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Debian Stretch kpowersave issue
by Pisini, John 13 May '16

13 May '16

When I try to install kpowersave nohal it tells me tdepowersave has to be installed and it is broken. When I try to install tdepowersave it installs no issues but kpowersave still won't install saying tdepowersave is not installed because it is broken. -- John Pisini Systems Administrator TFCCS 617-450-3988 Disclaimer for email: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. This e-mail is not intended to, and shall not, constitute an electronic signature giving rise to a binding legal contract, unless expressly stated otherwise in the body of the e-mail by the sender.

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Firefox build
by Peter Laws 12 May '16

12 May '16

I've been unhappy with the default Ubuntu build of firefox for a long time. I thought I'd try building it from source but it's apparently been a long time since untar; ./configure; make; make install was a thing. With one of the recent updates, the window decorations changed, too, and I find the new style dialogs annoying (I have no idea if it was a Firefox patch or a TDE patch that changed something). I also get Asian characters, perhaps Chinese, when I copy something from the TDE side of my environment across Synergy and paste it to my Macbook, but ignore that foolishness for now. So I've installed mercurial and I've installed autoconf-2.13 (because past that, autoconf is too cool for school and isn't actually backwards compatible with stuff real projects used) and now I've hit gtk+. plaws@toto3:mozilla-central $ sudo apt-get install gtk+ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package gtk Any combination of quotes doesn't seem to sufficiently protect that +. Looking at what's available in the repo with Adept, I don't actually see a specific package for gtk+ only gtk2 and gtk3, though I admit that I have no idea how those are related (look, if it were up to me, I'd still use OLVWM ...). So what's the 1) easiest way for me to satisfy the demands of the build script that 2) doesn't completely dork up my Trinity installation? I may not need to install anything - this may be just a path or ENV thing. Any help appreciated! 0:07.85 checking for gtk+-3.0 >= 3.4.0 gtk+-unix-print-3.0 glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 ... Package gtk+-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-3.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-3.0' found Package gtk+-unix-print-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-unix-print-3.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-unix-print-3.0' found Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'glib-2.0' found Package gobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gobject-2.0' found 0:07.85 configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-3.0 >= 3.4.0 gtk+-unix-print-3.0 glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 ) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. plaws@toto3:mozilla-central $ cat /etc/*release* DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="14.04.4 LTS, Trusty Tahr" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS" VERSION_ID="14.04" HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" ii tdm-trinity 4:14.0.4~pre6-0ubuntu14.04.0+0 amd64 X display manager for TDE Linux toto3 3.13.0-86-generic #130-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 18 18:27:15 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Peter Laws BS, MRCP / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center University of Oklahoma Information Technology plaws(a)ou.edu

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KPowersave stopped working
by Jan Stolarek 11 May '16

11 May '16

Hi all, I have TDE 3.5.13.2 installed on Debian 7.10. Some time ago (probably after one of security updates) my KPowerSave stopped working - it does not allow me to set power scheme nor does it recognize whether the laptop is running on battery or A/C. These features still work in other programs (eg. htop recognizes whether I am running on battery or A/C, I can use cpufreq-set to set CPU speed) so this is not a system-wide breakage. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? 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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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Re: Plans on updating Konqueror?
by Dave Lers 03 May '16

