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Other urls found in this thread:

awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Urxvt
superuser.com/questions/111152/whats-the-proper-way-to-prepare-chroot-to-recover-a-broken-linux-installation
stackoverflow.com/questions/7614546/vim-cursorline-color-change-in-insert-mode
phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdgpu-rx480-linux&num=1
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiple_profiles
gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5
ghostbin.com/paste/e36ut
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

That's a good point. I can't support such a shitty company. But are there any humanely made computers on the market these days?

What about a hackintosh?

Bless Torvalds and Stallman for giving the world the ability to have a free operating system. God bless Linux and GNU.

Why does set showbreak=>not work?

Fogrot to mention it is compiled wit the +showbreak option

Nigga, then for god sake's stop using that insanely weak scheme and get a strong Master Passphrase with which to lock all your passwords.

Which by the way should really be randomly generated and at least 20 characters long.

Yes, all of them. Even the non-important ones.

>what do you do when you have to use them outside of your local computer
I wouldn't if I can help it. But if you must, you can keep an encrypted USB with your passwords maybe. Or as a shitty very temporary measure, jot down the one you know you're going to use in a piece of paper and then get rid of it

So for some reason my kubuntu install has stopped booting. I think it would be quicker to reinstall but I want a list of installed packages before I do that. Is this stored somewhere so I can copy it?

Why don't you like...start it up in recovery mode to see where in the boot it hangs?

Ill post it again here.
Im new to lonux and im trying to find a replacement to a program called wifi audio basically it will send all the audion from my pc to my android phone
Pls help

How can I see that? When I do that it looks like it loads everything ok, last thing I see is something about hda and then I get the recovery menu. Tried fsck and updating grub.

hey Sup Forums having some trouble with fstab in my install. i have a 1tb hdd set up as my home dir

#second hdd as home partition
UUID=f9ff0a0e-9c84-46fc-8002-48d56308ce7e /home ext4 defaults 0 2

and its fine for me to get the files there works no problem but when a program say digikam is trying to write a database to my Pictures directory it can't. I tried changing permissions but it reverts back so i'm thinking its fstab and the default ownership. anytip helps

I'm trying to use urxvt and I'm trying to costumize it but I'm having a hell of a time for some reason. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, when I try to change the settings via the xdefaults file nothing happens. So I thought maybe it was just me so I went and copied a file from awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Urxvt and saved it as ~/.Xdefaults and still nothing is happening.

So I went to the arch wiki and it says that it should go to ~/.Xresources so I copied it there and still nothing. Pic related is Distro/WM if it's relevant at all. (And the terminal pictured is the default Gnome one.)

i'm using minidlna and vlc on my phone. works in the same network. which I'm guessing is what you want. its not too hard to set up, config file is simple
something like
media_dir= A,/home/user/Music (here A -> audio files)
media_dir=V,/home/user/Videos

I use it to stream things to my ps3 since its running low on storage

xrdb -load .Xresources

Try a refind usb stick or google if there's still something the old super_grub_disk around.
Then there's
superuser.com/questions/111152/whats-the-proper-way-to-prepare-chroot-to-recover-a-broken-linux-installation

Did it, got pic related (most of the lines specified are either comments or blank lines) but no change with the program when I run it

You need to start a new instance of urxvt to see the desired changes.

Does it do all audio even youtube vids

What is the FGLT approved ultrabook?

I did, my urxvt is still using all the default settings.

Have not tried that. but vlc plays a lot of stuff the computer is just serving it on the network.

post .Xresources

It's the link here I just copied it exactly to see if I could get it to work

>awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Urxvt
I checked the config you copied, I don't know it if matters but try it like this URxvt*.

here's how it looks on my phone
using
# Path to the directory you want scanned for media files.
#
# This option can be specified more than once if you want multiple directories
# scanned.
#
# If you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you can
# prepend the directory name with a letter representing the type (A, P or V),
# followed by a comma, as so:
# * "A" for audio (eg. media_dir=A,/var/lib/minidlna/music)
# * "P" for pictures (eg. media_dir=P,/var/lib/minidlna/pictures)
# * "V" for video (eg. media_dir=V,/var/lib/minidlna/videos)
# * "PV" for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=PV,/var/lib/minidlna/digital_c$
#media_dir=/var/lib/minidlna

remove the line starting with "urxvt.cutchars", save and load .Xresources again.

Restart urxvt

anyone? I can't be the only person with multiple drives on their linux box

Neither of these worked.

