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>Search engine
>On Tor

??????????????

Isn't one of the big points of Tor for things not to be indexed and searchable?

>Isn't one of the big points of Tor for things not to be indexed and searchable?
Keep believing that, tor has been an NSA playground for years. Everything is logged and tracked now.

>cia nigger spotted.
Ur right.
But search engines like startpage exist only becouse google api allows it.
Also bangs are great.

Tor started as an intelligence agency project, user, there have always been honeypot nodes, this is nothing new

>tor honeypot meme
[citation needed]

What I tell people like is that Tor is a tool that you use and is not a bulletproof deal. It's just something that affords you a little bit more anonimity, like a VPN. It all depends on how you use them and that you assume worst case scenario always depending on your threat model, using GPG encryption plus other measures.

What's the worst that can happen if I don't have any swap areas on my GNU/Linux system?

I have an older version of qbittorrent installed. If I sudo make install will it overwrite the current version or how does it werk?

I don't think anything truly bad would happen but Linux is always using Swap, even if you don't run out memory. However, it might start killing processes if you completely run out of memory and have no swap enabled

wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Is_swap_space_really_necessary
haydenjames.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-swap-space/
unix.stackexchange.com/questions/190398/do-i-need-swap-space-if-i-have-more-than-enough-amount-of-ram

Trying to watch Netflix, but Chromium, Firefox and Iceweasel all lack "silverlight" or "WidevineCdm". Any way to fix it?

yes you need to enable DRM and non-free codecs

Use piratebay instead.
And spend saved money on donations, Wikipedia and FSF always need money.

I think it was from gnome. But I'm not really sure of what you are talking about. Can you post a picture?

Aren't ixquick and startpage the same?

How do I make neofetch update color blocks? After I add new pallette on .Xresources, it just shows gradient of white to gray instead of actual colors. I use urxvt.

Many of them have several domain options. Tutanota for example has tuta.io, which I think is a good domain.

In my experience protonmail and tuta are good. The later being the provider for my main address. Tuta premium packages seem good but I never used them. The cheaper is 1 EUR/month and allows custom domains.

Yeah, I'll just do that. Thanks. Anyone recommend a good Black Mirror episode to download?

>Isn't one of the big points of Tor for things not to be indexed and searchable?
That's a hoax. Onion pages are usually not indexed by common search engines by lack of interest or password protection. Tor is just a different way to serve HTML, the same algorithms that work for the normal web work for it.

I'm currently on an Ubuntu based distribution and have been switching between Ubuntu distros for a few years now.
I'm thinking of expanding my horizons and trying other distros. I'm not trying to make my life harder, just let myself see more of the options. Does anyone have any good distribution recommendations? Preferably user friendly like Ubuntu

S03E0{2,3}

Is this the systemd meme I've heard so much about.
Or snap being shit

this isn't my desktop because i couldn't take a screenshot properly

does amd have better drivers than nvidia for linux? specifically for screen tearing, don't care about performance beyond watching videos

I've been using a modified version of Unity with the launcher completely removed for awhile now, but the build finally broke on me after some other updates. Thinking I should probably take the opportunity to move to another DE that isn't hacked together the way mine was.

I can't stand having a launcher/dock, but I liked Unity Dash quite a bit. Basically, I think I just need a menu bar, a way to search to open programs, and a way to tab through them.

Should I invest time into move to a tiling WM (I'd kind of prefer a compositing one though), or is there something friendly in between that I'm overlooking?

so I compiled the latest qbittorrent-nox version but when I access the webui it still says 3.3.16. Does make install not overwrite the old version or whats going on?

Just use GNOME like everyone else.
You can hit Super to get a screen of open programs and tab/arrow through them. Also Super brings up a launcher like Unity where you can click on favourites in a panel on the left of just start typing the name of your desired program.

The benefit of the most widely supported DE is that people have made it do everything. You can even make it look like MATE with Gnome tweaks if you're into that for some reason.

Not if it's still running. Did you restart the application? The only other place old information might stick around is config files inside ${HOME}

The out of memory killer axes your browser process halfway through a financial transaction and you die alone and penniless.

I made sure the old qb version wasn't running at the time. The qbittorrent-nox file in /usr/bin hasn't been touched since 2017 so I feel like somethings gone wrong. I've also checked the config file and it's pretty basic, theres nothing there that might point to the wrong version.

I just noticed when I execute make install I get
>strip:/usr/local/share/man/man1/qbittorrent-nox.1: File format not recognised
>Makefile:2236: recipe for target 'install_man' failed
>make[1]: [install_man] Error 1 (ignored)
>/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake -install qinstall -exe qbittorrent-nox /usr/local/bin/qbittorrent-nox
>strip /usr/local/bin/qbittorrent-nox
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/qbtuser/qBittorrent-release-4.0.4/src

Why the fuck strip touch manpages??
IMO its bug in makefile, chek bug tracker

I'm just recompiling from a freshly extracted source tar and if it doesn't work this time I'll try a previous version. I have no fucking idea what I'm doing apart from following guides btw, if you haven't figured that out yet.

I've got it senpai.
/etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent-service was a line called
>ExecStart=
Wich was pointing at /usr/local/bin /usr/bin
So it did install, the bin was just in a different place for some reason.
What's the difference between the two folders?

I need some help with disk partitions bros. I have Arch on a USB stick (for RasPi) and initially I had 3 partitions. I got rid of the unencrypted partition and now I have two. However, the free space is in between the boot and LUKS partitions (see pic).

I'd like to somehow resize the LUKS/Partition 3 so it uses all of the free space.

