tde-users April 2026

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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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TDE R14.1.6 released!
by Slávek Banko 27 Apr '26

27 Apr '26

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about the release of R14.1.6: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.1.6 Cheers Slávek --

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OT: Users of Proton products should have a look at this.
by J Leslie Turriff 15 Apr '26

15 Apr '26

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2026/0415.html#cg5 from https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2026/0415.html. Leslie

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Inconsistent output from the w command between Debian and openSUSE
by J Leslie Turriff 15 Apr '26

15 Apr '26

In openSUSE, in Konsole, when I issue the w command I get output like this: | @23:24:30 leslie@chestnut | wd = /home/leslie | $ w | 23:24:52 up 15 days, 10:49, 4 users, load average: 0.60, 0.59, 0.59 | USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT | leslie pts/33 192.168.1.116 21:09 9:48 0.18s 0.00s sshd: leslie [priv] | leslie pts/34 192.168.1.116 21:17 4.00s 0.03s 0.00s w | rc = 0 whereas in Debian I see: | @23:59:39 leslie@toreador | wd=/home/leslie | $ w | 23:59:52 up 23 days, 23:39, 0 users, load average: 0.16, 0.20, 0.18 | USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT | rc=0 Why is it that on Debian, the active terminals aren't listed? Also, the who commands' outputs are different, though both show the active terminal sessions. openSUSE: | @23:24:52 leslie@chestnut | wd = /home/leslie | $ who -H | NAME LINE TIME COMMENT | leslie pts/33 2026-04-14 21:09 (192.168.1.116) | leslie pts/34 2026-04-14 21:17 (192.168.1.116) | rc = 0 and Debian: | @23:59:52 leslie@toreador | wd=/home/leslie | $ who -H | NAME LINE TIME COMMENT | leslie seat0 2026-03-22 12:12 (:0) | rc=0 Why the difference? The reason I'm looking at these is that I want to find out which are remote sessions and which are using su; so the w command, which lists a session's tty name, its ip address, and whether it is privileged (at least on openSUSE; Debian seems less helpful.) Leslie

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[openSUSE] can't login to sole user
by Felix Miata 13 Apr '26

13 Apr '26

I just did an openSUSE Leap 16 installation on a new used PC with FM2+ AMD. Only IceWM was installed initially, then TDE, then Plasma. TDM is active DM. Plasma and IceWM sessions work normally, but for TDE for the only user, instead a popup: Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation. /tmp is on /, so plenty of freespace. I don't know of any other tmp directory(s). Root TDE session works fine. This is my first use of SELinux. Could it be related? If not, what would? I see no suspects in dmesg or journal. -- 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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System tray or whatever it's called
by dep 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

hi, everybody . . . trying to deal with a problem with what is often called the system tray -- that little section at the right side of kicker that holds small icons that do stuff. problem is that there used to be a little protonvpn icon there what let me know when the vpn was on and when it wasn't, by a little indicator attached to the icon itself. at some point it disappeared and i cannot make it come back. i've dealt with proton tech support. sad to say, they're very good at seeming to deliver aupport without actually doing anything other than restate the obvious. so i need to dig it out myself. i have *no* idea how the system tray thing works. so i do not have the first clue in tracking it down. anybody know what's necessary to get an application to register there and do what it's supposed to do? if I have a sense of that, i can try to work backwards and sort it. thanks in advance. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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anyone here use treesheets successfully with the TDE systray?
by D. R. Evans 09 Apr '26

09 Apr '26

I've been trying, for years, to use treesheets (https://strlen.com/treesheets/) on my TDE systems, always without success: there's some weird problem with minimising to the tray, which I won't bother to describe in detail unless people want me to. I was hopeful that the recent mention of ksystraycmd might point me in the right direction, but sadly I still can't get treesheets to behave sensibly (i.e., to minimise to the tray when I close it). The treesheets author, when informed of the problem long ago, said that it was TDE's fault; but I have always been unconvinced, as no other program I have misbehaves in the same way. Anyway, I just thought I'd ask here if anyone is successfully using treesheets with the systray in TDE; if so, perhaps we can talk privately to see what you are doing differently that makes it work (I don't want to clutter the reflector unnecessarily with something that might not be a TDE issue). Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans

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System tray progress, sort of
by dep 08 Apr '26

08 Apr '26

Where does one control applications to make them autostart and not autostart? Apparently for its system tray applet to work, ProtonVPN requires nm-tray to be running. Instead, the TDE Network Manager app is running and I cannot make the TDE app stop autostarting, nor get nm-tray to autostart. KControl tells me that it's in ~/.trinity/Autostart, but the only thing there is a text file named Directory that is a listing of every characterset in the solar system. And several things that aren't charactersets autostart. I don't know if this will solve the problem, but I figure it's worth a try. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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