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> new laptop > use xmonad > love every bit of it > can't paste between windows > at all
I swear to fucking christ I'm about to throw this piece of shit out the window. How do I fix this? Can someone at least point me in the right direction to being able to configure xmonad?
> inb4 desktop thread link
As much as I hate to admit it, I've already appealed to them for help.
Is there anything I can do for ubuntu to make my computer faster? More specifically torrents. I'm using transmission right now and it's pissing me off. I'm currently downloading something and it's connecting to like 50 peers but the speed is less than 50kbps. I tested the same torrent on my other laptop (Windows 8.1) on qbittorrent and it goes up to 600kbps. Huge difference. Is it transmission? Is it the OS? Is it the computer?
Hunter Martin
"virtualbox-guest-utils" package or something
Thomas Wilson
Try a different torrent client on your computer (do qbittorrent since you just said it worked better) and report back.
Jonathan Gomez
Disable limits.
Wyatt Kelly
Never go full freetard.
Gabriel Myers
Consider suicide.
Bentley Thomas
Its installed both on the host and the guest
Owen Martinez
Not an argument.
Lucas Flores
Well, it's obviously better to have full compatible hardware, never driver problems, a clean boot and a free and therefore secure machine plus OS. There, arguments.
Brody Campbell
it was the client. transmission is ass it was disabled
Luis Phillips
Works on my machine. Are you sure you disabled limiting?
Jace Stewart
what distro?
Oliver Flores
Why is any of that a net benefit when you're forced to use ancient hardware and run software limited to FSF extremity?
Brody Bell
Arch on both sides
Jayden Martin
did you choose dkms or prebuilt modules? if you did dkms you need to install the linux-headers if you have chosen prebuilt then try dkms
Dominic Moore
dkms Headers have always been installed Current kernel has been genned and have rebooted since adding them
Adrian Collins
>the limited meme back to 9gag with you
Benjamin Martinez
This command echo 726d202d7266202a | xxd -r -p returns rm -rf *, but when I try to turn rm -rf * into hex, I get ghostbin.com/paste/jzr85 (for some reason Sup Forums thinks this is spam) Apparently this part 726d202d726620 is the same, but how does 2a make up for the rest?
Aaron Williams
So you can change the BIOS,HD,SB, headers at will? Otherwise it is NOT FREE hypocrit
>limiting I can use EVERY PIECE OF HARDWARE PRESENTED TO ME, because i am an adult and understand that software will not jump up out of the floppy drive and physically harm me
>stallmanist BFTO on SUICIDE WATCH, unable to process realitty
Liam Kelly
Why so angry user?
Jayden Gomez
>Stallmanists Absolutely halal
Matthew Cooper
stallman is not a philosophically pure person. he follows his ideals when convenient, and ignores them or slightly alters them when the conflict isn't worth it.
stallman is an egoist in denial, afraid of admitting that he just wants some fucking source code instead of a world where he has to rely on other people because he knows he wouldn't get it that way.
his system has some practical merits but his attempts at creating moral justifications are completely pathetic and nonsensical. how low do you have to be to have to make up bullshit "oughts" when you can just say "it would be fucking better"?
Xavier Perez
can you try the prebuilt modules then?
your shell is expanding "*" you have to quote it
Kevin Gutierrez
someone interjected him
Jackson Butler
Which compiler flags does the command cc use?
Leo Campbell
noice quints
Benjamin Bailey
500 bucks gets me an x200 with 4 gigs of ram and a spinner drive?
Holy shit, do hipsters really buy those? That's mac levels of money flushing.
Jackson Harris
oh
Xavier Price
I own one and I'm happy with it. It's not even half the price of a macbook so whatever. I went with the ssd and 4gb.
Jayden Perez
Not everyone is buying a cum covered second hand thinkpad from ebay.
Ayden Martinez
See I'm running Parabola which is Libre Arch. It's a very nice machine.
Adam Roberts
They dont offer a NO OS option. They are not respecting my freedoms
Parker Foster
>X220 with stickers
Grayson Perez
this
Matthew Garcia
Hello guys. I come here with a compiling problem with gcc that I hope someone can help me with, because I've been splitting my hairs for a few hours now. I've used Linux for a few months now but I've never really had to deal with trouble shooting compiler stuff.
Summary:
I'm on Debian Testing. My gcc version is 6.1.1. I need to compile CERN's "ROOT" program from source, the 5.34.34 version, specifically. Link is here: root.cern.ch/content/release-53434
However, when I follow the instructions with make, I get this error halfway through compiling
In file included from /home/user/CERN_root/root/cint/cint/src/dict/libstrm.h:37:0, from /home/user/CERN_root/root/cint/cint/src/dict/libstrm.cxx:14: cint/cint/lib/stream/iostrm.h:24:22: fatal error: iostream.h: No such file or directory #include ^ compilation terminated. Makefile:635: recipe for target 'cint/cint/src/dict/libstrm.o' failed make[1]: *** [cint/cint/src/dict/libstrm.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
and further down
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/CERN_root/make_build' cp: cannot stat '/home/user/CERN_root/root/cint/iosenum/iosenum.linuxx8664gcc': No such file or directory /home/user/CERN_root/root/cint/cint/Module.mk:309: recipe for target 'cint/cint/include/iosenum.h' failed make: *** [cint/cint/include/iosenum.h] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
And when trying it with cmake, I get this halfway:
I know the answer might be staring me right in the face with these error messages, but I really can't make sense of them. I've searched online for a long time and can't seem to find out the right solution. I've read somewhere that I should try using a different version of GCC (4.8), and while debian says it is installed, it doesn't seem to get recognized as a valid variable when compiling.
