tde-users June 2016

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Auto fill - browser fields
by Jonesy 18 Jun '16

18 Jun '16

Sometime long ago my konqueror stopped suggesting choices for filling in userid fields in web page login forms. I've poked around a lot, but cannot see how to (re)activate that. On the same topic: Is there a way to delete an inappropriate auto fill item? And, being greedy, does anyone know the same answers to these questions vis-a-vis Firefox and Chrome? Many thanks in advance! 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 kaffeine plugin for firefox's
by Gene Heskett 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Greetings all; I can see that its installed and should be calling kaffeine to service a quite wide range of video formats. Unfortunately, while kaffeine is installed and runs for other digital than tv broadcast, neither firefox is actually calling it. So while I can see videos, some on cnn, and some on nbc news in firefox's postcard sized video, nothing that I have been able to add, will call up kaffeine to play a youtube video. If I launch a copy and have it running, it seems to me that firefox should pass the data stream to the running copy of kaffeine. But its not happening, no reaction from kaffeine can be obtained from either version of firefox. So I installed the gxine launcher plugin. Looks like an identical list of acceptable video formats to that of kaffeine. Is there an about:config option to be set so this works? What else do I need to check? 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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Non-trivial switching
by J. Drahun 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Hi all! I've found solution how to switch layouts with Ctrl+Shift. To be honest, it was sad to found that old "feature", requiring something more than click three checkboxes in the "Xkb Options" still exists. Why can't I set Ctrl+Shift in the TDE Control Center as a shortcut? (Ctrl+Shift shortcut is interpreted as Ctrl + ISO_Next_Group) Why it is necessary to edit config files? I hope someday this behaviour will be fixed. Best wishes, J. Drahun.

