tde-users February 2021

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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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Apt repository for Devuan
by Slávek Banko 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hi all, if you are using Devuan, you may have noticed with the release of R14.0.9 that there are newly available resources generated for Devuan distribution names in the apt repository. When entering a Trinity repository into the apt sources list, you no longer need to use equivalent Debian distribution names. The packages as such remain the same for both Debian and Devuan, as we still guard to maintain independence from systemd. See https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DevuanInstall Cheers -- Slávek

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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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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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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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Is it possible to modify the TDE Menu search function keybinding?
by Brian Durant 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

I have been digging around the TDE documentation, as well as the TDE center to see if there is a way to change the TDE menu search function keybinding. I am pretty sure that there is an answer, as there must be others as well, using a non-US/UK keyboard layout. Any ideas?

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Migration of services - 1. web server
by Slávek Banko 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Hi all, I'm launching a series of threads related to the migration of individual services. The main web server was listed first. -- Migration status -- The web server is already successfully migrated to the virtual machine on the tde-box. It was migrated almost unchanged. The changes concerned only: 1. Service alerts - instead of a manually maintained page, the real status of services is now displayed. Additional work is required to ensure that the retrieval status of the services is properly distributed among the individual servers where the services are active (eg, the mail server for the status of the mailing list services). 2. API documentation - search is not active, instead of Qt3 documentation TQt documentation is now published, instead of old KDE documentation, TDE documentation is published (tdelibs and tdebase). Further changes will be needed here. However, there will be a need to discuss how to maintain and generate documentation. 3. Supported RFEs - the page is now static and since we do not currently have a way to accept monetary donations, this page is suitable for removal and replacement in a new way sometime in the future. 4. List of active mirrors - now provides a better overview of the status of mirrors. -- What needs to be done -- 1. Webhook for automatic update when pushing commits to git. 2. New bot for recording history / interaction on IRC and Jabber rooms. Currently, IRC history is being retrieved from the old Tim's server. 3. There could be some small changes in style - for example, for better display on mobile devices. 4. The menu could be revised - there some links are almost duplicated - Documentation × API Docs, some fully duplicated Home/Contact × Support, Bugs × Support/Bugs, Wiki × Support/Wiki. 5. Some changes in the content. -- More ideas and suggestions? Does everything work fine with the web server? Do you have any other ideas and suggestions? Cheers -- Slávek

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correct apt repo line for R14.newest?
by Gene Heskett 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

I thought it unusual that this machine was not getting updates, while the one machine tool machine I had tde installed on was. So I looked at the repo list in synaptic and found the deb line for r14 had become unchecked. Checked it, and refreshed. That brought in 313 packages, or tried to, reporting that it wasn't successfull at pulling them all. But when it had installed what it could, I then did another refresh, but it then did not mark any more new ones. Ack the log, the server hung up on me. Since I was then about 110 days of uptime and that many updates it needed to restart the dbus apache2 and tdm kin. I checked them, clicked fwd and was greeted by a bash login on tty1. Logged in and did a sudo reboot. A bit slower than I recall, but but a lot was changed and things seem to be running ok now. But I am left with a suspicion I might not be pulling from the latest mirror. ISTR it was moved several months back, so would someone be kind enough to paste the latest repo line to me? Thanks a bunch. 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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r14-xdg-update problem
by rattenkopf 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi, after update a devuan ascii installation with the latest trinity update I get messeges from the x11 system wich says: "The r14-xdg-update script will attempt to repair the problems found during the previous sessions..." Wenn click on "Continue" a new windos shows the message: "Some Trinity profile R14 XDG complaince updates failed. Check application-tdemenuedit.menue for '<Filename>kde-' in /var/tmp/tdecache-USER-r14-xdg-updte-violation-test9.txt" Named File has the entry: "<Filename>kde-potracegui.desktop</Filename>" twice When accept the shown message a new with "The r14-xdg-update script did not complete sucessfully... The error code is 9..." This messages come up every time I log in - so the promised repair did not realy work. What can I do to solve the error Menay thanks for any help Rolf

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