If your name shows up in the output of
ls -la /media/320\ Gigabyte/Mac\ Mini\ Home\ Folder\ Backup/'
you own the files. I think the owner's and group's names are in the 4th
and 5th columns of the listing.
What is the output of
chmod --recursive 755 /media/320\ Gigabyte/Mac\ Mini\ Home\
Oh, I'm not sure how to work with those formats in Trisquel. Whenever I
want to exchange files, using a USB drive, I format the file system as
FAT on the USB. When sneaker-netting files from one machine running
GNU/Linux to another, I suppose you can format the USB as ext3, ext4, or
xfs?
, except my desire to keep it free, to prevent me from
adding software from Ubuntu Multiverse or ppas.
Best,
Dave
Thanks; I'll have a look through Debian's docs for such recommendations.
I think it's reasonable to buy a used laptop, whatever is on it.
+1 on the reuse of perfectly-good hardware and not causing a new Win
license to be generated.
I've used jabber to make audio calls with people who use the Windows
googletalk client; not sure how the video worked, since all the chatters
were blind. We find the audio connection to be less reliable than we
get using mumble.
I have an Asus 1015 PE, in which everything works with Trisquel. I
think the screen is only 9 or 10 inches, which is fine by me, since I
don't need one, and space is at a premium. It gets over 5 hours per
charge, and can be topped off in 3 hours. Oh, the price was right, too,
since it was
I got lightspark from ppa:sparkers I asked this same question in
launchpad, and was directed here because I mentioned Trisquel.
When I got this Asus, I didn't know about Trisquel, so, installed
another distro. Had to get the boot booster turned off, to let me
boot from media such as flash and optical disks. I replaced the
included Win 7 with that distro.
-lightspark; I have to
do this at start of every video. How do I tell lightspark to leave
volume alone?
Thanks,
Dave H.
I suppose you can turn on the orca screen reader, found in Universal
Access.
I typically use Orca with espeak (the default setup), though have
Festival Light as a fallback synth for when espeak dies.
Happy to help!
Since I use Orca constantly, I have the speech rate set at maximum. As
you get used to the spech, you'll find higher rates more comfortable.
Cheers,
Dave
I think I've heard of one like that--something like try skull, or
tree skell, or something?
LOL,
Dave H
On 05/22/2013 03:23 PM, ejectm...@me.com wrote:
I didn't know that, but now I really agree with Cyberhawk. You don't
need an outdated version of a distribution that's mostly free
Who is the intended user of Gnewsense? What does it offer that Trisquel
and Parabola do not, that is, except for old software?
The free software community thanks you for your order from Chris; LOL.
My next computer will likely be a Gen 2, especially if I get my hands
on one and like it before I buy.
with Sonar LXDE, there were some other things, like orca not reading
application names when I used 'alt+tab' to switch.
Cheers,
Dave
Many thanks for taking the time to respond.
I have emailed Dark City Radio with the suggestion of using Icecast with webm
and ogg streaming.
I shall keep you informed of any progress.
community's basic response to my
questions is either don't use GNOME 3.4 or Get another machine; no
help there.
Thanks,
Dave
or use the screen shot applet launchable from the accessories menu?
Maybe you can bind a shortcut key to this app, using System
Settings-keyboard-keyboard shortcuts?
You know, since there are 1001 ways to do this, I'll insist on looking
for way #1002. lol.
usb drive, and make the casper-rw partition after the disk
image, which should show as a partition of type iso9660, or something,
with the rest of your device unallocated.
HTH,
Dave
to using and recommending
Trisquel 6.0, especially for its accessibility, small footprint, ease of
use, etc...
Any ideas?
-Dave H.
, thereby confounding any tests.
-Dave
Castle Defense sounds great, and I can't play, just like Flash games;
cool! LOL.
Seriously, if this game shows a totally-free solution to good effect,
maybe we should show people, and not just say free good, flash bad.
Now let's also show how we can satisfy protection and security concerns
Agreed; I use only USB for this sort of thing.
on the Trisquel side. Rhythmbox will
make its own indices based on your files' tags.
