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New linux-user here, what's the Sup Forums opinion on openSUSE? Is it good on the privacy front? Can't seem to find too many opinions about it.
Carter Foster
is it possible in wifi-menu to log into a network that requires a username additionally to your password, since wifi-menu usually only asks for the pw.
Kevin Ortiz
I am trying out ncmpcpp. Is there a way to have global keyboard shortcuts so I can for example start it in tty6, then press ctrl+num5 to stop playback, even when I'm in another tty? Also post ncmpcpp screenshots and configs pls.
Thomas Williams
Are samba shared folders visible in a home network? I mean with sftp, you have to log in to view the files. Windows share, however are visible.
What do you guys use for NFS? Sftp is just too slow
Angel Morgan
just keep a terminal tab open.
or connect to it via mpdroid or similar thing, to remotely control it.
Open SUSE is an okay distro. There are two cons about it though
1. Not really easy: It's not as simple as Arch or Debain. By hard I mean it is a bit different than mainstream distros.
2. Since it is not a mainstream distro, it needs a good wiki. Unfortunately the wiki sucks and NOT up to date.
I don't recommend it for beginners
Jayden Torres
I do recommend ubuntu though
Hunter Roberts
Curl or wget?
Justin Anderson
Don't relay on ncmpccp shortcuts, just control mpd directly via mpc from your tty.
Aiden Brown
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring 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.
Isaiah Long
You use the right program for the specific task.
Levi Johnson
Please don't interject in /fglt/. Better just use GNU/Linux when answering a question. Newfriends will most likely adopt it. If you interject them, they will go in defense and end up converting to "just linux" persons.
Jace Davis
neither, both.
Cameron Garcia
The ones I'm not using.
Levi Collins
What's the deadliest bullet you've ever dodged? >Trying to fix audio playback >"Why don't I reinstall Phonon?" >apt remove -s phonon >Nearly everything would have been removed along with it >tfw
cURL is good enough to click webpage buttons, upload stuff and "cat" webpage sources, while GNU wget is good enough for downloading, mirroring, and working recursivly.
Ofc both programs can do more or less simliar things more or less easy.
Jonathan Powell
just walked into the wrong neighborhood nigga
Tyler Thompson
do you guys also sleep in your feather/bed, driver your fuel/car, read tree/books, wear fabric/clothes and write with ink/pens? This naming scheme is seriously the most retarded thing that's ever been forced onto people.
Juan Wright
I'm on gentoo right now, twitter somehow can't play videos on firefox but I'm pretty sure it could before, wtf is happening?
Caleb Howard
no, i use a legs/bike, but other than that, you got me.
Eli Martin
it works on 49.0a2 maybe try using mpv through "open with?"
Jeremiah Sullivan
> proprietary spyware social media Haram.
Joseph Morris
This is MY bait.
Free software falls pretty much out of the general naming scheme where one project is distributed that gives the product it's name.
With GNU/Linux distributions it's different. The most popular base system is GNU in combination with the Linux kernel, but sometimes GNU is combined with a different kernel, hence GNU/Linux, GNU/Hurd, GNU/kfreeBSD, etc. But that's not even enough, it's just the base. A GNU/Linux distribution adds different package managers, DE's, window managers, standard programs like text editors, terminals and browsers, Everything together is a full GNU/Linux distribution; something that under Windows or OSX would be a single project.
Ayden Gray
apt-get install english
Andrew Collins
Install ffmpeg, enable everything.
Joseph Price
How do I get pixel-sharp fonts like many people post in screenshots? I played around with the font settings in my xfce menu but it doesn't really change anything.
Jackson Powell
You are searching for xfonts like unifont or terminus.
Aaron Robinson
Copy this into your ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf and then re-log.
true false lcddefault hintslight true rgb
15 lcdlight hintnone
medium hintnone lcdlight
0 hintnone lcdlight
Andrew White
I'm using terminus but it's washed out when I zoom in with no anti-aliasing and strong hinting. I'll try this, thanks.
Camden Jones
Holy shit, ncmpcpp is horrible.
