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>>54898555
Hi OP running arch-xfce and this is my noob rice hope u g/yz like

>get first response

I'm running Xfce on Arch, I messed with desktop, the icons don't appears anymore, and if I right click on desktop it opens the same menu as the one on "Start" button. It's probably something with xfdesktop, when I run xfdesktop this appears

Failed to connect to session manager: Failed to connect to the session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
** (xfdesktop:886): WARNING **: xfdesktop: unable to connect to settings daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken..  Defaults will be used
** (xfdesktop:886): CRITICAL **: xfce_desktop_new: assertion 'channel && property_prefix' failed
(xfdesktop:886): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_add_events: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
(xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
(xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(xfdesktop:886): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
(xfdesktop:886): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_realize: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(xfdesktop:886): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_window: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(xfdesktop:886): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_lower: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
** (xfdesktop:886): CRITICAL **: xfce_desktop_set_session_logout_func: assertion 'XFCE_IS_DESKTOP(desktop)' failed

What should I do?

>>54899250
install a better distro

Fourth for herb slut wm master rice

5th for liniggers cant roll with the big unix dogs

>>54898802
>>>/wg/desktop

I'm a newbie to GNU/Linux and I just discovered that you can use cd to tell the shell to go up X number of directories, and then into another directory in the same command, as

 cd ../other 

This made me happy and I wanted to share to other newbies

Thank you

I recently installed kxstudio, which is essentially kubuntu 14.04. I'm really happy with it but I've come across one problem. I have previously been using mednaffe as a front end to retroarch but it seems that mednaffe requires more up to date packages than 14.04 comes with so I cannot compile it, I can't find a ppa for it either.
What would be the best thing here? I don't really want to update to 16.* just yet but I do want to be able to play some emulation games with my controller.

>>54899411
>They actually banished desktop threads from /g/
Truly we live in a glorious new era

>>54898802
Are you serious? Looks shite mate.

>>54899615
>responding to obvious bait
are you autistic

>>54899637
It's hard to tell with arch users.

I'm passing through a GPU to qemu and it works fine the first time I start it, but after I shut the vm off once and try to start it again the screen just stays black, the only way I can fix it is by rebooting my PC

Any idea what would be causing this?

Should you send all data via a vpn with iptables? Or is there another way

ln -s <folder> /dev/null?

>>54899737
Epic. Let me see your setup

>>54899741
Are you passing through an AMD GPU?

>>54899884
Yeah

>>54899821
Why?

>>54899821
>LET ME SEE YOUR ANIME COLLECTION, I BET IT'S WAY LESS COOL THAN MY ANIME COLLECTION

How you sound

>>54899896
I have heard that that is a common issue with newer AMD GPUs. I pass through an r9 270 without issue, but I have heard of issues with other cards.

I'm running gnome on arch, and I would be using the global dark theme if it wasn't for Dolphin. While I prefer Dolphin to Nautilus (Or 'Files' as I guess it's now called), Dolphin stays in a light theme despite the global dark theme being enabled. Assuming there's no way to change this from Dolphin's end, I'd be willing to switch to Nautilus (Files) so I can use the dark theme, except for the fact that I cannot for the life of me get it to show thumbnails for video files. Works fine in Dolphin but not in Files.

What do

>>54899965
might have better luck with nemo

>>54899965
dolphin is qt isn't it?

>>54899965
install ffmpegthumbnailer

I've set
MENU MASTER PASSWD <mypassword>
In syslinux.cfg
Everytime i reboot, it dosent lock the menu out and ask for a password, when i press the arrow keys.Is there some other setting that has to go with it? Ive checked the wiki and i dont see anything else that should be done

>>54899977
Weird, it's also not showing thumbnails for video files. I've tried setting them to always show and setting the "Only for files smaller than" setting to the max. I also just installed Thunar and tried using it with the same result. Why does it only work for Dolphin?

>>54900040
I've reinstalled ffmpegthumbnailer several times, still doesn't work.

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re-asking from the previous thread.

i'd still like either help and or an answer.

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>>54900196

well shit i forgot to quote my own post from the previous thread

>>54900481

>>54899785

>>54900487
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Browser_plugins#MozPlugger

Is there a way to make my lenux machine pretty? Gnome is not my thing, KDE is too bloated and xfce is slow and barely gets updated.

