hi,
I try to configure an hybrid system based on:
kubuntu-18.04 (without akonadi-kmail-mysqld)
and install kmail+dependencies from triniy-desktop
I insert into:
$HOME/.trinity/share/config/kdeglobals
BrowserApplication[$e]=!/usr/bin/firefox
JpgApplication[$e]=!/usr/bin/gwenview
PdfApplication[$e]=!/usr/bin/okular
but when I read an email (in trinity-kmail) only links to urls work fine
what is wrong?
thank you
sacarde(a)tiscali.it
Is there a dcop, or other way, to have KMail gracefully shutdown from a bash
script?
I want to turn it off while nightly backups are running…
Thanks,
Michael
On Monday 09 August 2021 17.57:03 sacarde wrote:
> yes, I have installed plasma-kde, and applications set I have:
>
> browser: /usr/bin/firefox
> mail: /opt/trinity/bin/kmail
>
> but if I click over .pdf or .jpg attachments in mail it reply
>
> https://i.imgur.com/B3uAQZN.png
>
> may be I have to installed full trinity-desktop?
I guess kmail uses Trinity settings (file associations in Trinity Control
Center). I don't know how kmail reacts if these settings don't exist.
Thierry
This came up in conversation here a few days ago -- I was the one asking --
and there being a solution I thought I'd post it here.
For reasons unknown, and that make no sense to me, the GRUB menu is not
enabled by default in Ubuntu 20,04 and perhaps closely related
distributions.
To get it back, it's necessary to edit the default /etc/default/grub,
changing
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE='hidden"
to
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE="menu"
and uncommenting
GRUB_TERMINAL="console"
and after that the GRUB menu is back at boot.
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. . . I have in my /boot directory four kernels -- the running one
(5.4.0-80) -- and some rather hoary ones: 4.4.0-124, 3.13.0-147, and
3.13.0-126. i do not currently have nor do I imagine ever having need for
the last three. Thought I'd get rid of 'em, but they do not show up in
Ubuntu Cleaner or anything else capable of sending them to the bit bucket.
So. Anybody know any reason I'd want to keep them and, absent such a
reason, anybody know a quick and complete way of deleting them? Used to be
they'd always at least show up in Synaptic, but not this time.
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Hi, everybody!
I'm giving some thought to putting an SSD in my desktop machine. The
relatively small ones, ~500gb, have gotten pretty cheap, and they seem to
be fairly reliable (though I can't say I utterly trust them, though
traditional HDs aren't perfect in this regard, either). It seems that if
properly employed, one could speed up my system considerably.
But I thought I'd ask here before pushing the buy button.
So . . . has anyone here used an SSD in a desktop machine? If so, what did
you put on it?
I have 20tb of storage on the machine, most of it big photo files, and I
expect to keep all of it. Absent a compelling reason to the contrary, I'd
keep ~/ on a conventional hard drive as well. My initial idea is putting
the / partition and swap partitions on the thing, with everything home and
below staying put.
An additional consideration is my idea of keeping a fully current install
where it is now, though not using it unless the SSD blows up. Is this
reasonably easy to do, or would it be a giant pita?
Anyone here have any experience doing this kind of thing?
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I just installed smartmontools and gsmartcontrol on one of my Debian
systems and it will not launch from the TDE menu. When I then attempted
to launch as sudo from a terminal window, this was the result:
> sudo gsmartcontrol
> No protocol specified
> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
>
> (gsmartcontrol:3280): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:04:14.299: cannot open
> display: :0
Is this not compatible with Trinity?
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TDE: R14.0.10 - Debian: 10.10 (amd64)
Hi all!
Giving this PDF https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/2304760.pdf kpdf requires a password to open it while firefox does not.
Anybody knows the reason for this?
Nik
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Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...
Greetings all;
1. I was forced by an errant mill table trapping and crushing my last
logitech K360 keyboard with a different keyboard, one which has a row of
buttons across the top/rear that among other things includes a power
switch, and another that apparently makes it hibernate. It is virtually
impossible to pick up this keyboard and take it the 3 or 4 feet to the
machine without inadvertently pressing one or more of these buttons.
None of them are of any use around potentially dangerous machinery.
