[XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency

[dEBRUYNE]

For those who haven't noticed yet, rehrar has revamped the official website:

https://getmonero.org/

[5thangel]

For those who haven't noticed yet, rehrar has revamped the official website:

https://getmonero.org/

Yes, official website look WAY better!

[crypto research]

For those who haven't noticed yet, rehrar has revamped the official website:

https://getmonero.org/

Yes, official website look WAY better!

This is true.

[aminorex]

Looks better on a cellphone anyhow.  Waiting for the "premium on site service" I paid for to get fulfilled by dell right now. 

[Nathan047]

For those who haven't noticed yet, rehrar has revamped the official website:

https://getmonero.org/

Ah, much more professional and clean that it was. Well, at least after I enable JavaScript that is.

[visdude]

For those who haven't noticed yet, rehrar has revamped the official website:

https://getmonero.org/

Very nice. However, I still don't see installation instructions especially in Linux (I had to watch an old youtube video to learn how to go about it the hard way). BTW, how do I create a shortcut for "start-gui.sh" on the Linux Mint 18.2 desktop? Pardon the noob question as I am Linux-averse due to CLI phobia but I'm trying to learn though.

[visdude]

Currently, the GUI is useless in signing transactions offline due to a known and open window-scaling issue in some devices with smaller/lower-res screen (at least for me anyway) wherein the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and inaccessible (specifically the "Sign tx file" button). It's supposed to be fixed in the next release but in the meantime, what are the steps to sign transactions offline using CLI (reluctantly due to CLI phobia but I'm left with no choice).

Moreover, in Linux Mint 18.2, a usable GUI window appears under 30 seconds after launching while the same process takes about 8 minutes in Windows 7 on the same device. Note that the device is a netbook set up with a cold/offline wallet albeit a bit souped up with Windows 7 64-bit/2GB RAM/SSD (stock spec was Windows 7 Starter 32-bit/1GB RAM/HDD). Why this very significant disparity in starting time? Is Linux binary more optimized than that of Windows?

[Andretti83]

Currently, the GUI is useless in signing transactions offline due to a known and open window-scaling issue in some devices with smaller/lower-res screen (at least for me anyway) wherein the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and inaccessible (specifically the "Sign tx file" button).

Until scaling is fixed I found this way to launch gui helpful:
QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.8 ./start-gui.sh

[dEBRUYNE]

Currently, the GUI is useless in signing transactions offline due to a known and open window-scaling issue in some devices with smaller/lower-res screen (at least for me anyway) wherein the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and inaccessible (specifically the "Sign tx file" button). It's supposed to be fixed in the next release but in the meantime, what are the steps to sign transactions offline using CLI (reluctantly due to CLI phobia but I'm left with no choice).

See:

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/2868/is-there-any-way-to-construct-a-transaction-manually/2916

To create a view wallet, one has to add the --generate-from-view-key <view-wallet-name> flag.

On Windows make sure to launch it from the command line. Go to the folder monero-wallet-cli is located and make sure your cursor isn't located on any of the files. Subsequently do SHIFT + right click and it will give you an option to "Open command window here". Lastly, type the following command:

Code:

monero-wallet-cli --generate-from-view-key <view-wallet-name>

On Linux and Mac OS X you should use the terminal to launch monero-wallet-cli. Note that this has to be done from the directory monero-wallet-cli is located in. The command is as follows:

Code:

./monero-wallet-cli --generate-from-view-key <view-wallet-name>

Moreover, in Linux Mint 18.2, a usable GUI window appears under 30 seconds after launching while the same process takes about 8 minutes in Windows 7 on the same device. Note that the device is a netbook set up with a cold/offline wallet albeit a bit souped up with Windows 7 64-bit/2GB RAM/SSD (stock spec was Windows 7 Starter 32-bit/1GB RAM/HDD). Why this very significant disparity in starting time? Is Linux binary more optimized than that of Windows?

This discrepancy seems rather odd, although I suspect it may be the same bug that causes black screens on Windows. See:

https://github.com/monero-project/monero-core/pull/777


P.S. Please try Andretti83's suggestion as well, it may fix your scaling issues.

If you don't know how to set an environment variable on Windows, see this guide:

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/2928/how-to-change-the-monero-wallet-gui-rendering-mode-for-older-computers

Obviously, you have to replace QMLSCENE_DEVICE=softwarecontext with QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.8, as this guide was written for another purpose.

[dEBRUYNE]

For those who haven't noticed yet, rehrar has revamped the official website:

https://getmonero.org/

Very nice. However, I still don't see installation instructions especially in Linux (I had to watch an old youtube video to learn how to go about it the hard way). BTW, how do I create a shortcut for "start-gui.sh" on the Linux Mint 18.2 desktop? Pardon the noob question as I am Linux-averse due to CLI phobia but I'm trying to learn though.

[1] It's up to community members to write documentation and add it to the website.

[2] See -> https://askubuntu.com/questions/450266/an-easy-way-to-create-a-desktop-shortcut.

[bbc.reporter]

Is Alphabay the only darknet website that accepts Monero as of today? I heard that they are now down and that they might have exited the market, stealing all their users funds. What happens now?

[Hueristic]

Is Alphabay the only darknet website that accepts Monero as of today? I heard that they are now down and that they might have exited the market, stealing all their users funds. What happens now?

Now they dump we get cheap coins, New market arises, rinse repeat.

