tde-users April 2022

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23 participants
16 discussions

Is Bluetooth free?
by lee892533＠gmail.com 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Yes, the songs are transmitted to your headphones, but that's over a paired Bluetooth connection between the headphone and the phone. And there's no cost to that. You only pay for the data transmitted to your smart device over the phone company's network by way of using the app. https://spacebarcounter.org

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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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fish: vs. sftp:
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

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 ...

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message bus - connection refused - WTF?
by William Morder 07 May '22

07 May '22

This issue just started, seemingly out of the blue. My system has been running just fine, and I haven't made any changes or installed anything new or upgraded in a long time. The first signs I had were earlier this evening, when suddenly one of my external hard drives was not recognized. When I tried mounting and unmounting, everything seemed very slow; still couldn't get it to recognize that external hard drive. Finally I unmounted everything, then tried just that hard drive, and it mounted normally. When I tried to open it, however, Konqueror started acting really weird, and a window opened but nothing was displayed. At last I decided to reinstall my system, but after booting up again, nothing has changed in this behavior. I did finally get a message window (not in TDE style, but rather in XFCE or Gnome or whatever) saying something like "message bus could not connect, connection refused - but why all of a sudden? Everything has been running great. It occurs to me that somebody on the mailing list mentioned that Konqueror was acting a little weird, and I wondered if this could be related. I am running Devuan Chimaera (= Debian Bullseye) and currently using the TDE stable repositories. Any help would be appreciated. Bill

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lost double quote mark
by Felmon Davis 30 Apr '22

30 Apr '22

Greetings! I may have fumbled and hit two keys or something but now I don´t have a regular apostrophe (I get ´ instead) or regular double quotes (I get ¨ instead). I´m on TDE on Q4OS Buster. I´m sure someone has a quick fix at hand.... Thanks in advance! -- Felmon Verbum sat sapienti.

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Kpdf annoyance
by phiebie＠drei.at 28 Apr '22

28 Apr '22

Hi, Whenever I call kpdf to view a pdf-document, it starts as a "small" ribbon of approximately 240x1100 pixels on the top of the desktop. Of course this window can be elongated via mouse actions. Tedious. I altered the kpdf.desktop-file to execute "/opt/trinity/bin/kpdf --geometry 950x1170 --caption "%c"" and now the window is expanded to my liking. But when Slavek releases an alteration to the kpdf package - quite often the case - my .desktop gets overwritten and I get again the ribbon. And must again correct the .desktop-file. Pita. Is there a method to keep this file in "my" state and not overwrite it blindely? The "i" flag is not a viable solution. Rgds. Peter.

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Lost TDE Display Manager and other TDE issues after upgrade to Debian 11
by Edward 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

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)

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KMail - How to change character encoding?
by Mike Bird 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

When I try to send a message I get the warning shown in the attached image saying not all characters fit into the chosen encoding. Could someone please give me a hint what to do? Normally I would poke around and try to find something but I'm testing some changes to our spam filter by forwarding an 84MB email and with that compose window open my system is just a touch slow right now. Thanks, --Mike

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Running a shell script from KMenu
by dep 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

Greets, everybody . . . I probably knew how to do this back in the second Bush administration, but I'm confounded by it now. My hope is to add to my KMenu an application -- it's gui and runs on my system -- that is started by a shell script. What I don't know is what to put in the command field in KMenu's entry for the item. In case it matters, the script is /opt/dvda-author/dvda-author-gui.sh and this is it: #!/bin/bash export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/dvda-author cd /opt/dvda-author /opt/dvda-author/dvda-author-gui cd - unset $LD_LIBRARY_PATH So. Anybody know what I ought to put in the DVD-Author command box in KMenu? DVD-Author appears to be the only foss application for making audio DVDs. Thanks in advance. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Mass edit Menu entries?
by Michael 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

Hi All, Anyone know how to mass edit all entries in a sub-menu? I’d like to change all of the entries in the Internet sub-menu by adding a ‘nice’ to the beginning of each launch command. Example: firefox %u -to- nice -n 5 firefox %u I’ll want to do most of the other sub-menus, so it’s not just specific to the Internet sub-menu. Also, would these be overwritten by anything (e.g. is there a sticky bit I’d need to set somewhere else?)? Thanks, Michael

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