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>>54836389
Holy shit! I think this was taken in my country. I recognize the logo of the bank in the background. It seems to be Costa Rica.
>>54836430
Is costa rica as nice as they say when it comes to freedom, forests and political neutrality?
>~/.config.conf
>~/program/.config.conf
>~/.program/.config.conf
>~/.config/.config.conf
>~/.config/program/.config.conf
Why is this allowed?
reposting from last thread
I'm messing around with i3lock-fancy on arch. I added# i3lock-fancy
bindsym $mod+Pause exec i3lock-fancy -gpf "Lucida Console"
to my i3 config, but it's not working
Any variation of i3lock-fancy when run in a terminal doesn't do anything
>>54836468
Perhaps because
~/
>>54836468
>>~/.config/program/.config.conf
What's wrong with that one?
>>54836468
you forgot
>/etc/program/config.conf
>/etc/program.conf
standards aren't exactly reinforced
>>54836508
This is actually the only correct one (after the standards).
>>54836531
/etc/ is for root, or a place to drop examples.
>>54836462
Any opinion that I could give you would be kind of out of touch, because I haven't lived there in the past 10 years. I only go back for New Year's
Depends on what you mean by freedom. The country is by law Catholic, and largely conservative/traditionalist - so the fight for LGBT rights and making it a secular country has been long and tough. Hell, even in-vitro insemination is still controversial.
In green matters, it does a very good job of selling itself as an ecological paradise - but there's a lot of corruption going on behind the scenes.
And when it comes to democratic neutrality, like in the case above, it has had a history of this (evidenced by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights being based here). But there's also lots of corrupt things happening in the background, and pretty hilarious high-school bully tier stuff as well.
Taiwan basically gifted us a bridge. We were friends with Taiwan. Then China offered to build us a stadium and we switched to being friends with them.
Central America's politics are very wonky at times.
All in all though it's a nice little country, I like it. I just feel the need to come clean and burst the bubble on some of the marketing.
>>54836468
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory_support
>>54836556
>This is actually the only correct one (after the standards).
Fuck off hitler, no gods, no masters!
How to disable the middle click copy paste ?
This is driving me crazy.
I tried to put
pointer = 1 6 3 4 5 2
in .Xmodmap but it doesnt change anything
>>54836508
I assume the fact that it's a hidden file.
>>54836531
According to the Arch packaging guides, you should create directories in /etc if the package has more than one system wide config file. If it' has just one, you can dump it into /etc without its own directory.
How to make a program execute in the directory where it's program.desktop file is located?
to illustrate:[Desktop Entry]
Name=mpv
Comment=Based media player.
Exec=mpv ./
>>54836468
"Freedom" "Choice"
I've seen quite a few programs flat-out refuse to use ~/.config even when patches are supplied. Compatibility is easy, just make sure to check the original location too.
>>54836696
>not wanting it
Why?
>>54836736
>I assume the fact that it's a hidden file.
Oh, i overlooked this. Thanks
Is there a variable like $HOME but for the desktop directory?
>>54836765
XY problem detected. Why would you want to do that?
>>54836810
>Browse the internet
>Somehow I press the middle button for scrolling (because of thinkpad)
>The copied text as several lines long
>On IRC, I press by mistake the middle button
>ALL THE COPIED TEXT EXCEPT THE LAST LINE IS SENT
happened more than once.
First time I pretended I was actually speaking in another channel (thought I was connected to only one and whois would show I lied)
Another time it was full dropping spaghetti
>>54836909
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/
>>54836935
1. learn how to configure your browser
2. learn how to configure your irc client
>>54836927
reasons
any way to do it?
>>54836961
If you can't help him with his problem, don't suggest he adapts to the problem.
>>54836935
Stop making mistakes and start using it instead CTRL+V. You can get rid of it in FF via about:config middlemouse.contentLoadURL false
>>54836961
I'd like to disable it once and for all, not just for firefox and irssi.
>>54836991
If you want linux to be like windows, just use windows.
>>54836983
That doesn't help. What you want might be accomplished in a different way.
As far as I know, you can't do that with desktop files, but look into the [actions] part of them. That might be related to your problem.
>>54836998
>Stop making mistakes
Can it be a mistake if it's not by purpose?
>>54837000
>>I'd like to disable it once and for all
pointer = 1 25 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
>>54837032
Yes, by definition.
>>54837014
>being this pedantic
Go shove your elitism down someone else's throat anon. This is a friendly thread
>Guys how do I do X on Linux?
>X IS GOOD JUST GET USED TO IT OTHERWISE GO WINDOWS
>>54836557
Does sound pretty nice.
>>54837058
>guys how do I make python ignore indentation and use braces instead?
