tde-users June 2018

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I may have spoken too soon . . .
by dep 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

Last night we had one of our twice- or three-times-weekly electrical blackouts and, while the gadgets are all on uninterruptible power supplies I shut them down before the juice was gone from the backups. When this morning I rebooted the GPD Pocket, it went to the TDM login screen, where the spaces for entering username and password were small but the fonts for typing them in were huge. Nevertheless, I was able to log in and, instead of the pristine TDE desktop I'd enjoyed at shutdown, I had one where Kicker and so on were the size I had set, but again the fonts -- in the calendar, in names below icons, and in menus, were enormous. My sense is that something upstream of TDM is doing this. The Ubuntu install defaults to Unity and lightdm. When I installed the two big TDE packages I set TDM as the default. But of course I'd had to run Unity in order to install TDE. My first thought is to purge Unity and lightdm, but it might be that this won't solve the problem, and that someone here who is familiar with the macinations of X and such might have a sense of where there's a configuration file that is causing this to happen. Anybody know? Thanks. dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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config question: getting rid of the pager
by dep 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

this one is maybe easier than setting display size . . . i only keep one desktop, so the pager is superfluous. also, i don't like it. i've managed to be rid of it on my other machines, but looking through the tiny little entries in trinity control center, i can't find where to uncheck it. anybody know? dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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Re: [trinity-users] Brother printer - comments?
by Kate Draven 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

> Just got a Brother printer-scanner-copier-fax combo, model is MFC-495CW, so if > anybody has comments or recommendations from experience, I am all ears. > > Here is my model: > > https://support.brother.com/g/b/spec.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc495cw_all > > I don't have a lot of money to spend (much less to waste) on printer > cartridges, for example. (A couple years ago I bought a 12-pack of HP > cartridges for my old HP 825c, but before I could actually use them, the ink > dried up! I don't want to go through that again.) > > I managed to download the drivers for Debian, the product manual, researched > everything I could think of, but now it comes to spending my last few bucks > (literally) on the second-most expensive substance* known in human history, > so I hesitate before using my debit card. > > [* laser toner refills are more expensive than refills for inkjet] > > Brother, of course, "strongly recommends" not to use third-party, or > refillable cartridges, etc., but I don't have a warranty, anyway, as I got > this thing used. > > Has anybody else tried the third-party replacement cartridges or refillables? > > I'll have more questions about set-up, I'm sure, once I get my cartridges. > Everything seems to work fine, except for no ink. > > Bill > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- My experience with brother is they are well supported under linux and print/scan well. HOWEVER (insert shocking and dramatic music here), they go through inkjet cartridges like mad. A laser printer is always better because, whilst the cartridges are more expensive, they last longer and print more. I have an HP 1320N printer. I bought 2 ink cartridges 7 years ago. The first one lasted 5 years. The second one is on it's 2nd year. I print at least every other day. I also have a Brother mfc-j615w. Another network printer. It's great, HOWEVER (insert even more shocking and dramatic music here) the new ink carts only lasted a week. They sell them cheap in bulk but I would have to buy about about $100 worth to last a few months. I will never buy an inkjet (most inkjets I have were $1 purchased at yard sales or were given to me). I would rather save up and get a laser jet. Better overall investment. I don't know if that helps but that is my experience. (Kate hops off her soapbox, bows, turns and disappears into the mysterious fog)

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kate can't find gcode.xml
by Gene Heskett 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

Greetings all; I find that despite having gcode.xml installed at /opt/trinity/share/apps/katepart/syntax/gcode.xml neither kate nor kwrite can find it, as in offer it as a choice in the menu's. geany doesn't have that either so I am used to looking at gcode as plain text. Whats next? The idea does sound helpfull if only to highlight the typu's these ancient fingers can make. OTOH, I find kate takes around 20 seconds of standing on the down arrow key to get to the bottom of a 250 LOC .ngc file. Compared to geany, thats un-acceptably slow. It also apparently can't save the users prefs, so every new session has to be reconfigured to enable such as line numbers. geany remembers all that from session to session. I guess you know which one I'll use in day to day gcode composition. -- 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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grand ~/ repository of trinity configurations?
by dep 28 Jun '18

