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today's immature bothersome question
by dep 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

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 Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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Re: [trinity-users] Re: starting kweather?
by Kate Draven 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

> 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.

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] starting kweather?
by Kate Draven 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

> 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.

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] today's immature bothersome question
by Kate Draven 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

> 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

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starting kweather?
by dep 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

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 Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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btw -- thanks!
by dep 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

update just brought the new tde. many thanks to all who worked to make it happer! dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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the continuing drama of tiny computers
by dep 01 Jul '18

01 Jul '18

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 Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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Print OK from MacOS, not from Linux
by Thierry de Coulon 01 Jul '18

01 Jul '18

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

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more on the font size / dpi issue
by dep 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

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? dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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I may have spoken too soon . . .
by dep 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

Last night we had one of our twice- or three-times-weekly electrical blackouts and, while the gadgets are all on uninterruptible power supplies I shut them down before the juice was gone from the backups. When this morning I rebooted the GPD Pocket, it went to the TDM login screen, where the spaces for entering username and password were small but the fonts for typing them in were huge. Nevertheless, I was able to log in and, instead of the pristine TDE desktop I'd enjoyed at shutdown, I had one where Kicker and so on were the size I had set, but again the fonts -- in the calendar, in names below icons, and in menus, were enormous. My sense is that something upstream of TDM is doing this. The Ubuntu install defaults to Unity and lightdm. When I installed the two big TDE packages I set TDM as the default. But of course I'd had to run Unity in order to install TDE. My first thought is to purge Unity and lightdm, but it might be that this won't solve the problem, and that someone here who is familiar with the macinations of X and such might have a sense of where there's a configuration file that is causing this to happen. Anybody know? Thanks. dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.

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