in my seemingly never-ending attempt to equip the GPD device with TDE and optimize its configuration, i'm trying to set the screen not to just blank but to power down when the screensaver is called. but when i get to kcontrol > system administration > monitor & display, i get:
Will not save configuration
Configuration file "/home/dep/trinity/share/config/kiccconfigrc" not writeable.
Please contsact your system administrator.
So I got up and walked into the other room, where there is a mirror, and contacted myself face-to-face, but it got no better. And looking in the referenced directory I see that it, alone among the config files there, has root ownership and instead of the plain text file icon has one of the little question-mark icons signifying an unknown filetype. if i try to open it with kate, it is blank. it is *not* a symlink.
before i break smething i thought i'd ask -- is there any reason this file has these atributes?
dep
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> William Morder wrote:
>
> > You are anthropomorphizing your computer, and childishly ascribing to a
> > machine your own personal likes and dislikes.
> >
> > Everybody knows that computers run on Guinnness Extra Stout.
>
> There has been a study ages ago, that people (especially women) tend to
> handle computers as human beings. Funny but true :)so this is nothing
> unusual.
> There was a story I heard that in the 1920ties older woman in Germany put a
> cake infront of the radio so that the homunculus inside would have
> something to eat :)
>
> regards
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Studies have also shown such behavior to be the product of a superior mind.
They also show that things tend to last infinitely longer in the hands of such
people.
More importantly. Cake? That's ridiculous! Everyone knows homunculus' only
eat cheesecake.
Kate
PS I think we should end it here otherwise this will be yet another lengthy OT
string.
I blame Bill.
> On Monday 02 July 2018 04:47:06 Kate Draven wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag 01 Juli 2018 schrieb William Morder:
> > > > On Sunday 01 July 2018 14:04:31 dep wrote:
> > > > > i just installed kwether and, when nothing appeared on the kmenu,
all
> > > > > of kde toys, which did appear -- but not kweather. nor will it start
> > > > > from the command prompt by typing either kweather or
> > > > > kweather-trinity. what
> >
> > am
> >
> > > > > i doing wrong?
> > > > >
> > > > > âdep
> > > >
> > > > Isn't that an app that you can add to the panel? I don't use it, so I
> > > > hesitate to make suggestions, and don't want to screw up my own panel
> > > > with experiments. However, as I recall, you right-click to unlock the
> > > > panel,
> >
> > the
> >
> > > > right-click again to add apps.
> > >
> > > I can confirm that. Right-click on the unlocked kicker panel,
choose "Add
> > > applet..." and a nice box opens with a list where you should find
> > > kweather.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Stefan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> > You forgot to tell him, he needs to offer the computer chocolate as well.
> >
> > Kate
> >
> >
>
> You are anthropomorphizing your computer, and childishly ascribing to a
> machine your own personal likes and dislikes.
>
> Everybody knows that computers run on Guinnness Extra Stout.
>
> Bill
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Heretic!
The Chocolate Gods will punish you for your hedonism.
> On Mon July 2 2018 03:31:56 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Yes, I can hear system noises before I login. Login and they become muted
> > and firefox is silent, until I stop whatever FF is playing and issue the
> > alsoctl restore command, which reports a can't do that, system is busy,
> > but when I restart FF playing whatever, it then works till the next
> > reboot.
>
> System sounds before login may be happening without ALSA so at the
> moment I'm not sure whether ALSA is working before login.
>
> You could try speaker-test (ALSA white noise generator) to see if
> ALSA is working before login (or aplay if you have something playable).
>
> Let's check that ALSA is set to start automatically. Do you have
>
> ls -l /etc/*.d/S*alsa*
>
> You should have a link called something like /etc/rcS.d/S16alsa-utils
> to /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.
>
> --Mike
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
You should also try turning up all the vols.
I have a audigy sound blaster. I can play amarok (front) with one vol, but
smplayer uses another (center). I spent 10 mins trying to figure out why
amarok played but smplayer didn't until I decided to play with the kmix
settings.
Also install all the alsa related controls. In case there's a mute in there.
Good luck,
Kate
i just installed kwether and, when nothing appeared on the kmenu, all of kde toys, which did appear -- but not kweather. nor will it start from the command prompt by typing either kweather or kweather-trinity. what am i doing wrong?
dep
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greets, everybody . . .
it occurred to me that some of the immediae scaling issue might be resolved by installing the trinity remix of libreoffice. but, alas, it seems that neither the keyserver nor the repository can be found. has libreoffice-trinity been deprecated?
dep
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This certainly is not Trinity related but as this list is full of experienced
people...
For some time (I *think* since I moved to Debian 9 but not sure) I get smeared
outputs of my trusty Laserjets. I have both a 4200 and a 4250 (I prefer to
buy second hand, Postscrypt, professional printers to first hand
consumer-grade stuff). Not always, tends to happen more when printing double
sided and less when the printer has been off a while.
I had thought this was old cartridges and I had to survive until I change
them, but today I had to print some older stuff that dwells on my old
hackintosh and... beautiful print! No problem at all.
So. Then it's Linux, not the printers.
I'll soon make a test install of the latest openSuSE and see if there is a
difference. Both MacOS and Linux using Cups, I'd have thought that standard,
Postrcrypt drivers would be the same.
Thierry
while continuine the seemingly unending search for a way to make the GPD Pocket work acceptably with TDE, i found a file, /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90-scale, whic seems to address the sacling issue, at least for fonts, on a range of desktops. here are its contents:
gsettings set com.ubuntu.user-interface scale-factor "{'DSI-1': 14, 'DSI1': 14}"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1
gsettings set org.mate.font-rendering dpi 168.0
i wonder: is there a line for TDE that would work here to improve things? the scaling of the other desktops is just fine and orks well. alternatively, is there another window manager that might work with TDE and be more amenable to scaling?
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