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Put the command in a startup script (.xinitrc if you're using `startx` to enter a graphical session) and end it with an '&' sign (to put the process in the background). Although you can use mpv to play GIFs, it might be better performance-wise to use gifview instead, but that might require editing the gif to fit your screen nicely.
Jose Young
TempleOS subsystem for Linux when?
Colton Gray
Is LightDM a security risk or is it just a meme? Debating whether I should just install Arch and start X manually
Noah Perry
Tried this too a while ago. mpv --wid=0 did the job but I had to kill compton first. Will xwinwrap make it work without killing compton?
Benjamin Jones
>Will xwinwrap make it work without killing compton? Yes.
Oliver Thomas
Nevermind, just clicked the issue link.
Ayden Torres
New to this Installing i3-gaps on debian, where should I compile it to? StartX doesn't seem to work in most directories.
James Foster
>where should I compile it to? what are you trying to ask here?
Juan Perez
startx works in the directory with the .xinitrc file, aka ~
Oliver Parker
put exec i3 in your ~/.xinitrc if you haven't already
command line pastebin (termbin.com/) cat ~/some_file.txt | nc termbin.com 9999
Mason Collins
holy fuck thankyou
Bentley Walker
Suggestions for a Linux distribution centered on music production/performance? What about KXStudio?
Any software to check into? I like software that enables drag-and-drop customization and midi support (a-la FL Studio), and it would be nice to have something solid and free that I can drop my own VSTs/etc. into.
>Inb4 Sup Forums wiki, you and I both know it's never up.
Benjamin Miller
Should I kms for not being able to install arch properly?
Connor Phillips
Yes, even I could do it and I'm a retard.
Charles Hughes
there's also ix.io/ that works like cat ~/some_file.txt | curl -F 'f:1=
Leo Smith
Have any of you installed Arch anything outside of a VM? I couldn't tolerate having to follow a mailing list to maintain my system, to be honest.
William Perez
>having to follow a mailing list to maintain my system lol what
Landon Lewis
reminder
don't install Arch, install Void
Jonathan King
...
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Arch and the spinoffs suck. Honestly. Do yourself a favor: if you want an OS that follows the Arch Way™, KISS, etc, unironically install gentoo. plus portage package manaement is GOAT.
Ryder Campbell
I've been using Arch for 2 years and don't do any of that shit. I only had to check the site one or two times when something had to be changed manually after an update (pacman complained about something I think, so, knowing that I'm not at fault I checked the site and followed the instructions on the front page). It'd be nice to read the news at least once in six months I guess.
Anthony Sanders
I've been trying out wmii and this 9p filesystem gimmick is really neat. The tiling kinda sucks though because everything is in columns and also the floating windows are borderless. It'd be nice if there was a more modern wm with a 9p fs control interface.
Nathan Russell
Installing Arch is piss easy for anyone who can read, getting a usable system that doesn't constantly break or require hours of reading forums and articles to get shit working is the hard part.
Nathaniel Cox
I was thinking of using an ssd for linux, but does it matter what storage device I use? pic related
Cooper Torres
I recently started using emacs and it's pretty great, but no tabs, line numbers, or filesystems kinda sucks. Anyone got a basic config file I could have?
Jayden Fisher
Linux and BSD fly on anything that's not trash, and a few things that are.
It's emacs, you should program it yourself.
Brody Phillips
I switched from Ubuntu to openSuse because of audio crackling and tearing, then from openSuse to xubuntu because KDE just flat out stopped working (but YaSt had been pissing me off anyways), and now I want to switch back to openSuse because I miss KDE.
On top of that, my "x" on the keyboard stopped working properly and I have to press really hard to make it register a press.
Just fucking kill me.
Jonathan Rogers
I've been using Xubuntu for 11 years, I don't know your feel.
Jacob Robinson
spooky
Elijah Brooks
I've been using Arch for 3 years. I've been using Xubuntu for 12 years.
Jayden Watson
I've been romantically involved with Xubuntu.
Chase Robinson
for h in {-4096..4096..200};{ for g in {-8192..4096..115};{ x=0;y=0;for((i=0;i
Grayson Price
Oh, terminal should be a larger window.
Hunter Reyes
neat
Matthew Jones
Theoretically yes because it forces the X server to run as root because it has to handle user credentials. Gdm doesn't because it uses logind for user authentication. But all that is theoretical, I don't know of any practical attack against X server running as root so you will be fine, it's mostly a meme.
On the other hand not having a display manager is a nice experiment and will make you install a bit more minimal so maybe go for it
Jordan Morales
So, I installed fedora GNU+Linux on my ThinkPad.
I can't sync my iPhone, it doesn't run MS Office, it doesn't have a WhatsApp desktop client and the touchpad is almost unusable.
Why would i not switch back to Windows?
Carson Jenkins
I would always use kernel mode setting if possible.
