I wish to fetch an episode of a radio drama that was broadcast on Radio 4
last night, according to the schedule. Last week, I gave the command,
get-player Good Omens --future
and got numbers that, I believe, correspond to the 6 episodes in the series.
Today, I tried
get-iplayer --get
+1 on all of the above. Also, Gnash is inaccessible. All my effort to get
it to start playing automatically has been frustrated. Getting to its
preferences or media controls is a hit-and-miss with orca screen reader.
It's easier for me to use an external app for playing media, whose
I'll be at an FSF campaign event this evening; will ask; you got me curious.
Meanwhile, I suppose you can use 'dd' command to write Trisquel 7 onto your
card?
I think you can do this in Evolution. Adding the Lightning extension to
Icedove does this kind of thing, too.
Thanks for your prompt answer! I found the Gnash thing in
addons-manager-plugins, and set to 'never activate'; also a setting in
about:config, now set to 'false'.
With all the reinstalling, upgrading, distro-hopping I've done, I can't
imagine not having /home in its own partition. My user data are big, and I'd
not want to restore those often.
Listening as we speak, using youtube-all-html5 and logged into the html5
trial thing.
Perhaps not, but they are a known state, from which User can make changes as
appropriate.
Having updated as suggested, I tried again, and the login works; Thanks!
Why don't we keep these settings at factory defaults?
I use youtube all html5 from the extensions repo; can say, for certain, the
audio always works; video stream could be way out of sync; I'd never know;
lol. Maybe there were a few vids that didn't play in the past 3 months or
so; for those, I use unplug and totem.
When I try visiting the login page on craigslist.org, and entering my
credentials, then hitting the 'submit' button, I get an error 404. if I use
a live image of some other distro, I can login correctly. There must be
other sites that fail in this way, though I have yet to encounter one.
What about installing the laptop-mode-tools package? It's in the Trisquel
main repositories. Just do
sudo apt-get update
and
sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools
from the terminal.
For information on installing and configuring,
Try the Power section in gnome-tweak-tool;
Last time I checked, Ubuntu doesn't include Evolution; they use T-Bird.
Why shouldn't voip be incorporated into the web, while ftp, telnet, gopher,
wais... are? I thought the whole point of the W3 was tiing all this
disparate stuff together?
I agree that skype is not a free, or even open, option, and never recommend
it. However, I've all but given up on voip, since most of my social network
will not use any client but skype. Whenever I manage to persuade someone to
try a sip client, the experience does not go well, usually due
+1
If it's compatible with sip and/or xmpp, I'm fine with it!
If web rtc is specific to Firefox, we've gained no advantage. I thought it
was meant to be a W3 protocol, not a browser extension?
I think Mumble is great, too, but has the
only-free-software-fans-will-use-it issue.
Trisquel releases are based on Ubuntu LTS, and get updates.
Mentioning a theoretical action like installing Debian kernel and a non-free
blob, as in post #16 is not a recommendation of doing this as a solution or
workaround. Offering to help someone do this would be beyond the scope of
this forum.
A minor customization I forgot to mention: add the browser extensions:
Adblock Edge, Disconnect, Noscript, Unplug, and Youtube-all-html5.
The demos deciding whether a post should be seen has nothing to do with the
distribution of wealth; it's not socialist, capitalist, whatever... I don't
plan to paarticipate in this thumbs up/down thing; just not sure how it's to
be used.
Is there or will there be a way to search forum based on ratio of up to down
votes?
Attempts to log into craigslisst.com result in an error 404, using both
abrowser and lynx. Email to the authors of classified ads may not reach
their intended recipient, when using icedove. The presence or absense of
noscript has no effect. I can create accounts and log in using firefox on
I didn't actually remove gedit, but took it off the Accessories menu, and
added mousepad. Also, set mousepad as default for opening text files.
Turns out not to be as simple as finding Lightning in the addons manager, and
adding it, or I wouldn't have posted this query. Thanks!
Thanks! No iceowl in Trisquel 7. Tried Synaptic, apt-get and the Add/Remove
Software utility. Thanks for sparing us a retelling of the long story; LOL!
Well, how'bout that; it's in the addons manager search thing today; was not
there when last I looked. Sorry for being a bit short-tempered with Lev.
We're good.
