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

[QUOTE=PredGD;44018053]and speaking of murmur, I'm having issues starting it up. I've set the superpassword thing, which it reports it successfully does. however when I try to start it using ./murmur.x86, it simply gives no output. tried running it with verbose to see what happens, but still no output.[/QUOTE] Shouldn't you be running it as a daemon anyway? [editline]23rd February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=diwako;44018707]Anyone knows how I can find out on which partition labeled as "SDA" my current linux install is? I need it for my supder dooper bootloader problem.[/QUOTE] Mount each of them and check?

[QUOTE=Tark;44015883]tilda, being able to drop down my terminal on top of everything else is so much better than having to navigate through to a dedicated terminal window. and then you just slide it back up when you're done it's great! got mine looking like the quake console and everything[/QUOTE] What's the comparison to Guake?

[QUOTE=nikomo;44018646]murmur.x86 throws itself into the background, there's no console, the administration is done either through the scripting if you're making a control panel or something for it, or you do it via the Mumble client.[/QUOTE] ohh, that explains. checked the process list, and I've launched it a few times now, hehe.

My distro has just been deployed to one user for testing and the feedback that I got from her is that it's working perfectly :dance: Uploading the image to my server now so you guys can also mess with it a bit

[url]https://basbieling.com/stuff/thinclient.v2.raw.img.zip[/url] Please ignore the default server. It's the default terminal server I use at work and the only pi I currently have access to is fried so I couldn't change it right now. v3 will have no default server. [editline]asdasdasd[/editline] I forgot to mention that it's for the raspberry pi

Hey guys I have a unix software question maybe you can answer. I'm more into hardware so excuse me if my terminology is a tad off. For my work I log onto windows and use a program called vncserver to start an x server on my unix work machine. we have a centralized unix user account that i frequently log into to do things. basically i ssh into this user account but am unable to use GUI applications because the xserver connection is denied (because of permissions obviously). it basically forces me to use command line applications, which are fine, but kind of painful when skimming through thousands of lines of code. i was wondering how i would have it so that when i ssh into the centralized account it knows that its me that sshed in (is it possible), and also, automatically sets the display environment variable so that i can use GUI applications such as gedit and firefox. also the permissions are kind of painful, i only want the centralized user account and my user account to be able to display GUI applications on my xserver, but nobody else.

if it's just files you want to have access to you could mount the system using sshfs and edit the files "locally" using your favorite editor.

starting firefox would also be nice. basically im the QA software developer intern, and i'm developing the testing harness, and the test results are always saved as html and xml pages so that they can be read easily and accessed from a web browser. reading html pages in a text editor is a pain. but ill look into that, thanks.

If you use sshfs the system will be mounted just like any other drive. You can then just open any file using as if it's a a file on an actual drive. The only delay there will be is network delay but that should be minimal. So you can just open html files with your browser. Execute executables etc etc [editline]24th February 2014[/editline] [url]https://code.google.com/p/win-sshfs/[/url] use that if you want to mount it on a windows machine. You don't need anything extra running but an ssh server on the server. Just follow the instructions and don't forget to hit save before connecting.

Well, I've finally broken enough stuff to figure out how to theme GTK and Cinnamon. If I can't figure out how to package my Arch distro, at least there will be a nice theme for everyone to use. [editline]24th February 2014[/editline] How the heck do you package a custom Arch distro anyway? Should I use Arch ISO? How do I include a GUI installer like Antergos/Manjaro have?

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;44030096]Hey guys I have a unix software question maybe you can answer. I'm more into hardware so excuse me if my terminology is a tad off. For my work I log onto windows and use a program called vncserver to start an x server on my unix work machine. we have a centralized unix user account that i frequently log into to do things. basically i ssh into this user account but am unable to use GUI applications because the xserver connection is denied (because of permissions obviously). it basically forces me to use command line applications, which are fine, but kind of painful when skimming through thousands of lines of code. i was wondering how i would have it so that when i ssh into the centralized account it knows that its me that sshed in (is it possible), and also, automatically sets the display environment variable so that i can use GUI applications such as gedit and firefox. also the permissions are kind of painful, i only want the centralized user account and my user account to be able to display GUI applications on my xserver, but nobody else.[/QUOTE] How do you connect via SSH? is it Putty or openssh? If you use openssh make sure you have the -X flag, as well as trying -vv to get more verbose output. If you're using Putty then there's a checkbox in the settings somewhere, make sure it's ticked.