[explorer]

Currently, the GUI is useless in signing transactions offline due to a known and open window-scaling issue in some devices with smaller/lower-res screen (at least for me anyway) wherein the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and inaccessible (specifically the "Sign tx file" button). It's supposed to be fixed in the next release but in the meantime, what are the steps to sign transactions offline using CLI (reluctantly due to CLI phobia but I'm left with no choice).

Moreover, in Linux Mint 18.2, a usable GUI window appears under 30 seconds after launching while the same process takes about 8 minutes in Windows 7 on the same device. Note that the device is a netbook set up with a cold/offline wallet albeit a bit souped up with Windows 7 64-bit/2GB RAM/SSD (stock spec was Windows 7 Starter 32-bit/1GB RAM/HDD). Why this very significant disparity in starting time? Is Linux binary more optimized than that of Windows?

Windows 8.1 takes forever to load GUI for me as well.  64bit, 4GB RAM, SSD.  Not a big deal, but occasionally annoying.  I usually have the daemon running already when I launch GUI.  Time to switch to Linux?  Yep.  Been on the to do list for about 3 years 

[bbc.reporter]

@Hueristic. I am waiting for the dump but so far all I see is a pump. I missed it.

By they way, how did Monero become accepted in Alphabay and what does it take for the other darknet sites to follow them? Is it their decision or does the community have to make it known to them that XMR is a good choice too?

[Hueristic]

@Hueristic. I am waiting for the dump but so far all I see is a pump. I missed it.

By they way, how did Monero become accepted in Alphabay and what does it take for the other darknet sites to follow them? Is it their decision or does the community have to make it known to them that XMR is a good choice too?

I was making a joke actually. For all we know they were the ones keeping the price suppressed lately. AFA them adopting XMR it looks like that was a choice they made as it fit their business model. I'd assume eventually all markets should accept XMR dark or otherwise. Whats the reason not to?

[visdude]

Currently, the GUI is useless in signing transactions offline due to a known and open window-scaling issue in some devices with smaller/lower-res screen (at least for me anyway) wherein the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and inaccessible (specifically the "Sign tx file" button).

Until scaling is fixed I found this way to launch gui helpful:
QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.8 ./start-gui.sh

Thanks for the tip. Where and how do I apply this string in Linux?

[visdude]

If you don't know how to set an environment variable on Windows, see this guide:

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/2928/how-to-change-the-monero-wallet-gui-rendering-mode-for-older-computers

Obviously, you have to replace QMLSCENE_DEVICE=softwarecontext with QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.8, as this guide was written for another purpose.

This didn't seem to have any effect at all. Thanks anyway.

[visdude]

For those who haven't noticed yet, rehrar has revamped the official website:

https://getmonero.org/

Very nice. However, I still don't see installation instructions especially in Linux (I had to watch an old youtube video to learn how to go about it the hard way). BTW, how do I create a shortcut for "start-gui.sh" on the Linux Mint 18.2 desktop? Pardon the noob question as I am Linux-averse due to CLI phobia but I'm trying to learn though.

[1] It's up to community members to write documentation and add it to the website.

[2] See -> https://askubuntu.com/questions/450266/an-easy-way-to-create-a-desktop-shortcut.

[2] Wow! One has to jump through all those hoops just to create a simple shortcut on the desktop in Linux . I'll stick to launching it directly . We can bash Windoze all we want but this is just one of the many reasons why it's more popular and has a mainstream adoption instead of just a niche OS. Thanks though.

[visdude]

Currently, the GUI is useless in signing transactions offline due to a known and open window-scaling issue in some devices with smaller/lower-res screen (at least for me anyway) wherein the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and inaccessible (specifically the "Sign tx file" button). It's supposed to be fixed in the next release but in the meantime, what are the steps to sign transactions offline using CLI (reluctantly due to CLI phobia but I'm left with no choice).

See:

https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/2868/is-there-any-way-to-construct-a-transaction-manually/2916

To create a view wallet, one has to add the --generate-from-view-key <view-wallet-name> flag.

On Windows make sure to launch it from the command line. Go to the folder monero-wallet-cli is located and make sure your cursor isn't located on any of the files. Subsequently do SHIFT + right click and it will give you an option to "Open command window here". Lastly, type the following command:

Code:

monero-wallet-cli --generate-from-view-key <view-wallet-name>

On Linux and Mac OS X you should use the terminal to launch monero-wallet-cli. Note that this has to be done from the directory monero-wallet-cli is located in. The command is as follows:

Code:

./monero-wallet-cli --generate-from-view-key <view-wallet-name>

I'm already good with creating an unsigned transaction with the online view-only wallet in GUI which runs on a desktop with a rather large monitor (not affected by the scaling issue). I just need to know the specific CLI strings/args to sign the transaction with the cold wallet on the offline device using CLI (and subsequently export it back to the online GUI wallet for broadcasting) since my offline GUI is unusable due the the aforementioned scaling issue. Thanks!

[dEBRUYNE]

Currently, the GUI is useless in signing transactions offline due to a known and open window-scaling issue in some devices with smaller/lower-res screen (at least for me anyway) wherein the "Advanced Options" buttons at the bottom are cut off and inaccessible (specifically the "Sign tx file" button).

Until scaling is fixed I found this way to launch gui helpful:
QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.8 ./start-gui.sh

Thanks for the tip. Where and how do I apply this string in Linux?

Open the terminal from the directory of `monero-wallet-gui` (`start-gui.sh` is in the same directory). Subsequently type aforementioned command.