Cheers,
Dave
I don't see which of these post-install changes make the system lighter;
assuming you mean more performant in some way? I agree with your choice of
icedove instead of evolution as a default for email, though perhaps not for
the reasons you might cite. Pidgin already does irc, among others;
It's working, here, too; I was on a different network on previous attempt to
find lightning; all I got for addons page for icedove was the FSF software
directory entry for it.
Since gedit no longer works with orca, I use mousepad. In the brief tests
I've done, Sound Recorder seems to work.
Hi,
I found the Lightning extension from the Mozilla site, and want to add it to
icedove; how can I do this? Opening the '.xpi' file with icedove starts an
empty message. The xul-ext-lightning package will not install, due to
Ubuntu's thunderbird being a dependency. Evolution calendar
When I choose 'add to panel' from the context menus, I can no longer choose
the weather report applet I had in Trisquel 6.0 and still see in Ubuntu Mate.
What are people using, instead, for weather forecasts and updates?
What about adding the exaile-devel ppa?
This is in Belenos.
According to the terminal output below, it looks like, when I type into the
overview for Gnome Shell, I should be able to find files in my home
directory, not just the installed apps. In other distros having the shell,
I'm able to do this; E. G. typing 'mail', would,
Hi,
I added gnome-shell, gnome-session and gnome-extensions packages with
aptitude. When I start the shell and then gnome-tweak-tool, no extensions
show as available. I know about going to the web page and using that ui, but
what is the package for?
I'm not sure whether Gnome Flashback is maintained anywhere but Trisquel and,
maybe, Debian? Mate seems to be getting a lot more attention. Last time I
looked at a distro based on Manjaro, there was a so-called Gnome Classic,
done as shell extension(s).
I haven't made the battery status disappear, but have noticed that checking
the boxes for percentage and time doesn't seem to make a difference; I get
only the time, no matter the state of these items.
Credit should be given where due (e. g. Debian and Canonical). I'd like a
better accounting of what happens to donated funds.
Applications-wise, wouldn't one of the Ubuntu spins like the Mate edition be
as free as Trisquel, if one doesn't activate the non-free repos and never
uses Software Center? I realize a few binary firmware blobs would stay if
the stock kernel used.
So, one can have a system like Debian or Ubuntu, consisting only of the free
things, taking care to avoid the non-free recommendations, and it would
essentially be Trisquel? I wonder if the responsibility to use the freeist
options is on the user, and isn't this where it should be?
I gave Gnewsense a quick look and found, immediately, that everything is so
very old! I think the latest release had kernel 2.6.something; networking
never worked; accessibility was tough to get working; there was more.
When you're finished, you'll have the same Trisquel 6 you had before the
upgrade to 7. In the installer, I think it's step 4? The default is to
install beside. You want to tick something else-- manual , or however it's
worded. Be sure not to format the xfs part, and when setting your
On the login greeter, I think there is a menu for accessibility options, one
of which is 'screen reader'. Turn it off, here, if your login screen is
talking, and you don't want this. In login greeter, you can use CTRL+S to
toggle speech. Everywhere else, you can use ALT+SUPER+S to toggle
For the price of a USB wifi dongle, I'm keeping an old laptop out of the
landfill, and it's trisquelized.
I notice similar; that is, I cannot add or remove panel applets. I can focus
the bottom panel with 'ctrl+alt+tab but when I use 'right-click',
'alt+right-click' 'super+right-click' or 'super+alt+right-click', I cannot
reach the menu with options like 'add to panel', 'remove from panel'.
see the man page for nmcli, a console ui for the network manager service.
In login greeter, use 'ctrl+s' to toggle orca off. In desktop, use
Alt+Super+s to toggle orca. It will remain inactive until you toggle it
again. As of GNOME/Orca 3.12 and later, there is no more screen reader gui.
Hi,
I highlighted a file in my Documents folder, then used 'f2' (the 'rename'
keyboard shortcut, then typed the new name. After typing the name and
hitting 'enter', I'm not sure what had focus; Orca was not speaking. On
hitting 'escape', Orca focus seemed to return to the display of the
I prefer to use noscript, and whitelist as desired. I've shut off that tor
proxy service, and disabled the tor extension, since I'mn using neither.
It looks like the My Cloud is firmware on the hard drive, which can be used
as a network-attached storage device; nothing to install on your machines.
It's not likely free firmware, but who knows. I suppose you can access it as
a samba share from Nautilus? See this AskUbuntu thread. And,
This is great news; let's hope we're back to releasing about 6 months after
the Ubuntu on which it's based.