>>54899250
>GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)
http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=6516

>>54899457
try
nano /etc/blah.txt

>>54900557
>xfce...barely gets updated
kek, thats because shit works the first time

>>54900635
WOAH

>>54900702
Really? Most people I heard told me to stay away from it because it's slow and breaks. However, I hear bad things about all DEs anyway. I just want something minimalistic that still has a good amount of features, xfce seems to be the DE for this. I don't care about being bleeding edge or using wayland either, I'm fine with X.

>>54900536

i'd actually like it for chromium please

>>54901030
k good luck

Any recommendations for a C++ ide? I've been into java a lot with eclipse. But I don't see it as good for C++. Should I just man up and go with Vim? If so, any recommended resources to set up Vim the best way?

>>54899916
Can you share any resources on how to pass use GPU passthrough? Do you use KVM or Xen?

I tried to do that over a year ago and eventually gave up after fiddling a lot. Thanks in advance.

>>54901143
I used Qt Creator for a time, I liked it a lot. Now I just use emacs.

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>>54901211
This is what I used:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

>>54901322
>that marble mouse

hey pham, get the scrolling on button click working on wayland?

been trying but not working out. can't get a concrete answer if it is there yet or not.

>>54901335
I am not on wayland, but I do have the small butttons set to scroll when the ball is moving and middle click when it is stationary.

Which one is my public ip and what are the others?

hostname -i: 123.101.123.123 123.101.124.123
curl ifconfig.co 12.123.12.123
ip a: inet 12.1.1.12/12 brd 12.1.1.123

>>54901322
Was thinking of attempting GPU passthrough on Debian.

Must something be setup during the OS install or is it fine to do it on an already existing install?

>>54901369
yeah that's how my setup is. but as stated couldn't figure out how to make it work on wayland.

thanks anyway.

I'm trying to open steam on my manjaro-kde laptop and it seem to load but doesn't open in the end. Is it some kind of system error or manjaro did fix it yet?

>>54901380
Everything should be fine as long as your Kernel and other utilities are new enough.

>>54901389
Yeah, that trackball is basically unusable without that feature. I have a program that lets it work that way on windows too (it also works on trackpoints).

What's the recommended "avoid" category?

Systemd
Pulseaudio

what else?

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I'm trying to make a script to convert videos in a directory. Why do I need to cd to the directory for it to work?

for i in `ls -A $1`
do
    avconv -i $i -acodec mp2 ~/Desktop/newdirectory/$i
done

Anoyone knows some linux-ck patch PPA or repo for Ubuntu 16.04 ? Or should I just patch it manually?

(Any other desktop optimized kernel would be nice too)

>>54901595
just do

for i in $1/*

>>54901371
You have one internal and one external IP.
The internal IP is useful to contact machines inside your network, the external IP is useful to contact the wonderful wide web. Now think for yourself which one could be your public IP?

>>54901595
Never parse ls.
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

Furthermore, just use find. Something like:

find . -type f -iname "$1" -exec avconv -i {} stuff ~/Desktop/newdirectory/{} ';'

Untested.

>>54901761
ignore >>54901761
>>54901663 is easier

>>54898555
someone pls animate this

>>54900184

Works on My Machine with Nemo(tm).

Dolphin won't comply with your dark theme setting because it's using Qt and your GTK settings won't affect it. If you want Dolphin to be dark, get a dark Qt theme and apply that one.

>>54901553

Explaining to you why you're an idiot would be a waste, because you wouldn't understand it anway.

>>54902289
Well said.

Daily reminder that installing Gentoo is the only sane way.

>>54901553
Gentoo. Don't install Gentoo.

>report something in the arch repos as out of date
>month later
>still not updated

This is seriously giving me a fuck. My PKGBUILD directory keeps on growing.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=flag_date
>Flag date 2013-07-03

I'm not even using that package, but how is that allowed?

>>54901553

atom
chrome
conky
cowsay
flash
scrot
skype
steam
sublime
xscreensaver
zsh

>>54903105
>cowsay
If some guy has fun with it, why not?

>zsh
Can be an improvement, if not bundled with oh-my-zsh.

>scrot
Is ok too, bloat but ok.

>>54903176
>scrot
>bloat
i like it

>>54903105
what's wrong with my atom/sublime?

>>54903176
>>54903105

>scrot

You need 2 packages which occupy more space (maim and xdotool) to accomplish what scrot does: taking a screenshot of the active window.

>>54903272
atom = google analytics enabled by default, cant handle huge files, slow
sublime = nonfree pig disgusting
>>54903274

import screenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).png

>>54903274
Oh, active window:

import -screen +repage screenshot_$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).png

>>54903176
I agree, pretty salty list.

