BBC iPlayer contains full TV shows such as dramas which probably don't appear
in their YouTube channel.
Yes non-UK residents can listen to radio shows. Anyway, the audio and video
files can be downloaded using youtube-dl or get-iplayer since they access the
iPhone streams which are not encumbered by DRM.
Another recommended upgrade is getting an SSD drive.
Try Banshee. It worked when I tried it and even supported videos but I
stopped using it as I added Rockbox to my iPod.
Just run apt-get source abrowser.
Another option is replacing embedded videos with a link which the LinkTube
Greasemonkey user script does:
You can get it here (it requires Greasemonkey or Scriptish to work):
http://isebaro.com/linktube/?ln=en
http://isebaro.com/linktube/include/files/linktube.user.js
Greasemonkey:
Try plowshare (the git version is the easiest to install):
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-download-file-sharing-websites-using-plowshare
One solution I found was to search for rtmp streams of (non-english) tv
channels which broadcast the sport event and download those using rtmpdump.
You can find many websites that list live rtmp streams using your favorite
search engine. Some live streams use HTTP dynamic streaming which can
t3g, 720P or higher WebM videos are no longer provided by YouTube when using
youtube-dl or ViewTube (I have no idea whether they can be accessed using
other methods). For music videos, you can usually get much better quality
versions (unfortunately in H.264 format only but you can transcode
Rockbox supports MIDI, but only through a non-commerical plugin. Is there a
player that can play it using a free plugin? Also, can MPlayer playback midi
(VLC can using FluidSynth plugin)?
Thank you Magic Banana and Legimet. I am not interested in a touch based
device just simple software to run on a handheld player such as an iPod or a
Sansa device. My iPod already runs mostly free software as it runs Rockbox,
however in order to playback MIDI there one needs to copy some
If you use ViewTube Greasemonkey script you can watch the videos using VLC,
Totem or other video players.
http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en
You can also try instead SMTube (get it via the official PPA) - which plays
the YouTube videos via your preferred video player.
Not all. For instance connman is missing despite being in Ubuntu:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/connman
Great! If I many enquire where did you get a compatible display from?
Try to replace 5 by another number (for me 2 worked) such as these:
$ sudo i2cdump -y 0 0x50
$ sudo i2cdump -y 1 0x50
$ sudo i2cdump -y 2 0x50
$ sudo i2cdump -y 3 0x50
$ sudo i2cdump -y 4 0x50
To find out which panel you have without opening the laptop just install the
package i2c-tools then run:
$ sudo modprobe i2c-dev
$ sudo i2cdump -y 2 0x50
If it doesn't produce valid output replace 2 with some other number (this is
based on the guide which appears at the Libreboot website
Incidentally, you can also get a panel upgrade for the X200 (AFFS/PVA
technology similar to IPS), see e.g. here:
https://github.com/bibanon/Coreboot-ThinkPads/wiki/ThinkPad-X200
It seems your monitor is LTD121EWVB. According to this website
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/TFT_display
your monitor is a 12" X200 panel produced by TMD-Toshiba.
Yeah it's the regular TN panel with poor viewing angles (colors are probably
pretty bad if you view it from the side). On the bright side, at least the
resolution is respectable.
IPS is a technology for panels which provides good viewing angles and high
quality color reproduction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPS_panel
The following official 15" T60 panels are supported by Libreboot and are also
IPS:
LG-Philips LP150E05-A2K1 (1400x1050)
BOE-Hydis HV150UX1-100
If you managed to obtain an IPS panel you probably have one of the best
panels compatible with libreboot. This is only relevant for 15" T60.
The inverter is the small board connected to the screen which provides
battery/wireless/sleep indicators.
Replacing the panel suffices (no need to replace chasis). You might need a
new inverter as well that provides sufficient power to power on the screen.
For the X60s it seems all panels are compatible (at least according to the
Libreboot link provided). The T60 however has incompatible panels.