>you can't
>hurr durr stop telling him what he can and cannot do
>fucking elitists REEE
>>54837078
The difference is that you can disable middle click on Linux. You just don't know how.
I don't know which config file exactly to edit, so I haven't answered his question. I just had it as an option in my GNOME settings.
Stop saying it's impossible to do something just because you don't know how to do it
>>54837058
You could write a script that constantly deletes your PRIMARY clipboard.
xsel can do that job.
But seriously. Why do you want to cripple yourself.
>>54837099
*middle click paste, I mean.
>>54837101
You don't need to do this. Like I said, it's possible to disable middle click paste. I don't know which config file it is though, GNOME did it for me.
>>54837099
>unless you know good ways to cripple yourself, you shouldn't reply to posters who want to cripple themselves
full retardation
>>54837101
>>54837132
>Why do you want to cripple yourself
It's not a crippling thing, it's a preference thing.
Same reason why some people don't want to have a terminal open 24/7 to check running processes. Same reason why some people don't want to enter a password to unlock their BIOS everytime they turn on their machine. Same reason why some people use X text editor over Y text editor.
How have you come this far in life to realize people don't necessarily like to do things the way you do them
>>54837143
*without realizing people don't
again, typo, sorry
>>54837143
this is you
>>54837023
i want to cp /usr/share/applications/feh.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/ and symlink to it in my pic dirs
it works with a full path but i would prefer the above if possible
>>54837169
>equating a crazy person with someone that doesn't want a mouse button to paste
wew
Friendly reminder to be friendly.
>>54837169
>equating a crazy person with someone who has Body Integrity Identity Disorder
>>54836499
anyone?
>>54837201
oh, you're one of those
>>>/pol/
>>54836499
did you chmod +x it?
>>54837175
Again, you didn't specify what you want to accomplish functionality wise.
Do you want feh to open your pictures directory every time you open its desktop file? If yes, make the desktop file link to a script which calls feh on that directory.
Getting this error when issusing:
ufw enable
This is a fresh install and i have not touched any config filesERROR: problem running ufw-init
iptables-restore: line 4 failed
iptables-restore: line 77 failed
iptables-restore: line 30 failed
Problem running '/etc/ufw/before.rules'
Problem running '/etc/ufw/after.rules'
Is there anything wrong with using ufw on the default settings for the average user? Or are there any must have settings you should tweak?
After I cloned my disk, I keep seeing a bunch of errors when I boot Arch.
From dmesgsystemd-journald[216]: Failed to write entry (19 items, 560 bytes), ignoring: Cannot assign requested address
According to this page https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/systemd-fails-to-write-4175527467/, I runjournalctl --verify
andjournalctl --disk-usage
But I don't know what to do next.
>>54837243
it works now
it takes a second to lock, which is annoying
>>54837530
use slock
>>54837530
It's because it's using taking a screenshot, runs imagemagick to process the shot, blurrs it, adds a picture, etc. This takes a while.
A shorter script:
i3lock -ni <(import -window root png:- | convert png:- -scale 10% -scale 1000% png:- ) &>/dev/null
This turns the screenshot in some sort of pixelart, which is faster, but no logo and no blurring.
I highly recommend learning imagemagick. It's literally magical.
>>54837597
Jesus christ my english is reflecting the state of my whiskey bottle pretty precise. I'm seriously proud.
>>54837597
thanks m80
once I'm finished memorizing vi's man page I'll get around to imagemagick
>>54836468
i wish all configs would move to ~/.config already
over half the items in my home directory are config dotfiles/folders
>>54837641
>vi's manpage
Why are you hurting yourself.
Runvimtutorand have the basics in 10 minutes.
>>54837659
Luckily most devs are nice and provide flags like -c or --config so you can create aliases and drop everything to ~/.config.
How can I compile the Trinity Desktop Environment on a 32-bit build of Arch Linux?
Trying to compile it myself via PKGBUILDs only gives me narrowing conversions and then stops.
Fixed a few files, but kshred doesn't want to be fixed.
Any 32-bit Trinity binaries for Arch Linux?
>>54837661
>muh artificial difficulty
hi noob nis again.
so i have pasted my configs for arch linux
http://pastebin.com/bA7rFLfv
can any nis people take a look and see if i am on the right track?
again following these instructions
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NIS#.2Fvar.2Fyp.2Fsecurenets
>>54838071
Are you replacing it with your acttual ip?
>>54838071
yes i ran hostname -i for ip and will be using that one i beleive?
i found i have quite a few to choose from.
for instance when i google myip. it gives me something dfferent
and also i have one that i got when i firts setup arch i think from google it looks like this in format tho 00.00.00.00
so again i am not sure what ip to use so i am going with hostname at the moment and crossing fingers
https://www.stallman.org/guantanamero.ogg
Guantanamero, soy preso guantanamero.
