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System tray or whatever it's called
by dep 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

hi, everybody . . . trying to deal with a problem with what is often called the system tray -- that little section at the right side of kicker that holds small icons that do stuff. problem is that there used to be a little protonvpn icon there what let me know when the vpn was on and when it wasn't, by a little indicator attached to the icon itself. at some point it disappeared and i cannot make it come back. i've dealt with proton tech support. sad to say, they're very good at seeming to deliver aupport without actually doing anything other than restate the obvious. so i need to dig it out myself. i have *no* idea how the system tray thing works. so i do not have the first clue in tracking it down. anybody know what's necessary to get an application to register there and do what it's supposed to do? if I have a sense of that, i can try to work backwards and sort it. thanks in advance. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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anyone here use treesheets successfully with the TDE systray?
by D. R. Evans 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

I've been trying, for years, to use treesheets (https://strlen.com/treesheets/) on my TDE systems, always without success: there's some weird problem with minimising to the tray, which I won't bother to describe in detail unless people want me to. I was hopeful that the recent mention of ksystraycmd might point me in the right direction, but sadly I still can't get treesheets to behave sensibly (i.e., to minimise to the tray when I close it). The treesheets author, when informed of the problem long ago, said that it was TDE's fault; but I have always been unconvinced, as no other program I have misbehaves in the same way. Anyway, I just thought I'd ask here if anyone is successfully using treesheets with the systray in TDE; if so, perhaps we can talk privately to see what you are doing differently that makes it work (I don't want to clutter the reflector unnecessarily with something that might not be a TDE issue). Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans

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System tray progress, sort of
by dep 07 Apr '26

07 Apr '26

Where does one control applications to make them autostart and not autostart? Apparently for its system tray applet to work, ProtonVPN requires nm-tray to be running. Instead, the TDE Network Manager app is running and I cannot make the TDE app stop autostarting, nor get nm-tray to autostart. KControl tells me that it's in ~/.trinity/Autostart, but the only thing there is a text file named Directory that is a listing of every characterset in the solar system. And several things that aren't charactersets autostart. I don't know if this will solve the problem, but I figure it's worth a try. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Raspberry Pi Model B+ not supported?
by Michael Renner 27 Mar '26

27 Mar '26

Moin, I installed TDE to a Raspberry Pi Model B+. But installation and start failed. Are Raspberry Pi with armv6l architecture not supported? Mar 26 13:09:27 bruit systemd[1]: Starting lisa-trinity.service... Mar 26 13:09:27 bruit lisa-trinity[25094]: Starting LAN Information Server: Segmentation fault Mar 26 13:09:27 bruit systemd[1]: *lisa-trinity.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=139/n/a* Mar 26 13:09:27 bruit systemd[1]: *lisa-trinity.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.* Mar 26 13:09:27 bruit systemd[1]: *Failed to start lisa-trinity.service.* Errors were encountered while processing: lisa-trinity *Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)* *renner@bruit*:*~ $* /opt/trinity/bin/kcalc Illegal instruction *renner@bruit*:*~ $* cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 model name : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) BogoMIPS : 697.95 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xb76 CPU revision : 7 Hardware : BCM2835 Revision : 0010 Serial : 000000000eebcf3b Model : Raspberry Pi Model B Plus Rev 1.2 From my /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x trixie main deps Thanks for any hint. Michael Renner -- |Michael Renner E-mail: michael.renner(a)gmx.de | |81541 Munich Mastodon: @dd0ul | |Germany Don't drink as root! ESC:wq

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LO scalc fonts in Menu entries are very small
by Uwe Brauer 26 Mar '26

26 Mar '26

Hi all I am using a X1 Thinkpad with 14 inch screen, LO installed in Ubuntu 24.04 or LO 25 installed directly from the libreoffice website faces the same problems. The fonts in the menu entries and the formula bar for scalc are very small! I cannot find a way to enhance these fonts. When I try out the TDE Settings in Appearance-->Fonts There are a couple of options, general, fixed with, Toolbar Menu Window title Taskbar and Desktop, I set all to 12 but the LO menu fonts are still small. Any ideas what to do and who is the culprit here. Regards Uwe Brauer

