To test whether my issues have anything to do with Trisquel, I made the same
web rtc calls using a flash drive installation of Fedora 19, and tried both
distros on two different networks. Web rtc just doesn't seem to be ready for
GNU/Linux.
Exail can be set to do this, too.
Yah, it an feel like you're talking to yourself in diaspora, until you add
some contacts. I started by following some hash tags and reading matching
posts.
I wish Mozilla had gone the other way; that is, put a block javascript'
option in preferences, then an 'exceptions' option for making the white list.
If you leae 'block javascript' unchecked, you get it all. I'm also with T3G
in that unobfuscated script is readable source; the curious can
While messing with Gnewsense, I was reminded of how much I like the old GNOME
2.3. When Orca can play in Mate, it's worth a look!
Maybe it's time I reactivated my Adfeno defanse mechanism. As a kid, I was
always too coolf or school. LOL, suspicious of anything or anyone who got
too popular, too fast.
Last time I did a Debian install, I was asked whether to join Popularity
Contest, and got the impression that I was not automatically entered. I
chose not to opt in.
After purging and reinstalling t-bird, remove ~/.thunderbird; this will force
a reset to defaults and with no addons enabled. Restart t-bird, and let us
now what happens. I'm glad you have an alternative emailer to use until this
gets fixed. I'm using the version of t-bird from the
Thanks for the observations re: totem and video playback; I'm trying to play
video dvds on Trisquel 6.0, with an Asus netbook and external usb optical
drive. When using vlc, I get very chopped audio. With mplayer, I get audio
with a strange buzzy artifact. I cannot get past the menus
GNOME Shell is accessible, using Orca screen reader, in distros other than
Trisquel. When I try GNOME Shell in Trisquel 6, Orca cannot read the top
bar, dash, overview, or message areas; apps are still accessible. I have
tried the shell in Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Sabayon, and Open Suse.
If Ubuntu makes it obvious that Ubuntuone setup is optional, I don't see a
problem with it. Thanks for the heads-up; if I decide to test Ubuntu 13.10,
I'l be sure not to accidentally register for U1; am keeping out of the
clouds.
Is Consort available for installation to Trisquel 6? I couldn't do anything
with it in a Solusos alpha.
+1
Thanks for the config settings, explanations, and link to more. The
about:config interface is a bit intimidating.
+1 on copying the link, using unplug, and playing the media with vlc. Totem
and mplayer just don't stream as well as vlc, in my setup.
The gui for pgp is called seahorse, and is listed as Passwords and Keys; You
should see that in settings. If you'd like the Text Editor item to sey
gedit, instead, you can do this in Main Menu.
When upgrading to a new release, I've always done as suggested in #6. Allow
the installer to format '/'; mount your old '/home' (do not allow
formatting), and mount the old swap. When your new system comes up, you'll
see all your users' files. Be sure to use the same username, in the new
Works for me; one just has to be patient; I think the count-down is about
minute? What's more, the installed system has the orca screen reader turned
on, even for the gdm greeter. I'd like to see this accessibility carried
over to the net install, as has been done with Debian Wheezy.
You need to install pavucontrol; it's not included by default.
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install pavucontrol
m.facebook.com is as close to fre as you're likely to get. It even works
with a browser like lynx or emacs-w3m. I use facebook xmpp chat; wish it had
audio. Facebook can be used with free software on the client side, as a
service. True, it's not ideal...
I think you can change your keyboard after the orca screen reader starts
talking; that is, assuming you've wited for it to start automatically. I
think doing anything during the timeout causes the clock to stop? Regarding
Sonar, the one based on Ubuntu 13.04 may be the last one based on
As written, that add copy makes Sonar sound like it's something o play with
as a hobbyist, and that is to be secondary, at best, with a commercial option
for real work. The two most-visible members of the Sonar community
supposedly give free software priority; why that isn't good enough for
+1! I can use the shell, but prefer not to, so, it's flashback or xfce for
me!
Eric, how wise your wife is on this mater of the mobile phone! LOL. I hae
one, check its messages a few times a day, and it's usually turned off. Re:
the liberty to not answer the phone: We all have it; who's willing to take
it?
Various private and government data horders have copies of these messages;
surely, they can be found in indices? LOL. They'll be archived, copied, and
redistributed for the life of the interwebs...
