greets, everyone . . .
as a test run and experiment -- and to upgrade it -- i did a clean, fresh
install of debian bookworm -- i keep wanting to say butterbean -- on my
old but good thinkpad x200. much to my surprise, it was the quickest and
easiest linux installation i've ever done. i realize that configuration is
a whole nother story, but i'm impressed so far. there being no TDE choise,
i installed gnome, because it brings along a lot of stuff that
applications will need anyway.
time now to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, and i'd kind of like to get it
right. there's no listing on the TDE page for bookworm; the latest is
bullseye. bookworm is, i think, what used to be "testing." i presume that
using bullseye would be entirely compatable, but before i break something
i want to double-check. is it?
also, i wonder what it would take to get TDE listed among the debian
installation choices. i see that plasma is, so i don't think it's that
ancient qt fuss -- plus, the install went out and got "non-free" drivers
for the video and the wifi card. it would be a good thing, i think if it
were.
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Hi all,
quick question regarding Trinity's Dolphin:
When "Save view properties for each folder" is disabled, any setting related
to sort mode (by name, by date etc.) or sort order (ascending, descending) is
reset as soon as the folder is changed. This also applies to the "Show Hidden
Files" option.
Even if "All folders" is selected in "View" > "Adjust View Properties ..." the
above persists. The "Apply view properties to:" options only seem to have any
effect if "Save view properties for each folder" from the settings is also
enabled.
So without enabling per-folder settings (and having .d3lphinview files
everywhere) there is no way in Dolphin to set persistent global view
properties like sort order - or am I missing something?
Best regards,
Leskala
The recent notify issue discussion prompts me to ask:
Is there a notify HOWTO anywhere for me to learn about
how to implement notify?
I have a few long-running, in the background bash scripts
where notify would be a nice touch to implement.
As was mentioned, passing "notify" to a search engine --
even with other search terms -- is of little use.
Inquiring minds...
Thank you!
Jonesy
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For a start, I'll need to get months of treatment if I'm to recover from my
exposure to the Trisquel folks. It's no exaggeration to say that they
might well consider Richard M. Stallman insufficiently pure ideologically.
Perhaps it comes from guilt; they acknowledge that without Canonical a/k/a
Ubuntu they could not exist. It's a little like Judge Roy Bean's comment
on reformed prostitutes, indeed, reformed anything. One referred to Debian
as a "fallen gold standard," and I pointed out that gold is actually up
$52 today, but I doubt that changed any minds. It's too bad. A simply
de-Canonicaled Ubuntu would be a good thing.
Which leaves Debian. If I weren't bone lazy I would have adopted it instead
of Ubuntu many years ago. Thanks to everyone here for the many useful tips
in that regard, and other regards, though I think it's pretty clear that
Debian is the answer. It's rye whisky, while most other distros are
umbrella drinks.
I have one question (well, many, but this one just surprised me): of the
many ISOs in the TDE repository, there isn't a Debian one. Is there some
reason for this or simply nobody to make one?
Like any good former OS/2 user, as a matter of reflex I have /home on its
own partition, pictures on their own partition and drive, and so on. I'll
probably further back up /home on an empty partition of another drive as
well. (Having mentioned OS/2, let me once again whine about it having been
wise from the get-go to segregate applications in their own directories,
as opposed to intermingling them with everything else.)
Anyway, having asked and been advised, I thought it right to let everybody
know where I am ending up.
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On Monday 13 March 2023 05:21:01 pm dep via tde-users wrote:
>
> Nope. Gotta be Debian. Gotta land a taildragger sometime.
Hi dep,
Go you! I use MX/antiX solely because of the ease of use.
Specifically for their “Package Installer.” It makes installing most anything
a one click operation. Saving hours of research to correctly install
something like a full LAMP stack or Virtuabox makes me happy. But at the end
of the day it’s just a bunch of scripts, that are portable to any Debian
based system.
I’m not sure if you’ll want or need them, but I’m attaching the tar archive of
the MX set of scripts for any that might find them useful. While most of
them are easy enough to figure out, some (like the ***vpn’s) are fairly
complex, but reading several to get the context should be good enough for
most on this list to be able to deconstruct them into commands to run as
root.
