling

>>61221388
Fuck u boi I told you no.

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>>61221388
+1 rupee

>>61221320
ɹǝddılɟ ǝɹ'noʎ 'uılɐǝʇs ɯ'I

*** 10 minute break from posting while everyone plays with flip() ***

>>61221494
Need to swap apostrophes with commas

>>61221688
Need 7th degree sed black belt to flip cow head.

Is it possible to use firefox with KDE file dialog/picker in GNOME?

>>61221723
at this point just echo the cow, less code

Because why not.

vapor() { 
    sed '
        y/1234567890/1234567890/
        y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/
        y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYa/
        y/?!#$%&@|\\\/[]{}()<>*+-=~"'\''\`_,.:;^/?!#$%&@|＼/［］{}()<>*+-=~"'｀＿,.:;＾/
    ' <<< "${@:-$(</dev/stdin)}"
}

Sadly doesn't werk on 4kids afaik.

>>61221838
https://0x0.st/0we.txt

>>61221059
how did you get into this situation?

>>61221838
toilet can do this too
>toilet -f wideterm 'ur a fag'
there's also more like
>toilet -f binary hello
and
>toilet -f rot13 hello

>>61221912
Neat && Saved.

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>>61221723
First off you need to get a black belt into cowception.

>>61222082
how to automate this instead of spamming | cowsay -n ?

Looking for a way to pick a section of a video and then "stabilize" that selection(keep focus on that section ignoring the rest of the movement)_.I tried using ffmpeg but it seems the "deshake" option isnt intended for this use.
Is there another similar program?

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>>61221071

>>61221059
Read the logs. And running it as root is just going to fuck your shit up more.

>>61218304 here again. So now I've reinstalled and fixed a few dumb things I did the first time. Now xorg is working, but it's not reading the config files so my keyboard layout is defaulting to QWERTY. I checked for a xorg.conf overriding my files in xorg.conf.d and didn't find anything. Strangely, it will crash if I have an invalid setting in any of the config files, but it appears to ignore everything as long as it all checks out.

>>61222628
Go to a tty and run the following.

pacman -Rsc xorg-server

then reboot and come back

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What is the most american distro?

>>61222785
arch

I need help. I'm running Debian 9 stretch and I wanted to remove libreoffice from my system, so I did sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice* in the terminal, and now when I type sudo apt-get autoremove, it wants to remove like, the entire operating system.

I tried sudo apt-get install libreoffice to fix it, but it still wants to autoremove the entire OS. What the fuck?

>>61222693
I don't use Arch, but a quick Google search suggests I'm getting memed.

>>61222811
Pacman is the file manager for arch linux.

>>61222791
that's canadian.
>>61222785
RHEL and by extension, fedora

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>>61222811
I would never joke about America or Archlinux anon.

>>61222819
I'm aware of that. But why would I uninstall X now that I've finally got it mostly working?

>>61222856
>mostly working
Then you wouldnt be in this thread saying it itsnt working :^)

Start from scratch,you've done something wrong

>>61222792
Same anon, looks like I'm actually fucked. I've been googling everything I can think of for a solution and there appears to be no solution other than just reinstalling my entire OS, so fuck me I guess.

To anyone reading this, if you are on Debian 9, don't fucking uninstall libreoffice or it will break your entire OS.

Just to prove what I'm saying is true, here's the log file showing that removing libreoffice fucked up my OS.

Start-Date: 2017-07-04 15:50:49
Commandline: apt-get remove --purge libreoffice
Requested-By: straylight (1000)
Purge: libreoffice:amd64 ()
End-Date: 2017-07-04 15:50:50

Start-Date: 2017-07-04 15:56:03
Commandline: packagekit role='remove-packages'
Requested-By: straylight (1000)
Remove: task-kde-desktop:amd64 (3.39), kde-standard:amd64 (5:92), kwrite:amd64 (4:16.08.3-1), kde-plasma-desktop:amd64 (5:92), kde-baseapps:amd64 (4:16.08.3-1)
End-Date: 2017-07-04 15:56:09

>>61222929
did you reinstall libreoffice?

>>61223028
Yes, but removing it removed KDE plasma for some reason so I'm not sure what to do. Do I just sudo apt-get install KDE now or what?

