General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Ott;43579935]Using Mint on a VM. I don't like the font.[/QUOTE] Huh? What? Then just change the font?

[QUOTE=Larikang;43581288]What do you mean by "it"? Unless you're using a really old live ISO, Arch's installation is not automated. Which means that if anything got incorrectly wiped it's because you used the wrong drive/partition names in some command.[/QUOTE] yeah, there must be something I did wrong in there. was just incredibly frustrated since things weren't working the way I wanted it work. must have been one of the most troublesome installation I've ever done of arch

How do you get internet in the machine you're trying to install arch?. When i installed arch on my computer from the cd i did: [CODE] # pacman -Syy && pacman -S lynx # ping -c 1 www.google.com # lynx [/CODE] And followed the installation guide, if something was wrong i could just google the problem. if commandline is too hard you can easily just install xorg and some driver and firefox then work from xterm.

[QUOTE=PredGD;43581367]yeah, there must be something I did wrong in there. was just incredibly frustrated since things weren't working the way I wanted it work. must have been one of the most troublesome installation I've ever done of arch[/QUOTE] Understandable. Remember: Arch doesn't break computers, people do. And let's just stop the gun control analogy right there.

My partitions - and Linux install - are so fucked up I'm just gonna reinstall Arch. Should I go with btrfs? Really the only thing that's important on my HDD right now is my music. (And some logs and other pieces of text but I could just take a backup on a fucking flash drive, text weighs nothing) All of which is backed up to Google Play Music in case I lose the stuff I don't have CDs of. [editline]18th January 2014[/editline] Specifically what I mean by "so fucked up" is that I for some reason have over a TiB for my Linux install and only like 300GiB for Windows. What I mean regarding the Arch install is that X has huge issues doing things. If I start X and shut it down, I can't start X in another terminal. This is probably cdm's fault, though. cdm has been majorly broken for ages. But I can't really replace it without redoing my system totally. At least I guess I could migrate to zsh. [editline]18th January 2014[/editline] Actually, I'll just change from openbox to a tiling window manager as well while I'm at it. Suggestions?

Btrfs is good, tiling window manager is fun, and Zsh is useful. I see nothing wrong with your decisions.

tiling WM's are very useful when I want to be productive.

[QUOTE=esalaka;43584067]My partitions - and Linux install - are so fucked up I'm just gonna reinstall Arch. Should I go with btrfs? Really the only thing that's important on my HDD right now is my music. (And some logs and other pieces of text but I could just take a backup on a fucking flash drive, text weighs nothing) All of which is backed up to Google Play Music in case I lose the stuff I don't have CDs of. [editline]18th January 2014[/editline] Specifically what I mean by "so fucked up" is that I for some reason have over a TiB for my Linux install and only like 300GiB for Windows. What I mean regarding the Arch install is that X has huge issues doing things. If I start X and shut it down, I can't start X in another terminal. This is probably cdm's fault, though. cdm has been majorly broken for ages. But I can't really replace it without redoing my system totally. At least I guess I could migrate to zsh. [editline]18th January 2014[/editline] Actually, I'll just change from openbox to a tiling window manager as well while I'm at it. Suggestions?[/QUOTE] Awesome.

I'll take it that there's some programmers in here. Anyways, I'm having the hardest time setting up a nice little environment for me to program in. What drew me to Linux is that some programming-related things can be handled nearly automatically, such as installing and using libraries. Just type in sudo whatever and you got your library! Most of them also go to the /usr/include and /usr/lib directories so you often don't even need to tell the compiler to look for the things it needs. I've also grown to appreciate make and cmake for building programs, but this is where the luxuries end and the pain begins. I can't seem to find a good IDE to program in. Some of them have one thing I need and lack another. I'd love something that autocompletes and allows you to go to definitions and header files by clicking on them. That's all I need. Vim seems to be the closest that can do this so far with its clang complete plugin, and I won't make too much fuss about going to header files since it only requires you to define paths, but going to definitions requires ctag generation which is too unautomatic for me to deal with. Anybody got any recommendations?

[QUOTE=elevate;43590302]I'll take it that there's some programmers in here. Anyways, I'm having the hardest time setting up a nice little environment for me to program in. What drew me to Linux is that some programming-related things can be handled nearly automatically, such as installing and using libraries. Just type in sudo whatever and you got your library! Most of them also go to the /usr/include and /usr/lib directories so you often don't even need to tell the compiler to look for the things it needs. I've also grown to appreciate make and cmake for building programs, but this is where the luxuries end and the pain begins. I can't seem to find a good IDE to program in. Some of them have one thing I need and lack another. I'd love something that autocompletes and allows you to go to definitions and header files by clicking on them. That's all I need. Vim seems to be the closest that can do this so far with its clang complete plugin, and I won't make too much fuss about going to header files since it only requires you to define paths, but going to definitions requires ctag generation which is too unautomatic for me to deal with. Anybody got any recommendations?[/QUOTE] It's not an ide, but sublime text 3 can do loads. It can even go to definition. When you press f12 while having the cursor on a method or variable it will go to the header. From there you can press the down key to go to the actual definition. Also you can customise it loads. [editline]19th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=neos300;43588029]Awesome.[/QUOTE] Always my favourite. Have a nice tip: bind super + middle mouse to closing the window under the pointer. It's way faster than exiting the program through a menu or an alt+F4 binding. You can close many windows in a very short amount of time. Have another tip: bind commonly used programs to super+key combinations. For all other programs install a fuzzy search app launcher. One that you open with a key bind and type a part of a program name and press enter to start it. It's really faster than looking through menus. I have chrome on super+C, sublime super+S, thunar super+E (like Explorer in windows), Monodevelop super+D and the launcher on super+Z. It's things like this that give tiling wms the edge over other DEs and window managers. I love AwesomeWM above any other because customisation is done in Lua.

