Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Mini on Asus Eee 900

2011-09-23 Thread lakristho
levl: Do'H! Haven't even thought about that - will try that as soon as I get home. I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't think about such an obvious fix :) Thanks - will return if it work out.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot Get To Bottom Panel with Accessibility

2011-09-23 Thread gp
I think it should be metacity instead of nautilus.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Mini on Asus Eee 900

2011-09-23 Thread lakristho
Thanks levl - it worked :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Mini on Asus Eee 900

2011-09-23 Thread lev . lazinskiy
Hahaha! I am glad to hear that it worked. :) Don't feel embarassed I have spent hours trying to fix various issues in the past and when I finally got to the answer it was usually something obvious and simple. Enjoy your Trisquel-mini! Just a quick question though does the wifi work out

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel Mini on Asus Eee 900

2011-09-23 Thread Dave Hunt
I have an Asus netbook, on which the wifi works, ootb, with Trisquel 5, I18N Edition. -Dave On 09/23/2011 10:34 AM, lev.lazins...@gmail.com wrote: Just a quick question though does the wifi work out the box on your eee-pc? Or at all?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to present Trisquel to people

2011-09-23 Thread Andrew Lindley
Agreed. But I would also like to suggest people don't get drawn into the trap of letting others compare 'all potential function loss' against their freedoms. In the days of yore M$ tried to make the functionality argument against GNU/Linux. I've recently had the same argument made [Nth-hand] by

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot Get To Bottom Panel with Accessibility

2011-09-23 Thread magicbanana
Damn. Of course, you are right!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to present Trisquel to people

2011-09-23 Thread tegskywalker
My brother, who is far from a computer expert, got a laptop from someone for his schoolwork a few weeks ago and asked me to wipe it clean and start over. I booted live CDs of various distros and setup Trisquel 4.1 LTS and Ubuntu 11.04 and he picked the look of Trisquel. I wanted to go with a

[Trisquel-users] Postgresql

2011-09-23 Thread Christian Campos
*Saludos a todos:* No sé si antes ya se haya comentado, ¿pero qué opinan sobre Postgresql? ¿Puede ser considerado como software libre? Si es así, ¿alguien sabe si está incluído en los repositorios de Trisquel? Porque al menos yo no lo he encontrado Gracias de antemano.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to present Trisquel to people

2011-09-23 Thread mampir
I think the only proper way to present Trisquel to other people is to tell them why you use it. If you use it because how secure, stable, how much money you save with it, or how beautiful it looks, then tell them about that. If you use it because of the social and moral issues, then tell them

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with radeon and Trisquel 5.0

2011-09-23 Thread Mampir
Thanks! Using the same configuration as yours, now I'm able to switch to text mode, logout and see the pulsating Trisquel's logo when shutting down. What is the reason for setting resolution and color depth by the kernel at boot time?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to present Trisquel to people

2011-09-23 Thread Andrew Lindley
M$ = Microsoft W$ = Microsoft Windows also A$ = Apple I$ = IBM Read them as also saying 'Their proprietary code is a worse deal than buying an 8-bit computer today.' Leny / Andrew On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:32:46 +0200 (CEST) akirashinig...@gmail.com wrote: What is W$?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot activate Desktop effects

2011-09-23 Thread magicbanana
libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental-dbg is for debugging. It will not change the result but probably is essential to a good bug report. So, if you want to help the developers...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to present Trisquel to people

2011-09-23 Thread adrian . malacoda
You should emphasize that free software gives the user control over their computer, and that free software does not carry the same restrictions that non-free software (you might want to call non-free software something like licensed software to explain that the user is only licensed to use