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THE WILDEBEEST HAS RETURNED I MISSED YOU OLD FRIEND
Adam Nelson
Low graphics and text interfaces
I am working on a full terminal environment and search for alternative applications that work in either text only interface, ncurses, or the framebuffer. I am not writing anything the tools are already there, is just a matter of configuration. For example the window manager replacement I use is GNU Screen but there are other alternatives like Twin or any terminal multiplexer of your linking, also fbterm to use fonts on tty and set a wallpaper.
Currently struggling with the video. I made MPlayer work! It has sound and all, the only thing left is scaling to full screen automatically.
The steps I made to make it work are: 0. Be on the framebuffer (tty) 1. Find the correct device aplay --list-devices if it says "card 0........device 3", then its hw=0.3 2. Add my user to the video group usermod -a -G video 3. Edit the ~/.mplayer/config to add framebuffer by default and the correct audio output vo=fbdev ao=alsa:device=hw=0.3
If another user wants to join me and can solve this together I will much appreciate. I have planned a full desktop environment and this is one of the steps.
Wyatt White
Has anyone been able to get really old versions of Linux to work with Xfree86 3.3.x under Virtualbox? I've been able to get distros with XFree 4.x going pretty well but nothing older than that. Any tips?
Grayson Miller
You mean like linux 1.0?
Tyler Scott
Is there a way to track files edited in to a list and show the last time modified and total number of edits? Its for media or i would use git
Carson Brown
Yes
Juan Foster
What is GNU and why should I use it?
Charles Davis
And that would be?
Lucas Morris
I don't know sorry.
Landon Scott
Changing the locale to Japanese doesn't fix it.
Lucas Lewis
It's what people mean when they say Linux.
Andrew Harris
Your (You).
Isaac Allen
Unless of course they're referring specifically to linux, the kernel, when they say linux.
Jaxson Stewart
Like Red Hat 6.2, Mandrake 6.1, Slackware 7.1/8.0, Debian 2.2, Caldera 2.2/2.3, etc.
Samuel Davis
When people actually mean Linux, they just say "kernel". It's crazy.
Oliver Howard
Dont fuck of this thread,the last one was horrible Fuck off with your shit
Juan Young
what am I looking at?
Owen Sanchez
I blame the people who insist on calling the entire GNU plus linux operating system linux. Would it kill them to simply admit they're wrong?
Joshua Gray
What is the best lightweight WM?
Juan Fisher
This was the time when xfce emulated motif.
Dominic Cook
Astronomy Picture of the Day. Explanation: What spooky planet is this? Planet Earth of course, on a dark and stormy night in 2013 at Hverir, a geothermally active area along the volcanic landscape in northeastern Iceland. Geomagnetic storms produced the auroral display in the starry night sky while ghostly towers of steam and gas venting from fumaroles danced against the eerie greenish light. Tonight, there is also a chance for geomagnetic storms triggered by recent solar activity, so high-latitude skygazers should beware. Ghostly shapes may dance in your neighborhood pretty soon, too.
Grayson Brooks
It's none of you business what anyone calls Linux. Linux is defined first in most dictionaries as an operating system, second as the kernel. This is correct usage. Stallman is clearly wrong on this issue.
Nobody cares what you want to call it. But I've been calling it Linux for the past 20 years that I've been using it, like most other people. Go troll your n00b spam somewhere else.
Carter Sullivan
Is a USB 3.0 drive (and even 2.0) fast enough for us to run a simple KDE distro from? As long as we don't play vidya?
Andrew Lewis
The one I'm using
Adam Taylor
fluxbox
Anthony Turner
XFCE was basically a knock-off CDE.
Leo Flores
>. But I've been calling it Linux for the past 20 years that I've been using it, like most other people. Appeal to popularity, one of the great fallacies. Argumentum ad populum.
Daniel Miller
The popularity of an error doesn't make it the truth.
Eli Cox
whats the correct directory for personal shell scripts
Alexander Torres
~/bin
John Moore
There's no 'correct' way, just put them wherever you want and put the PATH there.
