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He is connected directly into the server to perhaps do maintenance?
Michael Ramirez
Anyone have any idea how to change dconf settings for other existing users?
I've tried using 'runuser' with the login command and appropriate gsettings option but I'm getting a "failed to commit changes to dconf error":
sudo runuser -l username -c 'gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount false
Jason Cooper
>he doesn't check his server's pulse
Wyatt Thomas
As if anyone would stand up for that
Landon Wright
How hard would it be to achieve something like this in ubuntu linux?
>wait for the linux to boot up fully >wait 10 seconds >execute given command line as root
Austin Sanchez
should i stick with xterm it seems copying and pasting from it is kind of a drag
Wyatt Bell
Not very.
Ethan Edwards
On cinnamon: go to autostart settings add new program enter "gksu [your terminal]" enter "10" in the delay box
Landon Cruz
xterm has drag and drop support now?
Easton Allen
not that i can tell, you can copy using shift+insert but it pastes the text in terminal again instantly
Charles Gray
>oi we've just slid fooserver into the rack but it isn't getting a network connection, wanna take a look at that? >arright, let me grab this laptop and do the patchcord switcheroo, if i can open a pizza site with the same patchcord then it's just a problem with fooserver
Ryan Turner
>install slackware >decide to optout of KDE package >go to open a file >fuck, I don't have ARK >download ARK package >installs fine. doesn't work though.
How the fuck do I get the installation package of KDE so I can use ARK.
Or what alternative can I use that opens everything?
>inb4 install gentoo
Asher Martinez
fglrx or radeon for HD6950. I highly doubt this will ever get AMDGPU support
Christian James
peazip, file roller
Christopher Davis
radeon is very good now. fglx is hot garbage and has no support any longer anyway since they're focusing completely on AMDGPUPRO.
I use radeon driver and I can play WoW in wine and all the games on steam that aren't nvidia only. No performance issues whatsoever. No alien isolation or middle earth shadows of mordor, though. But that wouldn't work on fglrx either.
Julian Gutierrez
# config DEFAULT_TARGET="."
SCRIPTNAME="${0##*/}"
err() { printf >&2 "$SCRIPTNAME: $*\n" exit 1 }
ARC="$1" [[ -f $ARC ]] || err $"'$ARC' does not exist" ARC="$(readlink -f "$ARC")"
read -p "Extract to [default: $DEFAULT_TARGET]: " TARGET [[ -z $TARGET ]] &&\ TARGET="$DEFAULT_TARGET" [[ -d $TARGET ]] || err $"Directory '$TARGET' does not exist" [[ -w $TARGET ]] || err $"Permission denied: '$TARGET' is not writable"
cd "$TARGET" case "$ARC" in *.tar.bz2) tar xjf "$ARC" ;; *.tar.gz) tar xzf "$ARC" ;; *.bz2) bunzip2 "$ARC" ;; *.rar) unrar e "$ARC" ;; *.gz) gunzip "$ARC" ;; *.tar) tar xf "$ARC" ;; *.tbz2) tar xjf "$ARC" ;; *.tgz) tar xzf "$ARC" ;; *.zip) unzip "$ARC" ;; *.Z) uncompress "$ARC" ;; *.7z) 7z x "$ARC" ;; *) echo "'$ARC' cannot be extracted by $SCRIPTNAME" ;; esac
Brody Campbell
I have two cards I don't care about crossfire in linux but I would like to use the other card to run a third screen should I have any problems with the radeon driver?
Jonathan Morris
I don't have two cards so I can't answer that question, sorry.
Jackson Howard
can't, it's server without any gui
Easton Reyes
Thank you
Jonathan Gomez
Looking for an alternative to CDisplayEX.
Basically a comic reader that lets me bind keys to scroll up or down pages.
Carson Gomez
Checks out. Running Ubuntu /w Unity and wearing a three piece suit.
Caleb Morales
Are there any actually good SBCs that can run the Raspberry Pi operating systems? I just want a free command line version of Mathematica so I can SSH into it and run simple shit.
Jackson Reyes
ill try it thanks
Kayden Wood
mcomix. Also zathura which is a pdf reader that can also read comic files and use vim keybindings. You need ot install a comic addon for it though. Available in aur on arch and as the package zathura-cb on Fedora. Probably similar for Debian.
