tde-users November 2023

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Window borders
by Darrell Anderson 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

Is there a way to not have borders around windows? Or at least the side vertical borders? I am using TDE Classic Style. When I am reading an online article in a web browser, often I "fling" the mouse pointer to the left edge of the screen to keep the pointer out of the way of reading text. I use the mouse scroll wheel to move down the page. With TDE I can't do that because when the pointer hovers over that left edge window border the effect is to kill scrolling. I have to continually bump the mouse pointer to the right to get off the border. I do not experience this in other desktop environments. Memory muscle and habits are difficult to change. So I am thinking this is a property of twin. Thanks. DA

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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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New MX-Linux with TDE ISO
by Thierry de Coulon 26 Nov '23

26 Nov '23

Hello all, I've been using MX-Linux for more than a year and recently decided to play with MX-Snapshot, a tool that let's you create an installation ISO from a running system. So I have installed the latest MX (23.1, based on Debian Bookworm), with kernel 6.5.0, then I added Trinity and started creating ISOs. Installation only succeeds if you use lightdm for the process, but TDM is installed and dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity is (almost) all that is required to get a full TDE based MX-Linux. It seems Mega accepts that I upload an ISO and share it, so if anyone wishes to try, here are the links: Iso file: https://mega.nz/file/1Xt1jIZL#h0VcKZaSH0eSE1INm5NOxiiywWBa1J0T9ZDmHLBFS5Q md5 file: https://mega.nz/file/kWVh0YQb#iWJ3cVkDpXHPS0wENA6knM0AthK66g8u-12zYFVjyak ReadMe file https://mega.nz/file/NfUTjQ5B#iSzIBWYSZ-Xfqn25RFOf2_CYKRbTUn40tJMb_g9VWAc If you do try, I'd like to get a feed back (what worked, what did not). Have a nice day, Thierry

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NixOS
by SuperRyn 25 Nov '23

25 Nov '23

Are there any packages for TDE that exist on NixOS?

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How do I rearrange items on the panel?
by SuperRyn 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

For some items there seems to be a button for moving them, but I don't know how to consistently make it appear. How do I consistently move items around? (I'm trying to have an item be on the bottom of the panel, but it's sandwiched between the taskbar and system tray right now)

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Can't find how to regenerate applications menu
by SuperRyn 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

I didn't like how cluttered the menus were, so I deleted some of the folders. I am now regretting this decision and wish to reverse it; but I can't find any options like that in KMenuEdit or other places. How do I do this?

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TDE enters sleep mode after about 30 minutes, how do I disable this?
by SuperRyn 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Every night, I turn on some white noise to help me sleep; but if it suddenly stops, I can't sleep. TDE seems to go into the display manager (which is set as LightDM since TDM didn't seem to work) every 30 minutes. I've looked all through the control panel, and I didn't see any options for disabling this. How do I do this? I don't want to switch over to IceWM when I go to bed so the audio doesn't cut out.

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Error - Kicker; Malformed URL; system:/
by Felix Miata 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

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

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Live iso based on CentOS Stream
by massi.ergosum＠gmail.com 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Hi folks, a live remix based on CentOS Stream: https://github.com/mbugni/tde-remix Regards Massi

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TDE does not open
by Ken Heard 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

Sometime since 2023-11-10, when it was created, an email thread with this title disappeared from my email client. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to copy to a text file the contents of that thread; so the content was not lost. Three people also contributed to this thread, Mike Bird, Thierry de Coulon and Peter. I hope that they at least still have that that thread so they will know what it am talking about in this posting, as it is a continuation of that thread and would not have been possible without their collective help. I was able to download from the desktop computer a copy of file ‘.xsession-errors’. It is attached to this posting, all 924 linesof it, with the title ‘TDE-xsession-errors.odt’, no more dot and everybody has permission to read it. Interestingly enough, the ‘.xsession-errors’ file for the laptop contains only 894 lines. After examining the desktop .xsession-errors of all the possibility for errors which could cause TDE not to open, I was able to identify only one, the UID. The .xsession-errors used 1001 as the UID. At some point I changed my default UID from 1001 to 1000. (The UID on the .xsession-errors for the laptop is and always was 1000.) In view of the foregoing I think the best thing for me to do now is to reinstall Bookworm and TDE completely. For Thierry’s information both computers have four partitions, boot/efi, root (/), /var and /home which is encrypted. I no longer have a swap; I had them since 2008 in several computers – but never were they ever used. ‘Partition’ /tmp is now part of tmpfs and set up as so by a line in the /etc/fstab file. In retrospect, the original message – Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full ?). Check your installation. – was misleading. If my analysis herein is correct a full temporary directory is not the issue. The command lnusertemp, if it is a command, could refer to a UID number; which it could not do for the desktop but could for the laptop. One final comment. I will not be able to do the reinstalments before 26 November. I will report results when done. Regards, Ken Heard

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