Re: [Trisquel-users] Changing An Application Icon In Main Menu

2015-10-29 Thread myself600
Also, the GUI based solution for adding an existing icon to your launcher is by using the Main Menu tool (alacarte). You can access it by right-clicking on the Trisquel icon (Applications), or through System Settings. Then follow: select your launcher → Properties → click on the icon I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does anyone play performous (karaoke game)

2015-10-29 Thread greatgnu
lembas: let me see. You criticize a free software addon because in the description it talks about open source? That I can understand I guess. But, to clarify, you **refuse** to use an addon that is free software just because in the description there is the word "opensource"?

Re: [Trisquel-users] MacBook 1,1 to Libreboot in software way

2015-10-29 Thread comeonletmein
After some investigation I found the change lilos has made (use for example ghex or hexdump): In the EFIUpdaterApp.efi the only change was: 7360 00 00 20 00 44 76 00 10 25 c8 1c d5 00 00 20 00 to 7360 00 00 20 00 44 76 00 10 e5 82 c1 15 00 00 20 00 The other change was that

Re: [Trisquel-users] Changing An Application Icon In Main Menu

2015-10-29 Thread ivaldaloucha
Think it was suppose to be PNG. D:

[Trisquel-users] Re : about bios, uefi, tpm, etc security

2015-10-29 Thread calinou
"Considered harmful"

[Trisquel-users] Re : pc mainboard low priced which one do you suggest?

2015-10-29 Thread calinou
"AMVIDIA" combinations don't go well in my combination, you will probably profit more from an Intel + NVIDIA system. It's not like AMD processors are much of a competition to Intel these days, anyway...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does anyone play performous (karaoke game)

2015-10-29 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
> But, to clarify, you **refuse** to use an addon that is free software just because in the description there is the word "opensource"? I never said so.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Angry Red Button of Doom and Chronic Catastrophic Crashes

2015-10-29 Thread ivaldaloucha
Could I ask if you are duel booting perhaps? Has anyone thought to ask that? Or running a VirtualBox? Kernel failure? Did you use the "USB stick and a Live Usb maker" to install the system? Perhaps this a hardware fault in your CPU? Maybe first try to disable cache on the cpu from the

[Trisquel-users] Re : Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread calinou
Intel, definitely, until Nouveau gets reliable reclocking that can fully exploit the graphics card. (It is starting to happen on Kepler series video cards [most GeForce 600 and some GeForce 700s]).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Changing An Application Icon In Main Menu

2015-10-29 Thread myself600
PNG is the preferred format, however, several others such as BMP, GIF, ICO, SVG, XPM are also accepted. Application icons showed in Main Menu are of 24x24 pixels, so you'll have to make sure that the icon will be "readable" at this size.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread albin
No need to apologize! My response was to strypey.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread albin
No need to apologize! My response was to strypey.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Changing An Application Icon In Main Menu

2015-10-29 Thread lcerf
The preferred format actually is SVG. Because it is vectorial, icons look perfect even if huge on a high-definition screen.

[Trisquel-users] Re : The Angry Red Button of Doom and Chronic Catastrophic Crashes

2015-10-29 Thread lcerf
I also tend to think that 1GB of RAM may be too little for your usage (well, for the Web where pages became far heavier in the past years). That said, a larger swap is no solution: the system becomes unbearably slow as soon as you *start* using the swap. The real solution if you really run

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
But not all Intel's GPUs. Intel != performance. You can say that Intel GPU will work fine with 3d games, but GMA and HD are not the same things.

Re: [Trisquel-users] MacBook 1,1 to Libreboot in software way

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
Thank you!! I will try it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] about bios, uefi, tpm, etc security

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
Thanks!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems in bottom panel - Trisquel 7

2015-10-29 Thread punkxlash
Hi Emanuele, super+alt and right click on the menu, then choose move and move it to the original place. Thats it :D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't compile it

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
This is a some bug? to high for and .txt log.

