tde-users March 2015

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"Commit history" not working
by iadest＠o2.pl 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Hello Do you have the same problem with "Commit history" on TDE site? It displays last information dated 2015-03-10, while automated notification mailing list informs about newer commits. MCbx

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Application crash
by Jonesy 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

My wife has finally decided to move off her XP system and over to linux. I am building a Ubuntu 14.04.02 TDE 14.0.0 machine for her use. She needs MoneyDance. http://infinitekind.com/moneydance http://infinitekind.com/download-moneydance-personal-finance-software It seemed to install ok. But, executing it the way the Desktop/moneydance.desktop shows it to be run: $ /bin/sh "/opt/Moneydance/Moneydance" [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'output.logl-gtk-tqt-application' crashing... $ The crash seems to be in a TDE module. Right? Any subsequent attempt to run moneydance (without re-booting) causes a "flicker" of something (a task window?) over the desktop and a return to the prompt -- no error message. There is no other DE on this machine. How to start the solving of this problem? Thaks, Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | linux Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | FreeBSD __ 38.238N 104.547W | jonz.net | DM78rf | OS/2 SK

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New thread, next problem
by Gene Heskett 22 Mar '15

22 Mar '15

Greetings all; I had to reboot after 19+ days of uptime yesterdat, dinking around with a new hard drive that wasn't quite new. Anyway, since then I have only had the new mail beep from mail as entertainment, all web video is silent movies, and even Kscd is muted as in the volume control is greyed out. This has all worked without a trace of pulse even being installed. Here is my SWAG on it. This motherboard has 2 snd-hda-intel driven systems thru the MCP55 chipset on this M2N-SLI Deluxe asus board. My video card, is an eVga whose hdmi audio is not even bonded out, so while it signs in when an lcpci -vv is exec'd, the only noise its ever made is from the GeForce4 8400 GS's cooling fan, which is typically a bearing rattling annoyance. Its an eVga, what can I say, you buy aftermarket fans in 3 packs for them, and its on its 2nd of the 3 now. But I think somehow that the snd-hda-intel driver has linked itself to the no output stuff on this video card. Since the same snd-hda-intel driver runs both, how can I blacklist the worthless one? Can I edit something in udev.d to cause the product number 1302 to be ignored? That might be the ultimate hammer to drive tis nail it seems. Comments, audio guru's? 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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EasyLinux will review Trinity
by Thierry de Coulon 22 Mar '15

22 Mar '15

Hello everybody, I've just seen that the German magazine EasyLinux will publish a review of Trinity in its second 2015 issue (they say on 17.04.2015). http://www.easylinux.de/ for those who can read German. I'll try to get it. Thierry

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Problem when install g++ complier in jessie
by rolf 22 Mar '15

22 Mar '15

Hello developers, can someone explain, why aptitude will remove all (R14-) trinity packages from a jessie installation, when I would install the g++ compiler? What shall I do i.e. reinstall trinity after g++? Many thanks for your suggestions. Rolf

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Next problem
by Gene Heskett 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

I recall I had a heck of a time in the past with the older kde, in keeping the monitors/screensaver set so it might show a few minutes of the screensaver of choice, and to powerdown the monitor after a few minutes of screen saver. But it can't remember those settings more than a week or so, so I just put a couple entries in my crontab: */1 * * * * * xset +dpms */1 * * * * * xset dpms 300 0 600 To see if refreshing its memory hourly will effect a fix. But it sure would be nice if we didn't have to overpower it like that to keep it working. In TDE control center, its set 5,0,10 but that seems not to affect it, when it has failed the pheripherals/display/screensaver and display power management are all zeroed out or the checkboxes cleared. It appears is as if a zmalloc has gone astray? Under appearance/screensaver its set to start a slide show after 4 minutes. The memory of whatever it uses for the "elevator music for the eyeball" also seems transient, it switches to either a blank screen or some glx thing that burns up the cpu, again at random intervals that do not seem to correlate with the dpms settings failures. Info, bug action, your pick. ;-) 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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rebooted, no sound
by Gene Heskett 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Greetings all; I went to town this afternoon an bought another HD to replace the one that went read-only about 6 weeks back, an event that started this whole dog & pony show. Got it home, had some din-din, and came in here to install it, where it is a 2T Toshiba sata6 drive. Pulled it out of the sack, reached for pocket knife to cut box seal. Already cut... Pull out foam tray, static bag has alo been ripped open. Practice 15 minute non-repeating profanity explosion, but bag still open. So, find out what I have, plug it into the sdb slot in the cage & boot up again. Issue smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdb. Smartctl not found. Synaptic says smartmontools not installed, and I'd swear it was. Install again. Drive has about 90 hours on it, with 34 spinups, so by now its obvious somebody had it out & could not make it work & returned it. So. still curious as to what the heck I have, its now doing a -t=long and won't be done for a couple hours. But I now have no sound, and the usual culprits say it is not muted. I've not had to battle with sound in 3 or 4 years, so ATM I have no clue where to start. So use my fingers and perhaps aplay or alias to see where its broken. And attempt to do something with it in TCC, results on the save progress bar repeating infinitely till a ctl+c is issued. So, whats next? One could say that with no sound, I am all ears. :) Thanks all. 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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Google Chrome window opening behind KMail window when hyperlink is clicked
by Lisi Reisz 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

On my husband's computer the Google Chrome window opens behind the KMail window when a hyperlink is clicked. My husband finds this very annoying. Is there anything I can do to make the Chrome window open in front of the KMail window when a hyperlink is clicked? Wheezy, TDE 3.5.13.2, KMail 1.9.10, Google-Chrome 41.0.2272.89 I have googled, but apparently there used to be a bug where Chrome insisted on staying on top, and that was almost all I could find. They seem to have over-compensated. I did find one that was what I wanted, I think, but it was for Ubuntu and in Ubuntu-speak and I couldn't follow it. DE specific? Thanks. Lisi

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Sources.list for 14 for Wheezy
by Lisi Reisz 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

I am intending to upgrade to TDE 14 on Wheezy, and then upgrade Wheezy to Jessie when the dust has settled and I have had a bit of fun running 14 on Wheezy.. Is this the best source, with jessie changed to wheezy? (I like Slávek's repositories and keeping up with patches.) deb http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb jessie deps-r14 main-r14 I can't upgrade to Jessie first, because 10.5.13.2 is not available for Jessie. Thanks, Lisi

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Failed to install R14 on PCLOS
by Andy 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

I am using David Hare's excellent Exe but also wanted to try R14 on PCLinuxOS as I am a long-time fan of that distro. I found instructions to install at: https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/PCLinuxOSInstall I did wonder, could it really be that easy? Well, apparently not. Unfortunately, but not totally unexpected. I have found computers and computing to be an incredible time sink. :-) I received error messages ending with these: === Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/32bit/xfce4 release Err http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-r14/RPMS/i386 pkglist 404 Not Found Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-r14/RPMS/i386 release Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-r14/RPMS/noarch pkglist Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-r14/RPMS/noarch release Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr… 404 Not Found Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Release file did not contain checksum information for http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr… W: Release file did not contain checksum information for http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr… W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. [root@localhost andy]# === Any help appreciated. This is my first time attempting this so I am a complete novice; very complicated or technical info would be lost on me. I did visit the repo link listed in the installation instructions using Firefox, http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/ (which was redirected) and saw "pkglist.i586", etc., but nothing for i386. I'm not sure what "noarch" means, but that was also there, but no i386. Is that the problem or did I do something wrong? I attempted several times, but of course I did much the same thing each time so if I'm doing something wrong I just repeated it. Thanks for reading, Andy

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