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How do you deal with old kernels in *buntu? I've been using kubuntu for a few weeks and I already have 3 kernels installed, I thought that it kept current and last previous version and removed the rest but it seems they are kept unless removed explicitly. Am I missing something? I don't want a million kernel versions in /boot.
Hudson Taylor
How do you change the default terminal in Arch?
I want urxvt to open when I choose "open a terminal here" in Thunar. Thunar custom action is exo-open --working-directory %f --launch TerminalEmulator but TerminalEmulator is not an environment variable. I tried replacing "TerminalEmulator" by "urxvt" without success.
Alexander Brown
have you tried the window class of urxvt? Isn't it something like URxvt?
Elijah Hughes
I tried to replace TerminalEmulator by URxvt but still no success.
However, when I type URxvt in a terminal, I get the error zsh: command not found: URxvt
Austin Wright
It was a pointer to a direction, not an instruction. Find out what the actual window class is.
Connor Bennett
>Arch Linux >Has no idea how to change the terminal
>zsh >has no idea how to use a shell
sorry but, EVERY TIME
Nicholas Gutierrez
Now let's be helpful.
Two ways:
1. use "x-terminal-emulator" which always points to the default terminal
2. to call URxvt, you need to use run "urxvt" (lowercase)
Andrew King
Ayy, I know right. I should install windows 10, stay away from a terminal and never try to learn anything new.
Thank you. I don't know what to edit to change "x-terminal-emulator"...
what do you mean by needing to run "urxvt" to call URxvt?
The problem was solved using exo-preferred-applications and then replacing the "default terminal emulator"
Ian Wood
>using arch has nothing to do with a file manager that is not installed by default
Lincoln Adams
apt-get autoremove
Samuel Stewart
So if I install Ubuntu Mate as my first linux distro. What should/could I do with it?
Brody Thomas
I just found out about KDE Connect. If I put this on my media server would I be able to control Kodi from it?
Blake Reed
Learn shell scripting. Automate things. Automate more things.
Landon Wilson
Automate? Explain please. Im a pleb
Hunter Miller
Let's say you want to press a hotkey that automatically runs programs, places windows, sorts pictures and makes coffee and gives you a foot massage - then you want shell scripting.
I guess that's all. Personally, I'd recommend bspwm. Enjoy.
Owen Carter
I'm experiencing quite a strange problem with the sound in Arch linux.
>I had no problem for few months.
>Then the sound is starting to stop randomly. Once it has stopped only a reboot solves the issue I tried for example to restart asla but nothing does. Nothing appears on dmesg alsa doesn't seems to have logs I can read to try to troobleshoot The issue keep happening. Sometimes after ~40 min, sometime within seconds after the reboot. pluging the earphone also give no sound
>But if I keep the earphones plugged in FROM the reboot, I can keep the sound working for hours.
I have no idea what to do.
Lucas Sanchez
tried ricing with open box and it fucked up my previous config. how do I remove openbox? running pacman -Rs openbox doesn't work. or -Runs it's still there after reboot.
Daniel Myers
>Arch user Lmao every time
Luke Ross
Have you tried pacman -Rsc openbox ?
>go to friendly linux thread >"bully" arch users lmaoing at your life. If you spent as much time trying to install than shitposting, maybe you'd also successfully install arch one day.
Jayden Peterson
>doesn't know how to uninstall a package >wants to "rice"
Let me guess, you also installed zsh, without even utilizing 1% of Bash's capabilities?
Ryan Gutierrez
If still not working, try pacman -Rn opembox and remove manually your dotfiles.
Also, what was your problem when you riced openbox?
zsh autocomplete is goat tho. >let me guess, you have built your own supercomputer and installed LFS on your fridge? My guess is that you're one of those "pls rate my built" Sup Forums spillover.
Isaiah Cooper
It should get rid of all unused software, which all old kernels are. Maybe it doesn't work that way in Kubuntu, I use Ubuntu. You could just remove them manually.
I've been running mint 17.2 for about 6 months now. Initially I installed it for my uni work as developing embedded software in a gnu/linux environment is much easier, but I have begun to use it for entertainment thanks to wine and the growing support for gnu/linux as a platform.
