tde-users December 2023

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17 discussions

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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Scroll on touchpad
by Christian Schmitz 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Hello everyone: I need configure one finger scroll at edges on my laptop. How i can do. The two finger scroll is too complex, 50% of times make zoom and i lost more time makng zoom out. Best regards, merry christmas and happy new year. Christian -- Be Free, Be Linux

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Cannot install TDE on PCLinuxOS live CD
by Michele Calgaro 03 Jan '24

03 Jan '24

Hi Francois, a user on the mastodon channel was trying to install TDE on PCLinuxOS following the instructions on the TDE site (https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/PCLinuxOS_Trinity_Repository_Installation_I…). Step 2 fails complaining that the pkglist file can not be fecthed, but it is indeed reachable from a web browser. (Failed to fetch http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/trinity-r14/RPMS… 404 Not Found) I did a quick test in a VM and I can replicate the issue. Maybe something is wrong with the contents of the file? Are you able to take a look? Thanks and Merry Christmas. Cheers Michele

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Crash install tde-trinity
by ajh-valmer 26 Dec '23

26 Dec '23

Hello, Sorry, now I can't explain why I succeeded to install tde-trinity, ii seems working fine, excepted, subsisting one problem : "kmix: error while loading shared libraries: libtdeinit_kmix.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and how solve it ? Thanks, Cheers André

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Crash tde-trinity after migration
by ajh-valmer 24 Dec '23

24 Dec '23

Hello, I made a migration from Debian Bullseye to Bookworm. At reboot, the desktop tde doesn't open. Synaptic tells me that they are broken tde-trinity packages. What to do to repair them ? And impossible to uninstall and reinstall tde-trinity. Thanks for your help. Happy Christmas ! Cheers André

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KDE connect
by James D Freels 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

I was wondering if any of my fellow TDE users and TDE developers have ever experimented with the KDE connect app/system. I have installed it on my Debian/12 system and Android phone, and it appears to be working. However, I don't think I am using all of the functionality, and cannot find documentation on how to do so. It seems like a powerful thing to have for connectivity between the desktop and phone. This might be a great addition to the TDE desktop. Regards, and Merry Christmas to all ! -- James D. Freels, PhD jdfreels(a)proton.me (personal) NEW as of 11/18/22 jfreels3(a)utk.edu (utk-related) 865-457-6742 (landline) 865-919-0320 (cell)

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how to restart dcop launcher ?
by William Morder 15 Dec '23

15 Dec '23

Just wondering if there is a way to do this, such as: sudo /etc/init.d/<dcop or whatever> restart I don't know what caused this issue; maybe it was because I had left my laptop running without rebooting for a very long time? Everything else seems to be running as I want (fingers crossed), so I have just been able to relax a bit and let the machine go, as I have got it properly trained, and it never disobeys me. So this was a surprise. What happened, first, is that I could not check email, even after I had just sent an email a few minutes earlier. Then when I tried to open a new window in konqueror, I got the same message about dcop launcher. When I rebooted at last, everything seems back to normal, but I wonder if this is not a sign of other problems that I need to address. It seems that restarting dcop would do the trick, but I know very little about this part of how these things actually work. Any recommendations or insights are welcome. Nothing urgent, I think, but I would still like better to understand what's going on. Bill

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pulseaudio issues after installing NVIDIA driver
by Gianluca Interlandi 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Dear all, Sorry if this may be off topic for TDE. I have a NVIDIA GT 1030 video card. I installed the proprietary driver version 535.146.02. The audio works fine from a fresh boot. However, if I recover from either suspend or hibernate pulseaudio stops working. The TDE sounds still work and mplayer can also play sound. However, firefox and vlc cannot. If I start vlc with a simple movie with sound, it says: Audio output failed: The audio device "default" could not be used: Connection refused. I did not have this problem with the opensource nouveau driver. Is there a way to restart pulseaudio? I tried with pulseaudio --kill pulseaudio --start But that didn't make a difference. It seems that alsasound works but not pulseaudio. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this would be appreciated. Thanks! Gianluca PS: Also when I click on kmix there are now three choices: "Pulseaudio", "HDA Intel" and "HDA NVidia". Before installing the driver there were only the first two. ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu +1 (206) 685 4435 http://gianluca.today/ Department of Bioengineering University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------

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Multiple monitors and full screen
by Nick Koretsky 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

I got myself a second monitor and got everything setup to my liking with TDE, except one annoying behaviour. When a program goes into "full screen" mode on one monitor (like media player or youtube in web browser) it covers kicker panels (as it should, everything is correct here), but as soon as any window on another monitor gets focus, panels appear on top of that fulls screen window. Setting "Allow other windows to cover panel" fixes this issue, but introduces other undesirable behaviour - maximize now covers panels, and windows snaps to actual edges of the screen, not to panels Is there any way to prevent panels from showing on top of out-of-focus fullscreen window on another monitor or do something like "allow only fullscreen windows to cover panel"? -- Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)

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