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Can't find a way to get "Lock Session" removed from traditional KDE/TDE menu
by Felix Miata 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

I think I looked everywhere there is to look. Lock session doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. It simply shows up in the main menu, where it is easily clicked unintentionally as mouse pointer moves in the process of LMB clicking. -- 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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Support for ukrainian?
by Michael Renner 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Moin, a friend asked me for some (older) notebooks for people who fled from ukraine. So my point is: i would install ubuntu with tde if there is support for ukrainian language. Greetings -- |Michael Renner E-mail: michael.renner(a)gmx.de | |81541 Munich Twitter: @dd0ul | |Germany Don't drink as root! ESC:wq

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TDE mailing list use
by Michele Calgaro 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

Hi all, brief reminder that this mailing lists are meant to be used to discuss TDE related topics. Please refrain from non related topics, especially those which could lead to hot discussions or very polarized views. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation, let's keep this place technical and friendly. We are a nice community, let's make sure we keep it that way :-) Cheers Michele

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Unable to find MIME type application/octet-stream
by ajh-valmer 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Hello, Sorry to disturb you :-) Since an upgrade of my Buster Debian, I receive this message when I open an application, as kmail, konqueror... : "Unable to find MIME type application/octet-stream". I don't understand the message, no finded a solution with google. Thanks for your help. André

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non-starting browsers & other annoyances
by William Morder 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

Update on those previous threads, for what it's worth. After pondering my options (upgrade or downgrade, try another DE, start from scratch, etc.), I decided that I would give this thing one last try. And here, I did not do anything different, so far as I can tell. During my futzing and fiddling phase, I changed the repos to PSB and PTB, but this didn't seem to help, as Kmail would always crash, and it didn't solve the problem with browsers not starting, nor did it get Open Office working. So I decided to give it one last try, and went through adding packages only a few at a time, downloading them all from standard repositories for Devuan Chimaera and TDE (no PSB or PTB). My usual practice is the download in batches, according to categories, if you will. I keep lists of those packages and dependencies that have worked in the past. Where there are problems or conflicts, I make a note, edit out those rejects, etc. Most of you probably have some similar habits, I suppose, but this is mine, and I've been doing it like this since 2006, across PC Linux, Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04x, Debian 8 or 9, and finally Devuan starting with Jessie. I've copied and saved my home folder across 3 desktops (plus a few test machines built out of junk), and at least 5 laptops. There may be a few other machines that I now forget. But anyway, so this isn't my first rodeo. What I do works for me; or at least, it always has done. After adding these packages only a few at a time, suddenly everything works again. The only thing I can see that is different is that these are slightly newer versions of the stable builds. I have not yet added qt5ct (which will allow me to use my TDE colors and themes on non-TDE programs). There are several threads on this already; so I will leave it at that. My browsers work again like usual, everything is back. So that's all good, right? Except, what bothers me is that I can't track down the cause of those problems. I can only think maybe it was due to some corrupt packages, or something like that, which makes me wonder how and why they would have got damaged. It could be that qt5ct and/or its dependencies are causing some conflict. On my previous installations, when I ran the echo command to enable qt5ct changes, I got error messages that said it was misconfigured as gtk2. Yet that is what this web page advises: https://askubuntu.com/questions/706528/qt-apps-stopped-inheriting-gtk-theme… https://web.archive.org/web/20201111174652/https://askubuntu.com/questions/… Then you run this command: sudo sh -c "echo 'export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2' >> /etc/environment" and reboot, and it always worked (at least, when I was running Devuan Beowulf on my desktop). The error message in qt5ct said that it ought to be something else, I think it was qt5 or maybe gtk5 (is that a thing?). So I tried modifying the command to: sudo sh -c "echo 'export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct' >> /etc/environment" but this did nothing. I hesitate to mess with this any more, since my system is stable again. Anyway ... so once more, I stand at the door, almost there, but can't get in. Now I am back to the same problem that irked me before; namely, either to get Open Office running, or to get Libre Office running and to change the color scheme of the GUI interface to something that doesn't cause me severe pain and discomfort (from looking at large patches white screen). I am wondering if I ought to try css, as I believe I still have E. Liddell's scripts somewhere (and his old emails with the attachments). Maybe I can use that to get my Libre Office GUI interface to use colors that are not so hard on my eyes. (I am not joking here. I get watery eyes, and eventually a migraine, after staring at a white screen for more than about 5 minutes.) Apologies for length, but I was trying to recount the various factors that may or not be relevant. I expect it will get trimmed in the responses. Any observations or suggestions or advice are appreciated. Bill

