Hi, everybody . . .
This is a weird one. It's under Debian testing, but it happened under
Tapeworm, too. With TDE testing.
Running LibreOffice 24.8.2.1. For close to 15 years, I've had "Insert
hyperlink" in my RMB menu in text fields. With the updates (I think
specifically of LibreOffice) but cannot be absolutely sure, it's still
there. But clicking on it spawns a dialog box for character formatting. So
I deleted it and replaced it. Same thing. Renamed ~/.config/libreoffice
and reinstalled LibreOffice itself. Added "Insert hyperlink" to menu. Same
thing.
So I tred it on my notebook, also running testing/testing. Same thing.
It is easier to configure the Linux kernel than it is to configure
LibreOffice, because LibreOffice tries to allow for everything, no matter
how unlikely, and gives it all equal weight. For instance, if you go to
Tools > Customize > Context Menus, you have a choice of 49(!) menus you
can edit. The fun part is that none of the menu names is reflected in the
places where you would find those menus.
Nor are the things controlled by them accessible. I'd rename the character
formatting thing if I could find it, and see what happens then. But can't
find the frigging thing. I'd use AbiWord, but it, like KWord and Calligra,
seem to be pretty much abandoned, and in the case of the latter two
developed by people who do not know what a word processor is for.
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As of a recent TDE update (sometime in the past month or less), moving files
to trash has become painfully slow, with the operation typically taking tens
of seconds instead of a second or two.
This has happened in the past with remote disks mounted over ssh (there was a
thread about this maybe two or three years ago), but now it is happening with
local storage.
Are other people seeing this? If not, any ideas what might be the problem?
For the sake of completeness, I will make the "I haven't [knowingly] changed
anything here" statement.
Doc
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Greets, everybody.
It's been more than a week since I seriously broke anything, and of course
that cannot stand, so I thought I'd upgrade to Debian Trixie a/k/a
testing. Which I would do forthwith if and only if there is some version
of TDE that rns or is likely to run on it.
Is there?
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I've been taking a look at what KDE 5 had become. Actually, it was faster than
I had expected (in the MX-Linux implementation). Not that I think about
changing DE, but it raised a question:
Running TDE, I have no problem starting KDE apps (Kdenlive or Kalzium for
example) or xfce apps.
But is it possible to start TDE apps from xfce or KDE (TDE's Konqueror as file
browser would be usefull)? I suppose it is, but just starting the app fails,
so I guess there must be some magic incantation required.
Thierry
As an experiment I forked the old KGtk software, stripped out kdialogd and
replaced it with calls to libportal. This makes it desktop agnostic and
allows GTK2 apps to use portals. It also contains fixes that can be
backported to Trinity's KGtk-qt3. It's still far from stable however so I
wouldn't recommend installing it outside of testing purposes.
https://github.com/rjb330/portal-wrapper/
Attached screenshot shows portal-wrapper opening files in GIMP with the new
xdg-desktop-portal-tde prototype.
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Have ordered Samsung PCIe SSD and the appropriate card for the X1 slot on my motherboard. The idea is to run everything that isn't /home from there. Writes would therefore be relatively few. It's 1tb, so there are wide open spaces for wear leveling. Should greatly reduce drive-caused slowness.
All that isn't /home is on a 75gb partition on sda, and I thought I'd just dd it over. But then it occurred to me: wouldn't that create the problem of two drives with the same UUID?
The second issue is keeping the contents of the backup boot partition, a partition on sda, in sync with the SSD. I looked at Raid 1, but I believe that requires starting with two or more blank disks, not something to be tacked on later, so that's out. Is there a fairly uncomplicated way of keeping their contents identical? Nice if automatic, but if I need to do it manually every week or two, so be it.
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Well, this is new.
Suddenly, with no changes to anything, KMail started throwing the
error "Could not start process for imap."
I have no idea where to begin to sort this out. I've never encountered it
before. A web search offers no help. And I have made no changes to
anything. It was working and then it wasn't. Comes back, I think, when
KMail checks for mail.
I've restarted KMail, to no effect. I'm loath to reboot because I have
things running I'd like to not interrupt.
Anything jump out to anyone who knows more about mail systems than I do?
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Some months ago I asked here if there were a way to log my ISP's downtime,
and got a useful answer. Today I've been attempting to refine it a bit,
and there is some progress, but not success.
Here's what I have:
[code]
#!/bin/bash
#monitor frontier communications downtime
ping -i 3 -O -D 1.1.1.1 | while read row
do
awk '{ sub(/[0-9]{10}/, strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", substr($0,2,10))) }
1' <<< "$row"| tee ~/frontier_downtime.log
done
[/code]
Most of it is simply converting internet time to human time, because I
might have to use it to support a complaint. It runs fine in a terminal, a
nice ping and result every three seconds, but only writes the first line,
the first ping result, to the logfile. (And yes, ir's probably sloppy.)
What do I have wrong?
Bonus question: any way to keep it running with the terminal closed? I
can't even use & to free the terminal; I'd like to start the thing and
have it cook merrrily away without a terminal open or even minimized, and
use top or killall to dispose of it if that becomes necessary.
I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious.
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Note: I've asked the same question per e-mail to the mailing list but the server seems to be down for a while, so if this crops up a second time just ignore.
Hello everyone. First let me say thanks to everyone involved in this project, highly appreciated.
I've compiled almost everything of the latest stable release on Void Linux and installed everything into /usr/local/stow/tde prefix. I use stow for stuff I compile myself (it makes symlinks into /usr/local).
Almost everything of TDE compiled and works fine, but with koffice and some other remaining packages that are not built with cmake, those packages cannot find TQt3.
Now the configure script does find tqt3 once:
checking for tqt... yes
checking TQt_CFLAGS... -DTQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DTQT_NO_STL -DTQT_NO_COMPAT -DTQT_NO_TRANSLATION -DTQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -include tqt.h -I/usr/include/qt3 -I/usr/local/stow/tde/include/tqt
checking TQt_LIBS... -L/usr/local/stow/tde/lib64 -ltqt -ltqt-mt
Detected TQt3.
and then fails:
checking for TQt... configure: error: TQt (>= TQt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library tqt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
Make sure that you have compiled TQt with thread support!
Here is a complete config.log: https://pastebin.com/h7YYQ7rg
I've tried looking at the FreeBSD and gentoo compile scripts and tried different ./configure options, I've tried compiling tqt3 and tqt3-interface again with all options I found in the compile scripts and put them into a seperate prefix and tried configure with the extra-lib-dir options. etc.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
