Trisquel 7.0 alpha - Problems and observations
Hi guys,
I recently installed Trisquel 7.0 alpha on my desktop machine. The first impression is quite good but I'm facing some issues for Trisquel-mini:
- The wallpaper of the installation routine still greets me with a "Trisquel 6.0" slogan. ;-)
- If I activate autlogin during the installation, this parameter is completely ignored and I don't have autologin afterwards.
- I can't shutdown / reboot / logout without having root rights. Thus, I can't use the GUI to perform those tasks but rather have to specify the commands manually in the terminal (while being root)
- I can't adjust the resolution of my monitor and not all space of my screen is used for display. This just gives me a pretty blurry image.
- I can't install xfce4. "sudo aptitude install xfce4" just results in "Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"
- I can install abrowser but I think it should have been replaced by another package. Am I mistaken here?
As soon as anyone confirms any of those issues I'll open a new ticket. Thank you for your great work on this distribution.
The purpose of Abrowser was to replace Firefox, because Firefox had non-free bits. However, many distributions of GNU/Linux have their own modified firefox, including trisquel, and so the developer decided to stop developing Abrowser, because it is a waste of time for multiple people to do the same thing again and again, and also the developer of Trisquel has also became the person in charge of Icecat, the FSF's version of it, and so Trisquel will no longer have Abrowser, in about a year Abrowser will no longer be used.
So try installing Icecat.
Regarding to the xfce installation issue, look carefully the error message. If I remember correctly, the problem is a .desktop file. Just rename it and you will be able to install xfce.
@axgb: Does that mean abrowser will still be in the final repos for Trisquel 7.0?
@jbar: Well... how would renaming a .desktop file help to fix this problem?
"@jbar: Well... how would renaming a .desktop file help to fix this problem?"
When installing xfce there's another version of the same .desktop file. The conflict comes to not overwrite the previous file.
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The same accessibility regressions I've reported with previous Trisquel 7 Alphas are still present in the one released aJune 27; There are two I forgot to mention: When I launch synaptic, from the System Settings panel, and enter my password, orca is silent for the entire session, even when I restart it;Orca does not speak the top item in any desktop menu.
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And, here's one more: When on the desktop, I accicentally hit 'f1' instead of 'alt+f1', and got GNOME Help. A help file, reached by pressing 'f1' is a good thing to have, but the one in Trisquel 7 is for GNOME Shell, an interface we're not using. This will likely confuse naive users who may open this file and see instructions and screen shots that look nothing like the Trisquel desktop. Maybe we should point to the Trisquel manual pages, instead, or have some off-line version of them?
Trisquel 6.0 have the same problem. The Help is about GNOME Shell.
Hi Sorry my english I'm from Brazil.
I use trisquel 6 Any 2 months and am loving.
Use abrowser, how dumb to icecat?
In "apt-cache search" it points the abrowser.
Icecat is not yet present in the repositories, Abrowser is.
You needn't move to Icecat as of yet, as far as I know.