In volume mounting GUI of Veracrypt there's a "Do not mount" option. I can't seem to find a way to enable this option through command line arguments.
Any help?
>>54838088
shit see
>>54838129
>>54838134
Is there something wrong with 4chan's file servers?
Shit, this pic is 38KB and it took me a solid minute to load it.
>>54838164
Nothing wrong on my end, both upload and download of that pic was instant.
>>54838071
>>54838088
currently i get ypwhich error
ypwhich: Can't communicate with ypbind
>>54836557
He's asking if pedophilia is acceptable and "respected" there. He wants to be just like Stallman, obesity, greasiness, and all.
what's the proper sound system for linux?
for some reason whenever the native skype client makes a noise it mutes everything else on the system
>>54838233
sound on linux is fucked, just give up, it's horrible
>>54838261
it used to just werk
>>54838233
>Sound
Alsa or jack
>skype
Use apulse is you dont want to install pulse.
>mute
Setup dmix properly in your ~/.asoundrc
>>54838233
>for some reason whenever the native skype client makes a noise it mutes everything else on the system
that's pulseaudio's feature iirc, but I completely forgot how it's called.
It also happens to work okay on everything but skype.
It's supposed to decrease sound level (not mute it entirely like in your case) whenever a new sound source appears.
>>54838233
>whenever the native skype client makes a noise it mutes everything else on the system
usually it's an option on the software that you can disable.
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Skype currently only supports pulse. Check the arch wiki or drop it like a real man.
>>54838261
Not if you learn how it works.
>>54838326
>everyone else uses skype
>can't convince everyone to use buggy as fuck tox
I was also having a issue with mpv streaming a youtube video and it not syncing
should I switch to ALSA? when I installed with architect I wasn't sure what audio system to install
Debian:
After updating from Jessie to Stretch it no longer boots to the GUI. startx and xinit fail, due to having installed a newer Nvidia driver that ignores the current GPU. Apparently the legacy 340.xx driver is needed, which is installed.
I've tried to purge the 352.79 (which the Xorg logfile says it WILL ignore the GPU, and it does) so it only finds the 340.xx, but no dice.
Wtf can I do?
>>54838326
>Not if you learn how it works.
There's nothing to learn if it's a broken convoluted mess.
I really love Linux, I truly do. But sound is one of the things that gives me nightmares.
Just this week I tried to play FTL, it chose an unplugged audio output and not one setting in any ALSA/pulse would let me do anything about it. Wouldn't happen on Windows.
Many other games struggle with a problem of completely hogging the audio output. Again, you can't do shit about it and it wouldn't happen on Windows.
>inb4 gaymen
it's still software on Linux, it should work in sane ways
>>54838358
You can't just "switch to ALSA". You most likely already run it, along with Pulse.
There's nothing you can fix, abandon all hope.
Hey guys, first time posting here, I have two monitors and the main one is on the right, but on start-up it shows up as left. I solved the issue with:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10589/how-can-i-swap-my-two-screens-left-to-right
but after reboot they are swapped back again. Any way I can make this change permanent?
>>54838358
Alsa is the base, you can add jack or pulseaudio, but most people are fine with just alsa.
>>54838425
>Wouldn't happen on Windows.
Leave.
>>54838425
>You can't just "switch to ALSA". You most likely already run it, along with Pulse.
>There's nothing you can fix, abandon all hope.
fug
I'm currently compiling Iridium, just to try it out
my system's been running at a load average of 20-26 for the past 5 minutes, when 32 is 2x overloaded
>>54838425
You know that this is the fault of the game dev and for skype microsoft right?
>>54838371
Try noveau only and then add the proprietary driver if needed. This is why you update before installing proprietary bugware.
>>54838326
That ascii looked better in my terminal.
>>54838495
you're right
>>54838071
ok when i ping myhost
i get
PING myhost.mydomain.com (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.083 ms
why do i see 127.0.0.1 when everything is set to my hostname ip
per configs
->http://pastebin.com/bA7rFLfv
could this be the reason ypwhich can't communicate with ypbind?
>>54838463
If you want to leave in a bubble, go ahead.
>>54838474
I know, but it sure wouldn't even happen if audio on Linux was smooth and straightforward.
>>54838493
That's what I concluded. I'm purging everything and going with Noveau.
>This is why you update before installing proprietary bugware.
Now I know it too. Live and learn.
>>54838518
Actually sound works 1000% better than on Windows, since you can define unlimited output solutions with a single text file, add equalizer presets and who knows what more. Do this with windows.
