Hi everyone.
Unfortunately, I was forced to remove my installation of Trinity/PCLinuxOS this morning, due to Firefox and Thunderbird not working correctly. Specifically, Firefox was repeatedly asking to be the default browser, even as I previously selected it as the default. And Thunderbird, in the middle of all this, would no longer open links at all, deciding to automatically add a new 'account' relating to news and feeds.
Both Vivaldi and Chromium were also installed as browsers, but once both of these were removed, Firefox and Thunderbird continued to exhibit the same behavior.
Upon installing first Trinity/Ubuntu 20.04.1 and then Lubuntu 20.04 LTS, I was unable to get HPLIP (as hp-setup) with either OS to communicate with my HP printer, which was USB-connected.
Final attempt, was to install Debian (10, LXQt). Fortunately, this was able to detect the printer using hp-setup, however neither hp-systray nor the HPLIP Toolbox (GUI) will launch.
I am extremely hesitant to install Trinity on top of this Debian installation, because I am afraid that with Konqueror included as the default file manager, I will have the same issues with Firefox and Thunderbird. I suspect that something with PCLOS may have changed, causing it to detect both Firefox and Konqueror as web browsers, instead of a web browser and a file manager. I don't know.
I have been fiddling with this for the past seven hours now. I just want it to work.
Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions/etc.
Ok as a Big Daddy (PCLOS) user. I have some suggestions.
I don't use the pclos package for FF or TB. I download from Mozilla directly and use those. Then go to preferences and manually check the default settings for both.
I use a lot of HP printers. Great printers but they have their eccentricities. Try leaving the printers on during install. Or starting the HP tools getting to the printer detection dialog, then turn the printer on, off and on again. Make sure the USB is a good one.
You can also use system-config-printer, which, IMO, is the best printer setup tool. The only time is doesn't always seem to work is when it's a HP network printer.
I hope the above offers you something. However, wait for input from the rest of the collective.
Be patient.
Kate
On 12/30/20 5:46 PM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
Ok as a Big Daddy (PCLOS) user. I have some suggestions.
I don't use the pclos package for FF or TB. I download from Mozilla directly and use those. Then go to preferences and manually check the default settings for both.
I use a lot of HP printers. Great printers but they have their eccentricities. Try leaving the printers on during install. Or starting the HP tools getting to the printer detection dialog, then turn the printer on, off and on again. Make sure the USB is a good one.
You can also use system-config-printer, which, IMO, is the best printer setup tool. The only time is doesn't always seem to work is when it's a HP network printer.
I hope the above offers you something. However, wait for input from the rest of the collective.
Be patient.
Kate
I deleted all of the printer-related entries (which included the fax option, which I never used) and re-installed the printer using hp-setup and un-checked the fax option. When installing Linux, I always leave the printer on, so a live DVD can see it. I previously moved the printer from the USB port it was connected to, to the other free port, but that didn't solve the earlier issue of Trinity/Ubuntu/Lubuntu not finding it.
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Edward wrote:
On 12/30/20 5:46 PM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
Ok as a Big Daddy (PCLOS) user. I have some suggestions.
I don't use the pclos package for FF or TB. I download from Mozilla directly and use those. Then go to preferences and manually check the default settings for both.
I use a lot of HP printers. Great printers but they have their eccentricities. Try leaving the printers on during install. Or starting the HP tools getting to the printer detection dialog, then turn the printer on, off and on again. Make sure the USB is a good one.
You can also use system-config-printer, which, IMO, is the best printer setup tool. The only time is doesn't always seem to work is when it's a HP network printer.
I hope the above offers you something. However, wait for input from the rest of the collective.
Be patient.
Kate
I deleted all of the printer-related entries (which included the fax option, which I never used) and re-installed the printer using hp-setup and un-checked the fax option. When installing Linux, I always leave the printer on, so a live DVD can see it. I previously moved the printer from the USB port it was connected to, to the other free port, but that didn't solve the earlier issue of Trinity/Ubuntu/Lubuntu not finding it.
Create a new user and see if the problem arises there, too.
Jonesy
On 12/30/20 8:59 PM, Marvin Jones via tde-users wrote:
Create a new user and see if the problem arises there, too.
Jonesy
With the Trinity packages now installed, everything appears to be OK now.
Although there is one /little/ thing that changed:
Under LXQt, the HP Device Manager wouldn't launch from the desktop menu.
Under Trinity, it launches.
One of those things that I think is best left unexplained... 😂
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Marvin Jones