tde-users May 2021

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Other (?) xdg-open problem
by Thierry de Coulon 24 May '21

24 May '21

No idea if this is linked to the other xdg-open issues, but: At work we use software to telework and teach from home when necessary. This tool uses jitsi for the video part. If I use jitsi directly, everything is OK. If I click the "Call" button that, I imagine, starts jitsi with the correct "address", I get a window saying: Open xdg-open? https://kinaps1.gyb.ch wants to open this application [] Always allow kinaps1.gyb.ch to open links of this type in the associated app Clicking the "Open xdsg-open" button simply starts another instance of the browser. This happens whatever browser I use - although xdg-open always starts my default browser. Where - or what - should I look to understan what xdg-open is trying to do? Thierry

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Tip: Keeping Find dialog windows from opening over text
by J Leslie Turriff 24 May '21

24 May '21

When searching in Kate/KWrite/KEdit/etc., the dialog window opens by default in the middle of the text window, hiding potential matches. If, in the 'Find' dialog window, one clicks on the left icon in the application's menu bar and go to Advanced => 'Special window settings' and enables 'Placement', 'Force', 'Under Mouse' in the Geometry tab, then goes to the Window tab and changes 'Window class' to 'Unimportant' (and makes sure that 'Window role' is 'searchdialog'), the Find window will then open centered on wherever the cursor is placed, instead of the middle of the text window. 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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Sharing mail folders between two local users
by J Leslie Turriff 21 May '21

21 May '21

To do software development, I'm setting up a separate account on my desktop machine (to minimize distractions), but I'd like read-only access to some of the folders (e.g. this mailing list) in my primary mail account. From what I've read, normally that would entail forwarding the mail through a mail system via another mail account; but since both users are on the same machine, can I just share the physical mail folders via symbolic links? Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.9 tde-config: 1.0 --

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r14-xdg-update error 9 Revisited
by J Leslie Turriff 21 May '21

21 May '21

After upgrading, this has once again shown its ugly head. On 2018-06-10 21:43:36 Michele Calgaro wrote: > On 2018/06/10 04:40 AM, Nick Koretsky wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am on preliminary stable builds on debian stretch. After the last > > update i am getting an r14-xdg-update error 9 on login. It complains > > about permissions and tells to look at > > r14-xdg-update-validation-test9.txt. There is one line in here > > <Filename>kde-kchmviewer.desktop</Filename> No such file exist anywhere. > > What i am supposed to do with this? > > In $HOME/.config/menus/applications-tdemenuedit.menu, there should be an > entry like "<Filename>kde-kchmviewer", which is triggering that error. Why > is there is not possible to say, there has been no change lately to justify > such an error. Cheers > Michele I still don't understand what the entries in .config/menus/applications-tdemenuedit.menu relate to, and why they cause this problem. Should I just blindly remove all entries that begin with 'kde-'? (Not the ones that begin with 'tde-kde-', presumably.) Do they have something to do with the .desktop files that appear in ~/Desktop/? This thing is a frustrating nuisance because there's effectively NOTHING beyond a few cryptic entries in Release Notes and the pop-up messages (which can't be copied, and don't seem to be saved anywhere. (Why is that?) if there is any documentation concerning this, I can't find it in the Wiki (beyond "Upgrading from KDE3 or from TDE 3.5.x to R14.0.x" in "Tips and Tricks", which seems to be pertinent but says nothing about recovering from errors), nor in the Documentation section. It seems to me that there needs to be some real documentation about recovering from this situation, written by someone who understands in detail what this stuff is trying to do. Leslie -- openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.9 tde-config: 1.0

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Autostop
by J Leslie Turriff 21 May '21

21 May '21

When a new instance of the desktop is started, there are several ways to run scripts or applications automagically, e.g. files in ~/autostart. Is there some way to run scripts when the desktop is being closed? 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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#trinity-desktop IRC channel has been moved to Libera.Chat
by Slávek Banko 20 May '21

20 May '21

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about moving IRC channel: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… Cheers -- Slávek

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Can't reset my gitea password
by J Leslie Turriff 20 May '21

20 May '21

Somehow the password for gitea in my password database has gotten out of sync with the gitea password. I used the "Forgot your password?" link, using this email address, to get a refresh token (twice now), but I never receive an email. Any suggestions? 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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No feedback when rceives imap mail
by Thierry de Coulon 19 May '21

19 May '21

Hello all, I've got a little problem. At work they recently changed their email system for Office365. I did manage to setup an imap account in kmail, and this account works, BUT: When I get a message there, I get no notification. While all other accounts get their messages in Inbox, or the relevent directory indicated there is mail, the imap account shows nothing, so if I don't think to look I may miss important messages. I had found a workaround by setting up Thunderbird on a raspberry pi. Thunderbird autoconfigures for this account (of course at work they did not give me the informations to connect, as we are supposed to be using MacOS or Windows with application that don't require these) and I forwarded the messages to my regular mail account. However Thunderbird is a nightmare when it comes to changing the password, and the work password must be changed every month... so for the time being Thunderbird no more forwards anything. I'll take a look at Evolution for the pi, but it would actually be easier if I could just get informed that a mail arrived on the imap account. Am I missing some setup, or is it normal that imap doesn't give any feedback (I normaly use pop for my accounts). Thierry

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Using Snap with TDE
by Edward 17 May '21

17 May '21

Thunderbird 78.10.1 was released almost two weeks ago and Debian has not updated the package as of last night. The other day, I installed Snap (via the Debian 'snapd' package) to try to install the Thunderbird package via Snap. Although the Snap Thunderbird package appeared to install (no errors were displayed during installation), it was not on any of the TDE menus afterward. Is there a trick to having packages installed through Snap to display on the appropriate TDE menu? Thanks in advance. -- Linux. A Continual Learning Experience.

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app frozen when changing icon
by ThanhVu (Vu) Nguyen 16 May '21

16 May '21

Hi it seems TDE would freeze whenever I try to change the icon of some app. Attached is a picture describing the issue. Is this a known bug? what can I do to fix it? Thanks,

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