Dear TDE list
I have used tde for some time now, but mainly on desktops. I
standardise on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS version but unfortunately the desktop
version comes bundled with a desktop that takes ugly to new levels and
does not offer multiple desktops, which are very useful as I have an
additional screen plugged into the HDMI port. So I start by installing
the server version, then add the trinity repositories and install as
directed. That's always worked on my desktops.
The platform is a Dell 7737 laptop with 16GB memory - quite old but
reliable, nice display, etc and I have replaced the drive with a 1TB SSD
so it is a completely new box. There are 2 display controllers, VGA
compatible Intel Haswell-ULT and a 3D controller nVidia GeForce GT 750M.
Now the issues:
1) I have no wifi or ethernet tools. The machine is currently working
with the installation settings in /etc/netplan via the wired networking.
Thus, if I want to use it elsewhere I cannot select wireless network
without editing the installation file(s). Network settings just tells
me that the platform is not supported and offers quite an old list of
options. What is missing from my installation?
2) There is no suspend or other power options. As I use it as an
effective desktop that is permanently plugged in, this may not matter
but again, what can be missing?
3) If I go to the power settings and try to change anything, the display
on the laptop goes bananas with for example the nice plain blue xterm
header turned into a rainbow, blotchy characters etc. Moving the
offending object to the external screen . I've seen this before and the
answer with an nVidia graphics card was to install the nVidia-418
drivers from the Ubuntu repository and block nouveau. Initially, with
nouveau, this happened which is why I installed the nVidia bundle but it
happens with that as well. Could this be a confusion between the two
display controllers because the extension screen is not affected, or the
missing power options?
Puzzled.
--
John Logsdon
Quantex Research Ltd
m:+447717758675/h:+441614454951
Haldo! Long time user, first time poster!
It's weird looking back at all the different windows decorations and styles for KDE 3, knowing full well how much they not only had to be designed, but also coded. It's also weird knowing that some Trinity users haven't been exposed to some of these, however impractical or redundant they may be. xD
Me personally, I've been wanting to get the Fahrenheit windeco working in TDE (and not through lack of trying, mind you -- I really tried to figuring out porting, thank you to the wiki contributors, though I've not had much success. Possibly out of general inexperience with porting, makefiles, and development in general, but I digress....)
To be honest, I want to get the community's (or at least the devel list's) opinion on how feasible they think it is to get all the other Qt3 and KWin styles ported over to Trinity. I imagine the best starting point for this would be within openSUSE for a couple reasons:
- their interoperability with multiple distros and their respective package formats
- the fact that (as of this message) they still maintain a KDE3 repo, even in 2023 with Plasma 6 on its way
- some windecos don't have much documentation outside of guesswork and the obvious "made over a decade ago for a much different version" disclaimer (...hello again, Fahrenheit!)
Of course, my programming experience only extends beyond my use of Scratch as an elementary school young-un in the late-aughts, so I honestly don't know -- wdyt?
- hunter graham
Hi,
do you know how I can disable the sending of the messages of the list to my
email?
I tried in gmane, but couldn't find where I can set it. I also searched on
the TDE home page but couldn't find out.
thank you in advance
BR
Hello all,
This does not create a real problem, so my question is mainly to try
understanding:
- I use MX-Linux
- I install TDE from PSB, with following lines in
a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tde.list file
deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb/ bullseye
deps-r14 main-r14
deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb/ bullseye
deps-r14 main-r14
Install and updates are OK, but I allways notice this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/cnf-update-db", line 26, in <module>
col.create(db)
File "/usr/share/command-not-found/CommandNotFound/db/creator.py", line 96,
in create
self._fill_commands(con)
File "/usr/share/command-not-found/CommandNotFound/db/creator.py", line 144,
in _fill_commands
self._parse_single_contents_file(con, f, fp.stdout)
File "/usr/share/command-not-found/CommandNotFound/db/creator.py", line 283,
in _parse_single_contents_file
priority = component_priorities[component]
KeyError: 'deps-r14'
Reading package lists... Done
Seems to me to indicate that some MX-stuff (creator.py?) is not happy with
deps-r14, and as long as everything runs well I can live with it, but as I
don't really understand what this error means, I don't know if I should
worry...
