Hello all.
I am new to the free software movement and to libre GNU/Linux and am
giving trisquel a go because I feel it has what I need in an OS. That being
said, I've been trying to figure out how to set the system proxy server. I
can do it in the web browser and in synaptics which
I think that because most people want to be hands off their software, they
just want it to work. They don't personally want to have to go through code
and what-not, that would keep a software industry going. The majority of
folks would gladly pay for free as in free beer software if it is
Thanks. That was it!
Peace
Another question. With Windows, I was able to turn off
cleartype/anti-aliasing and have my fonts look crisp and clear. When I turn
it off in GNU/Linux (Trisquel) I cannot find a font that is crisp and clear.
They are kind of off. Are there any legacy Linux fonts maybe that would look
Thank you onpon4, I will give them a try.
I just know that most fonts in Windows look better with anti-aliasing off.
The subpixel rendering blurs the font, looking at fonts pixel by pixel is
crisper and sharper. And anyway to eliminate the blur would be great. I
know that GNU/Linux at
I was curious. Mozilla Firefox is not considered free software because
it has some proprietary things concerning logos, correct?
I would assume this was true also for Mozilla Seamonkey? I am asking because
frankly I despise Firefox-type browsers. I like Seamonkey and all it has to
I would like to say that what Chris said about Dell locking out things
is always true. I don't know Dell's policies and I don't know the background
of his statement but, I just bought the Penguin Wireless-N card for my Dell
Latitude 6430u and it works perfect. Which you can pick up
Thank you all for the comments, maybe if I get the know how like I would like
to become completely free with my software usage (such as learning to code
and working on packages myself) I will try and do something myself to get a
trisquel/free software based Mozilla suite up and going...
So, at work they are deliberating whether to use Chromebooks for going
to a One Device Per Child model of education (I work for a school system).
I got my hands on it and dinked around a bit. I am quite appalled by these
things. It's very sad that Google is using Linux (The Kernal)
Yeah, I remember reading something where Stallman was warning against cloud
computing and Chrome OS and the like. Which I totally agree. Why would I
want to give someone else THAT much control? No thanks. I'll keep my
traditional computer with your hands off of it. We don't want the
I for one will stay away from cloud services because I feel there is too
much at stake with privacy and freedom whether it be Google or Mozilla.
Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone else used this add-on with Abrowser. I have
it installed, but it won't hide any elements. It places the blocks in
Adblock but doesn't actually block them.
Any suggestions?
Grimlok
I figured it out, apparently it was disabled... Sometimes, the obvious is
what you over look.
Thanks all!
Luis,
If it is an Intel-based chipset you may be able to go into the BIOS and
disable the SpeedStep option which should take care of it. The only thing
about this is say good bye to battery life.
Grimlok
Just an update on this. I did some digging around and found a solution to
the anti-aliasing problem I have (Problem being that I hate ant-aliasing and
having blurry fonts) Anyways, I found that if you go to (System Settings -
Advanced Settings - Fonts) and turn off (Hinting) and
My mistake. I am coming from being a heavy Windows user, so I still
look at directory/file structure with the \ and web with the /. Please
bear with my growing pains. :-p
Grimlok
Hello all again,
I have been looking into trying to change my login theme, and maybe even
adding some shell themes to trisquel, the only thing is that it doesn't seem
to be the easy drag and drop of Ubuntu and the rest of Gnome... Is there
something I have to install, a different
Looks like that picker is biased toward really only few upon looking at the
website source.
I was hoping to be able to take themes I found on the internet and install
them.
Not just the pre-packaged ones found in synaptic...
Grimlok
Hey all,
I just thought I would share with you what I've been doing with my UI.
http://oi42.tinypic.com/259g13a.jpg
I know, I know, windows... but it's fun
Enjoy!
Grimlok
I will have to try minetest out. I am planning on changing the icons also to
reflect my OS more also. I enjoy pixel-art icons so I don't think that the
old OS's are necessarily ugly.
:-p
Here's my pidgin icon I made.
Hey all,
What do you all think about proprietary companies that have been
beneficial to the free software movement like id software? I know there are
some who are using free software for malicious means like Microsloth and
Grovel.. but I think it's worth mentioning the likes of id,
Hello all,
The other day I tried to get rid of LibreOffice and install OpenOffice
being that I like the look and feel of OpenOffice better than LibreOffice.
