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
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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
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available at www.MarjorieThompson.com
Is there a method to logout from a session from a script?
Now at 23.00 my desktop does a tdm-trinity stop, followed by a shutdown, I would
like to logout first an then stop trinity.
--
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Antw.: Top-posting.
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If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is it homeless or naked?
Hello to everybody,
before the release R14.0.5 will be completed, I have one small gift for
you. Some of you may have known and used live distribution Slax. You
might be interested in a new version of Slax combined with Trinity:
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Slax_with_Trinity
Cheers
--
Slávek
Am Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2018 schrieb Roel Wagenaar:
> You wrote:
>
> > Am Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2018 schrieb Roel Wagenaar:
> > > Is there a method to logout from a session from a script?
> > >
> > > Now at 23.00 my desktop does a tdm-trinity stop, followed by a shutdown, I
> > > would like to logout first an then stop trinity.
> > >
> >
> > You could do the following, depending on what you want to achieve:
> >
> > Just perform logout, if TDE is configured to shutdown after logout, it will
> > turn off the computer (in most cases), but you will have to run it some
> > minutes before shutdown:
> >
> > $ dcop ksmserver ksmserver logout
>
> Much to my surprise a very ancient solution still works on tde:
>
> dcop kdesktop default logout
>
> DEpending on the config for standardlogout, of course.
>
>
>
> Roel Wagenaar,
Now this is a good one, thank you :-)
Nik
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Hi Some weeks ago I successfully installed R14.04 on Ubuntu
16.06. Now I tried it on different machine. I followed
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/UbuntuInstall and I added deb
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu
xenial main deb-src
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu
xenial main deb
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/ubun…
xenial main deb-src
http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/ubun…
xenial main sudo apt-key adv --keyserver
keyserver.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net --recv-keys F5CFC95C
Then sudo apt-get install kubuntu-default-settings-trinity
kubuntu-desktop-trinity I was asked to confirm the installation,
but then I received an abort! Never happened before. Then I
tried Sudo aptitude install kubuntu-default-settings-trinity
kubuntu-desktop-trinity Then I obtain
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libsmbclient : Depends: samba-libs (=
2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.9) but
2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.12 is to be installed. open: 29;
closed: 151; defer: 4; conflict: 4 .The following actions will
resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following
packages: 1) gvfs-backends 2) libsmbclient
Keep the following packages at their current
version: 3) amarok-engine-xine-trinity [Not Installed] 4)
amarok-trinity [Not Installed] 5) kaffeine-trinity [Not
Installed] 6) kmail-trinity [Not Installed] 7)
kmailcvt-trinity [Not Installed] 8) kmplayer-base-trinity
[Not Installed] 9) kmplayer-konq-plugins-trinity [Not
Installed] 10) konq-plugins-trinity [Not Installed] 11)
konqueror-nsplugins-trinity [Not Installed] 12)
konqueror-trinity [Not Installed] 13) kontact-trinity [Not
Installed] 14) kubuntu-desktop-trinity [Not Installed] 15)
libxine2 [Not Installed] 16) libxine2-misc-plugins [Not
Installed] 17) libxine2-plugins [Not Installed] 18)
smbclient [Not Installed] 19) tdebase-tdeio-plugins-trinity
[Not Installed]
Leave the following dependencies
unresolved: 20) gnome-bluetooth recommends gvfs-backends 21)
rhythmbox recommends gvfs-backends 22) nautilus recommends
gvfs-backends 23) digikam-trinity recommends konqueror-trinity
24) amarok-common-trinity recommends amarok-trinity (>=
4:14.0.4-0ubuntu16.04.0+0) 25) kubuntu-desktop-trinity
recommends kaffeine-trinity 26) kubuntu-desktop-trinity
recommends kmailcvt-trinity 27) kubuntu-desktop-trinity
recommends kmail-trinity 28) kubuntu-desktop-trinity
recommends kmplayer-konq-plugins-trinity 29)
kubuntu-desktop-trinity recommends kontact-trinity 30)
ktorrent-trinity recommends tdebase-tdeio-plugins-trinity 31)
kipi-plugins-trinity recommends kmail-trinity 32)
kipi-plugins-trinity recommends konqueror-trinity
Is it save to continue?
Uwe Brauer
Hi, is anyone using Trinity for Slackware? On my Slackware 14.2,
kdesktop is not always loaded, the error seems to be related to tqt3
and the use of utf-8 encoding in the system. This happens when using
the smp-kernel, there is no error on the usual kernel. Unfortunately
I'm not a programmer and I do not know what can be done. I attached a
log, maybe it will help to understand what might be the matter.
https://paste.ee/p/mjK6J
best regards, Oleg Levenets.
