• General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;39450822]The default is lx(de)terminal, but you can install anything. Do you want transparency or a per-terminal background?[/QUOTE] I want a background on the actual console, the one you get if you don't start X.
[QUOTE=Darkwater124;39450893]I want a background on the actual console, the one you get if you don't start X.[/QUOTE] AFAIK these are framebuffer backgrounds. Maybe this can help: [url]http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=446[/url] Its for Backtrack, wich uses a framebuffer background for the terminal. Also, take a look at this: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fbsplash[/url]
[QUOTE=Darkwater124;39450893]I want a background on the actual console, the one you get if you don't start X.[/QUOTE] Ah, my bad. I didn't even consider the VT...
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39446689]If you like re-installing, you've found your system![/QUOTE] Can you elaborate? So you're saying its bad? I want to switch to something that's not ubuntu and good f dev purposes.
[QUOTE=Relaxation;39452506]Can you elaborate? So you're saying its bad? I want to switch to something that's not ubuntu and good f dev purposes.[/QUOTE] It was mostly a joke based on my previous experiences with Fedora. It never really seemed to be a very stable operating system, but a lot of people like it. I'm not really a good person to ask, as I don't think I'd know what people would prefer. I'm sorry about that.
Just installed Ubuntu on my ASUS Zenbook Prime. Windows8 Just suddently broke after a restart, (1 day old installation) and now I installed ubuntu on it. Holyshit every fucking thing works out of the box. - Wifi - usb to ethernet adapter - VGA to HDMI adapter - and even the fucking touchscreen. I am fucking impressed.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;39452754]Just installed Ubuntu on my ASUS Zenbook Prime. Windows8 Just suddently broke after a restart, (1 day old installation) and now I installed ubuntu on it. Holyshit every fucking thing works out of the box. - Wifi - usb to ethernet adapter - VGA to HDMI adapter - and even the fucking touchscreen. I am fucking impressed.[/QUOTE] Again, people get fooled by Unity that Ubuntu is a bad distro. It might be bloated, but saves you hours of work. Maybe you like to customize your system a lot, but when you just want to install the system and do things, that is the last thing you want to do.
Ubuntu is a fantastic distribution, I'm considering removing win8 on my t61p and going solely with Ubuntu [editline]2nd February 2013[/editline] DURR BLOAT isn't a negative point because 'bloat' is, in this context, subjective. :smile:
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39453214]Ubuntu is a fantastic distribution, I'm considering removing win8 on my t61p and going solely with Ubuntu [editline]2nd February 2013[/editline] DURR BLOAT isn't a negative point because 'bloat' is, in this context, subjective. :smile:[/QUOTE] I kind of know that, I was just saying because everyone accuses ubuntu to be bloated with useless things.
Ubuntu might be bloated compared to Gentoo, but it's still lightweight on the overall scale of operating systems.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;39453197]Again, people get fooled by Unity that Ubuntu is a bad distro. It might be bloated, but saves you hours of work. Maybe you like to customize your system a lot, but when you just want to install the system and do things, that is the last thing you want to do.[/QUOTE] I never mentioned that ubuntu is bad. but unity is the only thing I don't like about ubuntu. after install, I always wipe unity from the system, and replace it with cinnamon.
cinnamon is really klutzy, I much prefer something like GNOME or XFCE/KDE, especially if you are using a touchscreen. I use openbox, but it's not all that good for laptops
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39452592]It was mostly a joke based on my previous experiences with Fedora. It never really seemed to be a very stable operating system, but a lot of people like it. I'm not really a good person to ask, as I don't think I'd know what people would prefer. I'm sorry about that.[/QUOTE] Ahh ok. I'm just trying to get advice primarily from another dev, someone that codes a lot. I've never used fedora, but I'm looking for something a bit more practical than ubuntu. [editline]2nd February 2013[/editline] Not saying ubuntu isn't practical, but I think there's better distros for dev purposes.
What do you mean, better for dev purposes? If you're talking about the WM, then get another one? I don't see what else apart from that
Just programming in general. Ubuntu is bloated for what I use it for, among other problems I have with it.. (Randomly freezes, sound goes out, etc...)
I have 4096 images I would like to merge together, all named by their coordinates like <y>-<x>.png Anyone know of an easy way to do this? EDIT: Found the montage utility form ImagageMagick and it does not like taking 4096 arguments... I'll have to do it in sections but it will work. EDIT2: Took about 8GB of ram + swap, but I now have a 90MB png file!
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;39453214] DURR BLOAT isn't a negative point because 'bloat' is, in this context, subjective. :smile:[/QUOTE] That's not quite how I'd put it. Because when compared to other distros (even ones that want to "just work"), Ubuntu's pretty damn bloated out of the box. Note the key phrase "out of the box" here. "apt-get remove" is not only a thing, but it's a damn good thing, and can solve the problem right then and there. And even if you don't remove them, I'm sure that you can think of a use for pretty much everything they've included nowadays, even if that use doesn't apply to you.
Damn shame that ubuntu doesen't optimize for SSD usage by default. also, how's kernel 3.8 working on ubuntu?
Apparently I couldn't find any tutorials on how to make an XFCE theme from scratch, so I just took [url=https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arch-statler/]arch-statler[/url] and modified it to no end. [thumb]http://i.imgur.com/59pHJDO.jpg[/thumb] Finally, it's beautiful again.
