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I don't see why you couldn't. Use a flash drive with the 64G flash drive you want to use. Put live installation on the first drive then use said drive to install Xubuntu on 64G drive.
I had to do something similar in order to install TAILS on a flash drive.
Mason Murphy
Sorry what I meant to simply say is: Use two flash drives for install.
The previous post I made sounds a little inarticulate.
Carter Martinez
Guess I'll just have to use two. Thanks.
Cameron Wood
>>>/reddishit/
Oliver Moore
Is there any other way to put your screen in sleep while using X.org other than screensavers? There is a CentOS 5.9 based server at my work. I disabled gnome-screensaver on it (set it to never activate) but the screen always turns off after the computer not being touched for a few minutes which is annoying as there is a monitor program on it I wish to be able to see any time.
Jeremiah Perry
Great idea
Adam Smith
No problem. Check back in here if you need further assistance. I'll be sticking around for a while.
Nicholas James
your question is asking the opposite of what you want to know. A better question would be "how do I stop Gnome turning off the screen". In Gnome 3 settings there is an energy setting, where you can turn this behaviour off. Does CentOS 5.9 use Gnome 2? In any case, I'd look in the energy settings rather than display/screen settings
Charles Allen
Alright goyim. Arch or Gentoo? x220, mainly C numerical library development. am a bit fearful of arch's rolling update would f my shit up.
Samuel Jenkins
Why is wine such a piece of shit? I made a small application in .net 4.6 WPF and it basically is just a small windows with a picture and some fields and works fine on windows, but it doesn't start at all on wine. After i installed wine it asked me to if i want to install .net and gecko and i clicked yes so it did stuff, but it's not working, i double click my app, the mouse turns into loading symbol for a bit and then nothing happens
Jaxson Bailey
>falling for the .NET and WPF meme your own fault for drinking the Microsoft cool-aid
Austin Campbell
.net support on wine is pretty shit. just compile your programm with mono and run it with mono for linux support
Camden Brooks
.net is great, c# is the best language i have ever used, it is so incredibly comfy and well done, linq is like a code turned into orgasm I don't like wpf all that much since xaml is really tedious for someone who experience the beauty and ease of html and css but there is not other alternative for making guis on windows, uwp is the same and windows forms is a joke
Chase Sanchez
Am on Ubuntu LTS, should I install 17.something from here or will it become a mess? First Linux OS I have so never done that. Also how is 17?
Jackson Sanders
I'm trying to make webms for Sup Forums. I have an .srt file with subs that I'd like to burn into the final video, but no combination of options actually results in the video having subtitles burned into the video I've already went through dozens of sites and they just parrot the official documentation, which is to use -vf "subtitles=subs.srt". If the subs were malformed, it would tell me.
Everything else seems to work, what am I doing wrong? ffmpeg -ss 00:04:54 -t 00:00:13.500 -i video.mp4 -vf subtitles=subs.srt -c:v libvpx -b:v 1.5M -threads 2 -an output.webm
Christian Murphy
Currently on 14.04.5 or 16.04 LTS?
Leo Morales
16.04
Aaron Johnson
Being your first GNU/Linux install I don't really see a clear motive for switching to a later release. Take this time to get comfortable with the platform. There won't be a "huge" difference between the two
Also, according to the wiki, your current release will have longer support.
For simplicities sake I would say stick with 16.04. However, if you wanted to switch regardless there is so much documentation on Ubuntu with such a large community that if you were to encounter trouble it wouldn't be difficult finding assistance.
If I were you though I wouldn't bother and stick with 16.04.
Benjamin Turner
I forgot the command, but what's the command to run a program from terminal without having the terminal running afterwards.
Joseph Nguyen
wait for 18.04LTS. Actually, wait till next summer so it matures a bit.
Owen Davis
Woops! Meant for
Christian Jenkins
Hey, really need some help quickly. I'm trying to install arch next to Windows and I'm trying to create a 2nd partition for my home directory? But Windows seems to be taking up 3 partitions and I can't actually make any more. How do people get around this?
