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How do I enable copy pasting on photoshop being run through wine? It's kind of important, and creating a registry key as suggested by my irl friend did not work.
Carter Morris
AppImages are the future AppImages gonna kill every distro that isnt source based tho We need more games packed as AppImages
Thomas Turner
is it a good idea to install a tiling window manager?
Liam James
Delete the OP image, I don't like it.
Unfriendly sage.
Luke Adams
Why friendoo?? It's Friday, let's love each other!!!1!
Adam Jones
Delete this post too.
Cold sage.
Joseph Hill
I dont know if i'm just a fucking brainlet however. I'm trying to set up my X60 with OpenBSD, it installed and i've rebooted into x, and i'm now trying to install wifi drivers (wpi-firmware) The problem is, whenever i do fw_update -p /mnt/flash i get an error about unsigned packages; and then even if i do -Dunsigned=true i get an error stating that it's not a ustar archive, which it blatantly is. I cant install over the network since i don't have access to ethernet right now. Any anons come across the same thing? i cant find shit about it online.
Cooper Gray
Delete yourself
Nicholas Lewis
>It's Friday Not in Australia.
Aiden Myers
Any of you (((guys))) use an ERD. I'm using draw.io but want something on my Desktop, using Solus btw
Jeremiah Collins
Has anyone used lynx browser? I am trying to make a script that tells me how many job postings a company has worldwide.
Which happens to be an "Alert!: Unsupported URL scheme!".
I hit a wall. Any ideas on this? Indeed it's been a cakewalk in comparison.
Posting illegal girl to foster friendliness.
Brandon White
>How do I enable copy pasting on photoshop being run through wine? It should work OOB.
Julian Morales
Do I need to install tp_smapi if I already have acpi_call?
Sebastian Howard
Can someone please tell me if there is a distro like arch that is minimalistic?
Camden Cox
>Any ideas on this? Try user agent spoofing, use the user agent of any modern firefox/chrome/opera
Austin Turner
void linux is probably pretty close. I haven't used it myself but I know the idea is minimalism while providing new packages
Jose Gomez
Fuck Islam. Islam is cancer. Go away terrorist scum!
Lucas Stewart
Trying this. Thanks for the suggestion.
Jeremiah Williams
How can I change the sizes of my logical partitions? I want to remove some space from my home partition and allocate it to my root partition. How can I do this in Debian?
Jayden Taylor
I fixed it, the solution was to give up, go home and use a ethernet cable.
Jose Torres
You put an live distro on a USB drive (debian live, ubuntu, something) then you can use gparted to do all of that with ease.
Alexander Rodriguez
I tried doing that with a debian installer USB, but when I tried to change the logical drives it said it'd format the existing ones first.
Jonathan Sanchez
This is why I said use a live system. Use gparted, a full featured partition manager, it will let you resize your home logical partition, resize your extended partition which contains your home and extend your root.
Benjamin Foster
Okay I'll give it a go, thanks.
Angel Russell
My only Linux experience is a VPS I rent. I slapped Ubuntu 16.04 on it because I figured I'd be able to find loads of resources on things I wanted to do (deploy Node services and a Postgres instance) on Ubuntu, and I didn't have any issues.
That said, I got a Thinkpad because of the eBay sale today, and was wondering what distro to use. I'm planning to do something with Java/Spring soon Arch sounds appealing because apparently it's got really up-to-date packages? Out-of-date packages on Ubuntu were pretty annoying when they came up.
Any advice?
Jackson Morgan
ubuntu 18.04LTS since you already have experience with ooboontoo
Jace Sullivan
PCLinuxOS, all batteries included
Samuel Gonzalez
Oh, so my previous experience outweighs whatever else? Alright, then. Thanks, m8
Austin Hill
Fedora is cutting edge and doesn't break everyday like arch. I think you can have the best experience by NOT using the last stable release. If the last stable is 27, use 26.
