Re: [Trisquel-users] Redshift on Trisquel 8

2018-05-29 Thread david . ducassou
Tutorial (the way I did) : From the Trisquel 8 "Add/remove applications" software: search "redshift", install it. Edit the Redshift config file (from a console) : pluma ~/.config/redshift.conf Content (you will have to change "lat" at "lon" values to yours): [redshift] location-provider=m

Re: [Trisquel-users] Another bug report: Rhythmbox on GNOME is missing the label, only titled as "Unnamed"

2018-05-29 Thread david . ducassou
Command line to do the edit (Trisquel 8) : sudo pluma /usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop

Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats the deal with coreboot/libreboot on the x220/230? (looking for a more powerful freedom laptop)

2018-05-29 Thread lourivellini
@mason thanks for all the info. Kinda sad that core2duo is as good as you can get with libreboot, but I do agree EOMA68 looks promising (thought I heard about some arm processors supporting it as well). I think I will keep looking on ebay for a reasonably priced x220 or x230 to pop up and

Re: [Trisquel-users] XMPP client for Trisquel

2018-05-29 Thread xliang9550
If you really want OMEMO support, then you have to stick to Gajim. If OMEMO is optional, then you'll have many more options, e.g. Pidgin and Psi-plus, both with OTR support.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Who's On Mastodon?

2018-05-29 Thread calmstorm
Oh really, So your telling me this isn't just a tv show, it is actual reality? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs Cool man, this knowledge opens up so many possibilities although if anyone finds them they will probably turn them into gold... ;p couldn't resist... xD

Re: [Trisquel-users] Who's On Mastodon?

2018-05-29 Thread calmstorm
I agree Jodiendo, we need more smurfs, but people will just use things like facts and scientific data to say there is no such thing as smurfs... darn... xD

Re: [Trisquel-users] Who's On Mastodon?

2018-05-29 Thread jason
I'm now @jxs...@social.bobcall.me

Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats the deal with coreboot/libreboot on the x220/230? (looking for a more powerful freedom laptop)

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
> One reason why I was leaning towards the x220 is because Ive heard a lot > that its eventually going to get libreboot support, so if everything else is > almost equal, the chance of libreboot would give the edge to the x220 for > me. A while ago Leah said she was working on the X220, but she lat

Re: [Trisquel-users] Play swf games in Trisquel 8

2018-05-29 Thread xliang9550
Lightspark might work. But the best way to deal with Flash apps is to redirect them to /dev/null

Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats the deal with coreboot/libreboot on the x220/230? (looking for a more powerful freedom laptop)

2018-05-29 Thread xliang9550
Both X220 and X230 support up to 16 GiB RAM and are ideal for coreboot. The main difference is that X230 has native USB 3.0 whereas X220 not. Starting Haswell (4th generation Core), Intel implemented a treacherous anti-feature called "Boot Guard". So it's impossible to change the firmware o

Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats the deal with coreboot/libreboot on the x220/230? (looking for a more powerful freedom laptop)

2018-05-29 Thread lourivellini
Hey thanks for the response. Ive seen some x220 on ebay that include 16GB of RAM so I think itll work on either if needed. One reason why I was leaning towards the x220 is because Ive heard a lot that its eventually going to get libreboot support, so if everything else is almost equal, the

Re: [Trisquel-users] No video out after flashing libreboot on my x200 via raspberypi

2018-05-29 Thread lourivellini
Home now trying out sticks. Ive got 4 different kinds right now. Here is my log of whats happening: I put one stick in slot 0 Tried with battery in and no battery as well - makes no difference no wifi card installed, no hard drive only things plugged in are: LCD screen, keyboard, daughter-board,

Re: [Trisquel-users] lp no longer outputs to ~/PDF

2018-05-29 Thread greatgnu
`\o/

[Trisquel-users] Re : Play swf games in Trisquel 8

2018-05-29 Thread lcerf
Lightspark is in the repository too: Lightspark supports most of ActionScript 3.0 and has a Mozilla-compatible plug-in.[2] It will fall back on Gnash, a free SWF player on ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 (AVM1) code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightspark#Features Don't hold your breath: the odd

