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feature request - a way to download *all* TDE-Trinity packages for a system
by William Morder 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

I don't know if this is totally selfish and/or solipsistic of me, but I would like to have a way to download *all* available packages appropriate to my system. If there is some command that will do this, that will work, as I can pick and choose on my own. A tool like aptoncd would be better, but I can find anything like it any more. Best thing about images created with aptoncd is that apt treats them exactly like repositories, so I don't need to cobble together self-styled hacks and use dpkg, but can just depend or apt to find the right combination of packages and dependencies. Debian still offers, I believe, extra CD or DVD images of the extra packages in their repositories. In addition to the installation images, there are usually extra discs, 1, 2, 3 and 4, containing extra packages. I used to search all over Devuan to find the same, but now it seems that they, too, have caught up, and offer disc images of extras. Or perhaps I have only recently discovered where they keep them hidden? My reason for this request is related to my recent previous posts: sometimes I find myself in a remote place, or in a crazy situation, where there is no internet access, or where -- such as recently -- flooding or some other disaster has knocked out internet. Yet, while I have no internet, I still need to have a working computer for other things that I do offline; and now, suddenly, my machine gives me problems, and I need to do a system reinstallation, or at least to install some new and unfamiliar packages. Thanks for any help, Bill

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Trinity File associations for http/https scheme
by Wirlaburla 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Hey Trinity Folks. I'm having trouble getting xdg to play nicely with the file associations and settings I have for Trinity. While TDE applications follow them just fine, non-TDE programs don't seem to. That's fine, I tweaked xdg myself. The issue is that something happened and now non-TDE applications don't follow my "Open http and https URLs in an application based on the contents of the URL" (in TDE Components > Default Applications > Web Browser) anymore. Now when I click an http URL directly to an image or video, it opens up in my web browser. I'm not really sure what's changed because it was working fine before. My initial thoughts are to find out how TDE opens "in an application based on the contents" and just assign it to xdg but I'm unsure of what that is or where to find it. Thanks. -- Wirlaburla

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using nmtui or other tools to change hostname
by William Morder 04 Feb '24

04 Feb '24

Another thing I do from time to time is to change my host name, as I must share a network with many other people. The administrators of this network insist on using a ridiculously insecure password, which doubtless could be cracked by a script kiddie in a few minutes; moreover, the password has never been changed in at least 7 or 8 years. Myself and others have recommended changing the password, but nothing happens. After I did a little messing with that program that Nik suggested, nmtui, I wondered what else I might use it to do. I like these stone tools; once one has figured out the basics, then at least there is the possibility of controlling the machine. Even before I started this thread -- or the previous thread which spawned it, regarding my network problems, or tdenetworkmanager -- I was wondering about this problem of the hostname. Is there a way to change my hostname easily, without reinstalling my system? This (nmtui) seems like the right tool for the job; although of course, when running Linux, there are sure to be dozens of others that do the same or similar. These are probably stupid questions, and a thousand people out there can answer it: but the man pages do not cover these possibilities. I want to know, first, if one ought to disconnect from internet (or to connect) when changing the hostname like this. It seems to me that trying to change the hostname on a live connection may cause problems. On the other hand, when I am doing a fresh installation, I must set the hostname on a live connection, but then it is a new, unnamed connection. Second, should I run nmtui (or similar tool) as root in order to change my hostname? When I tried it out earlier, it seemed like it could do nothing with my connection unless I was running as root; but then, before my fresh installation, I could not use tdenetworkmanager, could not use internet at all, except as root. Can I, in ordinary circumstances, change my hostname without first becoming root? After I change my host name (that is, after a fresh installation), I seem to have no problems for a while. What I want is to be able to change the hostname periodically, without doing a complete new installation. Also, I block pings with my firewall, that kind of thing, but eventually these problems start up again, because some people out there (or their automated cracking scripts) apparently have nothing better to do than to search for vulnerabilities in other people's machines. All ideas or suggestions are welcome. Bill

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network issues - tdenetworkmanager
by William Morder 03 Feb '24

03 Feb '24

Okay, so I appear to have internet again, more or less, but now there's something odd happening with tdenetworkmanager. For the past day or so, since sometime Sunday evening, I have not been able to use internet at all. I keep checking the connection, try out the installation image on a flash drive, just to see if networks are showing up there, but nothing conclusive. Then it occurred to me to start tdenetworkmanager as root, and presto! I can configure it to work, and everything is back to normal; except, I cannot close down the root version of tdenetworkmanager, then return to the non-root version. The non-root tdenetworkmanager, just myself as user, still will not connect. The networks show up, but once I try to connect, they disappear, and I cannot get on at all. This does not seem right. Awhile back I resolved some connectivity issues (been meaning to mention this, but it's an old thread now); I booted into my backup desktop, xfce, started xfce as root, set my local network so that I did not connect automatically, then got out of root, and everything since then ran fine. I returned to my Trinity desktop, and did not think about xfce again, until I had to do some reinstallation. Until these past two weeks, and now again the past day or so, I have not had any network issues. Everything has worked just fine, until we had flooding in our building, and internet was out for nearly two weeks past, up until sometime Friday night or Saturday. Then I had a day or so of my usual internet, then a couple days past where I have these problems just described above. And now this: only able to use the tdenetworkmanager as root. Also, it seems I cannot install or use wicd, which is my usual backup. Does any of this make any sense? Am I losing my mind, or is it the machines that are making me crazy? Bill