Sadly, this method (extracting EDID) failed on one incompatible T60 panel I
tried (the screen did not produce valid EDID even when using non-free VGA
option ROM). Connecting an external monitor with usable graphics when using
that panel didn't work reliably, so I cannot recommend a T60 for
It's probably best also to get G++ in which case this command should do it if
you want version 5 of GCC:
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-5 100
--slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-5
Another option is to disable the built-in PDF reader entirely:
Go to about:config, search for pdfjs.disabled and set its value to true -
this is also handy if you prefer opening PDF files with native viewers such
as Evince.
tomlukeywood, I think you need to tell your operating system to use the new
GCC you installed. You can see here how to get GCC 4.9 working (just adjust
the command after the installation of GCC 4.9 to the GCC of your choosing):
This seems to be a bug in Ubuntu 14.04 (assuming you are having an issue with
this plugin in Trisquel 7):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-rss/+bug/1296701
You can still view YouTube if you use the previous version of ViewTube
Greasemonkey script and set the user agent to an older version of Firefox
(this one should work):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
(you can do this via the User Agent Switcher add-on or by
Magic Banana, you are indeed right. xrandr used to be available as a package,
and I erroneously assumed it was replaced by arandr.
In order to get xrandr working on a live CD you only need to install the
package arandr. Then run it and assuming the internal display is called LVDS1
turn it off using this command:
$ xrandr --output LVDS1 --off
From there you can disable the laptop's monitor permanently using the desktop
There are other differences between the browsers other than artwork
licensing, such as Abrowser removing support for HTML5 DRM and also removing
telemetry (and linking to a free add-on repository).
IceCat is ESR - based on Firefox 52. Abrowser is not (it's based on newer
Firefox 56). Abrowser/Icecat also hide the DRM option in the main menus.
For me the latest abrowser (57) is very slow. Startup is fast, but it now
takes me over 4 seconds to completely load a page, e.g. Slashdot. I'm using
the following enabled add-ons: Dark Background and Light Text, NoScript, User
Agent Switcher 1.12 (as a replacement for the regular User Agent
Putting everything inside the gnome-terminal command should work though -
something like this:
gnome-terminal -e "sleep 1m && gedit file"
Yeah I started fresh (I deleted the profile folder).
I think uBlock came preinstalled on the version I got from AUR (on
Hyperbola). I think the offending add-on is the color inverter -
unfortunately the interface is unusable with inverted colors unlike
Seamonkey. It takes a whole second to
I think the command will work if you add the terminal programme beforehand,
something like "gnome-terminal -e gedit".
Incidentally, I can't find the upvote button either (I never used this
function so I have no idea how it works) - I'd gladly return the favor and
upvote Magic Banana :)
You should be able to download it from Mozilla's web page. If the newest one
doesn't work, try installing an older release (non web extension one, 5.1.7)
from there.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/versions/
This guide will give you the latest IceCat on Trisquel 6:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-install-latest-gnu-icecat-trisquel-6
You can add Magic Banana's command to your cron jobs so it works on startup.
First you need to install the cron package. Cron uses vim. If you prefer a
different editor just run this command (replace the editor by your preferred
editor):
export EDITOR=gedit
Then run the following command:
Thanks (I've never actually run graphic applications via cron - just command
line ones - so I didn't know you needed to add something for graphic
applications to work), so I'm guessing the command to run needs to be
something like this, right?
@reboot sleep 1h && DISPLAY=:0.0 gedit
NPAPI "plugins are a source of performance problems, crashes, and security
incidents":
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/
Mozilla didn't remove the entire NPAPI code base. They still support Adobe
Flash. If the stability and security bothered them
You can still view YouTube fine if you change the user agent to Firefox 43 32
Bit GNU/Linux using e.g. user agent switcher add-on and use an older version
of ViewTube which can be downloaded from here:
As you know Trisquel's recent releases (6 and 7 and the upcoming 8) are long
term releases.
These releases tend to offer software which does not receive version updates
for the available packages, however they do offer version updates for the
main Mozilla browser.
Many of the browsers
ALSA is part of Linux, the kernel, so it is probably more common than the
optional sound server PulseAudio.
If you are after a browser similar to Midori you can try Epiphany/Web (both
use the WebKitGTK+ rendering engine).
Epiphany is still available in Parabola/Hyperbola using WebKitGTK+ without
geoclue2 support.
https://www.hyperbola.info/packages/extra/x86_64/webkit2gtk/
Also, there is a reason why Qupzilla is not offered by Parabola and Hyperbola
(and thus should not be recommended here) - it is due to
The browser is called Qupzilla, but the rendering engine was replaced so it
is in fact a different browser (apparently in Parabola the rendering engine
qt5-webengine was replaced by qt5-webkit).
brashley46, why single out the Palestinians? The same argument could be made
regarding the Golan Heights (the Israeli settlers living there can use PayPal
whereas the rest of the Syrians living outside of the Golan Heights cannot).
