tde-users August 2017

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tiny fonts problem revisited
by Felmon Davis 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Nick Koretsky wrote: > I already written about that on this list long time ago. That checkbox is > very badly named, the correct name should be "Apply themes to non-TDE > application". It additional to colors it tries to apply fonts and > ok/cancel order and who knows what else. Also, afaik, it only apply them on > checking the box by writing to various config files, so if something also > altered this files you have to uncheck and recheck it to reapply. I'm also suffering a tiny fonts problem on an Asus Ux330u with an QHD screen. the fonts on the taskbar (kicker) and the font on the menu window of Trinity Control Center' are miniscule as are fonts on applications like LibreOffice, GIMP, Pan, etc. as far as I can tell, it affects all apps, whether Gnome or KDE. the thing also boots to Gnome (Gnome or so-called Debian Desktop Environment and Cinnamon) and to Windows 10, no problem with fonts. if I were only sure which config files to steal from Gnome! xdpyinfo |grep -B2 resolution --> dimensions: 3200x1800 pixels (846x476 millimeters) resolution: 96x96 dots per inch I've tried various settings in fonts enabling and disabling dpi. does seem to do best with Enabled 120 DPI using exegnu version. advice please. (week ago posted about overcoming UEFI; got that under control.) f. -- Felmon Davis The bug starts here.

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Status of klaptop
by Thierry de Coulon 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

Hello all, Klaptop is no more working on my laptop with newer distributions. Both suspend and hibernate just lock. I guess that acpi is no more accessed the same way. On Debian 9 I was able to use s2ram and s2disk, but could not test anything under TDE because I could not access teh repositories to install. The latest SUSE does not have these utilities anymore, it uses systemctl instead. I was able to get Klaptop to work by replacing /opt/bin/klaptop_acpi_helper with a script running systemctl suspend. Seems to work so far but it's rather a hack. Shouldn't klaptop be brought to an up-to-date level? Or provide some way of editing the suspend/hibernate commands depending on the machine? Would this be a big task? Thierry

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Re: [trinity-users] two more slightly on-topic questions
by midi-pascal 09 Aug '17

09 Aug '17

I am under Ubuntu 14.04 and TDE 14.04 too. This Ubuntu Advantage is not installed on my system so I assume it is not required. However I installed TDE from the live TDE image so I did not installed Ubuntu separately. I think it is safe to remove completely this Ubuntu Advantage but it is your choice... On 17-08-09 05:20 PM, dep wrote: > said midi-pascal: > | Hi, > | > | To see what is this "Ubuntu Advantage" you can go there: > | > | https://buy.ubuntu.com/ > | > | and see if you need this thing or not... > > of course, i don't. i was concerned that it got onto my machine in the > first place and wondered if they'd insinuated it into something critical > so that it couldn't be readily uninstalled. > > likewise the windows-style pop-up updater that somehow has come to live > here on 14.04 (ubuntu 14.04, not TDE 14.04).

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Re: [trinity-users] two more slightly on-topic questions
by midi-pascal 09 Aug '17

09 Aug '17

Hi, To see what is this "Ubuntu Advantage" you can go there: https://buy.ubuntu.com/ and see if you need this thing or not... On 17-08-09 11:03 AM, dep wrote: > said Pisini, John: > | Look in /var/crash remove anything there (back it up elsewhere) see if > | you still get the errors if yes the logs there should now be relevant to > | the issue at hand. > > Thanks, but I'm more interested in being rid of the duplicative pop-ups, > being perfectly satisfied with Adept Updater, and I have no interest in > some Ubuntu Advantage thing. So I'm trying to figure out whether I can > safely get rid of both the application producing the pop-ups and the > Ubuntu Advantage thing, and, if so, what the pop-up application is called, > so that I might purge it and banish it and its offspring forevermore.

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two more slightly on-topic questions
by dep 09 Aug '17

09 Aug '17

greetings, everyone . . . for ages now i've seen the little icon on my toolbar that informs me there are updates to ge gotten and have promptly gotten them. but now, since the upgrade from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, i'm also getting annoying, microsoft-like popups having to do with "system problem" and such. they inquire as to whether i want to report it and i say okay, sure, and click on the box, whereupon a web browser opens and tells me there's no site at the link specified. i'd like to be rid of the whole thing. i'm perfectly happy with the adept updater (even though i open a terminal for the update/upgrade). now today i see that among the updates is something called ubuntu advantage tools. i do not know what this is, but it also strikes me as something i do not want. so, then, my questions are: how do i get rid of the new pop-up upgrade nonsense? and is it safe to remove "ubuntu advantage tools"? (it seems like one of those things that should i do a purge would remove other things that i don't want rid of.) thanks for any advice you may have. -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com

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Is it possible to change the desktop directory in TDE?
by Thierry de Coulon 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

