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Grayson Bell
>redditorized color scheme >dark variant to add to the insult
Logan Roberts
Hey, that's pretty good. Thanks. The stock themes lack some contrast for my taste but it makes it damn easy to make your own.
Luis Young
I'll keep my issue short and clear.
I previously had Arch, but I want to replace it with Manjaro. Arch is currently installed on my 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD with a EFI, /root, /swap and unallocated partition. My 2TB HDD is purely /home. It currently has my rere pepe's, documents, music, TV series and whatnot on it.
Can I keep my /home on the HDD and will it automatically be found when my Manjaro installation is done? Do I assign it at one point in the installation? Should I unplug it while installing Manjaro? Should I make a back-up of the HDD files and just wipe it (I prefer not to do this)?
A short plan of steps would be very greatly appreciated. >:)
Parker Robinson
I like consistency. I use it in my terminals, my Vim colorscheme, my .Xresources (so any X program), my i3, everything. It looks all nice and consistent.
Austin Ramirez
I've just installed Arch with the intention of moving to sway, but I'm getting the following error when trying to start it:
ERROR: swaybg requires the compositor to support the desktop-shell extension.
which doesn't seem to make much sense seeing as sway is a compositor. What am I doing wrong?
I'm glad I'm not the only one to do this, I've dark solarized just about everything I use and the consistency is great.
The timer does not work. Only runs once and then stops. If I do something like: watch -n 1 systemctl status setsched it works as intended. Why would the timer only work if I watch it? What did I do wrong?
Luke King
You shouldn't post your personal scripts in /usr/bin.
Cooper Roberts
s/post/put/g
Jose Sullivan
Where should they go then? Also do you know why is this shit not working? I doubt it's because of /usr/bin
Brody Baker
Is there any tool which can tell what "dynamic libraries" a particular process is using currently? Lets say there is a pid 8888 $ showmelibIuse 8888 $ "List of libraries"
Jacob Diaz
I don't know whyt it's not working, and it's not because of their being in /usr/bin, but it's not recommended to put your own scripts there because that's where package managers put installed software. You can put your scripts in /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin or any other location provided you add it to your PATH
Asher Rogers
>alternativeto.net Pls remove this site. All they list are high memory bloatwares that are ported from windows. No dev tools. No command line tools Remove at once.
Daniel Edwards
ldd you should see which file has that pid, and then run ldd on it.
Jonathan Lopez
This is why people think arch users are rerarded
Dylan Stewart
Thanks for the contribution! XD
Liam Brooks
You're welcome
Christopher Ortiz
I'm not familiar with the calamares installer but if it doesn't give you the option to install while keeping your current home folder untouched (it might, Ubuntu installers do) you can install the other stuff to the 256GB drive and mount your /home afterwards. It won't hurt to dig around in the installer options and see as long as you don't accidentally click install. And you might take a look at the Manjaro wiki it's pretty nice.
William Nelson
It's really fucking weird. The timer gets triggered by random things, like me creating a text file in home folder with nano, but it does not refresh on its own. Seems to be linked to any change on disk.
Leo Ward
>rerarded
I think I get where he's coming from. A lot of people install Antergos or Manjaro and run around the interwebs asking all kinds of stupid questions about their 'Arch' install. You weren't doing that though so maybe that's not what he meant.
David Cruz
is Manjaro Linux any good? I used and loved Arch back in the day, but honestly now that I have a job I'm more lazy with my home computing and I just want something easy to install.
Jacob Fisher
Thanks for the replies. I decided to just make a back-up of the HDD and wipe it so that I re-configure it again with FDE. The FDE that's included in the Manjaro Linux Installer is good, right?
Aiden Hughes
Hey anons i have some .aes files that i need to decrypt. Problem is that i'm on arch and as i can see there is no aescrypt for arch. What do i do?
Jaxson Nelson
Thanks
William Perry
Guise... w-what's going on with Arch? It wanst me to remove nvidia-libgl.
$ sudo pacman -Syu :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace nvidia-libgl with extra/nvidia-utils?
Ugh... wtf? Has anyone upgraded? I'm too afraid.
Isaiah Brown
>Thanks. >The file is named fonts.conf though. >hastebin.com/wucudizeje.xml >Any idea why does it behave like that? >Also thanks for the conf file.
Don't change fonts.conf Make another text file in the same directory named local.conf and put your config there. It will look for local.conf first.
Read the top of fonts.conf: >"DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. IT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN FONTCONFIG IS UPDATED. LOCAL CHANGES BELONG IN 'local.conf'.
>"The intent of this standard configuration file is to be adequate for most environments."
Parker Nelson
Winkids can't even install gentoo and they have the nerve to call themselves intelligent.
William Robinson
Let me be clear here. People who fight over "which distro is best" are in fact low tier sjw linux lovers. Linux is operating system. You should >install gentoo or any other OS without any display manager or desktop environment. >Learn how to install softwares by comipiling them using gcc/g++ >Learn compilation pipeline >Learn C/C++, shell script, make >Learn to make X/wayland softwares of your own. >Involve in open source development
Don't act and behave like poo in here. These "which distro is best" arguments should be out of your radar. >Hail Hitler
Dominic Scott
doing now
John Nguyen
No, it's because arch is supposed to be aimed to people with some experience with linux and that know how to use a search engine to find solutions. But bunch of people that install arch because they think it makes them some kind of expert or gives them some kind of cred and then they make questions that a 2 minutes search will answer.
Jaxon Wilson
show lspci output. Why don't you want to use nvidia libGL?
Colton Martinez
create package from AUR
Dominic Diaz
>>Learn how to install softwares by comipiling them using gcc/g++ >>Learn compilation pipeline >>Learn C/C++, shell script, make >>Learn to make X/wayland softwares of your own. >>Involve in open source development But I already know all these things.
Adrian Gomez
>cyka
Jaxson Harris
what is your opinion on SpiderOak? What is your opinion on their apps?
that is not russian language
Juan Powell
You need to take another look at aur
Gavin Jenkins
Then why do u care about which distros. They are all same linux with their devs having their own taste of desktop environment and package manager.
Brayden King
FUCK!!!! New Chromium has a FUCKED UP POINTER! It now does not respect your theme's pointer and uses whatever. It has that ugly hand pointer from Adwaita.
Who fucked it up? Google or package maintainer?
Parker Johnson
>doing now d-did you survive user?
>show lspci output. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c4) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1070 6GB] (rev a2) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 10f1 (rev a2) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 09) 04:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 03)
>Why don't you want to use nvidia libGL? But I do! Pacman wants to remove it and replace it with nvidia-utils for some reason.
Landon Torres
i dont have any problem, finished update and everything is fine
John Hughes
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Juan Evans
>d-did you survive user? yes, everything is fine.
Brandon Jackson
>d-did you survive user? I think he is kill. Rip in peace, Russianon.
Ayden Mitchell
>Russianon this is triggering me desu, im SERB :'(
Jayden Price
kek
Jordan Reyes
Just make sure your theme is set right and restart the browser dawg
also >not using adwaita, the only one
Brayden Long
You didn't die? Welcome back, Serbian friend. Great 2Pac quote you got there!
Oliver Miller
Is that gnome-terminal? Which theme are you using?
Angel Butler
as i said here Looks like i'm only person that never had problem with arch update
Brandon Torres
>Just make sure your theme is set right and restart the browser dawg I've NEVER had this issue until today when I upgraded to new Chromium. In fact, all cursors inside Chromium are correct EXCEPT for that disgusting hand pointer from Adwaita.
>>not using adwaita, the only one It's literally the fucking eye cancer. that hand pointer is ugly as fuck. I use el cap cursor theme myself. it's like a refined Adwaita without the ugly shit.
Samuel James
Please, help.
I need to compile CUDA. The latest compatible gcc is 5.3.1, but I can't install it. Apt-get doesn't recognize gcc-5=5.3.1 or anything like that. I've been trying to manually download .deb but I can't make it work too: >Breaks existing package 'g++' dependency gcc (>= 4:6.1.1-1ubuntu2)
I going crazy already. How do I install an older version of gcc?
Ubuntu 16.10 / amd64
Brayden Murphy
>kek so.. what did you do user? Are you gonna hit that y?
Sebastian Barnes
I don't even know where to start explaining how retarded you are.
>apparently has been using Arch >asking such a retarded question which common sense says he should know >going from an upstream distribution, which he apparently "mastered", to a shitty downstream distribution
What a pretentious retard.
Jason Gomez
image related
Yeah. I ain't never scared. I've actually never had anything break from an update and I've been abusing this install for about 6 months. Really makes me think the Linux detractors here are legit shills.
Sebastian Green
i upadate every day and never had problem too I rly dont know what are those retards doing to brake shit
Leo White
If he creates packages for his stuff it's okay and it WILL get installed there by his package manager (assuming he defined it that way in the package).
Landon Garcia
If Adwaita is the one depicted in your picture, then that's exactly what I use. I really like it. It looks kind of like the OS X cursors without the autistic colors and all that.
Luke Ortiz
>people with archlinuxfr repositories
Whenever I see someone complain about a problem and I see that, I just chuckle, tell them they're an idiot and give up.
Oliver Garcia
Let's keep it friendly, but just for clearity: I have been using Arch. If it would be common sense to ME, I wouldn't ask the question, would I? I also never mentioned that I mastered Arch. Why the fuck would I go to a downstream distrubition if I mastered it's father distro?
Reading is difficult if you're having a bad day, isn't it?
Evan Wilson
There are probably real paid Microsoft shills here constantly supporting the linux is bad narrative.
Charles Wright
why do you want to uninstall nvidia's libGL.so?? Have vga controller provided by nvidia.
Jordan Scott
*Break
They probably install stuff from AUR without even reading the PKGBUILD or anything. Everytime my Arch broke (which doesn't happen that often), it was absolutely my fault.
Joseph Fisher
These kind of Sup Forums post montages hurt my eyes.
Jordan Long
Just upgraded... but not before making a snapshot.
Upgrade went OK. Nvidia drivers work after the change. I think it had something to do with breaking they cycle. See pic related.
Noah Roberts
>snapshot-on What is this?
