> Would u consider it a must for latest security updates in general?
I think that for the Spectre patch you need 4.14 or later. Trisquel gets 4.4
from upstream Ubuntu, so if you want the Spectre patch I suggest installing
4.14 from jxself's repo.
> Your script would help me a lot. I
In a terminal, run "killall pulseaudio" and then run pulseaudio in a
terminal. Then, try playing something in VLC, playing something in your
browser, adjusting the sound applet in your panel, and opening and adjusting
values in the volume menu. If any errors or warnings appear in the
It does seem that way with Belenos -> Flidas. I wonder if this is true in
general, or if it's an issue of the migration from GNOME to MATE and will be
less of a problem with Flidas -> Etiona.
A few months ago a Trisquel user shared a deb package for installing Guix.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/guix-trisquel#comment-129049
I have tested it with Trisquel 8 and it worked.
For me GNOME suspends when I close the lid.
Install gnome-tweak-tool if you haven't already, run it, and go to 'Power'.
There are two settings under 'When Laptop Lid is Closed', one for while
plugged in and one for while on battery power. For me both are set to
Suspend. There is also a
Do you have any idea what I might have done wrong?
I burned the 64-bit ISO using
$ sudo dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M;sync
and attempted to install on a librebooted X60. When that didn't work I
started over with a fresh download of the ISO.
The exact same steps work fine with
I saw that there are new ISOs up here
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/
and decided to test the 64-bit one.
I was not able to get a working display manager or desktop environment from
the text installer or graphical installer. The text installer couldn't
complete the step where I
The title of this thread was supposed to be 'trouble with new Flidas ISOs
from 12/14)
I tried again with Startup Disk Creator and had the same problem. I just get
a black screen with a cursors. Sometimes I get an iwl3945 missing firmware
message, but I don't think that's the issue because it always happens in
Trisquel until I blacklist the non-free WiFi device.
I tried
Yes, sometimes Startup Disk Creator doesn't work well and dd works better.
That was the case with the previous Flidas ISO. With this ISO however I run
into the same problem with either method.
I tried 'apt-cache search ath9k' and got no results, but given the other
issues I was having I doubt my experience is representative of a working
install.
I can't afford to go too many more hours without a working system, so I've
installed Trisquel 7 and will use this as an opportunity to
You could download a more recent kernel from jxself's repo.
https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
> I think I have already done that. Right now I find Chromium least worse
> because of the results of the test
Perhaps it is because of your time investment in your test that you weight
your test far too heavily. Your complaints are reasonable, but there is also
a reasonable explanation for
Yikes. I avoid saving passwords in my browser as well.
Ugh. I spent a long time writing a message and then accidentally deleted it.
I can't afford the time it would take to fully reconstruct it, so this will
not be the full response that many of your points deserve.
The forum is mirrored to a mailing list which you can join here:
Just a heads up that the way you've started quoting text does work in the
mailing list making this very difficult to read.
> Nothing wrong at all. I just wanted to accent...
I think we basically agree here. I brought this up to explain why invoking
'freedom 0' was not effective in the
If I may interject, you are referring to
GNU/there_can_not_be_better_mail_client, or as I've taken to calling it
recently, NeoMutt+vimkeybindings.
While this is a good idea, your work on Uruk might be more important.
From what I can gather, an .acsm file doesn't actually contain a ebook. It just
contains a link that Adobe Digital Editions uses to download an ebook from
Adobe's servers. I don't think that a free software program could download the
ebook unless it was capable of making itself appear to be a
I use MATE, with i3 as the window manager. From my i3 config file I run this
script when I log in.
#!/bin/bash
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
xcape -e '#66=Escape'
xcape -e '#65=space'
where ~/.Xmodmap
> Is this a bug?
As the message states, Abrowser is warning you that "The owner of neo900.org
has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being
stolen, Abrowser has not connected to this website." If you click "Advanced"
you'll see specifically what's wrong:
> I cannot
> seem to find the .config directory.
