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manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:27 PM

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Ohh I could use my other phone for discord

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Oh no I need to unplug the music

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That's bad

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:27 PM

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it's so you can fix it when something breaks and you don't have to just wipe everything

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:27 PM

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Ok

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:28 PM

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~~the bitcoin miner I installed onto your computer might also be why it's so slow~~

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:28 PM

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I could also take my SIM card out and put it in the other phone

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I'm going to do thst

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Just for the sake of music
I need my music

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Ok how do I change the network again?

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In arch

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My hotspot phone is placed and getting 4G+

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:34 PM

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deep zinc ~~the bitcoin miner I installed onto your computer might also be why it's so slo...

Lmao
I bet I would hear that

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deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:35 PM

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manic oak Ok how do I change the network again?

nmtui

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:36 PM

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Ok connected

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:37 PM

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so are the i3 packages installed?

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:37 PM

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I'm installing

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It's way faster now

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So yeah
The road is probably the cause

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And it's done

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Downloaded everything except of i3-wm

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:38 PM

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ok

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:38 PM

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Ima reboot and then do startx

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:38 PM

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install the gnu-free-fonts package now

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:38 PM

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smh lol

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:38 PM

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Ok

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:38 PM

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install the following fonts actually:

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gnu-free-fonts
noto-fonts
noto-fonts-extra
ttf-font-awesome

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i'm gonna bet i3 will try to pull some symbols from fontawesome

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well, the stock i3blocks will at least

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:39 PM

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this is the font it's using by the way

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:41 PM

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😈 Liberation Serif (my favourite)

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Or the worst and coolest of my creations

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Alteran

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Pretty much noone can read it and even for me it's pain

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:41 PM

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you made a font?

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:41 PM

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Yes I did

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I liked the alphabet an alien race in one of my favourite shows used so I made a font with it

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And it was really cool
Writing really easy cause you simply use the normal keys on your keyboard
And reading is fine, I know all symbols but like, I need to read every letter one by one

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:44 PM

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ok

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:46 PM

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And I installed the fonts

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:46 PM

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ok, try startx now

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:46 PM

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Omg

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The weird things are symbols now

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:47 PM

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they're called "glyphs" apparently

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:47 PM

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and does alt + enter open a terminal now?

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:47 PM

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I called them artifacts because that's what they looked like

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Yes

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:47 PM

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ok cool

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:47 PM

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@manic oak please read the i3 manual it's an extremely useful thing to tuning and customizing your i3

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:48 PM

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I hope it's easier to understand than the arch wiki

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:48 PM

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arch's wiki isn't that bad as you get more experience

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:48 PM

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I don't want to initiate autodestruction or something

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:48 PM

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sturdy flower arch's wiki isn't that bad as you get more experience

Ig

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:48 PM

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but imo keep in mind the default i3 config is garbage so don't be surprised if you hate it

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:49 PM

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Haha ok

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:49 PM

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the controls, to me, weren't intuitive at ALL

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it would put off anyone learning i3

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:49 PM

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also try running i3-config-wizard in kitty

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:49 PM

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Yeah my friend told me about cool shortcuts he has
And I'm like, but in windows I have always used diffrent shortcuts for the exact same things

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Like ctrl + z to revert something

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Kitty is that new window terminal

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Already exists

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Oh and
loadkeys de-latin1

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Huh? Doesn't work?

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:51 PM

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i3 will teach you that start menus and taskbars are ui designs that should've been left in the 90's

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:52 PM

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manic oak Oh and loadkeys de-latin1

loadkeys is not present within the booted OS. it's ( i think ) a script in the boot medium

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you have to use setxkbmap i think

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:52 PM

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Idk
Depends on if you like using a mouse or not
And that depends on what you do

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:52 PM

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sturdy flower you have to use `setxkbmap` i think

Oof that's harder to remember

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:52 PM

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then don't remember it? you could just create a script that runs every time i3 starts

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that's what i do lol

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:53 PM

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I'd like that

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:53 PM

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#!/bin/bash

# keyboard shit
setxkbmap -v us dvorak-qwerty &>/dev/null
xset r rate 175 60 &>/dev/null

#display shit
xrandr --output DP-4 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --rate 144 --output DP-0 --mode 1440x900 --right-of DP-4 --rotate left

# compositor shit
killall picom &> /dev/null
sleep 0.02
picom --experimental-backends -cbo1

# wallpaper shit
/home/code/bin/tools/random_wallpaper

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my startup script

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:53 PM

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Emm
setxkbmap de-latin1
Does not work

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:54 PM

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it's a different syntax

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:54 PM

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Do I need QUERTZ ISO or something like that?