The old stable will at any point be at most one year old. It's unlikely to contain any one year old version of any software.
Christian Myers
16.04 is a long term support release. Ubuntu releases new versions every six months.
Jason Nguyen
I see.
Oh. Lol. Things I'd know if I'd bothered to take even 30 seconds to research in the year or two I've been using that VPS.
I think in the end, I'm going to try Fedora and Ubuntu 17.10 on a VM. I guess it'll be interesting poking around Linux outside of a terminal.
Samuel Harris
Any idea why my system freezes up, gets incredibly slow and needs a reboot if i play around with the windows (snapping to one side, resizing, etc) even if they are closed? Running kubuntu 17.10
Anthony Williams
So I'm at Scale 16x at the moment and no one is talking about ricing, i3 or fun shit. They just wanna make money and advertising their services.
The Gentoo booth was interesting to see, but they only had a demo computer.
Owen Campbell
I've got it running. What do I do now? There's a padlock on the LVM and I'm not sure how to change the sizes from here.
Benjamin Bailey
Is this also the friendly vim thread? If so, how do I indent my current line number like this guy?
Caleb Reyes
Oh, it's a feature of hybrid numbers, not for regular old line numbers.
Tyler Sullivan
What's your memory usage when that happens? If you can replicate it, then when it happens change to another free tty via ctrl-alt-f[1-12], log in and type "free" to see current mem usage.
Jordan Clark
I cant tell what it is because the screen is basically frozen, htop included
Noah Jackson
So I just updated VLC 2 to 3 and the UI has some drawing issues (see pic related) and is generally smaller than it was before. Is there anything I should try?
Matthew Bennett
You can't even switch tty's?
Ryan Martinez
meant for
Mason Parker
Just log free or top to a file and replicate the freeze. while true; do free >> memory.log; sleep 1; done
Carson Clark
Ive seen conflicting information should I use the discard option in fstab or fstrim timer?
Daniel Edwards
HOLD MY SPORK, I'M GOING IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luis Green
Try wget and copy cookies from your browser.
Cooper Cruz
Stop posting hatespeech in the friendly linux thread.
I under provision most of my drives so no need for TRIM, plus they last longer.
Daniel Gray
I can even drag it to make it bigger...
Robert Ross
How do I get the file picker to show thumbnails? Using budgie if that matters.
Angel Fisher
File picker isnt your de/wm, it is part of QT/GTK. For gtk2 and gtk3 there is a "filechooser" thumbnail patch that can be applied to the gtk 2 and gtk3 source. Check your repo's for a "filechooser" packages for gtk2 and gtk3, if not you will have to manually create a package for your package manager(easily done one most distros)
Caleb Gomez
Why do burqas make me so angry? It's so goddamn medieval.
Julian Reed
They make me rock hard m8
Brody Jackson
It's just their culture.
Jordan Flores
They'd make me hard in a sort of hatefuck fashion if most muz girls weren't potato-faced and annoying
Charles Collins
i don't get the picture, if the costume isn't her culture, why is it being pointed out as if it was?
Anthony Barnes
"Culture" that didnt exist until more recently. Check back on the middle east in the 40's-70's. Women were out in public in western clothes. Men were out in western clothes. It was a normal place that you could see in the USA or Europe even.
Its not "culture" its a hate garment
Jaxon Ramirez
It's from some SJW campaign against Halloween being racist. The slogan is intended to point out the "racism" in people wearing indian costumes or whatever. They picked a very poor example to use for their point. Which makes it look as if suicide bombing is their culture.
To top it off, this supposedly devout Muslim girl is wearing Western clothing.
Brandon Allen
>"You might think that by 2016" >literally starts with oh boy
Daniel Rodriguez
I'm on Arch and am having trouble installing Apparmor. Is there an alternative mandatory access control I can use? I want to sandbox Steam and wine so I can waste time playing video on my PC while keeping my system relatively secure from bioluminescent Africans. I was hoping to use a Apparmor since I'm a brainlit and wanted to use fire jail too easily sandbox.
