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another little issue

dep — 2013-05-21T19:03:33

greetings.

i was given a used but fairly recent (though it still said "ibm" 
not "lenovo") desktop machine with a 1024x768 lcd, which i thought i 
would fix up for a disabled neighbor. it has XP on it, but my 
neighbor used to program in C and so i thought i'd make it a 
dual-boot machine. it has two 3gHz pentium processors and a batch of 
memory. it's old enough that i figured i'd put trinity-ubuntu 10.10 
on it. i boot from the CD, and i get the usual dab of text messages 
during boot, but then -- nothing. screen goes and stays dark, in 
auto-sleep. machine and monitor work fine on windows side, but i 
can't get trinity to install. i can go ahead and give it to him with 
windows, but would rather offer both, because he'll like linux 
better.

ideas?

strange keyboard issue

dep — 2013-05-21T12:19:21

hello, good people.

this is not a new issue, but it's a continually annoying one, so i 
thought i'd bring it up in case someone knows an easy fix.

i am here at the office running a thinkpad in a docking station, with 
external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. the keyboard is attached via a 
usb adapter and mostly works fine.

when i use a plain old bog standard keyboard, all is well but for the 
fact that every so often, unpredictably as far as i can tell, it 
stops accepting input and the keyboard lights flash for a couple 
seconds, then it works again just fine. any characters typed in 
during that period, though, are lost.

this is not a problem when i use a trusty old ibm model m keyboard. 
here, the issue is different. as long as i'm in console mode, no X or 
framebuffer or anything running, all is well. but when X starts, no 
keyboard input is accepted unless and until i unplug the keyboard and 
plug it back in. then all is well. this is consistent across several 
model m keyboards i have tried, so it's not a keyboard or cord issue. 
something happens when it goes into graphical mode that makes it 
think it doesn't have a keyboard.

i suspect that there is a configuration switch somewhere that will fix 
this, but i can't find it. anyone know?

thanks, and i hope this wasn't terribly o/t.

How to configure ssh-agent with Trinity?

Jan Stolarek — 2013-05-21T08:04:50

Hi,

I'd like to use ssh-agent with Trinity, but I can't figure out how to do it. Right now I'm running 
ssh-add manually to unlock the keys after logging in. What I would like to have is typying the 
ssh passphrase the first time it is required and have that passphrase unlock the keys in 
ssh-agent). How could I do that?

Janek

Kmail issue

Greg Madden — 2013-05-20T19:19:07

TDE 3.5.13.2 Wheezy amd64

I reply to an email, I use 'smart quoting'
Actually editing new emails same issue.

Highlighting text to be deleted does not work reliably... the 
hightlighted text  does not stay hightlighted. It takes a few tries to 
get the text to stay highlighted so I can delete it, very annoying.

Anyone else see this behavior?

Planned maintenance

Timothy Pearson — 2013-05-18T00:03:55

All,

Due to scheduled maintenance, all TDE services will be either fully
unavailable or partially offline starting late 05/17/2013.  Planned
service restoration date is 05/18/2013.

Thank you for your patience,

Timothy Pearson
Trinity Desktop Project

kmail 3.5.13.2

Greg Madden — 2013-05-17T19:17:00

Wheezy amd64 Slavek repo.

key binding 'ctl+a' used to select all messages in a folder, then 'ctl + 
j' would apply filters  to the selected messages.

'ctl + a" not longer selects all messages. What happened?

xdg-open issue

Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp — 2013-05-17T08:30:15

Hi all!

I just came around an anoying xdg issue:

$ xdg-open justapdf.pdf

This opens a pdf, but with Gimp! I fiddeled around with gimp.desktop without 
success. I fiddeled around with xdg-mime without success:

$ xdg-mime query default application/pdf
/opt/trinity/share/applications/kde/kpdf.desktop

but it opens gimp.

IMO xdg-* is quite broken. :-(

Now the only workaround I came up with is setting the environment variabe DE 
to kde:

export DE=kde

Then xdg-open uses kfmclient and that calles the kpdf.

Now, would it be possibel to let TDE set that variable by default or am I 
missing a vital point?

Nik

TDE on Linux Mint [WAS: root password on Alexandre's live cd?]

Glen Cunningham — 2013-05-16T04:59:49

   IMO, a very good suggestion.  Perhaps just blow-by-blow instructions 
for changing the MATE-DE to TDE might be easier for someone who knows 
what they are doing, particularly if the instructions are in 
GOF-speak(1).
Glen

TDE on Debian/Wheezy

James Downing — 2013-05-15T15:34:30

I saw a question earlier, and I was also interested, in how to install TDE
on Debian/Wheezy/7.0.  Since it did not appear that TDE was available yet
for Wheezy, I was concerned that I would have to continue to wait for my
favorite desktop, so I would need to continue to wait to upgrade Debian.

Then I saw are response that I could use an un-released development version
of TDE for wheezy, and I was prepared to do that, but did not step into
that yet.

So, I commented out the TDE archive from my /etc/apt/sources.list file, and
upgraded Debian/Squeeze/6.0.X to Wheeze as usual.  I was surprised to find
out that TDE was retained in full and it works fine.  The only experience I
have found thus far is that I cannot use the mouse right away after
switching from one user desktop to another.  I can use the keyboard to
unlock the screen, and then the mouse becomes usable again.  Otherwise, the
new upgrade is flawless (as usual for Debian).

Is there anything that I am unaware of that is actually broken, but
perhaps, I have not noticed ?

Digikam issue

Greg Madden — 2013-05-15T00:15:29

Debian Wheezy. amd64, TDE R-14

I fired up digikam on for the first time since new install, same home 
partition. None of my pictures are shown. The file and directory 
structure is shown under "My Albums" no pics.

