Yes, I have a brand new LibreCMC mini router from ThinkPenguin.
I don't have any experience setting static IPs and have rarely touched the
defaults on my old proprietary router so this is a good reason to start
playing with my new toy.
Feh is one such viewer that can also set the background.
sudo apt-get install feh
I would use SFTP then. Again, the most difficult part is to find how to
configure your router so that it always gives the same private IP address to
the same Ethernet or Wifi card (identified by its MAC address that 'ip addr'
outputs after "link/ether"). Do you know how to access its config
Gigolo is a really a great & easy SSH / SFTP application
one can also use the command ssh -X to have a graphical login.
For security it's good to use GnuPG for authentification.
> I need more power for some things and trying to accomplish that without
giving up on my freedom.
Like Magic Banana kind of implied, the most powerful "least bad" systems you
can get right now are from Think Penguin, particularly the desktop computers.
Note that they're still not as good f
Syncthing is working for me to keep folders synchronized among different
computers. I am excited about maybe being able to share folders with other
users over the internet and not having to worry about owncloud/openmailbox
drama after all, but that is not the immediate issue.
What I need to
To be sure, I am not trying to "set the background". To do that I use right
click on the desktop, or the Tweak Tool, or select the proper option while
viewing the picture. As I explained, it is precisely when using the Tweak
Tool to switch off "show icons on "desktop" that the problem occurs.
It may be a solution too. But, please, first tell us whether you want to
have folders copied to different computers and kept synchronized (Syncthing
is a solution) or do you want to access files that are kept on the sole
system you access (SFTP and NFS are solutions), not copied? And do you
I'm responding to comment #46 down here because things were starting to get a
little too scrunched to read. (It would be great if the indent width of
comment replies were halved so that it would take twice as long for this to
happen.)
After making deblob-check executable, running ./deblob-c
But you end up with the same files on all computers (a potential problem if
we are talking about accessing the movies from all computers, for instance),
right? It may be what Heather wants. But it is not what she asked for: an
alternative to Samba.
Sure: backups are needed. Do you use Sy
That definitely looks interesting. Thank you!
If your goal is to have more modern computing without compromising freedom,
Purism seems like a non-solution, as they do compromise freedom and don't
appear genuinely interested in solving the problems they insist are
temporary. Leah and Chris contribute part of their profits to the developme
What about nfs? I've never gotten very far trying to set that up before, but
it's been awhile since I've tried.
What about nfs? I've never gotten very far trying to set that up before, but
it's been awhile since I've tried.
If you decide to use SSH you should use rsync to sync files through it.
It'll compare files by date, size, etc. and make sure directories are the
same... if not, it syncs them together. Pretty great program.
I won't suggest SSH because:
1.- Too much work to autome sync between multiple devices
1b.- Syncthing already does this.
2.- No protection against removing files.
2b.- syncthing automatically saves several copies and previous versions of
files.
3.- If you do SSH you can't share files. You n
Thank you.
Syncthing and SSH look like the directions I want to go. SSH is going to take
a bit of work/growth on my part so there may be more questions.
Well, you do not want Trisquel on the external drive, right? It is possible
but I do not really know how (in particular how to get Windows to boot when
the external drive is not plugged in) and it would be slower.
So, if I were you I would use GParted to "delete" /dev/sdj3 (the root
partit
You can install SSH clients (probably already installed) and servers on all
computers. The hardest part is configuring the router so that every computer
always is given the same IP address. If we are talking about computers on
different networks, the router must also be configured to transm
Magic Banana Ha-ha, I have a surprise for you!
Earlier, You called something perfectly, PRECISELY what I should look for,
that I missed.
See my comment below.
Computers sold on http://libre.thinkpenguin.com are modern and as free as
Purism's, i.e., they perfectly works with Trisquel GNU/Linux, the default OS,
but they do not have a free UEFI (like Libreboot). Chris, ThinkPenguin's
CEO, is at the origin of the liberation of the ath9k_htc firmware,
Hi everyone, I am embarrassed to say how important something I forgot is.
I totally forgot about something that I thought had no bearing on what we
were attempting to do.
Remember I had a unexpected result when I attempted to backup windows?
Evidently, the external drive kit I assembled for th
So many hard drives!
