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

Nevermind... still no autoscrolling in Ubuntu Chrome for some unknown reason. There's an extension, but fuck that.

[QUOTE=FPtje;47280433]The default theme of GNOME is ugly. Everything with theming support can be themed to look decent. My problem with GNOME is its usability.[/QUOTE] I think Gnome 3's Adwaita theme in black is quite nice. Forcing dark mode is a nice option to have.

if only gnome 3 wasn't terrible I wouldn't be using mate right now.

[QUOTE=Map in a box;47283067]if only gnome 3 wasn't terrible I wouldn't be using mate right now.[/QUOTE] I was a big GNOME 2 user back when that was a thing. Now I'm using XFCE 4.12 though. It's actually really great, and I'm surprised how much customization you can put it through without it breaking at all. Impressive pieces of technology, and I believe part of that comes from the modularity.

[QUOTE=Levelog;47282621]Nevermind... still no autoscrolling in Ubuntu Chrome for some unknown reason. There's an extension, but fuck that.[/QUOTE] [url=http://askubuntu.com/questions/49310/is-there-any-way-of-enabling-middle-click-scrolling]This question[/url] says you can enable it globally for your current session using xinput. And if you can enable it per-session, it would be trivial to put the command in some sort of autostart function.

[QUOTE=lavacano;47283367][url=http://askubuntu.com/questions/49310/is-there-any-way-of-enabling-middle-click-scrolling]This question[/url] says you can enable it globally for your current session using xinput. And if you can enable it per-session, it would be trivial to put the command in some sort of autostart function.[/QUOTE] That's funny. I didn't realize my thinkpad middle click worked just fine.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47283121]I was a big GNOME 2 user back when that was a thing. Now I'm using XFCE 4.12 though. It's actually really great, and I'm surprised how much customization you can put it through without it breaking at all. Impressive pieces of technology, and I believe part of that comes from the modularity.[/QUOTE] I kept on switching between Gnome 2 and XFCE, but after the 'death' of Gnome 2 I stuck with XFCE.

XFCE for life.

Unity for life

[QUOTE=DerpishCat;47284311]Unity for life[/QUOTE] who hurt you

[QUOTE=DerpishCat;47284311]Unity for life[/QUOTE] Today, treatment already exists for things like this

[QUOTE=DerpishCat;47284311]Unity for life[/QUOTE] You have my condolences.

[QUOTE=DerpishCat;47284311]Unity for life[/QUOTE] Don't breach containment!

[QUOTE=DerpishCat;47284311]Unity for life[/QUOTE] Why must you disappoint us

tbh only issue I have with Unity is that it uses compiz which somehow has the weirdest issues on my hardware

Guys seriously Unity isn't so bad. It looks nice, works nice and just.. feels nice. Haven't had any problems with any hardware, so idk what kinda weird stuff you guys run it on

[QUOTE=DerpishCat;47289786]Guys seriously Unity isn't so bad. It looks nice, works nice and just.. feels nice. Haven't had any problems with any hardware, so idk what kinda weird stuff you guys run it on[/QUOTE] Try X11 forwarding it. [sp]Hint: It uses OpenGL for some odd reason[/sp]

[QUOTE=DerpishCat;47289786]Guys seriously Unity isn't so bad. It looks nice, works nice and just.. feels nice. Haven't had any problems with any hardware, so idk what kinda weird stuff you guys run it on[/QUOTE] Nothing weird, just standard computer hardware (nvidia card, intel 64 bit processor, so on). Ran like garbage, even with the proprietary drivers. Also really confusing when you're coming from a normal desktop environment. Sure it looks pretty, but unless you're easily won over by shiny objects that's not much of a positive point.

[QUOTE=TrinityX;47290400]Try X11 forwarding it. [sp]Hint: It uses OpenGL for some odd reason[/sp][/QUOTE] every modern DE uses OpenGL bro

today i learned the wmctrl tool exists i can rename my copy of Steam under Wine as "WinSteam", or I can make a new terminal window and rename it to "ARCANE WIZARDRY", the possibilities are endless

One of my teachers got ahold of a couple of desktop PC's for his classroom. They have [URL="http://zorin-os.com/"]Zorin[/URL] installed on them. Zorin's based on Ubuntu and it has the fancy compiz windows on it. Anyone have any sort of experience with Zorin? What's your opinion on it?

