Previously on: >>53943085
Welcome to /fg/lt/, or as I've recently taken to calling it, /fg+lt/. We are always open to users of all levels, including absolute beginners.
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>>53951106
>>53951172
pls respond, question from previous thread:
>So guys, I switched from the Nouveau/Gallium drivers to the NVIDIA drivers on Debian.
>I immediately noticed trouble in one area: shutdown used to take like 2 seconds. Now it can take about 40 seconds. Something related to NVIDIA is causing shutdown to hang, hard.
>How can I go about diagnosing this?
>I know dmesg shows the boot sequence, not the shutdown sequence
>Anyway, here it is if you still think it's worth looking at
http://pastebin.com/rwvCdLLv
>how can I configure it to show info on the last shutdown/reboot?
Serious question what's the best package manager for Arch Linux?
> Shell pasta:
The based GNU Bourne Again SHell:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
The community driven BASH wiki:
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/
The Grymoire - home for UNIX wizards:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/index.html
Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
SED and AWK; your new best friends:
http://www.pement.org/sed/sed1line.txt
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
Google's Shell Style Guide:
https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
The Linux Command Line - A Book By William Shotts:
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
Interesting, useful and dangerous one-liners:
http://www.commandlinefu.com/
Great online (and offline) linting tool:
http://www.shellcheck.net/
Know what you are doing:
http://explainshell.com/
>>53951479
Portage
>>53951479
apt
>>53951408
That room is packed. Guess everyone came to see RMSs ass
Share useful / useless scripts edition.# Download all rms.sexy's images to the current directory.
wget -e robots=off --no-check-certificate -nc -nd -nv -ERhtml -Ajpg,JPG -r rms.sexy/img/
>>53951479
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers#Comparison_table
draw the obvious conclusion.
>>53951545
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers#Comparison_table
Ha missed that page, thank you.
Gnome 3.2 was just added to Arch repos:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&arch=x86_64&repo=Extra&q=gnome&maintainer=&flagged=
>>53951593
Took them long enough! 3.2 was released five years ago!
>>53951479
Personally, I like pacaur, as it has pretty much the same syntax as pacman, allows you to modify PKGBUILDs beforehand, and requires minimal interaction after executing the command. It's also always updated really fast whenever something changes with the AUR.
Yaourt feels too bloated.
>>53951662
Also is the least secured ( Yaourt ) that gotta be important, don't to end up like Mint did.
I'm inclined to try KDE again since they had improvements over time that I haven't check: last time it was a buggy crap that was not worth the beauty of it.
Even Gnome 3 manages to keep stability.
Should I give kde 5.6 a try or just stick with MATE.
Is gentoo more stable than arch?
>>53951702
Just try it if you have the free time to burn. it's the same old KDe really
KDE has never clicked with me but I can totally see why some folks would like it.
>>53951724
yes, mostly
Not really Linux related but:
What do you guys think of LastPass? Is it okay?
>>53951724
It depends. What matters with stability is the packages.
You can't just make a decision based on the distro alone if both are barebones after a clean install (which is the case with Arch and Gentoo).
>>53951651
Dude what? Its been out for like a week or so. Or is that five years in the fast paced Arch lingo?
>>53951784
3.20 was recently released. Not 3.2 which was indeed released in 2011. I was poking fun at what I thought was merely a typo. No big deal if you've misunderstood their versioning system, though.
>>53951749
A password manager is definitely miles better than remembering shaky passwords and being prone to social engineering.
However, you're leaving all of your passwords in the hands of a private corporation.
use Keepass instead.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KeePass
If you need to access it from multiple accounts, but your database on a self-hosted server.
http://keepass.info/help/base/multiuser.html
>>53951829
Some of us are newfags in Linux world :( hard to catch on with the history.
You should thank Microsoft for fucking up and pushing the last bastion of cerebral people into Linux.
