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Hi OP running arch-xfce and this is my noob rice hope u g/yz like
>get first response
Cooper Lee
I'm running Xfce on Arch, I messed with desktop, the icons don't appears anymore, and if I right click on desktop it opens the same menu as the one on "Start" button. It's probably something with xfdesktop, when I run xfdesktop this appears
Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed ** (xfdesktop:886): WARNING **: xfdesktop: unable to connect to settings daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.. Defaults will be used ** (xfdesktop:886): CRITICAL **: xfce_desktop_new: assertion 'channel && property_prefix' failed (xfdesktop:886): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_add_events: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (xfdesktop:886): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_realize: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (xfdesktop:886): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_window: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed (xfdesktop:886): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_lower: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed ** (xfdesktop:886): CRITICAL **: xfce_desktop_set_session_logout_func: assertion 'XFCE_IS_DESKTOP(desktop)' failed
What should I do?
Eli Evans
install a better distro
Brody Moore
Fourth for herb slut wm master rice
Charles Cooper
5th for liniggers cant roll with the big unix dogs
Ethan Long
...
Levi Brown
I'm a newbie to GNU/Linux and I just discovered that you can use cd to tell the shell to go up X number of directories, and then into another directory in the same command, as cd ../other
This made me happy and I wanted to share to other newbies
Thank you
Samuel Thomas
I recently installed kxstudio, which is essentially kubuntu 14.04. I'm really happy with it but I've come across one problem. I have previously been using mednaffe as a front end to retroarch but it seems that mednaffe requires more up to date packages than 14.04 comes with so I cannot compile it, I can't find a ppa for it either. What would be the best thing here? I don't really want to update to 16.* just yet but I do want to be able to play some emulation games with my controller.
Hunter Hughes
>They actually banished desktop threads from Sup Forums Truly we live in a glorious new era
Mason Moore
Are you serious? Looks shite mate.
Cameron Moore
>responding to obvious bait are you autistic
Alexander Reyes
It's hard to tell with arch users.
Christian Walker
I'm passing through a GPU to qemu and it works fine the first time I start it, but after I shut the vm off once and try to start it again the screen just stays black, the only way I can fix it is by rebooting my PC
Any idea what would be causing this?
Logan Miller
Should you send all data via a vpn with iptables? Or is there another way
Nathan Hall
ln -s /dev/null?
Julian Diaz
Epic. Let me see your setup
Brody Russell
Are you passing through an AMD GPU?
Samuel Perez
Yeah
Daniel Davis
Why?
Wyatt Bailey
>LET ME SEE YOUR ANIME COLLECTION, I BET IT'S WAY LESS COOL THAN MY ANIME COLLECTION
How you sound
Evan Myers
I have heard that that is a common issue with newer AMD GPUs. I pass through an r9 270 without issue, but I have heard of issues with other cards.
Robert Ward
I'm running gnome on arch, and I would be using the global dark theme if it wasn't for Dolphin. While I prefer Dolphin to Nautilus (Or 'Files' as I guess it's now called), Dolphin stays in a light theme despite the global dark theme being enabled. Assuming there's no way to change this from Dolphin's end, I'd be willing to switch to Nautilus (Files) so I can use the dark theme, except for the fact that I cannot for the life of me get it to show thumbnails for video files. Works fine in Dolphin but not in Files.
What do
Thomas Lewis
might have better luck with nemo
Daniel Taylor
dolphin is qt isn't it?
William Hall
install ffmpegthumbnailer
Dylan Moore
I've set MENU MASTER PASSWD In syslinux.cfg Everytime i reboot, it dosent lock the menu out and ask for a password, when i press the arrow keys.Is there some other setting that has to go with it? Ive checked the wiki and i dont see anything else that should be done
Carson Reyes
Weird, it's also not showing thumbnails for video files. I've tried setting them to always show and setting the "Only for files smaller than" setting to the max. I also just installed Thunar and tried using it with the same result. Why does it only work for Dolphin?
I've reinstalled ffmpegthumbnailer several times, still doesn't work.
Jacob Carter
re-asking from the previous thread.
i'd still like either help and or an answer.
Carter Butler
well shit i forgot to quote my own post from the previous thread
>xfce...barely gets updated kek, thats because shit works the first time
Landon Howard
WOAH
Owen Campbell
Really? Most people I heard told me to stay away from it because it's slow and breaks. However, I hear bad things about all DEs anyway. I just want something minimalistic that still has a good amount of features, xfce seems to be the DE for this. I don't care about being bleeding edge or using wayland either, I'm fine with X.
Landon Myers
i'd actually like it for chromium please
Nolan Evans
k good luck
Ryan Allen
Any recommendations for a C++ ide? I've been into java a lot with eclipse. But I don't see it as good for C++. Should I just man up and go with Vim? If so, any recommended resources to set up Vim the best way?