>>54903274
xdotool is pretty nice tbqh, with enough scripting skills, it's even possible to write a small WM with that thing

>>54903326
Well you can easily google a sublime key.
It's pretty free as in free beer :^)

thank you based compton, now I don't have to use an indian os on my desktop because of tearing problems

>>54903451
Go away windows babby.

>>54903550
You can't google a key in lenooks? I never used anything other than gedit.

>>54903570
>>54903451
What do you mean by "google a key"?

>>54903570
i wouldnt even install it for gratis

>>54903593
I mean you put "sublime text key" into google and you get a key to paste. Assuming they aren't blacklisted.

>>54903350

How would I make it capture the window border/decoration too?

>>54903624
Add "-frame" next to -screen.

>looking through screen capturing software
>there's something called escrotum

https://github.com/Roger/escrotum

Hello /g/
I have been using GNOME for 2 months now
But I am missing something
A keyboard shortcut to hide all windows
Where is it, or if it isn't available can I get one?

>>54903664
Not running GNOME, but try CTRL+ALT+D.

>>54903694
Doesn't work

>>54903699

Super+D?

>>54903707
Nope
No combination with D works

>>54903630

I just looked into it, but is there a way to make it automatically select the currently active window? Without me having to click on it.

According to [0]this, I still need xprop or xdotool.

[0]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/taking_a_screenshot#Screenshot_of_the_active.2Ffocused_window

>>54903710
Then do: System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Navigation > Hide all normal windows.
Maybe the command is empty, if so, just set a new hotkey.

>>54903720
Thanks, didn't think it would be in system settings, because most things are in the tweak tool

>>54898555
What currently-available laptop with a nice bright screen and keyboard with good travel runs linux (something simple like ubuntu) well?

While thinkpads have great keyboards, their screens are usually too dim for me. AlthoughI prefer a pointing stick is over the trackpad.

>>54903719
Yeah, I guess here you need an external tool, but xprop comes already with X.
import -window $(xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | sed 's/.* //') test.png

Have a new install of Debian 8.4. Any tips on getting different fonts in Iceweasel? I have tried installing some other fonts but I must be doing it wrong.

Running Mate desktop if that helps but also have default Gnome if needed.

>>54903781
Also I have another ubuntu machine with font I like in firefox. Any idea how I determine what package that comes from?

>>54898555
Hi

I'm pretty much an absolute beginner. I wanted to know, though, how do you make bring up the window with your system's specs and an ascii art logo of your distro? I usually see them in screenshot/rice threads.

Thanks for any help.

>>54903780
Aaaand back to scrot. I love scrot!
Scrot is small.
Scrot does one thing and does it well.
Scrot loves you.
SCROT!!!

>>54903881
kek, enjoy buddy. At least you learnd some ImageMagick wizardry.

>>54903875
It's called screenfetch, but don't install it from your distro repos (mostly outdated), get the git version.

>>54903917
thanks anon, will do.

>>54903875
https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch

>>54903781
Go to your settings in firefox and select another font in content.
installing goes like sudo aptitude install fonts-<font name>
Terminus and gnu unifont are nice for terminal and cantarella, deja vu sans and roboto are nice for everything else.

Any sxiv users here? I'm searching a way to make the window autofit the displayed image like feh does.

>>54904073
>Go to your settings in firefox and select another font in content.

I can do that and change fonts.

sudo aptitude install fonts-<font name>

All well and good if I know what font name I'm after.

At present I have serif in use on ubuntu and it looks very different to the version on debian. Is there a way to determine what package the ubuntu version is part of?

>>54904472
sudo aptitude search <font name>
If it is the same fonts (and there are a few if you go to the advanced font settings) the thing you.are looking for is font rendering. The preset on the debian wiki for font rendering is quite good, use it.

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Recommended partitioning for pic related
2.7 GiB RAM
Celeron B800 Dual core @ 1.5GHz

I'm using Xubuntu 15. How do I have a program automatically turn on after start up. Something with a gui, skype for example.

>>54904743
/boot : 300mb
/ : 20 - 30GB
/home : calculate what will be left
swap : 6GB

How the actual fuck do I open a file with a custom command in GNOME 3?

