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Is there a way for have aliases in dmenu? Creating an external shell script for every little shit doesn't seem to be the right way.
Aaron Brooks
Was this picture made with free software?
Ryan Bennett
Holy fuck, I need help. Has anyone here used the package "imwheel"?
Brody Ross
i am installing gentoo on livecd but i have to go to bed now, is there a way to save the point i am at in the installation? or will i have to shut down and restart tomorrow?
Tyler Flores
What should I use for automatically mounting external hard drives?
Adam Gonzalez
Im using nemo but its not arranging stuff in the way i want it to. I have a lot of japanese folders so its grouping stuff that starts with "チ" with stuff that starts with ch instead of seperating them. Its annoying mainly because japanese and english are ordered differently, so チ wouldnt be near the top. How do i make it so it seperates languages properly?
Easton Scott
everything should save, youll have to chroot into it tomorrow
Colton Taylor
So on every reboot I have to run `swapon /dev/sda2`
What was the file where I put that in so it'll mount it automatically upon boot? Not the command itself, but there was a stab file that had these in it?
Gavin Garcia
/etc/fstab
Asher Clark
Oh right, does it have to be something like this?
/dev/sda2 / swap defaults 1 1
Or does swap have different values?
Julian Anderson
mine looks like this /dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0
Christian Nelson
Wait nevermind, it's this
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
But I'm not sure if the first one should be none or swap like
/dev/sda2 none swap defaults 0 0
Which one is better?
Wyatt Morales
Thanks.
Hunter Brooks
Why do Debian alter software so much? Do they think they know better than upstream?
The only thing stopping me migrating to Debian from Fedora is that Fedora packages are basically all from source and Debian are all altered and covered in Debian branding
Asher Fisher
anyone here posting from their void install?
void user here btw
Lincoln Rivera
Been on Void for a good year now, haven't considered going back to anything else once. I'm completely impressed
Leo White
all hail our wizard overlords
Ian Turner
thanks and for the record could you swear this is not me just samefagging or farming (you)'s
David Campbell
SLAB or SLUB?
Levi Garcia
Yeah I personally like debian but it annoyed me too when firefox and chromium have debian bookmarks.
Charles Collins
Debian's default theme for WindowMaker is pretty bad. Not sure why they made it.
Aiden Myers
Sell me on KDE. I'm thinking about switching. I'm a long time gtk user and I don't really want to mix qt and gtk. And would it be weird to use i3 with qt programs?
Cameron Sanchez
I have a windows iso and I wrote it with dd but when i try to boot from it the computer doesn't recognize it and tells me it's not bootable.
any help?
Caleb Clark
dd doesn't work for Windows anymore. Try winusb, I've used it a couple of times and it worked fine.
Chase Gray
is this windows only? should i just run it through wine?
Dylan Martinez
how does dd not work, I thought it was a bit for bit duplication?
Grayson Wood
I have no idea. I tried it multiple times. Formated the usb with gparted and tried again. it just does not work and I feel like it's the .iso
Matthew Moore
I am trying to get linux to work on my computer. i went through all the ubuntu distros except lubuntu. i like the XFCE desktop. but the problem is that i have a 1080p 15 inch laptop. and the XFCE does not scale well. i increased the dpi but it messes up other things too. what is the best DE for 1080p 15 inch screen that is also lightweight enough and customizable like XFCE. i did not like KDE and it actually crashed on me a few times. but i think KDE has the best high dpi support.
Christopher Johnson
What exactly does "column" and "row" mean in terms of geometry?
Tyler Rodriguez
#!/bin/bash #ex.sh #execute something $@
Meta+d ex.sh myalias
Sebastian Martin
I'm looking to install arch. Do the scripts do a good job of installing without that much bloat? I'm mainly gonna try arch for the AUR. Coming from debian.
Logan Taylor
Have you guys heard about appimage? A great way to distribute and share applications.
Finally having things that work out of the box is a great advance towards the year of gnu+linux on desktop.
Lucas Reyes
The install guide is REALLY good. You can literally follow it step by step user and it'll work. I promise you.
That being said, arch-anywhere gives you a pretty basic installer and lets you pick some programs to install from the get go and walks you through some stuff but I do suggest trying to do it on your own
Isaiah Hughes
Amidoinitrite?
Justin Wilson
>You can literally follow it step by step user and it'll work Can confirm. I tried Linux for the first time with arch and installed it from the wiki and look at me now, having conflicting font issues and ugly UI (it will look better eventually)
Jace Brown
No it's a program for linux. You could have googled and learned this faster than posting here.
Microsoft changed something relatively recently that makes a simple dd not work.
Dylan Hill
>noobuntu :)))))))))))))))) t. arch
Joseph Reyes
>tfw been compiling kernel for the past hour Wait™?
Nathaniel Phillips
Alright, gonna try the wiki then.
Jordan Lewis
Xfce or Cinnamon for getting shit done?
Adam Young
How does Grub/ISOLinux/Syslinux work exactly? Does it just detect bootable partitions and boot them?
Alexander Gonzalez
I like the background, it's like a mix of 80's retro and of ukiyo-e (japanese drawings like the famous one showing a tsunami). who the artist?
there are definitively better shells than bash. i am using fish.
Can you access/open gnome-terminal from anywhere like with Tilda?
Caleb Allen
You can tell when someone prefers looks over functionality when their terminal is fucking transparent
Benjamin Howard
This is only a problem when you're a retard and use a wallpaper that makes it hard to read
Adrian Butler
Aenami is the signature at the bottom of the wallpaper.
Joshua Price
Where's your borderless MemePV?