How do I do that? I've tried using GNOME's Disks but it won't allow me to resize anything.

sdc 8:32 1 14.9G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 1 100M 0 part /run/media/ras/A40D-B671
└─sdc3 8:35 1 12G 0 part
└─luks-7589346587 254:4 0 12G 0 crypt /run/media/ras/4985737979

Thanks for any help!

AMD's open source drivers are considered superior to Nvidia's open source drivers

So after a couple of years of using gnome, i'm trying out kde on my Arch system now. I don't really feel like it's /comfy/ but am willing to give it a fair shot! What do I do to tweak it so it has a better workflow?

Why don't you just make an image of your LUKS partition, and place it back over the formatted rest of the usb stick....

Intel Iris Pro can wreck "nvidia's" open source driver. Let's not even involve AMD in the conversation.

I don't think the GNOME disk utility allows you to grow partitions to the left, plus even if it did you have to unmount that shit anyway. Make a bootable image of gparted, boot into it and you will be able to do it.

Oh I didn't read that this was a USB stick, in that case you can probably do it from an OS you have on bare metal, without needing to make a gparted image

Use GParted.

But nvidia blob drivers are considered superior to amd open or pro drivers.

Nouveau should never be taken in to consideration for anything.

>linux always uses swap
That's not true, though. My swap usage is always at 0.

Looking for a distro that's a good balance of lightweight but has up-to-date software and is usable on a day to day basis

Can I get some quick facts on Android emulation in Linux vs Windows

Ubuntu MATE / Xubuntu / Lubuntu 17.10
The software isn't really up to date but it's not too far behind, it's a good halfway point

What GNU/Linux software should I use to integrate with my Github account besides the terminal?

git

Then connect to github via SSH
help.github.com/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/

Then sign your commits with GPG
help.github.com/articles/signing-commits-with-gpg/

Ubuntu or Fedora release branch. Any distro is relatively lightweight if you grab a net install image and use tasksel (Ubuntu) or `dnf group` (Fedora) instead of the prepackaged spins, which always ship with a bunch of crap you should probably use in flatpak anyway.

Void

HOW DO I SOLVE MIC CRACKLING ON LINUX PLEASE GOD SOMEBODY TELL ME.

I've cranked down volume in pulseaudio and alsa (Which is the same volume so it doesn't matter). I don't have any options for mic boost, only two volumes: built-in analog and remapped build-in analog. I have no boost to adjust in pavu or alsamixer so it doesn't seem like that helps. I've tried adding tsched=0 and changing resampling to speex-10 and got fucking nothing. I'm reaching the end of my patience because i've been trying to fix this for years on my desktop and I never fucking can. Works flawlessly on windows but i come to linux and everything shits the bed and it's a noncommon problem? pls help

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

[Citation needed]

I'm gonna go ahead and back up my original claims with an actual article
phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nv-radeon-win10ubuntu&num=2
>Though note the Radeon Linux driver here was ~44% faster than Windows while the NVIDIA Linux driver is only 24~27% faster than the Windows performance
Note that they're comparing AMD open source against Nvidia proprietary

That would be a much more convincing argument if they didn't get absolutely buttfucked in modern games on the next page. All that really shows us is gaming on Linux is a terrible idea in general, and even worse on AMD like 80% of the time.

Also the original questioner probably just needs to learn to edit their damn xorg.conf. Because all 3 brands have that issue where you need to include a magic "no screen tearing pls" directive. Which isn't enabled by default. Probably because of GNOME.

Literally every benchmark ever made

is there a command for filtering through a list of directories for a specific file?

Have been using GalliumOS for some time and have had zero issues.

Very underrated

I want process to get killed if memory is full, Linux is unusable otherwise.

>My swap usage is always at 0
Lol

Please, explain. Is it bad?

No, it just means you fell for the meme.

website name

What are you talking about? You can have swap on and still have it basically always at 0. And I'd guess that for most people with 0 swappiness it was just the default when they installed their system, not something they chose.

reddit is no longer open sourced.
What about Cred Forums?
Is Cred Forums close sourced from the beginning?

In my case swappiness is 60, but it's still never used because there is enough ram.
He is probably talking about 16GB meme.

Cred Forums server side software is closed source, but since you are not dealing with the software directly it doesn't affect you much.
Cred Forums official js is free software.

>free software
What license?

>Cred Forums official js is free software
Not according to my official Stallman approved LibreJS plugin

Steal It While You Can Public License.

what the fuck is the point of KASLR if anyone can just read /proc/modules?

That's a bad copy of the activities overview from Gnome.

Because it doesn't have tags for it and probably never will because hiroshima cares not for freedom.

github.com/Cred Forums/4chan-JS/blob/master/LICENSE

Is there a convenient way of packaging a piece of Windows software bundled with Wine in a way that allows essentially a zip with the application in it to be distributed and ran as-is without requiring the end user to actually install wine on their machine? I believe something like this exists for OS X, but I'm looking for something for Linux.

Debian in virtualbox stuck at load ramdisk what can I do?

At least state how much ram you gave it.

1 GB of ram
It's the 32 bit version

>He's a RAMlet
lmao cuck

that should be enough desu. In the boot menu press e to edit the "start installer" line, remove quiet/silent from it and add verbose. Now it should output a lot of text, see where it stops.

ok, now I try it

Ok, so now after
freeing unused kernel memory
Write protecting the kernel text
Write protecting the kernel text rad only data

Is stuck showing "loading, please wait"

However how can I scroll the text To find where the error is?

is btrfs slow as fuck for anyone else?
I bet the meltdown patches have something to do with it

Why not host yourself?

Is it going to be messy to try to convert a MBR drive to GPT drive?
(I'm on KDE Neon, this is a typical 2.5" 500gb HDD)

AFAIK no, you don't even need to move your partitions. At least when I tried once, I didn't need to.

blazing fast for me

can you remember how you did it, what guide you used?

