Re: [Trisquel-users] FSF mirror

2012-02-29 Thread mornealberts
You can try rediris.es: deb http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/Trisquel/packages/ dagda main deb-src http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/Trisquel/packages/ dagda main deb http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/Trisquel/packages/ dagda-security main deb-src http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/Trisquel/packages/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on ZaReason’s Alto 3880

2012-02-20 Thread mornealberts
Did you have a look at the laptops available at ThinkPenguin? All of their hardware is 100% supported by free software and you should be able to get a similarly spec'ed laptop from them.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Main page bug?

2012-02-19 Thread mornealberts
Those are standard warnings associated with Drupal. You can ignore those. Try a complete refresh by pressing Ctrl+F5. If that does not fix it, right-click on one of those language labels, select Copy image location and paste the result here.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Main page bug?

2012-02-19 Thread mornealberts
Try this (sorry I only have the English menu items): Abrowser (Menu) Preferences Then select the Privacy tab. Click clear your recent history. In that popup select a time range that goes back before you had this issue. And in the Details below, untick everything and only leave Cache ticked.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Main page bug?

2012-02-19 Thread mornealberts
That's good news. Usually when some website resources break for no reason, a Ctrl+F5 refresh forces it to reload the resources instead of using the cached files.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Main page bug?

2012-02-18 Thread mornealberts
I wouldn't worry about it too much if it happened only once. Are you still getting that? I suspect what most likely happened was the server took too long to respond and your browser aborted the retrieval of those images. This could be because the server had a temporary slowdown or because

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel XFCE

2012-02-17 Thread mornealberts
Those earlier comments regarding Gnome 3 Fallback are because quidam was not aware of how to modify the fallback panel. On 29 January, in IRC, we explained to him how this can be done. He has since stated there that because the panel can actually be changed, Gnome 3 Fallback is a viable

Re: [Trisquel-users] Gnash

2012-02-16 Thread mornealberts
If you want to test it, you could have a look at this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~dnjl/+archive/multimedia/+index It has gnash 0.8.10~git20110618. I have not tried it and that PPA contains many applications, some of which could be non-free (I have not verified this). So if you decide to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Joining rars and unpackig it

2012-02-12 Thread mornealberts
I can confirm this issue. I had files like: file.rar file.r01 file.r02 file.r03 ... The files were compressed with RARv3 so unrar-free (or the GUI) could not extract it at all. With theunarchiver I could extract only file.rar and get a small part of the file. None of the other files would

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adding IceCAT to your repertoire

2012-01-31 Thread mornealberts
Which version of Abrowser were you using? On version 9.0.1, the newest one for Trisquel, when I right click on a link I have: 1. Open Link in New Tab 2. Open Link in New Window I am quite sure this is how it has been for a long time now. But surely this isn't reason enough to go through all

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any alpha or beta images of 5.5 to test?

2012-01-29 Thread mornealberts
As has been mentioned before, we cannot use Gnome 3 Shell (including forks like Cinnamon) and Unity 3D because they require graphical acceleration. The DE choice is not currently based on wanting the classic look. At least, this is not the issue at hand now. The criteria for our new

Re: [Trisquel-users] Internet Browser, Sync, Multiple Computers

2012-01-23 Thread mornealberts
Abrowser (menu) Preferences Sync Set Up Abrowser Sync Is that what you are talking about?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Critical bug: Need YOUR help fixing!

2012-01-22 Thread mornealberts
I've just joined. I'm also committing myself to increase my involvement outside of just posting in the forum/IRC. I hope this is going to be a great year for Trisquel!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem When Connecting to WireLess!

2012-01-18 Thread mornealberts
No offence, but the fact that you keep on asking here about tainting a Free system with something non-Free makes me believe that you just don't understand the goal of this project. Trisquel is not just another distro out there that just happens to be 100% Free. This Freedom is the whole

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem When Connecting to WireLess!

2012-01-16 Thread mornealberts
If you're going to buy a 100% compatible laptop, run Trisquel. You'll get the exact same applications as Ubuntu, except for non-free stuff. Since your laptop will be 100% compatible, that's not a valid reason hardware-wise. The only reason I would use Ubuntu over Trisquel, all else being

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem When Connecting to WireLess!

2012-01-16 Thread mornealberts
It won't work with gNewSense. You need non-free firmware and you won't find it there either. It should have worked on Debian if you use the non-free firmware, but you'll have to research how to do that yourself.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites

2012-01-12 Thread mornealberts
I think he meant the way they do the social buttons.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites

2012-01-09 Thread mornealberts
There are other things you could do with your site first, though, like custom page titles and SEO optimised URLs. Both are easily done in Drupal. I can't imagine that having those buttons there alone will have an effect. So for you to get the desired effect people will have to click them.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness issues

2012-01-07 Thread mornealberts
Daniel, could you do some tests and report here? Do sudo showkey to see what keypresses are being generated when you press Fn+Brightness. Do that for the first laptop both before and after pulling out the power. In other words, both when the buttons are doing nothing and when they work. I

