Resurrecting a laptop.
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Hi, good to get back to Trisquel!
Yesterday I resurrected my trusty old 'hp-pavilion-15-notebook-pc' for it's forgotten password. I installed 2 OSes sharing a /home partition. I tried a BSD but too much trouble going beyond the default window manager along with a probably coincidental overheating problem made me try something different. Use of a can of compressed air seemed to stop the overheating. But I chose Septor and then discovered Trisquel 9 was out. So far I am impressed with both.
Septor is Serbian I read. This Debian based Linux' focus is to provide a tor service woven anonymous surfing OS. I look forward to learning more how that works. I just went to privacytools.io and was gratified that my ip was truly masked (Using tor of course.) I haven't been able to achieve that result using Firefox on Debian or Fedora spins.
Trisquel 9 (Mini) looks great. I had to puzzle over the WiFi. But was able to get it.
My WiFI card is an AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter and the generic driver seems to work fine. My network however is unusual. The router does not broadcast nor does it offer DHCP. So all the settings have to be entered manually. As user I could freely enter the info needed but I was not allowed to save it. The work around was to bring up the interface via terminal: 'sudo nm-connection-editor' - create a new connection of type WiFi - then my user was able to go to the task bar interface and use the connect to Hidden Network option and find my created connection in the drop down box. Instant Success!
Tor is typically a third browser. I use my computer for business and pleasure and want to have a different browser for each. ABrowser is working fine and I imagine I can install tor in Trisquel 9 and want to try Gnome's Epiphany for my second browser. I couldn't find it in Trisquel repo. Any ideas?
Also, I want to try the kernel maintained by jxself in both Trisquel and Septor. Think it will work in Septor?
Thanks to all who work on Trisquel, my new year’s resolution is to figure out how to get some money donated for your efforts.
Rather than two Web browsers, you can use two different profiles in Abrowser:
$ abrowser -P
You can then create two launchers with that command, but giving the profile name in argument of the -P option. Also, you certainly want to add the option -no-remote, so that both profiles can run at the same time, in separate processes.
Anyway, if you want Epiphany, install the package named "epiphany-browser".
Septor using APT, I believe jxself's repository for Linux-libre should work.
Thank you Magic Banana for the tip, that's cool,
So would the command be :
abrowser -P -no-remote
I'll try it.
(Edit) Yes, abrowser -P -no-remote worked. Created two profiles and launching aBrowser opens a dialog to choose which profile I want to launch. Muy cool.
Re: Anyway, if you want Epiphany, install the package named "epiphany-browser".
I did get Epiphany by temporarily using Debian repository. I decided I didn't like it for now so it's gone.
Re: Septor using APT, I believe jxself's repository for Linux-libre should work.
I did install jxselfs kernel but Septor fails to complete boot when I try to use it. Seems to have 'required firmware' issues and doesn't like the de-blobbed kernel. It would be cool to work through those issues if possible.
Though I am impressed with Septor I'm having a lot of fun with Trisquel-mini. A somewhat successful install (it has issues still with setlocale) of the guix package manager really helped augment a light trisquel repository. I was able to install vlc, avidemux, claws-mail, gnote, bluefish and gedit via guix; Icecat too but I am having a problem with it today and I think I'll open another post. I also found a web server I thought I'd play with called Hiawatha via guix. And Trisquel-mini came with Tor. Lxde not as good as Xfce in my book but it really does look nice.
Any tips on how to edit the Lxde menu? That's probably all I need to like it more.
And Hi Gnu-Bro,
https://privacytools.io/ Web Browsers Learn more button and, scrolling down, on to https://ipleak.net/.
Tor covers my IP but ABrowser fails the test, even though javascript is not enabled. I don't think I have gone through all the about:config tips to disable WebRTC but recently I have certainly done all those things thoroughly with Firefox without success.
So
sudo apt install searx
will be a start to running your own instance of searx? If I did, I wonder if it would be listed here: https://searx.space.
You can install Xfce, if you wish: the package is named "xfce4".
You can edit LXDE's menu by hand: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/EditingTheMenu
Or you can try lxmed: http://lxmed.sourceforge.net/help.html#install
(Note: I have never used LXDE; I found those links searching the Web.)
You would need to "create an issue to add / remove / edit a searx instance on https://searx.space/": https://github.com/searx/searx-instances/blob/master/README.md
Re Editing LXDE menu I think I found an answer here:
Messing around with conf files (editing by hand) seemed a little complicated but might try that later on.
sudo apt-get install alacarte
did work. Didn't get a menu entry for alacarte but running the command brought up a grapical menu editor and logging out and back in after editing revealed my changes.
For future happiness I bookmarked this sight
https://wiki.lxde.org/pt/LXDE:FAQ
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