I’m trying to upload the tde.pm for MX Linux to the Wiki. Permitted file
types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, webp. Okay, whatever, I can rename it to
tde.png, except the Wiki is a perfectionist:
“File extension ".png" does not match the detected MIME type of the file
(application/xml).”
Would one of the Wiki admins add both .txt and whatever extension handles
(application/xml) to the permitted file upload types list? Or just turn the
MIME type matching off.
Thanks,
Michael
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I note that in the instructions for installing TDE R14.0.8 say to run as
root the following:
apt-get update
aptitude install TDE-trinity
I am confused by the fact that two different installation applications are
used here, apt get and aptitude. It was always my understanding that those
two apps should not be mixed because they are not compatible. I have
always used apt for all the desktops I ever had including for installing
TDE and never had any problem.
Is aptitude better for TDE than apt? I would prefer to use apt because that
is what I plan to use for installing Debian Buster on a couple of desktops
in the near future.
Ken Heard
Hi all!
I've just upgraded some old machines and ran into a issue with mounting flash storage devices:
pmount only: mounting/unmounting works as expected, but pmount leaves for each plugged device a folder with one file in /media/*/.created_by_pmount - is there an easy way to tell pmount to remove that file+folder when the device is unplugged?
udisks2 only: no folder in /media/ is created, mounting fails. I need to create e.g. /media/usb /media/usb0, then mounting/unmounting works. But this is not consistent across machines, some maschines mount flash devices under /media/<username>/... - there mounting/inmounting works, if the folder /media/user/ exists. But how/where can I unify the behaviour, so it always mounts devices on /media/<device> ?
Nik
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I'm setting up TDE-based Debian on a new machine and I've run into a problem I have not
experienced on any other of my machines with similar configurations: KMix can't control audio
volume. More specifically, I have two audio outputs: an HDMI one (via nVidia card with
proprietary drivers) and a front panel audio jack. Sound works correctly on both outputs and I
can control it with pavucontrol (PulseAudio sound mixer). However:
1. KMix master slider that appears after clicking on the tray icon does absolutely nothing.
2. When I open the mixer window in KMix it recognizes PulseAudio as an audio device. There is just
one volume slider and it does nothing.
3. Another recognized audio device is HD-Audio Generic. This has a bunch of output sliders and the
sliders work correctly (i.e. they change the volume) when the sound is directed to headphones,
but not when it's directed to HDMI (output change done via pavucontrol).
4. The final audio device recognized by KMix is HDA Nvidia. This only has seven toggles labales
IEC958. First toggle mutes/unmutes the sound, the remaining ones don't seem to be doing anything.
I'm puzzled. This is the first time I see KMix master slider not working at all, even though I
have pulseaudio set up on all my other machines with TDE. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Janek
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Issue:
In TDE in MX18 (stretch) the MX Tools apps would open in TDE.
In TDE in MX19 (buster) the MX Tools that need to run as root will not open in
TDE. The behavior is click the menu item and nothing happens (e.g. do not
get any prompts for password).
MX Dev:
“What does TDE Buster use to escalate permissions for their apps that need
it?”
“We did switch them to using a wrapper called mx-pkexec to keep the tools
working on Buster after Debian removed gksu and went more to policykit-based
privileges.”
This isn’t huge, really just an annoyance, as I can login to Xfce to run any
of the MX Tools I need...
Example Menu Command:
su-to-root -X -c mx-packageinstaller
Copied mx-pkexec, su-to-root, and other called items below.
I tried the example command, it seems to need a GUI, as it borks with 'wrong
password' (when the root password is correct).
Any thoughts would be really appreciated.
Best,
Michael
Ref’s:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=589003#p589003
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/mx-pkexec
#!/bin/bash
# MX Linux pkexec wrapper to retain QT environment
# Usage:
# mx-pkexec mx-apps ...
# original code by fehlix for MX-Linux
if test "$EUID" != 0; then
# normal user
# wayland fix (chkboom)
if [ x"$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" != "x" ] && [ -n "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY##/*}" ]; then
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/$WAYLAND_DISPLAY
fi
QTENV="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/tmp}/mx-pkexec-qtenv.$EUID.$PPID.$$.
