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The GT610 does not support 4k 3840 x 2160 resolution. So I choose a Geforce GT 1030 It has a far superior GPU over the GT610, but it is not a cutting edge gaming care. In that I never game, that did not matter to me.
After installing the new vid card and connecting up the monitor linux booted no prob to text mode. I logged in and xinit /usr/bin/fvwm2 worked ok but the screen res was 12??x10??
I googled all manner of questions about linux ubuntu 16.04 and all I found was gui this and gui that in unity. Well xinit /usr/bin/unity would not come up. There were posts attempting to explain how to set up Xorg config but none really explained anything.
So finally I went to nvidia.com nvidia.com then Drivers Geforce Did a manual search. I figured out that a 1030 card was a series 10 card in nvidiaeze. So I menued Geforce, Geforce 10 series, Geforce GT 1030, linux 64-bit, English (US), Recommended Certified
*This download includes the NVIDIA display driver and GeForce Experience application. Details for use of this NVIDIA software can be found in the NVIDIA End User License Agreement.
This is Nvidia propriatary and not open source. To me that means it will use all of the power of the card.
Open source is nice but in video drivers, I prefer the companies stuff. It often solves many problems.
So I chmod 777 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.78.run and ran it. Oh I always create user root and login as root to manage my linux systems. I do not sudo.
The program ran no brain, asked obvious questions and permissions and agree terms. It reported it had created a new xorg config.
Then as me, not root xinit /usr/bin/fvwm2 and all is right with the world.
So I did not have to relearn all about mode lines and xconfig and edit some files some where to get it to work. How many times have I done that in the past? who knows..
I assume unity will work now also, but have not tested it yet.
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I came across another sysinfor tool for linux. It is like a belarc but more in a sense. it is called hardinfo. I did sudo apt-get install hardinfo. I am running on ubuntu 16.04 and I bring it up from a terminal in my fvwm2 window manager. Also it work in unity. I expect it is compatible with most linux window managers.
It has numerous sub sections and will also create a web page of all results.
ikiw.homeip.net /xen2/hardinfo_report.html shows a full report. edited to sanitize. passwords etc.
It even cantains some bench marks.
Benchmarks
CPU Blowfish
CPU Blowfish
This Machine
3680 MHz
2.819
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz
(null)
26.1876862
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz)
(null)
172.816713
CPU CryptoHash
CPU CryptoHash
This Machine
3680 MHz
546.596
CPU Fibonacci
CPU Fibonacci
This Machine
3680 MHz
1.268
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz
(null)
8.1375674
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz)
(null)
58.07682
CPU N-Queens
CPU N-Queens
This Machine
3680 MHz
4.724
FPU FFT
FPU FFT
This Machine
3680 MHz
0.747
FPU Raytracing
FPU Raytracing
This Machine
3680 MHz
3.481
Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz
(null)
40.8816714
PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz)
(null)
161.312647
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this is a post on some apps that i have found useful.
scrot is a very usefull screen capture utility
In a terminal.
cd to a directory
scrot -s some.filename.jpg
then you use the mouse to define the square to grab and it is saved as some.filename.jpg
no -s and you get the entire desktop.
A useful addon awesome screenshot can capture part or all of a webpage in a browser and then take image and allow some editing in the browser. default saves as png, but you can set to save as jpg.
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Speedcrunch - high precision scientific calculator. I love it. It calculates 'on the fly', you don't ever need to finish your entry with <enter> key, saves a click. It is very fast, has more digits that regular calculator and it is loaded with goodies such as formulas, constants.... If you haven't tried it yet, give it a shot.
Also, i'm moving from Manjaro to MX Linux - Debian based, but developers are keep back-porting newer apps so you almost have some kind of semi rolling distro: - stable Debian - updated apps - bunch of very useful tools (like snapshot, create your own install-abe iso from your current system with 3-4 mouse clicks, basically you have exact copy of your system that you can put on another computer...) - oh, and it does not use systemD (although it is present for compatibility)
Will be back in a half of year or so ;-)
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The Unix Game is a fun, low-barrier-to-entry programming contest where players solve coding challenges by constructing "pipelines" of UNIX text processing utilities to compute the solution. Press the button below to take a quick tour around the UI:
By borders I mean the edge of the window that you need to grab in order to resize it. I've always been annoyed by the default size being almost impossible to grab. Here's a way to fix it.
Open a terminal windowenter: cd /
enter: cd usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/
enter: sudo vi metacity-theme-1.xmlenter password "saasbook"
VI will open in the terminal. Near the top is a section with name="frame_geometry_normal"
Look for these 3 tags
<distance name="left_width" value="1" />
<distance name="right_width" value="1" />
<distance name="bottom_height" value="1" />
Change the values to 8
Save and exit the file with wq
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I am building a new system. posting vids and answers to question I need to learn again know the secret handshakes buried in the many distro and ways that linux parts talk to one another and get my workstation to work as I want it too. Not like the cellphone zombie developers want in their endless quest to fix what was not ever broken.
