This is embarrassing. I can't get TDE to start. Downloaded and installed uneventfully. Ran sudo update-alternatives --config-xsession-manager and selected /opt/trinity/bin/starttde from the list. Reboot, no joy.
Per online information, edited /var/lib/AccountsServices/users/<my-user-name> to change XSession=LXDE-pi-x to first tde and when that didn't work TDE. Reboot. Still have LXDE.
I'm clearly missing something. If anyone knows what it is, please tell me. And in any case, once the answer is found I'll write it up and submit it for possible inclusion in the docs.
dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/
On Sunday 12 May 2024 11:40:40 dep via tde-users wrote:
This is embarrassing. I can't get TDE to start. Downloaded and installed uneventfully. Ran sudo update-alternatives --config-xsession-manager and selected /opt/trinity/bin/starttde from the list. Reboot, no joy.
Per online information, edited /var/lib/AccountsServices/users/<my-user-name> to change XSession=LXDE-pi-x to first tde and when that didn't work TDE. Reboot. Still have LXDE.
I'm clearly missing something. If anyone knows what it is, please tell me. And in any case, once the answer is found I'll write it up and submit it for possible inclusion in the docs.
dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/
I don't actually run Raspberry Pi (yet), but the commands look the same as what I use, so I am going to take a wild guess here that your problem looks similar to something that has happened to me while installing on desktops and laptops.
First, I don't know if this applies to R Pi, but make sure that you have uninstalled destop-base and replaced it with desktop-base-trinity. It may be that a Pi doesn't use this.
Second, and more likely, try running this command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
Sometimes I need to do that to set the preferred DE, and this switches it from the default installation to TDE.
Bill
said William Morder via tde-users:
| Second, and more likely, try running this command: | sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
Bingo. Thanks!
Funny thing during this TV project is how easy it is to forget I'm running a perfectly ordinary computer with a great big screen.
On Wednesday 22 May 2024 11:47:43 dep via tde-users wrote:
said William Morder via tde-users: | Second, and more likely, try running this command: | sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
Bingo. Thanks!
Funny thing during this TV project is how easy it is to forget I'm running a perfectly ordinary computer with a great big screen.
Wow, I had practically forgot about that. I guess that it's probably not your everyday machine.
Glad I could help. That's one of those quirks that doesn't happen often during installation, but often enough to keep in mind.
Bill
said William Morder via tde-users: | On Wednesday 22 May 2024 11:47:43 dep via tde-users wrote:
| > Funny thing during this TV project is how easy it is to forget I'm | > running a perfectly ordinary computer with a great big screen. | | Wow, I had practically forgot about that. I guess that it's probably not | your everyday machine.
I put a USB drive into the port of my TCL-Roku TV and up popped a window saying that they intended to share its contents with its "partners." Then I read Roku's privacy policy. I said screw this and decided to take the television's internet privileges away. So all I'm using now are the screen and its audio-handling -- ARC and CEC circuits. This worked out well enough that I made another, with just a monitor instead of a TV at all. It is different in operation, but in my estimation better. and far more private.
On Wednesday 22 May 2024 12:34:20 dep via tde-users wrote:
said William Morder via tde-users: | On Wednesday 22 May 2024 11:47:43 dep via tde-users wrote: | > Funny thing during this TV project is how easy it is to forget I'm | > running a perfectly ordinary computer with a great big screen. | | Wow, I had practically forgot about that. I guess that it's probably not | your everyday machine.
I put a USB drive into the port of my TCL-Roku TV and up popped a window saying that they intended to share its contents with its "partners." Then I read Roku's privacy policy. I said screw this and decided to take the television's internet privileges away. So all I'm using now are the screen and its audio-handling -- ARC and CEC circuits. This worked out well enough that I made another, with just a monitor instead of a TV at all. It is different in operation, but in my estimation better. and far more private.
I actually don't have any television at all. It wasn't a righteous act to free myself from the influence of mass media, just that my television died and couldn't be repaired, and I didn't want to get one of those newer models that can't work without internet.
Then I started downloading whatever shows I still wanted to watch, which are mostly public television, anyway. Linux users will of course know the best tricks, and one can still get good stuff without sacrificing their security and privacy.
And then, something strange happened. Once I had the shows downloaded, I almost never watched them. I have occsionally watched a film, or some documentary or special report, but in the past year or so I doubt that I have watched more than about one show per month on average.
Now my peace of mind is not disturbed by useless information or somebody trying to sell me something, nor do I worry too much about events that are beyond my control.
Also I find that I have no lack of things to occupy my time, and that I now have time to spare, to start reading actual books again, to get back into music, to do things that I have put off for years and years.
I recommend that everybody go home and kill their television sets. Don't wait too long.
Bill
-
dep -
William Morder