Trisquel users

Hi everyone,

Do you have a favourite lightweight laptop? I used to have a Asus C201 (rip) I'm looking to replace.

I want a cheap and light secondary computer to take on the bus so I can do some word processing, spreadsheets, light coding, e-mails, reading pdfs and maybe a bit in Scribus and the GIMP. I wouldn't be connecting it to the internet except with a USB Ethernet adapter at home. Obviously battery life would be the biggest thing, since I'd be using it a bit like an always-on tablet.

I was looking at a laptop with a Radeon 610M GPU, which is almost certainly not supported by libre drivers, but I don't know if you can use it at all without hardware acceleration. Can you?

Unlike Ubuntu MATE 24.04, Trisquel 12.0 didn't automatically install my Brother HL-L5210DW monochrome laser via USB (as a driverless, IPP Everywhere printer). Here's how I got my printer installed and working.

Note that the printer was automatically *recognized* (just not automatically installed). I used the lpstat command to get the recognized printer name:

$ lpstat -e
Brother_HL_L5210DW_series_USB

I needed to use this exact name in order to prevent duplicate printer entries in the Print dialog box.

I then used the lpinfo command to get a list of available devices. My printer was at the very end:

$ lpinfo -v
...[other entries here]...
network ipp://Brother%20HL-L5210DW%20series%20(USB)._ipp._tcp.local/

The easiest way to install the printer was with the following command:

$ sudo lpadmin -p -E -v "" -m everywhere

where is from the output of the lpstat -e command and is from the output of the lpinfo -v command. The command I used was:

$ sudo lpadmin -p Brother_HL_L5210DW_series_USB -E -v "ipp://Brother%20HL-L5210DW%20series%20(USB)._ipp._tcp.local/" -m everywhere

Alternatively, I was also able to install the printer using the CUPS browser-based interface (http://localhost:631/).

For the printer name, I used the exact printer name from the lpstat -e command.

For Make, I selected Brother (substitute your printer brand here).

For Model, I selected IPP Everywhere (the first entry in the list).

I wasn't able to add the printer using the Printers app that comes with Trisquel because it doesn't have the option to specify IPP Everywhere for the Model.

I recently installed Trisquel 12.0 (x86_64) and found that the Notification Area item is not added to the panel by default.

I use the Typing Break feature built-into the MATE desktop (Keyboard Preferences > Typing Break tab). This feature has a "gauge" in the panel that I'm used to seeing but that doesn't appear by default in Trisquel 12.0. I got the gauge to display by adding the Notification Area item to a panel.

Hello everyone.

Please could you tell me whether the Wi-Fi module with an M2 B-key interface is single-band or dual-band? Unfortunately, there is no such information on the h-node.org website. I recently discussed the Atheros AR9462 module; if you look at the h-node.org website, there is no information about the keys, and this is very important information before making a purchase. If anyone has access to the website, please add this information to the homepage

interface:not-specified https://h-node.org/wifi/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/undef/undef/wifi-works/undef?search_string=AR9462&submit=Search

If I'm not mistaken, the Atheros AR9462 has an E key and an A key, but no B key