tde-users April 2019

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switching from gnome to tde on stretch, what do I edit?
by Gene Heskett 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

The install didn't switch it, and gnome won't show me the tools. Help! 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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back on wheezy 2 problems w/stretch
by Gene Heskett 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

First is the tde desktop looks a bit strange. When I installed, because getting rid of gnome is such a pain in the ass, I chose xfce4 during the install, and although I've installed several hundred of the core trinity bits, I still have an xfce4 desktop. /etc/X11/default-display-manager says twm. /etc/init.d has lightdm. I'm getting the tde login but am not getting tde. And I can't run a root session in a Konsole, display 10 no perms. I guess thats more than two problems. Do I rip lightdm out by its hair with an rm to it in etc/init.d or what to actually get a tde x session running? 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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kmail has become essentially unusable
by Gene Heskett 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

I just stopped it, reinstalled everything kmail related in a synaptic search, and restarted it from the tde menu. It immediately reported two bad indices, for folders emc and spam-hold, and took 32 minutes to scan those 2 folders and open its gui. I own as gene:gene with perms from 600 to 644 in the /home/gene/Mail subdir. It is NOT updating now for 4 days, the files in /home/gene/Mail/emc/cur to indicate read or important by appending the ':2,S' or ':2,RS' but it is generating new indices, 2 of them everytime it tries to scan that folder, so it CAN create/write to that folder. There are around 60100 messages in that folder, and the indice files are drwxr-xr-x 5 gene gene 4096 Mar 31 12:08 emc -rw------- 1 gene gene 44551163 Mar 31 12:08 .emc.index -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 240389 Mar 31 12:08 .emc.index.ids These 2 files have been nuked to see if a rebuild fixes it, no. And now everthing kmail, about 8 packages, has been re-installed from the local archive since the mirror is missing now for several days. Is there a fix? Or can it be fixed short of installing a stretch netinstall on a new drive? 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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[trinity-users] Fedora - where is default xsession configured?
by Felix Miata 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

In Debians, it's /etc/X11/default-display-manager. In openSUSE 15.0, it's /etc/alternatives/default-xsession.desktop. startx opens TDE session. Neither works in Fedora 29. startx starts X, then exits. startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde works, but shouldn't be needed. There are only two installed, Trinity, and IceWM. Default should not be neither. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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