>>61223038
Do I just sudo apt-get install KDE?
sounds reasonable.

you coulld look up the proper command

>>61223024
Someone dosent know about deps
also
>apt
KEKKEKEK

>>61223061
The wiki shows a few. I'll try kde-full and see if that unfucks it. I'll report back soon.

>>61223068
yeah laugh it up, I fucked up trying to uninstall libreoffice, I guess I deserve it

Why aren't you using openSUSE?

Anyone know how to set all text in vim to a single color?

I got as far as turning syntax highlighting off, which makes everything gray. There should be some way to specify the default text color to something other than gray though, right?

>>61223086
a lot of crap comes with the desktop.
games ect.

>>61223024
It looks like task-kde-desktop depends on libreoffice. Maybe manually Intel all the other stuff that it depends on. Dunno why they don't use recommends.

>>61223113
Yeah but at this point I just don't want to have to reinstall the whole damn OS to fix it. I can remove bloat one by one later if it just saves my ass for now. Lesson learned, not to fuck with libreoffice.

>>61223105
i am on a server, feels worse than i am a used to. sticking to it, but not liking it

>>61223130
That shouldn't be your takeaway dude. Rather it should be not to panic like your ass is on fire just because you don't understand what is going on.

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What are some american terminal commands?

>>61223176
ssh stuxnet?

>>61223158
Well, reinstalling task-kde-desktop didn't work. Not even installing kde-full worked. And now I have to reinstall the OS anyway. So it seems like a fair takeaway.

"When you look up how to uninstall libreoffice official guides tell you to do sudo apt-get remove ---purge libreoffice* Don't fucking do it because it will gut your DE."

>>61223235
>>61223028

>>61223256
Yes I did that right away, sorry I thought I already mentioned that.

apt-get install f

>>61223235
>reinstall
Unless you get massive filesystem corruption the is never a good reason to do this.
Do you even know what you want to keep?
Have you tried aptitudes alternate suggestions to resolve the issue?

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>>61223270

arch install gnome
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Gnome-on-Arch-Linux

>>61223176
sudo impeach Trump

>>61223279
For some reason Debian 9 stable doesn't come with aptitude installed. I guess I could try installing that, what exactly are you referring to? I want to keep my entire system. I just wanted libreoffice gone and followed the wiki guide that says do this:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Now it wants to remove over a thousand packages. I don't want that, I want to keep all of them, but I also would like to be able to use the autoremove command in the future and not have it always threaten to remove my entire OS.

>>61223299
No, I don't like the GTKFileChooser, nor do I prefer to run Arch.

>>61223330
I thought you were using arch for some reason.
yeah but you have something to work with until you figure out how yoy fucked up kde

>>61223360
It's weird because I even reinstalled everything listed in my vars history.log file that had anything to do with kde and it still is giving me this bullshit asking me if I want to remove half the system every time I autoremove. I really don't know what else to do at this point. I wish there was some way I could just -know- what all these dependencies are requesting that isn't already there so I could just install it.

>>61223360
And I swear to god, google is fucking useless. No matter how I can conceive to ask the question, all I get are a bunch of stupid normies asking how to remove shit with autoremove. Nothing having to do with how to find what meta-package is being called by dependencies flagged for autoremove.

>>61223387
did you give yourself permission to use xorg?
user name permission?

>>61223314
When to open aptitude it says the is pending removals but has a bunch of other options including reinstalling shit to keep pending auto removals.

The real solution is to look at what top level metapackage depends on some libreoffice- package, mark all the stuff it depends on as manually installed and the let it remove itself.

>>61221104
Running Ubuntu on three machines.
I'm new which is why I'm not running Gentoo yet, but is it possible to uninstall systemd?

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4 questions I'd like help with, if you'd be so kind.

Running mint cinnamon 18.2, fully updated. i3-5010u, 12GB ram, 120GB 850 Evo, kernel 4.10.

1) How do I lessen the time taken by grub on boot? Currently takes 4 seconds.

2) How do I lessen the time taken to load the kernel on boot? Currently takes 3.5 seconds.

3) After entering my password, the screen blanks (can still see the mouse cursor) for 5-7 seconds then my desktop loads. Once loaded everything is snappy. Why does this happen? Is it because I have an encrypted home directory?