1. I wrote "convert mbr to gpt linux" to google
2. clicked the 1st or 2nd result, it was gfdisk or gdisk or something

anyone have ideas how to fix this?

System Settings -> Desktop Behavior -> Screen Edges -> Tile windows by dragging them to the side of the screen

Its enabled and its what I want but it fails to tile the first time some reason.

Folks using urxvt, do you know how to stop Shift+End from closing the terminal?

Figure it out. It was tabbedex. You can disable default keybinds and map your own in Xresources

Any good controller that work well with Linux? Gonna use it for PCSX2 and fighting games under Wine

DS4 works great. Only complaint is you have to re-pair it if you pair in Windows and vice versa.

Is it true that rolling release distros can badly screw with proprietary drivers? Should I stick with stable ones?

How the fuck do I install 32bit glibc-devel on a 64 bit void system? Or alternatively, how do I get g++ -m32 to stop saying it can't find gnu/stubs32.h?

sup lads, I have a question. let's say I have a ton of files like so:
page00.xml
page01.xml
page02.xml
page04.xml
.........
pageXX.xml

how can I do something like
mv page04.xml page03.xml
mv page05.xml page04.xml
.....
mv pageXX.xml page(XX-1).xml

what sort of functions should I be looking at?

gnu rename

or learn how to use looping and globs in your shell.

my bad. it's part of util-linux. but ya rename is pretty useful for basic pattern renaming and faster than a looping shell construct that just uses mv.

the other solution if you don't have rename and you don't want to use loops is to use gnu tar's --transform option. but you have to rm the originals then.

Why does he wear shoes designed for old people with leg problems? Is this neet ever going to fade away?

RMS is 64 years old

thanks I will look into rename

With regards to gpu passthrough, is it possible to pass the boot gpu to the guest OS prior to the VM starting up, and have the host OS fall back on a secondary GPU? If so, how would I go about doing that?

Is there something better than Docky or Plank?

I am looking to install this i3lock variant that locks the screen with a png, then displays other pngs as you type the password. It is inspired by cowboy bebop. github.com/Atrus7/i3lock

I have cloned the repository, however, cannot find a way to build the package from source. Could you help me out please? I am on Debian.

Trying to improve my Bash skills.
What is wrong and what does 'bad substitution' mean generally in this context?

A=Doc/test.md
$ B="${basename A}" ; echo $B
bash: ${basename A}: bad substitution

You just type "make". Then "make install" if you want.

i think ${} is for variable names and $() is for commands
i found these:
>bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Variables#How_Do_I_Display_The_Value_Of_a_Variable.3F
>bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Command_substitution
so you need to use $(basename A) instead

>$(basename A)
You mean
>$(basename $A)

$(basenam ${A})

$(basename "${A}")

yes it works.
But what I don't understand is why this also works:
A="${A/.*/.html}"
There I didn't use two '$'.

It comes up with all sorts of crazy shit I cannot decypher.

root@t420:/home/user/git/i3lock# make
Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'cairo' found
Package xcb-dpms was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xcb-dpms.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xcb-dpms' found
Package xcb-xinerama was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xcb-xinerama.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xcb-xinerama' found
Package xcb-atom was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xcb-atom.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xcb-atom' found
Package xcb-image was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xcb-image.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xcb-image' found
Package xcb-xkb was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xcb-xkb.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xcb-xkb' found
Package xkbcommon was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xkbcommon.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xkbcommon' found
Package xkbcommon-x11 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xkbcommon-x11.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xkbcommon-x11' found
cc -std=c99 -pipe -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\""2.8-20-gbffc494 (2017-01-04)"\" -c -o xinerama.o xinerama.c
xinerama.c:13:21: fatal error: xcb/xcb.h: No such file or directory
#include

that is parameter expansion not command substitution. They are completely different things

>No package 'cairo' found
Literally read it

thank you, I missed/forgot that.

>tfw no Linux bros to play Europa: Universalis with on Steam.

WHY
WHY LORD WHYYYYY

REEEEEEEEEEEEE

This is really confusing, since libcairo IS already installed on the system.

apt install libcairo2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libcairo2 is already the newest version (1.14.8-1).
libcairo2 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Would it require the cairo-dock-dev files to build the i3lock application? what is the reason behind that? I don't want to install all the shit apt install cairo* would want to pull in.

You can install chrome alongside chromium and just use it for Netflix, easiest way

Since it doesn't come with a configure script, follow the instructions it gave you.

>Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Reading is your friend.

you also need the *-devel pacakges (or whatever they are called on debian) for the header files

No idea what DE/WM you're using that has that option. But are you sure that window wasn't already tiled?

Need a good rts tank game with low system reqs. netpanzer is good, but it keeps crashing.

Install Windows in a virtual machine and play Blitzkrieg.

Would Debian with XFCE consume less battery than Windows 10 ?

>tfw installed MATE
>tfw reached enourmous levels of comfyness
It suits me incredibly well and it just works at the same time.
Find your ideal DE or WM and be comfy, guys

is there an easy way to try different ones without having them leave files behind?

Virtual machines gotta work 100%

Just opened that window. The first time when I try tile window it fails and the de is KDE.

There are no instructions, and second, I can read but I am not aware of certain things when it comes to building from source. So 'reading' doesn't really 'help' if I don't know what I'm missing. Stop responding.

Thank you, this was useful.

What are the terminal emulators with graphics support?

