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TDE menu color
by Darrell Anderson 13 Jun '25

13 Jun '25

Where in KControl is the TDE panel menu color controlled? I can change the panel color and background image, but my menu color is gray. How do I change that to black(ish) with white text? I am not much into themes so an extra clarification or two would be helpful. Thanks. :)

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Konqueror and sftp
by ajh-valmer 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Hello, I use Konqueror as a file manager for remote files. I type "sftp user@ip -P port number". Example : "sftp ca(a)10.12.13.2 -P 94788 However, this command no longer works. Did I type the correct syntax? Thanks, cheers. André

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Using Alien to convert .deb to .rpm
by J Leslie Turriff 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

Does anyone here know how to work Alien? So far I have had no success converting a .deb package to .rpm so I can install it on my machine. Attached is a terminal session that shows what's happening. I tried sending a support request to the maintainer, but my email bounced with "joeyh(a)debian.org: SMTP error from remote server for RCPT TO command, host: muffat.debian.org (209.87.16.33) reason: 550 Unrouteable address". Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0

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Using external player for system sounds; how do I pass arguments?
by simon.stockhaus.95＠gmail.com 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

I want to play system notifications through Pipewire's pw-play due to having some issues with ARtS (high CPU usage, volume spikes when playing multiple sounds - I'll write a bug report later), but if I just specify 'pw-play' as the player in the Knotify settings it only plays one sound at a time, I'm presuming since it's run as a foreground process. I know that you can add an '&' to the end of a command in the terminal to spawn it as a background process, is there a way to do something similar here? 'pw-play &' doesn't work since I'm assuming the file argument is appended to the end (or if the sound data is passed through stdin, idk how this works). Help would be appreciated.

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No sound. Pipewire+arts
by Frans 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

On laptops i have PClinuxOS with TDE. On 1 i did not install Pipewire etc: still sound. On another i just let all the update come incl. pipewire etc. : no sound. Does arts have a problem? Does Devuan have pipewire and can have TDE? I -want- sound. Please, who has some experience in this? Frans

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cannot install really on Ubu24
by Frans 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

It wants to remove desktop-base. Not wise i think. And scary. How to proceed ? frans

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Various bug reports
by raine263＠proton.me 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

Hi, Apologies if this is the wrong place to submit bugs. I initial tried reporting bugs via the Bugs link on the webpage, https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/issues, but it requires a login, and doesn't give an option to create a new account. I'm on Arch Linux, and after using Trinity for a few days, I noticed a few issues: 1. Dolphin is lacking the option to have a common display for all directories 2. Konqueror: maximum thumbnail limit of 100MB is to small by modern standards. I have video files that are measured in 10s of GBs for example... 3. Konqueror/Dolphin: thumbnails for basically all modern video files (example: mkv h265) are not generated. Would be nice to have a modern ffmpeg backend. 4. Thumbnails for JPEG XL and AVIF images are not generated. Similarly, they cannot be viewed at all. 5. Switching to another virtual terminal session (like a Plasma 6 session running for another user) and then switching back to the TDE session results in black screen, with only the mouse cursor visible. (Using SDDM.)

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Various bug reports
by raine263＠proton.me 02 Jun '25

02 Jun '25

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TDE Environment Variables in Debian/Devuan
by Darrell Anderson 28 May '25

28 May '25

I am a Slackware user. I have a Devuan VM, primarily to observe TDE differences with Slackware and to test TDE interaction with other desktop environments (DEs). In the VM when I log into a DE other than TDE, such as KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, etc., none of the TDE packages populate the respective DE panel menu. The reason is that none of the environment variables are set to find TDE software installed to the non standard /opt/trinity directory. Variables such as $PATH, $PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and $TDEDIR, $TDEHOME, etc. In Slackware I configure some /etc/profile.d scripts to modify these env. variables in a manner similar to starttde, but only if the user elects to include TDE variables in the environment. For you Debian users, is there an "adopted" TDE approach to allow a user to easily configure the environment variables? Thanks. :)

