Re: [Trisquel-users] installing apps with app get?.
Hi thanks a lot for all your comments, Sure I ll try compiling a program from the source. Once again, thanks for your little help.
Re: [Trisquel-users] an Open Source Hardware Certification
Hello muhammed, Does Michal's definition of free hardware match yours, Mzee? It does but I don't see why OSHWA would have to come short of this definition. They could, for example, create several levels of freedom and the highest level of freedom would be achieved by just following Michal's definition. Thank you for that link, btw! P.S: Unfortunately, Michal is very right when he states that there is no such thing as truly free hardware these days.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Accept credit or debit cards without using proprietary software?
Sadly, it's a complicated mess especially when regulations are factored in. For one, it might be helpful if you forget about swiping cards (i.e., manually enter information... perhaps on a computer running Trisquel.) There is a list of payment processors on https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/payment-services with some notes and information. Patrick McDermott, aka pehjota on IRC, has developed a free replacement for the proprietary JavaScript needed by Stripe: http://www.pehjota.net/projects/epirts.js/ But this is only for the payment side. It does nothing for the proprietary software that YOU as the owner would need to run when logging into the site for reporting, etc. Plus, issues of PCI DSS compliance come up. You should REALLY be talking to pehjota about this subject. He has done much research in the area of credit card processing in the free world.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without reinstalling
Ah, right, Sorry.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without reinstalling
gnome-session-flashback isn't a package in Trisquel like it is in Ubuntu; the actual package is trisquel-session.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without reinstalling
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without reinstalling
Is MATE really available in Trisquel 7? I see the mate-desktop package, but the description of the package suggests it only provides some minor facilities, like an About window. Some things I don't see: - Caja (MATE's file manager) - Pluma (MATE's text editor) - Atril (MATE's PDF viewer) - Engrampa (MATE's archive manager) - MATE Terminal - Marco (MATE's window manager) - Mozo (MATE's menu editor) In fact, all I see in Trisquel 7's repo related to MATE seem to be things like icon themes and backgrounds, which I suppose could be used with another GTK+ DE like Xfce or GNOME Flashback, but are otherwise useless on their own.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without reinstalling
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
Not in 3, but if you want GNOME 2's shell but without GNOME Terminal and without Nautilus (or maybe only Nautilus?), good luck!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Apple is open sourcing Swift. Your thoughts?
nicolasm...@tutanota.com wrote: Apple: Work for us for free! Sadly this could very well be the case, and those who fall for the open source story (remember, so far nothing has been released under an OSI-approved license yet) will not be given a reason for Apple's choice. I think Brad Kuhn has it in one -- http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/06/15/apple-is-not-our-friend.html -- reiterating some of his points: - Apple has said nothing about patents in the publicity on this and will likely choose a license that does not protect the user's interest in gaining a patent grant. Patents, after all, represent another way to leverage control over others.[1] - Apple hates strongly copylefted free software they don't hold the copyright on because they know what can happen when they infringe a copyright. They bought Easy Software (programmers of CUPS) because they didn't want to be a GPL licensee. They dropped the GPL'd Samba and went with their own SMB reimplementation. They pursue the non-copylefted Free Software LLVM even back when LLVM posed no technical reason to favor it over GCC so that Apple can lure developers into using their proprietary fork. Kuhn says their goal is to end copyleft compilers and I think time will show he's right. - The people at the head of Apple now were the people heading up NeXT when NeXT violated the GPL distributing their infringing GCC derivative with non-free Objective-C support. - Apple uses non-copyleft free software licenses as come-ons for trapping oneself by becoming dependent on non-freedom. I'm disappointed in how many developers I talk with tell me they think rather shallowly about these issues in that they don't see the trap until they're in it. [1] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/apple-now-owns-the-page-turn/?smid=tw-nytimesbitsseid=auto_r=0 [2] http://consumerist.com/2010/06/privacy-change-apple-knows-your-phone-is-and-is-telling-people.html -- as Richard Stallman points out in https://stallman.org/archives/2010-may-aug.html#24%20June%202010%20%28Apple%20sells%20more%20data%20on%20customers%29 If you carry a cell phone, it tells Big Brother where you are. Now Apple wants to hand out the information too. Using the lever of You have a choice, but unless you say yes, your old activities will stop working is something that Apple has done before, with malicious upgrades. Apple ostensibly doesn't force people to accept the new nasty thing; it just punishes them if they don't.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