H, I've always gotten bootable usb by using dd; never tried cat. For my
purposes, as well, 7 has been as good as released for a while. Glad it's
officially coming soon, and will check the very-latest iso for show-stoppers;
I don't expect any; :)
I direct people to the pre-release media on devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/
What conditions have to be met in order to have a release called ready?
For my purposes, it's close.
I second Sachin-- use a wiki.
Q\\\I'm glad this has finally been done; now, we're free of conflicts
with Mozilla's trademark issues.
You can install y7 over 6, keeping your home folder. In the disk choice part
of the wizard, choose 'something else', then make sure you mount your
existing root filesystem as '/', and allow the installer to format. Keep
your existing swap space intact. Next, mount your existing '/home' as
@davidnotcoulthard This is a good start on the new front page text. I like
how you distinguish Trisquel from the proprietary alternatives with which
folks are more familiar. It may need some work on distinguishing Trisquel
from the other GNU/Linux distributions. Every distro's front page
@onpon4 I think the main reason GNOME is still used is the accessibility.
GNOME Shell's accessibility is much improved since version 3.4 (as in
Trisquel6), so, Shell with llvm pipe, or something, for accelleration should,
perhaps, be the new default. Shell is slow, especially with
I think adding the '/usr/local/games' to your path, as in ~/.bashrc is the
better way. Once path variable is so updated, you can just type the name of
your program in the terminal or 'run' dialogue.
Glad we could help. For very frequently-used applications, I liekt o add a
keyboard shortcut in system settings-keyboard shortcuts-custom shortcuts.
Doing this in Main Menu is also a fine idea; you can put the shortcut in the
'games' category, if you like.
And, here's one more: When on the desktop, I accicentally hit 'f1' instead
of 'alt+f1', and got GNOME Help. A help file, reached by pressing 'f1' is a
good thing to have, but the one in Trisquel 7 is for GNOME Shell, an
interface we're not using. This will likely confuse naive users who
The same accessibility regressions I've reported with previous Trisquel 7
Alphas are still present in the one released aJune 27; There are two I forgot
to mention: When I launch synaptic, from the System Settings panel, and
enter my password, orca is silent for the entire session, even when
Someone sent me a note via my contact form on this web sitte; when I use the
link provided by the alert email, I get a accessidenied error from the
site. Sender, please email your message directly on
dh...@freedommail.co
Thanks!
This is fixed in later versions of GNOME, beginning with 3.8. It needs
testing in Trisquel 5.
This is billing itself as a FOSS replacement for Skype, with encrypted,
peer-to-peer instant messaging, file transfer, and audio/video calls and
conferencing; I'm interested in trying it. Is anyone using it? I installed
a client on a machine with the Arch GNU/Linux distro; there's a GTK
Bugs have been filed against Gwibber, Evolution and Empathy, for their lack
of accessibility with Orca, as should be done. I have opened tickets, in
Orca's bug tracker regarding accessibility problems with gedit and
per-application screen reader preferences. Since these issues seem to be
If there isn't one already, file this issue in Ubuntu's ticket system for
Precise. I saw this on the Orca users' email list, when Precise came out.
FYI, I've always used the 'dd' command to make live usb media.
Is that the kernel on the live dvd, or on the installed system? Glad to know
I'm not the only one seeing the memory leaking with sudo.
Thank you for your continuing work on espeak voices! I like it the way it
is, but have heard that, especially with languages other than English, it can
be difficult to understand. You can keep orca in your system, and just
disable it for the login screen. I believe there is an
I'm confused-- are you using Trisquel 6.1 or 7.0? I have an instance of
6.0.1 with an accessible login greeter; the instances of 7.0 I'm testing do
not have accessibility in the login screen. Trisquel 7.0, dated 14, June has
orca 3.12.1, I think it is. Since I am the only user of the
I filed an up-stream bug on this one in the GNOME bugzilla, against orca
3.12. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731883
in post @15, I reported a nearly 100% cpu load on both cores of an Intel
Core2 Duo cpu. Further testing shows this to occur only when the Intel wifi
radio is switched on, mechanically. When I switch this radio off, the load
is more like 5 to 10% on each core. Does this kind of loading
In the Trisquel 7.0 pre-release build, dated June 14, I cannot use gedit with
the included orca screen reader.