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Re. LO scalc fonts in Menu entries are very small
by dep 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Have you at various times run OO and LO on the same machine? I did this once a few years ago and got the slowdown you describe. I don't remember how I purged the machine of both, but I remember it wasn't easy. In any case, one leaves behind enough of itself that it really screws up the other. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Trinity upgrade issue
by dep 25 Mar '26

25 Mar '26

Every week or two I do the general "apt uptate" and "apt upgrade" thing, but for some reason now I'm getting this, and can't figure out why most of TDE is being held back (Running 14.1.6-(Development) atop Debian Trixie: dep@dep-desktop:~$ sudo apt upgrade Upgrading: brave-browser libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 tdebase-data-trinity firefox proton-vpn-gtk-app tdebase-runtime-data-common-trinity libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0 python3-proton-vpn-api-core Not upgrading: basket-kontact-integration-trinity konqueror-nsplugins-trinity libkipi0-trinity basket-trinity konqueror-trinity libkonq4-trinity chalk-trinity konsole-trinity libkscan1-trinity kamera-trinity kooka-trinity librss1-trinity kappfinder-trinity kpager-trinity libtqt3-integration-trinity kate-trinity kpdf-trinity polkit-agent-tde kcontrol-trinity kpersonalizer-trinity tdebase-tdeio-plugins-trinity kdesktop-trinity ksmserver-trinity tdebase-tdeio-smb-trinity kdict-trinity ksnapshot-trinity tdebase-trinity kexi-trinity ksplash-trinity tdebase-trinity-bin kfind-trinity kspread-trinity tdelibs14-trinity kghostview-trinity ksvg-trinity tdepasswd-trinity khelpcenter-trinity ksysguard-trinity tdepim-tdeio-plugins-trinity kicker-trinity ksysguardd-trinity tdepim-tderesources-trinity kipi-plugins-trinity ktip-trinity tdeprint-trinity klipper-trinity kview-trinity tdm-trinity kmenuedit-trinity kword-trinity twin-trinity knewsticker-trinity libkdcraw3-trinity koffice-libs-trinity libkexiv2-3-trinity Summary: Upgrading: 8, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 55 Download size: 268 MB Space needed: 3,337 kB / 89.9 GB available Continue? [Y/n] -- 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 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

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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tdeio_uiserver
by Mike Bird 08 Mar '26

08 Mar '26

Can anyone give me some clues about tdeio_uiserver? It appears to be a process forked but not execed from tdeinit. I've looked at what I presume is the source but there's nothing obvious to me that would use any significant amount of RAM: https://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/tdeio/misc/uiserver.cpp The process seems to be growing without limit in TDE 14.1.5. I had not noticed such behavior in previous versions of TDE but I do use TDE very heavily and my workload changes over time. My firefox is also very large but I can restart that to get back some RAM. Restarting firefox does not reduce the size of tdeio_uiserver. Is there a signal I can send to tdeio_uiserver to tell it to downsize? I could of course reboot, or logout and login, but that costs me about twenty minutes including putting dozens of firefox windows back where they're supposed to be. Thanks, --Mike Attached: Screenshot of "top" sorted by "RES" column.

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Looking for adressbook snycing
by Thierry de Coulon 08 Mar '26

08 Mar '26

Hi all, I'm currently trying to "degooglize", in particular as Google is turning Android to another closed system (no more side-loading). I've had my "contacts" (no that many) over the years on Google mail/contact because it was so easy. Now I'm trying to find a replacement that would let me manage them on the desktop and use them on the phone. Most suggested solution use webdav, but software syncing with webdav are usually thunderbird or KAdressBook (from KDE). TDE's KAdressBook does not seem to offer that. Anyone can suggest a - simple - solution? Thierry

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