So I went ahead and installed libxcd*-dev and libxkd*-dev since it was asking for a lot of those. Now when I attempt to make, I get the following output:

cc -std=c99 -pipe -Wall -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\""2.8-20-gbffc494 (2017-01-04)"\" -c -o xcb.o xcb.c
cc -std=c99 -pipe -Wall -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\""2.8-20-gbffc494 (2017-01-04)"\" -c -o i3lock.o i3lock.c
i3lock.c:22:31: fatal error: security/pam_appl.h: No such file or directory
#include
^
compilation terminated.
: recipe for target 'i3lock.o' failed
make: *** [i3lock.o] Error 1

I am really lost here. would you be able to help, please?

xterm has tektronics 4010 and VT300+ if that's what you mean.

Should draw sixel and whatever other ungodly ancient fb using shit xterm does

Well let me ask you this then. What's the difference between the initial layout of that window in your video and a "tiled" one?

Does KDE actually treat the window differently? Because as far as I can tell from your video it's not real tiling but just a convenient way to organize windows, and the only difference between the initial layout of that window and the "tiled" one is that it's a little bit wider than 50% of the screen. If that's the case then maybe it works that way intentionally when the window is at 100% height, because they figure you can just grab the left edge of the window and resize it if you want.

I remember seeing guys with ranger FM and showing the images as well
I don't think it was xterm

you ned pam-dev

Tiled one is half of the screen the initial isnt. The problem is I have to drag the window twice to get it that way. Theres better webm maybe it explains.

>vlc 3.0 still not on arch package repo
why

Ubuntu 17.10. Hey, I have a huge (2GB) text file which is correctly identified by 'file' command as UTF8. However, when I apply:
sort file | uniq > result the result file is recognized as Dyalog APL Transform encoding?
And when I try to load the file programatically I only get question mark ���� symbols. Whats the issue?

I found a bug in wxmedit that causes huge memory leak, literally rapes your RAM. I don't have a github or twitter account, how do I contact the dev?

Well the person who owns the github repo lists their email as jiaywe[at]gmail.com, maybe try emailing them.

Do a patch and send it by mail.

My point is it probably thinks the window is "tiled" because it's already 100% height, not maximized, and touching the right edge of the screen.

Recomend me a good distro anons

Thank you once again. I managed to grind the requirements down to this error:

cc -std=c99 -pipe -Wall -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\""2.8-20-gbffc494 (2017-01-04)"\" -c -o i3lock.o i3lock.c
i3lock.c:25:16: fatal error: ev.h: No such file or directory
#include
^
compilation terminated.
: recipe for target 'i3lock.o' failed
make: *** [i3lock.o] Error 1

However, libev is already installed, so it libpng, and I cannot for the love of mine figure out what it wants of me now. Could you help, please?

I have a real piss issue and I need handholding.

I'm trying to install Fedora from a netinstall on a USB stick - should be simple as hell.

As soon as I reach the graphical install I get the error "AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'"
I've been told to add "rd.live.ram" to my kernel boot parameters and then "when Fedora has started" but "before the installation", unmount and disconnect the USB drive
so
I start my computer
Press F12 for boot options
Select the USB-drive
and when I'm prompted with a list including "Install Fedora 27" i press e, add "rd.live.ram" right after "quiet" at the end of the kernel line
I press Ctrl+X to start it.
After a bunch of terminal output the graphical installer starts where I get the error message again.

At what point do I unmount and disconnect the USB drive?
Why the fuck am I getting such a fatal error during such a basic task?

Please reply

I figured maybe the guy helping me thought I was using a Live USB, hence "when Fedora has started, before the installation".
So I followed the same instructions using a Live USB instead with no luck.

I'm flustered like a 5 year old right now

have you tried makind the boot usb with unetbootin? I cannot get debian to boot from usb for some reason, even though it is as simple as dd-ing the iso to the usb. Still, won't start up. Unetbootin just works though.

>libev is already installed,
what about libev-dev?
everytime it says *.h: No such file or directory you are missing the header files which are located in the *-dev packages

Okay, simple fucking question: How the hell do I get XFCE to stop creating new windows in the corner of the screen every time I launch a new program? I want windows to open in the center of the screen if possible.

By installing Windows

No

I keep getting a weird problem on my T420 running a default Fedora install. If I've got firefox open with like say, twelve tabs in one window and five tabs in another, it sometimes just freezes completely. I say sometimes because it's not very consistent in when or how it does this. Last night it froze and I fell asleep before seeing it unfreeze later on in the night. When I woke up I was at my DM screen and I saw a message saying wayland crashed. So I'm wondering if this is a gnome thing or a wayland thing. Right now I'm running i3 with xorg on my T420 running arch linux, and I never come across this problem. And when I had arch running i3 on my T420, it didn't have this problem either.
TL;DR My fedora install keeps freezing when doing certain things like using firefox or using some terminal commands and I'm wondering whether gnome or wayland is to blame.

Yes, thank you. I figured it out in the meantime. You know what it is like to spend time and frustration on something and then overlook a simple step? I feel dumb.. Now I got to this point:

root@t420:/home/user/git/i3lock# make
cc -std=c99 -pipe -Wall -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\""2.8-20-gbffc494 (2017-01-04)"\" -c -o i3lock.o i3lock.c
cc -std=c99 -pipe -Wall -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVERSION=\""2.8-20-gbffc494 (2017-01-04)"\" -c -o unlock_indicator.o unlock_indicator.c
cc -o i3lock xinerama.o xcb.o i3lock.o unlock_indicator.o -lcairo -lxcb-dpms -lxcb-xinerama -lxcb-util -lxcb-image -lxcb -lxcb-shm -lxcb-xkb -lxkbcommon-x11 -lxkbcommon -lpam -lev -lm
root@t420:/home/user/git/i3lock# make install
install -d /usr/bin
install -d /etc/pam.d
install -m 755 i3lock /usr/bin/i3lock
install -m 644 i3lock.pam /etc/pam.d/i3lock
root@t420:/home/user/git/i3lock#
/code]

but it will not progress. I no longer get c error messages, but this one I cannot make sense of. Any tips? Thanks a lot by the way, I'm learning new things here.

