Re: [Trisquel-users] is Virtualbox non-free software?
Send them email and let them know how you (we) think. I think all kind of feedback is important.
[Trisquel-users] How to get keys on a Thinkpad T60 with german keyboard layout?
Hello everybody, i bought a cheap Thinkpad T60 and installed Trisquel on it. Some things don't work but I don't mind. The one thing which bothers me is that the notebook has a US keyboard with a long shift key. On a german keyboard, the shift key is only twice as long and instead there is an additional key, containing and |, and since this key is missing here I'm not able to type any of those characters as long as I use a german keyboard layout (which is a real problem if you want to write code or use the bash). I don't use any GUI but instead the awesome window manager, so solutions that don't include preference-tools of some DE are prefered. I already opened /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de and replaced acute with lesserthanequal and grave with greaterthanequal since I don't need neither of those keys, but first of all, those are not the names for and (how are they actually called?) and second, it didn't work! Even after reboot I still get ยด and ` instead of and . Does anybody know more about this topic? It's very tedious and time consuming digging in those config files.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 34 new tab page
I really don't like the direction mozilla is headed to - the last few versions with the change in the style (google copycat) and now this version 34 with the search tab and those tiles. I switched to icecat. Anyway thanks for the info legimet,onpon and lembas!!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help with Evolution Email from this Forum?
I found this here: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2014-October/msg00113.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153052#c5 I still believe that an inclusion of a newer Evolution is important for this distro.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Help with Evolution Email from this Forum?
Actually, according to one of the pages you linked to, I think Quidam only needs to take the current Evolution, and rebuild it with a patch.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 34 new tab page
I'm pretty sure Aurora isn't a Google (Chrome) copycat (if the tabs were square I doubt there'd be too much of such a sentiment). It feels heavier, though :(
Re: [Trisquel-users] How to get keys on a Thinkpad T60 with german keyboard layout?
I'm guessing there are a lot of German keyboard layouts to choose from and that you should try them one by one? https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard#Keyboard_configuration
[Trisquel-users] Re : How to get keys on a Thinkpad T60 with german keyboard layout?
is greater; | is bar. Instead of messing with xkb you can use xmodmap. You first need to dump the current mapping of the keys into ~/.Xmodmap: $ xmodmap -pke ~/.Xmodmap Then you must modify this file. In the first column, you have the key code (bound to a physical key) and then, after the equal sign, what character represents (first when the key is pressed without any modifier, then when Shift is pressed at the time, etc.). You can use the 'xev' command to discover what key code is bound to a particular key. For a clearer out, we can filter the lines with keycode: $ xev | grep keycode When the command is running, just press the key to discover its code. With GNOME, I then had to explicitly add 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' to the Startup applications. I believe you will not have this trouble with awesome.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter (TPE-N150USB)
We just got done testing some new firmware for the USB N adapters you may want to try. I don't think its going to solve the problem your having, but just in case. Basically on some systems the stability of the adapter can be a problem where the USB controller is flaky (that is the issue is in the computer rather than the USB N adapter). Not all USB controllers like larger packet sizes apparently and can be flaky as a result with many USB devices. The new firmware for the USB N adapter reduces the packet size to improve the stability on these problematic systems. It basically won't solve the problem for other USB devices that you might run into problems with on these systems, but it'll solve it for our two USB N adapters. We have to package up the source code for the firmware still, but when its done we'll go and post it under the support section of ThinkPenguin.com/support
Re: [Trisquel-users] kvm installation problems
Logging out and in is necessary. If you had use the command id you would have seen that your user was not a member libvirtd group.
[Trisquel-users] Laptop battery.
My laptop battery life is far from ideal; about 2 hours. It is a Asus x200CA. It might be because the battery isn't very large, in which case I will have to just live with it, However, are there any software things I can change (apart from the obvious screen brightness)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Bring compiz's Animations Add-On back AKA compiz-plugins-extra :) [SOLVED]
There is something I forgot to mention: Once you have installed compiz this way compizconfig-settings-manager won't have anything enable, so you will have to enable what you need. Window decoration will be one of them. Go to it's settings and change Command from /usr/bin/compiz-decorator to emerald --replace Some options you may want to get enable too would be: Window decorator Gnome compatibility Composite plugin OpenGl App switcher And move windows
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 34 new tab page
Thank you for all the answers, I'm glad it will be fixed, so I remebered of another bug (I still don't know how to submit): Abrowser is still sending downloaded file information to Google!! As Firefox 32 onwards wants to prevent malicious software from being downloaded, and I think GNU/Linux security updates can pretty much prevent better. I disabled manually, but I think it should be global: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/23/prevent-firefox-sending-download-information-google
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop battery.
What about installing the laptop-mode-tools package? It's in the Trisquel main repositories. Just do sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools from the terminal. For information on installing and configuring, [http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/01/install-laptop-mode-tools-ubuntu/ see this guide]
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop battery.
