Re: [Trisquel-users] I bought a new WiFi card for my laptop that was listed as working on hnode, but it doesn't work in Trisquel. :(

2020-07-28 Thread Red Starfish
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:24:48 +0200 (CEST) qbasicj...@gmail.com wrote: > I bought a RTL8723BE from eBay hoping that it would enable my laptop I have been reading the Debian Installation manual and according to it [vendorID:ProductID] is the most reliable way to to identify devices[1]. "For USB

Re: [Trisquel-users] text-based browsers versus Icecat/Abrowser

2020-07-24 Thread Red Starfish
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:00:18 +0200 (CEST) aa...@posteo.net wrote: > I am sure we all have found some website that is not viewable through > Mozilla based browsers. Generally almost all website should be viewable with Abrowser(firefox based), if it doesn't it is the website's fault not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Optimizing Trisquel for Offline Computing

2020-07-23 Thread Red Starfish
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:47:35 -0500 Caleb Herbert wrote: > EndlessOS is designed to provide a good offline computing experience. > What could be done to implement something similar on Trisquel? > > I'd like some things to update when internet is available, but for > everything to generally work

Re: [Trisquel-users] Enigmail: Cannot import key

2020-06-28 Thread Red Starfish
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:03:47 -0500 Caleb Herbert wrote: > I am having much trouble importing this guy's key. > > https://thomasholbrook.com/contact-me/ I tried to import the key using gpg directly from a text file , and getting the same error message. $ gpg --import example.asc gpg: key

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is swap partition necessary?

2020-06-26 Thread Red Starfish
sabrinaki...@mailo.com wrote: > Do I need swap partition if I have 16 GiB of RAM? I don't think you'll need swap with 16 GiB of RAM. But having 3-4 GiB of swap wouldn't hurt you and hard disk space is cheap nowadays, So I'd recommend having it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How swap Caps lock with Control for Emacs

2020-06-24 Thread Red Starfish
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 23:01:38 +0200 Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > ... > I know you asked for Emacs specifically, but I want to mention this, in > case you could make use of it system wide: > > I use the following in my ~/.profile file: > . > setxkbmap -layout de -option ctrl:nocaps >