>connecting to a local server from another computer >accidentally hitting 4 while in the library view goes into the album view, but gets stuck and freezes up completely >sometimes it crashes for no good reason after scrolling the library
I also get ridiculous delays when browsing and I don't think it's a problem on mpd's end or regarding my connection (computers are on a LAN).
Aiden Thompson
You're using a bitmap, monospaced font for non-programming usage in your UI. Of course you're asking for trouble. Why do people do that? You see someone do something and then you start doing the same without even thinking about it. It's naive and pretentious as fuck.
Leo Rogers
Is there a guide for an optimal Gentoo kernel configuration? I can’t update my VM anymore because there is not enough space left to emerge GCC (even after deleting obsolete source code and shit).
Joseph Phillips
I don't really have trouble, the standard fonts look even worse. It fits nicely with my desktop and it's useful already for just playing around with config files. It's the same in a terminal as well as GUI editors or my taskbar. Even if I used it for programming I would have this problem. Also I'm not one of those people who parades his riced desktop and laptop stickers around so it's hardly pretentious. Don't project your habits on me.
Joseph Gonzalez
Your bitmap font is going to look blurry and washed out when you zoom in. That's a fact and it has nothing to do with projecting or whatever you're talking about. Those fonts aren't meant to be used for those things.
Adam Evans
If you are not running X, I don't think you can. You must have some IPC that can send it commands
Dominic Ramirez
This is the most underrated part about the new package formats. Everyone talks about how easy it is to install, but the real feature is how easy it is to remove.
Samuel Butler
What is the recommended ftp daemon to use? Need something with tls support too. vsftpd?
Hudson Thomas
Any way I could make wget download multiples things at once with one link? Running multiple instances of wget doesn't seem like what I would want. Would race conditions even happen?
Aiden Garcia
This probably belongs in /sqt/
I'm new to GNU/Linux and am a bit lost when it comes to repositories. Specifically Fedora's COPR's, I know that they are individual user repositories, but say for example, I downloaded Firefox Nightly from a COPR, would it be updated with DNF or would I have to wait for the creator of the COPR to update it first?
Second question, are these repositories safe? Would it not be easy to bundle malicious software into them?
Thanks chaps
Eli Brown
# Updates work with versions.
If a community package has a newer version, you get the community package - if the main repo package has a newer version, your get the main package instead.
It's possible to bundle malware with community packages, therefore you should only enable community repos you trust.
Asher Gonzalez
Volume control doesn't work in Mate for my USB sound card.
How do I fix it?
Ethan Scott
drunk guy from the other day here reminding you all to check out the thread on /vg/ as well :)
Tyler Davis
I'd just like to interject you for a moment. Who the heck do you think you are to tell someone to not interject someone?
Oliver Rogers
Is xubuntu still the best distro for beginners that doesn't look like ass?
Luis Wright
yes or fedora cinnamon spin
Landon Turner
>Try to install Debian >Trackpad wont work because its "nonfree hardware"
What the fuck do I do Babbies first "real" Linux here
Charles Carter
It's more like we're objecting to people calling a motorboat a "motor"
You don't drive your motor, you drive your fucking boat. Calling it a motorboat is just being specific about what kind of boat it is.
Easton Stewart
use a keyboard for the installation, add nonfree sources and install whatever weird driver you need. wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
Brandon Hernandez
how do i share a folder on the external drive with soulseek fagits? it doesn't show up on the file picker. this is ridiculous.
Logan Peterson
You're stuck in the Windows mindset. Find the directory where you mounted your external hard drive and point to it. Simple.
>qt file dialog And people complain about the GTK file dialog.
Eli Hughes
ah shit, i didn't see the /media/ folder in which it was mounted. thank you mate. yes i am stuck in the windows mindset as well, it has been like three days since i installed xubuntu.
Robert Davis
Is Bunsen Labs just a preconfigured version of Debian? Or does it have it's own special snowflake stuff like Manjaro does for Arch.
Cooper King
What is a not garbage image viewer for linux? Something like honeyview and it needs to have fit to width and I shouldn't have to select it for every image
Easton Stewart
what's wrong with feh?
