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[Benevolence]

Got a laptop through the university I'll be going to recently, so it gets a new desktop image.

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It leaves a bunch of black space on all sides, but I don't mind since I can just put all the icons there without obscuring the picture. /o/

[Jay]

I was using GIMP to take the screenshot, but I did not want it to get in the way. I am not really sure why I not think to just get a screenshot utility from the repositories.

Are you using some terrible 'nix distro that doesn't include the print screen button functionality?
Or are you just over-complicating the act of printing your screen?

[Fenrir]

Are you using some terrible 'nix distro that doesn't include the print screen button functionality?
Or are you just over-complicating the act of printing your screen?

If I am running a Linux distribution, I think it is fair to assume that I have enough familiarity with a keyboard to be aware of the Print Screen button. The answer is the first one, but Arch Linux is not terrible. I never needed to use it until now, so I never bother to do anything about it.

I shall not be using this distribution much longer anyway.

[wad67]

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Windows Vista FOR THE WIN

[Ochita]

ME PEACHA

[dragonshardz]

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Windows Vista FOR THE WIN

NO. GET RID OF IT RIGHT NOW.

[SolarShado]

If I am running a Linux distribution, I think it is fair to assume that I have enough familiarity with a keyboard to be aware of the Print Screen button. The answer is the first one, but Arch Linux is not terrible. I never needed to use it until now, so I never bother to do anything about it.

$ pacman -S scrot
$ (sleep 5 ; scrot Desk.png) & exit
backgrounds a subshell to take the shot and closes the term; nice and clean

I shall not be using this distribution much longer anyway.

  mind if I ask why? Arch is awesome (even if I don't know of a way to make the printscreen key work outside of gnome/kde/xfce )

[ILikePie]

Openbox has a way of working keyboard shortcuts, you just need to know the "name" of the print screen key.

e,

Code: (../openbox/rc.xml) [Select]

  <keybind key="Print">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>scrot Desk.png</execute></action>
  </keybind>


[Sir Finkus]

If I am running a Linux distribution, I think it is fair to assume that I have enough familiarity with a keyboard to be aware of the Print Screen button. The answer is the first one, but Arch Linux is not terrible. I never needed to use it until now, so I never bother to do anything about it.

$ pacman -S scrot
$ (sleep 5 ; scrot Desk.png) & exit
backgrounds a subshell to take the shot and closes the term; nice and clean

I shall not be using this distribution much longer anyway.

  mind if I ask why? Arch is awesome (even if I don't know of a way to make the printscreen key work outside of gnome/kde/xfce )

I'd probably use arch, but the lack of package signing is a dealbreaker for me.

[ILikePie]

Package signing?

[Fenrir]

mind if I ask why? Arch is awesome (even if I don't know of a way to make the printscreen key work outside of gnome/kde/xfce )

I have no complaints with Arch; it is an excellent distribution. I wish to become more knowledgeable about Linux, and, to that end, I have decided to use the Linux From Scratch guide to build my own system, and there is little reason for me to use anything but the result, as it will be a system entirely customized for myself.

[Sir Finkus]

Package signing?

In brief, it's a way to verify that the package hasn't been tampered with since the developer pushed it onto the official repos.  In the event a mirror gets compromised and someone puts modified packages up,  a package manager that uses package signing will tell you and not install the package (unless you REALLY want to install it).  With arch, if a mirror gets compromised you'll have no way of knowing until someone catches it.  Someone could hack a mirror, or even offer the developers their services as a mirror, and then upload malicious packages.  If you're using that mirror, you're screwed.

For an example of the kind of thing that this will allow, see http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?t=6562  It isn't a linux distro, but it shows how hacked mirrors can cause huge security problems.

http://lwn.net/Articles/434990/ for more information about arch's lack of package signing.  I don't really care about all the politics, but I will need package signing before I install arch again. 

It really is a pity, I love pretty much everything else about arch, but I can't put myself at risk like that.

[freeformschooler]

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Windows Vista FOR THE WIN

Where? How? How may I acquire this godly wallpaper?

[ILikePie]

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If you like the idea behind Arch, give Gentoo a try. It has you compile packages instead of letting you download binaries, but otherwise it's the same (Maybe Debian unstable too, I think it's called Sid nowadays.).

[Sir Finkus]

[...]

If you like the idea behind Arch, give Gentoo a try. It has you compile packages instead of letting you download binaries, but otherwise it's the same (Maybe Debian unstable too, I think it's called Sid nowadays.).

I've done the gentoo thing, but running a gentoo system is too much a pain the in the ass.  Love the concept though.