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Can set DM to TDM
by Thierry de Coulon 10 Jan '18

10 Jan '18

Hello all, Debian 9 here. Today I updated things (I used synaptic - Mark all upgrades. That was perhaps an error). Many things got updated, included Trinity stuff. The problem is it also reverted the DM to gdm3. I changed it to /opt/trinity/bin/tdm, but the result is that the system does not start, with Failed to start Gnome Display Manager See 'systemctl status gdm.service' for details Is there a way to get TDM back? Thierry

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about to bite off more than i can chew
by dep 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

so it seems likely that sometime in the next month the planet computers gemini will ship, dual booting android and debian stretch and, apparently, allowing linux apps to run under android (though we do not yet know whether the inverse is true, which would be useful for, say, telephone stuff). and amid my excitement i realize that there's a huge amount i don't know re. running linux applications on ARM machines. i've been spoiled by the ability on x86 machines to be able to add a repository to sources.lst and everything just works. my guess is that i'll not be able simply to add the trinity debian repository on this gadget and simply do an apt-get to make it all work. so, then, for those experienced in different architectures: is it likely i could simply recompile TDE on the machine itself and therefore get working binaries (presuming the availability of a compiler for the gadget), or is there more -- much, much more, probably -- that i'll need to do? the whole purpose of the exercise is to have TDE running usefully on a pocket-sized device, and i realize now that i don't even know if binaries would have to be specific to a particular device or just what. -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com

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linux phone, ultra portable, the universe, and everything!
by dep 28 Dec '17

28 Dec '17

merry christmas, everybody! did you see the piece in the register today (or maybe yesterday, or saturday) about the new psion or psion-ish device that is a tiny postable computer with keyboard, phone, and so on, that dual boots android *and linux*? this may be the gadget we've been waiting for. the question, of course, is whether it will run trinity. looking at the specs -- 4 gigs of memory and 64 gigs of storage -- i see no reason why it wouldn't. the video is 2160x1080, which ought to work. (it apparently ships with xfce.) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/22/gemini_special/ i do wish it had a better pointing system -- it has a touchscreen, but i'd prefer a pointing stick ala the good thinkpads or the toshiba librettos. my sense is that this is the device many of us have been waiting for. i'm not rolling in money by any means, but i'm very close to making the leap to pre-order of the wifi-4G version. i'm weary of my little ipad and my blackberry, though still functioning, is, well, a blackberry and whatever rim calls itself nowadays doesn't do proper blackberrys anymore, so this seems just right. going crazy here imagining being on a story, shhoting the pictures, putting the card in a SD adapter via usb, opening the GIMP and adjusting color and saturation, and shipping the pictures to the paper, just like that. a phone and tiny laptop device for grownups! -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com

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more on the gadget
by dep 28 Dec '17

28 Dec '17

So, doing a little research I find that the Planet Computing Gemini is apparently shipped with Debian Stretch. Here's their first video demo from a couple of months ago: https://vimeo.com/239095559 It illustrates dual boot, a terminal session, Firefox running (very tiny, I think -- they could have done themselves a favor by making it larger), and LibreOffice running. All ran pretty quickly. Especially pleasing to me is that the GIMP is shown running in this story: https://liliputing.com/2017/11/crowdfunded-gemini-pda-mini-laptop-ship-date… There is apparently also a Linux on Android feature which allows the running of Linux applications from within an Android boot, with a common clipboard and such. What isn't clear is the extent to which other resources can be shared -- it's a pain with systems like Virtual Box, though a lot can be shared even with that -- or, really, how the running of Linux applications works. (There was a way to run Android applications on the Blackberry Playbook, which was RIM's answer to calls for applications, but it kind of sucked, like the Mirrors ports of Windows applications to OS/2.) Much to be learned, but promising so far. I see no reason why TDE won't work perfectly on this little thing. It would need, I suppose, some userspace tweaking of fonts and icon size and such, but I expect it to work, and happy day when it does! (If my posting about this is unwanted or off-topic, let me know and I'll cease.) -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com

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tdelibs - how to disable feature
by Kai Peter 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

Hi, I'm new to trinity and have nearly no glue of cmake. I want to build tdelibs w/o cups. How can I achieve this? What is the correct option I have to give to cmake to disable cups and/or other features? Thanks Kai -- Sent with eQmail-1.10

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Error in building tbebase 14.0.4
by Oleg Levenets 24 Dec '17

24 Dec '17

I added a JOB_NUM = "- j3" entry to my tdebase.SlackBuild for my core2duo cpu and the package was compiled without errors. It's strange, because this setting was already set in my global configuration file for the TDE assembly script... Maybe the logs will help?

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Error in building tbebase 14.0.4
by Oleg Levenets 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

thanks for the answer! command from builg.log cd /tmp/build/tmp-tdebase/build/tdm/backend && perl -w /tmp/build/tmp-tdebase/tdebase/tdm/confproc.pl /tmp/build/tmp-tdebase/tdebase/tdm/config.def config.ci really creates this file. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer, maybe generated config.ci help to understand what's wrong?

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Error in building tbebase 14.0.4
by Oleg Levenets 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Hi, when i compile a tdebase package on my Slackware64-current i get a compilation error: [ 81%] Building C object tdm/kfrontend/CMakeFiles/tdm_greet.dir/tdm_greet.c.o In file included from /tmp/build/tmp-tdebase/tdebase/tdm/kfrontend/tdm_greet.c:28:0: /tmp/build/tmp-tdebase/tdebase/tdm/kfrontend/tdm_greet.h:30:10: fatal error: config.ci: No such file or directory #include <config.ci> /* for the HAVE_VTS define */ ^~~~~~~~~~~ the compilation is interrupted. make[2]: *** [tdm/kfrontend/CMakeFiles/tdm_greet.dir/build.make:103: tdm/kfrontend/CMakeFiles/tdm_greet.dir/tdm_greet.c.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:27229: tdm/kfrontend/CMakeFiles/tdm_greet.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:130: all] Error 2 while there are no errors on Slackware x86-current. In my message i attached my tdebase_configure.log, maybe this will help solve the problem.

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Error in building tbebase 14.0.4
by Oleg Levenets 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Sorry for the bad type in my first letter. Here is my make_log, maybe it will be useful.

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Removable disks vanishing from desktop when mounted
by Curt Howland 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Hi. I have "removable media" selected to show up as desktop icons, and for the most part memory sticks do so. I've noticed that some external drives don't, however. As soon a they're mounted, the icon vanishes from the desktop. If it happened with all of them, or none of them, I'd understand. What doesn't make sense is that it's seemingly random. I have 1-TB USB drives that vanish, and seemingly identical drives which remain visible. Am I just late for the party and this has been known forever? Curt- -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - Thucydides

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