Bentley Bell
>Its original name was Alix – named after the woman who was my sweetheart at the time. She, a UNIX system administrator, had pointed out how her name would fit a common naming pattern for UNIX system versions; as a joke, she told her friends, ‘Someone should name a kernel after me.’ I said nothing, but decided to surprise her with a kernel named Alix.
Ian Hall
Just sharing my today's experience with Gentoo.
>move far away in a poor-ass student room for further education >no ethernet, only wifi >slow as shit and costs two thirds of an actual ISP subscription (but no router config, no ethernet and unstable, slow connection) >Wangblows decides to stop loading Sup Forums >Gentoo still does and Wifi just werks even on this piece of shit connection
Kayden Campbell
Then you need to write a service. It depends of the version of Ubuntu.
Thrusty (14.04) -> Search for upstart service Xenial (16.04) -> You need a systemd service (also called systemd unit).
Aiden Watson
What do you want to start exactly ?
Levi Harris
Actually i managed to figure it out, i jammed the command into some file in /etc/ that gets executed by the system after boot and is owned by root so i can put any sudo commands there
Liam Sanchez
put this at the end of home/user/.bash_profile sleep 10 sudo [command]
Wyatt Stewart
SELinux APPArmour tomoyo gre
Which for daily use
Jordan Ortiz
So, I installed Gentoo on my laptop Everything, especially big things like xorg, takes too long to compile, and I'm starting to think this isn't my kind of thing Is it going to be worth it, or should I just move on to another distro And what other minimalistic, systemd-free distros are available?
Matthew Green
>i jammed the command into some file in /etc/ that gets executed by the system after boot and is owned by root so i can put any sudo commands there
Justin Evans
Just give in and embrace the D.
Sebastian Martin
Should I put MATE or Elementary OS on a usb drive to use in my laptop for school that currently had no disk drive in it? I know for a fact it would boot up, i'm just debating between the two.
I saw a DE thread the other day and it showed a really nice looking XFCE with an dark arc theme, but when I tried it on a VM it looked like ass.
Ryder Thomas
AKARI IS PURE DELETE THIS
>falling for the gentoo meme
Deavuan is thrown around lately checkem
Carter Bailey
mate looks like shit. It looks like 1999 UI.
Christopher Walker
Last I checked Devuan installer still didn't work
Andrew Rodriguez
Wouldn't that cause conflicts? What are you binding the super key to?
Joshua Perry
Gentoo user here
Gentoo is what you want it to be. So, it really depends of why you want a Gentoo. That's not a rhetorical question. Why do you want a Gentoo?
For learning how things works, there is no better way. For having programs "more optimized with specific compilation flags", it's completely stupid. For building your own Linux flavor, customised as fuck, it's perfect.
Also, for really big packages (web browser and libreoffice), there are compiled version that should be more suited for you. After all you need is installed, compilation time is not really a problem. With a good portage configuration, you'll run updates in background without noticing. The only drawback is that updates and package installs will not be instant.
Ayden Edwards
>needing an installer
Jason Martinez
...
Brandon Hall
mistakenly used 'sudo startx' didnt expect
Cameron Smith
How the fuck do I set the font of mlterm? There's like 4 different font config files full of shit, I assume I need vaafont (since I use aa and variable column width) but what do I put there so that it will just always use this one font?
Liam Williams
>tfw Broadcom BCM43228HMB network card >tfw proprietary software wants me to keep using Windows Fuck this gay Earth.
Justin Bennett
>cheat sheet >understanding Sure thing.
Blake Price
dirty system requires dirty work
David Brooks
why learn bash when i know python and can make same scripts in it
noob here serious question
Juan Howard
my only issue with Elementary is no desktop functionality without installing nautilus and messing around in dconf tools. It would be another story if the file manager that opened on the desktop was the same that opened by default, and if the icons didn't snap into their place AFTER I open terminal or the default file manager.
Wyatt Fisher
what is with the gentoo meme?
is it just some fork of linux that is unnecessarily hard to get working for no good reason?
whats the real difference between any linux distro really? just whatever software packages that come with the installation?
Thomas Cook
when the entire Sup Forums tells you to do something it is 100% a meme you retard the truly used things are never agreed upon and heavily arguing goes on constantly just use ubuntu and stop being a sad fucking loser. do you also download only half of computer games and then waste years by coding the rest of the game yourself so you can play it? even though you can simply download a whole version of that game and save yourself the completely pointless work? of course you don't you silly little filly
Tyler Adams
- Speed. - Not every system has python installed.
