tde-users August 2011

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31 discussions

hald not running?
by Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Hi! I just happen to have a wierd problem on a T61p + wheezy: kpowersave was running, but no battery or cpu information was shown. As it is, hald does not start. When I put a "lshal" in rc.local, hald is running and anything works fine. So my question is, why does this happen? I way quite surprised, because the same image runs on a T60p (which is quite the same hardware) and there hald is running by default. Nik -- Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp Einnehmerstraße 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: office(a)klepp.biz

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pop up windows and mouse pointer
by HHa 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Hi, when I do Alt+F2 the window "execute command" pops up but is not active because the mouse pointer is somwhere on the screen. Is there a possibility to place the mouse pointer directly into a pop up window? -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Ohne Zensur suchen: http://suche.amnesty-bergedorf.de/ ökologisch suchen: http://www.ecosia.de Das heutige Motto: ... sondern Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht, und Es helfen nur Menschen, wo Menschen sind

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Some emails downloaded to KMail 1.9.9 just "disappear"
by Lisi 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

I have been having problems with POP 3 and Gmail in that some emails are there but seem not to download. I have established (with the expenditure of some time) that the mails download (I have sat and watched them do so) and then disappear. I have forwarded the mails through two Gmail addresses and one totally different email provider. In every case they simply disappear. They don't even land in the wastebin. Has anyone any ideas, *please*. My next idea is to destroy all my filters and gradually restore them and see if the recalcitrant emails are being misfiled in some mythical and non-existent folder. But that is a large task, and I am loathe to do it if someone can offer something easier or more sure of success. I would be doing it in desperation, and not in expectation of success. Thanks, Lisi

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Congratulations and thank you
by Nate Bargmann 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

First off, let me thank Tim for taking on the project of keeping KDE 3.5 alive and to everyone who has helped in whatever capacity in this endeavor. I'm a refugee of KDE 3.5 who feels like he came back home again. I first adopted KDE full time during the 3.4 series which is when it matured enough to capture me due to eye candy and finally having hardware capable of a full desktop environment. This would have been late 2005 as I recall. I was quite satisfied with KDE3 especially once I learned all the neat things one could do with it that just blew me away (and I know that I barely scratched the surface). As the maintenance stopped on KDE3 and the rumblings of how fantastic KDE4 would be, I waited in anticipation. I tried some live CDs from the 4,1 release until Debian included 4.2 in its Sid archive. I did my best to make do and like it and stuck with it on my main desktop until late last year when I installed a dual port card and set it up for zaphod heads for two independent desktops and KDE4 turned itself inside out and proved unworthy of the setup. GNOME was a bit better but far from perfect. I found that XFCE handles the setup quite acceptably. In early 2010 I gave Linux Mint a try on my main laptop and was impressed with their implementation of GNOME and moved to Ubuntu 10.4 Until I opted to go back to Debian Wheezy late last year with XFCE. XFCE and GNOME were acceptable but never quite as complete as KDE3 and while I knew of the Trinity project, I didn't investigate it until late last week. I have since installed it on two Squeeze boxes (one a desktop and the other a laptop I keep in my pickup) and my main Wheezy laptop. Overall I am pleased and impressed with the effort. I can tell that improvements have been made. One chin scrather is why I get two WiCD icons in the system tray, but I'll figure that one out later. Keep up the good work! - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us

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Trinity for Mandriva 2010.2
by Tim Williams 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

The RPM builds for Mandriva are now largely complete and i've been using them on my own computers for about 2 weeks now without noticing any major issues. The packages are available from: http://www.autotrain.org/mdv-kde/mdv2010.2.html Tim W -- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS AutoTrain e-Learning 58 Jacoby Place Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UW United Kingdom Web : http://www.autotrain.org, http://www.utrain.info Tel : +44 (0)121 414 2214 AutoTrain e-Learning is a trading name of EuroMotor-AutoTrain LLP Registered in the United Kingdom, number: OC317070.

