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Other urls found in this thread:

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sxhkd
github.com/baskerville/sxhkd
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fan_speed_control
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/disk_cloning
freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html
pastebin.com/raw/k1D3NcgG
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

So, we were talking TWMs yesterday. Just installed bspwm. Is there any solid documentation for setting up the keybinds?

Not using bspwm myself but afaik sxhkd does the job. Either try man sxhkd or just check some dotfiles by other people to get some inspiration. There's also: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sxhkd

Or go here: github.com/baskerville/sxhkd

sxhkd is old and missing features
use xbindkeys

How do you escape the aqemu vm window?

Mouse and keyboud input locks in to the window,and i havent found a keybind to escape

>old
You're joking, I see.

left CTRL+ALT, at least in regular QEMU

Tried that, didnt work. I'm not seeing any other escape binds anywhere

ctrl+left_alt?

Is there a tool that let's me control my laptop fan?

So I used the example config, but the resize keys don't work. Is there a log file for bspwm?

there is thinkfan for thinkpads

Yes. I couldn't make it work though, as my old craptop had less sensors than a tomato.

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/fan_speed_control

Yes, all keys are being typed on the left cluster,but still didnt work

I was working on a website and after a reboot following a power failure I can't get it to listen on any socket on localhost anymore.
No firewall is running.
ip a and ifconfig confirm that the loopback interface is alive on localhost.
The error I get is
>Error opening a connection: Error communicating with the server: Connection refused (os error 111)
What do?

powertop

If I decide to switch to running BSD, will the friendly friends here in /fglt/ still befriend me?

My Debian server running off of an USB flash drive started doing weird shit and then re-mounted my root partition as read-only. I found this:
[1987815.246293] EXT4-fs error (device sdg2): ext4_iget:4087: inode #785182: comm bash: bad extra_isize (3988 != 256)
[1987815.253209] Aborting journal on device sdg2-8.
[1987815.254240] EXT4-fs error (device sdg2) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4923: Journal has aborted
[1987815.261218] EXT4-fs (sdg2): Remounting filesystem read-only
[1987815.402643] EXT4-fs error (device sdg2): ext4_iget:4087: inode #785182: comm bash: bad extra_isize (3988 != 256)
...
I'm thinking I should shut it down and fsck the drive using my desktop, is this the wisest course of action?

My external HDD has bad sectors. It was NTFS. I formatted, now it is FAT. How to mark the bad sectors?

Bump. I switched from Gentoo to Free BSD last night. I think I might have gone in over my head here. I can't get wireless working at all. : (

You will never be able to get it working because the drivers simply aren't there. Enjoy.

any possible way to make my manjaro xfce usb a persistent install?

MATE or Cinnamon?

"Cloning" it with the dd command to a hard drive?

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

Mate, every single time.

how do i do that?

What's wrong with Cinnamon?

Are you sure? I'm kind of detecting a troll vibe here.

Google it if you don't believe me.

Hey Bud, we'd gladly help you over here. > Once a Linux guy, always a Linux guy, is our motto.

Same way you do everything Linux. Pay the Arch wiki a visit and make some tests whenever you feel comfortable. Try with another flash drive before doing it with the hard drive.

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/disk_cloning

>mfw contributing in some way.
This feel... I like it. I want more.

Why not? I used Vista in the past, but that didn't scare my gf off. You will always be welcome here, user.

>>mfw contributing in some way.
>This feel... I like it. I want more.

But I just came from there!

Ah, I get it. Which is the reply limit nowadays?

freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html
Seems to have better support than I imagined. If you chipset is in the list we may be able to help.

What do you mean?

Freedom is freedom - you're always welcome.
Actually, in the beginning BSD and GNU were friends and worked together; today you'll still find BSD references in GNU code and GNU references in BSD code.

the bsd vs linux thing is just another Sup Forums meme just like linux vs gnu, some people just want to watch the world burn

Thanks, friends.

Nobody? No ideas on what I should do?

wth is up with these terminal errors when trying to install anything? manjaro 16.06.1

forgot my paste

pastebin.com/raw/k1D3NcgG

Post output or we can't help you.

Cuck licenses are not freedom and neither is the agenda to indiscriminately eliminate any trace of gnu.

Have you tried getting a brain?

how do i do that?

I am using the HP 17-g121wm Notebook. Trying to run Arch Linux. Has an AMD A10-8700P APU. The screen will randomly shut off 2-5 minutes after booting up, sometimes sooner. The computer will still be running, but the screen itself will be black (the backlight seems to remain on, though). No matter what buttons I press, nothing makes the screen come back on, so I have to push the power button to shut the laptop off and back on.

This problem does not occur when I boot into Windows, but when I boot into Linux (I have tried Ubuntu and Arch linux), this problem persists.

I have tried starting grub with the kernel parameter "nomodeset", but when I do this I am unable to enter a graphical environment because the amdgpu driver depends on Kernal Mode Set (KMS) without nomodeset.

BSD and GPL are different licenses for different purposes. GPL is about user freedom, BSD about developer freedom. Sure, BSD allows to make the code proprietary which again resticts endusers freedom, but only allowing it doesn't mean that BSD is stricktly against freedom. Please stop thinking in black and white and bandwagon X vs bandwagon Y.

How does cucking developers of code contributions helping any developer?
Cuck.

