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Well I'm back, I got xorg to work only under root, reinstalling does nothing. This is in arch BTW.
My problem appears when launching xorg. Instead of launching it would show this. Waiting for x server to begin accepting connections. .. .. .. (Does that for a while) .. .. Xinit:giving up Xinit: unable to connect to x server:connection refused. Waiting for x server to shut down..... Xinit: X server is slow to shut down sending KILL signal Waiting for server to die... Xinit: x server refuses to die
Jonathan Stewart
Install GuixSD
David Bailey
What file manager do you use. I'm using nemo but it's shit so looking for a change.
I want to disable touch on my wacom tablet. everywhere I look tells me running xsetwacom --set Touch touch off or variants, should turn it off. but when I run xsetwacom --list devices It doesn't even list any touch input. Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen stylus id: 15 type: STYLUS Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen eraser id: 16 type: ERASER Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pad pad id: 17 type: PAD even though touching the pad makes the cursor move around which is really frustrating when trying to use the pen.
Has anyone encountered this? CTH-470 model btw
Jeremiah Hill
>mc I remember, that's what command-not-found is annoying me into when I accidently not mv.
James Taylor
cowsay Meanwhile, in Australia | tac
Oliver Ward
>fat fingers bugfix:
Gabriel Ramirez
Please post transparent nigger Tux he looks nice
Jaxon Hughes
flip() { sed ' y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ɐqɔpǝɟƃɥıɾʞlɯuodbɹsʇnʌʍxʎz/ y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ɐqɔpǝɟƃHIɾʞlWNOdbɹSʇnΛMXʎZ/ '
Adrian Robinson
Bump please help
Gavin Gutierrez
mh, some characters weren't posted. Is this some new cloudflare faggotry or am I stupid?
Nicholas Ortiz
Noice.
Aiden Myers
Install Fedora
Brody Smith
stop shilling
Owen Turner
Fuck u boi I told you no.
Aaron King
+1 rupee
Ryder Bailey
ɹǝddılɟ ǝɹ'noʎ 'uılɐǝʇs ɯ'I
Ayden Wilson
*** 10 minute break from posting while everyone plays with flip() ***
Samuel Hill
Need to swap apostrophes with commas
Jeremiah Garcia
Need 7th degree sed black belt to flip cow head.
Christopher Jones
Is it possible to use firefox with KDE file dialog/picker in GNOME?
Jayden Rogers
at this point just echo the cow, less code
Xavier Nguyen
Because why not. vapor() { sed ' y/1234567890/1234567890/ y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYa/ y/?!#$%&@|\\\/[]{}()*+-=~"'\''\`_,.:;^/?!#$%&@|＼/［］{}()*+-=~"'｀＿,.:;＾/ '
toilet can do this too >toilet -f wideterm 'ur a fag' there's also more like >toilet -f binary hello and >toilet -f rot13 hello
Josiah Perry
Neat && Saved.
Dominic Edwards
First off you need to get a black belt into cowception.
Michael Gutierrez
how to automate this instead of spamming | cowsay -n ?
Austin James
Looking for a way to pick a section of a video and then "stabilize" that selection(keep focus on that section ignoring the rest of the movement)_.I tried using ffmpeg but it seems the "deshake" option isnt intended for this use. Is there another similar program?
William Russell
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William Sullivan
Read the logs. And running it as root is just going to fuck your shit up more.
Lucas Rodriguez
here again. So now I've reinstalled and fixed a few dumb things I did the first time. Now xorg is working, but it's not reading the config files so my keyboard layout is defaulting to QWERTY. I checked for a xorg.conf overriding my files in xorg.conf.d and didn't find anything. Strangely, it will crash if I have an invalid setting in any of the config files, but it appears to ignore everything as long as it all checks out.
Jaxon Morgan
Go to a tty and run the following. pacman -Rsc xorg-server
then reboot and come back
Angel Clark
What is the most american distro?
Lincoln Long
arch
Asher Butler
I need help. I'm running Debian 9 stretch and I wanted to remove libreoffice from my system, so I did sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice* in the terminal, and now when I type sudo apt-get autoremove, it wants to remove like, the entire operating system.
I tried sudo apt-get install libreoffice to fix it, but it still wants to autoremove the entire OS. What the fuck?
Blake Cook
I don't use Arch, but a quick Google search suggests I'm getting memed.
Austin Watson
Pacman is the file manager for arch linux.
Brayden Collins
that's canadian. RHEL and by extension, fedora
Christopher Johnson
I would never joke about America or Archlinux user.
Joshua Sanchez
I'm aware of that. But why would I uninstall X now that I've finally got it mostly working?
Jeremiah Parker
>mostly working Then you wouldnt be in this thread saying it itsnt working :^)
Start from scratch,you've done something wrong
Ayden Diaz
Same user, looks like I'm actually fucked. I've been googling everything I can think of for a solution and there appears to be no solution other than just reinstalling my entire OS, so fuck me I guess.
To anyone reading this, if you are on Debian 9, don't fucking uninstall libreoffice or it will break your entire OS.
Jayden Martin
Just to prove what I'm saying is true, here's the log file showing that removing libreoffice fucked up my OS.
Yes, but removing it removed KDE plasma for some reason so I'm not sure what to do. Do I just sudo apt-get install KDE now or what?
Nathaniel Barnes
Do I just sudo apt-get install KDE? sounds reasonable.
you coulld look up the proper command
Kayden Young
Someone dosent know about deps also >apt KEKKEKEK
Nicholas Nguyen
The wiki shows a few. I'll try kde-full and see if that unfucks it. I'll report back soon.
yeah laugh it up, I fucked up trying to uninstall libreoffice, I guess I deserve it
Thomas Gray
Why aren't you using openSUSE?
