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12 Feb '26

I've been using KMail since I gave up XFMail in 1998. No particular problems, until . . . I've been using ProtonMail since 2018. There is a utility called ProtonMail Bridge that runs on the local machine and unencrypts the mail so that a standard client can be used. It has behaved especially flakily in the last year or so. I raised the issue with the Proton people, who said that it works fine with Thunderbird. Which it might. I don't know and am disinclined to find out. To use the bridge, one sets the mail client -- KMail -- to point to 127.0.0.1 and port 1143. Everything else is as though pointing to an ordinary mail server. It uses imap. I store mail in maildir format. It sends and receives mostly just fine, with a few exceptions. The first is that it frequently, though not always, lists the same message twice in my KMail inbox, with the first listing being blank and undeletable. It shows as unread. The second listing is normal in every respect. The second KMail oddity is that if I use the "mark all messages as read" option in the inbox, it marks all those messages as *unread* on my tablet and phone, which are using he native ProtonMail Android app (under GrapheneOS, no bridge required). Likewise, if I have read a message on, say, the tablet and then read the same message in KMail, it becomes unread again on the tablet. All of this us over ProtonVPN as well. So I'm trying to find out what Thunderbird does that KMail doesn't, or what KMail does that Thunderbird doesn't, and how I can set up KMail so that its behavior emulates that of Thunderbird. Any expert on mail protocols here? Thanks in advance. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Trinity thinks my phone is a camera, won't allow data file transfers.
by J Leslie Turriff 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

I want to copy some files from my computer to my Samsung phone. I can connect them together, and a Konqueror window opens showing the phone's storage (attachment 1), but when I try to copy a file to it, I get a message, "Writing to camera is not supported." (attachment 2). The phone has two settings for file transfers: 1) "Transfer media files to a computer via an MTP connection." 2) "Transfer images and other files via a PTP connection if MTP is not supported." Using either connection method produces the same result. Is there a way to tell Trinity that it's a phone, not a camera? Leslie

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Suggestions for a tiny screen
by Thierry de Coulon 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

My eyes are no more what they were, however I've always likes the idea to run Linux on a tiny thing (got some Sharp Zaurus) and I've purchased a (second hand) GPD Pocket (I thing I got the idea from a post on this list). OK, so I've installed my favourite MX-Linux (and TDE) on it. However, the 1200x1920 screen has very tiny pixels and the setup is quite uneasy (with magnifying glass sometime), so before I poke everywhere to try, maybe someone here âlready went through sometiing like that and could suggest settings that work. I notices that TCC lists the sceen as "Philips PHL 273V7" but Internet search suggests it's a 27" monitor.... I would: Scaling? Can we do that in TDE? And this machine won't stand KDE (neither would I). xfce did a little better, not much. Change the screen size? I'd like to try something like 600x960 but nothing such is offered by TCC Thierry

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Making Trinity aware of Java applications
by J Leslie Turriff 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

My preferred text editor is jEdit, which is written in Java. Its installer doesn't create an icon in the Kicker menu, but using the Menu Editor, I can create one "manually;" but though I can use it to launch jEdit, TDE doesn't notice that it is running when I log out of my session and doesn't restore it when I log back in. I notice that if I right-click on the icon in my panel and select Configure jEdit Button and then in the Application tab, click on Advanced Options, an undocumented selector called DCOP registration with choices None (default), Multiple Instances, Single Instances, and Run Until Finished. Could this be a way to make TDE aware when this application is running so that it can restore it when a new session is started? Leslie

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Re: Where can I get SuperKaramba widgets?
by Gilberto F da Silva 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

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Need some help with kmail regexp filters
by J Leslie Turriff 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

