Alexandre,
As you know, disagreements we may have had, but I have always tried to give
credit where credit was due.
At my local Linux Users Group meeting on Saturday, someone was wanting help to
get Linux on his oldish laptop. Well, his father's. A refugee from XP. He
had tried various versions/flavours of Ubuntu without success - they just
wouldn't install.
He expressed a definite preference for somehow getting Ubuntu on. And I had
an Ubuntu + TDE Live CD with me.
So, TDE to the fore. I rushed to supply a Live/Install CD before anyone else.
I fished out my Ubuntu + 14 and your PCLinuxOS + 14 with a view to giving him
both to try. Exegnu was out because of multimedia etc. But Ubuntu was 64
bit. So that left yours. I said that I understood it had been expressly
intended for older machines, so I thought that there was a high chance that
it would both install OK and then run properly.
I handed it to him, but said sorry, it isn't Ubuntu. My Ubuntu + TDE live CD
is 64 bit and I assume that you need 32 bit. He confirmed this, and took the
PCLinuxOS CD. Someone else was still looking for possible Ubuntu CDs or
other offerings, but somewhat idly he started to install your CD, expecting
it to fail as everything else had, by when he would have other offerings to
try.
It installed. No problem. One minor glitch. He accidentally installed the
wrong keyboard - goodness only knows what it was! - and had to start again.
No other problems. It Just Worked. By half way through he was saying that
nothing else had got that far. I think he'll change the background - he
shares my taste in pictures rather than yours - but we agreed that that was a
very minor detail. He was delighted. A very satisfied customer.
So, hopefully, a convert for TDE; and also for PCLinuxOS! Kudos, Alexandre.
Vive le Qébec libre or something. \o/
Lisi
OK I've now got more time on my hands (university is nearly finished for
about a month) and I want to catch up on things such as translating. I
asked ages ago about how I get to translate TDE into en_AU (Australian
English) but never did find out (I'm assuming because R14 was under heavy
development) so I'm asking again and if at all possible would love to get
into it sometime next week.
So if anyone has advice or knows what I need to do feel free to let me know
what I personally need to do to be able to start translating TDE into en_AU
(and maybe encourage my friends across the Tasman to do likewise for en_NZ
and maybe even Maori).
Cheers.
Michael.
Hi all!
At last I found some time to try compiling TDE on FreeBSD - and I have a question, too :-)
First of all, I manged to compile tqt3 using gcc47 and as fas as I can tell all provided testprograms (example/ and tutorial/) are working as expected, just "examples/thread" ends up non-responsive. I have not tried gcc48.
What I did not get right:
* I failed to set the correct compiler, so I had to add a symlink from g++47 -> g++ and gcc47 -> gcc
* I had to add "-thread" to configure, otherwise the build fails (debian: both "-thread" and "-no-thread" builds succeed)
* I had to add "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<...>/tqt3/lib", otherwise the build fails because "tquic" misses it's libriaries.
* some build options like OpenGL support etc.
So my questions are:
* Is there a way to set the compiler gp "g++47" and "gcc47" ?
* What are the build options for the current debian build? "configure" gives me this list:
Build type: freebsd-g++
Configuration ....... nocrosscompiler minimal-config small-config medium-config large-config full-config styles tools kernel widgets dialogs iconview workspace inputmethod network canvas table xml sql release dll thread largefile stl system-mng system-jpeg system-png png no-glibmainloop gif zlib bigcodecs x11sm xshape xkb inputmethod
STL support ......... yes
PCH support ......... no
IPv6 support ........ no
Thread support ...... yes
NIS support ......... no
CUPS support ........ no
Large File support .. partial
GIF support ......... yes
MNG support ......... plugin (system)
JPEG support ........ plugin (system)
PNG support ......... yes (system)
Glib main loop support ......... no
zlib support ........ yes
OpenGL support ...... no
NAS sound support ... no
Session management .. yes
XShape support ...... yes
Xinerama support .... no
Tablet support ...... no
Xcursor support ..... no
XRandR support ...... no
XRender support ..... no
Xft support ......... no
XKB Support ......... yes
immodule support .... yes
immodule ext support no
Nik
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I've been having a couple problems with kpdf. Both have been going on for
some time now; I don't remember exactly when they started, but it could've
been when I switched from 13.2 to R14 several months ago. This is on Debian 7.
1. Occasionally it will refuse to render a single page of a multipage PDF
(or maybe a couple pages of a very long document), when other viewers render
all pages just fine. It's the same pages every time, and there's nothing
different about them that I can see -- just a random page in the middle of a
document. If I burst the PDF into individual files for each page, it still
refuses to render that same page.
2. It "forgets" a page as soon as it's no longer displayed, and has to
re-render it to display it again. It's as though Memory Usage is set to Low
instead of Normal or Aggressive, but the setting makes no difference. This
is very inconvenient in cases where it takes more than a fraction of a
second to render a page, which is the case with most of the PDFs I use.
3. One more that's not a new problem, just the way kpdf has always been:
It's extremely slow -- something like 3x slower than Adobe Reader, and at
least 50% slower than Evince. I'd have switched to one of those long ago,
but there are several features of kpdf that I really like.