[QUOTE=FPtje;43590725]It's not an ide, but sublime text 3 can do loads. It can even go to definition. When you press f12 while having the cursor on a method or variable it will go to the header. From there you can press the down key to go to the actual definition. Also you can customise it loads.[/QUOTE] From what little I've figured out from playing around with Sublime Text 3 so far it fails to do auto complete for anything beyond the file you currently have open. What I want is to be able to put in a header and for the code editor to give me code completion based on what's in that header file, and the header files within it, and so on. Think I might just go VIM + CMake + Clang Complete + CTags for now.

[QUOTE=elevate;43591102]From what little I've figured out from playing around with Sublime Text 3 so far it fails to do auto complete for anything beyond the file you currently have open. What I want is to be able to put in a header and for the code editor to give me code completion based on what's in that header file, and the header files within it, and so on. Think I might just go VIM + CMake + Clang Complete + CTags for now.[/QUOTE] There's multiple solutions for that: [url]https://github.com/alienhard/SublimeAllAutocomplete[/url] [url]https://github.com/pfultz2/ClangComplete[/url] [url]https://github.com/quarnster/completion[/url] [url]https://github.com/Pleasurazy/Sublime-Better-Completion[/url] Most of these can be installed with the package manager.

what font do you guys use as default font? I've fallen in love with URW Gothic L Book

[QUOTE=PredGD;43591390]what font do you guys use as default font? I've fallen in love with URW Gothic L Book[/QUOTE] Nimbus Sans L Regular [editline]19th January 2014[/editline] It looks really good on my netbook, even with large resolutions. In my terminal however I use Inconsolata Medium size 10, and xfce4-terminal for my terminal. Extended information is that I run ext4 as my root filesystem, ZFS pools for my backup partitions, awesome as window manager on my netbook and xfwm4 on my desktop. My desktop is running a custom flavor of Funtoo which is a Gentoo-based Linux system, but on my netbook it's just Arch because I'm too lazy right now to get a proper binary-based Gentoo layout done. Both systems use the pf-sources for my Linux kernel, latest version always.

[QUOTE=PredGD;43591390]what font do you guys use as default font? I've fallen in love with URW Gothic L Book[/QUOTE] Droid Sans Everywhere And Droid Sans Mono for my Text editors / IDE's

[t]http://i.imgur.com/qeRbi9k.png[/t] I'm using Firefox and everything is monospace

I use Terminus for all my fixed-width needs (although I do quite like the default XTerm font shown in esalaka's pic)

I use tewifont for my terminal the rest is default [url]https://github.com/neeee/tewi-font[/url] [t]https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/53356a2ac0853aa5123ff53ce578f9bb2a739ca4/687474703a2f2f676f7075742e69742f7134792e706e67[/t]

I'm gonna change my fonts around a bit as soon as I figure out how to do that. It's been a while since I last installed Arch.

[QUOTE=PredGD;43591390]what font do you guys use as default font? I've fallen in love with URW Gothic L Book[/QUOTE] Cantarell. Much more readable at small font sizes and great on larger. ...But Liberation Mono for monospace.

[QUOTE=PredGD;43579882]2 hours fighting and I made it, woohoo! noticed something which is pretty bad though. my keepass database (*.kdb) is apparently an outdated format and I can't open it in linux. tried to do as it said and import it, but it tells me that feature is only available on windows since it's windows code or something. how would I get my passwords out of there? [editline]18th January 2014[/editline] [IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/jKhg0o.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Use KeepassX. Or just use Lastpass or another P/W manager instead.

Can I use TRIM/discard on a SSD with a motherboard that doesn't support AHCI? I've found some posts that TRIM works on Windows in IDE mode but I haven't found anything about Linux.

Linux 3.13 out, Kernelnewbies changelog: [url]http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.13[/url] Cool features: nftables, iptables successor Radeon power management enabled by default, and automatic GPU switching TCP Fast Open enabled by default Squashfs improvements (will help out with LiveCDs) NFC support Changes to block device garbage collection, smaller latency hit for doing GC now The rest are cool too, but those are the bigger ones that stood out to me. There was apparently one case where machines with lots of CPUs were really slow, so they changed it and apparently got like 4x more performance or something.

The Block device changes ans the Squashfs improvements will be amazing.

I love messing around with bash. [t]http://novaember.com/s/519600970.png[/t] [editline]20th January 2014[/editline] and here's an irc bot (also made in bash, forked from my other bot) [code] 12:44 + Darkwater │ http://novaember.com/s/473978204.png 12:44 + Darkwater │ Huebot! 12:44 Huebot │ On it! (http://novaember.com/s/473978204.png) 12:44 Huebot │ Darkwater: http://novaember.com/s/654832822.png [/code]

Even tho I have wine installed and use it for Notepadd++ I never really used it besides that. So do I just run exe files and wine "tries" to make it understand the Linux kernel or do I need to push the necessary files into a specific directory?

anyone else using the catalyst drivers having some issues when tear free rendering is enabled? it'll cause all kinds of graphical errors in games and make artifacts flicker across my screens if I play games

What do you guys think about Port Knocking vs Denyhosts/Fail2ban solution?

[QUOTE=diwako;43606298]Even tho I have wine installed and use it for Notepadd++ I never really used it besides that. So do I just run exe files and wine "tries" to make it understand the Linux kernel or do I need to push the necessary files into a specific directory?[/QUOTE] That's not too far off really, you can just run the executable files with wine and it'll work. No need to move files around.

Upgrading my BIOS not only stopped Windows 8 from booting, it stopped Windows 7 from booting [I]using the installation DVD[/I]. I'm almost impressed. Luckily Arch still installs and boots just fine. Linux 1, Windows 0.