tde-users September 2023

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21 discussions

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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Packages for openSUSE 15.4
by Gianluca Interlandi 28 Oct '23

28 Oct '23

Hi! The distribution openSUSE 15.4 will be supported until the end of November. I wonder how long the TDE packages for openSUSE 15.4 (the current ones are R14.1.0) will be available online and can be downloaded past the official end of support of the distribution? 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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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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Kate configuration
by D. R. Evans 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

I have a simple mind, so I have an equally simple requirement for Kate... when I click on a text file in konqueror, I want kate to open with only one pane: the edit pane showing the contents of the file on which I clicked. I am sure it used to work exactly this way, but somehow it seems that my configuration now is wrong: what happens now when kate opens is that there is an extra pane on the left hand side, containing the names of several recently-edited files. I suspect, given the amount of time that kate is now taking to open, that kate is actually reading those files into memory. I don't want any of that to happen: I want just a clean view of the contents of the file I want to edit. I'm sure it's a simple thing to fix, but I've wasted a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out, without success, how to change the configuration so that kate doesn't occupy screen space with a list of recently-edited files. So if someone can give me the magic configuration item(s) to change, I would very much appreciate it. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans

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14.1.1 Development Upgrade woes
by Michael Howard 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

Upgraded to 14.1.1 [Development] and now the system is pretty CRAP. Can only have one 'Desktop', can't move any windows around the screen (but can use/interact with them in any other way). 'konsole' app looks weird (borderless). Have moved old .trinity out of the way but no difference. Anybody seen the likes before? Cheers, -- Michael Howard.

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Laptop installation
by John Logsdon 24 Sep '23

24 Sep '23

Dear TDE list I have used tde for some time now, but mainly on desktops. I standardise on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS version but unfortunately the desktop version comes bundled with a desktop that takes ugly to new levels and does not offer multiple desktops, which are very useful as I have an additional screen plugged into the HDMI port. So I start by installing the server version, then add the trinity repositories and install as directed. That's always worked on my desktops. The platform is a Dell 7737 laptop with 16GB memory - quite old but reliable, nice display, etc and I have replaced the drive with a 1TB SSD so it is a completely new box. There are 2 display controllers, VGA compatible Intel Haswell-ULT and a 3D controller nVidia GeForce GT 750M. Now the issues: 1) I have no wifi or ethernet tools. The machine is currently working with the installation settings in /etc/netplan via the wired networking. Thus, if I want to use it elsewhere I cannot select wireless network without editing the installation file(s). Network settings just tells me that the platform is not supported and offers quite an old list of options. What is missing from my installation? 2) There is no suspend or other power options. As I use it as an effective desktop that is permanently plugged in, this may not matter but again, what can be missing? 3) If I go to the power settings and try to change anything, the display on the laptop goes bananas with for example the nice plain blue xterm header turned into a rainbow, blotchy characters etc. Moving the offending object to the external screen . I've seen this before and the answer with an nVidia graphics card was to install the nVidia-418 drivers from the Ubuntu repository and block nouveau. Initially, with nouveau, this happened which is why I installed the nVidia bundle but it happens with that as well. Could this be a confusion between the two display controllers because the extension screen is not affected, or the missing power options? Puzzled. -- John Logsdon Quantex Research Ltd m:+447717758675/h:+441614454951

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Porting remaining KDE3 (window) styles
by Hunter Graham 08 Sep '23

08 Sep '23

Haldo! Long time user, first time poster! It's weird looking back at all the different windows decorations and styles for KDE 3, knowing full well how much they not only had to be designed, but also coded. It's also weird knowing that some Trinity users haven't been exposed to some of these, however impractical or redundant they may be. xD Me personally, I've been wanting to get the Fahrenheit windeco working in TDE (and not through lack of trying, mind you -- I really tried to figuring out porting, thank you to the wiki contributors, though I've not had much success. Possibly out of general inexperience with porting, makefiles, and development in general, but I digress....) To be honest, I want to get the community's (or at least the devel list's) opinion on how feasible they think it is to get all the other Qt3 and KWin styles ported over to Trinity. I imagine the best starting point for this would be within openSUSE for a couple reasons: - their interoperability with multiple distros and their respective package formats - the fact that (as of this message) they still maintain a KDE3 repo, even in 2023 with Plasma 6 on its way - some windecos don't have much documentation outside of guesswork and the obvious "made over a decade ago for a much different version" disclaimer (...hello again, Fahrenheit!) Of course, my programming experience only extends beyond my use of Scratch as an elementary school young-un in the late-aughts, so I honestly don't know -- wdyt? - hunter graham

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