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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This is a long shot: For those who use Music On Console, I would like to set an executable command within the player to return to the previous directory. For example, if I were listening to Dark Side of the Moon and had just visited The Wall, a single keystroke would return me to looking at The Wall. Does anyone know how to do this? I tried setting cd - as a command and it didn't work. I have never used moc, but looking at the example config I think you could write a pair of scripts that respectively save and recall the directories in a file or as soft links. code:
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pseudorandom name posted:KDE has a billion configurable options because nobody involved can agree on or is willing to commit to sensible defaults. Is it possible to make it pleasant to use? Maybe, on a long enough timeline. Does it come that way out of the box? Absolutely not. Will you eventually discover that somethings are (probably) frustratingly impossible? Assuredly. also, kde defaults are fine. good, even
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mawarannahr posted:I have never used moc, but looking at the example config I think you could write a pair of scripts that respectively save and recall the directories in a file or as soft links. OK, thanks. I'll work on that when I have some time.
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Truga posted:unlike every single other desktop environment in existence, which is the same, but you cannot fix it to your preferences Well now, that is unfair. Other desktop environments have extensions. If you install about a bazillion of them, you can even make said DE half-usable. If those extensions even work/are maintained. KDE has its issues, but when compared to the competition is just not even in the same league.
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I stand by my comparison: Gnome feels like an Apple product. They absolutely think they know better than you, and don't want the commoners messing with their vision - but the end result is very solid and coherent, though you have to think like them to enjoy it.
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Computer viking posted:I stand by my comparison: Gnome feels like an Apple product. They absolutely think they know better than you, and don't want the commoners messing with their vision - but the end result is very solid if you happen to think the same way as them.
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pseudorandom name posted:I use a MX Ergo and free-spin the ball in a vaguely diagonal direction. That's ok, my trap card was a dud. The follow up was going to be "and how do you turn off mouse acceleration?", but Gnome actually added it to the main settings panel. So you don't have to edit configs or use extra software to do that anymore. (But also lmao that until 2023 you couldn't turn off mouse acceleration.) Mr. Crow posted:Yea I use Activities daily I just dont really use the virtual desktops, thats what 3 monitors are for. Activities are pretty much Virtual Desktops Plus, so if you are using them intensely you wouldn't need VDs. I have some Activities set up just for the fact that they can have unique desktop widgets and such. So I have my normal workspace activity (some system monitors, weather, big clock), a gaming one ( ![]() The stuff you can do with linking files & apps to activities seems cool but I've never had the need to set that up.
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Volguus posted:Well now, that is unfair. Other desktop environments have extensions. If you install about a bazillion of them, you can even make said DE half-usable. If those extensions even work/are maintained. Agreed, KDE sucks so much rear end it's not in the same league as any other DE.
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What’s the “standard” place to mount internal drives? /media? /mnt? I want it accessible between multiple users.
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Really depends on what you want. Any directory can be a mount point. The bigger thing is making sure permissions are set right for the access you want. On my RHEL 9 box, I have my Plex directory mounted at /srv/plex.
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I just recommend adding as few paths as possible to /. Probably doesn't matter for a home environment but in a server situation with a lot of interactive users it gets sloppy. Much better to mount their junk under /path/usercrap69 Toplevel doesn't matter, /srv has kind of become a standard. The classic /mnt works too.
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I've always used /data for the NFS mounted file server, but a subdirectory under /mnt is indeed traditional.
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Ok that makes sense. It’s for home but I would still like to follow standards where possible.
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I use /net/* for NFS/Samba, /mnt/* for local media.
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I think mnt is the only one i would specifically not use because it's intended for temporary mounts.
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I thought /media is intended for temporary mounts?
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If it's significant enough, it gets something unique under / (for example the main storage on a fileserver), otherwise it's under /mnt (screw FHS temporary mount convention)
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Pablo Bluth posted:If it's significant enough, it gets something unique under / (for example the main storage on a fileserver), otherwise it's under /mnt (screw FHS temporary mount convention) No one can even agree what "temporary mount" means. Some distros put floppy and cdrom under /mnt, others don't. I treat it like a wild west path, do whatever I need at the moment and if some program breaks because its path got obliterated that's the program's fault, not mine.
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Coworker is of the opinion that NFS shouldn't be mounted on a directory under /, because when it inevitably gets stuck it can cause wider issues.
