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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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Online Assignment Help
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17 Nov '21

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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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twin-style-suse2 for openSUSE Leap 15.2
by Gianluca Interlandi 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Dear TDE users list, I see that the SUSE2 theme has been packaged for Trinity thanks to Philippe: https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/twin-style-suse2 https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/56#issuecomment-… I wonder whether there are any plans to package it for openSUSE for the current version of Trinity R14.0.10? If not, is it straightfoward to extract the binaries compiled for another distribution and move the files to the respective folders? 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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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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Re: GTK 3 TQt Engine Styles
by dep 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

said Hunter: | GTK3 is an eyesore, but I guess Qt5 is as well. First, I'm on the list, so you needn't cc me. Second, just look at the latest Plasma desktop. It does nothing worth doing that KDE3 didn't do, but it makes those things far more complicated and difficult. In KDE3/TDE, if you want to add an application to Kicker, you drag it there. The end. In current KDE, there's a whole wad of incomprehensible crap you have to go through, and none of it is optional. Nor is this anything new. When the late, unlamented KOffice was coming along, it had filters that would import many file formats -- but not save in them! It would save only in its own little format, which made it entirely useless if the document were to be sent to anyone else. (It wasn't even good for documents you intended to print onto actual physical paper, because KPrinter kinda sucked (this was pre-CUPS). The boys were happy with themselves while users were wondering what the hell the boys were thinking. Asked about it, the boys would reply that if you weren't happy, you were free to write something else. This what I mean when I refer to "enthusiast development." You may or may not have been around during the great Qt war. Gnome had been rumored and promised for a long time and then, in the middle of 1998, along came KDE 1.0 and right out of the box it was great. But it wasn't reported or discussed as such. Instead, it was always "it will do until Gnome gets released." Then came the "and Qt isn't free" cries of doctrinal impurity, that on a whim Troll Tech could kill KDE or make people pay for it or something (as if the trolls were, say, going to become the reprehensible Darl McBride of Caldera). The trolls freed up Qt, at least to the extent that it was no longer even an imagined risk to KDE. Ah, but Gnome is going to be so great! Leading the charge in many ways was Miguel deIcaza, a brilliant programmer and along with Nat Friedman founder of Ximian. (I still have and occasionally wear one of their teeshirts, though I like my Progeny Linux Systems teeshirt more, because it draws comments from a better class of people, the Debian snobs.) Miguel truly is brilliant -- he's the guy who wrote Midnight Commander, a quarter century later still the single most essential application on any Linux machine. And he and Nat are really nice guys; I spent some time with them during the Ximian days, at their office in Boston. But they were both influential and unfair in their appraisal of KDE and Qt. Let it be noted that they both work now, as they have for years, at that bastion of free and open-source software, Microsoft. Much of that is an aside; my point is that the QT suspicion remains, which is the chief reason that Gnome and GTK are taken seriously. But another of the reasons is the attitude by the KDE developers. I remember when the KMail addressbook was a simple, human-editable text file comprising name and email address. (This was when just about everything in Linux was configured by simple, human-editable text files, the passing of which I still mourn. Opening a file in a text editor and scrolling down to change the value of "scrollbar-width=10" gave users enormous power that we no longer have.) The boys decided to make it more elaborate and simply eliminate support for the old format. That was bad enough; worse, their brilliant new addressbook *didn't work*! I remember staying up nights hacking the new KMail to get it to use the old addressbook. The boys not only didn't like this, they were snotty in their boasting about their new addressbook which, again, *didn't work*. They took the same attitude when they made the (fatal, in my estimation) file format decision in KOffice; by the time that got sorted out we had StarOffice, then OpenOffice, then OpenOffice.org, and finally LibreOffice. Perhaps realizing that the Gnomes had no fair criticisms of KDE to offer, the boys set about creating some entirely fair criticisms of KDE. So now both desktops in their current manifestations do whatever they damn well please rather than allow users choices in these things. Gnome can do it because, hey, it's Gnome and freeeeeee unlike Qt-tainted KDE; KCE does it because the boys will be the boys. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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