Bentley Mitchell
not using zsh and oh-my-zsh
Daniel Wright
In a universe where every element has the same exact size, lets call this universe mono space, you can use columns and rows to coordinate.
Hey, I have an svg graphic that I want to rasterize. Is there a way to do this with imagemagick or ffmpeg?
Isaiah Sullivan
yes
Caleb Harris
Please teach me senpai
Gavin Morales
convert in.svg -density 1337 out.png
Alexander Brown
>set rows to 26 >there's space between two stacked terminals >set rows to 27 >terminals overlap by a bit >change font size from 9 >8 is too small, 10 is too big
Zachary Watson
it's because terminals send size hits to the window manager to make sure that all columns and lines are always visible
John Cook
Thanks. >need company logo for master thesis >get it in SVG >turns out they took a hi res png version >then scaled it down to like 300 px width using linear interpolation >then saved it as jpg >and THEN turned it into a vector graphic What in the fuck.
Landon Parker
Can you do that in any other program?
Tyler Cox
samefag
Lincoln Wright
samefag
Gabriel Cooper
Why not just use whatever you like? I'm on KDE mainly because it felt more natural than Gnome
Parker Harris
Why do you have to be so annoying.
Blake Jenkins
Syslinux has an autoinstaller, not sure about the others. It's really not that hard, but Grub is getting bloated nowadays
Cameron Anderson
>Grub is getting bloated nowadays how?
Luke Brooks
Well how do tiling WMs do it?
Xavier Sanders
Some ignore size hints, some don't, some allow you to configure that. I personally just patched URxvt in order to get rid of that. Theres also a patch in the AUR if you use Arch.
Oliver Thomas
Best Linux for beginnings? Linux Mint? Which flavor is the easiest to customize? Cinnamon looked pretty and all but there were visual glitches even on my gaming PC! Xubuntu?
How do I make my folders and things look like the one in this video? youtu.be/ELelLy1lq-s
Kayden Rodriguez
>xfce4terminal --drop-down Wtf i didn't even know!
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.
Carter Bell
install ubunut
Isaac Collins
That's an unstable build though!
How about antergos?
Leo Robinson
what is the best terminal?
Blake Russell
Install Gentoo. It's just perfect: - lightweight - beginner friendly - optimized for gaming
they also fucked up cd recording software for 10+ years and it's still fucked
install kde neon
windows uses its own format forgot what its called which is written with their own tool available somewhere on microsoft.com
so you're looking for something like x1.5 ? there's a somewhat of a solution using xrandr up the resolution or dpi to x3 and then cut in half i think thats what applel also does not sure how well it works search stackoverflow it's somewhere there
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Dylan Bailey
tty1
Jayden Williams
I'm trying to get i3 working well on Arch before I set it to run on startup.
I'm opening it in tty with "xinit i3", but every time I do, it seems to be opening up i3-sensible-terminal with i3 running in it, and I can't close it without crashing i3.
Does this go away if I set i3 to run on startup? My current goal is to just have i3 running a single termite terminal when I open it.
Jayden Myers
Install Debian GNU/Linux
Julian Sanders
the one to rule them all
Isaac Scott
no
Blake Sanchez
Install Devuan GNU/Linux. Every benefit of debian with the added bonus of not having systemd.
Nathaniel Hernandez
so perfect that nothing works out of the box.
Anthony Richardson
au contraire every tool you're provided with on the tiny gentoo install image works as intended. therefore its safe to conclude that indeed gentoo works out of the box.
Jason Perry
>having botnet out of the box is good
Isaiah Smith
"Init freedom" is cancer. You are free to choose your init already and since the beginning. The sole purposes of "Init freedom" is creating a meme based hate community against poettering, a guy who writes free software for the community. Do you really think he should burn in hell for doing so?
Jonathan Myers
Hey Lennart, nice to see you back. On the burning in hell part - God will judge you not me.
Very good talk about Devuan and how it's not a joke attempt, troll attempt or an attempt to stop the progress of Linux. It also talks about the absolutely cancerous rule of RedHat over development of Linux.
Matthew Wilson
That video makes me want to eat carbonara, which fortunately I am going to shortly.
Jeremiah Baker
>Every benefit of debian Ancient softwares and garbage configs?
Brayden Garcia
Memes aside point of view:
I'm not against systemd, I'm against the idea that programs should depend on a specific init system, which results in a situation where it's difficult to change the init system when you to. There are people who unironically meme about systemd, Poettering, etc, but systemd itself actually isn't the problem. The problem is the community acceptance of systemd as something every program can freely hard depend to. This is why systemd like Devuan must exist. I wish'd people would meme less about systemd being a problem, stop spreading misinformation about it being botnet and instead tell people about the actual problem. All these "systemd takes over GNU/Linux, sorry Systemd/Linux" memes fundamentally miss the point of the problem.
Lincoln Butler
dumb frogposter
Isaac Morgan
Running fedora 25 and my wifi adapter doesn't work correctly. It's a d-link dwa-130 which I'm pretty sure is supported. Sometimes it will randomly start working and I can use it for about an hour before it disconnects again. I'm not sure why this is happening. I know the usb port is ok because when I boot to windows I get no issues. What should I do?
Is there any tl;dr, article or something about it ? I can't watch a 40 minute video today, but reading about it would be a possible
Asher Ramirez
Just put the speed on 1.25 or 1.50. It's a lot shorter then.
And you can skip a lot of parts directly relevant to the future of Devuan project. The most important bit imho is the whole situation about how aggresive was the systemd's takeover over Linux and how shady was the entire adoption of it on Debian.
