/prog/ - Please Help

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:05

I posted this on /g/:
Does someone know what's happening?

Hello /g/ it's my first time on here.
I'm having a bit of a problem right now.
Well.
I'll just state the details.

My taskbar isn't visible.
I can't see any of my desktop icons on the screen.

The only thing I can see is my wallpaper.
If I restart my laptop it would be back to normal, but this usually happens after the taskbar goes white and blocky ( kind of like the old windows thing.)

It's been bugging me for a while.
Also I'm only able to access the web right now because Avast is open and I clicked Support then Check FAQ.

The browser closes sometimes.
Please help.
Feel free to ask questions.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:10

What OS is it?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:11

The thread was posted.

It's Windows 7.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:15

Buy a used Lisp Machine. Problem solved.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:16

I wish RMS would tell me where all this supposedly free beer is.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:20

Well the computer shut itself down.

Doesn't anyone know what the problem is?
When it happens the taskbar goes white and blocky then it just disappears.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:26

>>6
The problem is you're attempting to use Windows.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:28

So what should I use?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:28

>>1

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>not using Arch GNU/Linux with a minimalist tiling wm

>2012

ISHYGDDT

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:29

Can I play video games on a Linux?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:51

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Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:59

>>10
Most titles from big-name publishers, no. The indie game scene seems to support Linux with more enthusiasm, though, and the games included in the Humble Indie Bundle commonly support Linux in some way or another.

You will have to use Linux apps, naturally, like Banshee for your music collection and Evince for PDFs (good!), or LibreOffice for an office suite (bad!). Other apps are multi-platform, like Firefox or Chrome, others are... cultural, mostly optional things, like using vim or Emacs for text-editing, LaTeX, shell programming and the sort.

The UI, particularly that of the desktop, would be completely different, so you would have to adapt, but it's not hard (though I haven't tried Ubuntu's Unity in a while, it always seemed like a mess).

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 13:06

>>12
LibreOffice for an office suite (bad!)
Hey, LibreOffice is coming along nicely. What do you not like about it? No, it doesn't depend on Java.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 13:07

Just use linux, faggot. Windows is for cunts.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 13:09

Linux is GNU poo, at least use a BSD.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 13:16

BSD is for hipsters. Use Mac.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 13:18

>>16
Mac is BSD.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 13:36

>>13
It's improving fast, it's true, but I still can't prefer it over, e.g. LaTeX.

For starters, it's still quite ugly, both in its interface and rendering. This last point drives me away.

The UI is quite clunky, toolbars are hard to explore by themselves, as are the massive menus endemic to office suites. Though this seems to be a Mac OS X-specific ailment, you couldn't paste text in the search bar the normal way; Cmd-V pasted within the document body.

I was also jarred that the toolbars appear based on context in a way which displaces other controls, particularly the search bar. That one should stay put, it's a central piece of functionality which you use at all times, in conjunction with any other content-specific control.

It still, disappointingly, undersells its document styling system, which could have been something great and which was in place way before MS Office pushed an usable one.

Impress seems to have improved greatly, it has antialias which is worth a damn now, without which it was simply unusable. The lack of a good styling UI still works against it, though, which is a shame, and the default styles leave to be desired.

Still, it seems to hold future now that it's unconstrained by Sun back then, or Oracle now.

(and I have no complaints about Calc, it's a very good spreadsheet app)

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 15:45

>>12
You will have to use Linux apps, naturally, like Banshee for your music collection
Gross. Use cmus.
and Evince for PDFs (good!)
Gross. Use Okular.
or LibreOffice for an office suite (bad!)
LO is as good as it gets. If you spend a lot of time in a word processor (faggot), load a Windows VM with the latest Office.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 16:02

>>18
It still, disappointingly, undersells its document styling system,
I hate this. If there's one thing I like about the newer Microsoft Office apps, it's that they have an obvious focus on proper stylesheets, something most IT drones didn't even know about before.

>>19
I like how you reject a pretty snazzy GUI app in favor of an ncurses one, then you support a Qt application over a GTK+ one. Try zathura from pwmt.org. It's based on MuPDF/Poppler and uses vi-style keyboard control for everything (though you can use a mouse too).
You also might want to check out AbiWord. It's fairly decent if you're not doing anything too tasking.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 16:09

>>19
LO is as good as it gets.
Comic Meteor publish some better stuff occasionally.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 16:25

My taskbar isn't visible.

How do you open programs?

Terrible!

Name: saged 2012-10-20 16:40

How many times are we going to have this thread.... Just do not feed the trolls.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 16:43

>>20
Zathura is okay, but it's just for PDFs. It doesn't support DJVU, EPUB, MOBI, and the other myriad formats in my books folder.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 16:48

>>24
There's a fork or extension or something that supports DJVU. To support EPUB, it would basically have to be a Web browser. That'd be better off as an extension for Jumanji or whatever it's called. It supports JavaScript userscripts, so there's probably a script already.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 16:50

I have hiccups for the second time today, it's very annoying.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 18:30

>>24-25
Zathura has a plugin system that allows you to install DJVU. Not sure about EPUB and MOBI, though.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 18:33

>>27
*DJVU support

And I really need a good EPUB reader that isn't a bloated piece of qt shit

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 19:13

>>27-28
Qt isn't ``bloated'' you stupid sack of shit

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 19:18

>>28
There are probably extensions for your favourite graphical web browser. EPUB uses most of the same technologies as the Web.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 20:11

>>30
there is one for firefox

and it's SHIT

>>29
go compile all the qt core libraries and tell me how long it takes fagshit

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 20:19

>>31
there is one for firefox
and it's SHIT

True, it's awful. Can any JAVASCRIPT EXPERTS write something better? Surely it can't be too difficult.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 20:25

>>32
it's called magic scroll
http://www.magicscroll.net/

it's pretty good, it even has solarized color themes
they also have a chrome extension

but i want to read books offline and i don't use chrome

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