Re: [Trisquel-users] Import pdf on Libreoffice

2013-11-12 Thread shiretoko
Wait a second. Do you want a) to edit the text of your pdf file in word? That's not easy. You have to use a program for text recognition. b) your pdf just to get displayed properly in your word file? Then why not simply include it as a picture?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Dvb-s2 and dvb-t card

2013-11-12 Thread tino . paolino
thanks to all, I'm still checking on the web for a dvb-s2 card working with free-software. dvb-t are much easier, as could be found on thinkpenguin as Darksoul71 said

Re: [Trisquel-users] Import pdf on Libreoffice

2013-11-12 Thread Andrew R.
On 12/11/13 08:29, Pascal Diogo Antunes wrote: When I import a document pdf on libreoffice, all pages are blank. What I have to do? I will also add that it is possible to edit PDF documents using Inkscape, although not ideal. Depending on what you're doing, OCR might be a better idea. Andrew.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I change my mouse pointer theme, my splash screen, and my login screen?

2013-11-12 Thread uedibupi
I have installed many gdm theme packages, but I don't know how to manage them or install them. How can I select a specific login theme and use it as my default theme? Can you please provide more instructions?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Import pdf on Libreoffice

2013-11-12 Thread Pascal Diogo Antunes
I want to edit my pdf. Not for puting text, but draw. On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:24:42 +0100 (CET) shiret...@web.de wrote: Wait a second. Do you want a) to edit the text of your pdf file in word? That's not easy. You have to use a program for text recognition. b) your pdf just to get displayed

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I change my mouse pointer theme, my splash screen, and my login screen?

2013-11-12 Thread uedibupi
I have installed super-boot-manager. I have changed my bootsplash screen with Plymouth-manager, but I'm don't know how to use Burg-manager and Grub-manager. What do Burg-manager and Grub-manager do? What are Burg, Grub, and Plymouth?

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I change my mouse pointer theme, my splash screen, and my login screen?

2013-11-12 Thread uedibupi
How do I run gtk-theme-switch?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Import pdf on Libreoffice

2013-11-12 Thread Pascal Diogo Antunes
Editing files before export on pdf it's the best, sure. But in my case, Xsane doesn't like this. I should settle Xsane's problem first. Thanks. On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:32:51 +1000 Andrew R. and...@roffey.org wrote: On 12/11/13 08:29, Pascal Diogo Antunes wrote: When I import a document pdf

Re: [Trisquel-users] can't update GDB (libpython3-stdlib)

2013-11-12 Thread nuccigiorgio
Grazie lembas, but I think I rather not brake my system by installing Ubuntu's software.

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can I change my mouse pointer theme, my splash screen, and my login screen?

2013-11-12 Thread magicbanana
Here is what I found on AskUbuntu: $ sudo cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-appearance-properties.desktop /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow Log out, you will be prompted with the Appearance window. Change the theme as you change it for the desktop. Log in. $ sudo rm

[Trisquel-users] Re : How can I change my mouse pointer theme, my splash screen, and my login screen?

2013-11-12 Thread magicbanana
Please, search a minimum instead of asking us to do so: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ https://launchpad.net/burg http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/

[Trisquel-users] Re : Import pdf on Libreoffice

2013-11-12 Thread magicbanana
You can try PDFedit... if you are brave. It is in Trisquel's repositories.

[Trisquel-users] Non-fiction reading recommendations

2013-11-12 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Please recommend me something to read, here's a few titles I've liked James Boyle: The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind About copyright law and incentive to create and the internet http://www.thepublicdomain.org/ CC BY-SA-NC Sam Williams: Free as in Freedom Stallman's biography

Re: [Trisquel-users] Certain icons have disappeared

2013-11-12 Thread LDrumbler
Actually, all of a sudden everything's back now! I guess you might have solved my problem, but we'll never know.

Re: [Trisquel-users] When the developer does not understanding the GPL.

2013-11-12 Thread gramex
Is it possible that the developer meant proprietary instead of commercial?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Import pdf on Libreoffice

2013-11-12 Thread gramex
What's the best free OCR engine?

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Import pdf on Libreoffice

2013-11-12 Thread datenknecht
Is libreoffice-pdfimport installed?

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can I change my mouse pointer theme, my splash screen, and my login screen?

2013-11-12 Thread uedibupi
Actually, I searched and found the same tutorial (or a very similar one), but I didn't think it will work with Trisquel. Unfortunately, it seems the first command failed to work. Below is the output of the command. ___ ~# cp

Re: [Trisquel-users] When the developer does not understanding the GPL.

