A request for screenshots
Would you like to share screenshots below to see how Trisquel 11 looks like with the GNOME desktop environment?
It's to show others how cool it can look if they like it.
They can also be screenshots with window managers, ideally with wallpapers related to free software or GNU
I included my KDE desktop with two apps opened and in the "selection window view". What is it actually called?
> What is it actually called?
"Overview: the Overview effect shows all of your open windows and virtual desktops."
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.25.0
"Hold down the Meta ("Windows") key and press W to enter Overview mode or use a four-finger pinch on your trackpad."
I guess you want screenshots of the Activities overview. The normal view is just the desktop with the black panel at the top, also in the Activities overview. Here are three screenshots, right after typing the logo key (or throwing the mouse in the upper-left corner), after typing two additional keys to search (among the applications, the settings, the contacts, the files, etc.), and after opening several windows on the same workspace.
> The normal view is just the desktop with the black panel at the top
I will only believe it if a screenshot is provided.
Here it is. :-)
The bar at the bottom is in the webpage, when you are a translator.
Thank you, I believe now.
I would still be missing launchers and the window list on the top panel in the default view, but there seems to be some improvement in the way workspaces are displayed in the Activities overview. Is this custom settings or default?
It is default. The only thing visible in the screenshots that comes from an extension is the weather, provided by https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/750/openweather/
For a window list and a workspace switcher on a bottom panel, https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/602/window-list/ comes by default with Trisquel GNOME. For a new screenshot, attached, I enabled it and configured it so that the windows on all workspaces are listed. The dot at the right of the date indicates that I have a notification to read (clicking on the date).
I mostly use full screen windows on their own workspaces I switch to with keyboard shortcuts. Always the same workspaces for the applications I have among my startup applications (Emacs, Icedove, Liferea and Abrowser) thanks to https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/16/auto-move-windows/
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I decided to try installing GNOME in a virtual machine again (select only GNOME environment in the netinstall).
Initially, I see a number of things in French but many things in English too. When I go into the GNOME settings, I see that French language is not installed (although I asked to set the system in French in the netinstall) so I install it. It installs "Français (Canada)" and "Français (France)" and the first once is set. I select the second one, close the session and log in again.
Now, in preferences, everything is in French. I installed the package gnome-shell-extensions-manager to get the settings of list of extensions. In them, everything is in English only, there is no French.
Do you manage to have this in French?
In general, it would be better that the language selected in the netinstaller is also installed and set by default. This includes selecting "Français (France)" first because I selected that one in the netinstall. Also, abrowser remains in English while in the MATE install, it is put in French directly (which is a nice improvement compared to what it was at some point).
I installed the package gnome-shell-extensions-manager to get the settings of list of extensions. In them, everything is in English only, there is no French. Do you manage to have this in French?
The package is named "gnome-shell-extension-manager" (no "s" at the end of "extension"), but it is not installed on my system. I installed https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gnome-shell-integration/ and use https://extensions.gnome.org
The website itself is partly localized. The descriptions of the extensions are in English.
By the way, I have just discovered Firefox should soon be able to translate pages or any text you input. I see no reason Abrowser would remove that feature. Indeed, the translation is all done locally:
This happens entirely client-side. This means the URL of the page, nor any of the page data ever leaves your computer.
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/06/01/firefox-translations-and-other-innovations-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-139/
It is basically https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/ that will become part of the default browser.
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I installed https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gnome-shell-integration/ and use https://extensions.gnome.org
So did I. I also had to install the chrome-gnome-shell package in order to be able to install extensions via https://extensions.gnome.org (otherwise there is an error message in the abrowser window).
However, is there a graphical way to install GNOME extensions in Trisquel repository? (in my virtual machine the "Add software" app is broken, as I previously reported).
The descriptions of the extensions are in English.
This is disappointing but I checked Ubunutu in a virtual machine, it is exactly the same (still the installer sets the language properly for GNOME and for Firefox, unlike in Trisquel).
By the way, in the GNOME settings, in Trisquel, the item next to "background" is "notifications", while in Ubuntu there is an "appearance" item in between that allows configuring a number of things, include the dock (I installed it in Trisquel). Do you have this "appearance" item there?
