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IBM/Lenovo Laptop brightness issue
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Hi all! Could some owners of IBM and Lenovo laptop plese test these 2 things: - decrease brightness < 50% - try to increase brightness too 100% - decrease brightness to 0% - try to increase brightness too 100% On my test laptops with AMD I cannot increase the brightness to > 50% when I dimmed it to < 50%. When on 0% it can only be increased to ~ 5%. I think it also affects newer intel models > T480, but I'm not sure. IMO the NVRAM layout changed and I try to figure out which model are affected and which are not. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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A decoration/button style where user could provide their own images instead of relying on the built-in ones?
by rave002＠o2.pl 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

So basically each style and window decoration has their own internal images to use as button backgrounds, title bar background, etc. How about developing one that could let user supply their own image overrides that would be loaded from the mass storage for fully skinnable environment. Basically what I am asking for is something like Auroae/Kvantum, but actually performant and with ability to create custom themes visually. Such universal decorator/widget theming engine would make it possible to create new themes without writing any new code or even recompiling existing one. And no, I don't have the skills (or time) to develop it myself, otherwise I wouldn't be making this post.

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TDE R14.1.5 released!
by Slávek Banko 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about the release of R14.1.5: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.1.5 Cheers Slávek --

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Thanks, guys!
by dep 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

I'm running R14.1.5~[DEVELOPMENT] here entirely happily. As a habit I don't run deep-in-the-woods versions, nor the urban tenement release versions, but the in-between, nice-place-in-the-suburbs-with-a-tree-lined-yard almost-ready versions of both Debian and TDE. As a result, a new release is pretty much already on my machine when it is released. And everything just works, with the exception of the desktop crashing at launch occasionally. (Everything works even then, just no wallpaper of the sort that has caused so much consternation -- solution: use a different wallpaper if wallpaper is your thing -- or in my case xplanet with realtime moon image, and no rmb menu on the desktop.) Logging out and back in usually fixes even that, which I think may be a dispute with Enlightenment, which I also keep on the machine. I should note that during the development of 14.1.5 I've gotten the worls in progress and none of them has been troublesome, so the developers are really good about catching things before they get into the wild. A side benefit, both is Debian and in TDE is that using the not-quite-ready version means that version upgrades are non-events, because I do update-upgrade at least once a week. Then again, I don't have multiple virtual desktops, just two monitors that are seen by XRandR as one 1920x2160 desktop. This could be due to my high-tech, modern, NVidia GeForce GT 1030 vid card and incredible AMD FX-8350 chip that I've only had for I think 11 years. But now I see here that I must worry about a wallpaper that apparently resides somewhere on this machine that it appears someone doesn't like. Because it makes me have to think back and try to remember if I have ever, even once since the July 1998 release of KDE-1.0, I've ever used a wallpaper at all, and except for a screenshot for Practical KDE in 1999 I don't think I have. All of which is to say, Thanks, devs! You do great work. Damn near flawless in my experience! -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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An extremely disappointing wallpaper...
by Wirlaburla 11 Nov '25

11 Nov '25

Hi folks. I was reading the release notes for R14.1.5 before I started a system upgrade and noticed there was a new wallpaper added to tdeartwork. At first, I liked it, but then I took a closer look and was extremely disappointed. Do we not have any quality control for TDE artwork? I'm certainly not the only one who noticed how bad this looks. I have no issue with using AI for artwork, but this is embarassing. There was very clearly no attempt to polish or improve this at all. How did this make it in? Surely we can do better than this, no? Thanks, Nick

