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

[QUOTE=PredGD;47598875]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[/QUOTE] seems to have been an issue with nouveau as it doesn't happen on NVIDIA's drivers

[QUOTE=PredGD;47598875]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[/QUOTE] If you have Spotify Premium you can use mopidy and any mpd client, I used to use mopidy + ncmcpp, though I ended up going back to the regular client as I found it easier in the end.

[QUOTE=ben1066;47604092]If you have Spotify Premium you can use mopidy and any mpd client, I used to use mopidy + ncmcpp, though I ended up going back to the regular client as I found it easier in the end.[/QUOTE] it sounds a little complicated, but thanks for the input anyway! I think I'll stick with Spotify now that I've solved the freeze thing. though with the new drivers, a new issue was brought in. animations in Gnome doesn't appear to work even though I've enabled animations [t]http://pred.me/pics/1430072401.png[/t] whenever an animation would usually show up, it instead instantly snaps where it's supposed to go which feels and looks unusual. somehow I think this is related to the above problem, but I'm also having issues with game performance and Steam. Rimworld for example runs at an unplayable FPS, which I'd assume is less than 1 FPS. Steam doesn't open and instead shows a graphical error while the console window spits out X errors. [t]http://pred.me/pics/1430072627.png[/t] the thing to the right is the Steam window. any idea what might cause any of the issues I'm having? googling has gotten me nowhere [editline]26th April 2015[/editline] simple answer to seemingly complicated problem, I had forgotten to install nvidia-libgl while switching from nouveau, oops!

I think I can now join the VGA passthrough club, got my GTX 960 passed through under OVMF. Unfortunately still need a patched kernel as I need the ACS override patch, but other than that it's all upstream stuff, pretty pleased. Need to pick up a cheap HDMI switch off eBay as my monitor's input switching is really slow. Only thing I'm not entirely happy with is audio, I have to have a display device added (eg. cirrus) and then have virt-manager open to get audio to my user, I think my other option would be to run PulseAudio system wide. I don't suppose if anyone knows of a SPICE audio only client or something, I believe that's what virt-manager is using. [IMG_THUMB]https://s.paste.ninja/2015-04-26_20-20-42.jpg[/IMG_THUMB]

What's a good video player? The stock one that comes with Ubuntu blows and last I checked VLC doesn't like 21:9.

[QUOTE=Levelog;47607682]What's a good video player? The stock one that comes with Ubuntu blows and last I checked VLC doesn't like 21:9.[/QUOTE] I really like mplayer. I'd recommend that unless that's the default one in ubuntu.

[QUOTE=FPtje;47608626]I really like mplayer. I'd recommend that unless that's the default one in ubuntu.[/QUOTE] Ubuntu wouldn't ship with mplayer, even with a frontend. it probably comes with totem

[QUOTE=Levelog;47607682]What's a good video player? The stock one that comes with Ubuntu blows and last I checked VLC doesn't like 21:9.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://mpv.io/"]mpv[/URL] is by far the best one IMO. Fork of mplayer/mplayer2. I used to use mplayer, but now I use mpv. mplayer feels rather old now. :v:

[QUOTE=lavacano;47608985]Ubuntu wouldn't ship with mplayer, even with a frontend. it probably comes with totem[/QUOTE] It's just titled "videos" and I can't be assed to find out exactly what it is. [editline]27th April 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Simon Belmont;47611027][URL="http://mpv.io/"]mpv[/URL] is by far the best one IMO. Fork of mplayer/mplayer2. I used to use mplayer, but now I use mpv. mplayer feels rather old now. :v:[/QUOTE] Cool, I'll have to check it out, thanks! [editline]27th April 2015[/editline] Yeah it's totem and it's terrible.

Did the base Arch install on my laptop now, need to config everything tomorrow. Nice to see the instructions I wrote for myself are still basically up-to-date.

