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user-dependent compose combinations
by D. R. Evans 18 May '18

18 May '18

Does anyone have instructions as to how to add compose key combinations for an individual user? I have seen quite several mutually-exclusive methods that are purported to work, but I haven't had any success here. Here is the current situation (which does not work): $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Following the man page for Compose, I have the following ~/.XCompose file, which should (according to the man page) import the system-wide Compose file for my locale, and add one extra entry (for testing purposes): ---- include "%L" # import the default Compose file for your locale <Multi_key> <asterisk> <asterisk> : "⁂" asterism # ASTERISM ---- But when I try to enter a compose sequence, it seems that only the ones in the system-wide file are used. For example, the system file /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose has the following lines: ---- <Multi_key> <asterisk> <0> : "°" degree # DEGREE SIGN <Multi_key> <0> <asterisk> : "°" degree # DEGREE SIGN ---- if, in this e-mail, I type the sequence: compose * 0 then, as expected, I see: ° but if I similarly type the sequence: compose * * I see: [i.e., nothing] I've probably done something stupid, like made a typing error somewhere, but I've stared at the files, and re-read the man page multiple times, and I just don't see why what I've done doesn't work. I have rebooted, just to make sure that the files are read correctly; to no avail. (Probably just a restart of the X server is needed [if that], but rebooting seemed more certain.) Doc PS I am on debian stable, fully up to date. -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans

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trying now to solve a kmail puzzle
by dep 17 May '18

17 May '18

hi, everybody . . . after a little research, and spurred by that pile of stuff that wanted to be autoremoved, i went ahead last night and changed my sources.list to reflect Ubuntu-16.04-LTS and Preliminary Stable and did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. (ubuntu has traditionally supported LTS-to-LTS upgrades, which makes sense.) and so far, fingers crossed, everything is working. now comes the part that largely sparked all this upgrade frenzy (though the gemini project has figured in, too, this is now about my desktop machine): getting kmail to work with protonmail. i seem to have all the pieces installed. but there are some configuration issues that i cannot sort -- i simply don't know that much about the mechanics of email. i have the beta of the protonmail bridge, which is alleged to allow use of a local mail client in linux rather than being tied to protonmail's admittedly very nice webmail. the only configuration example they give, though, is thunderbird. might someone who knows mail well look through here and give me a sense of the analogs in kmail? most of it i can sort out, but such as the "IMAP exception" confounds me, as does where i'm supposed to tell kmail about 127.0.0.1:1143 and 127.0.0.1:1025. i know the numbers after the colons are the port, but no idea about the 127.0.0.1. there are a couple of other things that also puzzle me. the instructions, for thunderbird, are here: https://protonmail.com/bridge/thunderbird#1 that failing, does anyone know of a good way to export vast kmail message archives to thunderbird? dep Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because privacy matters.

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have i wrecked everything here?
by dep 17 May '18

17 May '18

evening, folks . . . i just attempted to install a deb package, which failed for the lack of some qt5 widgets. so i ran apt-get -f install, and after it ran it informed me of this: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: acpi amarok-common-trinity amarok-engine-xine-trinity amarok-trinity arts-trinity bluetooth bluez-utils crystalcursors desktop-effects-tde-trinity dmz-cursor-theme fonts-arabeyes foo2zjs fortune-mod fortunes-min fotoxx-common gir1.2-ges-1.0 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gstreamer1.0-gnonlin gtk-qt-engine-trinity gtk3-tqt-engine-trinity gwenview-trinity kaffeine-trinity karm-trinity katapult-trinity kbstate-trinity kdbusnotification-trinity keep-trinity kmag-trinity kmailcvt-trinity kmousetool-trinity kmplayer-base-trinity kmplayer-konq-plugins-trinity konversation-trinity kopete-trinity kpf-trinity kppp-trinity krdc-trinity krfb-trinity ksplash-engine-moodin-trinity ksystemlog-trinity ktorrent-trinity kubuntu-default-settings-trinity kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts-trinity kvkbd-trinity landscape-client landscape-common lftp libavahi-tqt-1 libccfits0 libcfitsio3 libdbus-tqt-1-1c2 libges-1.0-0 libifp4 libjs-sphinxdoc libmp4v2-2 libnjb5 libqt5concurrent5 libraw9 librsync1 libscim8c2a min12xxw pnm2ppa powermanagement-interface pxljr python-gst-1.0 python-pylibacl python-pyxattr qt4-tqt-theme-engine rdesktop rdiff-backup scim-bridge-client-qt scim-im-agent scim-modules-socket screen speedcrunch splix strigi-daemon synaptic-trinity tqca-tls ttf-arabeyes ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming ttf-lao ttf-malayalam-fonts ttf-thai-tlwg ttf-unfonts-core now, clearly some of these i really do not need -- ttf-malayalam-fonts comes to mind -- but there's a lot of trinity stuff that is listed here. am i safe in telling it that, yes, it may autoremove these? it seems a little much. dep Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because privacy matters.

