tde-users August 2022

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Is Bluetooth free?
by lee892533＠gmail.com 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Yes, the songs are transmitted to your headphones, but that's over a paired Bluetooth connection between the headphone and the phone. And there's no cost to that. You only pay for the data transmitted to your smart device over the phone company's network by way of using the app. https://spacebarcounter.org

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Error - Kicker; Malformed URL; system:/
by Felix Miata 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

I see this error popup on various installations. The instant one is a 32bit Bookworm freshly upgraded from Bullseye with 14.0.12. Bullseye does it too. The trigger is left clicking on the menu starter. On those where it ever occurs, it only happens once. Trying again after dismissing the popup always works. Anyone familiar with it, what to do to eliminate it? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Ksnapshot
by phiebie＠drei.at 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

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.

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TDE Mirrors for Everyone?
by Michael 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

Hi All, As most of you know, I donate a mirror to TDE. It costs ~USD100 / year [1]. Mine has ~18 months left, but it’s hard drive isn’t really big enough for what Slávek wants/needs long term. (It’s also completely overkill in terms of memory/cpu.) I recently saw an article about NAT VPSes [2] whose prices are under $10 / year [3]. These, with some tinkering, can be setup to tunnel traffic to a home box (which could be running a VM to act as a TDE mirror). VM’s can be ‘packaged’ such that they are one click imports (at least on Oracle VirtualBox). That would allow Slávek to be able to create it once and then any one of us could install it locally. My graphics skills suckage, but something like: mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org > NAT VPS > Your public IP (from ISP) > [Your router/NAT/'ISP thingy'] > Your home server > VM (on your home server) I’ve used SSH tunnels for 20+ years, but we’d probably need Slávek or someone with more knowledge of traffic tunneling than me, to help with the full setup (as I think iptables is probably a better solution?). # # # Okay, why? 1) I think several of us have existing home hardware that has a spare ~2TB, can run a 1CPU/2GB RAM VM, and runs 24/7 already. 2) At ~$5 per year it’d be a very cheap way for TDE to have multiple mirrors that have the full space available Slávek wants. Thoughts? And a show of hands of people who’d provide a TDE mirror under something like this? Best All, Michael [1] Current offers are roughly 90/yr for VPSes w/ 48GB RAM, 720GB NVMe, 12 vCPU, 24TB transfer (triennial billing). https://www.ssdnodes.com/sale/aug-2022-offers/ [2] https://lowendbox.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-a-nat-vps-anyway/ [3] One offer: $4/year https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/180327/clearance-sale-nat-vps-at-cost-new…

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whoops, i did it again: tiny taskbar icons, no text
by dep 26 Aug '22

26 Aug '22

greets, everybody . . . this happened once before and i was able somehow to fix it. it has happened again, and i can't find the recipe to undo it. through no action on my part, at least no deliberate action, the taskbar has gone from tiny icons + text to tiny icons only. if i set it for text only, i get no text and the icons become very dark. if i set it to icons only, i get icons only. if i set it to icons + text, i get icons only. was working just fine an hour ago, and i've made no changes to software or configuration. any idea how to fix this? it's pretty annoying. tia. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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k3b & limits to low
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

Hi all! In case some of you fall into this trap, too: k3b fails to burn cds/dvds with an error message about missing privileges for cdrecord. Reason: wodim needs raised memlock limits. By default they are at 8192, wodim needs a bit more (~128000), so adding this line to /etc/security/limits.conf will do the trick: * - memlock 128000 Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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[solved] WARNING: TLS_client_method not defined!
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Hi all! Just in case somebody else runs into the same problem (and that sombody might be my future self searching the list archive): When kmail does not work with TLS/SSL connections and you find in ~/.xsession-errors lines contaning this: WARNING: TLS_client_method not defined! WARNING: SSL_CTX_new not defined! ... then make sure "apparmor" is not installed. It tured out that the "apparmor 3.0.6-1" blocks some functions of libssl.so.* from beeing found by kssl.cpp / ltdl.c which results in a non-funtional TSL/SSL connection. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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sticky keys question
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Hi all! Is there a way to automaticly release sticky keys after e.g. 5 seconds? Reason is that some sticky keys trigger capslock and sometimes a second modifier to behave like it was locked in "pressed"-state. It's quite tricky to find out which key need to be pressed a second time to stop that. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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glibc errors?
by Kate ＠ Borg Labs 03 Aug '22

03 Aug '22

Current version of glibc is 2.35-14pclos2022.x86_64 APT system reports: glibc is needed by glibc-devel-2.35-14pclos2022.x86_64 linux-userspace-headers is needed by glibc-devel-2.35-14pclos2022.x86_64 E: Transaction set check failed Any idea why I'd get this? Also I don't see a "linux-userspace-headers" package. All thoughts welcomed. Chocolate will given to the one that helps resolve the problem (virtual chocolate). Kate

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