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dcop is not a daemon?
by Gene Heskett 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Feature request: My mailwatcher script is calling dcop from the hard drive for every incoming mail, and my putting a set -x in the top of it, then watching the output trace, shows a quite large lag in its doing that. But I see no daemon launcher in /etc/init.d. It seems to me that if dcop were a memory resident process like dbus is, the HD would be spared that that access, and the response time would be 2% of what it is now. If this version of kmail in R14.0.4 can use a dbus feed too, that problem is solved by my changing one var in the top of my script. Does anyone know? I ask because if I switch it, and it doesn't work, the dbus buffer gets stuffed and it takes a reboot to fix that, a dbus restart doesn't seem to re-init it. BTDT, several times. 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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I just lost 2 copies of an email that was a hair north of 15 megabytes
by Gene Heskett 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Greetings all; fetchmail's log shows it was pulled from both email servers I used. Handed off to procmail for delivery, it apparently was silently /dev/nulled by procmail. The only size limits in .procmailrc have to do with taking a maximum hit on spamassassin's kids. In the order in which its executed, this is the catcher recipe, which has worked for quite a bit of a decade now, and worked a couple days ago for a smaller picture: :0 *.*lrcrispy\(a)frontiernet\.net /var/spool/mail/gene And the only size limits are below that where it calls the spam checking: :0 * ^X-Spam-Status: { :0 fw | formail -R "X-Spam-Status:" "X-False-Spam-Status:" :0 fw | formail -A "X-Nasty: Aren't we?" } :0 * ^X-Spam-Level: { :0 fw | formail -R "X-Spam-Level" "X-False-Spam-Level" } :0 * ^X-Spam-Checker-Version: { :0 fw | formail -R "X-Spam-Checker-Version:" "X-False-Spam-Checker-Version:" } ############################################################################## # Rewrite Reply-To: for SpamAssassin users list ############################################################################## :0 * < 500000 * !^List-Id: .*(spamassassin\.apache.\org) { :0 fw: spamassassin.lock | /usr/bin/spamc -t 140 -u gene -d 127.0.0.1 } # Sometimes SpamAssassin fails to run. This forces the issue. :0 w * !^X-Spam-Checker-Version: * < 500000 * !^List-Id: .*(spamassassin\.apache\.org) * !^From: .FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@ { :0 fw: spamassassinFailed.lock | nice -n 1 /usr/bin/spamassassin } I am thinking I need a catcher below all his that puts anything that still exists in /var/spool/mail/gene so I can manually dispose of it? Is that how the rest of you are thinking, that there is no save option if it falls all the way thru to the last recipe above? It gets handed off to procmail as the MTA, and procmail normally logs the size, but there's nothing in that size category in the procmail.log. Leading me to think it fell all the way thru for some unk reason. Comments plz. 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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qdbus vs kmail ??
by Gene Heskett 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Greetings to the tde-r14.0.4 kmail experts; One of the things that is rather glaringly not addressed in the docs on kmail that are easily read from a click on the help pulldown, is any info on how to control kmails functioning via dbus commands. I've been using dbus to send it a get new mail cmd for years, using a command line someone gave me: /usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmail /KMail org.kde.kmail.kmail.checkMail but since my sa-learn scripts also reach into kmail's database and move files once sa-learn (-ham or -spam) has done its thing, it would be easier on kmails sanity if I could send it a rebuild index command on the two directory's mucked with. man qdbus looks helpfull, but says that org.kde.kmail does not exist when I attempt to query it using the above command or variations of it. I would assume that $>/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmail /KMail would return a whats available list, but doesn't. All I can get is: gene@coyote:~$ qdbus -service org.kde.kmail /KMail Service 'org.kde.kmail' does not exist. gene@coyote:~$ qdbus org.kde.kmail /KMail Service 'org.kde.kmail' does not exist. gene@coyote:~$ qdbus org.kde.kmail Service 'org.kde.kmail' does not exist. And yet the first sample command above works and has been working since dcop was deprecated somewhere back up the timeline quite a few years ago. Is there such a doc someplace? Or am I miss-reading the qdbus man page. A simple qdbus[enter] returns only this: gene@coyote:~$ qdbus :1.0 org.kde.kcalc-6112 :1.1 org.xfce.Terminal4 :1.2 :1.3 org.gtk.vfs.Daemon :1.4 :1.6 org.freedesktop.DBus And yet a command sent to org.kde.kmail works a treat. So how is that command getting there, because it works, and has been working for years. Me goes off to Wallies to get some scripts that keep me tuned up as well as can be expected considering the accumulated mileage. 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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Switching layouts with keys and a couple of other questions
by J. Drahun 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Hi all! I've switched to TDE not long ago, it works fine, though I experience some problems. First of all, layout switching. I set setxkbmap -option -option grp:ctrl_shift_toggle in the Xkb options tab, but this feature doesn't seem to work, CTRL+Shift does nothing with layouts. Second, is there some option for TDE menu to show submenus in one column, like MS Windows did for the Start menu? My Settings submenu fills the entire screen and I don't know what to do. Third, is it possible to close windows by double-clicking the icon in the upper left corner? I don't find such an option. Best wishes, J. Drahun.

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TDE on Raspberry Pi
by Dave Lers 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

If anyone is interested in running TDE on a Raspberry Pi (2 or 3), it's relatively easy (much more so than w/ a cubieboard) and works surprisingly well. http://davelers.com/Linux/Distros/Debian/#5272

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kmail attachment size
by Thierry de Coulon 07 Jun '16

07 Jun '16

Hello all Today I wanted to send a somewhat large PDF and a "sorry" window poped up saying: "Your administrator has disallowed attaching files bigger than 50MB". Being teh administrator, I can't remember ever settting this limit, but more important: I have no idea where this setting is controled. I don't know of any "administrator" settings in TDE, I can't find anything in kmail's settings. Is kmail looking anywhere else for this limitation? Regards, Thierry

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Permissions
by phiebie＠tele2.at 05 Jun '16

05 Jun '16

Konsole is started as normal user. In it is invoked the midnight-commander. Keyboard-navigation and -keypresses are flawlessly executed. The mouse-cursor moves if desired all over the screen. Clicking *outside* the console starts the envisaged action on other files, but *inside* the mc-konsole nothing happens at all when clicking. gpm, konsole and mc all 3 are [ root:root 100755 ]. When I however start the console, then su to root and invoke mc everything works properly! Where else should/could I look for the apparently missing user-permissions? Thanks.

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