Re: [Trisquel-users] MacBook 1,1 to Libreboot in software way

2015-10-29 Thread lilos1
EFIUpdaterApp.efi checks if version is 1,1 or 1,0 Changes what i make was 2 or 3 checks of CRC checksum not one. Also i did not download update from site.I push autoupdate in control panel apple firmware is download then he ask me to reboot i cancel it then copy from apple update files

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't compile it

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
/var/log/ the log folder takes 5,7gb --- vita@vita-desktop:~$ uname -a Linux vita-desktop 4.2.5-gnu #1 SMP Tue Oct 27 21:02:03 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ---

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't compile it

2015-10-29 Thread greatgnu
vitacell: that'a whole lotta lot lot! I have 380 mb in var..

Re: [Trisquel-users] What CPU to buy

2015-10-29 Thread punkxlash
IntelCore i5-4460 is a good choice señor Vita :) AMD has not 3D acceleration and yes, some AMD CPUs has backdoors. Regards.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread someonedidnotlikeitsothisishowitlooksnow
Secondary? If you'r asking why I put someonedidnotlikeitsothisishowitlooksnow as e-mail address It's because you (moxalt) complain about it. "as opposed to cooloutac?" I can't help u here as I don't have any clue on what cooloutac means. Cool out activation? Cool! Out of Alternate Current? I

Re: [Trisquel-users] What CPU to buy

2015-10-29 Thread punkxlash
I dont know if its compatible o not.. you must find your motherboard specifications and look which CPU is compatible. Probably you will need buy new motherboard, an Asrock h97 for example. If your machine is a desktop pc, i5-5675C is good, without vpro and trusted computing neither. I

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Problems in bottom panel - Trisquel 7

2015-10-29 Thread elayer12
Hi together, i've got the same problem. I tried to move it to the right place via super+altand then context-menu move, but this does not work. I can only move it to the right. The active Programms Section stays always in the left, not very nice. Does anyone knows a solution for this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread someonedidnotlikeitsothisishowitlooksnow
Well, you can use ext2 on boot partition as it doesn't use journaling.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What CPU to buy

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 Processors, compatible with i5-3570k's socket??

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread someonedidnotlikeitsothisishowitlooksnow
Don't be deceive by the trisqueltrollsquad MeNoMore; I've found your explanation useful as I stated after the joke I make. I urge u 2 read it again, please. Don't be deceived: "Just kidding dude, thanks for the cool stuff. It'll come in handle later on my future." (I clarify that there's

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Problems in bottom panel - Trisquel 7

2015-10-29 Thread elayer12
Hi Xlash, thanks for the tip! But this doesn't work too. The "Active programms"-Section is not moveable.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems in bottom panel - Trisquel 7

2015-10-29 Thread punkxlash
15 min after trying to click that image... XD Mmm maybe if you try moving to the right the window list...

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Changing An Application Icon In Main Menu

2015-10-29 Thread elayer12
Hi mYself, what is the configuration-file of the launcher?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems in bottom panel - Trisquel 7

2015-10-29 Thread punkxlash
Try super+alt and click in the left corner. Should be work.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread albin
Maybe not, but that page doesn't mention the problem of logs filling up the disk. I tried to edit the post but don't have permission to do so :/

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Problems in bottom panel - Trisquel 7

2015-10-29 Thread elayer12
Hi Xlash, very much thanks, that was the solution!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Changing An Application Icon In Main Menu

2015-10-29 Thread onpon4
You would probably appreciate vector-based icons more if you used GNOME Shell. Some of the icons in Trisquel 6 were ugly as hell, because they were I think 32x32 raster images and GNOME Shell displays icons at a larger size. I actually switched to the stock GNOME theme (Adwaita) because of

Re: [Trisquel-users] Changing An Application Icon In Main Menu

2015-10-29 Thread myself600
Vector based formats are the preferred choice when designing and optimizing an icon (set) for a specific target dimension (e.g. 24x24 pixels), but in the latter choice, the display quality will regardless stay the same. However, you're right about preferring SVG(Z) since this would involve

[Trisquel-users] Evolution remains in my system

2015-10-29 Thread gnuser
I uninstalled evolution, because I don't use it. I used synaptic and choose "complete removal". BUT, when I boot up my computer I still get "evolution-calendar-factory" and "evolution-source-registry" showing up in system monitor. I like to follow KISS principles, if I don't use it I want it

[Trisquel-users] What CPU to buy

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
Hi, I damaged my i5-3570k. I like i5+hd4000, but, this is a backdoored CPU. Should I buy some equivalent AMD CPU + motherboard? has AMD CPU some backd00rs? firmwares? unfriendly with free software?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems in bottom panel - Trisquel 7