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upgrade jessie to stretch : no keyboard and mouse in graphics mode
by andre_debian＠numericable.fr 16 May '18

16 May '18

Hello, Since I upgraded from Debian Jessie to Stretch, no keyboard and mouse with trinity desktop. (hard reboot necessary). Keyboard works in konsole mode (recovery), no Xorg launched. My video card is a Nvidia geforce 304, driver non free, downloaded from Nvidia site. How to recover keyboard and mouse in graphics mode ? Thank for your help, André

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HDMI switch, screen size and quality
by deloptes 16 May '18

16 May '18

Hi, I used till now DVI to connect the PC to the monitor. I recently bought a digitus 4K HDMI switch 4x1 to be able to switch between 3 HDMI inputs. However when I switched on the PC and X started, all was messed. Default resolution was 1280x720 instead 1920x1080. The display area is partially out of the monitor size, so that the panel is not visible and lastly the quality of the image was really bad (like insufficient frequency or sync or whatever) I switched back to the DVI cable and I am wondering if someone can point me to the right direction. regards

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still plugging along with gemini
by dep 15 May '18

15 May '18

hi, everybody! i'm still in the always-exciting configuration stage of linux on the little gemini. and i have not found a satisfactory mail client. there used to be a world of them and there really aren't anymore. i've installed, configured, and in minutes grown to hate thunderbird. likewise the latest kmail. that leaves nothing. i thought that the current kmail might be good because it turns out that kwin is nothing but plasma desktop (in fact, i can at login choose plasma. ick) so it seemed as if many of the underpinnings would already be there; still, it was a 6-gb download and displays all the things that made me not like post-3x kde. so a couple of questions: how much stuff would i have to install to get kmail-trinity to work here? and would it get along okay with the kwin/plasma/qt5 stuff already installed? dep Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because privacy matters.

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] konqueror freezing temporarily
by Kate Draven 15 May '18

15 May '18

> On Monday 14 May 2018 11:38:57 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > Am Montag, 14. Mai 2018 schrieb wofgdkncxojef(a)gmail.com: > > > When the bug starts, it keeps freezing for several seconds when opening > > > new folders. Then some how it goes away. Restarting konqueror doesn't > > > help. > > > > > > Actually, i think if i try to select the url, it does the same thing. > > > I didn't figure out what triggers it, it happens rarely, but when it does > > > it's very annoying, it takes many seconds to unfreeze. > > > > > > Anyone knows what triggers it and how to make it stop when it starts > > > freezing up. > > > > Are you sure your hdd is OK? > > > > Nik > > No, it's not a hardware issue. > The shell and the rest of the PC works fine. > This happens if i simply try to select the url > This is not all the time, just rarely. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you have an external mechanical hard drive connected and on? If the drive goes to sleep, konq will pause to give it time to spin up. Kate

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off-topic desktop on off-topic wm, but maybe someone here knows
by dep 15 May '18

15 May '18

greetings, everybody . . . as planet computers gemini configuration enters its second week, with pretty much all linux-side software beta or worse, i actually have a sort-of working machine. (configuration won't be *utterly* complete until i have magnifying lenses implanted in my eyeballs -- 2160x1080 on a six-inch screen means that everything defaults to absurdly tiny; i opened a console with mc running in it and could have covered the window with a postage stamp, and i'm not exaggerating. though i've configured out of most of that.) but i've hit a problem that i can't figure out at all: the window manager is kwin and the desktop is lxqt. apparently both have been hacked a bit, though i may risk trying a trinity install (will it run atop kwin?) because i simply know and like it much more. but for now i need to play the cards as dealt. the device is touch screen, which for many if not most purposes is worthless. it is especially useless in dealing with the "panel," or what we would call the kicker. by default it is ridiculously tiny, but i was able to talk it into being 60 pixels high with 48x48 icons (the default is, i think 28 pixels high and i know the icons were 22x22). so now it takes a stripe across the bottom of the screen, making it even more oblong on a screen that has no space to spare. i've enabled autohide, but this is its own problem -- swiping down or touching the bottom edge to make it reappear is a very chancy thing. it can be done, but it's a minute or more of trial and error. so i want to bind a key combination to raise (and potentially lower, though if it times out and goes back down on its own, fine with me) the thing, and i haven't the first clue where or how to do this. there are in both lxqt and kwin configuration tools things called "shortcuts" which appear to be key bindings, but i do not have the slightest idea even what such an action would be called. i haven't found anything like "raise panel" as a choice. i suspect the answer will be to add or edit a line in an .xml line someplace in ./configure. any ideas? tde has kicker, so i suspect the two are fairly similar (maybe even the same code), but at this point i don't even know whether the wm or the desktop is where this ought to be done. thanks. dep Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. Because privacy matters.

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konqueror freezing temporarily
by wofgdkncxojef＠gmail.com 15 May '18

15 May '18

When the bug starts, it keeps freezing for several seconds when opening new folders. Then some how it goes away. Restarting konqueror doesn't help. Actually, i think if i try to select the url, it does the same thing. I didn't figure out what triggers it, it happens rarely, but when it does it's very annoying, it takes many seconds to unfreeze. Anyone knows what triggers it and how to make it stop when it starts freezing up.

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Off topic: Mer
by elcaseti 12 May '18

12 May '18

elcaseti wrote: > In the past, KDE could be used with Mer. I'm not sure that has changed. Might be, the point is, both are qt5 based and so have very good touch screen support. But when you compare the Mer desktop with KDE it is stable. So for me personally KDE failed to deliver again something reliable. It looks almost that they are doing prove of concept or beta testing with KDE. I personally can not imagine waking up in the morning and need to debug something to read mail or so... ===================== I didn't realize the Mer project had developed it's own desktop. Very interesting.

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