If I open a preexisting file, and make no changes, I can read, using the
cursor keys and orca. If I insert characters, orca will no longer speak,
until I switch to another
Those who need orca cannot easily install it, nor can they use a live system
without it. To me, no orca is a black screen. Orca can be easily removed
or deactivated. This said, we may be able to build the production Trisquel 7
without the automatic startup of orca on the live system,
Will ice dove replace thunderbird?
Further testing on both my Asus netbook and my Toshiba Satellite laptop shows
that, on the Toshiba, with a Core 2 Duo processor, system monitor has both
cores used at nearly 100% and the fans are running at full speed. On the
netbook, the average load on each core of the Atom processor is
I briefly ran the AMD 64 Trisquel 7 live image on a Toshiba Satellite, for
which I have to get a free software-compatible wifi card; the included Intel
is not supported. The wired connection works fine. I'm writing this from a
netbook, on which I have installed the image, and have a
In another thread regarding the pre-release system, I mentioned trouble
getting orca screen reader to stay focused on the gui installer's pages.
Maybe the text installer would work better? From a gnome terminal, how would
one launch the installer in text mode?
Thanks,
Dave
Thanks for the reminder about the good, the bad, and the ugly gstreamer
plugins; I forgot those! Maybe that will make Sound Recorder work, as well?
Easy enough to try. The netbook is the Asus 1015PE, and its wifi card is
well-supported by Trisquel. I think my key prompt problem is
I have an old Inspiron on which the wifi works withy Trisquel; if possible,
just boot the live cd and try it!
I suppose getting a mention as beginner-friendly, for Trisquel, is a good
thing, I wish the word inferior weren't used to describe the hardware
support. We know Trisquel isn't crippled, but the intended reader of this
article may believe so.
Thanks for letting us know of the Trisquel 7 images! I grabbed the 32-bit
and tried running it from a usb key. The system seems to boot, though the
only sound I get is a single pop in my speaker. Once the system is running,
I can go to another console and type commands; one such I tried
One of my machines is a Dell Inspiron, with similar hardware resources to
yours, Dave In NY; it runs the full Trisquel 6.0.1 quite well, for tasks
other than audio editing, large source code builds and high-bandwidth video
watching/conferencing. I use the included apps, plus vlc for media
Of all the desktops on GNU/Linux, I'd say universal access is most mature in
GNOME. Mate accessibility has come a long way, very quickly! LXDE and XFCE
are usable with orca screen reader for access, but I'm not sure about
magnification or on-screen keyboards. I'm using Orca on Trisquel
Agreed with T3g; the time to put the new kernel and xorg stack into the
release was at the time the 6.0.1 iso was made.
You can use 'alt+f1' to open the menus, and 'ctrl+alt+tab' to cycle among
desktop and panels.
If you just need a gui browser, but not the whole desktop, maybe you can
install something like openbox or lxde? After installation, you can disable
the display manager, assuming one got included. This will give you a login
and text console; you can manually start x only when you need it.
If you're being tracked, it's by the sites you visit as a esult of following
links in your feeds. If, instead of using a local client, you use something
like Google Reader, That could track you, nd I'm not sure how you'd know for
sure.
Maybe you can join or set up a diaspora pod?
Moailla can bank on the over 90% of users who won't remove the
anti-feature. Nonetheless, we'll benefit from the continued, and add-funded
development. There's an irony, or something, here; I'm not sure how I truly
feel.
How about installing ssh and samba services, but leaving them disabled? Same
for cups, if there's a security hole caused by having it enabled by default.
Maybe the live installer can have a 'services' page where the user can select
and configure these things, with the default option to
If Chromium has the questionable bits removed, and user does not sign into a
Google account, Where is the remaining trouble?
+1
By continuing to base Trisquel on Ubuntu, using ppas, reporting bugs, etc,
are we not halping Canonical? Parabola is helping Arch; Bnewsense is helping
Debian, ...
I have two laptops that run Trisquel, fully, for my purposes: An old Dell
Inspiron and an Asus EEPC1015PE (netbook). Though the wifi is by Broadcom,
in the Dell, it has the Atharos compatibility. Both machines have working
ethernet, wireless, and audio; I'm not sure about the 3D; the
Thrilled that the process has begun! :D What does it mean to 'debootstrap'?
Maybe I'll just wait for the iso.
I don't think there is a fallback edition of GNOME 1.10 or 3.12, whatever
Belenos will use.
After posting my last, I updated, and find that the pointer to system monitor
is no longer in system settings. Will look up how to fix this.
Thanks! I found the command and put the pointer back in gnome contril
center, following instructions in askubuntu.com.
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