It's in your home folder. Since it begins with "." it will be hidden by
default. If you're using a graphical file manager like Caja or Nautilus you'll
need to use "Ctrl+H" to see it.
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> The FSF says youtube-dl is OK now.
> https://notabug.org/GPast/avideo/issues/12
I'm glad to hear this, but I wish I could find more information. The most
detailed explanation I can find is a comment[1] from Leah saying that the
non-free JS is only parsed to acquire the video URL, not
That mirror is down. Switch to a different one. See:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/weird-output-when-trying-update
This seems to be affecting a lot of people. Can we expect this mirror to go
back up? If not, is there a fix other than telling users one-at-a-time how to
switch to a different
> Still a YouTube bar
> at the top with a blank gray page.
Same here, whether I use NoScript or disable JS globally.
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> "http://mirrors.serverhost.ro/trisquel/packages;
This mirror is down. Use a different one. See:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/weird-output-when-trying-update
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> How can I know which login manager I have installed and running right now?
$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
It's probably lightdm.
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On 08/15, gnu...@openmailbox.org wrote:
> Now I want to install I2P which also requires Java. Is it usable now in
> Trisquel 8?
I succesfully installed I2P on Trisquel 8 a few months ago. I don't remember
exactly what I did, but I started from this page
https://geti2p.net/en/download
and
A more detailed solution for me to link back to next time someone has this
issue:
- From the main menu, launch System -> Administration -> Software & Updates
- Click on the dropdown menu labeled "Download from:"
- Select "Main Server"
- Click "Close"
- In the window that pops up, click "Reload"
> How was an ordinary person supposed to figure out
No idea. I've submitted a bug report[1] and hope this gets addressed soon.
[1] https://trisquel.info/en/issues/24749
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> https://snapcraft.io/vscode
Like the binary distributed by Micro$oft, this appears to be proprietary.
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> callousness of microsoft,
> and callousness of systemd devs.
I know that systemd is not your preferred init system, but do you really think
Red Hat and Microsoft are comparable?
Red Hat creates free software that not everybody likes. There is nothing
unethical about not pleasing everybody.
It might be better to pick some threads in the troll lounge to necro instead.
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> Not sure if its a bug, or a design choice for increased browser privacy.
Both behaviors (resetting browser geometry and resetting zoom level) are indeed
privacy features, not bugs. They reduce the uniqueness of your browser in order
to resist fingerprinting.
If you wish to disable these
I'm trying to follow these steps[1] and am having trouble creating the build
environment. The problem, or at least one problem, is that it has not been
updated for Trisquel 8. This was discussed in a thread last year, but the
solution[2] was to use this[3] diff file, which does not seem to
> the email is
info at gluglug.org.uk
Did it start working after you enabled "Allow apps that use less secure sign
in" in your Yahoo account? I'm almost certain that this was the problem, as
it's a known issue with Yahoo accounts and Thunderbird/Icedove that produces
the exact problem you had initially.
(5) My programming experience is limited and I took this on partially as an
educational project, so technical feedback is also welcome.
As discussed in this bug report,[1] pip allows the user to search and install
software from pypi.org, some of which is proprietary. It looks like pip is
going to be removed entirely[2] to address this freedom issue. However, since
most software in the PyPI repository is free, I think it
I have never used Android, but with Replicant I recall having to switch the
USB mode to MTP in Replicant's settings.
I'm not very familiar with firejail. How do you go about wrapping a command
in firejail, and do you have a list of everywhere you have done so?
> I thought the license name was a free text field.
I was partly mistaken. If you select "Other" you are indeed given a text
field in which to enter a different license. However, as you say, most free
addons are probably under one of the seven licenses listed, and anyone using
one of
It works (see screenshot). Spotify and other proprietary software are also
recommended in Gnome Software Center (see other screenshot). I reported the
latter as a licensing issue
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/23466
months ago, but had not actually attempted installing any proprietary to
Sure! The image attached in my comment is lower resolution than the original
because the full resolution image exceeded the maximum upload size. Where
should I upload the full resolution image?