Again: BSD allows to make code proprietary, it doesn't force you.

bump

>decide to try Ubuntu Mate after all the hype
>MFW IT'S THE BEST DISTRO I'VE EVER TRIED
>MFW I HAVE NO FACE

subscribed

Well, in order for maintenance to be easy, your laptop would have to be xbox heug. That's the tradeoff for portability.

Call him an idiot again. He surely will learn if you keep doing it.

Oh, wait...

OK imbecile.

Nigga, they literally tell you when you first run it and in the title bar. I could tell you, but it would be better for you if you found out yourself by doing a simple internet search or by actually reading the messages it throws at you.

Ubuntu MATE is not a distro. It's just Ubuntu with MATE desktop environment.

You're not being friendly.

Well, he's right about the cuck thing. I wouldn't describe it cuckolding, but imagine this:

>guy writes a program
>decides that it's a good idea to use a free licence
>chooses BSD
>company comes along
>takes the code, makes it proprietary
>sells it to other people
>other people don't have any freedom

Hopes and dreams - gone.

How about being FRIENDLY?

Correct, but it doesn't mean that BSD is the enemy of freedom, they just have a suboptimal license.

How about reading the error message before asking someone to read the error message aloud for you?

Not him, but sometimes there's no point in being friendly. That guy is so far into the "idiot" area, he should just be patted on the back and told to enjoy it.

There is always a point in being friendly, even if the other guy is a douche. You know what you get when you act like a douche? More douche. Break the circle of hell NOW.

Why does this effect you? It would only effect the creator. Do you spaz out when people donate to charities, or blow money at casinos, or literally anything else that involves someone freely giving something away? That's not a very open or free mentality.

>Why does this effect you?
Since when do we allow clinically retarded redditards on this board?

I'm not the person having error. I'm just asking you to be friendly. If you don't want to be, don't join the friendly thread.

Are you somehow forced to reply? If you can't be friendly, just don't reply!

How do I set my wireless card channel width to 40MHz? I'm using arch, kernel 4.6.2, card Broadcom BCM43142. On windows

Such licenses support spreading a virus called nonfree software.

>Again: BSD allows to make code proprietary, it doesn't force you.

> Goverment X allows you to kill people, it doesn't force you, tho.

Please help

man iw

Can we agree that the BSD license is bad but not BSD developers or BSD users and move along?

Well, BSD developers are enablers. But ok

Alright.

>nonfree software
True freedom is choice. Don't like it? Don't use it. But do not dictate your choices across the board.

>fglt is acting like adults
Whatever happened. I love this.

Not really. See the bsd generals as proof that BSD users are bad. As for BSD developers, they tend to be incompetent especially with regard to security, such as not understanding how entropy works (freebsd devs) or not understanding layered security (openbsd devs), to outright denying reality up to and until they decide to copy-paste security measures 5 years late and call it new and innovative, apple style (openbsd devs again).

Right, therefore all software licensing is anti-freedom. Why not let people use any code however they like?

Freedom is not being enslaved. What you are refering to is called anarchy.
>See the bsd generals as proof that BSD users are bad
This is Sup Forums bruh.

It would be a lonely world without OS X. BSD is ok for making it possible.

Freedom is about choice. What are you refering to is communism.

> anarchy
It's still better than enslavement OR dictatorship.

Which is why you should worship the GPL instead of proprietary licenses (dictatorship) or cuck licenses (enslavement).

In this right moment, if you are poor, you don't have the choice to buy a lamborghini. Seems you're not free, after your logic.
Software freedom means the programs doesn't control your computing (you're not a slave); instead, you are in control. The fact that this freedom allows you to customize nearly everything, since you can modify the source, is just a side effect.

Oh come on, we're not enslaved by physics just because we can't choose to fly through walls. Reducing his use of 'choice' to this is disingenuous.

On a server I have postfix and I send mail with it from terminal.
I got told that I for advanced security I should not run "full fucking mail server" on server.
I find that bit questionable because the port postfix uses is not visible outside.
I don't want to use external smtp and put some mail username and password in some config.
I want to send mail from the server in a way that does not require email address in 3rd party mail provider and possible does not require "full fucking mail server", how should I do it?

Okay this analogy way maybe too overblown, but you get the point. If he says freedom is about choice, then freedom means that he can install windows and still have freedom in computing, since it was his own choice.

>It's been so long since I learned about this that everyone who hasn't yet is a huge idiot to my view.
Oh, you're one of those people.

As said. Not replying would be better than replying ad hominems, mate.

>adults acting like adults

What's a small DNS server? I'm using busybox udhcpd for DHCP, but I need DNS too.

>people who agree with me are adults
>people who don't act like kids or are trolls

This is a friendly thread.
Don't start something.
Stay friendly.
Thank you.

First you're implying I'm not friendly and that I should be, then you say I can't start the process of becoming more friendly, then you insinuate I already am friendly.

Stop being unfriendly.

>people who act like kids or are trolls*
Fixed. If you think your behaviour was somehow mature you must have been some terrible role models in your childhood.

>First you're implying I'm not friendly
>Calling newbies idiots.
By the book.

>then you say I can't start the process of becoming more friendly
Can you? Then do it.

>you insinuate I already am friendly.
Maybe he meant "stay friendly or take a hike".

Hello friends, I have come from /sqt/ as they may not have the expertise that you friends may have. I have tried booting into arch Linux and came with this error. How do I fix?