tde-users November 2025

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Weird Kbabel crashing on TDE 14.1.3 ?
by Andrew Randrianasulu 21 Nov '25

21 Nov '25

bash-5.1$ [2025/11/21 10:41:49.074] TQGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key [2025/11/21 10:41:49.074] TQGDict::hashKeyString: Invalid null key [2025/11/21 10:41:49.076] [kbabel] [26332] ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave: tdelauncher said: Unknown protocol ''. [2025/11/21 10:41:49.076] [kbabel] [26332] [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'kbabel' crashing... I just tried to load ru_RU.po from slint-translations/po/Handbook .... Yes, know, this is old version, but I wonder if anyone saw crash like this before ?

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A decoration/button style where user could provide their own images instead of relying on the built-in ones?
by rave002＠o2.pl 20 Nov '25

20 Nov '25

So basically each style and window decoration has their own internal images to use as button backgrounds, title bar background, etc. How about developing one that could let user supply their own image overrides that would be loaded from the mass storage for fully skinnable environment. Basically what I am asking for is something like Auroae/Kvantum, but actually performant and with ability to create custom themes visually. Such universal decorator/widget theming engine would make it possible to create new themes without writing any new code or even recompiling existing one. And no, I don't have the skills (or time) to develop it myself, otherwise I wouldn't be making this post.

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TDM "greeter screen" location(s) non-themed
by Felix Miata 20 Nov '25

20 Nov '25

With two or three displays, sometimes the login panel shows up on one screen only, but on others, it may be two, or may be three. Is there something in tdmrc that I'm missing about GreeterScreen=, or not understanding (near top of file) that can control how many on which greeter appears? Absent a specific GreeterScreen= setting, typically either the lowest resolution screen seems to acquire focus, or first choice goes to connection using the oldest technology (1VGA>2DVI>3HDMI>4DP) if not more than one having 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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ibus issues
by Daniel Wilkins 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

Hi y'all, retrying trinity with the new release and I'm having some problems: I'm studying Japanese, which means that I'm running ibus in order to switch keyboard layouts between English and Japanese. I've noticed that in Discord (and a the moment I can find no other examples,) it doesn't work, the keyboard layout refuses to change in Discord itself, and my shortcut keys for switching between hiragana and katakana don't work. I've never had a problem with this in other desktop environments, I've also never had any problems with it while using a plain wm such as ice or even older ones like amiwm. Is there some sort of legacy international input going on in TDE which might interfere with how ibus works? This is on slackware 15.0 using 14.1.5 from the Ray-V tde-slackbuilds. Thanks, Danny

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MX-25 + TDE remix available
by Thierry de Coulon 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

For those interrested, MX-Linux 25 (based on Trixie) is out and I have produced a new respin including TDE. As previously, MX-snapshot requires lightdm/xfce to work, so you get an xfce installer, but TDE (from psb) is installed, you "just have" to choose TDE at login and - if you want - use tdm instead of lightdm. The archive includes a readme. Size is 4.4 GB and the download link is: https://mega.nz/file/0jolRCjJ#_h9CFQoJBO4nVc37FedFSrvJLEh2QKM47XBUqDtdVkY Thierry

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BD-R support in k3b/TDE ?
by Andrew Randrianasulu 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

I tried to burn 25 Gb BR-R (just as data disk, no fancy video) but discovered that k3b as shipped with TDE: R14.1.3 does not allow me to pick BD-sized project. Is there chance to see "on the fly" (due to hdd space constrains on my end) BD /udf 2.01 mastering added to k3b? For now I used imgburn under wine, but cdrecord seems to know how to deal with BD drivers and disks: guest@slax:~$ cdrecord -atip -dev 4,1,0 Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Joerg Schilling scsidev: '4,1,0' scsibus: 4 target: 1 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.36 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'ASUS ' Identifikation : 'BW-16D1HT ' Revision : '3.11' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 BD-ROM driver (mmc_bdrom). Driver flags : NO-CD BD MMC-3 BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. Disk type: 'BDR' (BD-R) Disk class: 01 Manufacturer: 'RITEK' Media type: 'BR3' Disk: is not in cartridge Media cartrige: write protect is off Free Spare Blocks: 0 Alloc Spare Blocks: 0 rzone size: 40 rzone number: 1 border number: 1 ljrs: 0 track mode: 4 copy: 0 damage: 0 reserved track: 1 blank: 0 incremental: 1 fp: 0 data mode: 1 lra valid: 1 nwa valid: 0 rzone start: 0 next wr addr: 0 free blocks: 0 blocking factor: 32 rzone size: 10877120 last recorded addr: 10877119 read compat lba: 0 Capacity Blklen/Sparesz. Format-type Type 10877120 0 0x00 Formatted Media guest@slax:~$

