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Disable window resize on screen changes?
by danapple＠danapple.com 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

Hi, all! I am often connected and disconnecting an external monitor from my laptop. Whenever I do so (and sometimes when the laptop/KDE thinks I did, but I didn't) my various application windows are resized. They are often resized to be full-screen size, and often to minimal size. Either way is inconvenient. Is there a way to disable the resizing of windows when the screen geometry changes? It would be convenient for the windows to be *moved* such that they are visible in the new geometry but not to be resized. Sincerely, Daniel.

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Big icons in the Kicker taskbar
by Leskala 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

Hello everyone :) After seeing Q4OS with its big icons in Kicker's taskbar I've been searching far and wide but haven't been able to figure out how to achieve this using plain TDE on Debian. I managed to make the buttons themselves bigger by adjusting '~/.trinity/share/config/ktaskbarrc' with: [General] MinimumButtonHeight=38 However, icons on the taskbar buttons stay small (16 px). Can somebody enlighten me which setting Q4OS is using here to enlarge the icons on the taskbar buttons? Or are they using a patched version of Kicker that is not available on Debian? Best regards, Leskala

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Colors in .trinity/share/config/kdeglobals
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hi all! I'm working on a small program that unifies the color scheme over all configs of TDE. But I found something that I quite don't understand: .trinity/share/config/kdeglobals has a bunch of color definitions, but almost all are set to "invalid" in my config. Does anybody know what these are good for - and why "colorScheme=" is empty? Nik excerpt with all sectionnames + color from ~/.trinity/share/config/kdeglobals: [DesktopIcons] ActiveColor=invalid ActiveColor2=invalid DefaultColor=invalid DefaultColor2=invalid DisabledColor=invalid DisabledColor2=invalid [General] linkColor=140,140,255 visitedLinkColor=255,136,255 [KDE] colorScheme= [MainToolbarIcons] ActiveColor=invalid ActiveColor2=invalid DefaultColor=invalid DefaultColor2=invalid DisabledColor=invalid DisabledColor2=invalid [PanelIcons] ActiveColor=invalid ActiveColor2=invalid DefaultColor=invalid DefaultColor2=invalid DisabledColor=invalid DisabledColor2=invalid [SmallIcons] ActiveColor=invalid ActiveColor2=invalid DefaultColor=invalid DefaultColor2=invalid DisabledColor=invalid DisabledColor2=invalid [ToolbarIcons] ActiveColor=invalid ActiveColor2=invalid DefaultColor=invalid DefaultColor2=invalid DisabledColor=invalid DisabledColor2=invalid -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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hibrid system plasma+tde
by sacarde 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

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

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Programmatically shutdown and start KMail?
by Michael 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

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

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Re: hibrid system plasma+tde
by Thierry de Coulon 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

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

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GRUB menu issue
by dep 08 Aug '21

08 Aug '21

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. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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As long as we're here . . .
by dep 08 Aug '21

08 Aug '21

. . . 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. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Anybody here using an SSD?
by dep 07 Aug '21

07 Aug '21

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? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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GSmartControl
by Edward 07 Aug '21

07 Aug '21

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? -- Linux. A Continual Learning Experience. TDE: R14.0.10 - Debian: 10.10 (amd64)

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