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kded?
by Gene Heskett 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Greetings all; kded crashed while I was fixing dinner, and everything was all wonky with the menu's, flickering. jumping up and down one line and stuck on the top favorite if clicked on. So I found me a root terminal and rebooted. kded crashed on top of the login. I dismissed it and logged in. System acts normal and theres a kded proc running. Anybody got a clue what thats telling me? Thanks. 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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We are looking for volunteers to help with translations
by Slávek Banko 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Hi all, since we would like to do freeze R14.0.7 in a few days, I would like to ask you for help with translations for the initial desktop icons. At least for 'bg', 'es' and 'ru'. Of course, any other languages are also welcome. See https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/pulls/96 + Home.desktop - Name=Home - Comment=Contains personal files + My_Computer - Name=My Computer - Comment=Access to storage media + My_Documents - Name=My Documents - Comment=Contains personal documents + My_Network_Places - Name=My Network Places - Comment=Access to network places and remote hosts + Printers - Name=Printers - Comment=Manage print jobs + System.desktop - Name=System - Comment=Access to system places + Trash - Name=Trash - Comment=Contains removed files + Web_Browser - Name=Web Browser - Comment=Browse the World Wide Web Thank you! -- Slávek

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kmail forever indexing is back
by Gene Heskett 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Greetings all; So I picked the largest cur dirs, and using mc have moved about 2 years worth of each to an outside of the ~/Mail view of kmail. And nuked those index files, so it has to rebuild them. Its not done with that yet, but we'll see. Damn this is getting old. 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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How to minimize all windows (and not have them pop back up by themselves)?
by Michael 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

Hi All, Both the ‘Show Desktop’ button and Ctrl+Alt+D will minimize all windows and upon repeat action raise just those prior minimized windows. All good, except; A) It seems locking the session also raises the windows again and B) raising anything prior to re-clicking ‘Show Desktop’ resets the ‘Show Desktop’ action so it doesn’t now raise just those prior minimized windows. Replication: A) Ctrl+Alt+D {windows are minimized} Lock Session Login {windows have been restored} B) Ctrl+Alt+D {windows are minimized} Click a task in the taskbar (e.g. Firefox) Ctrl+Alt+D {window is minimized} {prior windows are not restored} Anyone know of a way to minimize all displayed windows such that A) results in windows staying minimized upon lock/unlock and in B) (re)performing the action (or even using some other command) results in the original minimized windows being restored? Possibly something using dcop kdesktop ??? , maybe dcop twin ??? (I tried looking there, but even using kdcop, it’s like finding a needle in a haystack for things even relevant) Thanks, Michael PS: Way to go whoever is doing TDE SEO, Google search on “dcop gui” returns https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Tips_And_Tricks in 5th place :)

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extra small font size in "TDE Control Module"
by Felmon Davis 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

greetings, folks, through inadvertence I wiped out my Linux partition. I restored my files but I didn't have a backup of the system so I installed a new version of q40s (which runs a version of TDE). I use a prior version on another laptop I don't have access to right now. then began the misadventures with font sizes in this HiDPI laptop; I got some help from the list (thanks!) last yr with such problems on a similar laptop. I've wrestled them to the ground for the most part but the windows labelled as "TDE Control Module" have teensy font size. where do I find the file that regulates their appearance? thanks for the advice. fjd -- Felmon Davis

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TDE flickers wildly and unusably; KDE OK
by D. R. Evans 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

I just installed TDE on a new-to-me system running debian stable (buster). All the initial system installation was done from a live CD, and it installed KDE. That installed version of KDE works as well as KDE ever works these days. In particular, though, the screen looks fine (1920x1200) and everything works as expected. In the newly-installed TDE, though, the desktop flickers wildly and the desktop is simply unusable: input is lost during the flickers, so most keyboard/mouse input is not even seen by the desktop. Where should I look to try to eliminate all the flickering so that I can get a usable TDE? Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans

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my KMail problems, continued
by Gene Heskett 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

Since my kmail problems seem to be both legendary and generally ignored, I have based my attempted fixes, which so far have only managed to fix it for a week at most. And I thought 2 weeks ago I had found a fix, but then the motherboard caught fire at one of the usb to back panel headers, requiring a fire extinguisher]s services and stinking up the place something awful. S9 as of last evening, a new mobo, cpu is now a 9nth gen core i5 with 6 cores running at 3.7 GHz and more memory, from 8 to 32GB, yadda yadda has given kmail a brand new playpen to raise hell in. Which is exactly what its doing, bounceing from core to core, using 87% to 100% of whichever core it running on at this second. A brief description seems to be that it is continuously regenerating the index files forever, burning up a core of the cpu forever. I say burning up somewhat tongue-in-check as I bought the biggest cpu cooler that didn't need water, and its running maybe 3 degrees above room temp. This I assume includes the sorted lists. But because this corpus of email has been copied and recopied so many times, and the copy creation is faster than the time granularity of the sort, the sort is never satisfied so it goes on forever. What I'd like to do is ask linux to lie during one more copy operation, by having a script scan the header of the message for the oldest date, which likely is the date the message was rx'd here, and assign the filesystems creation date from that header date. This would have the effect of restoreing the time differences it is sorting by such that there should not be 50 messages all sharing the same second in 2017 creation date from the last copy operation which is the situation now. This of course is asking linux to lie as some of these messages are 20 years older than their creation dates on the disk. So, can it be done? If so, how? Or, can we change the sort date/time from linux's filesystem view, to the date/time contained in the messages header? This would slow the sort, a lot, but would restore the time granularity of the sort. What say you? Thanks. 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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Linux for smartphone
by Robert Peters 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

HI, Does anyone recommend a Linux-based system that can be installed on a smartphone, to replace the Google Android system? Robert

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hiberate, lid closed thinkpad X1
by Uwe Brauer 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

Hi I brought up the topic a while ago, and it is really something I am missing much. Here is the situation. 1. I posses a Thinkpad X1 running Ubuntu 16.04 2. On top of that trinity 4:14.0.6. 3. When I use the gnome desktop shipped by Ubuntu, closing the lid hibernates my laptop. 4. When I try the same under trinity it does not work, also I configured TDEPowersave to do that precisely hibernate when lid is closing. 5. I can hibernate in trinity either pressing FN 4 or using the shutdown menu. I am really desperate, it must be a bug, did anybody make some progress in resolving this issue? Regards Uwe Brauer

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[trinity-users] no TDE on Mageia 7
by Felix Miata 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

Looking in journal and Xorg.0.log I see no clues. X starts, but startx just starts X and exits. Trinity-tdm is installed, but no other *dm, and I see no evidence of its configuration in systemctl list-unit-files or systemctl list-units. /var/log/tdm.log was last written over a year ago. Trinity tries to start using startx /opt/trinity/bin/starttde, but a popup comes twice, then X exits: "There was an error setting up inter-process communications for TDE. The messag returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. /root/.DCOPserver_hp945_0 Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!" startx icewm works. How does one do that, and why isn't there a TDM running? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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