HTH,
Dave
Building a computer for Trisquel is the way to go, unless you plan to
buy one from a distributor like libre.thinkpenguin.com I got lucky with
this Asus netbook and hardware compatibility.
Thythmbox and exaile have plug ins for music transfer with these
devices. Still, I'd never get one. There are players that let one use
the free Rockbox app on the player. I find it silly that these things
don't just plug into a USB and make themselves show up in Nautilus as a
removable
Too bad there isn't a way to see how many of those downloaders are using
Trisquel.
Nice review, and I think he gets it; I left a comment on the video,
saying as much. Is the disk space warning, to which he refers, specific
to the software center? I've never experienced it with synaptic or the
terminal apt tools. I suggested, if he really is running out of space,
he could
You could disable the plugin in the addons manager, or remove
browser-plugin-gnash. Youtube, for instance, will nag you about having
done this, but you can still visit the site.
Place t-bird last or put the 'sleep' command in as suggested above. It
must be trying to load before something is ready, or something else is
trying to load before t-bird is fully started. It had never occurred to
put an app like this in startup.
Does audacity have spectrum analyser capabilities? I've only used it
for recording and simple editing. Audacity should be in the
repositories. its home page: http://audacity.sourceforge.net
I saw the reference to non-free repos and Skype, and it gave me pause.
I understand the need to explain this to someone who is naive regarding
GNU/Linux and its many flavors, but someone who sets himself up as an
authoritative reviewer should know better. His comments on performance
and
Looks like plus many for Cinnamon; let's see what I can do with the
image on trisquel-users.com
In a post above, someone asked about the unknown for graphics card in
System Settings-Details. I've noticed that, too, and been curious,
since other distros show it as being an Intel MMX something.
for you, leaving it in the source tree.
HTH,
Dave H.
I would never claim the shell is unusable, just that it seems to require
a bit much for something that just switches and launches applications.
3-d graphics rendering, just so 'alt+tab' and 'alt+`' can work? I find
moving around in the classic menu system a lot faster than messing with
the
My experience with doing upgrades over the net has never been
satisfactory; a clean, new install is the only way I do it.
I find that, once I hit the 'super' key, I may have to wait as long as
30 seconds for the text entry area to come up. Once I've entered enough
text, I may have to wait another 10 to 20 seconds for the choices to be
displayed. Typing the whole name is faster on this box, if I know what
app I
It's a netbook with an Atom cpu and a gig of ram. Slow chip + orca
overhead = very lagged GNOME Shell. :)
This is great news for those who can benefit from using the new shell;
thanks for sharing! Looks easy! I was afraid to try this on Trisquel
6, given my epic fail when trying to put the shell in 5.5.
to install
checkinstall from the package system.
Last time I did this, exaile didn't get automatically put onto the menus
or associated with music. I opened the Main Menu utility and added the
shortcut, in the Sound and Video section. You can make the file
associations in Nautilus.
HTH,
Dave
Yah, that will work, and is easier; should have read down before hitting
that 'reply' key. LOL
If I couldn't keep Mini as polished as Standard and I18N, I'd drop it.
+1!
Better to release something that works as well as it can, and looks
polished. First impressions, accurate or not, are lasting ones.
XFCE and LXDE are good candidates for the next Trisquel de. Maybe
consort will be ready and worth a look, too?
By fork of GNOME Fallback, are you referring to Consort? I haven't
yet tried it. Have a look at http://solusos.com; I think they have an
Alpha ready for testing?
Close system settings with 'alt+f4', like any other application window.
This is all very good news, and just in time for festival season--
NELF, Libre Planet, et al.
Are the Trisquel Mini images supposed to be as accessible as the GNOME
images? I tried one and am not sure Orca is even on Mini. If Mini is
not yet accessible, the announcement should read,
All the GNOME images are equally accessible...
Does this warning only apply to people upgrading from an in-place
installation? I'm now running the last pre-release before the
announcement.
I think I'm now using the rc from March 4th or 5th; recently installed.
I'm glad to report that I did not have to pull the network plug in
order to get this installed, as in previous installations. Was I just
lucky, or is this fixed?
