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xubuntu randomly freezes for a minute, i cant even move the mouse, then just continue to work normally. where can i find logs or something to see the cause of this problem
Bentley Howard
installgentoo is down, anyone know what's up?
Jaxson Edwards
It's a common thing
Robert Mitchell
How do I create an AP with iw, thanks for being friendly.
Wyatt Brown
dmesg. It might be that you have some hardware problems.
Cooper Gonzalez
Oh, ok then... Anyone want to recommend a terminal emulator that looks better than xterm?
But user, why not configure xterm? Search the Arch Wiki how to do it.
Adrian Walker
I'll look into it now, can it be made to not render fonts like it's not 1980s? Thanks, for the replies, there are so many bloody terminal emulators.
Tyler Morales
I like Terminator
Nathaniel Ortiz
Is there a point to using tmux if you're already using i3?
Ryan Moore
Yes.
Wyatt Brown
What would it be? Pls no sarcastic responses, I'm genuinely curious
Carson Myers
I have 2531 packages installed. Do any of you have anything to say to me?
Noah Jenkins
ok
Brandon Gonzalez
Because the work you do has nothing to do with your window manager?
Jaxon Mitchell
Quit attention whoring
Luke Thompson
Fact: You have an odd number of packages installed
Jose Turner
With KDE that's probably all the appendages alone, I use Xfce.
Sebastian Brooks
I ask because as far as I can tell tmux helps you separate your terminal into different windows of different sizes, which i3 can already do
So I wonder what other functionality apart from this it has
Aaron Hernandez
Are said packages free as in freedom?
Joseph Russell
It runs different jobs in the background, the window sizes are not its purpose at all.
Andrew Smith
Fact: 2531 is a prime number
Kevin Adams
Why are you using so much lib32?
Caleb Gonzalez
low, 3108 here, but well, I'm a programmer
Jackson Cooper
So it is: user@something ~ $ factor 2531 2531: 2531
Julian Bennett
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Joseph Perry
Getting rid of a DE. Which text editor, and file manager should I install? Still want a pretty GUI though.
Blake Murphy
vim/emacs, no file manager
rice out a tiling wm for prettiness
Lucas Anderson
Ricing i3 atm. Wonder if I should compile i3-gaps for Debian. Never compiled anything though. Kinda lazy to read through vim/emacs info and learn the keybindings. Also need a document viewer, was thinking on Evince or Sumatra?
Colton Allen
For vim run vimtutor and it will takes you through a short tutorial that's enough to get you started.
Bentley James
Nothing at all. Most of my packages are libraries, there's nothing wrong with that when you build software. >Packages: 2481
Noah Parker
linux
Henry Sanders
Linux-libre
John Gonzalez
systemd-linuxd
Jace Wood
ubuntu
Colton Wright
OpenLinux.Org
Isaac Carter
linux-torvalds
Adrian Cruz
Reminder we have two threads on /t/ - Torrents
Training videos for GNU/Linux (torrents) Ported videogames (torrents)
Zachary Hill
Holy fuck that's a lot of derivative projects.
>Christian edition >Satanic edition
lelz
Leo Martin
What should I use for locking my laptop screen when I close it? I found slim, and it's exactly what I want visually, but that's just for logging in and I can't use slimlock
Colton Smith
Defenstration edition?
David Gutierrez
cuz it's "thrown out the windows"
Austin Scott
>mfw Debian
Eli Richardson
Is there a minimal file manager that can give me image previews and thumbnail previews? Worker has image previews and xfe has thumbnail previews. If Worker had the directory tree view and the thumbnail I would be totally sold, but it doesn't, so sad.
Also, anyone knows if emacs can work as a file manager with thumbnails and image previews?
Logan Kelly
Seconding this questions.
Ethan Roberts
Any of you guys use Tails? I had a question about it
I was messing around with it, but it turns out that when I shut it down, when the RAM wipe is taking place, it just freezes on my laptop. It doesn't go through with the procedure so I have to press the power button to shut it off.
I also can't simply reboot into it, I have to power it off, take out the USB, boot into my Debian installation, restart the computer, plug in the USB, and boot Tails up again. If I try to simply restart Tails normally, it gives me a black screen (which immediately goes away if I unplug the USB) instead of showing me the Thinkpad logo
This is all on a T420 thinkpad
This behavior doesn't happen on my normal desktop, just on my laptop. Is there any work around? I heard some laptops could be problematic for Tails
Owen Murphy
Before I just give up and try to install Arch. I currently run Debian. Fsck is done on every boot even after editing the fstab and checking with tune2fs that the max count is -1 or 0.
Is there any other way to stop fsck from running on each boot? It's slowly down my boot time.
Jaxon Miller
Sakura
Dominic Hernandez
I'd like to make my Quitter.se (GNU Social) get all my Twitter posts. Is it possible to do with IFTTT?
Jack Brooks
I've got a running instance of urxvtd, and I accidentally ran urxvtd (again) when I meant to open a urxvtc. How can I connect to that original daemon again without having to kill it (since I have windows running within it that I don't want killed)?
In the meantime I can just keep a second urxvtd running which the clients can connect to, but that's not an ideal solution.
Justin Moore
I really like bash but I want to make simple GUI programs for myself (Format and mkfs USB/Multiple Copy manager/Update manager etc).
Does Bash have anything like PyQt or PyGTK? I'm a complete programming newbie btw
946 packages here. On my ubuntu laptop after 3 years of use I had more than 3k packages. I don't remember how many exactly.
