General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50785858] The only thing is Allwinner chips are indeed cheap Chinese shit so I don't know how they stack up against the Pi.[/QUOTE] Fair dues to Allwinner, my [url=https://i.imgur.com/G56GfzL.jpg]BOINC cluster[/url] wouldn't exist without US$10 Orange Pi One boards.

XFCE is driving me mad over here. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7333627/pics/XFCEWoes.png[/t] So, my idea is to center the weather and time up there in the middle, and I want open windows to be moved to the bottom dock. Two problems: One, how the fuck do I center something in a panel? My current plan is actually to use three panels; the first and third ones are at 25% width, and the middle one is at 50% width. Then I use two separators on the middle one set to expand to center them exactly in the middle of the screen. Frustratingly, however, the third panel appears to be exactly one pixel off, probably due to some stupid rounding error somewhere. Is there a workaround here, maybe somewhere where I can manually assign a precise pixel width? Two, is there a way I can make a launcher icon become a window icon when I open an app from there? Look at my bottom here, the Firefox shortcut exists but I have a Firefox window open, so that's forced to be a separate icon. How would I consolidate that? (A fix for the hideous Steam icon would also be nice but not a top priority because I usually don't keep it open.) [editline]28th July 2016[/editline] I found a thing called DockbarX which may solve the second problem.

Which desktop enviroment should I even use? I'm pretty sick and tired of Gnome and Ubuntu in general. Cinnamon looks kinda decent. So does LXDE.

XFCE with the Xubuntu theme (doesn't require Xubuntu) is pretty nice and low on resources

[QUOTE=TheJoker;50789849]Which desktop enviroment should I even use? I'm pretty sick and tired of Gnome and Ubuntu in general. Cinnamon looks kinda decent. So does LXDE.[/QUOTE] Don't use LXDE unless you're desperate for RAM. XFCE only uses a little bit more and is [I]way[/I] better. Try XFCE.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50789501]XFCE is driving me mad over here. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7333627/pics/XFCEWoes.png[/t] So, my idea is to center the weather and time up there in the middle, and I want open windows to be moved to the bottom dock. Two problems: One, how the fuck do I center something in a panel? My current plan is actually to use three panels; the first and third ones are at 25% width, and the middle one is at 50% width. Then I use two separators on the middle one set to expand to center them exactly in the middle of the screen. Frustratingly, however, the third panel appears to be exactly one pixel off, probably due to some stupid rounding error somewhere. Is there a workaround here, maybe somewhere where I can manually assign a precise pixel width? Two, is there a way I can make a launcher icon become a window icon when I open an app from there? Look at my bottom here, the Firefox shortcut exists but I have a Firefox window open, so that's forced to be a separate icon. How would I consolidate that? (A fix for the hideous Steam icon would also be nice but not a top priority because I usually don't keep it open.) [editline]28th July 2016[/editline] I found a thing called DockbarX which may solve the second problem.[/QUOTE] A fix for the hideous steam icon would be just to grab a new image and make it the icon. [editline]28th July 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=TheJoker;50789849]Which desktop enviroment should I even use? I'm pretty sick and tired of Gnome and Ubuntu in general. Cinnamon looks kinda decent. So does LXDE.[/QUOTE] XFCE

I seem to be having some problems installing Fedora now. For some reason I keep getting here is a problem with your existing storage configuration: failed to scan disk sda"

[QUOTE=Levelog;50789890]A fix for the hideous steam icon would be just to grab a new image and make it the icon.[/QUOTE] I can just do that for the notification icon?

[QUOTE=TheJoker;50789988]I seem to be having some problems installing Fedora now. For some reason I keep getting here is a problem with your existing storage configuration: failed to scan disk sda"[/QUOTE] Well It seems like the HD I want to use for Fedora doesn't want to be used unless there's something else wrong.

[QUOTE=TheJoker;50790178]Well It seems like the HD I want to use for Fedora doesn't want to be used unless there's something else wrong.[/QUOTE] Perhaps windows is on it and hibernating?

