Re: [Trisquel-users] Need for compromise in Free software? With Richard Stallman

2016-02-07 Thread catfishagain
Do you know how I might do that on Trisquel? Do I want to add a Debian repo or would that mess things up?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need for compromise in Free software? With Richard Stallman

2016-02-07 Thread catfishagain
So meet.jit.si looks good but on both abrowser and icecat it says I have an unsupported browser. Anyone know how to get it to work?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend me software for screen recording

2015-09-08 Thread catfishagain
Also I have found OpenShot to be much better than Pitivi.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend me software for screen recording

2015-09-08 Thread catfishagain
If you're using Gnome Shell then it has a recorder built in. Press Ctrl, Alt, Shift and R to start and stop. The file is saved as webm in the Videos folder.

Re: [Trisquel-users] libre film scripting software?

2015-08-31 Thread catfishagain
There is this template which says it will work in libre office. http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center/screenwright-r-screenplay-formatting-template/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Looking for help with Abrowser flash films

2015-06-13 Thread catfishagain
Hi anatom What sometimes works for me is get the "user agent switcher" addon for abrowser and download the user agents from here http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html Then change user agent to android and you can sometimes get a different link ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Share your Desktop!

2015-06-01 Thread catfishagain
My desktop

Re: [Trisquel-users] How inconvenient freedom can be?

2015-06-01 Thread catfishagain
I've been using Trisquel as my only OS for almost two years now. I used Ubuntu briefly and then found Richard Stallman. Was lucky with my hardware in that it worked without problems. Then I was inspired to get a free bios in the form of libreboot and got a gluglug http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/

Re: [Trisquel-users] bbc iplayer

2015-03-31 Thread catfishagain
You can also get unofficial TV addons from tvaddons.ag but legally and in terms of libre compatibility I am really not sure.

Re: [Trisquel-users] bbc iplayer

2015-03-31 Thread catfishagain
Here's the link to the Radio addon http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Radio it's GPLv2 and the source link is on that page :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] bbc iplayer

2015-03-31 Thread catfishagain
It's now called Kodi http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Kodi

Re: [Trisquel-users] bbc iplayer

2015-03-31 Thread catfishagain
You can use XBMC (or Kodi as it's called now) and get the radio add-on. Don't know if you can record but you can definitely listen ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Zsnes freezes

2015-01-29 Thread catfishagain
zsnes appears in add/remove programs after a search for nintendo but does not have a description. I think it has been removed from the repos but some vestige of it still remains.

Re: [Trisquel-users] QEMU and KVM Problems

2015-01-27 Thread catfishagain
Can't remember where I got these instructions but they work for me. I've never got aQemu to do anything so this is all from the terminal. This creates a flexible disk image: qemu-img create -f qcow2 trisquel.img 100g In the directory where you made your image put your iso and: sudo kvm -m 1024

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quidam in the next Linux Action Show

2015-01-25 Thread catfishagain
Thanks magic 'nana although I feel like I shouldn't be seeing this! (funny)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quidam in the next Linux Action Show

2015-01-23 Thread catfishagain
tomlukeywood: Just go to media/ open network stream and paste the url there. I'm pretty ruthless with javascript these days so all youtube gets played in VLC this way or downloaded with unplug and DownThemAll. In the UK now lots of videos to do with local government and the scandals coming to

Re: [Trisquel-users] No picture in guvcview

2015-01-23 Thread catfishagain
Well it's took me nearly a week (my internet searching leaves a lot to be desired) but I finally found the developers answer. Hi, the current ubuntu guvcview version is broken with kernels >= 3.16, you need the latest version 2.0.1 You can get it from the sourceforge download (Files) section

Re: [Trisquel-users] Quidam in the next Linux Action Show

2015-01-23 Thread catfishagain
How will people be watching this? I've tried watching youtube live with vlc but the most I ever get is about ten seconds before it crashes. My internet is pretty slow, about 3mb download. Messed with the settings but it always seems to pick the highest resolution which can't help.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Diaspora*

2015-01-23 Thread catfishagain
dave_catf...@joindiaspora.co.uk

Re: [Trisquel-users] No picture in guvcview

2015-01-22 Thread catfishagain
It's on Lenovo g580 i3 with Creative Labs Live Cam Curiously forgot about vlc but on T6 it was terrible. Just tried VLC now and with 100ms caching it seems almost perfect. ;) Thanks

Re: [Trisquel-users] No picture in guvcview

2015-01-22 Thread catfishagain
ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) Cannot connec

Re: [Trisquel-users] No picture in guvcview

2015-01-22 Thread catfishagain
Thanks for the reply. I have all those packages and I've messed with every setting I can find. I'm using 64bit but if I know someone has it working I guess it must be at my end. Thanks again.

