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[Aklyon]

It's rare to find a website you can trust to handle their colors

This is what Stylish is for.

[pisskop]

...Darkling

But, yes, the old firefox looked much more pleasing than the new one.  I went over to try firefox when I divorced IE and my eyeballs popped.


speaking of popping, Im not sure what happened but it says I have a blank update request in somewhere and keeps loading it, to the point where it took 20 minutes to load.

sooo.... I tried to stomache it and then connect to the wireless and hope that it could be updated out of blank, but nope; it wants to not connect, or take so long its about the same thing.  so Im willing to reinstall.

and get back to trying to figure out how to compile an exe so I can play vidya games.

[Max™]

As opposed to... not darkling?

Now, linux wifi is a pain in the ass unless your hardware happens to be certain types, though support is better than it was, I remember having some nightmares about it. I still have a spot where I wrote our router mac address on the piece of cardboard I have under the monitor I can't VESA mount to keep it from scraping when I rotate it.

It's rare to find a website you can trust to handle their colors

This is what Stylish is for.

Indeed, Greasemonkey is helpful there too, though the old script I used to disable youtube annotations died, but there's a new plugin for it thankfully.

[Aklyon]

Im not sure what happened but it says I have a blank update request in somewhere and keeps loading it, to the point where it took 20 minutes to load.

sooo.... I tried to stomache it and then connect to the wireless and hope that it could be updated out of blank, but nope; it wants to not connect, or take so long its about the same thing.  so Im willing to reinstall.

and get back to trying to figure out how to compile an exe so I can play vidya games.

If you're looking for how to get an exe to work on linux, first check if your games have a linux version, which would be a better thing to have. If not, try WINE.

[pisskop]

Im trying to learn how to compile the github stuffs, but wine has produce a working version and I can even quite easily add my own beta versions of my mod while I dont know how I would do so with the tar/git/terminal-made verison

  I wish I could make a batch file and stuff, Im sure I could if I knew how.
Im at the stage where I can do things, maybe, but I dont know exactly why Im doing things.  Which means Im not learning how to do things, just how to produce the results I want.

I dont 'hate' darkling', I just prefer lighter screens myself.  Unless Im in the dark.  Which I try not to do.

[Max™]

What I'd try to do is:

tar -xvf filename.tar.gz (or whatever)
cd filename
ls (to make sure the makefiles are in there)
make (or makepkg or ccmake or make install)
Then on whichever program it is, you'd do the appropriate distro install bit, you can point an apt-get-install at a .deb file, you can point pacman -U at a filename.pkg.tar.gz too.

[Starver]

I wish I could make a batch file and stuff, Im sure I could if I knew how.

Look up "shell script".

At the most basic, a text file that starts "#!/bin/sh" (or not too disimilar, but may differ slightly according to taste) and then contains unix-relevent commands (starting with "cp File1 File2" instead of "copy File1 File2", "ls" instead of "dir", etc, unless there's a cheaty set of aliases already set up), which is saved as a file that needs no specific extension (".sh" is a handy convention, though) but is instead made 'executable' ("chmod a+x myscript.sh", maybe, but read up on 'chmod' first to know what you're doing there) and then away you go.  (Probably need to 'run' tjat with "./myscript.sh", or whatever path if it is elsewhere).

Yeah, probably still need to get a proper tutorial on the subject. Thete's an available complexity to shell scripts that I don't feel comfortable summarising/generalising, especially as my prefered terminal environment may not be quite rhe same as the one you (or, for all I know, most people) are using.  There's plenty of online ones, and I've seen Linux magazines in the newsagent racks that profess to explain shell scripts.  But you have to buy those... 

[TheBiggerFish]

Well this thread is bound to be useful/interesting.

[Max™]

Hell, you'd be surprised what you learn just checking out this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_commands

There's shit in there that I totally wish I knew about before, really powerful tools, grep, dd, diff, mv, ps, plus stuff like explanations for ls, cd, mkdir, df, chmod, chown, and so forth.

[pisskop]

I put on eclipse, despite it doing nothing for me in widows.  Or at least it felt like a long drawn out way to edit C++ in windows when notepad++ did it so much more simply.


Im not sure I love it, but it works simply enough, and Ive pointed it directly at my mod folder in the game so anything I touch goes into effect next time I load the game.  Which is neat and nice enough.

[Angle]

Ooh, a linux thread! Can't believe I missed this.

[pisskop]

Im having trouble with the whole 'compile a program and them running it' bit.

CDDA, the game and Vim, have thus far not been loadable.  Wine has its own issues, it seems, as Ive found out that it isnt loading certain flags properly.  Monster placement flags, to be percise, but...

I cant seem to find or create the runnable file when Im using the compiling method.  Vim for its edittingerness and cdda because its the game.


They compile, I think, and they make a makefile, but I cant find a program to run.

[Angle]

check the folder where you compiled them. It should be there.

[pisskop]

I figured out that make install exists  >.<

So Im excited to learn something of infrastructure.  And that I really have no reason to download things like I would with windows, although I have a healthy download file.

I think Im actually close to compiling the game, tbh.  Its running the compile right now, vim is installed, and I have a bunch of semi-random (?)plugins(?), like lua or cmake.


What does the -f, -f, -0 the dash before these commands mean?

[Mesa]

Posting to watch. I'm a sucker for anything Linux even if I can't quite contribute to the discussion at hand right now.