Previously on: Welcome to /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread. Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.
*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread. ***
Before asking for help, please check our list of resources[*].
If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following: 0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine using VirtualBox or other software made for this puporse for safety purposes. 1) Use the Live ISO (if your distribution of choice has one) to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything, that way, you can get to experience the GNU/Linux operating system without installing it. 2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS, this is recommended if you want to know more about the GNU/Linux operating system. 3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
Is there a package or some other way that will enable spellchecking in Arch across all programs and windows?
Nathan Russell
On gNewSense, my mouse scroll does not scrolls... How to enable this feature?
Nicholas Morris
how do i make xsel copy shit from browser to terminal and vice versa?
Austin Cox
Mouse scroll drivers are proprietary blobs and this disabled in gNuiSance.
You're Welcome.
Tyler Ward
>he fell for the FSF meme
William Green
I want freedom. Must there be a free way to make mice scroll to work!
Benjamin Jenkins
Just started learning UNIX about a week ago.
Why the fuck does everybody act like running anything at all as the root user for even a second will make you grow hair on your palms, go blind, cause your computer to explode, have your house burn down and cause your dick to fall off?
I understand that it is a very privileged account, but everybody is so fucking irritable about it.
Chase Jenkins
Fuck off proprietary cuckolds!
Dominic Brown
It would be better if you could help me make my mouse scroll work, than cursing the people who can't help.
Ayden Rivera
If you run xev and scroll, does it regonize it?
Easton Rodriguez
It's because you don't have the privileges to scroll the mouse.
Every time you want to scroll, you have to yell "SUDO" before you move your finger down.
Ian Perry
Who the hell are you talking to?
Angel Brooks
...
Gavin Peterson
So I want to run my C program on linux, it's a server for a website so it has to listen in port 80 but linux has the problem that it doesn't let a program bind a socket to port 80 unless it is "root", then I read this
Nope, scrolling does nothing. I'm using it inside a virtual machine, by the way.
Chase Roberts
>proprietary cuckolds
Sounds like a great band name.
Brayden Perry
Hello again /fglt/
How do I use a .bin file? That's all that UNetbootin 494 comes in
Andrew Ramirez
>the harmful "cloud" meme.
The harmful "cloud" meme confirmed for new meme by Mr. emax
Gabriel Brooks
>So always use a name that doesn't have a bad PR effect.
Gnu Image Manipulation Program
>"Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
Jordan Howard
execute it? ./file.bin
Michael Allen
On gNewSense 4, I cannot run Telegram due to it requiring GLIBC 2.14 & 2.15, and gNewSense 4 having only GLIBC 2.14... Is there a way to install newer versions?
Samuel Powell
Yes.
Jayden Parker
yes
Nathaniel Ortiz
>We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms. This shit has gone too far
Isaac Lewis
Could you please tell me how?
Christian Campbell
On gNewSense 4, I can't install GreaseMonkey due to it requiring a newer version of IceWeasel: 31.5.0 isn't enough. Is there a way to install GreaseMonkey on this version ofthe browser? Withouth GreaseMonkey, I can't "install" AppchanX to use Sup Forums betterly.
Daniel Baker
Why is this thread full of retards lately?
Grayson Hernandez
GNU/Summer
Tyler Watson
yes
Brody Flores
I'm trying to run Citra emulator on fedora linux, but when i go to execute it the terminal spits out error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I've already installed libpng12. Anyone know what to do?
Oliver Gonzalez
fuck i'm retarded
nevermind lads, i got it
Asher Campbell
it's bad practice and there's just generally no reason to do it
it's a mindset that is common among Windows users, also.
Jayden Harris
>I complied. I've read as "I compiled".
Angel Evans
So I would like to port my game on Linux before launch. I already spent months choosing the right libraries (or rather lack of), but I still have to identify the last Linux-specific issues. If anyone wants to help porting more Linux games, here is the stuff.
I'm making a game where you control nanomachines (small robots) by creating Artificial Intelligences made of graphical symbols. youtube.com/watch?v=3VrRv0nVz-g
Known issues: >BUG 1: black window at start Installing lsb-release fixes it.
I'm looking for more Linux-specific issues to identify (and fix), so every feedback about non working stuff is welcomed.
Adam Nelson
what was wrong? how did you fix it?
Brody Hill
It's needed to use APT/APT-GET.
Gabriel Williams
i needed libpng12-devel
Ian Ward
Holy fuck that looks like neat game
Alexander Walker
And apt-get is only needed to install new packages.
It's just like UAC on Windows.
Jeremiah Phillips
I recommend using trisquel over gNewSense because it's based off ubuntu rather than debian.
Carter Evans
wut
that's what sudo is for. You generally just want to stay on your own user for everything. I can't even remember the last time I used root desu.
Nathan Wood
>Holy fuck that looks like neat game I designed it with Robotics and Programming enthusiasts in head, so I hope Linux users will like it.
Jack Cruz
Trisquel Mini installation ran into an error, and I couldn't install it. Before I try again, I need to know: which is the benefit of using a distro based on Ubuntu instead of Debian? I'm saddened by Canonical acts...
Dylan Edwards
This is from the last thread, but I have to respond.
>[in GNOME3] you have to browse applications in the same obnoxious, unsorted way. >you get to sift through an unsorted mess where things like games that are preinstalled with Debian 8 are scrambled in with maintanence tools such as the fucking thing you have to check how much hard drive space you have. It's unorganized.