/dev/sda contains data you access from Windows (I believe from the label:
"Data"). I believe from the "boot" flag that the bootloader (GRUB) was
installed on this drive. If /dev/sda2 really contains data (look at its
files, double-clicking on "Data", on the desktop),
Is it possible to get the clock applet use bold font instead of normal font,
in order to make the time and date more visible? Where can these preferences
be tweaked?
So the question is still hanging: how do you get the background to be drawn
if you do not want nautilus to handle the desktop?
Syncthing.
Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open,
trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve
to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how
it's transmitted over the Internet.
https://syn
What for? Either use Tails or use Heads, why would you spend countless hours
of your time securing Trisquel (and probably fail in the process - compared
to Tails anyway) when you can use a secure by default distro.
Heads is Tails without blobbery btw.
Trisquel serves a different purpose than TAILS. If you are looking for a
libre privacy-focused distro, this might be of interest to you:
https://heads.dyne.org/
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I've been using Samba for awhile and have found myself so dependent on it
that it limits my choices.
I understand that there are some serious security issues with this file
sharing program and that this is why updates sometimes break it. I don't
really need to communicate with windows machi
How can configure trisquel as like as tails?
But It is not 64 bit.
I'm not trying to fan the flames with this and I think this is an important
post as not everyone has been around here for a long time or is as
knowledgeable on the subject as some of you more experienced long time
members.
and even though it is publicity for purism, this thread made me hold o
If you really don't want to lose your windows partition that is fine.
If you have the money you can buy a clean HDD or SDD and put trisquel there.
I kinda don't want you to because I see you have 2 HDD and one SSD and space
more than enough.
But you said those disks are important and I unde
Hi heather
I lost my edit additional comment - sigh so much typing in vain, I won't do
it justice with my retry LOL
Yes, I'm on a budget but I should be able to get additional hardware if
needed, the laptop was the big expense.
No worries, ignore my stated impatience, it is the idle hand syn
Thanks.
I first tried the obvious way, by switching off the option through the Tweak
Tool, and got this grey background. That's why I tried to fix it through
dconf-editor, but what seemed to be the relevant option there
(org.gnome.desktop.background draw.background) is commented as "depreca
I could respect Purism more if it weren't for their company's name (and the
name of their OS, PureOS).
It's one thing to present yourself as offering the most free product
currently possible with modern specifications and styling, while being up
front that modern specifications and styling
Hang in there, Ron; you're doing great. My advice with the i7 would be
not to stress out over a small outlay of cash (I picked up some used 80
gig drives for my kids for $10 and can usually find 160 gig refurbished
for $20) for the huge peace of mind of knowing that your data is safe
and sound in a
That does not look "expected". Have you tried to set the background in more
normal ways (you may not do it right using the DConf Editor), right-clicking
on the background or through "GNOME Tweak Tool" (same tab where you disabled
the icons on the desktop)? If it is a bug, you can simply rem
Magic Banana I'll play with gparted to search all drives if I grasp how -
thanks for patiently reminding me :)
If I try to deactivate desktop management by Nautilus through switching off
the "show icons on desktop" option in the Tweak Tool, the background image is
replaced by the grey default backround at reboot (or logging off and back
in). I have tried to set it right through dconf-editor without su
I would first take a look at the partitions on the disk to understand what
did or did not happen:
https://trisquel.info/forum/13aug2017-buy-trisquel-laptop?page=1#comment-120080
(GParted is in the "System Settings" on the live system; you can choose
another disk with the drop-down menu in t
Hi happy_gnu,
So, Trisquel installation deceived me; hmm Arc seems to thinks so too.
Wow, even the OS is laughing at my ineptness, okay I can laugh too :)
I should have considered that possibility, after Trisquel's install script
asked me to input my user name and password then reboot and never
Hi SuperTramp83 and Magic Banana
I searched the internet to find the meaning of "chroot", too bad I can't put
Win7 in jail ("chroot") if I am using the term correctly?
Thanks everyone, this experience is akin to learning to swim by drowning -
full Immersion - jump in I guess.
But as you say,
That is usually what shows up when there is no bootloader. Looking at the
previous screenshots, I don't think your attempt to install Trisquel was even
successful, as there seems to be no partition on your desired drive or any of
them that could be holding it. That is why, earlier, GRUB gave
It looks like Trisquel wasn't installed. I bet because disk space was to
small. Maybe if you don't care about Windows and you don't have any data that
you care about on the SSD you can just wipe it and install Trisquel
forgetting about Windows for good :)
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