4) I created an arch VM and installed cinnamon. I got the mint-x theme from aur. When I change the 'control' portion of the theme to anything but adawaita, menu and context spacing goes funky. Anybody have a fix?

5) Anybody have a way to automatically change the desktop background in MATE after a set time period?

>>61223437
prolly same commands as apt
aptitude auto remove/ clean
wtf are you trying to do anyway? raspberry ?

>>61223451
yeah?

>>61223503
Thank you, is it just the usual terminal command?
sudo apt-get remove systemd?

>>61223517
sounds reasonable.

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>>61223451
Yes, but you're better off using a distro not designed to be tightly coupled to systemd.
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Since you're a new user, I wouldn't worry about it until you're more experienced.

>>61223537
And this won't screw with anything?
As I understand it systemd is built to sort of be a center spoke on the wheel for the whole system (completely unnecessary, which is I want it gone)
But if I remove something like that will it just fuck up my install or will Ubuntu continue on as normal?

>>61223547
Helpful AND posts qt3.14s? Mah nigga.

Eventually I wanna build my way to Gentoo then source mage. But when I first tried Gentoo (live USB) it wouldn't mount any of my hard drives. Ubuntu had an install app ready to go, though.

>>61223552
>And this won't screw with anything?

maybe you should wait until you fix kde.

>>61223582
that's not me dude

>>61223602
oh well go ahead then

>>61223582
What's kde desu?

>>61223517
You might want to install sysvinit-core and systemd-shim too. And add to /etc/apt/preferences

Package: systemd
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: systemd-sysv
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -1

So that bad thing don't come back.

>>61223464
>prolly same commands as apt
No it isn't you retard. It is in the ncurses view and sets dpkg selections.

delete systemd

>>61223680
wew lad

So i open blender
click to change to video clip editor.
The options around the screen change but it does not go in to the movie editing mode

How do i get back to being able to edit videos?

worksafe board

I'm censoring myself now

>>61223785
stop namefagging

>>61223796
make me

>>61223810
>I am a faggot

>>61223828
good for you

>>61223810
>>61223828
Why does linux drive so many people insane?

>>61223852
Install Gentoo and find out

>>61223852
I wanted a lil help with an ip cam/other.
you guys are hopeless

>>61223582
On another note, I did figure out a solution to the kde thing. I wasn't able to find the meta-package and reinstall whatever was causing the dependency issue, so instead I just did sudo apt-mark manual and copy-pasted the list of all the dependencies it was asking to remove. Granted, now I have to manually remove any of those in the future, but it was only about a gig worth of libraries so I'll deal with the small bloat if it means not having to reinstall my entire fucking operating system.

I was here a bout a week ago bitching about my ip cam. yeah I didn't wanna read the instructions. would you? you guys don't have one.

if you need any help with your sricam tho.

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>>61221003
For /fglt/

Also, what in tarnations is wrong with my shitty systemd service

[Unit]
Description=Late Radeon Start
Requires=multi-user.target
Conflicts=rescue.service rescue.target
After=multi-user.target rescue.service rescue.target
Before=display-manager.service gpu-manager.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=modprobe radeon

It's supposed to just start radeon later in boot (as I currently have it blacklisted, so my second GPU will be claimed by pci-stub)
It's not hurting systemd (which is actually pretty hilarious a broken service doesn't stop boot, but a missing non-system disk will)
My 'workaround' is just drop back into a tty on the login screen bring up radeon and everything is fine again - it'd be nice if it was automated though.

>>61222870
Fuck you, I fixed it without starting over.

I can't switch window managers or desktop environments in Linux Mint. I just get a black screen and my cursor that I can move around.

I already tried installing and switching to Lightdm but then I couldn't even log in.
I had to purge and install mdm again. (I forgot how I did that though. I either just pressed ctrl+f or whatever brings up the terminal before you log in or I started Mint in repair mode and I got the terminal that way or something).

>>61224233
I meant purge Lightdm and install mdm again.

>>61224226
try adding

Restart=always

under service. Also, you don't have any ExecStart under service as well, which would execute the command.

>>61223105
Incompetent developers, as a distribution it is generally terrible in every aspect

Okay, now that I'm terrified of including numbers in my username or host name I'm going to move away from arch and install Gentoo.

I should have done this years ago, OpenRC here I come.

>>61224586
Traitor!