However, I get the feeling that my system is slowly failing. It is beginning to freeze after ~1 hour usage. Shutting my laptop and re-opening unfreezes it and flashes an error message across the screen for a second or so before it flicks to the login screen. Is there a way to find or capture these error messages? The messages always say something about "unclaimed resources" but I need to record everything before I can get more help. A quick google has yielded nothing.
Austin Phillips
not sure I can help you but try giving a look at the ouptut of "dmesg"
Also maybe not a fix but have you tried other desktop environments or windows manager?
Carson Wood
This guy.
Juan Clark
I've been installing Funtoo for the past fucking 3 hours. Kernel took an hour. God damn
Is this shit even going to be worth it in the end?
Jayden Murphy
>installing an operating system without even knowing its merrits
Idiot.
Joseph Howard
Is that what you decided to stick with windows 10?
Noah Sanchez
Have they?
Jace Jenkins
He's uniq.
Easton Turner
What flavor of Debian (i386 or amd64) do I put on my 6600K PC?
Asher Cooper
>makes coffee and gives you a foot massage >mfw we live in a time where this is actually possible
Jose Ortiz
the 64bit one.
Nolan Phillips
Don't see Debian getting much love in here. Is that bad or good?
Hudson Moore
I need to get a new laptop and I'd like to be able to do some light gaming on it. Should I go AMD or Nvidia? I know Nvidia has better performance on the proprietary drivers for the moment, but I hear AMD is catching up, is that true? Also, which one provides a better experience outside of gaming (keeping up with kernel updates, etc.)? Will Vulkan tip the balance in AMD's favor a few years down the road?
In short, which would you pick?
Levi Smith
Used it for a few years. Debian stable is great until you want a newer package and go to Testing, which removes Debian's trademark stability. Then you might lose your GUI just by running apt-get dist-upgrade without an easy way to unfuck your system just by running a command.
If there was an easy and obvious way to do that I'd still be running Debian Testing. Now, I'm trying my luck with Fedora.
If someone gives you a script/command to 'undo' apt-get dist-upgrade it's totally worth checking out.
Jackson Johnson
Do I have to install usb drivers for my portable usbs to work in arch?
My mouse works fine but my beagle bone and usb don't even show up when I plug it in. worked with manjaro.
Ryan Turner
gotta appreciate them diving into the deep end.
now if they only drowned too.
Brayden Roberts
Is this good anons?
Sebastian James
Bump
Joseph Butler
>Bumping that fast there is no "good" scheme. If you want a separate home partition and some swap, go for it.
Myself, I have only one partition, the / I have only one user, myself and I don't want to swap on my ssd.
On the gentoo handbook, they advise to have at least a / and /boot partition. if you have a lot of user, a separate /home partition is good if you are running a mail server, a separate /var partition is good
One good thing with a separate home partition is that you don't have to backup your stuff when you fuck up and need a fresh install. But I don't mind since I backup anyway.
Easton Torres
>my picture used for a general oh boy
Grayson Smith
Wow, you're such an unique and well rounded person, amazing how you project your soul and personality via an image, we approve you, you're g approved, amazing, you were validated, people look at your objects that other people created but you consume, you did well, amazing, you did so well buying things
Dominic Brooks
thank you, friend! that was the validation I was looking for!
Mason Wood
If I was you, I'd use a /boot partition (and it should be the first one)
Landon Garcia
I can't use "Universal USB Installer" to install on my usb drive, "syslinux" just crash instantly. How to proceed?
# Debian 8 "Jessie" # for the non-free wifi driver deb httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
Julian Wilson
I'm not sure those guys are actual arch users. I think there's a lot of retards that wants to shitpost and just meme about arch users.
Jayden Thompson
They don't. It's arch hater that keep shitposting thus propagating the image.
Sebastian Powell
add contrib non-free at the end of every line starting with deb
deb httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free is probably not required, you can try without it, it should works.
update & try to install your driver again.
David Wilson
>deb httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free This isn't just for the non-free wifi drivers Its for everything non-free not included in the main repos
But when I try to add the module, nothing changes in the answer of ifconfig.
