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

[QUOTE=rilez;44106565]I had to install some gstreamer plugins for Firefox to load music from Soundcloud's HTML5 player, which makes sense. Can these be redistributed? I'm talking about the "bad" and "ugly" packages on Arch - things like h.264 and mp3 codec support. Or are they just labeled "bad" and "ugly" because they're proprietary? Also, are there any other codecs or packages that you all would consider "essential" but aren't necessarily something the user would "use"? Like the gstreamer codecs, or something like icedtea for example.[/QUOTE] The gstreamer plugin quality is literately a joke. The good, the bad and the ugly plugins

[QUOTE=atl101;44110063]Oh yeah, you should also use workspaces as often as possible. mod+1,2,3 etc.[/QUOTE] Next problem is trying to lock it to an external monitor. Last attempt to use i3 workspaces just sent it to my laptop's monitor; I use my laptop like a dock. The i3 documentation talks about an [url=http://i3wm.org/docs/multi-monitor.html]nVIDIA driver[/url] to do it but have an Intel chip instead. [editline]o[/editline] [url=http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#multi_monitor]No wait I'm an idiot.[/url] [editline]e[/editline] Screeeeeew that. May as well go back to keeping a GNOME workspace for Terminator.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44112884]The gstreamer plugin quality is literately a joke. The good, the bad and the ugly plugins[/QUOTE] What's the alternative?

[QUOTE=rilez;44113921]What's the alternative?[/QUOTE] I'm not saying gstreamer is bad. I'm saying that their naming convention is The good, the bad and the ugly

Anyone else having issues with Steam being slow as hell? When I resize the window, the window controls lag behind, and you can see where it hasn't been redrawn. This happens with other windows too, but usually it just looks slow. Steam isn't even rendering properly. Proprietary Nvidia drivers.

How slow do you mean? Steam has always lagged about 1/4 second behind resizes or menu actions. I've always figured it's because they're drawing their own UI rather than using an existing toolkit.

Resizing is slow, but right clicking the system icon is also very slow. The system icon menu also doesn't seem to obey any sort of system theme

Steam (for Linux) has always worked fine with me on the radeon drivers. No slowdowns or anything. In fact, it performed way better on my Linux boxes than it ever did when I had Windows Vista, and later Windows 7. In other news I started poking around with SliTaz, and this is honestly super cool: [t]http://i.imgur.com/R8kg19x.png[/t]

[QUOTE=rilez;44120211]Resizing is slow, but right clicking the system icon is also very slow. The system icon menu also doesn't seem to obey any sort of system theme[/QUOTE] I had those problems before aswell, just noticed that I don't anymore. My steam tray-menu is the KDE-themed one, and I have no lag or issues with resizing the main window. I know I had those issues before myself, probleary fixed it by either going to the opensource Radeon drivers, or because i switched to KDE.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;44122767]Steam (for Linux) has always worked fine with me on the radeon drivers. No slowdowns or anything. In fact, it performed way better on my Linux boxes than it ever did when I had Windows Vista, and later Windows 7.[/QUOTE] I'm using the default drivers for my radeon hd videocard on fedora and most games run at the same speed or even faster (even in wine!)

[QUOTE=rilez;44118832]Anyone else having issues with Steam being slow as hell? When I resize the window, the window controls lag behind, and you can see where it hasn't been redrawn. This happens with other windows too, but usually it just looks slow. Steam isn't even rendering properly. Proprietary Nvidia drivers.[/QUOTE] Yep, same here. Proprietary Nvidia drivers, arch linux. The window lags a lot and the context menu on the system icon lags even more.

Guess that requires a good video card to get such performance. Using the exact same settings from the Windows edition on the Linux port on an Intel chipset chugs worse frame rates.

[QUOTE=rilez;44120211]Resizing is slow, but right clicking the system icon is also very slow. The system icon menu also doesn't seem to obey any sort of system theme[/QUOTE] I have that problem. Its a like a full second lag. Its bizarre, because the actual Steam interface is pretty responsive otherwise. I thought it was just because I installed Compton this morning, but I guess I'm not the only one. By the way, Compton is very nice. I really only needed it for V-sync because tearing in full screen videos and Steam Home streaming was awful, but it actually makes XFCE looks sort of nice.

I switched over to Nouveau and it improves the lag quite a bit. It's still there, but less blatantly obvious (and other windows perform almost flawlessly). So it must be a driver issue. Too bad Nouveau still doesn't support reclocking. It's funny though that the desktop performs better on these drivers when I can only use 1/10th of my GPU's power

[QUOTE=rilez;44120211]Resizing is slow, but right clicking the system icon is also very slow. The system icon menu also doesn't seem to obey any sort of system theme[/QUOTE] IIRC if you have the Steam window on the library tab it makes the right-click menu lag like that [editline]4th March 2014[/editline] might have been fixed ages ago though

[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;44128432]IIRC if you have the Steam window on the library tab it makes the right-click menu lag like that [editline]4th March 2014[/editline] might have been fixed ages ago though[/QUOTE] it's still like that. [vid]http://novaember.com/s/234319376.webm[/vid] in other news, Portal 2 is, as you see, in beta for Linux! Probably a couple days late with this, but no one posted it here so ye.

I have to enable the beta version of the portal beta to get it to work. So mine says Portal 2 (Beta) (beta) [editline]4th March 2014[/editline] Also kinda glad the Steam thing isn't just me, hopefully it gets fixed then

What DE is that?

