name is "gnu" - script kiddies are welcome! :)
Hello all. Following the guide I managed to use the backup application. All
well and good.
In the external HD there is now a Triquel Backup Folder with my home folder.
Q: should that only have a number of folders inside it named
"duplicity-full._ etc"?
Backups I'm familiar with
Hi,
I can't help with your install problem, but as for orca, yes this comes
up at start up. If you want to disable it ofcorse, you can press supper
ault s to turn it off and it should stay off. Orca is the screen reader
that is used for blimd users. HTH.
Matthew
On 10/05/2015 05:46
Are you using btrfs? One time I tried it on my root partition and it filled
up quickly due to its copy on write nature. It was a little while back
though, so maybe the space issue was fixed in later kernels.
I do run autoremove and autoclean from time to time. They were the first
things I tried. That cleared 8KB, but 14.5 GB is still being used by
something. I will try your second suggestion next, but this was a fresh
install of Toutatis a couple of days ago, so I doubt old kernels would be
Congrats, doesn't it just feel great?
It probably doesn't exist. But you can create one if you wish. Just edit a
file with that name (~/.xinitrc) and save it. Make sure you have the
gnome-keyring package installed.
I agree it makes sense to file. You can include in the bug whether making
this file as suggested helps.
Nope. I'm using EXT4 on both root and /home partitions, but only because ext
is what I'm familiar with, and 4 is the latest version and has been out for a
while. Are there better choices?
What level of skills are required to be a Trisquel developer? I am a novice
programmer, having only learned a few scraps of BASIC, Pascal, C#, and
Python. The most ambitious things I've ever programmed was a text-only 2
player version of the BattleShip board game (using IDLE
After adding the repo, update the list and install the new kernel
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install linux-libre64-3.4
smartmontools
Today I did 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get upgrade' on my Trisquel
Lenovo X60. Now the there seems to be no modem. Is this the same problem? If
so you had better warn people and direct them to the solution.
If you are using the default software for backup on Trisquel in system
settings - Backup.
Yes it is normal I have used it before it compresses and encrypts if you
select the encryption option. This renaming and compressing is actually good
if you want to backup on a windows or mac partition
You can keep calling me crazy all you want, but you just admitted it...
And the reason why I think the presence of non trisquel users like you is
harmful to the free software movement, is because just like your attitude
towards the op, you also drive away new users in the irc channel in
smartctl -H when I enter this command it says it doesn't exist. What package
do I need to install to be able to use it?
"I'd be happy if the forum were just mailing lists."
it would most likely immediate a lot of new users if that happened
Sorry, but I added the key, edited sources.list, but the only linux-libre
that appears is 3.13. I can't find the 3.4... Should I do something else? Or
maybe the problem is that I am trying to downgrade a package??
How can I solve this?
So the images look the same across different monitors and when I print them
out on a printer they look as close as possible to how they look on the
screen. This is how I do it with proprietary software I just use the same
color profile with the screen as the printer and then it usually comes
About the looks, To change text size and background, it should be modifiable
with the "Stylish" plugin.
More like a temporary solution since a better default text size might matter
for some new users.
Or maybe We could just post a "Stylish" script that does just that.
So that's dealing with CMYK to RGB?
How do you do it in a proprietary software?
I mean what is your goal exactly?
Is it to have a printed picture,
and to use it to make the sRGB version look as close as possible
(provided your screen is rather neutral, and calibrated)?
I think GIMP has "some"
Hello Freedom lovers,
The question is...
What VOIP service provider would you recommend to use with jitsi, linphone,
etc... to make international calls to the PSTN (Public Switch Telephone
Network) aka Landlines.
I'm particularly looking for an Europe provider but feel free to post for
www.sipgate.de is based in Germany and never let me down so far. Prices are
reasonable.
Hi,
I have installed Trisquel 7, but I am getting some issues:
1. I can't use the Text Mode Install. Unless I connect to the internet, it
won't allow me to go beyond the "choosing mirror" option. I have tried to go
back and forth, but it seems like unless I get internet connection, I can't
One of the most important things IMHO is for documentation to be accurate,
thorough, up-to-date, and easy to navigate and search:
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/documentation
That way, when users come across problems, they can use the instructions in
the documentation to fix them. Being able
How do I setup google drive with grive?
Take a gander at this:
http://www.webupd8.org/2015/05/grive2-grive-fork-with-google-drive.html
High-traffic mailing lists are fine if you are the kind of person who focuses
on one project at a time, or has a fairly narrow range of interests. For
magpies like myself who are involved at different levels in many different
projects and communities, subscribing to mailing lists for all of
I appreciate the feedback. Thank you, I will look into this.
It was able to work, but not with hardware acceleration.
I'm talking about the wifi. I got this X60 from gluglug.org. It uses
libreboot. It has been through 1 previous upgrade without causing a problem.
You can go to System Settings then select backup and then select restore then
follow popup window's directions according to what you want it to do. I think
this is a great feature because you can do a fresh install and then you can
use this restore feature to restore your home folder with
Maybe it needs a legacy xorg/DRI driver?
Do you think this could be a mistake by trisquel?