>>54838565
How are these features relevant to the argument?
I'm glad all that is possible, but I'd much rather it just work.
>>54838425
>Wouldn't happen on Windows.
What are you trying to say?
>>54838613
The point is: RTFM
>Linux sound is shit because 2 shitty software ported from windows doesn't just work
ok
>>54838565
>equalizer presets
?
>>54838665
I'm trying to say that there's massive room for improvement for sound on Linux.
>>54838680
I tried, numerous times. I still have a mess of an asound.conf from the times when I tried to fix this shit.
If you can point me to a reliable fix to any of the two problems I posted, I would be extremely thankful.
I doubt you'll succeed.
>>54838717
http://www.thedigitalmachine.net/alsaequal.html
I'm really annoyed with this stupid gimmick on my server.
Anytime I'm SSHing and I scroll up to the previous command with arrow keys, my cursor is always moved to the beginning of the line, which is really fucking useless. Any idea how to make it move to the end instead? I'm using ZSH with oh-my-zsh, but I don't think that's the problem, because identical configs yield a sane result on my PC.
Is there any suckless(er) program launcher that supports my shell functions/aliases? (Yes, I consider dmenu as bload).
>>54838534
actualy, you want to purge the proprietary shit before you update the system. says so in the wiki
>>54838804
ctrl + e
>>54838804
>oh-my-zsh
>sane
Well.
>>54838812
urxvt -geometry 80x1+10+10 -e bash -it
>>54838852
CTRL + e simply inserts ^E
>>54838879
zsh truly is a meme shell
>>54838680
nvm, i fixed it with asound.conf defaulting all output to pulse
fuck me man, linux is great again
How do I download all the pages here using wget? Thanks in advance.
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/is_my_hobby_weird_ch04
>>54838813
I dun goofed then. I purged all the shit but still is not working. I'll get on it later and post in here.
>>54838920
I run zsh and never had an issue with that, so stop memeing.
How do I enable bold fonts in urxvt?
>>54838949#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq -w 1 27`
do
wget 'http://dynasty-scans.com/system/releases/000/015/192/00'$i'.png'
done
when i do 'history -c' and then 'history -w'
things i've written in the terminal AND things that have been OUTPUT are forever gone right?
noone can read that shit anymore
>>54836389
Today i saw a guy with an fsf.hu t-shirt.
Also save my OC pls
>>54839234
history -c will clean up only what you wrote in your current session. You can turn off history viaunset HISFTFILE
orexport HISTFILE=/dev/null
>>54839208
thank you so much anon.
I'm gonna be using this command a lot in the future.
>>54839208
>>54839299
Manuals gentlemen, manuals.wget -nv dynasty-scans.com/system/releases/000/015/192/00{1..27}.png
>>54839299
there is more to this, you can learn to make these things fairly quickly with reading man wget and reading a few examples. to find out the real image link you can right-click>inspect element and look for the link.
it's a lot of fun really.
>>54839333
Filename is a 4 digit string, 001.jpg - 009.jpg will return 404.
>>54839333
>>54839382wget -nv dynasty-scans.com/system/releases/000/015/192/00{01..27}.png
Nice trips tho.
Who else is drunk like 10 russians?
Made this fake audio visualizer for lemonbar (works in terminal too, if mpd is playing something). Basically because I'm too stupid to properly read out mpd's fifo.mpd-vis ()
{
case "$1" in
-a)
vis=(. ·)
;;
-b)
vis=(_ -)
;;
-c)
vis=(_ - ‾)
;;
-d)
vis=(▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █)
;;
esac;
while :; do
if [ "$(mpc status | grep playing)" != "" ]; then
printf '%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s\r' "$(for i in $(seq 10); do printf ${vis[$RANDOM%${#vis[@]}]}; done)";
fi;
sleep .1;
done
}
ex: mpd-vis -d
>>54839422
Some anon on /u/ says
>It would be better to curl the chapter url | awk to find image ids and then wget them separately.
>>54839816
Because image ids are different for double pages sometimes
Could you recommend Debian to a linux beginner as a daily driver?
I keep thinking about Debian as I've seen it's one of the main distros others branch out of. Another thing I found appealing was people praising its stability which is exactly what I'd want my laptop to be, stable.
What's been putting me off is people saying it's outdated and old? Can it possibly be that old and outdated to be unusable? I doubt it.
On the technical side of things, I'm not afraid of having to live in the terminal. I'd rather have a few things to debug and learn along the way than be spoonfed and have my info sent to amazon. As long as it's not too much at once for someone who's never used it b4.
So, go or no go?
>>54839831
I used it for a year as a complete noob to GNU/Linux. I can highly recommend it.
