tde-users September 2025

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Darkness - new version :)
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Hi all! I just finished uploading the latest version of "darkness". Biggest changes: - TDE 14.2-DEVELOPMENT - Xlibre instaed of Xorg - new background images - kernel 6.16.8 - own repository for darkness-specific packages (ATM a package for the repo and the wallpapers) Issues solved: - EFI installation on blank disk works now - TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack. - Crashes on Intel GM965/GL960 (Lenovo X61) Download (I got myself a bigger webspace): - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928.iso - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928.iso.sha256 Some Images: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-0.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-1.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-2.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-3.png All the new wallpapers: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-wallpapers.png Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience ;) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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I want to try TDE again, but don't know much about openSuse Leap.
by Christopher Marlow 01 Oct '25

01 Oct '25

I am interested in trying TDE again, but like, how do you update Leap? I know in Tumbleweed it was "sudo zypper dup" Thanks,Chris Current OS: Debian 13.0.0 with Plasma 6.

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trinitydesktop.org down?
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 29 Sep '25

29 Sep '25

Is by chance http://trinitydesktop.org/ down? I get a timout since yesterday. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Kate toolbar has become scrambled, almost unusable
by J Leslie Turriff 29 Sep '25

29 Sep '25

My Kate toolbar has become seriously deranged, with items out of order or missing. I tried using Toolbar Menu => Configure Toolbars... to fix it, but removing/readding/rearranging/resaving the icons does nothing. I'm reluctant to just erase the various .trinity/share/*/kate*rc files and start over because of the amount of toolbar customization involved. <https://c.mail.com/@649596501445582267/Z3aOiUr9-kbhFojWHpDOzg> is a link to a screenshot showing the difference between the toolbar and its supposed configuration. Note how the buttons are rearranged, and how the Open File button is completely missing. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.4 tde-config: 1.0

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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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Darkness - new version :)
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 28 Sep '25

28 Sep '25

Hi all! I just finised uploading the latest version of "darkness". Biggest changes: - TDE 14.2-DEVELOPMENT - Xlibre instaed of Xorg - new background images - kernel 6.16.8 - own repository for darkness-specific packages (ATM a package for the repo and the wallpapers) Issues solved: - EFI installation on blank disk works now - TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack. - Crashes on Intel GM965/GL960 (Lenovo X61) Download - oh jes, I got myself a bigger webspace: - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928.iso - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928.iso.sha256 Some Images: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-0.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-1.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-2.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-3.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-wallpapers.png Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience ;) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Debian question
by J Leslie Turriff 28 Sep '25

28 Sep '25

I'm considering switching from openSUSE to Debian. I have several encrypted partitions in a separate storage volume that I would like to mount in /home. Can the Debian installer do that without reformatting them? (openSUSE's YaST installer once could do that but no longer does, one of several reasons for moving away from openSUSE.) Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.4 tde-config: 1.0

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TDE with NextCloud or any other Cal/CardDav
by deloptes 27 Sep '25

27 Sep '25

Hi Has someone experience with NextCLoud or any other Cal/CardDav. thank you in advance

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Pretty cool
by dep 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

Here's the modern, grown-up analog to the computer-in-keyboard devices of s generation (or, could it be, two generations) ago. Because it has Raspberry Pi 5 innards (plus 16 gigs of memory and a decent SSD), it will run a full Linux install -- Raspberry PiOS is Debian, currently Bookworm -- and I have run TDE on a Pi 5 eith no problem. At $200 it is expensive for a Raspberry but with, now, a good keyboard, cheap for a decent computer. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/peak_pi_reached_with_raspberry/?td=r… dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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The continuing story of scanning software
by dep 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

In that there seemed to be a degree of interest, I thought I'd put on record this week's impressions of scanning software I've tried. Kooka -- as previously noted, it is just about impossible to establish a workflow. Works, in an emergency. EpsonScan2 -- segfaults at launch, which many of us would find a significant limitation. SimpleScan -- lacks configuration options and just, well, simple. IScan -- the original Epson native scanning application. Works well, but for instance when saving it starts with ~/ *every single time,* so you spend more time navigating your hard drive than actually scanning. GIMP -- nothing is simple with the GIMP, and scanning is no exception. I apparently have the plugins installed correctly -- itself an ordeal -- but haven't yet found a way to get GIMP to scan. Skanlite -- a surprise, and the current winner. Offers both image settings and applicating settings. Assumes that there's a good chance that it you saved the scan you made 90 seconds ago in a particular directory, you might want to save the one you made just now in that directory. Very much like the much better Windows version of the native Epson software. Unlike any non-VueScan Linux scanning software except IScan, can scan transparancies. KDE native, so it doesn't download half the Synaptic Debian repository. Has weird resolution settings, though, somewhat inexplicably but there might be a reason. Anyway, if your scanner is SANE-compliant, Skanlite seems the way to go. Apparently last built when KDE was doing whatever they were doing in 2020. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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