Trisquel hangs and theming Q!
Hi everyone after installing every DE known to man the only one that doesnt have screentearing seems to be trisqels gnome3/compiz one that comes out of the box, The only problem remaining is that it can freeze up everything and i have to do a hardreset to get it working again =( is there any logs i can check to see what is causing this?
Also what kind of themes do i need to download to change the window decoration?
Regards
The troubles your display goes through are probably not the window manager's fault. The video driver may be the one to blame. Have you tried updating the Linux-libre kernel to the latest version?
Ok! So far no freezing =) Is it safe to update the kernel when all the other packets are outdated? i mean the graphics driver is still from ubuntu LTS.
What do you mean? Free drivers are shipped with the kernel (hence updated with it).
Maybe not the drivers but some libraries like xorg-intel still uses older packets, is there anything that can brake now when i use the newest kernel?
Do not worry. Jxself is a Trisquel user. I am pretty sure he tests his packages on Trisquel. Besides, older kernels are never automatically removed.
Ok so the latest kernel seems to be 3.12 but when i update i only get 3.11.6 is there any reason for this?
i ran sudo apt-get update before.
http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/freesh/dists/freesh/main/binary-amd64/
It's probably just too new. But it will be there.
There are also newer X (the graphical user interface) packages available, backported from Ubuntu qq and rr. (Trisquel 6 is based on pp)
You'll find the package names contain words quantal or raring. E.g. xserver-xorg-video-vesa-lts-raring
Those can be tricky to install because the process can leave you without X at all. Should that happen e.g. installing one of the Desktop Environments (gnome,kde,xfce,lxde) should fix it if you can't figure out a more subtle way of doing it.
With some graphics cards a compositor (compositing manager) is needed to fix tearing.
I am using XFCE DE, but the default compositing manager doesn't help, so I use compton.
It is a standalone program, so you may be able to use it with most window managers, thereby most DE-s.
Unfortunately it is not in the Trisquel repo, so you need to use a PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~richardgv/+archive/compton
or get the source:
https://github.com/chjj/compton
Note that you may need to configure it, and it may require experimentation for best result.
If I'm not mistaken, there's a program which allows installation of DEB packages downloaded by the user and also inform the user about the possible dependencies conflicts.
I just can't remember if it is dpkg or Gdebi.
This would allow the user to download a package built for the base of the operating system he is currently using, which in the case of GNU+Linux Trisquel 6.0, is GNU+Linux Ubuntu 12.04.
I find this useful because I don't have to change repository sources.
Best regards, ADFENO.
Have a nice day.
Yeah i saw that later after my reinstallation :P Looks like xfce added v-sync to their latest build of xfwm. I really hope trisquel begins with 6-month updates like ubuntu i feel like iam missing out on a lot of features/bugfixes =(