Re: [Trisquel-users] Professional Photography Tools Free Software

2015-10-04 Thread mcz
So that's dealing with CMYK to RGB? How do you do it in a proprietary software? I mean what is your goal exactly? Is it to have a printed picture, and to use it to make the sRGB version look as close as possible (provided your screen is rather neutral, and calibrated)? I think GIMP has "some" CM

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread mcz
About the looks, To change text size and background, it should be modifiable with the "Stylish" plugin. More like a temporary solution since a better default text size might matter for some new users. Or maybe We could just post a "Stylish" script that does just that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] OwnCloud error: System tray not available

2015-10-04 Thread strypey
I reinstalled Belenos, and now I find I can't even install ownCloud client, as it's been removed from the repos. Any idea why, and if it's likely to return? Sorry I haven't filed a bug yet. I tend to just post here when I have problems I can't solve on Trisquel. I'm guessing that's less ann

Re: [Trisquel-users] Encrypt home directory after install

2015-10-04 Thread strypey
I think I've asked about this elsewhere, but can't find the thread, and don't know if it got answered. Once your /home partition is encrypted, is it still possible to use it as a shared /home partition with another GNU/Linux installation on the same device? If so, what's the suggested method?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics driver support for Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2 with Trisquel GNU/Linux's 64-bit version.

2015-10-04 Thread davesamcdxv
I think driver updates can be installed by installing xserver-xorg-lts-(trusty/quantal/raring) rather than by installing a new kernel..if I'm not mistaken.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics driver support for Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2 with Trisquel GNU/Linux's 64-bit version.

2015-10-04 Thread lap4fsf
>>You can install a 64-bit version of Trisquel on this computer. Thank you for the confirmation, Magic Banana!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread eemeli . blasten
I have never changed anything in the /etc/rc.local, so I can't give any advice on that. On my laptop I disabled the gnome settings daemon for the mouse, and use the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that I posted in this thread. The bad thing about disabling the mouse settings daemon is that you will

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread jabjabs
I have no issue with the forum or wiki. While yes things can be improved there is nothing really important missing. The biggest feature of a forum is the community, everything else is just minor details.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Fix ntfs formatted disc in trisquel

2015-10-04 Thread lcerf
Yes, there is: 'sudo ntfsfix' (followed by the NTFS partition). But it does less than 'chkdsk'.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Fix ntfs formatted disc in trisquel

2015-10-04 Thread jason
Try checking the S.M.A.R.T. status with smartctl -H /dev/sda but if a disk is developing bad sectors I no longer trust it and immediately begin moving data to somewhere else. "I think my fan is broken could that have damaged the disk?" Heat could have. The S.M.A.R.T. results should talk abou

Re: [Trisquel-users] Burn iso to usb

2015-10-04 Thread jason
Um, this program seems proprietary. Please see the point about our community resources in http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines

[Trisquel-users] Re : Burn iso to usb

2015-10-04 Thread lcerf
EasyRE is not free software. This forum will not help you in the installation of proprietary software. It would not be helping you. Proprietary software never is the solution.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Helping new users choose application software

2015-10-04 Thread lcerf
Yes, it is.

[Trisquel-users] Fix ntfs formatted disc in trisquel

2015-10-04 Thread freeworld4
GParted 0.18.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize Libparted 2.3 Check and repair file system (ntfs) on /dev/sda3 00:00:01( ERROR ) calibrate /dev/sda3 00:00:00( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sda3 start: 41166848 end: 976771119 size: 935604272 (446.13 GiB) check

[Trisquel-users] Burn iso to usb

2015-10-04 Thread freeworld4
I tried many methods to burn EASYRE to USB. I used make startup disk creator doesn't work and the I tried this command "sudo dd if=/home/tyler/Desktop/EasyRE_for_Windows_10.iso of=/dev/sdc1 bs=8M;sync" It works but when I try and boot up from it I get a error that the operating system is mi

Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF 30th Birthday Party

2015-10-04 Thread jason
"VP8 is better in every way than Theora, as far as I know" Except one: Theora is easier on the CPU to encode and decode. Considering the laptop that's doing the encoding (probably an X60 with libreboot because they want to pull off the even using only free software) this may be another fact

Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF 30th Birthday Party

2015-10-04 Thread onpon4
It's lower quality for a given size, because VP8's compression is much better. I don't know for sure whether Theora is capable of being as high quality as VP8 or not, but that's a moot point, really. VP8 is better in every way than Theora, as far as I know. It really is strange that the FSF

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread tomlukeywood
i personally think the forum and wiki are fine they are user friendly and work well but it would be good to add a mobile version of the site if possible

Re: [Trisquel-users] Professional Photography Tools Free Software

2015-10-04 Thread freeworld4
What should I use for Color management? gnome-color-manager or dispcalgui? Color management is used so that the image you see on the screen is the same on different monitors or when printing out a photo.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Making radeon work again by bringing back Linux-libre 3.4

2015-10-04 Thread greatgnu
Jxself - your work is highly appreciated (as always)!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Making radeon work again by bringing back Linux-libre 3.4

2015-10-04 Thread greatgnu
easiest way, as lembas pointed out, is to write "linux" in the synaptic search field and there select all the older kernels (but one - it is always advisable to keep at least one in case something goes wrong with the newest one) end remove them.

Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF 30th Birthday Party

2015-10-04 Thread tomlukeywood
why is Theora lower quality than webm doesn’t it just depend on the bitrate?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Taurinus X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom

2015-10-04 Thread jason
What will the FSF do when a computer comes out with more free components? Award a "Super RYF" ? This is already addressed in their criteria. See http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria In particular: "We want users to be able to upgrade and control the software at as many le

Re: [Trisquel-users] Encrypt home directory after install

2015-10-04 Thread abjectio
GNUUser: I think it does not require to be in it's own partition. My /home has it's one partition, however it's only the user I specified which now has encrypted files, other users does not. Nothing in the man pages for ecryptfs which indicates that requirement either.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread jbar
I also think that a better forum and a wiki are needed. I guess this drupal bundle remains because is easier to mantain (I'm aware of the lack of hands working on trisquel). With the current forum when a thread is never-ending indented is impossible to follow. It also lacks features like qu

Re: [Trisquel-users] Making radeon work again by bringing back Linux-libre 3.4

2015-10-04 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
The graphical way is to open synaptic and select (in the lower left part) status > installed packages and search for "linux-image".

Re: [Trisquel-users] Making radeon work again by bringing back Linux-libre 3.4

2015-10-04 Thread onpon4
Just remove the appropriate package. There should be one with a name that starts with "linux-headers" and one that starts with "linux-image". You can find them easily with this command: aptitude search "~i linux"

Re: [Trisquel-users] Making radeon work again by bringing back Linux-libre 3.4

2015-10-04 Thread gnuser
After installing Trisquel 7, and installing the 3.4 kernel, how can I remove the older kernel? I don't want to just make it disappear from the list of options that GRUB gives me, I want to really "uninstall" it from the system.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Taurinus X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom

2015-10-04 Thread gnuser
Sorry, missed your earlier post. Why, thank you, yes I am ;-) And yes, exactly that! I think giving a RYF badge to a computer merely because it supports libreboot, is... short sighted. What will the FSF do when a computer comes out with more free components? Award a "Super RYF" ? That is not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Making radeon work again by bringing back Linux-libre 3.4

2015-10-04 Thread jason
"The PAE thing is unimportant in amd64 right?" Yes.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Encrypt home directory after install

2015-10-04 Thread gnuser
Thanks for posting the question and the answer. One question of mine: does it require to the home directory be in its own partition (in the installer choosing a separate partition for swap, home and system) ?? Or can it be in the same partition and it will just encrypt the directory (dunno ho

Re: [Trisquel-users] Making radeon work again by bringing back Linux-libre 3.4

2015-10-04 Thread gnuser
The PAE thing is unimportant in amd64 right?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Making radeon work again by bringing back Linux-libre 3.4

2015-10-04 Thread gnuser
Thanks!! I am one of the unfortunate souls who have a Radeon GPU, and this is really a life saver. I saw your reply to my post on the other thread but couldn't get back to you before I saw this. I will certainly use it! Keep up the good work!

[Trisquel-users] Re : Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread calinou
We could have an Announcements section on this forum, where only moderators can create new threads.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread calinou
I'm not aware of any responsive themes for PunBB.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Helping new users choose application software

2015-10-04 Thread moxalt
> AR/A would only offer end-user applications Is this not already the case?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Midori won't open some websites because of security certificate problems

2015-10-04 Thread moxalt
> It's in your home folder, if you happen to have one. Only if he doesn't use a login manager, and uses startx instead. Even then, the system could just be using the system xinitrc in /etc/X11. I must admit I am slightly puzzled as to what Midori should ever have to do with an .xinitrc file. What

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread legimet . calc
I don't think what we need is a more "modern" forum, all we need is a forum with fewer bugs and maybe a few more features. Could PunBB work?

Re: [Trisquel-users] GRUB issues

2015-10-04 Thread moxalt
It really shouldn't be that hard. If you have problems with GRUB (such as it not booting correctly/not installing correctly/incorrect boot options) simply get a live CD (any distribution will do) and boot from that. Then open a shell and mount the drive in question like so (usually /dev/sda):

Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF 30th Birthday Party

2015-10-04 Thread jason
Ask the FSF. This is what it was streamed in. All I did was capture the raw stream with wget and put it online, nothing more. Encoding it into another lossy format is not a good idea, to lose even more.