Windows says the partition is healthy and the smartctl -H /dev/sda3 says it
passed.
This happened after I upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10 after I upgraded
to windows 10 I am not able to mount my ntfs partition and gparted gives a
Is there any free wifi card that would work inside it?
Did it work?
I am done with microsoft their software sucks so bad I had so many issues
with windows 10. Now time to only use Free Software! :)
Dell Inspiron N5050 works great with trisquel and has 3d acceleration
capability so you can play free software 3d games.
The only thing that doesn't work is the
It already comes with one from factory (an Atheros) so it doesn't need
replacement! It's the only libreboot-compatible machine that doesn't have to
be opened up to make it work properly.
That driver didn't need propietary firmware while using UMS instead of KMS,
no?
https://wiki.freedesktop.org/xorg/RadeonFeatureUMS/
Could you provide a list of packages that you upgraded? The wifi driver lives
in the kernel so maybe you could try a different version of linux-libre.
Sounds like the purchase was already made. In that case it does only good to
liberate non-free hardware. We need more of that.
Even if it did encourage people to buy new products from Apple, I believe on
net balance that freeing them is still a greater act of good.
Hi everyone, I just upgraded my second laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook) from
Toutatis to Belenos using the Update Manager. Now I am getting warning
messages that my root partition is full, and I have no idea why that would
be.
When I installed Toutatis, I set up a 16GB root partition, which I
How can I help the project? I am not a programmer, but I am a Technical
Writer by trade. I can write technical documentation, marketing slicks, video
tutorials, etc.
I do not have much cash, but I am willing to donate my time and skills! I
think Trisquel is one of the better
Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /media/tyler/OS: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o
"uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177"
"/dev/sda3" "/media/tyler/OS"' exited with non-zero exit status 14: The disk
contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
Metadata kept in Windows
figured it out here is how to do it from command prompt.
"sudo mount -o mount,ro /dev/sda3/" without the quotes and it works! :)
Just find the partition location you need to mount in gparted in System
Settings.
Now time to backup Winblows and then install trisquel over it! I am free at
last free at last thank god almighty I am free at last! :)
I redistributed your questions on a different order:
a) 4) Already answer by Mr. Mzee.
b) 2) & 5) I can't really help you on this one but I propose you to open
another thread for this specifically. I think a guy recently claimed that he
pressed Ctrl+C and there he was asked for a pass and
Hi.
Thanks, that actually worked! synaptic wasn't showing 3.4 but apt actually
did it.
Now the problem I am facing is that even after I installed both kernel and
headers, and updated grub, it still isn't showing :(
Grub only shows the old kernel... I even checked here
This is what I do. I keep things I create that can't be easily made again in
my home folder. For downloaded pictures videos documents and such that I want
to keep I put manually (with the file manager nautilus) on my external hard
drive to save space on my internal drive and also to separate
I now can use locate. But the file .xinitrc is nowhere. I was looking for it
because of this hint in the Midori FAQ:
Error granting trust: Couldn't find a place to store the imported certificate
No key store is available or it's incorrectly setup. By default GNOME keyring
can do this. Under
And "linux-firmware" sometimes.
I using Magic Trackpad with Touchegg, easy to programm. The built-in one is
very bad.
The backup is a compressed archive of your files that's why it looks that
way.
>You can keep calling me crazy all you want, but you just admitted it...
Admitted what? Pills still not workinh eh?
>...you also drive away new users in the irc channel in the same manner, or
by promoting other distros and non free drivers.
I never promoted no thing on IRC. I would rather
>> Is this not already the case?
Mailing list users, can you please trim your posts? Top posts and excessive
quoting are poor netiquette even in mailing lists, and those of us who use
the web the access the forum don't need to see your PGP signatures or lengthy
sig blocks every time you post. These things make both email
Not "left click" but "right click". Déjà Dup's backups are incremental too:
only what has changed since the last backup is added. Yet another reason for
the weird format. And you can restore any file as it was at any date (don't
worry about the external running out of space: Déjà Dup removed
I've experimented with encrypting my /home folder or partition on install,
and it seems to work. When I try to access the partition from another
GNU/Linux instance on the same device, or a liveCD/USB, I am asked for a
passphrase before it will let me access /home. I'm not even a script kiddy
LOL! Because of that I only read your post and Mzee one. TL;DR to everything
except those.
I'm kinda in a hurry. So, the bad sectors are phisycal bad sectors --- that's
bad --- I'll try tomorrow to give u an advice on how to solve that (if it is
possible in your case).
The error of mounting you can possibly fix it doing:
# sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda3
(it must be unmounted- no,
Mr DennisD, what Trisquel really needs are developers. That is programmers
that can commit code to Trisquel to solve the issues
(http://trisquel.info/en/project/issues).
If can do some marketing slicks to attrack programmers to Trisquel project,
most of us will be celebrating with lots of
You can see what takes space from the "Disk usage analyzer" (the command is
'baobab' if you do not want to search in the menus).
Two probable causes and solutions:
You never remove the .deb packages and /var/cache/apt/archives/ eats up the
space -> 'sudo apt-get clean' to remove all .deb
This I could do. Let me work up a few ideas.
