General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop!
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Shaders are fun.
When are user agent icons being updated?
Is there a way to disable the function that disables the touchpad while typing on Fedora/Gnome? It appears to be different for Wayland. All the guides tell me to call a function, presumably meaning I need to write a program to do it which is way out of my experience zone.
Alt: who do I talk to at Gnome to ask about making that a feature in the fucking options like it should be?
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52642038]Is there a way to disable the function that disables the touchpad while typing on Fedora/Gnome? It appears to be different for Wayland. All the guides tell me to call a function, presumably meaning I need to write a program to do it which is way out of my experience zone.
Alt: who do I talk to at Gnome to ask about making that a feature in the fucking options like it should be?[/QUOTE]
Use X11, Wayland doesn't have support for that yet afaik. Also Gnome does detect when XF86TouchpadToggle is pressed, I never use it though so I don't know if it works. Perhaps you can use xdotool to send a XF86TouchpadToggle key press to disable it on Wayland.
Otherwise use xinput on X11 to disable your touchpad.
Suddenly unable to start Antergos on my laptop, says there's errors starting both network manager and lightdm.
Considering it's an old laptop and there's two errors, am I right in assuming probably HDD failure?
[QUOTE=Naelstrom;52644869]Use X11, Wayland doesn't have support for that yet afaik. Also Gnome does detect when XF86TouchpadToggle is pressed, I never use it though so I don't know if it works. Perhaps you can use xdotool to send a XF86TouchpadToggle key press to disable it on Wayland.
Otherwise use xinput on X11 to disable your touchpad.[/QUOTE]
Turns out all I had to do was run
[code]gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing false[/code]
and now the touchpad works with typing again.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52650888]Turns out all I had to do was run
[code]gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad disable-while-typing false[/code]
and now the touchpad works with typing again.[/QUOTE]
Just noticed now that I misread your original problem. My bad.
The X11 equivalent would be to use `xinput --list-prop` and `xinput --set-prop` on the touchpad device. Glad you figured it out for wayland though.
So I wanted to install sddm onto my Mint distro.
When I did, a handy little X prompt on my terminal popped up and said it noticed there were two login managers, and gave me an option to select which one I wanted: The mdm I had from the Mint installation, and the sddm I had just installed.
I selected sddm.
Some time later, I boot up again.
Linux hurls a massive, bile-doused X prompt telling me that the X server couldn't be started. I have to wait about 10 seconds to be actually able to get rid of it.
After that, it tells me that I should try restarting mdm or something.
I am confused as shit because I thought that the prompt that the X server gave me when I installed sddm would have actually switched from mdm to that when I selected which one I wanted to use, instead of just telling both to boot at the same time?
Sddm secured dominance over mdm in any case, being the only one running, so I can log in no problem.
Is there a way to upgrade an old Mint 16 install to a Mint 18 one? I already tried just fresh installing Mint 18 over it, but the Mobo refuses to load the livestick and goes straight to the Mint 16 install. Not even setting the hdd as lowest prio to load an OS and selecting the stick helped at all.
Doesn't Mint have a built-in updater?
That would work over Apt. Next to all sources are 404'd when trying to use Apt.
[QUOTE=J0SEPH;52658743]So I wanted to install sddm onto my Mint distro.
When I did, a handy little X prompt on my terminal popped up and said it noticed there were two login managers, and gave me an option to select which one I wanted: The mdm I had from the Mint installation, and the sddm I had just installed.
I selected sddm.
Some time later, I boot up again.
Linux hurls a massive, bile-doused X prompt telling me that the X server couldn't be started. I have to wait about 10 seconds to be actually able to get rid of it.
After that, it tells me that I should try restarting mdm or something.
I am confused as shit because I thought that the prompt that the X server gave me when I installed sddm would have actually switched from mdm to that when I selected which one I wanted to use, instead of just telling both to boot at the same time?
Sddm secured dominance over mdm in any case, being the only one running, so I can log in no problem.[/QUOTE]
remove mdm and reinstall sddm?
Okay this is extremely annoying. Each time I set up SSH on my RPI (with the new "Stretch" release of Raspbian) and I reboot, SSH stops working (no route to host or something like that). At times it doesn't even connect to my router (through ethernet) So each reboot I lose control of my RPI and I have to start over... More efficient ways of debugging this shit are welcome...
[QUOTE=Number-41;52664678]Okay this is extremely annoying. Each time I set up SSH on my RPI (with the new "Stretch" release of Raspbian) and I reboot, SSH stops working (no route to host or something like that). At times it doesn't even connect to my router (through ethernet) So each reboot I lose control of my RPI and I have to start over... More efficient ways of debugging this shit are welcome...[/QUOTE]
Telnet over the hardware serial pins if you're running headless.
