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kpdf vs big document= odd failure
by Gene Heskett 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

Greetings all; As has been mentioned, I dabble in CNC machinery too. Maybe that qualifies me as a power user since the motors used to run the machinery do spin the power meter up a bit. :) Anyway, the most recent version of the documentation for LiniuxCNC, version 2.7.0, has been combined from 3 "books" of nominally 450 pages each, some of which contained duplicate info, into one 704 page tome now. So I called up kpdf and sent it to print this, duplex mode on my Brother HL3170CDW color laser printer. It immediately jumped one core to 100%, but I figured that would take it a while to preprocess. But after about 10 minutes I began to worry because I had started that job once before but had to reboot the machine for other reasons before it had sent a wakeup byte to the printer. So I called up a copy of iceweasel to see what localhost:631/printers/network-printer had to say for itself. Which was that the "pdftops" filter had failed. So I canceled the job. Thirty seconds later, the printer wakes up and starts slowly spitting out the printout as requested. But I have no clue how many pages into the document it will get before running out of data because it is about 30 sheets of paper into the job, and still trucking along in duplex mode. The printer is rated at 20 PPM, but in duplex, all that paper handling cuts it to about 2 or 3 sheets a minute. When it dies, I can restart the job at an arbitrary page number to finish the job of course, but I am curious why the web interface to cups would report the failure of the pdftops filter, yet it looks to be working well right this instant? But then it reported a drum error, please slide the wire cleaner gismo's on all 4 drums. Did, it spit out the bad page and reprinted a good copy of that page. And 34 pages of preamble index etc, plus over 100 pages of the 704 in the doc so far. Did I mention I love Brother printers yet? But whats with kpdf? Inquiring minds would like to know. Thanks everybody. 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) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Did I miss something? Changing sources.list to pearsoncomputing.net
by Curt Howland 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

Hi. I changed my sources.list to point to the pearsoncomputing.net site for Jessie, rather than the "preliminary build" site, and when I tried it I got this: Err http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian/ jessie/main libtqt3-mt amd64 4:14.0.1-0debian8.0.0+0 301 Moved Permanently All the packages got the "301" error. I stopped the process after half a dozen or so. Did I miss something? I knew that Jessie had been moved to the Pearsoncomputing.net archives, and thought that I'd left enough time for everything to copy over. Curt- -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - Thucydides

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Just for fun: Linus Torvalds rants about new programming interfaces
by Alexandre 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

Hi all, Just for fun, take a look at the following article: http://www.itworld.com/article/2983241/linux/linus-torvalds-rants-about-new… Have a great day! -Alexandre

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TDE and Devuan :-)
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Hi all! I just updated a wheezy testmachine with TDE 14.0.0 to devuan + jessie + TED 14.0.1. Surprisingly things went quite smooth. After the upgrade I had to manually purge systemd and cgmanager. Now there is only "libsystemd0" left - well, maybe somebody needs to recompile "cups" without systemd :-) Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.

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PCLinuxOS TDE non-official remaster version 2015, September 5 is ready to download!
by Alexandre 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Hi everyone! My PCLinuxOS TDE non-official remaster version 2015, September 5 is ready to download! I call it non-official because it doesn't come from the PCLOS team and since it contains software coming from outside of their repos, it is also not supported by them. It only has a special ''permission to exist'' from the PCLinuxOS dev team. It is a complete system that can be used as a LiveDVD or it can be installed (from the LiveDVD). New on this release: -Fully up-to-date PCLinuxOS 2015 base system -Based on TDE R14.0.1 Its is the first release of my remaster with TDE R14 series -Kernel 4.1.6 -Choice of either classic Grub or Grub2 -Smaller ISO size On this LiveDVD: -Tons of TDE software and major apps like LibreOffice 5, Firefox 40, Gimp and so... -PCLinuxOS does NOT use SystemD Login info (on the LiveDVD): Regular user:guest Password:guest Super user: root Password:root System requirement: A x86 computer with at least 384mb of RAM. It is a 32bit system, but it can be installed on a 64bit system too. Installation instructions: http://pclinuxoshelp.com/index.php/Installing_PCLinuxOS Please follow them... :) Download link for the multi-part zip file: http://www.filefactory.com/file/6iijpmjql9d5/PCLinuxOS_no_TDE_remaster_5sep… http://www.filefactory.com/file/5l7dw8thwpqb/PCLinuxOS_no_TDE_remaster_5sep… http://www.filefactory.com/file/hlbb8kc6pzp/PCLinuxOS_no_TDE_remaster_5sept… Md5 Sum of the iso: daf7e3d0231205f8be689280040e0d0a If you like what you see, you can consider giving some money to the Trinity Desktop Environment project! It is very important to do so, because development and internet infrastructure needed to brought you TDE are expensive to buy and keep running, so the future of TDE is in your hands! Give me your comments! -Alexandre

