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XFCE didn't god damn work wit my thinkpad volume buttons so I installed Cinnamon. I like it more.
Daniel White
Just install Lumina, user.
Michael Cooper
how can I access root folders (like etc/ bin/ tmp/ etc.) from the file explorer? When I try running nautilus, it gives me some sort of gtk error. I've tried running it in sudo as well with the same problem?
James Sanchez
You dont have to install a completely new DE, it is literally 2 lines of code, either for amixer or pamixer...or just install the Xfce pulseaudio applet/mixer/plugin
Nathan Morgan
"gksudo" is for opening apps under sudo so do gksudo nautilus
Levi Reyes
It's beautiful.
Landon Fisher
gksudo just gives sudo a graphical interface.
Parker Powell
Hey, I'm not sure if this is the best place for this question but I didn't see any mpv thread in the catalog. Does anyone know how to make mpv display the full path on the top bar? Like top of pic related. I'm using an old version from the ubuntu repo (0.14.0) but the option might still be there.
Henry Phillips
>"gksudo" is for opening apps under sudo so
>this is the state of /fglt/
Daniel Torres
Exactly...he wants exactly that, sudo with a graphical interface, i.e a file manager like nautilus... what is the problem there?
Ethan Cooper
it would work but the keys arent mapped to anything by default on it like they are on some des so you need to do that manually.
Liam Martinez
There's no problem, it's just stupid to open an additional graphical interface in order to type in your password when the terminal is open already.
Lincoln Williams
he asked specifically a question on how to open a graphical interface file manager ->
Oliver Garcia
yeah I'm still green behind the ears with all the terminal commands so I just wanted to see the root files with a GUI. Unfortunately, my ubuntu only lets me access up to my home folder with the GUI (or at least I think so, anyway).
Brayden Hughes
Many file managers bug out (PCMan mostly) when opening things under gksudo because they default to Home and gksudo often defaults to / ... to avoid that, do gksudo nautilus /
Jacob Jenkins
Maybe there is a misunderstanding. gksudo and sudo do the same thing. The only difference is that gksudo gives you a window where you can type in your password. This is convenient for scripts, but there's no reason to use gksudo when you already have a terminal open and literally type sudo anyway since it will ask for a password at the terminal like usual.
Luke Bailey
>I couldn't add the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin to the panel so I installed cinnamon the state of (You)
Jack Martinez
so I dd a disk image to a disk with bs=1M it writes the data to disk in a couple of seconds, but then stops for two minutes while doing nothing at all, and then quits what is dd doing during those two minutes
Christopher Diaz
flushing cache maybe
Caleb Baker
Likely wanking Poor sod never gets to chill out
Jordan Hall
This. The writes are cached in RAM and have to be flushed to disk.
Jason Edwards
downloadmoreram.com
Hudson Gray
how can I run, say, pycharm from anywhere on my machine? Right now I have to cd into the pycharm installation and use the ./ command to run it. What do I have to do to make this usable anywhere?
Bentley Peterson
what?
that's what I figured, that or something to do with the journal
Elijah Thomas
did you sudo make install? copy the binary to /usr/bin or /bin? of course that would only work if it uses global libs and not ones in the pycharm dir
Robert Phillips
The options are obvious once you understand how commands are run. In short, it works like this: Step 1) Is the 1st thing on the command line a path to some file? If so then try to execute it. Step 2) If step1 is false then take the name and search through $PATH for a file which matches. If found then execute it.
If both fail then you get command not found. So the answer to your question is you need it to reside in your $PATH. Either change the variable to include where it does exist, or move it into a directory that's already in your path variable.
Michael Martinez
What are my VM options for full hardware acceleration besides pass-through? I want to make the switch to fulltime but am sticking with dual boot for now due to being addicted to a 15 year old korean MMORPG. Retail version does not work with wine due to the awful anticheat software.
Daniel Diaz
You could give virtualbox 3d accelerated vga a go.
Ryan Cook
What's wrong with pass-through?
William Peterson
I've tried that but run into various errors. I don't have a second video card yet.
Though, when I was on Mac, Parallels worked fantastic.