>PHP 5.x
>PhpRedis (PECL PHP library, php --ri redis should give you version 2.2.5 at least)
>OracleDB
>Composer
>Redis server
>MySQL (or equivalent)
>NPM
>Bower
>Node.js (v0.12.x, newest versions aren't supported by Platform.sh)

How can I install these on Arch? I have found a script that does it all on Ubuntu, but I can't get Node.js 012 and php-redis to work.

I've spent 8 hours trying adjusting config files but it just doesn't seem to be possible without downgrading 80% of the packages.

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I'm the debian guy from yesterday.
it loads the KDE splashcreen, but I can't move the mouse, type anything or switch to tt1, tt2, etc. I know it's not simply frozen because the "|" is blinking in the password field. A pop up says:

Your saved session type "kde-plasma" is not valid any more. Please select a new one, otherwise 'default' will be used.

And an OK button to click. But I can't move shit.

So I booted from recovery mode and got the journalctl to see if you guys can help me out.

I tried reinstalling plymouth, but didn't work and reinstalled.

I was going to do
"sudo systemctl disable rescue.service"
as anon said, but I'm afraid. Would that forbid me from starting in rescue mode? I don't have access to the terminal when booting normally, as it loads the splashcreen and I can't do shit from there.
>>54896829

You're my only hope.

updated journalctl
http://pastebin.com/nLqHQssj
updated Xorg.0.log
http://pastebin.com/619m6e60

Previous comments for reference.

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>>54896829

I bought a terrible laptop with an nvidia gpu and an intel one.
Which distro should i use for werk?

>>54904915
Depends
What do you want to use it for
If you just want functionality and dont care alot about rice consider Ubuntu minimal with Xfce

>>54904822
>open terminal
>type custom command
>enter
>????

>>54904510
>The plot thickens

It appears the font in ubuntu is not set by the browser setting which is what I was using as a reference.

>Installed Font Manager

Time to look through them all.

>>54904943
It has an it 35something, 8gb of ram and a 128gb ssd, thing is having two GPUs fuck everything up, hell i cant even seem to install openSUSE leap.

>>54904960
I don't want to have to open a terminal everytime I open the file

>>54904972
Look into .desktop files

>>54904964

Only mint will just werk. None of other current year distros support dual gpu setups. Had the same problem.

>>54904964
>>54904943
Oh yeah and i want to use it for work, mostly.
JAVA J2EE / js at work.

>>54904981
Fug.
Mint is it then.

Is it just me, or is subpixel font rendering eye cancer on low resolution monitors?

>>54904833

>>MySQL (or equivalent)
MariaDB is in the repos.

I'm dual-booting Linux and Windows. If I want to switch distros, would I fuck up? I thought about just formatting with gparted the part where Linux is installed, then install the new distro in that space.

Is it sane? Can something go wrong?

>>54904833
>PHP 5.x
Kill self

>>54905091
The only thing that can go wrong is if you fucked up the partitions

Game update: AppID 8930 "Sid Meier's Civilization V", ProcID 11306, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/zilot/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/zilot/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 8930
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561197990842332 [API loaded no]
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(20160429221935)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)
Game removed: AppID 8930 "Sid Meier's Civilization V", ProcID 11307 
No cached sticky mapping in ActivateActionSet.Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)

any idea on how to solve this issue ? I tried a lot of things that didn't worked and I am a bit tired of this shit.

>>54905131
Need 5.6 for Drupal 7

>>54905217
Thanks! So this means that I can distro-hop like never before, right?

I'd clonzilla before you start if you are not sure.

>>54905233
here's the full terminal output in steam from opening it, launching civ 5 and closing steam right after the crash

http://pastebin.com/TCXZYzA1

if you see what is the problem...

>>54905300
>distro-hop
y tho

>>54905300
Yes, just make sure the grub config is update every time you hop.

>>54905330
I'm this guy.
>>54904878
Debian (Testing) hasn't been that stable for me. I'm not really into distro hopping, but I want to try something different.

I heard you guys praise Fedora. I also use Linux for gayming. Will I run into issues? I know Debian based distros are the most popular.

>>54905340
Wouldn't the installation process take care of that for me?

>>54905373
Yes, on distros that hold your hand on installation but some don't.

I work as a graphic designer, and built a new workstation recently.
I had to forgo Windows due to budget constraints.
How do I get the Adobe suite on Linux?

>>54905400
My question is, when do I run grub-update during the install process? If I do the install the previous OS gets removed, so if grub isn't updated I won't be able to get a terminal to even run it, so I'd need to update the grub.cfg directly, right?

This being said, if I reinstall Debian or install any other distro (graphical install) I should be fine, right? Right?

