Got a few problems with Trisquel 7
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Hi everyone!
Just upgraded to 7 from 6 and I'm loving it. I have three problems though.
1. When using one finger scrolling with a touchpad, the scrolling directions are reversed. Up = down and down = up as if I'm using a touch screen. I could not find a way to change this. When testing with my mouse, the scrolling worked just fine. Is there a way to access my touchpad controlls in a deeper level than the GUI interface in system settings?
2. I would like to change the user logging screen. Now it list all user accounts. I'd rather have it just ask for a user name and then the password insted. I tried Alt + F2 with "sudo gconftool-2 -t bool -s /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true" which worked with Trisquel 6. Did not work this time though.
3. My custom keyboard shortcut for opening trashbin does not work. It is "nautilus trash://". Works in bash just fine but not at all when I use it with the keyboard shortcut I assigned it to (Ctrl + Alt + R).
I like the new Trisquel very much but would like to get these few thigs fixed if possible. Can you help?
Trisquel 7's display manager is LightDM. Not GDM. Try to append "greeter-hide-users=true " to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf:
$ echo 'greeter-hide-users=true ' | sudo tee -a /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
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Thanks for your help. It got me to the right path towards the solution.
2. Solved. When I tried your way, my logging screen never loaded and I had to revert with tty6. After a quick search I found the answer:
create a folder and a conf file
sudo mkdir -p /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-my-custom-config.conf
add the following to the conf file to hide the user list
[SeatDefaults]
greeter-hide-users=true
greeter-show-manual-login=true
You can also add the following to hide the guest session
allow-guest=false
Now it works just as I want it to.
1. Try this command to see if the scroll gets inverted
synclient VertScrollDelta=-100
3. What if you put that command into a file and make the file executable and then bind it to a key? You might need to add a first row to the file containing #!/bin/sh
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1. Solved. I found out that using value 100 instead of -100 worked. The problem re-occurred so I solved it with a script runned at login.
3. This does not work for some reason. My script works but I can't seem to be able to run it with a keyboard shortcut. I even tried using another shortcut that I know works (Ctrl + Alt + H for home folder) but to no avail. My script is in $PATH and it works fine from bash. The shortcut command I tried to use is "/bin/bash trash.sh" so it should just work. Weird.
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1. Just noticed that changing the value effects only my web browser leaving the file browser unaffected. Weird. And even more weirdly, after changing the value three times (100 -> -100 -> 100) it affects the whole system and solves my problem. Weird indeed, but solved.
3. Remains to be solved.
Did you try specifying the full path to the script?
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3. Solved. "/bin/bash trash.sh" works after all. It seems that if I change my command, I need to reboot to see if it really works. Tested with "/bin/bash ~/path-to/trash.sh" and it did not work even after a reboot. The problem is solved with this workaround but the weird behavior still bothers me a bit. Also the windows stylish "requirement to reboot" Anyway, thanks for your help lembas and Magic Banana! You were a great help!