tde-users December 2015

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Fedora 21
by Gerente de Sistemas 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Hello, Can you help me to install TDE on OpenBSD 5.8, Fedora 21 AND in GoboLinux? Thanks.

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Configuring two monitors connected to the same computer
by Ken Heard 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a box with Debian Wheezy and TDE installed in it. The GPU has three connectors, one DVI and two HDMI. I have two monitors connected to it. The diagonal measurement of one is 49 cm. It has a 1600x900 resolution and is connected to the box by a DVI cable. The other is a TV/monitor with a diagonal measurement of 124 cm (49 inches). It is connected to the box by HDMI. The box recognizes its existence, but the display on it has the same resolution as the smaller monitor. It consequently uses only about 40-45% of the screen area, nor is it centred on the screen. It starts more or less from the upper left corner and leaves an L shaped unused black space on the bottom and right sides. The left side does not correspond to the left side of the screen; a strip on the left side of the display is seen on the smaller monitor but not on the large one. Is it possible to create a display resolution larger than 1600x900 for the large monitor and properly centred on the screen, possibly using the ‘Monitor and Display’ feature of the TDE Control Centre? Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlZ5CF4ACgkQlNlJzOkJmTdnSQCeJh8VQhZSvohCbt0/1l3nR9Ll 984An0Y3kHc/uEu/cREaZtH9Mct0S9Qo =bBdu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [trinity-users] Superuser rights problem
by Thierry de Coulon 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19.59:42 Michele Calgaro wrote: (...) > > Now I've got a small problem with superuser rights with some programs. > > Until now kpackage-trinity and Gostcrypt have shown this behaviour: > > > > - if I start the program (from TDE), at some point it will ask for the > > password. Neither the root password nor the user password work. > > > > - if I modify the program "icon" by adding "tdesu" before the command, > > the password is asked first, and the program works correctly. (...) > > Thierry > > Hi Thierry, > I tried to reproduce the problem on my system but I didn't see anything > wrong. But maybe I was doing something different from you. > Could you file a bug report with detail instructions on how to reproduce > the post? Some screenshots would also be useful . > Thanks > Michele OK, I once again forgot to link the pictures... :) Hi Michele, Not so easy... There's not much showing. With kpackage, I get the same behaviour wether I start kpackage (from the TDE/kicker menu) or by right-clicking on the *.deb file and choosing "open with": kpackage opens, I choose install, kpackage asks for the password (snapshot 1). Maybe a clue? It asks for the SUDO password - I have no sudo password. Neither the root nor the user password work. The dialog box disappears, then comes back, and so on. If I modify the menu command in "tdesu kpackage", kpackage works (albeit I get a "tdeinit could not start tdesu" message...). I tried starting kpackage from the command line but all I get is: thierry@haswell:~$ kpackage TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for writing TQLayout "unnamed" added to TQVBox "page", which already has a layout thierry@haswell:~$ ^C thierry@haswell:~$ No idea if this tells you something... Gostcrypt shows a similar behaviour, but with no message at all. I can select the crypted partition, but when I want to mount it this requires the root password, which is not taken, so of course gostcrypt does not get the superuser rights (snapshot 2). tdesu gostcrypt works perfectly, so this is not really a problem. I also need tdesu to start synaptic, but this is more to get a nice dialog box (otherwise some text window is used to ask for the root password. Thank you, Thierry

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Superuser rights problem
by Thierry de Coulon 31 Dec '15

31 Dec '15

I've installed a brand new "Jessie" with TDE. Globally a smooth install. Now I've got a small problem with superuser rights with some programs. Until now kpackage-trinity and Gostcrypt have shown this behaviour: - if I start the program (from TDE), at some point it will ask for the password. Neither the root password nor the user password work. - if I modify the program "icon" by adding "tdesu" before the command, the password is asked first, and the program works correctly. This is no problem with gostcrypt, but with kpackage it means that I can't use "open with" with a package, I must load the package in kpackage (not a big deal, but I wish I would understand what the problem is). I did not see this problem with openSuSE, seems to be Debian related. Thierry