[QUOTE=supervoltage;47310097]One of my teachers got ahold of a couple of desktop PC's for his classroom. They have [URL="http://zorin-os.com/"]Zorin[/URL] installed on them. Zorin's based on Ubuntu and it has the fancy compiz windows on it. Anyone have any sort of experience with Zorin? What's your opinion on it?[/QUOTE] I've used it. It used to be our Linux install of choice for people who would never want to learn anything but Windows but didn't have money for a license. It's okay.

the zorin website makes me feel like i'm about to download a modern-ish shareware scuba diving game

i apparently had a zorin VM once i don't remember a damn thing about it, and i generally assume no news is good news, but i'll go ahead and make a VM for it again and see if I'm right [editline]12th March 2015[/editline] oh looking at the screenshots, i remember this DE had some graphical bugs but they've probably fixed most/all of them by now

after having some issues connecting to my VPS through SSH, I decided to try sslh to run through the SSL port instead which worked, though I had a few other issues which made me unable to get in. I shrugged it off and gave up, then two days later my VPS was stopped by my provider for high load [t]http://i.cubeupload.com/KNzSpB.png[/t] quite literally using 20x the capacity of my provided CPU from the host system just to run sslh. good lord anyone know of a good alternative? I'll just wind up having my VPS terminated if I try using sslh again. my webserver isn't delivering https so I suppose I could just give the 443 port to SSH. or isn't it that simple? [editline]13th March 2015[/editline] figured I'd also reinstall my VPS as apparently there's a tiny dependency spaghetti which I don't want to deal with. though I have over 100GB of content on my server which needs to be moved and it's taking ages to download it, then upload it on a 10mbps connection. any way to do this more efficiently?

So I recently got a great deal on a convertible laptop with a touchscreen, and am wondering what distros work best with touch input? I'm still a Linux noob but would like to be able to take full use of my laptop. I'm partial to elementaryOS out of all the distros I've tried but I'm definitely open to suggestions. Tried configuring Arch once a year or two ago and failed miserably.

[QUOTE=DanTehMan;47315497]So I recently got a great deal on a convertible laptop with a touchscreen, and am wondering what destros work best with touch input? I'm still a Linux noob but would like to be able to take full use of my laptop. I'm partial to elementaryOS out of all the destros I've tried but I'm definitely open to suggestions. Tried configuring Arch once a year or two ago and failed miserably.[/QUOTE] If you still want to attempt installing Arch and doing the most basic configuration for it, try to follow [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrzEXtjUUpw"]this video.[/URL] I figured the Beginner's Guide had too much info for a beginner, so I made the most basic installation + configuration. Simply installing xf86-input-elographics should enable touchscreen input, as far as I can tell. If not, the Arch Wiki has countless pages to help you out. I've also added you on Steam, though I won't be immediately available. Good luck!

[QUOTE=supervoltage;47315639]If you still want to attempt installing Arch and doing the most basic configuration for it, try to follow [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrzEXtjUUpw"]this video.[/URL] I figured the Beginner's Guide had too much info for a beginner, so I made the most basic installation + configuration. Simply installing xf86-input-elographics should enable touchscreen input, as far as I can tell. If not, the Arch Wiki has countless pages to help you out. I've also added you on Steam, though I won't be immediately available. Good luck![/QUOTE] Thanks for the tip! I might give Arch a try, but I guess what I am really asking for is a touch friendly (UI? desktop environment? I'm still not quite sure of the terms.) I've heard Unity is really touch friendly, but all of you seem to hate it.

[QUOTE=DanTehMan;47315953]Thanks for the tip! I might give Arch a try, but I guess what I am really asking for is a touch friendly (UI? desktop environment? I'm still not quite sure of the terms.) I've heard Unity is really touch friendly, but all of you seem to hate it.[/QUOTE] The Dash is the pain in the butt on Unity. There's always GNOME. It's pretty close to being both touch-friendly and desktop-friendly and being consistent. It can be quite a resource hog and be rather complex under the hood, it's one of the most handy interfaces out there.

is there away to stabilize network connections? on windows, I'm able to download from steam at a pretty much consistent rate of 12MB/s but on linux, it jumps all over [IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1426348265.png[/IMG]