I'm guessing it boils down to whether PayPal wishes to deal
You can also scribble on pdfs using xournal.
Can you shutdown properly using the Magic SysRq key method (if not please
enable it and try to shutdown using this method)?
You will need to select a key combination similar to this:
Alt+Ctrl+PrtSc+R+E+I+S+U+O
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
Since the shutdown worked correctly when using the kernel's shutdown command
(it is preferable to run the full version I provided as it is a safer
shutdown), I'm guessing the issues you have stem from bugs either in your
desktop environment (MATE/KDE/Xfce etc), in your display manager
I also encountered a shutdown problem where the kernel shutdown worked but
shutdown failed when using the terminal or the menu. I contacted the
Hyperbola developer via IRC and he fixed the issue (which was that the
packaged version of SliM at the time did not support OpenRC). I'm guessing
The laptops X60(s)/T60 can be flashed via flashrom (try to get T60 with intel
graphics). Note that T60P is also supported by coreboot, but is not
recommended due to ATI graphics.
You can use an alternative such as KVM, Qemu or XenServer.
It's Pidgin not Pidgeon.
Does the tablet use the MultiTouch display, the outdoor display or a
different one (see the link for details)?
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X200_Tablet
You can try to set up the screen using xrandr.
The Electrum website requires JavaScript to run.
Here's how I install Electrum.
Install pip for Python 2 branch preferably 2.7 (the latest version) - the
package should be called something like python2-pip or python2.7-pip. Then
install the latest version from https://download.electrum.org/
Sorry about reviving an old thread. I installed both Waterfox and Abrowser on
hyperbola with ALSA but without PulseAudio and noticed that Waterfox supports
ALSA unlike Abrowser, which displays an error when playing back audio files
("To play audio, you may need to install the required
You can try Seamonkey/Iceape - it is also a Mozilla based browser which is
compatible with most add-ons. If you want a browser based on older ESR
Firefox (version 52) you can try IceCat/Iceweasel. If you want a browser
similar to Abrowser but with support for legacy add-ons you can try out
Qupzilla has severe freedom issues according to Hyperbola - it depends on
nonfree qt5-webengine.
Netsurf is very basic (it doesn't even fully support JavaScript).
GrevenGull, you can try forcing avideo to download a specific version of the
video. Just run "avideo -F URL" to see available formats, and then run
"avideo -f format URL" e.g. "avideo -f http-480 URL".
A simple solution is to either use IceCat/Iceweasel for audio playback (as
the version of Firefox on which it is based still supports ALSA), or, if you
prefer a browser based on newer Mozilla code (with support for
WebExtensions), to use Waterfox instead. Other Mozilla browsers with ALSA
The page works fine here as well, using Seamonkey with scripts turned off in
NoScript.
Actually, depending on how the distro packages pulseaudio, it might in fact
depend on systemd. It does in Parabola
https://www.parabola.nu/packages/extra/x86_64/pulseaudio/
but not in Hyperbola (there it was packaged to depend on eudev instead of
systemd):
Several years ago I wondered whether this obscure format could be played back
using a free audio decoder (I downloaded such a file that according to its
metadata was encoded in 2000):
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/voxware-metasound-playback
I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find out
Hyperbola is the closest you will find to updated Trisquel without systemd -
it is based on Arch (with Debian patches) without being a rolling release, so
packages will usually only receive security updates and long term versions
are preferred (e.g. a libre version of Iceweasel ESR as
Like Random Agent Spoofer, Self-Destructing Cookies was not ported to the
WebExtensions API, the only one Firefox (and derivatives such as Abrowser) 47
and later support.
I think you made a typographical error and meant Firefox 57 (Quantum) instead
of Firefox 47.
Trisquel has never supported other architectures even if those offered freer
computers, such as the Lemote Yeelong MIPS laptop (which was supported by
gNewSense). This might have been partially due to Ubuntu focusing on x86
releases compared to Debian.
I understand the logic regarding the
Shouldn't Trisquel focus on timely releases for x86 (which most people use)
before supporting other architectures? The latest version of Trisquel is
based on a two and a half old release of Ubuntu (which means a lot of
software is outdated). The priority should be on releasing a new version
I agree with onpon4. In addition, pip does not require cryptographic package
signing using tools such as GPG so you could be downloading altered packages
if someone breaks into the PyPI website and replaces a package with a
malicious version.