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Hibernate works on "bookworm" but not on "trixie"
by Thierry de Coulon 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

On the same laptop (Thinkpad X390) hibernate works (from Trinity powersave) MX-23/bookworm but not on MX-25/Trixie. From the cli pm-hibernate on MX-25 seems to shudown (I must login again). HIbernate from TDE-Powersave locks the screen but bothing more. From the cli pm-hibernate does *not* work (nothing happens, no error message). Hibernate from TDE powersave locks the screen, then powers down. Resuming goes back to the locked screen and then restores the desktop correctly. MX-23 has sysvinit and systemd installed but not activated, MX-25 has either sysvinit (my case ) or systemd. Can this be an explanation? Thierry

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strange things happening ...
by William Morder 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

Apologies if this is post is not specific to TDE; but honestly, I don't know what to make of it. I said awhile back that my system seems to be getting unstable, though I cannot determine the causes. This has been happening more frequently over the past year or more ... ever since I mentioned that we had some flooding here (last winter?), and it seemed to affect our network here in this building. (I ought to add, if it is not evident, that I have no control over the network; my complaints too many to repeat here, and may not be related.) I am still in the process of moving, so I don't have a lot of time to spend chasing down bugs, if that's what this is; I keep hoping that these issues will resolve themselves with a system upgrade. We have stretches of a week or two where the network seems fine, then out of the blue, suddenly my machine starts freezing up any time I have a network connection; sometimes, indeed, the open connection is there and available, but I have not actually logged into the network. Usually I disable the network if I am not using it, but when I first boot up, the network is always there and available. And sure enough, my machine freezes up. I just went through this earlier today: when I went online to check my email first thing this morning, it wasn't more than five minutes and the machine froze up; I waited more than half an hour, then decided to do a hard shutdown, and boot up again. Then, as soon as I booted up and got into the Trinity desktop, the same thing happened, and the system froze up. (I wasn't online, just that the network was available.) At last, it seemed that the machine recognized mouse movement, and I somehow got it running more or less normally again. My mouse icon showed a kind of crosshair icon, which is not actually available to my mouse; so I was a bit puzzled about that. Then, once I got into my working desktop, started setting up, I noticed that some autostart programs had not started,: audacious, for example, had to be started manually. Also, tdenetworkmanager crashed, and lately has been crashing rather a lot. After all was set up and I was getting into my work, I noticed in my home folder 5 plaintext files (or at least, they seem to be text files); they are named: builtins getopt locale signal sys -- but they have no content. It may be that they are some different kind of file; the system just tells me that they are empty documents. Nothing like this has ever happened before, and I am concerned about these strange manifestations of files, apparently without any doing on my part. They have rw-r-r permissions, under my user name; which to me indicates that they are supposed to be files that the system must be able to read. For my personal stuff, which the system doesn't need to read, I make the permissions rw only under my user name. If anybody can offer some insights, of suggestions about how to unravel this mystery, I would be grateful. Bill P.S. I just did a system upgrade. I am still running Devuan Daedalus, waiting for the next LTS release, whatever and whenever that will be.

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Arm64 support for LiveCd’s
by guides-dialect-6v＠icloud.com 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

Are the LiveCD’s available for Raspberry Pi 4? If so, which one specifically? permeable

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Arm64 support
by guides-dialect-6v＠icloud.com 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

I’d like to know if Trinity Desktop Environment supports raspberry pi 4 (arm64)? Permeable

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