>>54905427
Yes. The grub update is usually last, after you have set up everything.
format partition > install distro > update grub

>>54905408
you install it through wine. but if you can't afford windows and adobe, why not use alternatives?
there's programs like Krita, Gimp, Inkscape and a few others that could fit your needs.

>>54905452
Nice, thanks for all the info.

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>>54904510
Thanks for your help. I still have not got what I'm looking for but its time to take a step back for a wile.

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>>54905557
The above is debian iceweasel. This is ubuntu and the type of text I'm looking for.

Wildcard not working?
ls *.png /home/usr/Pictures/

it lists all files instead of just .png

>>54905597
ls /home/usr/Pictures/*.png

>>54905597
ls /home/usr/Pictures | grep png

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>>54905590
which fonts are shown in these settings in your bunu firefox and in your debian firefox?

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>>54905628
How embarrassing. Thanks.anon

Hey guys.
How can I watch webm on an iPhone 6?

>>54905652
>>>/g/sqt/

>>54905652
>iCrap

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>>54905641
Thanks for your interest but I got to sleep now.
>Back another day

Why is it taking eclipse 20 seconds to compile a simple hello world?
Why does it crashes when i create a new project?

>>54905996
try the gtk2 2 version, the gtk3 version is a buggy mess

eclipse --launcher.GTK_version 2

>>54906042
Shit son it works, thanks alot.

>>54906042
Still i dont know how to create a shortcut like that tough.
I must launch it in /home/user/java-mars/eclipse ./eclipse --launcher.GTK_version 2

>>54906096
edit the desktop file

Question

What is the best distro+gnome for non-nerd everyday user?

>>54906127
ubuntu gnome or fedora.

>>54905652
is that for real? iOS can't into webm ? I though it was just a meme

>>54901553
bash
zsh
ksh
dash

vim
emacs
atom
nano
ed
vi
sublime

Hello friends, I must ask. I have an AMD card with not the best support on linux and integrated intel 4600 hd graphics.

I really want to have access to Windows the quickest way. So in your opinion, should I buy extra RAM for virtualization, or endure dual boot everytime?

>>54906216
>bash
>vim

What?

>>54906343
csh
dd

>>54906343
He's trolling.
>>54901553
Atom and Sublime are botnet tier shit, look it up.

I just added a ppa in kubuntu to get the latest version of ncmpcpp but it won't is giving me "connection refused" for some reason.
My ncmpcpp config
https://bpaste.net/show/09d4bd067b1c
My mpd config
https://bpaste.net/show/e72e0bc59325

>>54906463
Did you use both, mpd and ncmpcpp before? What's the ppa?

>>54906463
try

In ncmpcpp:
bind_to_address 127.0.0.1

In ncmpcpp:
mpd_host = 127.0.0.1

Can anyone recommend me a cheap light laptop that I can take with me places?

The intention is for it to run linux, so I can practice my programming and manage my server etc.

Also basic web browsing etc.

doesn't need to be super powerful, but it does need to be thin and light.

>>54906800
s/ncmpcpp/mpd/

Anyone have an idea on setting up Tor, iptables and tor transparency?

>>54906857
The arch wiki article is breddy good.
Also reminder: If you are going to use tor without torbrowser, make sure to harden your browser first. https://panopticlick.eff.org/

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Alright. Stupid question.

November-ish of last year I setup my Skylake desktop, and installed Fedora 23 on it. The processor and motherboard weren't supported well by the stock kernel, so I somehow installed a bleeding edge kernel repository. Something about "vanilla" and "knurd". It's currently on 4.7.0 rc0 git 8.1, I think, and isn't very stable.

Anyway, I updated my laptop last night and it went to 4.5.5, so I am pretty confident that my desktop will be more stable now if I can go back to the default kernel. Only, I don't know how.

How the fuck do I get rid of the kernels I have and go back to stock stable? Or is there a way I can install the stock kernel to test? Is it as simple as removing the repository, or will that fuck my shit up?

>>54906803
what you want is
>Intel cpu and igpu
>wlan chip not made by broadcom or dell

thinkpads have the advantage of elaborate power control settings that are supported in linux (tlp rdw and shiz).

euromaster ecole

Heard x220 is a decent, economy oriented laptop.

>>54907039
>x220
Literally 1.8kg and 1.5" thick..

That's crazy heavy and unweildy.

Thanks though.

>>54906127
>non-nerd
you can't enjoy things?