Robert Butler
Why are essential packages like x related stuff showing up as orphans with pacman? Kinda annoying
Gavin Lee
What's the easiest way to convert a DVD into a video file (mp4 would be fine) these days?
What is the difference between different terminal emulators? I've used gnome's and kde's consoles as well as terminator and honestly didn't notice much of a difference, though i'm a n00b
Liam Evans
I just installed xfce yesterday. Never used it before. I was a filthy gnome degenerate for a while. I'm really liking xfce so far but can someone give me some tips on things to do and changes to make?
Jayden Anderson
I'm on arch btw
David Reyes
They have different names!
Carter Evans
dual boot until you get a 2nd gpu
Adam Gomez
>copy the binary to /usr/bin or /bin? Don't do this. Put them in /usr/local/bin, ~/bin, ~/.local/bin or whatever and add that dir to your PATH.
Benjamin Lopez
Shit, didn't realise ffmpeg could do this. Seems hard to believe.
Josiah Jones
When I do, are there any brainlet guides for ubuntu based distros?
Samuel Ross
it's pretty much the same for every distro you just have different commands for doing the same stuff.
Aiden Price
Would this be good enough settings for ffmpeg to rip a DVD to mp4? Or should I amend anything?
Xfce has no configuration problems out of the box. Maybe change the window manager to compiz or something because of screen tearing (which is mostly a meme) or enable compositing/drawing on vertical line. Otherwise, it is just...solid
Christian Perry
Which packages?
Blake Cox
Would somebody be so kind as to explain to me, a retard, his to create a package using xbps? I have a git repo and a four-line script along the lines of "make; make install" (with a couple extra options). I don't particularly intend to contribute to the repos, but I just thought I'd organise it into a proper package rather than just cloning it into some random directory. Or is that a waste of time?
Aiden Smith
>apparently such a power user and advanced that he needs void linux >can't read the official documentation to answer his question >needs to be spoonfed
Jordan Fisher
It's my first distro ever please be gentle
Cameron Brooks
i can't create a kali live custom image on debian, so i'm just downloading the regular image. can i use one flash drive to have the regular image, boot from that, and create the custom image onto another usb from that?
Dominic Ramirez
How can I set my meme screen locker to trigger when I close my laptop lid?
Ian Jackson
Just meme it, bro.
Jaxon Hughes
college programming student here, just installed linux for first time. Debian to start out. Finally got wifi and sound and all devices working. Its rewarding thats for sure aha.
Anyways....what music player you guys use? Im using audacious and its decent but wondering if there are any other decent music players?
Cameron Gutierrez
mpd+sonata
Ayden Phillips
Every music player plays back music, so they're all decent. You didn't name anything you expect, so all you're going to get is "pls use the same softawre as I do".
Tyler Gray
I like and use winamp on windows whats most simlar to that
Grayson Sanders
Any player that has a playlist cue and library feature. So, about 95% of them.
Mason Wright
My 3 top choices would be: * mpd+ncmpcpp * cmus * go without anything fancy and just play shit with mpv
James Davis
...
Gavin Martin
i just use youtube. i don't really listen to music on my laptop though. i try to keep work and play separate. makes me focused when i enter linux mode
Jace Hall
What's a linux mode?
Evan Harris
a mental mindset
Blake Wood
The big switch on the side of your computer with the penguin on it. Do you not have one?
Jordan White
Hey, I'm just starting to look into linux. I've been trying a lot of newbie distributions (linuxmint, xubuntu, ubuntu budgie, etc) out in virtualbox but it seems like all of them have more bloatware than I expected. Is there a relatively minimal distribution that doesn't require me to be experienced with the terminal?
Ryder Morris
how do i get mv to rename a file based on what i grep'd? ex: if i pdfgrep faggot file.pdf how do i rename file.pdf to the output of grep?
Sebastian Davis
Been trying to figure out how to switch workspaces on bspwm. Not sure if thats what they're even called but that's what Ubuntu calls them. I think the part of my bspwmrc that deals with spawning multiple workspaces is bspc config monitor -d 1 2 3 4 but I'm not sure. I'm on a laptop so multiple monitors isn't what I'm after. Just want to be able to switch workspaces. The part of my sxhkdrc which I think maps the keybinding to the switching action is super + {1-4} bspc desktop {1-4} --focus but of course, it doesn't work. If someone could help me out, that'd be awesome.