>>53951749
storing password on a server that doesn't belong to you is never a good idea.
use a password maanger.
keepassx, keepass etc.
they're foss and multiplatform available on all OSes
>>53951848
If you were actually cerebral you would have turned to Linux years ago
>>53951856
Didn't even know it existed.
>>53951856
+ few years ago I was a teenager, too busy having fun, going to parties and being high on all sorts of stuff.
>>53951848
>>53951856
>>53951862
>actually feeling intellectually superior for your chosen Operating System
Ok guys let's not start giving each other handjobs
>>53951862
Seriously? You couldn't possibly deduce that there is anything else other than Windows?
>>53951856
>If you were actually cerebral you would have turned to BSD years ago
FTFY
>>53951884
>>53951878
>>53951862
>>53951856
>>53951848
oh. so we have actual fedoras on the thread, great.
>>53951878
You can't possibly expect me to believe you, on here of all places.
>>53951910
>>53951878
Just get a room you two. Leave it for out of the thread
>>53951895
I did actually like a decade ago. That's when it started progressively getting worse until it became steaming pile of shit, that you see now. It was also around the time Loonix started gaining market share.
>>53951958
>supercomputers OS
Loonix basically pushed every other OS out of the ball park
>>53951853
>>53951830
I have a desktop and a laptop, both on Debian. If my laptop gets stolen, will it be easy for them to crack open my Keepass client on there?
>>53951910
Lmao don't - I've started browsing 4chan 3 years ago, mainly /b/.
I just landed on /g/ 2 months ago.
>>53952008
You're making me cringe very hard, please stop guys
>>53951593
>see that it's out
>pray not to see any GTK theme related threads or comments
>there's plenty
Fucking hell. The only choices you have now are Adwaita (default), Arc and Flatplat.
Arc is too contrasty for me and Flatplat too colourful. Here's hoping that Greybird and Zukitre get 3.20 updates soon.
>>53952005
Your keepass DB should normally be encrypted. They will have to know your passphrase in order to steal your passwords.
>>53952019
Because you're autistic.
what happens when he dies /g/ ? ;_;
>>53952056
Our hopes and dreams die with him. Loonix gets embraced by Microsoft and it becomes proprietary botnet.
Real talk niggas.
How many of you are virgins?
>>53952056
Nothing, many here are pragmatics - not ideologists.
>>53952031
How cute, he's learning the buzzwords and everything in hopes of blending in
Lurk more. Or don't and just be cancer. Everyone can tell
>>53952094
define virgin first
>>53952148
I'll take this as a yes.
>>53952094
no fuck off with your normie shit
I know nothing about new distros, I have stuck with debian for the past 5 years
I need something simple that will work out of the box for a really low spec pc (Celeron N3050) for my little brother.
>>53952202
Lubuntu, Xubuntu, or Puppy Linux
>>53952182
>'normie'
We can safely assume that you're a virgin too.
And bitter about it.
>>53952180
Totally saw that coming. But, the reason why I asked is the following: I have had sex with hookers, yet I have never had sex with a 'real' girl. You know, going out on a date, enjoying each others company, then having consensual sex. Not just insert-coin-hump-and-dump. So, in a way I still consider myself a virgin
>>53952139
Literally cancerous post. Why do you guys try so much, makes it even more awkward.
God damn, I just generated satan.
>try to emerge changed use flags
>this happens!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
dev-libs/libxml2:2
>try to emerge libxml2
>get a long list of file collisions
>>53952280
Install gent...oh, never mind.
>>53951408
I wonder which Gnome themes /g/ likes to use?
( and more importantly why )
>>53952240
I'm sure you've had sex with loads of prostitutes. Made them cum instantly with your 11 inch dick right?
Your dad work for Nintendo by any chance?
>>53952202
tfw a cpu from Q1 2015 is low spec and my core2duo from Q1 2008 runs everything acceptably well
>>53952307
Adwaita
Actually looks good nowadays and I don't feel like messing around to find something I like better.
>>53952327
What most bothers me about it is the massive titlebars. I've got a small monitor ( not even 1080p ), so every bit of space matters.
