So... I had to roll back an install that I broke, but now that I am back to a "working" barebones install, I have to install TDE. But when trying to install any TDE app, I receive an error that the dependency "libtiff.so.5()(64-bit)" is needed but not provided. This is on OpenSUSE tumbleweed. Anyone else having this issue when updating/installing TDE apps?
Now I got bitten by the same problem - and got solution (at least for devuan) - so this might be interesting for Bill :)
It turned out that the compination of "apparmor" plus "pulseaudio" made networkmanager go kind of numb. It would not connect to my wifi for ever. Retrying did not change anything nor did turning the wifi device on/off change anything. Last entry in syslog was always "wlan0: associated", but it looked like ip address was received.
Now removing "apparmor" increased the chace of getting ip adresses via dhcp to ~ 50%.
After removing pulseaudio and pulseaudio-modules-bluetooth the rate is back to normal aka 100%. Note: I had pulseaudio to connect to bluetooth speakers and my problems begun after installing it.
At last I got the speakers working with "bluealsa" --> kmix is not confused with the "pulseaudio" device sneeking in as first coundcard.
Nik
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I don't know if this is totally selfish and/or solipsistic of me, but I would
like to have a way to download *all* available packages appropriate to my
system.
If there is some command that will do this, that will work, as I can pick and
choose on my own. A tool like aptoncd would be better, but I can find
anything like it any more. Best thing about images created with aptoncd is
that apt treats them exactly like repositories, so I don't need to cobble
together self-styled hacks and use dpkg, but can just depend or apt to find
the right combination of packages and dependencies.
Debian still offers, I believe, extra CD or DVD images of the extra packages
in their repositories. In addition to the installation images, there are
usually extra discs, 1, 2, 3 and 4, containing extra packages. I used to
search all over Devuan to find the same, but now it seems that they, too,
have caught up, and offer disc images of extras. Or perhaps I have only
recently discovered where they keep them hidden?
My reason for this request is related to my recent previous posts: sometimes I
find myself in a remote place, or in a crazy situation, where there is no
internet access, or where -- such as recently -- flooding or some other
disaster has knocked out internet. Yet, while I have no internet, I still
need to have a working computer for other things that I do offline; and now,
suddenly, my machine gives me problems, and I need to do a system
reinstallation, or at least to install some new and unfamiliar packages.
Thanks for any help,
Bill
Hey Trinity Folks.
I'm having trouble getting xdg to play nicely with the file associations and
settings I have for Trinity. While TDE applications follow them just fine,
non-TDE programs don't seem to. That's fine, I tweaked xdg myself. The issue
is that something happened and now non-TDE applications don't follow my "Open
http and https URLs in an application based on the contents of the URL" (in
TDE Components > Default Applications > Web Browser) anymore. Now when I
click an http URL directly to an image or video, it opens up in my web
browser.
I'm not really sure what's changed because it was working fine before. My
initial thoughts are to find out how TDE opens "in an application based on
the contents" and just assign it to xdg but I'm unsure of what that is or
where to find it.
Thanks.
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Another thing I do from time to time is to change my host name, as I must
share a network with many other people. The administrators of this network
insist on using a ridiculously insecure password, which doubtless could be
cracked by a script kiddie in a few minutes; moreover, the password has never
been changed in at least 7 or 8 years. Myself and others have recommended
changing the password, but nothing happens.
After I did a little messing with that program that Nik suggested, nmtui, I
wondered what else I might use it to do. I like these stone tools; once one
has figured out the basics, then at least there is the possibility of
controlling the machine.
Even before I started this thread -- or the previous thread which spawned it,
regarding my network problems, or tdenetworkmanager -- I was wondering about
this problem of the hostname. Is there a way to change my hostname easily,
without reinstalling my system? This (nmtui) seems like the right tool for
the job; although of course, when running Linux, there are sure to be dozens
of others that do the same or similar.
These are probably stupid questions, and a thousand people out there can
answer it: but the man pages do not cover these possibilities.