So I removed LibreOffice using Synaptic, but when I went to install
OpenOffice, it said it needed to have LibreOffice installed
badspell68, you may have to use this one:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-mini-pci
The D610 is an older laptop, and I'm not sure it used a mini pci-e... Make
sure and check it out first, also if it does, it may be full-height rather
than half height like this one:
Hey all,
Is there any place that one can buy a Trisquel GNU/Linux white vinyl
sticker that one could put on their vehicle. I would love to have one to
promote it in my daily life. I already have already removed the Microsloth
Windows badge from my laptop and replaced it with a
Awesome! Thank you very much kind sir!
It seems to be a problem with my x-www-browser file might be corrupted or
something because doing the purge I get the same update-alternatives: error:
unable to read link `/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser': Invalid argument
Also when i ran sudo update-alternatives --display x-www-browser
I
How does one install a new browser from the tar files instead of a package so
that it is integrated into the system like abrowser.
I updated the symbolic links to point to my browser, but that doesn't seem to
be the only thing. Programs that invoke a browser like Liferea still want to
The Dell Latitude ST actually runs Trisquel GNU/Linux pretty well. The only
thing I had trouble with was getting the auto rotate to work. On-screen
keyboard and other things seemed to function just fine. It even supports
wifi cababilities using the free drivers provided by Trisquel
Yeah, I guess I could do that, when I get a chance I will do it.
I for one would love to see Winamp become free software. Then it can be
ported to GNU/Linux!
Hey all,
Is it possible to install Trisquel without an internet connection? I am
installing in text mode, and it says that it needs to have an internet
connection. This computer does not have an ethernet card in it.
Thanks,
GrimLok
There doesn't seem to be an option not to use it though.
I made it from my current installation from the iso using startup disk
creator.
Hmm... do you think maybe searching for the way to do it in Ubuntu may work?
The graphical installer hangs up and just gives me a blank screen, I figured
the text installer would tell me why. Plus, I like the traditional
installers anyways. I just don't understand why it defaults to going out to
the internet to get installation files. That is a flaw to me. If you
Here is the file I downloaded:
http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel-images/trisquel_6.0_i686.iso
There is no option to skip though...
I have thought this way about Stallman, but more on the lines of freedom in
general. A lot of his politics seem to be anti-freedom. Sometimes I feel
like he believes in freedom only as far as it suits himself, but would be
willing to see it taken away from others if it goes against his
I try to see past that because of all the good he has done to advance freedom
in software though...
Freedom imposed on others is not freedom. Freedom is only freedom if you
have a choice in the matter. Freedom to succeed, freedom to fail. So
Communism, and Socialism do not lead to freedom, they only lead to
oppression, history has proven this time and time again. We are seeing this
Maybe a way to help this, is to have a new area for such debate.
jxself,
Unfortunately, no. I am still new to the whole thing, but wouldn't that
have been part of the Trisquel ISO anyway?
GrimLok
What is the message that you get when the blue screen comes up?
bmw2qs,
I don't know if they liked it or not. I don't consider it evangelizing. I
gave them some DVDs to give a try if they like. They are fellow IT
professionals and should know what an Operating System is so they wouldn't
think of it as a prank. And it is there free choice whether to
[Off Topic (sorta)]
I looked at the title of this post and couldn't help but think of this (see
attachment) when I read it.
GrimLok
Run from the CD by GrimLok is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International License.
Hey all,
I have downloaded and compiled the latest version of prboom-plus and
freedoom being that the repositories do not have the latest versions and I
can even get it to run, but the only thing is, that it only runs if I either
double click on the 'prboom-plus' icon under
Will this allow me to just type prboom-plus in the command line to run it?
Thanks everyone, with the suggestion from a_slacker_here I was able to
get it working from a created link on my desktop, and have it saving to the
proper place under my /home/USERNAME/.prboom-plus folder.
I have a Dell Latitude 6430u that I use to run Trisquel, and was able to buy
an Atheros card from ThinkPenguin and install it just fine, so it wasn't the
case for me.