Re: [Trisquel-users] No picture in guvcview

2015-01-21 Thread catfishagain
Could anyone confirm or deny whether guvcview is working for them? Thanks

[Trisquel-users] No picture in guvcview

2015-01-17 Thread catfishagain
Guvcview worked brilliantly in Trisquel 6. Cheese works and the video in Jitsi is great in Trisquel 7 but I have no picture in Guvcview. Is anyone else having this problem?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre alternative to skype

2015-01-05 Thread catfishagain
Dave. Click the open menu bar with the 3 horizontal lines. At the bottom left of the menu is the customise button. Firefox Hello is a grey smiley face in a speech bubble. After you've dragged it to your tool bar click exit customise. Bottom left again.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing libreboot on a Thinkpad T60....myself?

2015-01-02 Thread catfishagain
It's not that difficult to see the back of the lcd screen this vid is pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTkp7zC0wGg You've just got to watch out for the glue. Good luck :)

[Trisquel-users] No add-ons page in IceCat

2014-11-01 Thread catfishagain
Add-ons page does not work in IceCat. It's fine in Abrowser.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 torrents not working

2014-10-24 Thread catfishagain
Doh! Sorry https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-7-will-be-released-next-week Note that the torrents are not yet active in the tracker, until the official release.

[Trisquel-users] Trisquel 7 torrents not working

2014-10-24 Thread catfishagain
Torrents from here http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/ Tracker gave an error "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker."

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Hardware Support is available

2014-08-03 Thread catfishagain
Thanks for the reply onpon4. I have the 64-bit version of Trisquel 6. Should I press the upgrade button or not? Thanks again.

[Trisquel-users] New Hardware Support is available

2014-08-03 Thread catfishagain
Hi all. In update manager I have this message: Your current Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is going out of support on 07/08/14. After this date security updates for critical parts (kernel and graphics stack) of your system will no longer be available. For more information, please see: http://w

Re: [Trisquel-users] New on Trisquel: how to see live videos and chatting on sites

2014-05-20 Thread catfishagain
Thanks onpon4 On livestream I can get the rtsp link if I use user agent switcher add-on to be an android with opera. I also had to go to advanced settings in VLC, click inputs/codecs, scroll to the bottom and changed the cache setting to 500. Works brilliantly Cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Need Help Switching From XP to GNU/Linux

2014-04-10 Thread catfishagain
I've put Trisquel Mini on an old NEC Pentium 4 and it's fantastic. I did install Abrowser though as Midori is a very light browser. Make the switch Dave you won't look back. Dave in UK

Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie

2014-03-21 Thread catfishagain
But this is the topic I started :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie

2014-03-21 Thread catfishagain
Forgot all about this. http://salfordascension.org/ Hadn't noticed before but it isn't https. How do you do that?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-20 Thread catfishagain
I had this same problem. After saving the grub text did you do : sudo update-grub?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie

2013-11-14 Thread catfishagain
Wow 14 hrs later I think I've got HTML and CSS pretty much embedded in my brain. Think I've managed to cobble together a pretty decent website I'll post a link when it goes online. Cheers Guys

[Trisquel-users] Recommend web design program for newbie

2013-11-14 Thread catfishagain
I've sort of been volunteered to look into creating a website for a local charity. Any advice on what Gnu license software I might start to play with?

Re: [Trisquel-users] The BBC

2013-09-17 Thread catfishagain
You could try "add BBC internet radio stations to rythymbox" in duckduckgo But I couldn't guarantee that it would do any good.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DNS Leak

2013-08-07 Thread catfishagain
That sounds like exactly the kind of thing I want Liberty ;) Just could do with a little help finding my OpenVPN servers network (the 10.x.y.z one) Thanks for any help.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DNS Leak

2013-08-06 Thread catfishagain
Hmmm sussed it. IPV4 settings, Method Automatic (DHCP) addresses only, put the DNS servers in then. Turn off the connection and turn it on again! Should have really watched an episode of the IT Crowd for the answer!

Re: [Trisquel-users] DNS Leak

2013-08-05 Thread catfishagain
Yes that is the trouble ;) Any idea how to fix it?

[Trisquel-users] DNS Leak

2013-08-05 Thread catfishagain
Hi all I recently got an openvpn service. I'd like to use the DNS provided by the VPN rather than my ISP. The advice on the VPNs forun is to edit /etc/resolv.conf but Trisquel says this file will be overwritten. Any advice much appreciated.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wired connection not working

2013-07-25 Thread catfishagain
Thanks Lembas I've ordered one of those :) Must say I'm enjoying Trisquel. Figured out how to apply the Gnome Shell with a lot of help from this forum and I've got to say I'm made up. Thanks again

[Trisquel-users] Wired connection not working

2013-07-23 Thread catfishagain
Hi all I'm going to move from ubuntu to this here trisquel. I booted from usb, wireless works fine but I prefer to keep that off and have my connections wired. Ubuntu works fine with the wired connection but trisquel doesn't notice it at all. I haven't installed it to the hard drive yet. I ty