A default in Debian at least is ~/.local/bin I use ~/.config/scripts
Ryan Lee
create your own and add it to PATH
Juan Jenkins
>"correct way" ~/bin is the standard
Leo Sanders
~/.bin
Lucas Wright
The one I'm using.
Ryan Ross
>.bin
actual gay person
Ethan Young
Is systemd a botnet? If yes, how to remove?
Brandon Williams
There is literally nothing wrong with liking dick.
Gabriel Perez
no u
Mason Perry
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best distribution for listening to russian pop music and occasional programming in LUA? It should also have a wallpaper that I like by default, too.
Charles James
Is Arch reliable enough to be used as a work environment?
I am thinking about switching to Arch at work.
Charles Jenkins
yeah if you're a chick.
Jose Russell
Yes, use openrc instead
Logan Price
Yes. Run a weekly update and read what is being changed, in case manual intervention is required
Samuel Brooks
>hobby distro developed by 5-6 weebs >reliable
Christian Lee
anime website
Justin Evans
gentoo
Leo Russell
hello /fglt/s, how does one automatically close a terminal after launching an application? i have a program that needs to be run from a terminal, but would like the "source" terminal to close after the program starts. i've tried adding exit to the command, but the terminal still hangs around... any ideas?
Wyatt Garcia
Your work must not be very important to you if you are considering Arch. That's all I'm going to say.
Ian Stewart
echo 'Hello world' >> hello.txt && logout
just add && logout at the end of your command. The command above just shows you it works
Isaiah Baker
>babbee couldnt install arch
Gavin Morgan
There are a million of ways, but I have the feel you're making things too complicated. Whats exactly are you trying to do?
Lucas Phillips
You could:
>spend the time and energy required in learning how to maintain a highly unstable distribution that is basically a hobby and that is not at all user-centric, in which the user's opinion holds no sway, basically becoming the bitchboy of how the Arch devs want you to do things, and losing valuable worktime because you fucked something up and now you have to unfuck it >not do that and use that time to work and be productive instead of spending it in a hobby while you're at work
By all means use Arch at home, but goddamn you'd have to be retarded to use it on a work environment. That's almost as stupid as running Debian Sid on a production server.
Jeremiah White
>highly unstable stopped reading here
Joshua Gray
I know you Archfags have a short attention span
Isaiah Cooper
>highly unstable distribution Arch uses vanilla packages directly from upstream.After upstreams own inhouse development and testing cycle arch then puts the package in its own testing repo for arch development. There is nothing unstable about it.
>babbee couldntg install arch linux
Hudson Morales
>being proud of copy pasting 10 terminal commands cringe
Nicholas Sanchez
it's funny that you would nitpick something instead of looking at the greater picture it makes no sense to risk wasting time AT WORK instead of using what you already know and stop fucking around during work hours. but you're most likely NEET's, so you wouldn't understand that
Eli Taylor
Systems dont just magicall stop working. You had to have changed something for it to stop working. Dont make changes during your work time. Do one upgrade at the end of the work week.
I update once a week and beyond new syntax shit just works flawlessly unless something needs manual intervention in which case you read the damn website telling you what needs to be done.
You really never tried arch
Ian Green
If (You) actually had a job, you'd know that an up-to-date, rolling release distro is great for developers. One that ships packages as they are is even better.
Note that you're assuming he meant "work" as "server/enterprise", which of course would imply stability as a major priority. A developer, on the other hand, will simply prefer rolling-release, a large package database, and sane defaults.
Josiah Reyes
>You had to have changed something for it to stop working This is what archfags seriously believe
I'm sorry, I should have never put into question the perfection in the AUR packages or that bugs never slip through the cracks and appear when you least expect them during your workflow.
Cooper Gutierrez
this closes the terminal window after the launched program closes, which is good. thanks bro. i'm trying to launch a program with a GUI from an openbox menu. the program needs to be launched with a terminal, so the openbox Execute line looks like x-terminal-emulator -e /path/to/gui/program && exit
the terminal window hangs around the whole time the program's GUI is running. the terminal closes when you close the program via the GUI. in an ideal world, you wouldn't need to see the terminal window at all. any hints you might have about how to do this would be cool
Lincoln Thompson
So on your shitty *buntu distro you have a random program going around and changing shit 24/7? Arch dosent, if something breaks its because you didnt change something that needed to be changed. AKA something YOU CHANGED.