Yes the packages are not the newest, but that didn't affect usuability in any way. Most of the stuff you want isn't super new.
>>54839831
First off "stable" in the world of GNU/Linux is confusing many people. Stable actually means that working packages are not updates; only security stuff will be fixed, so don't fall for any "LTS" or "stable" distro versions.
Every distro has a different release cycle. For debian there is stable, unstable and testing. Check the debian page to find out what version fits your needs.
A golden rule: "unstable" in human language are only rolling releases, and even these don't breaks as often as /g/ likes to meme it.
If you want a stable system, youre basically searching for something not-rolling.
That said, Debian is a pretty mature distro. I'd recommend it.
>>54839831
run by sjws and poo in loos
stupid bickering with mozilla foundation over rights to use a logo
>APT
stable has ancient packages
testing is shit
unstable is unstable
strips down binary kernel blobs meaning it doesn't work on half of the hardware configuration
so shit it's creator went an hero
Just go with ubanto or it's derivatives.
It's debian-based so you still have to put up with APT but is actually used for work.
The only real life reason why anyone would use debian is a machine with an obscure architecture that most distros do not support due to very little interest in them.
But feel free to pick your own poison
>>54839937
Kill yourself faggot. /fglt/ is meant to be friendly, means, memelords free, means, fags like you are not welcome.
>>54839962
this tbqh familia
>>54838804
i use zsh with the grml configs, and it puts the cursor at the end
I just installed xmonad to try it out
I'm assuming you can get a tray somehow
>>54839962
thirded
>>54839937
how can you even fit these many shitty memes in one post?
>>54839962
Could you please be more friendly? There are other ways to express your self, without using profanity and slurs.
>>54839831
if you are actually interested in technology and not just here for memes and hate like>>54839937 you will probably like it. the words unstable and stable can be confusing.
>run by sjws and poo in loos
>>>/pol/, also nope
>stupid bickering with mozilla foundation over rights to use a logo
t. guy who doesn't know anything about licensing
>APT
t. guy too stupid to read manpages
>stable has ancient packages
Wow, the news!
>testing is shit
Solid argument, senpai.
>unstable is unstable
Nigger did you even use debian before?
>strips down binary kernel blobs meaning it doesn't work on half of the hardware configuration
Nice, who want useless proprietary stuff? If the hardware needs it, the installer will install it for you, this is basically why debian is not listed as Free distro.
>so shit it's creator went an hero
You forgot to attach a rare pepe to your post.
>Just go with ubanto or it's derivatives.
Because these are the distros that only worked for you?
>It's debian-based so you still have to put up with APT but is actually used for work.
wat
>The only real life reason why anyone would use debian is a machine with an obscure architecture that most distros do not support due to very little interest in them.
Debian is actually the most common base for forks, guess why?
>But feel free to pick your own poison
t. guy whos knowlege is based of /g/ memes
>>54840255
>the installer will install it for you,
And when the installer does not have the drivers for the hardware? How are you possibly supposed to get your system working?
>>54840289
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/
>>54840289
Yeah netinst won't connect to wifi on my freaking broadcom-soc laptop, BCM43 something is the driver it needs apparently, can anyone lend a hand? Thanks
If I boot up arch linux live and backup an eMMc, with windows and UEFI on it, to a file, using 'dd', and then later write it out using 'dd' again to the same eMMc, will it resume working as it did before?
>>54840350
Tried that one btw, but same thing
>>54840365
yes
>>54839962
>>54840021
>>54840186
>>54840236
>>54840238
>>54840255
>>54840376
>>54840357
use ethernet to install, then add contrib and nonfree and sudo aptitude install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
you are the one with the bc4312 right?
Is there a way to check if my hardware will run with linux-libre without just going balls deep and being stuck, if it doesnt work?
>>54840491
use a live-usb. or run vrms on your current install and see if there is anything needed.
or if you intend to compile/install linux-libre on your current install you can just go balls deep and rollback if it doesn't work.
>>54840525
I guess live-usb is the best solution. Thank you.
>>54840436
if that doesn't work use this and just build it for debian.
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=b43-firmware-classic
>>54840436
Yeah I'm both, guess I will give that a go, bit of a pita to plug the cable to my laptop tho, any way to load the driver during installation?
>>54840571
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en
you can load this
>>54840604
Will give that a try, thanks familia
Xubuntu user here. I've been seeing a lot of meming lately that XFCE is dead/abandonware -- any merit to this? The git repo seems active enough...
I don't want to lose my comfy desktop.
>>54840763
Hint: stop using verbs like "meming" and "comfy" if you want serious answers in the future.
Xfce is not abandoned; it's in the process of being ported to GTK3 for the 4.14 release.