$RANDOM$RANDOM"
if [ -f "$QTENV" ] ; then
rm $QTENV
fi
umask 0022
touch "$QTENV"
while IFS=$'\n' read -r ENV; do
IFS='=' read PAR VAL < <(echo $ENV);
echo "export $PAR=${VAL@Q}" >> $QTENV
done < <(printenv | grep -E '^DESKTOP_SESSION|^KDE_FULL_SESSION=|
^LANG=|^LANGUAGE=|^LC_|^QT_|^XDG_SESSION_TYPE|^XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP|
^WAYLAND_')
echo "CURRENT_WORK_DIR='$PWD'" >> "$QTENV"
chmod +r "$QTENV"
pkexec /usr/bin/mx-pkexec "--qtenv" "$QTENV" "${@}"
if [ -f "$QTENV" ] ; then
rm $QTENV
fi
fi
if test "$EUID" == 0; then
# root user
# set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR - do nothing if already set
if [ x"$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" = "x" ]; then
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/0
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
[ -d $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ] || mkdir -p $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
chmod 700 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
chown 0:0 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
fi
if [ "x$1" = "x--qtenv" ]; then
QTENV="$2"
shift
shift
if [ -f "$QTENV" -a "x$QTENV" != "x${QTENV#*/mx-pkexec-qtenv.}" ] ;
then
. "$QTENV"
rm "$QTENV"
cd "${CURRENT_WORK_DIR}"
unset CURRENT_WORK_DIR
fi
PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
fi
# check if command is given within one parameter, split by eval in case
[ $# == 1 ] && eval set "$@"
RUN="$1"
shift
# check remaining parameter are quoted twice and do unquote
[ $# != 0 ] && [ -z "${1##[\'\"]*}" ] && [ -z "${1%%*[\'\"]}" ] && eval
set "$@"
echo Starting "$RUN" "${@@Q}"
command -v "$RUN" >/dev/null || { echo "mx-pkexec: Command '$RUN' not
found"; exit 1; }
exec "$RUN" "${@}"
fi
exit
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/su-to-root
#!/bin/bash
if test -r /etc/su-to-rootrc; then
. /etc/su-to-rootrc
fi
if test -r ~/.su-to-rootrc; then
. ~/.su-to-rootrc
fi
PRIV=root
COMMAND=
NEEDS=text
gettext=$(which gettext 2>/dev/null)
transl() {
txt="$1";
shift;
if [ -n "$gettext" ]; then
txt="$(gettext su-to-root "$txt")";
fi
printf "$txt" "$@"
}
eshell() {
getent passwd $1 | cut -f7 -d:
}
usage () {
transl 'usage: %s [-X] [-p <user>] -c <command>
-c command: command to execute as a string (mandatory)
-p <user>: user to switch to (default: root)
-X: command is a X11 program\n' "$0" >&2
exit 1
}
for i in "$@"; do
case "$prev" in
-p)
PRIV="$i";;
-c)
COMMAND="$i";;
-X)
NEEDS="X11";;
esac
prev="$i"
done
if [ -z "$COMMAND" ] ; then
usage;
fi
euid=$(id -u)
privid=$(id -u $PRIV)
if test "$euid" = "$privid"; then
sh -c "$COMMAND"
else
case $NEEDS in
text)
if test "$euid" != 0; then
transl 'About to execute %s.\n' "$COMMAND"
transl 'This command needs %s privileges to be executed.\n' "$PRIV"
fi
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
SHELL=`eshell $PRIV`
case $SU_TO_ROOT_SU in
sux) suname=sux; pwuser="$PRIV"; cmd='sux -p "$PRIV" "$COMMAND"';;
sudo) suname=sudo;pwuser="$USER"; cmd='sudo -u "$PRIV"
sh -c "$COMMAND"';;
*) suname=su; pwuser="$PRIV"; cmd='su -p "$PRIV" -c "$COMMAND"';;
esac
transl 'Using %s...\n' "$suname"
transl 'Enter %s password at prompt.\n' "$pwuser"
yesexpr=$(locale yesexpr)
while ! eval $cmd; do
transl 'Incorrect password or command failed. Try again? (y/N)'
read ans
if echo "$ans" | perl -e "<> =~ /$yesexpr/ and exit(1);"; then
exit 1
fi
done;;
X11)
if test -z "$SU_TO_ROOT_X"; then
if which gksu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
SU_TO_ROOT_X=gksu
if test "X$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = "Xtrue" ; then
if which kdesu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu
elif test -x /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu ; then
SU_TO_ROOT_X=kde4su
fi;
fi;
elif which kdesu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
SU_TO_ROOT_X=kdesu
elif test -x /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu ; then
SU_TO_ROOT_X=kde4su
elif which ktsuss >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
SU_TO_ROOT_X=ktsuss
elif which sux >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
SU_TO_ROOT_X=sux
else
SU_TO_ROOT_X=su-to-root
fi
fi
case $SU_TO_ROOT_X in
gksu) gksu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";;
gksudo) gksudo -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";;
kdesu) kdesu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";;
