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Round 2: After spending 4 hours trying to install i3wm and having font scaling/resolution problems I'm going to try this shit again from the beginning.
Question If your OS was wiped for whatever reason, how long would it personally take you to get up and running again in the same capacity without suffering?
lol... Of course two clicks in and already having to google for things to fix. Hanging during the install process. Why am I even wasting my time with this shit.
For a build box or cloud lab maybe. Having to manually merge in config file updates all the time kind of blows for a server.
Michael Hall
why do it on top of mint in the first place? if you just want to try it with an easy distro ubuntu has a minimal install iso that's a decent base to get an i3 setup started quickly
Hunter Wood
Try Manjaro Architect and select i3 ez and quick
Daniel Miller
Yeah just go for a minimal install. havign said that I had xfce, kde and gnome all installed at once. I installed i3 and was able to strip all the others away without any issues somehow.
Matthew Evans
Depends on the machine. Some minutes, some hours.
Luke Hughes
5 hours a fully riced i3 (did it yesterday)
Isaiah Lee
how can i compile falkon browser
Aaron Sullivan
Whoops, posted in a dead thread. Has anyone got a linux install working with a raven ridge 2200/2400G APU? My bootkit's coming in tomorrow and I'd rather not fall for the microsoft meme on my new build, but I've heard that I need to have the latest kernel to get the display even working with one of these APUs.
Eli Miller
Any openSUSE users here who gets their resolution changed after screen turns off? I need help...
I found some people saying that :(){ : | : &};: will help, but it slowed down my computer and didn't helped... Will this really help? If not I'm switching back to windows 10!
:(){:|:&};: Is a meme in Linux akin to delete system32. It doesn't really help. sudo rm -rf / makes the resolution keep constant. sudo makes the command work no matter what rm refers to a system operation -rf translates to -resolution fix / Takes the current resolution.
Matthew Morgan
>cloud_computing.jpg
Julian Wright
Oh... that makes sense. Gonna try this will report back with results later
Nicholas Cooper
Is i3 or any similar wm ever going to play nicely with kwin or any other KDE-compatible compositor? I just want to have a TWM and a composited, accelerated desktop, will those 2 things ever go together?
After I did an update on ubuntu I've apparently subscribed to some news outlets. I don't know how to remove this, it's annoying af, constant popups
Kevin Brooks
does anyone know how to fix this?
Dominic Cook
>wait less then 10 minutes >bumps Fuck your self
Justin Morales
how do you get the pop ups, is it through a web browser or in the desktop
Ayden Thomas
desktop. have looked through startup programs, nothing there that's out of the ordinary
Xavier Diaz
run "apt list --installed >> packages.txt" and post everything there in a pastepin
Gabriel Williams
I've looked through it, there is nothing suggesting there that I've subscribed to anything. Do I have to reformat?
Josiah Garcia
this is weird first time i hear someone getting malware on linux, can you provide a screencap of what kind of pop-ups you are getting
Aiden Campbell
In wayland the wms are basically all accelerated compositors. Still doesn't mean twm will opt to do silly effects like kwin, but they might?
Lincoln Roberts
Can't seem to get automount to work. I'm running clover XFCE and thunar-volman doesn't seem to work. I have gvfs and udisk installed as well.
Ethan Morris
nvm i fixed it (i think so at least), i feel dumb as fuck. thank you for taking the time to help though, appreciate it
Owen Russell
np
Josiah Jenkins
Installing. Texlive-fontsextra wrecks my archlinux memepad so bad it reboots mid-install and gives pacman PTSD. is this a common issue?
Zachary Smith
why don't you try to install it from the site. worked w/o probs for me last week
Henry Long
i get "unkown cmake command 'qt5_wrap_ui'" i have no idea why dose it happen
Jayden Brown
>a window manager playing nicely along kwin >a window manager playing nicely along a window manager
Josiah Rogers
I can use a different wm in a different virtual console right? Do I just need to configure a display manager with a session for each wm I'm gonna use?
Aaron Lee
Considering I use NixOS and do backups of my personal files including the nix config, I'd say it would take me about 15min to get my OS back up plus however long it would take to transfer my personal files over from the backup.
