tde-users June 2021

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TDE Control Module crashes upon theme change
by Edward 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

/Sent this to the list earlier today, but it apparently didn't make it to the list./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I succeeded in installing the baghira theme on both of my desktops. However on both, the TDE Control Module (tdecmshell) crashed afterwards with a segfault. Upon attempting to report the crash, it reported that the debugger 'gdb' was not found. Attached are screenshots. -- Linux. A Continual Learning Experience. Trinity Desktop Environment: 14.0.10 - Debian: 10.10 (amd64)

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Re: additional kmail issue
by dep 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

I've already made inquiry to the ProtonMail Bridge people. The bridge is a very big wad of stuff that encrypts and otherwise handles mail before sending it to ProtonMail. It on the Kmail end, it wants KMail to send the mail to 127.0.0.1, using a long, hashed password that the bridge generates. I've used it since early beta. I haven't heard back from ProtonMail, which isn't a surprise -- it's late Saturday in Switzerland. The bridge supports a very limited number of clients -- ProtonMail is primarily a webmail service -- and KMail is not among them, though setting up KMail to use it was fairly trivial, even in early beta. On the rare occasion it hasn't worked, it has thrown a message saying that it couldn't log in to 127.0.0.1 and the problem is probably the password, but restarting the bridge and KMail virtually always has fixed this. Now, though, there are no errors thrown -- it says there's no new mail even though there clearly is new mail, as witness their webmail and the ElectronMail client that accesses the webmail hooks. I'd check a different account with KMail if I had any, but I don't. OTOH, using ProtonMail's apps on, for instance, the iPad works normally. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/ ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, June 26th, 2021 at 4:39 PM, Mavridis Philippe <mavridisf(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Could it be then that the problem is on ProtonMail's end? Maybe they changed something in their configuration? I can't see any other reason for this happening except for a faulty update or this. > > Can you check how KMail works with another account, or, alternatively, whether you can access your mail with the same settings on another mail client? This might point you to the problem. > > Mavridis Philippe

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additional kmail issue
by dep 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

There having been no new mail in KMail (which comes from ProtonMail via ProtonMail Bridge) for about 12 hours, even though it has been arriving at ProtonMail and is viewable elsewhere, I restarted KMail from a terminal, and got: ~$ kmail [TDE NM Backend ERROR] [../tdecore/tdehw/networkbackends/network-manager/network-manager.cpp:1706] Attempting to access the network-manager VPN service returned: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.VPN.Plugin was not provided by any .service files dep@dep-desktop:~$ WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended. This with TDE R14.0.11 [DEVELOPMENT] under Linux 5.4.0-77-generic on Ubuntu 20.04. Is this abnormal behavior? If so, any idea how to fix? Thanks. -- 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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Forcing kmail to rebuild indices?
by dep 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Strange behavior from KMail today. Among other things, the subjects listed in the inbox are not the same as the subjects of the actual messages -- they become correct when clicked on, but turn back to what they were when another message is clicked. I think that rebuilding the indices is on order, but don't know a way to force it. Is there a nondestructive way to do so? Thanks. -- 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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Re: Using Snap with TDE
by Borg Labs 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

kappfinder > 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. > > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users(a)trinitydesktop.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)trinitydesktop.org > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt… >

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Desktop icons
by Gianluca Interlandi 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Hi! In KDE3 installations, there is a Desktop folder in the home directory, which contains the app icons displayed on the desktop, e.g., /home/gianluca> ls Desktop/ kinfocenter.desktop Office.desktop Support.desktop trash.desktop MozillaFirefox.desktop Printer.desktop SuSE.desktop However, in TDE the folder Desktop/ is empty. Is there another place where the app icons are stored? I would like to create a Desktop shortcut for firefox and I'm not sure whether I can just copy Desktop/MozillaFirefox.desktop from an older KDE3 installation. Thanks! Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu +1 (206) 685 4435 http://gianluca.today/ Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------

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Remove services from the icon tray
by Gianluca Interlandi 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

Hi! I wonder whether there is a way to remove some of the tray icons in the panel. For example, I get two clipboards: the trinity clipboard and the parcellite clipboard. I would like to get rid of the parcellite clipboard. I can close it for the current session by right-cliking it and chooseing "Exit", but at the next login it reappears. Is the only way to achieve it to uninstall parcellite? Thanks, Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu +1 (206) 685 4435 http://gianluca.today/ Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------

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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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Umlaute and other keyboard special characters
by Gianluca Interlandi 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

Dear TDE users, I just installed TDE on openSUSE Leap 15.2 and I really like it. Thank you so much! I have a question about special keyboard characters such as the german Umlaute ä, ö, ü or the italian/french accents. Normally in Linux you can hold down the key <Shift> and then press <Ctrl>, which sets you into "Compose mode". Then, you can press for example the high quotes " and then a voyel like a, o, u and they are displayed with the dots on top. This is not working in openSUSE Leap 15.2 with TDE (same with LXDE). It just prints '"a'. In past versions, I had to set the variable QT_IM_MODULE to xim, but in openSUSE Leap 15.2 it is already set to xim and I still cannot compose Umlaute or accents. If anybody has any ideas or has figured it out, please let me know. Thanks in advance! Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu +1 (206) 685 4435 http://gianluca.today/ Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------

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Is there a quick hack for this?
by dep 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Hi, everybody! In that gThumb, which I used for years, has had everything useful about it removed, I sought alternatives. I often need to edit IPTC data embedded in photographs; while gThumb used to do this well it now does it poorly. For most uses, I employ the excellent Photini (https://photini.readthedocs.io/en/latest/other/installation.html ), but from time to time I need just to pop into a picture to check or edit the IPTC data. The Trinity version of Gwenview is good for this. But to get to those data, one needs Plugins > Images > Metadata >Edit IPTC. Possibly because it comes apparently from a plugin, there's no way I can find to shorten this chain -- certainly can't move it to, say, a toolbar. So I'm wondering if in fact there is a way to do just that, either move it to a top-level menu or to add it to the toolbar. I realize that this would probably involve screwing around with the code. And yes, I know it's probably in opposition to standards set by the World Health Organization or UEFA or somebody. I'm just hoping that someone here is familiar enough with the code to give me an idea what I need to change to produce the desired ressult. Thanks! -- 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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