I'm trying to filter some semi-constant noise from the subject fields of mail items in a subfolder, but I can't get my filter to work. Clearly, I'm doing something fundamentally wrong, but I can't see what. Here are some examples of Subject fields: SUSE-SU-2026:0245-1: Security update for php7 openSUSE-SU-2026:10079-1: python311-weasyprint-68.0-1.1 on GA media and here is the filter that doesn't work (quoted to show where there are spaces): "(open)?SUSE-SU-[0-9]{4,4}: ?[0-9]{1,5}-[0-9]{1,2}: " which kregexp interprets as: Repeated at Most 1 Time: "open" "SUSE-SU-" Repeated Exactly 4 Times: One of the following Characters: from 0 to 9 ":" Repeated at Most 1 Time: " " Repeated From 1 to 5 Times: One of the following Characters: from 0 to 9 "- " Repeated From 1 to 2 Times: One of the following Characters: from 0 to 9 ": " What am I overlooking/misunderstanding here? Leslie

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openSUSE Leap 16.0 and TDE
by Gianluca Interlandi 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Dear TDE users, I was wondering whether anyone has installed openSUSE 16.0 along with TDE. What is your experience so far (in particular with openSUSE 16.0)? Does openSUSE 16.0 still support RPM? Thanks! Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu http://gianluca.today/research/ Department of Bioengineering University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------

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Choose logout choices
by Thierry de Coulon 25 Jan '26

25 Jan '26

Hello all, I am configuring an old UpBoard (SBC) with Trinity as Desktop. I plan that this machine will be used by people who know little (or nothing) about Linux and maybe even computers. The point is: when I right-click the desktop and choose "logout", I get a lot of possibilities: Logout, Shutdown, Restart, Freeze, Suspend, Hibernate and Hybrid suspend. I'd like to have only the three first ones. Would removing TDEPowersave do that (Powersave is no use as this SBC does not have any battery)? Or is there any otherway to configure that (maybe in TDM, as running with lightdm offered only "logout")? Thierry

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no TDE system sounds in Trixie
by Felix Miata 29 Dec '25

