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>>install thunderbird >>email works >>it doesn't like the calDAV setup on my webserver >>install evolution >>it won't log in to my email on my server >>calDAV works just fine >thanks for the A+ FOSS guys
Evan Powell
Reminder to contribute:
Adam Green
To provide some of the GTK3 stock icons, you idiot.
>FIREFOX JUST FUCKING IGNORES IT AND USES ADWAITA ANYWAY, AND LXAPPEARANCE FUCKING SETS THE CURSOR THEME BACK TO ADWAITA WHEN IT IS STARTED. Works on my machine.
Edit the PKGBUILD from the abs and compile it yourself, fool.
Kevin Gray
How do I install Gentoo?
Asher Wood
Wrong quote mate.
Gabriel Cooper
antergos or CrunchBang
Jason Edwards
Is there any FOSS Instagram client for Ubuntu 16.04?
Cooper Miller
Very slowly. I wouldn't recommend it.
Eli Perry
Hello. I need to know a way to change Deluge text interface. "Upload Speed" and "Download Speed" require too much space to be shown, much more than the speed on the other cells below. I can't just contract the column, because I speak a latin language, and then I would see only "Speed..." and "Speed...", as this word come first in both columns.
How can I do this?
Lincoln King
Reasking: I'm trying to connect to a television with my laptop running Manjaro KDE, but it isn't detecting the HDMI cable. What do?
Owen Campbell
switch the interface to english
Luke Robinson
This is fucking driving me insane, Sup Forums. I've got i3 set up on my laptop's mint installation, and I'm trying to configure my keybinds now, but I can't get a single keybind to work! I'm editing the config in /.i3/config, and I've tried every possible mod label: Mod1, Mod2, $mod, etc. None of them fucking work. What am I doing wrong?
Loving i3, it has made me more productive, but two things have been bothering:
- multimedia keys don't work, even after following the instruction from here faq.i3wm.org/question/3747/enabling-multimedia-keys.1.html there is a key to toggle on/off Wifi and it works, but brightness, volume, play/pause keys don't
- can't access my keepass2 database because apparently the keyboard inputs get distorted so I can't enter the correct password. made a dummy database with the master password '0' and it works.
on xfce I get none of these issues
Chase Davis
I already told you to edit the PO files.
Chase Price
install proprietary drivers
Logan Murphy
What should i look out for when setting up a debian server?
why is the AMD gpu support shit on ubuntu? I was runnint 16.04 Mate and ran Htop and it showed one of my cores at 100% while all the others were at 0... Wtf man
Cameron Ortiz
Casual Linux user. Xubuntu. It wanted to upgrade to the next version and I thought why not, but when I clicked upgrade, this appeared. What does it mean?
Logan Gutierrez
I said something about having another type of file, you said something like 'download the right files', but I don't know how to do!
Chase Adams
How do I uninstall packages I installed from source?
The installation instructions for this program were so confusing, and there are 3 different incompatible version and I think I have them all installed in one way or another at the same time and I have no idea how to remove them.
Can I just go into /usr/lib/OGRE (where I think all the files went) and delete all the files?
Angel Smith
try apt update ; apt upgrade retry
Juan Bell
I prefer not doing this.
Kayden Butler
The official Instagram site is shit. Does not have all features I need.
Adrian Anderson
You edit the PO files with a text editor, replace the strings you want and then compile it to a MO file and replace your languages current MO file. Use the "msgfmt" tool to compile it.
Adrian Hughes
language's Depending on your distribution, they're located in /usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/. Replace en_US with your locale.
Landon Hughes
I'm not being able to find the PO files again. Where are them? What is their name?
Benjamin Rodriguez
Urxvt stopped work on Openbox. Click on menu but nothing happen.
What i do?
Elijah Martin
>posting in 2 threads,hoping to get attention (you)
Dominic Barnes
There actually is a point and why I don't do that.
Adjusting with pactl will let you go over 100% and using amixer won't. I don't want to go over 100%.