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;44129264]What DE is that?[/QUOTE] Openbox with [URL="https://github.com/Darkwater124/dotfiles"]custom dotfiles and shit[/URL]. (Running on Manjaro) [t]http://novaember.com/s/911019753.png[/t]

Every other time I try and install Openbox I can't seem to get other stuff like tint2 to install alongside it properly, it never loads up.

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;44129555]Every other time I try and install Openbox I can't seem to get other stuff like tint2 to install alongside it properly, it never loads up.[/QUOTE] Is your ~/.config/openbox/autostart correct? Openbox tends to be... barebones.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;44129609]Is your ~/.config/openbox/autostart correct? Openbox tends to be... barebones.[/QUOTE] Usually it's blank, I add the stuff in based on other peoples stuff.

Steam's tray icon lags for me too. It's always been very annoying. [url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/ik37m3i8dbqpc5h/steamlag.webm[/url] I'm using the latest XFCE.

[QUOTE=supervoltage;44135586]Steam's tray icon lags for me too. It's always been very annoying. [url]https://www.dropbox.com/s/ik37m3i8dbqpc5h/steamlag.webm[/url] I'm using the latest XFCE.[/QUOTE] But which video drivers? Appearantly it seems so far that the official Nvidia drivers are causing the lag, while the open source radeon and nouvea or whatever drivers handle Steam just fine.

I'm using the ATi Catalyst proprietary drivers, but it's the same story on the Open Source ones as well.

The other day I was struck by the similarities between the big mobile OSes and Linux distributions - mostly how app stores are kind of like primitive package managers. This lead to me wonder: is anyone out there trying to develop an actual open source mobile OS where the app store is populated by community-maintained apps? Obviously there is very little financial incentive in such a project, but I would think such an effort would have huge appeal to enthusiasts and programmers. Personally I would jump at the opportunity to work on it. Here are some gripes I have with my smart phone: * Too many shitty apps to sift through in the store * Too many nearly identical apps or apps that are almost-but-not-quite what you need * No unified vision among app designs (little to no app interaction, no standard UI design) * Designed to be closed (development is unnecessarily complicated, apps not very configurable) All of these problems could be solved with a truly open mobile OS. And if you made it Linux-based, it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that it could have some compatibility layer that allows it to run Android apps.

[QUOTE=Larikang;44138631]The other day I was struck by the similarities between the big mobile OSes and Linux distributions - mostly how app stores are kind of like primitive package managers. This lead to me wonder: is anyone out there trying to develop an actual open source mobile OS where the app store is populated by community-maintained apps? Obviously there is very little financial incentive in such a project, but I would think such an effort would have huge appeal to enthusiasts and programmers. Personally I would jump at the opportunity to work on it. Here are some gripes I have with my smart phone: * Too many shitty apps to sift through in the store * Too many nearly identical apps or apps that are almost-but-not-quite what you need * No unified vision among app designs (little to no app interaction, no standard UI design) * Designed to be closed (development is unnecessarily complicated, apps not very configurable) All of these problems could be solved with a truly open mobile OS. And if you made it Linux-based, it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that it could have some compatibility layer that allows it to run Android apps.[/QUOTE] The only thing that comes to my mind when you mention a truly open mobile OS, is Android AOSP without google apps, and F-droid installed. [editline]5th March 2014[/editline] Also, besides AOSP, there's replicant, which is a 100% Free Software Android ROM. [url]http://replicant.us/[/url]

Is there a good Linux alternative to Onenote? I want to install Linux on my laptop, but I use it for school and I need something like Onenote for taking notes and other stuff. I tried installing Office 2010 in wine, but it was a disaster. Slow as fuck, and creating notebooks in Onenote didn't work. I want to install Linux on my desktop too, but gaming on Linux is still pretty limited as far as I can tell. Outside of indie games and Source based games, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of games that natively support Linux. I love Debian on my server, but the lack of day to day stuff like games and office programs is what keeps me from ditching Windows all together.

[QUOTE=matte3560;44141764]Is there a good Linux alternative to Onenote? I want to install Linux on my laptop, but I use it for school and I need something like Onenote for taking notes and other stuff. I tried installing Office 2010 in wine, but it was a disaster. Slow as fuck, and creating notebooks in Onenote didn't work.[/QUOTE] Never tried OneNote before, but some good alternatives might be Tomboy Notes or Zim. Can't exactly store images, but the Wikipedia page also makes it sound like it works a bit like Word. Hopefully there could be something like it in the LibreOffice suite sometime.

[QUOTE=matte3560;44141764]Is there a good Linux alternative to Onenote? I want to install Linux on my laptop, but I use it for school and I need something like Onenote for taking notes and other stuff. I tried installing Office 2010 in wine, but it was a disaster. Slow as fuck, and creating notebooks in Onenote didn't work. I want to install Linux on my desktop too, but gaming on Linux is still pretty limited as far as I can tell. Outside of indie games and Source based games, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of games that natively support Linux. I love Debian on my server, but the lack of day to day stuff like games and office programs is what keeps me from ditching Windows all together.[/QUOTE] Instead of using Microsoft Office 2010, you should be using Libre Office. It natively supports saving to and loading from Microsoft file formats anyway. As for note taking I don't see why you can't use a plain text editor like Vim, and as for game support while most valve games, indie games, and emulated games have excellent support you should keep a dual boot for games.