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The "Linux questions (and other stuff)" thread

Dngrsone said:
There is such a thing as too much choice, you know. :p
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That's the thing about KDE--its options are truly infinite.

So, the resolution on the screen seems to be worse on the Plasma desktop than on Cinnamon. Of course, this is a subjective thing, the wallpapers are different between the two environments, as well as the fonts.
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You can install any fonts and/or wallpapers you want.

I changed the default fonts in Plasma and dropped them down a point, and next time I boot we'll see if there is any improvement.
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This isn't window$!! :eek: Rebooting should have no part in this. Changing a setting, such as fonts, should take effect as soon as you hit 'apply.'

I have surfed through the themes available via the settings dialog for various sub-dialogs, and downloaded a good dozen of each.

As pretty as each one looks in its advertised page, the end result is not quite as romantic for any program not specifically designed into KDE. For instance, both Libre Office and Banshee look like ports from Win NT.
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I don't use Banshee, but my LibreOffice looks like everything else--and definitely not like it's from M$. Have you fiddled with your GTK+ Appearance settings? Not sure if that applies here, but it's worth a try.

I'm sorry, Moody, but a lot of this stuff is just not very intuitive. Part of that may be expectations on my part as a Windows and Gnome user, but some of it just makes no sense to me.
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I think it's just overload. There are literally SO MANY CHOICES it can be overwhelming. I often say that one could do nothing but tweak their display settings and easily spend a week, full time, doing it...and still not be done. So back off. Just take a step back and only adjust things you really care about right now. There's plenty of time to explore more thoroughly later. Get one or two things at a time the way you want them, then when you're in the mood work on one or two more.

I also understand that some of this may very well be me shooting myself in the foot for adding KDE to an existing Mint (Cinnamon) operating system instead of installing a new instance on the drive.
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No, this shouldn't be a factor at all.

You should at least feel content that you got this old dog to wander over to your side of the fence.
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:D :D

I will continue to complain, and there's nothing any of you damn kids can do about it.

... now get off my lawn!
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Complain away, my friend! :laugh:

Do you have ANY idea the last time someone called *ME* a kid?! I think horseless carriages had just made their debut. :rofl:
 
Dngrsone said:
I am a grandfather; you are all damn kids to me.

... it says so in the rule book.
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Well EM and I are grandparents, too. 'Splain that, if you can! :D

ETA: Sorry, guys, I hadn't read the replies before I posted this! saptech--TEN grandchildren? EM--SEVEN? Good grief, I only have two. And that's all I'll ever have (the son-in-law got snipped after the second one).
 
Same here-- my daughter in law got herself spayed when the second granddaughter was pulled out, so Dngrswife will have to wait for one of the other kids to get married/knocked up; and none of them are in any hurry, thankfully.


Well, I made the mistake of picking Mallige for a few different font choices, then realized why I stopped using it (numbers are horrible and unreadable), so replaced each instance with Mukti Narrow, but even with all the Mallige entries removed/replaced, my clock remained unreadable until I logged out.

For whatever reason, I do not have the monitor resolution dialog in settings... I can adjust my screensaver and gamma, but that's all there is.

So, something weird has occurred with this install.
 
As we're discussing KDE, and possibly Firefox as well. Here's a screen-shot of how the browser looks on my Linux Mint system.

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"all gray and square and shit" ... :D;) ...but I like it like that.
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saptech said:
Well, here's mine using Mageia 3 with KDE Plasma & Firefox v24...
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Here's one difference I noticed in the Chinese text in my profile.

This is yours saptech
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Looks like a sizing difference in some of the hanzi(Chinese characters).

..and this is mine.
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I've installed complete Chinese support and fonts into my Linux system, which isn't normally included by default in the Mint install ISO, they're an additional download.
 
Since I can see it on my browser, I guess it means I have some type of Chinese fonts installed. I'm using FF that's not included in my repositories.
 
none of them work outside of ChromeOS on mine. i can, however, adjust them manually and saved some icons on my dockbar to make it faster. it's not a big deal really.
 
AH! Smartdimmer. Now I can dim and brighten my display at whim. Very fine increments, too.


... and apparently, kdesudo didn't install; once I got that, it looks like the update manager will work as advertised.


Once I find an extra hour or two, I should create a separate thread detailing this whole process, so that I can fix things a bit faster on the next go round.
 
Ubuntu on my Chromebook does allow me to dim and brighten the display beyond the limits programmed into ChromeOS. i never could get it dim enough in ChromeOS for me. i got sensitive eyes.
 
So, I'm sitting outside on my patio--with my new, ultra-portable (but still hard to get used to LITTLE) Chromebook. :) It's SO MUCH easier to bring out here than the dv7. I could get used to this. :D (I mean bringing it outside. I'll still strongly prefer the nice big screen and keyboard on the dv7!)
 
Keep using it. before long you'll get over the 'bigger is better' mentality present in most Americans. i used to love huge, big sedans from the 1970s-80s with those fake leather half-tops and button-tufted 'corinthian leather' interiors (which ironically were not real leather). i found them safer, and easier to fix and reliable. but that was before i discovered Pontiac excitement. my Bonneville SSE is smaller than my Fifth Avenue before it, but ironically the Fifth Avenue was a mid-size while my Bonneville is listed full-size.
 
you know what i meant. the American problem of thinking it's cool to own huge pickup trucks guzzling gas, large cars, large laptops, brick-sized cellphones, etc.
 
nickdalzell said:
you know what i meant. the American problem of thinking it's cool to own huge pickup trucks guzzling gas, large cars, large laptops, brick-sized cellphones, etc.
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Yeh there's a recession on. Detroit is bankrupt and no longer making the huge gas guzzlers, govt has shut down, I'm working in China because of UK unemployment. Many can't afford the large expensive luxuries these days....economies have to be made.

