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What the hell is wrong with Xubuntu? Thunar has been crashing on cut/paste for four years now.
Luis Bell
Use debian unstable and aptitude to manage packages. That's all you need to know.
Kayden Sanders
dpkg is the package manager, you can install local .deb packages, see whats installed etc with it. apt is used to install software, remove software and update from the internet, and aptitude is a more friendly frontend for apt. Jessie is the current stable version of Debian, 8.6. Testing is the more up-to-date, but less stable version of Jessie, and Sid(unstable) is the rolling-release version of Debian.
so I was removing systemd and now it doesnt boot anymore, how2fix? I'm on arch if it matters
Jace Morales
Hey. What's the best distro to use? I was thinking Debian, is it shit?
Ethan Diaz
New user? Get KDE Neon. Otherwise I suggest OpenSUSE
Jack Robinson
Yeah. I've been thinking about Neon, it sounds nice. Could you tell me more about OpenSUSE? I know only that it's RPM-based
Jaxson Carter
Add init=/bin/sh to the kernel when booting. After that you're on your own.
Cameron James
>Trying to change the init system Good job breaking all of the things that expect systemd to be there. Install Gentoo. No, really.
Adrian Morgan
Well OpenSUSE's YaST gives you a centralized control panel, so the system controls are not scattered everywhere. It has a nice KDE integration as well. Although the wiki is not as nice as that of Arch, it is pretty reliable since they patch KDE and other packages before they ship it. (see Firefox KDE integration)
Kevin Bennett
the last time I installed gentoo was sometime before 2005. is gentoo worthwhile at this point?
Gavin Ross
yes
Luis King
Reminder that Linux Mint is the best distro on the market, Ubuntu is a lump of coal and Mint is a diamond
Landon Smith
? ? ? Why does mpv `ls -t | head -1|` not run the entire name, but instead splits it at the spaces?
How do I insert the entire string ? ?
Benjamin Walker
Why do you use a trailing pipe?
David Sullivan
>My main objective is not listening to the song, I just want to look like an 1337 haxor while playing dem songs :D
Kayden Gomez
Still . Surround your backquotes by double quotes. "`ls -t | head -1`"
Luke Sullivan
So I have a shortcut that logs me straight into my server using SSH. How do I edit the shortcut so it automatically issues a command after login?
For example I would like a shortcut that logs me into ssh and starts nmon, how would I do that?
Leo Thompson
>parsing ls >using backticks holy shit
man find
Colton Cooper
This is going to sound a bit retarded but how can I use large portions of RAM as disk cache assuming that I have enough RAM in order to compensate for bad disk performance?
Grayson Hernandez
Use Linux. It's automatic.
Juan Jones
I noticed the same thing recently as well. A sure way to crash it is Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C when nothing is selected and Ctrl+V
Jason Price
distro like puppy linux is full charged in RAM good for bad computer
Kevin Johnson
Don't parse ls. mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs Use quotes. Use $() instead of ``. Better solution: mpv "$(find . -type f -mtime -1 -print -quit)"
Oliver Howard
>on antergos >install plex server >can't find it in any menu or bin directory halp please
Jayden King
So I think I've almost solved it. However when I run the command 'ssh ubuntu' for example I get errors on every line of the ./ssh/config file.
>.ssh/config: line 1: Bad configuration option: {\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\cocoartf1138\\cocoasubrtf510
The fuck?
Matthew Hughes
It's not xubuntu. It's thunar. Probably coded in C++.
Xavier Phillips
Nah, it's written in C
Gavin Anderson
HELLO,
I seriously need help. I installed ubuntu on my main desktop a few months ago, but was too lazy to set everything up properly and all/most of my data is on my SSD now and my 2TB HDD isn't even used. Now I have 5GB left on my SSD and thought about MAYBE I finally should move different folders to the HDD.
How do I do this? I don't want all of /home on the HDD, because I'd like to keep fast access on /home/documents
I just want to outsource folders like /home/pictures /home/videos /home/someothershit
how do I do this and still keep a symlink (or something like that) to home folder, so I can easily access them?
Aiden Nguyen
I know that linux automatically caches opened files but what I want to do is caching frequently used files before they have been accessed, like prefetch.
Nolan Brooks
I need a gpu for my linux machine since my old one literally burned up. need DP and 4k and video hardware acceleration no gaming occasional vm passtrough
Any suggestions?
Liam Long
Does anyone know how to keep your screen from blanking when mpv is open? I tried --stop-screensaver and --hearbeat-cmd
And neither worked with any success. I'm on Fedora 25 using gnome.
Zachary Peterson
retoasting:
Hi linux folk
> Only used raspbian with fuck around pi > Got a 2015 retina macbook pro for nothing > Want to put a nice distro on it
Which distro is best for macbook hardware?
Some dudes said mint. Good choice?
Inb4 gentoo
Christian Turner
Mint is the way to go.
Nolan Sullivan
anything you want. the hardware support is pretty much the same for all the distros. dont use mint. anything but mint.
Joshua Hughes
what's wrong with current os?
Oliver Morgan
Heartbeat-cmd should include the actual command that will be executed to stop screen from blanking.
I use xscreensaver, so my mpv.conf has a line
heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate"
Look for documentation on the screensaver you're using.
Dominic Scott
>DP and 4k and video hardware acceleration Novidya cards that have this feature with proprietary drivers are probably your best bet.