Bentley Evans
I'm trying to compile ncmcpp from source, but it's not working. I'm using an unaltered PKBUILD from the Arch repos, yet it's giving me the error below. Can another Arch user download the PKGBUILD (or use the one from the abs) to see if it works for him? How did it compile for the guy who put it in the repositories? I have all the dependencies installed.
>try to open urxvt from a different terminal, see if it works >if yes, check your openbox menu config to see what it's supposed to launch >if it doesn't, check the error messages and investigate
Owen Ortiz
am I even asking the right question?
Connor Evans
>fedora >arch >debian >opensuse >elementary os >mint are they 'free as in freedom'? if not, why? thanks
Jayden Cooper
Then its a you refusing to do it properly problem.
Lucas Ross
Ok. Many thanks!
Christian Foster
There's probably a switch to make "make install" write files it creates to a file. Then just remove them manually. See, that's why you should always create your own packages instead of using "make install". It's cleaner and easier to uninstall.
Joseph Gomez
make uninstall
Ryder Peterson
PKGBUILD is broken.Contact maintaner
Xavier Sanders
gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html Most popular Linux distros are not 100% free because the Linux kernel itself isn't actually 100% free. Linux has some binary blobs to make the kernal run smoothly on modern hardware, if you want to go full freetard you need to do some research on your hardware first and make sure they have open source firmware. You can also look into open-source BIOS as well if you want to go all the way.
Fedora and Debian are pretty close however.
Colton Howard
I can't open the /root/ folder.
Eli Green
You're already being heavily spoonfeed. Figure it out
Matthew Gonzalez
Thanks mate
Brody Jones
arch is "full freedom" because you can do what ever the fuck you want with it to make it work for you.
Adam Allen
Worked, thanks d00d
Angel Stewart
any1
Jaxon Howard
Any distro lets you do whatever you want to exactly the same degree you mongoloid.
Pretty much the only thing that can't be changed is the package manager, and this is ESPECIALLY true of arch.
Christian Butler
What boost version are you on?
NCMPCPP fails to build on several versions.
Hudson Cooper
I will need to ask on the next thread then.
Jackson Barnes
>pacman You dont need to replace it nigga. Im not limited on what i can nativly install, vs repos that are 5 years behind and limit your choice of software,unless you add shitty maintained repos.I used some sort of rpm shit before a decade go,that shits was dep hell and i had to compile shit my self for basic LAMP functionality Thats atleast 12 hours away pahjeet.
Hunter Wright
How is it my fault that Nvidia's proprietary drivers don't work? When I try using them it just boots up to a blinking line in the top left.
Christopher Ramirez
Working here and for millions of other people. Its a YOU problem not getting it to work on YOUR hardware.Google faggot,it helps,read your distros wiki,read the arch wiki. Think for your self.
Samuel Cruz
ANY distro will let you install from source, therefore ANY distro will let you do whatever the fuck you want to do.
Gotta keep those memes fresh, lad.
Isaiah Bailey
The point is Arch uses vanilla Linux which means it's not 100% "free." If you want a completely free Arch install Parabola.
Evan Lee
>user asks for help >YOU'RE A FUCKING RETARD FIX IT YOURSELF Thanks, user. Why do you even bother replying if you're just going to be a worthless asshole? Also, put spaces after punctuation.
Caleb Green
hey folks
here
this worked for me: # Multimedia Keys bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec "amixer -D pulse set Master 5%+ unmute" bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec "amixer -D pulse set Master 5%- unmute" bindsym XF86AudioMute exec "amixer -D pulse set Master toggle"
Unless you want to self compile a fuck load of packages to get you caught up.
>not knowing what module_db is >making kernel as free as you fucking want
>parabola my sides
Isaiah Gray
>Thats atleast 12 hours away pahjeet. I'm OK with that.
Zachary Jackson
be friendly
Nicholas Morris
>THIS THING JUST DOSENT WORK.IM NOT GOING TO PROVIDE TYPE OF LOG,NOR DID I LOOK AT THEM MY SELF. >REALIZE BLINKING CURSOR ISNT A SINGULARITY PROBLEM AND ITS NOT ONLY HIM
There is help,spoonfeeding,and then logging in via ssh and doing it for him
Cameron Lee
You are not being friendly!