For me Chrome OS wouldn't really be practical, because I can't guarantee always on unlimited internet access and many of Google's cloud services are censored, restricted or US only. A Chromebook itself would be fine, because can install Ubuntu or Mint on it.
 
nickdalzell said:
you know what i meant.
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Of course I did, silly. :D

the American problem of thinking it's cool to own huge pickup trucks guzzling gas, large cars, large laptops, brick-sized cellphones, etc.
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The large laptop part...I don't think I'll get over. I spent several hours using the Chromebook out on the patio, and I couldn't stop thinking, "damn!, this is small!"

Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all regretting having bought it. I love its portability. Wow. What a nice change from the big laptops. But--since I immediately ordered a Trackman for it--I still have to lug the trackball with me, like I would with the big laptops. I've gotten pretty used to its keyboard--I'm not hitting random keys as often now--but the screen...it's just too little.

I installed the GIMP and SeaMonkey, but they're both really uncomfortable to use. I can see firing up the GIMP for a quick resizing or something, but I cannot imagine sitting at it for hours working on designs for my shops, editing/cropping photos for my shops, etc. Big laptop for that.

One thing I really like is that its power cord doesn't have a 3-prong plug. I hadn't even really paid attention to it until I went outside, and realized I didn't need to have a 3-prong outlet for it. :)
 
mikedt said:
For me Chrome OS wouldn't really be practical, because I can't guarantee always on unlimited internet access and many of Google's cloud services are censored, restricted or US only. A Chromebook itself would be fine, because can install Ubuntu or Mint on it.
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I haven't seen ChromeOS since...whenever it was I installed Kubuntu on it. I think that was like 3 hours after the Chromebook arrived. :)

My short experience with it reinforced what I already knew about myself: I am NOT a cloud-oriented person.

Which reminds me, my power's going to be out on the 16th. I got a notice from Southern California Edison the other day, saying they're 'upgrading equipment' and are sorry for the inconvenience, blah blah blah. The last time they did this they installed a new pole in my neighbor's backyard. I took pics because it was actually quite a sight! But my point is that I'll have no power, no Internet, no nothing. :eek: And if I relied on cloud-based services, I'd be screwed.
 
Okay, Linux guys and gals, I've got a problem. On my new Chromebook, which I installed Kubuntu 13.04 on, I'm having network connection issues.

Note that I am still using Samba on all my computers. It's a holdover from when there was a window$ box on the network (before I converted my mom to Linux). I've had no problems, so I've left well enough alone.

But the new CB refuses to mount my other computers' drives. It fails with:

mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
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I've seen this before, right after a new install, and all I've ever done to solve it is keep installing Samba- and cifs-related stuff [via Synaptic] until it started working. In other words, it's always just been a sign that some component was missing, despite its wording that 'cifs filesystem not supported by the system.' But not this time. I've installed everything imaginable--and compared it side-by-side with my laptop--but it's still not working.

I've Googled away, and this error is rampant all over these Interwebs, but NONE of the solutions or causes applies to me, at least that I'm seeing.

I've also edited /etc/samba/smb.conf so everything's as it should be.

I cannot mount my other hard drives via fstab.

I can see and access SOME of my other computers via Dolphin, i.e., Network | Samba shares | workgroup lists all but my HP laptop. I can navigate the computers that appear here.

I can access my HP laptop via Dolphin; from Network | Add Network Folder I added it using its IP address and shared drive's name.

I cannot access any of the other computers from within any programs, i.e., if I'm in the GIMP and want to open an image on one of my desktops, I can't; 'network' isn't included in its 'file | open' menu.

Any ideas? I'm fresh out of them!

ETA: I forgot something--I CAN mount the Chromebook's drives from my other computers' fstabs; no changes whatsoever needed on any of them. So they're working as expected, but the CB itself is not.
 
Put Kubuntu on it, and made it more useful.. :)

MoodyBlues said:
I haven't seen ChromeOS since...whenever it was I installed Kubuntu on it. I think that was like 3 hours after the Chromebook arrived. :)

My short experience with it reinforced what I already knew about myself: I am NOT a cloud-oriented person.

Which reminds me, my power's going to be out on the 16th. I got a notice from Southern California Edison the other day, saying they're 'upgrading equipment' and are sorry for the inconvenience, blah blah blah. The last time they did this they installed a new pole in my neighbor's backyard. I took pics because it was actually quite a sight! But my point is that I'll have no power, no Internet, no nothing. :eek: And if I relied on cloud-based services, I'd be screwed.
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Remember it....Think we talked before about our particular power outages...LOL
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Great memory, Mike! :D I believe I posted pics of the pole being lifted into place.

I have no idea WHAT, exactly, they're going to do this time, but I'm not looking forward to it. After living in Tornado Alley (Dallas) for years, and spending hours...days...of my life without power, I now have a very low tolerance for it. Maybe I'll go to the Arboretum and take pictures. Or go to the beach. It's supposed to be almost 90 at Santa Monica and Venice this week. :)
 
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