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I'm not able to log in to getty. something has gotten fucked up and im in a desktop session right now.. I dont see any issues in journalctl or dmesg Is there any where else i would look for logs?
Chase Bailey
what program shows me what buttons I press? It's something related to xinput and runs in a terminal.
Hunter Morris
where is the public_html/cgi-bin directory in manjaro. in opensuse it's /srv/www/cgi-bin and in ubuntu it's /usr/lib/cgi-bin
Colton Evans
xev
Jacob Gray
xev
Julian Hill
Sometimes randomly, sometimes when waking from sleep, my cursor freezes. This happens on both my USB Logitech mouse and my Deathadder 3.5G. Distro is Debian Testing, DE is KDE.
Ian Morales
What window manager do you guys usually use?
Dylan Wright
thanks m80's
Lincoln Nelson
kwin
Gavin Allen
Wizards assemble !
Advanced users of GNU/Linux (and I mean advanced), remember to try Source Mage GNU/Linux. True source-based distribution that can heal broken installs. And (in contrast with Gentoo and Arch) is: Free from obfuscated and pre-configured code. Fully committed to GPL, uses only free software (as in freedom) in their main package. With even the documentation is licensed as FDL. Without 3rd party patches, sensible defaults or masked packages. Doesn't need obfuscated python libraries, only bash. Uses clean dependencies as they came from upstream developers, which by the same provides instant updates. Can also use flags.
Do you like Arch Linux's AUR? Do you like Gentoo's portgage (or ports-like) package manager? With SMGL's "sorcery" you get all that. Making new "spells" not found in the "grimoire" (repository) is easy sourcemage.org/Spell/Book
It would go something like i3 awesome bspwm in terms of popularity.
I haven't seen as many Sup Forums users using other ones like herbstluftwm, dwm and xmonad but they do exist.
Jace Smith
Was testing webm conversions, here is the version with sound Is from a crappy avi, don't judge ;^)
Cameron Edwards
>Free from obfuscated and pre-configured code. >Fully committed to GPL, uses only free software (as in freedom) in their main package. >With even the documentation is licensed as FDL. >Without 3rd party patches, sensible defaults or masked packages. >Doesn't need obfuscated python libraries, only bash. >Uses clean dependencies as they came from upstream developers, which by the same provides instant updates.
a bunch of buzzwords then
Connor Baker
Thanks for the link. I was looking around and I stumbled upon a link to Sorcerer. I'm going to give that a try.
Charles Young
>sourcemage.org/ >for recently discovered vulnerabilities in ImageMagick lol, I think I will stick to the tried and true Windows 7 ;3
Owen Nguyen
Who should own drives mounted to /media?
Lucas Brown
will linux help me make friends?
Jason Wright
We all should.
Carter Cook
Steps I followed: Install Japanese in language support Install ibus and ibus anthy in package manager Choose ibus as keyboard input method Log out then log back in Go to ibus preferences (in same menu as language support) Click input method Click add Find and add Japanese - Anthy
Now you should be able to change to the Japanese IME by clicking the language icon on the panel.
I want to start using linux, but my current passion is being driven by the desire to rice a laptop to kingdom come and make it the ultimate personal portable workspace, any tips on laptop brand and distro?
Some back story:
I tried ubuntu back in 2008, when I was in highschool, but the lack of video games and peripheral support made it hell. I dabbled with debian/arch with a RasPi at work trying to make a tiny personal portable work station, but I couldn't even get started ricing it (nothing worked)
I used a Mac at work for a software engineering job, and coming from windows and IDEs, holy shit... coding with a terminal is a pure god send, especially when managing remote servers
I left that job and work QA right now, but would love to start coding again, starting with webdev using Elixir
this time, I'll do it right, learning emacs, and the art of 3 terminal windows. Point me to the right direction?
>pic related, what I aim to get
Cameron Robinson
And? Use your system manager like everyone does
Luis Green
I set up proftpd to both share some big files with normies that I know, and have access to all my stuff when I'm out and about. I have: >made sure anonymous login is disabled >set strong passwords on all user accounts >set the option to confine users to their home directory >set the login shell to /bin/false for everyone but me >changed the port number >set up TLS with a self signed certificate, and disallowed connections not using TLS
is there anything else I should do to secure my server?
