Well, this is interesting.
It looks like Debian's new version is more than just systemd.
Trinity v14.0.2
Debian 8
When I plug in an encrypted USB disk, the password window opens as it
always did, but now it's complaining about HAL not existing.
When I tried to open it through the Konqueror device view, it also
failed. Attached are two screen grabs of the failures.
I'm not asking for this to be "fixed" in TDE, it seems that the
underlying hardware abstraction has changed in some fundamental way.
HAL isn't even in the repository for Debian 8. I expect someone will
get around to harmonizing this at some point, I'm sure I'm not the
only person who has encrypted external disks that used to work
seamlessly.
The more things change.....
Curt-
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Hello all,
On my test Ubuntu install on a Thinkpad, TDEPowersave offers "Suspend to RAM"
and "Freeze". The first works well and I understand what it does (I get the
small "moon crescent" glowing.
However, I dont really understand what "Freeze" is supposed to be. It seems it
turns the screen, harddisc and WiFi off but Bluetooth stays on... and I don't
know what else.
Thierry
On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, ant wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, deloptes wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Thank you for the hint - I didn't have udisks (or udisks2?) installed,
so
> > > I have installed it, and now I get no desktop icon.
> > > But I can mount it from the cli, possibly because I have an fstab entry.
> > > But experiments are continuing...
> > >
> >
> > can you check if this somehow applies to you please?
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650299
>
> YES! As in the bug report, I edited
> /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy
>
> and set the section '<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">'
to
> be '<allow_any>yes</allow_any>' and '<allow_active>yes</allow_active>'
>
> and now it works as advertised. Thank you.
UPDATE: Now it has stopped working. I get an icon, and:
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Unable to mount this device.
Potential reasons include:
Improper device and/or user privilege level
Corrupt data on storage device
Technical details:
org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.PermissionDenied: Not Authorized:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files
ps aux gives: kded [tdeinit] --new-startup
I am in plugdev.
The .policy file is as above.
Where next to look?
cheers
ant
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Hi,
I started to port an KDE 3.5 app (Kooldock) to TDE R14.0.1.
I did it years ago for TDE 3.5.13 with minimal trouble and used it since
then with no trouble at all.
Kooldock is automake and configure based and was developed as a kdevelop
project.
I have now a new machine (Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits) on which I installed TDE
14.0.1 with the live TDE ISO.
I installed all required Trinity development packages.
I can run the automake and configure tools inside TDevelop (TDE-C++)
successfully so I am ready to build the Kooldock project.
The build fails immediately because of the name of include files i.e.
kpopupmenu.h -> tqpopupmenu.h and names of classes i.e QString -> TQString.
Is there a way (script or utility) to convert existing KDE 3.5 or TDE
3.5.x code to TDE 14.0.1?
Or at least, a documented path to port apps to TDE 14.x.?
I am a developer, familiar with sed ands awk so I can manage converting
the original sources if only I can get a guidance about what becomes
what with TDE 14.x.
After trying some manual modifications to the sources I feel some
changes in include files are not this straightforward.
For example some kxxxxxx.h files are now txxxxxx.h, others are now
tdexxxxxx.h so porting my favorite application would become a nightmare
with no how-to or minimal help.
I would like to port the Baghira theme too (I did it for TDE 3.5.13
easily) but I am a bit reluctant to compile one line of code at a time,
searching each include file/class name change.
I love TDE and will stick to it anyway but I ask for some help here - if
possible -
Thanks for keeping TDE alive. It is the best DE I ever used (and I tried
many, believe me!)
And thanks for any feedback too.
midi-pascal
Hi All,
I've got another problem after upgrading to Mageia 5/Trinity r14.
When working for clients on-site, I will usually take my own laptop with
me and plugin into an external monitor + keyboard while there. I have a
script which automatically detects and extends the desktop to the
external monitor when I log in. My task bar defaults to the external
monitor when present and is shown on the laptop screen when there is no
external monitor. This has been working perfectly for years.
However, after my latest upgrade, the taskbar no longer displays on the
laptop screen if I boot up after having previously used the external
monitor, making my desktop unusable.
