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Set resolution *before* login
by Thierry de Coulon 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hello all, I'm setting up a laptop with a 4K screen (it's a Thinkpad P51). This 4K screen will be used to manipulate Photos (with programs that require Windows...). I have installed Linux as well (for everything that does not require M$ stuff) with MX-Linux and TDE. I want to run TDE (and mostly all Linux programs) at 1920x1080. I've managed to do this with xrandr, running from a script that is in /usr/local/share. The last "problem" (with which I can live, just nags me) is that this script visibly is run relatively late, after the login screen, which is then tiny. I first set it up for xfce/lightdm and the scripts are triggered from *.desktop files in ~/.config/autostart. I found an /opt/trinity/share/autostart and hoped it might run thing before login but it does not seem to (or more probably my syntax is not the right one). So the question is: is it possible to set resolution before login, if so how. I'd prefet to continue working with xrandr than hardwiring something in the X configuration file. Thierry

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Headphone and microphone for Linux/Zoom? [offtopic]
by Michael 01 May '23

01 May '23

Anyone have experience using a headphone/microphone on Linux for Zoom meetings? Business use, not gaming. Cheap is good, 100s is out of my price range, and my preference is something with a USB RF dongle. * I’ll need one in the next month or two and personal recommendations are usually way better than some [sales] article off the web. Thanks all, Michael * - I’ve read that Bluetooth connections have latency issues, and - I’d need to dig through my motherboards wiring to setup the 3.5mm jack.

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TDE R14.1.0 release is here!
by Slávek Banko 30 Apr '23

30 Apr '23

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about the release of R14.1.0: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.1.0 Cheers -- Slávek

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Wrong placed notifications after switching to an other monitor
by Pelim Hurum 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

I have a notebook but in most of the time (but not always) use an external monitor. One time I use only one monitor. After switching to external HDMI-1 monitor from LVDS-1 using "Resize and Rotate" the notifications of various panel applets (like TDENetworkManager) appears on desktop in wrong places, far from the right place (from the mouse), using the previous monitor size. The same problem is with Kate. This is very annoying... I did not try to logout since I do not want to loose my session work. Is there any solution? TDE R14.0.9

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Fwd: Re: L-15.5 1st impression
by J Leslie Turriff 22 Apr '23

22 Apr '23

If anyone else in the Trinity community has experienced the flattening of the TDE menu (as I have), this might be a solution to look at. The OP was from someone evaluating openSUSE Leap 15.5 and modern KDE. It's possible that it only affects openSUSE users. Leslie ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: L-15.5 1st impression Date: 2023-04-21, 22:25:00 From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> To: users(a)lists.opensuse.org On 4/21/23 22:20, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 4/21/23 19:46, bent fender wrote: >> I hope I'm wrong but it looks like 15.4-kde will be my last one. >> >> I haven tried only the kde desktop but I see no way to set up a conventional >> Application launcher with thew cascading menu tree. I even pre-copied an >> entire user folder from 15.4 but none of that had any effect. What I do see >> is a smartphoneish, microcancerish, touchpadish deskdump of which I will >> have none. Tomorrow I'll look at the XFCE setup. > > Your missing out, the KDE3 repo is the best in the world -- and still just as > good as you remember it :) > Oh, You will need to grab the 15.3 desktop-data-openSUSE-15.0.20171024-lp153.1.53.src.rpm for the xdg menu categories (otherwise all items are just dumped in the menu). This change was a result of Gnome -- and it really sucks. This is one addition that should be added to the KDE3 repo -- but it does affect all desktops. Why SUSE let the gnome tail wag the openSUSE dog is bewildering... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. ------------------------------------------------------- --

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Release Notes and tdebluez
by Mike Bird 20 Apr '23