[QUOTE=danharibo;44032550]How do you connect via SSH? is it Putty or openssh? If you use openssh make sure you have the -X flag, as well as trying -vv to get more verbose output. If you're using Putty then there's a checkbox in the settings somewhere, make sure it's ticked.[/QUOTE] Guess I should update: I looked into sshfs but it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. Googled around a bit and found xauth add, but I didnt want to authenticate for everybody using the centralized account. After googling around a bit more I found the ForwardX11 option in SSH, which basically just automatically sets -X, and that forwards the DISPLAY variable, which allows me to use GUI applications without having to do anything at all really. Just for clarificationr (sorry if Im not up on the lingo), the vnc software is thin client software. i only really use windows to log into my unix machine and do all my work there. I have putty, but I wrote a script that uses putty to start/stop the vnc server automatically, so I dont really ever use putty. I ssh from within the vnc (thin client) software, so from within a unix terminal.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;44032653]Guess I should update: I looked into sshfs but it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. Googled around a bit and found xauth add, but I didnt want to authenticate for everybody using the centralized account. After googling around a bit more I found the ForwardX11 option in SSH, which basically just automatically sets -X, and that forwards the DISPLAY variable, which allows me to use GUI applications without having to do anything at all really. Just for clarificationr (sorry if Im not up on the lingo), the vnc software is thin client software. i only really use windows to log into my unix machine and do all my work there. I have putty, but I wrote a script that uses putty to start/stop the vnc server automatically, so I dont really ever use putty. I ssh from within the vnc (thin client) software, so from within a unix terminal.[/QUOTE] Wait, just so we are clear, you are vncing into a thin client and then sshing from that vnc session to your unix box? Is the thin client unix based?

I've been running linux on my netbook for university reasons for three years now and have since always been on the edge of moving entirely to linux on my main desktop PC -- the main reasons holding me back being specific video games, something which is becoming less of a reason quite quickly I've got two hard disks - a 500gig raptor (10k rpm) and a 1tb standard 7.2k - and I haven't had to deal with multiple drives on my netbook. would my setup and workflow on linux be similar to that on windows; installing the OS and speed sensitive applications on the smaller, faster drive, while storing everything else on the secondary? Or are there approaches which let linux handle this behind the scenes intelligently? I absolutely adore the simplicity of package managers on my netbook, how would that mesh into a multiple drive setup?

[QUOTE=Em See;44035991]I've been running linux on my netbook for university reasons for three years now and have since always been on the edge of moving entirely to linux on my main desktop PC -- the main reasons holding me back being specific video games, something which is becoming less of a reason quite quickly I've got two hard disks - a 500gig raptor (10k rpm) and a 1tb standard 7.2k - and I haven't had to deal with multiple drives on my netbook. would my setup and workflow on linux be similar to that on windows; installing the OS and speed sensitive applications on the smaller, faster drive, while storing everything else on the secondary? Or are there approaches which let linux handle this behind the scenes intelligently? I absolutely adore the simplicity of package managers on my netbook, how would that mesh into a multiple drive setup?[/QUOTE] I'm not sure there are any tools to manage intelligently distributing the files [i]on disk[/i] (and most on-disk caches are managed by the disk itself, so the OS doesn't matter), but one thing Linux is extremely good at is aggressively caching the disk in free memory. Here's a [url=http://www.linuxatemyram.com/index.html]quick rundown[/url] if you're interested. This doesn't affect boot times (since caches are in memory and don't persist across reboots), but it dramatically decreases load times for applications regardless of their backstore (that is, you could load Firefox from tape-storage once at the expense of something on the order of minutes, but then every subsequent instance of it would read entirely from the cache and take just moments).

I have a USB IR transmitter/receiver that I was trying to get working on Linux. lsusb didn't recognise it so I popped it open to see what chipset was inside. I found a 72 MHz ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller complete with 1MB flash, motor controller support, and CAN bus support. Seems a bit overkill. EDIT: Just looked up the list price of this device. $200.

If it wasn't for the Arch Linux Automated Install Script I wouldn't be here right now, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Somehow it figured out the Nvidia drivers on the first try, which I could never get working. I have xwiimote running for the Wii U Pro controller now working with Retroarch and Pipelight for Netflix, and it's all running pretty smooth. I'm not having much luck finding something for Logitech mice like the G400s though. edit: and now I have the user agent switcher to only enable on Netflix. Way easier than the experience I had with Linux Mint, having to install dependency after dependency and then realizing that Bluez was a pretty old version.