PyPI did in fact contain malicious packages in
Gmail is a proprietary email client. Icedove is a good free/libre one.
You can communicate with Google's email servers with it.
Gmail has a basic HTML interface which doesn't require running JavaScript.
Don't forget RequestPolicy Continued, which controls cross-site requests:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy-continued/
It's not just missing from Ubuntu but from Debian too starting with Debian 8
(Jessie.)
And that is why people using SIS graphics cannot upgrade to Debian Jessie, as
reported for instance in this post:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7=133773
The issue might be that the package xserver-xorg-video-sis is missing in the
Ubuntu release on which Trisquel 8 is based (16.04) but appears in the Ubuntu
release on which Trisquel 7 is based (14.04) as you can see here:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=xserver-xorg-video-sis
The last post in this thread will probably solve the issue for the OP (these
are instructions regarding compilation of SIS driver from source):
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2371684
sudo apt-get install build-essential xorg-dev xutils-dev automake libtool
cd ~/ #or whatever
How is this any different to pip or easy_install?
loldier, I agree with t3g that it might be better to prioritize the release
of Trisquel 9 over releasing both Trisquel 8 and Trisquel 9, since Trisquel 8
is based on an almost 2 year old system. Since Ubuntu LTS releases are
supported for 5 years, Trisquel does not need to offer all the
I agree with t3g that Trisquel should be based on an up to date version of
Ubuntu, so that it will be compatible with new software and libraries
(without requiring messing around with unofficial repositories). t3g, if you
need more up to date software libraries and packages in the meantime
kobo uses DRM on some/all of their ebooks, so it's best to avoid getting
ebooks from there.
https://www.kobo.com/help/en-US/article/3501/using-adobe-digital-editions
Because it already has a free software browser (Abrowser) which Trisquel's
developer maintains (which includes removing suggestions of non-free add-ons,
removing DRM support, and providing a free add-on repository).
Making Iridium completely free would likely also require some work (such as
You can try FFmpeg to convert. There is also a GUI (WinFF).
M4A is a container which can also contain lossy formats such as AAC. If you
need to batch convert, just use a for loop such as this (to convert m4a to
flac):
for i in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$i" "`basename "$i" .m4a`.flac"; done;
Pale Moon also contains this clause:
Unofficial branding ("New Moon") as supplied in the source code may be used
for unendorsed binaries at all times. Thusly branded binaries with the New
Moon logo and product name are not subject to the endorsement and exception
rules as set out in
What is the output of xrandr?
Recent versions of Virtualbox have freedom issues and have thus been removed
from Trisquel. Your favorite search engine should provide you ample
assistance if you search for Virtualbox graphics adapter drivers for Linux.
You can try Trisquel in freedom-respecting hypervisor software such as
sudo dmidecode | less
If you need more up to date software than what is offered by Trisquel you
should consider using a distribution with more up to date software, such as
Parabola or Hyperbola.
Libreoffice can be updated via PPA. These commands will add it and then you
can install the version you want via
Actually they only only need one thing to be learned: compiling from source.
That's useful for small packages which don't require new libraries, but not
for larger ones such as WebKit in which case my original advise still stands.
I don't think it's helpful to tell people to rebase their entire
working environment over one little snag. That leads to a dangerous
game of constantly re-installing and never getting anything done.
Note that there are lots of threads about updating software to newer versions
in the forums
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/video-driver-newbie
Which wireless card are you using?
You can the card by running the command "lspci | grep Wireless".
The card requires proprietary firmware to run however there have been reports
about some Realtek cards working without firmware on recent linux-libre
kernels, so you could try a more recent kernel.
There's quite a lot of proprietary code being run by libreboot such as CPU
microcode (without updates), EC firmware, SSD/HDD firmware etc. Whenever they
find a free replacement they use it, but the computer is far from 100 percent
free when using libreboot.
The free native graphics in libreboot seems to be a hack which doesn't work
well for certain use cases - e.g. I cannot use a T60 laptop with Intel
graphics connected to an external monitor via DVI connection after
disassembling the laptop's monitor which is my current setup.
Not all coreboot features are necessarily malicious, e.g. the proprietary VGA
option ROM which supports more laptop monitors than the free libreboot native
graphics implementation.
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