Nathan Gomez
>libreoffice Use it if it's enough for you >whatsapp Use the web interface >touchpad on a thinkpad Use the trackpoint, it's better >iphone sync I have no solution for you
Nicholas Wright
I have had penetrative sex with Xubuntu.
Christopher Hernandez
Maybe you should go back, proprietary slave
Distributions aren't bound by a single DE, so this whole ``predicament" that you've put yourself is incredibly absurd
Just remember to enable TRIM or whatever's applicable for your filesystem
Caleb Russell
>Distributions aren't bound by a single DE, so this whole ``predicament" that you've put yourself is incredibly absurd Every time I've switched from the default DEs, I've run into bugs I just couldn't fix.
Ian Gomez
Holy shit this is a keeper. I'm going to have to learn how this works and see if I can actually get it to recurse to deeper levels and make an animation out of it
Gavin Young
echo 'Tenet C is a basis, a basic tenet'|rev
Blake James
>switching distributions for the tiniest bit of issue Man, you should stick to one distro No distro works perfect out of the box and most have issues, you could easily work out most of them if the base distro is good and stable
About the audio cracking and tearing it's probably something with the glitch free audio
You can also check the kernel messages for possible issues with the sound drivers $ sudo dmesg | grep -i 'audio\|snd\|sound'
It's not worth switching distros for tiny issues like that if the base is good
Brandon Russell
Want to see something really cool? Perl wizardy incoming:
Somehow I can't post it, so here the source: curl 0x0.st/7OG.bin
Shitz animooted.
David Moore
Literally any distro
Dominic Thomas
bullshit
Andrew Watson
good ol' perl
Anthony Bell
>Shitz animooted. How so? It just prints this screen and exits
Gavin Young
Works on my machine.
Caleb Rivera
Oh, I thought you were talking about the other one.
Leo Gonzalez
fucking perl wizards, some day I'll learnt that shit
Eli Brown
I don't think the guys who do this stuff are perl wizards. They are probably math majors or cs students that got sick of using java and c++ as their professors told them and they prototype everything in perl
Benjamin Kelly
Perl is nice, you can do lots of usual awk, grep, sed unix stuff with just perl alone. Was pretty popular back in the days, like python is today.
Julian Jackson
python is ok, but forced whitespace grinds the gears, but I guess thats part of making things easy perl on the other hand is more for programmers, I've read somewhere, when perl was written, every time when people hat to choose between "convenient for beginners" or "efficient for programmers", programmers won. the end result is something where you can hack like a motherfucker, but when you read it as beginner, it looks like brainfuck
Luis Rodriguez
How do you fix a "broken" arch/manjaro? I've refreshed the package list without upgrading the system, to install a package several time. Will simply running pacman -Syyu do the trick? The system is currently working fine, but I haven't updated since 2 years.
Adrian Garcia
installed manjaro in a VM, total beginner. what do I do, where do I start? I was trying to install nightly instead of firefox, but I have no clue how to do that, or anything really. I've tried to Sup Forums wiki but all that really goes over is the terminal
Cooper Perez
Install a working browser and then read the documentation, you retard
Julian Sanchez
sure finds a package: # pacman -Ss package installs a package: # pacman -S package
John Wright
Yes, pacman -Syu will work, but expect things to break and/or be quite different. I don't understand why you'd use a rolling distro but not update it regularly. That just seems like a waste and like you're asking for trouble.
Nicholas Jackson
manjaro != rolling release arch is
Ian Cook
>but expect things to break and/or be quite different Why? Shouldn't updating bring every package to the latest version? >I don't understand why you'd use a rolling distro Because I didn't use the machine during that time. Would that mean it's more "stable" if I run pacman -Syyu
Lincoln Turner
Manjaro is rolling release, though. I don't know where you heard otherwise.
Landon Diaz
In vim with the help of :help. How would I figure out what something like the "&" sign in "if &somecommand" means?
Brayden Hernandez
quads = checked
Julian Cox
It will bring things to the latest version, yes, but with everything being new, you might see things not being configured well together. So, while it's easy to do simple maintenance and housekeeping of a system and fix small errors, once you get a buttload of small errors and weird behavior in one sudden shift, it might appear as if everything has broken.
Gavin Perez
:let &options = 'something' is the same as :set options=something so when you :set tabstop=4, &tabstop would equal 4 try: :set tabstop=4 :echo &tabstop :let &tabstop = 8 :echo &tabstop
Michael King
>forced whitespace grinds the gears >perl on the other hand is more for programmers >choose between "convenient for beginners" or "efficient for programmers", programmers won That is some revisionist history. Unless by "programmers" you meant "hobbyists" and by "convenient for beginners" you meant "easier to maintain". Just because python is easier for beginners doesn't mean it is only for beginners.
Dominic Sanders
>it might appear as if everything has broken. In what way broken? Can't boot up? And there should be some of heads up in the manjaro/arch forums to fix the issues, right?