Or run Trisquel from a usb drive installation.
I have an old, dumb (can only make and receive voice calls) phone that is
barely used and switched off most of the time.
My understanding is that GNOME = 3.10 depends on systemd and Ubuntu still
uses upstart for its initialization. Will Ubuntu either switch init to using
systemd, or do they plan to patch GNOME 3.10 to make it upstart-compatible?
My phone is a benefit of the USA's Lifeline program for people with
disability who receive qualifying assistance. If someone's eves-dropping
through it, I'll make sure the feed is as boring as I can make it; lol.
Try adding ppa:sparkers
Thanks for sharing!
There's an applet called Main Menu in System Settings; that doesn't do what
you want?
More included apps, special FSF page on startup, and, maybe, different art
work?
From other lists, I have the understanding that portions of GNOME 3.10 depend
on systemd, rather than Ubuntu's upstart initialization system, hense Ubuntu
sticking to GNOME 3.8 for the GNOME Edition, and Unity 3D for the main
edition. Is there a Flashback for 3.8? I know they brought it
I added some text about the Youtube All HTML5 script, the Unplug plugin, and
disabling Gnash Plugin to the manual page on viewing videos without Flash.
What does Whisker do that one can't do in the XFCE app finder? If, for
instance, I hit 'alt+f3' and type 'thun', then hit the down arow, I get a
list containing 'thunar' and 'thunderbird'.
Using XFCE in Arch, with no display manager; really need to parabolize this
thing!
If you don't want windows at all, use the replace windows with Trisquel
option, let the installer delete and remake partitions.
Never has GNOME Shell forced me to enter settings into the online accounts
preferences! The esktop cannot autoanswer when no settings provided. I use
pidgin and have auto-answering turned off. Problem solved. I agree with
others who say this is a badly-written opt-in.
I find vlc player most suitable for video playback.
I left gnash in place, since it is part of a big meta-package, and removing
it sounded scary; LOL. Best to disable the gnash plugin in abrowser, and
use an extension like youtube-all-html5 and/or unplug, to grab multi-media
content.
Does anyone know of a browser addon, pidgin plugin, or stand-alone app for
accessing pump.io instances, like identi.ca?
Thanks, D. H.
Thanks for suggestion! I don't think statusnet is same as pump.io. Also, I
cannot use gwibber; it doesn't work with Orca screen reader, a requirement of
mine.
I'm happy with espeak as shipped in Trisquel, and use it for hours at a time,
with Orca screen reader. I find the default British voice more comfortable
than the included US-English.
Here's the requested script as .gz file.
Those wishing the choice of desktop at instsll time can use the Net edition.
What about XFCE for the standard live edition?
I'm blind and use Orca in GNU/Linux sistros. If you need it, Orca can speak
typed keys, or word-wise inputs. It reads and works with many applications,
including the desktop/menu system, synaptic package manager, terminal,
pidgin, libreoffice writer and calc, abrowser (ersions 24 and
Here's a page I wrote for another wiki, on how to use Orca, with examples
taken from my use of the thing in Trisquel.
http://accessiblefreedom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Orca#Starting_Orca
Your password is not kept in /home. If you try to login, and /home is not
mounted, your desktop can't be shown; its configurations are in ~
Using the 'service' command, the 'disable' operation is not allowed for
upstart jobs. Does this mean the only way to disable such a service is to
move its '.conf' file out of '/etc/init'?
Thanks; I have two ways to do this without removing any init files. I may
want to restore this setup to its factory default.
That's great to know; thanks for doig the test:)! I've been directing people
to the 6.0.1 release for months.
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.
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.
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
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, ...
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
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.
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.
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.
You can use 'alt+f1' to open the menus, and 'ctrl+alt+tab' to cycle among
desktop and panels.
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.
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
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
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
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.
I have an old Inspiron on which the wifi works withy Trisquel; if possible,
just boot the live cd and try it!
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
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
Will ice dove replace thunderbird?
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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
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!
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
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
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.
@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
@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
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
Q\\\I'm glad this has finally been done; now, we're free of conflicts
with Mozilla's trademark issues.
I second Sachin-- use a wiki.
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.
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; :)
This is great news; let's hope we're back to releasing about 6 months after
the Ubuntu on which it's based.
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