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Any sed/grep/awk wizards here? I need a way to get all the modules from a file and load them. The file contains output of `lsmod`, it looks like this: acpi_call 16384 0 ip_tables 24576 1 iptable_filter x_tables 28672 14 xt_comment,xt_LOG,ipt_REJECT,ip_tables,iptable_filter,xt_tcpudp,xt_limit,ip6t_REJECT,ip6table_filter,xt_addrtype,ip6t_rt,xt_conntrack,ip6_tables,xt_hl ext4 528384 2 crc16 16384 2 bluetooth,ext4 jbd2 90112 1 ext4 fscrypto 24576 1 ext4 mbcache 16384 1 ext4 sr_mod 24576 0 sd_mod 49152 3 cdrom 53248 1 sr_mod serio_raw 16384 0 atkbd 24576 0 libps2 16384 2 atkbd,psmouse ahci 36864 2 libahci 28672 1 ahci libata 212992 2 ahci,libahci xhci_pci 16384 0 sdhci_pci 28672 0 sdhci 40960 1 sdhci_pci scsi_mod 159744 3 sd_mod,libata,sr_mod ehci_pci 16384 0 firewire_ohci 40960 0 xhci_hcd 172032 1 xhci_pci led_class 16384 4 sdhci,input_leds,thinkpad_acpi,iwldvm ehci_hcd 73728 1 ehci_pci firewire_core 57344 1 firewire_ohci mmc_core 122880 2 sdhci,sdhci_pci crc_itu_t 16384 1 firewire_core usbcore 208896 6 uvcvideo,ehci_hcd,xhci_pci,btusb,xhci_hcd,ehci_pci usb_common 16384 1 usbcore i8042 24576 0 serio 20480 6 serio_raw,atkbd,psmouse,i8042
I just need the fisrst word in each line to pass to `modprobe`.
Jacob Hughes
I've been using xfce on my laptop for awhile now, but the only applications I use are chromium and terminal applications inside tmux. Most of the stock xfce programs have been replaced with lighter alternatives (ranger, vim, sxiv, mpv, mupdf, etc.). There's no point in running xfce anymore, what's a good replacement? I don't wanna go tiling cause I already use tmux, which I'm quite happy with.
Connor Rivera
Most people I know in the situation like you use Openbox.
Tyler Foster
Using a tiling wm doesn't automatically mean you need to use the tiling features. Most of them have floating modes.
just keep xfce unless you really want maximum rice, but then your fonts fuck up and you have to fix them, your gtk themes fuck up and you have to fix them, your dpi fucks up and you have to fix it, you plug in another monitor and it fucks up, etc.
Isaac Evans
I asked a question in the last thread about KoToR 2 on Debian and Ubuntu. To answer my interlocutor, there was no WINE involved. A company named Aspyr took the game and added native iOS and Linux support; Steam now hosts this patched version of the game, so now everyone can enjoy KoToR, regardless of platform. Officially they only support Ubuntu 14.04 for any of their patched games. So, no WINE. Just Steam, and KoToR. Obviously there are large differences between Ubuntu and Debian, but presumably both use libavcodec, which added Bink support many years ago. So, where to start, user?
Carson Peterson
I know you got this already answered on the last thread, but just so you learn something: awk:
# prints the 4th colum, delimited by space (default) awk '{ print $4 }'
# prints the 4th colum, delimited by space, but only on lines that contain "something" awk '/something/ { print $4 }'
# prints the last colum (NF), delimited by comma (-F = field separator) awk -F, '{ print $NF }'
# hello world: awk works like this: awk 'BEGIN {initialize} condition1 {stmts} condition2 {stmts}... END {finish}' awk 'BEGIN { print "Hello, world!"; }'
# play some random music awk 'BEGIN {srand(); while(1) {wl=1000*(0.87055^(int(rand()*10)+1));d=(rand()*8000+80)/wl;for (i=0;i
Been using Ubuntu Unity LTS 16.04 for a week now and decided to try out other distributions today.
Fedora looked amazing but felt weird and slow, Debian's repositories were too outdated for my needs and Kubuntu was bugging out with my display setup.