Hudson Taylor
Thanks user. I also came to know about Zenity
Noah Garcia
I'm in the middle of running ddrescue on a drive.
It goes smoothly for the first 1.5TB and then starts to have constant read i/o errors (every three seconds) from about 1.6TB.
I've put -r3 and didn't do scrape.
Is there a way to create a complete disk image that is usable without it completing? Or should I just let it go under hte impression that the disk will probably be dead afterwards?
If the disk contains readable files - will the copied disk also have those files readable?
William Roberts
Can you please make a ranger-like file manager? People are asking for one with thumbnails, which is theoretically possible thanks to w3mimage and fbi.
Even if is another ranger clone with ncurses, being python-less is going to attract many people.
Oliver Williams
Of course. I'lldo my best
Jaxson Rivera
Hello! I've installed gentoo and don't know how to read pdfs in wayland, now I use fbpdf in tty2 to read, but there is two another solutions - install weston-view from weston 1.4.0 or use js-viewer. I dont know how compile weston-view, it has many and I can't compile just it with gcc, I can compile full weston and install just weston-view, but why developers didn't make it as separate single pascage? This is not Unix-way! Solution #2 - pdf.js by mozilla, online it works good, but when I had download it and open in browser in didn't work. What to do? I know, there is many readers for xorg, and I can use xwayland, but it will be not KISS-way.
John Butler
Take a look at rover if you want a reference, is a simple ranger clone github.com/lecram/rover
Also don't forget to post here your progress user.
Juan Brown
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James Cruz
you can get image previews in ranger already with w3mimage
Gavin Flores
I knew somebody was going to make this mistake, so let me remark than thumbnails are not the same as image previews. What ranger has is previews, of images, text, etc. But thumbnails are inline, not in a separate window like the previews.
>this fonts >this hinting shapes >video do you disable this shit when watch video? Why you enable sharpness in OS not in monitor?
Logan Hughes
gotcha
Easton Clark
>wayland
Nathaniel Torres
Damn that's sexy.
Asher Williams
Many thanks senpai.
Christian Torres
x.org deprecated, actually there is no reason to use it. 2016 already.
Carson Allen
Wayland is still not ready.
Jacob Rivera
Don't worry, Red Hat is going to shove it down our throats like pulseaudio and systemd. Not because they want to control all other distros, not-at-all.
Noah Phillips
>friendly linux thread HOW FRIENDLY IS IT?
So anyways, I'm wondering about getting into GNU/Linux. I keep going back to my shitty laptop every summer and installing some odd distro or another on it, but every time I use it for a few days and never touch it until I feel like installing a different distro. Am I missing something? I thought GNU/Linux was supposed to be better than Windows and OS X, but I don't see what the huge advantage is other than muh freedoms. It's not like Windows or OS X feels any better to use, but at least they have more software support and vidya games.
So tell me why I should spend the time to convert to GNU/Linux
Isaiah Carter
xorg isn't UNIX-way, just like systemd. You can youse OpenRC or any other init system if you want, you have choice. If you hate pulseaudio and networkmanager you can delete it.
Christopher Fisher
>I don't see what the huge advantage is other than muh freedoms
Robert Johnson
Well, what do you want to use your laptop for?
Jeremiah Thomas
Windows have games, but not freedom. Anything you do is observed by Microsoft. How about using Steam OS? Is some kind of proprietary GNU/Linux for games...
William Walker
Linux is worse than other operating systems, but it has the advantage that it is free in a real sense and also free in a freetard ideological sense. Linux is used primarily by welfare cases who can't afford a real operating system, ideologues who support Stallman religiously, and professionals who are not managing desktop computers.
The best you can do is buy Elementary, which tries to replicate Apple's design work and makes freetards angry.
Austin Robinson
I can no longer differentiate bait posts from serious ones now.
Andrew Hernandez
I want to create a launcher for Minecraft, but for some reason I cannot click OK. What am I missing?
Commercial software, yes, but there's far more software available for linux than for other OSes (unless you actually count all that random broken Windows shitware that fills the internet, but if you do then just kindly end your life).
Gabriel Hernandez
Use tiling window-manager, use console app, you can even not youse display server at all, there is browsers for framebuffer and console browsers also, mplayer for video in framebuffer, netsurf or w3m as browser... You can install gnu/linux on all your digital devices, you can choose your C-library glibc uclibc or musl, you can youse modern filesystems, which doesn't supported by windows and mac.
Nicholas Cruz
85% casual browsing (watching muh anime and chatting with friends), 5% fucking around with sysadmin stuff, because I find servers interesting (but I've been using Windows Server, SQL, Wordpress, i.e. Shit that werks with Windows), and then 10% playing vidya
Jace Hughes
Linux actually runs anywhere and it's pretty much universal. My homeserver, my Desktop, Laptop and my phone all run on Linux.
However you can do the same with Apple but you have to pay extra and Apple ecosystem is going to restrict you with apple only products.
Furthermore Linux is more secure and privacy oriented. Windows and MacOS have more vulnerabilities. You can harden your security in Linux as much as you could and Linux will actually let you do it
Wyatt Parker
Good luck trying to live without systemd if their developers keep demanding other sofware projects to depend on systemd.
Also, good luck trying to erase pulseaudio from Ubuntu and derivatives, all their packages are "optimized" for pulseaudio.
Brandon Thomas
any gnu/linux system also have games. On GNU/Linux gaming may be more comfortable, becouse gnu/linux not have so much backward capability as windows.
Dylan Hill
>Am I missing something? How the hell would we know? You haven't stated anything about what you've used or anything other than a few vague opinions.
