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

2020-06-23 Thread Yoni Rabkin
mynewem...@firemail.cc writes: > I want to swap the Control key with Caps Lock key in Trisquel 8.0 > mini. I followed this Emacs wiki page > (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey). According to it > inside /etc/defaults/keyboards XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:swapcaps" and ran the > following

Re: [Trisquel-users] A few questions from GNU/Linux Trisquel guys (friendly)

2020-06-08 Thread Yoni Rabkin
vas19...@ya.ru writes: > Why lisp? Why not? -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"

Re: [Trisquel-users] A few questions from GNU/Linux Trisquel guys (friendly)

2020-06-07 Thread Yoni Rabkin
wfs...@protonmail.ch writes: > Hi friends, > First of all, I'm sorry to ask these kind of questions. I know this > forum is for Trisquel related questions, but here is so lovely. nearly > all forums runs non-free javascript so real freedom is only exist in > here :) > At the moment I'm a student,

Re: [Trisquel-users] minimal window manager

2020-06-05 Thread Yoni Rabkin
liching...@disroot.org writes: > https://dev.to/l04db4l4nc3r/herbstluftwm-a-dead-simple-window-manager-48ao > > Hello, I find this interesting article > about some minimal windows manager. > What do you think? Looks a lot like my window manager of choice, which is awesomewm

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to Work Around No Python-Pip in Trisquel

2020-06-04 Thread Yoni Rabkin
David Philipe Gil writes: > When I type... > > sudo python3 ./hid-recorder > > I get the following output... > > Traceback (most recent call last): >   File "./hid-recorder", line 20, in >     import hidtools.cli.record >   File >

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to Work Around No Python-Pip in Trisquel

2020-06-04 Thread Yoni Rabkin
David Philipe Gil writes: > Yes. "which python3" says: > /usr/bin/python3 OK, so how about: $ sudo python3 ./hid-recorder ...or $ python3 ./hid-recorder ...if you already have access to /dev/hidrawX -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to Work Around No Python-Pip in Trisquel

2020-06-04 Thread Yoni Rabkin
davidp...@protonmail.com writes: > The instructions produce the error: > sudo: unable to execute ./hid-recorder: No such file or directory > > ... after I enter "sudo ./hid-recorder" -- yes the file exists. Do you have python3 installed? -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to Work Around No Python-Pip in Trisquel

2020-06-03 Thread Yoni Rabkin
davidp...@protonmail.com writes: > HI, I am trying to use a software named "hid-tools": > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/hid-tools/ > > In the instructions, it seems to require using python3-pip, however it > seems Trisquel does not allow that package manager to exist. How can I > use

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-22 Thread Yoni Rabkin
vas19...@ya.ru writes: > Why did you call python3 with youtube-dl? Many issues reported about youtube-dl have their fix related to using python3. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-21 Thread Yoni Rabkin
centurin...@protonmail.com writes: > Did you install youtube-dl with pip or apt? I'd really recommend > against using apt because the version in the repositories is really > outdated and that's not good considering how often Google updates the > API. If you installed it through pip, you can run:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-21 Thread Yoni Rabkin
stry...@disintermedia.net.nz writes: > Thanks for the tip but it didn't work for me. Here's the output: > > strypey@Bishop:~$ sudo youtube-dl -U && python3 'which youtube-dl' > "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3YP1TU-L_8; > [sudo] password for strypey: > It looks like you installed youtube-dl

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-21 Thread Yoni Rabkin
lc...@dcc.ufmg.br writes: > The quotes in yrk's command are backquotes: ` and not '. I prefer the > syntax $(...), which does exactly the same thing but avoids the > confusion (and I prefer single quotes to double-quotes when the shell > should not interpret anything in between): > $ sudo

Re: [Trisquel-users] Youtube-dl failing to download on Flidas

2020-05-20 Thread Yoni Rabkin
stry...@disintermedia.net.nz writes: > Youtube-dl has always worked reliably on my Flidas systems. But in the > last few days I noticed it failing to download videos from YT. > > Here's the terminal output: > > strypey@Bishop:~$ youtube-dl https://yewtu.be/watch?v=O3YP1TU-L_8 > [generic]

Re: [Trisquel-users] The lights of the Ethernet port does not blink and connect to internet

2020-05-12 Thread Yoni Rabkin
msuz...@posteo.net writes: > Hi. > My X200 recently does not connect to internet with Ethernet. I noticed > that the lights of the Ethernet port that blinked while the Ethernet > cable was connected does not blink. Would it be a hardware problem? > Would someone know how to fix this? I use the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Graphics lagging on x200?

