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VLC crashes - caused by tqt-something?
by William Morder 10 Aug '26

10 Aug '26

Hello everybody! I have only recently tried streaming some online television channels using VLC, due to my discovering a couple of YUGE playlists on github. When I first loaded the playlists and started up VLC, it took a little finagling, but within 15 minutes or so I was watching public television stations (US). Then I got the bright idea to combine several of the playlists into one big playlist; same great results. I was immediately able to watch television channels from all over the planet (if they weren't geo-blocked). The only problem was that it sounded hollow, shrill and ugly, like my speakers were inside a tin can. So I made a few more adjustments, and everything was fine. More great stuff that I was discovering. Now, I am not crazy about the idea of watching television, as I don't have one any more, haven't missed it in these past few years, been reading a lot more books, and my life tends to go better without television. Still, every once in a while, I wonder what's on, if I actually had a television to watch. And besides, I can stop any time I want.... Somehow, though, don't know what happened, VLC started crashing, and now won't start up properly. Attached is a snapshot of the notification window: gtk2-tqt-engine (vlc-gtk-tqt application) seems to be the cause. I did a search of the list, as I remembered something like that (related to Open Office), and Nik advised that I remove these packages: gtk3-tqt-engine-trinity gtk2-engines-gtk-qt-trinity Slavek said it was probably the kgtk-qt3-trinity package. In any case, my result now is the same as back then (in February of 2022): "Package 'gtk3-tqt-engine-trinity' is not installed, so not removed"; the same with kgtk-qt3-trinity. If anybody has a clue how to resolve this issue, it would be a great help. As I said above, everything worked just fine without much fuss: thousands of channels, everything playing just like regular television. My only changes (so far as I recall) were to adjust the sound, equalizer, etc. Then it stopped working, and now just crashes immediately after starting. Thanks for any help ... Bill P.S. See attachment. Also, here are some links, if anybody else is curious to try for themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198326 https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv/blob/master/PLAYLISTS.md https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u https://2-fss-2.streamhoster.com/pl_138/amlst:201814-1291584/playlist.m3u8 https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Free-TV/IPTV/master/playlist.m3u8 https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv https://github.com/iptv-org/database

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:-) Helpful info about muffin fans :-)
by J Leslie Turriff 09 Aug '26

09 Aug '26

At https://engineerfix.com/how-to-tell-which-way-a-fan-is-blowing/ we are told that > "Most fans feature two distinct arrows placed along the side of the casing, which relay critical operational information." (not true in my experience) and furthermore, > "One arrow indicates the direction in which the blades rotate when the fan is powered on, which is usually a clockwise or counter-clockwise path." (so, unusually, the direction is ??) Leslie

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DNS problem?
by Curt Howland 08 Aug '26

08 Aug '26

Getting this error since last night: W: Failed to fetch http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x/dists/trix… Temporary failure resolving 'mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org' -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - Thucydides --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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Speaking of trouble
by dep 08 Aug '26

08 Aug '26

This is bad, and it is likely to get worse. Too many things are connected to the internet that needn't be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Command for complete install
by CHRIS M 04 Aug '26

04 Aug '26

What is the command for a complete app install? The command I had to run was tde-tdebase which didn't install any apps except for Konsole etc. Thanks,ChrisCHRMAR3(a)AOL.COM

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Partition Issue....
by CHRIS M 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

Well, I am back.......... I thought I was ready to give up on Trinity, but, here I am. I am on Linux Mint 22.3 with Cinnamon. I installed TDE via the directions for Ubuntu... Rebooted, NO TDE option at log in... Ran the keyring command again, and then the installation instructions, it says that TDE was already installed. Rebooted... NO TDE option at log in.. Installed Synaptic and installed TDE-BASE and VIOLA! SHE LIVES! But, now when I try to access my /DATA partition, TDE says it can't enter that partition after I enter my admin password. Is it because I formatted and set up the partition with Cinnamon's Disk Manager? How do I get the partition set up with TDE? Let me guess? 1. Unmount the partition in Cinnamon w/ Cinnamon's disk manager 2. Log into TDE 3. open TDE Disk Manager 4. Run the Take Ownership command 5. Then mount the partition in TDE? Thanks, Chris PS, This is my first time running " The NEW and IMPROVED" Trinity... Everything looks so nice and shiny.. Its very beautiful looking! It doesn't look like something from the dated past, as in like KDE 3.5!