Ended up installing Mint xfce and hot damn it's fast, way faster than Unity. Sure it looks and feels like Windows XP, which I'm not very fond of, but it's so fast I don't care. I had tried Cinnamon before and did not like it so this really took me by a surprise.
I wish Linux worked on my laptop. I've tried everything but I don't think its wireless and audio hardware is supported.
Kayden Hernandez
alias ls='echo we all must suffer | cowsay -fsodomized | lolcat' is a pretty good one
Robert Moore
Neat.
Parker Thompson
You can make XFCE look much different through things like the window manager settings, themes, icons, and standalone dock programs.
Well, maybe try booting into a live Ubuntu image and click on the proprietary hardware and driver option in the installation menu (if my memory serves me correctly). If it detects it after that then there's hope. I managed to get a laptop with Broadcom WL working through that.
Nolan Hill
fc -l ---------list recent items in bash history.
fc -l 2 5 ------list history indexed 2 through 5.
fc ----------open last command in your default text editor.
fc -s ---------execute last command without editing it. You can add a specific index number or string.
fc -e kate----open last command in specific text editor.
fc -e kate du---open last command beginning with du in kate. Index number works too. When kate edit is saved and closed the command executes.
Benjamin Wilson
suckless lolcat, only dependency: python 0x0.st/wkm.py
Christian Nelson
Are these issues associated with openbox? Currently I'm considering that with tint2.
Easton Evans
Already done that. Nada. The console commands find no wifi hardware whatsoever.
Cooper Rogers
I'm actually using the alias as suggested in the help. $ type r r is aliased to `fc -s' comfy
Cameron Flores
thank you based user of dependency-free performant software
Carter Powell
Is there any review of ryzen 5 on linux ? I just don't give a fuck about windows.
why tf are you looking for ryzen 5 where there is ryzen 7 1700X that works fine in Linux
Joseph Ortiz
>Unity is kill by GNOME >Wayland beginning to ship >Vulkan also happening slowly
How much market share could GNU/Linux actually gain if the above makes it easier for normies and gaymers?
Mason Butler
How can windows even compete
Ryan Campbell
Old memes aside is there any way to flag Firefox/Chromium to just open Kdialog without installing the entire Plasma 5 desktop?
Nathan Wood
funny but did you check clicking Fn key plus what F key it is to enable/disable wireless? have been hit with that before. also been hit by it being disabled in bios
Jackson Price
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Ryan Ramirez
lol that kdialog is not only better than gtkfilechooser, it's actually a more functional filemanager than nautilus
Dylan Baker
You don't need KDE, there's a patch for GTK2 that allows thumbnails in the file dialog (check if your distro has a package for it). For Firefox you'd need to compile it with the GTK2 flags, for Chromium I believe it already uses GTK2 by default.
But doing is better, it just takes a while to get used to.
Austin Ross
We need to go deeper.
Jose Allen
Chromium is moving to GTK3 (finally)
Cooper Bailey
because there's 170€ difference between those two CPU. And R7 seems a bit too much for my needs
Is there a way to configure the font in CDE? Using ubuntu here and the defaults has serif, which is not only ugly as fuck, it is also not the default.
Connor Smith
Chromium is botnet.
David Mitchell
RIP I dont like the Gtk3 file dialog. It feels sluggish and does weird things like hiding folders while searching (what other gui toolkit does that? it's unintuitive).
Mason Sanders
So I installed Linux 16.04.2 LTS but some programs don't work like they should. I've downloaded speccy like usual but when I double-click on the .exe I just get an unkown file format error, wtf. I thought Linux is ready to use by now? Did I fall for a meme?!
Carter Ward
Friends. Is there any way to get thubnails in the GTK filepicker? I would go compiling if there's a patch and some kind user would hold my hand, or, is the only solution KDE? I actually like GTK, at least as backend for my i3 config and I don't wanna switch just because of a filepicker problem. Also why is this still a thing? Years back when I was on Windows I already knew about the "filepicker meme", seems that this bug is now 14 years old and still no fix? What are they thinking? Why don't we go to the GNOME irc and tell them to do some work? Thanks.
