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

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51513798]Oh, okay, nevermind. I did a little research and it does appear that basically no distro packages it, and you're instead supposed to just use the tarball. And then a cronjob updates it. Alright carry on I suppose. You can get it from github if you really want to as well.[/QUOTE]Oh, I'll do that, and compare the one I downloaded from the site with the one from github. [QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;51513802]I would install ClamAV and call it a day rather than using some tarball from some site.[/QUOTE] It actually integrates with clamav, so then you can scan for viruses and other types of malware at the same time. The reason I'm being really paranoid is because I've never used it before and I don't trust the source yet. [editline]edit[/editline] I downloaded it from github. The contents seem to be the same. I scanned it with VirusTotal and got the same warnings: [url]https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3ee2849917874ed1932a8646d40f05d08127bf58179341cd7bbab0bdd609db6b/analysis/1481485378/[/url]

You are rightfully being paranoid. I wouldn't use it. Besides, most people on Linux are fine with no antivirus running on their system. Like I said, just use ClamAV and call it a day unless you -really- need it for some reason. [quote=Wikipedia]In a Shadowserver six-month test between June and December 2011, ClamAV detected over 75.45% of all viruses tested, putting it in fifth place behind AhnLab, Avira, BitDefender and Avast. AhnLab, the top antivirus, detected 80.28%.[/quote] [editline]11th December 2016[/editline] You can add the signatures from Linux Malware Detect to ClamAV without installing Linux Malware Detect. Arch Linux has a convenient package in the AUR for this and other signatures, maybe Linux Mint/Ubuntu has a similar ppa.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;51513855]You can add the signatures from Linux Malware Detect to ClamAV without installing Linux Malware Detect. Arch Linux has a convenient package in the AUR for this and other signatures, maybe Linux Mint/Ubuntu has a similar ppa.[/QUOTE]Oh, I'll check that out. Thanks for the info.

Say I have XFCE running over Arch, and I want to have a way where I can quickly (as in with a keyboard shortcut or in the notification bar) enable or disable a tiling window mode (similar to i3, doesn't have to be nearly as advanced though) without just outright butchering up XFCE by running i3 over it or something. What are my options?

Does anybody have an issue with Team Fortress 2 crashing and freezing their computer solid forcing them to reboot after being in game for about a minute, Particularly with Ubuntu Mate and an r9 270 with open source drivers?

hoping someone here can help me a little with customizing debian with gnome. i'm trying to change my login background. i opened up /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults and added [code] [org/gnome/desktop/background] picture-uri='file:///usr/share/images/desktop-base/login.jpg' [/code] but it just keeps using the original image. I'm also trying to add in a startup sound. i copied the desktop-login.ogg to /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/ but does nothing. trying to find how to do it, i read that thats all i had to do. maybe for an old version i guess.

[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;51564032]hoping someone here can help me a little with customizing debian with gnome. i'm trying to change my login background. i opened up /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults and added [code] [org/gnome/desktop/background] picture-uri='file:///usr/share/images/desktop-base/login.jpg' [/code] but it just keeps using the original image. I'm also trying to add in a startup sound. i copied the desktop-login.ogg to /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/ but does nothing. trying to find how to do it, i read that thats all i had to do. maybe for an old version i guess.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The command 'dpkg-reconfigure gdm3' will cause gdm to reload its configuration upon the next logout or reboot. Note: When changing the background image, the target file must be world-readable.[/QUOTE] [url]https://wiki.debian.org/GDM#Customizing_the_GDM_appearance[/url] Did you do that?

[QUOTE=Vaeh;51568052][url]https://wiki.debian.org/GDM#Customizing_the_GDM_appearance[/url] Did you do that?[/QUOTE] the weird thing is though, that page says to edit /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults which doesn't exist for me. i have /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults which i was editing. i did use the command to reload the config but it still doesnt change anything.

Hey, I haven't been in this thread LONG time. I'm looking for a free, simple server side build system for RPM packages. I was tasked to create a few rpm packages for some programs at the company I work at, and currently I'm HORRIFIED of the RPM system, it's terrible. forgive me but I'm used to the ease of archlinux packages where you create packages on the fly. I've seen that fedora has a build system named "koji", and another one named "copr". They seem overly complicated, and have bad documentation regarding installation outside of Fedora. I need RHEL5, 6, 7 compatibility so I'm not sure either copr, koji are good candidates, finally it's OBS (open build system) of SUSE, It looks really really great, supports many target linux distributions, even different CPU Architectures. they also provide a ready virtual appliance, my only problem that it's complicated as well. Does someone has some experience with similar issue? I will really appreciate opinion, ideas, suggestions, thank you!

How do you change display over/underscan on Wayland?

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;51524006]Say I have XFCE running over Arch, and I want to have a way where I can quickly (as in with a keyboard shortcut or in the notification bar) enable or disable a tiling window mode (similar to i3, doesn't have to be nearly as advanced though) without just outright butchering up XFCE by running i3 over it or something. What are my options?[/QUOTE] Openbox has some good tiling scripts for this purpose which is a little less butchery than i3 when replacing xfwm. Sadly not easy with xfwm though.

