I finally got Trinity installed, the package download took 90 minutes (I'm
assuming the server is still being throttled by traffic) and it looks good.
I am working through various things so I can set Cobber-Trinity up for end
users in Australasia. So I have some questions.
1. I want to set the background (and other visual settings) via /etc/skel/
so that each new user automatically has a certain background (national
flag), theme, desktop icons, menu type, etc.. What is the settings file(s)
in TDE to accomplish this, and where is it located in the users home
directory?
2. There doesn't appear to be a setting for touchpads to work like mice
(e.g. touchpad tap opens file like a left click opens a file). Is there a
settings or settings file somewhere that can accomplish this?
I'm sure I'll have more questions but this will do for the moment.
Cheers.
Michael.
I've got a problem with TDE 14.0.0: When I click on a *.tyr.gz-file it's opened in konqueror like a folder. But when clicking on a *.zip-file in konqeror I get an error message that the file format is not supported.
konq-plugins-trinity is installed, ark is installed (it can read the *.zip file). Am I missing a plugin?
Nik
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Hi,
I would ask, if there is a reason, why the xterm in r14 starts with black
foreground and black background, which may only suitable for blinds and can
best read with braille devices?
Rolf
Hi
As the title says maximise doesn't really maximise, it does enlarge to the
edge of the screen but I can still grab the edge of the application (e.g.
iceweasel,chrome, LibreOffice, etc) and change the size. I am used to
maximise taking the application to the edge of the screen and not being
able to grab the edge of it.
Is this intentional or is it a bug?
Cheers.
Michael.
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The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to
announce the immediate availability of the new TDE R14.0.0 release. The
Trinity Desktop Environment is a complete software desktop environment
designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users
preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software.
Unlike previous releases TDE R14.0.0 has been in development for over two
years. This extended development period has allowed us to create a better,
more stable and more feature-rich product than previous TDE releases. R14
is brimming with new features, such as a new hardware manager based on
udev (HAL is no longer required), full network-manager 0.9 support, a
brand new compositor (compton), built-in threading support, and much more!
Version scheme change
Also new in this release is a change from the KDE v3.5.x series
versioning. In line with our new, separate identity, and to avoid
incorrect comparisons with KDE SC based on version number alone, we are
dropping the old versioning scheme and replacing it with our new R-series
versioning scheme. Each new release from this point forward will be
identified with three numbers prefixed with an R (standing for "Release");
the first number is the major series, the second is the minor series, and
the last is the Stable Release Update (SRU) identifier. A stable series
will be indicated by a single Rxx.yy identifier, e.g. R14.0. Major
overhauls of the codebase that significantly and permanently change the
way TDE functions, such as the transition from HAL to the TDE Hardware
Library or the new style engine, will only occur when the major series
number increments. Normal, incremental development, including new
features, will be indicated with an increment of the minor version number.
Bug fixes backported to a stable series (Rxx.yy)--with no new features or
changed functionality--will be indicated via an increment of the SRU
identifier alone.
Getting TDE
Installation instructions and binary packages are immediately available
for Debian and Ubuntu. Packages for RedHat/CentOs, Fedora, Mageia,
OpenSUSE, and PCLinuxOS are being built by their respective maintainers
and will be made available at a later date.
Live CDs with TDE R14.0.0 preinstalled are available at
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/LiveCDs .
Major Improvements from 3.5.13.x
The following is a list of the major improvements TDE R14.0.0 includes. *
New HAL-independent hardware support based on udev. HAL support is still
available for those systems (such as *bsd) that require it.
* Significant renaming of applications, libraries, and packages to avoid
conflicts with other desktop environments (most notably KDE). This allows
TDE to be installed in parallel with other desktop environments without
significant negative interaction.
* Upgrades to TQt3 (TDE's fork of Qt 3.3.8). TQt3 upgrades include a new,
modern style engine, multi-threading support, and improved speed and
stability.
* Support for network-manager 0.9 and newer.
* Switched compositor from Kompmgr to Compton-TDE, a fork of Compton with
TDE-specific features.
* Added builds for armel/armhf architectures on Debian and armhf on
Raspbian Wheezy.
* File mimetype detection system now based on libmagic.
To see more highlights of this release, please visit the TDE R14.0.0
information page at
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.0 .
About TDE
The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) was forked by Timothy Pearson in
2008 from the last official release of the K Desktop Environment's third
series (KDE3), version 3.5.10. It existed as a set of modified KDE3
packages for Ubuntu until 2009, when it was merged onto a proper source
control system (KDE SVN) and rebranded as TDE. Shortly thereafter, TDE's
core infrastructure was created utilizing spare computing capacity from
Raptor Engineering; these infrastructure resources currently include the
world's only Launchpad system based outside of Canonical Ltd. As the
project grew, the TDE team migrated off of KDE's SVN server onto our own
GIT server and has been completely independent from KDE from 2011 onward.
