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Porting an app from TDE 3.5.13.2 to TDE R14.0.1
by midi-pascal 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

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

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Missing task bar on a laptop with a "part time" external monitor
by Tim WIlliams 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

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 -- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS AutoTrain 58 Jacoby Place Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UW United Kingdom Web : http://www.autotrain.org, http://www.utrain.info Tel : +44 (0)844 487 4117 AutoTrain is a trading name of EuroMotor-AutoTrain LLP Registered in the United Kingdom, number: OC317070.

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Failed to mount SD card
by ant 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

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 -- Sent from my linux system running Debian 8, desktop Trinity R14 This email is plain text, not HTML. Any attachments are either .jpg or .pdf

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[trinity-users] startx exits instantly in Mageia 5/R14 (where to set global default session type?)
by Felix Miata 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

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. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Porting to TDE: Missing include files
by midi-pascal 27 Sep '15

27 Sep '15

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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Re: [trinity-users] Crash on shutdown
by Timothy Pearson 26 Sep '15

26 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlYG5sAACgkQLaxZSoRZrGG/ewDfTPz0SLGLgiFyv0m6XWvyAHCq fI/tZZpbFIrVKQDfepBgWJfwAxmFpzUQVe6geLcRIvETZsUgi5URIw== =QU6A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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TDE Icon styles applied to non TDE applications
by Tim Williams 26 Sep '15

26 Sep '15

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 -- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS AutoTrain 58 Jacoby Place Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UW United Kingdom Web : http://www.autotrain.org, http://www.utrain.info Tel : +44 (0)844 487 4117 AutoTrain is a trading name of EuroMotor-AutoTrain LLP Registered in the United Kingdom, number: OC317070.

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Crash on shutdown
by midi-pascal 26 Sep '15

26 Sep '15

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: passprompt Qt4TDEStyle: No such file or directory. [New LWP 2281] [New LWP 2280] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". 81 ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S: No such file or directory. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.19-gdb.py", line 63, in <module> from libstdcxx.v6.printers import register_libstdcxx_printers ImportError: No module named 'libstdcxx' ==== (gdb) bt ==== [TDECrash handler] #5 0x00000000005b763d in ?? () #6 0x00000000005b79b7 in PyErr_WarnEx () #7 0x00007fc71dfe3917 in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/_gobject.so #8 0x00007fc71e912ae1 in g_logv () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #9 0x00007fc71e912d72 in g_log () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #10 0x00007fc7172fd394 in QEventDispatcherGlib::~QEventDispatcherGlib (this=0x1d54810, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_glib.cpp:408 #11 0x00007fc715603769 in QGuiEventDispatcherGlib::~QGuiEventDispatcherGlib (this=0x1d54810, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at kernel/qguieventdispatcher_glib.cpp:197 #12 0x00007fc7172e6168 in QObjectPrivate::deleteChildren (this=this@entry=0x16d35a0) at kernel/qobject.cpp:1907 #13 0x00007fc7172e86ff in QObject::~QObject (this=0x1768980, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at kernel/qobject.cpp:926 #14 0x00007fc715562e49 in QApplication::~QApplication (this=0x1768980, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at kernel/qapplication.cpp:1103 #15 0x00007fc7165453a9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so #16 0x00007fc716572372 in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so #17 0x00007fc716a1ea26 in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sip.so #18 0x00007fc716a1fd09 in ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sip.so #19 0x00000000004f7148 in ?? () #20 0x000000000055bb93 in ?? () #21 0x0000000000499f0b in PyEval_EvalFrameEx () #22 0x00000000004a1634 in ?? () #23 0x000000000044e4a5 in PyRun_FileExFlags () #24 0x000000000044ec9f in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags () #25 0x000000000044f904 in Py_Main () #26 0x00007fc71fe13ec5 in __libc_start_main (main=0x44f9c2 <main>, argc=3, argv=0x7ffeb1be0158, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffeb1be0148) at libc-start.c:287 #27 0x0000000000578c4e in _start () More of this trace is available if needed. Any help on this is welcome! midi-pascal

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kmail Mail transport
by Gene Heskett 26 Sep '15

26 Sep '15

Greetings; I have trolled thru the configs but haven't managed to find a way to link the Identity used to send a mail, to the Mail transport used to send the msg. Since I have an account at the tv station at least as long as I live, I have used that old & overloaded qmail server since I helped install it 16 years ago. But shentel has now set up a new server of their own after about 2 years of excedrin headaches caused by farming it out to gmail, and of course I have an account there because its my ISP and phone company too. In the folder properties, one can set the sender Identity, which works well, but to use the 20x faster shentel server when I am using a shenetl ID, I have to manually select it from the pulldown on the right. Can this not be linked to be automaticly selected according to the folder I launched a reply in? If not, its a future feature request. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Trinity mirrors
by Lisi Reisz 25 Sep '15

25 Sep '15

Is there a list anywhere of Trinity mirrors? If so, where? What mirror are people using for 3.5.13.2? Thanks, Lisi

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