Christopher Hughes
user@user-desktop:~/Downloads/ogre_src_v1-8-1$ sudo make uninstall [sudo] password for user: make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop.
how do I do that
Nathaniel Thompson
There's no use trying to argue with the retarded. They'll take things down to their level and beat you with experience.
Ok I tried installing again and saw this, if I go to this folder and delete everything will it be safe to start again?
Hudson Perry
got memed into gentoo, getting my ass back to debian. Problem is I ran gentoo for awhile, and now I have a software raid with lots of saved files on it.
When I install debian, will it be able to recognize the raid without help?
Carson Hall
>>fedora no, but it has a strict freedom philosophy outside of drivers. >>arch no >>debian by default, yes >>opensuse no >>elementary os no >>mint no
Henry Roberts
Did you even read the first post you responded to? I don't care about Nvidia's drivers; I want to connect to my television via HDMI. >NOR DID I LOOK AT THEM MY SELF I did look at them, stop projecting. Though once again, I don't fucking care about that. The hybrid drivers work fine and save me battery life. Spaces, use them. If you're going to be retarded at least get the syntax of English correct.
Gabriel Wood
So I'm just starting to use ~/.bashrc and had some questions.
Mainly, can I create a command that takes arguments in ~/bashrc itself? I can make what are basically macros, but can't figure out how to require arguments.
Julian Moore
also, does installing debian without systemd fuck everything up?
Josiah Reyes
me again
I feel so dumb now
Brightness control weren't working because xbacklight isn't installed by default on i3wm. Should have tested that earlier. Now everything is fine (except the keepass bug).
Angel Brooks
>is told only working option is to use nvidia >continues to refuse this advice,while not procceeding to google it inbetween posts.
>arguments Yes. alias nameyouwant='commandline you want' If you need to put a command at the end of a file you will put $1 at the end of the command line option
Parker Fisher
>tfw can't do optimization tweaks on GNU/Linux like I could on Wangblows
It's like a part of me is missing, like I won't be able to get every last bit of performance out of my machine.
Thomas Ramirez
What's a good but non-tryhard nice terminal urxvt is too difficult for my simple brain
I kinda like copying/pasting in the more fleshed out terminals: Terminator is nice but super slow. Xfce4-terminal isn't really configurable.
Bentley Long
xterm
Owen Ramirez
>only option is to use nvidia Are you fucking kidding me? You're seriously implying that nvidia are the only people in the entire Linux community that could figure out how to output to HDMI? I have searched it, and do you know what literally every single forum post anywhere says? >Nevermind, I fixed it. *MARKED AS SOLVED* That's not fucking helpful at all. >Intentionally having bad grammar because LOL WHO CARES NERD I'm sure that attitude will serve you well if you can ever find someone who pities you enough to hire you.
Thomas Jackson
termite
Benjamin Williams
why don't you start learning how to do it on linux, then? Here, I'll get you started: systemd-analyze blame and then disable services you don't need, and voila, faster boot time. Magic!
Bentley Hernandez
GNOME terminal
Hudson Baker
It's actually far easier on Linux than Windows.
Evan Perry
nvm just selecting and clicking it marks the stuff and copies it to clipboard
Nathan Martin
Did it work for you,when you plugged it in,is it a usable display that is being reconised by your driver,and is functioning properly,displaying contents that you told it to display? >unplug monitor I just plugged my 2nd monitor, holy fuck balls!!!!!! The monitor was automatically added and is now functioning within seconds of being plugged in with no config files.UPnP Just werx faggot >marked as solved Perhaps go to the bugtracker,instead of ubuntu forums? the "OMG ONLY BLINKY" Is a fucking old as fuck error,and it always comes down to improper configs >grammar If you can read it who gives a flying fuck. If you're that incompetent with the english language,that you cannot possibly go further on,thats a massive YOU issue.
>hire you CACI ccna
Landon James
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Jordan Long
How do I get QtCurve working on a Xfce4 + KWin install?
