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how does one get good with vim? is vimtutor really the best way, I suppose learning through practice is the best way to do it, but i'm using qutebrowser to try and get a hang of vimlike commands
Tyler Bennett
Eeee, that's a little backwards. At least it will get you used to mashing ESC if you are in doubt about what mode you are in. And you can use ctl-e to write your shitposts in vim!
Brayden Adams
try vimtutor it's not bad, then check various vimtips online
Jose Bennett
Do you prefer GTK or Qt based DEs?
Christopher Richardson
>where systemd fits in to the stack Yet they clearly don't bother too much about sticking to 'system daemons'. What's stopping them from trying to dictate the whole userland?
I agree with you.
Charles Parker
Reposting because I had already written it out when some braindead mod deleted the other thread when we had finally managed to have a constructive discussion about something technology related.
--- That is a bit of an overboard reaction.
The SystemD project hasn't given any indication of a desire to make their own compiler toolchain or binutils. But Poettering did say he wants systemd to serve as, among other things, "The glue between applications and the kernel" which sounds suspiciously like a libc.
If systemd does turn out to be so much better than anything else available at the moment then it could easily be argued that it would be more important to linux based operating systems than the GNU project (now, not historically obviously). Because everything (at least major things) that the GNU project puts out has competative alternatives, but in that scenario systemd wouldn't.
You are welcome to provide a counter argument more substantial than "You are all ignorant and stupid".
Parker Murphy
Wait so can I Xerox that book without any legal repercussions?
Bentley King
You mean Qt or GTK programs. I like GTK, because the theming seems easier. I don't even know how Qt theming works. I know it has styles, but where do you install them and are they exclusive to Qt4 or Qt5 or? Functionality wise, you don't realize notice a difference as a user.
And it eats memory like a bitch. Is chromium better?
Thomas Garcia
I changed my resolution to 320x240 for shits and giggles and now I can't change it back because I can't press the apply button. What do?
Grayson Brooks
Run xrandr in terminal and set res there
Joseph Wilson
Using up 800MB of my RAM?! How dare it?!
Why do you think a different browser browsing the same website will give you different results? Why do you think that the potential 50MB of RAM you'll "save" will make your computing experience better? Why do you want to have unused RAM? Do you know what RAM is for and why it's logical to have things in it for faster access?
Nolan Ross
Learn to move windows with alt + left click.
Easton Phillips
That's cool, thanks
Parker Myers
It's mostly because websites themselves are huge nowadays. You cannot open something like Facebook and expect to have low RAM usage. It's just how the site works. But you can try for yourself and compare the mem usage on different browsers.
Benjamin Morales
You can probably also use alt + right click to resize - this one's a big help because, unlike the title bar, resizing widgets are often tiny and hard to grab.
Grayson Martin
is emulating windows on qemu+kmv with pci passthrough a viable solution for gaming?
Isaac Adams
I haven't got a spare GPU myself but I have heard people swear that it is just fine. If you can get it set up. There are links to guides somewhere on the arch wiki and the linux_gaming subreddit.
You do lose some performance though so I suppose you will want a recent graphics card.
Carter Howard
I just installed parabola GNU+linux-libre with openrc on my x60 and I just realized wifi-menu doesn't work. What do?
Jeremiah Davis
Can I fug your boipucc?
James Baker
Ok so I stupidly fucked up again. I chose a resolution higher than my monitor's, thinking it would automatically revert after like 15 seconds like on Windows. It didn't. Now I can only use the terminal, however, when I try to change the resolution using xrandr commands, it says "can't open display". What do I do now?
Noah Flores
no
Gavin Anderson
Switch to a tty, remove any config files set by your desktop environment when you changed resolutions.
Joshua Ward
Good idea. Edited the xfce config file and now it's all good. Why is Sup Forums so much better than all these Linux forums? I've read through several threads and I didn't find a solution
Leo Gonzalez
>it says "can't open display" Pograms that do X-related stuff use an environment variable to know which display to work with. When running them outisde of an X environment, you need to supply that variable yourself. in the case of xrandr, I see it also takes a --display option, so you can probably use that too.