Here is the wifi options at ThinkPenguin:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wireless-networking-gnulinux
For a Dell Latitude D620, I would assume you would need either the
'Penguin Wireless N Mini PCI for GNU / Linux' or the 'Penguin Wireless N PCI
Card for GNU / Linux v5 /w
This is exciting news. Trisquel has been the first Linux I have used
exclusively. I have used it now for over a year, and have thoroughly enjoyed
it. I have been able to use it for all things that I do, including work,
which is a Windows networking environment.
I am anxious to try this
Pardon me, GNU/Linux. This was a slip. :-o
My mistake, I copied the wrong one. I meant to copy the one above it.
Looks good all! I am excited to download the newest Trisquel and install it!
Your's doesn't seem pixellated, looks like a lot of sub-pixel rendering going
on there. Here's what it looks like without it, if this is the effect you
were hoping for. Though I am running Trisquel 6...
grimlok
I noticed something rather delightful today while I was in one of the
computer labs at one of the schools I service. There were a number of
students playing around with some digital pictures on their desktops. Now,
mind you the school district I work for is deeply imbedded in using
I think that people need to be a little less giddy in wiping out their entire
systems to install Trisquel 7 so quickly. With all OS updates, especially
big ones like this, there should be a little personal Research and
Development before blowing everything away. Trisquel has the option to
I try to load the computers I have charge with, with as much free
software as I am allowed. Most installations have GIMP, Mozilla Firefox (I
know, not quite free, but what they stand for as far as the web is concerned
cannot be denied, plus you gotta remember this is Windows we are
Hello all,
Is there a place where one can kind of see an overview of the
differences between Toutatis and Belenos? Like something that can give folks
an idea of what might break... I know that may be asking for a lot, because
SOOO much can break. I assume there are release notes
Found it. https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/versions
Thanks.
Ok, well if a 49 year old is embryonic, I don't want to know what my 31 year
old self is. On that note, I have played only with Ubuntu, Slackware, and
now Trisquel. I guess I'm not as adventurous, or don't find the time for
'distro-hopping'. I like to just think I found the perfect fit
they are superior to any GNU/Linux distribution out there, FSF-endorsed or
not.
I disagree, I don't find all proprietary software superior to Free Software.
There are a plethora of great software that is free-software that I use
everyday.
What makes them superior is for one the
alonsogonzalez,
My installation of Trisquel 6's printer control panel item allows me to
install network printers... in fact I have no problem installing all or most
of the ones at work on our networks at work. Is this a Trisquel 7 issue?
Yeah we have TONS of 'games' in our schools:
Imagine Learning
Reflex Math
Study Island
Pearson SuccessMaker
starfall.com
They should be an extension of learning though, not the main event.
I agree with fr33dom,
We should shy away from cloud-based computing because by promoting it, we are
promoting the control over others. Setting up one's own server and own
personal cloud is a way to fight this.
Peace,
grimlok
Thanks for posting, there are a few things on there that I have done, that I
never really documented and will need to search to do again. I need to do a
comprehensive documentation of the customizations I do like this.
Kudos to you fchmmr!
grimlok
Hey all,
I just wanted to let you all know of my first successful set up of
Trisquel 7 for a friend of mine. He gave me a Dell Inspiron 1520 that had no
OS on it and asked me if I could load Chromium or GNU/Linux, so I opted for
Trisquel GNU/Linux of course.
This system runs it
Trust me, this fella has heard enough of the free software speeches from
me. :-p He has expressed he is really enjoying Trisquel, and says that he
thinks he is going to like it.
As far as not having Photoshop or Oriface, That's not a problem I set him up
with OpenOffice and GIMP,
Merry Christmas! Kala Xpistouyena! Fröhliche Weihnachten!
:-D
When I cannot find a package in the repositories that I want to install I go
to the Debian package search and look for that software as a debian package.
Here is KompoZer's: https://packages.debian.org/squeeze/kompozer
Once there I select a download that corresponds to my architecture. e.g.
Here's mine.. :-D
It IS stable... but probably MORE stable than Windows. :-D
No... I like it the way it is :-p
I will give it a shot, but I don't think it's quite the same problem. I
don't see any access points/routers no matter where I am with the laptop (I
took it to work too to give it a try.)...
