New installation - Some "settling in" questions
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So for reasons unknown my last installation of Mint bricked so I shopped around for a bit and settled on Trisquel. I'm liking it but there are some things I'm trying to get working.
-Keyboard shortcuts are not a thing. I'm using a laptop and it has shortcut keys for things like adjusting volume, screen brightness, etc. How can I get these working again?
-Is there any way to get the "search" bar for the Menu where it'll search through installed programs to find what you're typing in?
-On Mint I used BleachBit to help control the proliferation of junk files. Does Trisquel have something similar or can I install BleachBit?
-IceCat doesn't seem to like certain Firefox extensions. Is there a way to get IceCat to read them or am I going to have to download Firefox?
Thanks in advance.
You can (re)define keyboard shortcuts from the "Shortcuts" tab of "Keyboard" in the "System Settings".
As far as I know, Trisquel's default interface does not allow to search applications. But you can install another desktop environment. GNOME Shell, for example, has the feature you want. To get it, install "gnome-shell" and "gnome-session", log out the graphical session, and log in back after choosing the GNOME session (icon at the right of your user name). See http://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet for useful shortcuts and http://extensions.gnome.org for extensions.
You can install BleachBit on Trisquel. It is in its repository.
what extension does not work with IceCat? Does it work with Abrowser? If so, another extension (installed by default in IceCat) may badly interact with the one you want.
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In Settings->keyboard, you can find the shortcuts tab; you seem to have done this. You'll notice categories of shortcuts, including 'launchers', this for your default email, media player, media player controls, etc. To activate a shortcut, highlight it, then move right, there, you can press the keys you want to use for the shortcut; for instance, I have 'ctrl+super+left, right, up,down', for previous track, next track, vol-up, vol-down. Also 'ctrl+alt+b and m' for browser and mail, respectively. There is also a 'custom' option for binding a shortcut to any other command you like.
Re: the search bar, are you referring to GNOME Shell? that can be installed from synaptic package manager; the packages you want are gnome-session and gnome-shell. On next login, you can choose Gnome session instead of Trisquel.
What browser extensions are you looking for, and have you tried abrowser, as well as icecat? Trisquel uses its own addons page that may not show as many addons as on the FF page, because the Trisquel one will show only the libre ones.
HTH,
Dave
Thank you for the response.
I'm not actually seeing the Shortcuts tab. After browsing around I'm not finding anything that refers to any keyboard shortcuts.
I'm using the LXDE environment for Trisquel Mini. It's a low powered laptop and I can't really shoulder the full GNOME.
The browser problem is solved, it was my own being dumb XD IceCat works very well.
According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Keyboard#Create_New_Keyboard_shortcuts (mentally replace "Lubuntu" by "Trisquel Mini": both use LXDE):
There is no automatic way to create new keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys in lubuntu. You will either have to edit Lubuntu's openbox configuration file (~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml) and edit, or alternatively install xbindkeys.
Read the rest for more information.
Regarding the search application, the default session *does* have one.
It's called "Execute application" or "Run application" (I don't know which one, my English tends to fail me sometimes). You can also siply press Alt + F2.
Some keyboard Fn key combinations are indeed recognized by the system, but they sometimes do nothing. I have seem this most commonly with the brightness keys (where the control panel brightness wouldn't also work), but I think I have found a partial solution to the problem. I just have to wait until my computer comes back from maintenance (because typing things using a virtual keyboard makes me tired). :D
Alt+F2 is the Run prompt. That's quite different from search, designed for a completely different purpose. With search, you can start typing what an application is called, or part of what it's called, and find it quickly. The Run prompt requires knowing the exact command. For example, you can't type "text editor"; you have to know to type "gedit". The Run prompt is mostly useful for when there's a program that isn't in the menu for some reason, or when you need to run it with gksu.
The prompt one gets with Alt+F2 does not aim to "search" applications, but only to "execute" known commands. In GNOME Shell's dash, for instance, I can find "Abrowser" by typing "Web". In fact, typing "w" is enough to get "Abrowser" preselected for execution.
EDIT: Funny thread. Socinus basically gets all answers twice. First I write the same reply as Dave_Hunt (and get it published first), then I write the same reply as onpon4 (but get it published second).
Are you allergic to the command line? Can you handle bash scripts?
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