Thanks. :)

This comment aged sooo well and stands true 5 years later.

It helps to see it, doesn't it. I actually didn't know what that was all about when it first came along, either. :)

i know im asking randomly but does anybody know a trick to log back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot the password. I love any tricks you can offer me

@Brycen Victor Instablaster =)

@Jayce Jake Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm in the hacking process now. Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@Jayce Jake It did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. Im so happy! Thank you so much, you saved my account!

Just wanted to agree heavily with this. I've got a bachelors in CS and work now as a SWE, but never really knew what was happening in the background w.r.t. the components of a linux desktop environment and how they interact before this video. Really does a great job laying out the basic components. Just knowing things like "Oh ok, applications are interfacing with an X server to draw things to the screen" feels empowering! Honestly can't believe I didn't know this stuff yet.

Thanks. :)

You are correct.

You are trying to execute a process list on the shell. If you use only ; or && the programs will be execute one after the other by the shell, the corret way is (program; program)& which means execute the commands in a subshell and put them in background. Using | like joe will create 3 different shells for each process (fork) and the output of every command is sent to the other process ( the shell is working in background). After a bit of testing: (command &); (command &); (command &) is the correct way :P 3 subshells and all in background. Es: (echo 1 &); echo 2; (echo 3 &) the result is unpredictable.

Nope. I was trying to get the terminal to launch all the programs. && or ; will only work one command at a time. SO the first one will launch and the second will only start after the first is closed. Try it. :)

(A; B)& would start B after, and only after, A exit()'s, the same as the && version. I would use A & B & to start both at the same time. If B doesn't read its input, then Joe's A | B to run both would eventually result in the main thread of A blocking when the pipe buffer gets filled up.

It's wrong. Don't do it. Just use & You can still run a list of items. $ some_program &; some_other_program &; yet_another_program &; That's not the whole story. That frees up the terminal to interact. Might want other things like disown or redirection of stdout and stderr to another place.

I try to keep it simple. :)

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I was. The X session crashed when I killed compiz and I could type anything... :

Ah

I often use ^D. 😁

It is the X client for the Desktop Environments you have installed. It also provides a graphical place to log in and choose DE's. :)

Window manager takes care of window decorations, placements, resizing etc, where as the display manager usually takes care of login, mounting of security enabled devices etc.

Pipes work too. I don't have much call to run asynchronous apps in the terminal very often but thanks for the tip! :)

You have to use the text mode web browser like lynx to browse the web from text mode.

Thanks. :)

It's a way of opening programs in such a way that they all launch at once. This is for GUI apps... The pipe will redirect to CLI apps. :)

@@EzeeLinux ah ok so it's not a logic operator, it'll launch everything even if one fails. And it's not redirecting stdout to stdin. Nice!

You can't. Use LibreOffice. It does every thing MS office does and then some. :)

Yes, i know, but in the university and work they use microsoft office, word and excel and something i can't edit :(

Go ahead. Just don't repost the full video anywhere. :)

@@EzeeLinux many thanks! Of course! And I have added credits at the beginning 👍

X works and Wayland doesn't. Wayland is still not quite ready yet. Give it another year or two. :)

@@EzeeLinux Thank you, so basically they both are X Servers Windows? Or Wayland is a Windows Manager?

@@GooogleGoglee They are display servers. The Window Manager is another program unrelated. :)

@@EzeeLinux Thanks you solved my doubts

Just to know, how can I install and force Wayland instead of X Server on a machine?

Mmmm. I love their soup! :)

Me too Joe mmmmm just thinking about makes my mouth water so cannot wait to go there during the winter when I travel to Buffalo to buy stuff as it cheaper in America :)

I am just being silly but the good news I have is below: I am excited about GNU/Linux today. I have been watching your videos over 3 months now ( about 5 per week ). Today, I feel I can state that I am no longer a GNU/Linux newbie. I went from knowing absolutely zero about GNU/Linux in early May to this point today. My best guess is roughly 120 days at 4 hours per day of tinkering very hard with 11 different distros and watching KZfaq videos. So roughly took me 400 man-hours. Yesterday, I installed the latest version of Antergos 2016 ( Gnome DE ), on my SSD alongside 3 other new distros: Bodhi 3.2.1 and Antix-16 and Zorin 9. Antergos comes with yaourt. I like yaourt more so than "apt-get install." Today, I manually installed the AUR helper, pacaur, using a procedure in the exact link below: gist.github.com/Tadly/0e65d30f279a34c33e9b Following these 13 steps in the terminal took me about an hour to figure out, as there was no explanation what cower* and pacaur* were supposed to be. Since I was able to figure that out with my own logic, I decided I am am no longer a newbie. Then I used pacaur to install a fun game I like called "knavalbattle," and then I won my first game of knavalbattle, in Antergos. So now I make the bold claim that I am now a novice Linux desktop distro user, with the hope of becoming an experienced novice by the end of the year. Today I feel like I completed a university level course in GNU/Linux desktop distros and I made a 100 on my final exam.