tde-users February 2023

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24 discussions

Enabling Num Lock on Login Screen
by artsmelly＠protonmail.com 25 Feb '23

25 Feb '23

Hello, I'm used to writing my password on the numpad, but it's always locked when I open the computer. I tried enabling the numlock from trinity control center, but it's only enabling it after logging in. Is there a way to enable it on the login screen? If not, it would be great to see something like this in the settings.

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24 Feb '23

Hi All, When selecting not to use any login splash there is nonetheless some kind of mini startup dialog. The dialog does not appear when using a splash or possibly is hidden by the splash. Is there a way to disable this mini startup dialog? None should mean none. Thanks for your time! DA

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kMail Message List - Message Sizes are not displayed
by J Leslie Turriff 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Hello, I was thinking tonight that it would be nice if the Message List in kMail could show the sizes of messages. Imagine my surprise when I looked at the Settings => Appearance, Message List tab and discovered that there is such a setting, and it is turned on. (See attached screenshot.) Does anyone have an idea about why the size does not appear in the list? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64) Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.13 tde-config: 1.0

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encoding in Kmail never memorized
by ajh-valmer 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Hello, The french encoding "West European 8859-15" in Kmail, is not memorized. So, I have to put it again at each mail sending, otherwise, Kmail refuses to send the mail. How to break free of tne encoding ? Thanks, Cheers, André

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Integration With GIO and xdg-mime
by artsmelly＠protonmail.com 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Hello, I installed Trinity from scratch on Debian 11 Stable. However, I am having trouble opening the default applications in Firefox and other GTK+ applications. The same goes for xdg-mime. Since Trinity apps are in /opt/trinity/share/applications/tde, xdg-mime and GIO can't see them and doesn't apply them even if I set them correctly. For example, even if I do "xdg-mime default /opt/trinity/share/applications/tde/kpdf.desktop application/pdf" or "xdg-mime default kpdf.desktop application/pdf", it doesn't work at all. So, my question is: How can I sync the Trinity Control Center>TDE Components>File Associations list to both xdg-mime and gio? Or how can we export a mimeinfo file that uses trinity desktop files to .config f or a directory shared by gio and xdg-mime?

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KDE sub menus
by Darrell Anderson 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

How can KDE sub menus be avoided and have KDE software listed directly in the TDE panel menu? Thanks!

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PSB repository will soon be updated from R14.0.x~pre to R14.1.0~pre
by Slávek Banko 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Dear developers and users, after the release of TDE R14.0.13, we shared our tentative plan for launching TDE R14.1.0 at the next release cycle. Since the development of the last few tasks for R14.1.0 has been proceeding favorably, we now consider the R14.0.x series to be closed and the next stable version to be R14.1.0. The deb packages repository known as PSB (Preliminary Stable Builds) contains preliminary packages of the "upcoming stable version". Therefore, this repository will be updated and will provide packages for R14.1.0~pre in future. We intend to do this major update at the end of February. This means that from that moment to the final release of R14.1.0, PSB and PTB repositories will provide the same packages. If you are using PSB repository, but do not want to participate in the final phase of testing the upcoming R14.1.0, you should change your apt sources and direct them to the final versions of R14.0.x series. R14.1.0~pre is very stable, so the development team would appreciate if you could help testing R14.1.0 before the final release. Thank you for your participation in the development. Slávek Banko

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Configuring TDE coexistence with other DEs
by Darrell Anderson 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Hi All, Is there a guideline to configure TDE to coexist fluidly with multiple DEs installed? Beyond installing to /opt/. Tips and tricks. I searched the wiki. I would not mind discovering that after being away from TDE for some years that I am not configuring or compiling correctly, but seems TDE is somewhat designed with a presumption of only using TDE. Or possibly the build scripts I found are configured incorrectly. One way or another I need to know how environments should be configured inside and outside of TDE. * Correctly configure TDE and other DE or system environment variables. * How to use TDE software when using a different DE. * How to use KDE software when using TDE. * How to not lose themes when using KDE software within TDE. * Ensuring dbus/dcop are accessed correctly. For example, when launching TDE the starttde script ensures $TDEDIR/bin is in the environment $PATH just before /usr/bin. The opposite of that is using TDE software in a different DE then $TDEDIR/bin needs to be in $PATH just after /usr/bin (unless wanting to always type full paths). Yet I am not aware of anything that automatically configures $PATH that way. There are many TDE files with the same file names as in KDE, but that does not mean all KDE software should be ignored. Yet launching KDE software from within TDE (for me) results in a loss of toolbar icon themes with the icons defaulting to flat icons. I can remedy that by using a script wrapper to launch KDE software with the script modifying XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=TDE:KDE. The change in the environment variable only affects that process but helps avoid the loss of the toolbar icon theme. Oddly, running KDE software inside other DEs has no such theme issues, which implies something is incorrectly configured in (my) TDE (possibly environment variables). Setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=TDE:KDE in the environment before TDE fully launches causes some weird problems and xsession log spew. While XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP and XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP support were added to TDM, seems the support was not added for launching TDE from the console with startx. Other oddities include how the TDE GTK2 and GTK3 theme engines affect other DEs. Weird things happens when those two TDE packages are installed. Thanks for your time! D.A

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Kate/KWrite Toolbars
by Darrell Anderson 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Hi All, Is there a tutorial that explains how to customize Kate/KWrite toolbars? There seems to be some kind of pattern or expected behavior between the Main toolbar and Katepart toolbar, but I have been unable to learn the pattern. Another issue I have seen is a customized toolbar starts rearranging itself right before my eyes simply by toggling between two open documents. Any insight is much appreciated. Thanks for your time! D.A

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TCC Device Manager
by Darrell Anderson 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Hi All, Does the Control Center Device Manager function? Often any attempt to use that module causes the desktop to almost screech to a halt. Requests to view devices is really slow. There is a noticeable lag/latency when using the mouse wheel to scroll the list. Probably related but there is significant .xsession-errors log spew of [FIXME] UNCLASSIFIED DEVICE messages. Is the tdelibs/tdebase TDEHWLIB compile option the way to disable that module? Thanks for your time! D.A

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