There's a few tips here https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/optimizing-battery-time
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop battery.
yes, I use this tool also, but I just changed the configuration file in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/cpufreq.conf from: BATT_CPU_GOVERNOR=ondemand to: BATT_CPU_GOVERNOR=powersave Another powerful tool is the powertop, already in the repository. Documentation is here: https://01.org/sites/default/files/page/powertop_users_guide_201406.pdf note: I don't know if it is safe to use more than one of this tools, so be careful.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 34 new tab page
Just for the record, as I saw onpon4's bug report for this tab issue, I submitted a new bug report for the Google tracking: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/13039
Re: [Trisquel-users] Connecting to wifi
Thanks for your reply. It's difficult to disable security on the router, as it's not my router. Happy to provide more info - could you be more specific as to what is needed, please? Will try a live USB stick and see what happens / report back. I am connecting to the correct router, using the correct password. There are no routers with a similar name. Numerous other devices in the house connect without problems.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop battery.
I like TLP. It does a lot of the things mentioned above but also conflicts with other power saving tools like laptop-mode-tools. http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html
[Trisquel-users] Problem with the output to the external Monitor
Hello Trisquel users ! I am facing an issue after upgrade from toutatis to belenos (the upgrade went smoothly, thanks quidam for making smooth transition !), which results in my external Samsung VGA LCD monitor not getting any output from my laptop's VGA port. Previously I had a virtual dual-screen setup, which worked, and the external monitor got the picture, when I started X/gdm (not before) but now the command xrandr which is supposed to list the outgoing outputs gives an error: root@trisquel# xrandr xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 1366 x 768, current 1366 x 768, maximum 1368 x 768 default connected primary 1366x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1366x7680.0* 1368x7680.0 Previously it listed VGA-0 as secondary output which went to my external monitor, so I was able to use the virtual screen solution there. I should add that the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file hasn't changed during the upgrade and remained the same as being used in toutatis. root@trisquel# lspci -v |grep VGA 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 7340] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) I already googled up the xrandr error, but couldn't find anything related that would fix my issue, I assume that it could be maybe a (proprietary) driver related issue ? Any hints are appreciated, I can paste more commands if needed to investigate the error ... Thank you !
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop battery.
thank you, I have installed laptop-power-tools. Hopefully it works, I will see tommorow at school. Also, I have a problem that when I close the lid, I want it to lock and ask for the password when opened again. How can I set that up? because there are many people at school who might do the wrong things with it.
[Trisquel-users] Just installed jxself's 3.18 kernel. Few questions.
As you know, Linux 3.18 was released and Jason has the latest at jxself.org/linux-libre/ for you all to download in Trisquel. I'm sure this has been answered before, but is there a command to see all the firmware that has been blocked/deblobbed by the kernel? When I built this PC, I made sure to have as much of my hardware open as I could. I noticed that my ethernet (r8169) that is part of motherboard doesn't work, but that is ok as I use the 802.11N dongle from Think Penguin. If there's an easy way to see ALL of the stuff that's been blocked by the kernel that would be great.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Just installed jxself's 3.18 kernel. Few questions.
dmesg | grep DEBLOBBED
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 34 new tab page
kepeken - that is very well known.. safebrowsing sending your info to gooshit! There are a lot of about:config entries one should change if he is concerned about privacy/security. I'm planning on doing an exaustive list but I need good will and time (I will check each entry in about:config using info on the mozillazine webpage. I used icecat for several hours today and yesterday and checked some very important (security/privacy wise) entries in about:config - icecat is much better in this sense. I prefeared Abrowser but now I love icecat!! ps. What does firefox turn into when google gives them 90% of their revenue? pps. the answer is - firefox turns into a biatch (google's biatch)! regards
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop battery.
Try the Power section in gnome-tweak-tool;
Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem with the output to the external Monitor
/etc/modprobe.d/disable-radeon.conf blacklists the radeon driver. Comment its only line by making it start with #: $ sudo sed -i 's/^/#/' /etc/modprobe.d/disable-radeon.conf Then update the initramfs: $ sudo update-initramfs -u A reboot later, the problem might be solved.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Just installed jxself's 3.18 kernel. Few questions.
[4.924482] r8169 :09:00.0: Direct firmware load for /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ failed with error -2 [4.924888] r8169 :09:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ (-22) That's what I got in the terminal and confirms my assumptions about the only non-free device. Either way, no big deal as I use WiFi as brought up earlier. Still, it would have been nice if my M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard had free firmware for the only ethernet port. Oh well. Maybe I should bug ASUS. Thanks for the help!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Laptop battery.
Under Brightness Lock, turn Lock on, and set it to lock when the screen turns off.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter (TPE-N150USB)
Sounds great! Thanks!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 34 new tab page
Yeah, Firefox is getting really bloated. Too many features (and features) I guess.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser 34 new tab page
Firefox has been bleeding marketshare to Chrome and IE the past few years and Mozilla is getting desperate. The majority of their money comes from Google and when that deal ends, who knows what will happen with the Mozilla Corporation. They think a Firefox phone is going to save them. It may crash and burn and take the Ubuntu phone with them.