You're referring to part A of pic related. But who the fuck actually uses the list of applications to run things regularly? Everyone I know either searches (see part B) or uses a dock with shortcuts (not pictured, but can easily be done). Also you can enable a pseudo start menu via gnome-tweak-tool (see part C).
GNOME masterrace (just kidding, but it's actually good)
Jaxson Ramirez
Just install Debian. Its free as in freedom. It just has a nonfree repo, which isn't part of Debian, but if you need stuff for your hardware, you can use it to make it work.
Hunter Robinson
On gNewSense 4, I cannot compile Corebird due to it requiring "automake" 1.14 or higher, and gNewSense 4 having only up to "automake" 1.10... Is there a way to install newer versions?
Ethan Jackson
>but it's actually good GNOME 2 was good.
3 tries way too hard to be innovative for no reason, and falls flat on all fronts.
Angel Gonzalez
Fucking neat dude, I'll check it out and let you know if I have any issues. On Debian Testing
Wyatt Williams
this looks like a very simple game why not make it using webGL and javascript so that it can run in any browser porting and comparability issues will be gone and you game will be a lot easier to reach and you could easily add some multiplayer.
Aaron Nguyen
Please stop.
Eli James
>why not make it using webGL and javascript so that it can run in any browser
eww
Kevin Morales
Is the mp3 codec free? If not, how are freetards able to play mp3s?
Julian Johnson
>but the repository is hosted on many of the project's main servers, and people can readily find these nonfree packages by browsing Debian's online package database and its wiki. gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
Asher Sanders
Somewhat agree, but 3 is very polished at this point, and you can configure it to work pretty much how you want (and I'm running 3.14), via regular settings and the tweak tool. I like how the super key bindings all work very similarly to Windows out of the box, mostly for maximizing and "snapping" windows to one half of the screen.
Jonathan Hughes
>service as a software substitude This is what is wrong with the web.
John Sanchez
>this looks like a very simple game The game engine is actually done to run a god game: start with one nanomachine, devour the environment and transform the planet into a giant spaceship.
I cut down lot of functionalities for this first game, but there is a long term project involving thousands of nanomachines working at the same time. Pic related is a timelapse with one million nanomachines (real time 2 hours), running on my 2006 computer.
Easton Diaz
But... I need help!!!!
Jayden Hall
...
John Baker
Fuck off summerag.
Camden Perez
Is the rar package free? If not, how are freetards able to extract rar files?
Robert Davis
So I recently broke my desk top environment on my laptop. I tried to install LXQT on my Netrunner Ubuntu distribution using the following commands [ sudoaptinstalllxqtlubuntu-artworksddm-theme-lubuntu-chooserxserver-xorg-input-allxserver-xorg-video-allxserver-xorg-video-intel ] after I rebooted my device i was met by a black screen with a cursor. I can right click to access terminal emulator and a web browser. >How do I switch back to KDE? I can't connect to any network be it wired or wireless, I am not sure why. Hopefully that's enough information. Thanks. Ubuntu 16.04
Joshua Reyes
Are you aware that it's not summer everywhere in the world?
Julian Anderson
RAR archives don't deserve to be extracted. They are obviously created by people who can't into computers.
Julian Rodriguez
wow, there really is an app for everything!
William Diaz
Are you aware that most people on Sup Forums are in the northern hemisphere?
Brody Roberts
FLUTE, Friendly Linux/Unix ThrEad
Nicholas Morris
>Unix Go away macfag.
Jace Myers
Are you aware that I'm not, so I'm not a summerfag?
Nolan Adams
You're acting like a summerfag which makes you a summerfag, doesn't matter if it's summer or not.
Brayden Jackson
Why do you say that?
Jordan Edwards
You're not respecting the fact that I'm on the south hemisphere. I don't accept being called summerfag, you should call me winterfag.
Angel Robinson
Never mind; you're clearly just a full on Aspie.
Henry Richardson
t. summer
Cooper Cooper
Can we please take this shit flinging somewhere else and act like adults again?
Adrian Torres
Currently using Debian stable, but want to upgrade. Testing or unstable?
Noah Garcia
Testing
Jace Campbell
Unstable
Ryan Mitchell
Do you want a stable system with somewhat delayed updates but overall pretty new stuff? Testing
Do you want a somewhat-less-but-still-very-stable system with bleeding edge updates, but more responsibility to not break things? Unstable
Caleb Morris
What are the correct dd settings to burn a Debian amd64 ISO to a USB from the commandline? Or is some other ISO burning technique adviced for this? How do I specify if I want it to be MBR or UEFI?
I've never burned ISO on Linux before, that's why I ask. Found somewhat conflicting info
David Evans
What does responsibility represents here? I mean what habits should I practice to not break things?
Carter Campbell
dd if=debian.iso of=/dev/sdX
you can add bs=512k or bs=16M or something if you want but the speed increases will vary.
Nicholas Parker
If I just want to run a C program server that listens in port 80 and returns some simple html and at the same time does some heavy physics calculations, what distro should I use?
Cameron Rogers
It doesn't matter at all.
Kayden Ramirez
Thank you, but how do I choose if I want it to be bootable in either MBR or UEFI mode. I remember I could do this with Rufus on Windows
Justin Young
Is 10 seconds good enough for WiFi to reconnect after I wake the laptop? Is there an equivalent to Autoruns and BootVis for Windows?
Ayden Baker
>disconnecting
Christopher Phillips
How is the WiFi supposed to work if the machine is suspended to RAM?