>>54907018
>Or is there a way I can install the stock kernel to test?

dnf list --showduplicates kernel

dnf install <the kernel you want

Then to test just reboot and pick the correct option from GRUB.

>>54906771
Yeah I've used them both previously. The ppa is from here http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/webupd8?dist=trusty
>>54906800
I'll give this a try but I have another concern as well, the ppa has some packages in it which are also provided from another ppa which I trust more. Is there a way to filter which packages get installed from a ppa?

>>54907076
Great, thanks. That's exactly what I needed.

Anyone running Skylake with the 4.5.5 kernel?

>>54907018
>>54907076
>>54907134

and if your newly installed kernel doesn't show up in grub try reconfiguring it.

depending on your type of installation, but I assume your set up is rather modern so your run EFI

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

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>>54907076
>>54907134
>>54907141
I remember doing that mkconfig command before. Thanks for reminding me of that.

Just out of curiosity, with the showduplicates command, what do the different color mean? I have white, gray, dark green, and light green. Pic related is my laptop.

>>54907069
it's not for me. using arch atm :>

ok so i downloaded
tor torsocks obfsproxy
edited the torcc
added bridge
and tor status is 100% bootstrap

what do i do next
iptable
torify bash
tor transparency

noobed and confused

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>>54907930
sry screen shot

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Ranger or Midnight Commander?

does anyone know of really old audio production software for gnu / linux? thinking like 90s early 2000s stuff. main reason is to make old school stuff but secondary reason is my machine is shit house

is it possible to set up xrandr so my underscan options are getting applied everytime i reboot?

>>54908003
systemd service unit

>>54907930
the reason i ask is that when i run torify irssi
i get an error that

Connection to a local address are denied since it might be a TCP DNS query to a local DNS server.

>>54907965
>90s early 2000s stuff.
Back then the whole OS was in adolescence

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>>54907955
ranger for image preview

>>54907207
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=296690

>>54908047
wow i didnt realise linux was released in 91. well was their really no audio software released in its first 15 or so years?

what about just a lightweight daw with drum machines and software synths then?

I'm having some issues on my Debian Testing laptop running Bumblebee.

When I try to run optirun, I get the following error:

root@jimmie-laptop:/home/jimmie# optirun glxspheres
[ 195.104437] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver

When I try to run primusrun, I get the following error

root@jimmie-laptop:/home/jimmie# primusrun glxgears
primus: fatal: Bumblebee daemon reported: error: Could not load GPU driver

I am running on an Alienware M11XR2, with a Nvidia GT335M. My Debian Testing is running the latest updates and was freshly installed a couple of weeks ago.

>>54908250
jimmie is a reserved word, name it something else

>>54908101
There was rosegarden
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

It's first versions date to the late 90s

I don't think you'll find something better

>>54908029
what do you mean, how should i use that?

>>54908307
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd#Writing_unit_files

>>54908296
wicked thanks

Do all these studio distros like ubuntu studio, musix, and 64 studio actually make a difference besides some included programs? i hear that theyre "low latency" kernels, but i dont get that

>>54908068
>dropbox
cuck spotted

>>54908436
They usually feature more production-friendly sound system like JACK in place of alsa/pulseaudio.

Low latency kernel lowers the audio latency

As a total scrub what can I get out of Linux? This Windows privacy thing is a bit silly and I want to get away from it.

>>54908436
>>54908101
BITWIG

B I T W I G
>>54908504
An operating system that is simple, fast, elegant, beautiful, free, and uplifting while you do your shitposting, fapping, animu, and "work"

>>54908504
>what can I get out of Linux?
driver modules, system calls, networking stack, vfs, process and memory management.

>>54908504
What do you do on Windows?

Are there any decent lightweight browsers? I heard good things about qupzilla but it kept crashing.

>>54908572
>bitwig
>oldschool
>lightweight
>not even open source
also abletons workflow is far superior, even if bitwig has better sequencing apparently.

>>54908616
>>54908572
He summed it up nicely, fap, animu, occasionally edit text documents. I play certain games as well, but I know that Linux isn't the best for that atm without some work. The most I've done is some light css editing, very light, aka copy and pasting someone else's shit

I've used Debian Stable before. But then, at some point, I want some newer software and switch to Testing. Then things start to break.

What distro would you recommend for someone that:
-Doesn't like to spend hours fixing his system.
-Wants somehow up to date software.
-Plays videogayms.

Is there a distro for this or is it a pipe-dream?

