Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource
I thought you were looking for a dictionary explaining the meaning of computing terms, but "something like" a list of shortcuts sounds very different.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Moving files from one user to another / file recovery before re-installing
> Through messing around with the command line, I have somehow made it > impossible to login again to the GUI of main account I use on my > system. What did you do? Were you installing/removing packages? It's possible that something important got removed. Try running $ sudo apt install trisquel or if you use Trisquel mini, $ sudo apt install trisquel-mini and rebooting. > But I would like to get some files off of this user account before I > do so. > > What is the best way I can do this? If you boot into a live session from a USB drive, you should be able to mount your computer's hard drive using the graphical file manager and copy your files to another medium. If you installed Trisquel with full disk encryption or an encrypted home directory, you will need the password to decrypt the volume. Otherwise it should just work. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource
perhaps something specific I saw a while ago was a cheat card that gave shortcuts for using emacs (I think?). maybe something like this, that can help me understand the directory structure of Trisquel.
[Trisquel-users] Moving files from one user to another / file recovery before re-installing
Through messing around with the command line, I have somehow made it impossible to login again to the GUI of main account I use on my system. I think I will just be doing a re-install. But I would like to get some files off of this user account before I do so. What is the best way I can do this? I have attempted to move all the files from one user to another with "cp -r /home/jais /home/terracemill", but it returns "cp: cannot access '/home/jais .cache/dconf': Permission denied" what am I doing wrong here? I would like to move the files of user "jais" to the user "terracemill." how do I do this? I'm also wondering if it's possible to move the files to a flash drive through the virtual terminal, and if so, how to do this. Thanks in advance.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Graphical ISO available for testing
Still no success on the IME front.
I found "Writing non-Latin languages" (via "All Manuals") and followed the
advice. I successfully installed both ibus-hangul and fcitx-hangul with all
their dependencies (as well as nabi). Trisquel's manual page says: "After
that, you would press Ctrl+Space to turn on specific language input methods."
But nothing happens, neither on the panel nor when I'm typing in a Pluma
window, neither with Super+Space nor with Ctrl+Space.
"IBus Preferences" → "General" → tick "Show icon on system tray" checkbox
→ nothing happens.
"IBus Preferences" → "Input Method" → "Add" several Russian, nothing
happens; Korean still not even listed
"Fcitx Configuration" → "Appearance" → see "Cannot load currently used
user interface info"
I think I will find out how to do this, as I have on earlier versions of
Trisquel and other GNU/Linuces, I just don't think it's obvious how to do it
at all.
$ ibus-daemon with or without -v variously results in nothing happening and
no new prompt appearing, or a message telling me ibus-daemon is already
running, or “Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" /
(ibus-ui-gtk3:12110): IBUS-WARNING **: panel.vala:308: If you launch KDE5 on
xterm, export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE before launch KDE5. /
(ibus-ui-gtk3:12110): IBUS-WARNING **: ibus_bus_call_sync:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: No global engine.”
And after installing "ibus-anthy" as root, I see it available ("IBus
Preferences" → "Input Method" → "Add") when I open ibus-setup as root. I
no longer see it when I open ibus-setup as normal user "trisquel". Instead, I
get “Keyboard Input Methods (IBus Daemon) is not running. Do you wish to
start it?” → Yes → “IBus has been started! If you can not use IBus,
please open System Menu -> System Settings -> Language Support and set
the "Keyboard Input Method" to "ibus", then log out and back in again.” Ah,
I hope logging out and in will do the trick. But if I log out on this live
system, won't all my installs and settings also get lost? So I'll try that
when I'm done with everything else, and I might not report back here soon.
Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox - Can't see mounted ISO
I've tried to mount the Guest Addition CDROM image. But VirtualBox said that this ISO was not included in the main binary package (released under GPL v2). If I wanted to use it I had to download it first. Since the ISO image is not released as part of the GPL v2 licensed package, I suspect that there may be certain non-free software and/or firmware in it, such as non-free video driver/firmware. (Oracle claimed that installing this package would improve video performance.) I can try to download it and investigate whether there is any non-free software in it. However, here is a free/libre software community. I can't post any further information about it before I make sure that said guest addition package is free/libre (i.e. meets the community guidelines).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel & OpenVPN Not Getting Along
I can connect to the internet over wifi and ethernet without the VPN. Once connected to the VPN no internet connection. Yes, I've tried to connect through the GUI and through the terminal. I connect but no internet connection. as soon as I connect to the VPN all internet traffic gone.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Graphical ISO available for testing
Issue no. 25: Open Caja, the default file manager, or Pluma, the default text editor. Click F1 or press "Alt+H", "C" to open help. Nothing seems to happen. Issue no. 26: Open "Time & Date Settings…". Click "Help" or press "Alt+H". See "Could not display help / Failed to execute child process "gnome-help" (No such file or directory)".
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Graphical ISO available for testing
Issue no. 24: Cannot adjust Trisquel's time. Have Trisquel connected to the internet. Open "Time & Date Settings…" → "Configuration: Manual"; "Time:" Try to change time by a few minutes in either direction. Expected behaviour: Time change accepted. Actual behaviour: About 1 second after your change, time goes back to what it was before. I have not tested this while disconnected.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Graphical ISO available for testing
Thank you very much for Trisquel. I have some feedback below, I hope some of it will be useful. Overall and so far, I like Trisquel 9 much. No showstoppers for me. My feedback below is only about those things that I do not like or that are giving me some trouble. They are not representative of my opinion of Trisquel as a whole. The persistence in Trisquel 9 of some things that have bothered me in Trisquel 7 makes me wonder if developers use Trisquel in a very different way than I, using GUIs much less than I do, and possibly using the mouse much more when they do use GUIs. Things still look and feel more mousy and touch-screeny than desktop OSs of 15 to 20 years ago. I am glad to see that in scroll bars, the bars themselves are easy to make out; I've seen worse in recent distros which by default had very thin bars with poor contrast (the intention was probably to visually stay out of the way) that would improve as soon as you moved the mouse over them. I think such behaviour is not the best choice as scroll bars are not just for scrolling but also indicate how far up or down you are, something that was rendered difficult by the lack of contrast. If you want to reply, it may be useful for me and any other readers if you include the numbers given. Also, it may help to know that I used the live USB version (i.e. did not install Trisquel) and that I have poor IT skills and mostly just use software without understanding it. The order in which I am listing my issues is not by how much they bother me, but aims to make this more readable. My worst headaches would be 1 · 9 · 15 · 17 · 22 · 23. ⸻ Visual accessibility: Issue no. 1: Control Center → Hardware → Displays → Monitor preferences → "Monitor: Unknown", "Detect monitors" does not detect monitor. Resolution is at 1280×1024 px and Trisquel doesn't let me increase the horizontal and vertical pixel count over the values of 1280 and 1024, respectively. I was using a 1680×1050 px monitor going by the name of "HP w2207h" when I tested this. Trisquel 7 failed even worse in that it stretched a low resolution across the width of the screen most of the time, very noticably distorting the ratio; only rarely and seemingly randomly would it sacrifice screen real estate in favour of a good ratio, the way Trisquel 9 seems to do. For comparison, Tails detects everything just fine. I suspect HP is to blame. Issue no. 2: I think the system's failure to correctly detect my monitor's native resolution results in a less than 100 % crisp display. This, coupled with the more important factors of (1) fallback resolution still being fairly high (which is otherwise a good thing) and (2) Trisquel's font size default settings (Would it be possible to default to bigger font sizes on bigger displays and smaller font sizes on smaller displays?), makes for poor legibility of text, straining the user's eye. I wanted to remedy this. Alas: Issue no. 3: Control Center → Personal → AssTech → No "enlarge text" or some such. In Trisquel 7 and others, it was easier to enlarge panel and desktop text. The panel had an "assistive technologies" icon that lead to a list of on/off switches, one of which was "Enlarge text", done. Now you have to go Control Center → Appearance → Fonts → Application font etc. This makes it less immediately accessible. In some distros, "enlarge text" is accessible even from the login screen, but then you have to select it again upon logging in, unless your preferences have been saved. Issue no. 4: After successfully making text appear bigger, the icons are still tiny. I wanted to remedy this. Alas, I didn't find a way to embiggen all icons (1) in Trisquel's panel at the bottom of the desktop,(have empty panel space, right-click it, select "Properties", embiggen) (2) in Caja's sidebar for folder navigation, nor (3) on the desktop. Issue no. 5: Control Center → Look and Feel → Appearance → After choosing "high contrast" theme, look at the panel. Any applications that do not have the focus are unreadable (black text on a black background, which is quite the opposite of high contrast) until you first change the panel properties (by right-clicking on the panel; haven't found any other way) from "solid color" background to "none". Issue no. 6: I just noticed that switching back (?) from the "high contrast" theme to the "Trisquel" theme makes the window top bars thin again, with tiny buttons for minimizing/restoring/maximizing/closing. How do you change their size in any theme? There is "Customize…" → "Window border", where some choices are bigger by default, but is it not possible to adjust their size? Issue no. 7: Also, is it not possible to force three buttons on any theme instead of just two that many choices seem to have there? Issue no. 8: Control Center → Appearance → Interface → uncheck "show icons in menus" → preview doesn't change, and I thi
Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox - Can't see mounted ISO
@nadebula.1984 Thank you for your advice - I think I understand your points. In any case, it's also relevant for my learning curve to know why the ISO is not showing up (as it should and as it did on other Debian-based distros). If you could shed some light on that it would be great.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel & OpenVPN Not Getting Along
If I understand you correctly, you can connect to the Internet (without the VPN) but once the VPN connection is established, you can't access any website anymore. Am I reading you correctly? Also, have you tried connecting to the VPN via the network manager GUI or the openvpn CLI?
Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?
I want to use the digitizer. Anyway this is awesome. Especially painting materials are almost free of charge, no one can peep me is at work (maybe), I do not have to handle oil, solvent, and care of dryness, storage for my works. I am curiously more calm than excited.
Re: [Trisquel-users] VirtualBox - Can't see mounted ISO
It's a good idea to start studying GNU/Linux in VMs. And you have chosen a good hypervisor for Windows. VirtualBox is almost free/libre as well as beginner-friendly. In my practice, I'd also like to suggest beginners that they start with VirtualBox. If the Guest Addition ISO file is included in the main binary file (released under GPL v2) but not in the Extension Pack (non-free), then there's no major freedom issue. However, I never used the Guest Additions in practice. I just checked the Section 4.1 of the VirtualBox manual describing said Add-ons. On GNU/Linux guest operating systems, I don't really need the features provided by the Add-ons. In other words, I can easily find better alternatives. Let's talk about the features provided by the Addition pack: 1. Mouse pointer integration. Any modern GNU/Linux distribution should support this out-of-box. 2. Shared folders. Just install SSH server on the GNU/Linux guest operating system, and you should be able to share files securely. (You need to set the NIC to non-NAT mode, or else configure port forwarding. I set two NICs for my VM. One is set to NAT mode to access Internet, and the other is set to Host Only to share files with the physical host and/or other VMs.) Use free/libre software like FileZilla under your Windows host to access your SFTP server in the VM. 3. Better video support. Even with this addition, you can't expect to use your VM as a gaming console. 4. Seamless Window. X11 forwarding is way better. Just log on your VM using command "ssh -X" (or maybe "ssh -Y" if you use Cygwin on your Windows host) and you can project any window to your Windows host. (Be sure that you are running Xorg rather than Wayland on your GNU/Linux VM.) 5. Generic host/guest communication channels. Same as 2, SSH is way better. Just configure your virtual NIC correctly. Use free/libre software like PuTTY or Cygwin to log on your VM. 6. Time synchronization. Totally useless if you have Internet access. 7. Shared clipboard. This is a bug, not a feature. 8. Automated logins. This is a bug, not a feature.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?
