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I mostly want to be able to screenshot a particular area, and then automatically upload it to e.g. puush while also saving a copy locally, then gain easy access to the puush link once it's uploaded - ideally by putting it in the clipboard. Easy access to recent links is a bonus.
I'd be open to throwing a script together myself to achieve that if there's no good existing solution. What tools would I need to use in that case?
Josiah Sanders
I plan on installing Gentoo tonight.
I have a python/scipy application that needs to run for another month. My PC tends to overheat pretty easily.
I need to limit my CPU speed (i7 3770, non K) without underclocking (since my mobo doesn't allow it). On windows I can just set a global CPU usage cap (I have it set at 60% right now). Is there anything equivalent for linux?
Kevin Johnson
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Ian Phillips
tlp allows you to do exactly that. I have my thinkpad limited to 70% performance right now to lower temperatures.
Xavier Ramirez
>when winfags get ransomware but you jump that ship long ago
Jack Cruz
sorry, friend
Brody Bell
*Linux
Thomas Richardson
GNU/Linux*
Hudson Campbell
>when you're a winfag but you literally don't care because all you'll lose are some game saves and if it does happen it'll finally persuade you to jump ship
Ryan Gutierrez
>I'm available tonight
Ryan Roberts
>installing Gentoo tonight. haha, you plan to *start* installing Sup Forumsuys, is running GUI apps as another user (KDESU) sandbox it strong enough 4daily use? (i mean diffrent user 4 firefox, diif 4 media etc). or should i use "normal" sandbox eg firejail? this kys nig
Jason Perez
*Linux
Connor Howard
GNU with Linux installed
Hudson Walker
What if I have busybox with linux installed though
Zachary Baker
...
Leo Harris
I do not know of a program as robust as ShareX, but I know xfce4-screenshooter lets you snap particular areas and instantly upload to imgur.
There is also Gyazo on Linux but that is proprietary software.
Brandon Howard
nu-Linux
Noah Smith
I don't know, user. Busybox would propably still say GNU/Linux since it emulates GNU/Linux.
Lucas Brooks
GNU/Linux*
Ethan Reyes
lmao, it actually does
Zachary Moore
Thank you for correcting me
Camden Fisher
You should use busybox for serious business tho. It's too much stripped down and buggy, especially things like awk, grep and sed may fuck up things. Good enough for a router or something like that.
Julian Morris
shouldn't*
Jaxson Davis
Sup Forums wont be the same
Christopher Fisher
I guess you could call this a linux system, since there aren't two different OSes involved, just the Linux part. >buggy For example?
Jayden Watson
bump
Ayden Gomez
>show up out of nowhere after 18 months and change the fucking version number to make it appear like the project isn't abandoned >prior to that it was abandoned for 5 years >it's been virtually untouched for 7 years
threadly reminder to stop using deprecated dmenu and upgrade to based rofi
Colton Rodriguez
good advice t.b.h.
Kayden Ross
Looks good, but then Conflicting options: --upload and --save cannot be used at the same time. Dangit.
I know I'm not using anywhere near the full capabilities of ShareX - I literally only need what I described in my post. What could be the best way to go about that?
Chase Allen
What's the best lightweight and user friendly distribution of GNU (with Linux added)?
Brayden Nguyen
l-lads cheeky linux user here am I safe from wannacry?
Jaxon Hill
Emacs
Parker Johnson
>lightweight on my old netbook i use debian with lxde. just werks. also this
Logan Hughes
The main problem is that most options (GNU extentions) simply don't exists because busybox wants to be as small as possible. xargs for example can't do stuff in parallel, grep has no perl regex, cat has no options at all, etc. Then there are actual bugs like integer overflows >awk 'BEGIN { printf "%d\n", 10240000000000/1024 }' will return a minus value and some regex differences with grep and sed. There things aren't "really" a problem when you write portable scripts, but it's useful to be careful.
Jacob Parker
Try GuixSD buddy. I can't await the 1.0. The package manager is amazing.
Elijah Cruz
Source Mage GNU/Linux
Aaron Phillips
How is it better than pacman, apt, zypper or dnf? I mean it's just a syntax thing. sudo 'package manager' install 'package' How does guix improve upon this?
Josiah Perry
Will someone please tell microsoft to lay off the coke no one wants to tun an entire 3d engine on their desktop
Sebastian Torres
There's no such thing as a "lightweight distro", unless you're actually trying to run it on sub-1GB RAM toasters or something.
The DE is the main thing that can be light or heavy. I'm an xfce shill, or you can go lxde for even less weight, or just screw it all and use a tiling WM
This is nothing new. WindowsRT was the same thing.
Brayden Gonzalez
scrot -s allows you to select with the mouse the part of the screen you want to screenshot
scrot in general is quite a powerful command line screenshot tool
Eli Brown
>not using import
Hudson Morris
Nice, but can I then save it to a folder, upload it somewhere, and get the link to the uploaded file in my clipboard?
Jayden Harris
>boot live cd >xcfe looks better than expected, icons are neat, menu search great, shortcuts working out of the box >install >garbage ass ugly shit menu doesn't have a search and no shortcuts whatsoever What kind of bait and switch is this? Seriously though, is there a way to just load the settings and stuff that manjaro has in the live cd? I don feel like spending half a day to put this is a working state.
Jacob Myers
>I don feel like spending half a day to put this is a working state.
Good. One less idiot tainting the xfce userbase. Especially when you can fix most of the problems in 3 minutes flat or less.
Joseph Thompson
What's the best file manager?