?
The comment was for me to remember why I put that line there. But thank you for the precision.
I'll try what you suggest and repeat the process, but as mentioned in this post, I feel like the problem is with modprobe
Gabriel Stewart
>I installed firmware-iwlwifi already. > >But when I try to add the module, nothing changes in the answer of ifconfig. Reboot
Aaron Morales
I tried before posting.
Luis Perry
What's the benefit of using urxvt? I know rice fags like it, but I'm pretty happy with my default xfce but if there's some features that I'm missing or perfomance I'd be interested.
Funtoo comes with a binary kernel now doesn't it?! If you're compiling debian sources then it is huge with every module known to man enabled.
Evan Williams
I tried before posting but since no wireless interface was shown in ifconfig, I went asking for help. Somehow after the edit proposed by my ifconfig now shows a wlan0
I'll try, hoping it works.
Jaxon James
The wifi is on, but no network is showing up when my computer is scanning. I tried nmtui and it doesn't even let me activate the wifi.
When I have the wifi on, I cannot acces the network via a wired connection. Switching it off instantly makes it available again.
Ian Scott
How do I go about customizing lightdm-gtk-greeter it's just an ugly black colour atm. using xfce
Jeremiah Taylor
nah, you're only missing out on autism.
Jose Bailey
[user1@primary ~]$ pacman -Qi lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings Name : lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings Version : 1.2.0-4 Description : Settings editor for the LightDM GTK+ Greeter Architecture : any URL : launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings Licenses : GPL3 Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : gtk-update-icon-cache lightdm-gtk-greeter python-gobject Optional Deps : None Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Installed Size : 1052.00 KiB Packager : Maxime Gauduin Build Date : Sat 30 Apr 2016 04:34:08 AEST Install Date : Wed 15 Jun 2016 00:54:27 AEST Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Validated By : Signature
I use urxvt because I can add space between the lines making it more readable to IMO. Else, stick with what is working for you.
You're the kind of guys that is changing changing the wallpaper and gets sour when people tell you it's shit? Or you're more a wannabe that keeps crying "stop liking what I don't like!!" cause you can't tweak your gui?
Grayson Young
Now I am completely lost Atleast I got you somewhere
Parker Hernandez
already have it installed. tried going into the conf file and changing the variable background to background=/home/paddy/Pictures/1452552535352.png but nothing has changed.
Ethan Thomas
It's a gui though.
Christopher Cruz
that's odd. what's the gui called? I have both light dm and lightdm-gtk-greeter installed.
Robert Williams
lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
Joseph Moore
>settings
holy fuck I'm retared. thanks so much.need to read properly
Grayson Johnson
Glad I help.
(Shameful bump for my sound issue )
Nathan Johnson
have you tried pulseaudio ?
Joshua Perez
I'm getting the message "Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch" when I'm in a X session and change TTY and I can't go back to my X session, what do?
Alexander Stewart
No, I didn't tried on this machine.
I tried, a while ago, to have both pulseaudio and alsa on the same machine but I got caught in a clusterfuck and wasn't able to see what I was doing anymore.
On this machine, a thinkpad x201, running only alsa worked fine until it didn't.
I am afraid not to be able to control the sound from my gui and buttons on the keyboard anymore. For the buttons, I add
# VolDown "amixer -q set Master unmute && amixer -q set Master 5%-" m:0x0 + c:122 NoSymbol
# VolUp "amixer -q set Master unmute && amixer -q set Master 5%+" m:0x0 + c:123 NoSymbol
in my .xbindkeysrc so I'd have to find the new "way" to change the volume. For the gui Volume Icon it was a pain in the neck to tune and I feel like it is likely to make things worse.
James Ortiz
I've got NIC with ath9k driver. On windows my connections is two times faster than on Linux. How can I fix that on Linux?
Gabriel Morris
ah the woes of setting up a dual boot
Alexander Lee
Is that a x200 or x201?
Ethan Reyes
How do I edit these files to turn amdgpu on, it just doesn't show up on Xorg.0.log
