tde-users February 2024

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12 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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Konqueror
by ajh-valmer 29 May '24

29 May '24

Hello again, Why when I launch Konqueror as root I receive this message : "dialogue is impossible with TDElauncher" Cheers. André

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Konqueror File Sorting
by darrella＠clovermail.net 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

How is the R14.1.1 Konqueror sorting options supposed to function? With the following options: * View->View Mode->Tree View * View->Show Hidden Files->enabled * View->Sort->Group Directories First->enabled * View: ->Sort->Group Hidden First->disabled Nothing happens when toggling Group Hidden First. Hidden directories always list before non hidden directories. I expect directories such as ~/Desktop, ~/Pictures, etc to list before ~/.cache, ~/.config, ~/.trinity, etc. Tested with a fresh profile. Thanks.

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Upgrade Trinity
by ajh-valmer 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Hello, I upgrade my system (Bookworm) many times and Trinity is not upgraded since a long time (september 2023). My "sources.list" is correct (no error) : Is it normal ? How to know his Trinity version ? Cheers, André

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Cant install Trinity in Tumbleweed
by jacobheinrich＠hotmail.com 20 Feb '24

20 Feb '24

So... I had to roll back an install that I broke, but now that I am back to a "working" barebones install, I have to install TDE. But when trying to install any TDE app, I receive an error that the dependency "libtiff.so.5()(64-bit)" is needed but not provided. This is on OpenSUSE tumbleweed. Anyone else having this issue when updating/installing TDE apps?

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network issues - tdenetworkmanager
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 20 Feb '24

20 Feb '24

Now I got bitten by the same problem - and got solution (at least for devuan) - so this might be interesting for Bill :) It turned out that the compination of "apparmor" plus "pulseaudio" made networkmanager go kind of numb. It would not connect to my wifi for ever. Retrying did not change anything nor did turning the wifi device on/off change anything. Last entry in syslog was always "wlan0: associated", but it looked like ip address was received. Now removing "apparmor" increased the chace of getting ip adresses via dhcp to ~ 50%. After removing pulseaudio and pulseaudio-modules-bluetooth the rate is back to normal aka 100%. Note: I had pulseaudio to connect to bluetooth speakers and my problems begun after installing it. At last I got the speakers working with "bluealsa" --> kmix is not confused with the "pulseaudio" device sneeking in as first coundcard. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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feature request - a way to download *all* TDE-Trinity packages for a system
by William Morder 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

I don't know if this is totally selfish and/or solipsistic of me, but I would like to have a way to download *all* available packages appropriate to my system. If there is some command that will do this, that will work, as I can pick and choose on my own. A tool like aptoncd would be better, but I can find anything like it any more. Best thing about images created with aptoncd is that apt treats them exactly like repositories, so I don't need to cobble together self-styled hacks and use dpkg, but can just depend or apt to find the right combination of packages and dependencies. Debian still offers, I believe, extra CD or DVD images of the extra packages in their repositories. In addition to the installation images, there are usually extra discs, 1, 2, 3 and 4, containing extra packages. I used to search all over Devuan to find the same, but now it seems that they, too, have caught up, and offer disc images of extras. Or perhaps I have only recently discovered where they keep them hidden? My reason for this request is related to my recent previous posts: sometimes I find myself in a remote place, or in a crazy situation, where there is no internet access, or where -- such as recently -- flooding or some other disaster has knocked out internet. Yet, while I have no internet, I still need to have a working computer for other things that I do offline; and now, suddenly, my machine gives me problems, and I need to do a system reinstallation, or at least to install some new and unfamiliar packages. Thanks for any help, Bill

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Trinity File associations for http/https scheme
by Wirlaburla 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Hey Trinity Folks. I'm having trouble getting xdg to play nicely with the file associations and settings I have for Trinity. While TDE applications follow them just fine, non-TDE programs don't seem to. That's fine, I tweaked xdg myself. The issue is that something happened and now non-TDE applications don't follow my "Open http and https URLs in an application based on the contents of the URL" (in TDE Components > Default Applications > Web Browser) anymore. Now when I click an http URL directly to an image or video, it opens up in my web browser. I'm not really sure what's changed because it was working fine before. My initial thoughts are to find out how TDE opens "in an application based on the contents" and just assign it to xdg but I'm unsure of what that is or where to find it. Thanks. -- Wirlaburla

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using nmtui or other tools to change hostname
by William Morder 04 Feb '24

04 Feb '24

Another thing I do from time to time is to change my host name, as I must share a network with many other people. The administrators of this network insist on using a ridiculously insecure password, which doubtless could be cracked by a script kiddie in a few minutes; moreover, the password has never been changed in at least 7 or 8 years. Myself and others have recommended changing the password, but nothing happens. After I did a little messing with that program that Nik suggested, nmtui, I wondered what else I might use it to do. I like these stone tools; once one has figured out the basics, then at least there is the possibility of controlling the machine. Even before I started this thread -- or the previous thread which spawned it, regarding my network problems, or tdenetworkmanager -- I was wondering about this problem of the hostname. Is there a way to change my hostname easily, without reinstalling my system? This (nmtui) seems like the right tool for the job; although of course, when running Linux, there are sure to be dozens of others that do the same or similar. These are probably stupid questions, and a thousand people out there can answer it: but the man pages do not cover these possibilities. I want to know, first, if one ought to disconnect from internet (or to connect) when changing the hostname like this. It seems to me that trying to change the hostname on a live connection may cause problems. On the other hand, when I am doing a fresh installation, I must set the hostname on a live connection, but then it is a new, unnamed connection. Second, should I run nmtui (or similar tool) as root in order to change my hostname? When I tried it out earlier, it seemed like it could do nothing with my connection unless I was running as root; but then, before my fresh installation, I could not use tdenetworkmanager, could not use internet at all, except as root. Can I, in ordinary circumstances, change my hostname without first becoming root? After I change my host name (that is, after a fresh installation), I seem to have no problems for a while. What I want is to be able to change the hostname periodically, without doing a complete new installation. Also, I block pings with my firewall, that kind of thing, but eventually these problems start up again, because some people out there (or their automated cracking scripts) apparently have nothing better to do than to search for vulnerabilities in other people's machines. All ideas or suggestions are welcome. Bill

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