- From the beginning of the TDE project, individuals from around the world
have contributed to TDE, and our original desire to provide a powerful,
functional desktop environment in the traditional style has been upheld.
The TDE project still is led by Timothy Pearson utilizing Raptor
Engineering's computing resources. TDE currently is growing faster than it
ever has before, with many new contributors--and our dependable core team
of developers--helping to add new functionality, repair bugs, answer
questions on the mailing lists, and increase TDE's overall quality.
TDE fits into a niche similar to that of the MATE project for Gnome, but
TDE is geared more toward those who want a productive, efficient interface
with a high customization potential. Our dedicated team is continuing to
refine TDE instead of rebuilding it from scratch; this prolonged
development is something rarely seen in the open source applications
arena. While our niche position may not be as glamorous as some of the
larger projects such as KDE and Gnome we believe TDE is no less important
to those who rely on it and use it in their daily work, and we hope that
in the future our niche will continue to grow.
Developers Wanted
The TDE development team is small but friendly. If you wish to
participate in the TDE development process, please visit
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/helpwanted.php for additional information.
User Feedback
Feedback from our users is an integral part of a large, user-experience
oriented project such TDE. Whether you want to report a bug, suggest an
improvement, or simply let us know your opinion of TDE, please feel free
to contact us. Two good places to start communication are the project's
mailing lists at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/mailinglist.php and its
bug tracker at https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org .
Contribute to the TDE Project
Creating TDE requires significant computing resources and bandwidth.
Please consider helping to keep us online with a donation at
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/donate.php . Without your financial
assistance, TDE would not be possible!
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Hi,
I'm beginner of building TDE from source code tarball. I followed foot
steps of installation guide. Even I can't say TQT has successfully
installed via "make install". But I seems to be managed to execute "make
install", with adapted TQT paths. After tdebase installed, I stopped.
Suppose TDE R14 was my new desktop, but the desktop is still GNOME on my
Debian Wheezy.
What went wrong?
Thanks, Tariq
upgrade on my notebook machine went relatively uneventfully, so i
thought it safe to upgrade desktop machine. and boke everything to
the extent that i do not have x on the desktop machine at all.
am running ubuntu-12.04LTS
from a terminal, having added the specified lines to my sources.list
and commented out the old tde lines, i did:
sudo apt-get update
sudo aptutide upgrade
due to server congestion i had to run the latter several times. it
then specified a problem, to be solved by removal of libcal2b-trinity
and libqt-perl.
the installation blows up in a fashion too long to list here -- i'd
have to type it in character by characer, and it includes "25 not
fully installed or removed" when i went back at it with sudo apt-get
dist-upgrade. that command blows up with:
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ubuntu12.04.0+pr138_all.deb
(--unpack):
trying to
overwrite '/opt/trinity/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/devices/cdrom_unmount_encrypt.png',
which is also in package kdebase-kio-plugins-trinity
4:3.5.13.2-0ubuntu12.04.0+0
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg-deb (subprocess): error: subprocess <decompress> returned error
exit status 2
Errors were encountered while
processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ubuntu12.04.0+pr138_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
not real sure how to proceed. ideas?
thanks.
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Hi,
I found, that trinity has problems with the qxl-X11-server, which is for
working with the spice protocol and qemu/kvm. It seems, that the refresh did
not work properly.
I don't know, if it is a problem of trinity or the xserver-xorg?
Attached a screenshot showing the problems
Fine regards
Rolf
. . . in the standard linux tradition, i did some stuff and then got
the trinity kmail. but this is what the commandline also gave me:
dep@deportable:~$ kmail
TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for
writing
TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for
writing
TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for
writing
[TDE NM Backend ERROR]
[/build/buildd/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.0-r1231/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1224]
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
[TDE NM Backend ERROR]
[/build/buildd/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.0-r1231/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1224]
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
[TDE NM Backend ERROR]
[/build/buildd/tdelibs-trinity-14.0.0-r1231/tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1803]
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
dep@deportable:~$ WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended.
WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended.
WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended.
WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended.
kmail: WARNING: FolderStorage::getMsg was asked for an invalid index.
idx =1 count()=1
maybe there's nothing here to worry about. but it looks a little
sketchy.
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lord how i hate upgrades anymore. not so much talking tde here but ubuntu.
anyway, installed ubuntu 14.04LTS, i think -- i wonder if it blew up
someplace, because it didn't, for instance, install grub so i had to do
some commandline stuff to get it to boot from the new kernel. oh, for a
return to lilo!
but i think i have it all installed and somewhat working. more or less. so,
then, installed tde. except that kmail doesn't work. so i started it from
konsole. it says "kmail: error while loading shared
libraries:libmailprivate.so:cannot open shared object file:no such file or
directory"
i'm really hoping that ubuntu is not trying to stick me with a kde4.x
thing. so to begin with, i should ask: is "kmail" the command to start the
tde version of kmail?
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