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Hurray
by phiebie＠drei.at 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

Just caught this headline on my broker-website (Comdirect, to avoid eventually arising lawsuits): "VW-Aufseher winken Pläne für Zukunftsmodell Trinity durch" The supervisory board of VW (Volkswagen) waved through the plans for the future blueprint Trinity. Hey, Slavek and companions, all your efforts are at last appreciated very high up:-)) Regards, Peter.

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Re: non-starting browsers - more info
by Jim 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

One more try... On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 14:22 (-0800), William Morder via tde-users wrote: > Now all of a sudden this issue, with almost none of my usual browsers able to > start up at all: it's blind-sided me, and I don't even know where to look for > the cause. I'm still curious as to what exactly that means. If you open a terminal window and try to start (for example) firefox, by typing firefox to the shell prompt and pressing the enter key, *exactly* what happens? Saying "doesn't start" is vague to the point of meaninglessness. (Or opera or vivaldi or whatever browser you like.) Does the shell say something like "command not found"? Does the shell report the browser crashed? Do you get a prompt back, but no window shows up on your screen? Do you not get a prompt back? Are there absolutely no error messages or similar that show up in your terminal window? Note that unless you have a very long window, a process that isn't using much CPU time might be far enough down the list that you won't see it with top or htop. If you really want to know whether it is there, open a second terminal window and try typing the command ps axuw | grep firefox (or grep for whatever browser you tried to start that "isn't starting") and let us know what it says. Jim

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Trinity on Slackware
by Hunter Ellett 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

Slackware 15 just dropped yesterday after a 6 year gap and I'm wondering if anyone here uses it knows how well supported it is. I know two folks on Matrix who do, but the way they talk the Slackbuilds by Ray-V are rather shallow. I'm thinking of using Slackware myself because of its incredible resistance to change (much like TDE) But, if Trinity is not well supported I don't know how it will go. I don't care for any of the desktop environments or window managers that come with it. For me it's either TDE, icewm, or nothing. -- ~ Hunter Sent from my Android device with K9 Mail

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strange visitors on top
by William Morder 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

Does anybody know what these processes represent? applet.py agent at-spi-bus-laun They show up in top, running as processes under my user name, PIDs are all close together in the 2600 range, but they are new visitors that I've never seen before. I've tried to track them down to their source, so far with no luck. I've had some other issues, too, but I don't know if they are related. Just getting used to running TDE on a different and newer machine, so I expect that things will change and I need to make adjustments. But I can't imagine what I might have installed that does this. These processes all run at near 100% CPU, although I don't really have much else running at present. In any case, since I haven't seen them ever before yesterday, I want to know. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Bill

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Let the war end, off vs. on topic
by Michael 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

I find high irony that my namesake on this list has diametrically opposed views to myself as to how the users on this list should behave. Although I’m not fond of fascism in any form, lets force some middle ground anyway. (Again, the irony is strong...) Some background and realities first though. 1) This list has always had a huge amount of “off topic” correspondence. It is what makes this list enjoyable to many (possibly most) of the members. 2) Everyone on this list uses an email program that allows message filtering to enable their off vs. on topic desires. So, being the fascist I don’t like being, if you wish to create, or reply with, an “off topic” message to this list, please include, at the end of the subject line the completely disambiguous filterable keyword: [offtopic] The END. (Not that “The END” will stop any of you from expressing your opinions one way or the other, so do remember to change your reply’s subject line to: “Let the war end, off vs. on topic [offtopic]”) Best Regards All, (yes even to Mike) Michael

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