Carson Cook
I am working on an elaborate shell script and I'm starting to feel like it's getting too complicated and that I should start making it for binary compilation instead.
What would be the go-to way of doing this? I have never programmed on GNU/Linux before so I have no idea about the tools out there. Are there free programming environments, or will I have to use mere compilers? Is there a platform/architecture-portable way to make console applications
maybe you should explain your definition of fit to width then and provide a sample image
are you saying it is opening beyond full-screen?
Benjamin Powell
I use eclipse and heard a lot of good stuff about intelliJ but i dont really know anything about the rest.
Wyatt Brooks
i should probably add that eclipse is pretty heavy-weight for an ide. On my machine it uses ~580MiB right after starting up
Lincoln Butler
I want long images to fit to the width of the window not the height
Views like this are useless
Caleb Jones
so could you provide a sample non-porno image so I can open it in feh and see what your talking about? because with my config feh does exactly that, but I need to confirm it with an image
Aaron Johnson
>ncmpccp
Daniel Peterson
i use geeqie, haven't used honeyview so can't compare
I just tested this image and feh does exactly what you want by default. how is it not working for you?
Jaxon Ward
its opening it at full resolution I have to grab it and move it side to side to see the full image if I restrict the window size with -g it does this shit
Aiden Ramirez
Also just realized scrolling doesn't work literally useless
Leo Carter
You might want to learn how to program and a specific language first instead of focusing on those bikeshedding questions.
It can also optionally view webms etc. It probably won't be packaged for your distro though. I built it from source, wasn't too hard (then again, I use gentoo :^))
I forgot my root password on Ubuntu mate. How do I reset it?
Dominic Parker
>Is Bunsen Labs just a preconfigured version of Debian?
As far as I can see, Bunsenlabs is basically just Debian with a pre-riced window manager and themes. Bunsenlabs has some very limited additional repost for some scripts, which are added to your sources list.
If you ask me, if you want a out-of-the-box debian with openbox and some nice eye candy. Bunsenlabs is the way to go.
>Or does it have it's own special snowflake stuff like Manjaro does for Arch.
Manjaro is basically the same thing, except that it has it's own repos that are delayed some days from the default arch release cycle to prevent breakage and adds additinal patches for stuff you'd rice on Arch anyway.
Caleb Flores
Come and support the thread on /vg/ Gaming on GNU/Linux
Landon Bell
mpv
Isaiah Jones
>>what's wrong with feh? Everything. - Trashy programmed - ugly special snowflake right click menu - less accessibility - more bloat - can't display gifs - can't display webs - trail and error keybinding mechanism
I mean, even gnome's EOG is better than feh and this tells alot about feh in general.
Jaxon Torres
>feh >bloat
Juan Kelly
>so why are you using feh user? >for setting my wallpaper! :^)
Jack Bailey
If it can't into gifs but can do wallpapers is retarded. I better use sxiv that is tiny in comparison and can do gifs.
Ryan Rogers
There's an image viewer most people forget about and it's "ImageMagick can sudo your mother"'s display program.
usage: display
No additional packages needed, since ImageMagick should be a standard install anyway.
Camden Butler
shameress bump
Angel White
look in the INSTALL file
Aaron Gray
literally read the install file noob
Prerequisites 1. Make sure you have Qt 5 installed and working. If you dont know what Qt is, go to qt.nokia.com/products/. You will need qmake to compile.
Building 1. edit kdocker.pro if necessary. It should be ready to go with no change. 2. qmake 3. make 4. run "make install" (optional) 5. While making shortcuts, use the icons in /usr/share/kdocker/icons.
Please see README for tips and general information
IMPORTANT: Kill all previous instances of KDocker that are running before trying out this version
Colton Bell
>Qt 5 >If you dont know >qmake to compile >edit kdocker.pro JUST
Jonathan Hernandez
This is a friendly thread faggot memer. Be friendly or fuck off. Always make to to read the INSTALL and README files, those files will usually tell you how to install a program and what requietements are needed.
Christian Jenkins
I've fat fingers, pls no bully.
Jason Foster
Ignore what user X wants to install. Focus on the how instad of thw what; that's basically all what user x wants to know.
