Re: [Trisquel-users] Another distro picker without Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread e21fdf09
They must have used Wikipedia for their research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions does not have any entry for Trisquel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_Distributions Here, there is an entry for Trisquel. But, it doesnt attract viewer's interest. I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Customizing functions of keys

2013-04-25 Thread ejectmail
Thanks for the quick response. That takes care of the lock screen problem, but I'm not seeing anything in the settings for the GNOME main menu.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another distro picker without Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread onpon4
That tool is useless. There's no way anyone who has no idea what distro to pick could possibly quantify what they want the way that tool asks.

[Trisquel-users] Customizing functions of keys

2013-04-25 Thread ejectmail
Under Windows, my laptop had a key that would suspend & lock the computer, and of course the Windows key to bring up the start menu. Under Trisquel these keys now do nothing (although before I updated my kernel the lock key had the highly amusing effect of typing "l"). Is there any way to cau

Re: [Trisquel-users] Customizing functions of keys

2013-04-25 Thread onpon4
Settings -> Keyboard; Shortcuts tab.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Themes in Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread aliasbody
Well you can do that. You just need to download a GTK3 theme and copy it in the /usr/share/themes folder (in order to have it for all users) or in the ~/.local/share/themes folder if you want to use it with only one account.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Themes in Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread superbyelich
I was hoping to be able to take themes I found on the internet and install them. Not just the pre-packaged ones found in synaptic... Grimlok

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Trisquel 6.0 and pm-powersave

2013-04-25 Thread aliasbody
I remember working with the runlevels when I was on arch. But I never found and easy way (as the arch way was) to do that in Debian based systems (the same with daemons and modules), but I will eventually find out :D Thanks for the information !

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Trisquel 6.0 and pm-powersave

2013-04-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Glad to hear that. I'll let you figure this one out by yourself. Suggest you start by reading /etc/rc2.d/README (2 is the default runlevel on Debian based distros) If the INIT INFO part seems hard (does for me) use some other script as a template. I guess it might not work if it's run too

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Trisquel 6.0 and pm-powersave

2013-04-25 Thread aliasbody
This worked like a charm :D Just another question, where is the best place to put the initial script ? - In order to boot with the "pm-powersave false" option before the GDM Window. Since it becomes slow even at that time).

Re: [Trisquel-users] My installation-Script for Trisquel v6.00 "Toutatis"

2013-04-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
The .sh attachments don't currently work. http://trisquel.info/en/issues/8153 You could replace them with compressed versions.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Trisquel 6.0 and pm-powersave

2013-04-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Yeah. This content should do the trick.#!/bin/sh case "${1}" in hibernate|suspend) pm-powersave true ;; resume|thaw) pm-powersave false ;; esac

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another distro picker without Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread ejectmail
This isn't this best tool. I got a good chuckle when I set "ease of use" to 99 and it recommended Gentoo.

[Trisquel-users] My installation-Script for Trisquel v6.00 "Toutatis"

2013-04-25 Thread sgies1963
How-To-Use: To install Trisquel-OS on a PC could be easy, if you use my scripts below. After installing Trisquel and the first reboot, you enter your user-account. Copy the files below into your home-directory. Then open a terminal-window. Now you have to create a password for the root. su

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Trisquel 6.0 and pm-powersave

2013-04-25 Thread aliasbody
So, let me see if I understood it well : 1 - I create a file starting with 00 (like 00_MsiPowerSuspend) in the /etc/pm/sleep.d with something like this : #!/bin/sh pm-powersave true Until now this works, I can now Suspend with the "pm-powersave false" option selected. Now I need to find

Re: [Trisquel-users] Screen won't lock when you resume from standby

2013-04-25 Thread patterson_davis
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Re: [Trisquel-users] How to be sure that the source code I see is the source code I get?

2013-04-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I personally find the ideology of the GNU project very inspiring and uplifting. That's why I'm here. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Trisquel 6.0 and pm-powersave

2013-04-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Edit a file with filename starting with 00 in /etc/pm/sleep.d as suggested by the mentioned manual page Put in the command I suggested above there, that way it will be run just before suspend and hib and the other command last after waking up. Look at the other files in there to see how you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Themes in Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread aliasbody
Hi grimlok, The Login Manager is GDM so the only things that you can (easily at least) change is the wallpaper - and even for that "simple" task you will need few terminal commands. Otherwise you can use another Login Manager like lightDM (used in Ubuntu for example) which can provide more

Re: [Trisquel-users] BitTorrent Sync

2013-04-25 Thread Jason Self
danieldelaho...@gmail.com wrote .. > Inyeresting thanks for the comments. It's a shame its not free software. > Distributed peer-to-peer file syncing sounds like a good idea. Indeed, so go make a free implementation of it. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to be sure that the source code I see is the source code I get?