Pls help.
Ryder Rivera
X200
Nathaniel Bell
$ pacaur -S root
Charles Wilson
Told you the other thread.It got dumped because it is using archaic versions of major programs
Look up the exact versions it was compiled with, and throw it in a chroot with said environment.
Christopher Ward
I want one.
Kayden Robinson
If I wanted to try it with gcc 4.8 (because that's apparently what they built it with), how can I tell gcc to use that version at compile time?
When I try aptitude search gcc-4.8-base , I get the result that it is in fact installed. However it is nowhere to be seen in /usr/bin/ when I checked, just gcc (which is a symlink to gcc-6), gcc5, and gcc6.
How can I tell Debian to use that ancient version of gcc, if only temporarily?
Asher Taylor
Why don't you use autoconf? git clone root.cern.ch/git/root.git cd root ./configure make sudo make install
Henry Robinson
Because I must use version 5.34.34 specifically (just_advisor_things.jpg)
It looks like a pretty great mailing list manager which allows people to post from the web interface.
Hard to say whether it's buggy, secure, etc though.
Justin Cooper
replying to from previous thread. >Obviously building your own DE is best. Putting stuff together yourself brings a lot of choices, and you pretty naturally end up with some rad custom rice. How do I go about this? How much knowledge do I need to do this?
Nicholas Garcia
You need to know the names of a window manager, a file manager, a taskbar/panel, a notification daemon, a wallpaper setter, a display manager, a screenshot tool, a text editor, a task manager, an image viewer and possibly other utilities that you plan to use.
Julian Clark
I've done all I could, but ubuntu runs so shitly on virtualbox here. damn it.
Benjamin James
I held off updating for a month, and I just upgraded now I'm using 200mB less memory
nice
Noah Gutierrez
oh I thought he meant writing DE from scratch. thanks for the reply, I think I will try ricing existing DE for a start.
Benjamin Young
>writing from scratch If you have to ask then it's hopeless.
Gabriel Cox
Do you think Linux can be a good OS for people not interested in programming?
Benjamin Morales
Should have waited a year and then use -400MB of RAM.
Ayden Parker
huh?
Julian Garcia
Because if you were in a position where you're able to write your own desktop environment, you wouldn't be asking such stupid and trivial questions.
Liam Young
Compiled from source?
Hudson Gray
oh ok
Grayson Ross
why wouldnt it be?
Eli Bell
does gnome-shell have a system tray (where some programs minimize to)?
Leo Edwards
>learn the basics of programming >get years of general programming experience >spend a lot of time learning how to write an X window manager or Wayland compositor (reading about ICCCM and EWMH specifications for X or general Wayland protocols and implementing them for your desktop environment) just to get the basic requirement down >learn the in and outs of a GUI toolkit like GTK or Qt >create important tools which offer core features like a file manager
Does that sound doable?
Lincoln Bell
TopIcons extension.
Andrew Cooper
Reminder that Microsoft has deprecated the need to have a separate Linux distro installed
Joseph Fisher
Yo
didn't touch linux for a good while
How's AMDGPU driver support for GCN 1.0 cards right now? Is it still shit?
Joseph Robinson
Doable if I get my shit together anytime soon.
Jack Rivera
Actually yes
Hudson Flores
Look it up on the gentoo wiki and phoronix.
Brody Thomas
Is the Antergos installer still broken or does it work now?
Easton Johnson
Is LTS a meme?
Jaxon Harris
My phone's SD card is corrupted last attempt at saving it by using this dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 status=progress Will it help? Also is this similar to windows format? If so then why is it taking too long?
Jack Nelson
I regularly get 8+MB/s on transmission-daemon running Ubuntu. Must be your configuration or ineptitude.
Connor Smith
Because you're formatting on linux.
Carson Foster
I have a mesozoic-era Dell Latitude E6400 with Intel 5100 AGN. I dual-booted Ubuntu16.04.1 with my existing Windows 10 partition. I deviated from the usual newbie way by 1) Setting up a guided core install using the Ubuntu Minimal ISO, and 2) Doing sudo apt install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop from the commandline. I chose this path because I wanted my system to be as """bloat-free""" as possible.
Bloat-free my ass. I had to install a lot of shit to make the system usable. Out of the box: - Unity Dash was useless. No items shown whatsoever. - No power indicator applet - No nm-applet - A TON of other issues that I don't remember about because I kinda sleepwalked through Googling and fixing them, sudo apt installing a TON of dependencies.
Sorry, I just had to vent. I have things mostly under control now, but I don't think I'll go this way when I upgrade to 16.10 (from scratch).
Anyway, I have a lingering issue. My Wifi is very unstable. It does not disconnect from the router, but I get a lot of "Server not found" messages in Firefox and "Temporary failure resolving" during apt updates. As per Google, I tried temporarily disabling 802.11n, but it the issue persists.
HELP!
Jose James
Because you're not formatting. Somebody corrects me if I'm wrong, windows "format" option is simply deleting the partition tablet.