28 Jun '18

today's question to which i should already have the answer but it's been a long time . . . rathet than continue to struggle through trying to configure everything on the little pocket machine, seems worthwhile to copy the configuration files from my notebook machine to the new one. in the kde days i would have known where to go to harvest these, but i've not done this, i think, with trinity. and i've done al the reinstalls i feel like doing for awhile. so -- is there a grand directory of trinity configurations beyond ~/.trinity? thanks. dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Brother printer - comments?
by Kate Draven 27 Jun '18

27 Jun '18

I don't know where you are Bill, but I do have spare hp laser printer (BW only) that I can give you if you are within mailing reach. I'd have to see how much it would cost me to send them out. I'm currently in the Northern American (Nu Joisey as they say). Cheers lad, Kate

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Brother printer - comments?
by Kate Draven 27 Jun '18

27 Jun '18

> On Wednesday 27 June 2018 10:23:02 Dan Youngquist wrote: > > On 06/27/2018 09:53 AM, William Morder wrote: > > > I don't have a lot of money to spend (much less to waste) on printer > > > cartridges, for example. (A couple years ago I bought a 12-pack of HP > > > cartridges for my old HP 825c, but before I could actually use them, the > > > ink dried up! I don't want to go through that again.) > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > [* laser toner refills are more expensive than refills for inkjet] > > > > My laser printers print for about $0.02 per page, including paper. What > > does the cheapest inkjet cost per page? And what does it cost per page if > > the ink dries up before you use it? Toner will still be just fine in 10 or > > 20 years if you haven't used it yet, whether in or out of the printer. > > > > If you want to save money on printing, get a laser printer. > > > > When one has literally no money to spend, one must make do with what is > available. I hear what everybody is saying about laser printers, but that is > not an option. > > There are refillable cartridges, and refill bottles. I doubt that they can dry > up. My old HP cartridges dried up because they sat in a storage space for a > couple years. These won't dry up (at least, not so fast), because I will use > them now. > > I'm only asking if anybody else has tried these refillables. I don't want > advice that I *ought* to buy a laser printer, when I cannot do so. > > Bill > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Aye, I've refilled cartridges and they worked well, but that was on older inkjets. If you have a modern inkjet. You may not be able to do that. The sensors in the carrage will see something is off and reject them. You can try but there's a good chance you are wasting your money. Sorry, I wish I had better news. Kate

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Extract and Compress Missing - Solved by "Marley And Marley"
by Kate Draven 27 Jun '18

27 Jun '18

> Hi Kate, > > On Tuesday 26 June 2018 22:36:41 Kate Draven wrote: > > My heroes Steve and Stefan (hmmm the same names) > > > > Ok I did have trinity-ark installed but Stefan was right, the > > plugins where, infact, contained in "trinity-konq-plugins". After > > running it, still didn't show up, so I follow Steve's idea (hmm) > > and there it was. In Ark, all the plugins are in the same packages. > > Made it easier. > > > > Thanks for all the suggestions. I've added them to my dbase of > > knowledge (I litterally do copy and paste everything I get from > > here into a knowit file and LO doc for later printing.) > > > > Thanks everyone, thanks Stefan and Steve (hence forth "Marley And > > Marley") For all the help. > > > > I am reminded of a little know FUD campaign by MS. "Linux will > > never make it because there are no software programs for it and it > > doesn't have any support whatsoever." Not the exact quote and I > > can't remember who said. > > > > Kate > > > > I really shouldn't have watched the muppets for background noise. > > Poor Stefan and Steve. > > I remember that 640K memory should be enough for anybody ! > But before that "No more than three computers should be enough..." > How times change :-) > Best Regards: > Baron > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh my goodness. I remember that. Bill Gates. Cheers Baron

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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Extract and Compress servicmenus missing from Konq
by Kate Draven 27 Jun '18

27 Jun '18

> Kate Draven wrote: > > > Any help is appreciated. There's mental chocolate in it for everyone. > > strange - they should be available via some application - is ark installed. > > just guessing here > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- My guess exactly. Ark. trinity-ark is installed but no joy. I'll have to compare the old and new isos. Thanks for the guess, anything is appreciated. Kate

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[tentative] success!
by dep 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

there's a world of configuration to do yet (font sizes are all over the place, for instance), but at this moment i have ttinity desktop environment running usefully on the gpd pocket computer, and everything i have tried works! this may be a first, though that could be because i'm the only one on the list foolish enough to try it. dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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