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up-to-date distros that include Trinity KDE pre-installed?
by C W 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Hi I love KDE4 & KDE 3. I recently tried Porteus GNU/Linux which comes with Trinity KDE pre-installed. It is an up-to-date distro, not one or two years old. Porteus with Trinity is awesome & very fast, the only problem is it is not designed to be installed to a hard drive in a traditional sense. It's only meant to be used as a liveCD or live USB drive or live off of the hard drive. What are some distros that include Trinity KDE pre-installed? Ideally, ones that have a liveDVD or liveCD option would be best. Thanks very much. Cheers, Elcaset -- Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en K Desktop Environment- Experience Freedom & User Friendliness http://kde.org/ Free Lossless Audio Codec https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Flac Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm

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MS-Office 2003 under wine
by Jeff Taylor 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

I've had a problem with opening existing documents for some time now, but attributed the problem to the number of upgrades my computer has been through. However last week I installed a copy of trinity-maverick on a freshly-wiped machine, and I'm still having the same problems. Hopefully someone can help? I have a laptop running trinity under karmic, and Office 2003 runs fine from that machine, and is able to open all of these documents without problems. - Installed trinity-maverick 32-bit - Installed Office 2003 Pro (the same CD used to install on the previous Windows platform, where the required documents were created) Unable to open pre-existing .doc files. If a document did try to open, it would immediately crash with a Windows error report. Other documents completely crashed Word/wine without even an error. - Installed the wine repo from ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa - Upgraded to wine1.3 and winetricks Still unable to open documents. Now they all crash Word/wine without any errors. - Ran winecfg and set richedit20.dll, richedit32.dll & msxml3.dll as navite (Windows) - installed riched30 through winetricks Attempting to open any documents results in Word crashing with a Windows error report, then trying to re-launch Word and recover the crashed document. Note that I can open and use Word by itself without any problems, but I cannot open any saved documents. At this point I attempted to reinstall/repair Office 2003. This did not change anything. I ran winword.exe from CLI and captured the following when I tried to open a document... $ wine WINWORD.EXE fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity (0x413ea8,-1,(nil),(nil),1,3,(nil),72,(nil)) - stub! err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {24e669e1-e90f-4595-a012-b0fd3ccc5c5a} not registered err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {24e669e1-e90f-4595-a012-b0fd3ccc5c5a} could be created for context 0x1 fixme:storage:Storage_ConstructTransacted Unimplemented flags 110022 fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_ExtEscape QUERYESCSUPPORT(25) - not supported. fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:msctf:ThreadMgrSource_AdviseSink (0x1e0738) Unhandled Sink: {6f77c993-d2b1-446e-853e-5912efc8a286} fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLockGranted OnLockGranted called for something other than an EditSession fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnStartEditTransaction STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:shell:SHGetFileInfoW SHGFI_OVERLAYINDEX unhandled fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnEndEditTransaction STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:shell:SHGetFileInfoW SHGFI_OVERLAYINDEX unhandled fixme:shell:IShellView_fnSaveViewState (0x1e8140) stub fixme:shell:IShellView_fnSaveViewState (0xcda4a8) stub fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnStartEditTransaction STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:psdrv:PSDRV_DeviceCapabilities DC_BINADJUST: stub. fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x2194b8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x2194b8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x2194b8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLayoutChange STUB:(0x1e73d8) fixme:msctf:TextStoreACPSink_OnLockGranted OnLockGranted called for something other than an EditSession fixme:imm:ImmDisableIME (-1): stub fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread Cannot get kerneltime or usertime of other threads fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread info class 9 not supported yet fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread info class 9 not supported yet fixme:thread:NtQueryInformationThread info class 9 not supported yet fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Microsoft Office 11"): stub fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x000003e8,(nil),0x0008,0x000000ee,0x3009a1b4,0x4cc4c0): stub err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"winword.exe" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"11.0.6568.0" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"42e178a5" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"winword.exe" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"11.0.6568.0" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"42e178a5" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"0" err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"00068a09" fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub

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broken systemsettings
by Felix Miata 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

Trinity freshly installed on a HTTP Lucid minimal install, several modules are complaining about libpython2.6.so not found in paths, even though libpython2.6 is installed. One such is system services. Why is there a main menu item "system settings" that opens systemsettings, even though KControl is installed? KControl only shows the KControl start page when any of Monitor & Display, System Services, User Management, Windows Applications & others are selected. Opening Login Manager causes message "unable to create folder /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces", which isn't surprising given that KDM shows no icons in the user list. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Why is the site down?
by Dexter Filmore 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

After Torvalds recent rant against gnome3 I wanted to tell the world about trinity (world here means my fav IT news forum on heise.de) and link to the site - then noticed the site is down. I cannot advertise something that isn't there. Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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remove Plymouth?
by Felix Miata 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I got Trinity installed a few hours ago after an initial minimal HTTP Lucid install, which had left me with a clean text only boot process. Now with kubuntu-desktop-KDE3 installed I also have the Plymouth GUI nonsense. apt-get remove plymouth wants to remove virtually the entire system. How do I make the pre-KDM GUI stuff go away permanently? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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