tde-users April 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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Error - Kicker; Malformed URL; system:/
by Felix Miata 21 Nov '23

21 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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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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kpdf does not show some fonts
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

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 ...

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Re: how to suppress icons in systray ? sorta half-solved
by William Morder 10 May '23

10 May '23

Okay, so now dig me. :-] I played round with ksystraycmd. It shows how long it's been since I thought about this thing, because after mulling it over a bit, I figured out how to make my own trick. alt-F2 smplayer %f | --pkill ksystraycmd Whatever applies to smplayer here, ought to work with other programs, too. That kills the ghost icon from the start, if I open it from alt-F2, but now I get a plain white vanilla gui interface. I believe I can figure out how to force my own background, and probably how to get all this stuff into the "open with" menu. There's probably an easier way, but at least I can get this to work for me. So I think I'm halfway there. Now for the messier problem: I have all these leftover shortcuts in my "open with" menus. It worst in my oldest folders, of course. Now I'm wondering, Is there's an easy way of getting rid of those unused shortcuts? Bill

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Set resolution *before* login
by Thierry de Coulon 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hello all, I'm setting up a laptop with a 4K screen (it's a Thinkpad P51). This 4K screen will be used to manipulate Photos (with programs that require Windows...). I have installed Linux as well (for everything that does not require M$ stuff) with MX-Linux and TDE. I want to run TDE (and mostly all Linux programs) at 1920x1080. I've managed to do this with xrandr, running from a script that is in /usr/local/share. The last "problem" (with which I can live, just nags me) is that this script visibly is run relatively late, after the login screen, which is then tiny. I first set it up for xfce/lightdm and the scripts are triggered from *.desktop files in ~/.config/autostart. I found an /opt/trinity/share/autostart and hoped it might run thing before login but it does not seem to (or more probably my syntax is not the right one). So the question is: is it possible to set resolution before login, if so how. I'd prefet to continue working with xrandr than hardwiring something in the X configuration file. Thierry

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Wrong placed notifications after switching to an other monitor
by Pelim Hurum 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

I have a notebook but in most of the time (but not always) use an external monitor. One time I use only one monitor. After switching to external HDMI-1 monitor from LVDS-1 using "Resize and Rotate" the notifications of various panel applets (like TDENetworkManager) appears on desktop in wrong places, far from the right place (from the mouse), using the previous monitor size. The same problem is with Kate. This is very annoying... I did not try to logout since I do not want to loose my session work. Is there any solution? TDE R14.0.9

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Fwd: Re: L-15.5 1st impression
by J Leslie Turriff 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

If anyone else in the Trinity community has experienced the flattening of the TDE menu (as I have), this might be a solution to look at. The OP was from someone evaluating openSUSE Leap 15.5 and modern KDE. It's possible that it only affects openSUSE users. Leslie ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: L-15.5 1st impression Date: 2023-04-21, 22:25:00 From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> To: users(a)lists.opensuse.org On 4/21/23 22:20, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 4/21/23 19:46, bent fender wrote: >> I hope I'm wrong but it looks like 15.4-kde will be my last one. >> >> I haven tried only the kde desktop but I see no way to set up a conventional >> Application launcher with thew cascading menu tree. I even pre-copied an >> entire user folder from 15.4 but none of that had any effect. What I do see >> is a smartphoneish, microcancerish, touchpadish deskdump of which I will >> have none. Tomorrow I'll look at the XFCE setup. > > Your missing out, the KDE3 repo is the best in the world -- and still just as > good as you remember it :) > Oh, You will need to grab the 15.3 desktop-data-openSUSE-15.0.20171024-lp153.1.53.src.rpm for the xdg menu categories (otherwise all items are just dumped in the menu). This change was a result of Gnome -- and it really sucks. This is one addition that should be added to the KDE3 repo -- but it does affect all desktops. Why SUSE let the gnome tail wag the openSUSE dog is bewildering... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. ------------------------------------------------------- --

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Release Notes and tdebluez
by Mike Bird 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

I saw a note - or at least I think I saw a note - in the 14.1.0psb release notes about a new tdebluez. So I tried to install it and failed but by then I had already closed the release notes and could not find them again. (1) It appears that the package is actually - and perhaps redundantly - - called tdebluez-trinity. Unless my memory is playing tricks it might help if the package name and the release notes matched. (2) Because 14.1.0psb is not yet released the (draft) release notes are not yet linked to the regular release notess page: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/releases.php I was also unable to find 14.1.0 release notes through various web searches, from my T menu, or via Trinity Help Center. Is there a canonical way to find/read the release notes of the installed version of TDE? Thanks, --Mike

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