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OT: just for fun
by Thierry de Coulon 07 Sep '25

07 Sep '25

Just another example of what most of us here hate: My Android phone got upgraded to Android 16. When I wanted to shut it down... Long press on the "start" button and you get Gemini AI! You've got to go to the settings and change a "gesture" to again be allowed to turn off your phone.

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A request for the next version of Konqueror
by dep 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

I use Konqueror as a file manager, as I imagine most people do. In the toolbar there is the view mode button, but if you click on it nothing happens. You have to click on the unbelievably small -- I've never hit it on the first try -- down triangle that pawns a menu of view modes: Icon view, multi-column view, list view, detailed list view, and so on. Right clicking on it, as with every other button in the toolbar, renders a toolbar menu. So all the button does is provide that tiny triangle. Wouldn't it make more sense if the button itself produced the view mode list? It would certainlt be much easier to use. I'm sure there was a reason for doing it as it is currently done, but that reason seems to have disappeared. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Moving taskbar and calendar in panel
by dep 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

And a question. How does one move the clock/calendar on the panel? Mine has gotten shoved to the right to the point that the taskbar is shortened, but the control to move the taskbar to the left is greyed out because there is no room -- the calendar/clock is in the way. So I need to move it first. But there is no move control for the clock/calendar that I can find. Thanks! -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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cuppla things
by dep 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

First, some of us have had different experiences from mine installing Debian Trixie. That's because this time around I was testing the one-desktop tryout CDs, not the full-tilt install. So questions you get from the net installer you do not get from the one-desktop versions. Which is a crime, but there you are. (Also, trusting its partitioning is fraught with peril: I had to dump out of some software installation because / ran out of space, so I had to boot from a system rescue disk on USB and run GParted to make enough space.) Second, I've said ugly (and I think deserved) things about LXQT, but it does have one brilliant feature, in its little "Featherpad" equivalent to KEdit: As with KEdit, it will let you open files to which you do not normally have write permission, and even edit them. But unlike KEdit, if you make changes and try to save them, it prompts you for a password. That is a huge improvement in usability. Adding something like that to KEdit, unless it is overly complicated, would be a real plus. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Question finally ready to ask
by dep 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

I have a line I need to run sometime before the desktop appears on a dinky computer. It's an xrandr command that rotates the screen 90 degrees to the right and sets 168 dpi. What I don't know is where to put it. Anybody know? Thanks, dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Appearance & Themes lost after a system hang.
by J Leslie Turriff 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

Occasionally, after my system hangs (after forgetting to kill my Firefox instances), many of my customized desktop settings (colours, fonts) are lost and I have to reset them all (a tedious exercise). Does anyone know what might cause this, and how to prevent it? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.4 tde-config: 1.0

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what would it take . . .
by dep 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

. . . to get a full proper TDE Debian release? I just spent most of an hour removing the droppings of LXQT. This is because I figured -- erroneously, it seems -- that it would be the easiest of the Debian iso files to fumigate after I installed TDE. I downloaded and installed the image that Jacob made as MatrixOS; problem is, it seems to be Debian 12, Bookworm, so installation would immediately have been followed by a full system upgrade, which would have taken even longer than squashing LXQT. They have live CDs of damn near everything: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ I'll happily donate to wherever one must in order to get TDE added to the list. The fact that LXDE, LXQT, XFCE, and frigging Cinnamon are there and TDE is not is a crime. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Is there any way to require a modifier key in addition to mouse action to move and resize windows?
by Nick Koretsky 30 Aug '25

30 Aug '25

Hi! I looked all over settings but dont see anything. What i want is that windows cant be grabbed by mouse to resize or move unless modifier key is pressed. -- Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)

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Stop me before I buy again!
by dep 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

I have a ThinkPad X200 that I bought new from Lenovo when you placed your order and they built it to your specs in early 2008. It was very expensive -- I even sprang for the cellular option (3G, before we knew about Gs). Also with the docking station, which I used every day, all day, as my office desktop. Undocked the computer and brought it home each night. Replaced the 160gb hard drive with a faster 1tb one 12 years ago. Only had 4gb RAM because 4 more would have been something like $700. Ran Linux and TDE the whole time. And kept it in very good shape. So tonight I sprang for two 4gb memory strips for an 8gb machine (now $35 rotal) and splurged $88 for a 1tb Samsung 870 Evo ssd. I did not buy it a cellular account, so it will finish its days with its cellular circuitry unused. I've never even seen a Linux cellular application. Anyway, I hope it will now be a lot faster. The empty ExpressCard slot might so-remain, because there's nothing that goes there -- two extra USB-3 ports, or an SD card reader, or maybe an M.2 PCIe sata drive -- that would be more than spending money just to spend money. At least there's an excuse for the upgrades. Over the life of the machine, they might save me as much as half an hour. I may have overvalued my time. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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