>>61224586
I feel like an arch user would struggle with gentoo

>>61224742
not for stupid or christians?

How's Manjaro?

>>61224742
I was thinking of going to gentoo.
not because I look so cool typing commands tho

>>61224802
Still a meme

>>61224888
You guys are fucking faggots and your OS has no games. Windows 10 works better because it can play games and other modern software.

I'm running Arch and having an issue with grub. Basically Arch is the only OS I have installed on my computer, so I don't want the grub menu to display at all. I've tried setting the number of seconds until it autoselects to 0, and deselecting the "display menu" option, but neither seems to do anything. Is there an additional setting somewhere that may be overriding this? Thanks

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>>61224913

>>61224922
Should have mentioned, I'm adjusting those settings with the grub-customizer application

>>61224930
What are you trying to hide?

>>61224938
Are you trying to hide drugs, wearing clothes?

>>61224948
Nothing to hide nothing to fear, only the guilty have something to worry and all linux users are pedos

>>61224888
Care to elaborate?

>>61224960
Saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need free speech because you have nothing to say.

>>61224993
>Meme quote by a traitor

>>61224967
Arch is a meme, Manjaro is 2x meme.

>>61225007
Not an argument

>>61225021
Do you have any actual arguments besides just calling things memes

>>61225052
Pacman is half-baked shit, Manjaro is a poorly maintained set of packages

I'm trying out mate desktop, and in the mate-tweak tool I've got two options for a window manager, Marco and Mutter. Any thoughts on the two? Any decent reason to use one vs. the other?

>>61225070
How is pacman half-baked shit though? What's wrong with it exactly, in technical terms?

>>61225070
>Pacman is half-baked shit
What? Pacman works pretty well, actually.
I don't give a rats ass about shitty downstream distros, though.

>>61225021
Typical argument from a cuck

Linux cucks are anti american. They support a traitor who gave away american secrets

>>61225123
>supporting government surveillance
What's next, are you going to start saying that net neutrality is bad?

What would be the best linux distro for a network admin or network engineer?

>>61225181
I doubt it really makes any difference.

>>61225181
Gentoo

>>61225181
Doesn't really matter honestly. I'd recommend OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Leap personally. It's stable, easy to setup, and well documented. Zypper is a great package manager, and it also comes along with YaST, which is a fantastic GUI tool. It works as a software manager/installer if you're into that, but also works to manage pretty much every aspect of your system through a nice GUI interface.

>>61225123
is that why the three letter agencies are monitoring loonix users?
can't have free software extremists

>>61223106
no, but a search brought me this, pretty cool: https://github.com/ewilazarus/preto

maybe you just write a small vim function that loops over all colors and sets it to given color

I just updated my system (Manjaro) and suddenly mpv won't open, and I get this error:

mpv: error while loading shared libraries: libbluray.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

strangely, recompiling mpv didn't fix it, nor did reinstalling libbluray
I'm kind of at a loss.

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>>61225771
I want to use a development version of Linux (4.13), to see if some new code of mine will work. I'm on Arch, by the way.
I can install linux-git from the AUR, but I don't want to replace my stable kernel. How can I have multiple kernel versions installed, and just select which one I want to boot from grub?

>>61226347
I didn't mean to reply that post.

>>61226347
Ah fuck it. I'll wait to 4.13-RC1. Cloning the git repository takes way too long.

thoughts on "min"? https://minbrowser.github.io/min/

>>61226648
From that website alone, I can tell that it's probably pretty shit.

>>61221003
Intel can't lock us out forever

>>61224226

>a broken service doesn't stop boot
That would be the most retarded thing. Why do you feel so confident with your retarded opinion?

Why don't you look at the log to see why it's not starting? Also your problem is clearly the ExecStart. Read the documentation and see that it must be an absolute path and not just "modprobe".

>>61226648

>Find anything instantly
>The searchbar answers your questions immediately, with information from DuckDuckGo
Like any other browser too.

>Effortless tab management
>Tabs in Min open next to the current tab, so you’ll never lose your place.
Like any other browser too.

>Built-in ad blocking
Why would I want something built-in when I can use a proper easy addon solution?

>Fast and efficient
Nice buzzphrases and words.

>Min is written entirely with CSS and JavaScript using Electron
How is that good for me or anyone else?

>and is open-source software,
So is Firefox.

