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Don't do it just for a filepicker. When it's time to update your browser (and it will be soon), you'll have to recompile it all over again, and it's gonna be a pain in the fucking butt.
Connor Russell
I'm willing to suffer that consequence. I miss thumbnails.
Isaiah Roberts
If everyone channeled that same energy into trying to convince the developers to stop being such morons, instead of just taking their shit and patching it yourself, we'd probably have a better filepicker by now.
Cameron Collins
One day you'll get it, user. One day you'll get it.
Justin Robinson
Is anyone making any .deb packages with Firefox + this patch?
Where do I install the bootloader when dual booting Windows and Linux on two separate drives, the Windows drive or Linux drive? Windows is the primary OS
Blake Rivera
Whichever drive is set to boot from in your BIOS
Jayden Jones
The bootloader itself on the linux drive, in /boot.
As for the MBR, it's up to you but make sure it has priority over the other in the boot order. I would put it on the linux one, so if you ever remove the linux drive your windows system will still have the windows MBR and be able to boot.
Samuel Harris
>posted in the old thread like a retard I can select my Linux disk from the boot menu, but I can't see the disk in the boot priority menu in my BIOS. It's been a while since I've used Linux/GRUB, but I'm pretty sure that I just have to do a grub-install and point it to the relevant disk to fix this. Is this the case? cbf reinstalling the OS at this point.
Asher Phillips
Tried it. It's buggy. If I hit cancel on the filepicker instead of selecting a file, it crashes.
Jason Wright
The way it seems to work on my computers is the BIOS lets me order the priority of all the disks, irrelevant of what's on it, even the empty DVD drive or any usb drive I plug in. If it goes through the list and can't boot any of them it comes up with an error: "no bootable media".
Although maybe different ones scan for that ahead of time. And yeah, to install grub use grub-install, also generate a grub.cfg.
Replace sdx with your drive, note that it's not a partition(e.g. sdx1).
Adrian Sanders
The "cpu MHz" field in both lscpu and /proc/cpuinfo is frozen, for each core. However, /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq is dynamic, albeit not in MHz. Any reason this could be? I searched, but can't find details. But this is troubling because I always assumed /sys/ and /proc/ were identical, just with different structures.
Isaac Gonzalez
Well that didn't fix it, but thanks anyway. Looks like I'll have to start pulling disks to see what the problem is.
Logan Hughes
Another user suggested Lumina, but that's too straight for me.
Julian Bailey
From what I see it should be about the same thing.
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_TSC)) { unsigned int freq = aperfmperf_get_khz(cpu);
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c /** * cpufreq_quick_get - get the CPU frequency (in kHz) from policy->cur * @cpu: CPU number * * This is the last known freq, without actually getting it from the driver. * Return value will be same as what is shown in scaling_cur_freq in sysfs. */
Static but it says it's the same as scaling_cur_freq.
You probably shouldn't be falling down to the cpu_khz case, which is defined in arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c It has functions that set it on init and it's probably updated on some events.
Ian Adams
How come when I start up my machine, polybar doesn't launch, but when I manually refresh i3, it launches?
I'm using this launch.sh script #!/bin/bash #!/usr/bin/env sh
# Terminate already running bar instances killall -q polybar
# Wait until the processes have been shut down while pgrep -x polybar >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done
for i in $(polybar -m | awk -F: '{print $1}'); do MONITOR=$i polybar example -c ~/.config/polybar/config & done
What am I doing wrong? Example config seems to be launching fine, mysteriously enough. Yet I can't find any major differences between the example config and mine that would warrant it not launching on startup, but launching on manual i3 reload.
Joshua Richardson
Nevermind I guess it is something in my custom config I'll just look over it
Liam Lopez
Very interesting, although a bit above my head. Notably, the frozen value seems to be what is detected at boot as the TSC according to logs, which appears to be in relation to a constant frequency instead of actual clock speed. I can't gather why this would be implemented as a fallback though
Logan Gutierrez
Is CloverOS still a thing on Sup Forums? In the archives I can only find old threads with pictures of a desktop/anime tiddies and no real discussion.
Is it easy to install a program? Are clipgrab, anki and chromium available? What's the best DE to choose for it?
Gabriel Sullivan
Oh and I forgot to ask if it can read/write to my ntfs disks.
Blake Rivera
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xdm start-stop-daemon: pid value must be a number greater than 0 Try 'start-stop-daemon --help' for more information.
What's wrong here?
Carter Reed
-pid or pid location is unset either in a config file on in the memed service script -the service is killed with kill and not start-stop-daemon so you have a stale pidfile
Andrew Hughes
CloverOS is a thing but it's only used for viewing pictures of traps. You're better off with Debian or Fedora.
Camden Kelly
Yes, I think, modern Linuces read and write NTFS drives.
Carson Murphy
where are the "hey here's my anime desktop" threads?