Cheers,
Dave
See you there, Chris
If this distro is to remain out-of-the-box accessible to people with
visual impairments, Mate and Cinnamon are not options. GNOME Shell and
Unity 2D are accessible, using Orca. Consort may become an option when
next Trisquel is ready but for 6, it's not quite there. Let's release
what we
I didn't notice the lack of a 'system' menu; usually use the hardware
button for shutdown and restart, and keyboard shortcuts for logout and
lock screen. Is replacing the system menu on the 'to-do' list for the
final release?
Welcome to the community!
Since you're making your computer, you can choose only hardware that
will run on 100% free software. Databases like hnode.org may help.
The FSF versions have a few apps found in the repos, but not on the distro cd.
Also, the browser start page goes to a special FSF welcome page, rather than to
Trisquel start page.
I don't yet see the 32-bit or the I18N; are we not going to have those this
round? Can I run the AMD64 on my 32-bit netbook?
Maybe I'll just try it from a flash drive, thanks.
I wouldn't reject something GPL, just because it's called open source,
instead of free software. If something is both free and open-source,
what about the term foss? That would appear to eliminate confusion;
maybe it's redundant, if anything free is, by necessity, open-source?
In my
H, how's the net installer supposed to work without the net? The
'get off the net' advice will get the live cd installer past that
troublesome 'wget' in the script. Doesn't the net installer grab most
of the system (not just the languages, like the live)? Speaking of the
live cd
A shame, it doesn't work, and so close to the scheduled release date. I
suppose you can install 5.5, get it the way you like, and do an upgrade,
online, once 6 is out? Or, just stay with 5.5 for as long as it's
supported and it suits you.
Trisquel 6 is pre-release; I've been using it since November, but I did
the 32-bit install from the live medium. When I installed, I waited for
the progress bar to get stuck around 7%, opened another console and typed:
'pkill wget'
Then it proceeded. This work-around suggested elsewhere in
isn't password-locked at present.
Thanks for making us aware of this coming issue.
Cheers,
Dave H.
Thank you for sharing; that's great! However, this should never be
necessary!
On 02/14/2013 03:28 PM, danel...@gmail.com wrote:
I already solved it! Thanks!
If anyone want to know what I did, I puted back the live-cd of Trisquel,
downloaded grub customizer and customizate the boot
I'm running a December 1 pre-release, and have been upgrading from apt,
about once weekly. On the 15th, I'll reinstall from the official release.
I thought greasemonkey and linternamagica were free software? They're a
browser extension and user script, respectively.
-Dave
On 02/07/2013 12:35 PM, onp...@gmail.com wrote:
Remember, Chris, that YouTube always requires nonfree software, namely
the nonfree Javascript. To really watch
,
Dave
On 02/07/2013 12:35 PM, onp...@gmail.com wrote:
Remember, Chris, that YouTube always requires nonfree software, namely
the nonfree Javascript.To really watch without nonfree software, you
need to download the video with something like UnPlug (a Firefox
extension which I really recommend
Thanks for the test and the alert! My netbook still has the December 1,
2012 release, though with all updates applied. As I write this, I'm
downloading the Feb 3 i686 iso image, and will test from flash drive.
Thanks for testing!
I tried the February x86 build I use on the netbook for all things. It
works as it should. anyone willing to test
devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisquel_6.0-20130203_i686.iso
Cheers,
Dave H.
On 02/05/2013 02:45 AM, mikko.viinam
On the Trisquel 6 releases, all you need to do is start the live cd, and
wait about 40 seconds; orca will start, if user does nothing.
with Trisquel, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Open /Suse, with Orca as the
screen reader and magnifier. Outside the foundation, I promote
GNU/Linux, in general, and Trisquel, in particular, wherever I can;
resistance is strong, within the organized blindness community.
Cheers,
Dave Hunt
Accessible
it
will make Sonar more immediately available to users of whatever hardware
is on hand when they try it? I confess, if Trisquel were my first
distro, and it didn't happen to work with all my hardware, I'd likely
have given up on GNU/Linux.
Cheers,
Dave
Jonathan got accessibility into Trisquel 5.0, for which I am grateful!
I was introduced to Trisquel and Jonathan at Software Freedom Day, I
think it was in 2011. I'm thrilled that accessibility continues to be a
priority!