>>61225123
hero*

Is the most straight forward way of installing something in a specific location building it from source? Does it differ from distribution to distribution? I imagine all *ubuntus and debian would work the same.

>>61227796
>Is the most straight forward way of installing something in a specific location building it from source?

that's the only way. of couse you can extract a .deb files contents to a "weird" location but don't expect it to work as intended.

>>61226648
I don't remember seeing this much modern web """""""dev""""""""""" memes condensed to ONE webpage.

wow, ubuntu's uncomplicated firewall is not uncomplicated at all, how the fuck do i open an incoming port on only ONE of my two network cards

>>61228042
If the program I'm building has some dynamic link library dependencies, can I install them normally with sudo and the continue building the program wherever?

>>61228125
Yes. Or you can install the libraries in a random directory and specify that directory as a place to look libraries for for make/configure

>>61228162
I think this is my last question. If I don't do a make install after I've finished building, can I use the program by giving the path to it's location every time I need to use it? is installing just setting up environment variables to include the build folder or does it move the built program somewhere?

I want to reinstall Ubuntu on my laptop so I can be on 16.04.2. I know Ubuntu will move to gnome from 17.10.

Any opinions on if I should install Ubuntu gnome 16.04 or regular Ubuntu and purge unity from that? I've got a test machine here and figured out what extensions and tweaks I need to get it how I like it, but I don't know what to expect from canonically upcoming tweaks.

I'm pleasantly surprised how much more stable gnome is than unity.

>>61228244
files the program need are scattered through the build directory so it probably won't work.

If i delete i format my linux partition and install another distro, what will happen to my home folder which is on another partition?

>>61228351
it will stay right there.

how does playonlinux handle windows steam games? The templates make no mention of steam; are they for physical releases only? Do I install steam through playonlinux and then the games from steam itself? How does playonlinux keep track of these games?

>>61221093
Whenever doing anything big with dd

while :; do sudo kill -USR1 $(pgrep ^dd) && sleep 3; done

Two years ago when I installed xubuntu it used to show all the available partitions right on the desktop so someone told me to setup the fstab so it doesn't show on desktop like that. Now I got back to fstab to check it out for whatever reason and I see that every entry starts with the device uuid. Where do(did) I get that uuid?

>>61228449

Or just use status=progress with dd.

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I just got stuck on this for 15 minutes because i kept typing "y" instead of "YES" before i noticed the text
Fucking special snowlake devs, adhere to the fucking standard you cunts

>>61228417
Do not fucking play windows game on linux you dipstick. If you want to be a gamer then either dual boot or stop playing.
It's like trying to run linux apps on windows

>>61228481
Looks like you never encountered apts "Yes, really do that!".

>>61228417
I think you install steam in POL and then the games through that? Not sure if it tracks the games though.

>>61228481
If you're doing something which can potentially very damaging and irreversable, it's not a bad thing to make the user actually need to pay attention and read the text.

>>61228515
but wouldn't that defeat the purpose of using playonlinux if you can't specify a template for each game and wine version? It would be the same as just regularly using wine with steam.

>>61228481
it's to make sure people who are too stupid to read the on screen text don't do something retarded by accident

>>61228494
>It's like trying to run linux apps on windows
oh so not that bad then?

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/5/11/15625320/ubuntu-suse-linux-fedora-windows-store-microsoft-build-2017

>>61228299
probably better installing ubuntu unity and modifying that, ubuntu gnome will be canceled with 18.04

>>61228481
something like this has saved my ass before.

time to reinstall arch

>>61228417
iirc it won't track the games but using 'modern' settings for that wineprefix should work pretty well as that is what steam versions of games will target.

>>61228417
You can also just install steam through wine and not bother with PoL. 90% of games that work on on Pol because of tweaks work out of the box on the latest wine version.

>>61228537
I'm pretty sure there's a way to define the template for each game executable but you'd have to do it outside of POL, creating a custom launcher for each game. You might as well just use WINE at that point.

>AND FOR GODS SAKE, do NOT ask questions to me. I'm not here to fix your freaking INCOMPETENCE.
>And do NOT ask me to support your HIGHLY SPECIFIC user case that does NOT concern me.
>Or.give.me.MONEY. For paying support, see Paypal link in man page.

what's the best aur wrapper that isn't maintained by a raging autist?

