Greets, everybody . . .
I've hesitated to bring this up because I'm doing something that I think is
not supported by anyone involved. But maybe I'm just missing something
simple, so I thought I'd ask. I beg your forbearance, because the
explanation is long.
I use ProtonMail. PrnotMail offers an application-filter thing called
ProtonBridge; without it one is stuck with Proton's webmail, which is a
pain for many reasons, not least that it's impossible to reply to a
message at the bottom.
ProtonBridge is a fairly large thing that does the encryption/decryption of
outgong/incoming messages respectively. Instead of having an actual
address for the mail server, Bridge requires we use 127.0.0.1. and port
1143 for incoming and 1025 for outgoing. Fine so far.
The Bridge was released about five years ago. I set it up and it worked
just fine, allowing me to keep an email archive here on the local machine,
as well as otherwise use KMail as I have for lo, these many years.
Then a couple years ago things began to go pearshaped from time to time. I
would receive pop-up KMail errors that KMail could not mark the message as
read, couldn't write to the server. As I have mentioned before, it began
to get double listings for incoming messages, the first blank.
Making it maddening is that there's no consistency to it. Sometimes it
happens and sometimes it doesn't, in both cases. I keep my software up to
date, including TDE and ProtonBridge. I cannot point to the exact time it
began.
At about the same time, everytime I opened KMail I couldn't do anything
until it downloaded every message I had receiced since forever. I normally
read and respond to messages, then move them to the appropriate ones among
a miltitude of maildir directories I keep here, and for the longest time
that was the end of it, but there was a change that caused those messages
to be downloaded anew the next time I started KMail.
In that only Thunderbird is supported in Linux by ProtonBridge, I just
lived with it. Then, relatively recently, KMail began to crash. I've filed
the occasional KMail crash report -- btw, the crash report server needs to
renew its certificate. The crashes typically happen when KMail is running
minimized, which I customarily do so I don't have to d/l every email since
Genesis every time I use it.
I suspect it's some configuration thing with KMail that I have wrong -- not
that much to configure with the Bridge -- possibly a permissions issue or
something. What makes it all the more maddening is that it works most of
the time.
When a few days ago KMail threw the error that it couldn't write to te
server, I sent the report to Proton. As usual, they replied promptly. As
usual, the reply wasn't of much help, to wit:
"Currently, we are testing Bridge on Outlook, Apple Mail, and Thunderbird.
Other clients should also be compatible but we cannot guarantee that all
of the features will work properly, as this largely depends on the
implementation of the IMAP and SMTP protocols in that client.
"You read about this in detail on the link below:
https://proton.me/support/clients-supported-bridge "
I'd really like to sort this out, but I do not know enough about mail
handling to know even where to begin to look. I renamed my top-level mail
directory (~/Mail, created when I was using KDE-1.0 and with messages
going back that far) and letting it start anew, but there was no
improvement.
I shall continue to use ProtonMail and would very much like to continuing
to use KMail-Trinity. But I kinda hate this.
Anybody know the solution?
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. . . I just scrolled to the first of the 35,155 messages I have archived
in my KDE-Users mail directory and found this:
[q]
Help with install
Date: Sun Oct 18 13:41:33 1998
From: "Julia's Mail" <ourhome(a)globalnet.co.uk>
To: KDE general mailing list <kde(a)lists.netcentral.net>
Reply to: kde(a)lists.netcentral.net
I have loaded RedHat 5.1, upgraded it to 5.2 and installed qt-1.40. When I
try to install KDE (kdelib) from the RPM files I get a message that qt >=
1.33 is needed by kdelibs-1.0-7rh51, and qt-egce-10x is needed by
kdelibs-1.0-7rh51. Did I miss a step? If you can think of a way to fix
this I would be grateful. :)
Mark
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[/q]
So these directories have survived a *lot* of upgrades.
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dep
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some week ago interesting post was made to r/linux
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1htnhwq/software_left_in_nostalgial…
someone trying to fit kde1 codebase on top of forked qt2 codebase ;)
with png support backported from Trinity's qt3 fork ;)
So, well, thanks everyone again, long live lightweight desktop!
Greetings, everybody, and happy 2025 even though the start to the year does
not seem promising in many places.
Digging through issues one by one here. Am using the desktop more after
having gotten a TKL (SSK in IBM parlance) Model M from Unicomp. I have a
couple of genuine IBM SSKs, but they have become to valuable to use. The
Unicomp reissue is if anything better, and I love it. But I digress.
I'm running Debian Trixie and TDE-almost-ready (I don't remember what TDE
testing is called, but I'm running the not-bleeding-edge testing version,
the middle one).
I've discovered that sound doesn't work on my machine. I imagine that this
comes down to Pipewire, the Wayland of sound. (No, I do not use Wayland.
Playing pioneer in Linux was a hoot 25 years ago; now I just want the damn
machine to work.) When setting up a couple of Rspberry Pi5s as television
sets last year, I got no sound until I nuked Pipewire entirely, which I
haven't done here on the desktop yet.
KMix seems in order. I have gone everywhere I could find to set the audio
to the built-in audio -- the system seems desperate to give me HDMI audio,
but I have no HDMI audio. At the moment, I have no audio of any sort, but
at least I have the hardware for non-HDMI audio.
pulseaudio -v renders this:
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation
not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation
not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 17.0
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 5319a42264b14252b3e0bc50dadf9032.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 4.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/dep/.pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules
directory /usr/lib/pulse-17.0+dfsg1/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
When I check the sound system page in KControl, all seems fine. System
restarts uneventfully. Everything seems to work except sound coming from
the speakers.
I'm out of guesses. Advice?
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dep
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Yes, the songs are transmitted to your headphones, but that's over a paired Bluetooth connection between the headphone and the phone. And there's no cost to that. You only pay for the data transmitted to your smart device over the phone company's network by way of using the app.
https://spacebarcounter.org
When trying to go to the installation instructions I am getting a white webpage with text that says:
Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.
(Cannot access the database)
-- Chris
R14.1.2. I am not using kdbusnotification. The default notification
daemon is xfce4.
In TDE the notification popups are tiny. They look fine when using
Xfce4. Any ideas to resolve?
Thanks.
I'm looking for ideas or a check list how TDM might block or ignore
desktop notifications. Notifications appear as expected when using a
different DM.
I am not using the kdbusnotification package. R14.1.2.
Thanks.
I use my Alexa speaker, connected to Bluetooth for computer audio.
I just noticed that, when I went to adjust the volume, using the volume
control in the system tray. the volume never changed...
Why is the volume button not working?
Thanks,
Chris
Debian 12 Bookworm ( Base Install, then Installed TDE on top of it)
Latest Version of TDE
