tde-users May 2021

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knemo
by Steffen Thus 06 Jun '21

06 Jun '21

knemo and knetload do not work. I have test with Debian 9, 10 and 11, and with different PC.

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r14-xdg-update?
by dep 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

greetings, everybody . . . having just completed the ordeal of moving my ubuntu 18.04 install from a 2-tb drive that was popping up increasingly strident messages warning of its impending doom to a 6-tb drive and thus enduring the process of going from MBR to UEFI, the time fast approaches for me to go 18.04 > 20.04. before i do that, though, i thought i'd check and see if there's any definitive solution to the r14-xdg-update error messages that have come here at the startup of TDE (R14.0.10, currently) for many months now. in that i rarely reboot, it's not been a huge problem, but i presume they're there for a reason and before i upgrade i thought i'd try to fix the problem. i searched the archives and found no evidence of a solution. so: is there a solution? if there isn't, is there any harm in just clicking the (several) boxes that pop up and living with the perceived error? that's what i've been doing, but i've never been happy about it. thanks very much in advance for any useful information that might be proffered. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/

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correct apt repo line for R14.newest?
by Gene Heskett 02 Jun '21

02 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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Solaar Linux Device Manager for Logitech Unifying Receivers and Devices
by J Leslie Turriff 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Many of us probably use Logitech bits to communicate with our Linuxes. Here's a package that provides much of the tuning capability of Logitech's Windoze and Mac tools: battery monitoring and mouse tweaks. https://pwr-solaar.github.io/Solaar/ Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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Which desktop?
by J Leslie Turriff 31 May '21

31 May '21

Is there a way, while starting a program, to tell it which desktop to appear on (before it opens its window)? I looked at the various Window-specific settings (right-click the mini-icon in the menu bar), and there's lots of things that can be set there, but not the desktop. I also looked at kdcop for several kinds of windows, but if there's something in there, I can't recognize it. Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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How to select the default soundcard ?
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 30 May '21

30 May '21

Ok, another TDE/ALSA soundcard thingie: I have 3 soundcards on the system: $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [MID ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID HDA Intel MID at 0xf3120000 irq 37 1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xf3000000 irq 17 2 [Creative ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Creative HDA Creative at 0xf3200000 irq 16 Headpones are on card #2 - which is also the default soundcard: $ cat /etc/asound.conf defaults.pcm.card 2 defaults.ctl.card 2 With this in place all programs use #2 as default soundcard. There's just one exception: kmix. The kmmix systrayicon uses #0 - always. As do the VolUp/VolDown keys and mousewheel-over-kmix-icon. Now my question is: kow do I persuade kmix to use #2 as default and not #0 ? Any idea? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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(Possibly OT) Firefox footers
by Edward 27 May '21

27 May '21

I have installed Mozilla builds of Firefox and Thunderbird on one of my TDE-Debian systems. When printing/print previewing an e-mail with Thunderbird, the time displayed in the footer is correctly in the 12-hour format with AM or PM. in Firefox, the time is displayed in 24-hour format. Thunderbird picks up the time from the system time, which I believe is set to 12-hours, since the TDE clock is displaying the time with AM/PM. But Firefox apparently isn't. Is there in something I can check in TDE that will show if the system on 12-hour AM/PM time, or is what the clock is displaying, just that? Thanks in advance. -- Linux. A Continual Learning Experience.

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And another thing
by dep 25 May '21

25 May '21

No idea if this is a feature request or what. I'm dealing with an enormous directory that contains numerous subdirectories many of which contain subdirectories of their own, and so on. For some uses it would be very good to be able to tell at a glance which ones contain subdirectories. From the foggy distant past I remember some version of something wherein the icons changed color or had an asterisk or something when there were subdirectories present. So. Does anyone know of a file manager that has this feature? Or . . . Is there perhaps an icon set that would enable this feature? Or . . . Might this be added in some future release of TDE? Or . . . Is it just plain impossible with the current state of things? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/

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How to change volume increment/decrement value
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hi all, I just ran into this again: Where can I change the volume incerment/decremet value? My situation is this: kmix: mousewheel changes volume by 5 for the onboard soundcard, but by 10 for the PCI/USB soundcard. volume keys: change volume always by 10. T60: kmix & volume keys: I can set the inc/dec value kcontrol/system/IBM and it works as it should. So ... is there a way for non-thinkpads to set the volume increment/decrement value somewhere? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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ksmserver crashes during logout
by J Leslie Turriff 25 May '21

25 May '21

Sometimes (not always) when I logout from my TDE session, ksmserver crashes and throws up a crash dialog, offering to send a report for support; but by that point it's not able to actually send such a report. The message I see in the dialog is | The application The TDE Session Manager (ksmserver) crashed and caused the Signal 11 (SIGSEV) It offers to send a crash report, and I can generate the trace, but it hangs when I try to send it (I presume via KMail, which is already gone). There's also a 'Save as' button which displays a file dialog, but it's only partially on the screen, and the window is not movable, so I can't fill in a filename. :-( Is there a way to collect the data from another login account (e.g. root)? Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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