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 dp

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 (https://awesomewm.org

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 > "/home/davidphilipegil/Repositories/hid-tools/hidtools/cli/record

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 wi

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 youtube

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] watch?v

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 sam

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). > > Every

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 und

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 package

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 th

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 dockingsta

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 memtes

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 gra

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets

2014-03-16 Thread yoni
Cool, do you have a specific recommendation for an internal card? I don't mind keeping the USB one as a backup option. And while money is an issue, it is not _the_ issue. I'm just really fed-up with ethernet cables.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets

2014-03-16 Thread yoni
No, the wirelss connection remains throughout. You can tell that there is an issue since I can't stream video without it stuttering, for example from TWiT.tv "mplayer -aspect 16:9 http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/high";. And if I run "ping -c 100 something.org" I'll get proof of this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets

2014-03-16 Thread yoni
I've tried this on every kernel release so far with the same results. So if it is a kernel issue then I haven't hit on one without the problem. Different USB ports have been tried, as did connecting through the same USB to a different wireless device and seeing 0 packet loss. Buffer-bloat i

[Trisquel-users] Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU / Linux (TPE-N150USB) dropped packets

2014-03-16 Thread yoni
hello all, Ever since I've had it the thinkpenguin TPE-N150USB has been dropping between 3%-10% of wireless network packets under Trisquel (using the firmware from jxself). I've done the troubleshooting to make sure that this isn't special to my network (happens on any network) or my rout

Re: [Trisquel-users] Not getting the ability to upgrade

2013-03-17 Thread yoni
Unfortunately, the upgrade broke my machine. I'll do some backups and try again from a clean install.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Not getting the ability to upgrade

2013-03-15 Thread yoni
Thank you for pointing that out.

[Trisquel-users] Not getting the ability to upgrade

2013-03-15 Thread yoni
Hello, I'm using "http://archive.trisquel.info brigantia" as my repositories and I'm not getting the offer to upgrade to 6.0 from the GUI or the command line. Any help would be appreciated. $ sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new trisquel release No new release found