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double left mouse clicks to open a folder/file doesn't work on my deepin. what do? it works on the thinkpad's left click thingy though.
Kayden Brooks
How do I get rid of the screen in the beginning that asks me to boot to windows or puppy? I don't even have windows installed so I absolutely hate this screen.
Cameron Murphy
that screen is the bootloader GRUB. I don't know if it's even possible to remove it, but it's generally a good idea to keep it in case you have trouble booting. Instead of removing it you can edit the file /etc/default/grub with superuser priviledges and change the value of GRUB_TIMEOUT to 0. Afterwards you need to update GRUB, in Ubuntu I believe the command is "sudo update-grub", in Fedora it is "sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg". Better search for instructions for your specific distro if you are not sure.
Joshua Wood
I'm silly, puppy linux is still based on Ubuntu if I'm not mistaken, so you can safely try "sudo update-grub". Only if that doesn't work you need to use another command (sometimes it's sudo grub-mkconfig instead of grub2-mkconfig and grub is sometimes in /boot/grub/ instead of /boot/grub2/
Jayden Murphy
For the folks running Debian Stable (if there are any of you)
Have you managed to backport mpv's Sid version?
I use Sid on my own machine, but I have my dad running Stable so things are safer for him.
I tried following the instructions on the Debian wiki but just ended up hitting a wall with missing dependencies.
Charles Sullivan
That makes absolutely no sense. Install them and use the tools provided by them to configure it. Why do you need another abstraction tool which would launch the settings tools for each component?
Juan Long
alright I have 16.0 up and running with the 390x. Which order should I do this in not to screw myself. I need to install the 980ti propietary drivers blacklist the open source nvidia driver properly. Noeveu or something tis called. And blacklist the 390x card. Which order will stop me from breaking the previous cards drivers without the new cards driver being ready.
Also anyone know what the nvidia ppa is? Googling now but you never know with these sometimes the new driver has issues and the old one is better.
Zachary Hill
Having a bit of difficulty trying to install Xubuntu onto a partition alongside OS X. I created a 60GB FAT partition beforehand. On the install window from the Xubuntu CD, it appears to install just fine. But booting into it just produces a black screen. What could be wrong. Should it be formatted with something other than FAT?
Is there a way to create your own live ISO based on your current install? I'd like to be able to plug in a live USB and have things like gparted and nemo installed by default.
Alexander Anderson
And when trying to satisfy those dependencies, it requires loads of packages at newer version than those featured in Stable
Does that mean I'm going to have to install backports for each of them, or have I got it wrong somewhere?
Thanks for your time
Jaxson Taylor
Installed watching a tutorial. I don't know much but I typed in the sudo ... and it said command not recognized. Anyways I managed to open menu.lst in vi. Here's a screenshot. Got info from this link: murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45207
Matthew Flores
yes, use ext4.
Thomas Scott
ah, you are using Slacko Puppy, which is based on Slackware, not Ubuntu. If the method you are using works for you, then good. Did that file have a warning at the beginning á la # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE ? Because if it had, I hope you've made a backup, and you should have used the other method I've suggested: edit /etc/default/grub, then run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg in any case, if it works then it works.
Jayden Ross
I've dual booted Ubuntu 16.04 with Windows 8. It's taking me 30 minutes to delete 3000 files from the Windows partition while in Ubuntu. Is it supposed to be that slow?
Blake Carter
Nope no wwarning. I understand what you're saying. The default timer is like 15 seconds until it boots to puppy anyways. You are saying make it to 0.
If this is the case I agree this is a good step to take for my problem.
Anyways, I have so far searched for grub i cannot find it. It's not in etc default, or boot.
Easton Anderson
Well I got the drivers from the nvidia website and them tried to install them but they do not want to be installed when the gpu is not actually in the machine.
Going to try blacklisting Noveneu or whatever the open source driver is called then doing it again.
Lincoln Morris
Is there a way to remove all packages that are not being depended upon by any other package, but that at the same time are not for human use?
For example, having it delete a bunch of packages that are not needed, but NOT delete, for example mpv (which no one depends on, but is usable for humans)
Maybe my question is a bit naive. Sorry, I'm new.
Michael Adams
Alright I blacklisted the open source ones and restarted then added the ppa and installed from there. Might restart and try it with the 980ti installed now see what happens but I wonder if I should blacklist the 390x first.
Cooper Jones
Thx forbyour help. I found my answer from the link. Menu.lst has the timeout to seconds written in it. I am editibg it using vi. No warnings have shown up.
I have edited the timout to 0 seconds. No longer do i have to choose to boot to windows which is no longer installed.
:)
Christian Rodriguez
The amd and nvidia drivers shouldn't conflict so you shouldn't need to blacklist either of them (except for passthrough once you have everything working). You should be able to specify in xorg which driver to use. PS: You should use the nvidia driver that comes from your distro not the one from the nvidia site. It is likely to integrate with the rest of the system and break less.