2020-05-07 Thread Yoni Rabkin
erick.medell...@gmail.com writes: > Hi there! > > New to trisquel and, needless to say, loving it so far. > > I was beyond excited to find out that I could use my 21:9 monitor with > a librebooted x200 and ultrabase dock i got off ebay at 2560 x 1080 > (not 3440 x 1440 but good enough). > >

Re: [Trisquel-users] Will my T400 be quieter if I replace the HDD with and SSD?

2020-04-01 Thread Yoni Rabkin
greveng...@member.fsf.org writes: >> Since sensors allows you to see the fan speed, can you now directly > correlate the speed of the fan being displayed with the noise? > > Says 2000 rpm and from I know about fans, 2000 rpm does indeed make > some noise. So my guess it's the fans. But I don't

Re: [Trisquel-users] Will my T400 be quieter if I replace the HDD with and SSD?

2020-04-01 Thread Yoni Rabkin
greveng...@member.fsf.org writes: >> I would start by running `sensors' > > All the temps are fairly low around 30-40 celsius, there was one thing > that was 50 though. > Since sensors allows you to see the fan speed, can you now directly correlate the speed of the fan being displayed with the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Will my T400 be quieter if I replace the HDD with and SSD?

2020-04-01 Thread Yoni Rabkin
greveng...@member.fsf.org writes: > My T400, which I bought at Minifree, is making a lot of noise (sounds > like fan noise) even when no intensive processes are running. Will it > be quieter if I replace the HDD with an SSD? I would start by running `sensors' (provided by the lm-sensors

Re: [Trisquel-users] icedove email POP3

2020-03-15 Thread Yoni Rabkin
tr33hug...@gmx.co.uk writes: > I made the mistake of deleting most of the emails, 4 years worth, > thinking they would still be on the server. Forgot that even though > the 'leave messages on server' was ticked, so was 'until i delete > them'. After downloading all the email the first time, all

Re: [Trisquel-users] Dockingstation only partially working

2020-03-14 Thread Yoni Rabkin
alexander.pit...@mailbox.org writes: > Hi all, > > I've recently purchased a dockingstation for my librebooted T400. > > I can plug the laptop in easily, however I can only use some > connectors of the dockingstation: > + I do get power from the dockingstation. > + The audio jack of the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : crashing X200 on video playback

2020-03-11 Thread Yoni Rabkin
Yoni Rabkin writes: > lc...@dcc.ufmg.br writes: > >> Those temperatures are far from the reported high/critical values: I >> do not think your computer overheats. >> >> A faulty RAM is often the cause of random freezes. I was about to >> recommend testi

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : crashing X200 on video playback

2020-02-21 Thread Yoni Rabkin
lc...@dcc.ufmg.br writes: > Those temperatures are far from the reported high/critical values: I > do not think your computer overheats. > > A faulty RAM is often the cause of random freezes. I was about to > recommend testing it with memtest86+. Nevertheless, "Libreboot > doesn’t support

Re: [Trisquel-users] crashing X200 on video playback

2020-02-21 Thread Yoni Rabkin
xliang9...@live.cn writes: > Maybe you need to clean the heat sink and re-apply thermal grease. That's a good idea. I will do so and report back! Here are the idle temperatures before: acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:+38.0°C (crit = +127.0°C) temp2:+43.0°C (crit

[Trisquel-users] crashing X200 on video playback

2020-02-21 Thread Yoni Rabkin
I have a librebooted X200 running Triquel 8. When I play videos which are (roughly) an hour or more the machine will randomly freeze, the audio will loop a few times (a buffer being replayed I guess) and then the machine reboots itself. Up until now I assumed that this was all down to "Intel