Though I'm yet to find anything to remedy this. I know there's a Pixel Saver extension which isn't compatible with Gnome 3.20, so I really have no idea what to do about it
Is there any benefit to using Synapse when you're already using GNOME and can press Super + type what you're looking for?
I can't figure out how to use a Single root partition on Arch.
Would I have to just do this?
mklabel msdos
mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 100%
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sdxZ /mnt/boot
?
Is there a guide anywhere on how to get sound working in Debian that isn't utter trash?
>>53952343
You could use Devilspie or Devilspie2. Probably the latter if either of them, but yeah.
>>53952343
don't know if it has 3.20 support yet, but just use arc-theme like every other cuck out there
>>53952314
It's not that hard actually, me living in the Netherlands and it being legal, and all. Almost every city has it's hooker ATM's.
>>53952416
Arc-theme isn't working for me. Specially arc-dark. It just wouldn't show the X button at the top of windows, it sort of blended in. It still worked but it was invisible. Never figured out how to fix it so I just stopped using arc-theme
>>53952357
My old laptop handles everything in Gnome fine (with animations turned off, of course) except for typing in the overview, where it stutters quite a bit from looking up all manner of stuff. I've been meaning to see if I can get it to only show installed applications, but in the meantime I'm using Synapse.
I was thinking that the thread probably needed a link in order to list guides towards running non-standard software, be it games or anything. It may be useful, especially since this thread has a lot of newer people.
https://neetco.de/apt-get/flt-guides
I've got a barebones git repo here. Link me to a (useful) guide, and I'll add it (or simply submit a pull request if you're okay with creating an account on neetcode).
Hopefully this could get in the OP pasta and answer some common questions (how do I run x, etc).
>>53952492
Can you help me?
>>53952394
>>53952492
Just a newbie question:
What's the difference from that git service you've got there vs GitHub?
Because I've just been using GitHub with no complains thus far
>>53952570
The problem with Github is censorship. There are many social justice warriors at this place and github may delete repos that contain several buzzwords.
They recently added also a blocking feature.
Github is cancer and people should get rid of it before it goes full facebook.
https://about.gitlab.com/ is a good alternative.
>>53952527
Really nice, thanks!
A few links seem dead, though.
Seems like that's mostly link to linux versions of games, which isn't exactly what I had in mind.
>>53952530
Try it out and see what happens!
Check out the arch wiki. It has instructions on doing that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNU_Parted#BIOS.2FMBR_examples (replace ext3 with ext4, of course)
>>53952570
neetcode uses gogs, which is open source. It also offers freedom from censorship (according to them), and regularly posts invoices and has a warrant canary. I trust it enough to use it, even though self-hosting might be the best idea.
Meanwhile, github has a long history of censorship and deleting repos it doesn't like.
>>53952665
>warrant canary
What is this?
friendly reminder
>>53952697
Yeah! Fuck Linux! Let's all join the Windows botnet!
Does anybody know of a good program to remux and make a custom DVD? I wanted to add subtitles and dubbed audio to some raw anime DVD's for a private tracker than only deals in raw DVDISOs and BDMVs, but not only can I not find one for Linux, when I decided I was gonna try a Scenarist program in Wine I can't seem to find one on any public trackers.
>>53952727
>reply to 10 years old ass bait
>>53952696
A webpage on a service the maintainer updates at a fixed rate. It may say, for example, "I can confirm I have not received any request from the NSA to give them my data. This message is valid until May 1st, 2016".
Government agencies can force you not to reveal information about their requests, but they cannot force you to lie and say you did not receive any request. If, for example, the message isn't updated after the expiration interval, you can certainly know the service is compromised.
>>53952729
Just use ffmpeg to mux the subtitles and audio in.
>>53952754
Man. Legal loopholes like these are so stupidly clever I can't help but crack a smile when I hear about them
>>53952658
>The problem with Github is censorship.