Jacob Carter
Oh ok I guess I'll wait, I just wanted some stuff like windows control back on the right side in 18 (if I read correctly). Is there any ETA for a stable 17 or is it just usually "when it's done"?
Brayden Cook
You should be able to. Usually when you dd the image it will leave free space as the image is only a couple gigs, so just make another partition with the rest of the space.
Jackson Nguyen
Please respond.
Jonathan Bell
Create an extended partition as the 4th then create logical partitions inside and use those.
Charles Walker
I had this same problem on my system running XFCE, I had disabled all the sleep timeouts but it was still turning off the monitor, the solution is to create a file called /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-sleep.conf with these contents: Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "0 " Option "StandbyTime" "0" Option "SuspendTime" "0" Option "OffTime" "0" EndSection
That tells X not to turn off your monitor automatically.
Christian Cook
Gentoo. It's super stable but still pretty up to date.
Easton Hughes
I think you want to make something run as a background job, just run command & the & sign tells it to run in the background.
Chase Cook
Thank you!
Asher Johnson
Check the release notes periodically for updates on the release. See "Known Issues" on page.
What did you mean by windows control on the right side? (minimize/expand/exit) This can be changed by installing a different Desktop Environment (DE) if that's what you meant.
Asher Thompson
good post
Jordan Rogers
chromium-browser & still shows the process running on the terminal.
fucking shit, i remember reading and using the command a week ago, now im fucked.
Josiah Sullivan
It will still print the output but closing the terminal shouldn't close chromium at that point.
Parker Robinson
tmux
Elijah Morgan
Game dev major here, need a high performance 2-in-1 with good Linux compatibility. High performance because I have to make games, 2-in-1 because I have to draw graphics, and good Linux compatibility because FUCK Windows.
Is Samsung Notebook 9 Pro a decent choice? Other options?
Liam Cook
I found the workaround, chromium-browser & exit I don't know if this distro had a command substitution for it, but I'm still boggling my head about it.
Whatever the & exit works.
Christian Nelson
This makes me feel pretty sad.
Jeremiah Wright
thanks for the reply. Sadly, the computer is actually a cinema theater management server which I don't have root access to (I shouldn't even touch the terminal even as a normal user I think) so editing xorg.conf is out of question.
Hunter Martin
GIMP or Krita?
Caleb Cook
You might have to ask whoever has root to change it for you then, I don't know if there's anything else you can do to fix it.
Jordan Gonzalez
Why not both?
Austin Torres
Run ffmpeg -version and see if "--enable-libass" is there.
Zachary Lewis
nevermind I figured it out the timecodes in the subs have to match the output, I just encoded it with the hardsubs and then took clips from it
Isaac Davis
because I'm a modern millenial with hand-tattoos and use avocado instead of cheese whenever I can like in all those topdown view cooking videos, so I can not tolerate having a choice
Hunter Adams
Yeah minimize and stuff. I like Gnome tho but maybe I should try andother DE. Is there one that has a similar search to Gnome and controls on the right?
Oliver Brown
>install windows 7 >endless fucking with drivers, nothing works >install Lubuntu >it just works
What's the absolute lightest and fastest Linux distro environment?
Brody Gray
unironically gentoo
Dylan Parker
Gentoo with good optimizing.
Aiden Brooks
exec
Lucas Morgan
How do I find out what syscalls are used when I open an application? Also, how do I become a kernel hacker?
Samuel Sanchez
strace. >how do I become a kernel hacker? learn c and visit kernel newbies
Caleb Thompson
Teach me the best way to dual boot it with Windows 10
Blake Bennett
Idk how to dualboot it with w10. Maybe install gentoo, shrink the fs, install w10 and update grub with a live distro.
Nicholas Jenkins
Windows 10 is already installed.
Oliver Wilson
I have a program which creates some files in my folder, but the program has it's own username and that user is owner of those files. Is there anyway to use chmod or something to tag a directory so that any file created in it will be owned by the user i specify?
Carson Cruz
Shrink w10 partition with gparted (distro) and do the same, but be fucking careful, because cfdisk, fdisk whatever, don't hold back your hand and they are cli/tui apps.
