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everything pretty much upgraded, except for . . .
by dep 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

. . . protonvpn, which i half expected (it blew up on 18.04 -> 20,04 on another machine here, too) and the sound system, to the extent that the little kmixer icon in kicker has a black stripe across it, as if it's in mourning for Nik's troubles of a few days ago. the whole thing has worked so well and for so ling that i've forgotten even where to look. guesses? all i know at this point is aforementioned apparent bereavement. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/

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while all this stuff is installing . . .
by dep 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

. . . i'm reminded that running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade isn't done until it has been invoked twice with a "no packages to upgrade" message. it works in fits and starts until then. and i'm noticing the downloading of thousands of packages that i do not use and will never use. yes, i use some gnome applications. no, i do not now run nor have i ever willingly run the gnome desktop, nor unity, nor kde-post-3x. surely i don't need the whole damned things in order to use a few applications. i understand an s-load of libraries and such, but my favoring synaptic doesn't imply my need to 40mb of gnome wallpapers. and, fact is, for the few gnome applications i run, i'd far rather have stock TDE furniture (crollbars, etc.) than the silly crap the gnomes think is oh, so cute (possibly because they've never used a computer to do actual work). okay, end of rant. grrr. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/

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upgrade question
by dep 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

greets, folks . . . i'm about to upgrade my ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 and, as has been my (mostly successful) practice, this involves changing the sources lists, in this case "bionic" to "focal" and running the usual update-upgrade routine. all seems to be going well but for this: N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/ubuntu focal InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386' N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/ubun… focal InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386' going back over my sources files yet again, i see no reference to architecture at all, never mind i386. before i pull the trigger i want to figure out what this is and whether it will break things -- i know far quicker ways of breaking things, if that were what i wanted to do, which it isn't. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/

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Solaar Linux Device Manager for Logitech Unifying Receivers and Devices
by J Leslie Turriff 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Many of us probably use Logitech bits to communicate with our Linuxes. Here's a package that provides much of the tuning capability of Logitech's Windoze and Mac tools: battery monitoring and mouse tweaks. https://pwr-solaar.github.io/Solaar/ Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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Which desktop?
by J Leslie Turriff 31 May '21

31 May '21

Is there a way, while starting a program, to tell it which desktop to appear on (before it opens its window)? I looked at the various Window-specific settings (right-click the mini-icon in the menu bar), and there's lots of things that can be set there, but not the desktop. I also looked at kdcop for several kinds of windows, but if there's something in there, I can't recognize it. Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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How to select the default soundcard ?
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 30 May '21

30 May '21

Ok, another TDE/ALSA soundcard thingie: I have 3 soundcards on the system: $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [MID ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID HDA Intel MID at 0xf3120000 irq 37 1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xf3000000 irq 17 2 [Creative ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Creative HDA Creative at 0xf3200000 irq 16 Headpones are on card #2 - which is also the default soundcard: $ cat /etc/asound.conf defaults.pcm.card 2 defaults.ctl.card 2 With this in place all programs use #2 as default soundcard. There's just one exception: kmix. The kmmix systrayicon uses #0 - always. As do the VolUp/VolDown keys and mousewheel-over-kmix-icon. Now my question is: kow do I persuade kmix to use #2 as default and not #0 ? Any idea? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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(Possibly OT) Firefox footers
by Edward 27 May '21

27 May '21

I have installed Mozilla builds of Firefox and Thunderbird on one of my TDE-Debian systems. When printing/print previewing an e-mail with Thunderbird, the time displayed in the footer is correctly in the 12-hour format with AM or PM. in Firefox, the time is displayed in 24-hour format. Thunderbird picks up the time from the system time, which I believe is set to 12-hours, since the TDE clock is displaying the time with AM/PM. But Firefox apparently isn't. Is there in something I can check in TDE that will show if the system on 12-hour AM/PM time, or is what the clock is displaying, just that? Thanks in advance. -- Linux. A Continual Learning Experience.

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And another thing
by dep 25 May '21

25 May '21

No idea if this is a feature request or what. I'm dealing with an enormous directory that contains numerous subdirectories many of which contain subdirectories of their own, and so on. For some uses it would be very good to be able to tell at a glance which ones contain subdirectories. From the foggy distant past I remember some version of something wherein the icons changed color or had an asterisk or something when there were subdirectories present. So. Does anyone know of a file manager that has this feature? Or . . . Is there perhaps an icon set that would enable this feature? Or . . . Might this be added in some future release of TDE? Or . . . Is it just plain impossible with the current state of things? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/

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How to change volume increment/decrement value
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hi all, I just ran into this again: Where can I change the volume incerment/decremet value? My situation is this: kmix: mousewheel changes volume by 5 for the onboard soundcard, but by 10 for the PCI/USB soundcard. volume keys: change volume always by 10. T60: kmix & volume keys: I can set the inc/dec value kcontrol/system/IBM and it works as it should. So ... is there a way for non-thinkpads to set the volume increment/decrement value somewhere? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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ksmserver crashes during logout
by J Leslie Turriff 25 May '21

25 May '21

Sometimes (not always) when I logout from my TDE session, ksmserver crashes and throws up a crash dialog, offering to send a report for support; but by that point it's not able to actually send such a report. The message I see in the dialog is | The application The TDE Session Manager (ksmserver) crashed and caused the Signal 11 (SIGSEV) It offers to send a crash report, and I can generate the trace, but it hangs when I try to send it (I presume via KMail, which is already gone). There's also a 'Save as' button which displays a file dialog, but it's only partially on the screen, and the window is not movable, so I can't fill in a filename. :-( Is there a way to collect the data from another login account (e.g. root)? Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.2 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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