The problem seems to be that the taskbar display is now "fixed" to
whichever monitor it was last set to display on, regardless of whether
that monitor is actually present or not. The external monitor output
isn't actually being enabled due to a mis-detection, there is no signal
output on the monitor port and the desktop has not been extended off the
visible area of the laptop screen in any way.
The only solution I have found so far is to plug into an external
monitor, enable that monitor with an extended desktop using my script
(which runs xrandr) and manually drag the taskbar back to the laptop
screen. This is OK when I have a monitor available, but if I'm out and
about with no monitor available, I'm a bit stuck and have to use XFCE
instead.
Ideally it would be nice if the prior behaviour was restored, but I'd
settle for a simple script run during login which can move the taskbar
back to the laptop screen every time I login, it's not a big deal to
drag back to the external monitor after I login.
Is there any way to achieve this? I'm thinking that either there is a
command I can issue which will move the taskbar location on demand, or
alternatively I could use something (eg sed with a regex?) which
re-writes the underlying config setting before the task bar starts
(where is the config setting?)!
Thanks in anticipation, Tim Williams
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Inserting an SD card into the reader gives a desktop icon.
fdisk -l gives:
/dev/sdc1 * 8192 15759359 15751168 7.5G b W95 FAT32
and I can mount it as root and read it fine using:
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/camera/
But trying to mount it with konqueror gives:
Unable to mount this device.
Potential reasons include:
Improper device and/or user privilege level
Corrupt data on storage device
Technical details:
No supported mounting methods were detected on your system
Any clues, anyone?
(Trinity R14.0.1. And kded is running)
cheers
ant
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Fresh minimal HTTP Mageia 5 installation today, followed by minimalist TDE
installation attempt using urpmi.
Unless startx has /opt/trinity/bin/starttde appended, desktop briefly paints,
then back to vtty from which started. If started from greeter, TDE session is
OK, though many items are missing from systemsettings, e.g. TDE components,
required to reach session manager.
Nothing clueful in Xorg.0.log. This is all that's in .xsession-errors after
attempting startx:
/etc/X11/Xsession: line 108: /usr/sbin/chksession: No such file or directory
/root/Music was removed, reassigning MUSIC to homedir
/root/Pictures was removed, reassigning PICTURES to homedir
/root/Videos was removed, reassigning VIDEOS to homedir
/etc/X11/Xsession: line 175: xclock: command not found
/etc/X11/Xsession: line 176: xvt: command not found
/etc/X11/Xsession: line 185: /usr/bin/xsm: No such file or directory
Where does global default session type need to be set? /etc/sysconfig/desktop
with DISPLAYMANAGER=/opt/trinity/bin/tdm doesn't to it.
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/MageiaInstall doesn't help.
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Hi,
Porting a KDE3 theme (Baghira) to TDE, the include files kdecoration.h
and kdecorationfactory.h are missing from my TDE and tqt dev trees.
I can see that some TDE sources include them - i.e.
r14.0.1/twin-styles/kde1/kde1client.h, r14.0.1/twin-styles/icewm/icewm.h
and some others - so I think I am missing a dev package but I do not
know which one.
A hint from a member of the TDE dev team would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
midi-pascal
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> Hi,
>
> Since a fresh installation of TDE R14.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64 on a
> new computer from the live TDE iso, TDE crashes during the shutdown.
> This happens from the beginning i.e. before I installed anything more
> than the initial install.
>
> I saved the back trace from the TDE CrashHandler so here it is:
<snip>
>
> midi-pascal
At first glance the crash appears to be in a Qt4 application, probably
related to the TDE style engine for Qt4 (which is badly in need of a
rewrite to be more in line with the GTK style engine).
In the future, if you use the online crash reporter we can get some idea
of which crashes are most common; in many cases this helps to resolve the
bug faster.
Thanks!
Tim
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Hi All,
2nd message of the day. I've done a new clean install of the TDE r14.0.1
packages on Mageia 5 and I'm finding that the TDE icon styles and
widgets are overriding the normal ones used for non-TDE apps. I've been
through all the settings I can find (including turning off the "Apply
colours to non KDE apps" option), but I can't find any way to stop this.
Any suggestions? I'm figuring there must be an option or a package
somewhere which controls this but after over an hour of hunting through
the options and searching documentation I've failed to find the answer.
Thanks in advance, Tim W
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