>>54840878
>port to gtk3
>abandon
what's the difference?
are there any GIMP or inkscape veterans here? can you tell me how to make something like pic related?
>>54840906
The difference is that all the components will be using a modern toolkit, that's not abandoned and deprecated. Getting Wayland compatible is one of the things that will come with that (they will need to write their own Wayland compositor still).
>>54840943
Looks like a custom brush
>>54840878
Hint: "comfy" is not a verb.
But thanks for the advice.
ok starting to make headway i think with NIS
rpcbind is running no status errors
ypbind is running no status errors
ypserv and yppasswords status is active but also gives me these messages
#ypserv
myhost systemd[1]: Starting NIS/YP (Network Information Service) Server...
myhost systemd[1]: ypserv.service: PID file /run/ypserv.pid not readable (yet?) after start: not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
myhost systemd[1]: ypserv.service: Supervising process 1590 which is not our child. which is not our child. We'll most likely not notice when it exits.
myhost systemd[1]: Started NIS/YP (Network Information Service) Server.
#yppass
myhost systemd[1]: Starting NIS/YP (Network Information Service) Users Passwords Change Server...
myhost systemd[1]: yppasswdd.service: PID file /run/yppasswdd.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
myhost systemd[1]: Started NIS/YP (Network Information Service) Users Passwords Change Server.
and finally when i run yptest i pass all except test 3
Test 3: yp_match
WARNING: No such key in map (Map passwd.byname, key nobody)
any advice on making the pid readable for ypserv and yppasswdd and correcting test error 3.
>>54836508
1. dot in the filename despite it being inside ~/.config already
2. redundant filename
should be ~/.config/program/section or ~/.config/program (for a single file)
Do you guys like Vulnhub? Some of these make Smash the Stack look like a piece of garbage.
Why must the ubuntu launcher have one icon for each hard drive? Is there any way to just combine them? They all just use the file explorer, I don't understand the need for multiple icons.
>>54841077
i am also logged in as root?
>>54836389
Is Gnash a good boy?
I want to develop Qt for linux so what distro should i install? i don't know shit about this
I want to use Linux but stay in shape, what do?
>>54841316
Depends which community you want to developer for.
>>54841343
Don't know if you are baiting me
The thing is that i want to develop on linux for linux but right now i want to port something i made on Qt
>>54840975
would that work with these colors? how?
>>54841378
No? You need to get accepted to the dev community... Until then just use Github.
>>54841380
You make the brushes
You choose the size
you click once where you want it to be
change color/size
repeat
>>54841339
exercise, eat healthy, get enough sleep and drink a lot of water,
>>54841316
it really doesn't matter but most distros are based on debian so there's that.
>>54841400
that sounds like a lot of work, are you sure it is not a layer of brush stuff>alpha to selection, select background layer pic of stallman, press delete?
wouldn't it be a lot of work to make a layer with these brushes?
>>54841339
Install gentoo; workout while compiling.
>>54841468
correction, press delete on a layer that is full black in between the background and the brush thing.
>>54840943
sounds like something you'd write a program for, not do in a graphics editor
(tl;dr object packing algo with a randomized set of text primitives, size them based on edge detection / feature size or local frequency and pick the color as appropriate)
but disclaimer: I'm a programmer, not a graphics artist
>>54841077
woohoo wpserv status is cleared
final message with passwd pid
>myhost systemd[1]: yppasswdd.service: PID file /run/yppasswdd.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
can i add another pid to the ypserv.service
like so
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/ypserv.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ypserv
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/yppasswdd.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/yppasswdd
>>54841702
permissions
>>54841757
but im logged into the root. i still have to chmod the pid?
if so by chance you wouldnt have the chmod command i could use or a sample to share
this is what im thinking of doing?
cd /var/run/
yppasswdd total 4 -rw------- 1
>>54841757
>No such file or directory
>permissions
wait what?
>>54841840
yes yppas is listed
>permissions?
Is there some way to get the equivalent of the window overlay you get from the hot corner in GNOME 3, in XFCE?
>>54842208
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 May 31 17:06 yppasswdd.pid
Posted here >>54842232 but realized this thread existed.
Anyone have experience with running Linux on a Macbook?
Or recommendations for any good hardware in general. I basically just need it to be portable and able to take a few drops from a bedside table. Pic related was what I had.
Reminder we have two threads on /t/
Games for GNU/Linux
>>>/t/707928
>>>/t/707928
GNU/Linux and IT training videos
>>>/t/713097
>>>/t/713097
>>54841566
this might actually be a good idea but i think someone already did this. i just need to find it.
