Hi!
At last I made the transition to trinity + squeeze with the last of my boxes,
the infamous office box. I saw my desktop go down in flames (which actually
was the falt of som weired xorg problem) and raise from the ashes 2 days
later. After all I am very satisfied, I didn't loose my kwallet nor my kmail
settings and date - in fact I didn't loose anything important :-)
There is only one issue left, that I was not able to correct: the medium
application autostart does not work as I exect it.
What I got so far:
After I log in, plug in a DVD or USB storage device. Usually there should pop
up a dialog asdking me what medium was found and what to do next. Now that
dialog does not show up.
But when I open konqueror and go to media:/ I see the plugged in device (not
mounted). I can open it from there. I unplug the USB device, the icon
disappears as expected.
I start kcontol, go to "Peripherials/Storage Media", there select "Defaults"
and "Apply", close kcontrol, plug in the USB storage device and the famouse
dialogbox shows up!
When I log out and log in again the dialogbox does not show up until I open
kcontrol and do these steps.
Now I cannot find what kcontrol does at this stage to make things work. I
tried strace, but kcontol does not change the contents of any file
in .trinity. It opens and reads these files, but nothing is written:
.trinity/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus
.trinity/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/xine-dvd.desktop
.trinity/share/config/kcontrolrc
.trinity/share/config/kdeglobals
.trinity/share/config/khtmlrc
.trinity/share/config/kio_httprc
.trinity/share/config/kioslaverc
.trinity/share/config/medianotifierrc
xine-dvd.desktop plays DVDs, if inserted. At least when I first start
kcontrol ;-)
I made a diff from the ~/.trinity tree befor and after running kcontrol, but
there are no changes.
So, is there a way how I can get the medium autoplay to work?
Nik
I am installing (or trying to!) Trinity on a fresh minimal install of Squeeze.
But I have run into problems (which I did not the other day on a full
install).
I have edited my sources.list as instructed on the Pearson website, and have
checked and rechecked the repositories. They seem to be fine, but when I do
<aptitude update> I get a lot of error messages like this one:
[ ERR] Reading package lists
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with
MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net_trinity_trinity_debian_dists_squeeze_main_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
And obviously couldn't install Trinity either, with similar errors. I am
completely baffled. Can anyone throw light on this?
Lisi
Hello
I installed trinity on a PC running Ubuntu Lucid (I did not
do the original installation so I am not sure if something
went wrong)
However when I connect in kde3 an usb device with a linux
partion 2 things happen
- the kde daemon pops up twice instead of only once
- the device is mounted but the files belong to
another user of this PC. This is very annoying
because in order to copy I have to use sudo and then
later the chown chgrp command.
I looked up the fstab file in /etc but there I can't see the
source of the problem.
Uwe Brauer
Hello
I finally installed successfully trinity on a PC which runs
Ubuntu Lucid. However when I log in using KDE3 after some
seconds, docky, a sort of gnome planel which looks like the
MacIntosh planel, starts up and annoys me. So I have to kill
it in order to enjoy KDE3. How can a disable docky per
default.
thanks
Uwe Brauer
Hello
- I have installed trinty in jaunty without a problem.
- in Keramic I had a problem with the kdebib program
which could be resolved.
- but again in Lucid I have a different problem, anmely
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data-kde3_4%3a3.5.12-0ubuntu6+r1152788_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
What shall I do?
Uwe Brauer
I have Trinity set up on Squeeze and now want to install K3b. I most
emphatically do NOT want anything KDE4.
How do I set about it?
Alternatively, a search of my emails retrieves the information that many of
you have K3b by default. The fact that I do not have it, suggests that I did
not install Trinity correctly, although I thought that I had meticulously
followed the directions on Timothy's site.
What ought I to have done, to have what I would regard as the sine qua non of
a functional DE? (Of which K3b forms a part.)
Thanks,
Lisi
All,
I have been through the kcontrol settings looking at default setting that
could be changed in 3.5.13 to reduce the number of settings that would need to
be changed on each new install (at least for me). The idea is to make Trinity
better right out-of-the-box.
I know everybody has different 'preferences' and this isn't intended to try
and dictate default settings by any stretch, but after numerous installs, it is
clear that the current defaults would benefit from a few changes. The goal is
the come up with a default set that minimizes the number of changes that the
average user would normally make and to give Trinity the good clean default
looks and behavior
I have taken the time to create a web page to collect input and give the
developers a handy reference to look at the next time they are in the defaults
section of the code. Check it out and add your comments here:
http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/wiki/bin/view/Specifications/Developmen…
I've taken a first cut and coming up with foswiki formatting that makes it
readable (I'm not sure I succeeded). If you have a better idea for
distinguishing kcontrol -> entry -> tab (1,2..) and making it more readable,
feel free to have at it.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Can you please confirm this bug?
Minimize all apps, so the Desktop area is visible. Right-click an empty spot in the Desktop screen and select Open Terminal Here. Firefox is launched! If Firefox is already running, a new Firefox window launches. Weird!
That menu has "Ctrl+T" next to the "Open Terminal Here" option. Indeed, when all applications are minimized and the Desktop screen is visible, Ctrl+T launches Firefox.
Does that happen to you too?
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Luciano ES
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It's not that I want any special treatmente here, it's just that I do. Every time I boot/log in, I have to suffer through these bugs:
http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=428http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=431
Bug #431 forces me to perform two checks before I can go on.
Those are bad enough, but really bad is this bug with Kmail which is forcing me to log off and log in several times a day:
http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=438
This has just become unacceptable. I use my computer to work, and I need to check my mail several times a day. The damn thing keeps getting jammed over and over, I have to restart my session several times a day. And this is Linux, not Windows or Mac, so restarting a session actually means closing all my currently running apps then restarting them after I log in again. They start automatically, but it takes a while for them to be ready. It's not like Windows and Mac, where we can log off, come back and everything is still there up and running just the way we left it. And I have to reconfigure my keyboard every frigging time I log in. It's driving me nuts.
Another very irritating thing is to think that I had none of these problems when I was using the 9.04 Trinity distro. How can software get WORSE? I just upgraded because... Well, pure peer pressure. Everywhere I go (forums, IRC) people keep telling me "yak yak, your OS is old as dust, upgrade already, yakety-yak". Damn, do I regret upgrading! But I just have NO TIME to go back now. I've wasted too much time already fine tuning the one I have now.
Please, for the love of humanity, get Kmail fixed stat.
Thank you for listening.
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Luciano ES
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