2013-04-25 Thread adel . afzal
It's convenient to trust others and accept a division of labour. I don't always choose principle over convenience. Am I not really a part of the free software community? It's good that ideologies exist, so that we have frames of reference for talking to eachother. But I think that ideolo

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Trisquel 6.0 and pm-powersave

2013-04-25 Thread aliasbody
Hello there ! Thank you for the help. But it didn't help at all, even in the performance mode or directly at 2,40ghz the problem still persists. I don't think that it has anything to do with the CPu Speed at all since the problem stops (even at 800mhz) when the mouse is in top of another wind

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with Trisquel 6.0 and pm-powersave

2013-04-25 Thread aliasbody
Well this is actually something I could try, but how to ?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another distro picker without Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread superbyelich
Looks like that picker is biased toward really only few upon looking at the website source.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 - install prob, hang, no menus, - Please help

2013-04-25 Thread e21fdf09
i wont be trying that out. As, currently there is no problem. So, i rather not cause any. I have however made a note, just in case.

[Trisquel-users] Another distro picker without Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here, just came across this: http://tuxradar.com/content/distro-picker-0 F. - -- Fabián Rodríguez http://trisquel.magicfab.ca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using G

Re: [Trisquel-users] [Bulk] Re: Trisquel 6 - install prob, hang, no menus, - Please help

2013-04-25 Thread Sachin Dey
You may even try editing the file "/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-classic.session" replace trisquel-wm in the following line with metacity DefaultProvider-windowmanager=trisquel-wm But if you receive an update on gnome session the file will be over-written to default.

[Trisquel-users] Themes in Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread superbyelich
Hello all again, I have been looking into trying to change my login theme, and maybe even adding some shell themes to trisquel, the only thing is that it doesn't seem to be the easy drag and drop of Ubuntu and the rest of Gnome... Is there something I have to install, a different proc

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 - install prob, hang, no menus, - Please help

2013-04-25 Thread e21fdf09
Atlast got Trisquel6 running properly. The solution was to switch to Metacity instead of the default Compiz. I had to remove Compiz completely as after reboot it kept showing its effects/problems even though Metacity was selected. It took quite a while to figure out the solution, lots of reb

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ideas for Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread aliasbody
For the bug reporting I agree with you it need to be done. But some changes can't be made. I remember reading a bunch of bug reports on the issues page that couldn't be solved because it has been updated in the newest version of Ubuntu and not on the 12.04 - I can talk about the gfx bug with

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ideas for Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread aliasbody
We can't use those applications without the new GTK changes. So we need to be dependent on Gnome in order to use them (or just spend a lot of time editing them) and so use Gnome 3.8. I agree that the new Gnome 3.8 applications are just beautiful, but they are also very buggy and too much simp

Re: [Trisquel-users] BitTorrent Sync

2013-04-25 Thread danieldelahoyde
Inyeresting thanks for the comments. It's a shame its not free software. Distributed peer-to-peer file syncing sounds like a good idea.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Red Text Displayed When Logging into Trisquel 6.0 AMD64 Randomly

2013-04-25 Thread stevekilleen
Here it is again from the "---cut here---" point: [ 46.064136] ---[ end trace b0d4a40fa421391e ]--- [ 46.064168] [ cut here ] [ 46.064323] kernel BUG at /tmp/makepackage/PACKAGES/linux/source/mm/slub.c:3440! [ 46.064539] invalid opcode: [#1] SMP [ 46.0647

Re: [Trisquel-users] Chrome OS

2013-04-25 Thread f3rn4nd0 . n3gr0
"I'm sure this was done in 'the name of healthy eating' or for 'safety' reason or to 'avoid legal liability due to allergies, etc'". Don't be fooled by the propaganda... This "Big Brother exists to protect you and take care of you" is always the official explanation. But, it's not the true

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to be sure that the source code I see is the source code I get?

2013-04-25 Thread shiretoko
This is still my opinion, but after thinking about the whole discussion some of my attitudes have changed: Whenever a producer of proprietary software implements malicious features without anyone knowing it, that's just normal life! Most of them do. But when a distro maker takes a free program

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 6 - install prob, hang, no menus, - Please help

2013-04-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Did you verify the integrity of the install media? I'd probably try to install once more.

Re: [Trisquel-users] BitTorrent Sync

2013-04-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
No wonder you didn't find it as they're not providing it... http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/8816-will-syncapp-be-open-source/ So no, it's certainly not free.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ideas for Trisquel

2013-04-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
>we should be only using LTS we will no longer publish short term support versions every 6 months, but focus on giving the best possible support to the LTS release -- https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-60-lts-toutatis-has-arrived

Re: [Trisquel-users] free-software compatible laptop

2013-04-25 Thread steelrange5
It is looking good to read about the free software compatible laptop and in cheap price.I have seen some pics and looks good to buy. __ fire proof cabinets