hi, everybody . . .
first, the discussion of kmail passwords has puzzled me a little. for
*decades* i've set up kmail to store my password, and have not been
prompted about it since. i vaguely remember being prompted for kwallet at
one time or another, usually when logging in to Proton VPN, but that's not
happened in a long time, either. in that i've had the same configuration
for years, i can't remember what i did to bring this about.
what i have encountered instead is another issue that might be kmail or it
might be something else. it is sufficiently strange that it might be of
interest, so i'll describe it.
i use ProtonMail. i hate webmail, so am happy that there is an application,
ProtonMail Bridge, that does the heavy lifting as to login, encryption,
and so on. it logs into the server, and kmail logs into it. kmail goes to
127.0.0.1 for the mail. the bridge application goes out and uses the
mile-long ProtonMail password to log in to the server. the bridge is
supported for thunderbird and a couple of other mail clients of which
kmail is not one, but the setup is pretty straightforward except for one
thing.
frequently -- not always, but often -- my kmail inbox gets not just the
mail but phantom copies of it. in the same mail run it might get 20
messages with six of them seemingly doubled. one of the two is the email
message, no problem, while the other one is blank. the blank one has
peculiar aspects. for one thing, i can't delete it in the normal way. i
delete it, but it doesn't go away. instead, it has a line struck through
it in the message list. when i restart kmail later, it is now gone. if i
haven't deleted it, it is still there.
probably unrelated, every so often, maybe once a month, a mail check will
cause an eruption of mail going back a couple months, and i get old mail
all over again.
as i said, this is probably not kmail-caused. i mention it because maybe
someone here will say, "hey! i know what that is!" and mention something
i've missed. sadly, for all its goodness Proton is happy to cling to
the "that client is unsupported" excuse.
another oddity involves my keyboard, which i like very much -- nice and
loud -- but it is a USB keyboard. it behaves strangely: it works just
fine, as now, but then after a few days it doesn't seem to register some
keys and endlessly repeats others. but i don't think it's the keyboard, in
that rebooting fixes it 100 percent of the time, for a few more days.
any guesses?
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In my last email I asked:
" How do you delete those local folders to set up KMAIL as MAIL DIR?"
It looks like the local folders that are there now, use .mbx format,
because I see a COMPACT option, when you right click on the folders.
I am also needing to know how do I set up a MAILDIR directory to copy over
from Evolution to KMAIL?
Thanks,
Chris
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I have been trying and failing to get my three monitors,
two of which are ancient and all of which are different,
to produce matching colors. I'm using the NVIDIA non-free
driver.
For purposes of this discussion let's ignore the hardware
color controls (which are inadequate).
I can use the NVIDIA X Server Settings utility which has
excellent controls for R, G, and B but intermittently tells
me that something else has changed the color settings.
I can use Trinity Control Center / Peripherals / Display
but the Monitor Gamma function affects all three monitors
simultaneously. Unlike other gamma controls that seem
to prefer a number near 2.2, this seems to prefer a
number near 1.
I can use Trinity Control Center / System Administration /
/ Monitor & Display which purports to control the three
monitors separately but the instant I move any gamma control
by the smallest increment my right-hand monitor (no matter
which monitor I have selected) looks like a 1980's CGA
display. (This can be fixed by rebooting or by starting
the NVIDIA X Server Settings utility.)
There is also Trinity Control Center / Peripherals /
Color Profile which I have not used, and where everything
is unchecked in hopes of not confusing myself even further.
I have been unable to find anything online by searching, although
some CGA-like scrambling was mentioned in passing in this thread:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/trinity-users/msg11883.html
Can anyone point me to information on how TDE gamma controls
work, how they are supposed to be used, and/or how to stop
whatever in the background is overriding NVIDIA X Server
Settings?
Thanks!
--Mike
I found this while looking for a way to integrate tdewallet with KeepassXC.
It's sort of backward from what I wanted, but might be useful.
https://superuser.com/questions/1217643/is-it-possible-to-use-kwallet-with-…
Leslie
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Platform: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.1.2
tde-config: 1.0
Is there a way to configure the taskbar buttons with some feedback when
arranging to a different position among the other buttons?
I have the taskbar configured to allow manually arranging buttons, but
when I do this there is no feedback during the dragging until I drop the
button.
Just wondering whether I have something misconfigured.
Thanks.
I would like to offer that with my efforts to build TDE on vintage
systems, I built TDE R14.1.2 on Slackware 14.2 64-bit (gcc 5.5.0) and
Slackware 14.1 32-bit (gcc 4.8.2). Both systems are EOL as of Dec. 2023.
I did not build every package but core dependencies and packages built
and run.
I had to find some patches to back port. For example, some patches
related to hotpluggable hwlib and ensuring '-std=c++11' is declared with
tqt3.
These days my brain is entrenched in old fart elderly territory and I
have my days exhibiting grumpy old man traits. I have been out of the
loop for many years with this kind of development and tend to lose
patience easily. That said, that I have built the latest TDE on vintage
systems is remarkable.
Dare I say that the 14.1 builds are running on Pentium I/II single core
systems with less than 512 MB of RAM and a 3.10.107 kernel? A tad slow?
Yes, but everything functions and the slowness is mostly caused by PATA
drives.
I am impressed with the developers far more than a grumpy old man being
able to build TDE on vintage systems. Good job devs. :)
On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 11:19 -0500, Chris M wrote:
> In regards to Nik's post about The Orgins of KDE:
>
> I am curious to know what's the backstory on TDE?
> Why is KDE 3.5 being kept alive all of these years later?
> And what is TDE's Purpose?
>
> I LOOOOOOOVED KDE 3.5 back in the day, but , I could never get KDE 3
> to work right on my machine, like making it see the CDROM etc.
> But, when I found GNOME2 on Ubuntu 10.10 that became my home, then
> Unity, and KDE 5 for a little while, TDE for about a week, and MATE
> for the longest. And now im back to trying TDE.
>
The reason that I asked this question yesterday, is because, I LOVED
KDE 3, but i'm scared to run TDE.
I've been reading on Reddit about TDE and read about how NO Linux
distro will carry TDE because its a liability
due to some kind of " Internet Stacks" still using KDE 3 code, and how
unsafe it is, and how running TDE would be like
connecting a Windows 98 PC to the internet without a firewall etc.
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> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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>
> * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram*
>
> * LMDE 6 "Faye"*~~~* TDE Desktop ( TRINITY ) instead of
> Cinnamon*~~~*
>
>
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Thanks,
Chris
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I am just curious, is KMAIL supposed to pop up the KWALLET app asking for the
password everytime I launch KMAIL?
If not, its kinda annoying, how do I fix it?
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Thanks,
Chris
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Hi all!
Does anybody remember why KDE introduced the "kdesktop" window and did not use the X11 root windows for it's job? I just noticed that this "kdesktop" is (again) on front of the conky window and I was unpleasently remembered of that strange decision from ages ago.
Nik
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