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Live CD with Debian/TDE?
by dep 28 Sep '25

28 Sep '25

Hi, everybody! We're two months away from Microsoft Corp. discontinuing "support" of Windows 10. In conjunction with this, Windows 11, which is not just awful but also invasive, requires that many people purchase new computers. No doubt some will do this -- there will always be people who have more dollars than sense -- but many may be ripe for an alternative. I'll be in the next couple of days writing a piece on that alternative. The best choice, in my view, is Debian and TDE. So I'm seeking an installable live CD that provides just that. I thought there was one, "Matrix OS," but when one follows the link on the LiveCDs page -- https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/LiveCDs -- it throws a "your account is suspended" error. Is there another Debian spin containing TDE? It would be good if TDE were included in DEbian already -- Enlightenment is in the repository -- but I am not here to solve that problem. I'm here to rescue those whose computers have been abandoned by msft and, with luck, increase the TDE user base a bit. Thing is, I cannot recommend any other distribution or desktop. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Darkness - new version :)
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 28 Sep '25

28 Sep '25

Hi all! I just finised uploading the latest version of "darkness". Biggest changes: - TDE 14.2-DEVELOPMENT - Xlibre instaed of Xorg - new background images - kernel 6.16.8 - own repository for darkness-specific packages (ATM a package for the repo and the wallpapers) Issues solved: - EFI installation on blank disk works now - TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack. - Crashes on Intel GM965/GL960 (Lenovo X61) Download - oh jes, I got myself a bigger webspace: - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928.iso - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928.iso.sha256 Some Images: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-0.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-1.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-2.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-3.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-wallpapers.png Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience ;) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Debian question
by J Leslie Turriff 27 Sep '25

27 Sep '25

I'm considering switching from openSUSE to Debian. I have several encrypted partitions in a separate storage volume that I would like to mount in /home. Can the Debian installer do that without reformatting them? (openSUSE's YaST installer once could do that but no longer does, one of several reasons for moving away from openSUSE.) Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.4 tde-config: 1.0

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TDE with NextCloud or any other Cal/CardDav
by deloptes 27 Sep '25

27 Sep '25

Hi Has someone experience with NextCLoud or any other Cal/CardDav. thank you in advance

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Pretty cool
by dep 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

Here's the modern, grown-up analog to the computer-in-keyboard devices of s generation (or, could it be, two generations) ago. Because it has Raspberry Pi 5 innards (plus 16 gigs of memory and a decent SSD), it will run a full Linux install -- Raspberry PiOS is Debian, currently Bookworm -- and I have run TDE on a Pi 5 eith no problem. At $200 it is expensive for a Raspberry but with, now, a good keyboard, cheap for a decent computer. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/peak_pi_reached_with_raspberry/?td=r… dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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The continuing story of scanning software
by dep 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

In that there seemed to be a degree of interest, I thought I'd put on record this week's impressions of scanning software I've tried. Kooka -- as previously noted, it is just about impossible to establish a workflow. Works, in an emergency. EpsonScan2 -- segfaults at launch, which many of us would find a significant limitation. SimpleScan -- lacks configuration options and just, well, simple. IScan -- the original Epson native scanning application. Works well, but for instance when saving it starts with ~/ *every single time,* so you spend more time navigating your hard drive than actually scanning. GIMP -- nothing is simple with the GIMP, and scanning is no exception. I apparently have the plugins installed correctly -- itself an ordeal -- but haven't yet found a way to get GIMP to scan. Skanlite -- a surprise, and the current winner. Offers both image settings and applicating settings. Assumes that there's a good chance that it you saved the scan you made 90 seconds ago in a particular directory, you might want to save the one you made just now in that directory. Very much like the much better Windows version of the native Epson software. Unlike any non-VueScan Linux scanning software except IScan, can scan transparancies. KDE native, so it doesn't download half the Synaptic Debian repository. Has weird resolution settings, though, somewhat inexplicably but there might be a reason. Anyway, if your scanner is SANE-compliant, Skanlite seems the way to go. Apparently last built when KDE was doing whatever they were doing in 2020. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Kleopatra
by Robert B. Carleton 22 Sep '25

22 Sep '25

I've been trying to load a p12 file into Kleopatra using Q4OS Aquarius, and Andromeda. I wasn't able to load the p12 into Aquarius at all. In Andromeda, I can load the certificate into Kleopatra, but once it's there, I can't decrypt received email messages in KMail. It throws an error when I enter the protection password for the certificate, then press okay. Something else I noticed, is there seems to be a status bar on the lower right hand side of the Kleopatra user interface. It seems to indicate a partially completed task at all times. I've mostly used Kleopatra Version 4.0.0.241203 (24.12.3) under Debian Trixie, so I'm still getting familiar with the version in Trinity. Any tips on some more things I could check? I've started tdepim issue for this: https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdepim/issues/169 I don't know if there is some kind of missing user knowledge, or perhaps a workaround for this issue. I'd be happy to add some more updates to issue 169 if that helps in the troubleshooting. TIA, --Bruce

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Split Screen / Tile Management (picture by picture)
by Michael 20 Sep '25

20 Sep '25

Does TDE have either? I want to get an ultra wide and place Desktop 1 and Desktop 2 side by side on the monitor screen at the same time (picture by picture). Technically, I guess I don’t need too? Just put all the apps from both on one desktop and manually keep them to their ‘side.’ Thanks, Michael

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For completeness
by dep 19 Sep '25

19 Sep '25

This looks interesting and I may give it an appimage shot. The fellow who wrote it likes it. https://github.com/patrickfournier/gorfector?tab=readme-ov-file dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Kooka configuration
by dep 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

Greets, everybody . . . I have a need to scan in a bunch of pictures and documents using my Epson photo scanner. As is not unexpected, the reasonably good Epson-supplied scanning software core dumps. So I've looked at the other installed scanning software, which is xsane, which kinda-sorta works, Simple Scan, ditto, and Kooka, almost ditto. Kooka shows some hope, but it seems really flaky. For a start, it wants to put scans in "Kooka Gallery," but there is none such on my machine, so I can't tell where the hell it's putting them, though it seems to be saving them somewhere. I decided to RTFM, and right from the start, the screen shown does not at all resemble the Kooka I am running. I thought it might help to nuke ~.config/kookarc, but there isn't one. Has anybody used it? I would consider VueScan, which by all accounts is excellent but which is $150, and that sucks. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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