20 Apr '23

I saw a note - or at least I think I saw a note - in the 14.1.0psb release notes about a new tdebluez. So I tried to install it and failed but by then I had already closed the release notes and could not find them again. (1) It appears that the package is actually - and perhaps redundantly - - called tdebluez-trinity. Unless my memory is playing tricks it might help if the package name and the release notes matched. (2) Because 14.1.0psb is not yet released the (draft) release notes are not yet linked to the regular release notess page: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/releases.php I was also unable to find 14.1.0 release notes through various web searches, from my T menu, or via Trinity Help Center. Is there a canonical way to find/read the release notes of the installed version of TDE? Thanks, --Mike

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how to suppress icons in systray ?
by William Morder 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

Thanks for the suggestions about changing the paths in my home folder. Funny, but it's been so long since I did it that I completely forgot it was in the Trinity Control Center. I knew it had to be simple, because last time I thought about it was at least 15 years ago, when I was a total n00b. So here's another issue that suddenly reappears: Whenever I open some programs, an icon automatically pops up in the systray. I can kill these, of course, by running pkill ksystraycmd, but after I do this a few times within, say ten minutes, I get tired of it. Now, I don't mean to kill those icons that I actually want and use; for example, smplayer puts an icon in the systray, and it is actually useful. But when I first start the program, a second icon is generated, too, a sort of ghost icon that serves no real function. This is the bugaboo that I want to suppress, so that it is not generated in the first place. Since I reinstalled my OS, I also inadvertently changed some of my paths, and I believe that this might be a similar issue, because now some apps are generating icons for the systray, apps that never generated icons there before now. This is annoying, as my systray gets cluttered with stuff I don't use; and furthermore, I get duplicates on top of duplicates on top of yet more duplicates. It's one thing to have smplayer's icon, as well as the ghost icon; I kill it, doesn't come back until the next time. But now when I open text files, I get a new icon for each new text file, so that I end up with a dozen useless icons taking up space. I did check TCC under these programs, and this isn't the same thing, where you see a box to tick off for "Place in system tray"; these ghost icons are something else. Any help or suggestions are welcome. Bill

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how to stop Konqueror from recreating unused folders?
by William Morder 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Seems like it ought to be easy enough, especially as it's never happened before, if memory serves me. It's just that there are some folders I don't ever use, or which I have already named myself; for example, my folders have always been named in lower case, but now Konqueror is trying to do my thinking for me, so it has created duplicate empty folders such as Music, Templates, Videos, etc., whereas mine are named music, templates, videos, without the upper case. It doesn't rename my folders, or mess with them, it just adds folders that I don't need, have never used, and don't want, but whenever I try to delete them, Konqueror immediately recreates these folders again. I don't know how I got it like this, as I set up my system like this back in about the years 2006-2008, when I was running KDE3. I want to keep things as I had them. I don't want these duplicates, and don't want just to surrender and rename all my folders in upper case, because that means I would have to go searching through my system for changed file paths. Anybody have a clue how to change this behavior in Konqueror? Thanks for any help or suggestions! Bill

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Control Center / superuser - problem in 14.1.0
by Mike Bird 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

I'm testing TDE 4:14.1.0 from PSB. There's a thread here about a mysterious tdehwdevicetray process which has been appearing in my systray. While investigating this I tried to go into Trinity Control Center / Peripherals / Device Manager. I enter the root password but I don't get a Device Manager. If I put in the wrong password it alerts me if I put in the correct password I don't get a Device Manager. Same happens with Trinity Control Center / System Administration / Monitor and Display. Can anyone replicate this before I file a bug report? Thanks, --Mike

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Unwanted Device Manager in Panel
by Mike Bird 02 Apr '23

02 Apr '23

I'm testing TDE 4:14.1.0 from PSB. At least twice a "Device Manager" has appeared in my "Panel" (part of my Kicker setup along with the "Main Panel" and the "External Taskbar"). This Device Manager features two volumes: one is /boot/efi and another which I suspect is a Windows Recovery partition from when the laptop was first purchased. I REALLY don't want this "Device Manager" appearing and confusing and tempting end users. This "Device Manager" is not listed when I right click to "Remove From Panel" / Applet or Application. How please do I prevent this "Device Manager" from appearing here? Thanks, --Mike

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