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>>61221003
Here is a rare Stallman for you guys.

>>61228718
>outside of POL
wtf is the point of POL then? All those templates are for physical versions only? WTF

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I changed all of my passwords to "incorrect" so every time i forgot my password the application simply tells me "Your password is incorrect"

Pretty clever of me, if i do say so myself.

i use ubuntu fonts for all my fonts

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ahhhhh... GUYS...
Anyone tried to pass usb wifi adapter to windows guest in virtualbox?
I set vendor id and product id of device in usb filter, but windows doesn't find anything...
Does it matter if that usb wifi adapter doesn't support linux?
It still should work in windows guest..? riiight..?

>>61228893
pacaur

>>61229165
Good taste, fellow /g/entelmen.

>>61228992
Thanks, adding that to the top of my brute force list/

Number #1 thing BY FAR that is soon going to be my cause for switching back to windows from linux is that every fucking time i reboot linux IT TURNS OFF MY FUCKING NUMLOCK
what the actual fuck
and as that werent bad enough it does that even if i connect to linux FROM FUCKING WINDOWS PUTTY WHAT THE FUCK HOW IS EVEN DOING THAT
holy shit i it turns me homicidal every time

>>61229184
NVM... turns out I'm just stupid cunt who forgets trivial things like
>restart after adding user to group, you cunt

When i mount something into a directory the mount directory always changes to root:root, is there a way to preserve its original owner and group?

>>61229236

Install numlockx, retard.

>>61229577
No, but you can set up some limited user permissions when mounting something.

When i want to umount something and it says device busy, how do i kill anything that is using that device?
Now obviously umount -l is useless because if i try to work with the umounted devices it's still fucking busy even after it was umounted

>>61229797
>When i want to umount something and it says device busy, how do i kill anything that is using that device?

umount suggests two commands, try those.

>>61229926
>umount suggests two command
but i don't know how to read ;_;

I have tp link wn722n v2 usb wifi adapter, it supports only Linux Kernel 2.6.18~3.19.3
What options I have to make it run under linux?
Is it only by using old kernel?

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>>61229962
Here is an illustration on how to proceed then.

why do my fonts in ubuntu look better than arch?

>There are 2 providers available for phonon-qt5-backend:
> 1) phonon-qt5-gstreamer 2) phonon-qt5-vlc
what do?

>>61230093
uhm because ubuntu > shit > arch?

how long until distros stop supporting xorg?

>>61229797
> how do i kill anything that is using that device?
Most probably you're inside the mounted directory. Do cd and then umount.

>>61230263
That won't happen, especially when wayland is full of shit that only appeals to GNOME devs.

>>61230284
who's going to maintain it?

>>61230302
the x.org foundation. There are plenty of other operating systems using x.org like BSDs, GNU/Hurd, NetWare etc.

Keep on dreaming on a day that will never come, mr. unpaid Freekekstop shill.

>>61229926
man lsof

>>61230054
I don't know for sure but a highly doubt it would be suddenly unsupported. More likely the page you got those versions from hasn't been updated since 3.19 was released.

>>61230392
I got from tp link official driver page.
Tried to make, got syntax error near unexpected token '('
I don't know what I'm doing, never compiled anything

>>61230342
>Freekekstop
huh

>>61230112
try one, if it doesn't work try the another.

>>61230112
read the wiki.

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>>61230942

redpill me on opensuse

>>61230706
You shouldn't have to get anything from tp link. Just plug it in and maybe grab the firmware package from your distro.

>>61231113
german security so broken it lets in rootkits and grants them asylum

>>61230928
how do I know if it works if I don't even know wtf it is

>>61231448
It's a sound library that can use VLC or gstreamer for decoding.

>>61231567
What does a text editor need for a sound library and how would a sound library use a video player and what is gstreamer ._.

>>61231596
VLC has a library for decoding, gstreamer is a bunch of (varying-quality) codecs. Phonon is part of QT, although I think something else needs it.

do you still need a swap partition in the year of our lord 2017

>>61232552
its good to have a ~500Mb partition if you have less than 8gb or less than 64gb if you use firefox

>>61232552
No. If you need swap for any reason later, you can just create a swapfile.

>>61232552
If you want to hibernate to disk ~

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is mint the best distro?

