Since starting my damn-the-torpedoes-full-speed-ahead journey the past
few weeks to solely use TDE, I found the need today to print a simple
one-page text file.
Since using KDE Kate for the past some years I had to always temporarily
change the font size from old eyes on-screen 20 point to 12 point for
printing, then restore the font size for old eyes on-screen viewing. A
nuisance to some degree.
For my current print task I began to do likewise with TDE Kate. I ran
into some nuisance issues.
There is no Print Preview menu option like in KDE Kate. I looked in the
TDE Katepart toolbar config dialog. There is an option to add a Print
button to the toolbar but not for Print Preview.
Instead there is a Preview check box in the Print dialog. Curiouser and
curiouser.
The Print Preview dialog opened to an annoying half screen window. I
want to preview the entire document, not the upper one-third. A
one-click solution using the window sizing widgets to change the window
to full screen, but not permanent. I ended up creating a special window
rule to open the Print Preview dialog full screen. Search as I might,
configuring the Print Preview window to default to full screen without
the rule escapes me. Okay, I found a solution, but there must be a way
to do this without a rule, right?
I proceeded to exercise my cursing skills because despite having changed
my old eyes on-screen font size to 12 point, the Print Preview kept
showing the font size as my original 20 point selection for on-screen,
forcing the short document into two pages.
Then the cobwebs flushed. I remembered TDE Kate has different font
schemas, including one for printing. Ah yes, now I remember. I might
have changed the old eyes on-screen font size, but the Print schema
remained the same 20 points. I modified the Print schema to 12 point and
the Print Preview looked great. A one page document. Then I restored the
old eyes on-screen font size to 20 point.
That got me searching the web for why KDE Kate does not do this. Same
roots and heritage, right? I don't know. A rabbit hole. Looks like the
font schema feature was removed or moved somewhere that only geeks would
know where to look. Or I am blind and stupid.
In the end I thought, yes, a fine feature to have different font
schemas. Screens and printers are different. Nice to know that within
TDE Kate I do not have to temporarily modify the old eyes on-screen font
size when printing. Convenient.
And unlike KDE Kate, TDE Kate launches almost instantaneously. Chalk up
a few points for TDE.
Rub my belly and watch my leg jiggle.
I have a strange issue where if the first application to make sounds
closes, all other applications become incapable of making sounds until I
reboot
This is the case with or without the sound system being enabled
I'm on Arch Linux, and installed trinity via the tde-meta package. If it
helps, I used to have gnome, xfce4, and enlightenment installed, but
removed them.
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
Hi! :-)
I tried to install TDE to my Devuan system (stable, Daedalus).
I gave (as root): "apt update", but I received a 404 error for the
mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org (although I can reach it, via browser).
Additionally, I received the message that "the repository does not
have a Release file".
Can someone confirm, that the repository is online and works as expected?
TIA!!! :-)
Giorgos.
Is there a way to change the size of the 'window walker' that appears
when using the global Alt+Tab keyboard shortcut?
The widget that appears for me is small. I would like something a bit
larger.
Thanks.
Seems pretty much that double-clicking on files in konqueror almost
always default to embedded viewing rather than external tools. While
this behavior can be changed for individual mime types, can this
behavior be change globally?
Changing every mime type to open in an external tool is a lot of drudgery.
Thanks.
Does KPDF support tabs?
I don't see any such option.
I was surprised when I had a PDF open and from within the KPDF menu I
opened a second PDF to compare side-by-side. Rather than a new tab the
first PDF document was closed in order to open the second PDF.
Seems the only way to have multiple PDFs open is launch externally from
Konqueror? Or use a different PDF viewer?
I use the Plain clock in the panel and configured the Short date format
to SHORTWEEKDAY SHORTMONTH dD. My clock date format:
2:58 pm
Thu Mar 13
My brain is getting old and fuzzy but usually I can remember the year. :)
Konqueror's List/Tree view seems controlled by the same Short date
format. I want to see the year in the Modified column date stamp. I
change the Short date format to SHORTWEEKDAY SHORTMONTH dD YYYY and then
the Modified column dates look the way I want to include the year.
But the clock format changes too:
2:58 pm
Thu Mar 13 2025
Not the end of the world, but is there a hidden way to control each
format separately?
Thanks.
I only use konqueror with the file management profile. When I open a new
tab the file pane contents are always empty -- blank.
Is a empty/blank page normal or do I have something misconfigured?
I am guessing the blank page is a carry over from web browsing. The only
related configuration I could find is Behavior->Home URL, which I have
configured to $HOME (actual file path and not env. variable). I would
think that one way or another a new tab would list the contents of that
path.
I use Tree View all the time. Curiously, when the new empty tab appears,
the View->View Mode menu shows 'TDEHTML' and not Tree View.
Methinks I have something mucked up somewhere. Where to look?
Thanks.