Hello all, I undestand the question may look strange, so here are a few explanations. I have a laptop (Thinkpad X220 Tablett) that I use at work. As you guess for "normal" work I use TDE, but unfortunately I found out that I can't use the touchscreen well with TDE. If I rotate the screen I can't calibrate it correctly (the pointer coordinates don't get rotated at all, so pointing up right shows the pointer left down...). A recent install of openSuSE Leap 42.3 let me discover that Gnome 3 (Gnome Shell 3.20.2) has a Wacom calibration tool that solves this issue perfectly. I've even managed to run konqueror as file browser from Gnome's Dash, but I still prefer TDE. So my present solution is to run TDE and TDM, and to logout/login in Gnome Shell when I need the Wacom Tablett. There remains a (small) annoyance: I've set up three links on my Desktop (to a local directory and two NFS shares) and they appear as useless files on the Gnome Desktop. Obviously, both TDE and Gnome use ~/Desktop as desktop folder. There does not seem to be any way to tell Gnome to do otherwise (there is little way to tell Gnome anything, seems), so I wondered if maybe Trinity can bw told to use another directory as Desktop directory? Thierry

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ibus doesn't work
by wofgdkncxojef 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

The applet launches, but it doesn't seam to do anything even for applications that does work in mate.... any ideas? :/

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Re: [trinity-users] Is it possible to change the desktop directory in TDE?
by Dave Lers 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Sunday 06 August 2017 00.14:00 Dave Lers wrote: >> Why not set them up as tabs in Konqueror (save view profile w/ >> links)? You could also set them up as tabs in the navigation >> bar... or add the links to the TDE task bar. > > I can't use tabs because I'm in file management view. I tried to add > the "links" to the panel but it does not work (these links a special > as they let you mount/umount the shares) It doesn't matter what Konqueror view profile you are using. I'm not aware of any setup where tabbed browsing is not an option. To add links to the side panel, right click tab bar > add new folder > folder then right click the new folder to set Name, URL and Icon. If you have a functional link on the desktop, that link can be located in any other place that a link to Application or URL is allowed. I don't have any nfs:// links, but my sftp:// links work fine.

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Fwd: Re: [trinity-users] Re: Mageia 6 crash on login, can't start desktop
by Tim Williams 06 Aug '17

06 Aug '17

I hit reply in instead of reply to list by accident... Forwarding. On 06/08/17 18:18, deloptes wrote: > Tim Williams wrote: > >> I'm having a trouble getting Trinity working on Mageia 6. I've installed >> via the official URPMI repositories, using the trinity-desktop package >> to ensure all dependencies are present. > > I have never heard of Mageia - was it working in the older 5 version? > if it is based on RH (as you mentioned URPMI) perhaps some of the people > using such systems may help. > > In my opinion it could be anything that causes your trouble. Most of all the > TDE team provides integration into couple of distributions. Using not such > a distribution very likely leads to such situations. > You could try providing such integration for Mageia. > >>From what you are describing it looks like the installation of the packages > did not work well - but I don't know how URPMI works. > > Let us know which repo and TDE version you used. > One line history lesson: Mageia was founded by the Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) people who were booted out after the company was taken over by a Russian investor. Yes, it was working on Magiea 5 and every previous version. Trinity works with Mageia 6 on my laptop, but not my desktop PC, so the basic disto integration is OK, except for the missing symlink (easily solved...). The packages were installed using the official Trinity repository for Mageia, described here: https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Mageia_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Inst… This contains R14.0.4. I unofficially maintained the Trinity Mandriva packages for a while back in the "early days", but then official packages were put out (which were better than mine), so I stopped. I'm hoping that somebody here can guide me so that I can get a proper crash message out of the startup procedure which might give me a clue as to why this is failing, I've never previously had a case where Trinity crashed one system, but another. There may still be some stray library somewhere that hasn't upgraded, it might be my NFS set up, or it might be in some way hardware dependent. I just can't tell because the backtrace only stays on screen for about a second. I've got a media centre system which is also on Mageia 6, but I never bothered to install Trinity on there, so I might give it a go as a next step to see if it works or not in lieu of suggestions here. Tim W -- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS AutoTrain 58 Jacoby Place Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UW United Kingdom Web : http://www.autotrain.org, http://www.utrain.info Tel : +44 (0)844 487 4117 AutoTrain is a trading name of EuroMotor-AutoTrain LLP Registered in the United Kingdom, number: OC317070. -- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS AutoTrain 58 Jacoby Place Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UW United Kingdom Web : http://www.autotrain.org, http://www.utrain.info Tel : +44 (0)844 487 4117 AutoTrain is a trading name of EuroMotor-AutoTrain LLP Registered in the United Kingdom, number: OC317070.

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Cannot start TDE
by Ken Heard 06 Aug '17

06 Aug '17

I have just installed TDE-Trinity in my Stretch box. On boot startx opens x-server-x-org in F7, but the login manager does not appear. /opt/trinity/bin is in the PATH in /etc/profiles, and tdm-trinity is installed, but still no login manager. Surely something else must be necessary to cause the login to appear. I looked for guidance in the TDE instructions, but they are anything but clear. Can somebody help me out? Regards, Ken Heard

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