tde-users October 2023

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half-baked devuan installation - please help
by William Morder 26 Oct '23

26 Oct '23

I have finally got round to attempting to install the current stable version of Devuan Daedalus. I had tried a testing version, which wasn't working so well, then I installed Devuan Chimaera again (which is old stable), then just upgraded to Daedalus by changing my sources.list. But now I have run into a snag which I've only encountered a couple times before, don't have a clue how to get past this. It seems to be something to do with a low graphics installation, maybe? In any case, I went into the bios, enabled legacy support, uefi first (which has normally worked just fine for me in all previous installations), but I got a weird messed-up screen of illegible garbage. So I went into the bios again, tried a different tack: enabled legacy support, legacy first, and this was only a little better. I also tried just using the OS defaults, enabling uefi, but as I'm sure everybody knows, this won't allow me to install a Linux system at all. I realize that Microsoft and Apple are concerned for our safety and well-being, and wish at all costs to protect us from the dangers of installing Linux, but I can't help wanting to dabble in the dark arts of software freedom. For what it's worth, I am working on a Lenovo Ideapad 3.15 15.6" laptop. The only hardware change was to swap the internal 128 gb SSD drive for a 2 tb SSD. Otherwise, the only changes were to void my warranty before I ever booted into a Windoze system. I installed Linux on first boot. And no, by the way, I have no other computer with which to get on the internet, and never use my phone for internet. Someday perhaps I will get another machine, but at present I have about six more machines packed away in storage. Attached are some screenshots (taken with my phone) to show what's happening. I have a funny feeling that others on the mailing list have experienced something like this, and I know, too, that there are some dedicated users of Devuan or Devuan-type systems, so maybe somebody can tell me how to get past this barrier, or at least point me in the right direction. Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated, and you will get rewarded in tons of good karma. See attachments for screenshots. thanks in advance, Bill

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Do we want to participate in social networks?
by Slávek Banko 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

Hi all, some time ago I was thinking about whether we want to become an active member of social networks with our project. Things like Facebook and Twitter have always been "no go" zones for me. However, I've been thinking about the Mastodon platform for a long time. Mastodon is a decentralized platform for publishing short messages and pictures. It is based on open source architecture and therefore this platform is close to our ideas. You can see profiles of other projects like @kde@floss.social, @gnome@floss.social, and others. I assume that it would help to "make us visible" and information could be published there, for example about the release of new versions, or some useful information regarding development, screenshots, solving issues and community info. Does it seem like a good idea for us to have an official communication channel for our project on Mastodon? What is your opinion on this? Cheers -- Slávek

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disappearing Konsole text during copy for pasting
by Felix Miata 07 Oct '23

07 Oct '23

This has been going on too long to remember, probably more than a year now, but at least since 14.0.13. I haven't been able to create a reliable reproduction scenario. Typically, I start a session that has remembered Konsole (at 0,0) with a plain shell tab and an MC tab. With quite some frequency, I wish to copy and paste the first command of the session, and its output, that I have entered in the shell tab, into some text file in MC. The problem is that swiping the mouse from bottom to top to select that output commonly blanks the first Konsole line, which is usually something that produces multiple lines of text output, such as inxi, so that when pasted, the first line of the paste is also blank. The instant case causing me to write this is in Mageia 8/14.1.0, but it IIRC it happens in Debian, Fedora, openSUSE & *buntu also. -- 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

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