It's their platform, if they wish to ban anyone who speaks of cucumbers and develops cucumber applications, then so be it. That's not censorship. It does not in any way suppress you or me from speaking of cucumbers or developing cucumber applications.
>>53952665
I've spent 1 hour on arch wiki - I would've not asked here if the solution was there.
Can anyone help me please?
>>53952394
>gtk 3.20 completely renders all themes unusable
I have never seen it happen this severely. Buttons missing, no highlights, no indicators. I can't use Adwaita. PLEASE SOME THEME MAKER CREATE A SIMPLE NEW GTK THEME WHICH WILL KEEP UP WITH THE RELEASES
I want a distro that will allow me to learn more about how exactly kernels work and how exactly the userland is implemented but I also want a useable system so I'm opposed to LFS.
I'm thinking of using gentoo, is there a better choice?
>>53952872
A distribution won't teach you how kernels work. Reading a book about kernels will teach you that.
A distribution won't help you with learning how userland is implemented. Reading documentation about the actual userland utilities will teach you that.
GNOME animations:
On or Off?
>>53952872
this >>53952898
You should find what you want here
http://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page
About linux there's this, that explain a lot about linux, its kernel, how to program for it etc.
http://tldp.org/guides.html
>>53952901
yes
>>53952868
They made a significant overhaul for 3.20 that will make themes break way less over version changes in the future. It's for a good cause, Anon.
And about time, really.
>>53952898
Let me rephrase it, I want a distro that encourages me or makes it easy to learn about these topics.
Gentoo for example expects you to configure your kernel and I probably would be less familiar with Xorg and all that stuff if I hadn't choosen a distro without a default DE/WM.
>>53952972
>wants to get familiar with Xorg
>>53952901
On. I have crappy integrated graphics in a quite old laptop, and whenever I press <super> my fan spins up because of the graphics load. I still use animations. Why? Because I might as well use xfce or something. Gnome is heavy, and it's supposed to be. In my opinion.
Simple gnome shell extension question:
With dash-to-dock, how do you get certain programs like Firefox to play nice and not appear twice (as both favorites and running)?
>>53952977
Thats not what I said.
Easy way to get rid of the complete gnome panel?
>>53953050
install KDE
>>53952993
I doubt that's ever supposed to happen. It's certainly not the case here. My guess is it's some other extension that causes that behaviour. If that's not the case (or in either case if you want to kepp the offending extension), see if anyone has reported the issue, and do it yourself if not.
>>53953056
No offence, but I'm not gay.
>>53953078
>gnome looks EXACTLY like macfags
>not gay
ishiggy
>>53952960
I understand, but it sucks that my favourite theme, Zukitwo/Zukitre, just got an update for 3.18, but it's already unusable because of 3.20.
>>53952972
Pretty much every distribution allows you to compile your own kernel and a minimal (net) installer which allows you to install only the things you need.
>>53951408
Where and when is the photo taken? there are some ancient-styled furnitures and pictures, and people are attaching nametags on their shirts... it must be formal meeting or something.
>>53953148
Go take a look at some screenshots of Adwaita a couple of years back. I quite enjoy how it looks now, and maybe you'll appreciate it more if you see what your current situation could have been instead.
>>53953175
That's RMS's ancestor Richard Bartholomew McStallman, creator of the Free Craftsmanswork Movement.
He vowed to make all patents free.
>>53952868
Arc works with 3.20.
>>53953175
http://www.asolival.com/noticias/conferencia-de-richard-stallman-en-valencia
>>53953284
If there's one theme I hate more than Adwaita, it's Arc. Its super bright/saturated highlight color, together with the thin looking and light text on white background with really high contrast overall (black sidebars, white content windows) makes it an eyesore for me.
Do you guys know any GNOME shell extensions to change how notifications are displayed?
I don't really like the vanilla notifications.
>>53953326
thanks anon!
>>53953274
Did the new Banshee update break for anyone else?
It's bitching about codecs I've always had installed and mpv can still play everything on the file list.
