My current stunt is a secure tablet. That is impossible with Apple products but is relatively easy with Google hardware. (In case there is interest, a hot take on the project is here: https://ofb.biz/safari/article/1161.html )
It is amazing the number of applications that reintroduce problems solved a generation ago. There is, for instance, *no* good mobile browser.
So I was happy and horrified to install Emacs a few minutes ago. For those of us who are nostalgic, it looks as awful as it did 25 years ago. For those of us who want to get work done, it is in all other respects as awful as it was 25 years ago.
I haven't yet found ports of useful Linux applications.
dep
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Hello all,
I've been using MX-Linux for more than a year and recently decided to play
with MX-Snapshot, a tool that let's you create an installation ISO from a
running system.
So I have installed the latest MX (23.1, based on Debian Bookworm), with
kernel 6.5.0, then I added Trinity and started creating ISOs.
Installation only succeeds if you use lightdm for the process, but TDM is
installed and dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity is (almost) all that is required
to get a full TDE based MX-Linux.
It seems Mega accepts that I upload an ISO and share it, so if anyone wishes
to try, here are the links:
Iso file:
https://mega.nz/file/1Xt1jIZL#h0VcKZaSH0eSE1INm5NOxiiywWBa1J0T9ZDmHLBFS5Q
md5 file:
https://mega.nz/file/kWVh0YQb#iWJ3cVkDpXHPS0wENA6knM0AthK66g8u-12zYFVjyak
ReadMe file
https://mega.nz/file/NfUTjQ5B#iSzIBWYSZ-Xfqn25RFOf2_CYKRbTUn40tJMb_g9VWAc
If you do try, I'd like to get a feed back (what worked, what did not).
Have a nice day,
Thierry
For some items there seems to be a button for moving them, but I don't
know how to consistently make it appear. How do I consistently move
items around? (I'm trying to have an item be on the bottom of the panel,
but it's sandwiched between the taskbar and system tray right now)
I didn't like how cluttered the menus were, so I deleted some of the
folders. I am now regretting this decision and wish to reverse it; but I
can't find any options like that in KMenuEdit or other places. How do I
do this?
Every night, I turn on some white noise to help me sleep; but if it
suddenly stops, I can't sleep. TDE seems to go into the display manager
(which is set as LightDM since TDM didn't seem to work) every 30
minutes. I've looked all through the control panel, and I didn't see any
options for disabling this. How do I do this? I don't want to switch
over to IceWM when I go to bed so the audio doesn't cut out.
I see this error popup on various installations. The instant one is a 32bit
Bookworm freshly upgraded from Bullseye with 14.0.12. Bullseye does it too. The
trigger is left clicking on the menu starter. On those where it ever occurs, it
only happens once. Trying again after dismissing the popup always works. Anyone
familiar with it, what to do to eliminate it?
--
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
Sometime since 2023-11-10, when it was created, an email thread with
this title disappeared from my email client. Fortunately I had the
presence of mind to copy to a text file the contents of that thread; so
the content was not lost.
Three people also contributed to this thread, Mike Bird, Thierry de
Coulon and Peter. I hope that they at least still have that that thread
so they will know what it am talking about in this posting, as it is a
continuation of that thread and would not have been possible without
their collective help.
I was able to download from the desktop computer a copy of file
‘.xsession-errors’. It is attached to this posting, all 924 linesof it,
with the title ‘TDE-xsession-errors.odt’, no more dot and everybody has
permission to read it. Interestingly enough, the ‘.xsession-errors’
file for the laptop contains only 894 lines.
After examining the desktop .xsession-errors of all the possibility for
errors which could cause TDE not to open, I was able to identify only
one, the UID. The .xsession-errors used 1001 as the UID. At some point
I changed my default UID from 1001 to 1000. (The UID on the
.xsession-errors for the laptop is and always was 1000.)
In view of the foregoing I think the best thing for me to do now is to
reinstall Bookworm and TDE completely. For Thierry’s information both
computers have four partitions, boot/efi, root (/), /var and /home which
is encrypted. I no longer have a swap; I had them since 2008 in several
computers – but never were they ever used. ‘Partition’ /tmp is now part
of tmpfs and set up as so by a line in the /etc/fstab file.
In retrospect, the original message – Call to lnusertemp failed
(temporary directories full ?). Check your installation. – was
misleading. If my analysis herein is correct a full temporary directory
is not the issue. The command lnusertemp, if it is a command, could
refer to a UID number; which it could not do for the desktop but could
for the laptop.
One final comment. I will not be able to do the reinstalments before 26
November. I will report results when done.
Regards, Ken Heard
In mid-October last I installed in a desktop computer Debian Bookworm
and TDE. After the installation I was able successfully to transfer the
source of the operating system from the CD disk to the built-in source.
After opening the OS from the local source I installed an application
and was able to use it. I also made some adjustments to the TDE
‘kicker’. I then closed the computer for the night.
The next morning I expected to open the computer without difficulty. So
I opened it and got as far as the ‘Login to TDE’ window. I entered my
password. Instead of opening the TDE I received the following message:
Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full ?).
Check your installation.
As of this point the only access I had to the computer was by a ‘console
login’.
Fortunately I had a spare laptop without any operating system installed.
I consequently installed on it the same OS and TDE. This time I did
not receive the message quoted above. In time I was able to install all
the applications I wanted and adjust the kicker and other TDE features
to my liking. While I have been using the laptop for several weeks now,
I would like to be able to use the desktop.
I did however do an online search; all I found were a few posts about
this message dated on average ten years ago. A few made reference to
the possible absence of KDE files, a diagnosis which I did not think
relevant. Others made reference to having the right permissions.
Without however complete access to the desktop it was difficult to check
permissions of ‘temporary directories’. Directories which appeared to
me relevant and where I was able to see the permissions in both
computers, all were identical.
I cannot understand why what appears to me as identical installations in
both computers would not work in both. How can I ‘check the
installation’ if access to the computer is so restricted?
All help, suggestions, etc. will be gratefully received.
Ken Heard
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