tde-users March 2024

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13 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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Who controls XF86RaiseVolume / XF86LowerVolume?
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 30 May '24

30 May '24

Hi all! Does anybody know which part of TDE controls XF86RaiseVolume / XF86LowerVolume? I need to remap these 2 keys to XF86LaunchA / XF86LaunchB but TDE always answers with the OSD volume bar, even when I remap the beys with xmodmap ... Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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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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pointer size adjust
by Felix Miata 06 May '24

06 May '24

Where in KControl or elsewhere does one go to make pointer and I-bar large enough to notice? In peripherals is only (4) mouse cursor themes, where exist no controls for any sizes. The pointer in TDM is about 4X as large as in TDE sessions, and appropriate for my needs. Is there a separate package to provide pointer controls that isn't required in a base installation? -- 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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Re: tdeinit starting twize ...
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

For the record - and in case somebody falls into the same trap: I found the culprit: live-coniig handles parts of the boot process when running from a live image. That program is a decade old and has a strange idea on autologon and Xorg. If "autologin" is not explictly disabled, Xorg is started early in the boot process, bypassing sysv. When sysv later starts tdm it thinks X is not running which results in some demons started again which results in utter chaos. So to prevent this disable autologin: LIVE_CONFIG_CMDLINE="live-config.noautologin live-config.debug" Note: If tdm was configurd to autologon, it will still autologon when booted from the iso. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Multi-monitor layout resetting itself every logon
by bonkmaykr 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Howdy, I've got an issue where the layout and mode of my displays resets to the default at every login. This is despite me setting up the monitors in the TDE Control Center, both locally as my user and globally as root, creating an X config using the NVIDIA X Server Settings, and having no such issue previously when I was still using KDE Plasma. I'm using the latest NVIDIA proprietary drivers on EndeavourOS, with a 1920x1080@60hz display on DP-1 and a 3440x1440@144hz display on DP-2. The ultrawide 1440p display is on the right slightly above the smaller one, but Trinity and TDM both repeatedly place them in the opposite arrangement with the smaller monitor as the default, sitting on the top right corner of the larger one. Both displays default to 60hz at login. I've also tried enabling "Automatically apply profile on startup" and creating a profile, but when trying to reload it, X spits out an error "xrandr: cannot find mode 3440x1440". I don't get any such error when logging on, only when trying to load it manually from control center, which makes me think it's not even trying. I have not tested using xrandr manually from the command line. How do I get Trinity to remember my monitor layout correctly? Is this a known issue? \-- [bonkmaykr.xyz][] Proud webmaster of KangWorlds. Sent from Proton Mail mobile [bonkmaykr.xyz]: https://bonkmaykr.xyz

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Feature Request? Adjust Mouse Sensitivity through kcontrol
by Wirlaburla 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Hi folks. I have a friend who recently struggled with his previous desktop environment so I slid Trinity towards him, and he has been using it since. There is a small problem though, and one I never noticed: There seems to be no way to change the mouse sensitivity under the settings. I thought this was crazy when he told me he couldn't find it, but alas, he wasn't blind. There is no slider anywhere for adjusting the mouse sensitivity. "Well, perhaps this was an accidental regression at some point", I thought, as I loaded KDE3 on a VM. "There is no way there was no slider in this desktop for something as simple as mouse sensitivity." As wild as I thought that claim would be, there also wasn't a slider in KDE3, only an option to change the polling rate on supported mice, which explained to me the historic reason as to why. My friend is setting the sensitivity through xinput right now, but perhaps it is time to add a slider to change mouse sensitivity. Those with highly-sensitive mice shall Trinity with no fear! And just to check, I tried turning the Pointer Threshold down and Acceleration up to see if that is a hacky way to change sensitivity. It is not. Or perhaps we are both blind as bats and the option was already there, right in front of us. Please let us know. -- Wirlaburla

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Understanding kernel versions in Debian
by Gianluca Interlandi 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Dear all, May be off topic. I am trying to understand why Debian (especially stable) has the reputation as being more conservative than other distributions. If I look at distrowatch (for example comparing to openSUSE and Fedora): Kernel LibreOffice Release date Bookworm 6.1.27 7.4.5 2023-06-10 Trixie 6.6.15 24.2.0 2023-06-11 Leap 15.5 5.14.21 7.4.3.2 2023-06-07 Tumbleweed 6.7.9 24.2.1 2024-03-17 Fedora 6.5.6 7.6.2 2023-11-07 I don't know much about the meaning of kernel versions, but I know that major versions are often developed in parallel. Is 5.14.21 newer than 6.1.27? Judging alone from the kernel version numbers (and other packages), it looks like Leap would be the most conservative while Debian Testing (Trixie) almost as up-to-date (concerning newer Linux packages) as Tumbleweed and ahead of Fedora (released later). 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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remove sleep, suspend, hybernate, sleep and combos from logout menu
by Rody 14 Mar '24

14 Mar '24

Hi, Is there a way to remove the sleep, suspend, hybernate, sleep and combos from the logout menu within Trinity? So far I have been unable to find configuration options for this. Therefor I used polkit to disable these options system wide. I used the following code in a file I created for this purpose in: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d [Disable suspend (logind)] Identity=unix-user:* Action=org.freedesktop.login1.suspend;org.freedesktop.login1.suspend-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions ResultActive=no ResultInactive=no ResultAny=no This would remove all the undesired options in the logout menu. However, after I updated to Trinity 14.1.1, the logout menu has now added a freeze option. Searching for that on the internet gives me just about all the possible results related to hanging or crashed systems but not what I'm looking for. So my question is: a) does Trinity have a native way to remove these suspend/hybernate/freeze/aso options? if not, then b) does anyone know what needs to be added to the above Action line to let polkit do it for me? I'm running Trinity on Devuan 4, so no systemd here. Regards, Rody

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