>>53953358
Also this came up while I was posting. Am I fucking blind?
>>53953380
Just hit reload until you get a retarded one where you just have to click a square.
For me 9/10 captchas with pictures are broken - I'm seriously considering a pass.
>>53953380
Not blind but retarded. Use reCAPTCHA 1 (legacy).
>>53953380
>not using legacy captcha
>>53953439
>>53953473
Enabled legacy on 4chanx, still giving me the picture grids...
>>53952395
Please respond
>>53953473
how?
>>53953486
F5 nigger. The settings must be updated too.
>>53953486
Nevermind, reloading page fixed it
Unrelated question:
I've noticed every single time I boot into Debian, my NumLock key is turned off. How can I change this behavior so that it remember its last status?
>>53953532
NOW IT IS TOO LATE
>>53952202
Well it is a 6W TDP 200€ laptop, I'm assuming it won't be a rocket, I'm also rocking an E8400 on my desktop.
Anyone on/upgraded to Gnome 3.20 recently? The very top-left-most pixel (where the hot corner for opening the overlay is) is white for some reason in every theme I try.
What's a good file syncing tool for Arch/Linux(/GNU) ?
>>53954027
rsync
Is there any distro with out of the box support for trackpad gestures like the macbook trackpad/magic trackpad?
>>53954140
>is there any desktop environment with [...]
Fixed that for you.
But I can't actually be useful. Haven't looked out for such settings, what with previously seeking minimalism and nowadays not having a trackpad on my laptop. I recall seeing some Gnome extension about gestures but obviously haven't taken a closer look.
Guys, is it possible to move around the icons / shell extension things on the top bar of GNOME?
And if so, how? Another extension?
>>53954211
It's possible but you will have to edit the extension source code
http://askubuntu.com/questions/453969/how-can-i-order-gnome3-shell-extensions-at-the-top
What's the best terminal to get with i3 ?
Ubuntu Unity or Kubuntu?
>>53954391
yes
>>53954391
Gentoo Unity
Im am trying to setup a vm with hardware pass through. When I plug in the second video card I cannot get ubuntu to boot up hell I cant even get far enough to un encrypt my drive.
I have a nvidia gpu on my computer as my main and an amd gpu as the one I am adding for my vm. I have not yet banned the amd drivers from linux but I doubt that is the problem as It seems linux wont even boot.
Is there such a thing as telling my mother board which gpu to use for its main?
>>53954416
post screenfetch or go home
>>53953725
Even in Adwaita?
>>53954072
Thank you.
What do you guys use as replacement for MEGA?
Or do you still use MEGA on Linux?
>>53954426
Yes
>>53954469
What difference does it make what OS you use? It's a website.
>>53954506
MEGAsync, I should've said. The sync client.
>>53954385
rxvt
>tfw watching 480p youtube video in chromium on a 1.6 Ghz pentium
Herrow.
How can I rice my virtual consoles? I'd like them to have 256 colors and a different font.
>>53954575
ty m8.
>>53954609
$ ls /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/
$ setfont font
can i trust ext4? i was reading about filesystems and i found a bunch of semi old articles about how ext4 is unstable
>>53954661
Yes you can trust it.
Why does nvidia refuse to ship support for proper virtual terminals?
>>53954661
It's about as solid as they get. Your articles must have been ancient.
How do I set hinting for specific fonts? I know how to do it globally but not for certain ones.
>>53954690
>>53954747
this is a recent article
Delayed allocation and potential data loss
Because delayed allocation changes the behavior that programmers have been relying on with ext3, the feature poses some additional risk of data loss in cases where the system crashes or loses power before all of the data has been written to disk.
Im struggling to find information with facts about this delay. How long does it take before the data is truly written to the disk? Are we talking about ns/ms/s/m? Does popular file managers like dolphin display the accurate file transfer progress or the temporary: source -> ram
Hey guys can you help me with one big thing? If I understand how to do this I'll be able to do everything related to this on my own:
How can I install this package managed or Arch?
https://github.com/rmarquis/pacaur
>>53954844
Read the Wiki entry for what PKBUILDs are and what your so beloved AUR is. If you don't know how to run one simple command yourself to build and install something from the AUR, then you shouldn't be using those shitty helpers or the AUR at all.