Henry King
RX 480
Christian Perry
Quick and dirty. You call that programs with all the files you want to cache. let size = 4096;;
let buffer = Bytes.create size;;
let eat in_channel = let rec loop () = match input in_channel buffer 0 size with | 0 -> () | _ -> loop () in loop () ;;
let cache_file file = let ic = open_in_bin file in try eat ic; close_in ic with | x -> close_in ic; raise x ;; false ;;
let main () = let lim = Array.length Sys.argv in let rec loop has_error i = if i < lim then let has_error = try cache_file Sys.argv.(i); has_error with | x -> Printf.eprintf "error when caching %S: %s" Sys.argv.(i) (Printexc.to_string x); prerr_newline (); true in loop has_error (succ i) else has_error in let has_error = loop false 1 in if has_error then exit 1 ;;
let () = main ();;
Jaxon Brooks
Thanks a ton, I got it to work with
--heartbeat-cmd="gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 0"
Elijah Cox
Ubuntu
Ethan Jackson
Thanks, how can one use this script though? I'm not familiar with bash scripting.
Hunter Mitchell
Not him but free as in freedum m8
Charles Phillips
Is it trolling? You save it into precache.ml ocamlopt -o precache precache And precache is a binary.
Eli Turner
Any distro that supports SiS 771/671 (video) out of the box, already tried manually compiling some ghetto drivers in Ubuntu Mate and Lubuntu and didn't work
Noah Martin
>Is it trolling Nope, I'm just clueless about this sort of stuff. Thanks again.
Liam Hughes
how to copy & paste between various terminal and application windows in i3 ? the midle mouse button is not working
Hunter Torres
To copy just highlight the text.
To paste use Shift + Insert.
Been a standard on all OSes since OS/2
Justin Peterson
ctrl+maj+c ctrl+maj+v
Landon Murphy
>maj
Levi Evans
Does netsurf support posting on Sup Forums?
Thomas Garcia
>Any suggestions? nvidia will provide better performances with openGL amd will provide better performances with Vulkan
>will people actually use vulkan for games ? probably, but not now.
>I only cares about free drivers and don't want proprietary shit go with amd
check phoronix for actual benchmarks on linux.
Gavin Lee
No, unless you have a 4jew pass.
netsurf offers only rudimentary js support, insufficient for captchshka.
Carson Davis
Well that sucks, I was hoping I could post on Sup Forums while installing gentoo. I remember when they had midori as their browser. Why did they take that out?
Connor Mitchell
shift
Caleb Rodriguez
It works perfectly for me. I was wondering the same and asked on here. Apparently there's a part in mpv's source which toggles X11's DPMS settings (which cause it to blank). Of course that doesn't apply to you if you use additional "screensavers".
Zachary Gonzalez
please stop bully arch users
Lucas Russell
On the internet, no one knows you're using Arch.
Justin Walker
Archkids brought it upon themselves.
Thomas Cruz
no
Lincoln Moore
Any tips on how to improve fonts on KDE and set everything up for hidpi? I messed with infinality already, but afaik, it's deprecated.
Currently on a 25' 1440p display.
Jose Cruz
gonna need a light weight easy to use distro for 60gb ssd,2gb ram celeron for my mom.
Was thinking bunto,but know I think I am gonna install arch,or should I try souls on it? i don't want bloat guys
Jackson Miller
If you don't want bloat, don't get Arch.
Jack Martin
Arch is a terrible choice for your mom.
Liam King
Not like she will tinker with shit, only needs to play videos,netflix,and fb.
Jordan Diaz
>plex server Try starting the plex-media-server service, not sure you need direct access to the binaries
Zachary Garcia
I have a little problem. I thought about switching desktop enviroment, because unity kinda sucks so I am on i3 right now.
I kinda dont understand the config process. I just did this (found on archwiki)
"Therefore, users of alternate keyboard layouts who want straightforward key bindings, which match the bindings given in tutorials, may prefer to circumvent the "config wizard". This can be done by just copying /etc/i3/config into ~/.config/i3/config (or ~/.i3/config), and editing that file"
I fucking cp'd it but I dont find ~/.config/i3/config! Where would it be?
Why cant i simply edit the original config?
Thanks in advance, I know I shouldnt be doing this but I am too committed
Jonathan Reyes
Fonts and your Infinality mistake have nothing to do with HiDPI. Support for HiDPI scaling depends on the toolkit the program is using. GTK3 and Qt5 have "decent" scaling under Xorg (as mentioned by others). Wayland improves on that and allows even better fine-tuning.
To get decent font rendering, go to the Arch Linux Wiki page and copy a simple, sample config file. I don't know if KDE overwrites it and applies other fixes, so you should test that yourself and bear it in mind.
Logan Cook
> I dont find ~/.config/i3/config! Create it yourself, obviously.
Angel Morales
How would I change my mouse-cursor only for when it's over the terminal. My mouse theme makes it get lost but I prefer it everywhere else.
Eli Perry
no
Christopher Campbell
>no Yes?
Camden Jackson
Not possible
Gavin Thomas
Oh shit, I just found it, thanks. And when i edit this "config" I change my i3?
Aaron Flores
What web browser do you guys use? I'm torn between Chrome and Firefox again.
Jason Torres
>considering using a proprietary web browser at all I seriously doubt Chrome has any exclusive features that Firefox hasn't. "Speed" is also a buzzword that only idiots take into account, because there is no significant "speed" difference.
Why are you even asking? It's not like there are dozens of browsers to consider. There are not even a handful.
Ian Carter
up and running.
easier than expected, thanks anons.
Daniel James
Is there a media indexer were i can point it to certain folders and it creates an searchable index?
Ryan Cruz
Shift+mod+R reloads i3 iirc
Ian Davis
All it has over firefox are DRM features and native flash. Anyone using GNU/Linux should avoid it. Flash is obsolete now anyway. Don't even need it for porn anymore. And if you do need to watch a flash video youtube-dl exists for that. Chrome is for cucks.
Parker Wright
>iris graphics How's the performance on lunatix? I've been thinking about making a desktop with Intel gpu.