I barely even have a UI anymore. [t]http://i.imgur.com/OlGBWsG.png[/t] (P.S: Chromium 42 on Arch now supports [url="http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/33ed7q/chromium_from_extra_now_capable_of_netflix/"]Widevine[/url])

So I set my default pager to "most" instead of less, and after that man decided it was Christmas. [img]http://jesusfuck.me/di/6X1D/manchristmas.png[/img] What decides these colors? And more importantly how do I change them?

[QUOTE=lavacano;47614643]So I set my default pager to "most" instead of less, and after that man decided it was Christmas. [img]http://jesusfuck.me/di/6X1D/manchristmas.png[/img] What decides these colors? And more importantly how do I change them?[/QUOTE] Aw, what's wrong with [B]less[/B](1)? [editline]Nothing.[/editline] For a serious answer: As far as I can tell, those colors are just default. According to the [URL="http://man.cx/most"][B]most[/B](1) manual page[/URL], custom colors are found in a "most.rc" file. To also quote the man page: [QUOTE=man most] Colors may be defined through the use of the color keyword in the the configuration file using the syntax: color OBJECT-NAME FOREGROUND-COLOR BACKGROUND-COLOR Here, OBJECT-NAME can be any one of the following items: status -- the status line underline -- underlined text overstrike -- overstriked text normal -- anything else [/QUOTE] And from the most.rc file that comes [url=http://www.jedsoft.org/releases/most/]in an archive[/url]: [CODE] color normal lightgray black color status yellow blue color underline brightgreen black color overstrike brightred black [/CODE] Pretty sure you can put two and two together here with how the colors are in word form. Just make sure your configuration goes in [I]~/.mostrc[/I], not [I]most.rc[/I]. Or if you want to call it whatever, just set the MOST_INITFILE environmental variable to its location. [editline]e[/editline] [B]SAMPLE:[/B] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/sLD9chU.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nU8W3rr.png[/IMG] [I](Left) With default, unconfigured colors. (Right) Using the colors mentioned above inside of ~/.mostrc. It's brown because my XRDB says so. :v:[/I] [editline]e[/editline] I could also use some help talking me out of trying Common Lisp and FORTH as alterantive languages.

did you guys know broadcom has a native kernel module that doesn't require fucking with b43-fwcutter [url=http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php]because i sure as hell didn't until today[/url] all i did was "emerge broadcom-sta && modprobe wl" and this broadcom card works perfectly

[QUOTE=lavacano;47615293]did you guys know broadcom has a native kernel module that doesn't require fucking with b43-fwcutter [url=http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php]because i sure as hell didn't until today[/url] all i did was "emerge broadcom-sta && modprobe wl" and this broadcom card works perfectly[/QUOTE] Unfortunately it doesn't work with all firmware. But it's pretty neat to have available. It also seems that depending on the version and distribution of Linux you're using, it may or may not support your chipset. Which is kind of odd.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47615894]Unfortunately it doesn't work with all firmware. But it's pretty neat to have available. It also seems that depending on the version and distribution of Linux you're using, it may or may not support your chipset. Which is kind of odd.[/QUOTE] It works with mine, though I admit it performs rather poorly now that I've actually been using it for a while. [editline]28th April 2015[/editline] also I learned this one the hard way, now you don't have to NetworkManager's support for dhcpcd is obnoxiously broken. Causes nothing but issues. Use the ISC client.

how would I go about installing VMWare tools in a Qemu VM? Qemu using Spice is really laggy for me, while a VMWare VM feels almost native with identical settings to the Qemu VM. [editline]30th April 2015[/editline] guest OS is Windows

The VMWare tools are VMWare specific (not because of DRM, they just wouldn't work with anything else). Spice is always gonna be laggy, that's just what you get with remote desktop technologies. The VM itself most assuredly works fine. There are some Windows drivers for KVM guests, but they probably won't help you much: [url]http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers[/url] [editline]30th April 2015[/editline] Oh, right, there's these as well, which should actually improve things for you: [url]http://www.spice-space.org/download.html[/url]