Connor Cox
so I know I can push outputs to txt files by doing the following echo "test" > output.txt
but is there a way to also push the command into the output.txt?
Ian Mitchell
How is Steam performance with Wine on Archlinux? I have a T440p (with dGPU using bumblebee), would like to play EU4. On W10 it worked alright, so I'm supposing with Wine it would be a notch below that
Ian Jones
dx9 and opengl support is bretty good dx11 support works but its nowhere near perfect and complete.
Kayden Hill
If I use xfce and i3 and switch between them using display manager, is there a way for those two to use different gtk themes? Or do I have to create separate users for xfce and i3 in order to achieve this?
Jackson Baker
So.. Best simplistic/minimalistic irc clients? The two suckless ones seem to just create fifos, that seems a bit two hardcore for me... Unless I create some scripts to deal with them I guess..
Adam Bailey
There are probably multiple ways, but one simple thing that comes to mind is just putting the theme switching code in each WM's session / rc / ... file (whatever you have run pre- or during WM startup).
Carter Long
>would like to play EU4 IIRC EU4 has a native linux build
Blake Brown
> /u faglet/
Jaxson Nguyen
>kwin isn't only a WM though, dickshit
Christopher Kelly
It does have native linux client. PAradox developed games all have native linux clients. no need for wine. And Steam also has a linux client.
James Wright
Is Fedora a good next step after Ubuntu?
Been on ubuntu for about a year and I'ìm just looking for something that's stable and has more up-to-date packages but still semi-noob friendly and doesn't need babysitting.
Dominic Reyes
Good luck using only the compositor of Kwin without the window manager, retard.
James Johnson
Good job finally understanding the question I asked a few hours ago, dickshit
Jason King
I have a 120 Go SSD with Windows 7 (51 Go free space) and a 500 Go HDD I would like to install Debian as my main OS since I don't use Windows that much. What should I do in term of partitions? Is it possible to partition my already half-full SSD?
Aiden Johnson
Just shrink your windows partition and make one for your distro.
Cameron Johnson
What´s the easiest linux distro? I mean for a fucking retarded like me.
You are either baiting, retarded, don't have your apt configured properly or any combination of these.
Logan Bailey
Hmm that always works for me Otherwise just compile it
Gabriel Allen
Not him but you're a fucking retard, the metapackage is clearly in that link, i3-wm, if you had got it right the 1st time he wouldn't have asked.
Evan Davis
I need a stable but not ancient Distro for werk. Pls halp
Jackson Hernandez
OpenSUSE
Xavier Wood
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Grab software from ppas, backports and HWE kernel if you need newer versions. Upgrade to 18.04 LTS 1-2 months after its release.
Ryan Lewis
Gentoo you nigger cock
Jayden Phillips
What the fuck are you even doing? Save your dotfiles and don't install petabytes of packages jesus christ Not that I know of. Are you using a custom-kernel?
Aaron Jenkins
So I got a rx 580 to replace my gtx 960, and the only thing that doesn't work is one of my displays. Hardware is fine, it works under windows. It also works under grub and during boot up. Once gdm (on xorg) is up, the display stops working. xrandr says the monitor is disconnected and monitor itself is not getting a signal.
I've tried swapping the cables and ports from the other two displays, this specific monitor won't work no matter what. I'm assuming there some xorg setting that's preventing it from working, any help?
FIrst thing I did was uninstalled all the proprietary nvidia drivers and installed xf86-video-amdgpu driver. The other two monitors hooked up to the card work fine, its the third one that won't work.
I can post the logs, but it appears that xorg stopped logging after I swapped the cards. Weird.
Lucas Nelson
Not sure if anyone will know how to do this.
When using bc eg $ bc 5+7 12 6/3 2 5/3 1 7/3 2 scale=5 5/3 1.66666 7/3 2.33333 quit $ another way I often use it is $ echo 5+7 | bc 12 $ Does anyone know a command I could enter that would set bc to scale=5 (5 decimal places) and enter the arithmetic. Something like >echo scale=5 5/3 | bc
