tde-users September 2022

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19 discussions

by Felix Miata

I see this error popup on various installations. The instant one is a 32bit Bookworm freshly upgraded from Bullseye with 14.0.12. Bullseye does it too. The trigger is left clicking on the menu starter. On those where it ever occurs, it only happens once. Trying again after dismissing the popup always works. Anyone familiar with it, what to do to eliminate it? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

1 year, 1 month

kpdf does not show some fonts

by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp

Hi all; Maybe somebody can reproduce this: opening the attached pdf in kpdf only shows the formulas, but not the text. Opening the same pdf in xpdf works flawless. kpdf-trinity 4:14.1.0~s218-0debian12.0.0+13~b1 Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

1 year, 4 months

Ksnapshot

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.

1 year, 10 months

Using Python3 for Superkaramba

by Slávek Banko

Hi all, we would like to inform you that the DEB packages for Superkaramba in PSB and PTB repositories have been updated to use Python3 instead of Python2. Please, if you are using Superkaramba and using PSB or PTB, please test that the sensors work with Python3 as they did with Python2. If you experience problems, please report it. Thank you! Cheers -- Slávek

2 years, 3 months

Perhaps of interest...?

by J Leslie Turriff

I don't know if this is or is not significant to the TDE community, but I found it interesting. Linux Foundation launches European division https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/20/linux_foundation_europe/ Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.12 tde-config: 1.0

2 years, 3 months

How to turn off laptop touchpad? (xserver-xorg-input-synaptics doesn't)

by J Leslie Turriff

Anyone know how to turn off the touchpad on my newish HP laptop? The X synaptics tool doesn't do it. Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.12 tde-config: 1.0

2 years, 3 months

OpenSuSE vs. Debian kcontrol

by J Leslie Turriff

In the OpenSuSE version of kcontrol, the first item in the TDE Components group is Autostart Manager, but this item does not appear in the Debian version of kcontrol. Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.12 tde-config: 1.0

2 years, 3 months

.DCOPserver_<HOST>__?, lDCOPserver_<HOST>_:? gone missing

by J Leslie Turriff

I've been doing a lot of customizing on my new Devuan machine from the root account. When I tried to switch users to my unprivileged account I was unable to login because of a DCOP: | There was an error setting up inter-process communications for TDE. The message returned by the system was: | | Could not read network connection list. | /home/leslie/.DCOPserver_palomino__1 | | Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running! ps aux|grep -i dcop shows |root 15175 0.0 0.1 49316 10244 ? S 04:42 0:00 dcopserver [tdeinit] --nosid --suicide I also see that root has .DCOPserver_<HOST>__0 and a symlink, .DCOPserver_<HOST>_:0 pointing to it; these are missing in account leslie. Is there a way to recover from this, or do I have to recreate the account? Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.12 tde-config: 1.0

2 years, 3 months

Trouble Installing TDE in Devuan Chimaera

by J Leslie Turriff

I have acquired a used HP Probook 440 G5, on which I have installed Devuan Chimaera. The Chimaera installer balked at adding | deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free | deb-src http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free which continue to fail to work after the install completed; I'm not sure just what they provide and if they are really necessary; I couldn't find any useful information about them in a web search. Perhaps these need to be working before installing Trinity? I followed the install instructions in the Trinity Wiki page <https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Devuan_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Inst…>, but | apt-get update fails with 'E: The repository ... does not have a Release file.' (see attached command output, etc.). Since all of my experience with Linux has been with openSUSE and RedHat, I'm not sure what to do to resolve these issues. Help!? :-) Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.12 tde-config: 1.0

2 years, 3 months

Re: gvim with GTK3 in OpenSUSE 15.3

by Jim

Hi Gianluca, On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 20:31 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote: >> are you able to attach the actual dvi file (or one showing that >> problem, alo)? Or, if you want to send it directly to me, that is fine >> too. I am curious as to what the issue is. > I will send it to you separately. Got it, see below. On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 20:44 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote: > I attach here the .tex, .dvi, .pdf files along with the EPS graphics. You > need to have the EPS file in the same firectory as the .dvi file. The .pdf > shows the full page with the figure. When I open the .dvi in an older > OpenSUSE (<=13.2) distribution, then the figure appears. But in OpenSUSE > 15.3 the figure is not there but the text is. It worked fine for me. I am using Slackware64 15.0. However, rather than using Slackware's TeX packages, I just install texlive and get it over with. Are you using texlive, or OpenSUSE's TeX packages? And, in either case, if you copy xdvi from a working system and try it out on your system, does it work? You might consider submitting a bug report to the OpenSUSE people (assuming you are using their package, and not texlive). Jim

2 years, 3 months

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