2015-10-29 Thread strypey
There seem to be a number of wiggly issues with customizing the taskbar in Trisquel main. The Super+ALT+RightClick to remove a program launcher from the panel is another one. Windows has had a simple, user-friendly way of doing all these things since Windows 95/98. Surely GNU/Linux can do

Re: [Trisquel-users] MacBook 1,1 to Libreboot in software way

2015-10-29 Thread nicolasmaia
Please make sure to patch the libreboot documentation to include this :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread strypey
I was simply asking for clarification, so as not to waste the other person's time or my own going down a blind alley. MeNoMore gave me some very helpful clarification, for which I said thank you. All of this happened well before you posted this unhelpful attack comment, and your slanted

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems in bottom panel - Trisquel 7

2015-10-29 Thread punkxlash
No problem. Im glad to read that you succeed :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] At times, Trisquel website goes off-line.

2015-10-29 Thread strypey
I'm working for an organisation that runs a Drupal 7 site and we have also been experiencing regular downtime. What version of Drupal does the Trisquel site use? If it's also Drupal 7, there may be a bug in Drupal core, or some module we both use. It may be worth creating an issue on

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
> Nice, but fully bugged. roflmao

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : At times, Trisquel website goes off-line.

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
It's not been down for me much either. I suppose I've been lucky with all the big complaints the good peeps of Trisquel have had- I never had any problems with Abrowser, IceCat, or Linux. The website has never been down for me either.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Difference between Linux-libre kernel and Debian (main) kernel?

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
> Anyway, I see no benefit in a witch-hunting. Exactly. So what if they use non-free firmware! As long as they continue to be constructive members of the community and do not recommend non-free software to anyone it shouldn't even matter what they do in private. It's their freedom at stake, not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
> Hopefully, sooner rather than later, hardware manufacturers will start being > more environmentally responsible and making devices that last, and can be > repaired and kept running for decades. If only capitalism worked like that... Planned obsolescence, proprietary software, total

Re: [Trisquel-users] Antwort: Cognitive ease and free software

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
It's easy on the eyes. Plus, cute giraffe! With books, of all things!

Re: [Trisquel-users] How To Make Sure You Stay Libre

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
Even if we're not being directly targeted, we should resist state surveillance. The existence of enormous compendiums of information on the citizenry is in itself dangerous. Security should ideally be government-proof. Aim for that goal, and you'll be more than prepared for the common-or-garden

Re: [Trisquel-users] Difference between Linux-libre kernel and Debian (main) kernel?

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
I have a simple request- can you prove that Calinou and SuperTramp are using non-free Debian systems? Just using Debian is not evidence enough. I use Debian, but I don't necessarily use non-free software. Stuff that they supposedly said in IRC (without logs) is not very trustworthy evidence,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
> You've read the rest of this thread, yes? You understand that we're > discussing a laptop, not a server, yes? Why the viciously sarcastic tone? You asked for help, the above post gave you some. Just because you see some command-line stuff that is a step more complicated and requires a bit of

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cognitive ease and free software

2015-10-29 Thread onpon4
Anyone who's "looking down" on people for using proprietary software is in the wrong, period. RMS would tell you the same thing: except in a few cases like Skype, using proprietary software harms you. You should avoid it whenever possible for your own freedom's sake, but it's not like it's a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
Why the secondary e-mail address? someonedidnotlikeitsothisishowitlooksnow as opposed to cooloutac? I've been wondering about that for a bit.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser greys out certain images

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
Apt-get purge only removes system-wide configuration files, not settings stored in users' home directories. You have to delete those manually.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread ivaldaloucha
https://trisquel.info/en/does-trisquel-include-proprietary-software A lot of pepole do not read through the F.A.Q section.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread ivaldaloucha
Thank you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread ethernet252
It seems to affect doom the worst. The other 3d games are not affected

Re: [Trisquel-users] Help me making a small change in a C++ program

2015-10-29 Thread myself600
OK. (sorry for the delay)

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Angry Red Button of Doom and Chronic Catastrophic Crashes

2015-10-29 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Also, install the wicd-gtk package, you have to keep connected to the Internet, don't you? :D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
You can run benchmarks, like me. And post all your output, here. $ grep VGA /proc/pci || lspci | grep VGA | colrm 1 4 $ egrep "model name|MHz" /proc/cpuinfo $ xdpyinfo | egrep "version:|dimensions|depth of" $ glxinfo | egrep -A2 "direct rendering|OpenGL vendor" $ uname -a $ vblank_mode=0

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
Agree!