Isaac Wood
chown
Hunter Jenkins
can you pastebin it?
Samuel Young
Thanks!
Wyatt Sullivan
Pastebin what? If the transmission daemon. It has it's own user and i don't want to change because it messes shit up, but it's tedious because i can't delete files over samba i have to ssh and use sudo rm
Kayden Torres
You're welcome! If you have any more questions feel free to come back. I'll be sticking around for a while.
Grayson Powell
> gparted Why not shrinking the partition directly through Windows options? My SSD (where Windows 10 is installed and where I'd like to install Gentoo) has 23 GB free space already.
Grayson Kelly
Screen tear. Is there really nothing I can do about this? >Ubuntu 16 >i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (nothing to do with this as far as I understand) >GeForce GTX 970 (driver 387.12)
I've tried every "fix" on the web. Still tears like a motherfucker.
Is this a linux problem or an ubuntu problem? Anyone know if changing distros would help? I am asking because I've spent a lot of time setting this installation to everything I wanted.
Colton Thompson
Idk windows. Compiling can kill the ssd controller.
Adam Brown
Did you try forced full composition pipeline?
Ryder Clark
Ah transmission. Yeah, use chown.
Dylan Sanders
It's a linux problem, but more specifically an nvidia problem I think. You can switch to the compton compositor to force vsync. That's the only way I've ever been able to get rid of tearing with nvidia cards.
Ryan Fisher
I notice Cantata has a "Devices" panel. Can I use this program to manage my iPod? (Running KDE Neon, and it's a 160GB Classic.)
Cantata doesn't notice it's connected when I try. If it's possible, do I need to install additional packages to make it work?
Wyatt Bennett
I wrote myself an alias for this purpose. No access to my computer right now but I think it went something like: bgdo() { ($* > /dev/null) & disown > /dev/null } then you'd do bgdo chromium-browser
William Morales
Because FOSS is entirely made by fat neckbeards in their mom's basement, and never ever by paid professionals. Not even once. Trust the Sup Forums memes.
Colton Cook
This is the one where I need to change my xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/ but that doesn't exist in ubuntu. There are a bunch of .conf files in /usr/share/xorg.conf.d but nothing there resembles anything like the ones in the guides so I'm very hesitant to edit anything.
Matthew Morgan
google [bash job control]
Asher Campbell
Gimp for image editing krita for drawing.
Dominic Sanders
that's a function not an alias.
Jacob Walker
You can directly set it with the nvidia-tools, here's what I have in my start script for a dual monitor setup nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }, DVI-D-0: nvidia-auto-select +1921+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
also, don't say you tried everything when you actually didn't even try it yet.
Camden Adams
Stop recommending botnet in a friendly thread.
Adrian Allen
$ ./opt/vivaldi/vivaldi [2779:2779:1110/181329.368610:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(157)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
What the fuck i should do to start vivaldi? opt folder is already owned by root and i've run chmod 4755 /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-sandbox.
Nolan Parker
Is there a way to watch movies with mpv from a tty without X?
Colton King
strace probably
Luke Anderson
No. But you can with groups. chown the for to a group with both of you in and set the sticky bit in the bit.
Levi Clark
sudo rm -rf /opt/vivaldi/
Eli Gomez
Try recursive?
Benjamin Hill
#!/bin/sh h=19; w=38; x=1497; y=993 xdotool search --name "Mozilla Firefox" windowmove "$h" "$w" windowsize "$x" "$y" # you do maths like this: a="$((w-h))" or b="$((1336+1))"
James Morris
There is, someone was in here a while back talking about setting up a whole environment in tty and he was able to play videos
Isaac Diaz
mpv -vo=caca
I think there's another mpv filter for terminals that support more than 16 colors, but this is a safe bet.
Josiah Roberts
pipe the video output to an ascii art program
William Fisher
libcaca
Parker Kelly
I've just tried that and "works", my bad. Now he's accusing that my ffmpeg isn't installed.
error while loading shared libraries: libffmpeg.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory