tde-users May 2018

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upgrade jessie to stretch : no keyboard and mouse in graphics mode
by andre_debian＠numericable.fr 16 May '18

16 May '18

Hello, Since I upgraded from Debian Jessie to Stretch, no keyboard and mouse with trinity desktop. (hard reboot necessary). Keyboard works in konsole mode (recovery), no Xorg launched. My video card is a Nvidia geforce 304, driver non free, downloaded from Nvidia site. How to recover keyboard and mouse in graphics mode ? Thank for your help, André

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HDMI switch, screen size and quality
by deloptes 16 May '18

16 May '18

Hi, I used till now DVI to connect the PC to the monitor. I recently bought a digitus 4K HDMI switch 4x1 to be able to switch between 3 HDMI inputs. However when I switched on the PC and X started, all was messed. Default resolution was 1280x720 instead 1920x1080. The display area is partially out of the monitor size, so that the panel is not visible and lastly the quality of the image was really bad (like insufficient frequency or sync or whatever) I switched back to the DVI cable and I am wondering if someone can point me to the right direction. regards

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still plugging along with gemini
by dep 15 May '18

15 May '18

hi, everybody! i'm still in the always-exciting configuration stage of linux on the little gemini. and i have not found a satisfactory mail client. there used to be a world of them and there really aren't anymore. i've installed, configured, and in minutes grown to hate thunderbird. likewise the latest kmail. that leaves nothing. i thought that the current kmail might be good because it turns out that kwin is nothing but plasma desktop (in fact, i can at login choose plasma. ick) so it seemed as if many of the underpinnings would already be there; still, it was a 6-gb download and displays all the things that made me not like post-3x kde. so a couple of questions: how much stuff would i have to install to get kmail-trinity to work here? and would it get along okay with the kwin/plasma/qt5 stuff already installed? dep Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because privacy matters.

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] konqueror freezing temporarily
by Kate Draven 15 May '18

15 May '18

> On Monday 14 May 2018 11:38:57 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > Am Montag, 14. Mai 2018 schrieb wofgdkncxojef(a)gmail.com: > > > When the bug starts, it keeps freezing for several seconds when opening > > > new folders. Then some how it goes away. Restarting konqueror doesn't > > > help. > > > > > > Actually, i think if i try to select the url, it does the same thing. > > > I didn't figure out what triggers it, it happens rarely, but when it does > > > it's very annoying, it takes many seconds to unfreeze. > > > > > > Anyone knows what triggers it and how to make it stop when it starts > > > freezing up. > > > > Are you sure your hdd is OK? > > > > Nik > > No, it's not a hardware issue. > The shell and the rest of the PC works fine. > This happens if i simply try to select the url > This is not all the time, just rarely. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you have an external mechanical hard drive connected and on? If the drive goes to sleep, konq will pause to give it time to spin up. Kate

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off-topic desktop on off-topic wm, but maybe someone here knows
by dep 15 May '18

15 May '18

greetings, everybody . . . as planet computers gemini configuration enters its second week, with pretty much all linux-side software beta or worse, i actually have a sort-of working machine. (configuration won't be *utterly* complete until i have magnifying lenses implanted in my eyeballs -- 2160x1080 on a six-inch screen means that everything defaults to absurdly tiny; i opened a console with mc running in it and could have covered the window with a postage stamp, and i'm not exaggerating. though i've configured out of most of that.) but i've hit a problem that i can't figure out at all: the window manager is kwin and the desktop is lxqt. apparently both have been hacked a bit, though i may risk trying a trinity install (will it run atop kwin?) because i simply know and like it much more. but for now i need to play the cards as dealt. the device is touch screen, which for many if not most purposes is worthless. it is especially useless in dealing with the "panel," or what we would call the kicker. by default it is ridiculously tiny, but i was able to talk it into being 60 pixels high with 48x48 icons (the default is, i think 28 pixels high and i know the icons were 22x22). so now it takes a stripe across the bottom of the screen, making it even more oblong on a screen that has no space to spare. i've enabled autohide, but this is its own problem -- swiping down or touching the bottom edge to make it reappear is a very chancy thing. it can be done, but it's a minute or more of trial and error. so i want to bind a key combination to raise (and potentially lower, though if it times out and goes back down on its own, fine with me) the thing, and i haven't the first clue where or how to do this. there are in both lxqt and kwin configuration tools things called "shortcuts" which appear to be key bindings, but i do not have the slightest idea even what such an action would be called. i haven't found anything like "raise panel" as a choice. i suspect the answer will be to add or edit a line in an .xml line someplace in ./configure. any ideas? tde has kicker, so i suspect the two are fairly similar (maybe even the same code), but at this point i don't even know whether the wm or the desktop is where this ought to be done. thanks. dep Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because privacy matters.

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konqueror freezing temporarily
by wofgdkncxojef＠gmail.com 15 May '18

15 May '18

When the bug starts, it keeps freezing for several seconds when opening new folders. Then some how it goes away. Restarting konqueror doesn't help. Actually, i think if i try to select the url, it does the same thing. I didn't figure out what triggers it, it happens rarely, but when it does it's very annoying, it takes many seconds to unfreeze. Anyone knows what triggers it and how to make it stop when it starts freezing up.

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Off topic: Mer
by elcaseti 12 May '18

12 May '18

elcaseti wrote: > In the past, KDE could be used with Mer. I'm not sure that has changed. Might be, the point is, both are qt5 based and so have very good touch screen support. But when you compare the Mer desktop with KDE it is stable. So for me personally KDE failed to deliver again something reliable. It looks almost that they are doing prove of concept or beta testing with KDE. I personally can not imagine waking up in the morning and need to debug something to read mail or so... ===================== I didn't realize the Mer project had developed it's own desktop. Very interesting.

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Installing Debian, offset error
by Robert Peters 10 May '18

10 May '18

Hello, Has anyone installed Debian 9 from USB? I try to install to a ~480GB SDD that is in a carrier connected to a USB port. When trying to write partition changes to disk, the installer stops and complains that the root partition is offset by some multiple of 512 bytes. I try without success to find a way to set the SSD's physical and logical volume both sizes to 4096 bytes. Maybe the carrier's connection circuitry affects the perceived volume size? Maybe the SDD has to be internal and directly connected to the laptop? Thanks for any help. Robert

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almost there
by dep 10 May '18

10 May '18

sorry to be jumping from project to project, but i am back working on the geminipda device now. got debian stretch onto it this morning. (the reason i was asking about the ubuntu upgrade last night was that the flashing tools i was using weren't working; oddly, this morning using exactly the same commands -- i scrolled up to them in an xterm -- functioned perfectly, and now i have a tiny computer running debian, with lxqt running atop kwin. clearly none of it has been optimized for touch screen, which makes for some excitement (for those who find screaming and throwing things exciting). i have no knowledge of lxqt and unless tde uses a lot more resources than lxqt, seems to me tde would be better. so, some questions: will tdm run acceptably atop kwin, or does it need tdm? also, the hacks the guys have done have established some key bindings that are kind of important, so i'm hoping to disable kde's key bindings at first. if memory serves, tde responds correctly to DPI settings, which if true is good, because the screen is 2160x1080, which makes for very small -- everything. but the default is something like 450 dpi. half that would be about right. i would install the kde classic icon set in the largest size (i wish that mosfet's theme were still around, but oh, well). anybody see why this wouldn't work? i know tde is not optimized for a touch screen, but i don't think any linux desktop is.

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Kate magic messages
by Leslie Turriff 10 May '18

10 May '18

When I open Kate from the Konsole with a file specified, I get these messages: @20:48:01,leslie@pinto ~/bin/rexx $ ll agwc -rwxr-xr-x 1 leslie users 3352 2018-05-07 20:47:14 agwc @20:48:15,leslie@pinto ~/bin/rexx $ kate agwc & [1] 32371 @20:48:19,leslie@pinto ~/bin/rexx $ , 3: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/magic' /etc/magic, 3: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic, 17: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/magic' /etc/magic, 3: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic, 17: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/cabri.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/cabri.magic, 2: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/magic' /etc/magic, 3: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic, 17: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/cabri.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/cabri.magic, 2: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/drgeo.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/drgeo.magic, 2: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/magic' /etc/magic, 3: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic, 17: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/cabri.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/cabri.magic, 2: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/drgeo.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/drgeo.magic, 2: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/kolf.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/kolf.magic, 3: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/magic' /etc/magic, 3: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/tdeio.magic, 17: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/cabri.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/cabri.magic, 2: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/drgeo.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/drgeo.magic, 2: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/kolf.magic' /etc/trinity/magic/kolf.magic, 3: Warning: using regular magic file `/etc/trinity/magic/kexi.magic' ==> The Kate window has opened by now. No further messages <== ==> appear until, when Kate ==> is closed, this message appears: <== TQFile::open: No file name specified [1]+ Done kate agwc What might these signify? They seem to be warning about non-issues. Leslie

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