Re: [Trisquel-users] improving experience on viewing pictures

2016-02-07 Thread cromozon
ohh, the question is: can you suggest something that full fills the goals above?

[Trisquel-users] improving experience on viewing pictures

2016-02-07 Thread cromozon
my setup: * I am using Xmonad for window manager * pcmanfm for filemanager * gthumb as image viewer this setup is not really a great marriage. The problem is: I usually have some images in a folder, that; surprise: I would like to look at. so I use the filemanager, and browse to the pictures,

[Trisquel-users] Unable to boot when NFS share is unavaliable

2015-09-23 Thread cromozon
The title sums it up, I was unable to boot, and notices that my NAS was of, I have some shares from my nas. This is from my fstab santalucia:/volume1/music /mnt/music nfs bootwait,nouser,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,nosuid 0 0 santalucia:/volume1/web /mnt/web nfs

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to boot when NFS share is unavaliable

2015-09-23 Thread cromozon
thanks lembas, that fixed it.

[Trisquel-users] ncurses equalizer for pulseaudio

2015-03-04 Thread cromozon
Do you know about any ncurses equalizer working with pulse audio?

[Trisquel-users] where is xclock?

2015-02-24 Thread cromozon
I am missing xclock. and I can't seem to find it using aptitude, or even duckduck. how can I get xclock?

Re: [Trisquel-users] where is xclock?

2015-02-24 Thread cromozon
mmm xclock, thanks :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] A company tracked 530 million mobile phones in Asia with drones

2015-02-24 Thread cromozon
My take on this: Ads should be illegal in public space.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser's Language

2015-02-22 Thread cromozon
what risk are you thinking of? I would think the only difference is the interface (graphical/command-line)

Re: [Trisquel-users] replacement for adobe after effects?

2015-02-22 Thread cromozon
I used this some time ago http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php it takes a bit getting used to, but then it it really powerful. there is a feature list if you scroll down a bit, this includes # Brightness/Contrast # Chroma Key # Color balance # Histogram # Hue/Saturation you can also

Re: [Trisquel-users] replacement for adobe after effects?

2015-02-22 Thread cromozon
ok, I was trying to build it in trisquel, but sadly there is a dependency to libfaac-dev which is non-free. that non-free library is to make it possible to process aac, I would expect the program to be able to work without it. I guess more serious hacking than anticipated would be necessary to

[Trisquel-users] sudo default behaviour

2015-02-22 Thread cromozon
This is actually a follow up in another thread, but to avoid hijacking the thread I will post it in a new thread. it /is/ possible to let sudo change the HOME enviroment variable. either by specifying the -H argument or it could be set by the policy. According to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser's Language

2015-02-22 Thread cromozon
thanks, that is good to know.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Browser windows disappears

2015-02-20 Thread cromozon
in lxde I sometimes by accident minimize/shade the application by using the scroll wheel (actually double finger drag) on the title bar.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-02-20 Thread cromozon
its pretty insany, if I search (on duckduckgo) for libregames, that libregamewiki doesn't show up, only some crap Philippine sinkhole shows up!

Re: [Trisquel-users] changing default filemanager

2015-02-19 Thread cromozon
thanks slacker that worked :) note that the mimeapps.list is in ~/.local/share/applications/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Spying software hidden deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers

2015-02-18 Thread cromozon
I guess this solves the mystery why windows boots slower and slower ehh?

[Trisquel-users] changing default filemanager

2015-02-18 Thread cromozon
hello fellow humans et al. As you might know, I am using fluxbox as my window manager and have trimmed down on some of default stuff that comes with trisquel... I have removed nautilus, since it gave problems overriding fluxboxes 'right click' in practice making fluxbox unusable. also I

