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Which output driver should I use with Mplayer2?
Is there any way to get steam running on crunchbang statler? I've been running that for quite a while now and it has some dependency issues with the steam package :(
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38409792]Which output driver should I use with Mplayer2?[/QUOTE] If you have a nvidia card, use vdpau.
[QUOTE=IpHa;38412733]If you have a nvidia card, use vdpau.[/QUOTE] Thanks, that performs a lot better than gl seemingly.
Anyone like Kde? Gave it a try after using awesome wm and a mish mash of random applications, and I am really liking the change. Built in tiling, automounting with prompts, and and insane amount of actually useful widgets. Just need to get a network manager and something to manage pulse audio.
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;38414878]Anyone like Kde? Gave it a try after using awesome wm and a mish mash of random applications, and I am really liking the change. Built in tiling, automounting with prompts, and and insane amount of actually useful widgets. Just need to get a network manager and something to manage pulse audio.[/QUOTE] Networking: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager#KDE4[/url]
God damnit, so Netflix doesn't support Linux? Any solutions, or am I stuck in a rut here?
Well Netflix uses Silverlight but the actual videos themselves have DRM which the linux version of Silverlight doesn't support. You would have to run a Windows browser in Wine, and install Silverlight in Wine
Probably easier than the virtualbox solution I got from googling [editline]12th November 2012[/editline] Well, that didn't work. Firefox.exe has stopped responding.
you might be better off just buying a Roku or something and using that for Netflix. Ironically, the Roku runs Linux and it can play Netflix. :/
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;38414878]Anyone like Kde? Gave it a try after using awesome wm and a mish mash of random applications, and I am really liking the change. Built in tiling, automounting with prompts, and and insane amount of actually useful widgets. Just need to get a network manager and something to manage pulse audio.[/QUOTE] I always thought KDE was gimmicky but now I am using linux mint 13 with KDE and I have to say it's much better than MATE and Cinnamon. It's fast, looks good and as you said, has a lot of useful widgets.
Using Arch Linux with Openbox. I want to improve my font rendering, particularly in the browser (chromium). I have installed the patched Ubuntu font packages that are on the wiki, but it looks just like before.
What fonts do you have installed?
[QUOTE=IpHa;38421733]What fonts do you have installed?[/QUOTE] The only fonts I have installed myself are ttf-ms-fonts and the DejaVu fonts for terminal use. The rendering in my terminal (urxvt) isn't the best either, but I'm positive that DejaVu Sans Mono can be made to look good in some way, because I've seen it before in Ubuntu where it looked much better.
[QUOTE=ArgvCompany;38421247]Using Arch Linux with Openbox. I want to improve my font rendering, particularly in the browser (chromium). I have installed the patched Ubuntu font packages that are on the wiki, but it looks just like before.[/QUOTE] Install infinality patches to freetype2. if you're using arch they should be in the AUR. from that it's just configure it as you like, just note that you need to install the microsoft fonts for it to work properly
How to get 72 hz to work?. [CODE]psid@ubuntu:~$ gtf 1280 960 72 # 1280x960 @ 72.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 72.07 kHz; pclk: 124.54 MHz Modeline "1280x960_72.00" 124.54 1280 1368 1504 1728 960 961 964 1001 -HSync +Vsync psid@ubuntu:~$ xrandr --newmode "1280x960_72.00" 124.54 1280 1368 1504 1728 960 961 964 1001 -HSync +Vsync psid@ubuntu:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 85.0*+ 43.5 75.0 70.1 60.0 1920x1080 59.9 1680x1050 60.0 59.9 1440x900 59.9 1400x1050 60.0 1360x768 60.0 59.8 1280x1024 60.0 1280x960 60.0 1152x864 75.0 75.0 70.0 60.0 960x540 120.0 840x525 120.0 119.8 832x624 74.6 800x600 85.1 75.0 72.2 60.3 56.2 720x450 119.8 720x400 85.0 700x525 120.0 680x384 119.9 119.6 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 59.9 640x400 85.1 640x350 85.1 512x384 140.1 87.1 120.0 400x300 144.4 320x240 145.6 120.1 320x175 170.5 TV-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1280x960_72.00 (0x2aa) 124.5MHz h: width 1280 start 1368 end 1504 total 1728 skew 0 clock 72.1KHz v: height 960 start 961 end 964 total 1001 clock 72.0Hz psid@ubuntu:~$ xrandr --addmode "VGA-0" "1280x960_72.00" X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request: 18 (RRAddOutputMode) Serial number of failed request: 29 Current serial number in output stream: 30 psid@ubuntu:~$ [/CODE] Also flash player hardware acceleration swaps the blue and red channels, where to get a fix?.