[QUOTE=Relaxation;39454526]Ahh ok. I'm just trying to get advice primarily from another dev, someone that codes a lot. I've never used fedora, but I'm looking for something a bit more practical than ubuntu. [editline]2nd February 2013[/editline] Not saying ubuntu isn't practical, but I think there's better distros for dev purposes.[/QUOTE] I spend a lot of my time coding away on tens of projects I've got going, but that mostly happens in vim or gvim. I'm not sure what kind of environment you want, but Sabayon is really really fast. The startup system (init) is OpenRC, since it's based on Gentoo, so it isn't super fast on the startup as other distributions (Systemd for Fedora or Upstart for Ubuntu), but if you want, you can migrate somewhat easily to another init system. And by somewhat easy, I mean for someone who knows how Linux works, and preferably Systemd and OpenRC too. If you'd need help with that, let me know. [editline]3rd February 2013[/editline] For all you long-time computer users, that spend a lot of the day on the computer, I can really recommend redshift. It's amazing, really. And for those of you using a lightweight system without effects, like AwesomeWM, looking for some quick effects, but not really into how xcompmgr does its thing, I can recommend compton. Sort of a new-ish fork of xcompmgr that does it all without bugs or anything and just works. Simple to set up as well. Both programs were found in this thread, and I am grateful to you guys for that!
Yeah I code in vim for the most part. Hmm, I need to research more and give it some thought... Or take the time to go through and clean ubuntu up. Also, what's the latest far as desktop environments? Are people liking unity more than gnome 3? I personally haven't been outside of gnome 3 or unity... Unity is nice but I wish I could customize it more... Also I haven't looked at the difference in resource usage.
[QUOTE=Relaxation;39458582]Yeah I code in vim for the most part. Hmm, I need to research more and give it some thought... Or take the time to go through and clean ubuntu up. Also, what's the latest far as desktop environments? Are people liking unity more than gnome 3? I personally haven't been outside of gnome 3 or unity... Unity is nice but I wish I could customize it more... Also I haven't looked at the difference in resource usage.[/QUOTE] If you want to customize like stupid but not start from scratch, have a look at MATE/GNOME 2.x
A quickie: "First, mount the root partition on /mnt. Following the example above (yours may be different), it would be:.." This is the mounting point I'm at with Arch, I did a full partition and mkfs.ext4 sda1, so what would I mount into? SDA1 or just SDA?
[QUOTE=Moofy;39460216]A quickie: "First, mount the root partition on /mnt. Following the example above (yours may be different), it would be:.." This is the mounting point I'm at with Arch, I did a full partition and mkfs.ext4 sda1, so what would I mount into? SDA1 or just SDA?[/QUOTE] /dev/sda is the entire first harddrive, /dev/sda[X] are partitions on the /dev/sda drive. So you would mount sda1 if that's the partition you want.
Thanks, however I'm screwed again. The arch install tells me there is no such interface "wlan0" and it have worked before I did a fstab and removed the hashtags in multilib. All I had to do was # pacman -Sy .. But then network was unreachable. It hurts my head and I googled for hours with no solution.
[QUOTE=Moofy;39460751]Thanks, however I'm screwed again. The arch install tells me there is no such interface "wlan0" and it have worked before I did a fstab and removed the hashtags in multilib. All I had to do was # pacman -Sy .. But then network was unreachable. It hurts my head and I googled for hours with no solution.[/QUOTE] ifconfig -a list any interface? lspci|grep -i ethernet? Not too sure about Arch, but if you did an update, perhaps it grabbed a different set of drivers and now identifies it as ath0 or similar instead of wlan0? Worst case hopefully your eth0 still works and you can try pacman -Syu'ing on there in hopes it grabs something that works better or a different driver package.
[QUOTE=HarryHy;39460792]ifconfig -a list any interface? lspci|grep -i ethernet? Not too sure about Arch, but if you did an update, perhaps it grabbed a different set of drivers and now identifies it as ath0 or similar instead of wlan0? Worst case hopefully your eth0 still works and you can try pacman -Syu'ing on there in hopes it grabs something that works better or a different driver package.[/QUOTE] Nope. TBH I think I'm not a guy who should do stuff like this, maybe get a distro and a decent DE with it. And by distro I mean some self installing stuff, this is just brain damaging for me. Any suggestions in a Distro? I'd like decent Java and watching videos etc. also I'm on ATI/AMD, not sure what would be my best choice?
[QUOTE=Moofy;39461026]Nope. TBH I think I'm not a guy who should do stuff like this, maybe get a distro and a decent DE with it. And by distro I mean some self installing stuff, this is just brain damaging for me. Any suggestions in a Distro? I'd like decent Java and watching videos etc. also I'm on ATI/AMD, not sure what would be my best choice?[/QUOTE] Eh, it is a good learning experience to just mess around with it more. Not really sure what I'd try next though in your case... Personally I enjoy xfce as my DE, so I use Xubuntu on my main system. Might be a good shot if you want something that should -hopefully- "just work" out of the box. Then maybe throw Arch on a VM and play with that some more.
[QUOTE=HarryHy;39461096]Eh, it is a good learning experience to just mess around with it more. Not really sure what I'd try next though in your case... Personally I enjoy xfce as my DE, so I use Xubuntu on my main system. Might be a good shot if you want something that should -hopefully- "just work" out of the box. Then maybe throw Arch on a VM and play with that some more.[/QUOTE] I roled with Xubuntu before, had troubles with setting up my graphics driver though.
[QUOTE=Moofy;39460751]Thanks, however I'm screwed again. The arch install tells me there is no such interface "wlan0" and it have worked before I did a fstab and removed the hashtags in multilib. All I had to do was # pacman -Sy .. But then network was unreachable. It hurts my head and I googled for hours with no solution.[/QUOTE] Try this command: [quote]ip link set wlan0 up[/quote]
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