Is there any chance of getting these things fixed? Thanks.
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Good afternoon. I've recently had to reinstall my work laptop, and
rather than try to make Windows work again, I was given permission to
run Linux.
Debian Wheezy, TDE 14.
Everything installed cleanly, and works. There is only one thing I've
found that is a problem, the Network Manager icon in the system tray
is not full sized, it's maybe 4 pixels square.
http://priss.com/20150119_Net_Manager.png
That's a screen-grab of my system tray, showing the microscopic icon
for Network Manager between the screen size and VLC cone.
I've tried re-adding it, same size. If I run XFCE, the icon shows up just fine.
Suggestions?
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and the secret of freedom is courage.
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Hi all,
I have for you some informations about alternative apt
source 'preliminary-stable-builds'.
1) Because the release of Jessie as a new stable series is approaching, I
extended the platforms for which are packages built. Besides usual amd64,
i386, armel and armhf.
a) mips => 100% done
b) powerpc => due to a technical problem with qemu-user are not built
c) arm64 => 100% done - someone has such hardware? We are ready :)
2) On the user wish I added build for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) on PowerPC
platform (Ubuntu Ports) => 100% done.
3) Finally, preliminary packages for upcoming Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid) are
available - the usual platforms amd64 and i386.
And, of course, are continually updated packages :)
--
Slávek
Hello,
for specific and motivated reasons, my Debian installation is composed
of packages spread across the following repositories listed in my
sources.list:
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian wheezy main
>
> # kde3 for ubuntu/squeeze (being replaced by Trinity, right now)
> #deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kde3-maintainers/ppa/ubuntu/ karmic main
>
> # trinity
> deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian jessie main
> deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.… jessie main
>
> ## displaylink xorg driver
> deb http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main universe
After I issue
# apt-get update
# apt-get install tde-trinity
I get:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
tde-trinity : Depends: tdeaddons-trinity (>= 4:14.0.0~) but it is
not going to be installed
Depends: tdepim-trinity (>= 4:14.0.0~) but it is not
going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Going down the dependency chain, I find:
# apt-get install tde-trinity tdeaddons-trinity
kaddressbook-plugins-trinity kaddressbook-trinity libical1
Package libical1 is not available, but is referred to by another
package. [...]
However the following packages replace it:
libical1a
Is this a bug or a problem with my setup?
What should be done?
-- Davide
Hi, I'm new here but have been enjoying TDE for about a year. I like it so
much that I keep a blog of it,
http://50.80.140.55/photo_album/chron/desktop/trinity16.html
The KPilotDaemon in R14 of TDE no longer works for me. I'm using i386 Wheezy.
The daemon goes into some kind of CPU consuming loop and I'm unable to sync
my Handsrping Visor. This was working in the previous release of TDE and
that made me very happy.
I'd like to track down the problem myself but was unable to build the Kpilot
package from the Wheezy source package. I tried to do it the Debian way as
found,
https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial
it looks like the location directories don't take,
willhill@homefree:~/src/kpilot-trinity-14.0.0-r142$ fakeroot debian/rules
binary
test -x debian/rules
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
dh_clean: dh_clean -k is deprecated; use dh_prep instead
dh_installdirs -A
install: cannot change permissions of `debian/kpilot-trinity': No such file or
directory
dh_installdirs: install -d debian/kpilot-trinity returned exit code 1
make: *** [common-install-prehook-impl] Error 2
I found the instructions for TDE cmake,
https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial
but it looks like that's what the Debian package tries to do. Is there some
instruction that I'm overlooking?
Separately, the KOrganizer reminder daemon no longer notifies me at the time
I'd like it to remind me of things. It goes off much later, perhaps on
resume from sleep. The combination of problems is annoying.
sorry to be such a bother, but as long as i'm bringing things up, here's
one that has been an issue for a couple of years and survived into R14.
my desktop crashes, but in such a way as to not even be noticeable at
first.
i have in lieu of wallpaper xplanet set up as a realtime moon phase
indicator, updating hourly. the way i tell the desktop has crashed is that
it doesn't update -- in this case it last refreshed at 10:30 a.m.
yesterday. i believe that i was probably editing pictures at that time,
though would not swear to it.
after it crashes, a right click on the desktop does not produce the
expected menu. as it happens, kicker and everything else continues to
function as expected -- in fact, it was just now that i noticed that the
desktop itself had gone south.
i thought i'd look in the x error log, bit i see that the one i have,
~/.xsession-errors, is of an unspecified file type and won't open in a
text editor (it reports its size as 500.0 k).
any idea if there's a log that might let me see what's going on here and if
so what log it might be? bonus points, how i might restart the desktop
without logging out and back in? extra bonus points, how i might fix it so
it doesn't do this anymore? i'm running some flavor of ubuntu 12.04LTS --
i say some flavor because when i sought to upgrade a few days ago the
ubuntu upgrader refused, citing third-party apps or a beta version of the
opsys, or something; it didn't specify. i thought i had bog standard
12.04LTS on the machine but am apparently wrong.
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