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The updated web-site
by Lisi Reisz 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

I have just been looking at the updated Debian Trinity Repository Installation Instructions page. At the risk of being castigated for my over-enthusiastic vocabulary, it is great!!! Super!!! No doubt all the other pages are super too, but I am willing to take that on trust, if one is, and go to bed. Thank you, Tim. Lisi

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TDE service upgrades
by Timothy Pearson 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 All, This is just a quick heads-up to let you know the TDE services will be going down briefly while I diagnose and fix some lingering performance issues. Estimated service restoration is 10/07/2015 20:00 UTC. Thank you for your patience, Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlYVX3sACgkQLaxZSoRZrGHHyQDbBwJI1KoyZgrM1DMwetbBgM2r 4+Sl+JZF8/T0FADgyqfaOLs8Bal9SvSGlA0R8th2HcunDdWXSJdyzw== =GW5T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Opening encrypted USB disk
by Curt Howland 07 Oct '15

07 Oct '15

Well, this is interesting. It looks like Debian's new version is more than just systemd. Trinity v14.0.2 Debian 8 When I plug in an encrypted USB disk, the password window opens as it always did, but now it's complaining about HAL not existing. When I tried to open it through the Konqueror device view, it also failed. Attached are two screen grabs of the failures. I'm not asking for this to be "fixed" in TDE, it seems that the underlying hardware abstraction has changed in some fundamental way. HAL isn't even in the repository for Debian 8. I expect someone will get around to harmonizing this at some point, I'm sure I'm not the only person who has encrypted external disks that used to work seamlessly. The more things change..... Curt- -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - Thucydides

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TDE Powersave "Freeze"
by Thierry de Coulon 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

Hello all, On my test Ubuntu install on a Thinkpad, TDEPowersave offers "Suspend to RAM" and "Freeze". The first works well and I understand what it does (I get the small "moon crescent" glowing. However, I dont really understand what "Freeze" is supposed to be. It seems it turns the screen, harddisc and WiFi off but Bluetooth stays on... and I don't know what else. Thierry

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Re: [trinity-users] Re: Failed to mount SD card [SOLVED] - NOT SOLVED
by ant 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, ant wrote: > On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, deloptes wrote: > > > > > > > > Thank you for the hint - I didn't have udisks (or udisks2?) installed, so > > > I have installed it, and now I get no desktop icon. > > > But I can mount it from the cli, possibly because I have an fstab entry. > > > But experiments are continuing... > > > > > > > can you check if this somehow applies to you please? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650299 > > YES! As in the bug report, I edited > /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy > > and set the section '<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">' to > be '<allow_any>yes</allow_any>' and '<allow_active>yes</allow_active>' > > and now it works as advertised. Thank you. UPDATE: Now it has stopped working. I get an icon, and: -------------- Unable to mount this device. Potential reasons include: Improper device and/or user privilege level Corrupt data on storage device Technical details: org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.PermissionDenied: Not Authorized: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files ps aux gives: kded [tdeinit] --new-startup I am in plugdev. The .policy file is as above. Where next to look? cheers ant -- Sent from my linux system running Debian 8, desktop Trinity R14 This email is plain text, not HTML. Any attachments are either .jpg or .pdf

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Porting an app from TDE 3.5.13.2 to TDE R14.0.1
by midi-pascal 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Hi, I started to port an KDE 3.5 app (Kooldock) to TDE R14.0.1. I did it years ago for TDE 3.5.13 with minimal trouble and used it since then with no trouble at all. Kooldock is automake and configure based and was developed as a kdevelop project. I have now a new machine (Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits) on which I installed TDE 14.0.1 with the live TDE ISO. I installed all required Trinity development packages. I can run the automake and configure tools inside TDevelop (TDE-C++) successfully so I am ready to build the Kooldock project. The build fails immediately because of the name of include files i.e. kpopupmenu.h -> tqpopupmenu.h and names of classes i.e QString -> TQString. Is there a way (script or utility) to convert existing KDE 3.5 or TDE 3.5.x code to TDE 14.0.1? Or at least, a documented path to port apps to TDE 14.x.? I am a developer, familiar with sed ands awk so I can manage converting the original sources if only I can get a guidance about what becomes what with TDE 14.x. After trying some manual modifications to the sources I feel some changes in include files are not this straightforward. For example some kxxxxxx.h files are now txxxxxx.h, others are now tdexxxxxx.h so porting my favorite application would become a nightmare with no how-to or minimal help. I would like to port the Baghira theme too (I did it for TDE 3.5.13 easily) but I am a bit reluctant to compile one line of code at a time, searching each include file/class name change. I love TDE and will stick to it anyway but I ask for some help here - if possible - Thanks for keeping TDE alive. It is the best DE I ever used (and I tried many, believe me!) And thanks for any feedback too. midi-pascal

