| Guest6 | Hello devuanites | 00:55 |
|---|---|---|
| gnarface | hey Guest6 it's a slow channel but if you ask a question and stick around long enough someone will answer | 00:56 |
| siewca | In Linux current host name is here: /proc/sys/kernel/hostname | 08:18 |
| siewca | cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname | 08:18 |
| siewca | And command hostname show current, and allow to change it. | 08:19 |
| fatso | I'm on KDE on Devuan stable and color pickers can't pick colors, they always return pure black when trying to do so | 23:18 |
| fatso | (another problem I have is SDDM only showing the password field and nothing else, so I can't really choose an x11 session | 23:18 |
| gnarface | fatso: try lightdm instead of sddm | 23:22 |
| fatso | is uninstalling one and installing the other enough or do i have to configure something? | 23:24 |
| gnarface | uh, i think if you install one it will replace the other automatically. you might have to restart. | 23:27 |
| gnarface | you can check this | 23:27 |
| gnarface | apt-cache showpkg sddm | 23:27 |
| gnarface | apt-cache showpkg lightdm | 23:27 |
| gnarface | check the fields for provides | 23:28 |
| gnarface | if it doesn't remove sddm automatically you can just use update-alternatives to change the default for x-display-manager | 23:29 |
| gnarface | (and strictly speaking you probably don't have to actually reboot it just is easier usually than knowing how to restart the desktop stack selectively) | 23:31 |
| gnarface | fatso: how'd you install? if sddm isn't rendering something is it possible you're missing hardware specific video drivers and it's falling back on poor generic drivers? | 23:35 |
| fatso | thank you! I used the netinstall ISO | 23:45 |
| fatso | is it possible to have video driver issues on a ThinkPad? | 23:46 |
| gnarface | oh, no, unlikely | 23:49 |
| gnarface | you do have the choice between the default of the modesetting driver or switching to the actual intel driver, but even intel says you should use the modesetting driver and in most cases it doesn't actually matter | 23:50 |
| gnarface | there may be some things one does better than the other but this isn't one of them in my experience anyway... | 23:50 |
| fatso | how do I change that? Using the intel driver has always given me the best results for some reason, but I used to choose it on MX Linux, which has a GUI for that setting | 23:51 |
| gnarface | make a xorg.conf snippet | 23:51 |
| gnarface | you don't need the whole config anymore, you can just specify a device subsection | 23:52 |
| fatso | I have some other issues like maximized windows having a thin one-pixel on their bottoms and right sides | 23:52 |
| fatso | but those are probably KDE issues | 23:52 |
| fatso | oh and color pickers can't pick colors, they always return absolute black | 23:52 |
| gnarface | it should be easy to find an example of the xorg.conf snippet | 23:52 |
| gnarface | well, make sure you also have like... mesa and stuff | 23:53 |
| gnarface | there's like 20something mesa packages | 23:53 |
| fatso | oh, by xorg snippet you mean like those used for anti-tearing configs? | 23:54 |
| fatso | is there a meta package for mesa? | 23:54 |
| gnarface | not that i know of | 23:54 |
| gnarface | hmm, anti-tearing configs.. not sure | 23:56 |
| fatso | I have mesa-va-drivers, mesa-vdpau-drivers and mesa-vulkan-drivers | 23:56 |
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