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Telling systemd fdsk to take a hike
by dep 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

Greets, everyone, from a place of great anguish. Sat down at the desktop machine last night and to my surprise it was off. I turned it on. As it booted, it found and fixed some orphaned inodes, per usual for a dirty shutdown (no idea what caused the shutdown, btw), and all was well, seemed to be happy, but then it got to where it said: [TIME] Timed out waiting for device dev-sdb1.device - /dev/sdb1. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for mnt-sdb1.mount - /mnt/sdb1. There it sat. It's probably worth mentioning that there is no sdb in the machine. Only a big sda partitioned into several partitions, per usual. After a while I did the c-a-d thing, but instead of rebooting it seemed to continue the boot in progress until it came to: [*** ]Job systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-f33fcb46[many numbers and letters].service/stop running (4min 5s / no limit) It's not lying about the no limit -- it stayed there, counting, all night. I booted a System Rescue disk from USB. Could find no evidence of anything wrong, though that's not saying much in that I didn't really go poking around lest I *really* break something. So. Anyone know how I can tell the machine to stop looking for stuff that isn't there and just to go ahead and boot? Thanks! dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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kmail and "tracking pixels"
by Thierry de Coulon 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Hello. Just got a mail from a company (Chargemap) that informed that they use tracking pixels in some of their mails. I found some information about blocking such pixels in "mainstream" mail programs (they actually only listed Thunderbird, Gmail and Apple mail). I was just wondering what kmail does. Anyone knows? Thierry

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Darkness - July 2026 version
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 07 Jul '26

07 Jul '26

Hi All! July aka Summer 2026 Version is out! Biggest changes: - TDE 14.2.0-DEVELOPMENT - Xlibre 25.2.0 - new background images - kernel 7.1.3 - all specific tweaks are packaged in darkness-tweaks - i386 crossinstaller with kernel 7.0.14 - rpi crossinstaller Notes: - Persistent partition at 3GB when booting the ISO from a USB stick: As long as any future ISO written to the stick is smaller than 3GB the data on the partition is unaffected. - Virtualbox/VMware guest graphics: "modesetting" is used for "VirtualBox GPU". - Laguage: TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack - deactivate 3D acceleration on Lenovo X61 / Intel GM965/GL960 - dark theme for OpenSCAD Download: - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706.iso - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706.iso.sh256 - SHA256: ce1d103cc1fcd343399d04926e60019d7240e66e55bef8d68a00df621eecbd2a Some Images: https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-0.png https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-1.png https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-2.png https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-3.png https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-4.png Thumbnails of all wallpapers: https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-wallpapers.png Announcement in Devuan Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64578#p64578 Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience :D Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users(a)trinitydesktop.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)trinitydesktop.org Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt… -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Is Trinity a non-political project?
by psudo＠atomicmail.io 15 Jun '26

15 Jun '26

A lot of GNU/linux software is discriminating primarily against conservatives and people on the political right, this unfortunately includes KDE Plasma: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/kde-attacks-critics-as-sad-people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShmMajfj314 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QonsAQYME8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00EPajdGrdY A lot of people are looking to migrate away from KDE Plasma because of this along with them pushing a wayland-only session. Trinity is an amazing option that has nearly all the same features Plasma has with a much lighter codebase and also works with Devuan and Xlibre. So it might be a weird question but in the year 2026 I have to ask: Does Trinity accept everyone (users/contributers) regardless of background/politics/race/gender, etc so long as they write quality code and focus on making the project as great as it can be? P.S I don't mind what the politics are of those who work on Trinity, I don't need to know at all.

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