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I have made the stupidest mistake I probably ever will, so hopefully someone here will extend a hand for a retarded user.
I'm using KDE, and was just messing around in the settings, hoping to make the title bars transparent somehow. I was in > System settings -> Window Management -> Window Rules
was making a new behaviour, and the only thing I was changing was in the tab "Appearance & Fixes". I had checked "Active opacity" - "Force" - 50%.
I applied and saw that this made the entire window partially transparent, which I definitely didn't want, so I deleted the rule and applied again. However, that did not revert the transparency. Deleting caused no change.
So I made a new rule, checking the same box and stuff, but this time I had a brain fart and set the opacity percentage to **0%** instead. I applied, and the windows I had open started disappearing.
How do I fix this? I can still log in to a guest account I set up, and it is obviously not affected by this rule that I set up in my main account. Is there some file I can edit as super user? Where is it, and what should I change?
Leo Morgan
Ian got what he deserved, we need more good officers like that they did to Ian. Don't act like a nigger and police won't have to use force.
Jonathan Richardson
Also, I agree, breddy gewd drawing
Carter Cruz
Never mind, I also asked on reddit, and some wizard already helped me out.
Andrew Evans
some fag asked in the prev thread why can't he view the manpage of gcc in debian.
answer: the documentation of gcc is under a license which doesn't comply with the DFSG (debian free software guidelines), so the documentation is under the non-free section of the debian package management and non-free needs to be enabled manually.
Dylan Nelson
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Ryan Morris
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Jeremiah Cox
Ian is a nigger, glad he's dead. A cuck just like his SJW distribution.
Junior SysAd here. >boss using RHEL >wants to remove sudo when he type administrative commands >change uid and gid to 0 >gets mad because it's root but it's his account Fucking why? i did my fucking job.
Lincoln Anderson
>le olde edgy sjw hate meeeeeem Please stop already. If you're trying to be funny, it's not working. If you're not being ironic and really like social injustice so much, then just kill yourself.
Brody Lopez
>implying there is any social injustice in 1st world countries
if anything mens rights are worse than womens
Colton Hill
You should have stayed in school.
Xavier Reed
>3rd world countries dont give access to education surprise
Elijah Scott
I am looking to switch and do the GPU passthrough thing so that I can still use my games. Couple of questions
1. Should I get another inexpensive GPU to use with linux, or is it ok to just use my integrated graphics for that?
2. Is there a way I can get both of my monitors to work with linux, then only switch one to linux? I see a lot of people with a dedicated windows monitor, but I do not have enough monitors to do that.
Jacob Ward
No such thing as police brutality, cuck. Ian killed himself like a pussy.
Ethan Wright
wew, thanks google?
>Today we are pleased to announce the open-sourcing of Python Fire. Python Fire generates command line interfaces (CLIs) from any Python code. Simply call the Fire function in any Python program to automatically turn that program into a CLI. The library is available from pypi via `pip install fire`, and the source is available on GitHub. opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/python-fire-command-line.html
Ryder Barnes
that gnu looks so smug. love it.
Jason Scott
1. If your integrated "card" is good enough (so you can get dank graphic acceleration and hw assisted video playback) then using that for linux is completely fine 2. if you use the same connection for both of your cards: get a switch, there are plenty of hdmi/vga/dvi switches to choose from. If you use completely different connectors (like VGA from integrated, HDMI from dedicated) you can just use the input switch button on your monitor.
Samuel Rodriguez
It's a 6600k. Is the integrated enough for 2 monitors?
I don't use it now, I use my RX480 for all my windows stuff. I want to switch to the GPU Passthrough so that the 480 is used for my windows VM and my integrated handles linux
Evan Lewis
You should try it then and do some tests how well it performs (since you won't play from gahnoo slash loonix, it should do well). The only concern is that does the integrated card has enough outputs, or if you have two digital input monitors, does it have to digital outputs (two hdmi or hdmi+dvi so you won't have to resort to VGA in year of the lord 2017)
ps. checked
Thomas Miller
How does it work in practice? At some point the code executes an instance of the Python interpreter and the rest of the program halts? For debugging?
Connor Rogers
My motherboard has 1 VGA, 1HDMI, and one DVI. Question though, whats wrong with VGA? It can handle 1080/60, no?
Jace Barnes
VGA was not designed for digital monitors. Minor problems with your VGA cable can result in blur image/random horizontal lines on your screen etc.
But since you have two digital outputs (dvi and hdmi) you should be fine.
Noah Jones
oh interesting.
thanks for all your help user
Jackson Edwards
I need a distro for school computer and for my desktop. I'm considering Fedora, Debian, or Arch/Antegross. What would you guys recommend? Maybe something else?