I used to go back and forth between GNOME Shell, KDE, and XFCE back when I had Debian (this was before I discovered Trisquel), and then after installing Trisquel, I almost entirely used just GNOME Flashback until I found out how to install Cinnamon on Trisquel. Just a few days ago, I came up with the idea of trying out XFCE, however I ended up installing MATE and customizing it. Even though the GNOME Shell was an interesting change, I've found that a Windows-style desktop works best. (Speaking of Windows, I've gone 2 years without using Microsoft Windows on my computer, and I don't even miss those days of half-broken software that's prone to malware, application lock ups, and WAT problems with Microsoft making sure I've paid my taxes.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without reinstalling
Th method for Trisquel 6 is wrong (it should be exactly like for Belenos but with trusty replaced with precise).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
They were tied into the shell before? That's news to me. If anything, many GNOME components were starting to show their age in GNOME 3.4, being so similar to their GNOME 2 counterparts.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Amazon AWS
This post reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY. But yeah, more solar/wind is a good thing, especially in a large GHG-emitter such as the US.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What is wrong with current (pre-installed) version of libgtk-3-0 for 7.0 (belenos)?
Got it! I had set only belenos main in `/etc/apt/sources.list` But I think the installed OS have main + security-updated packages. Now I've added belenos-security updates as well as belenos-main in `/etc/apt/sources.list`: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # deb cdrom:[Trisquel 7.0 _belenos_ - Release i686 (20141102)]/ toutatis main # Trisquel repositories for supported software and updates deb http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/ belenos main deb-src http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel/ belenos main deb http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel belenos-security main #deb-src http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel belenos-security main And apt installing working fine without unmet dependencies error (again note that this has nothing to do with belenos-update) [SOLVED]
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for help with Abrowser flash films
By the way, the UnPlug extension does this automatically. I've made a video tutorial about something related to this, by the way; you might find it useful in the future: https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/onpon4/m/tutorial-watching-videos-without-javascript/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for help with Abrowser flash films
Davidnotcoulthard, it doesn't explicitly ask for Adobe Flash. I just observe the usual behavior of my browser when playing flash. And I can play Adobe Flash-films on other websites. But it is working now, as I have described below. Thank you.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for help with Abrowser flash films
Hello Mampir, thank you for your help. However, I couldn't find such keywords in the source file. Maybe I'm just not enough expert to do so. Thanks anyway for responding.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for help with Abrowser flash films
Thank you, davidnotcoulthard! By faking an Android browser, I can watch my films now. Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
This is first I've heard of compiz not working well with orca Me too. Do you know what kind of issues exists between Compiz and Orca?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for help with Abrowser flash films
Thank you for this suggestion, pizzaiolo. As I have reported, I have tried some of these suggestions. Others were not applicable as these films are not on Youtube etc. And I am not enough of an web media expert to chose the right option from this page. I have tried to download the flash films, though, but I didn't manage. Thanks though.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
This is first I've heard of compiz not working well with orca; I'll ask. Does either metacity or marco do screen magnification? Whatever we decide to do for Trisquel's window manager in version 8, we should make sure that accessibility feature works.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
I don't think the init system effects Mate.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
Perhaps there's been some improvement. Last time I tried orca in LXDE, the panels, menus, desktop, and notification area were not accessible, and the file manager was only accessible in list mode. I found, however, that mousepad (the default text editor) is accessible. The Mozilla programs and libreoffice are accessible, independent of desktop.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for help with Abrowser flash films
