30 Dec
2020
30 Dec
'20
10:46 p.m.
Hi everyone.
Unfortunately, I was forced to remove my installation of
Trinity/PCLinuxOS this morning, due to Firefox and Thunderbird not
working correctly. Specifically, Firefox was repeatedly asking to be the
default browser, even as I previously selected it as the default. And
Thunderbird, in the middle of all this, would no longer open links at
all, deciding to automatically add a new 'account' relating to news and
feeds.
Both Vivaldi and Chromium were also installed as browsers, but once both
of these were removed, Firefox and Thunderbird continued to exhibit the
same behavior.
Upon installing first Trinity/Ubuntu 20.04.1 and then Lubuntu 20.04 LTS,
I was unable to get HPLIP (as hp-setup) with either OS to communicate
with my HP printer, which was USB-connected.
Final attempt, was to install Debian (10, LXQt). Fortunately, this was
able to detect the printer using hp-setup, however neither hp-systray
nor the HPLIP Toolbox (GUI) will launch.
I am extremely hesitant to install Trinity on top of this Debian
installation, because I am afraid that with Konqueror included as the
default file manager, I will have the same issues with Firefox and
Thunderbird. I suspect that something with PCLOS may have changed,
causing it to detect both Firefox and Konqueror as web browsers, instead
of a web browser and a file manager. I don't know.
I have been fiddling with this for the past seven hours now. I just want
it to work.
Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions/etc.
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Ok as a Big Daddy (PCLOS)
user. I have some suggestions.
I don't use the pclos package for FF or TB. I download from Mozilla directly
and use those. Then go to preferences and manually check the default settings
for both.
I use a lot of HP printers. Great printers but they have their eccentricities.
Try leaving the printers on during install. Or starting the HP tools getting
to the printer detection dialog, then turn the printer on, off and on again.
Make sure the USB is a good one.
You can also use system-config-printer, which, IMO, is the best printer setup
tool. The only time is doesn't always seem to work is when it's a HP network
printer.
I hope the above offers you something. However, wait for input from the rest
of the collective.
Be patient.
Kate
31 Dec
31 Dec
12:03 a.m.
New subject: Trinity Trouble - Konqueror?
On 12/30/20 5:46 PM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
Ok as a Big Daddy (PCLOS) user. I have some
suggestions.
I don't use the pclos package for FF or TB. I download from Mozilla directly
and use those. Then go to preferences and manually check the default settings
for both.
I use a lot of HP printers. Great printers but they have their eccentricities.
Try leaving the printers on during install. Or starting the HP tools getting
to the printer detection dialog, then turn the printer on, off and on again.
Make sure the USB is a good one.
You can also use system-config-printer, which, IMO, is the best printer setup
tool. The only time is doesn't always seem to work is when it's a HP network
printer.
I hope the above offers you something. However, wait for input from the rest
of the collective.
Be patient.
Kate
I deleted all of the printer-related entries (which included the fax
option, which I never used) and re-installed the printer using hp-setup
and un-checked the fax option. When installing Linux, I always leave the
printer on, so a live DVD can see it. I previously moved the printer
from the USB port it was connected to, to the other free port, but that
didn't solve the earlier issue of Trinity/Ubuntu/Lubuntu not finding it.
1:59 a.m.
New subject: Trinity Trouble - Konqueror?
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, Edward wrote:
On 12/30/20 5:46 PM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
Create a new user and see if the problem arises there, too.
Jonesy
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Ok as a Big Daddy (PCLOS) user. I have some
suggestions.
I don't use the pclos package for FF or TB. I download from Mozilla directly
and use those. Then go to preferences and manually check the default settings
for both.
I use a lot of HP printers. Great printers but they have their eccentricities.
Try leaving the printers on during install. Or starting the HP tools getting
to the printer detection dialog, then turn the printer on, off and on again.
Make sure the USB is a good one.
You can also use system-config-printer, which, IMO, is the best printer setup
tool. The only time is doesn't always seem to work is when it's a HP network
printer.
I hope the above offers you something. However, wait for input from the rest
of the collective.
Be patient.
Kate
I deleted all of the printer-related entries (which included the fax
option, which I never used) and re-installed the printer using hp-setup
and un-checked the fax option. When installing Linux, I always leave the
printer on, so a live DVD can see it. I previously moved the printer
from the USB port it was connected to, to the other free port, but that
didn't solve the earlier issue of Trinity/Ubuntu/Lubuntu not finding it.
2:28 a.m.
New subject: Trinity Trouble - Konqueror?
On 12/30/20 8:59 PM, Marvin Jones via tde-users wrote:
Create a new user and see if the problem arises there,
too.
Jonesy
With the Trinity packages now installed, everything appears to be OK now.
Although there is one /little/ thing that changed:
Under LXQt, the HP Device Manager wouldn't launch from the desktop menu.
Under Trinity, it launches.
One of those things that I think is best left unexplained... 😂
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