tde-users April 2015

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Helping with translations
by Jan Stolarek 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

Trinity devs, I'd like to help with updating Polish translation of Trinity. The first time I asked about this was a long long time ago (year ago? maybe two?) and the reply was that a stable release is planned Real Soon Now and all effort is going into that and so the translations have to wait. So perhaps now that R14 is out is a good moment for this? I would need someone to guide me through technical details of how to do a translation. Janek --- Politechnika Łódzka Lodz University of Technology Treść tej wiadomości zawiera informacje przeznaczone tylko dla adresata. Jeżeli nie jesteście Państwo jej adresatem, bądź otrzymaliście ją przez pomyłkę prosimy o powiadomienie o tym nadawcy oraz trwałe jej usunięcie. This email contains information intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or if you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it from your system.

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Updateing an old Mint n14 xfce install
by Gene Heskett 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

Greetings all; I finally lugged my lappy in and plugged it in with the idea of makeing sure I had a working email setup for the install of Jessie on this machine. Had to reboot twice, I assume because its is sorely in need of a new battery. The special xenomai kernel that can run LinuxCNC in simulation mode found something it didn't like first time up. Both times the boot was delayed by a 10 minute spell of what I assume was e2fsck since the drive led was on during those times. It is now booted, and a 64 bit version of Min 17.1 is now a download in progress since all the repo's for mint 14 have vanished like the morning fog. Xfce version I believe since this thing is certifiably in the Ford model T horsepower range today. Are there any gotcha's other than the formatter during the install and network crap I'll have to nuke after the install before I burn it and reinstall? I have a mouse plugged in. As I see that on 14, both the touchpad and the mouse are active, what is the name of the utility that completely disables the touchpad if a real mouse is found? 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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Desktop fails to load.
by Baron 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

Hi guys, New problem ! Following an upgrade to Debian Jessie, TDE 14 Desktop, when booting up, everything is fine until the machine gets to "Loading the Desktop". At this point it seems to hang for a minute or so before becoming a blank blue screen with only the mouse cursor present. From here the only thing that can be done is to select VT1 and login manually, typing "startx" gets to the Desktop. I've noticed that only VT1 will get to the Desktop and all the other terminals except VT8 leave you with a blue background, whilst VT8 now has just a tiny blinking cursor on a black screen which has no response to anything. Where do I need to look in order to put things back to normal ? Thanks in advance. -- Best Regards: Baron

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gpg keys missing, how to fix?
by Gene Heskett 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hi all; Whenever I do a package-manager or synaptic refresh, I am getting a squawk about missing keys, specifically about a mozilla update from wheezy-backports. And I just discovered that this error window can now be highlighted for a copy/paste, the lack of which I have silently bitched about for years. Whoever fixed that I owe a case of suds to, hold up ypur hand and identify yourself. Thank you very much. So here is the error message from synaptic: ======= W: GPG error: http://mozilla.debian.net wheezy-backports Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 85A3D26506C4AE2A W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://http.debian.net wheezy-updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 8B48AD6246925553 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (7.0/wheezy) <ftpmaster(a)debian.org> W: Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/Release Unable to find expected entry 'updates/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) W: Failed to fetch http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-updates/Release W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ========== Looks like I am missing 2 gpg sigs then. I assume there is an apt-get or apt-key command that I can invoke, but I'll be dipped if I can remember how it works. Can someone show me the cli command? 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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Libreoffice crash
by rolf 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hi Slávek et al Today a libreoffice was deployed for jessie and it crashes allway with a sigsegv in R14 (nothing else testable here). I purged all libreoffice files and reinstalled it completly new but it crashes too. Do you or some one else has an idea why and a solution? Fine regards Rolf

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Re: [trinity-users] How to get an onscreen keyboard?
by Thierry de Coulon 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

On Sunday 05 April 2015 22.52:45 andre_debian(a)numericable.fr wrote: > You are lucky :-) > > I installed "kvkbd-trinity", but no onscreen-keyboard, > on my touchscreen computer with Jessie. (...) > I can open applications and close applications with fingers, > but no onscreen-keyboard. What onscreen keyboard did you install? I installed kvkdb from the repositories Slavek indicated. The keyboard does not "pop up" by itself as on Android (but then it does not pop up when I have a physical keyboard either, as "onscreen" does). I put an icon in the Panel and "call" it when needed. I don't know how this would work with a lock screen however... > Also, impossible to zoom with the 3 fingers. I doubt tdm knows about 3 fingers and I also doubt it would be easy to teach it. That's probably what KDE 4 devs meant when they justified the new version because KDE 3 was impossible to make "touch friendly". > It does't come from the computer, because everything > works well with Windows-8. It comes from the fact that, if you use Trinity, you're basically using year 2000 software, and there were no tablets (at least running Linux) at the time. It's a little like criticising a 1970's car for not providing airbags... I don't know how or when KDE4 / Gnome 3 / Unity will get "tablet ready", but I must say I'm quite pleased with the fact that TDE "can be used" on a tablet, although it was not written for one! > Thanks. > > André Basically, what I always thought proves to be right: those that are despreately trying to develop a user interface supposed to "scale" from a Desktop to a Tablet will fail, because a good Table interface will always feel clumsy on a big screen with a mouse (things too big, set up too streamlined) and a Desktop interface is quite unusable on a Tablet (unless you are fitted with stylus-like fingers, which is not my case). So if you put a desktop system on a tablet, you should not expect the same experience as Android. Apple is the only one to do it right: IOS is quite different from the OS X desktop. A pity it's made by Apple and suffers from Apple's policy. Thierry

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Re: [trinity-users] shell script help needed
by Dave Lers 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

multi wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Trinity 3.5.13.2 that was installed with exe GNU linux. I have a bash script to mount a shared folder from a remote server and > open it > in a window. I launch it from a desktop icon. It looks like this: > sudo mount 192.168.0.2:/home/dpjungk/Share /mnt/nfs/client1 > nautilus /mnt/nfs/client1 > It works fine -- except that, if I close the window and want to > reopen it, it > obviously asks for the password every time. Does it have to be nautilus and nfs? Have you tried nfs://192.168.0.2/home/dpjungk/Share/ (or sftp://...) in Konqueror? Konqueror can save login info and I think network logins are automatic/transparent, but most of my LAN logins are via ssh key-pairs (sftp, rsync, scp and ssh) so I'm not sure.

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ArchLinux Repo
by Jonay Sanz 11 Apr '15

11 Apr '15

Hi I saw on Archlinux wiki there are a compiled version, sometimes work others not. Server = http://trinity.ceux.org/r14/x86_64 I would like to contact who manage this repository, cause I want to mirror it. My server has good bandwitdh (it's in University campus) Thanks! Adonay-Jonay Sanz www.kademar.org

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kcalc, revisited, FEATURE REQUEST
by Gene Heskett 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Hi all; I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc. But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch. By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again. Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE? Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff... 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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shell script help needed
by multi 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Hi, I'm using Trinity 3.5.13.2 that was installed with exe GNU linux. I have a bash script to mount a shared folder from a remote server and open it in a window. I launch it from a desktop icon. It looks like this: sudo mount 192.168.0.2:/home/dpjungk/Share /mnt/nfs/client1 nautilus /mnt/nfs/client1 It works fine -- except that, if I close the window and want to reopen it, it obviously asks for the password every time. Is there a way to check to see if it is mounted so that it only asks for the password if it is the first time? Thank you for your time, Don

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