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by dep 03 Dec '23

03 Dec '23

My current stunt is a secure tablet. That is impossible with Apple products but is relatively easy with Google hardware. (In case there is interest, a hot take on the project is here: https://ofb.biz/safari/article/1161.html ) It is amazing the number of applications that reintroduce problems solved a generation ago. There is, for instance, *no* good mobile browser. So I was happy and horrified to install Emacs a few minutes ago. For those of us who are nostalgic, it looks as awful as it did 25 years ago. For those of us who want to get work done, it is in all other respects as awful as it was 25 years ago. I haven't yet found ports of useful Linux applications. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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New MX-Linux with TDE ISO
by Thierry de Coulon 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

Hello all, I've been using MX-Linux for more than a year and recently decided to play with MX-Snapshot, a tool that let's you create an installation ISO from a running system. So I have installed the latest MX (23.1, based on Debian Bookworm), with kernel 6.5.0, then I added Trinity and started creating ISOs. Installation only succeeds if you use lightdm for the process, but TDM is installed and dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity is (almost) all that is required to get a full TDE based MX-Linux. It seems Mega accepts that I upload an ISO and share it, so if anyone wishes to try, here are the links: Iso file: https://mega.nz/file/1Xt1jIZL#h0VcKZaSH0eSE1INm5NOxiiywWBa1J0T9ZDmHLBFS5Q md5 file: https://mega.nz/file/kWVh0YQb#iWJ3cVkDpXHPS0wENA6knM0AthK66g8u-12zYFVjyak ReadMe file https://mega.nz/file/NfUTjQ5B#iSzIBWYSZ-Xfqn25RFOf2_CYKRbTUn40tJMb_g9VWAc If you do try, I'd like to get a feed back (what worked, what did not). Have a nice day, Thierry

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NixOS
by SuperRyn 26 Nov '23

26 Nov '23

Are there any packages for TDE that exist on NixOS?

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How do I rearrange items on the panel?
by SuperRyn 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

For some items there seems to be a button for moving them, but I don't know how to consistently make it appear. How do I consistently move items around? (I'm trying to have an item be on the bottom of the panel, but it's sandwiched between the taskbar and system tray right now)

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Can't find how to regenerate applications menu
by SuperRyn 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

I didn't like how cluttered the menus were, so I deleted some of the folders. I am now regretting this decision and wish to reverse it; but I can't find any options like that in KMenuEdit or other places. How do I do this?

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TDE enters sleep mode after about 30 minutes, how do I disable this?
by SuperRyn 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Every night, I turn on some white noise to help me sleep; but if it suddenly stops, I can't sleep. TDE seems to go into the display manager (which is set as LightDM since TDM didn't seem to work) every 30 minutes. I've looked all through the control panel, and I didn't see any options for disabling this. How do I do this? I don't want to switch over to IceWM when I go to bed so the audio doesn't cut out.

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Error - Kicker; Malformed URL; system:/
by Felix Miata 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

I see this error popup on various installations. The instant one is a 32bit Bookworm freshly upgraded from Bullseye with 14.0.12. Bullseye does it too. The trigger is left clicking on the menu starter. On those where it ever occurs, it only happens once. Trying again after dismissing the popup always works. Anyone familiar with it, what to do to eliminate it? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Live iso based on CentOS Stream
by massi.ergosum＠gmail.com 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Hi folks, a live remix based on CentOS Stream: https://github.com/mbugni/tde-remix Regards Massi

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TDE does not open
by Ken Heard 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

Sometime since 2023-11-10, when it was created, an email thread with this title disappeared from my email client. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to copy to a text file the contents of that thread; so the content was not lost. Three people also contributed to this thread, Mike Bird, Thierry de Coulon and Peter. I hope that they at least still have that that thread so they will know what it am talking about in this posting, as it is a continuation of that thread and would not have been possible without their collective help. I was able to download from the desktop computer a copy of file ‘.xsession-errors’. It is attached to this posting, all 924 linesof it, with the title ‘TDE-xsession-errors.odt’, no more dot and everybody has permission to read it. Interestingly enough, the ‘.xsession-errors’ file for the laptop contains only 894 lines. After examining the desktop .xsession-errors of all the possibility for errors which could cause TDE not to open, I was able to identify only one, the UID. The .xsession-errors used 1001 as the UID. At some point I changed my default UID from 1001 to 1000. (The UID on the .xsession-errors for the laptop is and always was 1000.) In view of the foregoing I think the best thing for me to do now is to reinstall Bookworm and TDE completely. For Thierry’s information both computers have four partitions, boot/efi, root (/), /var and /home which is encrypted. I no longer have a swap; I had them since 2008 in several computers – but never were they ever used. ‘Partition’ /tmp is now part of tmpfs and set up as so by a line in the /etc/fstab file. In retrospect, the original message – Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full ?). Check your installation. – was misleading. If my analysis herein is correct a full temporary directory is not the issue. The command lnusertemp, if it is a command, could refer to a UID number; which it could not do for the desktop but could for the laptop. One final comment. I will not be able to do the reinstalments before 26 November. I will report results when done. Regards, Ken Heard

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TDE does not open
by Ken Heard 12 Nov '23

12 Nov '23

In mid-October last I installed in a desktop computer Debian Bookworm and TDE. After the installation I was able successfully to transfer the source of the operating system from the CD disk to the built-in source. After opening the OS from the local source I installed an application and was able to use it. I also made some adjustments to the TDE ‘kicker’. I then closed the computer for the night. The next morning I expected to open the computer without difficulty. So I opened it and got as far as the ‘Login to TDE’ window. I entered my password. Instead of opening the TDE I received the following message: Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full ?). Check your installation. As of this point the only access I had to the computer was by a ‘console login’. Fortunately I had a spare laptop without any operating system installed. I consequently installed on it the same OS and TDE. This time I did not receive the message quoted above. In time I was able to install all the applications I wanted and adjust the kicker and other TDE features to my liking. While I have been using the laptop for several weeks now, I would like to be able to use the desktop. I did however do an online search; all I found were a few posts about this message dated on average ten years ago. A few made reference to the possible absence of KDE files, a diagnosis which I did not think relevant. Others made reference to having the right permissions. Without however complete access to the desktop it was difficult to check permissions of ‘temporary directories’. Directories which appeared to me relevant and where I was able to see the permissions in both computers, all were identical. I cannot understand why what appears to me as identical installations in both computers would not work in both. How can I ‘check the installation’ if access to the computer is so restricted? All help, suggestions, etc. will be gratefully received. Ken Heard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

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