• General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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KMix is being stupid. I have two "cards" on my laptop, the laptop speakers and the HDMI port. For some reason, KMix wants to default to the HDMI port no matter what I tell it. I make alsa's default card set as the speakers, the multimedia settings are set to the speakers, but KMix insists that it uses the HDMI port. I go to switch the master channel inside KMix and it has two options which are exactly the same and it doesn't show any options below either of them. [editline]18th July 2012[/editline] I switched to VolumeIcon and it actually respects alsa's/KDE's options instead of trying to make things up.
Question, i'm new to Linux and i bought a VPS with Linux on it, on there i installed Debian and i currently host a SpaceStation 13 server. Now the interest seems to be dropping in that and i want to host a other server but that program is Windows only, how good does Windows programs run on Linux (Using Wine)? Or does that depends on the software?
[QUOTE=darth-veger;36829976]Question, i'm new to Linux and i bought a VPS with Linux on it, on there i installed Debian and i currently host a SpaceStation 13 server. Now the interest seems to be dropping in that and i want to host a other server but that program is Windows only, how good does Windows programs run on Linux (Using Wine)? Or does that depends on the software?[/QUOTE] What kind of server is it?
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;36830036]What kind of server is it?[/QUOTE] Dedicated VPS (2 GB RAM) Debian
[QUOTE=darth-veger;36830120]Dedicated VPS (2 GB RAM) Debian[/QUOTE] ..Er, I mean the application, haha. Sorry.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;36830142]..Er, I mean the application, haha. Sorry.[/QUOTE] The one i run now (SS13) is called BYOND The one i want to run is Phoenix Emulator, you have to pay 20 pounds though in order to use the emulator
Now KDE has decided to shut the sound off for everything except itself. I'll try out gnome. Maybe it'll not be a dick to settings.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;36830435]Now KDE has decided to shut the sound off for everything except itself. I'll try out gnome. Maybe it'll not be a dick to settings.[/QUOTE] After dicking around with KDE and GNOME, I've settled with E17. Currently, it's actually not half bad. Oh, and it's much faster than I'd ever expect. Runs perfectly fast on a 512MB pentium 4 computer with Arch, running Firefox, irssi, Skype, and a couple of idle terminals and one compiling some stuff.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36830457]After dicking around with KDE and GNOME, I've settled with E17. Currently, it's actually not half bad. Oh, and it's much faster than I'd ever expect. Runs perfectly fast on a 512MB pentium 4 computer with Arch, running Firefox, irssi, Skype, and a couple of idle terminals and one compiling some stuff.[/QUOTE] Last time i installed e17, it segv'd everywhere
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;36830593]Last time i installed e17, it segv'd everywhere[/QUOTE] Where did you install it from? The version in the Debian/Ubuntu repos are really really really really old. Versions from SVN are more stable and feature complete.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;36830593]Last time i installed e17, it segv'd everywhere[/QUOTE] This one is running perfectly. Also with Elsa as the DM, and even though it does have a nVidia card, I'm using the software renderer. Everything else is SHIT on the geforce 6200.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36830778]This one is running perfectly. Also with Elsa as the DM, and even though it does have a nVidia card, I'm using the software renderer. Everything else is SHIT on the geforce 6200.[/QUOTE] I could never really get Elsa working properly, always had rendering issues, and it never remembered what Xsession was my default. I just use LXDM v:v:v
Is there a SWF decompiler for Linux in deb, rpm package?
Writing from the dwb browser in the dwm manager :v: Havn't used the mouse in a while, but youtube is trying my patience; is there any good way to control the youtube player without a mouse in dwb?
Got my package manager downloading files from an external server, and was going to write a config file loader but then I discovered zsh.
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;36831534]Writing from the dwb browser in the dwm manager :v: Havn't used the mouse in a while, but youtube is trying my patience; is there any good way to control the youtube player without a mouse in dwb?[/QUOTE] I assume playing files back using the HTML5 video thing would work. If you're using flash, you're pretty much out of luck. Writing from dwb.
I started using awesome WM today instead of my usual openbox... how do you run programs from mod4+r. I type in the program then I hit enter, and nothing happens...
[QUOTE=cryticfarm;36838365]I started using awesome WM today instead of my usual openbox... how do you run programs from mod4+r. I type in the program then I hit enter, and nothing happens...[/QUOTE] Then it's not installed. Or you typed in the wrong name. Perhaps you don't know what the name of the executable is? What are you trying to run?
You are most likely not putting in the executable's name, I usually just use the package name but some applications have odd names that take a few times to get used to. I have a small little notepad with me with all of the crap and applications and their executable names for when I don't feel like using the right click menu.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36838407]Then it's not installed. Or you typed in the wrong name. Perhaps you don't know what the name of the executable is? What are you trying to run?[/QUOTE] I tried a few... xterm firefox google-chrome these all run properly from an xterm window [editline]19th July 2012[/editline] oh and also they tab complete
[QUOTE=cryticfarm;36838577]I tried a few... xterm firefox google-chrome these all run properly from an xterm window [editline]19th July 2012[/editline] oh and also they tab complete[/QUOTE] works for me.
well im enjoying using the wm... except not being able to launch programs outside of xterm is pretty annoying [editline]19th July 2012[/editline] i gave up and started using dmenu instead... any way to make the awesome bar appear at the bottom instead of top?
[QUOTE=cryticfarm;36838849]well im enjoying using the wm... except not being able to launch programs outside of xterm is pretty annoying [editline]19th July 2012[/editline] i gave up and started using dmenu instead... any way to make the awesome bar appear at the bottom instead of top?[/QUOTE] You might try DWM. It's awesome but with more straightforward configuration. It's not quite as flashy but all of the core functionality is the same. (For the run menu you will want dmenu)
fuck fuck fuck I accidently my /lib folder on my arch, and I can't excecute anything. oh well.. time to try out debian.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36841732]fuck fuck fuck I accidently my /lib folder on my arch, and I can't excecute anything. oh well.. time to try out debian.[/QUOTE] Boot into a live image and just symlink to /usr/lib. [editline]19th July 2012[/editline] Who else is using i3 as WM? I think it's pretty decent. Still use Gnome 3 a lot, though. Once my workspaces are set up it is just lovely.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36841732]fuck fuck fuck I accidently my /lib folder on my arch, and I can't excecute anything. oh well.. time to try out debian.[/QUOTE] Didn't you get the memo? [editline]19th July 2012[/editline] Happened to me too, time to go back to Ubuntu for a bit.
I can't get git to work on zsh, and I can't get unicode to work on either xterm or urxvt. I used python2 -c 'print u"\u2605".encode("u8")', and they both spit out a 'a' with a carat on it.
[QUOTE=neos300;36843117]I can't get git to work on zsh, and I can't get unicode to work on either xterm or urxvt. I used python2 -c 'print u"\u2605".encode("u8")', and they both spit out a 'a' with a carat on it.[/QUOTE] What do you mean git doesn't work on zsh?
I've given up on unicode in any terminal applications entirely :v:
Okay got unicode working on uxterm, but it doesn't work on urxvt so I'm ditching that. [editline]19th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36843138]What do you mean git doesn't work on zsh?[/QUOTE] I mean I made a $(git_prompt_info) call in my $PROMPT in a oh-my-zsh theme, but it errors out (it only displays anything when I source .zshrc when I'm in a git repo, and doesn't update when I leave) [editline]19th July 2012[/editline] My .zsh-theme: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/P0Cbz.png[/IMG] [editline]19th July 2012[/editline] Well now it works, I changed it from double quotes to single quotes.
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