[Trisquel-users] Making radeon work again by bringing back Linux-libre 3.4

2015-10-04 Thread jason
I wanted to say that I'm resurrecting the Linux-libre 3.4 series in my APT repository. I had previously dropped support for it last October in favor of the newer LTS kernels 3.10 and 3.14 but since it seems these have problems with the radeon module running without blobs, and since some peopl

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread legimet . calc
I run a tablet with Replicant (albeit with nonfree wifi firmware). It is very difficult for me to read this forum.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread albin
Adding "synclient TapButton3=2" to "/etc/rc.local" did not work.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread eemeli . blasten
I wrote a small guide for myself on making the keyboard and touchpad work well earlier. I'll post it here, I won't have time to upload it to the wiki today anymore: How to make the macbook keyboard use the Keypad Enter (the key to the left of the left arrow key) as an AltGr? - temporarily

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread albin
Yes, please do that! I already made a few changes to it in the last few days. I should add as well that I don't have a battery for this machine so maybe that's why I don't get the "unknown key" error. It's great that this macbook2,1 is getting into better shape. We need to make it easier for

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread eemeli . blasten
Thank you for the information. Anyway I was curious to see what my MAC address was supposed to be, so I removed the battery and peeked at the sticker below it. It seems that taking the battery out for a while made the "unknown key" error disappear, at least for the moment. Oh, and by the way, wh

Re: [Trisquel-users] Software installation for Gnubies

2015-10-04 Thread santiago . lorente
Thank you for the explanations and for the link. Much clearer now. I have just found this other topic very useful too: https://trisquel.info/es/forum/installing-apps-app-get

Re: [Trisquel-users] Software installation for Gnubies

2015-10-04 Thread greatgnu
sudo apt-get install appname https://flossmanuals.net/command-line/_booki/command-line/command-line.pdf welcome to the community!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread albin
Great! I got proper middle tap working (three fingers) by just entering "synclient TapButton3=2" in the terminal. Would you suggest your method over putting the command in "/etc/rc.local" as lembas suggested?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread albin
I've had the same "Unknown key" issue on a different macbook2,1 with one of the early libreboot versions, thus I don't think it's an issue related to your particular hardware. I haven't yet experienced it with this machine, however.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Graphics driver support for Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2 with Trisquel GNU/Linux's 64-bit version.

2015-10-04 Thread lcerf
You can install a 64-bit version of Trisquel on this computer. I just do not understand why you choose the dated Trisquel 6. Trisquel 7's ISO is not larger.

Re: [Trisquel-users] would anyone know of any online classes that i could learn more about linux?

2015-10-04 Thread onpon4
For game development, this is generally my recommendation list: GDevelop - http://compilgames.net Godot Engine - http://www.godotengine.org SGE Game Engine - http://stellarengine.nongnu.org LÖVE - https://love2d.org Cocos2D - http://www.cocos2d.org Each of these options has different advantages

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread eemeli . blasten
Some more updates: the issue of "--MORE-- Unknown key 0xFF detected." came back a long time ago but I was too lazy to report it here. I believe it might be caused by one of these: a) faulty hardware in my case, or b) the grub settings I use. I am not yet in a mood to investigate more. So far

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics driver support for Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2 with Trisquel GNU/Linux's 64-bit version.

2015-10-04 Thread lap4fsf
Hi Magic Banana, >>Why haven't you installed Trisquel 7? My internet download speed is unfortunately low, this time; So I decided to download Trisquel 6.0.1 from mirror.fsf.org for the time being. I will soon upgrade to Trisquel 7.0. By the way, do you have any idea whether this graphics d

[Trisquel-users] Re : Software installation for Gnubies

2015-10-04 Thread lcerf
There is one single Trisquel repository (well, one per version, divided in sections, and mirrored on other servers). It is managed by Trisquel developers led by quidam (Rúben Rodriguez). "Add/Remove applications" does not show all applications. Only graphical applications that a non-technic

Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF 30th Birthday Party

2015-10-04 Thread tegskywalker
Why are you using the lower quality Theora in the ogv conatainer instead of WebM? For second, I forgot what year it was and it was before 2010.