Joseph Powell
i have a question about my home network. this might be an issue with windows, so i apologize if this isn't the right thread to ask, but i didn't want to make a new thread.
client: laptop with mint 18.3 cinnamon, kernel 4.5-rc8 (tried all the kernels starting from 4.8) host: desktop with windows 8.1
desktop is connected to the router through ethernet, laptop is connected through w-lan.
normally i can access the shared folders of the desktop just fine on my laptop. i think the protocol is called samba. but whenever my laptop has been sleeping for a while and i wake it up, it can't access the network folders anymore until i reboot. this didn't happen when i run windows 8.0 as the client.
it seems like the desktop hdd turns off for no reason (even when in use - i tried it with playing music from the network folder on the client and then putting the client to sleep. the music would still play but after ~30 minutes or so it would lose the connection and stop the playback).
i already set the laptop to never suspend on its own in the poweroptions, but it still goes to sleep after a while.
tl;dr: how do i stop linux mint from losing the network connection when suspended or at least stop it from going to sleep in the first place? i'm tired of rebooting multiple times a day.
John Phillips
>w-lan German detected
Justin Jackson
indeed *wi-fi
Grayson Campbell
>tfw the firefox bug report for kdialog was marked WONTFIX years ago The 57 release would have been such a great time to include it.
Aaron Baker
Firefox has shit fonts. How i can fix that?
Firefox:
Charles Wilson
On Chromium...
Caleb Price
In the options somewhere you can set the default fonts for the generic font classes (serif, sans-serif and monospace). Check and change those, see if it helps.
Robert Campbell
I went to plebbit, this triggers the Sup Forums
Colton Perez
...
Carson Johnson
This? It was already configured that way. I think chromium has some font-rendering engine superior to Firefox.
How do I jump to the space after a character I find.
For instance, on the line below, if I was at the beginning and I want to jump to the ( and insert after it, I could just search for i but have to hit ; to jump, so want to search for "f(" but this brings me out at ( rather than read to append to it. Is there a command to jump to said character and append after it? package_list.append(i)
William Thompson
...
Xavier Sanchez
Wi
Blake Peterson
major brainlet here
using mint and want to install VM, but which distribution do I choose here?
the debian based distros method. Replace with the ubuntu version that your version of mint is based on.
Luis Morgan
The only one I know of is e or E depending on circumstance. you would still need to do 'a' or 'i'.
Camden Price
I've been running Arch on my Thinkpad for almost a year and on my desktop (which I don't use so much) for slightly less time and I can confirm that it's not a meme. Really enjoy using it, might install Gentoo on my ThinkPad at some point though since I want to change the way my drive is partitioned anyway
Carter Richardson
I've been falling for the meme since 2016.
Levi Cooper
Imagine how things are easier when you don't have a Facebook account and don't like anything.
Joshua Thomas
>rainbows
Jacob Smith
Say I've set up an install from a barebones server iso, What do I need to do and what are the essential components do I need to install in order to turn it into a usable desktop?
Jayden Gray
ok i will try it, i will disconnect my other drives so i don't accidentally wipe them
John Morales
???
Nathaniel Hernandez
What do you mean friendly? What? You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but friendly how, I mean friendly like it's easy, it make your shit done? It make you use terminal, it's here to fuckin' use terminal? What do you mean friendly, friendly how? How is Linux friendly? How the fuck is Linux friendly, what the fuck is so friendly about Linux? Tell me, tell me what's friendly!
Adam Ross
Fedora or Mint for a laptop for school? It's mainly going to be used for java and python coding for now-
Michael Barnes
>What do you mean friendly? I have a friendly recommendation: kindly kill your fucking self out of the thread.
Gavin Wilson
From that two: fedora.
Colton Richardson
[everyone laughs] Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Anons, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, user. You may fold under questioning.
Joshua Cook
Well, I can't figure out how to make xdm work on my Pi. What I did: 1.sudo apt-get install xinit xdm openbox obconf obmenu menu 2. Edited /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess, uncommented line # * #any host can get a login window 3. Commented line in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config !DisplayManager.requestPort: 0
What am I trying to do is to connect via XDMCP with Xming. When I do that - I see nothing (pic related). What should I do? I tried googling everything, but no luck for me.
Camden Adams
Use something else? lightweight: slim integrated VNC login support: lightdm
James Collins
It can be, as with everything it depends what you find works best for you. their wiki is quite helpful though.
Brody Bailey
Help me with jack audio please.
I want to route Renoise to a mixer so I can control it's output volume. I tried routing it with Patchbay to jack-mixer but jack-mixer doesn't save input channels so I have to add a channel in jack-mixer for renoise each time I start it. Also, Renoise on startup automatically connects to system output instead of only to my jack-mixer.
So my question is: is there a better mixer that could autostart and login and keep the settings? And is there a way so renoise doesn't automatically connect to the master output (speakers) but to my mixer application?
Benjamin Bennett
>autostart and login *autostart on login
Jordan Brown
sudo visudo, &%$# install/emerge shit can't into X what is X? X is vidi Fix vidi X no vidi nvidia X try nouveau no Nvidia try optirun meh, try primusrun open terminal: copypaste crypto gibberish. hope is on black screen phoneposting for solution
looxin 2018
Jose Bell
Yo whats up Sup Forums I just installed Deadbeef on arch but it doesn't play any of my music? Do I need some adio codecs or something?
