tde-users March 2023

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Window borders
by Darrell Anderson 19 Mar '25

19 Mar '25

Is there a way to not have borders around windows? Or at least the side vertical borders? I am using TDE Classic Style. When I am reading an online article in a web browser, often I "fling" the mouse pointer to the left edge of the screen to keep the pointer out of the way of reading text. I use the mouse scroll wheel to move down the page. With TDE I can't do that because when the pointer hovers over that left edge window border the effect is to kill scrolling. I have to continually bump the mouse pointer to the right to get off the border. I do not experience this in other desktop environments. Memory muscle and habits are difficult to change. So I am thinking this is a property of twin. Thanks. DA

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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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Do we want to participate in social networks?
by Slávek Banko 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

Hi all, some time ago I was thinking about whether we want to become an active member of social networks with our project. Things like Facebook and Twitter have always been "no go" zones for me. However, I've been thinking about the Mastodon platform for a long time. Mastodon is a decentralized platform for publishing short messages and pictures. It is based on open source architecture and therefore this platform is close to our ideas. You can see profiles of other projects like @kde@floss.social, @gnome@floss.social, and others. I assume that it would help to "make us visible" and information could be published there, for example about the release of new versions, or some useful information regarding development, screenshots, solving issues and community info. Does it seem like a good idea for us to have an official communication channel for our project on Mastodon? What is your opinion on this? Cheers -- Slávek

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kpdf does not show some fonts
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

Hi all; Maybe somebody can reproduce this: opening the attached pdf in kpdf only shows the formulas, but not the text. Opening the same pdf in xpdf works flawless. kpdf-trinity 4:14.1.0~s218-0debian12.0.0+13~b1 Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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kmail problem
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Hi all! I just stumbled onto a problem in kmail that I think is present in 14.1.X but not earlier: When "answering to mailinglist" the sender adress is always the last used address. It does not use the aDress I set in the mail folder settings for that specific folder. Can somebody confirm this? I run kmail 4:14.1.0~s290-0debian12.0.1+11~a Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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OT: CISA and Industrial Control Systems
by J Leslie Turriff 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

I remember that someone on the User list works with CNC or some such, and I wonder if he knows that CISA <https://www.cisa.gov> regularly issues advisories about Industrial Control System vulnerabilities? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64) Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.13 tde-config: 1.0

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Keyring madness
by dep 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Greets, folks . . . I'll not mention the three hours I spent yesterday trying to get the Thinkpad wireless working again -- it had been off for a few days -- or the multitude of diagnostics I ran, or how at the end I remembered the little physical switch that turns wifi off and on. It was on, but when I switched it off and then on again the wifi was suddenly fine. So, a reminder: flip off/on switches at least once every 15 years or so. No, won't mention that. But will mention something else that is driving me (further) insane: On the Thinkpad I now have *two* keyring popups, one, presumably gnomish, that wants my user password when I start the network, and the other, genuine TDE, that pops up when I start KMail. It, too, wants my user password but not my mail password. After entering these, all proceeds as hoped. I'd like to make them go away. I have searched the machine for any kind og keyring configuration file for either of these things, and have come up empty. The TDE Wallet Service version says "The application 'kmail' had requested to open the wallet 'kdewallet.' Please enter the password for this wallet below." Anyone know how I can make these things stop? I don't have anything running that I don't have running on the desktop machine, where I do not get the popups. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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TDE mailing list - email addresses
by William Morder 30 Mar '23

30 Mar '23

This has come up before, and gets discussed, but the problem seems to remain. Is there some way that we can get the mailing list to hide our personal emails from public view? I created an email template just for the TDE mailing list, so that my "reply to" address gives <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> as my email, so this works pretty well. But if I click to reply to somebody else's post, then I find that I often send an email directly to their personal address, and that my personal email address is also exposed. So far as I know, there is not a bad person who participates in this mailing list, and I don't mind if I get sent an email directly from anybody here, whether intentionally or by mistake. I often do the same to others. But it would be nice if we could keep our email addresses from being exposed to public view, and we all know some of the reasons: email harvesters and spammers and phishers and so on. Bill

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Restructuring TDE donations - opinions wanted
by Michele Calgaro 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

Hi everyone, so far donations to the TDE project have always ended up to Tim. Although he is the founder of the project, he has not really been involved in the daily matters and development for several years. In the past there has been talks to establish a non-profit TDE organization, but this has yet to happen. With release R14.1.0 coming soon, I would like to propose for donations to be temporarily redirected to Slavek, till the TDE non profit organization is established. Once the organization comes to birth, the amount of donations can be transferred over to it. A transparent public account of donations could be setup, so everyone would be free to see how donations would be used. If Slavek needed to pay additional taxes due to the temporary donation income, I suggest those would be paid out of the donations themselves. What is your opinion? There is about a month before R14.1.0 is released, so it would probably leave just enough time to prepare the new setup. Cheers Michele

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