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50790284]Perhaps windows is on it and hibernating?[/QUOTE] Nothing on it. Reformatted it 5x and for some reason Fedora still fails to scan it.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50790167]I can just do that for the notification icon?[/QUOTE] Oh yeah I didn't realize you have it showing up there when it's open. Never had it set up like that so I'm not quite sure.

-snip- ninja'd.

In any case, I cheesed the centering by spamming a boatload of transparent separators at it until it looked roughly centered. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7333627/pics/Desktop.png[/t] I tried like 3 different dock applications. DockbarX was garbage. Cairo-Dock was garbage. Docky is actually really really good.

Huzzah. I managed to fix it. For some reason I had to mess around with formatting it to ext4 and reclaiming the space.

Anyone ever try installing Linux onto an Android tablet? Got an old 7" Samsung Tab4 that struggles with Android (also being stuck on 4.4.2 with the older and slower Dalvik runtime compared to the newer and faster ART) and was thinking of wiping it and installing Linux.

[QUOTE=huntingrifle;50793449]Anyone ever try installing Linux onto an Android tablet? Got an old 7" Samsung Tab4 that struggles with Android (also being stuck on 4.4.2 with the older and slower Dalvik runtime compared to the newer and faster ART) and was thinking of wiping it and installing Linux.[/QUOTE] yes. I have fully liberated and converted an android tablet to Archlinux arm.It requires much research from your part.you begin with checking what kind of cpu is being used, it will help you understand how to boot it later on.each Arm cpu has different booting method. the android world is a total mess.

I have a Nexus 7 laying around that needs a new charging chip but I cant be assed to pay $20 to get it and fix it for an original Nexus 7 :v:

well, the reason I converted my android tablet was because it's screen got broke. Now I replaced my home router with this one, it has PPP, Dhcp, dns cache server, NFS, torrent server. and nginx server to have cool redirections like [url]http://torrent/[/url] [url]http://sonarr/[/url] [url]http://webdav/[/url] most likely your devices will allow booting from sd cards, and it will help you keep your original androids.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50790650]In any case, I cheesed the centering by spamming a boatload of transparent separators at it until it looked roughly centered. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7333627/pics/Desktop.png[/t] I tried like 3 different dock applications. DockbarX was garbage. Cairo-Dock was garbage. Docky is actually really really good.[/QUOTE] tried Plank? always been my go-to dock, seems like a fairly popular dock in general

I'll have to give it a go, but Docky there is pretty much exactly what I wanted.

Got xfce installed. A million times better than GNOME cause fuck gnome. Now that I got that all setup is there any way I can move the bar to my middle monitor?

[QUOTE=TheJoker;50797337]Got xfce installed. A million times better than GNOME cause fuck gnome. Now that I got that all setup is there any way I can move the bar to my middle monitor?[/QUOTE] Set your middle monitor to be primary monitor?

[QUOTE=Van-man;50797523]Set your middle monitor to be primary monitor?[/QUOTE] Did. For some reason Fedora isn't switching the bar to it.

[QUOTE=TheJoker;50797552]Did. For some reason Fedora isn't switching the bar to it.[/QUOTE] Manually move it then. Unlock bar, move it to the desired screen and lock it again.

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;50794008]yes. I have fully liberated and converted an android tablet to Archlinux arm.It requires much research from your part.you begin with checking what kind of cpu is being used, it will help you understand how to boot it later on.each Arm cpu has different booting method. the android world is a total mess.[/QUOTE] Mind describing the process you used to get it working? There are a ton of scattered, old and half-finished "guides" online on how to do so, but I'd rather get your story since you did it successfully. Also I'd like to to try a Ubuntu-based distro is possible.

Budgie desktop is pretty nice.

Lubuntu CLI install. Make sure you make a big swap partition and turn on zswap before starting the display manager or it'll run out of mem. [sp]Any *buntu, install the proprietary drivers[/sp]

[QUOTE=ballads;50806546]whats the best distro for my specs? [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/mLmK8AU.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Fedora!

[QUOTE=ballads;50807440]uh[/QUOTE] Just go try out any distro you like the look of, such as a variant of Ubuntu, or perhaps Fedora. Or if you really have no idea what you're doing then Linux Mint. You may want to use a virtual machine to try them out on first