Re: [Trisquel-users] google analytics everywhere

2015-02-17 Thread cromozon
that piwik thing seems really good :) I am going to look into that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-14 Thread cromozon
LoL That IS my mouse!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-14 Thread cromozon
Hi Tom, Thanks for the reply, it is nice to know that it will be removed beforehand :), I guess I am a bit untrusting regarding package management. The idea with a virtual machine is good so I will try that when I have some time.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-14 Thread cromozon
it looks good. The only thing I am not to happy about is that it relies on 'gnome-desktop-data'... So if I install it, and don't like it, how do I clean out the packages that I don't require anymore?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-13 Thread cromozon
you assumption is correct.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-13 Thread cromozon
hi Magic the machine was actually an older install of Debian server that I intended to use for some development but never got around to :) regarding leafpad, I am sure she is going to prefer that before abiword... On her w1ndow$ machine, she has lots of text editing software, and she always

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-13 Thread cromozon
hi Tom, Thanks for the recommendation with the memory, it is a good explanation. Allow me to get lost in memory :) I had the following computers in sequence 1) one with an integrated green monitor; I found it in the junkyard when I was... I don't know 6 or 7 years, I wasn't able to run any

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-02-12 Thread cromozon
well... my better half wasn't to happy with the laptop... It apparently had nothing to do with gnome but simply that it was to small and light! So I gave her a older asus laptop... Pentium M 2GHz single core, 1GB of ram. Nice 1650*10?? 4/3 monitor... I set it up to run LXDE + claws mail, and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brother DCP-7055 printer

2015-02-12 Thread cromozon
I think you need to configure the printer. I guess that after 'make install' what you have is the driver installed in the system... meaning the drivers are sitting there waiting for something... that something is configure the printer. what does hinzufögen mean? It is basically the same as

Re: [Trisquel-users] using fluxbox does not read proper keymap

2015-02-11 Thread cromozon
nope, doesn't work :( I Tried your suggestion of adding setxkbmap dk before exit 0 in /etc/gdm/Init/Default and was about to add XKBLAYOUT=dk to /etc/default/keyboard, but it was already there :( I also Do have Danish keybaord using the terminal via ctrl+alt+F1

Re: [Trisquel-users] using fluxbox does not read proper keymap

2015-02-11 Thread cromozon
thanks SuperTramp Turning of Ibos did the trick :) Lembas, thanks for the link also, As supertramps suggestion already solved my problem. I think I will leave it at that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] using fluxbox does not read proper keymap

2015-02-11 Thread cromozon
I just tried to login as guest... and Then I do have Danish keyboard...

[Trisquel-users] using fluxbox does not read proper keymap

2015-02-10 Thread cromozon
Hi People I am using a Danish keyboard, and it works fine with gnome, But now I have installed fluxbox instead, but it seems that it somehow forgets my keyboard configuration. and advice

Re: [Trisquel-users] using fluxbox does not read proper keymap

2015-02-10 Thread cromozon
Hi Magic, It didn't help, I am able to change keyboard after startup using setxkbmap dk I have tried to add that to ~/.fluxbox/startup right before [exec] fluxbox but that doesn't change anything either I have also tried to add the following Section InputClass Identifier

Re: [Trisquel-users] An annoying thing that happens when upvoting a post here in the forums.

2015-02-08 Thread cromozon
true, anchor is the name :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] An annoying thing that happens when upvoting a post here in the forums.

2015-02-07 Thread cromozon
This is possible without javascript. each post could have a bookmark and the up/downvote could redirect to that after reloading the page.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-31 Thread cromozon
well so far so good for gnome3, I myself really like the overview you have from the activities since I have problems recognizing those small icons for the running applications that flashback provided, and for some reason, this is the first time I ever feel that using multiple desktops

Re: [Trisquel-users] rmdir unable to remove directory than is 0wned by me and has me as group

2015-01-31 Thread cromozon
same problem as above (which I guess is good)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-31 Thread cromozon
yrk, I looked some more at the GNU/hurd website, and it seems you need quite a lot of time to play around with, and then you will be working on hurd and not working as usual. If only there was infinite time :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-31 Thread cromozon
Does anyone know what would work and what would not switching to GNU/Hurd on my Trisquel I have * gnome3 * atom text editor * apache + mysql + php5 + mcrypt + gdimage and then all the stuff that comes with Trisquel 7.