>>53954871
Calm down I asked because I was unable to find help from the wiki, sure if I could find a simple command I would run it - but was unable to find it.
>>53954834
sync
>>53954871
Here:
https://gist.github.com/Tadly/0e65d30f279a34c33e9b
I found a help, trying to study what each command does now - but see it was not that simple it's more than a mere command and my experience with Arch and Linux in general is of hours... don't be so mean in a friendly Linux thread.
>>53951408
I'm getting a surface for University, what's the best distro I can slap on it?
I'll use it for
-Handwritten notes (Need something like onenote)
-Programming
i need some help. I am on ubuntu getting bad screen tearing in every DE i have tried (XFCE, Unity, GNOME). I have installed Compton and had no success. I have Intel/Nvidia using proprietary drivers. Any solutions to this?
>>53954967
Have you tried with compton and a similar config to this?
http://pastebin.com/psPnZmaP
works flawlessly on my lenovo with propierty nvidia/intel
Not really Linux related but here I go:
StartPage or DuckDuckGo? What's you preference and why?
>>53951593
Updated on Antergos and it broke shit.
Stuck on GDM and Wayland and can't even run i3.
>>53954890
There is a simple command on the Wiki. If I was able to find it, so you should be too.
>>53954919
Why do you need one of those helpers? Do you really need things from the AUR or did you just fall for the "AUR is amazing" meme?
Look up PKBUILDs and the makepkg command. It's all explained on those Wiki pages. You can download the PKBUILDs from the AUR without any of those helpers. There are two things you can do: either spend 10 minutes reading out about it and figuring it how to do it properly, or just use shitty, abstractions and blindly type in stuff while constantly running into errors and issues.
>>53955029
Fuck gnome tho man, I also fell for the meme - it's just a tablet OS.
I'm using MATE now .. not only that it's more comfy ( this is subjective ), but it's very smooth, clean experience amazingly low on resource and good performance with everything compared to Gnome.
>>53954967
>>53955010
here i found the guide that helped me
http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/how-to-switch-to-compton-for-beautiful-tear-free-compositing-in-xfce/
instructions and example code
>>53955029
Works fine for me on normal Arch. The only thing which isn't working are custom themes, but that was expected.
Where's the cheapest place to buy Linux-related stickers? A quick Google search just brought up stickers for around $3/piece, which adds up if one wants to stickerify many a device. :/
>>53951593
Anyone using nvidia proprietary drivers might want to consider waiting to upgrade as the new version of gdm doesn't play nice with them and you end up getting crashes every 5-10 minutes.
You can work around it by swapping out your display manager, but that's obviously not ideal and I'd imagine they will have it fixed soon(tm) so you might as well just wait.
>>53955052
Idk, I kinda like it. A few things do bug me, like the retarded search in Nautilus, but overall I like shiny things.
>>53955074
It's antergos' fault tho, they didn't update lightdm. Pacman complained, but I tried to be smarter. I fucking knew I shouldn't have upgraded so quickly.
And yeah, fucking Adawaita is the only theme working right, fuck it all to hell.
>>53955074
>>53955156
Arc and Flatplat both work. Even if they aren't your preferred theme, pretty much anything is better than Adwaita.
>>53955156
Yeah, antergos uses lightdm instead of gdm which is retarded
>muh riced display manager
>>53955180
Arc doesn't work for me, controls don't show up.
>>53955187
It IS overly flashy. Light my ass.
So I downloaded the iso and used a program to write it onto my USB so I can dual boot w/ Win10. However, I can't boot from the usb. I disabled the quick shutdown/start up and enabled legacy mode in the bios. My laptop has UEFI bios. Kinda lost on how to boot from the usb, can anyone help?