Anthony Wilson
Tried lightdm, same result on XDMCP. Here's my active configuration: $ /usr/sbin/lightdm --show-config [Seat:*] A greeter-session=lightdm-greeter A greeter-hide-users=true A session-wrapper=/etc/X11/Xsession
[XDMCPServer] B enabled=true B port=177
Sources: A /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01_debian.conf B /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Owen Butler
I don't really get the Linux thumbnail meme, I've always used the Nemo file manager and it shows by default a preview of your images. It also worked out of the box on Arch so there's no trickery into making it work.
Nolan Wright
your custom config might load more quickly than the example conf, and in this case before X properly initializes. Try sleeping for a second before launching the bar
Chase Scott
Lads trying to run win 7 on VM but it just freezes completely when starting it.
I'm starting from an .iso file and I've enabled virtualization in the BIOS.
I installed both the base package from software manager and qt based user interface package.
When I go to software manager I can see that it has installed more than just those 2 packages, as in a lot of guest utility packages.
I'll try searching for solutions but I just wanted to try here in case this is due to a common retarded error i made and you knew right away. pic of installed packages.
Using mint btw
Parker Lee
It's the file picker in browsers and programs that lacks thumbnails, not in whatever full fledged file manager you're talking about. Click to post an image on 4chin, no thumbnails.
Michael Ross
nvm turns out VM version from packages is outdated and doesn't run with the new kernel update
Parker Cook
There's actually movement on the Gtk bugzilla for that now. 2018 YOTLD.
Aaron Cox
Then why am I able to get a thumbnail on Firefox? Not that I'm paranoid about it, it's just for my curiosity.
Jeremiah Williams
>YOTLD They have at least 2 more fixes to make after that to their piece of shit filepicker before it's actually decent. Oddly enough all of these things are completely trivial. They just _refuse_ to give anyone the options they want. Fuck them.
Andrew Ramirez
That's exactly what's so fucking annoying about this. Thumbnail support IS already in the filepicker. All we've been asking for is a way to increase the size of the thumbnails on the left (not on the right side view which only shows 1 at a time). But nope. They know better than us apparently 12 pixels is all anyone needs to choose images and god forbid they add a fucking option that allows users to change that integer value in their code.
Luke Gonzalez
How do I disable/enable saving commands to ~/.bash_history?
Eli Allen
the wm/de should be enough, then it is a matter of preference when it comes to user applications.
Alexander Gonzalez
This. Loonix is for autists
Ian Stewart
Based reply
Carter Campbell
Oh but they can find time to implement other hipster options like initiating a full fucking search of my $HOME directory when I just want to use typeahead to locate something in the current directory. Because that's so minimal, just like _downscaling_ thumbnails.
I swear these developers are not right in the head.
Jack Edwards
Are you an ant?
Kevin Gray
Is debian-testing mustard gas
Aaron Morales
No, thumbnails like THIS. Not 10x10 thumbnails with file preview.
Charles Smith
Anyone have issues with KDE where all of a sudden hotkeys stop working? My super key and print screen are not doing anything.
Ryder Reed
anybody knows if there's an actual patch for gtk file picker? I need thumbnails for my webms
Owen Thomas
nice memes you got there, i laugh a lot with those little guys
Joshua Nguyen
isn't sad having all the files named like that?
Robert Wilson
>he needs filenames to find images
Kevin Moore
I was looking at Luke smith's vimrc. Sometimes he writes and sometimes he writes with a capital E. What's the meaning of this?
Lucas Rodriguez
maybe he starts approaching the shift key to close the tag with > when ending the word and sometime doing so it happens he actually presses the shift key when typing the last letter of the word
What version of the kernel was spectre and meltdown patched?
Asher Hughes
I'm using IOMMU Passthrough and it's working fine, and I set up audio passthrough with MessageInterrupt so it wouldnt stutter the framerate, but I'm still 5ms stutters in audio every here and there. Is there something else I can try doing to fix that?
Why is meltdown patched in the kernel, but not spectre?
Blake Morgan
IDC. Runs fine on my system so not going to change it.
Landon Hill
How is Ubuntu Mate security-wise? I neither browse any dodgy sites or download anything, but I wish to keep my system free of any outside-intruders. Firewall is on, and as far as I know, all ports are closed. What else can I do to secure my pc from a remote hacker?
Gabriel Perez
Don't connect to the internet.
Dylan Edwards
>barebones desktop
1. video driver (google linux video drivers) 2. xorg-server 3. xorg-xinit 4. any window manager (i3, BSPWM, etc) or DE (XFCE, KDE, LXDE, GNOME, etc.) 5. on /home/$USER: "echo ((start command of your wm/de)) >> .xinitrc" 6. when you want to use the desktop: "startx" 7. desktop ready.