Cooper Hill
everything ok as i said >i love when i see this low ram usage with chromium running
btw is it just me or firefox is even more shitty after last update?
Julian Martin
>Whenever I see someone complain about a problem and I see that, I just chuckle, tell them they're an idiot and give up.
It's repo with a handful of french packages one of which is yaourt. You're a fucking moron dude. No problems happening here.
Josiah Walker
There's no reason to be this alarmed about it. The package maintainers are not a bunch of monkeys who don't know what they're doing. If they want you to replace a package with another, it most probably means that the files from package 1 have been transferred to package 2, and there won't be any noticeable difference.
Nathan Murphy
Know that mesa and nvidia are complimentary. You can have one of them not both. meaning to say you have both but yours system should use one of them at a time. can you run glxgear and see that fps you are getting. I get 125 fps with my laptop's integrated graphics unit.
Can you run and check if opengl is working fine or not? Output would be like this.
1 Renderer GeForce 710M/PCIe/SSE2 OpenGL version supported: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 375.26
Hunter Howard
In a shell script, is $(< /path/to/file)
POSIX?
Tyler Williams
Are you too afraid to upgrade? You know you're gonna have to do it sooner or later, right?
Juan Harris
Just use $(cat /path/to/file)
Asher Johnson
BASED SERBIAN user
Nolan Roberts
They add 3rd party repositories. They install everything they can from the AUR and replace official repository packages. Of course that's going to break things and then they come complaining "it doesn't work".
Andrew Moore
Hi, it's me, your cousin...
Michael Price
Having Yaourt installed is a symptom of idiocy.
Jeremiah Brooks
>Can you run and check if opengl is working fine or not? Just compiled it... after installing glfw.
How the fuck can you stomach that hand pointer from Adwaita? It's literally just a bunch of huge-ass pixels stacked together to resemble a city skyline.
these are THE BEST looking cursors. period. all the lines and angles are pixel-perfect on it.
I can't decide which DE/WM stick to, what desktops are you using, /fglt/?
Christopher Bailey
How can you stand Mickey Mouse's gloves as a fucking cursor?
Noah Wright
i3wm on desktop, GNOME3 on laptop.
Brody Miller
xfce4 openbox i3wm (ditched it quickly, came to realize i fucking hate tiling)
openbox would be goat if not for xml config. A mix of openbox functionality with i3wm-style bash-like configuration of i3wm would be bretty fucking good.
Luis Harris
Vanilla-DMZ cursors are the only neutral and elegant cursors you can get. Everything else is for children.
Juan Sullivan
>How can you stand Mickey Mouse's gloves as a fucking cursor? At least it looks like a hand and the pixel at the top of the index finger is actually the hot zone... unlike these Ubuntu-like abortions.
That's what I was looking for; but I prefer the dark variant (which is the same as Adwaita).
Tyler Moore
See There is a dark version of it and it looks good.
Angel Walker
>openbox would be goat if not for xml config.
Why do you parrot other people's opinions? You're pathetic. How much time do you spend editing its configuration file? Why do you edit it manually when there's an officially endorsed GUI program which enables you to edit 95% of all the available options?
The truth is you're a person who has nothing going on for them so you adopt other people's edgy opinions and parrot them to potentially clueless people hoping to appear smart and knowledgeable for having such bold opinions about "technology".
John Hall
Adwaita is slightly different. Mainly the "loading" icon and I don't like Adwaita's.
Angel Howard
I've been running Linux distros since 2003. The best distros in my opinion are: Debian Ubuntu OpenSUSE Arch
I'm partial to Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Arch. Debian right now is fine because jessie is new but just wait until it starts getting old and it'll become a hassle. I use Debian on my VPS and home server, though.
Let me explain why I think these are the best distros. The only thing I care about are repos, the more packages repos has the better. I love AUR for Arch and OBS for OpenSUSE.
Between bleeding the most stable to the most bleeding edge it goes in this order: Debian Ubuntu OpenSUSE Arch
If you want stability go Debian or Ubuntu. If you want bleeding edge go OpenSUSE or Arch. Ubuntu isn't quite as stable as Debian but the packages are more up to date than Debian. OpenSUSE isn't quite as bleeding edge as Arch but more stable than Arch. If you want balls to the wall bleeding edge go with Arch. The only thing checking the stability of packages for Arch is their automated build system. OpenSUSE has the best installer hands down. I particularly like the installer they use for setting up encryption. With other distros I have to use the terminal to set up partition encryption correctly but the GUI installer for openSUSE lets you have a high degree of control for encryption. openSUSE is bleeding edge especially tumbleweed but it has more testing than Arch. openSUSE Leap 42.2 is slightly more bleeding edge than Ubuntu 16.10
What you're look at is your choices from stable to bleeding edge in this order: Debian jessie (I would stick with stable for Debian which is the only reason to use it) Ubuntu LTS Ubuntu 16.10 openSUSE Leap openSUSE tumbleweed Arch
You can't go wrong with any of these. They are all for different purpose so you decide your purpose and pick one that's best for your purpose As a note I've heard good things about CentOS and Fedora but have never used them enough to know them well. So I can't comment on those.