Ethan Moore
Is there a way to make top vanish after using it like htop?
Andrew Ross
Sorta >top;clear
Landon Miller
tput smcup; top -c; tput rmcup
smcup saves the screen rmcup restores the screen
Anthony Nguyen
fedora tbqh famalad
Michael Gray
ty neat
Justin Gomez
i just finished backing up my school computer and am ready to switch
please help
Nathaniel Parker
why?
Robert Bailey
There is literally no reason to use top over htop.
Eli Ross
just werks
Levi Powell
Nice meme, OP.
Jason Richardson
Ok. MATE, Xfce, or KDE?
Thomas Reed
just pick whatever looks and feels good to you
Nathaniel Rodriguez
Protip: tput in scripts is pretty slow, you can also send the escape sequences directly like this:
printf '\e[?47h'; top -c; printf '\e[?47l'
In a single run, you woun't feel a difference, but:
$ time for i in {0..100}; { printf '\e[?47h'; printf 'foo\n'; printf '\e[?47l'; } real:0m0.027s user:0m0.008s sys:0m0.000s
$ time for i in {0..100}; { tput smcup; printf 'foo\n'; tput rmcup; } real:0m0.759s user:0m0.012s sys:0m0.064s
Except when you don't want to install an additional program?
Josiah Roberts
i dont know
ive only ever used GNOME and Unity
I didn't like Unity
(checked)
Bentley Green
Hey guys, look at this function I just came up with to kill some process:
#!/bin/sh
functon kill_it { if [ -n "${1}" ]; then ps -A | grep -Fi "${1}" | sed -e 's/^ \?\([[:digit:]]\+\).*$/\1/g' | xargs kill else echo 'Usage: '"${0}"' process' fi; }
What do you think about it?
Parker Evans
A little mistake in the regexp: it should be 's/^ *\([[:digit:]]\+\).*$/' # etc. (notice the * instead of \?)
Adrian Powell
so why not stick with gnome? if you think it's bloated then just use gnome shell and build around that instead of full on gnome
Brayden Rodriguez
man pkill
Leo Wood
>all those so-called "first world" countries below the OECD average Yeah, keep pretending there's no social injustice in the so-called "first world".
Added bonus: notice how most countries at the top are socialist.
Chase Phillips
What is a commandline program that you have used in an unconventional or unintended way?
I recently found out that curl understands file://, which makes it possible to curl local files around - tl;dr cp with progressbar:
ccp() { -# "file://$1" -o "$2"; }
Jayden Morgan
ccp() { curl -# "file://$1" -o "$2"; }
*
Nathan Moore
we had in the last thread some self-made cli epub/pdf viewers, have a look
Elijah Powell
cat file | grep stuff
:^)
Liam Lopez
>not grep stuff file
Matthew Richardson
i guess everyone did it in the beginning the question is why
Kevin Torres
>i want to print file to stdout (cat), but only want specific stuff (grep) >brain: ok, $ cat file | grep specific stuff
Gavin Jenkins
are you a rm -rf guy or a rm -fr guy?
Jonathan Cook
dont you have a rally to go to
Isaac Perry
Arch Linux is just a stepping stone.
Blake Flores
rm -fr
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Christian Young
for what
Nathaniel Adams
Let's discuss systemd.
Christopher Garcia
for gentoo, then on to lfs
Jace Wilson
Source Mage GNU/Linux.
Daniel Morales
reposting old question: Does anyone know what is this kernel patch? rcn-ee.net/ I've seen it applied on some arm distributions for SBCs like the raspberry pi.
Jack Flores
That's a funny way to spell "installfest".
There's nothing to discuss, it's a hot steaming pile of garbage. Use GNU Shepherd.
why are people so anal about running the latest kernel when lts kernels run just good?
Colton Harris
something I suppose
Andrew Lewis
>not awk '/regex/' file
Caleb Green
If you're gonna escape that much, why not just use -r?
Cooper Powell
the latest kernel usually have support for brand new hardware (even if it's just in staging) or improved support for relatively new, but not the absolutely latest hardware. Simple example: it adds support for gtx 1080 and improves power management and adds extra 3D acceleration support for 970
William Williams
newer kernels often fix bugs or security flaws
Jordan Williams
What's good about systemd?
Nicholas Morgan
doesn't matter when the kernel runs with the current hardware just fine older kernels get patches less work
Anthony Flores
Just switched back from awesome to i3. Is there a better dmenu alternative?
Brayden Martinez
dmenu2 is the best so far while keeping things simple, the next step would be using rofi
