tde-users August 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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disappearing Konsole text during copy for pasting
by Felix Miata 07 Oct '23

07 Oct '23

This has been going on too long to remember, probably more than a year now, but at least since 14.0.13. I haven't been able to create a reliable reproduction scenario. Typically, I start a session that has remembered Konsole (at 0,0) with a plain shell tab and an MC tab. With quite some frequency, I wish to copy and paste the first command of the session, and its output, that I have entered in the shell tab, into some text file in MC. The problem is that swiping the mouse from bottom to top to select that output commonly blanks the first Konsole line, which is usually something that produces multiple lines of text output, such as inxi, so that when pasted, the first line of the paste is also blank. The instant case causing me to write this is in Mageia 8/14.1.0, but it IIRC it happens in Debian, Fedora, openSUSE & *buntu also. -- 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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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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Menu entries for terminal-based applications
by J Leslie Turriff 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

I have a terminal-based application that I'm trying to debug. I have created a menu entry for it with Run in Terminal checked. There is also an option to keep the terminal from closing when the application ends, but I can't find it either by using the Menu Editor or by right-clicking the entry in the menu tree and selecting Edit Item. I know I've seen it somewhere (I've used it in the past), but now I can't find it anywhere. Alternatively, is there a value I can set in .local/share/applications/<item>.desktop? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.0 tde-config: 1.0

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I want my boxdrawing characters
by Felix Miata 18 Aug '23

18 Aug '23

(It seems like this problem only just arose in the weeks since the middle of June, maybe more recently, but at least a month ago.) I often find them replaced by other characters, as in the attachment. The SS is from Tumbleweed, but it happens also in Leap, and also in KDE3's Konsole. Is this an absence of some specific font? If not, what needs to be differently configured for Konsole to always use boxdraw characters when an app or utility is supposed to be using them when used in Konsole? What follows is all from one multiboot PC: # grep RETT /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed" # wpctl status PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.75, root@ab250, cookie:1948030365] ââ Clients: 31. WirePlumber [0.3.75, root@ab250, pid:850] 32. WirePlumber [export] [0.3.75, root@ab250, pid:850] 47. PipeWire ALSA [tdeinit] [0.3.75, root@ab250, pid:1086] 48. wpctl [0.3.75, root@ab250, pid:1371] Audio ââ Devices: â 38. Built-in Audio [alsa] â ââ Sinks: â * 39. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo [vol: 0.46] â ââ Sink endpoints: â ââ Sources: â 40. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo [vol: 1.00] â ââ Source endpoints: â ââ Streams: Video ââ Devices: â ââ Sinks: â ââ Sink endpoints: â ââ Sources: â ââ Source endpoints: â ââ Streams: Settings ââ Default Configured Node Names: # systemd-analyze critical-chain The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character. The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character. graphical.target @4.115s `-multi-user.target @4.114s `-kbdsettings.service @2.052s +2.062s `-basic.target @2.045s `-sockets.target @2.045s `-telnet.socket @2.044s `-sysinit.target @2.014s `-wtmpdb-update-boot.service @1.802s +138ms `-systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @1.724s +43ms `-local-fs.target @1.723s `-run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dsetup.service.mount @1.728s `-local-fs-pre.target @1.105s `-systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service @864ms +66ms `-kmod-static-nodes.service @524ms +80ms `-systemd-journald.socket `-system.slice `--.slice # # grep RETT /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 38 (Thirty Eight)" # wpctl status PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.77, root@ab250, cookie:1539572309] └─ Clients: 31. WirePlumber [0.3.77, root@ab250, pid:849] 32. WirePlumber [export] [0.3.77, root@ab250, pid:849] 47. artsd [0.3.77, root@ab250, pid:1026] 53. PipeWire ALSA [tdeinit] [0.3.77, root@ab250, pid:1088] 54. wpctl [0.3.77, root@ab250, pid:1240] Audio ├─ Devices: │ 38. Built-in Audio [alsa] │ ├─ Sinks: │ * 39. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo [vol: 0.46] │ ├─ Sink endpoints: │ ├─ Sources: │ 40. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo [vol: 1.00] │ ├─ Source endpoints: │ └─ Streams: Video ├─ Devices: │ ├─ Sinks: │ ├─ Sink endpoints: │ ├─ Sources: │ ├─ Source endpoints: │ └─ Streams: Settings └─ Default Configured Node Names: # # grep RETT /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" # wpctl status Could not connect to PipeWire # systemd-analyze critical-chain ... graphical.target @2.171s └─watchdog.service @2.156s +14ms └─multi-user.target @2.137s └─smbd.service @2.026s +110ms └─nmbd.service @1.779s +246ms └─basic.target @1.748s └─sockets.target @1.748s └─dbus.socket @1.747s └─sysinit.target @1.737s └─systemd-timesyncd.service @1.653s +81ms └─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @1.550s +43ms └─local-fs.target @1.493s └─run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dsetup.service.mount @1.562s └─local-fs-pre.target @849ms └─keyboard-setup.service @313ms +364ms └─systemd-journald.socket @295ms └─system.slice @253ms └─-.slice @253ms # -- 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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Crystalcursors
by Gianluca Interlandi 16 Aug '23

16 Aug '23

Dear TDE list, I installed the Crystalcursors mouse theme. In the past, e.g. in openSUSE 15.2, it worked well with TDE. However, in openSUSE 15.4 with TDE R14.1.0 I get a white arrow as expected for Crystalcursors, but for moving or resizing a window it falls back to the Adwaita default. I now realize that Crystalcursors is not an official trinity package, but probably from KDE3. My question is: Is there an official trinity Crystalcursors package or similar? If not, would it be possible to port the Crystalcursors mouse theme to trinity? Thanks! Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- 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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Strange window behavior of gvim in TDE
by Gianluca Interlandi 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

Hi! I have installed openSUSE 15.4 with the current version of Trinity. It works nicely, thanks! However, gvim has a strange behavior. If I open gvim in LXDE it opens in a normal window and I can resize it like any other window. However in TDE, gvim opens in a at first regularly sized window but then it shrinks itself in width. If I try to enlarge it it freezes and looks like this: http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/Install_openSUSE15.4-trinity/20230808… To make it "unfreeze" I have to move it a bit, then it is responsive and I can type. I do not have this problem for example with firefox, which is also based on gtk-3. Is there any specific gtk-3 setting that I need to change to make gvim work properly? Thanks! Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- 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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