Hello,
I guess François Andriot would best answer this question.
I am experimenting with installing Linux on a Sony Vaio Tablet (Vaio Tap 11,
model SVT112113CXB ). This has proven *much* more difficult than on a
Microsoft Surface Pro 2:
- You can disable SecureBoot in the BIOS *but* it is still there! The first
consequence is that I can't install Debian!
- Other Linux version more or less did install (Ubuntu 16.10, Alexandre's
PCLOS, openSUSE) but I everytime has trouble.
In the end, the only install that (really) runs well is openSUSE Tumbleweed:
really snappy under Gnome 3, onscreen keyboard, it even tries to use the
accelerometer and rotates the screen (although in a somwhat eratic way)
Now, of course, there is no installation of TDE for Tumbleweed. Would the
instruction for 42.3 work?
Now, a Tablet is not where I need TDE most, but...
Regards,
Thierry
Hi there.
I recently bought two bluetooth nunchuck-like controllers.
You hold it in one hand and it has a swivel X-Y axis thingy for your thumb.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/For-Wireless-Bluetooth-Gamepad-VR-BOX-Remot…
As a test I paired them with my laptop.
I discovered that buttons C and D change the volume and somehow Amarok
interprets some button presses as next track, although that doesn't work
consistently.
I started looking for programs to do the button mapping but I couldn't
find one that worked with this controller.
My question is, where are these mappings stored in Trinity?
Regards,
Philip Ashmore
Hi, I am trying to get my go to program for writing music, MuseScore to
work with the Trinity desktop. I am aware that Trinity uses aRts for
sound and I would prefer to keep the default. When starting MuseScore
with aRts, the MIDI score playback is greyed out. I have been told that
apulse is a possible alternative to PulseAudio, but I have yet to find
anyone that has gotten MuseScore to work with aRts or apulse. The
alternative is of course to install PulseAudio, but I am trying to keep
Trinity as vanilla as possible, to avoid problems down the line. Does
anyone on the list use MuseScore with aRts or apulse, and how did you
get it to work?
I am new to Trinity as I never used KDE 3.5 when it was available, but I
am loving it now. I have Trinity installed on top of a Devuan (no
systemd) Jessie minimal cli install. Thanks.
Brian
Hello all!
I can't install TDE from repositories listed on the page
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/OpenSUSE_Trinity_Repository_Installation_In…
Zypper says me trinity and trinity-noarch repositories don't exist at
those URLs.
If so, where can I get actual repositories for openSUSE Leap 42.3?
Best wishes,
J. Drahun
Hello all,
I connect to my school's vpn with openconnect (which requires root), then
connect to the shares from konqueror (smb://...), which does not.
I've tried to automate this a little with a bash script.
It first runs tdesu <openconnect_script>, then konqueror smb://...
My problem is that I need to run:
tdesu <openconnect_script> &
Then, I need to wait for that script to succeed before connecting to the
shares. I can't use wait{!} because the script does not terminate.
My current solution is sleep, which globaly works. I've noticed that if I
connect from a konsole I get a notification (new network tun0 found). I
wondered if I could read some event linked to that notification to start the
konqueror connect script.
Any idea?
Thierry
Greets, Gang . . .
As I prepare for arrival of the Gemini, and while waiting have heard most
or all of the rumors, I've been looking for operating system alternatives.
It is supposed to arrive with Android and Debian Stretch in a dual-boot
configuration. We do not know what the bootloader will be, but there's
reason to suspect that it'll be some Android thing. Android is, of course,
little more than a spyware platform on which applications can be run. (And
in its way IOS is even worse.)
My only concern with Stretch is that best I can tell it doesn't really much
support telephony.
It was pointed out that Purism (https://puri.sm) is at work on a Linux
phone that it is hoped will be secure. They already have a Debian-based
distribution with, of course, source code. (https://pureos.net/)
So I'm thinking that it might soon be possible to blow the Android stuff
and anything else remotely Gappish off the Gemini and replace it with the
PureOS OS.
Which leads to two questions:
Does anyone here have any experience with PureOS?
Does PureOS play nicely with TDM?
This thing seems very promising -- I just don't know if the promise is
kept.
--
dep
The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar:
the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson,
available at www.MarjorieThompson.com
Hi
After I installed successfully trinity on Ubuntu 16.04, I tried to
shutdown the machine using Control Alt delete: the trinity menus
pops up, as usual, but then when I chose shutdown, the system only
logs me out.
Any idea how to solve this?
Uwe Brauer
Folks
Starting with the standard desktop flavour of 16.04, I always managed to
get in a tangle on my old Dell Precision 390 when trying to add Trinity.
It has an old Quadro NVS 285 video card that works nicely once Trinity is
installed but makes a mess of the default desktop with my dual 1280x1920
screens.
I had to blacklist nouveau and install the Nvidea driver, which is far
more than necessary, the latest version won't work anyway, and a real pain
in the derriere.
I suspect people will have similar problems trying many current versions
of Linux with a lot of old kit which is otherwise perfectly adequate and
functional.
So just install (Ubuntu 16.04) SERVER (ie no X), upgrade all packages, add
the Trinity repositories then install kubuntu-default-settings-trinity and
kubuntu-desktop-trinity.
Nothing else - it pulls in all the packages required, all 500 odd of them.
No messing with a fuzzy purple screen, you see all the console startup
meesages and then it loads TDE on F7 and of course you can get a command
line login in Ctl-Alt-F1 etc.
Very nice and clean. Who wants any other desktop? And why ask for a
bundled Trinity Linux which makes unnecessary extra work?
Perhaps such a hint could be added to the installation guides...
Best wishes
John
John Logsdon
Quantex Research Ltd
+44 161 445 4951/+44 7717758675
I assume the answer to be "no", but:
Is there any way to get an onscreen keyboard at the TDE login screen?
Actually this is the only "problem" left on this machine (Toshiba z20t):
refind does not work, so it's impossible to choose the OS at boot and to
login in tde without the keyboard.
This is not really a problem because I only want the tablet in special
situations, but the problem just nags.
Have a nice day,
Thierry
Greets, folks . . .
I once loved my iPad, but Apple has made me hate and despise it, with
constant unwanted terrible updates that remove functionality and have
reduced battery life from <12 hours to >3 hours. (IoS 11 sucks so badly
that it pulls the branches off nearby trees.) I have had it with the iPad.
But I have need of a tablet.
It's been awhile since I heard anything involving Linux being put on a
tablet; for a time I had a version of Linux running on an H-P Touchpad,
which has long since died. The X support was semi-decent -- I had either
OpenOffice.org or Libre Office running (very slowly) on it.
That was probably six years ago. I kind of hope that some sort of Linux/X
development has taken place, but haven't been able to learn much. Anybody
know if there has been?
And the important question: would it be possible to put TDE on it and if I
did, would it work?
Thanks!
--
dep
The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar:
the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson,
available at www.MarjorieThompson.com