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Konsole text colors + command line or config file
by Ilya Dogolazky 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

Hello ! Is there any way to change the colors used by Konsole in some non-interactive way: either from command like or via some kind of «color set file»? What I want to achieve is: install my favorite colors without editing every single entry on each computer where I use Trinity. Cheers, -- Ilya D.

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How to stop Amarok from autostarting?
by Ran Talbott 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

I'm running 14.0.12 on Ubuntu 20.04. Either by accident or by default, I have Amarok installed, and it autostarts on every login. I've never used it, but I might want to someday (I saw a note that it supports some streaming services), so I don't want to just uninstall it. But I don't want it wasting RAM and CPU all the time, either None of the suggestions offered by Google or ChatGPT about autostarting in Trinity match my filesystem hierarchy. How do I find the file that's causing it to autostart so I can edit/delete it? Thanks, Ran

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Creating new Gitea tickets
by Leslie Turriff 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Seems to me that I've gone through this before. I logged onto https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/ to create a ticket but there is no Create or Add New button to do so (not in the home page, not in the Issues page). I know I've been able to do it in the past. IIRC there was some sort of setting that had to be altered? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.1 tde-config: 1.0

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dcopserver starting twize
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Hi all! I jus ran into an interesting problem when running inside VirtualBox: I created a installation that works perfectly fine. Then I created a live iso from this installation using refractasnapshot. Booting that iso seads to two instances of dcopserver beeing started --> mouse an keyboard are non operational. When I remove ~/.DCOP* and then "killall dcopserver" then Xorg testarts and I end with a perfectly working TDE. So, does anybody have any idea what causes dcopseerver to spawn twice? Or better said, why $TDEDIR/bin/dcopserver_shutdown in starttde does leave a running dcopserver instance? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Error message concerning kdesktop_lock
by Gianluca Interlandi 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Hi! I noticed in the log files an error message from dbus concerning trinity's kdesktop_lock: dbus-daemon[692]: [system] Rejected: destination has a full message queue, 0 matched rules; type="signal", sender="(unset)" ((bus)) interface="org.freedesktop.DBus" member="NameOwnerChanged" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.DBus" (uid=1140 pid=1396 comm="/opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock --internal 1394 ") The error message keeps being repeated every few minutes. The following processs is running: > ps aux | grep 1396 gianluca 1396 0.0 0.0 166644 0 ? S 2023 0:00 /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock --internal 1394 I am not using kdesktop_lock and what does it mean "--internal 1394"? Is it safe to kill this process and would it then stop the error messages? Thanks! Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu +1 (206) 685 4435 http://gianluca.today/ Department of Bioengineering University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------

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TDE repositories - keyring, etc. - problems?
by William Morder 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

I seem to be having problems updating my sources.list, so I am wondering if it's just me, or is everybody else having problems, too. I checked the TDE page for repositories, but they're still the same as what I have. Just to complicate matters even more for myself, we have been having big problems with our internet here, due to flooding and damage. For the past two weeks, it has been hard even to send and receive emails. However, last night and this morning, things seem back almost to normal. Today I am listening to online radio while downloading some television news programs, doing other work online. But now my Trinity repositories seem rather uncertain or unstable. Here's the error message I get: W: GPG error: http://tde-mirror.yosemite.net/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x daedalus Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG C93AF1698685AD8B Trinity Desktop Environment Archive Signing Key E: The repository 'http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x daedalus Release' is not signed. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. So I tried downloading the new keyring deb package, but I get an error for that, as well: wget -c -t --show-progress --retry-connrefused --no-check-certificate https://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-keyring.deb --2024-01-26 09:27:35-- https://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-keyring.deb Resolving mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org (mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org)... 37.205.10.16 Connecting to mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org (mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org)| 37.205.10.16|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://cassini.mirrorservice.org/sites/trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trini… [following] --2024-01-26 09:27:40-- http://cassini.mirrorservice.org/sites/trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trini… Resolving cassini.mirrorservice.org (cassini.mirrorservice.org)... 212.219.56.182 Connecting to cassini.mirrorservice.org (cassini.mirrorservice.org)| 212.219.56.182|:80... Terminated I am the one who terminated the connection, because it just hangs for ever with nothing happening. Help, anybody? Bill

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