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What's the best way to get os x style file previews in gnome?
Cooper Anderson
Why does rms only wear red shirts?
Evan Russell
Not all my shirts are red or purple, but many are. I like those colors.
Nolan Powell
What does fglt think about non-Linux GNU distros?
GNU/Hurd, GNU/kFreeBSD, GNU/kNetBSD etc?
Daniel Wilson
Hurd is interesting, but it will take some years till it's 100% usable, afaik current version is 0.9. Didn't try the BSD ports, but they seems to be just some rather useless experiments.
Jace Clark
I've used GNU/Linux for long enough, I think, so how hard or easy would it be for me to try one of the BSD distros?
John Lopez
Not all my shirts are red or purple, but many are. I like those colors.
None of my shirts carry messages (such as words or symbols). That practice strikes me as lacking dignity, almost like being a sandwich man, so I won't wear clothing with symbols, not even for causes I support. This is not a matter of ethical disapproval, so I don't mind selling hats and shirts with free software slogans on behalf of the FSF; but I choose not to wear them myself.
Evan Martinez
Maybe one day Hurd will be a thing. I wish.
Brandon Butler
>tfw if you embroider TOP GNU on a baseball cap and mail it to rms he won't wear it
Brandon Reyes
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Xavier Allen
Sometimes I smile while being photographed because I feel happy.
Josiah Sanders
Should I use Void or Arch for my x220?
Kevin Gonzalez
void
Jeremiah Walker
I wish there was a tiling DE. I want the luxury of a fully featured DE but I can't be arsed to install it all manually.
Jacob Lewis
Just replace whatever DE youre using with a tiling WM and bam you have what you wanted.
No it doesn't, all that does is download the picture then reupload it. In fact, that's exactly what I tried doing. What kind of fool uses Sup Forums without 4chanX?
Cameron Kelly
Ring or Signal?
Mason Edwards
>requires Chrome and a phone number Fuck that shit. Definitely Ring.
Thomas Roberts
Help me out Sup Forums, I want a good DE, it doesn't have to be perfect but atleast something that is better than goddamn KDE and GNOME
Dylan Gonzalez
GNU Ring* actually
Justin Walker
What don't you like about kde/gnome that might be fixed in other DEs?
Ryder Cruz
The whole point is that we can't because systemd makes other things depend on it. "Don't like systemd? Don't use it!" becomes "Don't like systemd? Don't use gnome!". It nearly became "Don't use tmux!" too.
Other software projects don't press third party developers into adding hard dependencies for their software. Why can't this be the case with systemd?
Logan Harris
I need pulseaudio, which has systemd as a dependency.
Parker Ramirez
Why would software depend on it? I mean, I can see GNOME, a whole DE, depending on it, but what about other software? They surely provide a --disable-systemd configure option.
Easton Long
I haven't really checked for that, I just find KDE to be bloated and Gnome works a bit redundant. Like if I'd compile and install a program, it wouldn't do .desktop the way I want it in the applications menu
Ryder Sullivan
>replying to redmumbai shills
Juan Turner
Not him, but if I install another WM along with the WM that comes with my DE, the only change will be that I will get the option to log in through both WMs in the login screen, right? So if I break something in the other WM, I can always switch back to the stock one.
Luke Carter
what?
Hunter Wood
Install Gentoo, it uses OpenRC instead of systemd by default.
Noah Ortiz
>I can see GNOME, a whole DE, depending on it Do you really mean that? Do you think it makes sense that you should be forced to use a specific init system, DNS resolver, system logger, entropy gatherer and fuck if I remember what else just because you want to use a certain DE? Especially considering that before systemd came around gnome worked just fine regardless of the software you chose for each of those tasks.
Even if that particular poster turned out to be a shill, there are people lurking that are not shills and may believe the "arguments against systemd are just flat-earth lunacy" propaganda if not shown otherwise.
Thank you for the advice. I use Devuan myself. Still, that doesn't change the fact that distro maintainers shouldn't have to fork packages to remove hard dependencies on specific init systems, DNS resolvers, etc.
Jose Thomas
If there was a file called for example foo.txt, containing the text "test" in the current directory, and one ran the command cat foo.txt > /dev/null
Why wouldn't that overwrite the /dev/null file with the text "test"?
(Sorry if this is a noob question).
Jeremiah Harris
dumb question here I want to have a keyboard shortcut to run Synaptic in xfce. Typing 'sudo synaptic' works in the terminal but putting it as the shortcut doesn't work. What should I put to have it run an application as root?
Joshua Murphy
is this a homework assignment?
Brayden Russell
You can create a shell script and put it in the desktop instead of the shortcut. #!/usr/bin/sh sudo synaptic;
Lincoln Torres
Since when do they teach you how to use GNU/Linux at schools? Nah, I'm just curious.
