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[Trinity-on-NixOS] Annoucing my project: packaging Trinity Desktop Environment to Nixpkgs
by Anderson Torres 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hello, Nixers and Trinity users! I am Anderson Torres, a "wannabe" Computer Scientist (I am studying to admissional exams for a Brazilian CS undergrad course), and there is about one year I am a NixOS user. I want to port/package Trinity for NixOS, because I really liked the old KDE3.x series! I used KDE 3.x when I started using Linux Slackware and open source in 2004. Well, I will use the tag [Trinity-on-NixOS] when I need to talk about my project of porting an ask some questions. Well, many thanks in advance! Anderson Useful links: http://www.trinitydesktop.org http://nixos.org/

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PCLinuxOS Trinity Live CD
by Lisi Reisz 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

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

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Translate TDE?
by Michael . 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

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.

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Some progress on FreeBSD 10.1
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

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 -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp Einnehmerstraße 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: office(a)klepp.biz

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kpdf problems
by Dan Youngquist 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

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. -- PGP key: http://homestead-products.com/pubkey.htm

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New install, one icon not working
by Curt Howland 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

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? -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - Thucydides

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Preliminary-stable-builds: new platforms and new distribution
by Slávek Banko 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

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

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Raspberry TDM
by Dave 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

Does the Raspberry Pi version have TDM, or are we stuck with lightdm? if so howto?

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Debian installation fails: "Package libical1 is not available"
by Davide Baldini 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

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

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R14 Kpilot and KOrganizer Reminder Daemon Problems.
by Will Hill 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

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.

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