tde-users September 2015

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Just for fun: Linus Torvalds rants about new programming interfaces
by Alexandre 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Hi all, Just for fun, take a look at the following article: http://www.itworld.com/article/2983241/linux/linus-torvalds-rants-about-new… Have a great day! -Alexandre

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TDE and Devuan :-)
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

Hi all! I just updated a wheezy testmachine with TDE 14.0.0 to devuan + jessie + TED 14.0.1. Surprisingly things went quite smooth. After the upgrade I had to manually purge systemd and cgmanager. Now there is only "libsystemd0" left - well, maybe somebody needs to recompile "cups" without systemd :-) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.

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PCLinuxOS TDE non-official remaster version 2015, September 5 is ready to download!
by Alexandre 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Hi everyone! My PCLinuxOS TDE non-official remaster version 2015, September 5 is ready to download! I call it non-official because it doesn't come from the PCLOS team and since it contains software coming from outside of their repos, it is also not supported by them. It only has a special ''permission to exist'' from the PCLinuxOS dev team. It is a complete system that can be used as a LiveDVD or it can be installed (from the LiveDVD). New on this release: -Fully up-to-date PCLinuxOS 2015 base system -Based on TDE R14.0.1 Its is the first release of my remaster with TDE R14 series -Kernel 4.1.6 -Choice of either classic Grub or Grub2 -Smaller ISO size On this LiveDVD: -Tons of TDE software and major apps like LibreOffice 5, Firefox 40, Gimp and so... -PCLinuxOS does NOT use SystemD Login info (on the LiveDVD): Regular user:guest Password:guest Super user: root Password:root System requirement: A x86 computer with at least 384mb of RAM. It is a 32bit system, but it can be installed on a 64bit system too. Installation instructions: http://pclinuxoshelp.com/index.php/Installing_PCLinuxOS Please follow them... :) Download link for the multi-part zip file: http://www.filefactory.com/file/6iijpmjql9d5/PCLinuxOS_no_TDE_remaster_5sep… http://www.filefactory.com/file/5l7dw8thwpqb/PCLinuxOS_no_TDE_remaster_5sep… http://www.filefactory.com/file/hlbb8kc6pzp/PCLinuxOS_no_TDE_remaster_5sept… Md5 Sum of the iso: daf7e3d0231205f8be689280040e0d0a If you like what you see, you can consider giving some money to the Trinity Desktop Environment project! It is very important to do so, because development and internet infrastructure needed to brought you TDE are expensive to buy and keep running, so the future of TDE is in your hands! Give me your comments! -Alexandre

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Odd ssh -Y problem. A TDEism?
by Gene Heskett 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Greetings; On wheezy, running the newest r14.0.2 TDE I think, from the looks of the update done recently. I have several other machines, all running a wheezy sourced release, customized with a special pinned rtai patched kernel because the main application they run is linuxcnc. But they are running, generally, a simple XFCE interface. And that program runs as well as its configured to do, something I am in the middle of re-writing in an effort to fine tune the machines performance. One of the things I like to do is configure check from this nice comfy office chair is by running it over an ssh -Y login from here. But that has always been a problem child, a puzzling one because neither machine has in its environment, a setting for colors called FORGROUND or BACKGROUND. But its a showstopper, and only for linuxcnc, which contains tcl scripting that bails out of the program before the gui can be drawn on this screen. Other programs which use x run just fine, at least the ones I have tried. That includes gimp, but that machine has no gimp loadable files on it. pasted from the login screen: _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "BACKGROUND" Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC... If it ever gets past that, it will do the same for the FOREGROUND color. BTDT but this machine was running an older ubuntu at the time. And its been long enough since I hacked around it that today I haven't a clue what I did then. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to deal with this? FWIW, the "simulated machine" version of that software runs just fine on this machine. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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konsole and resize
by Leonard T Harris 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

I don't often use the resize command and I'm not 100% this is a TDE issue. I have konsole set to allow programs to resize the terminal. When I do something like: resize -s 25 80 it does resize the terminal, but it also waits for me to hit enter (or something) and then complains: resize: unknown character, exiting This is not the behavior I normally encounter. Normally it resizes the terminal, and clearly sets columns and lines and exports them. I have tried this in both bash and zsh. This is on a box with Ubuntu 15.04 freshly installed (with just zsh and TDE added). Hopefully someone can let me know how to make this behave normally. Thanks in advance. -LTH

