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then use dd or cp to make a bootable usb-drive. you used unetbootin right?
Dominic Evans
No. I used LiveUsb Creator or something. The fedora one.
Charles Ward
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Asher Carter
The default UI font in XnViewMP changed from some normal font to picrelated about a month ago. There's no option to change it in the settings.
Anybody know how to fix this abomination?
Dylan Anderson
What's so difficult about dd? It's just dd if=image.iso of=/zip-disquette; sync, right?
I don't why so many people prefer gui programs.
Juan King
Is that a sympathetic or apathetic noose?
Caleb Garcia
>many people prefer gui programs Majority is incompetent. Always.
Adrian Thomas
Check your fontconfig. You can force all fonts in your system with it.
Tyler Phillips
Nvm, changed the font to Ubuntu through the style sheet. My eyes, they can see again.
Aiden Watson
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Jeremiah Brooks
Right Tool For The Job™ strikes again.
Feel free to suggest a feature-compatible alternative, I'm all ears.
Ayden Butler
>using a non free image viewer
Ian Turner
Where the hell do you find so many rms pics?
Xavier Nelson
Post what you use, fag.
Ayden Torres
not him but it's just an image viewer, what can it do that viewnior, mpv, gnome image viewer, feh or anything else can't?
Joshua Parker
What do you even need?
I use Nomacs and it does more than I need from it. All I wanted from an image viewer is the ability to view, resize and crop images quickly. Using GIMP for resizing and cropping is overkill.
Noah Bennett
That depends on the toolkit this was compiled with. Is it Qt, GTK or some own proprietary thing?
If it's some proprietary toolkit you have to look in the software's settigns.
Lotsa things. Heavy-ish editing, batch processing, all with a very customizeable interface.
>it does more than I need from it >All I wanted from an image viewer Perhaps you should consider that I have different needs and thus I use different software.
William Walker
No way! LOL Thanks for that
Noah Reed
you could just use an image editor and an image viewer like a normal person. also why would you want to customize any image viewer? all it has to do is display images.
Nolan White
It's 3AM, you're going to have to get better bait to get a (You) out of me.
Easton Bailey
you are hurting yourself by using a proprietary image VIEWER to do heavy image editing. your fault.
Jayden Baker
quite dislike these desu
Jordan Harris
Still shit bait. Can you try just a bit harder?
Hunter Diaz
then remove them.
Brayden Howard
Dual booting ubuntu mate and windows 10 through uefi
How would I remove ubuntu now?
John Martinez
tyil: how is funtoo compared to gentoo? it's fun ...too AYYYYY :D * hooman has quit (Quit: kiwiirc.com/ - A hand crafted IRC client)
get in here we're having a lot of fun. (we're also really lonely.) irc.freenode.net #flt
Xavier Carter
why would this be bait? you are genuinely using a tool that is worse at image editing than gimp and worse at image viewing than viewnior. there is no reason to use a proprietary image viewer no matter how you put it.
Jackson Brooks
i can't connect to freenode for some reason.
Mason White
what client are you using?
Josiah Carter
Guys, does linux (debian in my case) has separate file for hibernation like hiberfil.sys on windows, for example? Or it is using designated swap partition for hibernation?
Charles Rodriguez
polari/empathy
Austin Young
Finally, man.
>worse at image editing than gimp and worse at image viewing than viewnior I agree with the first point (viewnior is hot ass trash garbage), but it's all irrelevant anyway. Why? Because one program that can do both good is better. I think XnViewMP is a stellar image viewer and as a great bonus it has some sick editing features that would take me orders of magnitude longer to perform in GIMP or any other editing suite.
>there is no reason to use a proprietary image viewer Unless it's good. Did you ever think about such possibility?
Michael Mitchell
literally never heard of it. are you connecting to: irc.freenode.net:6667
Cooper Thompson
How can I change the default background colors of less?
Levi Sanchez
less is a terminal application Do you want to configure your terminal?
Ian Kelly
It just dumps it all to swap.
Nolan Gonzalez
But less has color options, I supposed it can be done independently of the terminal, or it isn't?
Joseph Cox
>No longer programs >Does everything through emacs
I love RMS and all but damn that is some autism.
Jonathan Lee
HO. I never played with it.
Josiah Lewis
> Replying with memes instead of answering the question
It's a genuine question and I'd like to know as well
Henry Morris
What did you just call me?
Dominic Fisher
kek, I think he meant oh, and that was for me user
Leo Peterson
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Aiden Sanchez
You can pass it the -R flag which will make it interpret colour control characters properly if a program has colourful output. But there's no changing what colours it can use---that's up to your terminal.
Luke Clark
this question is asked on Sup Forums and especilly in this thread so often that everybody assumes that it is a troll question, especially if it is as loaded as in this case. rms answers a lot of emails, manages the fsf, posts on the mailinglists, organizes his speeches and manages his website.