Either way, the display is probably ":0.0". Try passing that as the environment variable $DISPLAY, or using the --display option. It should workâ˘.
Andrew Garcia
In fact I just went ahead and tried, it works.
xrandr --display :0.0 env DISPLAY=:0.0 xrandr
Both work in a TTY. Glad you fixed it already anyway.
Owen Martin
Lxqt seems promising.
Hudson Green
vlc doesn't read files or even launch on Arch after update.
I tried to uninstall and reinstall. Anyone with same problem?
Wyatt Collins
Finally figured out a mutt configuration I'm comfortable with using.
At last I can remove the last remaining piece of Shitzilla software on my installation
Dominic Scott
I want to remove \n from every odd line.
I know that sed '1~2d' removes every odd line, but I don't want the line to be removed. I want the \n of the line to be removed so the even lines would be right next to the odd lines.
How do I go on about adding that into that sed command?
Logan Fisher
Actually I looked it up, seems like paste -s -d' \n' does it. But there is a space. I guess I can pipe it into sed again and remove that space.
Help with what? You posted a tutorial for it didn't you?
James Gomez
Is there a way to make htop less verbose and to report a single program's total RAM usage, without splitting it out by process? It almost makes me miss Windows Task Manager, that shit was clean and easy to understand at a glance if some program was being a faggot.
Nicholas Flores
Before systemd you would just set usb0 to be dhcp but that has probably changed now.
Nevertheless, I don't use easy tether but it like like it just use the normal USB tethering protocols, so just look up how to do usb tethering with you os or de.
Thomas Ramirez
>but user, i dont understand what the words are sayin.
Jacob Torres
Start it from a terminal emulator and see what it says.
Cooper Powell
this: Alternatively, you can grab the appimage for VLC and use it until your package maintainer pulls his shit together.
Nathaniel Sanchez
>install network manager (probably already have it installed) >turn on tethering on phone >click on the connection in network manager that shows up when you connect your phone
Shit nigga, it works on my shitty dumphone, it should work on your fancy smartphone as well.
Jaxon Cooper
K hides kernel threads. htop shows you resident memory per process.
You can use utility called ps_mem.py to check memory usage per program.
w3m (i shit you not) for text stuff aka majority of my browsing. iridium for 4swamp and multimedia. chromium for botnet services like google accounts.
Easton Kelly
Caveman here. Just got a Android phone from a friend and I'm wondering if you guys know if there's a way to use this thing in freedom (or at least as far as it gets). Any hints?
Daniel Lopez
none at all.
James Taylor
How can I speed up my boot time? it's over a minute long right now
[]$ systemd-analyze critical-chain The time after the unit is active or started is printed after the "@" character. The time the unit takes to start is printed after the "+" character.
>w3m My nigga. w3m is superp. - nice for paging - nice for ebook reading - nice for html2texting - nice for browsing - nice for viewing pictures - made by anime girls from japan Let's all love w3m.
Carter Allen
systemd-analyze plot > something.svg
upload the svg to somewhere or convert it to png and post it.
Jason Robinson
reinstall
Jeremiah Sullivan
...
Luke Long
networkmanager.wait it the problematic one, it stalls the booting for >15secs
there are plenty of google results to fixing that wait (usually by lowering timeout), check those.
Nathaniel James
Out of curiosity I measured the performance of my 10 year old laptop running sysvinit (not parallelized). 18 seconds from grub to login. I wonder how fast it would be if i put an SSD in it.
Anyways, describe your machine more senpai, is it a desktop or a server? Throw out anything related to plymouth, it's just this silly fedora logo that fills up on boot time, completely fucking irrelevant waste of resources. To disable it you have to remove rhgb (redhat graphical boot or something like that, look it up) flag from the grub boot up script
>4.603s libvirtd.service You're using a VM? How often? Maybe starting libvirtd manually when you need it could be a better option? >1.204s fwupd.service What the fuck? Isn't fwup just a bios firmware updater? Why does it run in the background? >1.059s sshd.service Server or a desktop? If a desktop throw it out immediately friend. >2.671s abrtd.service When I used to run fedora I removed it. It's a botnet to collect info about crashed software so you have an easier time filling a bug report. If you don't fill bug reports, you don't need abrtd.
