General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install

[Dilbert]

Giving Linux yet another try! I always find myself coming back to it for one reason for another, and I'd realy like to stick with it this time, so I gotta make myself at home here.

I'm a bit of an OCD freak when it comes to themes, so I'm trying to figure out how to make my own. I can't seem to find very many good sources for GTK theming though. Anyone have any good links?

[XxThreedogxX]

Is Ubuntu 14.04 worth installing just to tinker a bit?

[rilez]

What do you mean by "tinker a bit"

[HueyFreeman]

Xubuntu 14.04 is fantastic, btw. It has an easy to use interface that's not as heavy as Unity (or KDE / Gnome3) but with many of the nice features of Ubuntu.

[cecilbdemodded]

I'm still using Mint 16 Cinnamon and enjoying it enough that I haven't even bothered to reinstall Windows yet. I was playing Path of Exile and Civ IV before, so I miss those a bit but otherwise I can do everything I need to on Mint.

I have run into some annoyances though so I thought I'd ask about them:
1. When I open a window, File Manager let's say, it always opens in the upper left of the screen. I'd like it to open where I positioned it the last time I used it. Settings issue or linux issue?
2. When I right click on my desktop there is no 'create text file' option in the menu. Can I add one or is this not possible in linux?
3. The icons on the desktop are arranged in some kind of grid, I'd like freeform where I can put them where ever I want. For instance, my trash can won't go all the way to the bottom right, only about two grid squares from the bottom. Settings or just the way this desktop(Cinnamon) is?
4. When I open programs, they aren't listed in the panel/taskbar the way I'd like. Right now I have Chrome open, and a text editor, then opened Freecell. Somehow Freecell is all the way to the left, where I expect the first program opened to be, while text editor is all the way on the right where I expect Freecell to be. I also can't click and drag them to different positions either. Is this something I can change?

Btw, I don't expect anyone to give me instructions, I don't mind looking it all up. I'm hoping for direction though, I don't want to waste time looking to change something if that's just the way it is in linux if I can avoid it. Thanks for any suggestions.

[rilez]

None of those issues have anything to do with Linux, those are issues with Cinnamon itself.

First, you need to know that Cinnamon is a hacked together fork of Gnome-Shell. Gnome-Shell was not designed to give you the options you're looking for.

For the desktop "grid" issue, there might be an option for "Keep Aligned" or something similar. Try turning it off. You might also be able to add "create text file" with a tool like gconf. The other two I have no idea. You could try using a different tasklist plugin, or a different dock all together (like Plank)

If you want a desktop that is designed from scratch to give you these choices, use MATE or XFCE. The Cinnamon developers are doing things backwards.

[cecilbdemodded]

Thanks, that's just the kind of info I need. To be honest I picked Cinnamon randomly, since it sounded better than MATE or XFCE. I'll try MATE. I have to do a new installation anyways since this is off a 32bit live USB stick I was using to show a friend, his system is 32bit.

For my use I'm going with 64bit.

[Liam]

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;44713719]Path of Exile[/QUOTE]

[t]http://good-mechs.info/secret/poe.png[/t]

you gotta use the standalone version, the steam one crashes on any kind of keyboard input :rolleyes:

p.s. xfce is dope

[cecilbdemodded]

Well, I'm using MATE right now, it's a thousand times better than Cinnamon. In fact, Cinnamon is complete crap now that I have something good to judge it against. I don't know why the Mint website even offers it.

I thought xfce was for people who have older or less powerful systems. I'm seriously thinking of just using linux now and not even going back to Windows again. If POE works, and I do use the standalone version, then I'm set.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;44723482]I thought xfce was for people who have older or less powerful systems.[/QUOTE]

It's definitely better to use XFCE on older systems than, say, KDE, but it's not specifically meant for older systems.

[rilez]

XFCE isn't really designed for old systems really, it's designed to be simple. By being simple, it runs well on older systems. But with a nice compositor like Compton or Gala, XFCE can also look pretty nice.

LXDE is made for old systems.

[diwako]

Since a Win8.1 nuked Grub and my current Linux install is shot to pieces by an automatic update, I wanted to install Mint. However the the version you throw into a livestick does not support my network adapter thus making an install sub optimal.

Any way to to get the Wifi connection working so it updates upon installing?

[FPtje]

- Try to install an updated kernel on the Live USB (download the .deb manually)
- Use an ethernet connection
- different distro (har har)
- just use the live USB to fix grub

[Doki Doki]

It's great to find this thread on facepunch!

Signin in, Kubuntu & Debian user!