>>61233029
Guessing from their history of absolute incompetence when it comes to basic security I guess not really.

>>61233029
>page hits

>>61233029
i++ is one helluva thing.

how is ubuntu succeeding in the cloud/server area? Isn't the main purpose of ubuntu to be a desktop operating system? If you strip all that away and just use a minimal install aren't you just using debian at that point? Why not just use debian?

>>61233142
Ubuntu server is for people that want a server but don't know how to do any of it.

>>61233173
how is it different than any other distros server install?

>>61233198
>different than any other distros server
whats makes you assume it would be any different?

>>61233198
because you said its for people who don't know how to do any of it. Implying that other distros server install is for people who do know how to do it.

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>>61233029
That's just page hit rankings.
Mint just released a new version.
People would be checking distrowatch to see if it's released yet.
Rolling release distro users wouldn't be doing that.
But yes, mint is the best distro.

>>61233256
um how is manjaro 3rd then? How is fucking trueos 15? who the fuck uses that shit? where the fuck is chromeos? The only linux distro with actual mainstream penetration

>>61233299
If manjaro is 3rd, imagine how many people are using Arch irl.

>>61233313
arch is 14, just above trueos. let that sink in

can someone explain why my 6700k is showing up as single core? OS ubuntu

this is what inxi -b returns
CPU: Single core Intel Core i7-6700K (-UP-) speed/max: 800/4200 MHz


this is what nproc --all returns
1

>>61221059
do you have xorg-server and the relevant GPU driver installed and updated?

>>61233256
Speaking of, what's the deal with GIMP's green pepper?

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>>61233684
The pepper is an example brush, cut out from a common test image, pic related.

>>61230093

Because you're using default font configs and not altered (from upstream) and patched packages.
Read the Wiki page about fonts.

>>61233777
>The pepper is an example brush
I knew that
>cut out from a common test image, pic related.
Ooooh, i see.
Thanks

What's the best approach when I want to run a Bash script which does stuff both on the local and remote machine?

Right now I'm using "here docs" with ssh, but someone told me it's not a good approach.

>>61233684
Green Is My Pepper

>>61233851
ssh is fine. But do you really need bash and not sh?

>>61233911
Some shit distros use link bash to sh. Can you imagine that?

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Is Ubuntu still the recommended babbies first linux?

>>61233911

I don't see any disadvantages over using Bash. I don't care about the 0,002 second speed improvement and I don't care about portability, since I'm the only one using my utility scripts.

Here's what I meant.

compare(){
  scp -P 2202 -rq "/tmp/$TEMP_DIR/" user@$1:"/tmp"

  ssh -p 2202 user@$1 /bin/bash << EOF
  find "$DIR" > "/tmp/$TEMP_DIR/$FILES2"
  if ! diff <(sort "/tmp/$TEMP_DIR/$FILES1") <(sort "/tmp/$TEMP_DIR/$FILES2") &>/dev/null; then
    echo -e "\033[0;31mDeleted or added files found!\e[0m"
  fi

  cd "$DIR"
  sha1sum -c "/tmp/$TEMP_DIR/$HASHES" | grep FAILED

  rm -rf "/tmp/$TEMP_DIR"
EOF
}

Basically I'm not sure if there's a better way to handle this part of my script. I want to run those lines on the remote computer and I'm currently using a "here document" because the only other way I can think of involves having the script also on the remote machine and running it from there via "ssh user@ip /bin/my_script/".

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>>61234053
GNU/Linux*

meanwhile on bsd
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=149902196520920&w=2

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>>61234454

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didn't know distrowatch has this search option

>>61234620
demand and supply m'lord

Hello.

Is there a difference from using git clone to get something from a git page and using their repository? Does it clone the git page as it is at the moment and doesn't update it later or does it update at your end every time the git page updates?

>>61234154
>linux
>definition 2: useless by itself

>'linux' can be used as a derogatory slurs

>>61235068
You have to update it...

>>61235157
Cool, so it only changes if I tell it to change? Great.

>>61235099
You're a linux, anon

>>61235210
y-you too!

>>61234620
what did distrowatch mean by this

>>61235836
Who knows? Explore and find out

>>61221003
Can you remove a package with all the dependencies that the package manager installed when installing that package in Debian? Autoremove removes too little.