Jayden Baker
You could just make a chroot (look at the page on the chroot debian wiki and the debootstrap man page) then symlink the mpv from the chroot into you path somewhere.
Nicholas Parker
My system wouldnt boot with it at all cause it kept wanting to use nouveau which doesnt support the 980ti chip.
Either way I got the 980ti working now. The problem is ubuntu will not boot with two gpus installed for me. The 980ti and the 390x can both run my system at the moment independently.
When I install both though it gets to the point where it asks for my encyption password and freezes before I can type. That is show on the first gpu. The second gpu just shows a blinking underline cursor.
I need to figure out a way now to block the 390x in Ubuntu itself so I can boot with both installed. Then I can pass the 390x to a vm.
Gavin Lee
I wouldn't be surprised. There are likely was to do such things much faster but it probably isn't optimised.
Daniel Cruz
és de portugal? que cidade?
Henry Butler
If you are on debian or ubuntu (not familiar with others) then apt-get autoremove should theoretically remove packages marked auto that aren't depended on by any manually installed packages. There are also ways you can use aptitude to search for automatically installed packages that meet various requirements, just look on stackoverflow somewhere ...
Asher Bennett
Well then blacklisting both nvidia and nouveau should work for booting and passthrough. If you can't get to your DE to blacklist them then when you get to the login screen switch to a different tty with eg ctrl+alt+F2 and login to the text terminal there and do it.
Angel Nguyen
I want to keep the nvidia card running linux for now want to try the 390x on the vm. So ill be banning the open source amd drivers since 16.04 wont even let you tough the proprietary ones of old.
Colton Cooper
Calling it GNU/Linux is EXACTLY the kind of reason normies will never adopt linux.
GNU is a stupid name, hard to pronounce and not catchy at all. GNU/Linux is even fucking stupider. I dont care how butthurt it makes Stallman.
If we're gonna get our panties in a bunch over people calling it just Linux, then Linux will be the the operating system of basement dwelling dweebs forever.
Henry Ward
This website is +18.
Alexander Young
what are you doing here then?
Kayden Parker
...
Grayson Gomez
Add the sid repository to sources.list
Michael Wright
>truthhurts.jpg
Ryder Adams
This thread was so nice ... till now.
Jack Stewart
I have a file with over 5000 lines. Im trying to soft them based on their file name(last part of each line) and sort them alphabetically. I've tried sed, and sort, but i havent been able to get desired results.
Oliver Harris
yeah i dont care how little you guys care
I just keep coming across this thread and I needed to get it off my chest.
Ayden Brown
Anyone got some good Plasma 5 themes? I just fresh installed and looking for some Material Design-esque themes.
Pic related is my minimal system so far.
Lucas Ross
Could you post an example? Thanks. Now leave.
Nicholas Young
Free software doesn't aim for market share. It doesn't matter if it's basement dweller software or whatever. It's all about the users freedom.
Hudson Howard
Why the fuck shouldn't it aim for market share? Don't we want more hardware support from the big companies?
Connor Gutierrez
Does a working screensaver for gnome/ubuntu 16.04 exist? Never found one on older releases. Would like to turn off the power down after whatever time option and use a screensaver instead.
Hunter Brooks
I keep seeing this wallpaper. It it some standard pape in Plasma 5?
Bentley Perez
My freedom says I dont want GNU passing my lips.
William Sullivan
Not that I know of. I just pulled it off /wg/ just now as a temp wallpaper before I get all set up.
Dylan King
Hey /fglt/, I just heard about Slackware and was wondering if it was any good as a main OS? I'm relatively new to Unix-like operating systems if that factors in at all.
Kevin Diaz
Is there a shortcut to urxvt in puppy
Nathan Davis
what has moot got against furries?
Michael Powell
it's five letters, why do you need a shortcut?
Gavin Foster
Does anyone even make Plasma/Qt themes? Where do people get them? The KDE Looks website is dead. DeviantArt has no Qt section. What else is there?
Cameron Campbell
You're a gullible and naive idiot for asking such subjective, unsubstantial questions.
Josiah Lee
Hoe do i open it without going to thevtray and clicking thebconsole every time. And where are the font etc. Options in puppy slackware 6
Julian Jones
You're a gullible and naive idiot for thinking that all OSs are equal, slackware is shit.
Jeremiah Nguyen
Wat do
Isaac Stewart
How can I set up LUKS on LVM containing an encrypted root to auto-decrypt with a key on external media?
From my Debian install the default boot parameters are /vmlinuz-4.5.0-2-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/mylvm-root ro quiet which allow me to boot with the passphrase.
I added a key to another key slot and added cryptkey=/dev/mysdcard:vfat:/mykey to the parameters which unsurprisingly didn't work.
I'm just not sure which parameters I need to make this particular setup do what I want.
Is it better to have a partition for /home or should be everythig on a single partition?
Tyler Russell
Alright so I have a bunch of stuff installed and now I need to blacklist the gpu I am going to pass through to the vm. So that ubuntu does not touch it so its available to pass to the vm. The problem is I can see it without it being installed and having 2 gpus in my computer stops ubuntu from booting.