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New Slackware Build Environment
by Darrell Anderson 26 May '25

26 May '25

Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps, flies and mosquitoes, and bald-headed ants, For some time I have been creating a set of TDE build scripts for Slackware. Like many such projects, this started as a way to scratch my own itch. The scripts are written in the spirit and style of stock Slackware, SBo, AlienBOB, and Salix build scripts. On both 64-bit and 32-bit Slackware 15.0 I am able to compile 163 of 179 R14.1.4 packages. Spot tests on the desktop shows most everything functions. I built most of R14.1.4 on Current 64-bit, but a few glitches remain. For vintage computer users and for fun, I built most of the R14.1.4 packages on 14.2 64-bit (requires some updated stock packages). Excluding tde-18n, which at the moment builds as a single package, the build time for the remaining 162 packages is about 2 to 2.5 hours in a VM on my 8 year old 4-core system with SATA III SSDs. A 32-bit VM runs a bit slower. A test run on a dual core with 4 GB RAM and using the SATA II SSD as working space rather than tmpfs required about 5.25 hours. The scripts will compile with debug symbols for those who want to help debug and troubleshoot. The scripts are flexible with many build options. For many Slackware users the script collection likely is complete. Sounds encouraging so many packages can be compiled, but there remain challenges beyond my skills and experience. Although good quality beta at this stage, minutia and hair balls remain. Time to let this child go and let more capable hands finish the scripts. Remaining needs: * Expertise to finish the language bindings scripts. * LDAP and (Heimdal) Kerberos expertise to finish related scripts. * Split the i18n packages into individual language packages. * Test and break the scripts (they work well here but who knows). * Find missing patches, fix nuances, etc. * Patch TDE cmake and automake files to improve Slackware support. * Usability testing to ensure packages compiled correctly. * Ensure debug symbols create useful back traces. Gory details are available in the script documentation. Yes, there is documentation as well as significant commentary in the scripts. I ask the following: * Consider the build environment to be quality beta, usable and fairly solid but incomplete. * Please inform me if the scripts are moved online to a centralized location. I am letting go of the project, but I'm curious to see how my baby grows up. * I have no intention of joining or creating accounts on git flub or any other such service. Doesn't interest me. If you move the scripts online in that manner I will help through email as best as I can when asked. * As best as I can I will reply to emails about what rope I was smoking when I conjured up certain code and functions. Please do not flood me with a multitude of questions in a single email. I'm an old man, sometimes a grumpy old man. One or two topics per mail please. * I am not paid tech support. I have taken the scripts as far as I can go. As best as I can I will help but from now on, you break you fix. * I am not tethered to a phone or the web. I check email but do not expect Pavlovian replies. * I accept that just about everybody has different perspectives and ideas how build scripts should function. My hope is my approach is good enough for others to finish and polish. I hope Slackers use the scripts at a personal level, but my long term goal always has been that the scripts are massaged to become part of the TDE packaging system. I want all interested Slackware TDE users to benefit. This move would provide a centralized set of scripts for all Slackware users, but would provide a way to allow Slackware users to download binary packages, much in the way of other third party repos like AlienBOB and Salix. Okay. Enough of the sales pitch. Here is a link to a 13.2 MB tar.gz of the script collection: https://www.remembertheusers.com/files/tde-slackware.tgz To use the build scripts, unpack the archive and read tde.GETSTARTED. To help resolve known issues read tde.FIXME. The script collection could be much smaller, but I included build script collections for two untested obtuse third-party packages for k3b and koffice. Statler and Waldorf commentary about my scripts or senility should be forwarded to /dev/null. Thank you Jim Diamond for your reviews, patience, and insights with the scripts. I learned a few things from you. Thank you for your attention. May we always see darkstar on our first boot. :-) D.A.

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