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

Just add "Defaults insults" to your suoders file

[QUOTE=rilez;47541765]Yeah, but that only works with QXL/Cirrus graphics. If you run passthrough, this just displays the QEMU terminal window. I think I'll just have to rely on physical input switching for now. My USB switch will be here tomorrow. Unrelated note, visudo insults are my favorite UNIX easter egg at the moment. Fat fingered my password trying to disable GDM: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/VC7LTSN.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] If you have a second monitor, Synergy works fucking wonderful with the KVM passthrough setup. I tried it myself, it works great. Disk I/O was still slow as balls for some reason when I used it, though.

My Windows VM is mostly set now, the USB switch worked great. Made a quick video for you guys. Thought it might be boring, so I picked the first song I saw on Youtube's music feature. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In0Zsu7qL0Q[/media]

One interesting thing about running Windows in a complete virtualization setup is actually benchmarking from the Linux side. I can easily switch between inputs (or monitors if I had more than one) and check temperatures, CPU usage, clock speed, etc. Rather than the Windows equivalents, many of which don't use hardware sensors, and have adware (CPU-Z) or aren't very active projects (Open Hardware Monitor) For example, GTAV under virtualization seems to make full use of all 12 of my cores, which is pretty neat. Neat that any game is that well threaded, but that it also works in a VM: [t]http://u.cubeupload.com/rilez/GgeYJz.png[/t] [editline]20th April 2015[/editline] I don't know why I bothered to run system monitor when I already had htop open, whatever. Squiggly lines!!!

I'm addicted to dzen2 again. [t]http://novaember.com/s/356068765.png[/t] [editline]21st April 2015[/editline] (That panel on the bottom 2 pixels is also dzen)

Shamelessly copied from irc: MIME help! I have a file x-gma.xml with these contents: [code] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mime-info xmlns='http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info'> <mime-type type="application/x-gma"> <comment>GMA file</comment> <glob pattern="*.gma"/> </mime-type> </mime-info> [/code] I can run [code]sudo xdg-mime install --mode system x-gma.xml[/code] and [code]sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime[/code] [B]however[/B] often I like, but the query always returns [I]application/octet-stream[/I]. I'm desparate. What am I doing wrong? By the way, this is how I'm testing it: [code] xdg-mime query filetype 248302805.gma [/code] obviously 248302805.gma exists. Whoever made this piece of shit program (xdg-mime) should get retroactively aborted. There is [B]no[/B] excuse for it failing silently.

[QUOTE=FPtje;47570270]Whoever made this piece of shit program (xdg-mime) should get retroactively aborted. There is [B]no[/B] excuse for it failing silently.[/QUOTE] Sounds like all xdg-* tools are shit. At least xdg-open is, as well.

xdg-open works fine for me, but I run KDE and it was probably designed for the fuckhuge environments like that

[QUOTE=rilez;47549154]My Windows VM is mostly set now, the USB switch worked great. Made a quick video for you guys. Thought it might be boring, so I picked the first song I saw on Youtube's music feature. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In0Zsu7qL0Q[/media][/QUOTE] I really need to get around to learning this. I dual boot right now and it's such a pain that I end up just not using Windows ever.

how come when I SSH into my VPS, it sees my original IP rather than my VPN IP? is my VPN leaking? its OpenVPN configured on Debian. does it see my original IP since the VPS I'm SSHing into is also the OpenVPN server?

It shouldn't do, mine detects my VPN. What VPS and VPN providers are you with?

[QUOTE=josm;47583900]It shouldn't do, mine detects my VPN. What VPS and VPN providers are you with?[/QUOTE] the VPS is hosted at Ramnode, and the VPN is hosted on the same VPS

-misread the question, I'm dumb-

[QUOTE=josm;47584413]Well that will be why then surely? you're connecting to your VPS to hide your IP, so your VPS is going to know what your actual IP is.[/QUOTE] That's literally what he said.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;47585142]That's literally what he said.[/QUOTE] Re-read the question now :v: [editline]24th April 2015[/editline] Also, Can you configure dmenu to anyway you wish? if so, how?