Well, [URL="https://github.com/dz0ny/lightdm-login-chromeos"]this[/URL] is kind of neat. Oh, I see what it does. It basically just downloads the latest [url=http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?path=chromium-full-linux-chromeos/]binaries[/url] from Google and just adds an entry to LightDM to run them. Well, still, this is kinda neat if you wanna try ChromeOS.
How would I go about symlinking the contents of a folder dynamically? I have an images directory, which contains various types of images for different purposes, and I want to create a folder within the images directory that contains the images from all of the other folders. [editline]12th November 2012[/editline] I understand how to link the files within the directory, making it update every time I save a new file is what I don't get.
It's so hard for me to move to linux D: I find myself using arch for like 5 days straight, without booting into windows, then i go into Windows and don't boot into arch for 5 more days. I can't live without my planetside 2/ tribes ascend.
It's been 5 months since I moved to linux, and things has gotten worse for me. At the first months I could play most of the games in my steam library without problems, now the only one that works is CS:GO and GMod and they are barely playable. Yes, it is indeed hard. I'm even planning making a Windows installation, as I didn't get into the beta, and huh, well.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;38425679]It's been 5 months since I moved to linux, and things has gotten worse for me. At the first months I could play most of the games in my steam library without problems, now the only one that works is CS:GO and GMod and they are barely playable. Yes, it is indeed hard. I'm even planning making a Windows installation, as I didn't get into the beta, and huh, well.[/QUOTE] You do know that you can use the beta client regardless, right? I've done so since day 1.
I won't need to move back to windows as I don't play very many games, luckily. [sub][sub]other than minecraft, that is[/sub][/sub]
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;38426069]You do know that you can use the beta client regardless, right? I've done so since day 1.[/QUOTE] But not games. The only game that I managed to use was Sword and Sworcery.
Ok, so I got steam linux beta up and runing well. just got one question: how do i resize/move the windows in awesome?
hey guys [IMG]http://i46.tinypic.com/30bg4dk.png[/IMG] this is a sample environment that our lecturer has given us, he said that there might be something suspicious/worth noting here. what can it be? is it the "???" which usually should say the port? could it be console? what does "console' here mean in the line "console root-root"? using solaris 10.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;38426781]But not games. The only game that I managed to use was Sword and Sworcery.[/QUOTE] I've tested all the games on my linux games list, and they all work just fine. But whatever fits your needs :)
If someone is in doubt if a game works on Wine the [URL="http://appdb.winehq.org/"]AppDB[/URL] is really helpful.
[QUOTE=Jookia;38401684]Why would you delete /lib? It doesn't matter that its a symlink, it's still needed.[/QUOTE] The update that made it a symlink wouldn't install so I went on to move the stuff over to /usr/lib and make /lib a symlink, but I only realized that ln doesn't work without /lib after I deleted it.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;38433625]I've tested all the games on my linux games list, and they all work just fine. But whatever fits your needs :)[/QUOTE] Using steam://install/440 gives a 'too busy server' error, so I don't quite know what you're talking about.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;38434756]Using steam://install/440 gives a 'too busy server' error, so I don't quite know what you're talking about.[/QUOTE] TF2 isn't on my "Linux Games" list either, but yeah, Valve doesn't want non-beta testers to be playing TF2.
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