tde-users December 2016

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Re: [trinity-users] "Arbitrary changes to their UI"
by midi-pascal 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

<snip> >>> I'm that guy off screen, haveing handily exceeded the average life >>> time the media is going nuts over. >>> >>> This is off topic as can be, but calling the service has never >>> actually put me in touch with anybody that knew what I was talking >>> about. so... >>> >>> However, your sig makes me lodge a conplaint about a service thats >>> has apparently been discontinued, eg the access to current >>> conditions at "KCKB", or for that matter any other net station. >>> >>> I have a system monitor called gkrellm that has a weather plugin, >>> and its last valid connection was July 28th, 11:53 pm. I found it >>> quite handy, and since it was a totally automated service, self >>> updating at about 30 minute intervals, saw no financial advantage >>> for NWS/you in shutting off that service. Can it not be restored? I >>> believe the problem lies in the DNS lookup of KCKB or any other of >>> the 4 letter station codes used for this service nationwide. You can >>> PM me at gheskett at shentel dot net >> I made a workaround for this problem when gkrellm weather plugin >> stopped working. >> It is only a Perl script (native to the plugin) to modify. >> If you are interested I can send it with instructions to this list. >> >> Cheers. >> > Please, send away! And thank you, as a perl geek I am not. I speak just > enough C or assembly(on a 6x09 platform), to be dangerous. Here is the Perl script in attachment :-) The problem is that the URL to fetch the weather data changed and the data format too... The script name is: GrabWeather To install it, replace the existing one in /usr/share/gkrellm/: sudo cp GrabWeather /usr/share/gkrellm/ make sure it is executable: sudo chmod 755 /usr/share/gkrellm/GrabWeather Then restart gkrellm. That's it! Disclaimer :-) It worked perfectly for me but I cannot ensure it will work for you... Enjoy! midi-pascal

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Re: [trinity-users] "Arbitrary changes to their UI"
by midi-pascal 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

On 16-12-09 12:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 09 December 2016 10:08:49 Peter Laws wrote: > >> Believe this has some relevance here. >> >> http://xkcd.com/1770/ > I'm that guy off screen, haveing handily exceeded the average life time > the media is going nuts over. > > This is off topic as can be, but calling the service has never actually > put me in touch with anybody that knew what I was talking about. so... > > However, your sig makes me lodge a conplaint about a service thats has > apparently been discontinued, eg the access to current conditions > at "KCKB", or for that matter any other net station. > > I have a system monitor called gkrellm that has a weather plugin, and its > last valid connection was July 28th, 11:53 pm. I found it quite handy, > and since it was a totally automated service, self updating at about 30 > minute intervals, saw no financial advantage for NWS/you in shutting off > that service. Can it not be restored? I believe the problem lies in the > DNS lookup of KCKB or any other of the 4 letter station codes used for > this service nationwide. You can PM me at gheskett at shentel dot net > I made a workaround for this problem when gkrellm weather plugin stopped working. It is only a Perl script (native to the plugin) to modify. If you are interested I can send it with instructions to this list. Cheers. >> Thanks to the TDE team letting me do "stuff I do all the time" like I >> always have!! > I'll second that!! >> >> -- >> Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY >> National Weather Center / Network Operations Center >> University of Oklahoma Information Technology >> plaws(a)ou.edu >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional >> commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read >> list messages on the web archive: >> http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to >> top-post: >> http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > Cheers, Gene Heskett

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Re: [trinity-users] "Arbitrary changes to their UI"
by midi-pascal 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

On 16-12-09 02:51 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Freitag, 9. Dezember 2016 schrieb Thierry de Coulon: >> On Friday 09 December 2016 16.08:49 Peter Laws wrote: >>> Thanks to the TDE team letting me do "stuff I do all the time" like I >>> always have!! >> Of course I'll second that too. TDE gave me years of happy computing after >> KDE went in the wrong direction. >> >> Thierry > +1 +10^23