2013-11-12 Thread onpon4
No, they define commercial: What is commercial considered? If you are paid to do your job, and part of your job is implementing Packery, a commercial license is required.

[Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin Opinions

2013-11-12 Thread ken
I've been looking into photo-sharing services for a bit. I had considered signing up for Flickr, as I like what I see in its sharing, licensing, and community capabilities, but I really really do not want to have a Yahoo account again. MediaGoblin looks like it could be a good alternative.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Non-fiction reading recommendations

2013-11-12 Thread TralfamadorianOrator
If you're not limiting the subjects to issues related to free software, I recommend Richard Feynman's books. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is wonderful. I belive all of Feynman's autobiographical books were transcribed by his friend, Ralph Leighton, from tape recordings of Feynman

Re: [Trisquel-users] Non-fiction reading recommendations

2013-11-12 Thread mikko . viinamaki
All subjects are welcome. I like fiction but prefer non-fiction. :) Thanks for the suggestion, these seem interesting.

Re: [Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin Opinions

2013-11-12 Thread LDrumbler
Have you ever heard of Imgur? Here's their Privacy Policy; it looks fine to me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin Opinions

2013-11-12 Thread onpon4
Honestly, my thought is that you should perhaps use a different method that's more targeted, like e-mail; or perhaps a distributed social network that supports photos, like Diaspora.[0] I see MediaGoblin as a tool for public media sharing. Private sharing doesn't seem to me like

Re: [Trisquel-users] Non-fiction reading recommendations

2013-11-12 Thread shiretoko
1000+ This book is awsome, Feynman is the best!

Re: [Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin Opinions

2013-11-12 Thread ken
Thanks for the suggestion. Imgur isn't quite what I am looking for, however.

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] FOSS Skype Replacement

2013-11-12 Thread deckardcain
Hopefully I will be able to implement functionality from GNOME Empathy (with their different protocols) and make my program as open and developer friendly so that even though we are all working on our own projects, we can collectively create functionality leading to the defeat of Skype and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Non-fiction reading recommendations

2013-11-12 Thread jbar
I recommend On Liberty, by Stuart Mill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty

Re: [Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin Opinions

2013-11-12 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I would ask themselves. #mediagoblin on irc.freenode.net

[Trisquel-users] Help me restart Trisquel

2013-11-12 Thread pierrefalek
I don't know what happened. Ofently, Trisquel is aksing me my password to open a session. No way this time. I have the usual visual in the back, i have at the top of the screen the clock with the rigth hour, at the top rigth i can choose to restart or hut down my computer and a window (it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Import pdf on Libreoffice

2013-11-12 Thread Pascal Diogo Antunes
by my experience : tesseract. On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:59:42 +0100 (CET) gra...@openmailbox.org wrote: What's the best free OCR engine? -- Libere, Pascal Diogo Antunes. Je désire qu'autrui soit libre, car ma liberté commence où commence la liberté de l'autre.- Cornélius Castoriadis.

Re: [Trisquel-users] MediaGoblin Opinions

2013-11-12 Thread jason
MediaGoblin will probably be your best bet in the long term - They just haven't implemented this feature yet. As has been suggested, try talking to the folks working on MediaGoblin. :)

[Trisquel-users] LibrePlanet 2014 Dates Announced

2013-11-12 Thread jason
The conference will take place on Saturday March 22 and Sunday March 23, 2014 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-2014-dates-announced-session-proposal-deadline-extended There will probably be an unofficial and informal dinner and drinks among the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Non-fiction reading recommendations

2013-11-12 Thread ahj
+1 for anything by Feynman (as a point of interest, it was noted in 'Free as in Freedom' that Stallman was influenced by Feynman - maybe this accounts for some of his personality traits e.g. a loathing of honors and authority). As for some recommendations, anything by Carl Sagan is

[Trisquel-users] [OT] Licensing with my own software

2013-11-12 Thread LDrumbler
I've created a custom application for my Replicant phone, and I'd now like to delete the source files from my computer. The application was a trivial one and I could easily recreate it if need be. Nevertheless, in the absence of the source code, am I denying myself my fundamental freedoms

Re: [Trisquel-users] [OT] Licensing with my own software

2013-11-12 Thread jason
Why not put the source under a proper free license [0], post it somewhere like Gitorious [1] and *then* delete it from your computer? Nothing compels you to share but if you found it useful others may too. Instead of deleting it, you've shared something with the world -- which is a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Non-fiction reading recommendations

2013-11-12 Thread leny2010
Think Fast, Thinking Slow by Daniel Kahneman - it's his popularization of his work which got him the Nobel Justice by Michael J. Sandel - an influential Harvard political and moral philosophy course turned into a book