Carter Scott
Pleb
Kayden Lewis
I mean, if people don't spoonfeed me I'll just have to figure it out one way or the other. I'm just shocked about the decision there, why would they show how good it is just to strip it out a minute late? The other Manjaro distributions kept the same theme in the live cd and after installation. Also do keep it friendly.
Lincoln Morales
bash
Ryder Diaz
>can I then save it to a folder yes, scrot can specify the folder and filename
>upload it somewhere basically you will want to make a bash script to do everything you want. the screenshotting, saving, and naming of the file would be done with scrot. to upload the file, Im not sure if its the best option for you, but you can use the ftp command
>get the link to the uploaded file in my clipboard this should be easily able to be implemented in your bash script. This whole thing you want to do can be implemented in a bash script that is only a few lines in length
Josiah Hernandez
What is the best Navy rating or Army MOS if I want to work with Linux in the military?
Zachary Robinson
rofl is bloat
Benjamin Flores
Hello gentoomen I booted the minimal gentoo installation CD and lo and behold I have no ethernet driver.
My laptop is an acer and its nic is called Acer Nplify.
How do I get the driver?
>inb4 read the handbook It is literally not in the handbook.
Josiah Roberts
>google it
Ayden Russell
>light weight >sub 1GB RAM
get the fuck out you new cunt. I have Debian with a fully functioning GUI on my netbook (which only has 442MB RAM) and it boots into less than 40MB RAM use
Levi Bell
How
Evan Wilson
How can I overdrive the colors based on distro on screenfetch? I'm uncommenting this line:
textcolor="\e[1,34m" labelcolor="\e[1;34m"
But it does nothing. Not even when I change the values. What am I doing wrong?
Elijah Young
That is odd because I just installed Manjaro Xfce the other day and it was fine. Something fucked up for you
Adrian Brooks
11x since it sounds like X11
Austin Nguyen
Which is the best distro for a 1GB RAM toaster?
Brayden Price
Never mind, I'm an idiot, you can change the colors with -c.
Jace Kelly
Debian Stable with LXDE
Tyler Ross
debian with xfce or lubuntu (or solus) it won't be much fun in either case though, since any browser will eat it all up
Xavier Allen
puppy
Sebastian Howard
That's only if he tries to use a browser like Firefox or Chromium. If he choose Midori and tweaks the settings so it doesn't load unecessary elements, he'll be just fine.
Anthony Thomas
Are AMD drivers good yet?
Matthew Collins
Never
Christian Moore
>Arch Linux installed plasma KDE uninstalled Gnome login screen uninstalled Gnome rebooted dropped into emergency console, cant even ping?
hlep -- donot wanna have to install this pain in the ass again
Jordan Nguyen
You fucked with your boot loader somehow. Boot livecd and use pacman.log to revert your mindless uninstallting
Logan Nelson
gtk+ or qt?
Andrew Sanders
>undetermined infantry
Jayden Robinson
Debian with OpenBox or IceWM Why waste RAM on a full DE when a WM works better
Samuel Johnson
qt has chromium botnet
Parker Nguyen
how stable is gentoo testing (~amd64)?
Thomas Jackson
Check Fb group Linux if you need help ....
Liam Johnson
What is "Fb"?
Owen Jenkins
normiebook
Noah Gomez
I'm using MATE desktop with openbox as a window manager, and I'm trying out firefox for the first time. But i'm being driven crazy by the panel at the top of the screen. It's ugly and it removes screen space for no reason. Is there any way to remove it and have the min/max/close buttons be on the same panel as the tabs? I know chrome/chromium has an option to bring it back to the default appearance, but I'm not sure if that's available on firefox.
Adam Myers
This must be bait.
Jayden Gutierrez
Turn off borders.fine the keybind using openbox man
Oliver Flores
I've seen the statement "Xfce is to Gnome what Lxqt is to Plasma" on the net. Can someone explain it to me? Does it mean Xfce/Lxqt is a lightweight fork of Gnome/Plasma? Or does it refer to the fact that one pair uses gtk and the other qt?
Jeremiah King
>meanwhile on reddit
Joseph Miller
Thanks for the advice, but I must be blind cause I am not seeing anything about disabling borders in the man page. Do you happen to know what it is?
Evan Ross
delet
Thomas Howard
With this recent malware stuff going on I kind of want to go a distro again. I had Arch but my friends kept pressuring me to play games not able to be played through WINE or natively, so I went back. Don't want to dual-boot either, so it's one or the other.
I can probably get everything I play to work, but I have yet to find a way to play Victoria 2 on a distro. One of my favourite games and I'd hate to leave it behind.
I'm also curious if I can use torrented DLC on CK2 natively on Linux since it's just files, but apparently you also need to use the activator. Would I be able to use the activator through WINE but then play natively? I don't know if this makes sense what I'm asking.
Ian Rodriguez
I recompiled the kernel to support audit framework. But now my tty and log is being spammed with ~1 million lines per second.How do i use auditing without this nonsense?
I'm trying to set up my HP 8610 printer to my recent arch install. I've installed the needed CUPS packages, and I'm now going through the configuration in the browser gui config those packages come with. But I can't find my printer listed when it asks me to select my printer. So what's my next option? I see an option to add a PPA file, but how do i get that?
Kevin Martinez
Should I drop Gnome for KDE?
Camden Stewart
>>nda declined
WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THIS?
Juan Campbell
Idk, user. What would be better for you?
Dylan Cook
my laptop is old, Gnome uses too much RAM
Jayden Perez
try xfce
Zachary Hill
I also use XFCE, but lacks in extensions, and I've heard good things about KDE; I'm downloading the ISO to try it out
Jayden Turner
Anyone here use lemonbar? Not interested in ricing discussion, I'm more interested in if anyone has some clever scripts, cool buttons, etc.