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;47631153]The VMWare tools are VMWare specific (not because of DRM, they just wouldn't work with anything else). Spice is always gonna be laggy, that's just what you get with remote desktop technologies. The VM itself most assuredly works fine. There are some Windows drivers for KVM guests, but they probably won't help you much: [url]http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers[/url] [editline]30th April 2015[/editline] Oh, right, there's these as well, which should actually improve things for you: [url]http://www.spice-space.org/download.html[/url][/QUOTE] is there no way to get VMWare graphics to work with QEMU? I know it's possible to launch QEMU using VMWare as its graphics, though the wiki page only says how to get the guest OS drivers for Arch, not Windows any idea if the Spice guest drivers work correctly when installed under Win8 using Win7 compatibility mode? they didn't seem to help much and it's not compatible with Win8. might give a Win7 VM a shot instead [editline]30th April 2015[/editline] I'm surprised over how well simple games run in VMWare, I can play SS13 with no issues using it

Does anyone know why lemon (the font) is doing this to screenfetch? it doesn't look quite right. [t]https://josm.uk/i/screenFetch-2015-05-02_00-15-10.png[/t] Also, has anyone installed [URL="https://github.com/romeovs/creep"]this font[/URL] in Arch before?

[QUOTE=josm;47641128]Does anyone know why lemon (the font) is doing this to screenfetch? it doesn't look quite right. [t]https://josm.uk/i/screenFetch-2015-05-02_00-15-10.png[/t] Also, has anyone installed [URL="https://github.com/romeovs/creep"]this font[/URL] in Arch before?[/QUOTE] Hm, maybe it's bolded somehow?

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;47641239]Hm, maybe it's bolded somehow?[/QUOTE] Can't be, I disabled bold fonts in my .Xresources.

I recently switched from OSX to Ubuntu. Is there an Ubuntu application similar to iStatMenus for OSX? It was nice having this kind of information displayed in my top bar: [t]http://i.imgur.com/i39CeK6.png[/t]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;47643377]I recently switched from OSX to Ubuntu. Is there an Ubuntu application similar to iStatMenus for OSX? It was nice having this kind of information displayed in my top bar: [t]http://i.imgur.com/i39CeK6.png[/t][/QUOTE] I don't know if there's something like that for Unity, but I know there is for anything GTK2 or GTK3 based. But with Canonical's insistence on being special snowflakes they probably have a bodged implementation of GTK in their DE.

You could always just run conky.

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;47643377]I recently switched from OSX to Ubuntu. Is there an Ubuntu application similar to iStatMenus for OSX? It was nice having this kind of information displayed in my top bar: [t]http://i.imgur.com/i39CeK6.png[/t][/QUOTE] [url]http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/indicator-sysmonitor-updated-available-for-15-04[/url] [editline]2nd May 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Van-man;47644256]But with Canonical's insistence on being special snowflakes they probably have a bodged implementation of GTK in their DE.[/QUOTE] GTK on Ubuntu is patched for their overlay scrollbars, and for shifting the app menus to the top bar. And maybe other things.

[url]http://www.linuxlookup.com/windows_gaming_qemukvm_ubuntu_linux_amd_radeon_r9_280[/url] If I could ever get this to work with GW2 I'd be a happy man.

[QUOTE=rilez;47646416][url]http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/indicator-sysmonitor-updated-available-for-15-04[/url][/QUOTE] Thank you!

[t]http://i.imgur.com/6K4bSfu.jpg[/t] Well, looks like I'm on the path to a reinstall. btrfs has been causing my system to lock-up and shutdown repeatedly over the past few days. Thankfully, I was able to recover from that boot error with btrfs check --repair

So with my Windows install fucked, and my Xubuntu install having some odd issues, I decided to give Fedora a shot. [t]http://i.imgur.com/GTMz7hc.png[/t]