>>61235850
Autoremove only removes packages that were installed as dependencies when there is no package left depending on them.

>>61235899
Or recommending it looks like. Maybe there is an option to change that.

Ubuntu isn't letting me install anything, if I try an apt-get on the command line it "installs" but doesn't finish and if I open the software widget closes like half a second after I open it. If I download the program and try running the install it also closes as soon as it begins. Any ideas?

>>61234058
IMO here docs are fine.
Alternatives are to upload your script first, then run it, pipe the commands or redirect.

scp script.sh user@host && ssh user@host 'script.sh'
cat script.sh | ssh user@host

ssh user@host 'bash -s' < script.sh

How do is use the IF ELSE structure in an .sh file?

For example let's say i run the program poop and if it prints out "poop found" i want to do a thing and if it prints out "poop not found" to do anotherthing

Basically in a generic programming language it would be

if(poop() == "poop found")
doThing();
else
doAnotherThing();

>>61235959
>generic programming language
That's C-style syntax, and shell scripts are different. How you haven't searched the web for this is beyond me, there are tons of guides.

>>61236003
I want to be spoonfed.

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>>61236070

>>61235959

if <command>
then
<command>
else
<command>
fi

And cleaned up

if <command>; then
    <command>
else
    <command>
fi

";" character delimits commands, so that the "then" can be on the same line as "if". Indentation is preferences.

>>61236099
I found that much, but i don't see anywhere how to use in if. Like if the grep output contains the word "not" then continue and if not then return

>>61234053

>Linux user starting from scratch.
Install Linux From Scratch.
>Step 2
Gentoo.
Gen(2), get it?
>Finally, when you've obtained a wealth of linux know-how
Install LinuxMint.

>>61235952
do an apt-get install in the terminal and post a screenshot of the result.

If anyone runs an jabberd2 server update now.

Also I hope your guys have patched libgcrypto20 as well!

>>61236344
libgcrypt20 my bad

>>61235953
sed -np /#== CUT START/,/#== CUT END/ $0 | ssh ...

>>61236088
>segway

>>61236167

From man bash:

if list; then list; [ elif list; then list; ] ... [ else list; ] fi
The if list is executed. If its exit status is zero, the then list is executed. Otherwise, each elif list is executed in turn, and if its exit status is zero, the corresponding then list is executed and the command completes. Otherwise, the else list is executed, if present. The exit status is the exit status of the last command executed, or zero if no condition tested true.

If your program is correctly written, it should return non-0 on error, so you shouldn't even have to use grep. Anyway, grep returns non-0 when it can't find what it's looking for.

does the x200 thinkpad usually work with arch installations?

>>61236167
date | grep -q 2017 && echo 'current year'

>>61236588
Arch linux uses the vanilla kernel, so if it works in any other distro it'll work for arch linux.

>>61236588
Arch generally doesn't work on any computer; it's more a toy for dicking around, watching it fail, fixing it and watching it fail again. Don't bother.

>>61236745
wrong. arch is the premier linux distro

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What is a nice distro for my zip disquette?

>>61236799
Any linux distro will accept zip drives, what else do you want to do with GNU/Linux?

>>61236812
I just want a small distro for a 1GB drive as backup OS for fixing things, any carry around.

>>61236788
Unless you can't install it, then it's a toy for dicking around and you shouldn't bother with it. ;^)

*eats something from your foot*

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>>61236745
Arch is for advanced users only.

>>61236932
T-thanks.

>>61236959
This. You need an IQ >120 to even install the darn thing, and if by some miracle you do install it, your IQ will have increased by 20%

>>61236838
puppylinux

>>61237015
I thought the distro was dead

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how to make sure if webcam is off?

Is there any hardware+distro combo with which everything just works?

I've got a MacBook Pro retina, running Fedora 25, and
- hybernation just does not work (laptop shuts down instead, and then reboots)
- shuttdown takes forever
- keyboard doesn't match the ones available at install
- webcam obviously doesn't work

How smooth does it get?

>>61237049
Just do what I do and put tape over so it doesn't accidentally get turned back on by an update.

>>61237015
Bark bark bark xD

new thread: >>61237099
new thread: >>61237099
new thread: >>61237099

>>61237049
>currently sitting in my room naked with a fan blowing at my butt cheeks
feels good

>>61236707
that works great