I also had to install the chrome-gnome-shell package in order to be able to install extensions via https://extensions.gnome.org (otherwise there is an error message in the abrowser window).
I had it installed too. I added that piece of information on https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installing-gnome-shell
However, is there a graphical way to install GNOME extensions in Trisquel repository?
The package gnome-shell-extension-prefs provides GNOME Extensions, but it only "handles updating extensions, configuring extension preferences and removing or disabling unwanted extensions" and not the installation of new extensions (there is simply a link to extensions.gnome.org in the utility): https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Extensions/
This is disappointing but I checked Ubunutu in a virtual machine, it is exactly the same (still the installer sets the language properly for GNOME and for Firefox, unlike in Trisquel).
I do not know if extensions.gnome.org does not allow to describe the uploaded extension in different languages or simply if no extension creator bothers.
Do you have this "appearance" item there?
That tab is in GNOME Tweaks, present in Trisquel's repository (package named "gnome-tweaks"). See in the attached screenshot if the settings you are interested in are present.
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I do not know if extensions.gnome.org does not allow to describe the uploaded extension in different languages or simply if no extension creator bothers.
I signed in to discourse.gnome.org and posted a message to ask about this, I will report if I get something interesting from there.
I am now using GNOME on parabola, since I have parabola on the second disk of my T400, it is faster than trisquel in a virtual machine and it avoids messing up with my current trisquel environment.
About auto-move-windows: does it also work for applications started manually after session start? (it seemed not for me).
About apps started at session start: is there a way to delay the start of a particular one (it is an option in MATE)? I have an app that needs another one to be ready and without delay, I get annoying errors.
I found interesting extensions that make GNOME not look like default GNOME at all, after I am more familiar with them I will check they work the same with trisquel and report in case anyone is interested.
About auto-move-windows: does it also work for applications started manually after session start? (it seemed not for me).
It does work here.
About apps started at session start: is there a way to delay the start of a particular one (it is an option in MATE)?
I believe you can simply add a call to sleep (followed by the a number of seconds) before the actual command you want to launch.
How funny, I never clicked on the language flags at the top of the forum before, now I see what it looks like to French speakers.
I love that the Troll Lounge is "Le salon des trolls" in French.
And "the troll hole" is "le terrier des trolls" - that's even better.
What an amazing language. "Cthulhu eats your soul" is "Cthulhu mange votre âme" in French. I think I must learn this language. And "systemd is an IBM enslavement tool" is "systemd est un outil d'esclavage IBM". I think we have much work to do in this amazing language.
It is rumored that Cthylhy has a secret name in French, only known to a few gnomoccultists. Some pretend it is Oui-oui-banane, but I cannot confirm.
I belong to the MATE denomination, with an LXDE/Xfce penchant, and I feel too old to swap allegiance. I may even end up in an open box setting.
In addition to the language, don't forget to be thankful to the French for inventing croissants.
True. The croissant makes harvest much easier for Kðulhu.
https://www.triangle-outillage.fr/taille-coupe/286-croissant-standard.html
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About the Croissants:
Maria Antonia of Austria, married Ludwig August of France, who later became Ludwig XVI. Maria Antonia bacame Mari Antoinette. In 1770 she liked to have some "Hörnchen", which are also known as "Kipferl" in Germany from her baker and they got a new name, the "Croissants", but the roots lie in Germany, my friend. This is a rare story but should be true. I red about it some months ago.
> Marie Antoinette
I believe you may be confusing the croissant with the guillotine:
Also, Austria with Germany.
You're both wrong. The croissant was invented by Charlegmane, who would wrap his body in strips of pastry dough prior to going into battle. After chopping off enemy heads in the heat of the sun all day, the pastry dough would have been perfectly baked under the heat of his metal armor, providing him with a tasty snack as he removed his armor.
Greetings,
I share my desktop which is Material Shell built on top of GNOME alongside my beloved Emacs showing some dummy code I wrote to show off how amazing tree sitter is :D
