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linux and TDE on a chromebook
by James D Freels 10 Jan '21

10 Jan '21

All: I was surprised to see that a chromebook-related thread has not appeared on TDE forum since 2014. Well, that is changing NOW ! I have a new Lenovo Flex 5 chromebook and recently purchased from COSTCO (at very good price and support BTW). It provides Linux support (albeit beta) out of the box, and it is nice. BTW, chromebooks are very nice and inexpensive for lots of things, but Linux support is relatively new. So, yes, the Linux CLI is out of the box, and you can gain ssh connection with a bit of work. It is running Debian/Buster too BTW out of the box if you are like me and a Debian user. The next step I tried was to install TDE into it following the TDE instructions. Too much of a gamble. So, I at least interfaced the normal Debian sources.list, and then tried to install xfce4, and that broke it. It is easy to start all over since it is a VM anyway within chromeos. So, backing up a bit since I hit it pretty hard the first time. Has anyone in this forum tried installing TDE and got it to work on a Linux VM under chromeos (chromebook) ? Just thought I would ask. Afterall, chromebooks are selling quite readily now, and being used worldwide. James D. Freels, Ph.D., P.E. freelsjd(a)gmail.com 865-457-6742 (landline) 865-919-0320 (cell)

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Test debian user list posting
by deloptes 09 Jan '21

09 Jan '21

I am just wondering how it works now and as I do not see any different posting I open this thread.

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Trinity Trouble - Konqueror?
by Edward 09 Jan '21

09 Jan '21

Hi everyone. Unfortunately, I was forced to remove my installation of Trinity/PCLinuxOS this morning, due to Firefox and Thunderbird not working correctly. Specifically, Firefox was repeatedly asking to be the default browser, even as I previously selected it as the default. And Thunderbird, in the middle of all this, would no longer open links at all, deciding to automatically add a new 'account' relating to news and feeds. Both Vivaldi and Chromium were also installed as browsers, but once both of these were removed, Firefox and Thunderbird continued to exhibit the same behavior. Upon installing first Trinity/Ubuntu 20.04.1 and then Lubuntu 20.04 LTS, I was unable to get HPLIP (as hp-setup) with either OS to communicate with my HP printer, which was USB-connected. Final attempt, was to install Debian (10, LXQt). Fortunately, this was able to detect the printer using hp-setup, however neither hp-systray nor the HPLIP Toolbox (GUI) will launch. I am extremely hesitant to install Trinity on top of this Debian installation, because I am afraid that with Konqueror included as the default file manager, I will have the same issues with Firefox and Thunderbird. I suspect that something with PCLOS may have changed, causing it to detect both Firefox and Konqueror as web browsers, instead of a web browser and a file manager. I don't know. I have been fiddling with this for the past seven hours now. I just want it to work. Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions/etc.

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Fwd: Re: Re: kweather does not update weather data [SOLVED]
by Stefan Krusche 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

resent to list ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Betreff: Re: [tde-users] Re: kweather does not update weather data [SOLVED] Datum: Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2021, 17:30:04 Von: William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com> An: Stefan Krusche <linux(a)stefan-krusche.de> On Thursday 07 January 2021 08:21:53 you wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2021 schrieb William Morder via tde-users: > > On Thursday 07 January 2021 07:44:29 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > > > William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > > > Besides my local weather (San Francisco - SFO), I like to check > > > > the weather at various places where I've lived, have family or > > > > friends; not only here in the US, but some other locations round > > > > the world. Mostly I just use my local weather, but I do like to > > > > wonder now and then what it's like elsewhere. > > > > > > I have 7 stations and all of them show the information :/ > > > > Ha! found it! (or at least I believe so). > > > > I poked around in network settings in the TDE Control Center, and it > > turns out that proxy had been set to "manually specify proxy > > settings"; once I clicked change to direct connection, then updated > > kweather, suddenly I have information for my weather stations. > > > > Now the puzzle is, why are my network and proxy settings changed in > > the TDE Control Center, when in fact I never use those settings. I > > have my machine set for direct connection, and manually specify proxy > > settings for individual applications like browsers or whatever. > > This puzzle only you can save! ;-) > > Glad it works for you again. > > Stefan Yes, but I wonder why TDE apps will not use system proxy settings. This is my main reason for problems encountered with online weather pages, and with weather apps on my smartphone. If I am asking what's the weather, then they already know the location close enough for my own information. The weather is about the same if it is in the same city. But no, they want to know my precise real location, as I sit here at my desk, even if I am wondering what is the weather like in London or Moscow. Is it a matter of national security, to know this about me? It would be nice to be able to torify TDE apps. :-[ Bill -------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: Re: Re: kweather does not update weather data [SOLVED]
by Stefan Krusche 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

resent to TDE users ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Betreff: Re: [tde-users] Re: kweather does not update weather data [SOLVED] Datum: Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2021, 15:20:54 Von: William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com> An: Stefan Krusche <linux(a)stefan-krusche.de> On Thursday 07 January 2021 06:15:41 you wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2021 schrieb William Morder via tde-users: > > Well, I just opened it as a web page, over Tor, and get an index of > > text files listing different locations; so the information can be > > accessed, just not by me through the kweather app. > > There are some stations in weather_applet's list to choose from which > don't exist anymore. Maybe you ran into one or more of these? > > Cheers, > Stefan Most locations are pretty well known: they have airport codes and postal codes, and are either reasonably large cities, or sometimes BIG cities. So one would expect that they are maintained. Bill -------------------------------------------------------