Also, why don't the lazy Arch devs package these two kernel modules themselves?
Noah Stewart
I'm an idiot, but can't you just run it as a different user with locked down permissions? Getting hacked through steam and wine is already unlikely. Pirated games are the main concern.
Landon Bailey
Dunno how much you want to protect yourself but here's how I do it:
-create new user 'jailuser' who doesn't have permission to read most of the file system -create jail shortcut shell scripts to run programs as that user without logging in
It's pretty quick, just open a terminal, cd jailshortcuts, bash discord-jailed.sh. You'll probably get no audio as it doesn't have permission this way, so if you need full permissions like audio and whatnot just switch logins to the jail user. You can see that it works when you try to upload files/etc. you can't access anything jailuser doesn't have permission for.
Elijah Cooper
I've been googling around and trying to figure out how, but i cant find a way to change my mouse polling rate. The best guide i found was this wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/mouse_polling_rate#Set_polling_interval but still doesnt work. I want to put my mouse at 250 Hz or 500 Hz but following this steps it doesnt change. Anyone know how to change polling rate in xubuntu 16.04? its a cheap logitech office mouse if that even matters.
Joshua Foster
I'd like to procrastinate with games and go back to doing something relatively productive smoothly without having to log out or reboot my entire computer like I do now. I found the following on the wiki for it's get lab page >The AppArmor project source is split between the kernel module, available in the Linux kernel and git development tree and the user space tools available in launchpad. >AppArmor is in the upstream kernel as of 2.6.36.AppArmor is in the upstream kernel as of 2.6.36. I use an trochus to install a minimal Arch Linux environment and I'm using colonel 4.15. I may have it installed already and not realize it but I'm not sure how to check and doesn't seem
I was going to make a guest account on this machine anyway. If I don't get audio, however, it will be only marginally more convenient than dual booting into windows with the exception that I would not feel bad having game-related resources on my second monitor w/ Firefox.
By the way, I realize I have been trying to install the package "apparmor" but the Wiki page says to install "linux-apparmor." The former is a meta package that was probably not installing because it doesn't install the actual kernel-module itself. Installing the proper package mentioned on the Wiki page causes me to hit a wall, giving me an error message that I don't have the pgp key. This is probably the actual issue I've been having with App Armor. It's still ridiculous a torch doesn't package the two main mandatory access control modules when every other big distro has one of the two pre-installed.
if I could get audio playback your method might work for me though as my main concern is stopping the Steam client from reading my file system because Valve is simply too big not to have been approached by (insert Sup Forums boogeyman here.)
Jonathan Jenkins
Did you load the kernel module?
Noah Allen
whats that how do i do that
Liam Rodriguez
What type of mouse is it? Is there special firmware needed to configure the mouse's extra settings?
Zachary Lopez
Clearly you didnt read the link you posted then
Julian Long
>If I don't get audio, however, it will be only marginally more convenient than dual booting into windows You only won't get audio if you use sudo -u to run the program as the jail user while logged in as your main user. That's just for convenience if you want to run something jailed while staying logged in as your main user. Not every program doesn't have audio this way, just some, due to some lack of permissions (adding jailuser to the 'audio' group may fix it for some). If you just log out and log in to the jail user everything'll work fine. That's much faster than rebooting into Windows, Windows takes like 5 minutes from power on to usable at the desktop for me where switching users on Linux is like 2 seconds.
