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Hint: Best way to install TDE on old platforms
by John Logsdon 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

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

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22 Jan '18

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

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Latest on Linux on tablets with (please Lord) Trinity?
by dep 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

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

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Session logout from script
by Roel Wagenaar 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

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. -- Roel Wagenaar, telegram: 0629426511 Linux-User #469851 with the Linux Counter; http://linuxcounter.net/ Antw.: Omdat het de volgorde verstoord waarin mensen tekst lezen. Vraag: Waarom is top-posting een slechte gewoonte? Antw.: Top-posting. Vraag: Wat is het meest ergerlijke in e-mail? If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is it homeless or naked?

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Slax with Trinity
by Slávek Banko 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

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

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Re: [trinity-users] Session logout from script
by Nikolaus Klepp 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

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 -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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tried to install R14.04 on Ubuntu 16.06 LTS: abort
by Uwe Brauer 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

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

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TQT3 Error
by Oleg Levenets 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

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.

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the linux phone gadget thing
by dep 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

well, it seems as if this thing is actually going to ship. there's a $200 discount still on indiegogo, but i don't know for how long. here it is at CES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLawxkYyug&feature=youtu.be it'll ship with debian stretch and xfce, which i plan to replace with tde. the only "pointing device" it has is the touch screen, which means that i'll need to maximize the amount of stuff i can do with the keyboard. i vaguely remember, but never have used, a kde accessibility package that effectively used the arrow keys to replace the mouse. and because of the screen size, i especially want kicker to disappear when it's not in actual use, i'd like to be able to show/hide it with a key combination or some such. anybody know if this is something i could assign in the current TDE? or that maybe already exists? 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

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Increase the font size of the icons name
by andre_debian＠numericable.fr 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

Hello, Happy New year 2018 ! How to increase the text font size of the icons name, under them, on the desktop ? (make text bigger) Thanks and best regards. André

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