[Trisquel-users] ThinkPenguin USB Wifi

2012-01-06 Thread mornealberts
I got my USB Wifi stick in the mail today. Just a really quick, mini review so far: Test machine: Thinkpad T61 with built-in Intel 4965AGN wireless I disabled my on-board Wifi in the BIOS, booted, plugged the stick in, enabled the hardware wireless switch, and then I could select my

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can't log into an Openbox session in Trisquel Mini

2012-01-03 Thread mornealberts
I have the same issue with the GNOME/Openbox session, but I've had this issue on other distros in the past too. However, the normal Openbox session (when installed with LXDE or separately) does work for me. I wouldn't expect GNOME/Openbox to work on an LXDE install anyway, though it has in

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2012-01-02 Thread mornealberts
Hi Daniel, If you don't mind, could you post this as a new thread? I don't want to make this thread too long with unrelated issues. I will move this reply to your new thread when it's done. But I can give a quick thought about those issues: - The first issue could be that your CD is

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweak-tool

2012-01-01 Thread mornealberts
I just want to add two things: If you want to use a custom Plymouth theme, run sudo update-alternatives --install /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/mytheme/mytheme.plymouth 100. Replacing mytheme with your theme's name. To change your GRUB

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2012-01-01 Thread mornealberts
Let me make sure I understand you correctly. Did you experience graphical corruption like in this image with a previous (

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2012-01-01 Thread mornealberts
Just to be sure, did you install 64-bit Trisquel 5 over 32-bit Trisquel 5 by formatting the hard drive? Or did you update it somehow? Or did you install 5 64 over an older 32-bit? I don't think 32-bit vs 64-bit has anything to do with it, though. It corrupts on both 32- and 64-bit for me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2011-12-30 Thread mornealberts
I did some more testing using my Thinkpad. I measured the time from pressing the laptop's power button until some image from Plymouth appears and also the total time (including that) until I get the login screen. The times were measured with a stopwatch so the timing might off by ~ +1/-1

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browsers and HTML 5

2011-12-30 Thread mornealberts
I think you used the Flash widget with Mint because that uploader looks for available widgets in the following order: 'flash,gears,silverlight,browserplus,html5'. I found the change I made on my site and I used: 'html5,flash,html4'. Which explains why it shows the Flash frontend instead of an

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweak-tool

2011-12-30 Thread mornealberts
If you are using the full version of Trisquel (not mini), to customise your theme: - Right click on the desktop - Choose Change Desktop Background - Click the Theme tab - Click Customize OR you can go to your Applications Menu System Preferences Appearance. Alternatively you can install

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2011-12-30 Thread mornealberts
Thanks for trying that, though. What graphics card are you using? And did the above change have *any* effect at all? If you do CTRL+ALT+F6 when the corrupted image appears and then immediately thereafter CTRL+ALT+F7 what do you see? I get a brief flash of black (as it switches to the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browsers and HTML 5

2011-12-29 Thread mornealberts
abrowser definitely has some HTML5 support. I get 299+9/450 at http://html5test.com/ with abrowser on my current setup. What is the website that fails?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Web Browsers and HTML 5

2011-12-29 Thread mornealberts
Here's something you can try to bypass the Flash. Install the QuickJava addon. Disable Flash using that (or you could try another method, I don't know them all). If you then reload the upload page you should be able to see the uploader. I can drag files into the uploader but when I click

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2011-12-28 Thread mornealberts
I could not get it to work. I played around with /etc/default/grub and the /etc/grub,d/ files but I had no luck (those are the files where other people suggest changes should be made). It would either show the same mess or nothing at all. I do not have sufficient knowledge of the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2011-12-28 Thread mornealberts
OK, so I actually found another 5400 hard drive to put into the Thinkpad. My testing so far: - 5400 vs 7200 hard drive makes no difference to Plymouth, - Ubuntu 11.04 gives me a similarly corrupted Plymouth. I found an interesting thing. When the corrupted image appears and I switch to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2011-12-28 Thread mornealberts
With Ubuntu 11.10 so far: - Plymouth is still corrupted (similar graphical distortion) - Switching the console when the garbled image appears and switching back causes Plymouth to display correctly for the very short remaining time.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2011-12-28 Thread mornealberts
I can confirm that comment 5 at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/723477 produces a minor (hacky) solution. I removed vt.handoff=7 as per that comment and Plymouth does not corrupt now but there is quite a long time before the Plymouth even starts to show. And just

[Trisquel-users] D-Link DWA-125 wireless dongle

2011-12-14 Thread mornealberts
Does anyone have any experience with the D-Link DWA-125 wifi dongle? I can get one of those cheapish. I've been unable to find any of the h-node dongles where I live.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2011-12-11 Thread mornealberts
Shutting down, however, it displays the glowing logo correctly.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Plymouth corruption

2011-12-11 Thread mornealberts
Apologies for my multiple postings, but I've found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/713088 The photo in there is exactly what I get except with the Trisquel green instead of the purple. I'll probably only get back to this issue nearer to the weekend. So in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Link error on Documentation page

2011-11-02 Thread mornealberts
Sorry. Messed that post up. I meant to say: On the Documentation page the link for 5.0 STS version is messed up.