Side note, that may or may not be relevant. I'm currently using rofi to open urxvt. And when I select the program named "urxvt" and hit enter nothing opens so I've been opening the one labeled "rxvt-unicode"

Why does set showbreak=> in vim not work?
Yes it is compiled with +showbreak

rxvt-unicode is urxvt. i don't know what you're doing wrong, try with a simpler xresources that doesn't throw config errors?

I have committed a sin and installed Nvidia proprietary drivers.
I'm really hoping AMD gives Vega the Polaris treatment and gives it support on the coming kernel updates. 4.8 has some neat stuff like freesync and whatnot and it would be around the time Vega comes out.
I want to get rid of this 970, but it's still not time.

I have just made a switch from Ubuntu to *tips Fedora* and I fucking love it. This is the most useable and supported distro for desktops.

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>it is compiled with the +showbreak option
I think you mean +linebreak, because +showbreak doesn't exist. That may be your problem.

Have you tried :help showbreak?

Can someone help me with vim?

I want a differend background color for the current line when I'm in edit mode.

:set cursorline

I'm sure you can edit the appearance of this like you can edit all of vim's color scheme.

Well, that's working now. Not going to question it. Thanks user.

One less question, I added transparency to urxvt via URxvt.depth: 32
URxvt.background: rgba:0000/0000/0200/c800
Is there a way I could make it less opaque

Sorry for that I did mean +linebreak
I already tried the commands in help

URxvt.transparent: true
URxvt.shading: n


n=0 is opaque
n=100 is fully transparent

Found the solution just right after posting...

For the guy reading this 10 years later, browsing the archives:
stackoverflow.com/questions/7614546/vim-cursorline-color-change-in-insert-mode

Use hex, it's easier for the brain (at least for me). Syntax is like this:

URxvt.background: [alpha]#color
URxvt.background: [95]#111111

>pic related
and the article :
phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdgpu-rx480-linux&num=1

when you look at the performances of amd with vulkan and all their work on the linux kernel and their new drivers,

And it was before the issue with the power consumption that was fixed and gave better performances on windows. And the rumours are saying that you'll get better performances with a non reference GPU.

AMD will deliver, for sure. Seeing those benchmarks, I might buy a new gpu for christmas when all the hype will be over and that we will get more benchmarks of all GPUs

Thanks, one last question and then I should be good on my own. I'm not sure if this is controlled via the terminal or if it's via Vim itself. But does anyone know how I can get vim on urxvt use the same color scheme as vim does on the Gnome Terminal?

I just installed Debian and set up Firefox for secure browsing, noscript, no requests, ran the foritification guide, and now most pages only display the basic layout and text.
This is how I like my browser, however I am aware that it isn't possible to access email/banking/paying for shopping on it, so when I used Windows I always used vanilla Internet Explorer and only for those two purposes, and not for anything else ever.
I wouldn't even browse on it if I was buying shit, I would copy the link from firefox and just buy it from that point to avoid all the ads and gay shit.
Now that I am on debian, I obviously don't have IE, and I'm not sure which browsers are to be used/avoided

What is a good browser to install, with which I will be handling personal info?
Chromium? Opera? Any suggestions that have been tried and proven plox

Strike that, figured it out myself. Thanks anons.

Would something like this work as an alternative to having multiple browsers?
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiple_profiles

Elegant versus elephant etc.

You may also want to tweak your about:config.
One of many guides:gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5

Or just use GNU Icecat which comes (AFAIK) with sane defaults.

You might have gone a little overboard there, champ.

Firefox with Ublock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere is already pretty strong. And you can use your bank stuff there.

If you want ultra-secure browsing you can always just have a Tails Live USB for that, it's preconfigured for you.

What's your solution?

For some reason urxvt and the Gnome terminal default to two different color schemes in vim. I just found the one that gnome terminal was using (koehler) and then added syntax on
colo koehler
to my .vimrc

>overboard
Maybe so, but I've been doing it like this for the past 4 years, and have had much better browsing experiences since then. No more redundant laggy scripts, no more media autoplay or ads. As for tails, I don't need that level of security, I just do this for convenience of fast browsing

thanks man

Debian Unstable

Best tearfree/good fonts browser?

Best way to automount drives without a DE?

How to use another gui su program on KDE or have it remember my password?

What should I do with a floppy?

How to change ugly notifications from KDE Connect?

How to get DeadBeef to show up?

Best ultra lightweight programs?
>File manager,browser,wm,text editor,media player,document viewer

Any of these would be huge help

>Best
the one I'm using

this

It's (at least) the second time you've posted this

Please put more effort into your questions

>What should I do with a floppy?
rewind it and bring it back

>Tails
>I don't need that level of security
>Coming from a guy paranoid enough to browse the web in plain text

Uhhhhhhhhhh
You might wanna rethink your priorities man.

