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Lock Session fails
by Michael 08 May '23

08 May '23

Hi All, Most of the time Lock Session works. But once it fails even manually running the command: dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface lock does nothing. And then I have to logout and log back in for it to work again. .xsession-errors shows no errors. Both dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface isEnabled dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface isBlanked return 'true.' If I understand it right they should both show false when the session is not locked? Anyone know how to use dcop to reset Lock Session so it works again? Thanks, Michael

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security warnings - possibly off-topic
by William Morder 05 May '23

05 May '23

Some of this post may be off-topic, in that it started with a security alert for Devuan; this led me to run some scans of my own system, just to make sure something bad hasn't crept in while I was relaxing, and staying offline most of the time. That Devuan alert is here: https://linuxiac.com/devuan-users-are-at-risk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230429000520/https://linuxiac.com/devuan-user… I did check my system, and login as root is disabled. At present, I am the only user on any of my machines or devices, and this is usually how it goes for me. If others want to get on the internet or whatever, let them bring their own box. So anyway, I believe that I am probably okay there. But then I decided to run a full scan of my system (still running). When I ran klamav, I got some surprising hits, and some of these look like they ought to be important enough for TDE users to know about. Thus my justification for including the off-topic stuff as well. I am not worried about the OpenOffice/LibreOffice extension, as it is quarantined and I don't use it, but I am curious about what it is, and if it is not perhaps a false positive. Also, I don't care about old emails that are marked as having a spoofed domain. They're archived; someday I'll dig out what they are and why I kept them. What I am most concerned about are those .deb files that I downloaded. The clamav testfiles are supposed to ring the bell, I will guess, because they are made to test the program. But the other files are the boot image, so I wonder if that's normal for the boot image to set off the alarms in my antivirus program? Bill P.S. By the way: thanks to developers for adding klamav back to the great tools available from the old KDE3. I have been missing klamav, because it is much more customizable than other frontends for clamav. There is one called clamtk that sorta worked, but I didn't like it.

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Multiple DCOP sessions
by J Leslie Turriff 03 May '23

03 May '23

I'm getting this strange situation again with DCOP: | @22:01:36,leslie@pinto rc=0 | ~ | $ dcop --user leslie | ERROR: Multiple available TDE sessions! | Please specify the correct session to use with --session or use the | --all-sessions option to broadcast to all sessions. | @22:02:03,leslie@pinto rc=255 | ~ | $ dcop --user leslie --list-sessions | Active sessions for user /home/leslie : | .DCOPserver_pinto__0 | .DCOPserver_pinto__1 | | @22:02:13,leslie@pinto rc=0 | ~ | $ px dcop | leslie 26431 1 0 Apr29 ? 00:00:01 dcopserver [tdeinit] --nosid --suicide | @22:02:20,leslie@pinto rc=0 | ~ | $ dcopserver --help-all | Usage: dcopserver [--nofork] [--nosid] [--help] | dcopserver --serverid | | DCOP is TDE's Desktop Communications Protocol. It is a lightweight IPC/RPC | mechanism built on top of the X Consortium's Inter Client Exchange protocol. | It enables desktop applications to communicate reliably with low overhead. | | Copyright (C) 1999-2001, The KDE Developers <http://www.kde.org> For some reason DCOP says I have two DCOP sessions. .DCOPserver_pinto__0 does not respond to queries, so apparently it's dead or a ghost. .DCOPserver_pinto__1 works normally. I notice also that the output from dcop --help does not include the --suicide option? Is this a clue to what's going on? How do I get rid of the one that doesn't respond? 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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Archiving kmail folders
by J Leslie Turriff 02 May '23

02 May '23

I haven't tried archiving a folder yet, and there isn't any information in the Handbook about archiving folders. If I archive a folder, how can its content be accessed afterward? 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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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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Headphone and microphone for Linux/Zoom? [offtopic]
by Michael 01 May '23

01 May '23

Anyone have experience using a headphone/microphone on Linux for Zoom meetings? Business use, not gaming. Cheap is good, 100s is out of my price range, and my preference is something with a USB RF dongle. * I’ll need one in the next month or two and personal recommendations are usually way better than some [sales] article off the web. Thanks all, Michael * - I’ve read that Bluetooth connections have latency issues, and - I’d need to dig through my motherboards wiring to setup the 3.5mm jack.

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TDE R14.1.0 release is here!
by Slávek Banko 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about the release of R14.1.0: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.1.0 Cheers -- Slávek

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