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strange things happening ...
by William Morder 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Apologies if this is post is not specific to TDE; but honestly, I don't know what to make of it. I said awhile back that my system seems to be getting unstable, though I cannot determine the causes. This has been happening more frequently over the past year or more ... ever since I mentioned that we had some flooding here (last winter?), and it seemed to affect our network here in this building. (I ought to add, if it is not evident, that I have no control over the network; my complaints too many to repeat here, and may not be related.) I am still in the process of moving, so I don't have a lot of time to spend chasing down bugs, if that's what this is; I keep hoping that these issues will resolve themselves with a system upgrade. We have stretches of a week or two where the network seems fine, then out of the blue, suddenly my machine starts freezing up any time I have a network connection; sometimes, indeed, the open connection is there and available, but I have not actually logged into the network. Usually I disable the network if I am not using it, but when I first boot up, the network is always there and available. And sure enough, my machine freezes up. I just went through this earlier today: when I went online to check my email first thing this morning, it wasn't more than five minutes and the machine froze up; I waited more than half an hour, then decided to do a hard shutdown, and boot up again. Then, as soon as I booted up and got into the Trinity desktop, the same thing happened, and the system froze up. (I wasn't online, just that the network was available.) At last, it seemed that the machine recognized mouse movement, and I somehow got it running more or less normally again. My mouse icon showed a kind of crosshair icon, which is not actually available to my mouse; so I was a bit puzzled about that. Then, once I got into my working desktop, started setting up, I noticed that some autostart programs had not started,: audacious, for example, had to be started manually. Also, tdenetworkmanager crashed, and lately has been crashing rather a lot. After all was set up and I was getting into my work, I noticed in my home folder 5 plaintext files (or at least, they seem to be text files); they are named: builtins getopt locale signal sys -- but they have no content. It may be that they are some different kind of file; the system just tells me that they are empty documents. Nothing like this has ever happened before, and I am concerned about these strange manifestations of files, apparently without any doing on my part. They have rw-r-r permissions, under my user name; which to me indicates that they are supposed to be files that the system must be able to read. For my personal stuff, which the system doesn't need to read, I make the permissions rw only under my user name. If anybody can offer some insights, of suggestions about how to unravel this mystery, I would be grateful. Bill P.S. I just did a system upgrade. I am still running Devuan Daedalus, waiting for the next LTS release, whatever and whenever that will be.

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Funny driver download story
by dep 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

There being OS/2 veterans here, this might ring a bell. I never did anything this awful, though I did once run up a $700 bill the month my favorite BBS subscribed to RIME. Still have my U.S. Robotics HST-Dual Standard modem, too. What a joy it was to use! https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/who_me/?td=rt-3a dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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cursors changed since installing trixie... how to edit/revert?
by D. R. Evans 09 Nov '25

09 Nov '25

Since upgrading to trixie a few days ago, I keep being annoyed by a cosmetic change: some cursors have changed in a manner that I find both mystifying and annoying. I can't find any kind of cursor editor thingy in the TDE control panel (perhaps I'm missing something obvious?). How do I go about either manually editing cursors, or, probably better, telling the system: "in this situation use cursor Y instead of the cursor X that you're currently using"? A couple of examples of changes that I find particularly annoying: (i) hovering over a ratings star in clementine now changes the cursor from a northwest-pointing arrow to a northeast-pointing finger; (ii) hovering over a checkbox in basket, the cursor (which I think used to be a northwest-pointing arrow) is now a left-pointing finger. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans

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Update problem on bullseye
by Thierry de Coulon 09 Nov '25

09 Nov '25

I've got an older laptop running MX-21 (bullseye based) with TDE (14.1.1 at the time). It's no more used every day and I don't want to upgrade MX or debian (at least for the time), bullseye is OK. I just wanted to update, but running apt update throws an error for TDE: KeyError: 'deps-r14' (the error message is longer but I don't know if it's useful to display here), The lines in tde.list (for psb) are exactly the same as thoses I have for my main install (except that one is running on bookworm). It's not really important as I can perfectly use 14.1.1 on that laptop, just wondering what's the explanation of this error.

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When Klicker stops working...
by Leslie Turriff 09 Nov '25

09 Nov '25

Once in a while, Kicker stops working. (See attached Klicker1.png; I place my panels on the left and right side of the screen.) Thinking that it had crashed, I tried to restart it (See Klicker2.png), but it's still running, as I realized, seeing that the applets still appear in the main panel. Can I just kill and restart it from the command line? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.4 tde-config: 1.0

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