[Trisquel-users] GNOME Shell on Trisquel 8
I have just written that manual for those interested in running/testing GNOME Shell on Trisquel 8: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installing-gnome-shell Just installing the "gnome-shell" package results in a bad user experience. Fortunately, it is easy to improve.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Time To Buy Your Trisquel License Key
https://trisquel.info/member says: The Trisquel membership program is open to everyone in any country, and we understand every member will have a different financial situation, so we prefer that you choose how much do you want to contribute. The suggested fee is 10€/month, with the minimum amount being 5€/month. There is no upper limit, we suggest a 20€/month fee for anyone with a good job. As for financial information, I have just updated http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/financial-information
[Trisquel-users] Re : About changing the size of the mouse pointer
Try that command in a terminal: dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/cursor-size 32 32 is the size. You can set it to another value.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Helping with translations ?
If you want to help with translating a free software program, you should contact the related project.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Lost password - Restore encrypted home
About the encrypted swap (since david and you solved the upgrade problem): I had that same issue when creating it on Trisquel. I have found a solution based on that sole line in /etc/crypttab (where /dev/sda1 is my swap partition, yours may be different!): cryptswap1 /dev/sda1 /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,offset=16,noearly and that one in /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0 Those same lines work in Trisquel 8: there is no need to re-encrypt the swap.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Time To Buy Your Trisquel License Key
I would like to see a recommended donation amount per the amount of downloads/users for a release. Also how much left to reach a good salary for the trisqual dev(s). Metrics like this would be helpful for working out how much i should donate to projects but i get it needs time and energy to get and use such metrics. guess thats what crowd donation services are for. heh
[Trisquel-users] About changing the size of the mouse pointer
Hello. I am using Trisquel MATE. I'd like to increase the size of the mouse pointer slightly. If you know how to change the size of the mouse pointer, please give me a professor.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Helping with translations ?
Hi Mason This wouldn't really make more languages available for installation but it would help Trisquel. Would it be good to work on Trisquel documentation and Ubuntu language packs? Thanks-Patrick
Re: [Trisquel-users] Helping with translations ?
If you are signed in, you can add or edit translations for any documentation page by navigating to it and clicking "Translate" under the title.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel wifi
That means that every other distro you have tried is non-free. Since Trisquel is a free replacement for Ubuntu, including non-free software would defeat the purpose. You are of course free to install whatever software you choose on your own machine (Trisquel doesn't impose restrictions like some non-free systems), including the proprietary driver for your WiFi card, but it would be against community guidelines[1] to help you do so, so the best advice I can give is to use a USB dongle. I have one, and it works great. [1] https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines
Re: [Trisquel-users] Flidas is here
Personal preference, I prefer fresh installs as in place upgrades can have unplanned surprises.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel wifi
Thank you for the information. I do appreciate the circumstances re free software but as my PC works fine with every other distro I've tried I can't really justify what is needed just to run Trisquel. My guess is a lot of other potential users will feel the same.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Flidas is here
Great job! Downloading mini version for wifes 12 year old Gateway latpop, I prefer fresh installs over upgrades. I will also test-run the main version on the desktop.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
Glad to hear that you resolved things!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost password - Restore encrypted home
Forget everything! At least for now... I did what david suggested (sudo apt-get remove trisquel-desktop-common-recommended) and it is upgrading now. Thanks!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
I just solved my issue by doing the following steps: ''' $ sudo apt-get purge unity* $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install trisquel $ sudo apt-get install mate-dock-applet $ sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment-extra ''' The icon theme seems a bit wonky still but this is MUCH better. No need to type "marco" in the terminal in order to get the window buttons to appear.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost password - Restore encrypted home
Need help again, now to upgrade to Trisquel 8. I'm not opening a new thread just in case it is related to this one. Anyway I did open an issue at https://trisquel.info/en/issues/24146 Home was encrypted. I lost my user's password, but had with me the mount passphrase to decrypt it. So I did: - Boot with a Live Trisquel USB - Run ecryptfs-recover-private --rw - Copy decrypted contents to an external drive preserving their permissions - Set a new password for my user - Delete the original encrypted home directory - Create /home/myusername where myusername is the same as it was - Copy dectrypted contents from the external drive to /home/myusername preserving permissions Everything seemed to be good, I can login with myusername and access my home directory. Then I tried to upgrade to Trisquel 8, but I got the following: myusername@mycomputername:~$ myusername@mycomputername:~$ myusername@mycomputername:~$ sudo update-manager [sudo] password for myusername: ** (update-manager:3875): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-5e8wQfhIBZ: Connection refused Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 115, in app = UpdateManager(data_dir, options) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py", line 115, in __init__ self.options and self.options.use_proposed) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/MetaReleaseGObject.py", line 44, in __init__ MetaReleaseCore.