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"Could not find mime type application/octet-stream"
by Dan Youngquist 18 Mar '23

18 Mar '23

This started a month or so ago, presumably as a result of an update. When certain programs open, most frequently Konqueror and Kicker, I get popup warnings, "Could not find mime type application/octet-stream". Kicker does 7 of those all at once before it finishes starting, Konqueror only one. While using Konqueror, another pops up frequently, and sometimes goes away on its own in a few seconds if I don't click it away. It's gotta be something simple, but I haven't had time to debug it. How do I fix this? Machine is MX Linux w/ TDE 14.0.13. -- For PGP key, search on the PGP Global Directory.

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more elementary questions
by dep 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

greets again . . . my laptop test case for debian continues. my goal today is to make my TDE -- menus, apps, panel, desktop, etc. -- as close as i can to my desktop machine. i could do this by hand, which would take a day or two, or perhaps by copying my configuration from the desktop to the notebook via something like a usb drive. what i do not know is what configurations to copy. the whole .config directory seems a little drastic, and i do not know that it would do the job. would .trinity do it? i should already know all this, but it's been a lot of years (and at least one covid brain repartitioning), and i'd rather ask than break things and ask afterwards. thanks in advance. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Kate/KWrite spell checking
by Darrell Anderson 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

Where is the option in Kate/KWrite to enable real-time inline spell checking? Thanks. DA

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now the TDE part . . .
by dep 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

greets, everyone . . . as a test run and experiment -- and to upgrade it -- i did a clean, fresh install of debian bookworm -- i keep wanting to say butterbean -- on my old but good thinkpad x200. much to my surprise, it was the quickest and easiest linux installation i've ever done. i realize that configuration is a whole nother story, but i'm impressed so far. there being no TDE choise, i installed gnome, because it brings along a lot of stuff that applications will need anyway. time now to edit /etc/apt/sources.list, and i'd kind of like to get it right. there's no listing on the TDE page for bookworm; the latest is bullseye. bookworm is, i think, what used to be "testing." i presume that using bullseye would be entirely compatable, but before i break something i want to double-check. is it? also, i wonder what it would take to get TDE listed among the debian installation choices. i see that plasma is, so i don't think it's that ancient qt fuss -- plus, the install went out and got "non-free" drivers for the video and the wifi card. it would be a good thing, i think if it were. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Global view properties in Dolphin
by Leskala 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

Hi all, quick question regarding Trinity's Dolphin: When "Save view properties for each folder" is disabled, any setting related to sort mode (by name, by date etc.) or sort order (ascending, descending) is reset as soon as the folder is changed. This also applies to the "Show Hidden Files" option. Even if "All folders" is selected in "View" > "Adjust View Properties ..." the above persists. The "Apply view properties to:" options only seem to have any effect if "Save view properties for each folder" from the settings is also enabled. So without enabling per-folder settings (and having .d3lphinview files everywhere) there is no way in Dolphin to set persistent global view properties like sort order - or am I missing something? Best regards, Leskala

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Ark and tar.lz
by Darrell Anderson 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

Does ark support tar.lz? Thanks. DA

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notify
by Marvin Jones 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

The recent notify issue discussion prompts me to ask: Is there a notify HOWTO anywhere for me to learn about how to implement notify? I have a few long-running, in the background bash scripts where notify would be a nice touch to implement. As was mentioned, passing "notify" to a search engine -- even with other search terms -- is of little use. Inquiring minds... Thank you! Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | linux Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | FreeBSD __ 38.238N 104.547W | jonz.net | DM78rf | SK

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Well, you've sold me, but . . .
by dep 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

For a start, I'll need to get months of treatment if I'm to recover from my exposure to the Trisquel folks. It's no exaggeration to say that they might well consider Richard M. Stallman insufficiently pure ideologically. Perhaps it comes from guilt; they acknowledge that without Canonical a/k/a Ubuntu they could not exist. It's a little like Judge Roy Bean's comment on reformed prostitutes, indeed, reformed anything. One referred to Debian as a "fallen gold standard," and I pointed out that gold is actually up $52 today, but I doubt that changed any minds. It's too bad. A simply de-Canonicaled Ubuntu would be a good thing. Which leaves Debian. If I weren't bone lazy I would have adopted it instead of Ubuntu many years ago. Thanks to everyone here for the many useful tips in that regard, and other regards, though I think it's pretty clear that Debian is the answer. It's rye whisky, while most other distros are umbrella drinks. I have one question (well, many, but this one just surprised me): of the many ISOs in the TDE repository, there isn't a Debian one. Is there some reason for this or simply nobody to make one? Like any good former OS/2 user, as a matter of reflex I have /home on its own partition, pictures on their own partition and drive, and so on. I'll probably further back up /home on an empty partition of another drive as well. (Having mentioned OS/2, let me once again whine about it having been wise from the get-go to segregate applications in their own directories, as opposed to intermingling them with everything else.) Anyway, having asked and been advised, I thought it right to let everybody know where I am ending up. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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MX Package Installer / Install TDE on any Debian based system
by Michael 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

On Monday 13 March 2023 05:21:01 pm dep via tde-users wrote: > > Nope. Gotta be Debian. Gotta land a taildragger sometime. Hi dep, Go you! I use MX/antiX solely because of the ease of use. Specifically for their “Package Installer.” It makes installing most anything a one click operation. Saving hours of research to correctly install something like a full LAMP stack or Virtuabox makes me happy. But at the end of the day it’s just a bunch of scripts, that are portable to any Debian based system. I’m not sure if you’ll want or need them, but I’m attaching the tar archive of the MX set of scripts for any that might find them useful. While most of them are easy enough to figure out, some (like the ***vpn’s) are fairly complex, but reading several to get the context should be good enough for most on this list to be able to deconstruct them into commands to run as root. Note: After modifying the location where the TDE sources.list is to fit your distribution, the ‘tde.pm’ file included will install TDE on any Debian based system. Best All, Michael

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Embedding viewing
by Darrell Anderson 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Konqueror seems designed to view everything in an embedded viewer. I found this bug report: https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768 Is there an easy one-shot work-around to update konqueror so everything does not default to embedded view? Thanks. DA

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