Robert Bennett
command substitution either through backticks `...` or $(...) mv file.pdf $(pdfgrep faggot file.pdf )
Jayden Rivera
How do I get urxvt (or any terminal) to display a message when it's opened? I want to set reminders and stuff.
Dylan Jones
LINUX MODE: ENGAGED
Gavin Baker
Nevermind, just figured it out. .bashrc is ran every time the terminal opens so I can just echo something or print a file.
Jordan Wilson
You could like actually install it, or symlink the executable somewhere in your path, or maybe your de has a menu editor function you could just make a new entry point to it.
Nathaniel Allen
Even Xubuntu don't install that. Da fugg
Colton Perez
Polybar is difficult.
Jordan Robinson
?
Liam Jackson
the output of your pdfgrep has spaces in it which is why mv treats it as multiple arguments you could circumvent this by replacing the spaces with underscores mv file.pdf $(pdfgrep faggot file.pdf | sed -e 's/ /_/g')
Linux brainlet here, I'm figuring here that I should go and roll with the latter, which is the standard non-musl, iso, is that right?
Or, rather, which one do I get and roll with and stick and why?
I'm considering Void since my recent Manjaro install/reinstall has been shitting itself for some whatever unknown reason(s)
Dylan James
>void-live-x86_64-20171007-cinnamon.iso pick this one if you want more packages. The musl repos are smaller than the glibs repos
Daniel James
>installing autismo linux rather fixing the manjaro install
Jack Reed
works but there is a 30+ underscore prefix before "faggot." any way to tell sed to only replace the spaces in the "faggot" sequence? grepping the sequence i want doesn't display the spaces sed is apparently replacing, either.
Luis Nelson
What's the/are the difference(s) between the two repositories, though? And, also: Why are the musl's repositories smaller?
Regarding the packages, what all and which packages does musl exclude, and, like, why, though?
Asher Young
I already tried, even with their support directly from Manjaro's forums themselves and it still shits itself....
Ryan Bell
And, I mean, like, it was fixed for like a day or two, or rather, like... I don't know... Perhaps it was temporarily fixed for, what, like, half a day, maybe....?
Josiah Wood
>What's the/are the difference(s) between the two repositories, though? the musl repos are built against musl libc and the glibc repos are built against glibc basically the musl repos are for thos people that for some reason or another don't want any gnu in their system. >Why are the musl's repositories smaller because some programs rely on glibc specific behavior
Luis Taylor
Quotes. Always use "quotes".
Isaiah Nelson
I has never any problem with manjaro that couldn't be fixed within archroot.
Isaac Thompson
already doing that.
Xavier Phillips
ok mom with spaces (also removes leading spaces): mv file.pdf "$(pdfgrep faggot file.pdf | sed 's/^ *//')" with underscores (because i don't like spaces in filenames): mv file.pdf "$(pdfgrep faggot file.pdf | sed -e 's/ /_/g' | sed s/^_*//)"
Isaac Brown
> sed s/^_*//)" derp. i'm retarded for not thinking of that. thanks user.
Parker Williams
Looks like a winky face
Nicholas Clark
I made a USB and threw Void on it - was interested in trying out the Distro. For some reason it doesn't pick up in my BIOS at all. My computer is an XPS 13, and I've already installed practically all other distros perfectly fine. Any suggestions? I made it with Rufus on default settings.
Christopher Anderson
Try re-creating another bootable Void USB with Etcher instead
Jonathan Wood
Alright. I'll give it a shot.
Chase Myers
Guys seriously. Using xfce by the way
Angel Davis
mv: target 'September_16_2016_through_October_17_2016.pdf' is not a directory what the actual fuck is the problem now why is mv such a finnicky bitch
Jaxon Jackson
Hey, it worked. Thanks.
Benjamin Lewis
why havent you installed chadian?
Nicholas Moore
Anyone here familiar with bspwm? Still haven't had any luck.
