tde-users March 2023

users@trinitydesktop.org

30 participants
57 discussions

tdesu konqueror
by Darrell Anderson 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Would appreciate somebody sharing a *.desktop file or basic command for running konqueror as root with the file management profile. Thanks.

3 4

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.

6 7

Stretch locks some packages on 14.0.6 after others upgraded to 14.0.13
by Felix Miata 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

I found a Stretch installation I forgot to upgrade at the time support ended, and tried to do it now. It won't let me complete the operation without removing Konq: # dpkg-query -l | grep 14.0.6 ii kcontrol-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 control center for TDE ii kdesktop-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 miscellaneous binaries and files for the Trinity desktop ii kfind-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 file-find utility for TDE ii kicker-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 desktop panel for TDE ii konq-plugins-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 plugins for Konqueror, the Trinity file/web/doc browser ii konqueror-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 TDE's advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer ii kpersonalizer-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 installation personalizer for TDE ii ksplash-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 the TDE splash screen ii smb4k-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 A Samba (SMB) share advanced browser for Trinity ii tdebase-data-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 all shared data files for the TDE base module ii tdebase-tdeio-plugins-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 core I/O slaves for TDE ii tdebase-trinity-bin 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 core binaries for the TDE base module ii tdm-trinity 4:14.0.6-0debian9.0.0+0 amd64 X display manager for TDE # apt-get full-upgrade ... Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: konq-plugins-trinity konqueror-nsplugins-trinity konqueror-trinity smb4k-trinity The following packages will be upgraded: kcontrol-trinity kdesktop-trinity kfind-trinity kicker-trinity kpersonalizer-trinity ksplash-trinity tdebase-data-trinity tdebase-trinity-bin tdm-trinity 9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 24.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 12.9 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n What's the right way to proceed while keeping all of konq installed? -- 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

4 7

TDE special window rules
by Darrell Anderson 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

I am trying to configure special window rules for some VirtualBox machines. I want the virtual machines to always open in virtual desktop/workspace 2. I have many virtual machines but a few I use almost daily. Many years ago I created *.desktop files to launch these few systems without needing to launch the VirtualBox Manager. I have used devilspie to force launching in desktop 2. While devilspie works well in TDE, I want to do this natively with TDE special window rules. I have been unable to configure special rules in TDE to ensure the virtual machines open in desktop 2. Everything I try in TDE special rules results in the virtual machines opening in the current desktop. Other special window rules are working as expected. Selecting the special rules "Detect" button does not help. I suspect something different about VirtualBox that is not obvious. Help is appreciated with respect to creating TDE special rules. Thank you! P.S. To simulate the *.desktop files, launch the mini cli (Alt+F2) and launch a virtual machine like this: vboxmanage startvm "name_of_virtual_machine" DA

2 3

Notification popup timeout
by Darrell Anderson 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

Where is the notification popup timeout stored? I have several cron jobs that have been running for years with notify-send --expire-time=0. The popups remain active until explicitly acknowledged, but in TDE the popups timeout at about 6 to 7 seconds and close. Does TDE ignore notify-send timeout parameters? Is there a preferred way to create persistent notifications in TDE? Thanks again.

4 10

Konqueror date format
by Darrell Anderson 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

When using tree or list view, is there a Konqueror setting for the file date stamp format or is the date stamp hard-coded to using the TDE short date format? Thanks.

2 3

Konsole bold fonts
by Darrell Anderson 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

I know this once worked as expected but my Konsole sessions no longer display bold fonts. Is there a config setting I am overlooking? I tried different fonts and schema. Ideas? Thanks. DA

1 1

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

tde-users March 2023