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

So far I know, the RPi 3 still has a VideoCore IV GPU, so it should be the same as the RPi 1 & 2. I'm currently contemplating if I should try to activate watchdog, read several posts about users ending up in a "bootloop" like situation and I currently only have my android phone to fix that, if I do it wrong.

If you legit only have a Raspberry Pi and an Android phone, as far as computers go, right now, don't touch a god damn thing.

[QUOTE=nikomo;50320618]If you legit only have a Raspberry Pi and an Android phone, as far as computers go, right now, don't touch a god damn thing.[/QUOTE] Well I could take the Pi to my parents place, since it's only a 5 minute walk, or I could borrow my moms laptop in the worst case, however I try my best to avoid it.

[QUOTE=Torekk;50320518]So far I know, the RPi 3 still has a VideoCore IV GPU, so it should be the same as the RPi 1 & 2. I'm currently contemplating if I should try to activate watchdog, read several posts about users ending up in a "bootloop" like situation and I currently only have my android phone to fix that, if I do it wrong.[/QUOTE] Same GPU but the 3's is at 400mhz vs the 250mhz of the 2.

gave a tiling WM a proper go and I can definitely see why people like this. I have tried in the past but have given up too fast, but bspwm feels pretty okay to use so far. [t]https://pred.me/pics/1463276707.png[/t] I'm still pretty lost most of the time, still haven't figured out how to switch workspaces (I have kinda, but every workspace is empty even though I clearly sent something there) and have no idea how to get a bar up and running. even worse, I don't even know how to move stuff to my second monitor so right now it's just a glorified picture frame for my wallpaper. anyone got a good crash course on this? [editline]15th May 2016[/editline] bspwm is not a fan of slop either I noticed. with OpenGL enabled (not sure if this has anything to say, haven't tried without) it'll cause my entire screen to go black, only showing the slop lines and the magnifier. the picture will come out okay at the very least but still annoying that I can't see anything while taking the picture.

[QUOTE=PredGD;50322649]gave a tiling WM a proper go and I can definitely see why people like this. I have tried in the past but have given up too fast, but bspwm feels pretty okay to use so far. [t]https://pred.me/pics/1463276707.png[/t] I'm still pretty lost most of the time, still haven't figured out how to switch workspaces (I have kinda, but every workspace is empty even though I clearly sent something there) and have no idea how to get a bar up and running. even worse, I don't even know how to move stuff to my second monitor so right now it's just a glorified picture frame for my wallpaper. anyone got a good crash course on this?[/QUOTE] for bspwm the default to move an item to another workspace is magical key (windows key I think) + shift + workspace number. E.g, win + shift + 2 sends something to workspace 2. The nice thing about BSPWM is it uses sxhkd for binds, so you can easily look into ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc to find your binds and rebind things (might need to make it though.) Sxhkd also lets you take your binds to any WM so there's that too if you decide to try another one. As for your bar a pretty common choice is lemonbar. Lemonbar works by piping stuff into it, or in practical terms, a shell script to do so, which is then put into your xinitrc. To learn how to do the bar you might just find one off the internet and then sort of turn it into what you want, rather than doing it from scratch, much easier to work off of examples. Also while i3wm has a pretty god tier three part video series to teach you how to use it, I'm not sure if bspwm does too.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50322707]for bspwm the default to move an item to another workspace is magical key (windows key I think) + shift + workspace number. E.g, win + shift + 2 sends something to workspace 2. The nice thing about BSPWM is it uses sxhkd for binds, so you can easily look into ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc to find your binds and rebind things (might need to make it though.) As for your bar a pretty common choice is lemonbar. Lemonbar works by piping stuff into it, or in practical terms, a shell script to do so, which is then put into your xinitrc. To learn how to do the bar you might just find one off the internet and then sort of turn it into what you want, rather than doing it from scratch, much easier to work off of examples. Also while i3wm has a pretty god tier three part video series to teach you how to use it, I'm not sure if bspwm does too.[/QUOTE] liking sxhkd so far yeah, the config is structured well and is easy to read. the odd thing about the moving stuff to workspaces and switching is that there's nothing in the workspace when I switch to it after sending something to it. if I move spotify to for example workspace 2, it'll disappear like expected and music will continue playing as expected. if I switch workspace to the next one which should be 2, it's empty. if I keep scrolling through my workspaces I'll eventually end up at the primary one without ever seeing spotify. doesn't seem like there's a keybinding to switch stuff to another physical monitor either which is a bummer. I've googled some of the things and it doesn't seem like bspwm has all that much documentation available, or maybe I'm looking in the wrong areas. [editline]15th May 2016[/editline] ohhh right, I configured monitor 1 to have workspace 1 to 5, with monitor 2 having 6 to 10. switching something to workspace 1 then switches the monitor too, neat

[url]https://github.com/coryarcangel/Pizza-Party-0.1.b[/url] you can order pizza from command-line apparently I've finally been liberated from the botnet of non-free JS !