Blake Harris
I know he's very busy and must spend a lot of time on his computer(s), but why all the photographs of him using it in odd locations, like in the middle of the woods? Is he actually so busy that he's using his computer 100% of the time, even during recreation?
Luis Gray
It's pretty much undocumented, but you can use termcaps.
Note that his will also affect manpages if your pager is less.
Jaxson Lewis
I guess this is how he spends the time between speeches in remote countries. People like to photograph him this way.
Isaiah Smith
Best way of getting any GNU/Linux distros working on CyanogenMod13
Camden Ward
I also asked in /tpg/, but I'll ask here, too. Anyone have recommendations for which distro is best on the x61s? I'm mostly concerned with potential difficulties associated with the x series.
I only have experience with Mint and Puppy, and I like both of them. Tried Ubuntu and hated it so much I uninstalled it the same day I installed it.
Cooper Mitchell
any distro should work. pick a DE/WM you like and choose a distro with a good community and a lot of packages in the main repo.
Joshua White
Is there a way to prevent gnome shell from creating copies of every single image I set as a background? That doesn't make any sense, it creates the copies in the same folder and does not delete old created copies after switching to another wallpaper. 3.20.1, btw.
Jayden Moore
So I recently decided to jump on the train; tabs for idention and spaces for aligment.
Now my problem is that a lot of my source code is writte with spaces only.
Is there a way to batch convert it?
Aaron Taylor
>tabs for idention code monkey
Lucas Perez
In vim you can do :%s/ /\t/g Where that gap is the number of spaces you use per tab You can also use sed -i on the command line (look up some examples---sed is very powerful)
Jordan Powell
Why? Did I fell for some meme?
Thank you, worked with vim.
Jaxon Barnes
>Why? Did I fell for some meme? no. tabs > spaces
Levi Perry
i think (not sure) this depends on the folder you do it from and how you set it. if you set your wallpaper from viewnior or feh, it should not be duplicated.
Carter Cruz
>tabs for idention and spaces for aligment. NIGGER YOU WHAT You don't fucking mix tabs and spaces. Spaces > tabs.
Alexander Campbell
All the good coders I saw used 2 spaces. I never see a good developer who do not use 2 spaces.
Jeremiah Ramirez
>everbody has to read my code the way I want tabs are superior, you can change the ident however you want it with whatever editor, do this this spaces
Cameron Howard
s/this/with/
Samuel Hall
>2 spaces
Jace Gomez
4 spaces, get off my lawn with your tabs and 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,16,32 spaces, niggers
Jaxson Roberts
You never coded on strange environment, otherwise you would spit on tabs. If you never coded on strange environment it's because you need your comfort. >implying you suck
You have probably never meet a good coder.
Nicholas Roberts
>do this this spaces >s/this/with/ >do with with spaces
Kevin Mitchell
tabs: I'm social and care about others spaces: My convenience > everyone else
Parker Morris
Is RMS a tabs or spaces guy? If spaces, how many? I need to know!
Juan Ramirez
2 spaces Have you use emacs once in your life?
Isaiah Perez
Sup Forums approved vpn?
Joseph Gray
GNU/Linux is a meme. Even the face of it is a living meme, just look at him haha.
Carter Rivera
>emacs only allows 2 spaces
>haha
Ayden Mitchell
openvpn
Jacob Anderson
That isnt a vpn,that is vpn software,which you clearly knew i was asking about (you)
Jack Ortiz
>Best way of getting any GNU/Linux distros working on CyanogenMod13 Anyone Debian Kit is down lil debi wont install
Luis Martin
the only VPN you can trust is your own, so get a memeberry with openvpn and put it somewhere where it doesn't get seen.
Gabriel Stewart
kek:
Lincoln Morgan
>using vpn on your same network
Evan Rivera
Sup Forums approved? Hola Just use Tor, buddy. Tor is live, Tor is love. Snowden is using it, RMS is using it, you should use it.
Kayden Martin
# DAE: alias wget="curl -O" # ?
Thomas Scott
>tor I dont want fbi visits >tor Yeah,using tor for daily use is acceptable at 1kb/s on average..
Blake Cook
If you had read the manpages of wget and curl, you would realize that these are different programs for different purposes.
Aiden Long
man unexpand
Parker Howard
>I dont want fbi visits You fell for Sup Forums memes.
Cameron Hall
>same network i never implied that, you can just hide it at some uni or in some other place with wifi.
James Ortiz
I'm unable to use IRC and Bitmask. I don't know why. I travelled from my house, to another yesterday. When I tried to connect these services here, I can't! Help, please?
Oliver Jackson
What's the best linux media server? Needs to do some transcoding too.
Been using Universal Media Server on my windows machine, but I don't want to put java on my ubuntu server.