I get 'No scan results' upon doing that command Chris. Not sure what's going
on...
Also, not sure if I mentioned it. If I set the SSID manually, that doesn't
work either.
I did find something about madwifi drivers, but are they proprietary or are
they just all together irrelevant?
Hello all,
I was given a Toshiba laptop today for work I did on another laptop and
decided to see how it ran Trisquel GNU/Linux. Much to my surprise it seems
to be able to support Trisquel nearly completely because it has the Qualcomm
Atheros AR242x / AR542x chipset.
It had said
Well, restarting has re-enabled it, but the card still doesn't seem to be
able to find my wifi network...
First off, thank you all for your help troubleshooting this matter.
I have found out the problem, and it's one of those things that keep you as a
computer technician humble. I found a physical switch on the front of the
laptop for Wifi... That was apparently not switched on. :: face palm
So I got tired of dealing with the new GNOME and ended up going with XFCE to
get the results I want. Had to play around with some things but it's getting
there. Screenshot attached.
Thanks everyone!
grimlok
Hello all,
I have made the switch finally from 6.0 to 7.0 and as always when one
makes a major upgrades some things have broken. I was hoping you all could
give me some insight on whether or not I can fix these things.
First, I would like to know if there is a way to turn off the
Thanks for the response Opon..
If you right-click on an image, one of the menu options is Set as
Wallpaper.
This doesn't help for tiled wallpaper, there is no tile function which is
frustrating.
I think it has been. If you don't like it, you may want to try a different
file manager.
Removing Compton does work! Thanks David!
I am fine with the xfwm really, I just want to make it do what I want it to
do, lol.
If I were to replace xfwm with xmonad, would I still have my windows themed
the way I want them, or are the themes only for xfwm?
grimlok
What would that do?
Hello all,
I decided to spank out gdm and replace it with WINGs Display Manager to
give my experience a more classic look. The only thing is, for some reason
it doesn't seem to be loading automatically. When I boot I get the trisquel
splash screen, and then I see a login in a
Yeah, I did a direct upgrade from Trisquel 6, so I think it kept gdm from
that. I could be wrong though. All I know, is when I booted up after the
upgrade I still was running gdm.
Hello all,
I was wondering, for those of you who have some XFCE experience, if
there was a way to make XFCE's window manager open each new window side by
side instead of directly on top of each other. I would even go for a
cascading effect if that's all I could do.
Note: The
Yeah I have run that. That's what lead me to removing gdm all together. I
now only have wdm on my laptop, but it still doesn't want to load unless I
load it. During startup, I can see that it does try to start, but it never
goes through with it.
I would prefer neither. Why cut down trees, possibly fill in marshlands, and
give up wonderful farm-land so that people can watch the newest episode of
Keeping up with the Kardashians!?
I haven't seen the land myself, so I don't know exactly, but we are a very
rural area, and most of it is populated by Marshlands, Farmlands, and water.
For 900 Acres to be populated with a solar far, the only assumption I can
come up with is that those types of lands will be used. Now, it
I have a DM that I would like to use, which is WINGs DM or WDM, the problem
isn't that. I want to find out why it's not starting and why I have to start
it manually.
Thanks though.
So, I just found out that Amazon is building a HUGE, like 900 Acre solar farm
where I live, and it serves only to power their data center... How
ridiculous is that?
Is there anything I can do to put a wrench in this?
Grimlok
I'm not sure about Chromium, but where I work, both Chrome and Firefox are
installed alongside Internet Explorer to give user choice, and I have noticed
that Firefox has been loading and running significantly faster than Chrome
here as of late.
Here is my new set up, I decided to mix old with new, I plan on re-doing all
my icons with my old-school pixellated icon goodness.
Enjoy!
I used Conky, it's a desktop overlay that lists just about anything you want
it to list. I used this Conky Script:
http://ubuntulife.net/how-to-install-conky-lua-in-ubuntu-12-04/
I then just made a Trisquel graphic for it, and picked the Fedora one, since
it was already blue.
Hope that
It all started when I tried to install a newer version of Remmina from Ubuntu
packages, it said it needed dependencies, so I installed the first dependency
also from Ubuntu's packages. It was Libglib2.0... Apparently that's a big
one to be playing with and it sent my whole system in a
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