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:55 PM

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your board is qwertz?

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:55 PM

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Yes

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Quertz iso

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Which means I have the > < | next to shift
Keyboards that aren't iso usually don't have it
They simply have a bigger shift key

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:56 PM

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just do this

wait you already did

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:56 PM

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And they use the US layout for special symbols

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Which I hate

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 8:57 PM

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run cat /etc/vconsole.conf

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:58 PM

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"l"s look a lot like "1"s

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Idk where / is

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On an US layout

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 8:58 PM

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deep zinc run `cat /etc/vconsole.conf`

i thought they are trying to change the layout for within the x server

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 8:58 PM

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I'm trying to change it everywhere

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I want it to be QUERTZ ISO everywhere

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As simple as that

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 9:00 PM

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wait maybe not

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one sec

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sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 9:00 PM

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i use a custom layout and from what i see:
localectl can be used for changing TTYs. does not change X server.
setxkbmap is used for changing X server kbds

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 9:00 PM

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For convenience, the tool localectl may be used instead of manually editing X configuration files.

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 9:02 PM

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localectl set-keymap de-latin1 ?

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 9:02 PM

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maybe

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 9:02 PM

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Oh it's showing me the IP of my phone down there
Neat

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 9:02 PM

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and
localectl set-x11-keymap de-latin1 ?

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set-keymap set-x11-keymap different

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 9:02 PM

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also use sudo on these

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 9:03 PM

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i can't test these on my system myself bc i use dvorak and would be unable to type lol

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 9:03 PM

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I can't test these on my system myself because I use windows 😎

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here's some stuff that might help
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/111042

Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

How can I set the keyboard right on X?

Note: forked of this per recommendation here.
I made a foolish typo for UTF-8, and expected that when I fixed it, the keyboard on X would work right. Since making this errant change, I was no longer

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 9:05 PM

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this is kinda out of the realm of installing arch now

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but glad arch starts and i3 starts too

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 9:06 PM

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sturdy flower and `localectl set-x11-keymap de-latin1` ?

None of them worked

sturdy flower Aug 28, 2022, 9:09 PM

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sorry this is basically out of my realm of expertise now

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keyboards were a nightmare for me as it is

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 9:11 PM

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Idk what keyboard model I have

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I think I have 106 keys

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 9:15 PM

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wait try restarting xorg

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do alt + shift + E then startx again

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 9:17 PM

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What is the exit shortcut?

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I need to press it

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It's not ctrl x and it's not alt shift e

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Oh wait

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The mouse works

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Now what was the shortcut for kitty?

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Found it

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Still US layout

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 9:21 PM

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did you close i3 or just kitty

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 9:23 PM

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I3

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 9:25 PM

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ok

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 9:53 PM

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Ok so

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I found it

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sudo setxkbmap de

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That's it

eternal chasm Aug 28, 2022, 9:54 PM

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need any help still?

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 9:54 PM

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Maybe
I'm getting help from my friend at the same time

eternal chasm Aug 28, 2022, 9:54 PM

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where are you up to

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 9:54 PM

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He found that

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Making the keyboard permanent in xorg

eternal chasm Aug 28, 2022, 9:54 PM

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i'm not sure what that means

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are you installing KDE

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 10:12 PM

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No

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 10:12 PM

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eternal chasm are you installing KDE

I'm tried to change the keyboard layout in xorg

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From US to DE

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I'm Installing a browser now and it's really slow

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 10:31 PM

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Hey

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Now

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Can someone help me get yay

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I'm having difficulties

deep zinc Aug 28, 2022, 10:35 PM

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ok

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what have you done so far?

manic oak Aug 28, 2022, 10:37 PM

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All files are up to date and pacman doesn't do anything
Then it says nothing left to do
Then it's cloning to 'yay-bin'

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And then the error says I don't have permission to write in $BUILDDIR (/home/brayan/yay)

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And then it cancels

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And that's it

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I simply tried following what it said on the GitHub page

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It's the error I get when trying makepkg -si

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What am I supposed to do now?

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I think I'll go to sleep

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Btw grub doesn't notice windows

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