[Trisquel-users] GNOME
How do I get the best, most complete GNOME experience on Trisquel?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Install from PPA rather than repo
This drives me crazy. As you can see from the screenshot attached above, Micah's PPA is added, registered and recognised by trisquel. It is also shown by ~$ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d micahflee-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list But tha PPA seems to be not recognised when I try to install from it: ~$ sudo apt install torbrowser-launcher Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done torbrowser-launcher is already the newest version (0.2.4-1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. This is consistent with a search command output: ~$ apt search torbrowser-launcher Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done torbrowser-launcher/flidas,now 0.2.4-1 amd64 [installed] helps download and run the Tor Browser Bundle And with a policy command output: ~$ apt policy torbrowser-launcher torbrowser-launcher: Installed: 0.2.4-1 Candidate: 0.2.4-1 Version table: *** 0.2.4-1 500 500 http://es.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel flidas/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status According to the Github page, the latest version, which I expected to have installed, is v0.3.1: https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher/releases How come Trisquel does not recognise the version from Michah's PPA?
[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel Does Not Start
Inputting the password from the live system should allow you to access your
encrypted data. But you can perform as well the backup from the text session
you get with Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or Ctrl+Alt+F2 or...). For example, you can plug
an external hard drive and copy /home there ('mount' tells where its
filesystems are mounted) with 'sudo cp -a /home'. You can also diagnose the
problem from the text session (using 'journalctl') and maybe fix it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Does Not Start
Can you get terminal ctrl+alt+F1/F2? If the disk is not encrypted, you can rescue and retreive your home directory by booting a live CD or USB thumb drive. Just do a plain copy transfer to another medium.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello everyone! I have a question about this part of Trisquel GNU/Linux
Chaosmonk: > Even if Ubuntu does drop 32-bit support, Trisquel doesn't necessarily have to do the same True, but wouldn't that mean having to import an increasing number of packages from elsewhere? If the value of basing Trisquel off an upstream distro is that it limits the amount of work required to assemble it, wouldn't that benefit be negated by having to cobble together packages from multiple sources to maintain consistent 32-bit support? While we're discussing Etiona, am I correct to presume that Mate will be the default desktop again? If so, what are the plans for Trisquel-Mini? We know that LXDE is a dead parrot, and that even Lubuntu have moved to LXQT. But Lubuntu 18.04 LTS was the last version released with LXDE, so that does remains an option for a Mini version of Etiona. With these changes to Lubuntu they have officially announced they're no longer a lightweight distro for older PCs, and I'd put (a small amount of) money on LXQT being more resource intensive that Mate. So for Trisquel 10, it seems that it will be time to either retire Mini, or choose another default desktop, one that's significantly lighter than Mate. Maybe now is the time to start discussing candidates, and since LXDE isn't much lighter than Mate (if any), maybe the new Mini desktop could be released with Etiona?
[Trisquel-users] Trisquel Does Not Start
Hello, I have a Libreboot T400 which I have used daily since 2017. A few days ago when I started the computer it booted as normal but after the Trisquel logo when the log in screen should have appeared, the screen just turned dark. This have never happened before. I contacted Minifree but they did not know how to solve the problem and the thing the told me to try did not work. (They told me to press E after boot and then erase the lines that said "linux/root=/.. and then press F10 but nothing changed after doing that.) Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be or do I need to reinstall the entire operating system? If I need to reinstall Trisquel, is there any way of saving a few photos that I would like to not lose?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Does Not Start
Yes, I am able to get into the terminal and log in there. The disk is encrypted so I could not get into it by using a live USB.
[Trisquel-users] Re : GNOME
Use the NetInstall (https://trisquel.info/en/download has a link behind "More") and execute 'sudo apt install gnome': https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installing-gnome-shell
Re: [Trisquel-users] Install from PPA rather than repo
I've found the problem. See here: https://launchpad.net/~micahflee/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages The PPA does not have torbrowser-launcher packaged for Xenial, only Bionic and Cosmic. Since Trisquel 8 is based on Xenial, there's no package available. If I were you I'd build it from source. The build instructions look very straightforward. https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher/blob/develop/BUILD.md signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] GNOME
> How do I get the best, most complete GNOME experience on Trisquel? I'd start with a netinstall, so that you don't have any MATE stuff cluttering your system. To install GNOME: $ sudo apt install gnome For Trisquel look/feel (Trisquel's icon theme doesn't play nice with GTK3, but GNOME Brave looks very similar. You'll need gnome-tweak-tool to change the theme.): $ sudo apt trisquel-gtk-theme gnome-brave-icon-theme gnome-tweak tool Totem is buggy. $ sudo apt remove totem && sudo apt install mpv # or vlc Unless you really want to use Epiphany, $ sudo apt remove epiphany* && sudo apt install abrowser # or icecat If you want graphical package management tools (GNOME software is buggy) $ sudo apt install gnome-app-install synaptic If you have a touchpad that supports multitouch gestures, you could replace the synaptics touchpad driver with libinput and build libinput-gestures so that you can 3-finger swipe to change workspaces and 3-finger pinch to open the dash. IIRC you have an X200 though, so you might not have a touchpad. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello everyone! I have a question about this part of Trisquel GNU/Linux
> True, but wouldn't that mean having to import an increasing number of > packages from elsewhere? I'm not sure exactly how much extra work it would be. It would certainly help if there were an arch32-like community project. That said, I don't see any reason to expect Ubuntu to drop 32-bit support any time soon. They support a variety of architectures, unlike Arch who only supported x86 and seemed to reduce support to one architecture to save effort. > While we're discussing Etiona, am I correct to presume that Mate will be > the default desktop again? I haven't heard otherwise. > So for > Trisquel 10, it seems that it will be time to either retire Mini, or > choose another default desktop, one that's significantly lighter than > Mate. Maybe now is the time to start discussing candidates A while back I set up a low-resource netbook with Trisquel using Icewm instead of a full DE. Some screenshots here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/solved-problem-lxde#comment-137293 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[Trisquel-users] Re : Hello everyone! I have a question about this part of Trisquel GNU/Linux
Given the rather modest hardware requirements of MATE, I do not see much point in Trisquel Mini anymore. But maybe I am wrong: are there many current users of Trisquel Mini who have 1 GB (or less) of RAM?