When I go to 'Configure -Digikam > Album Settings> Album Library path',  
I get a " Cannot talk to tdelauncher" error message when I select a 
folder to use.

any one else?

Vote for favorite desktop

Calvin Morrison — 2013-05-14T21:17:48

FWD from Darrell:

I'm not fond of polls but you might want to vote for Trinity:

http://www.tuxmachines.org/

Somebody please forward to the user's mail list. :-)

- Calvin

root password on Alexandre's live cd?

Lisi Reisz — 2013-05-14T14:45:55

Grovelling follows later - but for now, does anyone know the root password for 
the Trinity-PCLOS live CD?  I want to install xsane!!

Thanks,
Lisi

SuperKaramba ready-to-use theme pack

Alexandre Couture — 2013-05-12T15:11:52

Hi all!

Here is a compilation of various SuperKaramba themes tested to be working on both TDE 3.5.13.1 and R14 nightlies: If you like it, use it and if you don't like it, please don't use it!

3D Desktop Date: A calendar

Amarok_theme_2: A widget to control Amarok

Cynapses_karamba: A side-bar with many features

kclock: An analog clock

STH-Amarok-Black: A widget to control Amarok

Aero_aio: An all-in-one sysinfo widget


All of these widgets comes from kde-look.org
The buttons of widgets with buttons only works when their position is locked.

Here is the link:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/113ku0foog4n/karamba.zip

Have a nice day!
-Alexandre

Problem adding a user

Dan Youngquist — 2013-05-10T20:50:06

Hi all,

This is on a machine running David Hare's Exe Debian Wheezy respin.

When I add a user, the new user doesn't show up in either the user list in
Kuser, or on the login screen.  It does create a home directory, but it
doesn't add the user to the extra_groups from adduser.conf.  The new user
can login to TDE at the login screen, but the first-run wizard runs at every
login.  I tried adding the user with kuser and from a shell with adduser,
with the same result.

I ran out of time and had to leave, but later realized I should've checked
ownership on the new home directory.  Before I go back and try again, can
anyone offer any other suggestions?

I tried it on another machine with Exe installed from the same CD with, I
think, the same set of other stuff (multimedia etc.) installed, and
everything worked fine.

Thanks,
Dan

Odd printing behaviour !

Baron — 2013-05-07T18:28:33

Hi Guys,

I am using PCLinuxOS from the image that Alexandre Couture created and 
have discovered an odd printing behaviour.

If I click on print from any PDF or Image it prints OK first time.  If I 
then try to print a second copy or close the application and try to 
print something else the print dialogue comes up frozen.  If I click on 
exit a few times it will tell me that "Kprint" is not responding and 
give me the opertunity to terminate it.

After this I cannot print anything at all without restarting the 
machine.  However when I get back to the desktop, I get the message 
that there is no default printer and to use the "--all" switch.  ??
Clearing the error message allows me to continue as normal.  Untill I 
print something.

I have tried the various dialogues but seem unable to find or access my 
printer. 

Don't laugh,  I'm still using my HP Deskjet 500 MK1 from over thirty 
years ago.  I long as I can keep refilling the cartridge with ink it 
will continue to be in use !

Thanks guys:

Wheezy repo?

Jan Stolarek — 2013-05-07T07:36:12

I have a short question: when can we expect Trinity repostories for Debian Wheezy? Will there be a 
repo for R13.1 or will we have to wait for release of R14?

Janek

konqueror and system:/

Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp — 2013-04-30T18:43:21

Hi all!

Could somebody plese check if this happens not only to me:

- plug in a USB stick
- copy a konqueror web archive (*.war) to that stick.
- unplug the stick
- plug it in again
- konqueror opens the stick at system:/media/sdb1/
- klick on the web archive
- konqeror gives an error message about being not able to open the file.
- replace system:/media/sdb1/ with /media/disk/ and it works.

If it happens to others than me, then I'd like to ask why trinity uses the 
system:/ - url and not the actual mount point of the device. 

When I press F4, I get a shell at /media/disk/, not system:/media/sdb1/. Is 
there a way to make konqueror do the same, i.e. use the actual mount point? 

Nik

Trinity Wheezy libr0?

Mike Bird — 2013-04-29T20:41:22

tdm-trinity 4:14.0.0-0debian7+r693+pr37~wheezy from the nightly
builds depends on libr0, which apt-get can't find in Wheezy.

Can anyone offer a hint, or is it too soon to be testing Trinity
for Wheezy?

Thanks,

--Mike

tde session crashing

Greg Madden — 2013-04-27T05:33:59

Current Wheezy, TDE R14

I get a login screen on a boot/reboot.  After entering  user/passwd the 
session comes up then crashes.  This is happening on my workstation , 
vm's that I test R14 with are okay, laptop install ok.

The one thing that has happened to my work station is a power outage and 
a ups failure, powered off not shut down. Any file corruption that 
could cause this behavior?

Konqueror FTP issue

Dan Youngquist — 2013-04-26T18:18:01

Hi all,

When uploading, konqueror will send the whole file (every last byte), then
sit there forever with the status window open.  It does this maybe 80% of
the time, and works fine the other times.  Any ideas how to fix it, or
should I file a bug report?

This is on David Hare's Debian Wheezy respin.

kwalletmanager not working

Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp — 2013-04-26T09:12:10

Hi all!

I have just reinstalled Debian wheezy (64bit) + TDE (slavecs repository). 

The only thing I cannot get to work is kwalletmanager:
- kwalletmanager is running (icon in systray).
- klick on icon gives an empty window.
- "new wallet" does nothing.

So, any idea how I could get this thing working? I would really like to add my 
old wallet.

Nik