Text mode installation can be helpful if the packages on the liveCD/USB are
not up-to-date enough to fully support a graphical interface on the user's
computer. I recently had an issue where the graphical installer kept crashing
on me before completing, so I too resorted to the text install.
No one here uses full disk encryption? How does it work for you?
Hum yes, I think I remember something like that back in Ubuntu 10.04
Now that you mention it I remember yes. But still, I don't like it this
way...
In "User accounts" my account is marked as "Administrator". AND something
funny happened, I actually unlocked the options (using my password)
The forum is not "just fine" at the moment.
A major issue occurs if posts get a lot of replies. At some point, it's
impossible to find out "who replied to who".
Also, nested posts get more and more narrow and at somepoint, are impossible
to read.
Trisquel aims at people who are not so
Authentication failure happens, because you don't know the password. You can
do "sudo su", though.
With the graphical install (but maybe with the text one too), you only need
to rather quickly use the Live system after it boots and Orca is not enabled.
When you write about "the Text Mode Install", you do not mean "the
NetInstall", do you? Because the "NetInstall" obviously needs the Net.
Execute 'sudo passwd root', give root a password and take the administrative
privileges away from the first created user. You would then end up with a
security administration à la Debian.
One advantage in not having a password for "root" is that script kiddies must
not only guess the
I can only help with the third issue.
Trisquel goes the "Ubuntu way" when it comes to root authentication.
It uses sudo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo).
I think you actually know that but maybe you forgot during your time with
debian.
So from my understanding, there is a root account in
What happens if instead of "sudo" you try to use "su"? Do you get
root/administrator permissions with your password anyway?
For 2), you only need to add the command to the "Startup applications" (in
the "System settings").
As far as I understand, it only is part of the video driver. The main part is
in the kernel.
Yeah, I eventually found it. I know it is probably a "feature" for visually
impaired people, but the voice is still very irritating. Lol.
Anyway, I could really use some help with the other questions, I am a total
loss :(
If I really have to connect to the internet during install
No, I mean the "Text Mode Install", or "Expert install". Don't remember how
is it spelled. I am not confusing with the netinstall ;)
Btw, thanks a lot for all the replies, very useful information!
The explanation on sudo vs su was right on! I will later decide how I will
handle things.
>nested posts get more and more narrow and at somepoint, are impossible to
read.
yep. that's the only issue with teh forum.
Ok, so to answer myself, regarding point 2 (not being able to input password
without linux giving me output messages) here is the solution I found:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty12"
Now all is black until it asks for the
I can only help with #4 as you can easily disable ORCA
(https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/disable-orca-screen-reader-startup-without-uninstall-it)
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I don't know much about Sudo and its relation with the root account
and other accounts.
What I do know so far is:
* sudo cd "${HOME}" doesn't do what you might expect because: (1) Sudo
looks for standalone programs, and cd is a built-in GNU Bash
Makes sense.
But I insist on a way to display announcements (security related at least),
and that it stays javascript-free, or at least works with libre javascript.
You should instead opt for using Intel integrated graphics and an Atheros
wireless card.
Check the http://h-node.org website for information on hardware compatible
with Trisquel. h-node even lists laptops that work with Trisquel. :)
Hi there! I'm afraid the answer is mostly no. You're guaranteed to have a bad
experience with an AMD GPU. If you were hoping to switch between the AMD and
the intel GPUs that will at very least require tinkering and might not work.
The Broadcom wifi likely will not work.
Perhaps if you
I don't actually use encryption of any kind (although I used to use home
directory encryption) because I am far more concerned about my computer or OS
dying and then not being able to get my stuff because of the encryption rather
than someone breaking in and nabbing my drives.
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I'd be happy if the forum were just mailing lists.
On 10/05/2015 12:28 PM, moxalt wrote:
> Whatever is done, don't sacrifice the mailing list! It is the
> lifeblood of many.
>
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I also once did a full disk encryption (also with debian i guess) and it
didn't take long at all to setup.
But i really think it was successfully encrypted, because everytime i booted
the pc, i had to enter a passphrase.
Maybe it's a different way of encrypting?
Would be great if somebody
I have no idea how it works either, but it seems to work fine on the same
partition. Apparently ecryptfs uses a sort of filesystem-within-a-filesystem
approach to encrypting areas of a partition, rather than the entire partition.
The only downside to disk encryption in general is that (for me at
I'm pretty sure the 'text-mode installer' offered on the standard Trisquel
edition ISO is identical to the installer on the netinstall ISO. Both are
basically clones of the Debian text-mode installer. Why the reluctance to just
connect to the internet? Why use the text-mode installer in the first
+1
Whatever is done, don't sacrifice the mailing list! It is the lifeblood of many.
From the front page: "The version 1.4.3 offers support of responsive design,
the OpenSearch plugin, and many more." Now, I have no idea what that means :P
Same. That's the only issue I've ever picked up on when actually accessing the
forums online, rather than through my mail client.
I seem to be one of the few who are perfectly happy with the forum the way it
is. My only requests would be figure out some better threading mechanism (or
stop
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