how much ram do you have? are you swapping? Config your i3status to display your ram usage. If you are running on 4gb, that's too few for today's browsers on the desktop. My t420 (ayy brother!) is running on 8gb and that is sufficient. No lockups, although I do prefer chromium from the debian repos.

that actually looks like it finished installing
try executing the program by typing i3lock into a terminal

I was under the same expression, however, the application doesn't work like it should (see gif). it displays a white screen as i3lock by default does. Although, I am not starting it with ./bebop_lock or similar, just starting up i3lock from my t420's thinkvintage button which just call this:

bindsym XF86Launch1 exec i3lock

do you have the i3lock package from your repo installed? if you have, unisntall it and then run make install again

actually nevermind that. I just read the readme on their github. you have to specify a background iamge with -i and the aimation with -a
e.g.
i3lock -i $HOME/Pictures/wallpaper.png -a $HOME/Pictures/lock_animation/
where $HOME/Pict$HOME/Pictures/lock_animation/ is a directory filled with multiple pn files that will be displayed in sequenz
if you specify neither of these options you will jsut get the white background

where in their github did you find that? I didn't see it in the readme.md...

ath the bottom it says:
"Adds a -a format which specifies where to pull animation files from. Animation files must be in .png format.

Example Usage, to see the gif: ./i3lock -i ./imgs/wallpaper/ed-wallpaper.png -a imgs/"

I feel dumb.. thank you for your time and patience. :) I will make sure to contribute back to the community.

I have the repo cloned, but I do not see this comment anywhere. Just "A fork from github.com/i3/i3lock . See the README there as well."

Strange...

For those that might be wondering: turns out xbps has a multilib repo, so I added it and then installed a whole bunch of 32 bit libraries.

that is exactly how you do it.
I guess check the config files that regulate the window behaviour. It might be the window manager doing it though, if you have one installed other than the stock.
You can do 'apt purge package' then 'apt autoremove' when you want to get rid of the package and its dependencies.
on my t420 it does, yes. you should look into powertop to regulate the wattage of your laptop, but there are plenty materials.
Yes, you can do this. check the debian packaging FAQ on how to build .deb packages that retain the file-location of the originating system, and that can be installed easily with dpkg.

Can anyone recommend me a nice looking music player? I used kodi before because of it's nice skins (somewhat retarded though to use it on a simple desktop machine) but it's not very useable so I would rather want to use a "normal" music player software which doesn't look like winamp. Any sugestions?

Retard when it comes to bash, I want to make an alias to autorun a program after I compile it. How would I do this? alias clangpp='clang++ -std=c++14 && ./a.out' wouldn't work because I need to give clang a file name, and I can't just put it the other way around.

make a function.
clangpp(){
clang++ -std=c++14 "${1}" && ./a.out
}
put that into your ~/.bashrc source it and call it like this
clangpp file.cpp

ncmpcpp

>"check the logs"
>there's nothing there
How do I begin diagnosing a sudden crash and reboot when there's there's nothing in the logs? Evidentially the system crashed before it could write anything.

Use a fucking build system.

I've been thinking about what the fuck GNOME is doing in terms of design, and it seems to me that they're trying to do something fundamentally different than the Windows model. They haven't been completely succesful at it yet, but I can at least see where they're going now.

Windows model:
>primary mode of interacting with your PC is complex graphical native applications
>applications are not supposed to do anything when they aren't visibly running except possibly a self updater service
>system tray exists to keep things running without cluttering up the single taskbar
>virtual workspaces and competent CLIs/TUIs only added as a late admission that X11 had been doing it right for 20 years
>mouse or touch should be the primary input method, with keyboard interactions mostly sticking to the 40 year old CUA model and heavy use of the tab key

GNOME model:
>Unix is not Windows
>terminals and/or web browsers will probably be a significant fraction of active windows at a given time
>the graphical shell should be extensible in a scripting language (JavaScript)
>theming the shell and toolkit should not require any binaries (CSS based Gtk3 themes)
>programs that run without a window present are daemons and should be treated as such, with an API to interact with them
>interactive tray icons should be created sparingly, and then as shell extensions using the daemons' API
>for popping up notifications, the built in notification system is sufficient
>window and desktop management should be keyboard focused, with the graphical method of accessing them relegated to "activities mode" or context menus, and keybinds should be derived from the best of GNOME 2 and tiling window managers

For someone whose workflow is much more like the second model than the first, GNOME is -fantastic-. It just werkz and it gets out of my way. I always feel like I'm fighting the OS when I use Windows or similar DEs.

appreciated, didn't know that syntax

Continued.

This is causing a lot of recent Windows converts and greybeards who still prefer the Windowsy workflow to shriek and cry and whine, and for them, I say "KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, and MATE all exist. Try one of them." KDE and MATE in particular have been making large strides in stability, and are almost 100% ready for HiDPI monitors. KDE's Wayland implementation is going to be top notch when it's done, too. GNOME is doing something different, and I think it's worth giving it a shot.

Diagnosing crashes like that can be a motherfucker. Have you checked the systemd journal, if applicable? It can catch some things that regular syslog can't. Also check dmesg for possible hardware faults.

Lately Redshift only works on 1 monitor for me. What do Cred Forums.

There's some fucky encoding errors in it somewhere. Did someone edit it on a Windows machine? UTF16+BOM and UTF8 play poorly together. I've seen that exact problem cause ASCII text to render as Chinese.

What DE are you running?

KDE Plasma 5.