I want to know, first, if one ought to disconnect from internet (or to
connect) when changing the hostname like this. It seems to me that trying to
change the hostname on a live connection may cause problems. On the other
hand, when I am doing a fresh installation, I must set the hostname on a live
connection, but then it is a new, unnamed connection.
Second, should I run nmtui (or similar tool) as root in order to change my
hostname? When I tried it out earlier, it seemed like it could do nothing
with my connection unless I was running as root; but then, before my fresh
installation, I could not use tdenetworkmanager, could not use internet at
all, except as root. Can I, in ordinary circumstances, change my hostname
without first becoming root?
After I change my host name (that is, after a fresh installation), I seem to
have no problems for a while. What I want is to be able to change the
hostname periodically, without doing a complete new installation.
Also, I block pings with my firewall, that kind of thing, but eventually these
problems start up again, because some people out there (or their automated
cracking scripts) apparently have nothing better to do than to search for
vulnerabilities in other people's machines.
All ideas or suggestions are welcome.
Bill
Okay, so I appear to have internet again, more or less, but now there's
something odd happening with tdenetworkmanager.
For the past day or so, since sometime Sunday evening, I have not been able to
use internet at all. I keep checking the connection, try out the installation
image on a flash drive, just to see if networks are showing up there, but
nothing conclusive.
Then it occurred to me to start tdenetworkmanager as root, and presto! I can
configure it to work, and everything is back to normal; except, I cannot
close down the root version of tdenetworkmanager, then return to the non-root
version. The non-root tdenetworkmanager, just myself as user, still will not
connect. The networks show up, but once I try to connect, they disappear, and
I cannot get on at all.
This does not seem right.
Awhile back I resolved some connectivity issues (been meaning to mention this,
but it's an old thread now); I booted into my backup desktop, xfce, started
xfce as root, set my local network so that I did not connect automatically,
then got out of root, and everything since then ran fine.
I returned to my Trinity desktop, and did not think about xfce again, until I
had to do some reinstallation. Until these past two weeks, and now again the
past day or so, I have not had any network issues.
Everything has worked just fine, until we had flooding in our building, and
internet was out for nearly two weeks past, up until sometime Friday night or
Saturday. Then I had a day or so of my usual internet, then a couple days
past where I have these problems just described above.
And now this: only able to use the tdenetworkmanager as root. Also, it seems I
cannot install or use wicd, which is my usual backup.
Does any of this make any sense? Am I losing my mind, or is it the machines
that are making me crazy?
Bill
Hello !
Is there any way to change the colors used by Konsole in some
non-interactive way: either from command like or via some kind of
«color set file»?
What I want to achieve is: install my favorite colors without editing
every single entry on each computer where I use Trinity.
Cheers,
-- Ilya D.
I'm running 14.0.12 on Ubuntu 20.04. Either by accident or by default, I
have Amarok installed, and it autostarts on every login.
I've never used it, but I might want to someday (I saw a note that it
supports some streaming services), so I don't want to just uninstall it.
But I don't want it wasting RAM and CPU all the time, either
None of the suggestions offered by Google or ChatGPT about autostarting in
Trinity match my filesystem hierarchy. How do I find the file that's
causing it to autostart so I can edit/delete it?
Thanks,
Ran
Seems to me that I've gone through this before. I logged onto
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/ to create a ticket but there is
no Create or Add New button to do so (not in the home page, not in the Issues
page). I know I've been able to do it in the past. IIRC there was some sort
of setting that had to be altered?
Leslie
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Platform: Linux
Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 - x86_64
Desktop Environment: Trinity
Qt: 3.5.0
TDE: R14.1.1
tde-config: 1.0
Hi all!
I jus ran into an interesting problem when running inside VirtualBox: I created a installation that works perfectly fine. Then I created a live iso from this installation using refractasnapshot. Booting that iso seads to two instances of dcopserver beeing started --> mouse an keyboard are non operational. When I remove ~/.DCOP* and then "killall dcopserver" then Xorg testarts and I end with a perfectly working TDE.
So, does anybody have any idea what causes dcopseerver to spawn twice? Or better said, why $TDEDIR/bin/dcopserver_shutdown in starttde does leave a running dcopserver instance?
Nik
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