tde-users August 2013

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38 discussions

by Lisi Reisz

My recent emails to the list have been taking a seriously long time to get there. Am I doing something wrong? To give you an idea (and hopefully prod Murphy) the email I sent just now was sent at 9:09 UTC, and this one at 9:21 UTC, both on 13-08-29. Lisi

11 years, 3 months

Alexandre's most recent PCLOS remaster

by Lisi Reisz

I have been having a play with Alexandre's latest release of his remaster. I have been one of Alexandre's fiercest critics, if not the fiercest. So I feel that I must give credit where credit is due. Alexandre, I love it. I particularly liked those beautiful colours that one can gaze at as the system boots up. I greatly appreciated the chance to stick with a classic menu. I even quite liked the desktop - and it was obviously amenable to change, which I also liked. The selection of icons both on the desktop and on the panel was great. I prefer to work without icons generally, but these I could live with. There was even an icon for KWrite. I almost felt that I had come home. Kudos. You have worked hard, and listened, and produced something lovely. I had a very unfortunate experience with PCLOS and its being a rolling distro. A pity, as there was a lot I liked about it. But I am not about to change to it again. Two very minor quibbles. 1st, a political point. Yes, I know that we eschew politics, but we may have the occasional Ulsterman (or woman) on this list. This is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The rest of the island of Ireland is Eire, as you correctly say. You refer in the time zones to "GB and Eire", so what happens to poor old Ulster, otherwise known as Northern Ireland? Did you forget it? Or have you got IRA leanings and are lumping it in with Eire?? ;-) The other quibble refers to the clock on the panel. It was insistent that the time in London was 2:15 a.m. when it was in fact 10:15 p.m., and would not allow me to reset it. I was able to reset the clock on the desktop via the PCLOS, but not the clock on the panel. Incidentally, the panel clock leads me to believe that you are in Canada, possibly Montréal. That would explain your French name, coupled with mother tongue standard English! Lisi

11 years, 3 months

FreeNX generating multiple (frozen) NX client sessions

by Joseph Thames

Hello, I have TDE installed on a CenOS 6.3 VPS in the cloud, which i use an NX client to access. There seems to be a wierd interaction between TDE side and top panels and FreeNX. I was in the process of adding application icons to the top panel when I was queried by dialog indicating that some part of this process was taking too long (I don't remember the exact message) and did I want to stop the process? I clicked yes, unfortunately. Now nothing works the way it did before. When I try to connect to the server with the NX client, I get multiple session windows, and all of them are frozen (mouse does not work internal to the session window). I can drag the window from its top bar, but I can't close it, either with the X button or with "close" in a pop-up dialog box. A strange aspect is that these session windows are now numbered in their top bar with <2>, <4>, etc. centered. And in the panel popup of my client machine associated with the NX icon, these numbers appear. When I click one of them (from the client), I will get one of these "windows" displayed. It might be just a top bar (actually an empty TDE top panel labeled with a <number> with no window below it, or an empty side panel labeled with a <number>), and it might overlap a complete window (labeled at the top with some other number, e.g. <6>). Some of these windows will have the side and top panels that I had populated before my fatal "yes" click, but they do not respond to mouse button events. The only way to get rid of these windows is the kill the nxssh processes on the server (which happen to be hogging all of the server's CPU time). Then I ran nxserver --terminate <username> getting rid of all of the old NX sessions for my username "bear" and "root". Then rebooted the server, and tried logging in again from my client machine using the NX client. The same multiple-session behavior happened again. There should have been only one NX session window. But there were several. The same thing happened when loging in to root. Does anybody have a clue as to what I can do? TIA, Bear -- Joseph 'Bear' Thames MetaCalculus, LLC and Meta Science Foundation (505) 977-9024 - Cell Phone beartham(a)gmail.com

11 years, 3 months

KDE 3.5 on Debian Lenny on a JXD S18 Mini Pad with Linux-On-Android

by Alexandre Couture

Hi, Here is a couple of pictures I took of my little Android 4.1 tablet running Debian Lenny with Linux-On-Android. The machine is a JXD S18 Mini Pad. It cost +- 50$ on Ebay and it has a 1Ghz RockChip rk2928 Arm cpu with 512mb of RAM, a 4.x inch screen and, of course, Wi-Fi. It has 4gb of internal flash memory and I bought a 16gb microSDHC card to use in its memory card slot. Once it is rooted, it can run Linux-On-Android, with a choice of a few Arm-compatible distros. I installed KDE 3.5.10 on it and it works, although it is not much of any real use since the display resolution is only 480x272. It is a little slow, because Android still run in the background and it gets quite low on RAM, but it is approximately as fast as a Pentium 2 on Linux. Even OpenOffice.org and IceWeasel works! On a bigger Android tablet, it could be interesting to use it as an ''Amarok machine'' Have a nice day! -Alexandre

11 years, 3 months

k3b won't install opensuse 12.2/64

by Larry Stotler

When I try to install K3b on my openSUSE 12.2/64bit install I get the following error: File './applications/trinity-k3b-3.5.13.1-1.opt.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/opensuse12.2…' Any ideas?

11 years, 3 months

Updating from Squeeze to Wheezy

by Lisi Reisz

Hi, List :-) I have been holding fire in changing my desktop from my nice stable TDE on Squeeze until TDE for Wheezy sounded less dicey. I then delayed further when it recently stabilised because I had too much else going on in my life, and as I said, my system is great. I love TDE 3.5.13.2. But the time has come to upgrade. Other things have simmered down a bit, anyhow temporarily, so the time has come. In the past, I have always reinstalled. This time I want to try upgrading. When I edit my sources.list, I assume that I change the word squeeze to wheezy in my TDE repositories too? (Including Slávek's.) And that I just do a standard Debian update, dist-upgrade? (Yes, I have read the release notes. And yes, I shall make sure that I have got at least two backups of my data in at least two different places.) All advice and tips welcome. "Just go ahead"s perhaps even more welcome! Thanks, Lisi

11 years, 4 months

no power modes in TDE?

by cwm030＠aol.com

11 years, 4 months

setiing PATH

by Greg Madden

New install, Wheezy:i386 three uers on the system, includes root. "/opt/trintity/" only gets added to the PATH of one user. No mention of trinity stuff in "~.bashrc, ~.profile, /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc". I know how to change the PATH using the above files, want to know how TDE does it, or fails to, on install. TIA -- Peace, Greg

11 years, 4 months

Minor TDEUI change for Trinity

by Alexandre Couture

Hi, I just did a small modification to the TDEUI theme at home. In the pictures, you can see that the only change is that now there is a gradient in the background of the text between the TDE logo and the text box in the middle. This modification can be seen in the Control Center or when Konqueror is opened as a web browser. You can download the modification: -The kdeui_mod.zip -At this URL: http://www.filefactory.com/file/2uepu44mm8c3/n/kdeui_mod_zip The folder in the archive should replace the /opt/trinity/share/apps/kdeui/about folder This minor modification could be part of TDE one day, if someone is interested in it. Tell me what you think! Thanks! -Alexandre

11 years, 4 months

new install updates fail

by cwm030＠aol.com

11 years, 4 months

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