I've been doing a lot of customizing on my new Devuan machine from the root account.
When I tried to switch users to my unprivileged account I was unable to login because of
a DCOP:
| There was an error setting up inter-process communications for TDE. The message
returned by the system was:
|
| Could not read network connection list.
| /home/leslie/.DCOPserver_palomino__1
|
| Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!
ps aux|grep -i dcop shows
|root 15175 0.0 0.1 49316 10244 ? S 04:42 0:00 dcopserver [tdeinit] --nosid --suicide
I also see that root has .DCOPserver_<HOST>__0 and a symlink, .DCOPserver_<HOST>_:0
pointing to it; these are missing in account leslie.
Is there a way to recover from this, or do I have to recreate the account?
Leslie
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Operating System: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.0.12
tde-config: 1.0
I have acquired a used HP Probook 440 G5, on which I have installed Devuan Chimaera. The
Chimaera installer balked at adding
| deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
| deb-src http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
which continue to fail to work after the install completed; I'm not sure just what they
provide and if they are really necessary; I couldn't find any useful information about
them in a web search.
Perhaps these need to be working before installing Trinity? I followed the install
instructions in the Trinity Wiki page
<https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Devuan_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Inst…>,
but
| apt-get update
fails with 'E: The repository ... does not have a Release file.' (see attached command
output, etc.).
Since all of my experience with Linux has been with openSUSE and RedHat, I'm not sure
what to do to resolve these issues. Help!? :-)
Leslie
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Operating System: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.0.12
tde-config: 1.0
Hi Gianluca,
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 20:31 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
>> are you able to attach the actual dvi file (or one showing that
>> problem, alo)? Or, if you want to send it directly to me, that is fine
>> too. I am curious as to what the issue is.
> I will send it to you separately.
Got it, see below.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 20:44 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
> I attach here the .tex, .dvi, .pdf files along with the EPS graphics. You
> need to have the EPS file in the same firectory as the .dvi file. The .pdf
> shows the full page with the figure. When I open the .dvi in an older
> OpenSUSE (<=13.2) distribution, then the figure appears. But in OpenSUSE
> 15.3 the figure is not there but the text is.
It worked fine for me.
I am using Slackware64 15.0. However, rather than using Slackware's
TeX packages, I just install texlive and get it over with.
Are you using texlive, or OpenSUSE's TeX packages? And, in either
case, if you copy xdvi from a working system and try it out on your
system, does it work?
You might consider submitting a bug report to the OpenSUSE people
(assuming you are using their package, and not texlive).
Jim
Hi Gianluca,
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 11:41 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Jim wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 09:56 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24941
>> This suggests that ghostscript is your problem. Did you try copying
>> that from an old system and putting it somewhere in your $PATH before
>> the system ghostscript (on your updated system)?
>> If that doesn't help, I guess you are stuck with okular. As I think I
>> said, it seems as fast as xdvi on my system. If yours is noticeably
>> slower I wonder what strange things are happening on your system.
>> (Assuming you aren't using some very old, slow computer.)
> No, okular is not slow on my system. I never implied that.
Sorry, when you said "I can use okular to display the .dvi document,
but I miss how fast xdvi is." I took it to mean that you thought
okular was slow.
> I just think that xdvi is generally more lightweight than okular,
> but okular runs well. So okular is an option if I can't figure out
> ghostscript.
It is always nice to have a Plan B.
> What exactly would I copy of ghostscript from the older system? In a
> OpenSUSE 13.2 installation I have for example:
> /usr/lib64/ghostscript/9.15/X11.so
> Would that be enough?
I'd guess not. That library provides gs the ability to output to X11
devices, and (in my tests) it is needed to display .eps images in
xdvi, but I speculate you need the ghostscript executable (which is
/usr/bin/gs on my system). If you copy that over from your old system
to your new system, don't forget it needs to be found before the
system one vis-a-vis your $PATH setting.
My version of gs has the path name for that directory hard-coded into
the executable. (On my system the path name for ghostscript's X11.so
library is '/usr/lib64/ghostscript/9.55.0', but on your system that
will be something different.)