Sorry, I didn't see your full post. All that was included in the message sent
to the mailing list was "I've managed to get Debian, MInt and Trisquel to
boot." This post is also missing the last paragraph in the email. Are you
editing your comments after posting? If so, replying to your posts
Does bootcamp the Mac Mini recognize other distros as Windows? I wonder if
there is any way to fix this on Trisquel's end, or if bootcamp assumes that
anything that isn't macOS is Windows. It's a cosmetic issue that can be
clarified in the documentation, but it could confuse someone.
More
When you quote text this way, the two left angle brackets you use to end the
quote and all text following get left out of the message sent to the mailing
list. I don't know why this is, but if you stick with only the two right
angle brackets at the beginning of each quoted paragraph this
Here are some screenshots using the both the original background and the
bluified one for comparison. My version isn't necessarily better. The colors
in the original are beautiful and more interesting than the blue version, but
I think the blue works better with some of the icons and makes
Attached are the default user.js for Abrowser and Firefox, and a comparison
of the two via diff.
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.
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
The new wallpaper is growing on me, but as an experiment I tried to make it
feel a little more congruent with the icon theme. I took the original
(flidas.jpg) and the color gradient of the home folder icon (blue.png) and
decomposed both images into LAB components. I then recomposed the
With a fresh install of Uruk, I ran
$ git clone https://notabug.org/isengaara/debian-guix-installer.git
$ cd debian-guix-installer
$ make
$ sudo dpkg -i guix-installer.deb
and got
(Reading database ... 259417 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack guix-installer.deb
Thank you for clarifying. With a fresh install of the Trisquel 8 ISO from
6/18 I ran
$ git clone https://notabug.org/isengaara/debian-guix-installer.git
$ cd debian-guix-installer
$ make
$ sudo dpkg -i guix-installer.deb
$ sudo /gnu/guix_installer/setup
$ guix package -i hello
and everything
What happens if you open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run
systemctl suspend
or
systemctl hibernate
and press enter?
> One thing I haven't found yet, how to disable annoying 'beep' on login
> screen startup.
A workaround might be to mute the login screen.
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> Not all coreboot features are necessarily malicious
But some of them may be, and without freedom 1 there is no way to check.
Also, while proprietary software is often malicious, the fact that it is
non-free is enough of a reason not to use it. It is wrong for the developer
to have power
> browser.search.defaultenginename.US
> data:text/plain,browser.search.defaultenginename.US=Google
I booted into a live session, ran Abrowser, and looked at this value.
It was the same as yours. However, using the search bar search DDG as
expected. Moreover, after running
$ sudo apt update &&
You can get the source code with
$ sudo apt install git
$ git clone https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
This will copy the repository to your machine in a directory called
'obs-studio'. However, from browsing the source code it is not obvious to me
how to disabled AAC support. Maybe
> Should I report a bug?
It's already been reported here: https://trisquel.info/en/project/issues
> How do I
> fix it?
When you encounter the blurry text, you can make it go away temporarily
by switching to another tab and then switching back. I don't know of a
permanent fix though.
> Anyway I am thinking this laptop does not manage very well even these
minimum coices
I have some low-resource netbooks on which I'm trying to configure Trisquel
to be as light as possible while preserving the Trisquel look/feel. If you're
still having trouble with performance, here's how
Here are my sources for youtube-dl not executing non-free JS, at least
for YouTube videos.
https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core/issues/222
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Youtube-dl
> Is this also true for websites that require PhantomJS (e.g. Openload)?
I think that depends on whether
I reinstalled. All is well.
For some reason the OP did not show up on the forum. Here is the list
thread I was replying to.
https://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-users/2018-September/091080.html
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Trisquel froze while compiling a program. Since I couldn't get the system to
respond, I powered down. Upon attempting to boot, I get stuck with this
message.
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata1.00: ST_FIRST: DRQ=1weith device error, dev_stat 0x7F
ata1.00: cmd
> You certainly mean 'sudo apt purge mate-desktop' (not "install").