kdesudo) kdesudo -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";;
kde4su) /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";;
ktsuss) ktsuss -u "$PRIV" "$COMMAND";;
sux) env SU_TO_ROOT_SU=sux \
x-terminal-emulator -e su-to-root -p "$PRIV" -c "$COMMAND";;
# As a last resort, open a new x-terminal-emulator and prompt for the
password
# Do not use -X here!
*) x-terminal-emulator -e su-to-root -p "$PRIV" -c "$COMMAND";;
esac;;
esac
fi
michael@local [~]# which x-terminal-emulator
/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
michael@local [~]# ll /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 May 30
22:29 /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator -> /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator
michael@local [~]# ll /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 30
22:29 /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator -> /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
michael@local [~]# ll /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1124 Aug 15 2019 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Terminal.wrapper - Debian terminal wrapper script
#
# Copyright (c) 2004-2005 os-cillation
#
while ($opt = shift(@ARGV))
{
if ($opt eq '-display')
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV);
push(@args, '--default-display', $arg);
}
elsif ($opt eq '-name')
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV);
}
elsif ($opt eq '-n')
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV);
}
elsif ($opt eq '-T' || $opt eq '-title')
{
push(@args, '--title', shift(@ARGV));
}
elsif ($opt eq '-geometry')
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV);
push(@args, "--geometry=$arg");
}
elsif ($opt eq '-fn')
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV);
}
elsif ($opt eq '-fg')
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV);
}
elsif ($opt eq '-bg')
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV);
}
elsif ($opt eq '-tn')
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV);
}
elsif ($opt eq '-e')
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV);
if (@ARGV)
{
push(@args, '-x', $arg, @ARGV);
last;
}
else
{
push(@args, '-e', $arg);
}
last;
}
elsif ($opt eq '-h' || $opt eq '--help')
{
push(@args, '--help');
}
}
exec('xfce4-terminal',@args);
michael@local [~]# which xfce4-terminal
/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
michael@local [~]# ll /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 248384 Aug 15 2019 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
michael@local [~]#
michael@local [~/data/trash]# su-to-root -X -c mx-packageinstaller
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.mxlinux.mx-pkexec ===
Authentication is required to run this application
Authenticating as: root
Password:
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized
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Hey all,
I'm guessing the Wiki changed or something? I tried to log in, it said my
account didn't exist. I created a new account with the same credentials, it
logged me into my old account. It said I needed to confirm my email address
(same one I use here), email never showed up. After an hour I asked it to
resend, it said it did. After another ~3 hours now, neither has shown up.
What do?
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Hello,
I use debian Buster, TDE, all recently upgraded.
The sound volume adjust works well.
When TDE starts, the sound is always at the max level,
even if before stopping the laptop, I put down the volume
at the mini level (zero, no sound).
Each time after boot, I have to put the sound down manually.
Thank to tell me how to do to maintain the low volume.
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This absence is regardless of version. I have several installations on various PCs
all unable to produce a desktop context menu. What could I be missing? openSUSE
and Debian installations all work as expected in this regard.
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A quick question about KMail attachments. By default when I click on a (PDF) attachment KMail asks
whether to save it or open with KPDF. I have accidentally marked the "remember my choice"
checkbox. How do I undo that? I really want KMail to ask me what to do.
Janek
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