tde-users March 2023

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two configuration issues
by dep 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '23

greets, folks. i should start by saying that i have no opinion on how the TDE entity should be financed or governed, though as a general rule international nonprofits do better when based in switzerland. now, why i'm here: i've hit a couple of configuration issues. first, how do i make the desktop pager go away, forever, appearing nowhere. i use one desktop, and don't have room to spare on kicker. second, how do i make the trashcan and icon go away. on my desktop machine i somehow found a way to put it as a hidden directory in my home directory, which is fine. but i do not want it appearing on my desktop. didn't like it in windows 3.0 and still don't. third, the awful phenomenon of the keyring login popping up and demanding a password whenever i lon in to the net has returned. i don't remember how it got killed last time. anyone know how to do these things? thanks. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Gitea severity levels (SL/*)
by J Leslie Turriff 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '23

When creating a bug report or enhancement request, the template says, |  and apparently the levels are supposed to appear in the box to the right, but for the tickets I've opened, there are no levels listed there. The wiki says, "Optionally, you can assign one or more labels (6) to the report, for better categorization." Is the above comment (Use SL/*...) included in the template by mistake, or are the level descriptions omitted by mistake? What does one replace the * with to choose a level? 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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Mouse acceleration
by Darrell Anderson 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

I seem unable to configure mouse pointer acceleration. The mouse pointer moves way too fast, beyond usability. Acceleration is set to 1.0 in TCC. Sometimes I can change that setting, reset to 1.0, and the mouse pointer behaves but often not. Pretty much renders the desktop unusable. Ideas?

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Non-profit factoids
by Michael 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

On Wednesday 22 March 2023 09:20:46 am Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote: > We have some ideas and plans for the non-profit, just need to have a final > round of discussions and then if we are in agreement, we need to set out to > do it, which is the hardest part :-) Starting a new thread to list the costs and special restrictions of non-profits by location. Note: If the dev’s already have a set in stone plan, then this thread is pointless, but, otherwise, it’ll be a good source of information for the final decision. I’ll start with what I remember from the last go-around about the USA and Canada (links are in the old thread). I’m using the term ‘Federal’ for national level government and approximations in USDs. Let’s try to keep this just a list of facts and relevant notes. Do include links to sources if you have them. # # # USA Legal Setup: 250 - 1,000 Federal Tax Registration[IRS]: 1,500 Local Tax Registration: Varies by State/County Govt per year fees: Cost of yearly tax preparation: Notes: - Easy for individuals to transfer received funds to. Canada Legal Setup: Federal Tax Registration[???]: Local Tax Registration: Govt per Year fees: Cost of tax preparation: Notes: - Registrations are free under specific conditions. - Can get the USA IRS Tax Registration fee waived.

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libkgtk2.so?
by dep 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Hi, everybody! The notebook Debianization project proceeds apace. Between the parsimonious default packages in Debian -- "locate" is not installed by default, nor "sudo" -- and my personal dislike of TDE defaults, it's finicky. Having installed tdetrinity-base rather than the everything including the tea-timer version, I went a little hog-wild in Synaptic and installed what seems to be too much gtk support, for both 2 and 3, which caused firefox to blow up saying it can't do both. So I went back to synaptic and removed Trinity-related gtk stuff. Now, when I open, say, konsole, I get this, twice: ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/trinity/lib/kgtk/libkgtk2.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored. It seems to do harm, but I'd just as soon install whatever is needed to make the error go away. Anybody know which package I need? Thanks in advance. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Debian Testing (bookworm)
by Curt Howland 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 With all the talk, I turned up a VM and did an install of Debian 12 (Bookworm) and TDE, and it went perfectly. Install Debian without GUI interface Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include contrib non-free and non-free-firmware as earlier noted Add Trinity-testing repository as per instructions Pull down and apt-key add trinity keyring The TDE-Trinity package selected everything, including sudo, gnupg, xwindows, etc, I didn't have to select anything else by hand. Thanks to the team! Curt- - -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEAREIAB0WIQTaYVhJsIalt8scIDa2T1fo1pHhqQUCZBeR1gAKCRC2T1fo1pHh qekJAQCCwddUWYtxMQ4F4maIR/1Bup0U7OTdZ+A/kZSfB7jSDgD/ZSFp71QSwSZ7 4wQzLg7KfFWb8JPttV9i6U9FqOCo9YA= =mLl+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: libkgtk2.so? [SOLVED BELOW]
by dep 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

Thanks, Mike. Here's something cool. So to speak. Everybody goes on about backlit keyboards, but this 15-year-old Thinkpad has been chugging along so faithfully that it has a *heated* keyboard! dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 12:21 AM, Mike Bird via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote: > On Sat March 18 2023 21:02:16 dep via tde-users wrote: >> ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/trinity/lib/kgtk/libkgtk2.so' from LD_PRELOAD >> cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored. >> >> It seems to do harm, but I'd just as soon install whatever is needed to >> make the error go away. Anybody know which package I need? > > $ apt-file search libkgtk2.so > kgtk-qt3-trinity: /opt/trinity/lib/kgtk/libkgtk2.so > > --Mike > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users(a)trinitydesktop.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)trinitydesktop.org > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt…

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"Could not find mime type application/octet-stream"
by Dan Youngquist 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

This started a month or so ago, presumably as a result of an update. When certain programs open, most frequently Konqueror and Kicker, I get popup warnings, "Could not find mime type application/octet-stream". Kicker does 7 of those all at once before it finishes starting, Konqueror only one. While using Konqueror, another pops up frequently, and sometimes goes away on its own in a few seconds if I don't click it away. It's gotta be something simple, but I haven't had time to debug it. How do I fix this? Machine is MX Linux w/ TDE 14.0.13. -- For PGP key, search on the PGP Global Directory.

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more elementary questions
by dep 18 Mar '23

18 Mar '23

greets again . . . my laptop test case for debian continues. my goal today is to make my TDE -- menus, apps, panel, desktop, etc. -- as close as i can to my desktop machine. i could do this by hand, which would take a day or two, or perhaps by copying my configuration from the desktop to the notebook via something like a usb drive. what i do not know is what configurations to copy. the whole .config directory seems a little drastic, and i do not know that it would do the job. would .trinity do it? i should already know all this, but it's been a lot of years (and at least one covid brain repartitioning), and i'd rather ask than break things and ask afterwards. thanks in advance. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Kate/KWrite spell checking
by Darrell Anderson 18 Mar '23

18 Mar '23

Where is the option in Kate/KWrite to enable real-time inline spell checking? Thanks. DA

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