tde-users May 2026

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setting up DNS servers - need help
by William Morder 01 Jun '26

01 Jun '26

Hello everybody! Lately I've been having problems connecting to various sites that I have visited and used regularly for more than 20 years. For example, I get blocked from even viewing pages on the Internet Archive (archive.org), and can only find download links by searching the onion version of DDG. Then I can usually download, using wget over Tor, though sometimes I have to wait; sometimes I have to change my useragent from nothing to something, and that helps, but I still get messages that condemn me as another "AI bot" that is "ruining the web for everybody"; although, as far as I can recall, I've been doing it like this for most of those past 20 years. Anyway, a little online research yielded the recommendations that I try entering a useragent in the appropriate place in wget; which I did, and which helps, but only sometimes. Another suggestion was that I ought to try changing my DNS servers. Most pages recommended Google's servers as the default, but I mostly have relied upon OpenDNS, when I have had time to fiddle around with such things, when I can spend enough time online. I have used OpenDNS before, so it's not unfamiliar to me. I reviewed their pages to see what has changed, and updated by settings accordingly. I edited my file (not including my own remarks in brackets) in /etc/resolv.conf like so: nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220 #[ipv6 redirect to ipv4] #nameserver ::ffff:d043:dede #nameserver ::ffff:d043:dcdc #nameserver ::ffff:d043:dedc #nameserver ::ffff:d043:dcde #[ipv6] # nameserver 2620:119:35::35 # nameserver 2620:119:53::53 # ipv6 - RFC compliant - no filtering # nameserver 2620:0:ccc::2 # nameserver 2620:0:ccd::2 As I have disabled ipv6 at present, you see that those lines are commented out. I will enable ipv6 again when I know more about it to adjust my firewall and security settings appropriately. Otherwise, you see above that there are addresses for ipv6 as well as to redirect ipv6 to ipv4. After changing my settings as described above, I restart nscd or sometimes even reboot, but when I check my /etc/resolv.conf, it says that my "original" settings have been restored by networkmanager: # Generated by NetworkManager search lan nameserver 10.246.172.1 I tried changing permissions to rw, but this doesn't help. As I understand it, tdenetworkmanager depends on networkmanager, which is to say Google, I believe. I went into network settings in the Trinity Control Manager (TCC > Internet & Network > Network Settings), created different profiles, and so on, but it does no good. I ended up not being able to connect to internet at all, and could not restore my original settings even though I am scrupulous about backing up before I make changes. I ended up having to reinstall my system, and now I am back in the same place; unable to connect to some sites, notably archive.org. At the moment I cannot tell if this is * a problem with my own configuration * a problem with the sites themselves (e.g., archive.org may have changed things) * a problem with the tdenetworkmanager (which has been crashing more often over the past few months) * a problem with the networkmanager that is a dependency for the tdenetworkmanager * my DNS servers are misconfigured in /etc/resolv.conf or in my network settings * a problem with my local network (over which I have no control, and which goes down a lot) * something else ... There are some other issues to discuss under other headings; not directly related to this problem or problems. I will bring those matters up separately. Any help would be greatly appreciated, so that I can be free again. Bill

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browser woes - partly solved
by William Morder 31 May '26

31 May '26

Okay, so I made a little progress on the Tor Browser installation. It turns out, I have firejail installed, and I usually open my browsers (and a few other items) with a special command, e.g., "firejail firefox", etc. Thus, "firejail torbrowser-launcher" ... When I did this, I managed to get Tor Browser started, running, configured, connecting to internet, visiting web pages, all that good stuff. Except one thing: With my other browsers, I have them configured to use a Socks5 proxy, 127.0.0.1:9050. But with this Tor Browser, I must configure it to use http/https, 127.0.0.1:8118. Otherwise, I can't connect to internet. As I understand it, Socks5 is better for some reason that I now forget. If anybody knows better, I am curious what's going on here. Also, I can get bridges, sort of (they are already built-in), but when I try downloading new bridges, I get hit with a captcha question, but nothing ever appears; no images to click, no characters to enter, or what-not. So, Tor Browser is sort of working, but I can't get past the configuration. Also, when I try to change my web page colors, fonts, etc., nothing happens. I looked for where Tor Browser calls home in my system, but it's not in the usual folder, i.e., /home/<user name./.mozilla/<mozilla browser>. There is a torbrowser folder in /home/<user name>/.config/torbrowser, but it only contains a json file. I would do a little self-hacking of about:config, etc., but first, I would like to find where this stuff is kept. I usually make backups before I start messing round. Bill

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browser woes
by William Morder 30 May '26

