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Coexistence of TDE and KDE
by Dave Close 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

I made these comments in response to a different topic and suspect they were overlooked as a result. Hence, another attempt. On a Fedora 37 system with KDE (5) working, I installed TDE. All of it except the applications. Having KDE 5 installed before installing TDE seems to have resulted in some confusion. The DE startup splash screen, for example, says it is starting Plasma by KDE. Once started, it does appear to actually be TDE. But some parts of TDE don't work as expected. For example, the TDE Control Center doesn't start if selected from the start menu. Nothing at all happens. Starting kcontrol from a shell does start what appears to be the program but nothing in it works. On exit, the shell reports, "WARNING: No TDE menu group with X-TDE-BaseGroup=settings found | Defaulting to Settings/". Is this sort of installation expected to work? Would it have been better to start with a fresh install? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "What right does Congress have to go dave(a)compata.com, +1 714 434 7359 around making laws just because they dhclose(a)alumni.caltech.edu deem it necessary?" -- Marion Barry

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Configuring TDM
by Darrell Anderson 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

I am trying to configure TDM. The default is some kind of black background. The login dialog is so dark of a gray that I can't read the black text in the dialog. This seems to be an os_enterprise theme? Is this the normal default? Using the TCC Login Manager module I was able to get something usable, but I had to manually edit the tdmrc file to Theme= (nothing) to kill that dark theme. The login dialog has a title bar with a caption that says 'Login to TDE'. Looking at the code this seems hard-coded? Can this be changed? Seems the caption should say 'Login' or possibly be dynamic to whatever session the user selects? Regardless of whatever session I select I get dumped into a terminal window shell. Seems something is misconfigured and TDM is not sourcing any xsession files. Appreciate any help. DA

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btw, here's what i'm talking about
by dep 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/ubuntu_advantage/ "Ubuntu Advantage is being wired deeper into the distro "Dislike those messages about Ubuntu Pro? Then you won't like this" -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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StartX
by Dave Close 08 Mar '23

08 Mar '23

<https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Fedora_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Inst…> provides great instructions for installing TDE on a working Fedora 37 system. But the last section provides no help for starting TDE from a "run-level 3" system (multi-user, not graphical). The built-in startx command does not detect TDE. Or, more specifically, the /etc/sysconfig/desktop script. Of course, I can modify that script but I have no idea what to add to it. It would be nice if the TDE installation provided an updated version. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 dave(a)compata.com dhclose(a)alumni.caltech.edu "Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody." -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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TDELauncher
by ajh-valmer 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

Hello, On my second computer, I created an icon Konqueror to open it in root. When I want to open a file I receive this message : "Impossible to dialogue with TDE Launcher" and the file does not open. Quid ? I don't have this message on my two others computers. Thanks, cheers. André

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Fedora 37 systemd pulseaudio paradox
by Felix Miata 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Wolfgang Pfeiffer composed on 2023-03-06 18:38 (UTC+0100): # on fedora user mailing list. > On Mar 06, 2023 at 03:34:38 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >>I'm not against change, but this is a result of several years of system-upgrades, >>and I've never seen anything explaining how to make a switch: ... > In your messages wireplumber does not appear. It seems this software > is managing sound since F34. On this page > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F35_bugs#No_sound_after_upgrade_(wire… > you find > "Wireplumber ... "needs to be running for sound to work"." > > The page above provides excellent documentation to find what went > wrong, and how to fix it. It doesn't seem to cover this: # dnf search systemd | grep -iE 'wire|puls|audio|sound' Last metadata expiration check: 0:20:21 ago on Mon 06 Mar 2023 06:11:55 PM EST. [root@gx62b ~]# rpm -qa | grep -iE 'wire|pulse|alsa|audio|sound' |sort alsa-firmware-1.2.4-7.fc37.noarch alsa-lib-1.2.8-2.fc37.x86_64 alsa-tools-firmware-1.2.5-5.fc37.x86_64 alsa-ucm-1.2.8-2.fc37.noarch alsa-utils-1.2.8-1.fc37.x86_64 audiofile-0.3.6-31.fc37.x86_64 esound-libs-0.2.41-28.fc37.x86_64 jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.21-3.fc37.x86_64 pipewire-libs-0.3.66-1.fc37.x86_64 pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.66-1.fc37.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-16.1-4.fc37.x86_64 pulseaudio-utils-16.1-4.fc37.x86_64 python3-alsa-1.2.7-3.fc37.x86_64 sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8-18.fc37.noarch soundtouch-2.3.1-3.fc37.x86_64 webrtc-audio-processing-0.3.1-9.fc37.x86_64 wireplumber-libs-0.4.13-1.fc37.x86_64 zita-alsa-pcmi-0.6.1-1.fc37.x86_64 # $ systemctl --user status wireplumber.service Unit wireplumber.service could not be found. $ This is after rebooting following running dnf swap --allowerasing pulseaudio pipewire-pulseaudio dnf install wireplumber-libs dnf remove pulseaudio-libs-glib2 # removed phonon* too Afterward: dnf install wireplumber And reboot. Now logging in TDE produces an endless stream of soundserver popups that prevents focus from staying anywhere else long enough to do anything but log out, but logging in on vtty allows: $ systemctl --user status wireplumber.service # wireplumber.service - Multimedia Service Session Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/wireplumber.service: enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) What's required to end the popups and continue lack of sound diagnosis? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Re: DCOP question
by J Leslie Turriff 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

On 2023-03-05 17:29:04 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote: > > Is there a way for one account to fetch information from another > > account's DCOP service? If I open a Konsole session that logs into > > another account's shell, can that shell fetch the SessionName from the > > DCOP of the Konsole account? Attached is a snapshot of the Konsole sessions in question. The three sessions with red terminal icons are root sessions. I want their .bashrc to be able to obtain the tab titles (SessionName) for self-identification. Leslie -- Platform: GNU/Linux Hardware: x86_64 Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.13 tde-config: 1.0

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NM front-end
by Darrell Anderson 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Which tool is preferred for a TDE front-end to Network Manager? * tdenetworkmanager * knetworkmanager-0.8 Thanks. DA

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tdesu konqueror
by Darrell Anderson 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Would appreciate somebody sharing a *.desktop file or basic command for running konqueror as root with the file management profile. Thanks.

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Ksnapshot
by phiebie＠drei.at 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Trinity 14.0.6 preliminary. Don't know if it is a feature of ksnapshot or a misconfiguration somewhere from me, but it is getting absolutely annoying what happens. I have a website, a document or whatsoever on my screen in full A4-papersize. Now I want a printout of a small part of it. Call ksnapshot, choose "region" "new snapshot" and then draw a border around the desired part. Press "print" and then print it. Bull... I get a print in landscape, useless and even worse not even the original layout reappears. Stop ksnapshot, restart it and same procedure with again the same miserable result. Stop, restart, same procedure but no actual printing, instead I look into the printer properties. And there, big surprise, landscape was marked as to be printed BUT all 4 orientations were grayed out, so I couldn't change that. Checked in tdeprint the printersettings, nothing wrong, in "instances" "settings" all 4 orientations were available and portrait was marked as to be applied in the default printer. Checked kprinter and of course the settings of tdeprint were there also valid. But then I had an idea. If I selected in ksnapshot a larger part of the screen, say more than half A4, what would happen? Yes, some ugly words from me and there it was: portrait was marked but still all 4 possibilities grayed out. So ksnapshot decides how it wants to print and doesn't leave the user a chance to get a result, that he wants. Utterly bull.... Any suggestion, where I could look to alter this behaviour? Phiebie.

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