[Trisquel-users] Re : Panorama is broken in Flidas by the absence of pto2mk

2018-05-29 Thread lcerf
According to http://hugin.sourceforge.net : [Hugin is] an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools. "libpano", listed by mason, contains the so-called "Panorama Tools" and "hugin" indeed depends on them (wheras Pandora, the GIMP plugin, does not). If

Re: [Trisquel-users] Play swf games in Trisquel 8

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
Have you tried gnash? $ sudo apt install gnash $ gnash file.swf signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[Trisquel-users] Play swf games in Trisquel 8

2018-05-29 Thread gnuser
Hey everyone, I don't know if it's possible or not, I downloaded a game from a website that comes in a swf file. Trying to open it with VLC didn't gave me the expected result... Is if possible to play these games in Trisquel 8? Using only free software of course. Thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread svenerik_vn
T'was indeed worth trying :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
> but anyway yeah seems like the clue was to have Internet connection, but why > though? No idea. I'm glad everything's working now though. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
> Why do you think that will help? My friend got an identical (or at least extremely similar) message when installing Trisquel 8 on his Mac. We ended up reinstalling Trisquel several times that night, and found that the problem only occured when we weren't connected to the Internet. I don't act

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread svenerik_vn
Wierd thing.. First it just never went past the black screen with small messages on, with some green and red. I restarted, clicked on "try trisquel without installing", installed from in there, and hey.. now it works. but anyway yeah seems like the clue was to have Internet connection, but wh

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread svenerik_vn
Why do you think that will help? (I will try, I am just wondering what the logic is here. Also cheers on your new prof pic)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Who's On Mastodon?

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
> It would, but given how many people I've spoken to are able to rationalize > this[1] I am not optimistic that such a discovery would hurt Google. Forgot the link. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/07/google-ai-us-department-of-defense-military-drone-project-maven-tensorflow

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
> "The 'grub-efi-amd64' package failed to install into /target/. Without the > GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot." Try installing while connected to the Internet. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Trisquel-users] Who's On Mastodon?

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
> ... what that means in practice is that Google is (indirectly) using > sweatshop labour to train their machine learning systems. Yep. No need to get their hands dirty. The economic system does the job for them. > If it's wrong when > Nike and the Gap and Apple do it, it's wrong when Google do

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread enduzzer
Mini I only ran T8 live, never installed. It still has El Capitan on it. For the MBA, I now have Ubuntu 18.04 installed on it, before that Fedora 28 and before that Trisquel 8. MBA still has MacOS on the side, dual boot. With T8 I used rEFInd, Ubuntu and Fedora recognize and boot MacOS (Grub

Re: [Trisquel-users] XMPP client for Trisquel

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
I can't replicate this. If I go to Actions -> Join Group Chat -> Join New Group Chat and fill out the form, initially only "Join this room automatically" is greyed out, and it become selectable once I select "Bookmark this room". I wonder if all XMPP servers support persistent rooms. I doubt a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread svenerik_vn
Also tried the latest Trisquel Mini iso, same problem :/ "The 'grub-efi-amd64' package failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot."

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
> what is that jenkins list? Did you not use it to get Flidas beta images? > is that somebody who keep a database of historical Trisquel iso releases? If you want to try an older ISO that is where you'll find it. I'm not sure why you'd want to do that now that Flidas is officially released. If

Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats the deal with coreboot/libreboot on the x220/230? (looking for a more powerful freedom laptop)

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
I'm pretty sure that the X230 can be upgraded to 16GB RAM, and it may be possible with the X220. They cannot be librebooted, but they can be corebooted and ME-cleaned. If you have the technical knowledge to flash Coreboot, this will be as free as the most recent Purism laptop (the one with no ME

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread svenerik_vn
what is that jenkins list? is that somebody who keep a database of historical Trisquel iso releases?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Icedove Mail suggests amazon.com as search engine

2018-05-29 Thread svenerik_vn
What? :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread svenerik_vn
I tried to install Trisquel 8 from the latest iso on Trisquel's download page ( https://trisquel.info/en/download ) on my mbp 9,1 right now, and that didn't work and gave me the same errors some of you were talking about a while back. Anybody recently installed Trisquel on Macs? What iso im

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread sophoclestechnologies
By "works just fine", regarding T8 on the Mac Mini, do you mean that all the hardware is recognised and working? Does running any of the distributions you mentioned via a Live USB/DVD give an accurate indication of what hardware works or not, or is it the case that post-installation things

