tde-users April 2025

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File Manager question.
by Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

Hi! :-) I was looking for a tabbed file manager, with the ability to have open, at least 3 tabs. The obvious answer I suppose is Konqueror. I also looked at Dolphin, but it seems to be limited to 2 tabs (with F10). Is this correct? Any other options, you may know? TIA!!! :-) G.

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kuickshow
by Darrell Anderson 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

I'm trying to create a TDE build environment. I'm using old notes and the wiki. I seem to recall there was a separate kuickshow package. Not the one included in tdegraphics. Was the separate package dropped? If so when? Thanks.

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KFileDialog Speedbar
by Darrell Anderson 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

Is there no way to arrange the order of entries in the KFileDialog Speedbar entries (short of manually editing kdeglobals outside of TDE)? Adding a new entry places the new entry at the bottom of the list. Thanks.

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R14.1.3 and polkit?
by Darrell Anderson 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

I updated my system from 14.1.2 to 14.1.3. I no longer could launch tools as root using pkexec. Testing in the command line indicates some kind of polkit issue. Found some related discussion on the web but as usual, little help. I tested the same in KDE and had no problems. I noticed in KDE there is a polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 process running. No such process in TDE, but I don't recall anything like that in previous versions of TDE. Kind of implies something in 14.1.3 changed to expect a polkit agent. On a whim I created a $TDEHOME/Autostart desktop file to launch the KDE polkit agent. I then could again launch tools as root with pkexec. I am going to presume I missed the memo somewhere. Did something related change in 14.1.3? The wiki seemed to imply there now is a TDE polkit agent but there is no such package here. Thanks.

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Using tdepowersave
by Darrell Anderson 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

I installed tdepowersave. Clicking the system tray icon pops open a display dialog that does not fit the laptop screen. The 15 inch 1920x1080 screen resolution is not the problem -- the dialog is too long vertically to fit the screen. Try as I might I could not resize the dialog and the dialog has no scroll bar. The design of this dialog seems untested because many if not a majority of laptop screens are 14 inch -- some even smaller. As with most things I accept my own ignorance and naivety might be to blame. Nonetheless I get the feeling this dialog was designed on a large laptop -- no scroll bar? Or perhaps was tested only on a dual core laptop. (There are other dialogs like this, such as in KControl, that are not resizable and don't fit on a laptop screen) One issue here is the laptop CPU is 4-core, but 8 threads. The dialog code (actually the kernel code) interprets this as 8 cores. While CPU usage is interesting, I think the information is superfluous to energy saving. Most people, at least me, are concerned only with the batteries. * Is there a way to resize this dialog? I tried clicking the title bar, using Move and Resize to no avail. * Is there a way to remove the CPU usage information? Nice info but not needed here. * Is there a way to configure tdepowersave not to automatically start when there is no battery? The user account I use on my laptop is synced to my office desktop where there are no batteries and no real concern with energy usage. Not too get carried away. Seems to be a decent tool but as often is the case, I seem to be a user outside the expected usage bell curve. Thanks.

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Battery monitor
by Darrell Anderson 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

What is the appropriate package to have a laptop battery monitor in the system tray? Thanks.

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