another little issue

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?
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dep

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strange keyboard issue

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.
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dep

How to configure ssh-agent with Trinity?

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

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?

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Peace,

Greg

Planned maintenance

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

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?
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Peace,

Greg

xdg-open issue

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?]

On Thursday 16 May 2013 11:13:54 C W wrote:
> Linux Mint is much more reasonable than Ubuntu.  I'm hoping someone
> with more skills than I will make a live/installable .ISO of Mint
> with TDE.
>
   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

Digikam issue

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?
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Peace,

Greg

Vote for favorite desktop

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