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ibus issues
by Daniel Wilkins 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Hi y'all, retrying trinity with the new release and I'm having some problems: I'm studying Japanese, which means that I'm running ibus in order to switch keyboard layouts between English and Japanese. I've noticed that in Discord (and a the moment I can find no other examples,) it doesn't work, the keyboard layout refuses to change in Discord itself, and my shortcut keys for switching between hiragana and katakana don't work. I've never had a problem with this in other desktop environments, I've also never had any problems with it while using a plain wm such as ice or even older ones like amiwm. Is there some sort of legacy international input going on in TDE which might interfere with how ibus works? This is on slackware 15.0 using 14.1.5 from the Ray-V tde-slackbuilds. Thanks, Danny

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MX-25 + TDE remix available
by Thierry de Coulon 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

For those interrested, MX-Linux 25 (based on Trixie) is out and I have produced a new respin including TDE. As previously, MX-snapshot requires lightdm/xfce to work, so you get an xfce installer, but TDE (from psb) is installed, you "just have" to choose TDE at login and - if you want - use tdm instead of lightdm. The archive includes a readme. Size is 4.4 GB and the download link is: https://mega.nz/file/0jolRCjJ#_h9CFQoJBO4nVc37FedFSrvJLEh2QKM47XBUqDtdVkY Thierry

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BD-R support in k3b/TDE ?
by Andrew Randrianasulu 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

I tried to burn 25 Gb BR-R (just as data disk, no fancy video) but discovered that k3b as shipped with TDE: R14.1.3 does not allow me to pick BD-sized project. Is there chance to see "on the fly" (due to hdd space constrains on my end) BD /udf 2.01 mastering added to k3b? For now I used imgburn under wine, but cdrecord seems to know how to deal with BD drivers and disks: guest@slax:~$ cdrecord -atip -dev 4,1,0 Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Joerg Schilling scsidev: '4,1,0' scsibus: 4 target: 1 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.36 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 5 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info : 'ASUS ' Identifikation : 'BW-16D1HT ' Revision : '3.11' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 BD-ROM driver (mmc_bdrom). Driver flags : NO-CD BD MMC-3 BURNFREE Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer. cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped. Disk type: 'BDR' (BD-R) Disk class: 01 Manufacturer: 'RITEK' Media type: 'BR3' Disk: is not in cartridge Media cartrige: write protect is off Free Spare Blocks: 0 Alloc Spare Blocks: 0 rzone size: 40 rzone number: 1 border number: 1 ljrs: 0 track mode: 4 copy: 0 damage: 0 reserved track: 1 blank: 0 incremental: 1 fp: 0 data mode: 1 lra valid: 1 nwa valid: 0 rzone start: 0 next wr addr: 0 free blocks: 0 blocking factor: 32 rzone size: 10877120 last recorded addr: 10877119 read compat lba: 0 Capacity Blklen/Sparesz. Format-type Type 10877120 0 0x00 Formatted Media guest@slax:~$

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Hibernate works on "bookworm" but not on "trixie"
by Thierry de Coulon 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

On the same laptop (Thinkpad X390) hibernate works (from Trinity powersave) MX-23/bookworm but not on MX-25/Trixie. From the cli pm-hibernate on MX-25 seems to shudown (I must login again). HIbernate from TDE-Powersave locks the screen but bothing more. From the cli pm-hibernate does *not* work (nothing happens, no error message). Hibernate from TDE powersave locks the screen, then powers down. Resuming goes back to the locked screen and then restores the desktop correctly. MX-23 has sysvinit and systemd installed but not activated, MX-25 has either sysvinit (my case ) or systemd. Can this be an explanation? Thierry

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Arm64 support for LiveCd’s
by guides-dialect-6v＠icloud.com 14 Nov '25

14 Nov '25

Are the LiveCD’s available for Raspberry Pi 4? If so, which one specifically? permeable

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Arm64 support
by guides-dialect-6v＠icloud.com 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

I’d like to know if Trinity Desktop Environment supports raspberry pi 4 (arm64)? Permeable

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IBM/Lenovo Laptop brightness issue
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Hi all! Could some owners of IBM and Lenovo laptop plese test these 2 things: - decrease brightness < 50% - try to increase brightness too 100% - decrease brightness to 0% - try to increase brightness too 100% On my test laptops with AMD I cannot increase the brightness to > 50% when I dimmed it to < 50%. When on 0% it can only be increased to ~ 5%. I think it also affects newer intel models > T480, but I'm not sure. IMO the NVRAM layout changed and I try to figure out which model are affected and which are not. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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TDE R14.1.5 released!
by Slávek Banko 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about the release of R14.1.5: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.1.5 Cheers Slávek --

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Thanks, guys!
by dep 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

I'm running R14.1.5~[DEVELOPMENT] here entirely happily. As a habit I don't run deep-in-the-woods versions, nor the urban tenement release versions, but the in-between, nice-place-in-the-suburbs-with-a-tree-lined-yard almost-ready versions of both Debian and TDE. As a result, a new release is pretty much already on my machine when it is released. And everything just works, with the exception of the desktop crashing at launch occasionally. (Everything works even then, just no wallpaper of the sort that has caused so much consternation -- solution: use a different wallpaper if wallpaper is your thing -- or in my case xplanet with realtime moon image, and no rmb menu on the desktop.) Logging out and back in usually fixes even that, which I think may be a dispute with Enlightenment, which I also keep on the machine. I should note that during the development of 14.1.5 I've gotten the worls in progress and none of them has been troublesome, so the developers are really good about catching things before they get into the wild. A side benefit, both is Debian and in TDE is that using the not-quite-ready version means that version upgrades are non-events, because I do update-upgrade at least once a week. Then again, I don't have multiple virtual desktops, just two monitors that are seen by XRandR as one 1920x2160 desktop. This could be due to my high-tech, modern, NVidia GeForce GT 1030 vid card and incredible AMD FX-8350 chip that I've only had for I think 11 years. But now I see here that I must worry about a wallpaper that apparently resides somewhere on this machine that it appears someone doesn't like. Because it makes me have to think back and try to remember if I have ever, even once since the July 1998 release of KDE-1.0, I've ever used a wallpaper at all, and except for a screenshot for Practical KDE in 1999 I don't think I have. All of which is to say, Thanks, devs! You do great work. Damn near flawless in my experience! -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Funny driver download story
by dep 11 Nov '25

11 Nov '25

There being OS/2 veterans here, this might ring a bell. I never did anything this awful, though I did once run up a $700 bill the month my favorite BBS subscribed to RIME. Still have my U.S. Robotics HST-Dual Standard modem, too. What a joy it was to use! https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/who_me/?td=rt-3a dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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