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TDM "greeter screen" location(s) non-themed
by Felix Miata 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

With two or three displays, sometimes the login panel shows up on one screen only, but on others, it may be two, or may be three. Is there something in tdmrc that I'm missing about GreeterScreen=, or not understanding (near top of file) that can control how many on which greeter appears? Absent a specific GreeterScreen= setting, typically either the lowest resolution screen seems to acquire focus, or first choice goes to connection using the oldest technology (1VGA>2DVI>3HDMI>4DP) if not more than one having it. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Why I've decided to fully switch to TDE
by rave002＠o2.pl 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

Plasma got so bad over the years that when I switched to Linux over a year ago (switched september 2024, over a year before Win10 EOL) I didn't feel any different. Apps still took a minute or so to open, the entire desktop was laggy AF, the mouse cursor itself kept freezing (literally the same thing I experienced on Windows on the same machine), and yes, it happened both on Wayland and X11, so I can't even blame Wayland for that one. And the time it takes from the login screen to the functional desktop is enormous. Trinity (and pretty much all other DEs, maybe except GNOME which is trash anyway so it's okay) on the other hand is lightning fast and very functional. I don't even know where KDE did go so wrong, because I remember using KDE4 in ~2010-2014 (when I used Linux last time) and it was fast and functional, even with all graphical additions, animations, etc. and plasma desktop with plenty of plasmoids, on much weaker hardware (Geforce 9600, yes, it was before GTX was a thing, Core2Quad Q9450, 4GB RAM). Plasma has basically two speed settings: Fast (right after installation, don't touch anything and not customize a thing) and laggy AF after even the slightest bit of customization. TDE has much more reasonable resource requirements.

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strange things happening ...
by William Morder 22 Nov '25

22 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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[Bug] Mouse scroll becomes intermittently inoperative in Firefox for some weird reason
by rave002＠o2.pl 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

The reason I say intermittently is because there's a workaround for when the mouse scroll stops scrolling in Firefox and it's... kinda weird. You first need to switch to another app where mouse scroll still works (or launch one), in my case I use Telegram for that as this is what my family uses to communicate with each other, scroll there for a bit, then alt-tab back to Firefox and the mouse scroll suddenly works. And yes, you have to scroll in the other app, otherwise when you alt-tab back to Firefox (using the newest 145 here), the scroll still won't work otherwise. Pretty weird.

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[Bug] Panel can't be set to autohide, because then it can't be brought back by moving mouse to the screen edge
by rave002＠o2.pl 22 Nov '25

22 Nov '25

So, when you set up a panel to autohide after certain amount of time (doesn't matter if it's the main panel or additional, user-made one) and check "bring back when user moves mouse" (the checkbox that lists all the different variations where mouse could be moved to bring back the panel, like upper-left screen corner, left edge, bottom edge, etc.) after clicking apply and letting the panel hide, moving mouse to the selected edge does nothing and the panel becomes completely inaccessible. I have to manually hide panels with buttons, because otherwise I can't bring it back. No idea if it's the right place to bring bugs like that, just wanted to let you know as I've decided to main TDE from now on (so expect more reports like that, sadly can't contribute any code to fix those as I am not confident enough to write a good code and also I don't have a second machine to test stuff on).

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Weird Kbabel crashing on TDE 14.1.3 ?
by Andrew Randrianasulu 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

bash-5.1$ [2025/11/21 10:41:49.074] TQGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key [2025/11/21 10:41:49.074] TQGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key [2025/11/21 10:41:49.076] [kbabel] [26332] ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave: tdelauncher said: Unknown protocol ''. [2025/11/21 10:41:49.076] [kbabel] [26332] [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'kbabel' crashing... I just tried to load ru_RU.po from slint-translations/po/Handbook .... Yes, know, this is old version, but I wonder if anyone saw crash like this before ?

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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 20 Nov '25

20 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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ibus issues
by Daniel Wilkins 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

Hi y'all, retrying trinity with the new release and I'm having some problems: I'm studying Japanese, which means that I'm running ibus in order to switch keyboard layouts between English and Japanese. I've noticed that in Discord (and a the moment I can find no other examples,) it doesn't work, the keyboard layout refuses to change in Discord itself, and my shortcut keys for switching between hiragana and katakana don't work. I've never had a problem with this in other desktop environments, I've also never had any problems with it while using a plain wm such as ice or even older ones like amiwm. Is there some sort of legacy international input going on in TDE which might interfere with how ibus works? This is on slackware 15.0 using 14.1.5 from the Ray-V tde-slackbuilds. Thanks, Danny

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MX-25 + TDE remix available
by Thierry de Coulon 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

For those interrested, MX-Linux 25 (based on Trixie) is out and I have produced a new respin including TDE. As previously, MX-snapshot requires lightdm/xfce to work, so you get an xfce installer, but TDE (from psb) is installed, you "just have" to choose TDE at login and - if you want - use tdm instead of lightdm. The archive includes a readme. Size is 4.4 GB and the download link is: https://mega.nz/file/0jolRCjJ#_h9CFQoJBO4nVc37FedFSrvJLEh2QKM47XBUqDtdVkY Thierry

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BD-R support in k3b/TDE ?
by Andrew Randrianasulu 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

I tried to burn 25 Gb BR-R (just as data disk, no fancy video) but discovered that k3b as shipped with TDE: R14.1.3 does not allow me to pick BD-sized project. Is there chance to see "on the fly" (due to hdd space constrains on my end) BD /udf 2.01 mastering added to k3b? For now I used imgburn under wine, but cdrecord seems to know how to deal with BD drivers and disks: guest@slax:~$ cdrecord -atip -dev 4,1,0 Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Joerg Schilling scsidev: '4,1,0' scsibus: 4 target: 1 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.36 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'ASUS ' Identifikation : 'BW-16D1HT ' Revision : '3.11' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 BD-ROM driver (mmc_bdrom). Driver flags : NO-CD BD MMC-3 BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. Disk type: 'BDR' (BD-R) Disk class: 01 Manufacturer: 'RITEK' Media type: 'BR3' Disk: is not in cartridge Media cartrige: write protect is off Free Spare Blocks: 0 Alloc Spare Blocks: 0 rzone size: 40 rzone number: 1 border number: 1 ljrs: 0 track mode: 4 copy: 0 damage: 0 reserved track: 1 blank: 0 incremental: 1 fp: 0 data mode: 1 lra valid: 1 nwa valid: 0 rzone start: 0 next wr addr: 0 free blocks: 0 blocking factor: 32 rzone size: 10877120 last recorded addr: 10877119 read compat lba: 0 Capacity Blklen/Sparesz. Format-type Type 10877120 0 0x00 Formatted Media guest@slax:~$

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