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WTH? I can't find an MP4 player for local files, what am I missing?
by Gene Heskett 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Greetings all; I can't find a working mp4 player. Debian Stretch install, uptodate AO this morning. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Re: Can't seem to start kooldock [SOLVED]
by midi-pascal 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

On 2021-01-04 7:49 a.m., Stefan Krusche via tde-users wrote: > Hi Pascal, > > Am Montag, 4. Januar 2021 schrieb midi-pascal via tde-users: >> Hi Stefan, >> >> When kooldock is started for the first time, it is located at the >> bottom of the screen by default so it is "under" the TDE panel. >> That's why you do not see it. >> >> You can move the panel temporarily so you can see kooldock and >> configure it to be elsewhere on the screen. >> >> Then move the panel back to its original position. > Thank you. I had read that in an mail conversation (2020.10.02) between > you and Nik Klepp, but that didn't help to enlighten me. That's why I > asked in the first place. > > Explanation: I have no TDE Panel at the bottom, I have it at the left > side of the display. Secondly, kooldock only seems get triggered to > show up when the mouse is moved to a very short segment in the middle > of the bottom border of the display, and only when the mouse hits the > trigger section for longer than only accidentally, like at least, say, > 400 ms or so. > > This makes it hard to find if you don't know where to look and there's > no documentation, even for the experienced user. > > If you would like to get kooldock (I actually like it) more widely used, > I think it would help a lot when there were at least a rudimentary UNIX > man or TDE help page. > > I remember I tried once before and gave up without asking. > > Kind regards, > Stefan > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users(a)trinitydesktop.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)trinitydesktop.org > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt… Hi Stefan, By reading your explanation, it looks like kooldock is in "Auto Hide" mode. I see two ways to solve this: 1- When kooldock shows up, right-click on it. A menu should appear with "kooldock" as the last option. This will give access to the configuration in the "Edit Preferences". The first option is a checkbox named "Autohide". Uncheck it. 2- Quit kooldock (or kill it). Edit ~/.trinity/share/config/kooldockrc and set "Hidden" to 0. Restart kooldock. It should show up. Kind regards, Pascal

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Re: Can't seem to start kooldock
by midi-pascal 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

On 2021-01-04 5:16 a.m., Stefan Krusche via tde-users wrote: > Hi all, > > I just tried to start kooldock through the "Run command…" dialog but > nothing happens. It's not in the menus. It hasn't got a man page. I > think one time I added kooldock to kicker through the kontext menu and > the "Add miniprogram…" or "Add program…" dialogs but I can't reproduce > that. > > Kooldock is in the process list, though. > > $ ps aux | grep kooldock > stekru 3957 0.1 0.0 82900 29116 ? SN 10:48 0:02 kooldock > > Now I've run out of ideas. How can I utilize kooldock? > > Kind regards, > Stefan > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users(a)trinitydesktop.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)trinitydesktop.org > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt… Hi Stefan, When kooldock is started for the first time, it is located at the bottom of the screen by default so it is "under" the TDE panel. That's why you do not see it. You can move the panel temporarily so you can see kooldock and configure it to be elsewhere on the screen. Then move the panel back to its original position. Regards, Pascal

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Can't seem to start kooldock
by Stefan Krusche 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

Hi all, I just tried to start kooldock through the "Run command…" dialog but nothing happens. It's not in the menus. It hasn't got a man page. I think one time I added kooldock to kicker through the kontext menu and the "Add miniprogram…" or "Add program…" dialogs but I can't reproduce that. Kooldock is in the process list, though. $ ps aux | grep kooldock stekru 3957 0.1 0.0 82900 29116 ? SN 10:48 0:02 kooldock Now I've run out of ideas. How can I utilize kooldock? Kind regards, Stefan

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CLA × DCO
by Slávek Banko 03 Jan '21

03 Jan '21

Hi all, with the arrival of the new year, in addition to wishing you good health and well-being, I open another topic for discussion - arrangement between the project and contributors. As with many other open source projects, there were concerns about patent trolls and other potential legal risks that led Tim to propose the use of a CLA (Contributor License Agreement) in 2014. The questions following the CLA's proposal were mainly technical and focused on how to confirm compliance with these arrangements for smaller contributors. The discussion that followed led to a consensus on the fact that it was essential for the contributors to add a "Signed-off-by:" line to their contributions. As a result, the "Signed-off-by" requirement is exactly the same as the one for the DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin). DCO is significantly simpler than a CLA and now used by a lot of open source projects. For these reasons, in recent years we have already been using DCO rather than CLA for all contributions made. We would like to officially declare the CLA obsolete and replace it by a DCO. This would actually officially reconcile the declared state and the way it is actually used. Therefore, I ask you if anyone is aware of any obstacles, why this could not be done? See the CLA discussion thread: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/devels@trinitydesk… See DCO: https://developercertificate.org/ Cheers -- Slávek

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