Whoops. Muscle memory. I indeed meant purge.
> most MATE packages will not be removed. Like onpon4, I would suggest 'sudo
apt install gnome' after a *NetInstall*.
Yeah, it looks like it cleans out navigational things like
I understand that the terminal is intimidating at first, especially if you
don't understand what the commands are doing. Magic Banana already covered
some of this, but here's an explanation of what each command does. I'm also
adding in a few extra lines to help you understand what's
I didn't know that Synaptic was even capable for formatting disks. I
thought it was only intended for package management. Have you tried
using a disk partitioner like GParted?
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> if
> you're not free to run, inspect, share, and modify the software running
> on your computer it's not trustworthy.
I think we can all agree on that. The question is whether a proprietary
BIOS modified by a third party is better or worse than the original
proprietary BIOS. On the one hand,
> 'apt purge' removes *system* configuration files.
My bad. Thanks for the correction.
@Liberated
Remove the folder Magic Banana mentions with
$ rm -rf ~/.config/pulse
and then log out and back in again.
@Lil Beanie
If I understand correctly, your sound problems happened after a regular
Trisquel 7 update, and that your problems upgrading to Trisquel 8 were a
separate issue. Can you confirm whether or not this is the case?
@Lil Beanie, Liberated, Masaru Suzuqi
Can all three of you run
$
Audacity isn't the best program to troubleshoot with, because are situations
in which it might not work even when audio is otherwise working.
Install mpv
$ sudo apt install mpv
and try to play an audio file from the command line
$ mpv /path/to/file
If you get errors, paste them here.
Also
Searching for "bytcr-rt5651" it seems that many people have had trouble with
your sound card. According to this thread[1] it works better with a newer
kernel, and the poster seems to think the first good kernel is between 4.16
and 4.18. Try installing 4.19 from jxself's repo[2] and see if
Don't mess around with JACK when you don't yet have ALSA working. Like
Pulseaudio, JACK is a sound server that controls and relies on ALSA.
Pulseaudio is intended to work out-of-the box for basic desktop usage. JACK
is more advanced (i.e. for professional audio production) and requires more
> In any case, it seems I should not assume that everyone has these
directories in their path.
And I've updated the script I linked to accordingly.
https://notabug.org/chaosmonk/mozilla-tarball-install/commit/5b5179867940191bb88402ce5fee8dbb4fdcb72b
Try purging pulseaudio but *not* ALSA and see if you can get sound to work.
When you have a huge chunk of output to paste in the forum, using pastebin or
something like it can help keep the thread readable.
Looks like Magic Banana has answered your questions already.
Since writing the post you replied to, I've written some scripts to do what I
suggested automatically and in a cleaner way.
https://notabug.org/chaosmonk/mozilla-tarball-install
> But I actually believe he added that path. 'echo $PATH' does not include
~/local/bin on my system.
~/.profile does contain these lines
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin directories
PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
but I am pretty sure that I did not add them. I just
Okay, I think that the lack of output from "lspci | grep Network" means that
your WiFi card isn't being recognized. I'm not sure what to do there.
What is the output of
$ aplay -l
?
> Midori released new releases in the last 6 months - versions 6.0 and 7.0
> use a newer WebKit. You can install it via Snap:
> github.com/midori-browser/core
Snap was removed from Trisquel due to freedom issues.[1] I have
submitted a merge request to backport Midori 7,[2] but I'm not sure
@northernarcher
If you're unsure what they're talking about, the WiFi hardware switch on the
X60 is at the front-center-bottom of the base of the laptop. Its "on"
position is to the right, leaving a green surface exposed to the left. It's
easy to accidentally turn the switch off. I would
The WiFi status light is off in this photo, so I think aloniv was right.
Check the hardware switch at the bottom-front-center of the laptop.
> I thought there was something blocking non-free softwares, but it's silly
> because it's a restriction of freedom too.