[QUOTE=Cittidel;44037636]If it wasn't for the Arch Linux Automated Install Script I wouldn't be here right now, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Somehow it figured out the Nvidia drivers on the first try, which I could never get working. I have xwiimote running for the Wii U Pro controller now working with Retroarch and Pipelight for Netflix, and it's all running pretty smooth. I'm not having much luck finding something for Logitech mice like the G400s though. edit: and now I have the user agent switcher to only enable on Netflix. Way easier than the experience I had with Linux Mint, having to install dependency after dependency and then realizing that Bluez was a pretty old version.[/QUOTE] I tried using that script in VMware, it just spewed an error at me after the first reboot.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44028799][url]https://basbieling.com/stuff/thinclient.v2.raw.img.zip[/url] Please ignore the default server. It's the default terminal server I use at work and the only pi I currently have access to is fried so I couldn't change it right now. v3 will have no default server.[/QUOTE] Have you guys tried it out? Do you guys like it or should I change some stuff?

[QUOTE=IpHa;44037127]I have a USB IR transmitter/receiver that I was trying to get working on Linux. lsusb didn't recognise it so I popped it open to see what chipset was inside. I found a 72 MHz ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller complete with 1MB flash, motor controller support, and CAN bus support. Seems a bit overkill. EDIT: Just looked up the list price of this device. $200.[/QUOTE] Where the fuck did you get that thing from, a car?

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44039321]Have you guys tried it out? Do you guys like it or should I change some stuff?[/QUOTE] I attempted to download it yesterday, but it took a long time so I had to wait with testing until later today. I'll get you some feedback on it when I'm back from work (which should be 3-4 hours from now (I didn't want to test it using qemu on my netbook).

ugh yea qemu is really slow. Don't forget to set the proper protcol in the advanced tab. remmina has some issues with crashing if you pick the wrong one. Thinking of writing my own menu thing in python or something

[QUOTE=nikomo;44040349]Where the fuck did you get that thing from, a car?[/QUOTE] It's an IR learner for Crestron automation systems. All of their stuff is expensive(but pretty cool.)

[QUOTE=neos300;44035759]Wait, just so we are clear, you are vncing into a thin client and then sshing from that vnc session to your unix box? Is the thin client unix based?[/QUOTE] The VNC client is windows based, and the server is unix based. Exactly how you described it. IT gets mad if you download a bunch of software without their approval, and I really don't care enough to try and get shit approved.

So this is what my theme is looking like. [t]http://i.imgur.com/x5B5emD.png[/t] It's based on Zukitwo, so there's still a bit I need to replace. I've also fixed a couple Cinnamon applets. I really don't know much about Java or coding in general, so if anyone here does, I'd welcome some help. [editline]25th February 2014[/editline] I decided on the name Cinchi. Cinnamon with simplicity. A cinch.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44040752]ugh yea qemu is really slow. Don't forget to set the proper protcol in the advanced tab. remmina has some issues with crashing if you pick the wrong one. Thinking of writing my own menu thing in python or something[/QUOTE] I've been trying to get the machine to boot, but it doesn't seem to want to even start from the img file at all. No boot system is ever shown, and it just stalls at the "booting from HDD..." display. It could just be me missing something simple though, but that's what I've got so far it seems. How are you usually booting this image?

it's for the raspberry pi... [editline]25th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=rilez;44042496]So this is what my theme is looking like. [t]http://i.imgur.com/x5B5emD.png[/t] It's based on Zukitwo, so there's still a bit I need to replace. I've also fixed a couple Cinnamon applets. I really don't know much about Java or coding in general, so if anyone here does, I'd welcome some help. [editline]25th February 2014[/editline] I decided on the name Cinchi. Cinnamon with simplicity. A cinch.[/QUOTE] the buttons look off. They are not all using the same style.

That's the bit from Zukitwo I haven't replaced yet

I have the latest Crunchbang installed and have apt-get install steam which installs fine but then complains about not having libGL.so.1 32 bit or something so I install the 32 bit compatibility libraries in the nvidia installer or whatever its called and that installed fine. I still get no luck wiht it, still spits out the same error each time. I tried installing steam-debian and it just returns: Segmentation Fault. Specs: GTX 570 1.3GB from PNY (304.108) 12GB of DDR3 ram i7 2600k Sandy Bridge Crunchbang Waldorf I have tried softlinking the library it says the error is about to no avail. I have also done all this: [code] dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade [/code] This is what Steam outputs to the console while running it: [url]http://pastebin.com/DE4UiHVE[/url]

libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 should be installed if you're using nvidia