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Odd ssh -Y problem. A TDEism?
by Gene Heskett 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Greetings; On wheezy, running the newest r14.0.2 TDE I think, from the looks of the update done recently. I have several other machines, all running a wheezy sourced release, customized with a special pinned rtai patched kernel because the main application they run is linuxcnc. But they are running, generally, a simple XFCE interface. And that program runs as well as its configured to do, something I am in the middle of re-writing in an effort to fine tune the machines performance. One of the things I like to do is configure check from this nice comfy office chair is by running it over an ssh -Y login from here. But that has always been a problem child, a puzzling one because neither machine has in its environment, a setting for colors called FORGROUND or BACKGROUND. But its a showstopper, and only for linuxcnc, which contains tcl scripting that bails out of the program before the gui can be drawn on this screen. Other programs which use x run just fine, at least the ones I have tried. That includes gimp, but that machine has no gimp loadable files on it. pasted from the login screen: _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "BACKGROUND" Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC... If it ever gets past that, it will do the same for the FOREGROUND color. BTDT but this machine was running an older ubuntu at the time. And its been long enough since I hacked around it that today I haven't a clue what I did then. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to deal with this? FWIW, the "simulated machine" version of that software runs just fine on this machine. 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) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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konsole and resize
by Leonard T Harris 11 Sep '15

11 Sep '15

I don't often use the resize command and I'm not 100% this is a TDE issue. I have konsole set to allow programs to resize the terminal. When I do something like: resize -s 25 80 it does resize the terminal, but it also waits for me to hit enter (or something) and then complains: resize: unknown character, exiting This is not the behavior I normally encounter. Normally it resizes the terminal, and clearly sets columns and lines and exports them. I have tried this in both bash and zsh. This is on a box with Ubuntu 15.04 freshly installed (with just zsh and TDE added). Hopefully someone can let me know how to make this behave normally. Thanks in advance. -LTH

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Service Shutdown
by Timothy Pearson 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

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[trinity-devel] bad repo configuration instructions for 32 bit openSUSE
by Felix Miata 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

Most times in recent months when I've needed to access TDE repos for openSUSE, the package manager has claimed the server is inaccessible, so I scrapped the idea of either installing or upgrading TDE at those times. Today: # zypper ref ... Retrieving repository 'Packman' metadata .....................................................................................[done] Building repository 'Packman' cache ..........................................................................................[done] File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/opensuse13.2…' Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): This was the content of my last configured TDE.repo file on 13.2 host gx780 running r14.0.0 (likely non-working when previously tried): [TDE] enabled=1 autorefresh=1 baseurl=http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/open… type=yum It was initially created by following the instructions on https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/OpenSUSEInstall. Changing types today to i586 and rpm-md got it working. That page's instructions include uname -i, which results in the non-functional string i386 in the baseurl. I know it's a wiki, but what to change the instructions to say instead I don't know. This is the content of my currently working TDE.repo and TDEnoarch files: **** [TDE] autorefresh=1 baseurl=http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/open… enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 keeppackages=0 name=TDE type=rpm-md **** [TDEnoarch] autorefresh=1 baseurl=http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/open… enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 keeppackages=0 name=TDEnoarch type=rpm-md **** Configuring repos in openSUSE can be as simple as copying those files into or out of /etc/zypp/repos.d/, or changing names of files there, or editing their content with plain text editor, all of which I prefer to zypper ar/rr or managing via YaST2. -- "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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Re: [trinity-users] Screen rotates but touchscreen does not!
by Thierry de Coulon 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

On Monday 07 September 2015 00.18:26 Timothy Pearson wrote: > A quick Google search show that this might be an Xorg bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/217182 Actually this one was a good hint. After a little search as to how xsetwacom works it does provide a solution. It requires four scripts and four buttons in the panel but I can perfectly live with that solution. Thank you for suggesting a solution! If anyone is looking for a sensible solution "with touch", take a look at the X220t, it's a very nice machine at you get them pretty cheap these days. Thierry

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