Consequently, if you try copying the gs from your old system to your
new one, and they are different versions of gs (which is presumably
the case) you will have to create the correctly-named directory on
your new system and put the library in that directory.
With luck, the old version of gs will play nicely with the
(presumably) newer versions of all the libraries on your new system.
If it doesn't, you can go deeper down the rabbit hole in a number of
ways, but at that point you might want to accept defeat and use
okular. (I could suggest some ways to proceed, but I really doubt you
will find the spending of the required time productive. Much better
to get on with blood clotting research. My vet tells me dog blood
clots many times faster than human blood, but I didn't have the
presence of mind to ask her if she knew why that is so. Maybe you
know.)
> I also realized that my subject line should have read "OpenSUSE 15.2", not
> 15.3, but that may not be as relevant now.
Only, I suppose, if you were submitting a bug report or talking to
another OpenSUSE person about this issue.
Jim
Good Day,
anybody expierencing weird behavior of the mouse pointer after a recent
update on PSB (preliminary stable builds)? Mine keeps "floating" after
a short move in one direction, so it is very hard to hit… It's kinda
hard to describe. But maybe the mouse I've been using since several
years is at last throwing in the towel.
Cheers, Stefan
Hi Gianluca,
On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 15:15 (-0700), Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
> Thanks Jim for the tip on "flyspell mode".
Glad to help out.
> What about paragraph justification? I remember it was Ctrl-J?
There is an emacs command "fill-paragraph", which is in the "fill"
package. I have it bound to Alt-Q (which I think is the default
binding, not Ctrl-J) but you can easily re-bind it to any key sequence
you like. (Or, if for some reason you want to do it, you can bind any
command to as many key sequences as you like.)
> Can you set a specific line length, like in gvim I had set 93
> characters per line?
The above paragraph was wrapped automagically according to my setting
of "fill-column", which I have set to 70 for email messages.
If you want paragraphs justified, you can give an argument to
fill-paragraph. For example, if I copy the above paragraph and type
Ctrl-U Alt-Q, I get
There is an emacs command "fill-paragraph", which is in the "fill"
package. I have it bound to Alt-Q (which I think is the default
binding, not Ctrl-J) but you can easily re-bind it to any key sequence
you like. (Or, if for some reason you want to do it, you can bind any
command to as many key sequences as you like.)
Whether you like those results better than ragged-right is up to you,
of course.
Cheers.
Jim
Hi TDE users list!
This may be a bit off-topic to TDE but still related to new libraries. I
noticed that in OpenSUSE 15.3 gvim is compiled against GTK3.
Interestingly, this makes it very slow. At first, when I'm editing a
document it works fine, but then after a while it gets so slow that I need
to close it and restart it. Has anybody else had the same issue and knows
a workaround?
An alternative is to install an older version of gvim that was compiled
against GTK2 from an older OpenSUSE distribution. Has anybody tried
anything similar?
It is hard to find an alternative text editor that has instant spell
check. Any ideas? I use it mostly for LaTeX.
Thanks!
Gianluca
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Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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It looks like OpenSuSE has decided to deprecate Leap, their long-term stable release,
possibly in favour of Tumbleweed, their rolling release (they're being very coy about
what will replace Leap). Trinity runs on numerous other Linuxes; which would be best for
someone like me who values stability over gee-whiz features and eye-candy?
Leslie
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Operating System: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.0.12
tde-config: 1.0
Hi All,
Four quick questions to see if Slávek, Mike, myself, et al. should pursue
creating an easy (NAT VPS / home TDE mirror) setup.
https://take.quiz-maker.com/QJUQPIFKX
Even if you don’t think you’ll be able to help out with this, please do take
the poll as the info will be useful for future TDE decisions.
Best All,
Michael
Is there a way to make the Clock applet display the day of the week in short (Wed) rather
than long (Wednesday) format? In Control Center => Regional & Accessibility =>
Country/Region & Language => Time & Dates tab one can set the short day of the week in
the date format fields, but not separately. (See attached)
Leslie
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Operating System: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.0.12
tde-config: 1.0
