General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37194371]Anyone has any experience with samba? I have samba running on an ubuntu machine and on my raspberry pi running raspbmc rc4, and every few hours or so (half a day at most) I just lose access to my shares, have to restart samba and it's all fine again. Pretty annoying since the ubuntu machine runs sabnzbd+ and sickbeard, and the final destination is on the PI's HDD. The ubuntu machine only has a 250gb HDD in it so it's pretty much full in the morning, and post-processing isn't fast enough to process all the files on the ubuntu machine and move them to the PI during the day.[/QUOTE]
No clue, but I've had samba shares mysteriously go absent while the deamon appears to be fine. Perhaps a cron job to restart samba every so often...
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;37196343]No clue, but I've had samba shares mysteriously go absent while the deamon appears to be fine. Perhaps a cron job to restart samba every so often...[/QUOTE]
I really liked to just fix the problem but I can't find anything about it so I guess that's the best 'fix', thanks. Now to find out how to write a cron job :D
Is anyone rocking it with CDE yet? :v:
[QUOTE=MIPS;37197508]Is anyone rocking it with CDE yet? :v:[/QUOTE]
Looks cool. Gotta try to install it on arch.
[QUOTE=MIPS;37197508]Is anyone rocking it with CDE yet? :v:[/QUOTE]
What, this visual turd?
[img_thumb]http://xwinman.org/screenshots/dtwm-jrutt.gif[/img_thumb]
No thanks :v:
[QUOTE=MIPS;37197508]Is anyone rocking it with CDE yet? :v:[/QUOTE]
I'm fine with MATE, thanks.
[QUOTE=FPtje;37198493]What, this visual turd?
[img_thumb]http://xwinman.org/screenshots/dtwm-jrutt.gif[/img_thumb]
No thanks :v:[/QUOTE]
Looks like Windows 3.11's cousin
Looks like one of FVWM's default themes (which all look like shit).
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37194371]Anyone has any experience with samba? I have samba running on an ubuntu machine and on my raspberry pi running raspbmc rc4, and every few hours or so (half a day at most) I just lose access to my shares, have to restart samba and it's all fine again. Pretty annoying since the ubuntu machine runs sabnzbd+ and sickbeard, and the final destination is on the PI's HDD. The ubuntu machine only has a 250gb HDD in it so it's pretty much full in the morning, and post-processing isn't fast enough to process all the files on the ubuntu machine and move them to the PI during the day.[/QUOTE]
why not have the ubuntu machine mount the pi through sshfs?
[QUOTE=hpqoeu;37200197]why not have the ubuntu machine mount the pi through sshfs?[/QUOTE]
sshfs? I have to access the shares on windows too, samba does that and I've never heard of sshfs before so I dunno.
[QUOTE=MIPS;37197508]Is anyone rocking it with CDE yet? :v:[/QUOTE]
Looks manly as hell
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37200429]sshfs? I have to access the shares on windows too, samba does that and I've never heard of sshfs before so I dunno.[/QUOTE]
you can have samba running to access it through windows, but using sshfs between linux machines is much easier
[QUOTE=hpqoeu;37200826]you can have samba running to access it through windows, but using sshfs between linux machines is much easier[/QUOTE]
Yeah the PI barely handles just running samba. Also I heard of nfs for between linux machines as well but it's kinda silly to change what I have now while I have it all set up already it works perfectly fine except when the shares just stop working after a few hours. The cron job should help with that now.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37202925]Is it a bad thing that I like this?
It looks so retro.[/QUOTE]
Usually I'm not one too be too hung on looks, but that kind of hurts my eyes
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37204754][url]http://puu.sh/JQKp.jpg[/url]
I'm pretty happy with my current setup anyway, although I do want to add a dock.[/QUOTE]
That is orders of magnitudes more reasonable that that blue mess, although personally I cant stand window decoration anymore... or the mouse... so for me it's dwm still :v:
for me its either dwm or awesome.
and sometimes openbox :v:
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37206956]for me its either dwm or awesome.
and sometimes openbox :v:[/QUOTE]
I installed i3-wm on a whim (someone mentioned it on IRC) and boy am I impressed. I recreated my dwm setup, and more. The greater flexebility when it comes to arranging workspaces is great (and the fact that changes work on a per-workspace basis), and I like that the status bar (which I hide by default and only appears while holding mod4) doesn't push windows down, it just overlays them. Plus the default color scheme is easier on the eyes. I like the philosophy of dwm but I'm fine with droping it in favor of a bit more usability.
I have a HP-Probook 6555b and im running linux mint (lisa).
How can i change the desktop manager i would like to use mate instead of gnome.
Also i tried installing tf2 with Playonlinux it doesnt seem to launch the game at all, steam only shows that you play it but after a few seconds it goes away.
Also is there a way to Upgrade from one linux version to another like linux mint 12 to 13 etc.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37204754][url]http://puu.sh/JQKp.jpg[/url]
I'm pretty happy with my current setup anyway, although I do want to add a dock.[/QUOTE]
Why are you running the desktop as root?
[QUOTE=Strikebango;37207942]Also i tried installing tf2 with Playonlinux it doesnt seem to launch the game at all, steam only shows that you play it but after a few seconds it goes away.[/QUOTE]
Try putting these in your launch parameters:
[code]-heapsize 524288 -dxlevel 80 -window[/code]
Change heapsize to the amount of RAM, in kilobytes, you want to allocate for the game. I didn't have the exact same problem as you did, but it helped me launch GMod.
I get this error when starting tf2
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NZ7mm.png[/t]
Awesome or DWM? I've been wanting to try a "power user" window manager for a while to get the feel, and maybe would like it better than openbox.
Awesome, it's way superior imo.
However, dwm is more lightweight.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;37240074]Awesome or DWM? I've been wanting to try a "power user" window manager for a while to get the feel, and maybe would like it better than openbox.[/QUOTE]
I just started using i3-wm. It's much like dwm in terms of minimalism, but it's user friendly and easier to configure. It overcomes what I consider the major problems with dwm, mainly how it handles workspaces and their layouts. I like to think it's a happy medium between dwm (minimalist, barebones configuration) and awesome(somewhat over the top some times, making it a task in of itself to configure/use).
But really they all work about the same, and are all very usable. I've tried all three and so far i3 is my favorite, but you might try them all yourself.
[QUOTE=neos300;37240766]Awesome, it's way superior imo.
However, dwm is more lightweight.[/QUOTE]
If you're thinking lightweight in terms of code, then I hear you, but in terms of space usage, it really doesn't matter one bit, wether it's awesome, dwm, i3, or probably most other tiling wm'.
However, I'd like to point out that they're all pretty much customizable to the same points.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hv40n.png[/IMG] It only took me 6 hours but i got Arch up and running on a VM and i even got Awesome working! Are you proud of me facepunch!?
I'd suggest cdm instead of SLiM, though. It's really cool. Installation instructions are [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CDM]on the wiki[/url].
so my motherboard came with a linux distro named 'Winki'
uh
[QUOTE=geogzm;37252468]so my motherboard came with a linux distro named 'Winki'
uh[/QUOTE]
can you post the ISO to it? I wanna poke it in a VM.
What the fuck. I tried installing awesome "sudo aptitude install awesome" and once I got it up and running, there was no awesomerc or rc.lua file anywhere except in /usr/share/xpd/whatever. I tried putting the one from the system files into a /home/jack/config/awesome/ directory I created, but when I restarted awesome, it just deleted all tags and didn't work for anything.
Now I'm installing it from git. Wish me luck!
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