Blake Miller
Anyone know how to set all text in vim to a single color?
I got as far as turning syntax highlighting off, which makes everything gray. There should be some way to specify the default text color to something other than gray though, right?
Zachary Peterson
a lot of crap comes with the desktop. games ect.
Ayden Sullivan
It looks like task-kde-desktop depends on libreoffice. Maybe manually Intel all the other stuff that it depends on. Dunno why they don't use recommends.
Liam Myers
Yeah but at this point I just don't want to have to reinstall the whole damn OS to fix it. I can remove bloat one by one later if it just saves my ass for now. Lesson learned, not to fuck with libreoffice.
Jacob Ortiz
i am on a server, feels worse than i am a used to. sticking to it, but not liking it
Nathaniel Gonzalez
That shouldn't be your takeaway dude. Rather it should be not to panic like your ass is on fire just because you don't understand what is going on.
Logan Richardson
What are some american terminal commands?
Lincoln Price
ssh stuxnet?
Josiah Parker
Well, reinstalling task-kde-desktop didn't work. Not even installing kde-full worked. And now I have to reinstall the OS anyway. So it seems like a fair takeaway.
"When you look up how to uninstall libreoffice official guides tell you to do sudo apt-get remove ---purge libreoffice* Don't fucking do it because it will gut your DE."
Luke Smith
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Cameron Young
Yes I did that right away, sorry I thought I already mentioned that.
Hudson Jackson
apt-get install f
Anthony Howard
>reinstall Unless you get massive filesystem corruption the is never a good reason to do this. Do you even know what you want to keep? Have you tried aptitudes alternate suggestions to resolve the issue?
For some reason Debian 9 stable doesn't come with aptitude installed. I guess I could try installing that, what exactly are you referring to? I want to keep my entire system. I just wanted libreoffice gone and followed the wiki guide that says do this:
Now it wants to remove over a thousand packages. I don't want that, I want to keep all of them, but I also would like to be able to use the autoremove command in the future and not have it always threaten to remove my entire OS.
Jeremiah King
No, I don't like the GTKFileChooser, nor do I prefer to run Arch.
Carson Smith
I thought you were using arch for some reason. yeah but you have something to work with until you figure out how yoy fucked up kde
Connor Baker
It's weird because I even reinstalled everything listed in my vars history.log file that had anything to do with kde and it still is giving me this bullshit asking me if I want to remove half the system every time I autoremove. I really don't know what else to do at this point. I wish there was some way I could just -know- what all these dependencies are requesting that isn't already there so I could just install it.
Connor Phillips
And I swear to god, google is fucking useless. No matter how I can conceive to ask the question, all I get are a bunch of stupid normies asking how to remove shit with autoremove. Nothing having to do with how to find what meta-package is being called by dependencies flagged for autoremove.
Logan Murphy
did you give yourself permission to use xorg? user name permission?
Aaron Ward
When to open aptitude it says the is pending removals but has a bunch of other options including reinstalling shit to keep pending auto removals.
The real solution is to look at what top level metapackage depends on some libreoffice- package, mark all the stuff it depends on as manually installed and the let it remove itself.
Caleb Adams
Running Ubuntu on three machines. I'm new which is why I'm not running Gentoo yet, but is it possible to uninstall systemd?
Logan Richardson
4 questions I'd like help with, if you'd be so kind.
1) How do I lessen the time taken by grub on boot? Currently takes 4 seconds.
2) How do I lessen the time taken to load the kernel on boot? Currently takes 3.5 seconds.
3) After entering my password, the screen blanks (can still see the mouse cursor) for 5-7 seconds then my desktop loads. Once loaded everything is snappy. Why does this happen? Is it because I have an encrypted home directory?
4) I created an arch VM and installed cinnamon. I got the mint-x theme from aur. When I change the 'control' portion of the theme to anything but adawaita, menu and context spacing goes funky. Anybody have a fix?
5) Anybody have a way to automatically change the desktop background in MATE after a set time period?
Jayden Young
prolly same commands as apt aptitude auto remove/ clean wtf are you trying to do anyway? raspberry ?
Nolan Morales
yeah?
Henry Scott
Thank you, is it just the usual terminal command? sudo apt-get remove systemd?
Mason Evans
sounds reasonable.
Christopher Sanders
Yes, but you're better off using a distro not designed to be tightly coupled to systemd. without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Since you're a new user, I wouldn't worry about it until you're more experienced.
Jose Anderson
And this won't screw with anything? As I understand it systemd is built to sort of be a center spoke on the wheel for the whole system (completely unnecessary, which is I want it gone) But if I remove something like that will it just fuck up my install or will Ubuntu continue on as normal?
Oliver Sanders
Helpful AND posts qt3.14s? Mah nigga.
Eventually I wanna build my way to Gentoo then source mage. But when I first tried Gentoo (live USB) it wouldn't mount any of my hard drives. Ubuntu had an install app ready to go, though.
Carson Turner
>And this won't screw with anything?
maybe you should wait until you fix kde.
Jace Foster
that's not me dude
Isaac James
oh well go ahead then
Liam Edwards
What's kde desu?
Isaac Price
You might want to install sysvinit-core and systemd-shim too. And add to /etc/apt/preferencesPackage: systemd Pin: release o=Ubuntu Pin-Priority: -1
Package: systemd-sysv Pin: release o=Ubuntu Pin-Priority: -1 So that bad thing don't come back.
Austin Russell
>prolly same commands as apt No it isn't you retard. It is in the ncurses view and sets dpkg selections.