>>54908687
Ubanto, Ubanto LTS and derivatives of both, Fedora, opensuse leap

>>54908687
>Then things start to break.

Can you explain what exactly broke? I've been using Debian Unstable for like 3 months now and I haven't had a single issue.

>>54908687
>-Doesn't like to spend hours fixing his system.
>-Wants somehow up to date software.
>-Plays videogayms.
Wintendo

>>54908705
>'ve been using Debian Unstable for like 3 months now and I haven't had a single issue.
Nice anecdotal evidence. All you have to do is install a metapackage with lots of dependencies (like gnome) and try to remove it. Xorg and half of your system will be gone as well
That's the Debian way :)

>>54908725
Tell me exactly what package to install and remove and I'll do it right now.

>>54908620
Epiphany/Gnome-Web is medium lightweight, comparable to Midori. I used it for a while when I wanted to get rid of Chrome and Firefox didn't work somehow.
surf seems very lightweight. I can also recommend dwb.
>>54908631
if you can copy and paste instructions you can install Linux. Multimedia is actually quite nice, because you have several choices of players that will get out of your way and play anything you want (see: mpv).

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I'm tired of having the sites I registered accounts being hacked, and then worrying about other sites where I used the same password. Could a password manager solve this problem? Should I use one? Which is a good one for GNU/Linux?

>>54908788
I've been using MPV on windows and stole a .conf from that from the thread. I really like opening youtube videos/twitch streams in it. I just don't know which UI or distro or WM to use.

>>54908705
>3 months
Am I being memed?

Let's list them.
1. I couldn't remove vlc. If I tried, it tried to remove all the kde programs. I don't know if it's a Debian issue, but what the fuck?
2. The driver for my graphic card disappeared for a few days from the repo. I went to upgrade my system like every day and boom. Next time I log in startx becomes notstartx (heh) and I don't have a GUI anymore. I had to get a different computer and go ask around the web what the fuck happened. People blamed me for "upgrading blindly" and I had to manually reinstall the missing package. When I said that shit shouldn't break when following the usual, natural and recommended procedure I was met with hostility. Even more when I asked if there was some way of making a "snapshot" in order to avoid that kind of shit from happening again.
3. I didn't remove the Nvidia drivers when updating from Jessie (current stable) to Stretch (Testing). Everything got fucked up. Even worse: one of the steps that got me closer to fixing it (at least startx actually started the X server) was running an Nvidia script (thanks, anons!): something that the Debian wiki doesn't recommend for fear of breaking the system that got broken in the first place by following the "correct" way of updating. I haven't done shit since yesterday and I'm condemned to format and reinstall.

Granted, I SHOULD have removed the Nvidia packages beforehand, but I never heard anything about it anywhere. A disclaimer that triggers when a change from stable to testing is detected in the sources.list could have been useful in this case. Just linking to some website saying "Shit you should know before upgrading".

I've never tried other distros, except from Live USBs, but after those experiences I'm more than willing to consider some alternatives. And sour as fuck, as you might have noticed.

>>54908832
pass

>>54908832
keepassX is what I use. For maximum security you will have to accept the downside that you should keep the password database file on your GNU/Linux pc and not synchronise it with your botnet phone if you have one, but you can do that if you want.
I'd say yes, try one. You can always change your passwords again if it's not your thing

>>54908725
>Wintendo

What does the "f" stand for in /fglt/, anon?

>>54908832
keepassx. Seriously, you should be using it already.

>>54907955
Literally gentoo

>>54908870
>I don't know if it's a Debian issue, but what the fuck?
APT's issue.

>>54908885
>>54908898
If I'm using keepassx on windows, will the keyfile still work on a Linux distribution?

>>54908898
>What does the "f" stand for in /fglt/, anon?
Wintendo is a Windows machine kept purely for gaming purposes.
How's that unfriendly? Bruh if you want a hugbox try a different website

>>54908902
So I could bypass that (if my machine wasn't fugged) by using dpkg directly?

>>54908918
I'd say yes. I moved mine from Linux to Windows without an issue.

>>54908849
for UI, just search for screenshots of the most popular DEs and WMs: KDE Plasma 5.6, Gnome, Xfce, LXDE, i3.. you can use most of them with most distros.
You can see the recommended distros in the OP, but mostly "original" distros like Debian, Opensuse, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo are preferred over derivatives like Ubuntu, Mint or others

test

>>54908942
great another shitposter is born

>>54908924
I'm going to dual-boot, but I don't want to fire up Windows for every game; just the ones I have no other option but that. Debian based distros are the most used due to Ubuntu and Linux Mint, and since I've never used any other I was wondering if there could be any kind of trouble with using say Fedora or OpenSuse.

