• General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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... Virtualbox instantly crashes GNOME Shell. I need Virtualbox. Time to try Unity.
[QUOTE=nikomo;34671922]... Virtualbox instantly crashes GNOME Shell. I need Virtualbox. Time to try Unity.[/QUOTE] That's the only issue I personally have with gnome shell, it still has tons of little bugs and incompatibilities :\
I have a feeling it has something to do with my GPU drivers. Whatever, I submitted a really shitty bug ticket.
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;34666687]Are you implying xfce has no customizable keyboard shortcuts? Because it does. I press ctrl + alt + t to open terminal. You can also just swap over to a virtual terminal if you really want one; no matter what DE you are using its probably just in virtual console 7 (ctrl + alt + f7) and you can have as many as you want (usually defaults to 6, so ctrl + alt + [f1-f6])[/QUOTE] That really isn't how implying works. He didn't even mention xfce.
I know XFCE has similar functionality, however XFCE feels like a generic UI that doesn't take in the fact that the user is using a touchpad. Unity/GNOME Shell type of interfaces are amazing on laptops compared to GNOME Classic or XFCE or the likes.
[QUOTE=FPtje;34676601]That really isn't how implying works. He didn't even mention xfce.[/QUOTE] Look a few posts back, he had asked about a DE for arch, and I was just continuing to give my opinion on xfce. [QUOTE=nikomo;34677671]I know XFCE has similar functionality, however XFCE feels like a generic UI that doesn't take in the fact that the user is using a touchpad. Unity/GNOME Shell type of interfaces are amazing on laptops compared to GNOME Classic or XFCE or the likes.[/QUOTE] I've never installed ubuntu myself and I use a desktop, so I guess I wasn't really qualified to comment in the first place :v:
Eh, it's easy to make assumptions regarding user interfaces, I didn't even think the laptop would be so different from a desktop. The general user experience is still lacking something though. GNOME Shell would be bloody amazing with one of them Apple trackpads that do gestures and multitouch and shit.
I'm finding pacman very annoying. I'm curious, does portage solve dependency issues where if certain packages need a higher priority, such as libpng where it needs to be installed before other certain packages, it installs libpng before building those other packages?
Today I learned that forcing 56 packages to update at the same time isn't very safe.
[QUOTE=sam6420;34686421]Anybody? :/[/QUOTE] Try moving ~/.kde to ~/.kde2 or something. If you're able to login after that, you can delete ~/.kde2 if you don't mind losing all your old preferences. If it doesn't work, you can just move it back to ~/.kde and try something else. You actually don't have to wipe out the whole thing, but I don't know which file that setting is in. I suppose you could also install something like Openbox just so you can run system-settings (it'll start the KDE System Settings program) and go in and change your font.
why not just symlink .kde to .kde2?
[QUOTE=nikomo;34671922]... Virtualbox instantly crashes GNOME Shell. I need Virtualbox. Time to try Unity.[/QUOTE] The Ubuntu daily build as of valentines day works like shit in the latest virtualbox (stable branch).
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;34689531]why not just symlink .kde to .kde2?[/QUOTE] So you have a clean .kde when you start it up. It'll reset all of your preferences and junk.
[QUOTE=P320;34692277]The Ubuntu daily build as of valentines day works like shit in the latest virtualbox (stable branch).[/QUOTE] Turns out it was a driver issue. Catalyst just sucks balls, it seems.
[QUOTE=nikomo;34701250]Turns out it was a driver issue. Catalyst just sucks balls, it seems.[/QUOTE] yeah, fglrx is full of issues, AMD need to get their shit together on that
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;34704209]AMD need to get their shit together[/QUOTE] Here, I removed the unnecessary bits
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Talk to FanaticalVPS, ask them to set it for you?
Can I install a OS through grub? I need to reinstall Ubuntu because I installed it wrong, I can read a CD but I cant boot from one. So, I really need to use grub to install it, can it be done? A quick explanation would be nice too.
[QUOTE=Koenigsegg;34717011]Can I install a OS through grub? I need to reinstall Ubuntu because I installed it wrong, I can read a CD but I cant boot from one. So, I really need to use grub to install it, can it be done? A quick explanation would be nice too.[/QUOTE] You dun goofed. But seriously, make a USB with Lili Live USB Creator and boot from that. It's 500x less complicated.
[QUOTE=Koenigsegg;34717011]Can I install a OS through grub? I need to reinstall Ubuntu because I installed it wrong, I can read a CD but I cant boot from one. So, I really need to use grub to install it, can it be done? A quick explanation would be nice too.[/QUOTE] Why can't you boot from cd? Just go into the BIOS before you even get to your boot loader and rearrange boot devices, placing your cd drive first, then install properly, remove the cd and revert the boot device order to its original state. The GRand Unified Boot loader (GRUB) is only there to load the operating system into the correct memory location.
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;34717298]Why can't you boot from cd? Just go into the BIOS before you even get to your boot loader and rearrange boot devices, placing your cd drive first, then install properly, remove the cd and revert the boot device order to its original state. The GRand Unified Boot loader (GRUB) is only there to load the operating system into the correct memory location.[/QUOTE] The bios are outdated and discontinued and flat-out ignore anything but the hard drive. Its impossible to boot from anything and the only way i can install a OS is to do a hard drive swap. However I need to install on the native system or the OS wont be installed properly and I'll be right back to where I am now. Catch 22
GRUB might be able to boot a CD, but that's just a guess from my part. I'll see if I can look into it.
Yeah, GRUB wasn't exactly built to do that... That task is left up to the BIOS, which is why GRUB doesn't have that functionality. How bloody old is the machine if you can't boot from a CD?
[QUOTE=nikomo;34717845]Yeah, GRUB wasn't exactly built to do that... That task is left up to the BIOS, which is why GRUB doesn't have that functionality. How bloody old is the machine if you can't boot from a CD?[/QUOTE] Its not super old its just on its last legs I guess. Also you were never meant to switch out of 98, they even hid the bios in f1.
I find it hard to believe that a machine that came with Win98 can't boot from a CD, considering CD players had been available for like 15 years before the release of Win98, so CD wasn't really a new standard by any means.
Guys, at the login screen after startup, I need to press every key for at least 1s if I want to type a letter, how do I fix this? [editline]16th February 2012[/editline] Ok I was updating to 11.10 from 11.04 (which somehow broke down half way just because I didn't use it for a month) and halfway the update, my screen starts flashing and nothing responded. After a reboot, my Ubuntu just won't boot anymore. I find it a bit stupid that not using Ubuntu for a month a) breaks all kinds of stuff and b) screws over the upgrade process so I have to start all over again [editline]16th February 2012[/editline] Imma try Fedora 16
[QUOTE=Koenigsegg;34717382]The bios are outdated and discontinued and flat-out ignore anything but the hard drive. Its impossible to boot from anything and the only way i can install a OS is to do a hard drive swap. However I need to install on the native system or the OS wont be installed properly and I'll be right back to where I am now. Catch 22[/QUOTE] you could make one of those floppy boot disks that allows it to boot from a cd
Does anyone know a good bandwith limiter for Fedora 16? Trickle only does it per application. I can't seem to find a wondershaper equivalent/version and I don't know the depository command... Also running wondershaper just really quickly closes the terminal and doesn't seem to do anything regardless of which speed I type... Just checked the package repository, not one single package that says something like "shape network traffic" or "limit bandwidth usage" Edit: cstream seems close, just need to figure it out how to use it Edit: nope Edit: time to learn how to use tc
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;34728467]you could make one of those floppy boot disks that allows it to boot from a cd[/QUOTE] Could you elaborate on that please?
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