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Saukkis posted:Coworker is of the opinion that NFS shouldn't be mounted on a directory under /, because when it inevitably gets stuck it can cause wider issues.
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Symlinking to nfs mounts, not even once. (it happens alllll the time) Also no additional toplevel directories should begin with 'e' 'h' 'u' or 'v' because otherwise it messes with my tab completion. (this also happens all the time, I hate users)
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Be a rebel and create a mount point called C in the root directory. Make everyone mad seeing a C drive on *nix.
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Inceltown posted:Be a rebel and create a mount point called C in the root directory. Make everyone mad seeing a C drive on *nix. code:
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lol it’s like Win7 skins for window managers but for the file system.
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even WSL doesn't do that evil, it puts all system drives under /mnt cygwin makes some really horrendous paths mapping to windows mounts.
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mawarannahr posted:
That’s just evil for the sake of evil.
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/DosDevices/C: should be a symlink to the mounted filesystem, for verisimilitude then you need to patch glibc's open to implicitly look there if the path starts with [[:alpha:]]:
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probably be necessary to s//g a ton of scripts and rebuild binaries with hardcoded paths .. maybe better to leave the directories there. Half baked idea
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I never realized activities could have possible given me that UX I wanted. My Google escapades something like a year ago had a bunch of KDE threads about it just not being possible. I can only assume the question was taken too literally (having only one virtual screen change). It is kind of moot now because I have to VNC into it.
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mawarannahr posted:Linux bits you're workshopping: guy who Jokes aside that's kinda useful for a newer Linux user like me to understand Linux file systems a bit as they compare to Windows file systems.
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Framboise posted:Jokes aside that's kinda useful for a newer Linux user like me to understand Linux file systems a bit as they compare to Windows file systems. this is a very loose mapping for a joke. This describes the basic hierarchy: https://man.archlinux.org/man/hier.7.en More details here: https://man.archlinux.org/man/file-hierarchy.7
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bsaber posted:What’s the “standard” place to mount internal drives? /media? /mnt? I want it accessible between multiple users. Originally (~25 years ago) Debian had mountpoints for removable media under /, so /floppy, /cdrom, etc. I can't recall what the convention was for other distributions, but one of them (Red Hat?) put them in /mnt, so /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom, and I thought that was helpful and used /mnt for removable media and other static but-not-always-mounted-mounts. Then about 20 years ago, the Linux FHS added /media for removable mounts, and Debian switched to that, which was totally reasonable even if something I wasn't used to. These days I don't know that it makes sense to have some mounts in /media (or /run/media, even.) and others in /mnt, so I tend to just put everything in /media. Funny though, I have a ~/mnt I use for user-privilege mounts. Mostly sshfs "volumes".
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mawarannahr posted:this is a very loose mapping for a joke. This describes the basic hierarchy: https://man.archlinux.org/man/hier.7.en Right, I've read up on it a bit-- I'm just saying it's nice to be able to see the relations/comparisons between Windows and Linux file structures.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Funny though, I have a ~/mnt I use for user-privilege mounts. Mostly sshfs "volumes". Framboise posted:Right, I've read up on it a bit-- I'm just saying it's nice to be able to see the relations/comparisons between Windows and Linux file structures. ![]()
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Then about 20 years ago, the Linux FHS added /media for removable mounts, and Debian switched to that, which was totally reasonable even if something I wasn't used to. These days I don't know that it makes sense to have some mounts in /media (or /run/media, even.) and others in /mnt, so I tend to just put everything in /media. I’ve noticed that KDE and Gnome both mount to /run/media when you do it from the their respective file managers. Is there a reason for that?
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bsaber posted:I’ve noticed that KDE and Gnome both mount to /run/media when you do it from the their respective file managers. Is there a reason for that?
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Ah that makes sense. Figured it would have something to do with permissions.
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It's not that it wouldn't work, but when a script in user space is being given the ability to mount/unmount, it's seen a good practice to provide separation.
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Trip report from being stuck on the console most of today because of an error with the build environment I simply couldn't figure out: Turns out I just had a shitload of old objects lying around, and I could've saved myself a heck of a lot of headache by just wiping temporary buildfiles. Credit goes to Jessica for spotting what I didn't.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Trip report from being stuck on the console most of today because of an error with the build environment I simply couldn't figure out: Just track your dependencies better, OP.
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