tde-users July 2020

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Ksnapshot
by phiebie＠drei.at 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Trinity 14.0.6 preliminary. Don't know if it is a feature of ksnapshot or a misconfiguration somewhere from me, but it is getting absolutely annoying what happens. I have a website, a document or whatsoever on my screen in full A4-papersize. Now I want a printout of a small part of it. Call ksnapshot, choose "region" "new snapshot" and then draw a border around the desired part. Press "print" and then print it. Bull... I get a print in landscape, useless and even worse not even the original layout reappears. Stop ksnapshot, restart it and same procedure with again the same miserable result. Stop, restart, same procedure but no actual printing, instead I look into the printer properties. And there, big surprise, landscape was marked as to be printed BUT all 4 orientations were grayed out, so I couldn't change that. Checked in tdeprint the printersettings, nothing wrong, in "instances" "settings" all 4 orientations were available and portrait was marked as to be applied in the default printer. Checked kprinter and of course the settings of tdeprint were there also valid. But then I had an idea. If I selected in ksnapshot a larger part of the screen, say more than half A4, what would happen? Yes, some ugly words from me and there it was: portrait was marked but still all 4 possibilities grayed out. So ksnapshot decides how it wants to print and doesn't leave the user a chance to get a result, that he wants. Utterly bull.... Any suggestion, where I could look to alter this behaviour? Phiebie.

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KDE 1 running on Fedora 25
by Pisini, John 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291 This is very interesting -- John Pisini Systems Administrator TFCCS 617-450-3988 Disclaimer for email: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. This e-mail is not intended to, and shall not, constitute an electronic signature giving rise to a binding legal contract, unless expressly stated otherwise in the body of the e-mail by the sender.

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skype and pulse audio
by Kate Draven 17 Nov '21

17 Nov '21

Hi I'm trying to get skype sound to work but apparently the monkeys at MS removed alsa support and replaced it with pulse, which is rubbish. Even though I have pulse enable (pclos - ali's remaster), it still doesn't show up. Is there a fix to re-enable alsa or the like? Kate

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I just resubscribed, but the 64$ question is how did I get removed?
by Gene Heskett 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Last post ack the list archives was in August 2017, after which the list was silent, and my msgs were apparently routed to /dev/null. But I didn't unsubscribe. My ISP has been known to block/bounce but pearsoncomputing.net was in their "whitelist", I put it there yonks ago. Anyway, I'm glad to be back. -- 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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Re: [trinity-devel] Re: Re: amarok and missing mp4v2 in Buster
by David C. Rankin 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

On 05/19/2019 04:56 PM, deloptes wrote: >> Amarok remove ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921127 ) >> argues "it's dead upstream and better alternatives exist." >> >> mp4v2 has 9 ignored security issues ( https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mp4v2 >> ) so if it is possible to modify it in order to Amarpk does not depend on >> mp4v2, then much better (Qt4/Qt5 Amarok versions do not depend on mp4v2). > I think if we want to remove this dependency, we need to open an issue in > TGW for it. The problem becomes, and naturally so, that TDE may need to become upstream for the various components of Amarok, or Amarok itself it upsteam support is gone. There was a lengthy discussion on the openSuSE list about Amarok and specifically whether a "better alternatives exist.". There were none found that provided the traditional features or behavior of Amarok, which mitigates in favor of patching Amarok and continuing to offer it. There were always shortcomings in the supposed better alternatives that either required hacks or workarounds, even for behavior as trivial as continual play. Just another angle to consider. The openSuSE list discussion was within the past 2-weeks, though I must have deleted that thread. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[trinity-users] Upload file to Wiki?
by Michael 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

I’m trying to upload the tde.pm for MX Linux to the Wiki. Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, webp. Okay, whatever, I can rename it to tde.png, except the Wiki is a perfectionist: “File extension ".png" does not match the detected MIME type of the file (application/xml).” Would one of the Wiki admins add both .txt and whatever extension handles (application/xml) to the permitted file upload types list? Or just turn the MIME type matching off. Thanks, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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[trinity-users] KMix can't control audio volume
by Janek Stolarek 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

I'm setting up TDE-based Debian on a new machine and I've run into a problem I have not experienced on any other of my machines with similar configurations: KMix can't control audio volume. More specifically, I have two audio outputs: an HDMI one (via nVidia card with proprietary drivers) and a front panel audio jack. Sound works correctly on both outputs and I can control it with pavucontrol (PulseAudio sound mixer). However: 1. KMix master slider that appears after clicking on the tray icon does absolutely nothing. 2. When I open the mixer window in KMix it recognizes PulseAudio as an audio device. There is just one volume slider and it does nothing. 3. Another recognized audio device is HD-Audio Generic. This has a bunch of output sliders and the sliders work correctly (i.e. they change the volume) when the sound is directed to headphones, but not when it's directed to HDMI (output change done via pavucontrol). 4. The final audio device recognized by KMix is HDA Nvidia. This only has seven toggles labales IEC958. First toggle mutes/unmutes the sound, the remaining ones don't seem to be doing anything. I'm puzzled. This is the first time I see KMix master slider not working at all, even though I have pulseaudio set up on all my other machines with TDE. Any thoughts or suggestions? Janek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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[trinity-users] What does TDE Buster use to escalate permissions?
by Michael 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Issue: In TDE in MX18 (stretch) the MX Tools apps would open in TDE. In TDE in MX19 (buster) the MX Tools that need to run as root will not open in TDE. The behavior is click the menu item and nothing happens (e.g. do not get any prompts for password). MX Dev: “What does TDE Buster use to escalate permissions for their apps that need it?” “We did switch them to using a wrapper called mx-pkexec to keep the tools working on Buster after Debian removed gksu and went more to policykit-based privileges.” This isn’t huge, really just an annoyance, as I can login to Xfce to run any of the MX Tools I need... Example Menu Command: su-to-root -X -c mx-packageinstaller Copied mx-pkexec, su-to-root, and other called items below. I tried the example command, it seems to need a GUI, as it borks with 'wrong password' (when the root password is correct). Any thoughts would be really appreciated. Best, Michael Ref’s: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=589003#p589003 michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/mx-pkexec #!/bin/bash # MX Linux pkexec wrapper to retain QT environment # Usage: # mx-pkexec mx-apps ... # original code by fehlix for MX-Linux if test "$EUID" != 0; then # normal user # wayland fix (chkboom) if [ x"$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" != "x" ] && [ -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY##/*}" ]; then WAYLAND_DISPLAY=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/$WAYLAND_DISPLAY fi QTENV="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/tmp}/mx-pkexec-qtenv.$EUID.$PPID.$$. $RANDOM$RANDOM" if [ -f "$QTENV" ] ; then rm $QTENV fi umask 0022 touch "$QTENV" while IFS=$'\n' read -r ENV; do IFS='=' read PAR VAL < <(echo $ENV); echo "export $PAR=${VAL@Q}" >> $QTENV done < <(printenv | grep -E '^DESKTOP_SESSION|^KDE_FULL_SESSION=| ^LANG=|^LANGUAGE=|^LC_|^QT_|^XDG_SESSION_TYPE|^XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP| ^WAYLAND_') echo "CURRENT_WORK_DIR='$PWD'" >> "$QTENV" chmod +r "$QTENV" pkexec /usr/bin/mx-pkexec "--qtenv" "$QTENV" "${@}" if [ -f "$QTENV" ] ; then rm $QTENV fi fi if test "$EUID" == 0; then # root user # set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR - do nothing if already set if [ x"$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" = "x" ]; then XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0 export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR [ -d $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ] || mkdir -p $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR chmod 700 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR chown 0:0 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR fi if [ "x$1" = "x--qtenv" ]; then QTENV="$2" shift shift if [ -f "$QTENV" -a "x$QTENV" != "x${QTENV#*/mx-pkexec-qtenv.}" ] ; then . "$QTENV" rm "$QTENV" cd "${CURRENT_WORK_DIR}" unset CURRENT_WORK_DIR fi PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" fi # check if command is given within one parameter, split by eval in case [ $# == 1 ] && eval set "$@" RUN="$1" shift # check remaining parameter are quoted twice and do unquote [ $# != 0 ] && [ -z "${1##[\'\"]*}" ] && [ -z "${1%%*[\'\"]}" ] && eval set "$@" echo Starting "$RUN" "${@@Q}" command -v "$RUN" >/dev/null || { echo "mx-pkexec: Command '$RUN' not found"; exit 1; } exec "$RUN" "${@}" fi exit michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/su-to-root #!/bin/bash if test -r /etc/su-to-rootrc; then . /etc/su-to-rootrc fi if test -r ~/.su-to-rootrc; then . ~/.su-to-rootrc fi PRIV=root COMMAND= NEEDS=text gettext=$(which gettext 2>/dev/null) transl() { txt="$1"; shift; if [ -n "$gettext" ]; then txt="$(gettext su-to-root "$txt")"; fi printf "$txt" "$@" } eshell() { getent passwd $1 | cut -f7 -d: } usage () { transl 'usage: %s [-X] [-p <user>] -c <command> -c command: command to execute as a string (mandatory) -p <user>: user to switch to (default: root) -X: command is a X11 program\n' "$0" >&2 exit 1 } for i in "$@"; do case "$prev" in -p) PRIV="$i";; -c) COMMAND="$i";; -X) NEEDS="X11";; esac prev="$i" done if [ -z "$COMMAND" ] ; then usage; fi euid=$(id -u) privid=$(id -u $PRIV) if test "$euid" = "$privid"; then sh -c "$COMMAND" else case $NEEDS in text) if test "$euid" != 0; then transl 'About to execute %s.