Going to try switching to the gpu that I want to pass and then banning it from command line. Then ill try booting with two gpus and see if it works.
Christopher Miller
None of the instructions I have read mention when you are supposed to actually physically insert the second gpu. Has anyone done this before?
Cameron Clark
Why does Linux have 8 TTYs? Why not 9 or 1?
Easton Long
Why does less show more while more shows less?
Noah Walker
/boot / /home
Parker Reyes
Which one should I install to be my main OS, Debian stable or testing?
Hudson Nguyen
You can have as many as you want to configure >8 Default is 12
David Morales
>3 partitions WHY
Evan Rodriguez
so you can reinstall your OS without losing your data. It's standard practice.
William Baker
>Why Why? Boot is by its self so you dont fuck up your install Root so it has all your system on it Home so you dont fuck up your data
Lucas Carter
Testing. In Debianland "stable" means packages, so old, that nothing will break in the next 100 years. Unstable means rolling-like packages like on Arch.
Matthew Rodriguez
I just got payment for installing Ubuntu
rate
Chase Richardson
By the way, does Arch have a warning system equivalent like "apt-listbugs"?
Brody Murphy
>supporting Canonical You fucked up.
Bentley Allen
Why would anyone want to install a distro that doesn't have AUR access?
Daniel Smith
Doesn't testing go into code freezes anyway? And iirc they don't backport security patches to it so you're left sitting with potentially buggy upstream version of something for quite a while when they freeze
Landon Allen
>i install everything from the aur just because i think it's cool >i use coreutils-git and then complain when things "break"
Lucas Turner
Debianfag here, if I really need some AUR stuff, I just read the PGKBUILD - done.
Brody Ramirez
>impling the AUR isn't just a frontend for git clone; make; sudo make install
Colton Scott
Time to write a wrapper script, kek.
Tyler Cruz
That's not really what I'm trying to do. I just want my bootloader to unlock my LVM with a key.
I'm about to install Lubuntu for a low power laptop that is mainly for writing.
Only question I have is that is it going to be full of ads like Ubuntu was when I tried it a while ago?
Brody Green
So when using unity tweak tool, why the fuck can't you even preview fonts?
Brayden Wright
deb-multimedia.org
Thomas Turner
That happens when copying too. It's mostly a problem with Nautilus I think. Use the terminal when you can or install Thunar and try with it.
Jack Richardson
Well ldconfig is from libc-bin and ssd is from dpkg so they are both installed so your path is wrong. Run PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH then that should fix it. Put it in /etc/profile to make it permanent.
Christopher Hill
Nope. It's clean as fuck. That was just Unity.
Colton Campbell
If you blacklist both nvidia drivers then the fact that the card is inserted should not affect anything and you should be free to pass it through, because nothing else in the kernel will want to talk with the device.
Levi Scott
Search in AUR, my man.
William Ward
What is /etc/inittab
Eli Torres
more predates less. less is a better more. Because less is more (but better).
Luis Phillips
new feature freezes for 6 months every two years while next stable is being finalized (but still fixes and security updates). Security updates still come through the normal update procedure which is maybe two weeks or a month depending on the maintainer (same for unstable and experimental).
Oliver Smith
Why is thunar so fast yet so... fuck ugly?
Nolan Reyes
Because you didn't install a proper theme?
Henry Davis
What is even a proper theme?
Joshua Fisher
There are a few. Arc dark seems to be popular right now.
Easton James
And you think month old security patches is an acceptable way of doing things?
Liam Clark
I have been posting these for quite a while now.
Can anyone spoonfeed me install MPC-Qt in ubuntu?
I installed qtcreator already. Now I have to compile libmpv. 1. ./bootstrap.py installs wah 2. ./wah configure --enable-libmpv-shared doesn't work because apparently pkgsrc is missing(?)
>The mpv build system uses waf but we don't store it in your source tree. The script './bootstrap.py' will download the latest version of waf that was tested with the build system.
>For a list of the available build options use ./waf configure --help. If you think you have support for some feature installed but configure fails to detect it, the file build/config.log may contain information about the reasons for the failure.
>NOTE: To avoid cluttering the output with unreadable spam, --help only shows one of the two switches for each option. If the option is autodetected by default, the --disable-*** switch is printed; if the option is disabled by default, the --enable-*** switch is printed. Either way, you can use --enable-*** or --disable-** regardless of what is printed by --help.
>To build the software you can use ./waf build: the result of the compilation will be located in build/mpv. You can use ./waf install to install mpv to the prefix after it is compiled.
Luke Green
>implying less is more when more gives you clearly more, while less gives you less more
Michael Johnson
testing is not supposed to be used on machines with sensitive information or that are likely to be targeted, that is what stable is for. You every heard the phrase shifting the goal post. You can't have everything.
Nathan Peterson
Nobody expects the Libré Interjection.
Christian Fisher
Rule 1: Never believe what Sup Forums says unless it provides sauce. Do your own researches.