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"Arbitrary changes to their UI"
by Peter Laws 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Believe this has some relevance here. http://xkcd.com/1770/ Thanks to the TDE team letting me do "stuff I do all the time" like I always have!! -- Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center University of Oklahoma Information Technology plaws(a)ou.edu

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xsane crash
by Uwe Brauer 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Hi I try to save a scanned document, which I have scanned with xsane. When trying to use a specific folder xsane crashes with the following message. [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'xsane-gtk-tqt-application' crashing Years ago kgtk-qt3-trinity could cause certain applications to crash, but kgtk-qt3-trinity is not installed. Could it be something similar? Regards Uwe Brauer

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Displaying QMap objects in a dialog
by Leslie Turriff 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

The application I'm writing will have a small group of key-value pairs associated with each object. Looking through the docs, I see widgets for displaying elementary items (e.g. TQListBox), but nothing for something like a TQMap (e.g. a TQlistBoxMap). I could use a TQTable, but that strikes me as akin to using a sledgehammer to kill flies. As a neophite c++ programmer, I know that in theory I can subclass TQListBoxItem to do this, but how to go about that, I haven't a clue. The docs say merely that ' If you need to insert customized items into a TQListBox you must inherit this class and reimplement paint(), height() and width().' Any suggestions to help get me started with this would be appreciated. Leslie

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Struggling with "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3"
by Leslie Turriff 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Hi, I'm trying to learn to write a GUI app using the book "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3", which of course is not written with Trinity in mind, but hopefully will be enough to get me started. I've already figured out that I need to substitute 'tqmake' for 'qmake', but I can't get the simple 'helloworld' project to actually compile the c++ code. I've got the project generated, and I see the code in its src/ directory, but when I try to build it (the book says to use 'make') it says "make: Nothing to be done for 'first'." Here is the Makefile generated by tqmake: > > ########################################################################### > Makefile for building: Tutorial1 > Generated by qmake (1.07a) (TQt 3.5.0) on: Wed Nov 16 22:57:35 2016 > Project: Tutorial1.pro > Template: subdirs > Command: $(QMAKE) -o Makefile Tutorial1.pro > ########################################################################### > > MAKEFILE = Makefile > MAKE = tqmake > DEL_FILE = rm -f > CHK_DIR_EXISTS= test -d > MKDIR = mkdir -p > INSTALL_FILE= > INSTALL_DIR = > SUBTARGETS = > > first: all > > all: Makefile $(SUBTARGETS) > > Makefile: Tutorial1.pro /usr/share/tqt3/mkspecs/default/qmake.conf > $(QMAKE) -o Makefile Tutorial1.pro > qmake: qmake_all > @$(QMAKE) -o Makefile Tutorial1.pro > > all qmake_all distclean uicables mocables install_subdirs uninstall_subdirs uiclean mocclean lexclean yaccclean clean : FORCE > install: install_subdirs > > uninstall: uninstall_subdirs > > FORCE: > And here is the Project file: > ###################################################################### > # Automatically generated by qmake (1.07a) Wed Nov 16 22:47:58 2016 > ###################################################################### > > TEMPLATE = subdirs > > # Directories Are there additional steps required when compiling a QT project in Trinity? Leslie

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How to make kmail bottom-post by default?
by Leslie Turriff 03 Dec '16

03 Dec '16

Is there a way to tell kmail to do this? Leslie

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Dolphin
by Baron 03 Dec '16

03 Dec '16

Hi Guys, PcLinuxOs, Trinity 14, I think I might have stumbled on a bug ! I've had folders seem to disappear when moved from one window to another. I've found that if there are more folders than can be displayed in the window, moving down to the bottom of the window so that the top folders cannot be seen, and then moving a folder from another window into the white space, results in the moved folder disappearing. Doing a find tells me that the missing folder is now in one of the folders above and not in the white space where I put it or in the sort order. If I move to the top of a folder with files below the bottom and If I move and put a folder from another window at the top but between the others it goes where I put it. It works as expected. I can repeat this every time. Note the folder sort is set to "By Name" I mention this because I thought that "Sort" might have something to do with it, but it doesn't seem to. Thanks Guys. -- Best Regards: Baron