Can someone explain why one would use anything except ubuntu as their desktop. Serious question, I just haven't encountered any task where I need something else.

>Ubuntu
>Not Microsoft Windows 10

If you need a bunch of stuff that isn't packaged for Ubuntu, if you need something other than x86, if you need a source based distro, if you just want something that works the same as your RHEL servers... there are good reasons, but not really many for a n00b, especially with the rise of snap/flatpak/appimage.

What file manager do you guys use? I'd like to stick with XFCE but I also need file search and previewing (so not Thunar, even with Carfish I'm missing previews). Any suggestions?

Bash.

i use spacefm
no idea if it does search, if you search for things often, you need to sort your files better

Keeping search separate from the file manager is definitely the best way to do it. Catfish is the only lightweight pre-made tool I've found with previews so you're probably just retarded

Best video editing software for Linux? Something on the level of features like Sony Vegas (multi tracks, cutting, basic effects/transform tools)?

Openshot

Eh, it looks alright but I'm not a fan of the UI and it looks like only 4 people are working on it and there's no way for more people to contribute. Even if it's fantastic I don't really want to use it.

What do my fellow music enthusiautists use?

soulseek-qt to download directly
easytag to manage tagging
deadbeef for playback

I still have to use foobar2k to scan for and apply replaygain metadata because deadbeef crashes when I try to scan too much at once (like 500+ files) and even if it does work it's incredibly slow. Has anyone got a good solution for standalone scanning? I like replaygain to be applied to my music collection as a whole, rather than individual albums.

I use mpd and various frontends for playback. For downloading I use Transmission in daemon mode. For organizing I just use filesystem hierarchies. It's simple, stable, and I have controls for the setup integrated into my desktop environment and as phone apps.

>tfw tons of little problems that are mostly just annoying that I live with are starting to pile up and I really can't be fucked fixing them

shit like the check boxes in my browser are all suddenly tiny. goddamit.

protip, guys:
systemctl reboot httpd
does NOT restart the apache service. It reboots your server. FML

Why the fuck would you think it did? It's been "restart" going back to sysvinit.

I know that, my fingers didn't in that moment..

Of course `service reboot` doesn't reboot your computer either.

I'm looking for a script that will rename all files in a directory to just a numeric value, i.e. 1.jpg, 2.png.

I found this which works well, but I believe if I run it more than once it will overwrite files that are already named with the target name.

num=0; for i in *; do mv "$i" "$(printf '%04d' $num).${i#*.}"; ((num++)); done

This used to work (dash)
Now it doesn't because maildir contains a wildcard.
What the fuck am I supposed to do?

>because maildir contains a wildcard
Are you saying that a folder literally named ~/.mail/* exists?

there's .mail/gmail and .mail/umed

There are several ways you could write this, but something like
find "$HOME/.mail/" -path '*/INBOX/new/*' -type f | wc -l
would work

num=0; for i in *; do
target="$(printf '%04d' $num).${i#*.}"
while [ -f "$target" ] ; do
#if file already exists increment num and try again
((num++));
target="$(printf '%04d' $num).${i#*.}"
done
mv "$i" "$target"
((num++))
done

meant for you

Thank you based user

danke for the help
turns out the double quotes around the maildirs variable were the culprit because they prevent globbing - which is what I wanted to actually achieve

Works great now.

Perhaps with watch.

Kdenlive.

Are you legitimately retarded? Why do you expect a program to behave contradictory to what its manual says?

When I want to hash a string, should I do it with a newline at the end or not? What's the generally accepted way?

I want to put the hash somewhere, so I can later display the string for verification.

i don't see why you'd want to include a newline when making a hash of a string in the general case, unless the newline is part of the string
that is, include the newline if it's part of the string, but don't add an extraneous newline

installed Ubuntu as my first linux system, for some reason it's very slow. scrolling through chans I can tell noticable delay and lag, and pages don't load as fast as on windows 7. any advice? my computer isn't shit btw

I noticed that the hashes differed when I hashed a "string" compared to when I hashed a file. Turns out that vim (and other text editors) add a newline at the end of a file. Apparently that's a standard, so I got confused what the proper way to do it is. Hash just the text or hash a file containing the text (or text with a newline at the end).

I gravitate more towards just the text now (without the newline).

You can try installing non-free drivers for your processor and graphics card. Sometimes the free versions run a little slower. You can also try adjusting settings in your desktop environment and your browser settings to see if there is something causing slow downs as well.

it really depends on what you're trying to do
are you hashing a string, or are you hashing a file?
if you have a text file with a string in it, which a text editor has added a newline to, you are still just hashing a text file, it should not concern you what exactly the text file contains when hashing it

it is common to add a newline to text files, so users end up on the next line when it's opened, other things like "echo" also add a newline to strings given to them, for similar reasons (if you hash the output of echo, you will also end up hashing the string with an extra newline, unless you tell echo not to add one with -n)

Basically I just want to put the hash in an image. Then later I can post the actual text, as proof that it was always there, as part of a "gotcha" thing.

I installed Manjaro with XFCE.

if you're posting the /text/, and not the /file/, then you want to hash the text alone
it's simply about intent, do you want the hash to represent the text, or the file?
since you appear to intend the text to be the content, and not the file, then you want a hash of the text, which likely does not include the additional newline

How can I install qmake > 5.5.1 on Fedora? I've got 4.8.7 which apparently can't compile much of anything

>XFCE
IT'S NOT A FUCKING ABBREVIATION YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT

T-the more you know...

XForms Common Environment
it's no longer based on XForms, nor is it a clone of Common Desktop Environment, so the abbreviation doesn't apply anymore, but it was originally an abbreviation

Install qt5-devel?