>>53955221
You may have to disable secure boot to: other os in your bios
>>53955049
I'm testing and messing up with Arch on virtual machines breaking it up over and over and over again - fixing it up over and over again just to be ready for a full desktop install... is anything wrong with this?
>>53955217
>Arc doesn't work for me, controls don't show up.
It's working fine here except for the white pixel in the top left corner. Arch Linux with GTK+ 3.20
>>53955240
Yeah I disabled secure boot. The iso won't show up in the boot menu. I already partitioned my drive and all that jazz.
>>53951478
Reinstall chrome
>>53955268
>except for the white pixel in the top left corner.
Are you getting that with everything or just Arc? I've been getting it for everything and even though it's just 1 pixel its driving me fucking insane.
>>53955156
>antergos
>>53955217
>>53955187
LightDM is "lighter" than GDM.
>flashy
It is not. LigthDM is the display manager backend. It can't be flashy, because you don't even see it. What you see are the greeters (frontends) and those can be as flashy as you want and they come in different versions. GTK, Qt, WebKit or whatever else is there.
>>53955312
...huh?
That has nothing to do with this
>>53951408
U might as well call the board /fagit/
>>53955313
oh, I thought it was just Arc but yeah, I just tried and it is the same with Adwaita.
>>53955268
Here's mine.
>>53955323
Oh stop it, I like my numix-square.
>>53955323
I suppose you're right. I was using webkit.
How the fuck do I change mouse acceleration on wayland?
>>53955369
That's probably just version incompatibility
If you didn't install it manually then do it
The configure process will detect and install the proper version.
>>53955369
You have to rebuild/install your Arc theme. Since you installed it for 3.18, it copied the 3.18 version for you. Now that you're running 3.20, it won't work. Reinstalling will install the 3.20 version.
>>53955461
>>53955463
Oh snap you're right, works now.
>>53955072
>>53955010
trying it out thanks
>>53951408
This may be a dumb question, but on KDE how do I make my bottom panel black?
>>53955587
This is what I'm talking about
>>53955597
>qBittorrent
L O L
>>53952697
Yet my linux computer is about 100 times more stable than my windows computer.
>>53955587
switch to a dark plasma theme
What's the best option to get sound working with Arch LXDE? Is Pulseaudio Pulseuadio-alsa enough?
>>53952807
Try to read and understand this:
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/censorship?s=t
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/censor
>>53955677
>>I'm surprised you didn't laugh at WoW desu
WoW is just sad, there's nothing funny about it.
>>53955687
What's a better torrent client then fampai?
>>53955710
For linux transmission for windows qbittorent.
>>53955710
Transmission.
Hey guys I have a question. Im running i3 in Arch and I'm looking for a way to hide the title bars on my windows and Google can eat a dick for all the help it's been. Any ricing wizard out there have any advice for me? Thanks!
>>53955029
Installed gdm-greeter and lightdm works.
Just gotta wait for light-locker to update and I can continue having problems with dpms timeouts in peace.
>>53955721
>>53955719
I'll look into it, thanks
>>53955736
>i3
why is this shitty WM so popular?
>>53955719
Transmission has official windows builds now. There's no reason not to be using transmission on windows as well.
>>53955719
For linux Tixati for windows Tixati.
>>53955751
Works.
Not bloated.
Fast.
Only useful thing.
>>53955751
I've played with i3, awesome, and openbox. I3 is just more comfy
>>53955665
>dictionary.com
I tend to turn to Oxford Dictionaries myself. Which incidentally does not support Anon's usage: https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/censorship
Please do not support or condone any watering down of that word. It represents a way too important issue.
>>53955754
Yes there are, transmission is minimal, qbittorent has more features and is better optimized.
People with good internet can obviously see the difference themselves testing various clients on windows. qBittorent is king.
>>53955755
Fuck off shitty apps guy
Your favorite GNOME themes and GNOME shell extensions, guys?
