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Hunter Allen
Edgy
Parker Ramirez
Why on earth would I want to use i3-gaps? Aren't tiling WM supposed to optimize window space?
Andrew Walker
>Aren't tiling WM supposed to optimize window space?
Yes, but the meta-game for ricing your desktop is to have gaps between tiled windows with pastel colors everywhere.
Jacob Moore
On the theme of i3, is there a way to get alternating colors when having open multiple tabs? When I have say 4 tabs they kind of blend because they're all the same color.
Zachary Cruz
I like to use gaps with 1px borders.
It maximizes space while not having huge borders to differentiate between windows.
Jason Scott
By tab color I mean the top bar that turns blue for the current active tab. I'd like inactive tabs to have a different color than their neighbour in the same container.
Kevin Green
I have a bunch of huge gifs I want to convert to webm. What ffmpeg settings should I use to get the best quality?
Nicholas Jones
-quality good -cpu-used 0
will give about the same quality as -quality best IIRC
Juan Perez
If you have used a tiling wm without gaps for a while, you're thankful about some gaps that help you distinguish the windows. Additionally it feels less "claustrophobic".
-ss is the start position in number of seconds, or in hh:mm:ss[.xxx] format. You can get it using your video player (Ctrl-G in MPC-HC). -to is the end position. -vf scale=640:-1 sets the width to 640px. The height will be calculated automatically according to the aspect ratio of the input. -an disables audio. Sup Forums will reject your files if they contain audio streams.
Maximum file size is 3072KB. Maximum duration is 120 seconds. Maximum resolution is 2048x2048 pixels. No audio streams.
Sebastian Hernandez
Actual limitations:
Current limits for WebM files on Sup Forums are:
Maximum file size is 4096KB. Maximum duration is 300 seconds (5 minutes). Maximum resolution is 2048x2048 pixels. No audio streams except on /gif/ and /wsg/. (use -an)
Current limits for WebM files on 42chan are:
Maximum file size is 8192KB. Maximum resolution is 10000x10000 pixels. Audio streams permitted globally.
I like you. >you're thankful about some gaps that help you distinguish the windows No I'm not. I can distinguish very well between different windows without gaps, thats what borders and colors are for.... Sorry, I can't help you.
Lincoln Morris
I miss when these threads moved fast and I could sit here all day and have something to do. Now I'm bored all the time.
Christian Jackson
Reposting from last thread: Getting real tired of running Nvidia proprietary drivers. It shits itself with every kernel update despite them doing DKM modules and it's frustrating since I have to switch to integrated graphics whenever it does i to reinstall. How's AMDGPU right now with the 4.7 kernel? I'm tempted to just ditch the 970 and sideupgrade to a RX480 when the stock stabilizes. I don't even mind installing AMDGPU PRO if I can get more performance. That's their main disadvantage, but if it can handle console emulation and some games at decent fps, then I might just do it.
Owen Torres
The only time this thread moves quickly now is when summerfags get into shitposting wars. Everything else is "I'm installing lanux for first time why dosnt insatller wurk?!?"
Ian Lewis
Void Linux seems to be the most sane distro out there but how much of a Linux guru do you need to be to run it?
Jason Clark
You misspelled Debian.
Robert Moore
>systemd >sane
Even the most hardcore of apologists would hesitate to agree with you.
Andrew Watson
You don't need to use systemd, newfag.
Angel Thomas
Does the phrase "sane defaults" mean anything to you?
Jacob Morris
Buttons 9 and 8 of my mouse not working while using py3status on_click handler, however, they work when tested on xev or browser. Any workaround?
Cooper Gonzalez
>sane hipster*
Liam Nguyen
what multifunction printer/scanners work out of the box? any recently released/widely available ones? what manufacturers of mfp are good about supporting loonux?
i have a brother right now. printing works out of the box using a similar but not same driver from cups, or i can download specific driver from brother. scanning requires me to download a brscan deb from brother and another deb if i don't want to manually fidget with udev permissions.
this is annoying but ok for me, but not workable for the nontechnical should i ever want to hand off a computer to someone. that or should i just install windows 10 and lock the admin account password away somewhere so they can't fuck their shit up?
Hunter Walker
When someone starts with the systemd is bad meme, you usually know that this someone is a memer himself, trying to fit in, but really has no idea what he is talking about.
Lucas Roberts
/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/py3status/__init__.py Line 287-294: if not key.startswith('on_click'): config[section_name][key] = value else: # on_click special parameters try: button = int(key.split()[1]) if button not in range(1, 6): raise ValueError('should be 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5')
Try expanding that range in the second to last line from 6 to 10 and see if it helps.
>only talks about printing and not scanning i looked at hp's site since i recall their hplip stuff getting picked up whenever i install cups, but all their scanning functionality requires additional download ("driver plugin") too.
Levi Morales
locate py3status | grep init /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/py3status/__init__.py /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/py3status/__init__.pyc /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/py3status/modules/__init__.py /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/py3status/modules/__init__.pyc Opened every one of them but there are no lines like the ones yo posted.
This is what happens when people are not constructive. Shitposting and distro wars will get you no where.
Get constructive, post useful things, post your own how-twos, discuss about it, improve it.
Tyler Russell
You're not "guru" enough to know how to install it, but you somehow know it's the most "sane" distribution out there? What an idiot you are.
Logan Johnson
grep -Rn for on_click in dist-packages/py3status and look around it for any sort of range being defined for the buttons
Cooper Morales
F R I E N D L Y F R I E N D L Y
Kayden Roberts
I'm working on a universal and to-go guide for setting up DNS services for the newfriends. What should I mention? DNSCrypt+DNSMasq? Unbound?
