Re: [Trisquel-users] Display Resolution Problem on Toshiba Sat L830

2014-01-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Welcome! Linux is a kernel, the operating system is GNU/Linux. To see what video card you have, run in a terminal lspci|grep VGA (GNU/Linux is case-sensitive, i.e. VGA is not vga) Things worth trying to fix * the brightness control, you could try adding a acpi_backlight=vendor parameter to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Text to speech

2014-01-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
You could file a bug, it is confusing. Just don't hold your breath waiting for a patch though.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Touchpad click not working with other DE than gnome

2014-01-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Another puzzle solved: Glad to hear that. synaptiks with k That sounds like KDE shenanigans All of them seem to deal with touchpad functionality and have very similar names. Pretty confusing. That's the par for the course... :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Speaking of fully-free open hardware

2014-01-25 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I really hate it when people abuse JavaS***t, all I see is the disclaimer. Mind posting the hardware specs here?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Touchpad click not working with other DE than gnome

2014-01-25 Thread shiretoko
Synclient should actually be able to set the options for xorg.conf during the session, but non of my settings had any effect. So if synclient is working correctly then it will be no use writing something in xorg.conf. But maybe it doesn't.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Opensource/Free FPS standalone mod of Xonotic (ChaosEsque) released.

2014-01-25 Thread chaosesqueteam
Thanks for your support. For the record, ChaosEsque has an arc cannon that can arc back based on the material it encounters. The xonotic forum is still debating this, and how to code it, one of the devs said it was impossible and wouldn't work through warp zones (samual) and was a

Re: [Trisquel-users] /home does not mount after suspend

2014-01-25 Thread Andresmp
OK, where do I start/find the script that does the suspend? linux dot com [1] seems to suggest installing apmd. But since it was actually suspending I do not think it should be necesary? [1] https://www.linux.com/news/hardware/laptops/8253-how-to-suspend-and-hibernate-a-laptop-under-linux

[Trisquel-users] Re : Does anybody know how to install Free Pascal?

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
Free Pascal is a dependence of Lazarus. That means it is required for Lazarus to work and is installed along with it. You have nothing to do but to install Lazarus. If you want a finer control on the packages installed on your system, you can indeed learn to use commands such as 'apt-get'.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Installing packages without internet connection

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
You want to install apt-offline. It is the most convenient way to administrate an offline system. You would first have to: Download apt-ofline's package from one of Taranis' mirrors: http://packages.trisquel.info/toutatis/all/apt-offline/download Bring it to the offline system Install it

[Trisquel-users] Re : How to remove my swap partition

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
The original idea behind the swap is to get a degradation of the performances (disks are hundreds if not thousands of times slower than RAM) when the RAM become full instead of directly having the kernel (more or less arbitrarily) choose a process to kill. That lets time to find a guilty or

[Trisquel-users] Re : Downgrade installed software to the versions available remotely?

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
From the Synaptic Package Manager you can easily force the version of a given package (Ctrl+E or from the menu after selecting it).

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 7 based on Mate Desktop

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
You can currently choose between the GNOME Classic (or whatever it is called today) desktop or the LXDE desktop (Trisquel Mini edition). You can also install the NetInstall version and then fire those commands to get a KDE edition: $ sudo apt-get install triskel triskel-recommended Having

[Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 7 based on Mate Desktop

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
My preference goes to GNOME Shell too. But the Mini edition (based on LXDE) should be kept for people with older hardware.

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Speaking of fully-free open hardware

2014-01-25 Thread gramex
I really hate it when people abuse JavaS***t Is JS a swear word? :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] /home does not mount after suspend

2014-01-25 Thread Andresmp
OK are the scripts I am supposed to modify the ones found here? /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d

[Trisquel-users] Re : proper/practical use of tor

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
A website can easily know if the browser has JavaScript disabled. Even if the Tor Bundle browser is used. Since almost nobody disables JavaScript, that helps in de-anonymize you, the very objective of Tor.

[Trisquel-users] Re : proper/practical use of tor

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
I would say it is a bad practice to route your P2P file download though Tor. That heavy load slows down the service to everybody else (including activists who really need Tor).

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Speaking of fully-free open hardware

2014-01-25 Thread legimet . calc
Not yet.. Improv is open hardware, as open as it can be given that all graphics processing units (GPU) are closed and proprietary.

Re: [Trisquel-users] proper/practical use of tor

2014-01-25 Thread shiretoko
Activists can't be protected in a network which is only used by activists and few other people. Anonymity loves company. And beside of this everyone deserves the right of privacy. So the goal for tor should be to provide anonymous browsing for everyone all the time.

[Trisquel-users] How To Install The Latest Linux-Libre Kernal For Trisquel 6.0

2014-01-25 Thread stevekilleen
Hi, I'm just wondering how I can install the latest Linux-Libre Kernal in Trisquel 6.0. I would really appreciate step by step instructions as to how I can achieve this. Thanks, Steve

[Trisquel-users] Re : How To Install The Latest Linux-Libre Kernal For Trisquel 6.0

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
Here they are (in the Wiki documentation of the project): https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel

[Trisquel-users] Re : proper/practical use of tor

2014-01-25 Thread magicbanana
I agree with everything you say. I am not talking about browsing. I am talking about P2P file sharing. As far as I understand it is a significant load for the current Tor network. Sure that helps hiding whatever activists want to do... but they end up doing it so much slower that some may

Re: [Trisquel-users] How To Install The Latest Linux-Libre Kernal For Trisquel 6.0

2014-01-25 Thread stevekilleen
Hi Magic Banana, Thank you so much! Worked a treat! :-) Steve

Re: [Trisquel-users] proper/practical use of tor

2014-01-25 Thread gnuser
Let's keep in mind that using Tor for bittorrent for example is just plainly stupid, as it will provide little if any anonimity. I agree with everything else that has been said, Tor needs to be a tool used for everyday browser, so that the sensitive browsing done by activists and such

Re: [Trisquel-users] proper/practical use of tor

2014-01-25 Thread shiretoko
I think also the developers of free software tools like totem/vlc or a pdf viewer could help the tor project very much with little effort by just implementing an offline option which makes sure that the program will not connect to the internet and harm privacy (and I'm really surprised that