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by dep

greetings. i was given a used but fairly recent (though it still said "ibm" not "lenovo") desktop machine with a 1024x768 lcd, which i thought i would fix up for a disabled neighbor. it has XP on it, but my neighbor used to program in C and so i thought i'd make it a dual-boot machine. it has two 3gHz pentium processors and a batch of memory. it's old enough that i figured i'd put trinity-ubuntu 10.10 on it. i boot from the CD, and i get the usual dab of text messages during boot, but then -- nothing. screen goes and stays dark, in auto-sleep. machine and monitor work fine on windows side, but i can't get trinity to install. i can go ahead and give it to him with windows, but would rather offer both, because he'll like linux better. ideas? -- dep The shortest distance between you and great fingerstyle guitar playing? The new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available now at www.MarjorieThompson.com

11 years, 8 months

strange keyboard issue

by dep

hello, good people. this is not a new issue, but it's a continually annoying one, so i thought i'd bring it up in case someone knows an easy fix. i am here at the office running a thinkpad in a docking station, with external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. the keyboard is attached via a usb adapter and mostly works fine. when i use a plain old bog standard keyboard, all is well but for the fact that every so often, unpredictably as far as i can tell, it stops accepting input and the keyboard lights flash for a couple seconds, then it works again just fine. any characters typed in during that period, though, are lost. this is not a problem when i use a trusty old ibm model m keyboard. here, the issue is different. as long as i'm in console mode, no X or framebuffer or anything running, all is well. but when X starts, no keyboard input is accepted unless and until i unplug the keyboard and plug it back in. then all is well. this is consistent across several model m keyboards i have tried, so it's not a keyboard or cord issue. something happens when it goes into graphical mode that makes it think it doesn't have a keyboard. i suspect that there is a configuration switch somewhere that will fix this, but i can't find it. anyone know? thanks, and i hope this wasn't terribly o/t. -- dep The shortest distance between you and great fingerstyle guitar playing? The new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available now at www.MarjorieThompson.com

11 years, 8 months

Kmail issue

by Greg Madden

TDE 3.5.13.2 Wheezy amd64 I reply to an email, I use 'smart quoting' Actually editing new emails same issue. Highlighting text to be deleted does not work reliably... the hightlighted text does not stay hightlighted. It takes a few tries to get the text to stay highlighted so I can delete it, very annoying. Anyone else see this behavior? -- Peace, Greg

11 years, 8 months

How to configure ssh-agent with Trinity?

by Jan Stolarek

Hi, I'd like to use ssh-agent with Trinity, but I can't figure out how to do it. Right now I'm running ssh-add manually to unlock the keys after logging in. What I would like to have is typying the ssh passphrase the first time it is required and have that passphrase unlock the keys in ssh-agent). How could I do that? Janek

11 years, 8 months

Planned maintenance

by Timothy Pearson

All, Due to scheduled maintenance, all TDE services will be either fully unavailable or partially offline starting late 05/17/2013. Planned service restoration date is 05/18/2013. Thank you for your patience, Timothy Pearson Trinity Desktop Project

11 years, 8 months

xdg-open issue

by Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp

Hi all! I just came around an anoying xdg issue: $ xdg-open justapdf.pdf This opens a pdf, but with Gimp! I fiddeled around with gimp.desktop without success. I fiddeled around with xdg-mime without success: $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf /opt/trinity/share/applications/kde/kpdf.desktop but it opens gimp. IMO xdg-* is quite broken. :-( Now the only workaround I came up with is setting the environment variabe DE to kde: export DE=kde Then xdg-open uses kfmclient and that calles the kpdf. Now, would it be possibel to let TDE set that variable by default or am I missing a vital point? Nik

11 years, 8 months

TDE on Debian/Wheezy

by James Downing

I saw a question earlier, and I was also interested, in how to install TDE on Debian/Wheezy/7.0. Since it did not appear that TDE was available yet for Wheezy, I was concerned that I would have to continue to wait for my favorite desktop, so I would need to continue to wait to upgrade Debian. Then I saw are response that I could use an un-released development version of TDE for wheezy, and I was prepared to do that, but did not step into that yet. So, I commented out the TDE archive from my /etc/apt/sources.list file, and upgraded Debian/Squeeze/6.0.X to Wheeze as usual. I was surprised to find out that TDE was retained in full and it works fine. The only experience I have found thus far is that I cannot use the mouse right away after switching from one user desktop to another. I can use the keyboard to unlock the screen, and then the mouse becomes usable again. Otherwise, the new upgrade is flawless (as usual for Debian). Is there anything that I am unaware of that is actually broken, but perhaps, I have not noticed ? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. freelsjd(a)gmail.com

11 years, 8 months

Digikam issue

by Greg Madden

Debian Wheezy. amd64, TDE R-14 I fired up digikam on for the first time since new install, same home partition. None of my pictures are shown. The file and directory structure is shown under "My Albums" no pics. When I go to 'Configure -Digikam > Album Settings> Album Library path', I get a " Cannot talk to tdelauncher" error message when I select a folder to use. any one else? -- Peace, Greg

11 years, 8 months

root password on Alexandre's live cd?

by Lisi Reisz

Grovelling follows later - but for now, does anyone know the root password for the Trinity-PCLOS live CD? I want to install xsane!! Thanks, Lisi

11 years, 8 months

TDE on Linux Mint [WAS: root password on Alexandre's live cd?]

by Glen Cunningham

On Thursday 16 May 2013 11:13:54 C W wrote: > Linux Mint is much more reasonable than Ubuntu. I'm hoping someone > with more skills than I will make a live/installable .ISO of Mint > with TDE. > IMO, a very good suggestion. Perhaps just blow-by-blow instructions for changing the MATE-DE to TDE might be easier for someone who knows what they are doing, particularly if the instructions are in GOF-speak(1). Glen

11 years, 8 months

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