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50323174][url]https://github.com/coryarcangel/Pizza-Party-0.1.b[/url] you can order pizza from command-line apparently I've finally been liberated from the botnet of non-free JS ![/QUOTE] You can also (finally) [I]sudo make me a sandwich[/I]: [url]https://github.com/travist/makemeasandwich.js[/url]

I'm going nuts over here. Using Plasma 5.6.3 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Is there a way to have my wireless adapter automatically connect to my network without having to deal with that dumb KDE Wallet application? I've tried a fix I've found on Google, which is to tick "All users may connect to this network" in edit connection settings, but now it asks me to input an administrator password on each login. [t]https://i.imgur.com/yUAdMSH.png[/t] And then after that, it still asks for me to input my KDE Wallet password, so that it can then input the WiFi password. So every time I boot up I gotta enter 3 passwords to use the damn computer properly.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50325875]I'm going nuts over here. Using Plasma 5.6.3 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Is there a way to have my wireless adapter automatically connect to my network without having to deal with that dumb KDE Wallet application? I've tried a fix I've found on Google, which is to tick "All users my connect to this network" in edit connection settings, but now it asks me to input an administrator password on each login. [t]https://i.imgur.com/yUAdMSH.png[/t] And then after that, it still asks for me to input my KDE Wallet password, so that it can then input the WiFi password. So every time I boot up I gotta enter 3 passwords to use the damn computer properly.[/QUOTE] [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE_Wallet[/url] Maybe one of these will help? If not you might try an OpenSUSE IRC, those people will understand plasma pretty well

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50325875]I'm going nuts over here. Using Plasma 5.6.3 on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Is there a way to have my wireless adapter automatically connect to my network without having to deal with that dumb KDE Wallet application? I've tried a fix I've found on Google, which is to tick "All users may connect to this network" in edit connection settings, but now it asks me to input an administrator password on each login. [t]https://i.imgur.com/yUAdMSH.png[/t] And then after that, it still asks for me to input my KDE Wallet password, so that it can then input the WiFi password. So every time I boot up I gotta enter 3 passwords to use the damn computer properly.[/QUOTE] You might try deleting your network settings entirely through the Plasma interface (it's in the plasmoid's settings somewhere), then just manually configure wpa_supplicant/networkmanager/wicd/Internet Explorer in /etc to connect to that network. There's also a way to tell the KDE wallet to not use a password, but I don't remember what it is.

The more I use OpenSUSE and KDE, the more it bugs me. I'm about to switch back to XFCE on Xubuntu or something because while it certainly wasn't as pretty as KDE is, it always did exactly what I told it to.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50326069]The more I use OpenSUSE and KDE, the more it bugs me. I'm about to switch back to XFCE on Xubuntu or something because while it certainly wasn't as pretty as KDE is, it always did exactly what I told it to.[/QUOTE] You could do it with a more minimal install and build it up if you want the KDE aesthetics. I too found this to be a problem with OpenSUSE KDE but gentoo KDE has been great for me. Knowing what you put in the system just seems to make it so much easier OpenSUSE should have a way to do this, even if it requires susestudio. You could also just rice xfce, it can look pretty darn great with some work put into it.

Yeah, I've seen some XFCE themes and it can look gorgeous.

One of the worst problems with plasma 5 atm is the lack of that, a lot of great kde 4 themes (e.g. diamond) aren't even ported yet and most on KDE-looks just look cheap. So it's either you like breeze, or you go away.

Ended up going back to Fedora, but now none of my Steam games run. Borderlands 2 and CS:GO refuse to open, with no terminal output at all. Latest updates and a base system don't fix it.

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;50326696]Ended up going back to Fedora, but now none of my Steam games run. Borderlands 2 and CS:GO refuse to open, with no terminal output at all. Latest updates and a base system don't fix it.[/QUOTE] Got non-free drivers? especially if on nvidia, that'll help.

Thing is, I never had a problem using the AMD OSS drivers on Debian or Ubuntu. It does throw a lot of errors about ELF32 or something being the wrong library type, and then it says ELF64 is also wrong, in case that's any help

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;50327021]Thing is, I never had a problem using the AMD OSS drivers on Debian or Ubuntu. It does throw a lot of errors about ELF32 or something being the wrong library type, and then it says ELF64 is also wrong, in case that's any help[/QUOTE] Look at the steam start wrapper (usually /usr/bin/steam) and look at the lines 185 and beyond. What do they say? They could be creating problems. Void Linux used to have issues with that too, but they've been fixed mostly now.