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;51569678]How do you change display over/understand on Wayland?[/QUOTE] I'm not really sure what you're asking but it's probably not a wayland thing. Wayland's not like Xorg, so it'll depend on the wayland compositor you're using (e.g. GNOME)

Does nouveau support the GTX 1080 yet? I'm not able to find any info on google.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51570046]I'm not really sure what you're asking but it's probably not a wayland thing. Wayland's not like Xorg, so it'll depend on the wayland compositor you're using (e.g. GNOME)[/QUOTE] Meant to say underscan, autocorrect kicked in. Do you know how to enable it with GDM? [editline]23rd December 2016[/editline] Edit ~/.config/monitors.xml, change [CODE]<underscanning>no</underscanning>[/CODE] to [CODE]<underscanning>yes</underscanning>[/CODE] [editline]23rd December 2016[/editline] Nope that didn't survive a reboot

How do I completely reset both my ssh server and client to default permissions & configs? I messed up...

Having some trouble with an old laptop I put Ubuntu on. It refused to boot properly, so when I tried to reinstall Ubuntu it just crashes when starting from the USB stick after going through the main menu. I replaced the drive in case that was the issue, but the issue persists. Is there any way that I can install Ubuntu onto the drive with it connected to my Windows PC through SATA to USB?

yeah, boot a virtual machine and plug the usb drive just like any usb device, Virtualbox is a good option to do that. VMware even has the feature to use physical drives as virtual machines drives.

After a week of trying to think of a name, my new ZFS pool is named "zed" I'm ~creative~

At least it's not "pool2"

Decided to install Ubuntu onto my CentOS VPS (since it was refusing every connection apart from ping and SSH despite me not even logging into it let alone changing anything for months) and I've been regretting it ever since. Users created with useradd need their login shell added manually for some reason, and apt is too fucking retarded to update it's package list on its own so you have to do it manually like a caveman. Apt is worse than I thought, gone are logical and easy to guess package names like 'zlib-devel' to install the development package for zlib, instead you have to look through the whole list and guess the one you want is the excellently named 'zlib1g-dev.' And then functions are split between 3 different commands because fuck you that's why. Missing yum something fierce. I don't understand how an OS that's this bad can be this popular.

[QUOTE=helifreak;51596744]I don't understand how an OS that's this bad can be this popular.[/QUOTE] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Windows_darkblue_2012_svg.svg/487px-Windows_darkblue_2012_svg.svg.png[/IMG] and yes, I don't understand either

[QUOTE=helifreak;51596744]Decided to install Ubuntu onto my CentOS VPS (since it was refusing every connection apart from ping and SSH despite me not even logging into it let alone changing anything for months) and I've been regretting it ever since. Users created with useradd need their login shell added manually for some reason, and apt is too fucking retarded to update it's package list on its own so you have to do it manually like a caveman. Apt is worse than I thought, gone are logical and easy to guess package names like 'zlib-devel' to install the development package for zlib, instead you have to look through the whole list and guess the one you want is the excellently named 'zlib1g-dev.' And then functions are split between 3 different commands because fuck you that's why. Missing yum something fierce. I don't understand how an OS that's this bad can be this popular.[/QUOTE] I'd say it's more of a what you are used to thing than anything else. I run Ubuntu (DPKG/APT) on all my personal computers, and RHEL/CentOS (RPM/YUM) at work with no particular issues. However for me the name-standard with APT makes more sense, as I'm more used to the Debian world than the RHEL one. Also, you may specify a shell with the -s flag on useradd, or use adduser for a more interactive way.

Welp, had a 10+ year old pc sitting around collecting dust, decided to try leaving Windows for the first time with Lubuntu. Runs fantastically with RetroArch! Default theme is pretty god-awful, but I don't know what, uh, environments Lubuntu supports for themes.

[QUOTE=Water-Marine;51603635]Welp, had a 10+ year old pc sitting around collecting dust, decided to try leaving Windows for the first time with Lubuntu. Runs fantastically with RetroArch! Default theme is pretty god-awful, but I don't know what, uh, environments Lubuntu supports for themes.[/QUOTE] GTK2 based themes all work if I remember correctly. And yes, default LXDE (the desktop environment Lubuntu uses) theme reminds most of the worst of Vista and XP combined. [I]SHOULD [/I]be a package in the repository with additional themes, also does Lubuntu use that godawful software-center or did they say "fuck it" to that bloated buggy carcass and stick to 'Synaptic package manager'?

[QUOTE=Van-man;51603884]GTK2 based themes all work if I remember correctly. And yes, default LXDE (the desktop environment Lubuntu uses) theme reminds most of the worst of Vista and XP combined. [I]SHOULD [/I]be a package in the repository with additional themes, also does Lubuntu use that godawful software-center or did they say "fuck it" to that bloated buggy carcass and stick to 'Synaptic package manager'?[/QUOTE] It has the Lubuntu Software Center, but it just feels bad in comparison to Synaptic. And I'll try and find the package, thanks!

[QUOTE=Water-Marine;51603903]It has the Lubuntu Software Center, but it just feels bad in comparison to Synaptic. And I'll try and find the package, thanks![/QUOTE] I'm a massive shill for the Greybird theme (greybird-gtk-theme in the repo), but I'm also overall a sucker for dark and "slightly flat, but not 'Metro/Material retarded' flat" themes [editline]31st December 2016[/editline] You might also want 'lxapperance' and optionally 'lxapperance-obconf', should be the theme switcher for LXDE. [editline]31st December 2016[/editline] As for icon theme 'elementary-icon-theme' suits Greybird well

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I riced my system [t]http://i.imgur.com/oifwiJT.png[/t]

[QUOTE=eirexe;51630256]I riced my system [t]http://i.imgur.com/oifwiJT.png[/t][/QUOTE] I wish I could ever get i3 looking as nice or as functional as that. I can't get used to tiling WMs...

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;51634833]I wish I could ever get i3 looking as nice or as functional as that. I can't get used to tiling WMs...[/QUOTE] it's not as hard as you think, it's even easier if you are used to something like emacs