Jackson Diaz
Can you share any resources on how to pass use GPU passthrough? Do you use KVM or Xen?
I tried to do that over a year ago and eventually gave up after fiddling a lot. Thanks in advance.
Connor Cook
I used Qt Creator for a time, I liked it a lot. Now I just use emacs.
Was thinking of attempting GPU passthrough on Debian.
Must something be setup during the OS install or is it fine to do it on an already existing install?
Nolan Cooper
yeah that's how my setup is. but as stated couldn't figure out how to make it work on wayland.
thanks anyway.
Brandon Ortiz
I'm trying to open steam on my manjaro-kde laptop and it seem to load but doesn't open in the end. Is it some kind of system error or manjaro did fix it yet?
Dylan Thomas
Everything should be fine as long as your Kernel and other utilities are new enough.
Jacob Murphy
Yeah, that trackball is basically unusable without that feature. I have a program that lets it work that way on windows too (it also works on trackpoints).
Nathaniel Martin
What's the recommended "avoid" category?
Systemd Pulseaudio
what else?
Jaxson Kelly
I'm trying to make a script to convert videos in a directory. Why do I need to cd to the directory for it to work? for i in `ls -A $1` do avconv -i $i -acodec mp2 ~/Desktop/newdirectory/$i done
Colton Phillips
Anoyone knows some linux-ck patch PPA or repo for Ubuntu 16.04 ? Or should I just patch it manually?
(Any other desktop optimized kernel would be nice too)
Benjamin Nelson
just do for i in $1/*
Parker Wright
You have one internal and one external IP. The internal IP is useful to contact machines inside your network, the external IP is useful to contact the wonderful wide web. Now think for yourself which one could be your public IP?
Furthermore, just use find. Something like: find . -type f -iname "$1" -exec avconv -i {} stuff ~/Desktop/newdirectory/{} ';' Untested.
Henry Roberts
ignore is easier
Kevin Powell
someone pls animate this
Angel Williams
Works on My Machine with Nemo(tm).
Dolphin won't comply with your dark theme setting because it's using Qt and your GTK settings won't affect it. If you want Dolphin to be dark, get a dark Qt theme and apply that one.
Austin Morgan
Explaining to you why you're an idiot would be a waste, because you wouldn't understand it anway.
Cooper Thomas
Well said.
Carson Watson
Daily reminder that installing Gentoo is the only sane way.
Ethan Perry
Gentoo. Don't install Gentoo.
Alexander Johnson
>report something in the arch repos as out of date >month later >still not updated
This is seriously giving me a fuck. My PKGBUILD directory keeps on growing.
Hello Sup Forums I have been using GNOME for 2 months now But I am missing something A keyboard shortcut to hide all windows Where is it, or if it isn't available can I get one?
Colton Jones
Not running GNOME, but try CTRL+ALT+D.
David Price
Doesn't work
Dylan Williams
Super+D?
Ryder Barnes
Nope No combination with D works
Michael Allen
I just looked into it, but is there a way to make it automatically select the currently active window? Without me having to click on it.
According to [0]this, I still need xprop or xdotool.
Then do: System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Navigation > Hide all normal windows. Maybe the command is empty, if so, just set a new hotkey.
Benjamin Torres
Thanks, didn't think it would be in system settings, because most things are in the tweak tool
Christian Sanders
What currently-available laptop with a nice bright screen and keyboard with good travel runs linux (something simple like ubuntu) well?
While thinkpads have great keyboards, their screens are usually too dim for me. AlthoughI prefer a pointing stick is over the trackpad.
Tyler Robinson
Yeah, I guess here you need an external tool, but xprop comes already with X. import -window $(xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | sed 's/.* //') test.png
Andrew Thomas
Have a new install of Debian 8.4. Any tips on getting different fonts in Iceweasel? I have tried installing some other fonts but I must be doing it wrong.
Running Mate desktop if that helps but also have default Gnome if needed.
Lincoln Lee
Also I have another ubuntu machine with font I like in firefox. Any idea how I determine what package that comes from?
Charles Reyes
Hi
I'm pretty much an absolute beginner. I wanted to know, though, how do you make bring up the window with your system's specs and an ascii art logo of your distro? I usually see them in screenshot/rice threads.
Thanks for any help.
Jack Gomez
Aaaand back to scrot. I love scrot! Scrot is small. Scrot does one thing and does it well. Scrot loves you. SCROT!!!
Aiden Gomez
kek, enjoy buddy. At least you learnd some ImageMagick wizardry.
Blake Mitchell
It's called screenfetch, but don't install it from your distro repos (mostly outdated), get the git version.