tde-users November 2024

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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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KPDF asks for password on some PDFs
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 09 Dec '24

09 Dec '24

Hi all! I just found that KPDF is (again) asking for a password on non-password-protected PDFs and fails to open the PDF if no password is given. The PDF preview in konqueror is fine. I have attached a PDF that triggers the behaviour on my system (KPDF 14.2.0~pre65-0debian13.0.0+3~a). Could somebody please verify? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Laptop Brightness Keys
by Darrell Anderson 29 Nov '24

29 Nov '24

On my Thinkpad T580 laptop, the Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 shortcut keys manually control screen brightness. These shortcuts function as expected with KDE and Xfce but not TDE. No special configuration is needed. I find nothing that helps in kcontrol or tdepowersave. I found a thread in this list discussing the issue but with no simple solution. What is needed to have TDE support these shortcuts to "just work" like with KDE and Xfce? Thanks.

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Ubuntu 24.04, after upgrading (14.1.3) netapplet does not start any more
by oub.oub.oub＠gmail.com 26 Nov '24

26 Nov '24

Hi I am on Ubuntu 24.04 and run a couple of days ago sudo apt-get upgrade Which most likely installed the new 14.1.3 After rebooting the netapplet (the icon on my right lower corner, which indicates me all available WIFI connections and allow me to connect) Does not show up So as a kluge I use now the gnome nm-applet, but I would prefer to continue using trinity's What can I do? Is this a bug? Regards Uwe Brauer

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Re: Trying to install TDE on a (relatively) old Debian (9.13)
by deloptes 24 Nov '24

24 Nov '24

Roman Savochenko via tde-users wrote: > Thanks for the tip. :) > > Yes, that will work also without using udisks, but I have struck to the > problem through udisks, so resolved it through udisks, and read also many > such manuals before. > But TDE is supporting udisks and udisks2. This issue must be solvable somewhere else. > Any way, that is strange of using direct mounting at udisks presence, who > is correctly processed /etc/fstab for proper user with a record in > /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto > noauto,users,owner,iocharset=utf8,codepage=866 0 0 This is the Debians recommendation - it doesn't know anything about TDE.

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Cannot start TDE after upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04.
by John Logsdon 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

An upgrade from 20.04 via 22.04 to 24.04 (necessary for other reasons) went quite smoothly and I then followed the TDE upgrade instructions. Before I always started TDE from the command line which was OK. Now I cannot find starttde anywhere so startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde doesn't work. xorg etc is installed. apt search starttde returns ksmserver-trinity/now 4:14.1.3-0ubuntu20.04+0 amd64 [residual-config] Why 20.04? It seems that there is a lot of old stuff around. apt install reports that package is not available and then refers to a new package of the same name but which has no installation candidte. I've tried removing all instances of tde following the instructions but updatedb followed by locate still shows them and /etc/trinity, /opt/trinity etc are still there. Any clue how to fix this? I really don't like any of the default window managers so it needs to be fixed!! -- John Logsdon Quantex Research Ltd m:+447717758675/h:+441614454951

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Do you have anything in /opt/trinity/share/dconf/profile/user
by Jim 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

Hi, I have TDE 14.1.1 installed on Slackware64 15.0. Firefox keeps spitting out error messages like this: Unable to open /opt/trinity/share/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied: 'glib warning', file /tmp/firefox-128.4.0/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410879 seems to indicate that firefox is looking in /opt/trinity/share/... because /opt/trinity/share is in the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable. In my Slackware version of TDE, there is no directory /opt/trinity/share/dconf at all, which (partially) explains why firefox is whining. But it got me wondering... can someone (or multiple people) who use another distro let me know if you have anything in /opt/trinity/share/dconf, and, if so, would you mind sending me a listing of what files are in there? Thanks. Jim

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Darkness :) Remaster of devuan testing + TDE + dark theme for AMD64
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 20 Nov '24

20 Nov '24

Hi all! I just uploaded my last devuan testing + TDE 14.2 remaster - this time with a dark theme (including kate) - and it finally got a name (darkness). I would be interested if you run into issues with it. Thread on devuan: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6850 ISO: https://samhain.at/devuan_tde/darkness-20240918.iso SHA256: https://samhain.at/devuan_tde/darkness-20240918.iso.sh256 SHA256: 97c6c6fbf3d49bfc9b9231f586a1143da8761cfe9657dcb72676793c3b693856 Background is done by myself, so if anybody wants to include it in TDE (or highres versions of my deviantart.com/zwieblum gallery) just drop me a note. Enjoy :) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Trying to install TDE on a (relatively) old Debian (9.13)
by Thierry de Coulon 19 Nov '24

19 Nov '24

Hallo all. I'm re-setting up an old machine (a core 2 quad from 15 xears ago) and wanted to use a somewhat older distribution. I decided for Stretch and managed to find the online repos for older Debians. I then wantes to install trinity (from the website it seems 14.1.1 should be available, I also tried 14.0.0). I followed the instructions for repositories, however when I run install tde-trinity, I get dependency hell Several packages have unmet dependencies, for example Depends : tde-core-trinity (>= 4:14.0.0~) but it is not going to be installed Another weirdness is that aptitude has no installation candidate. I suppose apt or apt-get can be used instead. An idea? Thierry

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