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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Re: Dual screen setup not remembered
by midi-pascal 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Thank you! Inspired by your scripts and the output of xrandr, two lines in my .bashrc did the job: xrandr --output HDMI-0 --right-of DVI-0 --auto --primary xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto I over-simplified the commands because I am on a desktop and my two screens are always connected. No more fiddling with screen settings on each login! :-) On 16-12-01 03:00 PM, deloptes wrote: > iadest(a)o2.pl wrote: > >> OK, this is a sum of 3 scripts I use: >> >> #!/bin/bash >> >> #Test if we are not in dock >> if [ -a /dev/video0 ] >> then >> #echo "Going to dock mode!"; >> xrandr --output LVDS1 --off >> #xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1600x1200 >> xrandr --newmode "1600x1200b" 180.0 1600 1604 1796 2050 1200 >> 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync >> xrandr --addmode VGA1 1600x1200b >> xrandr --output VGA1 --primary --mode 1600x1200b >> xrandr --addmode DVI1 1600x1200b >> xrandr --output DVI1 --mode 1600x1200b >> xrandr --output DVI1 --right-of VGA1 >> else >> #we are not in dock. Check do we have output on VGA >> >> if [ -n "`xrandr | grep \"VGA1 conected\"`" ] >> then >> #echo "Going to projector mode!"; >> xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x768 --output VGA1 >> --mode 1024x768 --same-as LVDS1 >> fi >> fi >> >> There may be problems with newlines. "1201 1204 ..." is the continuing >> of previous line. "--mode 1024x768 --same-as LVDS1" is also in previous >> one. >> >> WARNING: Do not use this script directly on Your monitor without >> checking. High frequency may damage the monitor, especially old CRTs. >> >> So what I'm doing there: first I check for availability of my tuner >> card, this card is installed in dock. It computer is in dock, I: >> 1. Turn the LCD off >> 2. Set a custom 1600x1200 mode (here called "1600x1200b" for my >> monitor which is connected through Sun-VGA adapter and X has no idea >> how to handle 1600x1200 on it. >> 3. Activate it as primary. >> 4. Activate the second display (DVI) as the one right of VGA monitor. >> If I'm not in dock, I look for something connected to VGA port. >> If there is, LCD gets down to 1024x768, and VGA copies it. >> >> MCbx >> >> Gerhard Zintel <gerhard.zintel(a)mrs-thomas.de> >> napisał(a): >> >>> On Thursday 01 December 2016, deloptes wrote: >>>> iadest(a)o2.pl wrote: >>>> >>>>> Maybe this solution is not official and proper one, but works: >>>>> Put the xrandr commands in a shell script and execute is at >>>>> startup. >>>>> >>>>> I have such script which detects is my notebook docked first. If >>>>> yes, dual-screen configuration for dock outputs are set and >>>>> notebook's LCD is turned off. >>>>> If it's not docked, script checks for display connected to VGA >>>>> port. If it is, it duplicates screen from notebook decreasing >>>>> resolutions to 1024x768 as it's usually a projector in a lecture >>>>> room and it can't do more. >>>>> MCbx >>>> I do the same. In the office I have two additional monitors and at >>>> home one. So a shell script is checking what is available and runs >>>> xrandr to setup the monitor and resolution. >>>> Perhaps this is the reason we never noticed that the settings are >>>> not saved and/or applied at tde session startup. >>>> In fact I have noticed this on a VM ware recently, but I was >>>> thinking it has to do with the vmware. >>>> I think it is worth a bug report, so that we may not forget to >>>> inspect this. >>> Can one of you guys please share that kind of shell script here on >>> the list to give me a clue how to start? >>> >>> Gerhard >>> > SCREEN=`xrandr | egrep "[[:space:]]connected[[:space:]]" | grep -v eDP1` > if [[ "x"$SCREEN != "x" ]] > then > xrandr --output $SCREEN --right-of eDP1 --auto > xrandr --output eDP1 --off > else > xrandr --output eDP1 --auto > fi > > eDP1 or LVDS depends on your card - look into the driver manual > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > >

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