I guess the first question is, “Why is VLC broken for you?” What does that mean.
Second, you can use xine to use intermediate playback. The UI has not changed much since the early 2000s but it is usable. If VLC does not work, I use xine.
VLC opens in a window about 8000 pixels wide on my 1366x768 screen and refuses to adjust in any way. So I only get a small section of the player on screen at a time. I’m guessing it has to do with either my Ryzen 2400G APU or running Lubuntu 18.10, as it is the first release using LXQt. I’ve never particularly liked VLC, not that there is anything wrong with it, but I have liked the simplicity and function of other players in the past. None of those had the speed adjustment option.
‘looks for Muon package manager, realizes that I’m on the wrong computer’ All of my other machines run LXLE 16.04 and I have the same resolution and identical theming across everything to the point I can’t tell them apart!
I dunno what the LXLE guy was angry about with getting his themes to work on LXQt. I remember it not wanting to install right so I just unzipped stuff in to the appropriate folder and got LX-colors working for me. In any case, I see xine in the repo’s here so I will have to try it on the other computer. Thanks!
EDIT - Didn’t work, segfaults trying video from different sources.
Hopefully easy issue, possibly in the wrong place.
I have an application that has some background workers managed by supervisord. I would like to stagger their start times and delay both of them long enough for all their dependencies to be up and running.
Program #1 depends on a service provided by program #2, and both depend on Redis and the SQL database. Is it possible to tell supervisord to run those commands on a short delay, just so the application does not fill up the error tracker with stuff like “we cant connect to Redis and the world is on fire!” when all it needs to do is wait 4 seconds and try again.
initd
systemd
services on all one host or containerized ?
systemd. Its just an Ubuntu box running on Digital Ocean.
I will be moving towards a containerized solution as the need arises, but for now its difficult to justify that with the small amount of traffic we get.
It may be a Ryzen APU thing. What kernel are you running. You need to be on 4.19 at least for specific Ryzen APU fixes.
If you launch xine in terminal in debug mode or pipe standard error to a file, see what it says. The players may be trying to used the hardware decode, which will not work unless you are running 4.19 or newer kernel.
I did open it in a terminal but I have a new SSD on the way Wednesday, so I don’t see the point in debugging something that is about to get nuked. I’m gonna play around with the daily build of Lubuntu 19.10 for the newer kernel and go back to 19.04 if it is too buggy. I’m just interested in the development of the LXQt desktop. I’ll try it out again in a few days and see if I can get it to work.
Hey, got a new monitor today. 1440p 144hz. Using manjaro KDE, and its working fine at full res and 144hz, but i run triple monitors and the image double-displays onto my right hand monitor. Only the pixels from 1080 to 1440 though I believe. My other 2 monitors are 1080p. Not sure how to begin troubleshooting. Any help is appreciated! thank you https://i.imgur.com/702mbn9.jpg
This should just be fixable by setting up your Monitor arrangement correctly in the settings. Looks like your Displays overlap.
If the Plasma Settings don’t work, you could also do the same with arandr (assuming you don’t run wayland).
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theyre properly setup (afaik) and the overlay happens from my right side monitor onto the main as well… Ik my desktop is probably seeing the entire setup as one big monitor, but I need it to understand they’re separate. pic attached. Almost positive its because i have a 1920/1080 on the left, 2560/1440 in the middle, and another 1920/1080 on the right. KDE says theyre all properly arrange and resolution/refresh rate on all 3 is ok as well. https://i.imgur.com/dcOubzi.jpg
EDIT: Fixed in arandr, thank you. Had my screens overlayed in plasma, didn’t realize that was possible. I’m used to windows just snapping the displays next to each other!
I have been tasked with ubuntu being installed on an acer R3-131T-C1YF
Ubuntu screams about mmc storage.
Idk what to do help.
I guess I solved my problem in a roundabout way. I got my SSD installed, 19.10 had an error that I later realized had to do with the installer, as it was slightly different when I installed 19.04. I went ahead and partitioned it myself and it booted without issues.
Initially xine played videos perfectly when opened from the file manager. Then I tried to adjust the speed to see how that worked and it locked up and died. I ran from a terminal, opening with the player controls and got the same error as before of “surface doesn’t match size contraints (sic)” where it expects to see video at a certain size and the video is a few pixels taller and segfaults. I looked it up and others had the same problems without solutions.
So I did what I should have done in the beginning - found a Firefox add-on called Video Speed Controller which is dead simple and configurable doing exactly what I need. I can just open a file with the browser and manipulate the playback speed there, so that works for me.
I’ve got things more than 95% of the way to where they were on the old setup, but much faster and more storage. Plus, I noticed Lubuntu 19.04 already has a number of things fixed that were previously broken, so I should be content for another several months.
Anyone know how to downgrade from Fedora 30 to 29? I am having issues getting flash to work on Google Chrome
Hi guys,
Since the new release of pop os 19.04. I have not had any new updates since I have installed it.
That’s weird are you sure your mirrors and update settings are alright? I’ve had plenty of updates.
Anyone familiar with virt-sysprep? I’d like to make a template for Suse, but really hurting for examples.
Wait - Do I really have to sysprep the machine from another one?
It set to use the US servers and the three “install updates from” options are ticked
do you get any error message when updating? Are you updating via popshop or terminal?
Via pop shop, nothing has ever appeared on the screen. Pop shop always reports.
if I were to change the server and revert back, I get a message saying unable to download repository, check your internet connection.
here are the details it had generated.
E:The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/alexlarsson/flatpak/ubuntu disco Release’ does not have a Release file., W:Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default., W:See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details., E:The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidiux/nvidiux/ubuntu disco Release’ does not have a Release file.