I have been trying and failing to get my three monitors,
two of which are ancient and all of which are different,
to produce matching colors. I'm using the NVIDIA non-free
driver.
For purposes of this discussion let's ignore the hardware
color controls (which are inadequate).
I can use the NVIDIA X Server Settings utility which has
excellent controls for R, G, and B but intermittently tells
me that something else has changed the color settings.
I can use Trinity Control Center / Peripherals / Display
but the Monitor Gamma function affects all three monitors
simultaneously. Unlike other gamma controls that seem
to prefer a number near 2.2, this seems to prefer a
number near 1.
I can use Trinity Control Center / System Administration /
/ Monitor & Display which purports to control the three
monitors separately but the instant I move any gamma control
by the smallest increment my right-hand monitor (no matter
which monitor I have selected) looks like a 1980's CGA
display. (This can be fixed by rebooting or by starting
the NVIDIA X Server Settings utility.)
There is also Trinity Control Center / Peripherals /
Color Profile which I have not used, and where everything
is unchecked in hopes of not confusing myself even further.
I have been unable to find anything online by searching, although
some CGA-like scrambling was mentioned in passing in this thread:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/trinity-users/msg11883.html
Can anyone point me to information on how TDE gamma controls
work, how they are supposed to be used, and/or how to stop
whatever in the background is overriding NVIDIA X Server
Settings?
Thanks!
--Mike
I found this while looking for a way to integrate tdewallet with KeepassXC.
It's sort of backward from what I wanted, but might be useful.
https://superuser.com/questions/1217643/is-it-possible-to-use-kwallet-with-…
Leslie
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Platform: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.1.2
tde-config: 1.0
Is there a way to configure the taskbar buttons with some feedback when
arranging to a different position among the other buttons?
I have the taskbar configured to allow manually arranging buttons, but
when I do this there is no feedback during the dragging until I drop the
button.
Just wondering whether I have something misconfigured.
Thanks.
I would like to offer that with my efforts to build TDE on vintage
systems, I built TDE R14.1.2 on Slackware 14.2 64-bit (gcc 5.5.0) and
Slackware 14.1 32-bit (gcc 4.8.2). Both systems are EOL as of Dec. 2023.
I did not build every package but core dependencies and packages built
and run.
I had to find some patches to back port. For example, some patches
related to hotpluggable hwlib and ensuring '-std=c++11' is declared with
tqt3.
These days my brain is entrenched in old fart elderly territory and I
have my days exhibiting grumpy old man traits. I have been out of the
loop for many years with this kind of development and tend to lose
patience easily. That said, that I have built the latest TDE on vintage
systems is remarkable.
Dare I say that the 14.1 builds are running on Pentium I/II single core
systems with less than 512 MB of RAM and a 3.10.107 kernel? A tad slow?
Yes, but everything functions and the slowness is mostly caused by PATA
drives.
I am impressed with the developers far more than a grumpy old man being
able to build TDE on vintage systems. Good job devs. :)
On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 11:19 -0500, Chris M wrote:
> In regards to Nik's post about The Orgins of KDE:
>
> I am curious to know what's the backstory on TDE?
> Why is KDE 3.5 being kept alive all of these years later?
> And what is TDE's Purpose?
>
> I LOOOOOOOVED KDE 3.5 back in the day, but , I could never get KDE 3
> to work right on my machine, like making it see the CDROM etc.
> But, when I found GNOME2 on Ubuntu 10.10 that became my home, then
> Unity, and KDE 5 for a little while, TDE for about a week, and MATE
> for the longest. And now im back to trying TDE.
>
The reason that I asked this question yesterday, is because, I LOVED
KDE 3, but i'm scared to run TDE.
I've been reading on Reddit about TDE and read about how NO Linux
distro will carry TDE because its a liability
due to some kind of " Internet Stacks" still using KDE 3 code, and how
unsafe it is, and how running TDE would be like
connecting a Windows 98 PC to the internet without a firewall etc.
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> --------------------------------
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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>
> * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram*
>
> * LMDE 6 "Faye"*~~~* TDE Desktop ( TRINITY ) instead of
> Cinnamon*~~~*
>
>
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Thanks,
Chris
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I am just curious, is KMAIL supposed to pop up the KWALLET app asking for the
password everytime I launch KMAIL?
If not, its kinda annoying, how do I fix it?
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Thanks,
Chris
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Hi all!
Does anybody remember why KDE introduced the "kdesktop" window and did not use the X11 root windows for it's job? I just noticed that this "kdesktop" is (again) on front of the conky window and I was unpleasently remembered of that strange decision from ages ago.
Nik
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Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...
Not knowing anything about KMAIL, I *MIGHT OF* not sure, left kmail open while
backing up the .trinity/share/apps/kmail/mail folder.
I know that nothing was running when I did the backup. I had KMAIL set to work
offline.
Do you think everything will be okay? I know KMAIL stores emails as separate
files vs in a .mbox file.
I just got done importing everything over from Evolution.
I might make another backup again, just to be sure.
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Chris
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Something about flatpak seems a little hinky to me -- Ubuntu is getting too heavily into data collection lately, and flatpak seems part of it, though I haven't researched it fully; too much to do and Ubuntu avoidance is easy.
Best I can tell, appimage is a little more pristine, at least for now. Which is fortunate -- just found and installed the appimage for IPTVnator, which is likeHypnotix but written in electron. Appimage was a good way to try it out. When I liked it I d/led the .deb which, mirabile dictu, installed uneventfully (so I can now watch Iran TV about the helicopter crash there that seems to have killed high government officials there today; I need a Farsi mental appimage to understand it, though).
Here, if it's of interest to anyone: https://github.com/4gray/iptvnator/releases
To populate it: https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u
Of course if you get an appimage you need to set it as executable in its properties before you can run it.
As I said, it seems ceteris paribus better than flatpak, though I could be wrong.
dep
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