@francois Solving this issues is a *tremendous* task. AppStream supports the notion of language packs, but in order for that to be useful, we need to add localization component metadata to a lot of packages and also make adjustments on other GNOME components, and likely GNOME Software as well.
I had a chat with some people from Canonical about this, and we might be looking into this again together. But this will take quite a while to get resolved in PureOS, unless we suddenly get a lot more engineering manpower.

@francois How did you try to install PureOS? Via the live installer, or via the OEM installer?

Any update on this? :)

We already talked about it in the forum. I don't remember. I used a tool to change some gnome settings. But don't remember what. Might be there was an option for it?

The first step here would be to getting it into Debian. I can handle this if you like; please assign me the ticket.

I strongly suggest this as well. LittleSnitch, a similar program that has been around for over a decade, is the first thing I install (and recommend others install) when I work with a new OS X instance.

ajlok: Very odd that you have this option while I don't, as we're both using the Librem 13v3. Is there a setting in Gnome that I might be missing somehow?

In T535#9784, @thegoat wrote:

Not related to the core issue but figured I'd mention it - in my Librem 13v3 power settings, the drop down menu next to "when the power button is pressed" only has three available options - “Suspend” “Power Off” and “Nothing.” There should also be a "Hibernate" option but it's not there for me. I'm running PureOS and my system is fully updated.

Just checking if there has been any progress on this issue? It is blocking non technical users pretty much here in France. Especially the lack of internationalization and spell checking in LibreOffice.

Thanks for creating an issue to track this!

Update: This happens only from the cli! If you search for 'keepass' and run it from the Gnome3 application search it works!

Not related to the core issue but figured I'd mention it - in my Librem 13v3 power settings, the drop down menu next to "when the power button is pressed" only has three available options - “Suspend” “Power Off” and “Nothing.” There should also be a "Hibernate" option but it's not there for me. I'm running PureOS and my system is fully updated.

Thanks for reporting, and providing a workaround!

No problem to upgrade it on last version.

No problem to install it on last version.

To clarify: Does this issue appear in the live installer, or in the OEM installer on first run? (I suspect it's the latter)

Did you consider reporting this issue to GNOME as well?

@mladen.pejakovic As far as I know when installed (like on debian with the non-free firmware-atheros package) the firmware is loaded into a volatile memory of the wireless card. Volatile memory requires power to maintain the stored information. So when you restart, the firmware remains, when you shut down, wait a bit and then start your system the firmware is lost.

@stefannagy, that's interesting, I did use ArchBang (Arch based live system) before installing Parabola. And after leaving the laptop shutdown overnight, bluetooth is now not working.

This just got fixed in the most recent round of upgrades.

@mladen.pejakovic Did you restart into Parabola from a distro with the firmware installed?

This looks like the same issue I'm having. My system uses English, so from the shell:

Does it look like this? If so, it's probably the same issue reported at https://forums.puri.sm/t/terrible-graphic-distortions-in-pureos/3612

Turned out not to be a problem with PureOS. After I played a bit with VBox settings the issue was resolved. I activated 3D acceleration, increased video memory to 128MB, upped usable RAM to 3GB and gave permission to use 2 CPU cores.

I am currently on Parabola GNU/Linux which is a Libre distro. Bluetooth working fine on Librem 15v3.

You are right. I created a new task: https://tracker.pureos.net/T538

I get massive CPU activity and a black VBox screen.

I experienced the same problem. After finding this thread and plugging in "pureos" as username on my VirtualBox running on Ubuntu I get massive CPU activity and a black VBox screen.

My new RAM is CT16G4SFD824A C16FE
My old RAM was CT16G4SFD8213 C16FH1

Since this was just mentioned again, I need feedback here... Go, or no go?
/me is for dropping it (at least temporarily).

is this a possible relation too https://tracker.pureos.net/T530

possible relation too
https://forums.puri.sm/t/battery-drain-while-suspended/2726/10
and by extension
https://tracker.pureos.net/T419

This is a meta-issue spawned from T534#9657

as you wish.

It is a package manager. You can use it to install a .snap file (snap package) that you have downloaded by some other means, or that you have built yourself locally:

There should be no Mozilla or Firefox references in PureBrowser. This will obviously lead to confusion.

What is the purpose of snapd other than to download packages from external sources?

Thanks for clarifying.

Knowledgeable users will already understand that PureBrowser is a privacy-respecting fork of Firefox (i.e. based on Mozilla technologies). But I suspect (untested) that an everyday user would wonder:

Can you please elaborate how a reference to Mozilla in a Mozilla-based product can lead to confusion?

I've reassigned this to myself to post these steps on the https://tracker.pureos.net/w/troubleshooting/ page.

Looking forward to the fix! Created https://tracker.pureos.net/T534 for the Mozilla logo issue.

For the record: This issue was fixed by favoring DuckDuckGo over other search engines for all locale regions.

This issue is solved since release 52.9.0esr-1pureos3, uploaded to landing today August 8th.

@d3vid Reference to Mozilla in upper right corner is (at best) a different issue than this one: Please file separately if you believe that should be somehow addressed as well.

This issue is solved since release 52.9.0esr-1pureos3, uploaded to landing today July 8th.

This issue is solved since release 52.9.0esr-1pureos3, uploaded to landing today July 8th.

@james.rufer This issue tracks PureBrowser advertising itself as Firefox on the Start page.

Thanks for sharing. I do believe, however, that wiki is a better medium for sharing best practices than an issue tracker.

@EchedeyLR thanks - that is indeed an idea worth considering (and testing if results are decent or inadequate).

Status in Debian is tracked at https://wiki.debian.org/FingerForce

I proposed this for your idea: "Other solution could be that your self-hosted searx instance only uses free search engines like gigablast (just allowed) and findx (not allowed yet)."