This is a row of buttons above the F buttons which the control program
running the machine makes liberal use of. I need to completely disable
that whole row of buttons, or find a source of logitech NOS K-360's.
How can I do that?
Second, some debian ID10T has decreed that F10 is to bring up a useless
to me menu, meaning the exit from mc now demands I find and pick up the
$%#@&& mouse and use it to click on the F10 button at the bottom right
of the mc screen. Where, in TDE do I find where that hijacking is being
done so I can turn it off so I can run mc from the keyboard like I've
been doing for 22 years?
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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said Hunter:
| GTK3 is an eyesore, but I guess Qt5 is as well.
First, I'm on the list, so you needn't cc me.
Second, just look at the latest Plasma desktop. It does nothing worth doing
that KDE3 didn't do, but it makes those things far more complicated and
difficult. In KDE3/TDE, if you want to add an application to Kicker, you
drag it there. The end. In current KDE, there's a whole wad of
incomprehensible crap you have to go through, and none of it is optional.
Nor is this anything new. When the late, unlamented KOffice was coming
along, it had filters that would import many file formats -- but not save
in them! It would save only in its own little format, which made it
entirely useless if the document were to be sent to anyone else. (It
wasn't even good for documents you intended to print onto actual physical
paper, because KPrinter kinda sucked (this was pre-CUPS). The boys were
happy with themselves while users were wondering what the hell the boys
were thinking. Asked about it, the boys would reply that if you weren't
happy, you were free to write something else. This what I mean when I
refer to "enthusiast development."
You may or may not have been around during the great Qt war. Gnome had been
rumored and promised for a long time and then, in the middle of 1998,
along came KDE 1.0 and right out of the box it was great. But it wasn't
reported or discussed as such. Instead, it was always "it will do until
Gnome gets released." Then came the "and Qt isn't free" cries of doctrinal
impurity, that on a whim Troll Tech could kill KDE or make people pay for
it or something (as if the trolls were, say, going to become the
reprehensible Darl McBride of Caldera). The trolls freed up Qt, at least
to the extent that it was no longer even an imagined risk to KDE. Ah, but
Gnome is going to be so great!
Leading the charge in many ways was Miguel deIcaza, a brilliant programmer
and along with Nat Friedman founder of Ximian. (I still have and
occasionally wear one of their teeshirts, though I like my Progeny Linux
Systems teeshirt more, because it draws comments from a better class of
people, the Debian snobs.) Miguel truly is brilliant -- he's the guy who
wrote Midnight Commander, a quarter century later still the single most
essential application on any Linux machine. And he and Nat are really nice
guys; I spent some time with them during the Ximian days, at their office
in Boston. But they were both influential and unfair in their appraisal of
KDE and Qt. Let it be noted that they both work now, as they have for
years, at that bastion of free and open-source software, Microsoft.
Much of that is an aside; my point is that the QT suspicion remains, which
is the chief reason that Gnome and GTK are taken seriously.
But another of the reasons is the attitude by the KDE developers. I
remember when the KMail addressbook was a simple, human-editable text file
comprising name and email address. (This was when just about everything in
Linux was configured by simple, human-editable text files, the passing of
which I still mourn. Opening a file in a text editor and scrolling down to
change the value of "scrollbar-width=10" gave users enormous power that we
no longer have.) The boys decided to make it more elaborate and simply
eliminate support for the old format. That was bad enough; worse, their
brilliant new addressbook *didn't work*! I remember staying up nights
hacking the new KMail to get it to use the old addressbook. The boys not
only didn't like this, they were snotty in their boasting about their new
addressbook which, again, *didn't work*. They took the same attitude when
they made the (fatal, in my estimation) file format decision in KOffice;
by the time that got sorted out we had StarOffice, then OpenOffice, then
OpenOffice.org, and finally LibreOffice. Perhaps realizing that the Gnomes
had no fair criticisms of KDE to offer, the boys set about creating some
entirely fair criticisms of KDE.
So now both desktops in their current manifestations do whatever they damn
well please rather than allow users choices in these things. Gnome can do
it because, hey, it's Gnome and freeeeeee unlike Qt-tainted KDE; KCE does
it because the boys will be the boys.
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