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browser woes - partly solved
by William Morder 31 May '26

31 May '26

Okay, so I made a little progress on the Tor Browser installation. It turns out, I have firejail installed, and I usually open my browsers (and a few other items) with a special command, e.g., "firejail firefox", etc. Thus, "firejail torbrowser-launcher" ... When I did this, I managed to get Tor Browser started, running, configured, connecting to internet, visiting web pages, all that good stuff. Except one thing: With my other browsers, I have them configured to use a Socks5 proxy, 127.0.0.1:9050. But with this Tor Browser, I must configure it to use http/https, 127.0.0.1:8118. Otherwise, I can't connect to internet. As I understand it, Socks5 is better for some reason that I now forget. If anybody knows better, I am curious what's going on here. Also, I can get bridges, sort of (they are already built-in), but when I try downloading new bridges, I get hit with a captcha question, but nothing ever appears; no images to click, no characters to enter, or what-not. So, Tor Browser is sort of working, but I can't get past the configuration. Also, when I try to change my web page colors, fonts, etc., nothing happens. I looked for where Tor Browser calls home in my system, but it's not in the usual folder, i.e., /home/<user name./.mozilla/<mozilla browser>. There is a torbrowser folder in /home/<user name>/.config/torbrowser, but it only contains a json file. I would do a little self-hacking of about:config, etc., but first, I would like to find where this stuff is kept. I usually make backups before I start messing round. Bill

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browser woes
by William Morder 31 May '26

31 May '26

Okay, so on to the next step in my self-improvement program. I want to get the Tor Browser working on my machine. Indeed I have used it with no problems before, but now I can only manage to download the packages. I have tried installing the sid experimental version; tried going conservative and installing the version that is supposed to match my system (torbrowser-launcher=0.3.6-2); likewise I went primitive, and tried installing from source. After a bit of research online, I tried installing as sudo, a few obscure esoteric tricks, all to no avail. The most joy that I can get is when I tried the command tried running tdesu torbrowser-launcher, then it went through the motions of download the whole thing, but then aborted, telling me that torbrowser cannot be run as root, then it closed. I managed to untar the source packages for the current version (tor-browser-linux-x86_64-15.0.14.tar.xz) into a folder, but cannot seem to find anywhere to put it, or get it to run, or to complete installation, or whatever is the hangup. It's been a few years, but I ran the Tor Browser on a Windoze machine, ran it as a portable version from a flash drive, so I could use it sometimes on public computer, and I have run it in Linux, back in the days of KDE3.5 Hardy Heron 8.x, and again, if I recall, in an early TDE Devuan installation ... I believe sometime around Jessie? Anyway, nothing seems to work right now. I am considering building a Unabomber cabin deep in the woods, or maybe finding an empty cave up in the mountains, but then I thought, I must be missing something. I ought to give it another try. I would like to use the Tor Browser mainly to be able to download bridges, as I cannot easily do that with tork-trinity (even though it is supposed to be possible). That might be a bug, I don't know? I don't want to get a Gmail email address, nor even a RiseUp address, just to get bridges, but I may have to do that. I don't know that I actually *need* bridges, but it can't hurt, as I have been having all kinds of weird connection problems. Anybody who has a clue what is going on with Tor Browser, let me know. Thanks. Bill

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Can I toggle the Active Borders setting using DCOP?
by J Leslie Turriff 31 May '26

31 May '26

Rather than opening kcontrol => Desktop => Active Borders and changing the setting between Disabled and Switch desktop, can I do this in a script via DCOP? That way I could assign it to a key (e.g. Windoze+B) for convenience. I tried identifying a DCOP method for this via kdcop, but couldn't see anything pertinent. Leslie

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Can I toggle the Active Borders setting using DCOP?
by J Leslie Turriff 31 May '26

31 May '26

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Image for TDE on 32bit machines :)
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 26 May '26

26 May '26

Just a heads-up for all devs: TDE 14.2.0 running on a "HP Mini" ATOM 32bit machine. - Kernel 7.0.9 i686 - TDE 14.2.0-DEVELOPMENT - Devuan Ceres Download: - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-2026-05-24-i386.img.xz - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-2026-05-24-i386.img.xz.sha256 Please note: for the old DXXX ATOM CPUS you must use the "modesetting" driver, otherwise the GPU will crash: cat > $MNT/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf << XXX Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" # Driver "intel" Driver "modesetting" Option "NoAccel" "True" Option "DRI" "False" EndSection XXX So dust off those old machines on your shelfs and basements, you can run a decent OS on them :) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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TDE with vncserver and KRdc
by deloptes 25 May '26

25 May '26

Hi, I wonder what is the best vnc tool to use with TDE? I did following experiment now: - installed a VM and installed TDE in the VM - installed vncserver - configured the user and the startup script [1] - started the server - on my PC started krdc and connected to the TDE I had some issues, but I found out that xstartup was not executable. There are still some issues with things not working (TCC crashing etc) => Again as may be 15y ago there are issues with keyboards. Buttons stop working. ALT/META key has strange behavior. I switched to vncviewer and things are much better. I can indeed work. Any ideas ... what are you using or how are you configuring both sides?

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Darkness - 21. May 2026 RPI4 version
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 21 May '26

21 May '26

Hi All! For those who happen to have a raspberry 4/400/5: I have uploaded an image based on [url]https://arm-files.devuan.org/RaspberryPi%20Latest%20Builds/rpi-4-devuan…] - kernel 6.12.87 - default language is english - you can change the localisation and language to german and russian using /root/change-language Download: - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-rpi4-2026-05-21.img.xz - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-rpi4-2026-05-21.img.xz.sha256 Announcement in Devuan Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63519#p63519 Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience :D Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Darkness 2026-05-17 Mantainance Release
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 17 May '26

17 May '26

Hi all! Due to the newly discovered security vulerabilities in the (older) linux kernels I have created and uploaded a maintenance release. Biggest changes: - kernel 7.0.7 - linux-vulnerability-mitigation installed and activated - minor fixes in locales now uses translated manpages etc. by default - raspberrypi installer /root/rpi-installer included - in case you want ceres + TDe + darkness on your PI. Download: - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260517.iso - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260517.iso.sha256 uid/pwd: - root / toor - user / user Please use this ISO or install "linux-vulnerability-mitigation" on the older ones. (This is alos posted on https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63867#p63867 ) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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I am needing THE CORRECT way to install TDE on Suse Leap.
by CHRIS M 17 May '26

17 May '26

I am needing THE CORRECT way to install TDE on Suse Leap? The directions on the internet are for WAY OLDER versions of Leap, as I talked about in my last post, and those directions don't work. Thanks, Chris ================================ OFF LIST: chris(a)cwm030.com

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File chooser
by Christian Schmitz 15 May '26

15 May '26

Hello: How i can configure a file chooser different than GTK2 for apps like Firefox, FreeCad, and anothers? In plasma they uses a different file chooser, but GTK is..... unfriendly. Best Regards Christian -- Be Free, Be Linux

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