>>54841480
>>54841468
>>54841400
I now did it with File>Create>New Brush from text and then removing the brushed stuff from the inbetween layer, it's different but it looks nice.
>>54842311
$32 laptop where?
>>54842487
No idea but I noticed that too. There's probably something wrong with it.
I changed my mind and decided to dual boot for >video games but I see the recommended installation methods say to set up Windows first. I don't intend to reinstall Linux, what is the solution?
>>54842880
Install windows,kill your linux bootloader
add linux to windows bootloader
>>54842880
Buy a console for gaming.
>>54842880
Either >>54842913
or reconfigure grub from a live usb after installing windows.
How can I hardsub or softsub a video using avconv? I've been trying shit like crazy.
>inb4 use ffmpeg
>>54843274
use ffmpeg
I want to install Linux-GNU.
That is using a linux-based operative system/distro without absolutely no GNU tools.
Where can I get Linux?
>>54843319
>>54843331
did your google subscription run out or something?
https://alpinelinux.org/about/
>>54843331
>>54843358
Go away stallman.
>>54843355
Has anyone tried alpine as a desktop distribution or do you get a subpar experience like on a *bsd system?
>>54843358
Is it possible to upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix to the latest version without having to do a fresh install?
>>54843483
yes
>>54842880
How modern is your PC? If it's UEFI, you can have both the Windows bootloader and GRUB installed at the same time.
>>54843483
Yeah just upgrade it to each version along the way. It's important to get them all
>>54843410
Bsd is better. On a router it is nice.
>>54843483
is it possible to do it?
yes
will it fuck everything up?
very probably
even nowadays debian/ubuntu doesn't have a reliable tool for upgrading between releases and it's generally advised to just do a fresh install.
I suspect this will be the case.
You have to bear in mind that between 9.10 (2009) and 16.x a lot has happened.
Ubuntu adopted pulseaudio, adopted systemd, dropped gnome2 in favour of unity.
But you should try.
Just back up whatever is important on here.
Report back I really want to hear how it went.
>>54843483
Almost assuredly not. Ubuntu's upgrader has gotten better over time, but back then it was absolute shit. Your best bet is to back up your home directory (if it's not on its own partition) and fresh install.
>>54838134
>Adwaita icons
>>54843705
where can I download openssh binaries for arm
>>54843926
from your distribution's repository?
>>54836389
>>54836430
Yeah you're right. Does anyone know if this photo is from 2007 or any other year?
>>54843637
>>54843557
>>54843521
>>54843527
Because there doesn't seem to be a built in updater, I tried the terminal
sudo apt-get update gives me a load of failed to fetch errors, and sudo apt-get upgrade says there's nothing
I want to access virtual machine files from my host computer.
My host OS is Windows 10. I'm running a Bitnami LAMP stack with Wordpress with VirtualBox.
Let's say I want to open /home/username/file.txt with Notepad on Windows. How can I do this?
Thanks
>>54836462
>Is costa rica as nice as they say when it comes to freedom
I'll just say that most people here don't feel that way. I can be more specific, but i need you to be more specific as well in what you mean by freedom.
>forests
About 20% of our terretory are Protected natural areas and ecosystems. Also http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/cr
most tourist areas are really beautiful. But not the biggest cities. Specially San Jose thanks to lots of immigration of human trash.
>political neutrality
Don't know what to compare to, as most costa ricans i've lived here all my live, and haven't go out a lot.
>>54836557
Also this
I'm trying to RAGS Player working on Linux, but I can't get it to work. Can anyone help me?
>>54844377
As more information, here's what Wine is saying when it tries running Rags.exe http://pastebin.com/LnRPkHRd
Is that enough information or should I give more? Sorry, I'm kind of a noob with this.
>>54844271
is the easiest way to just FTP them back and forth?
I've been using Xfce for years, and while there's nothing wrong with it, I kinda want to get into i3 just so I can adjust windows with only my keyboard.
I'm on debian, how do I install i3 alongside xfce without breaking everything?
Hello anons. I am using ALSA and want to map my laptop's Fn + right arrow key to increasing volume by eg 2%. Currently I have to open a terminal andamixer set Master XXThere must be a better way!
>>54844213
Ok I found# Upgrade all the packages to the latest versions
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
# Update our sources, save the original as /etc/apt/sources.list.ORIG
# This step is REQUIRED, otherwise the instructions below will not upgrade a
# single package.
# Change karmic/lucid to your required releases eg, dapper/hardy, hardy/lucid,
# jaunty/karmic, etc
sudo sed -i.ORIG 's/karmic/lucid/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
# Backup the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder and create an empty one.
# This will disable all Third Party/Launchpad PPA repositories.
# These repositories can be re-enabled after a successful upgrade.
sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ /etc/apt/sources.list.d.ORIG/
sudo mkdir /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
# Upgrade your box
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude full-upgrade
as is into the terminal and it's doing stuff now
>>54843274
Why do you need avconv?