Ian Parker
buy a new one
Jayden Bell
because learning bash means also learning to use the terminal and it's commands, programs and basically the system
Sebastian Hill
I'm a long-time Mac user who just built a Linux box. I dumped Mint on it because my roommate had the DVD with it. So far I like it.
One thing that bothers me are close/minimize/maximize widgets on the right hand side of the windows. Is there a way to move them to LHS like pic related?
Josiah Cruz
Yeah, I know I could just use a USB network adapter, but I don't want to do that.
Carter Lee
what is the best file editor for the terminal? vim is fucking shit i can't highlight chunks of text easily or skip to the end with keys
Nicholas Ward
Aoparmour
Xavier Brown
Fuckin kekd mate. Why the fuck would you even lift your ass for that?
Julian Parker
Broadcom works in Linux
Sebastian Cox
>vim is fucking shit
Oh boy here we go. Did you even bother to go through vimtutor? It explains how to do those two things less than halfway through it.
Didn't work when I tried using Mint awhile back. Even tried to use ndiswrapper and it wouldn't work.
Ryan Gray
>what is the best file editor for the terminal? vim
> vim is fucking shit i can't highlight chunks of text easily or skip to the end with keys type "vimtutor" in the terminal and fucking learn it you dunce.
Michael Lopez
How do I paste in vim?
Colton Roberts
In small firms no, admins there are fat lazy shits and use ssh tunnels for everything, but in large companies like banks you are only allowed to connect directly to the server with an airgapped laptop, via cable to prevent any possibility of breach by comrade robot
Nathaniel Bailey
>why do you want gentoo As I said, I want a minimalistic distro, and no systemd I tried Void, runit is really nice but xbps didn't work right Also xbps-src is weird and I dislike it The only problem with gentoo really is how long it takes for things to install >After all you need is installed, compilation time is not really a problem Well, I'll stick with it for a while then, at least finish installing all my shit before judging it
I didn't install it because of the meme you fucktard Also Ubuntu a shit
You can do that if you learn it, vim is comfy after you get used to it If you want a more normal editor though, try Nano
James Edwards
Why does everyone fall for Linux Mint? It's the worst distro around, but everyone and his mom is installing it.
Please explain this bullshit!
David Jackson
ed is the standard text editor.
Brayden King
Because a huge part of any Linux distribution is composed of glue code written in sh?
IMHO, it's not very useful to learn all the bash language, but it's a good idea to know how the basic operators works (if, for, &&, ||), as well as some notion of pipe and redirection. It can simplify a lot of tasks (and by simplify, I means, you just have to type 3-4 words): mass file renaming, getting software logs, searching files, ...
All of that is doable in python, but can't be "coded" as fast as a command line.
Asher Hall
>linux fork Don't know if bait but the main difference between distros is the package manager
Oliver Cook
Any text editor that requires you to read a fucking manual to use is absolute and utter shit garbage It is a fucking TEXT EDITOR it has to be intuitive so that anyone can use it fully without reading anything Do you see anyone reading reading the man page for a fucking notepad.exe?
Aaron Morris
Just Works
Ian Morales
>He doesn't use zsh.
Landon Barnes
>any editor that has useful features is absolute and utter shit
Because you dont want your server exposed beyond what it needs to be exposed too? You dont want to have a threat of your servers being "Maintained" by the wrong person
Jayden Gray
thx for the replies it does seem a better way of doing things
Anthony Cooper
stallman uses it, that is literally the only reason why anyone here knows it even exists once stallman finishes the new linux he is writing then everyone here will be recommending that one as the new fresh meme
Christian Allen
>I came here to write not read Maybe you should stick to a notepad type editor then.
Cameron Perry
>zsh
John Brown
old memes die hard
Brayden Bennett
Ironically shitposting is still shitposting.
Aiden Powell
>not just installing arch
Easton Ward
He's new
Luke Turner
apparently the more you know about loonix the uglier and fatter you are.. it's like it's impossible to learn loonix if you want to be hot and have a normal life because you literally don¨t have enough time left why do some people make the choice to learn loonix instead of being hot, healthy and successful is beyond me
Benjamin Sanchez
>Sir I'm going to need your meme card, that one is expired.
Lucas Rivera
saved
Zachary Brown
>macs That's it. That's the only reason why zsh got so popular. OSX comes with a deprecated old bash shell and instead of updating it, they install zsh, because "bash doesn't work". Tells a lot about those users.