Note: After modifying the location where the TDE sources.list is to fit your
distribution, the ‘tde.pm’ file included will install TDE on any Debian based
system.
Best All,
Michael
Konqueror seems designed to view everything in an embedded viewer.
I found this bug report:
https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768
Is there an easy one-shot work-around to update konqueror so everything
does not default to embedded view?
Thanks.
DA
I installed TDE 14.0.12 on another system. Arts fails to initialize
correctly in that attempting to use media players results in no sound.
The problem seems unique to this system and only with TDE.
I have tried fiddling with the various arts configurations in TCC.
Sound issues do not exist on this specific system with other desktop
environments.
Sound issues do not exist in other systems with TDE.
Comparing $TDEHOME config files with the functional systems has not
found anything helpful.
Any ideas how to fix this issue?
Thanks.
DA
I started my desktop one day last week and wanted to open such a device,
but Dolphin would not let me. I was surprised because the previous day
I had no trouble opening Dolphin. Something must have happened
overnight.
Instead that morning Dolphin crashed and returned a going away message
which said the following, among other things:
> The application Dolphin (d3lphin) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
Another message provided by the TDE crash handler read as follows:
> Could not generate a backtrace because the debugger 'gbd' was not found.
I understand that the generic term for what happened is called a
'segmentation fault' and I know what that phrase means. What I do not
know however it what to do to fix one when it occurs.
I did however discover that I could access from a terminal and through
Gwenview all my portable devices. Even so, the absence of Dolphin
limited my full and effective use of the computer.
I also tried using Konqueror but encountered problems with it as well.
When I tried to open a device I expected that I would be able to view a
list of the directories in the selected device. Instead Kwrite was
activated, but said that it could not proceed because what Kwrite found
there were directories rather than files.
I would certainly be grateful for any help to me free myself from this
dilemma.
Regards, Ken Heard
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Just found this reply to my note on their list about jumping from Ubuntu to
Trisquel. They're actually ideologically even more purist than Debian is,
it seems -- there's a non-free Debian repository nowadays, isn't there?
Anyway:
First of all: welcome!
> there are certain "non-free" packages i need, particularly video drivers.
The Trisquel community will not "help" you install non-free software,
because it does not consider it would actually be helping you:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines
> by pointing at the trisquel servers in my /etc/apt/sources.list instead
> of ubuntu ones, i can switch by simply doing the usual apt update / apt
> upgrade
Non-free packages would remain and would never be upgraded, even if
vulnerabilities in them are exploited.
If I were you, I would export the list of installed packages following
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/cloning-system-or-how-make-copy-installed-pac…
(for instance), make a fresh install of Trisquel 11 Beta 6 (based on Ubuntu
22.04) using the ISO on https://cdbuilds.trisquel.org/aramo/ providing your
desktop environment of preference (tell us which one it is if you do not
know what ISO to download) and import the packages. Those that are not
installable are certainly proprietary software.
> are the package names the same?
Yes.
> is there a non-free repository for things like vid drivers?
No. Trisquel is 100% free software.
> i presume my other sources.list lines, that have to do with ppas and the
> like, could remain intact.
You can save those files before the fresh install too. For your own sake,
I hope you will not re-add PPA proposing proprietary software.
> what version name (focal, jammy, for instance, should i employ
The code name of Trisquel 10 (based on Ubuntu 20.04) is Nabia. That of
Trisquel 11 (based on Ubuntu 22.04) is Aramo.
> is there a model sources.list I could copy from?
Because I download the packages from
https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/trisquel-packages/ (there are many
other mirrors) and I use Trisquel 11 Aramo, my /etc/apt/sources.list is:
# Trisquel repositories for supported software and updates
deb https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/trisquel-packages/ aramo main
deb https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/trisquel-packages/ aramo-security
main
deb https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/trisquel-packages/ aramo-updates
main
deb https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/trisquel-packages/
aramo-backports
main
[eoq]
So they seem to be the computer equivalent of woke, which seems to me to be
that they'd rather I follow the RMS model than have a computer that does
what I need it to do. There are no Nvidia drivers from the FSF that do
what the Nvidia binary blobs and associated configuration software do.
The on-topic question: there are TDE packages that would work, correct?
Are there even any for "aramo"?
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