30 May '26

Okay, so on to the next step in my self-improvement program. I want to get the Tor Browser working on my machine. Indeed I have used it with no problems before, but now I can only manage to download the packages. I have tried installing the sid experimental version; tried going conservative and installing the version that is supposed to match my system (torbrowser-launcher=0.3.6-2); likewise I went primitive, and tried installing from source. After a bit of research online, I tried installing as sudo, a few obscure esoteric tricks, all to no avail. The most joy that I can get is when I tried the command tried running tdesu torbrowser-launcher, then it went through the motions of download the whole thing, but then aborted, telling me that torbrowser cannot be run as root, then it closed. I managed to untar the source packages for the current version (tor-browser-linux-x86_64-15.0.14.tar.xz) into a folder, but cannot seem to find anywhere to put it, or get it to run, or to complete installation, or whatever is the hangup. It's been a few years, but I ran the Tor Browser on a Windoze machine, ran it as a portable version from a flash drive, so I could use it sometimes on public computer, and I have run it in Linux, back in the days of KDE3.5 Hardy Heron 8.x, and again, if I recall, in an early TDE Devuan installation ... I believe sometime around Jessie? Anyway, nothing seems to work right now. I am considering building a Unabomber cabin deep in the woods, or maybe finding an empty cave up in the mountains, but then I thought, I must be missing something. I ought to give it another try. I would like to use the Tor Browser mainly to be able to download bridges, as I cannot easily do that with tork-trinity (even though it is supposed to be possible). That might be a bug, I don't know? I don't want to get a Gmail email address, nor even a RiseUp address, just to get bridges, but I may have to do that. I don't know that I actually *need* bridges, but it can't hurt, as I have been having all kinds of weird connection problems. Anybody who has a clue what is going on with Tor Browser, let me know. Thanks. Bill

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Can I toggle the Active Borders setting using DCOP?
by J Leslie Turriff 30 May '26

30 May '26

Rather than opening kcontrol => Desktop => Active Borders and changing the setting between Disabled and Switch desktop, can I do this in a script via DCOP? That way I could assign it to a key (e.g. Windoze+B) for convenience. I tried identifying a DCOP method for this via kdcop, but couldn't see anything pertinent. Leslie

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Can I toggle the Active Borders setting using DCOP?
by J Leslie Turriff 30 May '26

30 May '26

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Image for TDE on 32bit machines :)
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 26 May '26

26 May '26

Just a heads-up for all devs: TDE 14.2.0 running on a "HP Mini" ATOM 32bit machine. - Kernel 7.0.9 i686 - TDE 14.2.0-DEVELOPMENT - Devuan Ceres Download: - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-2026-05-24-i386.img.xz - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-2026-05-24-i386.img.xz.sha256 Please note: for the old DXXX ATOM CPUS you must use the "modesetting" driver, otherwise the GPU will crash: cat > $MNT/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf << XXX Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" # Driver "intel" Driver "modesetting" Option "NoAccel" "True" Option "DRI" "False" EndSection XXX So dust off those old machines on your shelfs and basements, you can run a decent OS on them :) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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TDE with vncserver and KRdc
by deloptes 25 May '26

25 May '26

Hi, I wonder what is the best vnc tool to use with TDE? I did following experiment now: - installed a VM and installed TDE in the VM - installed vncserver - configured the user and the startup script [1] - started the server - on my PC started krdc and connected to the TDE I had some issues, but I found out that xstartup was not executable. There are still some issues with things not working (TCC crashing etc) => Again as may be 15y ago there are issues with keyboards. Buttons stop working. ALT/META key has strange behavior. I switched to vncviewer and things are much better. I can indeed work. Any ideas ... what are you using or how are you configuring both sides?

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Darkness - 21. May 2026 RPI4 version
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 21 May '26

21 May '26

Hi All! For those who happen to have a raspberry 4/400/5: I have uploaded an image based on [url]https://arm-files.devuan.org/RaspberryPi%20Latest%20Builds/rpi-4-devuan…] - kernel 6.12.87 - default language is english - you can change the localisation and language to german and russian using /root/change-language Download: - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-rpi4-2026-05-21.img.xz - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-rpi4-2026-05-21.img.xz.sha256 Announcement in Devuan Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63519#p63519 Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience :D Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Darkness 2026-05-17 Mantainance Release
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 17 May '26

17 May '26

Hi all! Due to the newly discovered security vulerabilities in the (older) linux kernels I have created and uploaded a maintenance release. Biggest changes: - kernel 7.0.7 - linux-vulnerability-mitigation installed and activated - minor fixes in locales now uses translated manpages etc. by default - raspberrypi installer /root/rpi-installer included - in case you want ceres + TDe + darkness on your PI. Download: - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260517.iso - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260517.iso.sha256 uid/pwd: - root / toor - user / user Please use this ISO or install "linux-vulnerability-mitigation" on the older ones. (This is alos posted on https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63867#p63867 ) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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I am needing THE CORRECT way to install TDE on Suse Leap.
by CHRIS M 17 May '26

17 May '26

I am needing THE CORRECT way to install TDE on Suse Leap? The directions on the internet are for WAY OLDER versions of Leap, as I talked about in my last post, and those directions don't work. Thanks, Chris ================================ OFF LIST: chris(a)cwm030.com

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