Re: [Trisquel-users] pc mainboard low priced which one do you suggest?

2015-10-29 Thread svhaab
Elsewhere I got the advice to get an amd mainboard and mount a nvidia graphics card? Agree? Which graphics card?

Re: [Trisquel-users] pc mainboard low priced which one do you suggest?

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
You can disable UEFI, using only EFI.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Angry Red Button of Doom and Chronic Catastrophic Crashes

2015-10-29 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I personally recommend you to use Geany (still full of features, but with spell checking, so expect some disk space usage) or Mousepad (very minimal text editor for XFCE, but with no spell checking, but give it a try) instead of Gedit, and please leave Gedit untouched if you're using GNOME. I

[Trisquel-users] about bios, uefi, tpm, etc security

2015-10-29 Thread svhaab
http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread vitacell
I tryed 3 gamepads, 3 working, but, buttons assign is bugged in that game.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cognitive ease and free software

2015-10-29 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
I think it also harms the society as whole. It for example teaches people dependence and exposes their privacy. It gives publicity for proprietary software. And then absolutely horrible file formats become "standards", like OOXML.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Does anyone play performous (karaoke game)

2015-10-29 Thread lcerf
Just a precision: rms insists that anyone should be free to redistribute exact copies of the work. Even if non-functional. All Creative Common licenses satisfy that point. But the default copyright (on most non-free works) does not.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Remove tor-browsing feature in icecat, provide easy way to get tbb instead

2015-10-29 Thread ivaldaloucha
The only way to keep all your information safe, is to NOT use the internet. hahaha> But I agree. You do not have to use IceCat. (:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
There was a project to develop h-node client. I don't know how that is going. I think one should be in the default install of all free distros, that way we would get a relatively large body of usable information. It could also include benchmarks. Somewhat related bug

Re: [Trisquel-users] Evolution remains in my system

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
Exactly. If OP wants to follow KISS, OP shouldn't use GNOME. Xfce + Claws Mail is the way to go.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Helping new users choose application software

2015-10-29 Thread strypey
As always XKCD sums this up nicely: https://xkcd.com/627/ With a user-friendly GUI, a web browser, and this "cheat sheet", GNUbies can solve many problems learning, tweaking, or fixing their system independently. If they install GNU/Linux and get presented with nothing but a blinking

[Trisquel-users] Removing programes installed from source

2015-10-29 Thread lord_abinadi
Newbie question: how to remove programs you installed from source with "make install"?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Removing programes installed from source

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
make clean removes any intermediate or output files from your source / build tree. However, it only affects the source / build tree; it does not touch the rest of the filesystem and so will not remove previously installed software. If you're lucky, running make uninstall will work. It's up to the

[Trisquel-users] Re : Evolution remains in my system

2015-10-29 Thread lcerf
I believe those processes are fundamental to several GNOME components. Not only to its email client. For instance, GNOME's calendar probably share data with Evolution, GNOME Shell shows Evolution's contacts when searching, etc. That would at least explain why removing "evolution-data-server"

Re: [Trisquel-users] Root Partition Filled Up After Upgrade (6 > 7)

2015-10-29 Thread strypey
>> Yes, I think that's what I did on my T60 as a first step before installing libreboot. A better solution is to actually remove the card though. > You know, I suggested to you that this might be the problem several weeks ago.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Evolution remains in my system

2015-10-29 Thread strypey
I'm starting to think the best solution is actually to get rid of GNOME, which seems to have turned into KDE-style bloatware, and try a more lightweight desktop, with a more sane choice of applications (eg IceDove+Lightening instead of Evolution). Trisquel Mini (LXDE instead of GNOME)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphical glitches in 3d games

2015-10-29 Thread strypey
It maybe a tad off-topic for the forum, and certainly off-topic for this thread, but I'd be happy to join you in a discussion of how to fix bug #0 that underlies all proprietary software: corporatist capitalism. For me, the discussion of crowdfunding the cost of libre drivers/ firmware in