tde-users June 2024

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Programs unable to tell where center of screen is when snapping mouse pointer
by bonkmaykr 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

Hello. I have a pretty serious issue where many applications cannot properly move the cursor to the center of the screen. For normal desktop use this rarely comes up, but I play a lot of video games on my computer (mostly first person) and for mouse input this becomes an inconvenience at best and gamebreaking at worst. Some examples, results vary: CS2: usually no issues. Running natively The Finals: cursor constantly snaps to top left corner when comms wheel is pulled up, can't use pings correctly. Cursor rarely leaves the screen and enters the second screen on the left causing loss of focus. Minecraft: cursor snaps to the left when opening any menu, even when running using a native JVM In some particularly nasty cases, this can affect camera controls on some desktop applications like Blender and cause erratic movement. Which slows down my workflow quite a bit. It seems like what's happening is that the X11 server has one display spanning across both my monitors and since I have a second monitor on the left the center of the X11 canvas is between the two displays. For other desktop environments this hasn't been an issue but in Trinity I find that this causes some weird sideeffects, like how desktop icons are out-of-bounds by default or how X11 thinks my refresh rate is set to 50hz even though it clearly isn't. What's the quickest workaround to this mouse input issue? Is there any? How do I tell an application/game that the center of my monitor is actually the center of my monitor and not whatever x11 says it is? If that makes any sense. Forgive me if this is a silly question. \-- [bonkmaykr.xyz][] Proud webmaster of KangWorlds. Sent from Proton Mail mobile [bonkmaykr.xyz]: https://bonkmaykr.xyz

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Donation
by Greg Madden 17 Jun '24

17 Jun '24

Currently Bitcoin is the only option, Paypal disabled. I can wait, curious as to how long that may be. thank you.

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KMAIL has gone on a power trip and I don't know how to fix it
by Chris M 16 Jun '24

16 Jun '24

KMAIL keeps putting all of my email in the spam folder when it downloads my email. And I cant figure out why. Any ideas to why its doing that? I am having to go into the spam folder and right click on groups of emails and tell kmail that those emails are not spam, and manually move them to the inbox. ============================================================ > THANKS IN ADVANCE! > > CHRIS > > CHRIS(a)CWM030.COM > > * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* > > ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~

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Impossible to find MIME type application/octet-stream
by ajh-valmer 14 Jun '24

14 Jun '24

Hello, What can I do to not see this message ? Thanks, André

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TDE breaks too easily, and this error message tells me NOTHING!!!! :(
by CHRIS M 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

Can someone give me a clue what this means and how to fix it? TDE's error messages are VERY unhelpful when trying to fix something. At least tell me where to look to fix whats broke! https://imgur.com/a/EfSRKnF Thanks, Chris

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WAS~~Re: Possible KMAIL bug? NOW:~~ POP / IMAP PROTOCOLS
by CHRIS M 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

You know, I had thought about switching to the IMAP protocol due to being able to switch to any email client I wanted to without having to constantly IMPORT and EXPORT my data. That's really the only PITA part, (pardon my expression) about POP. It just seems like life would be A LOT less stressful without having to worry about if I backed my email up or I decide to try a new email client and I don't have to piece together archive folders from one client to another etc. But OTOH, I do enjoy that my data is PRIVATE and that my mail provider can't pull a *YAHOO MAIL * and be like one day " Eh, you don't need those emails in your archive folder from 2016 / 2017. * POOF DELETED* without even asking the user if its okay. I know that, a hosted email provider WON'T DO THAT to someone, since we pay for the product to keep our valuable emails stored for us. Then again, look at what happened to poor Rackspace last year. Their Exchange server got hacked and had to pay ransom to get peoples data back and people still lost a lot of their emails that they had in the cloud. Do ya'll think its worth it? ============================================================ > THANKS IN ADVANCE! > > CHRIS > > CHRIS(a)CWM030.COM > > * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* > > ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~

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Display configuration troubles
by Thierry de Coulon 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

I use a Lenovo X390, MX-Linux 21.3, with one user using xfce (the "original" DE) and the other using TDE. When I plug in HDMI (for a beamer, in this case), xfce can easily be set up to mirror the display. When I use TDE and connect the Beamer (seen as HDMI-2), TDE automatically extends my screen to the beamer. xrandr -- output HDMI-2 --same-as eDP1 (where eDP-1 is the internal screen) does mirror the screen, but it remains extended. Now if I run "Configure Displays" and select "Enable local Display control for this session" (which was not activated), I do get the mirroring I am looking for. But if I click "Apply" the screen turn to psychedelic colours - seems to be wating for me to validate the choice, what I can't do and anyway would not as it's unusable. After a while the sceens returns to my desktop, albeit stil psychedelic, and I must log out / log in to get my desktop back. So for the time being that means I have to use xfce when I need the beamer. Anyone knows what's going on and what I should do to mirror my 1920x1080 screen to the HDMI beamer? Thierry

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Intel SSD with openSUSE 15.5
by Gianluca Interlandi 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Dear TDE users, This maybe unrelated to TDE. I wonder whether anybody has experience installing openSUSE 15.5 (along TDE of course) on a Intel SSD 2 TB. I was thinking about something like this: https://www.cdw.com/product/wd-blue-sa510-wds200t3b0a-ssd-2-tb-sata-6gb-s/7… The system is a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop. If anybody has any other recommendations for a SSD to be used on a similar laptop, please let me know. Also, is there really any speed advantage to using the corresponding mechanical hard drive: https://www.cdw.com/product/wd-blue-wd20spzx-hard-drive-2-tb-sata-6gb-s/507… in such a system? Thanks, Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu +1 (206) 685 4435 http://gianluca.today/research/ Department of Bioengineering University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------

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LWN.NET: Trinity keeps KDE 3 on life support
by Mike Bird 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Sounds like a reviewer had issues with a HiDPI laptop. The article is here but a subscription is needed to view it before May 30th 2024: https://lwn.net/Articles/973130/ The discussion is visible in LWN's RSS feed. Thus far I see two short threads: https://lwn.net/Articles/974365/ https://lwn.net/Articles/974381/ Maybe TDE devs can add some useful info to the latter thread.

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Possible KMAIL bug? Images in emails.
by Chris M 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

In KMAIL 1.9 for TDE, why can't I insert an image inside of my email? There is NO option to insert the image inside of the email. Some people might not like clicking on attachments and would rather you paste them directly into the body of the email, but with KMAIL 1.9, I noticed that we can't do that, the only option we have is to attach them??? ============================================================ THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS CHRIS(a)CWM030.COM * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* * Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~

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