Looking for good stuff
Arch is toooo time consuming and once you fix something - something else break.
What's the cutting edge alternative of something like ubuntu which work out of the box?
Thinking of moving to xfce from i3
Is there anything wrong with xfce? What lightweight DE does /g/ recommend?
>>53955915
Honestly after switching from Debian to Arch (on desktop, I'd never do that on server) I spend less time doing administrative tasks, and get fewer breakages.
Ironically Arch is probably the most "just works" distro there is.
>>53955915
You described cutting edge distros quite well. There are debian unstable, fedora rawhide and opensuse tumbleweed
>>53955917
Go with LXDE.
It's highly customization just with base stuff - this is how it looks and feels out of the box.
>>53955917
xfce is great for home users but tumblerd is fucking aids when working with large ammount of data.
>>53955917
Not really anything wrong with it. Try if and see for yourself.
>>53955895
I just use dash2dock and alternatetab.
Good themes are numix and arc.
>>53955917
I went with LXDE in the Ubuntu VM I set up today. Wanted something really lightweight but without any need for tinkering, so I did a netinstall and chose minimal Lubuntu desktop. Didn't even come with a web browser, so was perfect for my needs.
I wouldn't want to use LXDE primarily, though, but with my currently preferred environment being a moderately customised Gnome setup, I'm not sure you should take my preferences into account.
>>53955869
Why do you think it's shitty?
>>53955751
Because it just werks and has a cleartext configuration file with sane defaults.
What's the best solution for watching streams on Twitch, without needing Flash to be installed, while still being able to see the chat?
Is it worth it to just get it over with and install the equivalent of Flash (FreshPlayer/PepperFlash etc) or is it better to look for work arounds?
>>53955895
Arc theme
AlternativeTab
User themes
Dash to Dock
Media player indicator
Pixel saver
Desktop scroller
Also, not extensions but I really like Lollypop (Music player) and Terminix (Terminal emulator).
>>53956058
mozplugger
>>53955941
Ok then it comes to, what advantages I have as a user with cutting edge? Should I just skip all this and go with Ubuntu? I want to focus more on coding / actual working / research rather than fixing, optimizing my Os.
doing my goddamn taxes today
>>53955895
xfce
>>53955915
>i have never used arch, all my knowledge stems from memes i parrot
>>53956058
mpv
>>53956058
Twitch uses HTML5, so just use the website. The best way is probably mpv+ytdl and chat popped out in a browser window.
>>53956135
>I can't read
>>53956125
What do you mean? Are you implying I'm not using Arch just because you think I don't use it.. how does it work?
>>53956160
Why can't you use mpv?
>>53956112
>TurboTax
What's going on, Anon? What is that? I'm scared.
Is this in the US?
oh nvm you want chat too dont you? Use an irc program like Hexchat to connect to chat.
What's the terminal-based IRC of choice?
>>53956242
https://irssi.org/
>>53956242
weechat
>>53956213
Lol, it's software that calculates your taxes for you along with any expenses or deductions you may have, it's nothing to be scared of
I have a problem.
My motherboard is MSI z170a krait, I think the audio drivers it uses are realtek
I just installed linux mint and i can't get sound to work. I have never had this problem before with other motherboards, anybody have any ideas?
>>53956280
Twitch uses irc.twitch.tv
>>53956160
>I cant watch a stream in mpv and have an irc window open at the same time
>>53956274
>MSI z170a krait
lol at the gayming motherboard
it's probably the outdated kernel
try the latest kernel release
>>53956264
sounds spooky
>>53956345
*shrug* Cheapest I could find with all the stuff i needed m8, thanks for the tip, il try that :)
Have any other Gentoo users had trouble with libxml2?
>>53956264
Sounds pretty freaky to me.
Using i3. What do you add the config file to get it to execute certain programs on startup?
>>53956383
just add them to the .xinitrc instead.
>>53956383
I do it in my .xinitrc, not in i3
How to specify hinting for particular fonts only?
