[Trisquel-users] Mouse click problems using trisquel 8 on T400s

2018-11-01 Thread lcotton
Hi I have recently purchased a T400s which came with Trisquel installed. Release information comes up with: DISTRIB_ID=Trisquel DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.0 DISTRIB_CODENAME=flidas DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Trisquel GNU/Linux 8.0, Flidas" NAME="Trisquel GNU/Linux" VERSION="8.0, Flidas" ID=trisquel

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mouse click problems using trisquel 8 on T400s

2018-11-03 Thread lcotton
Hi Thank you for the reply. I followed the instructions and upgraded to 4.19. However the problem has if anything got worse - simply a movement of the mouse can instigate repeated appearance of right click menu resulting multitudes of new folders being created. The gui is pretty much

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mouse click problems using trisquel 8 on T400s

2018-11-04 Thread lcotton
Thank you for the reply. Fn-F8 disables the touchpad and indeed if I disable it I can use a USB mouse fine. This suggests to me that there is something up with the touchpad itself, so I will probably end up having to send it back. However before I do that I'd like to check whether I have

[Trisquel-users] List and install driver(s) for touchpad on Thinkpad T400s

2018-11-05 Thread lcotton
Hi I'm currently experiencing some problems with the touchpad on my Thinkpad T400s and would like to check what driver is being used for it and possibly try to re-install it or install a new one. Does anyone know how I can find out what driver is currently installed for the touchpad and

Re: [Trisquel-users] List and install driver(s) for touchpad on Thinkpad T400s

2018-11-10 Thread lcotton
Thank you very much again for your reply. It seems that the synaptics driver is already installed: apt list --installed | grep xserver-xorg-input-synaptics WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/flidas,now 1.8.2-1ubuntu3

Re: [Trisquel-users] List and install driver(s) for touchpad on Thinkpad T400s

2018-11-11 Thread lcotton
I disabled the conf files, but still see the problem. Removing synaptics and installing libinput: sudo apt remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-libinput makes the problem worse - right clicks pop up more often, left clicks do not work at all. Fn F8 also

Re: [Trisquel-users] List and install driver(s) for touchpad on Thinkpad T400s

2018-11-06 Thread lcotton
Thank you for your replies: > There is no need to open a new thread every four days for the exact same problem: I figured the question about how to list/install/uninstall drivers in Trisquel was a separate topic not directly related to the mouse click problem I have. I wanted to find out

[Trisquel-users] Pairing bluetooth devices

2019-07-13 Thread lcotton
Hi I have been trying to hook up a bluetooth speaker with my t400s laptop. I've not done this before so am working a bit in the dark, but I installed blueman (sudo apt-get install blueman) and used have used the ui to detect the device. However when I try to pair it always fails. I am

Re: [Trisquel-users] confiring wireless manually from the command line

2020-02-08 Thread lcotton
Adding attachment containing output from jounalctl for NetworkManager when it is running

[Trisquel-users] confiring wireless manually from the command line

2020-02-08 Thread lcotton
Hi I have been attempting to configure wireless manually from the command line on my Thinkpad 400, but have been unable to get a connection. I am using Trisquel 8.0 which I believe is based on Debian: $ uname -a Linux technoethical-t400s-b9d0 4.19.0-gnu #1 SMP Mon Oct 22 06:05:01 PDT 2018

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install gtk+-2.0 on Trisquel 8

2020-08-30 Thread lcotton
Thank you for the reply. Initially when I tried to install libgtk2.0-dev I git the following error: $ apt install libgtk2.0-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an

[Trisquel-users] File manager has stopped working

2020-09-01 Thread lcotton
Hi System Info: $ cat /etc/*release DISTRIB_ID=Trisquel DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.0 DISTRIB_CODENAME=flidas DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Trisquel GNU/Linux 8.0, Flidas" NAME="Trisquel GNU/Linux" VERSION="8.0, Flidas" ID=trisquel ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Trisquel GNU/Linux Flidas (8.0)" VERSION_ID="8.0"

[Trisquel-users] How to install gtk+-2.0 on Trisquel 8

2020-08-21 Thread lcotton
Hi System: $ cat /etc/*-release DISTRIB_ID=Trisquel DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.0 DISTRIB_CODENAME=flidas DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Trisquel GNU/Linux 8.0, Flidas" NAME="Trisquel GNU/Linux" VERSION="8.0, Flidas" ID=trisquel ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Trisquel GNU/Linux Flidas (8.0)" VERSION_ID="8.0"

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to install gtk+-2.0 on Trisquel 8

2020-08-24 Thread lcotton
Thank you for your reply. Yes it does seem I already have libgtk2.0-0 installed: apt install libgtk2.0-0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libgtk2.0-0 is already the newest version (2.24.30-1ubuntu1.16.04.2). 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly