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TDE & conky
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Hi all! I try to get a transparent background with conky, but somehow I need dirty tricks to make it going: When I start conky from .xinitrc ("sleep 15; conky -d"), the background is blue and stays blue when TDE is running. Conky writes text on that blue background, but never erases it, so it gets unreadable after some time. Switching to another desktop and back again does not change this. The behaviour is the same without delay, so that TDE starts in parallel and twin comes up after conky. When I start conky from .trinity/Autostart/<something>.desktop - which calls only "sleep 15; conky -d", then the background is black and stays black, conky erases it before writing. Switching to another desktop and back again gives a pseudo-transparent background in conky. When twin comes up after conky, then the background of conky is as above (blue without erase). I have put the second way including switching desktops into a file that's called from TDE autostart, so things basicly work. But what I do not understand: what is the difference from calling conky from .xinitrc to calling it from .trinity/Autostart? And what chages, if twin comes up before/after conky? I'm quite sure that this is TDE specific, 'cause when running fvwm I do not observe this. And it looks like it is OS agnostic, I see the same thing happen on FreeBSD, too. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Removing multiple partitions from a USB stick.
by Baron 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Hi Guys, I've been trying without any success to remove multiple partitions from a USB stick ! Please can any kind soul help by telling me how to do this. Thanks in advance. -- Best Regards: Baron

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Problem with starting arduino ide (from devel to user)
by MLR 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Hi again. Did Nik mean chmod o+w or chmod a+w? I looked to the manpage, a+w is writeable for everyone. It can solve the message "failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp'". But I learned that user shouldnt write in /etc/... folder. When I made chmod a+w /etc/tqt3 does it affect on /etc or only in /etc/tqt3? I dont want to destroy my system. :/ For the new readers, this is my problem: I have ubuntu 18.4 with trinity R14.0.5. If I want to start the arduino ide from arduino.cc (download and extract arduino-1.8.7-linux64.tar.xz) there comes the splash-screen for one second and it crashes with this message: ~/arduino-1.8.7$ ./arduino Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for writing What I have to install or change? I logged in today with the ubuntu standard desktop and the arduino ide works great. deloptes points in devel to $CLASSPATH, the var in empty in my shell. ./arduino is a bash script. Thanks for the help. On 30.11.18 21:21, deloptes wrote: > Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I have 14.0.6~pre + openjdk-8-jre-headless + arduino 1.8.3. I remember >> that I once saw the error you described, but that's been quite a while. >> You might try "chown a+w " as a last resort :-/ >> > > but this has nothing to do with OPs problem and it is a bad idea to give > permission to everybody to write in /etc (you mean chmod o+w). > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > >

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switching from gnome to tde on stretch, what do I edit?
by Gene Heskett 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

The install didn't switch it, and gnome won't show me the tools. Help! Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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back on wheezy 2 problems w/stretch
by Gene Heskett 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

First is the tde desktop looks a bit strange. When I installed, because getting rid of gnome is such a pain in the ass, I chose xfce4 during the install, and although I've installed several hundred of the core trinity bits, I still have an xfce4 desktop. /etc/X11/default-display-manager says twm. /etc/init.d has lightdm. I'm getting the tde login but am not getting tde. And I can't run a root session in a Konsole, display 10 no perms. I guess thats more than two problems. Do I rip lightdm out by its hair with an rm to it in etc/init.d or what to actually get a tde x session running? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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kmail has become essentially unusable
by Gene Heskett 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

I just stopped it, reinstalled everything kmail related in a synaptic search, and restarted it from the tde menu. It immediately reported two bad indices, for folders emc and spam-hold, and took 32 minutes to scan those 2 folders and open its gui. I own as gene:gene with perms from 600 to 644 in the /home/gene/Mail subdir. It is NOT updating now for 4 days, the files in /home/gene/Mail/emc/cur to indicate read or important by appending the ':2,S' or ':2,RS' but it is generating new indices, 2 of them everytime it tries to scan that folder, so it CAN create/write to that folder. There are around 60100 messages in that folder, and the indice files are drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Mar 31 12:08 emc -rw------- 1 gene gene 44551163 Mar 31 12:08 .emc.index -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 240389 Mar 31 12:08 .emc.index.ids These 2 files have been nuked to see if a rebuild fixes it, no. And now everthing kmail, about 8 packages, has been re-installed from the local archive since the mirror is missing now for several days. Is there a fix? Or can it be fixed short of installing a stretch netinstall on a new drive? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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[trinity-users] Fedora - where is default xsession configured?
by Felix Miata 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