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Trinity in FreeBSD
by Robert Peters 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Hi - has anyone experience or recommendations re using Trinity in FreeBSD? - Robert

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kmail-1.9.10 vs signed messages
by Gene Heskett 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Greetings all; I would like at some point to be able to use some sort of verification, even encryption for some of my emails. But the msg from Ken Heard displays the start of my problem, in that no matter how I configure kmail on the crypto tab, any message bearing a signature will be displayed at first with a checking signature message, then nominally 1 second later, will either change to a yellow bar say not enough information, or a red bar that says its bad. It has never, ever shown me that its a good signature. So, how do I proceed to bring this feature into the appropriate RFC compliance and properly functioning? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Tde on Ubuntu 14.04 running chinese Wondermedia WM8880 netbook
by Alexandre 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

Hi all, I bought a few weeks ago a 10 inch android netbook, with a dual-core 1.5ghz WonderMedia WM8880 cpu and 512mb of ram, 2 regular usb 2.0 ports, wifi and ethernet. These go for around 100$ on ebay and so far, it is a great buy! It has Android 4.4 and can boot from the sd card. I found somewhere on internet (from the guys at http://androportal.github.io/linux-on-aakash/) a working Ubuntu 14.04 image for this netbook. I currently run Slavek's TDE Preliminary Stable Build on it, and TDE is very comfortable on it and responsive, even with Compton enabled. Real-life power seems to me to be almost the same as the Raspberrry Pi 2(subjectively), but in a complete and pretty laptop. Hardware support is more or less complete, as I have to use an external usb to ethernet adapter to go online, and no wifi for now under linux, but it is still a very capable machine and the quality is much better than it was in the past. If someone is interested in it, I'll be able to upload online an image of the sd card. Merry Christmas and may 2016 be a great year for you and your family! -Alexandre

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Open in Iceweasel URLs in Icedove emails -- how?
by Ken Heard 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Before Wheezy clicking on a URL in an icedove email would cause the URL to open in iceweasel. With Wheezy and Jessie I can no longer do so. Now I have to copy the URL from the email, open iceweasel and then enter it myself in the iceweasel address line. In one computer I have Wheezy, TDE 14.0.2, icedove 38.4.0 and iceweasel 38.5.0. Update-alternatives --config x-www-browser points to iceweasel %u as the default. In addition file ~/mozilla/icedove/9vgk89rr.default/user.js contains the following two lines: user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "iceweasel %u"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "iceweasel %u") Removing the ‘%u’ where I had it has no effect; so I kept them. I also ran in my user the command xdg-mime default iceweasel.desktop x-scheme-handler/http \ x-scheme-handler/https also to no effect. Am I missing something else required to open URLs in icedove emails automatically in iceweasel? I have the same problem with another computer with Jessie instead of Wheezy, but I do not have access to that one at this time. Compliments of the season and thanks in advance for any help provided, Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlZ/b4IACgkQlNlJzOkJmTdsegCfT2XxM5Ss7+jhF3CnYc4J/55m ni8An0SJY0igcEoFQpsxFMSIP5iL5/Xe =QS5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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DANGEROUS LINUX PROGRAM CALLED "TRINITY"
by Mark S Bilk 26 Dec '15

26 Dec '15

On this website: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ is a Linux program that makes random system-calls. The author calls it a "fuzzer" and has named it "Trinity". When run, it creates lots of junk files, can delete pre-existing files, and do anything else the OS can do. A friend of mine wanted to install TDE, but carelessly ran that "fuzzer" program instead. He cleaned out the junk files but doesn't know what other damage has been done. People need to be warned about that program! I sent e-mail to the author asking him to put a warning on his web page for people seeking TDE, but I don't know if he will do it. Prospective TDE users must be sent here directly: http://trinitydesktop.org/ and told not to find it via Google, etc.

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Mouse, continued
by Gene Heskett 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

Greetings all; I am having a problem with the mouse pointer being very hard to find on the milling machines box. TCC doesn't show me any themes, so what do I need to install that will A, give me a bigger pointer, and B color it some bright color with buckets of contrast on the default bluish TDE screen? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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