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Trinity and AI
by Marvin Jones 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

For a long time I've wondered if there was a way in TDE to start a console window in a _specific_ desktop. My Black Belt In Procrastination has kept my from really pursuing the issue. :-) So, today I thought to try a Google AI search for the issue. I had low expectations, because Trinity is (sadly) not so well known or employed in the wild. So, with the 'prompt' "trinity TDE start console on specific desktop" I was gifted with this" "To start the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) console on a specific desktop, you can use the command "kstart --desktop [desktop number] [application]" in a terminal window, where "[desktop number]" is the desired desktop number and "[application]" is the application you want to launch on that desktop; for example, "kstart --desktop 2 xterm" would open a terminal window on the second desktop. ....." There was additional text given besides the above. Whoopie! I had never learned of/about `kstart` before. But, also Whoopie! Because AI can probably help with lots of 'ordinary' Trinity issues that someone (newcomers) come up with. Jonesy

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Modernizing sources?
by dep 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Greets, everybody . . . Just did my regular apt update apt upgrade run (Debian Trixie) and after I'd upgraded everything, I was presented with this: [quote] Notice: Some sources can be modernized. Run 'apt modernize-sources' to do so. [/quote] I did. There was nothing particularly surprising -- to the extent I could make sense of it. I was, though, uncharacteristically careful, so: [quote] ~$ apt modernize-sources The following files need modernizing: - /etc/apt/sources.list - /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list - /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list - /etc/apt/sources.list.d/protonvpn-stable.list Modernizing will replace .list files with the new .sources format, add Signed-By values where they can be determined automatically, and save the old files into .list.bak files. This command supports the 'signed-by' and 'trusted' options. If you have specified other options inside [] brackets, please transfer them manually to the output files; see sources.list(5) for a mapping. For a simulation, respond N in the following prompt. Rewrite 4 sources? [Y/n] n [/quote] The simulation included, among other things, this: [quote] Modernizing /etc/apt/sources.list... Warning: Could not determine Signed-By for URIs: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb/, Suites: testing # Would write to: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinitydesktop.org.sources # Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list Types: deb URIs: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-sb/ Suites: testing Components: deps-r14 main-r14 Signed-By: [/quote] The various other entries in /etc/apt/sources.list did appear to be signed. I should probably know the significance of this, but I don't. More to the point, I do not want to break anything. Is there something here that Trinity ought to be including? Alternately, is it safe to ignore it, with the expectation that my Trinity updates will continue? Or should I make sure I never ever say yes to modernize-sources? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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When ksmserver crashes during shutdown...
by J Leslie Turriff 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

...how can I get the crash report to GITEA? The crash notification screen appears to send the report to http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/, which I suspect is no longer active? When ksmserver crashes during shutdown, when the crash notification screen appears, all of the window frames and gadgets are gone and I'm unable to use the File Save dialog to save the trace information because the file name field and buttons are off the bottom of the display (see attached screen shots). (I suspect that this crash happens because of the large number of tabs and windows that Firefox is displaying.) Leslie P.S. The original of this post (now a bit enhanced) that I sent to the developers' list went unanswered. -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0

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Clock applet does not obey Time & Dates settings
by J Leslie Turriff 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

Even though I have tried to customize my Time & Dates settings (both via Trinity Control Center => Regional & Accesibility => Country/Region & Language => Time & Dates, and Clock => Date & Time Format), my settings do not appear in the Clock applet's panel gadget, nor in the Calendar that pops up when the Clock gadget is clicked. I have attached a screen shot of the pertinent screen areas. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0

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Mail @free.fr not directly sended with Kmail
by ajh-valmer 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hello, Only with the domain name @free.fr (as my mail here), when I click on the envelope, left under Message (M underline), the mail is not sended. But if I click on "Message", submenu "Send the mail with Free" it is sended without any problems. This inconvenience doesn't appear with others domain name, as @gmail.com, @yahoo... Thanks, cheers, André

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Strange link behavior in KMail
by dep 02 Feb '25

02 Feb '25

Greets, everybody . . . For the last few weeks, if I click on a link in a message in KMail, instead of the link opening in Netscape like always it produces the attached, and just sits there. It can be circumvented by copying the link and pasting it in Firefox -- Netscape -- but in that I'm pretty sure what's shown in the picture isn't the designed behavior it is worth reporting. Running TDE testing atop Debian Trixie. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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TDE unstable with openSUSE 15.6 on old laptop
by Gianluca Interlandi 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '25

Dear TDE list, I installed openSUSE 15.6 on an old DELL Inspiron 1520. I decided to give it some more life with a Crucial MX500 2 TB SSD. The installation went fine except that I had to use "acpi=off" to boot the installation media, but I was able to remove that kernel option after the installation. LXDE runs fine. However, TDE is unstable and already during the setup wizard the screen goes blank after a few second, then comes back, goes blank again and after a few times X crashes and goes back to the login screen. With LXDE, I have a similar issue if I use a openGL application that displays atoms as spheres (other representations work fine). In that situation, the screen also flashes a few times and the application that I use crashes, but the LXDE session survives. This makes me think that it is probably related to the video card not beeing correctly supported by newer kernels. The video card is: Mesa Intel 965GM. I wonder whether anybody has any idea how to troubleshoot this, especially as everything else seems to work fine. I use this laptop to teach python and pygame to my middle school son. So LXDE will be fine for that. What I have done in the past if I'm not happy with the hardware I installed linux on, I purchase something newer on e-bay and move the hard disk to the newer system (at least Intel CPU to Intel CPU should work fine). If anybody has any experience/recommendation for an older laptop (that I could find on e-bay or similar) with an integrated Intel GPU where trinity runs in a stable manner possibly in conjunction with openSUSE 15.6, please let me know. It needs to have a SATA connection for a 2.5" SSD and it should be able to boot with BIOS or legacy BIOS as the partitions on the hard disk were created with a DOS label (not UEFI). Thanks! Gianluca ----------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu +1 (206) 685 4435 http://gianluca.today/research/ Department of Bioengineering University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A. -----------------------------------------------------

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Did the name "Trinity" have anything to do with the Christian "holy trinity"?
by nabrious＠icloud.com 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

I understand that the name was picked due to the desktop being a fork of KDE 3, but even on the website -> https://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php: "The name Trinity was chosen partly because the word means "three" and TDE was a continuation of KDE 3. TDE now is its own computer desktop environment project." It says that the name was picked only *partly* due to the word meaning three, so what was the other reason/part? Is it the Christian trinity? Also the reason I think that the desktop was named after the Christian trinity is the fact it has a first-party, pre-installed Bible study app called Bible Time "bibletime" Just really curious, hopefully someone has the full answer (preferably the founder himself lol).

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AOL chat server replica in the wild?
by Andrew Randrianasulu 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=taDOa2zIhlo "Open-source instant messaging server that makes classic AIM and ICQ clients work again." in Go .... https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server

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Server for Arch Linux packages down
by John P. Willis 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

See following output: :: Synchronizing package databases... core 116.1 KiB 726 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% extra 7.5 MiB 11.3 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100% multilib 130.8 KiB 1721 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% trinity.db failed to download error: failed retrieving file 'trinity.db' from mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org : Connection timed out after 10002 milliseconds error: failed to synchronize all databases (download library error) -> error refreshing databases - exit status 1

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