Brody Young
yeah, because that's helpful
James Parker
Exactly the same thing
Julian King
Run it in a chroot
Are you using users created in the system? Or users that are just in ftp? If you're using ftp users, disable local login, as well as root login
Jaxson Anderson
chrome://memory had a nice total usage it's impossible to figure out how much it's using without it
Ryan Collins
>using htop is hard There are a pletora of system monitors avalible
Jeremiah Barnes
they're regular system users. I checked the documentation and they say root login is disabled unless you turn it on, which I didn't. I'll look into chrooting it. thanks
Jace Jones
have a link to pic?
Justin Bell
no, I just saved it off of Sup Forums. saucenao and tineye don't have any leads either
Already followed the instructions and added ppa:djcj/vapoursynth to my repositories and updated. MPV is not installed though. What do?
Julian White
That's like saying "what's the best car?". It's impossible to answer until you specify what you want it to do and what things it should be good at.
Austin Morales
I don't know.
Oliver Flores
In a bash script is it possible for a trap to unset itself? For example, if I'm handling SIGINT with a trap and I want the trapped code to reset SIGINT handling to something else.
Andrew Williams
Linux-libre
Luke Murphy
How do I add a drive on Debian?
Owen Adams
Linux-ck
Michael Myers
lsblk parted mkfs mount
Details are left to the reader.
Jayden Bennett
apt update then apt install mpv not working?
Xavier Gomez
I just installed manjaro, pretty nice so far. Anyway to the question. I have a USB mic that my headphones can plug into. In the manjaro audio settings the soundtest works fine and I set 'prefer' these over the other devices, yet I still can't hear anything else..
Connor Jenkins
I'm not getting any sound whatsoever from my computer. Here's what I get when I type in aplay -l: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/1000/pulse): Permission denied card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Dominic Johnson
Try running as root. If it works you've messed up your permissions and might have to add your user to the audio group.
Do you have permissions to /run/user/1000? Your user should be the owner of everything in there.
Did it use to work? Or is this a new install?
Austin Bailey
New install. I have read and write access to /run/user/1000 and I'm in the audio group.
Benjamin Russell
It wouldn't happen to be Debian stable?
Asher Clark
Debian Testing.
Thomas Garcia
what is this distribution? ignore the porn
Jayden Brown
ubuntu.
if you meant DE, it says XFCE right there.
Chase Watson
Audio didn't work for me on stable and I had a skylake architecture CPU. I think upgrading to unstable should fix it. From linux 4.2 or so skylake is supported.
Ryan Cruz
Why did you add yourself to the audio group? Read this and then decide:
What can i do to remap a mouse button? context: my middle click button died and I want to assign that functionality to another spare button on the side.
Aiden Smith
What are the downsides of dualbooting compared to having a single system installed? (except for having to choose your os when booting obviously)
Mason Cooper
ButtonMapping option in Xorg config files.
Camden Foster
It takes more disk space.
Juan Stewart
I had to do that huh? It's working now, thanks.
Austin Flores
>qt-5.7 removed the feature which makes qt programs adapt to your GTK theme
MY QBITTORRENT LOOKS UGLY NOW FIX THIS QT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Blake Wood
literally why?
Levi Gonzalez
Does anyone know of a idiot proof rutorrent installer script for ubuntu? A few guides I've tried haven't resulted in success.
Parker Scott
Apparently no one wanted to maintain it. I am also confused by some of the information.
According to [0]this, it will be moved to qtstyleplugins. According to [1]this, it was already moved. How come that was almost a year ago, but version 5.7 was released recently?
I am trying to compile that new qtstyleplugins, but I can't find any instructions on how to. The people in [2]this thread are claiming it will make Qt programs segfault anyway.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT THIS NOW FOR 10 SECONDS
Why do you want r(u)torrent? Do you actually need some of its specific features or are you just doing it because you think it's cool?
Matthew Russell
Looks good actually. Just change the icon theme
Nicholas Evans
>installer script
huh?
not one of the strong suits of loonix anyhow.
