tde-users March 2016

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skype and pulse audio
by Kate Draven 17 Nov '21

17 Nov '21

Hi I'm trying to get skype sound to work but apparently the monkeys at MS removed alsa support and replaced it with pulse, which is rubbish. Even though I have pulse enable (pclos - ali's remaster), it still doesn't show up. Is there a fix to re-enable alsa or the like? Kate

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Test
by Rolf Schmidt 27 Mar '16

27 Mar '16

Hello, I didn't get any mail from the trinity list. So I do this test. Sorry for the noise Rolf

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curiosity v cat
by Gene Heskett 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

Greetings all; I have been forced to open a terminal and do an "alsactl restore" after every login despite scattering such around in the rc.local and Xsession files. A misscue with htop killed tdm yesterday, and when it had reinited to the login screen, and I had restarted everything that killed, I had no sound, indicating the sound killer was maybe part of the stuff that runs as root before I login. So, since its working ATM, I just did a "sudo alsactl store", which if its root related, should fix it. We'll see on the next x restart, whether its a reboot or ?? And when I have had to restart, if I then have sound, I'll report back. 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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Hopeing I can find a regex expert here
by Gene Heskett 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

Greetings; I use mailfilter as a prefilter in front of fetchmail to nuke some spam while its still on the server. But its missing hits on what I suspect is the From: or Return-Path: strings that have quotation marks in the string because the string is being spec'd by being surrounded by "show this name" bs. I've added the character < as part of the string its to search for, so the search string now looks like "From:.*<*\.unwanted-tld". Does this stand that famous snow balls chance in hell of working well with or without a quoted "some funkity name" in front of the real url with the <> around it? I just love the lack of documentation on how this string comparison stuff works as shown by the man pages for grep and regex. All sorts of control options are well covered, but figureing out how to write a search expression must be one of the worlds better guarded secrets. So if someone could show me, or give a url that actually has the full docs, I'd be greatfull. Thanks. 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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Why do I see the entire contents of my home dir on desktop?
by A M 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Hello, I've migrated to Centos 7 / TDE 14.0.3. Everything went fine, apart from one point: I am no longer seeing on the screen only the contents of my $HOME/Desktop folder like it was before, but rather the contents of my entire home directory. Apparently there should be some configuration option which would allow to define $HOME/Desktop as a starting point in place of $HOME, but so far I was unable to locate it. What should I change? Thanks a lot ahead for any hint! Andy.

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TDE new logo proposal -- submission phase
by Michele Calgaro 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Dear all, we discussed about a new logo for a while. So I would like to invite whoever is interested to submit their proposals or ideas within the end of the month to this ML. After that we will arrange some sort of vote to choose 3 or 4 possible candidates (including the "keep the current logo possibility") and at the end we will see what Tim thinks about it. Thanks everyone for his/her contribution. Cheers Michele PS: let's *NOT* start another war-like email chain on this again :-) Just submit yuor proposal ;-)

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Kaffeine and HDTV
by Thierry de Coulon 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hello all, Basically, this is possibly somewhat off topic, but as it's still TDE related, maybe someone allready found a solution: I've been using Kaffeine for years to watch DVB-S. Mor recently, I got a USB DVB-C receiver (Sundtek) and it works relatively well (although I got freezes). My problem is that my Cable operator recently warned us that some programs would stop being proposed in their non-HD version. Kaffeine, however, does not work with the HD versions (at least I can't set them up). Eye TV (on a Mac Mini) works (I use that as a recorder under my TV set). Am I missing some settings on Kaffeine (0.8.8)? Thierry

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Multimedia audio keys assignment
by deloptes 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

Hi all, since I have installed pulseaudio I have a problem with the multimedia audio keys. Where are they configured? In particular when I press mute and unmute in KMix both pulse and "HDA Intel PCH" Master volume get messed and unmute does not toggle both controls, so that I have to open KMix and unmute manually. Any ideas? thanks in advance PS: I recall I have played with multimedia keys perhaps 6y. ago. No idea where it was - just vague memory that it was about remote control and my first tv card/stick.

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Replacing the default Konsole with Byobu in desktop icons
by Joseph Thames 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

After more than 10 years of launching Konsole from a desktop icon which uses a Promptread routine for interactive Perl menus which writes a prompt to STDOUT and then reads the user's response from STDIN, this routine is now failing in an infinite write loop. I tried using the other Perl approaches, Readline, and Term::ReadKey with the same result, even autoflushing the output buffer after each prompt write. Nothing works I am now getting this error while pausing in the Perl debugger before the prompt, indicating that Konsole is somehow infected: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x7a00187 Apparently this shows up from time to time, but nobody has resolved it. If I use other terminal emulators, the problem goes away. In particular, Byobu replaces the look and feal of Konsole, so I would like to use it. Is there a way to change settings in the icon creation dialog with its terminal option to make byobu the terminal default instead of Konsole? Thanks in advance, Joseph Thames -- Joseph 'Bear' Thames MetaCalculus, LLC and Meta Science Foundation (505) 977-9024 - Cell Phone beartham(a)gmail.com

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Mailing list etiquette - Important!!
by Michele Calgaro 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

To all: The TDE mailing list is supposed to be a place where we discuss things in a polite and quiet manner. People are free to post their opinion, but please remember to respect others' opinion as well. You may not like what is being discussed in a specific thread, you are free to raise your objections to that but please refrain from denigrating other people's comment or suggestion and respect the time and effort they put in to contribute to this project. I have to say that over the last 12 months or so I have seen an increasingly number of "animated discussions" on this ML and it was not pleasant at all. Especially considering that it was completely unnecessary for them to be "animated" For the records, some of our contributors have already decided to move away because his/her suggestions were continuously denigrated on this ML. How can we expect to have new contributors if we are so negative about whatever thing they bring along?? I repeat: "How can we expect to have new contributors if we are so negative about whatever thing they bring along??" We are a small community, probably we will always be. Let's make sure this community remains a happy community. Please be considerate when you are messaging on this ML. Cheers Michele

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TDE R14 theming
by Dobigeon Nicolas 06 Mar '16

06 Mar '16

Hello team, I would like to try changing the visual style of my TDE. I was looking for some themes in kde looks but i don't know where to puts theme for TDE. Can anybody tell me where to place each part of themes ? Thanks. Nicolas D.

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Roadmap for next stable
by Dobigeon Nicolas 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Hello Everybody, Thanks to the team for the new TDE stable release. You did a good job ! What is the roadmap for the next stable release ? There will be some new fonctionalities or only bugfix ? See you ;)

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apt-get update Failed to fetch Hash Sum mismatch
by Dave Lers 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Running apt-get update returns the following: ... Fetched 9,539 kB in 1min 17s (123 kB/s) W: Failed to fetch http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian/dists/j… Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-builddeps-r14.0.0/debi… Hash Sum mismatch E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. The files haven't failed to download and they are the same files I receive when downloading them manually. /var/lib/apt/lists and /var/cache/apt rebuild with the same contents and error. The only thing that seems odd is that the builddeps Package date is 23-Nov-2015.

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Preliminary stable builds on the move
by Slávek Banko 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Hi everyone, who is currently uses preliminary stable builds repository as you have surely noticed, the final R14.0.3 was released. At this time packages in preliminary stable builds repository and official R14.0.3 are both based on an identical source packages. If you used the preliminary stable builds only temporarily, you can now switch to official packages. This is the best time because here are waiting updates to upload into prelinary stable builds. You have been warned ;) If you are using prelinary stable builds deliberately, you can look forward to that soon will launch the first upload of packages for the new target R14.0.4. Thank you for your attention :) -- Slávek

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