On Monday 03 August 2026 09:01:51 Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
William Morder composed on 2026-08-03 07:43 (UTC-0700):
This might be totally irrelevant, and if so, please ignore me. However, I haven't noticed anybody mentioning tdm-trinity.
As his screenshots show he's obviously in a TDE session, I chose to not digress from the problem accessing his data partition, assuming LightDM or whatever got installed with Cinnamon is up to the task of starting TDE by opening /usr/share/xsessions/trinity.desktop. Switching DM can wait.
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I do apologize, Felix. That was due to my own misunderstanding of the situation. It is partly due to the fact that I have rather a lot going on in my own life at the moment, so I feel more harried and life is hectic, and I feel rushed in too much of what I have to do. Then there is my eyesight, as well, which is giving me problems, and I don't know how to cope.
In fact, I did not actually *see* his next set of screenshots, as I missed the attachment entirely.
My eyes have been changing quite dramatically over the past several years, and nobody can tell me why. I have worn glasses since age 13, have always been near-sighted, and my vision has always gotten progressively worse ... until only a few years ago, when suddenly my long-distance vision seemed to improve, to the point where I do not need to wear glasses at all any more for driving a vehicle. It is very strange, but that part seems an improvement.
On the other hand, my near vision has deteriorated to the point where it seems that I will need to start using a magifying glass pretty soon. I need to get a new prescription for reading glasses almost every year, and practically as soon as I get them, my close vision gets fuzzy.
This is a big problem with me not so much for reading books or other physical printed matter, as my vision is still good enough. But I have a hard time reading computer screens, especially the very small type in certain other desktops that are not TDE.
I have mentioned my problem before here on the list, about not being able to read the fine print on screens. This is also a problem for writing on-screen, as I often find myself leaving out *not* in a sentence, which completely changes the meaning; or when I am typing fast, I mix up similar keystrokes such as *that* and *than*, etc.
Anyway, I missed it, didn't see the second attachment, and I had thought that Chris was saying that he had got TDE installed but couldn't get into the desktop, that he was still in a Cinnamon session. And that's why I thought maybe the problem was that tdm-trinity was not fully installed, or configured, or whatever it is that causes it. I have had that happen several times in the past.
In my defense, however, I did say, if this is irrelevant, please ignore me. (See above.) And I apologize, too, for the long explanation ... which is why I changed the title of this part of the thread.
Perhaps it would help Chris to peruse an overview of permissions and ownerships, e.g. from: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/mastering-linux-file-permissions-and- ownership It has a cursory overview of ACLs.
This is actually a good resource for everybody. I learned a couple things from this myself.
As far as Chris and his difficulties getting TDE installed, I would say not to let himself get discouraged. It was a bit rough going for myself, as well, in the beginning, but it's usually something simple and basic that is missed. And you have dozens of people here on the Trinity mailing list who are willing to give their time to help.
Bill