Hello from Canada

weirdvector · 2014-11-22 19:42:53

Hey everyone!

I'm weirdvector from Canada. I'm going to be making the switch from Windows to GNU/Linux full time once I get through my exams (mid-December hopefully.) I've used ubuntu and mint before but have run into problems and then reverted back. I've been using #! in a virtual machine and I'm impressed with how slick it is.

I'm a software development student, so I'll probably be throwing Eclipse on there. I'm also working on learning vim, but I don't know whether or not I'll be comfortable using that for writing code. I also love gaming, so hopefully I'll be able to get steam running on it as well. I know Gaben plans to make GNU/Linux the new platform for games, so I want to be comfortable using it.

I've heard the community is one of the best things about using GNU/Linux, and that's supposed to be especially true for #!, so I'm looking forward to meeting you (and then pestering you with noob questions )

Anaconda · 2014-11-23 02:02:01

Hey weirdvector. Welcome aboard.

Community? Yup, that's one of the better things about CrunchBang. Some people move on to other distros and still stay here on the #! forums because it feels like home. I hope you enjoy your time here as so many others have.

lcafiero · 2014-11-23 02:11:00

Welcome to #!, weirdvector. Enjoy your stay with the distro.

vic · 2014-11-23 11:36:26

Welcome to the #!forums, pester as much as you want! We will let you know when it is enough

weirdvector · 2014-12-03 03:41:23

Ok, first question. I'm floored by the way you guys have gotten your desktops to look, and I've started trying to emulate it. A big thing in these forums and /r/unixporn is setting the colors of the text in the terminal. I see a lot of people have cool scripts made up to print out their colors, and their screenfetch (I think that's what it's called.) I can't for the life of me figure this out. I don't even know what the first step would be. Can anyone point me towards a decent tutorial?

blainester · 2014-12-03 04:34:19

Just so you know, (since I had this problem) if you try to open Eclipse and it crashes, you need to open up eclipse.ini in the root folder of eclipse and add the lines

--launcher.GTK_version
2

right before the line that says

--launcher.appendVmargs

Head_on_a_Stick · 2014-12-03 07:15:11

weirdvector wrote:

Ok, first question. I'm floored by the way you guys have gotten your desktops to look, and I've started trying to emulate it. A big thing in these forums and /r/unixporn is setting the colors of the text in the terminal. I see a lot of people have cool scripts made up to print out their colors, and their screenfetch (I think that's what it's called.) I can't for the life of me figure this out. I don't even know what the first step would be. Can anyone point me towards a decent tutorial?

Here's my "Invaders" script:

#!/usr/bin/bash
#
# ANSI color scheme script featuring Space Invaders
#
# Original: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=126921%23p126921#p126921
# Modified by lolilolicon
#

f=3 b=4
for j in f b; do
  for i in {0..7}; do
    printf -v $j$i %b "\e[${!j}${i}m"
  done
done
bld=$'\e[1m'
rst=$'\e[0m'

cat << EOF

 $f1  ▀▄   ▄▀     $f2 ▄▄▄████▄▄▄    $f3  ▄██▄     $f4  ▀▄   ▄▀     $f5 ▄▄▄████▄▄▄    $f6  ▄██▄  $rst
 $f1 ▄█▀███▀█▄    $f2███▀▀██▀▀███   $f3▄█▀██▀█▄   $f4 ▄█▀███▀█▄    $f5███▀▀██▀▀███   $f6▄█▀██▀█▄$rst
 $f1█▀███████▀█   $f2▀▀███▀▀███▀▀   $f3▀█▀██▀█▀   $f4█▀███████▀█   $f5▀▀███▀▀███▀▀   $f6▀█▀██▀█▀$rst
 $f1▀ ▀▄▄ ▄▄▀ ▀   $f2 ▀█▄ ▀▀ ▄█▀    $f3▀▄    ▄▀   $f4▀ ▀▄▄ ▄▄▀ ▀   $f5 ▀█▄ ▀▀ ▄█▀    $f6▀▄    ▄▀$rst

 $bld$f1▄ ▀▄   ▄▀ ▄   $f2 ▄▄▄████▄▄▄    $f3  ▄██▄     $f4▄ ▀▄   ▄▀ ▄   $f5 ▄▄▄████▄▄▄    $f6  ▄██▄  $rst
 $bld$f1█▄█▀███▀█▄█   $f2███▀▀██▀▀███   $f3▄█▀██▀█▄   $f4█▄█▀███▀█▄█   $f5███▀▀██▀▀███   $f6▄█▀██▀█▄$rst
 $bld$f1▀█████████▀   $f2▀▀▀██▀▀██▀▀▀   $f3▀▀█▀▀█▀▀   $f4▀█████████▀   $f5▀▀▀██▀▀██▀▀▀   $f6▀▀█▀▀█▀▀$rst
 $bld$f1 ▄▀     ▀▄    $f2▄▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▄▄   $f3▄▀▄▀▀▄▀▄   $f4 ▄▀     ▀▄    $f5▄▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▄▄   $f6▄▀▄▀▀▄▀▄$rst


                                     $f7▌$rst

                                   $f7▌$rst

                              $f7    ▄█▄    $rst
                              $f7▄█████████▄$rst
                              $f7▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀$rst

EOF

And this site is great for testing & designing your own terminal colours:
http://terminal.sexy/

EDIT: Screenfetch is here:
https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2014-12-03 07:16:12)

weirdvector · 2014-12-03 15:02:42

Thanks Head_on_a_stick, that was exactly what I was looking for.

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