Can I also just use an ethernet cable from my laptop to my Rpi?
[QUOTE=Number-41;52664735]Can I also just use an ethernet cable from my laptop to my Rpi?[/QUOTE]
Without SSH? well you can enable Telnet via ethernet, but I'd advise you to disable it when it's connected to the internet.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52642038]
Alt: who do I talk to at Gnome to ask about making that a feature in the fucking options like it should be?[/QUOTE]
Gnome developers don't care about what the user wants anymore, sadly.
[QUOTE=nutcake;52665069]Gnome developers don't care about what the user wants anymore, sadly.[/QUOTE]
Out of all the DEs and WMs I've tried, Gnome is still the most feature filled, stable, and pretty DE for me.
Customization be damned if it gets in the way of my workflow/eyecandy.
[QUOTE=Number-41;52664735]Can I also just use an ethernet cable from my laptop to my Rpi?[/QUOTE]
If you need to SSH into the RaspPi. Then take the sd card into your Laptop. Put a file called "ssh" without any extension in the root of the card. When the RaspPi now boots it will enable SSH server.
Source: [URL]https://hackernoon.com/raspberry-pi-headless-install-462ccabd75d0[/URL]
[QUOTE=Naelstrom;52666790]Out of all the DEs and WMs I've tried, Gnome is still the most feature filled, stable, and pretty DE for me.
Customization be damned if it gets in the way of my workflow/eyecandy.[/QUOTE]
Yes, I agree, Gnome is my favorite DE and I use it on all of my Linux machines, however the Gnome devs keep removing useful features for no reason other than "Users don't want/need it". They keep dumbing it down and if it keeps going like this I might just switch back to XFCE.
[QUOTE=Jalict;52668135]If you need to SSH into the RaspPi. Then take the sd card into your Laptop. Put a file called "ssh" without any extension in the root of the card. When the RaspPi now boots it will enable SSH server.
Source: [URL]https://hackernoon.com/raspberry-pi-headless-install-462ccabd75d0[/URL][/QUOTE]
Yes I know this. The problem is that, after the first reboot, I cannot SSH into it anymore. Somehow rebooting disables or breaks SSH.
Gnome keeps removing features away for "simplicity".
XFCE development is dead and its just a Gnome2 ripoff.
The only consistent desktop is KDE.
[editline]12th September 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Number-41;52669997]Yes I know this. The problem is that, after the first reboot, I cannot SSH into it anymore. Somehow rebooting disables or breaks SSH.[/QUOTE]
enable ssh during boot:
systemctl enable sshd
and if it's not a systemd system, uninstall the OS.
[editline]12th September 2017[/editline]
my current KDE desktop in it's glory
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Q1FVjuX.jpg[/IMG]
KDE is the only consistently crashing DE.
Honestly, no matter what PC, no matter what distro, every time I try KDE, kwin crashes at least 5 times a day, vsync rarely works and performance is horrid.
anything beyond twm was a mistake
[QUOTE=Lyoko2;52673074]XFCE development is dead and its just a Gnome2 ripoff. [/QUOTE]
Now you're mixing up XFCE and Mate
[QUOTE=Lyoko2;52673074]The only consistent desktop is KDE.[/QUOTE]
KDE is consistent at the wrong things
[editline]12th September 2017[/editline]
Namely bloat
[QUOTE=Van-man;52673249]Now you're mixing up XFCE and Mate
KDE is consistent at the wrong things
[editline]12th September 2017[/editline]
Namely bloat[/QUOTE]
No, I'm not mixing Mate and XFCE.
XFCE is based on GTK2. and it tries to look like gnome2 but work faster.
KDE has the best customization features and possibilities.
You can change color them and download more within KDE. (Get new scheme button)
same goes to window decorations, wallpapers, icon packs, workspace theme, effects.
New ones always appear when you try to download within KDE's system settings.
also Gnome and XFCE don't have as thorough 'System Settings' app as KDE's, gnome 3 forces you to use OpenGL compositioning when KDE allows you to select the compositioning system.
oh and KDE Connect is the best android integration for daily use.
[QUOTE=Lyoko2;52673074]
enable ssh during boot:
systemctl enable sshd
and if it's not a systemd system, uninstall the OS.
[/QUOTE]
I'll try that, otherwise I'm back to Raspbian Jessie, where it didn't happen...
I use Mint with KDE on my laptop and it's been great so far - haven't had anything crash yet. It's very customisable and KDE connect is really well done. My 2c
