[QUOTE=Richy19;32245444]Did this [url]http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-gnome-open-terminal-shell-prompt-here/[/url] seems to work[/QUOTE]
Same difference, not sure if Thunar has similar shell execution functionality, but I don't need it as of yet.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32245391]Install some icons. Search in your package manager for icon themes. Then once installed, log out then back in and you should have them ready.[/QUOTE] That didn't work. :saddowns:
[editline]11th September 2011[/editline]
And I'm getting really annoyed with Chromium on here. I wish it wasn't such a fucking pain to get Firefox going. Why can't there be .debs of it?
Is there a way to change the color of the Fedora interface?
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32245509]
And I'm getting really annoyed with Chromium on here. I wish it wasn't such a fucking pain to get Firefox going. Why can't there be .debs of it?[/QUOTE]
Firefox is called Iceweasel in the Debian repos
IceWeasel is currently two versions behind firefox.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32245649]IceWeasel is currently two versions behind firefox.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, debian being so uptight about copyrights and whatnot is a pretty big downside imo, but it is a nice distro, we use it for a server.
Firefox just gives the binaries, so you could always download the tarball, extract it to /usr/share and make something to be able to run it whenever.
The commands should be something like this (double-check the commands yourself because I'm not your package manager and I can make mistakes, not to mention this should be standard practice when installing anything not by your package manager):
[code]
tar -xjvf firefox-6.0.2.tar.bz2
sudo mv firefox /usr/share
sudo echo "/usr/share/firefox/firefox" > /usr/bin/firefox
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/firefox
[/code]
After that, you should be able to just type "firefox" in a terminal and the browser will pop up as normal.
[QUOTE=Mr. Epicness;32245607]Is there a way to change the color of the Fedora interface?[/QUOTE]
Fedora 15 uses GNOME 3, which you're probably using, so look up GNOME 3 theming.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32245649]IceWeasel is currently two versions behind firefox.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://mozilla.debian.net/]really?[/url]
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32245649]IceWeasel is currently two versions behind firefox.[/QUOTE]
Debian's unstable branch has Iceweasel 6.0.2, which is current. Testing has 5.0 because testing is always delayed behind unstable; that's the point.
If you're talking about the stable release ("squeeze"), that has 3.5 and will always have 3.5 because that's how stable releases work. Security updates are handled as updates of the 3.5 package rather than upgrades to whole new versions of Firefox — in fact, that policy is the main reason why Debian can't use the "Firefox" trademark.
it still runs kind of slow, is there any other linux distro that would run retartedly fast on a 5-6 year old laptop? It's a dell latitude D610 if it makes any difference.
No distro would run retardedly fast but the generic advice to any distro question here is "Install Arch"
i'll install it now, Ubuntu is laggy as shit
[editline]12th September 2011[/editline]
not sure what i did, but it's running at a normal speed now.
So it appears my Arch install blew itself up.
I can't start X (Well I can, but it makes my laptop immediately unusable), network interfaces aren't detected at all, and it seems to be running the wrong kernel somehow.
Fuck.
You could try using systemd for bootup.
Cut my arch boot up to 15 seconds from cold boot, and thats on a 5400rpm drive.
Selecting "[u]GNOME (No effects)[/u]" at login for Ubuntu always made my desktop run super fast, back when I still used it. Give that a try before switching distros, it might be all that you need.
[QUOTE=FPtje;32234883]What language do you use at your university? I use C#. Two years ago they used Java.[/QUOTE]
C++
Got arch to install correctly :dance:
Installing xfce now
[editline]12th September 2011[/editline]
Ok, installed the nVidia driver and xfce.
Time to clean up this horrid monospace font.
Bah fuck I don't have the deb command. :v:
I seem to be in an unusual predicament.
I installed slim and added it to the daemon without properly setting it up, and now it won't go into xfce, and instead indefinitly wantage to log in. That fix is easy, but I cannot access below ttyl7 because of a bug in the nvidia middleman sony laptops.
Is there any way I can solve this from a live cd or something?
If you have the Arch install media or something you could for example chroot into your / partition, login and remove the packages you don't want.
At least I believe login would work. If it doesn't, just go as root.
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;32257556]I seem to be in an unusual predicament.
I installed slim and added it to the daemon without properly setting it up, and now it won't go into xfce, and instead indefinitly wantage to log in. That fix is easy, but I cannot access below ttyl7 because of a bug in the nvidia middleman sony laptops.
Is there any way I can solve this from a live cd or something?[/QUOTE]
What do you mean by "without properly setting it up"? If you have your .xinitrc file working, you should be able to get in fine, if something is wrong in the file, then it'll just bring you to the command line. Also, slim may not be [i]trying[/i] to log in, but it may [i]already be[/i] logged in. If you haven't set a wallpaper, the wallpaper will become slim's background (this confused me at first as well).
You could book into runlevel 1 or 3 (depending on how you setup this)
In grub press tab to edit the entry and add 1 or 3 at the end. Then, you'll be able to edit the config file and stop slim from starting.
Once that's done, reboot and you'll get back into your normal user environment.
I installed Debian but hated it. Epiphany and IceWeasel just keep crashing and I have to force quit.
[QUOTE=Mr. Epicness;32260618]I installed Debian but hated it. Epiphany and IceWeasel just crash with more than three tabs and I have to force quit.[/QUOTE]
That could be a browser problem. Is it a specific page that you open that makes it crash?
I'm trying to setup rtorrent on my CentOS 5.6 server so I can torrent junk, but I'm having trouble.
It couldn't resolve tracker host names, and the solution was to compile libcurl with c-ares support, which sort of worked but now it just can't connect to the tracker. It can apparently resolve the host name though.
[editline]12th September 2011[/editline]
It's rtorrent 0.8.6
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32260732]That could be a browser problem. Is it a specific page that you open that makes it crash?[/QUOTE]
Not really. Any page with some big images already makes it crash, what didn't happen with any other OS.
But I wasn't going to use Debian anyway, so...
[QUOTE=Mr. Epicness;32263477]Not really. Any page with some big images already makes it crash, what didn't happen with any other OS.
But I wasn't going to use Debian anyway, so...[/QUOTE]
That means it's just trying to load the image. I wouldn't know what the problem is though.
Also, one thing to note is that all Linux distros are the same OS, which also means that they are all able to run the same software and do the same things. Switching from Ubuntu to Fedora is not like switching from Windows 98 to Vista. The latter is switching to a different OS, whereas the former is not.
[QUOTE=Boris-B;32258585]You could book into runlevel 1 or 3 (depending on how you setup this)
In grub press tab to edit the entry and add 1 or 3 at the end. Then, you'll be able to edit the config file and stop slim from starting.
Once that's done, reboot and you'll get back into your normal user environment.[/QUOTE]
That worked for me, I've corrected the file and its all working. Thanks.
[editline]13th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;32257986]What do you mean by "without properly setting it up"? If you have your .xinitrc file working, you should be able to get in fine, if something is wrong in the file, then it'll just bring you to the command line. Also, slim may not be [i]trying[/i] to log in, but it may [i]already be[/i] logged in. If you haven't set a wallpaper, the wallpaper will become slim's background (this confused me at first as well).[/QUOTE]
No, I forgot to edit the file. The problem being I couldn't get to a terminal before slim started the nvidia driver.
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;32265136]No, I forgot to edit the file. The problem being I couldn't get to a terminal before slim started the nvidia driver.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I see how you set it up. I use runlevel 3 and have my .xinitrc set my WM up.
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