>Bruh if you want a hugbox try a different website
Nah. I'd rather be called a faggot openly that get downvoted by some butthurt registered users.

>>54908942
You're doing God's work, anon. Wasn't there shittier threads to test this on? Has /g/'s quality gone up? I only visit this thread. Thanks, catalog.

>>54908932
>So I could bypass that (if my machine wasn't fugged) by using dpkg directly?
Most likely yeah.


dpkg doesn't handle dependencies.

I have no idea how APT would behave afterwards but I suspect it would try to reinstall VLC again since APT would have it marked as "installed" in it's database.

dpkg/apt really is a package manager of subpar quality and most problems with debian and debian based distros boils down to it misbehaving

>>54908485
>in place of alsa
I thought it works on top of alsa, can someone explain.

Sometimes after resuming from sleep my internet won't connect, this is with an ethernet cable. Arch+xfce, sleeping with

systemctl suspend

Restarting fixes it, but i'd rather not have to do that.

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>>54908701
Thanks!

>>54908687
>>54908870
>>54908982
Which distro would you recommend me then?
I'm a KDE guy, btw. Bully me; when we're not talking OSs, I like it rough.

>>54908338
that seems extremely convoluted and way too advanced for simple stuff that i need, is there no other way to make my xrandr settings persist?

>>54909003
alsa/pulseaudio
alsa is the backend, pulseaudio is the frontend

so you replace alsa/pulseaudio with alsa/jack

>>54908870
>I couldn't remove vlc. If I tried, it tried to remove all the kde programs.
did you use apt-get remove, apt-get autoremove or apt-get purge? In my experience apt-get does the opposite of what it tried to do for you: when I remove a program it just removes the program package and no dependencies.
>The driver for my graphic card disappeared
for the future you should remember to always read the list of packages that will be installed/removed when updating. I don't believe the driver was removed without asking for your confirmation.
>if there was some way of making a "snapshot" in order to avoid that kind of shit from happening again.
there are ways: the btrfs filesystem has snapshot functions, or you could run rsync in a small script to make weekly/daily backups.
Sucks that you had these problems though

I'm trying to compile mednaffe on ubuntu 14.04 but it seems to not recognize the fact that I have gtk installed:

./configure 
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for pkg-config... no
checking for GTK... no
configure: error: Mednaffe needs GTK+ >= 2.24

I do have that version installed though:

libgtk2.0-0:
  Installed: 2.24.23-0ubuntu1.4
  Candidate: 2.24.23-0ubuntu1.4
  Version table:
 *** 2.24.23-0ubuntu1.4 0
        500 http://cr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24.23-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://cr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

What's going on here?

>>54909075
add it to autostart

jeezus did your google subscription run out or something?

>>54909100
you probably need the development headers which are separate packages

>>54909100
Ubuntu has -dev packages for dependencies you need to compile against. Find the gtk2 -dev package and install it.

>>54909106
i have like eleven tabs open with that general problem but nothing i find is helping me, maybe i'm just using the wrong words

>>54908972
I'm running Fedora 23 and the rpmfusion repo has Steam v.1.0 in it's repos. I'm sure Opensuse has it as well, but I don't use it and have no idea if this helps

>>54909120
>>54909122
Ah ok thanks

>>54908788
Thank you.

>>54908898
>>54908885
>keepassx
Why does it use this old Microsoft Excel logo?

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>>54909187
u wot mang?

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>>54909187
>>54909215

>>54909282
are you retarded?

>>54909337
no, just practicing my GIMP skills and I don't know which excel icon he meant so I guessed.
Also, friendly thread.

which distro should I use for daily use? arch seems like it's made for autistic ricers, I don't have time to waste hours setting up my os on my desktop and work laptop.

How do I clear cache in wine? The one that stores for example the list of recently open files by application.

>>54909426
Ubanto, Ubanto LTS and derivatives of both, Fedora, opensuse.

Read the thread next time, there's no need for one question to be asked and answered 5 times

>>54908687
Fedora with steam works pretty well. It's actually the only distro that doesn't mess require deleting files in the steam folder to get it working. It just works.

>>54907965

You're an idiot if you think that you need "old" software to create "old school" music.

>>54909075

Xorg config file.