It might not be as easy or convenient to install non-free software on
Trisquel compared to other distros, and our documentation and community
don't support non-free software,
> No Trisquel version exists based
> on Ubuntu 18.04, so I shall have to wait. Drat.
You could just do a fresh install of Trisquel 8 in the meantime.
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> First, can you tell me the output of the following commands? You only
> need to bother with the last two if it turns out the pulseaudio isn't
> installed.
> Then, I have a few questions.
I've had some time to look into this further today and have managed to
answer most of my own questions, so
> Does somebody knows the difference between these two ISOs of Trisquel ?
> https://cdimage.trisquel.info/trisquel-images/trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso
> Date: 2018-04-18 02:54.
> http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisquel_8.0_amd64.iso
> Date:2019-03-27 01:53.
The latter fixes this bug:
> What's Bionic based on - Jessie? Stretch?
Ubuntu's releases are based on snapshots of Sid.
> In Buster, I do not see any qtbase-opensource-src package,
It's a source package.
https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/qtbase-opensource-src
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> I'm assuming the profile in use is the one that I want to keep, and that
> the "Profile: default" can be removed?
If everything about your current profile looks correct and you're sure
that you don't need the other profile then nothing bad will happen if
you delete it. However, I might keep it.
> As an aside, I tried copying my .mozilla > abrowser file from another
> machine to my main computer, and that didn't work, for some reason.
Did you go to about:profiles to make sure that your original profile is
set as the default?
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> NordVPN add-on.
Is this what you're referring to?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nordvpn-proxy-extension/license/
If so, it is proprietary software. I recommend either configuring
OpenVPN for use with NordVPN so that you don't need their addon, or
switching to a more
> Thanks guys! I installed i3.
Nice!
> Would you tell me how to access wifi
If you're using MATE+i3, I would add "nm-applet" to Startup
Applications. If you're using i3 on it's own, I would add
"exec --no-startup-id nm-applet" to ~/.config.i3/config.
That's assuming you want a graphical
> add "exec --no-startup-id nm-applet" to ~/.config.i3/config.
Apologies for the typo. The path is ~/.config/i3/config
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> Is there a tiling window manager like i3wm for Trisquel?
i3 is in the Trisquel repositories.
$ sudo apt install i3
> Can you tell me about the various tiling window managers and a little
> bit about each?
I've tried three tiling window managers:
Enlightenment is actually a stacking window
> What should we install to get networking working?
$ sudo apt install network-manager
If using the command line, use
$ nmtui
to connect. If if using a desktop environment or window manager with a
systray
$ sudo apt install network-manager-gnome
and run
$ nm-applet
or add nm-applet to your
> deb https://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ flidas-security main
> deb-src https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/trisquel/packages/ flidas-security main
> Can I just remove the line with the old address? I suppose the
> flidas-security repository in the following line is just the same, isn't
> it?
> Not really complaning, just stating why, I would love to reverse to
> Trisquel 7, to me was just fine, and I do not care about security
There's a Trisquel 7 ISO here.[1] However, it will not receive any
security updates, so I would only use it on a machine that you don't use
to connect to the
> I'd like to install Trisquel on it but want to know if there's any
> potential conflict with the hardware and if anyone has recommendations
> for potential conflicts with the software.
Most hardware components should work fine. The two that sometimes don't
are WiFi and graphics. As GNUser says,
> Different kind of "history" (maybe the term is not proper): I am
> referring to how many lines the commands you executed can output in the
> terminal before the oldest lines are lost (scrolling up, you will not
> reach the first command you executed after launching the terminal
> emulator).
I
> There used to be several boxes you could check/uncheck for various
> settings (including Javascript) at the startup page.
The page you see when you open a new tab is called about:home (you can
also get to it by entering "about:home" into the URL bar. The current
about:home in Abrowser is
> Also some site stop working just using one of the security/privacy
> settings that's on the front page.
Then (a) don't use the setting, or (b) don't use the site.
Unfortunately, a lot of websites are not freedom- or privacy-friendly.
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