Re: [Trisquel-users] Panorama is broken in Flidas by the absence of pto2mk

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
I've never done anything with panoramic images, but $ apt-cache search panorama libpano13-3 - panorama tools library libpano13-bin - panorama tools utilities libpano13-dev - panorama tools library development files pandora - GIMP Plugin For Creating Panoramas hugin - panorama photo stitcher - GUI

[Trisquel-users] Panorama is broken in Flidas by the absence of pto2mk

2018-05-29 Thread amenex
After processing a bunch of images to create a usable panoramic image using Panorama in Belanos, I decided to do a comparative run with Flidas, but the file pto2mk is missing. A Google search says that pto2mk is no longer shipped with Hugin and suggests using hugin_executor instead. However,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread Mason Hock
> What MBP models do your friends have? The one running Ubuntu has a Macbook Pro Retina, from around 2013 I think. The one running Trisquel is newer, from around 2015. > Did they install the "third-party" > software during installation of the system? I don't think so, but he enabled the Restric

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread enduzzer
I have a Mac Mini late 2009 and Trisquel 8 works just fine on it. Yours is about the same time period. Why not give it a go. I'd try T8 if I were you and I had MBP 2009. That said, I've tried Ubuntu 18.04, Mint 18, Trisquel 8 and Fedora 28 on my MBA 2015. They all work. FacetimeHD wec cam

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread sophoclestechnologies
"The first installed Ubuntu, keeping a macOS partition. The only issues he's had have been adjusting screen brightness, which he fixed by switching to an older kernel, and hibernation, which I'm not sure if he's figured out by now." What MBP models do your friends have? Even with Ubuntu, t

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread sophoclestechnologies
loldier, which GNU/Linux distribution do you recommend for greatest hardware compatibility, given my case? Do you dual-boot, or have you replaced macOS with GNU/Linux? Which distribution have you chosen, and if you replaced macOS with GNU/Linux, do you still have a copy of macOS?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread svenerik_vn
I followed the guide of the first/best answerer here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/162705/macbook-pro-not-detecting-bootable-usb-with-yosemite and now the MBP detected the USB and booted straight to it. Just thought I'd share

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread svenerik_vn
One strange thing I noticed now while trying to get Parabola on my MBP 9,1 is that my iMac with Trisquel 8 installed recognize the USB flash with Parabola boot, but the MBP 9,1 in Internet recovery mode does not. Thought I'd just share this. And my DVD with and old version of Trisquel 8 is b

[Trisquel-users] Whats the deal with coreboot/libreboot on the x220/230? (looking for a more powerful freedom laptop)

2018-05-29 Thread lourivellini
Very interested in a device like the x220 or x230 if its possible to install libreboot or even coreboot with ME neutralized. Anyways, I have questions about both. Right now I use a librebooted x200, and a Dell XPS 13 (9360 - not free). I keep the xps for when I need more power, but the X2

Re: [Trisquel-users] No video out after flashing libreboot on my x200 via raspberypi

2018-05-29 Thread lourivellini
@uboot Yes everything is properly reseated. I took apart, cleaned and reassembled a few units before flashing to make sure nothing was messed up from doing that. Everything was OK until after the flash. I actually forgot to put the CMOS battery back in at first, so I powered down, unplugge

[Trisquel-users] XMPP client for Trisquel

2018-05-29 Thread amuza
Hi, I have some problems with Gajim. I have to configure Group Chats every time I need to use them. When configuring a new Group Chat, the two check boxes below ("Bookmark this room" and "Join this room automatically when connect") are grayed out. I managed once to bookmark them manually in

Re: [Trisquel-users] No video out after flashing libreboot on my x200 via raspberypi

2018-05-29 Thread trisquelforum
We would need more information, e.g. which RAM model. Oftentimes this is about incompatible RAM. That's where I'd look first if you're sure the flashing was successful. If you have two modules installed, try with only one (in this case you probably have two different modules installed which d

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting Trisquel 8 Working on Macs

2018-05-29 Thread enduzzer
MB 2009 is too old. It has no Internet recovery, and it cannot be upgraded to run Internet recovery. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202313