>aur packages You mean the ones who you can review the entire packages and what it is doing and alter at your convenience? Those packages?
Juan Thomas
>Fix yer own damn bugs in yer installed packages in yer work hours dude wew
Grayson Green
>what is the last hour of the work week. >Create a snapshot >pacman -Syyu >reboot >login >go home
Austin Cooper
>You mean the ones who you can review the entire packages and what it is doing
I'd rather a package maintainer take care of that while I actually work on my projects, but that's just me. This is not unique to Arch btw, every distro shows the source.
Ryder Rogers
>I'd rather a package maintainer take care So you blindly install packages from third party repos? >This is not unique to Arch btw, every distro shows the source. Aur isnt some shitty third party repo you added out of the blue that provides you a binary package
Nathan Carter
I 'blindly' install directly from Debian's main repos (I eye apt-listbugs before updating and that's that). I trust them way more than random-ass AUR devs that can leave you hanging any time.
I never said AUR provided you with binary packages only, what are you even saying? I said showing you the package's source isn't unique to Arch, that's it.
Asher Martinez
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log | grep -Po '\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}' 2015-12-22
Is there a simple way to automatically mount all of my TC partitions at once on demand without using the TC/VC application? I'm talking about cryptsetup and /etc/crypttab. I'm not using keyfiles, btw...
Ethan Lewis
sh /path/to/gui/program
Joseph Adams
guys my sound is fucked up speaker-test works fine, aplay/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav works fine, etc. but nothing plays in my browser, music player, mpv, etc.
i tried cat/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params and it just prints "closed"
everything in alsamixer looks fine and unmuted
could it be from an update?
Jonathan Mitchell
decided to
pacman -Su
ikr, I am a MADMAN!
Carson Taylor
>TC You should migrate to veracrypt immediately, there are exploits in the TC code that will never be fixed because that source code is abandoned
Cooper Perez
>head | grep You don't use the terminal much, right?
Logan Miller
*GNU/Linux
Luis Wright
Post your .asoundrc
Christian Reed
I am using VC since its release... My partitions are still using TC headers and still secure. The TC application has security issues under Windows, nothing more...
Josiah Rodriguez
*GNULinux
Evan Sanders
Is PureOS a good os for someone wanting to leave windows 10?
Never used Linux before
Levi Richardson
Did it blow up your Xorg.conf? Did you have to have your mom cancel your meetings?
Landon Diaz
No.
Austin Cooper
Just use Ubuntu like a normal newbie, don't get meme'd. You'll go through your distrohopping phase later.
t. former noob who got meme'd
Luke Reyes
can't say Yet!
fingers crossed!
Daniel Long
*GNU+Linux, the dynamic duo
Leo Cook
>Systems dont just magicall stop working. it does if you use arch
Ian Baker
*GNU/Linux
John Thomas
I want that autocomplete-box of haxornews so bad in regular bash. OMFG
Julian Perez
>what are commands meant for simplicity >friendly gnu/linux thread >friendly nothing wrong with piping one line into grep
i dont have one I hooked up my laptop to my tv via hdmi then updated and turned it off. now turning it back on, the sound doesn't work. should I test if the hdmi sound still works?
Nolan Brooks
You need an asoundrc Grab the one from the arch wiki
Lucas Gonzalez
I was referring to grep's -m flag.
Noah Watson
thanks, but this still leaves the terminal window open for as long as the program is alive :-(
Brayden Johnson
never used openbox, no idea how it works, but try "exec" for the lulz
Isaiah Morris
If you're buying Purism hardware, then yes. It's a fork of Fedora and thus has good documentation, support, and is generally accessible.
Lucas Martinez
this list only contains ancient versions... I've already said that I'm not using it, so what you're on exactly here?
Eli Powell
Can you explain why please? It's respect for Freedomâ„¢ intrigues me.
Can you play League of Legends on Linux? I just started playing last month and it's been a bit fun when I'm free and not working on my yard or car.