Matthew Ramirez
I love you, it worked. Had to change it twice. Ended up being /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/py3status/i3status.py file, which had two blocks defining range.
Tyler Martinez
if I use yaourt to install 2bwm how would I go about finding the source, editing the config.h, and recompiling?
Yes I want to use yaourt and not just clone and compile it so I can have packman recognise it as a package.
Julian Ross
yaourt is trash, just use cower (or nothing) and build it yourself with makepkg. That way you have complete control.
Kayden Long
Why is yaourt trash and why is cower better? can I edit config files with cower?
Read the man page for makepkg to get the options for unpacking source without immediately building, etc. so you can edit before continuing the build process.
When did I say I don't know how to install it? You sounds like a very angry person.
Brayden Garcia
My proprietary Nvidia drivers don't shit themselves with every kernel update. What are you doing?
Nathaniel Cruz
You're not familiar with the AUR are you?
Easton Ramirez
cancer
Anthony Bennett
Oh that edge
Zachary Lopez
When I run pacman -Syu will these get updated as well?
Asher Parker
No. Checking for and updating all AUR packages is where an AUR-helper can come in handy, but ever since AUR moved to git yaourt is far too bloated for just that task.
Sebastian White
Ah damn. What would you recommend then, or were you the one who recommended cower for that.
Bentley Nelson
This is a friendly thread.
Eli Phillips
Stupid shit I don't want
Juan Mitchell
Why do you think it's stupid, care to explain ?
Henry Martinez
Since snaps packages are isolated and distro independent, closed source devs may actually port their applications for Linux via snaps. So, yeah it's cool
Cower just searches, checks for updates and downloads (all done manually) and you just makepkg it. It's better because you have more control. And yes, you can configure it first unlike yaourt that does it automatically.
Nicholas Stewart
They sometimes work after an update, but they didn't on the last update to 4.6.4.
Adam Foster
Yeah, simple. I type pacman -S package and package gets installed and works because every optional feature is compiled so nothing will have a chance to be missing.
Noah Gonzalez
Like on every other distro.
Liam Davis
>A snap is a fancy zip file containing an application together with its dependencies
Not only would that require you to reinstall copies of those dependencies over and over again, it also means that they would use those dependencies, not those on your system you can control.
Joshua Myers
Debian or Fedora for a laptop?
Landon Foster
what is static linking
Christian Ward
>pacman -S package You're not supposed to do that, you're risking a partial update and system breakage.
Leo Ross
Have you ever even used Arch before?
Ian Rogers
he's right pacman -Syu firefox
Eli Bailey
>pacman -S Why not a proper switch like -i or even more simple: apt-get install :)
Josiah Sanders
Running -Sy then installing packages is a partial update. If you just -S then you're still getting the package versions of the last time you did an upgrade (unless you waited too long and the old versions were purged from the repo).
Kayden Cox
Found the first Arch logo (2002) on wayback machine,
How do I append text to the end of a file in vi. When hitting L my cursor only goes to the last space, and I have to use the arrow keys (in insert mode) to get further
Ayden Turner
G -> A
G goes to the last line, A goes to the end of the line and switches to insert mode.
If you want to insert on a new line instead of the end of the last existing line, then use o instead of A.
Brody Smith
Thank you user for saving me like 2 minutes of googling.
Lucas Hill
i used unetbootin to install debian but when i select it on the list i get this. any help?
options are enter = OS selection and esc = uefi settings
Jaxon Lopez
Hey guys
I just installed Ubuntu on my system and I'm completely new to this.
I assume I'll also have to compile the package before I can use it, right? How would I go about that?
Benjamin Long
try dissabling secure boot.
Caleb Green
ALWAYS try and download everything through you package manager sudo apt-get install mpv
Asher Parker
All right, then what? Do I compile it now or something?
Benjamin Powell
You don't have to compile it, it's included in the official repos.
Cooper Nguyen
I'm running ubuntu 14.04 on my old asus u31f, and i get the occasional slowdown. its on a 500 Gb HDD, and i was wondering, will i see much improvement if i swap that for a 120 Gb SSD and install 16.04. the rest of the specs are in pic related, the HDD is also partitioned to fit windows, but the SSD would be ubuntu only. Also are there other options that are easier for my laptop to run, but will still allow me to use things like matlab and openfoam?
Yes, you fucked up. Do you have any other mpv packages installed. Do an update first and then try
Grayson Hughes
turning off secure boot makes it go "no bootable device"
should i change boot order?
Zachary Morris
Don't think I did anything of the sort
Lincoln Thomas
hmm see
Jayden Stewart
Wait, it just gave me this.
Dominic Reed
Using Ubuntu at uni + VM for univerity purpous. Want to ditch Windows entirely. Tend to install Debian but there is a flamewar about systemd (lol no clue what that even does) So I am now struggleling with Debian vs Slackware
Is Slackware doable for a beginner? Is it a good chopice for a purely desktop every-day system, not a heavy programmer's rig? Will it be a system just running and doing its work, or will it fail on me, when I need it most (programming, writing papers, fapping)?
Kinda ditched the idea of using Arch or Gentoo.
Ayden Johnson
kek install youtube-dl, mpv will come as a dep automatically
Wyatt Gonzalez
>try to generate key pair with gpg >Hurrrr we don have enuf entropy xDD How to fix?
Jacob Campbell
If you type in that command and press tab twice when your cursor is at the end of "mpv", what does it suggest? I remember having some issues installing mpv on Ubuntu as well.
Is that a joke?
Oliver Jenkins
systemd flamewar is just like raising storm over tea cup. You don't need to worry about it if you are new
Jackson Gray
Slackware is quite outdated. Everyone is using systemd now. Just give in already.
