tde-users March 2013

users@trinitydesktop.org

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sudoers file deleted!
by Uwe Brauer 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hello I am desperate: I just tried to de install kde trinity and now my sudoers file got deleted, a new generated, but I do not any longer belong to this group. That is why I cannot use my PC anymore. Is re installation the only solution? thanks Uwe Brauer

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Trinity repository for Debian Wheezy
by Sergey Frolov 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi everyone! I am an old KDE3/Trinity user. Following my own tradition of upgrading ~2 weeks before release I have successfully upgraded Squeeze to Wheezy. In order to minimize exposure to a 3rd-party repositories I gave a try for KDE 4.8.4 and was not impressed. While KDE received much and more neat usability tweaks, my experience with my own usual use cases was mostly frustrating. Now that I checked my options, TDE looks very competitive to a modern full-blown desktop environments. Congratulations and thank you for your effort! So, the question is: when Debian Wheezy repository (of any TDE release) will be ready? Maybe you need help to test one? I am willing to put some effort to get back to TDE by the time of Wheezy release. P.S. Here is an announcement about passing 100RC bugs milestone: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/03/msg00009.html Right now it's 87 and counting: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/testing.html Best Regards, Sergey.

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crash, kde3, Xserver does not start any more
by Uwe Brauer 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hello I have installed Kubuntu 10.04 with trinity 3.5.11 (I think) on a X60 Thinkpad Laptop. This morning the xerver freezed and I had to reboot, I got a graphical login, could login, kde3 started, however the hard disk was in read only mode. So I rebooted again, this time it took almost 15 min to reboot, a sign that some hard disk problem occurred; (I have the jfs file system.) Anyhow finally the machine booted again successfully, I got a graphical login but now I could *NOT* login, the password was accepted but instead the graphical login screen reappeared. I could login on a terminal though. So I thought maybe the xorg.conf file was damaged. But this Kubuntu version does not have a xorg file anymore, as google told me. So what can I do? (1) sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org ??? (2) sudo X -configure? (3) sudo dexconfiure -o xorg.con?? Any help is strongly appreciated, because the only other solution it to try a _complete_ reinstall. thanks Uwe Brauer

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Konqueror question
by Leslie Turriff 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

In Windows' [shudder] explorer, one can right click on a file and email it. Is there a way to get Konqueror to do that? -- Leslie

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Mageia RPMS can't be added to the package manager
by Tim Williams 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hello, I'm trying to add the Trinity desktop to a Mageia 2 installation, but the urpmi.addmedia command will hang for a minute or so and then fail thus: [root@jupiter ~]# |urpmi.addmedia trinity-main-noarch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/mga2/trinity… adding medium "trinity-main-noarch" ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 28 This has happened for all the repos listed on the Mageia install instructions page I've tried so far. Looking at the package archives I've built for myself, the following files are missing from media_info: changelog.xml.lzma files.xml.lzma info.xml.lzma Any suggestions? Thanks, 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) 844 487 4117 AutoTrain e-Learning is a trading name of EuroMotor-AutoTrain LLP Registered in the United Kingdom, number: OC317070.

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Looking for a way to switch back to vanilla theme for the shell
by Alexandre Couture 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hello everyone!I am currently working on a Zenity script to switch between the ''Modern'' theme and the ''TDE Classic'' theme on my PcLinuxOS TDE non-official remaster. I know that many persons here prefer the classic vanilla appearance of TDE and I want to provide this option for these users. While deleting everything in the home folder and restarting the X server works and makes TDE appearance returns to default, it is a little rude and of course, delete every files of the user. Another avenue I have found is to launch ''kcmshell kthememanager'' and then, the user can select the classic of modern theme, but the user still need to select it in a list. Also, it doesn't change back to the ''Trinity Classic'' menu instead the ''KickOff'' menu. Is there a way, from the bash shell, to select a theme named ''Plastik'' in kthememanager without letting having to select it in the list in kthememanager? Also, is there a way to switch between the ''Trinity Classic'' menu and the ''KickOff'' menu from the bash shell? Thank you!-Alexandre

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Short bug report (ark)
by Rolf Schmidt 17 Mar '13

17 Mar '13

Hi, I installed ark, the archiv gui, but it didn't start. Start it from a terminal the error message "libkdeinit_ark could not found" was given. The library is installed in /opt/trinity/lib. After I set a symlink in /usr/lib (/lib or /lib46 did not help) the program starts. Perhaps this information help to fix the problem. Fine regards Rolf PS: Debian Lenny and Trinity with Slaveks axis repository

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PPA installation - Afrikaans
by jc 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Have installed Wheezy RC1 in english and gnome comes up in english. Installing Trinity Desktop Environment v3.5.13 - updates (Slavek's PPA) completly and rebooting the TDE logon comes up in english but Trinity comes up in Afrikaans. Not difficult to switch to US english; the two choices on Settings > Regional & Accessability > Country/Region & Language are Afrikaans and US English but could confuse people This on both a VMWare workstation 7 and a laptop. The original language for installation (RC1) was english - australia with en -au as default and the various zh - * as secondary. the sources are: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux wheezy-DI-rc1 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20130214-12:23]/ wheezy contrib main deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1… squeeze main deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1… squeeze main deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/slavek-banko/axis/ubuntu wheezy main deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/slavek-banko/axis/ubuntu wheezy main

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Difficult new install
by Greg Madden 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

New install of Wheezy TDE 3.45.14 (nightlies). I have the missing *.la issue, noted previous post, for Konq. Initially I did not have 'tdm-trinity' in '/etc/init.d/' consequently not in any run levels either. I copied 'tdm-trinity' from my laptop install, updated the run levels. TDE desktop failed to start, it seems ksmserver-trinity did not get installed with the 'tdebase-trinity' meta-package I used. I was havng a hardware issue with my workstation, and replaced the root hard drive, went with the new install. It seems, esp. last month, the nightlies are not even ready for testing. There was a warning from Tim a while back about some changes. Hard for me to tell when it is safe to do an update and when and for how long to wait. I have been using the nightlies in a test environment since last summer. TDE has been usable most of that time...untill recently. -- Peace, Greg

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Konqueror/Gwenview weirdness
by Leslie Turriff 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

I browse to a website that contains GIF images. When I click on any of these images I get this error message: There was an error loading the module Gwenview Image Viewer. The diagnostics is: Library files for "libgvimagepart.la" not found in paths. I click OK and the image is displayed. I checked the Konqueror file association settings for GIF and found KView Gwenview Gwenview V4 GIMP Kolourpaint Wine Internet Explorer Pinta This looks like KView should be being used not Gwenview; but I removed Gwenview V4 just in case it was causing some conflict. But I got the same result. I also tried upgrading to the most recent available Konqueror and Gwenview components from the repository, but again got the same result. Any suggestions? Leslie

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