Re: [Trisquel-users] some problem after fresh install with Full Disk Encryption

2015-10-04 Thread mcz
As someone who struggled a long time with my install, here's what I can tell you : 1) I remember trying the graphical install, but then switching to the text install, because I could see all the needed options easily. 2) try finding a Debian tutorial for full encryption install. I found one

[Trisquel-users] Software installation for Gnubies

2015-10-04 Thread santiago . lorente
Hi, I was about to post this in this thread: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/helping-new-users-choose-application-software But, as I don't have an opinion, but a basic help request, I opened a new topic. The thing is that I still don't know how the software installation works. I normally in

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread eemeli . blasten
Wow hey I have to thank you guys for opening this topic again! Seems that three-finger tapping works! I read the manual of synaptics, and after trying "synclient TapButton3=2" it works!! The issue is that although I have Option "TapButton3" "2" in my xorg.conf the three-finger tapping didn'

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread noordinaryspider
I had to leave a special interest (not computer related) forum where I was a regular after "modernization", which I doubt would happen here (the issue was javascript) but I think we do need to be aware that some of us prefer Lynx, Dillo, or other lightweight browsers and that there are a fair

[Trisquel-users] Re : some problem after fresh install with Full Disk Encryption

2015-10-04 Thread lcerf
Follow http://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html then. Would you show us the window with the four speech dispatchers? That is strange. I thought you were talking about the screen reader, which can be deactivated with Alt+Super+S too (Super is the Windows key on most keyboar

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread mcz
Even if for the most part it works just fine, I wouldn't mind improvements, as long as it keeps on working fine without Javascript. What might be missing (I think it's easy to fix) is a way to display important announcements. For example, I nearly missed the fact that IceCat has security issues f

[Trisquel-users] Re : Graphics driver support for Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2 with Trisquel GNU/Linux's 64-bit version.

2015-10-04 Thread lcerf
Why haven't you installed Trisquel 7? Updating the kernel always is an option to get hardware to (better) work: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel

Re: [Trisquel-users] FLIF may be dead on arrival due to GPL license

2015-10-04 Thread tegskywalker
That's a good thing the FLIF team was able to comprise. Codecs and formats in general should be as unrestricted as possible to aid in adoption. Heck, the Edge browser in Windows 10 is getting WebM support thanks to the codecs being under a BSD license.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Help needed - Cannot log in trisquel after external harddisk not ejected properly

2015-10-04 Thread devtaporia
ok. will do so.. thanks a lot for your help :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread gaffel
Earlier this year, I tried to give the forum administrators simple tips on how the forum could be simplified and look cleaner. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/tweak-forums-user-friendliness I failed.

Re: [Trisquel-users] would anyone know of any online classes that i could learn more about linux?

2015-10-04 Thread tomlukeywood
"which tends to follow my opinion of discouraging C/C++ as a first language" i discourage C++ as a first language but i would in courage C when i first started learning programming i tried python as everyone said it was a good language for beginners but to be honest i didn’t rely learn anyth

Re: [Trisquel-users] would anyone know of any online classes that i could learn more about linux?

2015-10-04 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
> You can find a good tutorial here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp These guys at least used to recommend some non-standard internet explorer only stuff so be careful.

Re: [Trisquel-users] some problem after fresh install with Full Disk Encryption

2015-10-04 Thread thl
Hi, I also found this guide. Unfortunately it is not possible to (completely) use this with libreboot. The Step "Decide if you want to install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record." is not applicable, since in libreboot the GRUB has to be stored differently. Compare: http://libreb

[Trisquel-users] Re : FLIF may be dead on arrival due to GPL license

2015-10-04 Thread calinou
FLIF will be relicensed later to a more permissive free software license.

[Trisquel-users] Re : would anyone know of any online classes that i could learn more about linux?

2015-10-04 Thread calinou
For making games, you can use those free software: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:For_Game_Developers

Re: [Trisquel-users] would anyone know of any online classes that i could learn more about linux?

2015-10-04 Thread tomlukeywood
first you will need to learn how to program (unless your making very simple stuff in which case try Scratch) I would Recommend learning HTML first as its used to make web pages as is very useful to know but is also a very good first coding language for HTML all you need as a development too

[Trisquel-users] Antwort: Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread shiretoko
"prioritizing access via a computer that is not a free software device (a "smartphone") is painfully ironic in the context of discussions intended for use by people discussing a totally free software operating system." Sure, let's not care about people who aren't already freed. That will help t

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Macbook 2,1

2015-10-04 Thread t8mf4nu6lizp
You want to put that in your startup scripts. There might be a graphical way to do it or you can put that to /etc/rc.local (before exit 0) I believe the reason the top corner does not work is the setting for TopEdge is too small.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Modernizing the Trisquel forums

2015-10-04 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Clearly the design of the website doesn't apply to you, since you don't use the website – so leave it to people who use the website to comment on this. I find this to be the most troubling part of your needlessly heated post -- the idea that it's acceptable to tell anyone not to comment on some

[Trisquel-users] Graphics driver support for Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2 with Trisquel GNU/Linux's 64-bit version.

2015-10-04 Thread lap4fsf
I have just installed Trisquel GNU/Linux 6.0.1, 64-bit version on my computer, whose specification is available here. Everything works excellent, and I have even enabled Compiz. One thing that I find a bit annoying is that my graphics driver (Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2) is listed as unknown an

Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF 30th Birthday Party

2015-10-04 Thread abjectio
Ohh - thanks for sharing jxself !