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I have a Wget configured to print only the progress bar. But as this would flood my terminal screen, I configured the script do delete the progress bar after it reaches 100%, before printing the next on the same line. The problem is: sometimes the download does not occurs, so there is nothing printed by Wget, and the script delete previous lines about unrelated things.
How to detect if Wget printed a progress bar? I can't use "$?", as Wget returns "0" even if nothing was downloaded.
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Levi Foster
Ubuntu MATE is the best distro no contest
Nicholas Howard
I have the following in my ~/.xinitrc: ./.xinitrc:export QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=""
Now, after booting the system, it's set to gtk: [~] » echo $QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE gtk
What gives? I grep'd my entire home folder and there's no sign of any other export. Do I have to put that into ~/.zshrc instead?
Jacob Brooks
Does anyone know of a WiFi USB adapter that
* works well with GNU plus Linux * supports 5 GHz (802.11n is enough) * supports master mode
I pay in advance with this rare Pepe
Zachary Brown
This has been driving me crazy. Is there any way to disable those stupid scroll wheel + mouse movement shortcuts that MATE has??
James Phillips
My little sisters are getting a new computer (macbook because their parents are "artists" ) and from how they have left other computers they've used, having OS X is probably a bad idea, as they can easily get it full of viruses. So what's a good Linux distro for them? All it really needs is Macbook compatibility, access to a decent browser, flash and optionally a Spanish translation.
Landon Butler
Try ~/.xprofile
It's executed even when you use a standard session instead of ~/.xinitrc
Lucas Diaz
Whch desktop environment? Some desktop environments have that variable hardcoded. There was a thread on the Arch forums discussing that. I think LXDE did that.
Zachary Butler
Every distribution (apart from the niche ones which only offer free software) fit those criteria.