__init__(self, useDevelopmentRelease, useProposed) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py", line 94, in __init__ cache = apt.Cache() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 107, in __init__ self.open(progress) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 151, in open self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress) SystemError: E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.torproject.org_torproject.org_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. (update-manager:3875): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed (update-manager:3875): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion 'hash_table != NULL' failed Exception ignored in: myusername@mycomputername:~$ myusername@mycomputername:~$ myusername@mycomputername:~$ myusername@mycomputername:~$ myusername@mycomputername:~$ myusername@mycomputername:~$ myusername@mycomputername:~$ myusername@mycomputername:~$ do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Trisquel release Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade", line 116, in useProposed=options.proposed_release) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py", line 94, in __init__ cache = apt.Cache() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 107, in __init__ self.open(progress) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 151, in open self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress) SystemError: E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.torproject.org_torproject.org_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. myusername@mycomputername:~$ So I went to Software & Udates > Other Software and uncheck boxes for Tor sources. Then I could run the update manager myusername@mycomputername:~$ sudo update-manager [sudo] password for myusername: ** (update-manager:15434): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-5e8wQfhIBZ: Connection refused Checking for a new Trisquel release ** (do-release-upgrade:15498): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-5e8wQfhIBZ: Connection refused authenticate 'flidas.tar.gz' against 'flidas.tar.gz.gpg' extracting 'flidas.tar.gz' ** (flidas:15498): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-5e8wQfhIBZ: Connection refused Besides the messages above, the upgrade stopped with a window saying: "Could not calculate the upgrade An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade. This can be caused by: * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Trisquel * Running the current pre-release version of Trisquel * Unofficial software packages not provided by Trisquel If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the command https://trisquel.info/en/project/issues in a browser.." As I am running Trisquel 7, I thought the cause could only be the third one, so I went again to Software & Udates > Other Software and unchecked every box. Then I run update manager again but got the same error window saying it could not calculate the upgrade : ( Please find here some logs:
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser and privacy
Attached are the default user.js for Abrowser and Firefox, and a comparison of the two via diff.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why isn't there wicd-curses in the Flidas repositories?
http://devel.trisquel.info/builds/wicd/ Gracias! Grazas! Grazie!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
When I delete the applet, the error is gone. I am just trying to figure how how to solve the "marco" issue most of all. I guess i'll look for a way to reinstall that so it stays up and functioning. Thanks for filing the bug.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were using unity. I mean that I am trying to use unity on Trisquel and am encountering the same errors. Those GTK plugin errors are not a problem specific to the MATE desktop environment or specific to upgrade installs. The icon size issue is a problem with the default icon theme I think, try changing it to something else, https://trisquel.info/en/issues/24141 this bug report was filed. As for the error popup, I don't know what that broken applet does? If you choose delete, does the error ever return?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
Another issue i'm having is when I start the MATE Desktop Environment after logging in, I see the following popup:
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
Yes. Where the battery indicator, date, applications icon, etc. are. I'm not using Unity at the moment. I'm using the MATE Desktop that Trisquel 8 comes with. Are you saying that Unity is interfering somehow? I wonder if I should just remove the Unity DE? Unity is nice and all but its fate is sealed unfortunately.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
From what I'm seeing the overlay-scrollbar and topmenu-gtk-module are a problem of their own. I'm having the same issue, broken topmenu-gtk-module may explain why that component of unity is not working in this release. You can ignore those errors, but it seems that scrollbars will not overlay as they should, and the panel application menu, will not function. > I also want to mention that in my screenshot the spacing and sizing of all icons on the toolbar seems off as well. Do you mean on the bottom panel, notification tray area?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Minifree's Libreboot laptops now come with Trisquel 8.
Thanks, Leah! You da real MVP.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
In MATE Terminal, I typed "marco" and it immediately made the missing buttons appear. However, there were two errors: Gtk Message: failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar" Gtk Message: failed to load module "topmenu-gtk-module" I also want to mention that in my screenshot the spacing and sizing of all icons on the toolbar seems off as well. How do you suggest I fix these issues?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Upgrading to Trsquel 8 From an Ubuntu 14.04 Trisquelized System
It looks like there is no window manager running. Apparently the default window manager for MATE is called marco, check to see if it is running. If it's not running, try launching it from the terminal.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble with add-ons on ABrowser
Thank you, now I can install extensions. Except for uMatrix, which appears to be corrupt.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser and privacy
Firefox by default is a mess privacy wise but it can be rather easily set to not make any automatic connections. I would be interested in a list of (all and each one of the)modifications made to Abrowser.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost password - Restore encrypted home
Forget this question. Maybe I could not download it because at that moment there were some changes in the servers, as I see the official Trisquel 8 is now out : ) \o/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost password - Restore encrypted home
Not needed, thanks. It's been a long process, but finally I managed to restore everything as it was. Thank you!