There is literally no reason to not use ffmpeg
>>54844510
sxhkd? xbindkeys?
reposting from SQT
any flavor of linux that I can use amd fglrx drivers on and have it run stable?
for vidya, windows isn't an option because money
>>54844632
Thank you for the help, but it is more the command to map to the key that is baffling me. So far I only know how to set the mixer level to a certain value, not increment/decrement it. I couldn't find anything on the man page either
>>54844682
Sorry, ignore this, I have found what I wanted on the arch wiki
>>54844679
>paying for software
>the 2000 millenia
kek
>>54844831
>never made one software or content purchase in 10 years of computing
>get smartphone
>buy shit all the time
what have i become
>>54844941
And yet people say smartphones don't make you dumb.
>>54844941
>have cheap $30 phone
>it can call and text for work
>$5 bucks for 25mb a month
>Boss buys me a few snacks a week from the vending machine
>i am now positive gain on phone
Smartphones were the biggest tech that has fucked this generation,then any war.
>>54838071
Mark this day as the day that "Betsy" another Arch is running NIS.
Thank you all for your help. I am going to publish arch-nis setup I used, followed and was advised of.
But am going to leave it open for anons that want to author it.
So roll DUBS and you get to author my article I'm posting on ARCH-NIS make the connection
*(must mention something I was doing)
\o/ woohoo
Can Gnome 3 be my waifu? I really love desu.
How do I make a command run at start up? I'm trying to getsynclient HorizHysteresis=64 && synclient VertHysteresis=64to run at start up.
On Lubuntu with LXDE, is there a way to make the volume control panel behave like the WiFi panel (i.e. like a modern UI element and not some garbage from 1997?).
When I click on the volume icon in the system tray, this butt-ugly box comes up and the only way to minimize it again is to actually click on the volume icon, whereas the WiFi menu, which sits right next to it, can be minimized again by clicking anywhere else on the screen, and it also follows the rest of the system theme so it's not totally disgusting.
Here's an image of the ugly piece of dog shit in case you were wondering what exactly I'm talking about.
>>54844991
>Smartphones were the biggest tech that has fucked this generation,then any war.
Settle your autism you tween.
>>54845265
put it in .xinitrc or if your de/wm has a startup file, throw it in there
I have /tmp and swap on a hard drive (ssd has the rest of the OS) which I'm replacing. Whats the easiest way to move them to that drive? I dont really want to reinstall.
>>54845283
I actually played out side till the lights came on, or i get a slap on the ass from my mom.
Now kids in middle school go home and hop on face book, when they arent at home,they are on facebook on their phone.
Take a phone away from a kid for one day.They are socially fucked and are now a pariah.
This is one of the major causes of the obesity rate in students 6-12
Go to a resturant, its quite with a few softe voices,everyone is on their phone.
>>54845315
Rsync(grsync for gui)
Make sure to preserve time,owner,permissions,group, and copy symlinks as symlinks
>swap
If you have more then 2gb of ram, you dont need a swapfile/partition
>>54845355
>Now kids in middle school go home and hop on face book, when they arent at home,they are on facebook on their phone.
[Citation needed]
>Take a phone away from a kid for one day.They are socially fucked and are now a pariah.
[Citation needed]
>This is one of the major causes of the obesity rate in students 6-12
[Citation needed]
>Go to a resturant, its quite with a few softe voices,everyone is on their phone.
No citation will help you on this, this part is just objectively false. The only "restaurants" that you'll find people on their phones is McDonalds and such.
I installed arc-theme but it doesn't appear under the window border section in 'Customize Look & Feel'.
What gives?
>>54843525
It's UEFI. I already have an EFI partition from the Linux install. I'm pretty sure I used systemdboot, which apparently should automatically detect the windows installation? Unless I'm misunderstanding something.
arent desktop threads allowed anymore?
>>54845854
I'd assume most people filter them, and the ones that dont, dont have anything to post in the thread.
Anyway its just wintards installing openbox and spending a month ricing it to show off anime girls
I can't install plugins on my wordpress site because of permission issues.
How do I change write permissions for everything within my wordpress directory?
I'm punching above my weight here. :(
>>54845890
As a wintard weeaboo, I take offense at this statement. The faggots posting in those threads are far worse than the typical weeb.
>>54844012
where are the repos for android
>>54845915
chmod -R 755 .
>>54845890
I was just wondering because I havent seen one all day
>>54845944
thanks
what does the R flag do? make the command apply to all subdirectories?