Since you compose geometric pictures, then surely you'll need a vector image editor like Inkscape but not a raster image editor like Gimp or Krita, etc.. You can try to find some good vector image editors by searching something like "list of vector image editors". Please note that vector image (editor) and raster image (editor) are very different. One graphics editor may be good at composing one image type but not both. But if so, tablets and digitizer pens won't help you much. They are designed primarily for digital painting (raster images). You may find a high-resolution screen and a good mouse much more useful.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Graphical ISO available for testing
chaosmonk, any idea of when Trisquel Mini is gonna be ready?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel & OpenVPN Not Getting Along
I just bought this little dongle and works fine for me : https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb As far as bluetooth, I'm not sure. I don't use bluetooth so its something I look out for. I bought one of those Atheros cards from ebay but it got hot, ( the wifi card is installed right under the palm rest on the X60 ) noticeably hot to the touch. So, I went with the think penguin dongle. I'd like to think also for privacy purposes once the dongle is unplugged there aren't any radio frequencies being broadcast. PCIe (desktop) : https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-pci-card-v5-w-full-low-profile-brackets-tpe-npciv5lpfl Wifi card (laptop) : https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/wireless-n-pci-express-dual-band-mini-half-height-card-w-full-height-bracket-option-tpe-nh Laptops don't have PCIe slots from my understanding, but I had a 2012 MacBook for the last 7.5 years and just made the switch to Linux on a X60.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel & OpenVPN Not Getting Along
Happy New Year !!! I've only used Mullvad with OpenVPN. I'm VERY new to Linux and honestly could never figure out how to install the app. I would give it a try if I knew how to install it. Do you have any suggestions or theory as to why I'm unable to get Mullvad with OpenVPN to work ?? Any help is appreciated !!
[Trisquel-users] Re : What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?
Nice drawings can actually be done with GIMP. Here is an example: https://film.zemarmot.net/en/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Graphical ISO available for testing
Tools --> Add-ons. Cannot install by clicking on the link, must be opened in another tab for the link to launch the installer.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?
The Alt key solved the problem. But Krita still requires "at least OpenGL 2.0 or ES 2.0". The current installed version seems to be OpenGL 1.4. But I could not figure out how to upgrade it nor install the newer version. Because of the reasons, I mind to download it from their websites. Maybe that is not a so terrible problem, though. I wonder other Trisquel users have not the same problem when they run Krita for the first time.
Re: [Trisquel-users] What the best environment on Trisquel for professional graphic designers?
This seems to be a similar problem, though. If I click "Settings" > "Configure Krita...", a preferences window shows up. It sounds I should mark the OpenGL checkbox but I cannot scroll down to the lower part of the window, I guess maybe in the lower part of the window, there must be a button something like "Confirm" or "Apply" to change or confirm changed settings. But those pages have not a scroll bar, and I tried to move page or resize the window by a left click and the track point of the Thinkpad on the edges of the window to let it show the supposed button, it can be moved or resized toward down but not up. I mean, I cannot see the lower part of the page anyway. Is that a problem of Krita? or Trisquel? or some other thing? I tried some things on Trisquel side to change the screen settings to show the lower part but I could not make it. Also on their IRC, I asked how to solve this, someone said that I should check something HiDPI or HighDPI in "General" in the same setting page but for the same reason, I cannot apply the change. I mean, from the beginning, there is no "HiDPI" or something checkbox in the "General" tab. Maybe that is on the lower part of the page too. At least for me, when I meet a woman, the first impression is everything. I have not experienced to love a woman who gave me a bad impression when we met for the first time. They seem not to have had the experience (I think they should consider it seriously, possibly none of my business though).