Re: [Trisquel-users] rmdir unable to remove directory than is 0wned by me and has me as group

2015-01-31 Thread cromozon
yep, the thing is, that when I start atom from the shell, it doesn't block the shell as 'normal' application does... and it doesn't output anything. so I don't see any error messages at all from it. It is apparently supposed to write some messages to it's internal debug console, but

[Trisquel-users] rmdir unable to remove directory than is 0wned by me and has me as group

2015-01-30 Thread cromozon
rmdir unable to remove directory than is 0wned by me and has me as group it might just be some finer details that I misses about the filesystem... could you please fill me in :) I did sudo mkdir /usr/share/test sudo chown christian:christian /usr/share/test rmdir /usr/share/test rmdir:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-30 Thread cromozon
I actually switched to that wallpaper now, it is quite nice :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-29 Thread cromozon
Hi Trisquelian. The Cairo docks looks a lot like mac os, which we both here happens to find a fight to use, so that is not going to happen :) also, we both like to simplecity of the current menu. For most parts I really like gnome flashback as it is, and I think she will too, she haven't

Re: [Trisquel-users] all-in-one computer options

2015-01-29 Thread cromozon
I know that is what is being requested. that is what the velcro is for! In all seriousness. I do not see any downside in having a solution where you attach the mini to a normal monitor, compared to a traditional all in one solution where there is a slab of plastic covering those parts.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-29 Thread cromozon
That is also my feeling, I think that lowering the barrier at every point is a good thing, so I am using this opportunity to observe these interesting user difficulties that are hard to imagine when you are on the other side. that being said, I would like to point out, that I am very pleased

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-29 Thread cromozon
I am right now trying out the normal Gnome, and it looks like at have some advantages on touch screen. But it is quite fun, that the background selection thing is the exact same as in the Flashback :) I will see what she thinks

[Trisquel-users] 'Files' (the file manager) stopped accepting input on file rename

2015-01-29 Thread cromozon
well the title says it all. for some reason 'files' the gnome filemanager, has right now stopped accepting keyboard input, but as you can see here, my keyboard works just fine. I was able to rename some files, then suddenly the symbols didn't show up while renaming one file... I just now

Re: [Trisquel-users] 'Files' (the file manager) stopped accepting input on file rename

2015-01-29 Thread cromozon
hmm, I don't remember, I will try if it happens again.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo X61s WiFi

2015-01-28 Thread cromozon
Honestly, I don't think so :) in 32bit, each program can access 2GB of memory. most program use less than 2GB of memory I dont see why larger registers by itself should be faster... unless, and this is just thoughts, the program allocates lots of small memory pieces and deallocates them again

Re: [Trisquel-users] all-in-one computer options

2015-01-28 Thread cromozon
this https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-pocket-wee-gnu-linux-desktop (you can select dvd-rw as option) + monitor + velcro (put velcro on the monitor and on the 'pocket wee', then just stick it to the back ~= all in one PC :)

[Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-28 Thread cromozon
I don't really know if this is the right place to talk about this, but here goes. I recently installed Trisquel, first on my machine, then on my better-halfs laptop. I was impressed with how everything works, even the touch-screen. (it is a asus-s200e wich sadly comes preinstalled with

Re: [Trisquel-users] new vulnerability affects most gnu/Linux Systems

2015-01-28 Thread cromozon
Is this only applicable if you are running an email server then?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost my keys - not in sudoers anymore

2015-01-27 Thread cromozon
Agreed, that is a stupid default...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost my keys - not in sudoers anymore

2015-01-27 Thread cromozon
thanks Magic Banana, it looks the groups are fine then :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost my keys - not in sudoers anymore

2015-01-26 Thread cromozon
Hi Legimet, it works! seems we can learn a bit everyday... That little -a is really important here... Trying to modify the command line from grub promted me for root password... so that was a nogo. so, as you suggested, I had to start from the livecd. I modified the /etc/group by hand and

[Trisquel-users] Lost my keys - not in sudoers anymore

2015-01-26 Thread cromozon
Hello Freedom fighters! I have just installed Trisquel and likes it. But I have already f*cked up. I have somehow managed to get me out of the sudoes group. what I have done; was to add myself to the www-data group could this be related? (sudo usermod christian -G www-data) More

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost my keys - not in sudoers anymore

2015-01-26 Thread cromozon
Thanks supertramp, look like a good link, I will have a go