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Service Shutdown
by Timothy Pearson 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Repost for those not subscribed to the announcement list: http://trinity-announce.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::34 Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlXyBlEACgkQLaxZSoRZrGFSxADZAXnGmkFRbqWr9uS4CMfK1Zub mA3G0tKau5HKLwDdF2/CmMvwl9oIKDGzKyU7bXtvF/oJMWgKZYSF5Q== =xSbi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[trinity-devel] bad repo configuration instructions for 32 bit openSUSE
by Felix Miata 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

Most times in recent months when I've needed to access TDE repos for openSUSE, the package manager has claimed the server is inaccessible, so I scrapped the idea of either installing or upgrading TDE at those times. Today: # zypper ref ... Retrieving repository 'Packman' metadata .....................................................................................[done] Building repository 'Packman' cache ..........................................................................................[done] File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/opensuse13.2…' Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): This was the content of my last configured TDE.repo file on 13.2 host gx780 running r14.0.0 (likely non-working when previously tried): [TDE] enabled=1 autorefresh=1 baseurl=http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/open… type=yum It was initially created by following the instructions on https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/OpenSUSEInstall. Changing types today to i586 and rpm-md got it working. That page's instructions include uname -i, which results in the non-functional string i386 in the baseurl. I know it's a wiki, but what to change the instructions to say instead I don't know. This is the content of my currently working TDE.repo and TDEnoarch files: **** [TDE] autorefresh=1 baseurl=http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/open… enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 keeppackages=0 name=TDE type=rpm-md **** [TDEnoarch] autorefresh=1 baseurl=http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/open… enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 keeppackages=0 name=TDEnoarch type=rpm-md **** Configuring repos in openSUSE can be as simple as copying those files into or out of /etc/zypp/repos.d/, or changing names of files there, or editing their content with plain text editor, all of which I prefer to zypper ar/rr or managing via YaST2. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Re: [trinity-users] Screen rotates but touchscreen does not!
by Thierry de Coulon 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

On Monday 07 September 2015 00.18:26 Timothy Pearson wrote: > A quick Google search show that this might be an Xorg bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/217182 Actually this one was a good hint. After a little search as to how xsetwacom works it does provide a solution. It requires four scripts and four buttons in the panel but I can perfectly live with that solution. Thank you for suggesting a solution! If anyone is looking for a sensible solution "with touch", take a look at the X220t, it's a very nice machine at you get them pretty cheap these days. Thierry

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Screen rotates but touchscreen does not!
by Thierry de Coulon 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Hello everybody, I've got an interresting puzzle: I've set up a Thinkpad X220 Tablet with OpenSUSE 13.2 and TDE 14.0.1; Everything works wellincluding the Wacom digitizer, I've been able to install Open Sankore and MihPhoto from respectively a deb and an rpm package. TDE 14.0.1 on OpenSUSE seems to have a problem with this machine as it does not see my USB key as removable, but a workaround was setting a mount point in fstab. The puzzle is this: TDE proposes a system tray applet named "Resize and Rotate". It works like a charm, wich is usefull because the X220t's battery is a little bulky and lifts the back of the computer This is good in Notebook mode, but in Tablet mode, with the screen _physicaly_ rotated 180°, it's the front that is higher that the back. So if I rotate the screen _per software_ 180° everything is fine... However, the digitizer does not get the information, so the pointer appears on the wrong side of the screen - this is funny for 30 seconds but unusable after that. So, does anyone have an idea how to also rotate the touchscreen digitizer 180°? This does work in Windows 10, but I'd prefer to use Linux :) Have a nice evening, Thierry

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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.1 Released!
by Timothy Pearson 06 Sep '15

06 Sep '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 For those not subscribed to the trinity-announce mailing list, TDE R14.0.1 was officially released today: http://trinity-announce.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::33 Thank you for your patience during the upload process! Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlXjfxcACgkQLaxZSoRZrGGCEQDgotQaLOIOWpans0uJ2EMQWDPg TRRh+4ahbB7+GADggnVLEM1x2D8/sQgEVMWPmaZzkRS20LRtAlISlw== =HMo4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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