Where's the bash and other copy-pasta user?

I need his stuff

not him but here are a few pastas, not sure if anyone changed them recently.
ghostbin.com/paste/e36ut

epic bants

Have you browsed the web lately, friend?
Have you not seen the clusterfuck of ads, clickjacking scripts, and wasted space that the majority of internet websites are?

>try to load text on a webpage
>45MB of javascript

What the fuck happened, guys?

normies and greed

programming bootcamps

What will this do if I run it on Ubuntu? Bit scared tbvh

export PS1="\[\033[0;37m\]\342\224\214\342\224\200\$([[ \$? != 0 ]] && echo \"[\[\033[0;31m\]\342\234\227\[\033[0;37m\]]\342\224\200\")[$(if
[[ ${EUID} == 0 ]]; then echo '\[\033[0;31m\]\h'; else echo '\[\033[0;33m\]\u\[\033[0;37m\]@\[\033[0;96m\]\h';
fi)\[\033[0;37m\]]\342\224\200[\[\033[0;32m\]\w\[\033[0;37m\]]\n\[\033[0;37m\]\342\224\224\342\224\200\342\224\200\342\225\274 \[\033[0m\]"

how do you see info on a service that failed to load

systemtl status failedservicename.service

>Clusterfuck of ads
Ublock Origin

>Clickjacking scripts
Ublock Origin

>Wasted space
Ublock Origin

And add HTTPS Everywhere to that

Oh shit dude those are the nuclear launch codes, be careful with that, fuck.

...

how does meta keys in GNU/linux work? I use custom alt+gr bindings adding symbols to every letter key, but I'd like to do the same with another set of bindings with another useless key like the windows key (hyper? or w/e)

How do? Currently I've edited the symbols file in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/no (norwegian colemak)

thanks

does anyone know of a torrent for morrowind, but not one with an exe installer, just the base game directory itself perhaps in a zip or somehing

I want to test out openmw and I need textures and other assets and shit

can't you just install with wine and extract from there?

>Best tearfree/good fonts browser?
All browsers are shit. Use Firefox or Icecat.

>Best way to automount drives without a DE?
fstab. Try to use UUID or labels instead of /dev/*

OpenMW is for non pirates only. Don't taint their work with your filthy presence.

[spoiler] is right though.[/spoiler]

And on another note why doesn't Sup Forums have spoiler tags? We're not cavemen; we have technology!

I assume anyone autistic enough to actually bother with morrowind at one time bought the game. He seemed to want a zip torrent to bypass the need for winshit to extract the assets.

Useless reply

Useless question

Another useless reply.

>\033[number
These will create colors.

>\number
These will create block characters.

The if else stuff checks for the last command's return status.

Anyone using Nemo 2.8.6? I'm getting seg faults occasionally on closing Files windows, and other weird crashes. Anyone else?

Guys

Check your Google account

Choose to review your privacy settings when prompted

Something's up

Fucking grow up and decide yourself what's best for you.

But user, I've no Google account.

Debian Unstable

Best tearfree/good fonts browser?

Best way to automount drives without a DE?

How to use another gui su program on KDE or have it remember my password?

What should I do with a floppy?

How to change ugly notifications from KDE Connect?

How to get DeadBeef to show up?

Best ultra lightweight programs?
>File manager,browser,wm,text editor,media player,document viewer

Any of these would be huge help

???????

Mods, can we get this copypasta and their poster banned

Pls and thank you

Is it easy to set up Samba share authentication with a remote Windows Server domain controller?

>Debian Unstable
wew lad
>Best tearfree/good fonts browser?
they're all shit, go nightly or icecat
>Best way to automount drives without a DE?
shell script
>How to use another gui su program on KDE or have it remember my password?
dunno what you mean bro
>What should I do with a floppy?
put a bottle of beer on it
>How to change ugly notifications from KDE Connect?
no idea
>How to get DeadBeef to show up?
$ deadbeef
>Best ultra lightweight programs?
>>File manager,browser,wm,text editor,media player,document viewer
the ones im using
>???????
PROFIT

Talking of Wine, what's the best version to install on Ubuntu? 1.9?

whats a good distro for a laptop

can some one explain how to install pulse audio on ubuntu 16.04
new to linux

Every distro. Preferably one that respects your freedoms.

ubuntu is the best by far
it's already installed you dumb shit

Whatever is in the repos?

Friendly.

Any. If you're looking for light DE's, good options are LXDE and XFCE.

Don't you talk crap about my Unstable-fu

Should already be installed.
run "whereis pulseaudio" to make sure.
>ubuntu is the best by far
fuck off

>>Debian Unstable
>wew lad

What autism is this?