tde-users August 2025

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Darkness ISO March 2025
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 10 May '26

10 May '26

Hi all! I just uploaded my "Darkness" iso, march 2025 version. As usual bleeding edge Devuan + TDE :) A note on Installation: Don't forget installing the bootloader. What do you get: - Devuan Testing - TDE 14.2.0 (dev branch) - Openscad - Firefox v135 - Kernel 6.12.17 - most firmware blobs - dark theme I have removed [i]Zim Desktop Wiki[i] due to the vast number of dependencies it pulls in. UID / PWD: user / user root / toor ISO: https://samhain.at/devuan_tde/darkness-20250302.iso SHA256: https://samhain.at/devuan_tde/darkness-20250302.iso.sha256 Default language is austrian german. Russian and englisch language packs are installed, too. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Live CD with Debian/TDE?
by dep 28 Sep '25

28 Sep '25

Hi, everybody! We're two months away from Microsoft Corp. discontinuing "support" of Windows 10. In conjunction with this, Windows 11, which is not just awful but also invasive, requires that many people purchase new computers. No doubt some will do this -- there will always be people who have more dollars than sense -- but many may be ripe for an alternative. I'll be in the next couple of days writing a piece on that alternative. The best choice, in my view, is Debian and TDE. So I'm seeking an installable live CD that provides just that. I thought there was one, "Matrix OS," but when one follows the link on the LiveCDs page -- https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/LiveCDs -- it throws a "your account is suspended" error. Is there another Debian spin containing TDE? It would be good if TDE were included in DEbian already -- Enlightenment is in the repository -- but I am not here to solve that problem. I'm here to rescue those whose computers have been abandoned by msft and, with luck, increase the TDE user base a bit. Thing is, I cannot recommend any other distribution or desktop. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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A request for the next version of Konqueror
by dep 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

I use Konqueror as a file manager, as I imagine most people do. In the toolbar there is the view mode button, but if you click on it nothing happens. You have to click on the unbelievably small -- I've never hit it on the first try -- down triangle that pawns a menu of view modes: Icon view, multi-column view, list view, detailed list view, and so on. Right clicking on it, as with every other button in the toolbar, renders a toolbar menu. So all the button does is provide that tiny triangle. Wouldn't it make more sense if the button itself produced the view mode list? It would certainlt be much easier to use. I'm sure there was a reason for doing it as it is currently done, but that reason seems to have disappeared. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Question finally ready to ask
by dep 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

I have a line I need to run sometime before the desktop appears on a dinky computer. It's an xrandr command that rotates the screen 90 degrees to the right and sets 168 dpi. What I don't know is where to put it. Anybody know? Thanks, dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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what would it take . . .
by dep 04 Sep '25

04 Sep '25

. . . to get a full proper TDE Debian release? I just spent most of an hour removing the droppings of LXQT. This is because I figured -- erroneously, it seems -- that it would be the easiest of the Debian iso files to fumigate after I installed TDE. I downloaded and installed the image that Jacob made as MatrixOS; problem is, it seems to be Debian 12, Bookworm, so installation would immediately have been followed by a full system upgrade, which would have taken even longer than squashing LXQT. They have live CDs of damn near everything: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ I'll happily donate to wherever one must in order to get TDE added to the list. The fact that LXDE, LXQT, XFCE, and frigging Cinnamon are there and TDE is not is a crime. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Is there any way to require a modifier key in addition to mouse action to move and resize windows?
by Nick Koretsky 30 Aug '25

30 Aug '25

Hi! I looked all over settings but dont see anything. What i want is that windows cant be grabbed by mouse to resize or move unless modifier key is pressed. -- Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)

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Stop me before I buy again!
by dep 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

I have a ThinkPad X200 that I bought new from Lenovo when you placed your order and they built it to your specs in early 2008. It was very expensive -- I even sprang for the cellular option (3G, before we knew about Gs). Also with the docking station, which I used every day, all day, as my office desktop. Undocked the computer and brought it home each night. Replaced the 160gb hard drive with a faster 1tb one 12 years ago. Only had 4gb RAM because 4 more would have been something like $700. Ran Linux and TDE the whole time. And kept it in very good shape. So tonight I sprang for two 4gb memory strips for an 8gb machine (now $35 rotal) and splurged $88 for a 1tb Samsung 870 Evo ssd. I did not buy it a cellular account, so it will finish its days with its cellular circuitry unused. I've never even seen a Linux cellular application. Anyway, I hope it will now be a lot faster. The empty ExpressCard slot might so-remain, because there's nothing that goes there -- two extra USB-3 ports, or an SD card reader, or maybe an M.2 PCIe sata drive -- that would be more than spending money just to spend money. At least there's an excuse for the upgrades. Over the life of the machine, they might save me as much as half an hour. I may have overvalued my time. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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removing icons from desktop
by dep 25 Aug '25

25 Aug '25

Clean install of current TDE. Desktop is festooned with all manner of default icons. Trying to delete them, but many -- "My Computer" (gag), "Trash", "My Network Places" (double gag), "My Documents" (ditto), "Web Browser", and "Printers" are all owned by root and cannot be removed. I made a directory in ~/ called "default desktop crap" and moved the movable ones there. I run a desktop that is entirely free of icons. How do I get rid of these? I don't necessarily want them deleted forever, just put someplace where they don't make my desktop look as if birds just flew over. I'm sure they're a great help for those migrating from Windows 3.0. Thanks. Btw, the new icons in general are excellent. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Another annoying question
by dep 25 Aug '25

25 Aug '25

Got Debian Trixie running on the little GPD pocket. Before I go further, I' dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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downgrade Trixie from 14.1.5pre to 14.1.4 possible?
by Felix Miata 25 Aug '25

25 Aug '25

I searched several combinations without finding an answer. Last tried: apt debian downgrade multiple package versions -reddit -ubuntu -quora -archlinux -python -rocky -rpm Can apt perform this type of transaction without removing *trinity* first? I did several Trixie upgrades after 9 August before discovering 14.1.4 had been made available weeks before. :( -- 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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