Gavin Nguyen
Logitech B100, and i dont know of any special firmware for this or anything. i followed every step in "set polling interval"
Caleb Hughes
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Kayden Peterson
okay so i type "modprobe" to load a module irght? skull@T420:/usr/lib$ modprobe hidusb modprobe: FATAL: Module hidusb not found in directory /lib/modules/4.13.0-36-generic
is this the issue
Brayden Carter
Okay, I didn't realize that I could run a program as a user I'm not logged in as. I was going to just set up a pass-through for my GPU but I don't want to have two video cards on my system in sacrifice that good one for Windows games if I ever want to edit video. Hopefully someday in the future consumer video cards will be able to work for a host and guest OS at the same time. I'll create a guest account once I fix KDE plasma and look up the Wiki page on user permissions. Plasma starts up into a blank screen can you think it has something to do with I do mot I run fucking up video compositing. I'm hoping it will start working again when I reinstall the plasma meta package.
I was intending to create guest account for any non-technical people who might visit. In particular have a niece who keeps asking to use my gaming PC since it has two monitors and a backlit keyboard and mouse. she hasn't seen my i3 rice. I wonder if a 10 year old would think I'm a super hacker for having half of my tasks running in brightly colored terminals.
Charles Allen
OK, I feel like a total retard right now. I've installed Debian many times before but always with XFCE. I just decided to try installing it with KDE and it didn't add me to root, and I don't see a way to log into root through sddm. What am I supposed to do to get right? I can't install anything...
Joseph Perry
That's unbelievably repulsive. kys asap.
Daniel Gonzalez
There's a terminal command you can use to add a user to the root group, but I can't remember it. otherwise you should be able to install yourself to her directly with apt in your terminal. you'r only fucked if you don't remember you were password for root.
KDE is not nearly as bad as some of the shit posters would tell you. I love it so much that I continue using their software even in i3.
Jordan Nelson
control + alt + f2 login as root add your self to /etc/sudoers add your self to the "wheel" group logout control +alt + f1 Login like normal
Henry Brooks
If you don't know root PW stop at grub and edit init=/bin/bash to boot into a root shell
Jason Bailey
You should try mpv
Jace Jenkins
Worst one I've ever seen. 0/10 literally zero aesthetic.
Andrew Clark
Which linux do you guys recomd for old laptp
1gb ram 128mb geforce Intel core duo 1,66ghz
Joseph Kelly
Is Linux Mint with Cinnamon considered lightweight? I have a laptop with 2GB RAM and battery that lasts 3 hours.
Zachary Mitchell
not really, no
Tyler Sullivan
how do i fix photoshop, im running it thro playonlinux not copy pasting pictures unless i take a screenshot
text works too, only when i right click to copy and ctrl v to paste
Chase Price
What would you recommend to someone who's new to Linux?
John Collins
mint with cinnamon isn't a bad choice the lighter you get, the more you need to understand, since going lighter typically means dropping the 'frills' that make things easier on people who don't know what they're doing if you have an interest in it, then do some research and play around with alternatives, it does little good to suggest light stuff to people, as picking things based on need depends entirely on what /you/ need, which is a personal thing. what works for me might not work for you
Justin Howard
Why you stealing my question you unfriendly faggot.
Carter Bailey
how to merge two text files into a one like so
1.1 1.2 2.1 2.2 3.1 3.2 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2
X.Y >where Y is the first or second text file >and X is the first, second, third, Nth line within that text file
Benjamin Johnson
will there ever be a better solution to nvidia optimus than bumblebee?
annoying how I get graphic bugs and screen tearing if I want acceleration everywhere vs having to manually launch shit with the graphics card in terminal
I don't want to have my close my browser/relaunch with primusrun to get super deep throat to run at more than 10 fps, ya know
Grayson Cooper
Thanks. Will try!
Jason Powell
Fuck off. Just go to Sup Forums and die. This is not the place to demonstrate your retardation.
Jace Turner
2 for loops and a program that reads the xontent of the first file and the second file, then creates new file and pastes 1sr and 2nd into it
Robert King
Does anyone else ever sometimes feel "unflexible" using a tiling wm? I don't know if I'm just doing it wrong or what. But sometimes I even let my desire to just leave my windows as they are dictate what I end up doing.