I have no clue what akmods and dkms are for, my wild guess is nvidia drivers, am I right? So you probably need these.
Also can some greybeard share his insight on why NetworkManager is such a slow piece of dookie?
Camden Rogers
thanks m8. but even without that, shouldn't it be faster? i am seeing boot times
Joseph Campbell
on youtube, someone did some benchmarks and the performances were ~95% of windows's
some games like borderlands 2 were even faster while running on windows+kvm than on native windows (i am not sure but i think it's because the filesystem being used being better than the windows one)
Parker Foster
best music player that isn't mpd+something?
Matthew Martinez
cmus/moc
Brayden Barnes
it heavily depends on the phone. but it won't be GNU/Linux.
Jace Robinson
it's a desktop but i SSH into it remotely a lot so i can't throw out sshd.service.
i never use vm and i dont even know why i have it running
David Williams
I think fedora workstation comes with Boxes(gnome libvirt frontend ) by default. remove that.
which ones can i lose without losing basic functionality? the desktop doesnt have any special boot up requirements, other than sshd
Nathaniel Clark
if you dont use lvm, disable that. if you dont use libvirt (boxes, virt-manager) that too. plymouth too. ModemManager
Jayden Nguyen
>i am seeing boot times
Benjamin Scott
audacious with winamp classic gui
Brayden Rodriguez
Yeah buddy, cause virtualization daemon, lvm services when you don't use lvm, shitty graphical bootup for god knows what reason and NetworkManager proving to be an absolutely garbage piece of software are absolutely essential to normal functioning of a desktop operating system.
systemd was supposed to be THE fast init system and it's speed is hailed by hordes of redmumbai shills as the single biggest advantage of using it for your average user. When it boots like a 15 year old WinXP shitbox it's time to reasses these statements don't you think?
I'm trying to compile windowmaker on debian 9 and autotools is giving me this error: with pkg-config and MagickWand-config - are you missing libmagickwand-dev package? but I have that installed, any ideas?
>when it boots like a 15 year old WinXP shitbox it's time to reasses these statements don't you think? why are you blaming systemd for a shitty config now? if you fill your init with garbage, it will boot like win xp eventually.
Ryder Gray
does it happen after apt-get build-dep windowmaker ?
Ethan Hughes
windowmaker on debian does not have svg support (that's what need imagemagick) so build-dep doesn't install what's needed for that, that's why I'm trying to compile it myself.
Lucas Rivera
reposted for visibility
So you have a physical location for a bootmgfw.efi? Good.
I'm just guessing at this point. No. I don't think moving that file is a good idea. According to the GRUB wiki entry, /run/media/name/###/Windows/Boot/EFI could be the proper location for W7's bootmgfw.efi. I wouldn't know though. >These two commands assume the ESP Windows uses is mounted at $esp. There might be case differences in the path to Windows's EFI file, what with being Windows, and all.
If that works out, you can try to retrack the steps to install GRUB in arch very carefully to see if the script messed up. If you can't manage to make auto-config work, try to find a way to make it honor your manual config for W7.
I don't care about systemd, but just a reminder: when people say that systemd boots faster they are talking about that systemd can start services on parallel which usually means that's going to boot a lot faster that sysvinit, if the services can not start on parallel, (because they need to wait for other services to start) they arent going to be magically faster.
Christopher Williams
>NetworkManager proving to be an absolutely garbage piece of software
1.292s NetworkManager.service on my computer.
Dominic Jackson
>le works on my machine sure thing friend
Brody Price
>thinking speed is the only reason for systemd's existence >using the speed layman meme
Speed is only cited by absolute retards who know nothing about it as one of the reasons to use systemd. Even laymen like myself can tell that.
Liam Ramirez
>laymen like myself Then why do you opinionate?
Like I said, systemd alleged speed is always quoted by lennart's drones >average user doesn't want to deal with init XD >systemd handles it for him XD >it's fast mon XD
Henry Davis
Just whom or what do you suppose you're arguing against? Your post does not contradict that user's. It's time for a nice cup of tea.
