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Next problem
by Gene Heskett 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

I recall I had a heck of a time in the past with the older kde, in keeping the monitors/screensaver set so it might show a few minutes of the screensaver of choice, and to powerdown the monitor after a few minutes of screen saver. But it can't remember those settings more than a week or so, so I just put a couple entries in my crontab: */1 * * * * * xset +dpms */1 * * * * * xset dpms 300 0 600 To see if refreshing its memory hourly will effect a fix. But it sure would be nice if we didn't have to overpower it like that to keep it working. In TDE control center, its set 5,0,10 but that seems not to affect it, when it has failed the pheripherals/display/screensaver and display power management are all zeroed out or the checkboxes cleared. It appears is as if a zmalloc has gone astray? Under appearance/screensaver its set to start a slide show after 4 minutes. The memory of whatever it uses for the "elevator music for the eyeball" also seems transient, it switches to either a blank screen or some glx thing that burns up the cpu, again at random intervals that do not seem to correlate with the dpms settings failures. Info, bug action, your pick. ;-) 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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rebooted, no sound
by Gene Heskett 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

Greetings all; I went to town this afternoon an bought another HD to replace the one that went read-only about 6 weeks back, an event that started this whole dog & pony show. Got it home, had some din-din, and came in here to install it, where it is a 2T Toshiba sata6 drive. Pulled it out of the sack, reached for pocket knife to cut box seal. Already cut... Pull out foam tray, static bag has alo been ripped open. Practice 15 minute non-repeating profanity explosion, but bag still open. So, find out what I have, plug it into the sdb slot in the cage & boot up again. Issue smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdb. Smartctl not found. Synaptic says smartmontools not installed, and I'd swear it was. Install again. Drive has about 90 hours on it, with 34 spinups, so by now its obvious somebody had it out & could not make it work & returned it. So. still curious as to what the heck I have, its now doing a -t=long and won't be done for a couple hours. But I now have no sound, and the usual culprits say it is not muted. I've not had to battle with sound in 3 or 4 years, so ATM I have no clue where to start. So use my fingers and perhaps aplay or alias to see where its broken. And attempt to do something with it in TCC, results on the save progress bar repeating infinitely till a ctl+c is issued. So, whats next? One could say that with no sound, I am all ears. :) Thanks all. 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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Google Chrome window opening behind KMail window when hyperlink is clicked
by Lisi Reisz 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

On my husband's computer the Google Chrome window opens behind the KMail window when a hyperlink is clicked. My husband finds this very annoying. Is there anything I can do to make the Chrome window open in front of the KMail window when a hyperlink is clicked? Wheezy, TDE 3.5.13.2, KMail 1.9.10, Google-Chrome 41.0.2272.89 I have googled, but apparently there used to be a bug where Chrome insisted on staying on top, and that was almost all I could find. They seem to have over-compensated. I did find one that was what I wanted, I think, but it was for Ubuntu and in Ubuntu-speak and I couldn't follow it. DE specific? Thanks. Lisi

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Sources.list for 14 for Wheezy
by Lisi Reisz 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

I am intending to upgrade to TDE 14 on Wheezy, and then upgrade Wheezy to Jessie when the dust has settled and I have had a bit of fun running 14 on Wheezy.. Is this the best source, with jessie changed to wheezy? (I like Slávek's repositories and keeping up with patches.) deb http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb jessie deps-r14 main-r14 I can't upgrade to Jessie first, because 10.5.13.2 is not available for Jessie. Thanks, Lisi

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Failed to install R14 on PCLOS
by Andy 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

I am using David Hare's excellent Exe but also wanted to try R14 on PCLinuxOS as I am a long-time fan of that distro. I found instructions to install at: https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/PCLinuxOSInstall I did wonder, could it really be that easy? Well, apparently not. Unfortunately, but not totally unexpected. I have found computers and computing to be an incredible time sink. :-) I received error messages ending with these: === Hit http://ftp.nluug.nl pclinuxos/32bit/xfce4 release Err http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-r14/RPMS/i386 pkglist 404 Not Found Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-r14/RPMS/i386 release Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-r14/RPMS/noarch pkglist Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net trinity-r14/RPMS/noarch release Failed to fetch http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr… 404 Not Found Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Release file did not contain checksum information for http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr… W: Release file did not contain checksum information for http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr… W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. [root@localhost andy]# === Any help appreciated. This is my first time attempting this so I am a complete novice; very complicated or technical info would be lost on me. I did visit the repo link listed in the installation instructions using Firefox, http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/ (which was redirected) and saw "pkglist.i586", etc., but nothing for i386. I'm not sure what "noarch" means, but that was also there, but no i386. Is that the problem or did I do something wrong? I attempted several times, but of course I did much the same thing each time so if I'm doing something wrong I just repeated it. Thanks for reading, Andy