Someone pointed out that I can just give KDE Wallet a null password and it just works silently in the background, so that solves that problem.

So I installed ubuntu on an old desktop with the intention of trying to make it a minecraft server, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install Java 7 on this machine. I download a tar.gz file onto the desktop, navigate to the desktop and extract the folder, but then I hit a roadblock and can't seem to get any further. help?

[QUOTE=EagleEye;50327435]So I installed ubuntu on an old desktop with the intention of trying to make it a minecraft server, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install Java 7 on this machine. I download a tar.gz file onto the desktop, navigate to the desktop and extract the folder, but then I hit a roadblock and can't seem to get any further. help?[/QUOTE] Go into your terminal and type [code]sudo apt-get install default-jre[/code]

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;50327451]Go into your terminal and type [code]sudo apt-get install default-jre[/code][/QUOTE] Wow that was really easy, I wonder why I couldn't find anything like that on google, just spent 2 hours trying to figure it out.

I had trouble installing 16.04 on a T61 Thinkpad, whereas 14.04 were trouble free

Is there any nice ways to get Arch/Arch derivates to work well with a Broadcom chip? Trying to install Linux on my desktop, where ethernet cables are not an option. Installed Manjaro i3 (i3 is cool as shit btw.) Forgot to install dialog so I can't use wifi-menu, but no big deal. Run through wifi steps myself, it sees the chip, set up a wlan interface, but as soon as I try associating with my network it immediately disconnects with no given reason. Seems if I install the b43 driver, it might work, but I'm not sure the steps required for that... Tempted just to give up and reinstall Ubuntu which I know plays nice with my wifi, and install i3 manually.

[QUOTE=Protocol7;50338041]Is there any nice ways to get Arch/Arch derivates to work well with a Broadcom chip? Trying to install Linux on my desktop, where ethernet cables are not an option. Installed Manjaro i3 (i3 is cool as shit btw.) Forgot to install dialog so I can't use wifi-menu, but no big deal. Run through wifi steps myself, it sees the chip, set up a wlan interface, but as soon as I try associating with my network it immediately disconnects with no given reason. Seems if I install the b43 driver, it might work, but I'm not sure the steps required for that... Tempted just to give up and reinstall Ubuntu which I know plays nice with my wifi, and install i3 manually.[/QUOTE] You can tether your phone over usb pretty easily instead of ethernet btw to mess with the broadcom drivers on the wiki. just put it in, turn on usb tether, and find its name and use dhcpcd on it. Though of course some phone manufacturers are horrible so you might not have that either

[QUOTE=Protocol7;50338041]Is there any nice ways to get Arch/Arch derivates to work well with a Broadcom chip? Trying to install Linux on my desktop, where ethernet cables are not an option. Installed Manjaro i3 (i3 is cool as shit btw.) Forgot to install dialog so I can't use wifi-menu, but no big deal. Run through wifi steps myself, it sees the chip, set up a wlan interface, but as soon as I try associating with my network it immediately disconnects with no given reason. Seems if I install the b43 driver, it might work, but I'm not sure the steps required for that... Tempted just to give up and reinstall Ubuntu which I know plays nice with my wifi, and install i3 manually.[/QUOTE] Install b43-fwcutter and download the official firmware files from the Broadcom site. Then read the instructions of use of b43-fwcutter and the rest should be pretty easy to follow.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50338286]You can tether your phone over usb pretty easily instead of ethernet btw to mess with the broadcom drivers on the wiki. just put it in, turn on usb tether, and find its name and use dhcpcd on it. Though of course some phone manufacturers are horrible so you might not have that either[/QUOTE] Ohhh yeah, I can totally do that. Have a rooted Moto X with no carrier restrictions so I can do whatever I like with that. :) Will give it a shot! [editline]17th May 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=mastersrp;50338307]Install b43-fwcutter and download the official firmware files from the Broadcom site. Then read the instructions of use of b43-fwcutter and the rest should be pretty easy to follow.[/QUOTE] Failing the phone strategy, this seems doable as well, thanks!

[URL="http://www.ebay.com/itm/SR0KX-INTEL-XEON-E5-2670-8-CORE-2-60GHz-20M-8GT-s-115W-PROCESSOR-CPU-/281889330127?hash=item41a1e9d3cf:g:kwIAAOSwKfVXGULm"]Xeon e5[/URL] Would buying two of these be the key to winning at gentoo? Muh -j33 and dat l3 cache. if server mobos weren't so expensive I actually would leap for one of these tbh because for what it is, $50 is incredibly cheap.