tde-users January 2025

users@trinitydesktop.org

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20 discussions

10 Jan '25

Greetings, everybody, and happy 2025 even though the start to the year does not seem promising in many places. Digging through issues one by one here. Am using the desktop more after having gotten a TKL (SSK in IBM parlance) Model M from Unicomp. I have a couple of genuine IBM SSKs, but they have become to valuable to use. The Unicomp reissue is if anything better, and I love it. But I digress. I'm running Debian Trixie and TDE-almost-ready (I don't remember what TDE testing is called, but I'm running the not-bleeding-edge testing version, the middle one). I've discovered that sound doesn't work on my machine. I imagine that this comes down to Pipewire, the Wayland of sound. (No, I do not use Wayland. Playing pioneer in Linux was a hoot 25 years ago; now I just want the damn machine to work.) When setting up a couple of Rspberry Pi5s as television sets last year, I got no sound until I nuked Pipewire entirely, which I haven't done here on the desktop yet. KMix seems in order. I have gone everywhere I could find to set the audio to the built-in audio -- the system seems desperate to give me HDMI audio, but I have no HDMI audio. At the moment, I have no audio of any sort, but at least I have the hardware for non-HDMI audio. pulseaudio -v renders this: I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 17.0 I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 5319a42264b14252b3e0bc50dadf9032. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 4. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/dep/.pulse. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-17.0+dfsg1/modules. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. When I check the sound system page in KControl, all seems fine. System restarts uneventfully. Everything seems to work except sound coming from the speakers. I'm out of guesses. Advice? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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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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Website Down?
by Chris M 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

When trying to go to the installation instructions I am getting a white webpage with text that says: Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minutes and reloading. (Cannot access the database) -- Chris

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Notification popup size
by Darrell Anderson 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

R14.1.2. I am not using kdbusnotification. The default notification daemon is xfce4. In TDE the notification popups are tiny. They look fine when using Xfce4. Any ideas to resolve? Thanks.

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No desktop notifications when using TDM
by Darrell Anderson 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

I'm looking for ideas or a check list how TDM might block or ignore desktop notifications. Notifications appear as expected when using a different DM. I am not using the kdbusnotification package. R14.1.2. Thanks.

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Volume Control does Nothing?
by CHRIS M 06 Jan '25

06 Jan '25

I use my Alexa speaker, connected to Bluetooth for computer audio. I just noticed that, when I went to adjust the volume, using the volume control in the system tray. the volume never changed... Why is the volume button not working? Thanks, Chris Debian 12 Bookworm ( Base Install, then Installed TDE on top of it) Latest Version of TDE

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Merry Christmas
by ajh-valmer 04 Jan '25

04 Jan '25

Hello, Merry Christmas ! May Christmas be synonymous with peace, within, among people and in the world... André

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Seasonal greetings
by dep 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Merry Christmas to everyone here, and thanks for all your help and everything that I and others have learned here this year. This is a unique and welcoming community, which is very rare anymore. Best to you all. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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kmix to the wrong output
by Christian Schmitz 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Hello everyone: Every time that the system boot, kmix work on HDMI output but not on regular output. I have nothing on HDMI. How configure to use the regular output as default, or that kmix ask the default output or act on both at same way.? Best Regards Christian -- Be Free, Be Linux

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Graphic interface
by ajh-valmer 01 Jan '25

01 Jan '25

Hello, Before, I h ad a down right, taskbar, a graphic interface to manage the ethernet and wlan network. Now, this iinterface has disappeared. I use NetworkManager. How to find again this very practical interface ? I'am on Debian 12. Thanks. Happy Party of New Year tonight. André

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