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Missing task bar on a laptop with a "part time" external monitor
by Tim WIlliams 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Hi All, I've got another problem after upgrading to Mageia 5/Trinity r14. When working for clients on-site, I will usually take my own laptop with me and plugin into an external monitor + keyboard while there. I have a script which automatically detects and extends the desktop to the external monitor when I log in. My task bar defaults to the external monitor when present and is shown on the laptop screen when there is no external monitor. This has been working perfectly for years. However, after my latest upgrade, the taskbar no longer displays on the laptop screen if I boot up after having previously used the external monitor, making my desktop unusable. The problem seems to be that the taskbar display is now "fixed" to whichever monitor it was last set to display on, regardless of whether that monitor is actually present or not. The external monitor output isn't actually being enabled due to a mis-detection, there is no signal output on the monitor port and the desktop has not been extended off the visible area of the laptop screen in any way. The only solution I have found so far is to plug into an external monitor, enable that monitor with an extended desktop using my script (which runs xrandr) and manually drag the taskbar back to the laptop screen. This is OK when I have a monitor available, but if I'm out and about with no monitor available, I'm a bit stuck and have to use XFCE instead. Ideally it would be nice if the prior behaviour was restored, but I'd settle for a simple script run during login which can move the taskbar back to the laptop screen every time I login, it's not a big deal to drag back to the external monitor after I login. Is there any way to achieve this? I'm thinking that either there is a command I can issue which will move the taskbar location on demand, or alternatively I could use something (eg sed with a regex?) which re-writes the underlying config setting before the task bar starts (where is the config setting?)! Thanks in anticipation, Tim Williams -- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS AutoTrain 58 Jacoby Place Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UW United Kingdom Web : http://www.autotrain.org, http://www.utrain.info Tel : +44 (0)844 487 4117 AutoTrain is a trading name of EuroMotor-AutoTrain LLP Registered in the United Kingdom, number: OC317070.

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Failed to mount SD card
by ant 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

Inserting an SD card into the reader gives a desktop icon. fdisk -l gives: /dev/sdc1 * 8192 15759359 15751168 7.5G b W95 FAT32 and I can mount it as root and read it fine using: mount /dev/sdc1 /media/camera/ But trying to mount it with konqueror gives: Unable to mount this device. Potential reasons include: Improper device and/or user privilege level Corrupt data on storage device Technical details: No supported mounting methods were detected on your system Any clues, anyone? (Trinity R14.0.1. And kded is running) cheers ant -- Sent from my linux system running Debian 8, desktop Trinity R14 This email is plain text, not HTML. Any attachments are either .jpg or .pdf

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[trinity-users] startx exits instantly in Mageia 5/R14 (where to set global default session type?)
by Felix Miata 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Fresh minimal HTTP Mageia 5 installation today, followed by minimalist TDE installation attempt using urpmi. Unless startx has /opt/trinity/bin/starttde appended, desktop briefly paints, then back to vtty from which started. If started from greeter, TDE session is OK, though many items are missing from systemsettings, e.g. TDE components, required to reach session manager. Nothing clueful in Xorg.0.log. This is all that's in .xsession-errors after attempting startx: /etc/X11/Xsession: line 108: /usr/sbin/chksession: No such file or directory /root/Music was removed, reassigning MUSIC to homedir /root/Pictures was removed, reassigning PICTURES to homedir /root/Videos was removed, reassigning VIDEOS to homedir /etc/X11/Xsession: line 175: xclock: command not found /etc/X11/Xsession: line 176: xvt: command not found /etc/X11/Xsession: line 185: /usr/bin/xsm: No such file or directory Where does global default session type need to be set? /etc/sysconfig/desktop with DISPLAYMANAGER=/opt/trinity/bin/tdm doesn't to it. https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/MageiaInstall doesn't help. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Porting to TDE: Missing include files
by midi-pascal 27 Sep '15

27 Sep '15

Hi, Porting a KDE3 theme (Baghira) to TDE, the include files kdecoration.h and kdecorationfactory.h are missing from my TDE and tqt dev trees. I can see that some TDE sources include them - i.e. r14.0.1/twin-styles/kde1/kde1client.h, r14.0.1/twin-styles/icewm/icewm.h and some others - so I think I am missing a dev package but I do not know which one. A hint from a member of the TDE dev team would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, midi-pascal

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