\n' "$COMMAND" transl 'This command needs %s privileges to be executed.\n' "$PRIV" fi PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin SHELL=`eshell $PRIV` case $SU_TO_ROOT_SU in sux) suname=sux; pwuser="$PRIV"; cmd='sux -p "$PRIV" "$COMMAND"';; sudo) suname=sudo;pwuser="$USER"; cmd='sudo -u "$PRIV" sh -c "$COMMAND"';; *) suname=su; pwuser="$PRIV"; cmd='su -p "$PRIV" -c "$COMMAND"';; esac transl 'Using %s...\n' "$suname" transl 'Enter %s password at prompt.\n' "$pwuser" yesexpr=$(locale yesexpr) while ! eval $cmd; do transl 'Incorrect password or command failed. Try again? (y/N)' read ans if echo "$ans" | perl -e "<> =~ /$yesexpr/ and exit(1);"; then exit 1 fi done;; X11) if test -z "$SU_TO_ROOT_X"; then if which gksu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then SU_TO_ROOT_X=gksu if test "X$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = "Xtrue" ; then if which kdesu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu elif test -x /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu ; then SU_TO_ROOT_X=kde4su fi; fi; elif which kdesu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu elif test -x /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu ; then SU_TO_ROOT_X=kde4su elif which ktsuss >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then SU_TO_ROOT_X=ktsuss elif which sux >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then SU_TO_ROOT_X=sux else SU_TO_ROOT_X=su-to-root fi fi case $SU_TO_ROOT_X in gksu) gksu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; gksudo) gksudo -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; kdesu) kdesu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; kdesudo) kdesudo -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; kde4su) /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; ktsuss) ktsuss -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";; sux) env SU_TO_ROOT_SU=sux \ x-terminal-emulator -e su-to-root -p "$PRIV" -c "$COMMAND";; # As a last resort, open a new x-terminal-emulator and prompt for the password # Do not use -X here! *) x-terminal-emulator -e su-to-root -p "$PRIV" -c "$COMMAND";; esac;; esac fi michael@local [~]# which x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator michael@local [~]# ll /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 May 30 22:29 /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -> /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator michael@local [~]# ll /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 30 22:29 /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator -> /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper michael@local [~]# ll /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1124 Aug 15 2019 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper #! /usr/bin/perl -w # # Terminal.wrapper - Debian terminal wrapper script # # Copyright (c) 2004-2005 os-cillation # while ($opt = shift(@ARGV)) { if ($opt eq '-display') { $arg = shift(@ARGV); push(@args, '--default-display', $arg); } elsif ($opt eq '-name') { $arg = shift(@ARGV); } elsif ($opt eq '-n') { $arg = shift(@ARGV); } elsif ($opt eq '-T' || $opt eq '-title') { push(@args, '--title', shift(@ARGV)); } elsif ($opt eq '-geometry') { $arg = shift(@ARGV); push(@args, "--geometry=$arg"); } elsif ($opt eq '-fn') { $arg = shift(@ARGV); } elsif ($opt eq '-fg') { $arg = shift(@ARGV); } elsif ($opt eq '-bg') { $arg = shift(@ARGV); } elsif ($opt eq '-tn') { $arg = shift(@ARGV); } elsif ($opt eq '-e') { $arg = shift(@ARGV); if (@ARGV) { push(@args, '-x', $arg, @ARGV); last; } else { push(@args, '-e', $arg); } last; } elsif ($opt eq '-h' || $opt eq '--help') { push(@args, '--help'); } } exec('xfce4-terminal',@args); michael@local [~]# which xfce4-terminal /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal michael@local [~]# ll /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 248384 Aug 15 2019 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal michael@local [~]# michael@local [~/data/trash]# su-to-root -X -c mx-packageinstaller ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.mxlinux.mx-pkexec === Authentication is required to run this application Authenticating as: root Password: polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === Error executing command as another user: Not authorized This incident has been reported. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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[trinity-users] error in mailinglist archive
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Hi all! It looks like there's an error in the mailinglist archive. e.g.: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::17435 Software error: Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/perl/5.24/Encode.pm line 202. For help, please send mail to the webmaster (kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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[trinity-users] Wiki Confirm email address working?
by Michael 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Hey all, I'm guessing the Wiki changed or something? I tried to log in, it said my account didn't exist. I created a new account with the same credentials, it logged me into my old account. It said I needed to confirm my email address (same one I use here), email never showed up. After an hour I asked it to resend, it said it did. After another ~3 hours now, neither has shown up. What do? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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