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kcalc too stripped
by Gene Heskett 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Greetings; I have been asked to crosscheck some address decoding on a proposed PDB design, and I have been useing the binary display of kcalc to do that sort of thing for a decade or more. Unfortunately, TDE has excised that display capability from kcalc. So, is there a replacement package that will do that? If not, can it be put back into kcalc? 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) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Re: [trinity-users] Failed to install R14 on PCLOS
by Andy 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

On Tuesday 17 March 2015 03:52:37 pm François Andriot wrote: > > > > Perhaps apt-get cannot follow this redirection? I don't know, but it > > seems so. > > > > Would it be acceptable to manually change this as I did in changing i386 > > to i586? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Andy > > This is weird ... even when using Firefox, I can browse to this URL: > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr >inity-r14/RPMS/ > > But, when going to this one, I get a 404 error: > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr >inity-r14/RPMS/RPMS.i586/ > > Probably an issue with the URL redirector. > > Yes, you can edit your configuration file again, to change the URL and > use "yosemite" mirror directly. > > François François, Thanks again! I did edit the config file and this time all went well. I now have R14 on PCLinuxOS! (Just in case Alexandre decides not to go with R14. :-) No email or other yet on that partition, but I'll set that up soon. Many thanks, Andy

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Re: [trinity-users] Failed to install R14 on PCLOS
by Andy 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

> > Le 16/03/2015 16:26, Andy a écrit : > > > Is that the problem or did I do something wrong? I attempted several > > > times, but of course I did much the same thing each time so if I'm > > > doing something wrong I just repeated it. > > > > > > Thanks for reading, > > > > > > Andy > > > > Hello, try to manually update file : /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinity.list > > If you have i386 there, write i586 instead. > > I will add links on the mirrors so that future users won't have to do so. > > > > François > > François, > > Thanks for the help! It worked... up to a point. Now I get a lot of 404 > error messages, just for the Trinity packages, such as: > > Failed to fetch > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr >inity-r14/RPMS/RPMS.i586/trinity-kuser-14.0.0-1.pclos.opt.i586.rpm 404 Not > Found > Failed to fetch > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/tr >inity-r14/RPMS/RPMS.i586/trinity-tdeadmin-14.0.0-1.pclos.opt.i586.rpm 404 > Not Found > > I followed the links in Firefox and saw that the packages are there. But I > had been redirected from: > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/ > to http://tde-mirror.yosemite.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/pclinuxos/ > > Perhaps apt-get cannot follow this redirection? I don't know, but it seems > so. Ooops! Silly me, apt-get followed the redirection to find the package list. I guess; I know so little about this. It seems to me that it follows the path at least as far as the package list but then does not go far enough to find the packages. Maybe. I'll look into it some more. Andy

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Konqueror Web Archives
by Dave Lers 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

In the KDE3 Konqueror Tools menu there was an Archive Web Page tool (that creates a .war containing the html, images, etc.). It's referenced in the related TDE package description, but it's not in my TDE Koqueror Tools menu. Is there something I need to do to enable it? On a somewhat related topic (Konqueror and archives), .zip files in Konqueror have a right click Compress menu instead of an Extract menu.

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ImageMagick `display` problem
by Joesy 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

I am bringing up 2 brand spanking new desktops PCs with Ubuntu 14.04.2 and TDE 14.0.0 -- using the live CD from the Trinity web site. jonesy@nix6: $ display /opt/trinity/share/apps/amarok/images/amarok_rocks.jpg display.im6: color is not known to server `FOREGROUND': No such file or directory @ error/xwindow.c/XGetPixelPacket/3064. jonesy@nix6: $ A web search on "display.im6: color is not known to server" pulls up _only_ two references to the error message, and one of them is : From: Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@...> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:54:28 -0500 Subject: Imagemagick error ...at http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::5517 (!!!) which describes _my_ problem exactly. That was 1 1/2 years ago. Only I do not see that he ever got a reply, nor do I see any fix or work-around for the problem. If I shorten up the search for just "color is not known to server", I see a lot more hits for what seems to be the same problem. But, still, I see no fixes or work-arounds (yet). I use `display` A LOT in desktop objects and I really need this fixed or circumvented. I can't believe I'm the only one in the Trinity group to have this problem. Thank you, Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | linux Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | FreeBSD __ 38.238N 104.547W | jonz.net | DM78rf | OS/2 SK

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