[QUOTE=josm;47585623] Also, can you configure dmenu to anyway you wish? if so, how?[/QUOTE] There's an [URL=http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/xrdb]XRDB diff[/url] to use your X resource database. In other words, apply the patch and enter in some words in your standard ~/.Xresources and then: [CODE] $ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources [/CODE]

You can also just edit the source, similar to DWM. They were made for each other, anyways

[QUOTE=josm;47585623]Re-read the question now :v: [editline]24th April 2015[/editline] Also, Can you configure dmenu to anyway you wish? if so, how?[/QUOTE] If you're talking basic stuff like colors and layout, there are a few cmdline switches. Otherwise you'll have to dig into the source. Obligatory example: [t]http://novaember.com/s/627895948.png[/t]

Debian Jessie gets released tomorrow. :dance:

I would be excited but I already use Testing

Has anyone tried using Jessie without Systemd?

oh man, they removed the notification tray/bar in Gnome? [IMG]http://pred.me/pics/1429916986.png[/IMG] I really liked that, especially with the extension that puts a system monitor there. not a big fan of this new tiny thing. is it possible to get the old one back?

You mean the slide out tray? I don't think so

[QUOTE=TheCreeper;47590784]Has anyone tried using Jessie without Systemd?[/QUOTE] Not tried it, but the [URL="https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_without_systemd"]Debian wiki[/URL] says you can install the sysvinit-core package and tell GRUB to use that instead of systemd

Is there any form of Google Drive client? I've recently switched over to Linux and can't seem to find anything on it. It seems Google promised a client a few years back and nothing came of it, with the exception of a few leaked screenshots. I've managed to find 'Drive' ([url]https://github.com/odeke-em/drive[/url]) by an ex-Google employee, but annoyingly it doesn't have a background process to automatically sync changes. Can anyone recommend anything or am I to just stick with the web interface until Google releases their official client?

[QUOTE=Adzter;47598002]Is there any form of Google Drive client? I've recently switched over to Linux and can't seem to find anything on it. It seems Google promised a client a few years back and nothing came of it, with the exception of a few leaked screenshots. I've managed to find 'Drive' ([url]https://github.com/odeke-em/drive[/url]) by an ex-Google employee, but annoyingly it doesn't have a background process to automatically sync changes. Can anyone recommend anything or am I to just stick with the web interface until Google releases their official client?[/QUOTE] I'm afraid the latter is the case. You may be able to find an unofficial client, but for what it's worth it just isn't there.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47598267]I'm afraid the latter is the case. You may be able to find an unofficial client, but for what it's worth it just isn't there.[/QUOTE] I suppose the web interface will have to suffice for now.

I use grive. It doesn't do automatic but you could set up a cronjob for that. cd ~/gdrive && grive

any idea what might cause specific programs to freeze the entire system? MonoDevelop and Spotify are two offenders which will after some use, freeze my system to the point where I have to reset. whats a good alternative to Spotify? I'm currently using Clementine, but it's hard to browse artists and such using this. I gave Tomahawk a try as well but I couldn't figure out how to get my playlists [editline]25th April 2015[/editline] I'm using nouveau by the way [editline]25th April 2015[/editline] also, how do I launch Gnome in a Wayland session without using GDM? GDM freezes my system up as well, and gnome-session session=gnome-wayland only works when running as root

Wine: 1, Windows: 0. See, there's this old game I wanted to play at a high resolution. DirectX 7 old, to be exact. Direct3D 7 was not specified for higher-resolution displays than 2048x1536. So even on modern systems, Direct3D 7 will refuse to create greater displays than that. Wine, on the other hand, doesn't care, and will happily run a 15-year-old game in 2K. I would now be running a Windows game in a Linux VM on my Windows host if the VM graphics acceleration wasn't so awful.