On Thursday 07 September 2023 01:39:08 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
> You might also try installing the package qt5ct + dependencies.
>
> It's been a while since I used it, so I can't recall if it also helps to
> make icons compatible with gtk2 and gtk3, but it definitely helps to make
> many non-TDE applications use TDE color schemes.
>
> Be sure, however, after installing, to run this command:
> sudo sh -c "echo 'export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct' >> /etc/environment"
> then reboot.
>
> See this page for a more thorough explanation:
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/706528/qt-apps-stopped-inheriting-gtk-theme
>s/748186#748186
> https://web.archive.org/web/20201111174652/https://askubuntu.com/questions/
>706528/qt-apps-stopped-inheriting-gtk-themes/748186#748186
>
> Bill
Thank you!! That didn't apply to Evolution, but that utility helped me with
lots of other apps, such as KeePassXC or qBitTorrent. I have font smoothing
disabled, so the default font for Qt apps looked so bad I avoided them.
Besides, the font size was too big for my liking (and the colours and
decorations didn't match, of course), and I didn't know how to personalize
them without this.
Thank you again!
Carlos
In the past couple weeks I upgraded my machine from Devuan Chimaera to
Daedalus, and it has been more of a headache than any previous upgrades. I
wonder if anybody else has had similar experiences. But that is another
story ...
Most of the issues I have managed to iron out. Things now work almost the same
as before, or better; but then again, not quite. In any case, I can manage,
but I do wish for less change in my life, or that those changes could be more
predictable.
Now I am getting this error when I use any kind of shell or terminal. All I
need to do is to enter anything at all, and hit return, and I get this error
message:
ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/trinity/lib/kgtk/libkgtk2.so' from LD_PRELOAD
cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
Mind you, everything still seems to work right enough, but this is not normal,
and I would like it to go away. Any help will be appreciated.
Bill
Hi,
As Kmail isn't a viable option for use with corporate Office 365 e-mail (it
doesn't support OAuth), I've installed Evolution with it's Exchange Web
Access package.
However, the icons in it are from the Adawita theme, and I don't seem to be
able to change them using Trinity. From MATE, if I change the Icon theme
using the built-in tool it also changes the icons on Evolution, but that's
not the case in Trinity.
I had managed to change the font and the decorations editing the
$HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, but not the icons. I've installed the
gtk-qt-engine-trinity package and tried to change the settings from Trinity's
Control Center, but that has only edited my settings.ini file and caused
Evolution to not run at all, with this terminal output
(evolution:2551): Gtk-ERROR **: 20:27:32.588: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected.
Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported
Firefox also doesn't work now, with the same terminal output.
I think I'm missing something here, because it wouldn't make sense that I'd be
able to change the decorations and font, but not the icons.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you,
Carlos
On Wednesday 06 September 2023 16:18:19 Ilya Dogolazky via tde-users wrote:
> I found something called "Walk Through Windows" -- but it's not the
> same thing (it switches windows immediately, while the old good
> ALT+TAB opened the list of windows and switched only after releasing
> of the ALT key)
Hi Ilya,
The "walk through windows" option should, by default, be set to ALT+TAB and
behave as you said (opening the list of Windows and switching only after
releasing the ALT key), or at least it does in my case.
I've been looking though the control center and it looks as if you have
disabled the "Show window list while switching windows" option, which is
under Desktop, in Window behaviour (or maybe something similar, my computer
is not in English).
Disabling it seems to make the desktop behave just as you described (switching
windows immediatly), so I'd try enabling that option.
Carlos
Hello!
When I press ALT+TAB nothing happens and I can't find any appropriate
entry for switching the tasks in keyboard shortcuts (was it ever
there? I don't know because ALT+TAB worked just fine without any
setting editing).
I found something called "Walk Through Windows" -- but it's not the
same thing (it switches windows immediately, while the old good
ALT+TAB opened the list of windows and switched only after releasing
of the ALT key)
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Ilya D.
greets, everybody.
for some reason unknown to me, i can no longer print from tde apps. running localhost:631 brings up the cups admin page and i can print a test page just fine. i can print from libreoffice and mozilla. but if i try to print from, say, kpdf, an "initializing printing system" box pops up, then an error saying cups isn't installed or is misconfigured.
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