tde-users August 2020

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37 discussions

by phiebie＠drei.at

Trinity 14.0.6 preliminary. Don't know if it is a feature of ksnapshot or a misconfiguration somewhere from me, but it is getting absolutely annoying what happens. I have a website, a document or whatsoever on my screen in full A4-papersize. Now I want a printout of a small part of it. Call ksnapshot, choose "region" "new snapshot" and then draw a border around the desired part. Press "print" and then print it. Bull... I get a print in landscape, useless and even worse not even the original layout reappears. Stop ksnapshot, restart it and same procedure with again the same miserable result. Stop, restart, same procedure but no actual printing, instead I look into the printer properties. And there, big surprise, landscape was marked as to be printed BUT all 4 orientations were grayed out, so I couldn't change that. Checked in tdeprint the printersettings, nothing wrong, in "instances" "settings" all 4 orientations were available and portrait was marked as to be applied in the default printer. Checked kprinter and of course the settings of tdeprint were there also valid. But then I had an idea. If I selected in ksnapshot a larger part of the screen, say more than half A4, what would happen? Yes, some ugly words from me and there it was: portrait was marked but still all 4 possibilities grayed out. So ksnapshot decides how it wants to print and doesn't leave the user a chance to get a result, that he wants. Utterly bull.... Any suggestion, where I could look to alter this behaviour? Phiebie.

1 year, 1 month

KDE 1 running on Fedora 25

by Pisini, John

http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291 This is very interesting -- John Pisini Systems Administrator TFCCS 617-450-3988 Disclaimer for email: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. This e-mail is not intended to, and shall not, constitute an electronic signature giving rise to a binding legal contract, unless expressly stated otherwise in the body of the e-mail by the sender.

2 years, 3 months

skype and pulse audio

by Kate Draven

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

2 years, 5 months

I just resubscribed, but the 64$ question is how did I get removed?

by Gene Heskett

Last post ack the list archives was in August 2017, after which the list was silent, and my msgs were apparently routed to /dev/null. But I didn't unsubscribe. My ISP has been known to block/bounce but pearsoncomputing.net was in their "whitelist", I put it there yonks ago. Anyway, I'm glad to be 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>

2 years, 6 months

Re: [trinity-devel] Re: Re: amarok and missing mp4v2 in Buster

by David C. Rankin

On 05/19/2019 04:56 PM, deloptes wrote: >> Amarok remove ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921127 ) >> argues "it's dead upstream and better alternatives exist." >> >> mp4v2 has 9 ignored security issues ( https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mp4v2 >> ) so if it is possible to modify it in order to Amarpk does not depend on >> mp4v2, then much better (Qt4/Qt5 Amarok versions do not depend on mp4v2). > I think if we want to remove this dependency, we need to open an issue in > TGW for it. The problem becomes, and naturally so, that TDE may need to become upstream for the various components of Amarok, or Amarok itself it upsteam support is gone. There was a lengthy discussion on the openSuSE list about Amarok and specifically whether a "better alternatives exist.". There were none found that provided the traditional features or behavior of Amarok, which mitigates in favor of patching Amarok and continuing to offer it. There were always shortcomings in the supposed better alternatives that either required hacks or workarounds, even for behavior as trivial as continual play. Just another angle to consider. The openSuSE list discussion was within the past 2-weeks, though I must have deleted that thread. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

3 years, 3 months

[trinity-users] Desktop theme regression in preliminary stable builds?

by Philip Ashmore

Hi there. Rather than file a bug which might not get noticed immediately I thought I would post here, sorry if that's not the right thing to do, but I thought it a good idea to start a thread to keep track of the issues. I'm running preliminary stable builds on bullseye/sid. The theme defaults to something from the Windows 95 time frame. I set it back to keramik, everything's back to how I want it. Manually save session, restart X and it's back to Windows 95. Konqueror has a background noise image in the detailed list view I don't remember it having before, plus the icons in the detailed list view are larger those in the tree view. The science screen saver, when activated hides all windows, shows the desktop background, and does nothing. At least the session manager doesn't crash when shutting down, which is a plus. Regards, Philip Ashmore --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

3 years, 4 months

[trinity-users] fetching photos from android phone

by Felix Miata

Does TDE have an app made for this purpose? If yes, what's it called. If not, suggest something please. -- Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion, is based on faith, not on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