Thanks, couldn't find anything about it online

You can use your package manager to find files with a specific name and see to which package they belong. A search for qmake would have shown you that it belongs to that package.

So, I'm trying to follow a video tutorial how to install a programm for CentOS on Ubuntu. And I followed all the steps in the video properly so far and didnt get any error messages
Now when he says to run sudo ./.* sh I get the message sudo: ./DaVinci_Resolve_14.3_Linux.sh: command not found
Any help?
Video tutorial in question:
youtube.com/watch?v=7bEyGhm9Gj8&

Cred Forumsuise, I have a raspi running PiHole and a bunch of other things. I find it inconvenient to have to always use scp to transfer files and was wondering what's the best way to share few folders on Raspi so I can mount them on my desktop.

How do I safely mount stuff from Raspi onto my desktop Debian machine?

Thanks!

has it been made executable?
chmod u+x DaVinci_Resolve_14.3_Linux.sh

sshfs user@rpi /target/path

for real tho, why are Nvidishit's Linux drivers SO fucking shit?
Or is the fact that I'm getting tons of lock-ups and crashes on KDE Neon more KDE's fault? Crashes happen any time I skip ahead too fast on mpv, yes, simple shit like that.
I have been using Ubuntu 16.04 for a while and it's been stable and I can skip ahead on mpv and it doesn't lock up.

I do think it has a lot to do with Nvidia's drivers because I have a different laptop with Intel GPU and Fedora KDE is okay.

No, it hadn't. thanks.
Now it works

wow! had no idea sshfs existed. thanks so much user!!!

np, it's pretty useful

>have an old laptop with freedom unfriendly broadcom card (need shitty firmware), which is also quite outdated and obsolete (11y old)
>bought a new Atheros card for it
>put it in, turn on laptop
>BIOS be like "Unsupported wireless network device detected. Remove it and restart. System halted"

Fuck this shit in every way possible. I seriously considering getting a trannyboot thinkpad after this.

what make? must be some total literal-who shit

No, it's a hp Compaq business laptop from 2007.

that's more to do with the age i'd say, have you tried updating the bios?

don't go from that to chinkpad just because it flaked on you. HP elitebooks and Dell E and XPS series are good these days

>that's more to do with the age i'd say
Definitely not. If it was an age problem it didn't even detect the card.
I heard some proprietary laptop BIOSes simply refuse to work with wifi cards not on their whitelist (to fuck with the user, so you cannot just replace the wireless chip with a cheaper or superior one). Looks like I managed to get one of these shit.
This is why I mentioned Libreboot, I heard total normalfags Librebooting their Thinkpads because their BIOS has a wifi whitelist too.

Example:
forums.lenovo.com/t5/General-Discussion/WWAN-and-wireless-card-BIOS-whitelists-Lenovo-COME-ON/td-p/952681

Note the Lelnovo damage control in the replies.

minimalism is a meme
You're probably right, but I have my reasons
I am, in fact, retarded, and just now found Catfish's previewing option. Thanks!

Now that I got this working, I am wondering: where can I make that the programm is considered as belonging to "graphics" rather than "Lost&Found"?
Is there some place I can edit all of these categories?
Plasma 5, BTW

About to pull the trigger on a used custom NAS on ebay. Supermicro X10SLL-F, Pentium G3258 and 8gb ram. This will be just used for storage and my microserver will do most of the heavier lifting.

Since my old server and this one have dual NICs and both will be running ubuntu, how can I maximize bandwidth between them? Is SMB multipath as simple as it sounds or do I still need to set up bonding?

What is stallman even doing based on his mail listing he’s mostly using emacs for everything, he gets pages by fetch and not a browser, and he doesn’t use non-free drivers so there’s no way he’s connected to anything via cellular sim..

FOR FUCKS SAKE.
Everytime I take a screnshot the menu collapses.
I am talking about the Applications Menu Widget for Plasma 5

Hello guys, I'm trying to get Deluge working under Debian Stretch and I'm getting a (I hope) minor error which says:
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/deluge/_libtorrent.py:59: RuntimeWarning: to-Python converter for boost::shared_ptr already registered; second conversion method ignored.
import libtorrent as lt

I read it is because there's some libtorrent related error but I'm missing something since I can't fix. Someone had it ever?

He does lots of stuff offline

Did right clicking the application menu cross your mind?

My installation is fucked, right?

try using sudo

Same problem

What

Why this is happening?

Is there any way to improve video performance in QEMU without doing full-blown passthrough? I don't need to play gaems, I just need it to be good enough for simple 3D rendering in OpenGL.

I have the same question, my friend. Is possible to share my GPU host for KVM/QEMU?

Short: no
Long: no, qemu emulates a simple, ancient VGA chip with no 3d capabilities.

That I know for sure isn't possible.

Fucking bummer. Are there any other hypervizors for linux that might do better?

Try VirtualBox.

-free software
-can emulate a vga card with 3D capabilities (limited to opengl 2.1 from what I saw)
-can still use kvm as virtualization backend

I posted this in another thread, will ask here too.

My main machine is OSX, but soon I will be receiving the following machine for personal use:

Pixelbook
i7
16GB RAM
512GB SSD

I plan on partitioning it so I can boot into GalliumOS.

While in GalliumOS I plan on doing the following on it:

- Setting up local LAMP and MEAN stack environments / servers for back and front-end development

- Light to moderate coding

- Using Git to commit any code

- Using ssh to tunnel into servers

- Heavily using the terminal. Currently use ZSH on OSX.

- Using FTP

- Heavy email usage where I would prefer to use a dedicated email client. Bonus if it works well with Exchange servers

- Chatting on Slack on multiple channels

- Chatting on Skype

- Opening up or creating Word or Excel docs

- Taking notes. I currently use Evernote

- Web browsing. I use Chrome currently because of work and some of the extensions it offers.