Noah Taylor
I keep hearing that nobody likes Unity.
What's so bad about it?
Jason Gonzalez
Guys I have a headless Debian 8 torrentbox that I keep somewhere and untouched for a while. Today I tried to do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and I get the following messages. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! base-files libcomerr2 e2fslibs e2fsprogs libudev1 udev initramfs-tools libsystemd0 systemd systemd-sysv libss2 libpng12-0 libcairo2 libgtk2.0-common libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-0 python-crypto debian-archive-keyring tzdata vim vim-tiny vim-runtime vim-common wget w3m ca-certificates libfcgi-perl Install these packages without verification? [y/N]
What do I do? What caused this?
Cooper Myers
the pgp key probably expired since debian changed stable. Just download a new key mate.
Christian Foster
Amazon botnet
Easton Morales
We're using GoogleDrive at work, but we want to switch to Seafile.
What are the best solutions to keep both "database" in sync (there is people who will continue to use GoogleDrive for some months) on Raspbian or Ubuntu ?
Right now I have google-ocalmfuse to mount GDrive on a folder, RClone to pull GDrive on another folder, and SeaDrive to mount the local Seafile in a folder. I've tried Unison, FreeFileSync, RSync with ignore, there is always a failure somewhere in the process and it takes a fuckton of times.
Connor Wilson
>2017
Michael Martinez
That's funny, usually I fix, not cause, package authentication problems with apt-get update.
The suggested upgrade of debian-archive-keyring supports that other user's theory. My apt-key shows some keys generated on May this year, maybe you're missing those.
If you don't want to upgrade unsafely, you can fetch those keys from a keyserver and then feed them to apt-key.
Do apt-key list, note the email addresses of your expired keys, then do gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --search-keys $ADDRESS to find newer versions of the keys. Add them, then export them from gpg to apt-key with
gpg --export $KEY | sudo apt-key add -
Isaac Campbell
error: file owned by 'lib32-libnm-glib' and 'steam-native': 'usr/lib32/libnm-glib-vpn.so' error: file owned by 'lib32-libnm-glib' and 'steam-native': 'usr/lib32/libnm-glib-vpn.so.1' error: file owned by 'lib32-libnm-glib' and 'steam-native': 'usr/lib32/libnm-glib.so' error: file owned by 'lib32-libnm-glib' and 'steam-native': 'usr/lib32/libnm-glib.so.4' error: file owned by 'lib32-libnm-glib' and 'steam-native': 'usr/lib32/libnm-util.so' error: file owned by 'lib32-libnm-glib' and 'steam-native': 'usr/lib32/libnm-util.so.2'
I'm getting this whenever I run pacman, it seems benign but I'd rather not have lots of error messages in my terminal anyone know a fix?
Levi Richardson
How do I know which ones are expired?
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg -------------------- pub 4096R/521D8275 2016-04-28 uid Christian Svedin sub 4096R/B3AF3087 2016-04-28
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/deb-multimedia-keyring.gpg ------------------------------------------------- pub 4096R/65558117 2014-03-05 uid Christian Marillat uid Christian Marillat uid Christian Marillat sub 4096R/B508B3D7 2014-03-05
There don't seem to be any expired keys. Connection errors with the repos can cause authentication errors like yours. Do you see any connection problems in the output of apt-get update?
Do those unofficial keys correspond to repos currently active in your sources.list? They'd be prime candidates for having gone down and causing these errors. I've also had this problem with official debian mirrors, too - they can have their downtime sometimes. You can always switch to a different mirror if that is the case.
Jason Lopez
change permissions on affected files
Jordan Peterson
Oh yeah that's it, my local repo a shit, I switched to .jp and it worked.
Thanks man!
Jose Bennett
Heh. I've been using German repos for years because my country's are also garbage. Glad you got that fixed.
Hunter Reyes
If i add a user with adduser on ubuntu, will the user be able to break anything, or is he already safely restricted?
David Stewart
it depends on the groups you add him to and how you defined your sudoers