3 years, 7 months

[trinity-users] questions about upgrade to Beowulf/Buster - correction

by William Morder via trinity-users

Okay guys, so I am stumped and confuzzled. I just did an upgrade to Devuan Beowulf (= Debian Buster), and everything went fine; except once up and running, I couldn't download more than a few of Trinity's packages. After trying different repositories, and playing with my sources list, I managed to do just a bit better, then I saved the day with some extreme voodoo using about config [*I meant to say, apt-get* ... writing on auto-pilot] (scrolling through the manpages to find something that work). I ended up getting enough the Trinity packages to download by using --ignore-hold and dselect-upgrade options. I even searched out the links to deb packages on the developers' repositories, and downloaded them with wget, so that I could try forcing install using dpkg. Now at least (at last) I do have a working system which is a reasonable facsimile of my previous one, but it does seem like it ought to have been easier. For about the past three days now, I've lived in the command-line. Also I would like recommendations for a firewall that displays active connections and rules, etc., like the old Firestarter used to do. I catch all kinds of problems by noticing activity on my firewall, but now I cannot seem to find one that displays active connections, and Firestarter can no longer be hacked to make it work on a newer system. Thanks for any advice or comments, Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

3 years, 7 months

[trinity-users] Trinity with Wayland?

by Janek Stolarek

I was wondering if anyone tried running Trinity under Wayland instead of X11? Does it work? Janek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

3 years, 7 months

Project status report - summary

by Slávek Banko

Hi all, in the previous e-mail, we made a trip into the history of the project. Now it's time for summary information about the current state of the project infrastructure. Note: For topics we need to discuss together you can wait for a subsequent e-mail with the Tasks chapter. However, it is useful for you to have an overview of the intrastructure of the project. -- Summary -- The project infrastructure currently consists of the following parts: 1. Tim's original infrastructure. This is maintained and donated by Tim. The problem here is that only Tim can manage it and as we know, it is very difficult to get hold of Tim. Here are still some services that will either be migrated to the new TDE box donated by Integricloud or will need to be abandoned. Example of that are bugzilla and mailing lists. We will discuss these services subsequently. 2. TDE box donated by Integricloud. This is a powerful machine on Power9 architecture, which is physically located in the Integricloud hosting center. Integricloud provides its operation as a donation for us. We have full remote access to this box and all its services. Thanks to this, there are more administrators who can do maintenance. Services from Tim's infrastructure are gradually being migrated to this box. The main site, wiki, cgit has already been migrated and the original SCM has been replaced by a second instance of gitea that sync with the main TGW on vpsFree. 3. TDE VPS donated by vpsFree.org. Here we do not have a complete physical machine, but one virtual machine. It is located in the hosting center used by vspFree.org, which provides its operation as a donation to us. We have full remote access to this vps. Thanks to this, there are more administrators who can do maintenance. Initially, the main redirector was located here. Then the cache for packages was added to optimize the publishing of new releases. Subsequently, new services that were not on Tim's original infrastructure were set up on this vps - TGW and TWTW. These services currently provide the backbone of project development. 4. Slavek's home server and builders. This infrastructure is maintained and provided by Slávek. Currently, the problem is that only Slávek can manage these machines. However, for now, this does not seem to be a major problem. Services are available, packages are built and Slávek can usually be contacted well. The primary archive is located here. And several builders that are used to build deb packages. These builders are virtual machines located on various physical machines, where the unused power of these physical machines is provided for building packages. For example, the builder for ppc64el packages is located on the TDE box from Integricloud. There is a plan to move the primary archive to a separate virtual machine and builders to a separate vpn network, where it will be possible to provide access to more administrators. 5. Mike's primary mirror and other mirrors. Mike manages and donates the primary mirror, which is used to synchronize packages from the primary archive. Additional mirrors are synchronized from this primary mirror. These mirrors are maintained and donated by their owners. 6. François repository of RPM packages. In addition to deb packages, there is François, who creates, builds and provides repositories for RPM packages. These RPM packages are regularly synchronized from the source maintained and donated by François to the primary archive and cache on the primary redirector. Well, now you have an overview of what infrastructure ensures that the project can exist and grow. You can look forward to a subsequent e-mail regarding the tasks we need to discuss and solve... stay tuned. Cheers -- Slávek

3 years, 7 months

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