In Debians, it's /etc/X11/default-display-manager. In openSUSE 15.0, it's /etc/alternatives/default-xsession.desktop. startx opens TDE session. Neither works in Fedora 29. startx starts X, then exits. startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde works, but shouldn't be needed. There are only two installed, Trinity, and IceWM. Default should not be neither. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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smb://xxxx problem
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Hi all! Is there a way to set the workgroup when connecting to a samba server using "konqueror smb://server/" ? By some obscure reason smbclient can connet to the server usen "-W NAMEOFWORKGROUP", but konqueror can only show the publicly anounced shares but cannot connect. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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folder problen in kmail
by Gene Heskett 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

I am going thru a phase where one of my kmail folders is about to roll over the 65,536 for number of msgs. Unforch as it approaches this it goes thru a phase where a group of messages is not being marked as they are being read, so everytime I leave that folder after having read the same 28 (this mornings count) messages for about the 10th time, and it does mark them read as I re-read them, but when I come back to that folder, it takes 30 secs or so to scan it for unread, and them marks them as unread again. Doing an ls -l on Mail/emc/cur shows these files without the appendages as follows: -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9223 Mar 27 08:03 1553688235.6391.LiBdm:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9246 Mar 27 08:16 1553688964.6391.BJZIy:2,RS -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9322 Mar 27 08:50 1553691034.6391.5xr6g:2,S -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8944 Mar 27 09:16 1553692607.6391.0Q1hQ -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 10866 Mar 27 14:06 1553709994.6005.a5pLa -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 11497 Mar 27 14:18 1553710720.6005.jKZVa -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 10992 Mar 27 14:42 1553712166.6005.RBD79 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 12402 Mar 27 14:55 1553712913.6005.pCJ8s -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 10043 Mar 27 15:52 1553716351.6005.9yXfM -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8038 Mar 27 16:40 1553719225.6005.V1wmO -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9095 Mar 27 17:04 1553720673.6005.nsaQf -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9384 Mar 27 17:07 1553720854.6005.zJ0nJ -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 11269 Mar 27 19:35 1553729726.6005.SnEOl -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 14813 Mar 27 20:11 1553731902.6005.CwKRo -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 11731 Mar 27 20:29 1553732987.6005.H6Oq1 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8933 Mar 27 21:11 1553735515.6005.O3hqS -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8889 Mar 27 21:39 1553737161.6005.vdlh5 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9105 Mar 27 22:00 1553738447.6005.Jrmmh -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 12810 Mar 28 16:16 1553804210.9481.5wDVe -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9690 Mar 28 16:16 1553804211.9481.FXlrf -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8851 Mar 28 16:16 1553804213.9481.RFXOf -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 7964 Mar 28 16:16 1553804216.9481.0ysrQ -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9512 Mar 28 16:16 1553804217.9481.1c0Gn -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8792 Mar 28 16:16 1553804217.9481.hBg3G -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 9021 Mar 28 16:16 1553804217.9481.ODcCm -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8846 Mar 28 16:16 1553804217.9481.xLM3g -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 7845 Mar 28 17:33 1553808826.9481.epVh2 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8826 Mar 28 17:37 1553809025.9481.Y4qD9 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 7956 Mar 28 22:04 1553825086.9481.alSnz -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 8934 Mar 28 22:04 1553825087.9481.aw1c0 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 11298 Mar 29 01:43 1553838220.9481.v5Iqy Does anyone have a clue how I might fix this. I just did a mark all as read, clears the displayed count, without it showing in the next ls -l. The current msg count is 60103 with these 27 once again claimed to be unread. And from past experience with another list folder, it will eventually get well, but will be a pita until the message count passes another "magic boundary" which I don't recall the value of. kmail has also, according to htop, taken to using 100% of a cpu for half an hour at a time as it tries to fix thatever has gotten out of kilter. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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[trinity-users] any suggestions for migrant from windows/quickbooks?
by Felix Miata 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

I want to get my sister off her Macdows onto Linux. Any suggestions how to deal with her long commitment to Quickbooks? Web searching for migrate from Quickbooks to FOSS or Linux is not going well. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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