[Chizbang]

So I was on my Ubuntu 12.10 VPS sorting out a few things and did a htop and spotted this:
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/M4R5s3G.png[/IMG]

Now, my DarkRP server is connected to my MySQL server but thats about it other than a forum along with 2 or 3 other websites which all run the Anchor CMS.
Any ideas what could be causing it?

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=Chizbang;44737901]So I was on my Ubuntu 12.10 VPS sorting out a few things and did a htop and spotted this:
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/M4R5s3G.png[/IMG]

Now, my DarkRP server is connected to my MySQL server but thats about it other than a forum along with 2 or 3 other websites which all run the Anchor CMS.
Any ideas what could be causing it?[/QUOTE]

I don't think you should be worried about that, they're probably just additional threads.

[img]http://novaember.com/s/719536792.png[/img]

[editline]6th May 2014[/editline]

[url=http://novaember.com/s/976568274.png]Fun exercise: Count how many threads Chromium has[/url]

[Chizbang]

Jesus, never knew Chrome was so process intense.
Also, is there any way to bring memory usage down? Its using like 600mb of my ram

[Frohman]

anyone want to share their compton configs? or know where some are?
I'm a fan of a non-directional shadow, but it looks like the shadow in compton has a default offset (changing both x and y offsets to 0 still shows some offset)

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=Em See;44738116]anyone want to share their compton configs? or know where some are?
I'm a fan of a non-directional shadow, but it looks like the shadow in compton has a default offset (changing both x and y offsets to 0 still shows some offset)[/QUOTE]

[url]https://github.com/Darkwater124/dotfiles/blob/master/compton.conf[/url]

[nikomo]

Atom (GitHub's editor) got released with MIT license like within the last 24 hours, and there's already packages for it in AUR.
atom-editor and atom-editor-git, though the first one doesn't work according to comments.
Running makepkg on atom-editor-git, cloning source, give it a bit of a try.

[rilez]

[QUOTE=nikomo;44740386]Atom (GitHub's editor) got released with MIT license like within the last 24 hours, and there's already packages for it in AUR.
atom-editor and atom-editor-git, though the first one doesn't work according to comments.
Running makepkg on atom-editor-git, cloning source, give it a bit of a try.[/QUOTE]

awesomeee, can't wait to try it out

[neos300]

[QUOTE=nikomo;44740386]Atom (GitHub's editor) got released with MIT license like within the last 24 hours, and there's already packages for it in AUR.
atom-editor and atom-editor-git, though the first one doesn't work according to comments.
Running makepkg on atom-editor-git, cloning source, give it a bit of a try.[/QUOTE]

I checked it out, unfortunately $ and ^ are broken in the vim-mode plugin so back to vim for me.

It seems really cool if you are a javascript developer though, kind of like how emacs is really great if you know lisp.

[nikomo]

The build process kept fucking up and I got bored with it, need to give it another try.
The fucking thing would randomly kill network connectivity on my laptop, and when it needed to pull something from the Internet, it would get stuck, time-out, die and then the network would work again.

[rilez]

atom-editor-git compiles & works for me

[t]http://i.imgur.com/TlKoduD.png[/t]

Looks nice, I like how the Git functionality is built in. I prefer doing stuff manually with Gedit and terminal, but this is nice.

[editline]6th May 2014[/editline]

I would probably prefer this over Sublime, tbh.

[nikomo]

I just got it installed.
So far, it's Sublime Text + more built-in functionality (that you get in Sublime with packages) and way, way less speed. It's really fucking slow.
It might be usable 6-12 months from now, but right now, if you have a Sublime license, forget about it.

[Comfy]

I still have to use it on linux. On OSX it's really fast for me, But I don't work with huge files.

[shodan]

Do any of you guys know a way to make a "virtual" monitor? I want my X session to render a monitor with a set resolution etc without it actually existing. Trying to make something cool.

[benjojo]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;44744178]Do any of you guys know a way to make a "virtual" monitor? I want my X session to render a monitor with a set resolution etc without it actually existing. Trying to make something cool.[/QUOTE]

You mean a software framebuffer?

[nikomo]

Finally got around to setting up distcc.
Now when I run makepkg on my laptop, it passes the compilation to my desktop.

[FPtje]

I just tried sshfs.
It's fucking brilliant.

I didn't try it for long enough to see problems with it, so for all I know it's broken to fuck. (it worked with the one txt file I created :v:)

Edit: I'm using sublime to edit a file remotely without any crap ftp plugins. This shit is [I]useful.[/I]