tde-users January 2017

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26 discussions

How do I turn off the Logout application countdown timer?
by Leslie Turriff 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

This countdown timer serves no useful purpose for me, since I'm the only user of my machine. How can I turn it off so my logout completes more quickly? Leslie

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[UPDATE] End of Year Fundraiser Results
by Timothy Pearson 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 All, A big Thank You for participating in our end of year fundraiser for 2016. Your contributions were much appreciated, and will help to keep TDE online. The total received only came to a small fraction of the operating costs for the TDE core services, so we will probably be running another fundraiser this spring and exploring options in terms of disconnecting or downgrading certain services to lower operating costs. We do have several incentives to make an annual contribution. At the $200 level or above (per year) we will allow access to our up-to-date builds of Raspbian with TDE preinstalled, along with other goodies. As before, if you have a particularly nasty bug you want fixed, a good way to get attention is to offer a contribution in exchange for the fix -- proceeds go to keeping TDE online and available for all to use. Thank you again for your support! Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlhtjOgACgkQLaxZSoRZrGHuiQDgtbSMvMTyAVeSfGue9I/wkCM6 U1EEHsEfcBeTUwDcCHCSgHXJvqkquuMUsjwrU5KCqH+NEMCErbfUDw== =b8y8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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New Kate session panel (was [Re: [trinity-users] Re: Re: Kate can't remember to 'Hide Documents'r])
by Michele Calgaro 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

>> Emanoil, >> actually the code to handle sessions for R14.1 has been fully rewritten, >> although not pushed yet. If you are interested, I can send you a patch >> with all the current changes and you can test locally. It would be helpful >> to have additional feedback from you. I have been using the new >> functionality for about a year and is quite stable. Let me know ;-) >> >> Cheers >> Michele > > I build this on jessie some time ago > > dpkg -l | grep kate > ii kate-plugins-trinity 4:14.1.0-0debian8.0.5+eko1 > amd64 plugins for Kate, the TDE Advanced Text Editor > ii kate-trinity 4:14.1.0-0debian8.0.5+eko1 > amd64 advanced text editor for TDE > ii libkate1 0.4.1-4 > amd64 Codec for karaoke and text encapsulation > > Do you mean we are using later version and do not see the problems that are > discussed here? > > I did not see any difference (IMO) from user perspective. > Hi Emanoil, sorry for the late reply to this (too busy with work, family and trying to fix TDE support for openssl 1.1 in stretch). Attached is a cumulative patch for tdebase that you can use to preview the new Kate session panel I mentioned before. You can apply the patch again the current main trunk. This will add a new session panel to Kate and rework session support almost entirely. I am actually planning more work on this (to add support for files in sessions as well, making it similar to a mini-project manager) but will probably be delayed to R14.2 or whatever. !!! Please NOTE the following !!! - all existing Kate sessions will be imported - the "default session" is no longer hardwired and actually does not really need to exist any more (it can be renamed/delete) - after you finish your testing, if you want to go back to the existing Kate (without the new session panel), you will NOT be able to use the session files from Kate-with-the-session-panel. Therefore if you just want to do a test, I recommend you save all you session files (~/.trinity/share/apps/kate/sessions folder) before you use the new Kate. So far I have used this for about a year (through development) and have not yet pushed the code to the main repo. Any feedback from you (or anyone else willing to test) would be more than welcome. If positive enough, I will probably push the changes. Cheers Michele

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TDE 14.0.4 on Debian Stretch, tdm-trinity, tdeinit problem
by L.S. McCarty 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

Hello to all. I'm a long-time TDE user running TDE 14.0.4 amd64 on Debian 9.x Stretch (unstable, actually Siduction, using systemd). It works well, although I occasionally run into minor issues that I eventually solve. It is after all "unstable". Over the last few weeks a problem remains, binutils_2.27-9_amd64.deb works fine, but several updates of this program which can be loaded by itself, most recently binutils_2.27.90.201612331-1_amd64.deb, all render the system unbootable. The boot cycle proceeds from sda1 without any errors but the tdm signon comes up with a black background rather the normal blue TDE one. When I logon I get an error message and TDE does not load, showing a problem with my home partition on sda5: Could not read connection list /home/lsm1/.DCOPserver_LSM1_0 Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running When I hit Enter I then get: Could not start tdeinit, Check your installation. This problem is specific to TDE as I can still load the backup desktop LXQT by the usual logon from the TDE signon box. When I boot to the console and downgrade to binutils_2.27-9_amd64.deb everything works as usual on the reboot. If anyone has any possible solutions I'd be happy to try them out and report back. -- SENT BY: Lynn McCarty

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installing on uefi multiboot.
by Felmon Davis 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

greets! I want to install Trinity on a multiboot uefi system. I think I've messed up the uefi already so I am wary about doing something that renders the system unbootable. (will of course do backup but still...) it's got Windows 7 and NetRunner on it. csm is turned on (which I think is part of the problem) and of course secure boot and fast boot are off. when it boots it goes into BIOS, ok UEFI, and I can choose or it defaults to Linux. my preference would be to have a grub interface but so be it for now. suppose I now install Trinity. should I let it write to the mbr or rather to its own partition? if you know a good (detailed but essentials highlighted) online reference, that would be great. as yet I'm confused about the logic of uefi. thanks for advice! f. -- Felmon Davis Data, n.: An accrual of straws on the backs of theories.

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End of Year Fundraiser
by Timothy Pearson 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 All, I'll keep this short and simple. The TDE project needs your financial support to continue hosting the services critical for further development. This year we are have fallen significantly short of breaking even on the monthly expenses needed to keep TDE online and under active development; these expenses primarily consist of electricity for the TDE servers and Internet bandwidth. I have been covering the shortfall for several years now, but it has become a great strain over the past few months. If you would prefer to offer financial rewards for fixing specific bugs, that works too, but the bottom line is we need additional financial support to avoid further service cuts that could slow / stop development. We are not in a position to outsource portions of the TDE infrastructure beyond what has already been migrated to external systems such as the mirror distribution system. Attempting to split up the remaining core would simply incur even higher bandwidth costs than what we already have, and altering the stable, running system at this point could end up halting development entirely. Finally, I'd like to personally thank those individuals who have donated, are hosting portions of the TDE infrastructure such as the mirror system and backup site, or have been actively working on TDE development over the past year. Your contributions are much appreciated, and TDE would not be possible without them! If you can, please donate to the TDE project here, and thanks! https://trinitydesktop.org/donate.php Timothy Pearson TDE Founder -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlhcP/wACgkQLaxZSoRZrGHFYwDgvaDKdsaD6QrDqK95Rkq3buKA tdlTAMPDrnhPXADfWSnQF85ebtuDIPNXwuRvrDhsF5jSMnMwU/GOvQ== =Vkiu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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