catfishes: Big thanks! Changing to android via UserAgentSwitcher works well! Thanks a lot!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best Project Management CMS Software and Also Git Collabarative Software? (Free Software of course)
OMH! That is awesome. Thanks man. It can even run on a Pi. I am totally using this. Thanks so much.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best Project Management CMS Software and Also Git Collabarative Software? (Free Software of course)
Look at the web page footer ;) http://gogs.io/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
Yes, Ruben said that Orca couldn't read the name of the window so if someone cannot see well, he/she would not know in which window/container he/she will be in, and as you know, accessibility is one of the key points of Trisquel so he didn't pick compiz as default. Regarding what Dave_hunt asked: I don't know about a magnifying effect on metacity, only the option to make the text larger. Sorry.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best Project Management CMS Software and Also Git Collabarative Software? (Free Software of course)
What license is it?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1
After reading some more of the current Libreboot documentation I don't think that the flash chip will decide your MAC address. That seems to be the case only for the laptops having the Intel GM45 chipset. However I'm not sure. See here: http://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/gm45_remove_me.html#ich9gen Anyway I'm waiting for someone to tell me if the address changed after flashing libreboot or not. Alternatively, if someone else has a librebooted macbook here then we could compare MAC-addresses by private message. I'll modify the wiki after this issue has been cleared.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
It's actually the other way around for me: I, on Parabola, LOVE GNOME Shell, but I use PCManFM instead iof Nautilus, LXTerminal instead of GNOME Terminal (or sometimes GNOME Terminal 2 instead which is available in the AUR). Well, I guess we can be thankful nautilus, the terminal, etc aren't as tied to the shell as they used to be! I do use Epiphany and Totem, though.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
I'm currently using Cinnamon on Trisquel via an added repository. It's a bit heavy on the GPU, however I consider it better than the Trisquel Default Session, GNOME Flashback, which just doesn't work as I would expect it to. I'm currently considering the possibility of using XFCE, which shouldn't be as heavy on the GPU. In any case, I would suggest using anything but the default session. Maybe I'll also give the GTK3 version of MATE a try. However, I'm almost certainly going to continue using certain GNOME Applications such as the System Monitor, Terminal, File Manager, etc. Those applications work very well, it's the GNOME Shell that's not very convenient, and then also GNOME Flashback is sort-of broken.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
I don't really like to use docks, I prefer a Windows-style desktop environment.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
Oh, I forgot: With LXDE and XFCE, user is unaware of what window would have focus, when she releases the 'alt+tab' (window switching) keys; Orca doesn't speak this. In orca releases before 3.12, the same information was missing when Mate was the desktop. In the Mate case, it was a matter of sym-linking the orca scripts for metacity and marco. Now, it' works pretty well.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Could Trisquel 8 switch to MATE?
i also reccomend trying cairo dock http://glx-dock.org/ you can get it from the trisquel repo's
Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1
Still waiting for Macbook to come all the way from Australia (to Brazil!)
[Trisquel-users] Re : Amazon AWS
Would you prefer a fossil-fuel power station? There are many things wrong with Amazon and I advise anyone to avoid their services/hardware. However generating energy from renewable energy is a good thing. Hopefully Amazon will, at some point, bankrupt and the generated energy energy will be better used.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Migrate from Ubuntu to Trisquel without reinstalling
My guess is you need to remove, perhaps among others: gnome-session-flashback, gnome-session, nautilus, gnome-terminal, gnome-control-center, gnome-panel, gnome-session-bin, metacity, gnome-power-manager, gnome-screensaver, unity-settings-daemon. What have I missed? Try sudo apt-get purge gnome-session-flashback gnome-session nautilus gnome-terminal gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-session-bin metacity gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver unity-settings-daemonIt will ask to have the Trisquel metapackages removed but if I remember correctly none of the preinstalled packages are set to auto (somebody please verify) so it should be safe to remove the metapackages.
[Trisquel-users] Amazon AWS
So, I just found out that Amazon is building a HUGE, like 900 Acre solar farm where I live, and it serves only to power their data center... How ridiculous is that? Is there anything I can do to put a wrench in this? Grimlok
Re: [Trisquel-users] Amazon AWS
900 acres wasted just to power one data center? You have to be kidding! But if I take this as a mere experiment then it's not too bad, so let's see what happens.