Eli Bailey
install a gui "sudo" like gksu and create a shortcut to "gksu synaptic" then start that.
/dev/null is a "device file" that doesn't really exist, but acts as data sink; it discards all data written to it but reports that the write operation succeeded. There's a little manpage: man 4 null
Liam Garcia
Can I create device files?
Oliver Reed
So I just ordered parts for a new computer, including AM4 motherboard and R5 1600. What distros come with Linux 4.10 or later as default? Or should I just compile it myself?
So far I've mostly been using *buntu, but I've been thinking of giving OpenSUSE a try.
I can launch Terraria only when I run the game executable. There's a shell script supposed to run it, but it's not working because it can't find the executable. Can someone tell me how they fucked it up?
"Terraria" is in "./game/Terraria". How does the script not check the "game" directory?
Levi Russell
It does cd to the game directory, what's the output you get?
Hunter Gray
it seems buggy
Kevin Powell
Unrelated, but what colorscheme are you using?
Oliver Reyes
Running Terraria ./Terraria: line 38: ./Terraria.bin.x86: No such file or directory
I made it myself. I tried to recreate the Kugel colorscheme from Geany.
The fault seems to be in ./game/Terraria script, not the one shown here Is there a Terraria.bin.x86 file?
Jack Anderson
thought that too on the first try, then I realized that you need to make the terminal larger
Connor Phillips
>i=$[i+1] Why not i="$(($i + 1))"? Or is this some bashism?
Benjamin Jackson
Yes, sorry I just noticed that. Here's the /game/Terraria script.
Yes, Terraria.bin.x86 exists.
Nathaniel Long
is there any reason not mount /usr/ as readonly? is this the default?
Gavin Myers
Because golfing. $[] is 2 chars shorter than $(()), but $[] is old shit, people should really use $(()).
Cameron Anderson
Disregard line 38 and the echo, I added that to see what the path is.
Alexander Foster
You don't need to use $ for variables inside $(()), btw.
Jeremiah Davis
I didn't know that, thanks.
Isaiah Parker
Replace line 39 with if [ -x ./${BASENAME}.bin.${ext} ]; then ./${BASENAME}.bin.${ext} $@ fi; And see what happens.
Robert Wilson
I hate when I get this Sup Forums's bbcode code tags wrong.
Mason Scott
just use the 4chanx hotkey
Charles Baker
Running Terraria ./Terraria: line 40: ./Terraria.bin.x86: No such file or directory
I guess that the game/Terraria script doesn't get into the game/ directory. Shouldn't line 5-6 do exactly that? I guess there's an error somewhere in the first start.sh script and the other that's being sourced in start.sh here in line 9. I guess the proper directory doesn't get passed down properly.
>./Terraria: line 40: ./Terraria.bin.x86: No such file or directory But if execution got to line 40, that must mean that the directories are passed down right, because if the file didn't exist, execution would be stopped by the if statement that you added.
Brandon Roberts
How will sandwich men ever recover?? Sandwichlets BTFO!!
Charles Edwards
Shorter && smoother with bashism. while sleep .025;do for((i=0;i
Chase Smith
zsh:1: parse error near `)'
Luke Torres
>bashism >zsh
Julian Hughes
sudo apt-get install pv && PS1="" && clear; $(mpv -vo null --no-terminal "youtube.com/watch?v=kdAMq5LdAvs") & 2>&1>/dev/null; setterm -term linux -back black -fore green && clear && tput cup 2 0 && echo "Follow the white rabbit." | pv -qL 10 && sleep 12 && clear && tput cup 2 0 && echo "Knock, knock, Neo." | pv -qL 50 && sleep 10 && killall mpv && reset
Henry Price
Anyone use st? Know how to make it start in a different dir?
I use a program called xcwd to open a terminal in the same directory but using st -e "cd `xcwd`" doesn't work.
Kevin Barnes
I don't understand. It's right there, what is happening?
Ok so I'm trying to install arch linux but whenever i start the install process my screen gets like this, is there anyway to fix this? I tried googling it but found nothing. I tried it on my laptop and it worked flawlessly with no graphical glitches. I have a GTX 970 and an i7 6700k if that helps
Easton Cook
Heres a follow up with the login screen, all the commands work it just looks like this
Jose Flores
when in the boot menu press the key that lets you edit the command line, then add noacpi nomodeset to the end of the command line.
optional: remove silent and add verbose
Jeremiah Jones
Turn off your dedicated GPU, use the iGPU to install arch, install proprietary drivers for nvidia GPU, turn your GPU back.
Jonathan Wright
You won't be able to install any packages that go to /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.