29 Dec '25

TDE produces no desktop sounds, Kmix volume control is dead, though mute works, and KControl Sound System Test Sound produces nothing regardless of selected device. OTOH, aplay works fine. Can anyone here suggest what's missing or errant so that TDE session can't connect to Pipewire, so pw-play produces: error: pw_context_connect() failed: Host is down There's also cannot connect and "Host is down": $ wpctl status Could not connect to PipeWire $ pw-cli list-objects Device Error: "failed to connect: Host is down" $ pw-cli list-objects Node Error: "failed to connect: Host is down" $ # dpkg-query -W | egrep 'alsa|arts|audio|codec|demul|dbus|fmpeg|gstr|jack|kodi|h26|mix|mpv|pavu|puls|sof-|sound|vlc|wire|xdg'|sort alsa-firmware-loaders 1.2.14-1 alsa-tools 1.2.14-1 alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.14-1 alsa-utils 1.2.14-1 dbus 1.16.2-2 dbus-bin 1.16.2-2 dbus-daemon 1.16.2-2 dbus-session-bus-common 1.16.2-2 dbus-system-bus-common 1.16.2-2 dbus-x11 1.16.2-2 firmware-sof-signed 2025.01-1 kdbusnotification-trinity 4:14.1.5-0debian13.0.0+0 kmix-trinity 4:14.1.5-0debian13.0.0+0 libarts1c2a-trinity:amd64 4:14.1.5-0debian13.0.0+0 libartsc0-trinity:amd64 4:14.1.5-0debian13.0.0+0 libasound2-data 1.2.14-1 libasound2t64:amd64 1.2.14-1 libaudio2:amd64 1.9.4-9 libaudiofile1:amd64 0.3.6-7+b1 libdbus-1-3:amd64 1.16.2-2 libdbus-1-tqt 4:14.1.5-0debian13.0.0+0 libdbus-glib-1-2:amd64 0.114-1 libdbus-tqt-1-1c2 4:14.1.5-0debian13.0.0+0 libjack0:amd64 1:0.126.0-4 libpipewire-0.3-0t64:amd64 1.4.2-1 libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64 1.4.2-1 libpulse0:amd64 17.0+dfsg1-2+b1 libwebrtc-audio-processing-1-3:amd64 1.3-3+b1 libwireplumber-0.5-0:amd64 0.5.8-2 menu-xdg 0.7 pipewire-alsa:amd64 1.4.2-1 pipewire:amd64 1.4.2-1 pipewire-audio-client-libraries 1.4.2-1 pipewire-bin 1.4.2-1 pipewire-jack:amd64 1.4.2-1 pipewire-pulse 1.4.2-1 sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-6~deb13u1 tdemultimedia-tdeio-plugins-trinity 4:14.1.5-0debian13.0.0+0 wireplumber 0.5.8-2 xdg-user-dirs 0.18-2 xdg-utils 1.2.1-2 # inxi -Aaz Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 Series] vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aab0 class-ID: 0403 API: ALSA v: k6.12.57+deb13-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer Server-1: aRts v: 1.5.10 status: active with: artswrapper status: off tools: artsdsp Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: off with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: off 2: wireplumber status: off 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl $ systemctl -l --no-pager --global --user status pipewire.{service,socket} pipewire-pulse.{service,socket} wireplumber ○ pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) TriggeredBy: × pipewire.socket × pipewire.socket - PipeWire Multimedia System Sockets Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.socket; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: resources) since Fri 2025-12-26 16:58:51 EST; 16min ago Duration: 7min 59.281s Invocation: e757e540b8614c7fa94a5049727a8dd4 Triggers: ● pipewire.service Listen: /run/user/2000/pipewire-0 (Stream) /run/user/2000/pipewire-0-manager (Stream) Dec 26 16:50:52 fi965 systemd[1230]: Listening on pipewire.socket - PipeWire Multimedia System Sockets. Dec 26 16:58:51 fi965 systemd[1230]: pipewire.socket: Failed to queue service startup job: Unit dbus.service not found. Dec 26 16:58:51 fi965 systemd[1230]: pipewire.socket: Failed with result 'resources'. ○ pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) TriggeredBy: ○ pipewire-pulse.socket ○ pipewire-pulse.socket - PipeWire PulseAudio Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.socket; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) Triggers: ● pipewire-pulse.service Listen: /run/user/2000/pulse/native (Stream) ○ wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) $ alsactl info # # Sound card # - card: 0 id: HDMI name: HDA ATI HDMI longname: HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfbefc000 irq 26 driver_name: HDA-Intel mixer_name: ATI R6xx HDMI components: HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100300 controls_count: 14 pcm: - stream: PLAYBACK devices: - device: 3 id: HDMI 0 name: HDMI 0 * subdevices: - subdevice: 0 name: subdevice #0 - device: 7 id: HDMI 1 name: HDMI 1 subdevices: - subdevice: 0 name: subdevice #0 alsactl: rawmidi_device_list:109: snd_ctl_rawmidi_next_device: Inappropriate ioctl for device $ wpctl status Could not connect to PipeWire $ pw-cli list-objects Device Error: "failed to connect: Host is down" $ pw-cli list-objects Node Error: "failed to connect: Host is down" $ aplay -lL null Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) pipewire PipeWire Sound Server default Default ALSA Output (currently PipeWire Media Server) hw:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3 HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0 * Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=HDMI,DEV=7 HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 1 Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3 HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0 * Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=HDMI,DEV=7 HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 1 Hardware device with all software conversions hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0 HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0 * HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=1 HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 1 HDMI Audio Output dmix:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3 HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 0 * Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=HDMI,DEV=7 HDA ATI HDMI, HDMI 1 Direct sample mixing device **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0 *] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 $ Please do not suggest switching to pulseaudio. The idea behind pipewire, along with wireplumber, is they're supposed to be a superior replacement for pulseaudio. -- 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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This won't sadden OS/2 lovers, some of whom are here
by dep 29 Dec '25

29 Dec '25

Lou Gerstner has shuffled off this mortal coil. "The CEO misread consumer and business enthusiasm for PCs, allowing Compaq and Dell to overtake the market it pioneered, and Microsoft to dominate the market for PC operating systems to the extent that IBM gave up on OS/2. . . . IBM also lost leadership in networking, storage, processor design, and saw x86 servers drive its mainframe and midrange business into niche markets." But other than that . . . https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/29/lou_gerstner/ dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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