tde-users April 2023

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15 discussions

how to suppress icons in systray ?
by William Morder 20 Apr '23

20 Apr '23

Thanks for the suggestions about changing the paths in my home folder. Funny, but it's been so long since I did it that I completely forgot it was in the Trinity Control Center. I knew it had to be simple, because last time I thought about it was at least 15 years ago, when I was a total n00b. So here's another issue that suddenly reappears: Whenever I open some programs, an icon automatically pops up in the systray. I can kill these, of course, by running pkill ksystraycmd, but after I do this a few times within, say ten minutes, I get tired of it. Now, I don't mean to kill those icons that I actually want and use; for example, smplayer puts an icon in the systray, and it is actually useful. But when I first start the program, a second icon is generated, too, a sort of ghost icon that serves no real function. This is the bugaboo that I want to suppress, so that it is not generated in the first place. Since I reinstalled my OS, I also inadvertently changed some of my paths, and I believe that this might be a similar issue, because now some apps are generating icons for the systray, apps that never generated icons there before now. This is annoying, as my systray gets cluttered with stuff I don't use; and furthermore, I get duplicates on top of duplicates on top of yet more duplicates. It's one thing to have smplayer's icon, as well as the ghost icon; I kill it, doesn't come back until the next time. But now when I open text files, I get a new icon for each new text file, so that I end up with a dozen useless icons taking up space. I did check TCC under these programs, and this isn't the same thing, where you see a box to tick off for "Place in system tray"; these ghost icons are something else. Any help or suggestions are welcome. Bill

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how to stop Konqueror from recreating unused folders?
by William Morder 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Seems like it ought to be easy enough, especially as it's never happened before, if memory serves me. It's just that there are some folders I don't ever use, or which I have already named myself; for example, my folders have always been named in lower case, but now Konqueror is trying to do my thinking for me, so it has created duplicate empty folders such as Music, Templates, Videos, etc., whereas mine are named music, templates, videos, without the upper case. It doesn't rename my folders, or mess with them, it just adds folders that I don't need, have never used, and don't want, but whenever I try to delete them, Konqueror immediately recreates these folders again. I don't know how I got it like this, as I set up my system like this back in about the years 2006-2008, when I was running KDE3. I want to keep things as I had them. I don't want these duplicates, and don't want just to surrender and rename all my folders in upper case, because that means I would have to go searching through my system for changed file paths. Anybody have a clue how to change this behavior in Konqueror? Thanks for any help or suggestions! Bill

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Control Center / superuser - problem in 14.1.0
by Mike Bird 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

I'm testing TDE 4:14.1.0 from PSB. There's a thread here about a mysterious tdehwdevicetray process which has been appearing in my systray. While investigating this I tried to go into Trinity Control Center / Peripherals / Device Manager. I enter the root password but I don't get a Device Manager. If I put in the wrong password it alerts me if I put in the correct password I don't get a Device Manager. Same happens with Trinity Control Center / System Administration / Monitor and Display. Can anyone replicate this before I file a bug report? Thanks, --Mike

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Unwanted Device Manager in Panel
by Mike Bird 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

I'm testing TDE 4:14.1.0 from PSB. At least twice a "Device Manager" has appeared in my "Panel" (part of my Kicker setup along with the "Main Panel" and the "External Taskbar"). This Device Manager features two volumes: one is /boot/efi and another which I suspect is a Windows Recovery partition from when the laptop was first purchased. I REALLY don't want this "Device Manager" appearing and confusing and tempting end users. This "Device Manager" is not listed when I right click to "Remove From Panel" / Applet or Application. How please do I prevent this "Device Manager" from appearing here? Thanks, --Mike

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kmail problem
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Hi all! I just stumbled onto a problem in kmail that I think is present in 14.1.X but not earlier: When "answering to mailinglist" the sender adress is always the last used address. It does not use the aDress I set in the mail folder settings for that specific folder. Can somebody confirm this? I run kmail 4:14.1.0~s290-0debian12.0.1+11~a Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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