If he goes it alone, accessibility could become better than that now
offered by GNOME and the KDE accessibility bridge. I think he plans to
use his foundation to fund accessibility developments and see that they
get into the GNU/Linux ecosystem, not just stay in Sonar.
Sonar is now a Ubuntu
You are right that Jonathan isn't interested in locking anything down.
The accessibility features, found in Sonar, are part of the standard
GNOME feature set. In the typical out-of-the-box GNOME setup, they're
not enabled by default. I find Sonar, in its current state, redundant,
and do not
Hi,
I have reports that the AMD64 version of the Trisquel pre-release is not
available. Furthermore, Orca, on the 32-bit version will not speak when user
tries booting on an AMD cpu. Can anyone with an AMD 8K confirm this? I do not
have one available.
Cheers,
Dave H
It is likely, you discussed using Mint Software Center a year ago, and
will discuss it a year from now; LOL. I'll stick with synapticc, or,
if I know exactly what I want to do, apt-get.
I think the new universal GNOME software manager is called packagekit?
Or, is that an Opensuse-specific thing?
and
specify html5=1).
Cheers,
Dave
Signed it, and I don't even own one of these devices.
Rockboxing a player frees it enough for my satisfaction.
There's a vendor, talkingmp3players.com who will rockbox the Sansa players for
the customer. I'd be willing to pay someone to do something like this. I'd
theoretically be willing to do likewise for a pda.
-Dave
On Jan 31, 2013, at 7:52 PM, ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote:
Yes
Being a Thunderbird user, I just haven't encountered this problem with the
GNOME keyring and Evolution. I may have run into something similar with
Empathy for the brief time I tried using it, but that was in another distro.
I'm planning to attend the Northeast GNU/Linux Fest March 16 and/or 17, at
Harvard University. What sort of Trisquel presence is planned? Maybe this one
is more convenient for some of you? It is in my back yard; LOL.
http://northeastlinuxfest.org
Cheers,
D. A. H.
On Jan 29,
There is supposed to be an unplug update that fixes an issue with
abrowser 18, but I can't seem to download it; the automatic updates
thing doesn't get it. I think there is a git tree for the sources? How
does one build a Mozilla extension? This added to my reading list.
-Dave H
,
Dave H.
On 01/25/2013 02:12 PM, m...@posteo.de wrote:
just got that update. Thank you!
I find that almost none of the youtube content I want to watch is available in
html5, and have to use one of the tricks like linternamagica in abrowser.
And I'll give unplug a go, since the latest linterna magica can cause orca to
have trouble focusing on abrowser's window. Since this bug has surfaced, I
toggle greasemonkey off until I need it for video watching.
Cheers,
Dave H.
I guess we can rearrange the items, but why are they not in alphabetical
order? FYI, you can use 'first-letter navigation' in all the menus, and
type 'filters' into the system settings applet.
-Dave
Does this mean a bug should be filed against this non-free dependency in
Trisquel issue site? Is there a drop-in, free replacement?
-Dave
On 01/18/2013 05:20 PM, alonivt...@gmail.com wrote:
The gstreamer mplex plugin is in the multiverse repository as part of
the package gstreamer0.10
I've had Trisquel 6 for daily use since November 2012, and recommend it
to friends.
-Dave
Regardless, is Trisquel 6, in its current state, stable enough for daily
use?
benefit from all the improvements made in GTK3 over 2, have
the accessibility stack found in GNOME 3.4.2, and keep all the features
found in, for instance, Trisquel 6, all without the need for 3D
rendering, I'm very interested in seeing this succeed.
Cheers,
Dave H.
I don't know whether I'll switch to Consort, but will watch it as an
alternative for those who don't like or can't use the GNOME 3 shell.
Not for 6, but for some future Trisquel release, we shall see. I'd like
to give that up-coming Solus Alpha a try, first.
-Dave
Try http://devel.trisquel.info/makeiso/iso/trisquel_6.0-20121201_i686.iso
Choose manual setup on the installer page where you are given the
options like 'install Trisquel along-side Windows' and 'replace Windows
with Trisquel'. I think the option you want says 'something
else--manual setup'. Select your drive, and partition as you prefer.
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