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security warnings - possibly off-topic
by William Morder 05 May '23

05 May '23

Some of this post may be off-topic, in that it started with a security alert for Devuan; this led me to run some scans of my own system, just to make sure something bad hasn't crept in while I was relaxing, and staying offline most of the time. That Devuan alert is here: https://linuxiac.com/devuan-users-are-at-risk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230429000520/https://linuxiac.com/devuan-user… I did check my system, and login as root is disabled. At present, I am the only user on any of my machines or devices, and this is usually how it goes for me. If others want to get on the internet or whatever, let them bring their own box. So anyway, I believe that I am probably okay there. But then I decided to run a full scan of my system (still running). When I ran klamav, I got some surprising hits, and some of these look like they ought to be important enough for TDE users to know about. Thus my justification for including the off-topic stuff as well. I am not worried about the OpenOffice/LibreOffice extension, as it is quarantined and I don't use it, but I am curious about what it is, and if it is not perhaps a false positive. Also, I don't care about old emails that are marked as having a spoofed domain. They're archived; someday I'll dig out what they are and why I kept them. What I am most concerned about are those .deb files that I downloaded. The clamav testfiles are supposed to ring the bell, I will guess, because they are made to test the program. But the other files are the boot image, so I wonder if that's normal for the boot image to set off the alarms in my antivirus program? Bill P.S. By the way: thanks to developers for adding klamav back to the great tools available from the old KDE3. I have been missing klamav, because it is much more customizable than other frontends for clamav. There is one called clamtk that sorta worked, but I didn't like it.

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Multiple DCOP sessions
by J Leslie Turriff 02 May '23

02 May '23

I'm getting this strange situation again with DCOP: | @22:01:36,leslie@pinto rc=0 | ~ | $ dcop --user leslie | ERROR: Multiple available TDE sessions! | Please specify the correct session to use with --session or use the | --all-sessions option to broadcast to all sessions. | @22:02:03,leslie@pinto rc=255 | ~ | $ dcop --user leslie --list-sessions | Active sessions for user /home/leslie : | .DCOPserver_pinto__0 | .DCOPserver_pinto__1 | | @22:02:13,leslie@pinto rc=0 | ~ | $ px dcop | leslie 26431 1 0 Apr29 ? 00:00:01 dcopserver [tdeinit] --nosid --suicide | @22:02:20,leslie@pinto rc=0 | ~ | $ dcopserver --help-all | Usage: dcopserver [--nofork] [--nosid] [--help] | dcopserver --serverid | | DCOP is TDE's Desktop Communications Protocol. It is a lightweight IPC/RPC | mechanism built on top of the X Consortium's Inter Client Exchange protocol. | It enables desktop applications to communicate reliably with low overhead. | | Copyright (C) 1999-2001, The KDE Developers <http://www.kde.org> For some reason DCOP says I have two DCOP sessions. .DCOPserver_pinto__0 does not respond to queries, so apparently it's dead or a ghost. .DCOPserver_pinto__1 works normally. I notice also that the output from dcop --help does not include the --suicide option? Is this a clue to what's going on? How do I get rid of the one that doesn't respond? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64) Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.13 tde-config: 1.0

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Archiving kmail folders
by J Leslie Turriff 02 May '23

02 May '23

I haven't tried archiving a folder yet, and there isn't any information in the Handbook about archiving folders. If I archive a folder, how can its content be accessed afterward? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64) Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.13 tde-config: 1.0

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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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