tde-users January 2022

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46 discussions

by phiebie＠drei.at

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.

3 weeks, 4 days

fish: vs. sftp:

by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp

Hi all! I just noticed that on daedalus sftp:/...-URLs do not work any more. Konqueror is stuck with a rotating circle and eventually times out. fish:/...-URLs work, but calculating the disk size of remote directories is kind of buggy, e.g. 22GB are counted as 9GB. Did somebody see this, too? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

8 months, 2 weeks

Lost TDE Display Manager and other TDE issues after upgrade to Debian 11

by Edward

After upgrading to Debian 11 on both of my two systems, upon reboot, I lost the TDE Display Manager. The login screen defaults to whatever Debian itself uses and I have been unsuccessful getting the TDE login manager back. > ~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity > tdm.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. Also...during the upgrade, one of the packages it wanted to remove was binutils, which it did. It left a package binutils-common installed, but not upgraded. If I attempted to remove binutils-common, it also wanted to remove numerous Trinity packages. Is there a fix for these issues?? -- Linux. A Continual Learning Experience. Trinity Desktop Environment: 14.0.10 - Debian: 10.10 (amd64)

11 months

I'M BAAAACK!

by c. marlow

I am back, and I am wanting to give TDE another shot. But this time, I am coming to you from Fedora 35! I see there's a way to install TDE in Fedora 35 So what I will prob do is a Fedora XFCE spin install And then do... Install the minimalistic Trinity Desktop Environment: dnf install trinity-tdebase And then all of the programs that I use on a daily basis, install as flatpaks to where I can use some newer, up to date apps. And of course make THUNAR my file manager... Konq is just bleh.... Does all of this sound ok? Or is there anything that you would tweak? Thanks, Chris

1 year, 1 month

Re: Problems DCOP_SERVER after migration buster to Bullseye

by ajh-valmer

On Wednesday 22 December 2021 17:28:23 awaco(a)free.fr wrote: > On 2021/12/13 07:09 PM, ajh-valmer wrote: > > Hello Michele, > > What does it mean, the messages above ? > > When I boot Bullseye, I'm in command-line mode (no Xorg, no graphic), > > invited to connect in root (and password). > > I have to type "killall tdm" to be connected on the trinity desktop. > > So, what to do to be directly on the trinity desktop ? > > André > Hi André, > not sure of the details of the error message, would have to check them out. > But it's the rest that caught my attention. > Normally a TDE system should boot up and present you the tdm login screen. > But you mentioned you are in command prompted > and "invited" to login as root. Do you have some errors and a message > asking you to provide the root password to login to rectify the issue or > pressing Ctrl+D to continue ? I have Ctrl+D to continue in recovery mode or type root passwd. Only one solution, type "killall tdm" to connect to tde-desktop. > If you see this message, give it a Ctrl+D first (without logging in) and > see what happens and if you get the tdm login screen afterwards > or not. Cheers Michele Hi Michele, /var/log/tdm.log exists but empty. /var/log/tdm.1.log : "info: Cannot open master configuration file /etc/trinity/tdm/tdmdistrc". tdmdistrc doesn't exist in this folder. I can login to tde-desktop with lightdm, not with tdm-trinity. (even after a dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity). Now I have a clear understanding what happens without to be able to repair. The file /run/user/1000/ICEauthority is : -rw------- 1 andre andre 205 22 déc. 17:18 ICEauthority It becomes automatically quickly : -rw------- 1 root root 205 22 déc. 17:18 ICEauthority, after I receive the error messages allready indicated, DCOPserver and /home/andre./.Xauthority not writable : -rw------- 1 andre andre 59 22 déc. 17:18 .Xauthority It seems that there is a conflict between two users, root and andre. Thanks. Bye, cheers, André

1 year, 1 month

Dcopserver not loading

by Ken Heard

Very soon after I started to use the TDE 14.0.11 version I began receiving DCOP error messages, having the effect of preventing use of various applications like Firefox and LibreOffice. After online research and experimentation on my part I discovered that I could solve such preventions if before opening TDE I ran in a tty as root the following three commands: 'dcopserver -- serverid', which returned nothing, then 'dropserver' and finally again 'dcopserver -- serverid'. This time however that command returned something like the following: '[dcopserver] local/Morcom:/tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop5698-1636014592' >From this point on there were no longer any more DCOP error messages. I had full use of the TDE and various applications until when I next closed completely the computer. It is consequently my understanding that running the 'dcopserver' command is presumably required as part of the initial boot-up. If such is usually the case I would appreciate knowing what I need to do to have my computer, named Morcom, do so as well. Can anyone tell me? Regards, Ken --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

1 year, 1 month

TDE Control Center is replacing utf8 characters in ~/.bashrc with trash

by Stefan Krusche

Hi all, I found that TCC does overwrite ~/.bashrc. From my level of proficiency that is a no-go and should not happen at all, especially not without informing the user. What happens: All utf8 characters in .bashrc get replaced with strange characters when GTK2 Fonts are changed from the TCC GUI. Reproduce: I can reproduce this behaviour on my system by simply changing the configuration in TCC -> Appearance and Themes -> GTK Style and Fonts -> GTK2 Fonts: from "Use my TDE fonts" to "Use another font" or the other way around. I confirmed this misbehaviour within a new, pristine user account with a default debian .bashrc where I inserted three lines with utf8 characters: $ diff utf8.bashrc utf8-mangled.bashrc --- utf8.bashrc 2022-01-18 10:21:23.700348782 +0100 +++ utf8-mangled.bashrc 2022-01-18 10:31:59.659323727 +0100 @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ # for examples -# Test Umlaut a: >ä< +# Test Umlaut a: >Ã¤< -# Test long hyphen: >–< +# Test long hyphen: >â< -# Test Euro currency symbol: >€< +# Test Euro currency symbol: >â¬< # If not running interactively, don't do anything case $- in Additional information: When the users .bashrc is owned by root then in ~/.xsession-errors of the user is reported this: [2022/01/18 10:24:59.374] TQFile::writeBlock: File (/home/user/.bashrc) not open (where "user" is the actual user name) Can anyone confirm this? I would then bugreport this phenomenon. Cheers, Stefan PS: I have been seeing this for years and never had a clue as to what causes it, phew! Now I caught it by accident just by observing the almost concurrent incidence of the phenomenon and changing GTK2 fonts in TCC.

1 year, 1 month

POP!OS and bug reporting

by Philip Ashmore

hi there. I tried reporting a bug but was told: "Username or password is incorrect." Keen to proceed, I clicked on the password reset button and dutifully entered my email address. Then the web page stated that an email would be sent to me within 3 hours. That was days ago. By the way the bug was that installing TDE on POP!OS renders the installation unbootable, possibly something about POP!OS using systemd-boot. Thoughts? Philip Ashmore --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

1 year, 2 months

Chromium and Chrome-google unmanageable

by ajh-valmer

Hello, Since migration to Debian 11, I cannot use Chromium and Chrome-google, they are unmanageable, graphics problems (maybe coming from Xfree ?) Never had this before with previous Debian distributions. Thanks for a explanation, Cheers, André

1 year, 2 months

GTK3: how to disable CSD ?

by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp

Hi all ! Does anybody know how to disable CDS (client side decoration) for all GTK3 applications? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

1 year, 2 months

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