03 May '16

Kate Draven wrote: >> andre_debian(a)numericable.fr wrote: >> > On Monday 02 May 2016 13:09:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> On Monday 02 May 2016 12:00:51 andre_debian(a)numericable.fr wrote: >> >> > I think that Konqueror is not a navigator >> >> It used to be a superb one. For years it was my browser of >> choice. >> >> > I'm asking myself how you can consider that Konqueror >> > "is a superb one" navigator. >> >> It depends on your definition of "navigator". Almost everything I do >> on my PC is done using Konqueror as a navigator to >> view/play/edit/run >> files/programs, local and remote - things no other web browser or >> file >> manager can do. While Konqueror is essentially my desktop and could >> get me anyhere I want/need to go, sometimes the menu or taskbar are >> faster/easier. >> >> That said, it is frustrating that I can only use Konqueror to view >> websites I know it can handle. I still use Konqueror as a gateway >> browser ('open with Chromium') because there are enough of my >> regular >> sites that still work in Konqueror and I prefer the >> simpler/depreciated Google interface. Maybe I'm stubborn, but >> Iceweasel and Chromium are pigs and not something to leave running >> when you're using a Pi2 PC. >> >> ...It's probably a pipe dream, but it would be real nice if there >> were >> a way that I could have a whitelist of sites that would open in >> Konqueror with all others automatically opening in an external >> browser. > > I agree, konqueror is an essential tool for me. I've written tons of > servicemenus, to image,audio video conversion etc. All the sites I > want to go to work well in konq. It's the sites that are overloaded > with java scripts, flash etc that give it problems. While that is the primary issue, even relatively simple sites (e.g. Wikipedia) have rendering issues. > It's safe gateway browser though. I have > java and java script turned off in konq so I can examine a website > before opening it in FF, SM, Opera. I don't use Chromium (Chrome) > because I don't trust google anymore. That and it is a pig on > resources. Yeah, I have a hard time with anything Google these days (scary behemoth), but I've come to prefer Chromium over Iceweasel and haven't found anything else that works reliably (though it has been a while since I've used Opera). > In time I'm sure webkit or the like can be added to konq returning it > to a great web browser as well. Patience in the key here. I wish I had your optimism, I'm really amazed how little traction TDE has, even more so Konqueror - thanks in part to the Dolphin over Konqueror boondoggle. I don't know the current state, but the Konqueror webkit engine (option in KDE4?) wasn't reliably better. In any case, it's a welcome surprise to hear that someone else still finds Konqueror indispensable.

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Plans on updating Konqueror?
by Paul 03 May '16

03 May '16

Hi, I recently downloaded and installed TDE on Ubuntu, and so far I'm liking the environment alot. I like how all the applications are integrated with each other. However, I am having issues with the Konqueror web browser, where many websites are not rendering properly. I have looked up the issue and found that the KHTML engine that is used by Konqueror has not been updated for some time and is behind the rendering errors. I have installed both Firefox and Chromium but none of them integrate well as Konqueror does. On websites that work with Konqueror, I like the fact when I click on a video link, a picture, a file archive, a sound file, or any other type of file, it automatically opens up in the corresponding application and the program, Kaffine for example, starts streaming the video file. I cannot get the same kind of integration with Firefox or Chromium. I have tried setting the default RSS subscription program to Akregator, but it doesn't seem to redirect the request to that program. I have tried having video files open up in Kaffine, but the browser downloads the whole video first instead of opening up Kaffine and streaming it. One other minor complaint I have is that the interfaces don't match well with TDE either, as there doesn't seem to be a lot of QT based browsers that have up-to-date browser engines. I was wondering if there are any plans on updating the KTML engine or Konqueror in general to work with modern websites and to have that great intergratedness that makes me like Konqueror. I would have been happy to work on this project myself but as I don't know how to code at all, this isn't a pheasble route for me. Thanks for any info you may give, Paul

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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Plans on updating Konqueror?
by Dave Lers 03 May '16

03 May '16

andre_debian(a)numericable.fr wrote: > On Monday 02 May 2016 13:09:56 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Monday 02 May 2016 12:00:51 andre_debian(a)numericable.fr wrote: >> > I think that Konqueror is not a navigator >> It used to be a superb one. For years it was my browser of choice. > I'm asking myself how you can consider that Konqueror > "is a superb one" navigator. It depends on your definition of "navigator". Almost everything I do on my PC is done using Konqueror as a navigator to view/play/edit/run files/programs, local and remote - things no other web browser or file manager can do. While Konqueror is essentially my desktop and could get me anyhere I want/need to go, sometimes the menu or taskbar are faster/easier. That said, it is frustrating that I can only use Konqueror to view websites I know it can handle. I still use Konqueror as a gateway browser ('open with Chromium') because there are enough of my regular sites that still work in Konqueror and I prefer the simpler/depreciated Google interface. Maybe I'm stubborn, but Iceweasel and Chromium are pigs and not something to leave running when you're using a Pi2 PC. ...It's probably a pipe dream, but it would be real nice if there were a way that I could have a whitelist of sites that would open in Konqueror with all others automatically opening in an external browser.

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Amarok
by Dave 02 May '16

02 May '16

Speaking of Amarok, has anyone have a lyrics app to work

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