Jeremiah Gray
It looks awful. The main issue is inconsistency. People will have GTK themes that look totally different from that Windows like Qt5 style. To get Qt programs to use a custom icon theme, I had to export DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome, but I'm hesitant to do that since it might mess with a few other things too.
You just can't win ;_;
Justin Sanders
I need it because rtorrent is a lot more stable in my experience compared to qbittorrent and transmission, especially with the thousands of torrents I keep loaded.
Jaxon Ramirez
>mount YES E S
Angel Ward
how fucked am i?
Nolan Morris
More than a white girl in sweden
Lincoln Ortiz
You'll soon realise if this is not your serious/main OS
Anthony Robinson
I faithfully kept my promise to you, user.
Jacob Perez
kek seeing as its the only thing i have on this laptop, it'll be this for a while. is it that bad? xorg wont run properly in freebsd so i went with this one. which linux should i use? i came from arch and got tired of being edgy
Angel Baker
>rutorrent on Ubuntu requires compiling nearly everything by hand >rutorrent on arch is as easy as yaourt -S rutorrent I don't really mind doing it manually, but it's not easy and mistakes can be made. >mfw ubongo ganoo/loonix
nvm fixed it ;) I compiled qtstyleplguins successfully and it can use the GTK style now. Instead of GTK+ in QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE, you have to use gtk2.
Aaron Kelly
>add ppa >apt-get update >apt-get install rutorrent >package not found Cool
Nathan Cook
Can some one point me in the direction of radiology?
Sebastian Sanders
latest one of that ppa is for 15.04, probably should find a more recent ppa, or just figure out how to follow instructions for rtorrent install that is included in the tar.gz
Gavin Gutierrez
Is that numix? I swear everyone and their mother's dog uses numix theme and icons.
Lincoln Foster
Here is how mine looks
Justin Allen
all the cool kids are using arc now.
Ryan Ortiz
whenever you boot, you're in front of your grub and wonder > will I play a game ? Oh maybe, I'll just boot on windows in case I want to play a game. and you'll never boot on linux again.
That's the biggest downside of dual-booting. If you can stop playing windows only game, it's a good thing.
Chase Gutierrez
Thanks, user!
Lucas Harris
No, that's Zukitre from the Zuki-Themes. I hate Numix, with its bright red highlight color and too much contrast between some widgets.
Andrew Fisher
Which Qt style is that?
James Reyes
>tfw i now just do gameshite on my windoze partition and use loonix for everything else
took a bit to ween myself off, but it was worth it.
will probably reinstall it on a ssd to not make it so unbearable and keep it contained there.
Luis Diaz
>this time, I'll do it right, learning emacs, and the art of 3 terminal windows. Point me to the right direction? just learn vim.
About the laptop I don't think it's important. It's just hardware in the end. If you want to play some games, it's better to go with an nvidia GPU (better drivers => better perf). About the distribution I don't think it's important. What you can install on a distribution can be installed on another. Maybe you'll prefer a distribution like archlinux that doesn't come with a lot of stuff by default so you can install stuff you need only to have a distribution that is exactly as you want. Other distribution you would like is gentoo.
Joshua Diaz
Zukitre from the Zuki-Themes
Gabriel Hernandez
Rebooting takes seconds with an SSD. Even before having one, I always booted into Linux at startup. Only when I was going to play something Windows only I switched. Having windows as your daily OS once you've tried Linux is, for me, almost painful.
I'd say that only affects you if your boot times are very long or if you play videogames during short breaks. Luckily there are tons of Linux-available games for that.
During the final month of writing my thesis I played this during pomodoro breaks (~5 min).
Impossible, since that's not how Qt programs would look with the GTK style and using the Zukitre GTK theme. Your screenshot looks like the Plastique Qt style or something.
Which distribution is that? Post "printenv | grep QT".
Brayden Lopez
Take it easy, user. $ printenv | grep QT QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qgnomeplatform [user@primary ~]$
Camden Perez
and what's the learning curve on this? Best way to learn is to just go ham and jump in... but how tough will it be really?
Sebastian Morgan
I'd mount her cunny like a champ
Jacob Murphy
Well, it's not really Zukitre. It's probably Adwaita as mentioned here:
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