Joseph Martinez
Don't go to the IRC, spam the shit out of the bugzilla thread
Isaiah Smith
some user made a picker patch for gtk2 but everyone is using gtk3 now, so no patch, install kde
Evan Rogers
I actually can't blame you. I mean, what are the chances that the answer is literally 10 posts above yours?
Tyler Kelly
thats a cripple workaround and you know it
Jacob Taylor
>I would go compiling if there's a patch He doesn't seem to mind.
Although last time I tried it, it didn't work very well and crashed with webms.
Ethan Miller
>>>
Caleb Anderson
How to apply this?
Blake Foster
>kde
Chase Bell
F for Hakon
Nicholas King
does hakon know that he's an inofficial internet hall of famer?
Zachary Young
Microsoft Windows does not have this problem.
Brandon Flores
How can I make "setxkbmap" persist through reboots?
Charles Lewis
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Kayden Diaz
When I released GNU Emacs and people started using it, they started sending me improvements in the mail. So I would get a message with a bug fix, and a message with a new feature, and another bug fix, and another new feature, and another... and another... until they were pouring in on me so fast that just taking advantage of all of the help people were giving me was a big job. Microsoft doesn't have this problem.
Jose Stewart
is there a way to run two desktop sessions and switch between them? I'd like to run one with my usual gnome desktop and one with i3 for learning
Kayden Smith
xnest
Jason Harris
Well, I'm having a bit of trouble trying to understand how can I play a facebook audio message in mpv.
Christian Sanchez
stop being used by facebook
Easton Wilson
>hqdefault.jpg pls go
Juan Adams
switch to a tty and run xinit i3 -- :1 vt8
then go to tty8
Jose Cooper
I need to talk to coworkers. Also I'm already having trouble because I refuse to use office instead of libreoffice and gnumeric.
Aaron Hughes
dude, just use google docs, it's compatible with everything and easy to share/collaborate
Lincoln Parker
This imageboard breaths high quality memes and posts. Why do you think that googling some youtube thumbnail in order to put some attention to your tech support question will lead to anything other than being called a faggot, faggot?
Tyler Butler
Yes, but you may have trouble with things like audio. See the other replies for starting X on other tty's
Lincoln Walker
thanks honeys
Carter Moore
is emacs any good? I heard many good things about "org mode", but I've never tried emacs myself how to get started?
Sebastian Walker
>rtorrent keeps crashing when left alone on my RPi >years worth of abandoned networking projects on the thing >rtorrent logging is shit what do I don't want to set up an internet ssh share again
This is the worst fucking general on here, every time I ask a question it's ignored! Well fuck you!
Liam Harris
rtorrent crashed for me too (actually it simply froze) after some hours when there was lots of traffic i switched to transmission, theres also cli stuff for it
Leo Powell
I forgot to mention, I set up the systemd daemon that's supposed to restore it when it crashes
Wyatt Sanders
>first post in this thread kys
Luke Myers
Is the archlinux.org page down or something?
Wyatt Bennett
> Anonymous (23) 04/12/17(Wed) >(23) You didn't ask any question
Chase Cox
So tomorrow my hdd should be arriving, and I'm going to be installing a distro onto it. Would mint or ubuntu be a better distro for a beginner? I think mint looks really slick on cinnamon, especially the newest version of it, but I read that mint was compromised not long ago and could still be breached. However, ubuntu has tons of support and help threads online, and that could be very useful to me if I mess something up. Again, would you recommend ubuntu or mint?
Parker Thomas
The fuck are you talking about?
Joseph Williams
yes
Noah Nguyen
nope try www.
Ayden Murphy
your homosexuality
Easton Turner
if it's just cinnamon you're after you can install it on ubuntu and I think there's even a cinnamon buntu flavor
Joseph Butler
I am talking about in previous threads. I have asked questions multiple times and no one has given a shit. Friendly Linux General my fucking ass. This is one of the reasons why people don't want to switch, autistic community.
Fuck off.
Ryan Wright
There is literally nothing wrong with liking dick. FRIENDLY thread.
Jacob Anderson
Still not working. For some reason the wiki and AUR still work though
Josiah Lee
What question do you have? Let's see if I can help.
Adam Hughes
stop namefagging
Aiden Fisher
I appreciate the offer but I have no questions at the moment.
