tde-users October 2021

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Bluetooth Headphone Microphone
by Edward 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

In addition to my previous question re startup sounds not sounding all the time, I have a question regarding Bluetooth. I am able to use the Bluetooth Manager to connect a pair of headphones and can hear audio through BT, it sounds excellent. The one thing I can't get working is the microphone that is built into BT headphones. I know they are primarily designed for phone calls via a smartphone, but is it possible to use the BT headphone microphone through the PC, for example, if you were having an online Zoom/Skype/Jitsi meeting? The local Linux group has been having virtual meetings every month and although my Logitech headphones with microphone boom (USB-connected) work perfectly, I would like to try wireless/Bluetooth - if it's even possible. I attempted this with the previous distro (Fedora) and was not successful. Thanks again.

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TDM not starting in Debian Sid (Preliminary Stable)
by Hunter Ellett 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

Hello friends, I switched from FreeBSD back to Debian for several reasons: * More software (not necessarily just Trinity), especially with flatpaks * More documentation since I continued to have "unsolved mysteries" on FreeBSD * Greater performance and hardware support * GNU/Linux just as free as in freedom as FreeBSD, I was a bit one sided before But I have an issue. I have installed most core components of Trinity (tdebase, tdeaccessibility, tdegraphics etc.) but I always start in a tty when booting. I tried to execute the starttde script but it doesnt work. Furthermore if I add it to .xinitrc and run startx, it doesn't work. If I remove my home .xinitrc file and use startx, the session will start but I can't use TDM at all. Running the script directly is a lot more verbose, telling me that pretty much nothing can connect to the X server. I have seen this talked about before in the ML but it seems like they solved it. I used to use the preliminary testing branch and it worked but I decided to go with stable this time and can't seem to get TDM to work at all. That pesky X server.

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TDE R14.0.11 release is here!
by Slávek Banko 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about the release of R14.0.11: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.0.11 Cheers -- Slávek

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Re: [tde-announcements] Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.11 Released!
by Borg Labs 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

> On Sun October 31 2021 04:35:46 you wrote: > > The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to > > announce the immediate availability of TDE R14.0.11. > > Congratulations TDE devs and thank you very very much. > > --Mike Likewise. Kate

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Re: [tde-announcements] Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.11 Released!
by Mike Bird 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

On Sun October 31 2021 04:35:46 you wrote: > The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to > announce the immediate availability of TDE R14.0.11. Congratulations TDE devs and thank you very very much. --Mike

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No idea if this is significant, but I thought I'd pass it along
by dep 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Doing my usual daily update/upgrade, I just now encountered this: The following packages have been kept back: kubuntu-default-settings-trinity I presume it's some kind of metapackage and that it has no effect on the functioning of my system. It's the first error of this sort that I've seen in years, though, so I thought I'd pass it along. Am running R14.0.11. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Appimage
by dep 28 Oct '21

28 Oct '21

Greets, everybody . . . I've got a book coming on, and one of the rituals attendant to that is searching for an outliner/organizational application into which I can dump notes and such by chapter and conduct some of the other housekeeping involved. So I've gone through the bespoke applications that supposedly perform these functions and have learned that as with the last book a couple of years ago they all suck. I don't think that anyone involved with any of them has ever written anything for publication -- they've certainly not written anything resembling instructions for use of their applications. One of these applications, a thing called "Joplin," is an appimage. I'd encountered one of these before; Geeqie releases some versions in that form, which I tried. I like Geeqie, but I don't much like appimages, though I'm not sure I can tell you why. So I thought I'd ask here what people think of appimages, both the idea of them and the way they're made and used in practice, in case there's a difference. My vague distaste for them runs counter to reservations I had when moving to Linux from OS/2 and similar DOS-centric operating systems. My complaint then was that with DOS, Windows (at the time a DOS desktop) and OS/2 put a particular application's files all in one directory, Word in \word, Lotus in \lotus, and so on, so banishing an application involved nuking a directory and that was that. (I still think that more things ought to be in their own directories under /opt, and am glad that TDE does this; that prejudice came about when we were building KDE from source a time or two a week and having the whole thing blow up was not unheard of; deleting the failed build and renaming the existing, working version reduced the risk.) Sorry for the digression. Having not given appimages a lot of thought but seeing that they're becoming more common, just thought I'd ask if there are any strong reasons for or against them. Are appimages a good idea for anything beyond test-drive purposes? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Using Message => Edit Message
by J Leslie Turriff 28 Oct '21

28 Oct '21

When viewing a received message, in the menu bar entry is the Edit Message option, which allows one to modify the mail item's text. Because almost all HTML email uses Sans-Serif fonts (an anethema to me) and Kmail provides no way to override this, I thought that I might be able to use Edit Message to change the imbedded font-family to something more friendly. I can do that, and the result is saved in my Drafts folder, but when I open it I see just the raw HTML; Kmail doesn't seem to want to format it as it did the original. Does anyone know how to make Kmail display such a modified message properly? Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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X and DPI
by J Leslie Turriff 28 Oct '21

28 Oct '21

I see on the X.org announcements list <xorg-announce(a)lists.x.org> that "X server [21.1.0] now correctly reports display DPI in more cases. This may affect rendering of client applications that have their own workarounds for hi-DPI screens." Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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Where does TDE store its mime-type information?
by J Leslie Turriff 28 Oct '21

28 Oct '21

Once again, missing application/octet-stream has revisited me. Where does TDE store this information, and is there a way to lock that particular entry so that it doesn't disappear now and again? There must be a bug somewhere in TDE's mime handling routines that causes it to delete this entry when one is adding other entries to the table, but I haven't a clue as to which component a bug report should be opened... Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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