- Rare image manipulation. Like resizing or cropping an image, or reducing file size.

What do you recommend for each case?

I do opt for GUIs if the application is designed well enough. For example on OSX I just use Tower for Git because it's god tier.

You edits its desktop file.

Nvidia is more concerned with keeping a unified codebase with the Windows driver and raw gaymen FPS and CUDA/OpenCL FLOPS than integration with the rest of the OS. AMDGPU is already a viable FOSS alternative and is only getting faster.

Yep, that's correct. I had to dewhitelist my x120e's BIOS years ago in order to replace the shitty, flaky realtek card with an ath9k-compatible one.

Most WWAN sticks these days have 100% FOSS kernel drivers. The only nonfree code runs on the stick itself and so can be treated as a black box.

I have a couple XFCE questions.
1. How do I make the application window icon match the Launcher icon?
2. How do I change the font for JUST the date/time indicator, and not the entire deskbar?

1. right click->properties->you should be able to change the icon. Use the icon selector that pops up to search for the right icon. Works for both the old applications menu and the new whiskermenu
2. use not the simple date-time plugin but the orage date-time plugin. It lets you choose which font to use.

>Slack
>Skype
>word and excel
>SSH
>git
>Nginx and Apache
>Chrome
Why would you even bother with Gallium OS at that point? Just install the Termux and Outlook Android apps within the local ChromeOS environment.

Orage plugin worked, but when I right-click the window, it just gives me options for minimize, mazimize, etc. No properties.

right click on the clock on the taskbar dude and press properties there.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant for when I right click the terminal window. I was able to change the font in Orage just fine.

How do I download an attachment from redhats bugzilla?
Just clicking the link gives me a page of what looks like encrypted text.

Their help page says
>To download an attachment as a different Content-Type (e.g. application/xhtml+xml), you can override this using a 'content_type' parameter on the URL, e.g. &content_type=text/plain.

But this is an .img file - what "content_types" are there?

Just wget it.

check out this link iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml
in your case the content type is probably image/png

>.img
im a retard i actually read that as image

That's probably why it didn't work at all then

I may do that as well. But I don't know if you've ever used ChromeOS, but it's just not a real OS.

I can't easily spin up a server on ChromeOS. Or use Visual Studio Code like I do on a real OS.

wget bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1392051

Should that work? I just get a 403 - forbidden

VMWare is the only decent GPU solution unless your guest distro is running kernel 4.15 and whatever the latest Xorg is. Which is nothing but rolling release ATM. Workstation Player is free to use though.

So, proprietary software wins again.

Noice...

I'm noticing I have both usr/games and usr/local/games in my defaulth path.

usr/games has some stuff like steam or mednafen, but usr/local/games is empty. What's that used for? If I only wanted one user to have access to the games?

Installed Ubuntu MATE 17.10 and suddenly my right click button on my trackpad doesn't do what it's supposed to. To do what a right click is supposed to do I have use two fingers and click the trackpad, which is annoying.
Anyone know why this is or how to fix it?

/usr/local is for software built by the local administrator outside the package management system. It's still accessible to all users. ~/.local is for individual user software.
See also centos.org/docs/rhel-rg-en-3/s1-filesystem-fhs.html

...

GPU passthrough works in legacy bios right? I don't need to fuck with UEFI?

does one of those distros support x220 wireless driver?

No, go back to windows if you are at the " wireless driver" level.

>being a pretentious dickhead about linux
i think you're the only one who needs to go back.

I'd reckon so. Thinkpads in general receive a lot of love from the linux community, so I don't see why open source drivers wouldn't exist.

Dude.,.. Blue board. Stop tempting us with these vixens

Shit, what do I even do if network-manager doesn't want to start up? Because that's exactly what is happening on the desktop running Debian unstable. An upgrade literally locked me out, the memes finally came true.
A quick $systemctl --type=service brings out both netwoking and network-manager as loaded active exited.

You didn't mention those requirements earlier. Everything else you've mentioned can in fact be done with ChromeOS and a few Android apps.

Get console access and find out why NetworkManager isn't starting.

Hi friends. I am trying to run an exe on wine and I'm getting a segmentation fault. Running on debian i686. Is this most likely that my exe is not good?

Are you trying to run a 64 bit exe? Debian i686 is 32 bit.

>debian i686
Uhh bro

>Hi friends
let me stop you here, i am not your friend

Shit, how would I do that then? Switch to another tty? I've been issue free for a few years so I don't know most of these things.

Can someone recommend a book/website/resource for learning bash?

Never mind, found why it wasn't working. Just kill me.

Yes I'm trying to get a 90s game going on an eeepc901. I was able to install the program, but running it simply returns segmentation fault

Yet another thread where i go completely ignored
lol fuck this

I recommend reading the OP, there are multiple resources for bash and terminal in general

Go to winehq.com, enable their repos and install wine-staging
try the program with that

What's the difference between
dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/
and the ones you get at getfedora.org?
Someone suggested the "respins" will avoid some issues I've been having during installation.

Default comes with GNOME DE, with respins you can choose Cinnamon, KDE, LXDE, LXQT, MATE and Xfce. And WORK stands for Workstation which is the default aka GNOME. What issues were you having with installation?

I got the error message
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'
which was supposed to be fixed by running the live ISO on RAM, but that didn't help.
Now, after formatting my disks I'm getting
pyanaconda.payload.PayloadInstallError: Unable to find osimg for /dev/mapper/live-base
which is supposedly the same issue

Your USB stick may be dying.

new

I tried multiple sticks

>buy Cred Forums meme
>can't even use a search engine

kids these days