On Sunday 18 February 2018 23:23:38 Brian Durant wrote:
> On February 19, 2018 7:45:45 AM GMT+01:00, Thierry de Coulon 
<tcoulon@...> wrote:
> >On Sunday 18 February 2018 14.41:01 William Morder wrote:
> >> I've been trying out TDE off and on since the project started; ever
> >
> >since
> >
> >> they killed KDE3, and I looked around for something as usable and
> >
> >practical
> >
> >> as the KDE3x desktop (which I first used on PC Linux, and later on
> >
> >Ubuntu
> >
> >> Hardy 8.04).
> >
> >(...)
> >
> >> In other words, it was the KDE desktop environment, and the default
> >> settings therein, which were interfering with the smooth operation of
> >
> >TDE.
> >
> >This could be a *buntu problem. I am running TDE on various Debian
> >based
> >distributions as well as openSUSE, *with* KDE 4/5 apps (mostly
> >kdenlive) and
> >no such problem.
>
> All of these problems could of course be avoided, regardless of distro, by
> installing a base, mini, server (or whatever it is called) version. After
> that, you just add the Trinity repos to the list that your distribution
> uses.
>
> >(...)
> >
> >> Bill
> >
> >Thierry
>
> Brian
>

This sounds like it could be a useful suggestion; do a minimal installation, 
then add the Trinity repositories. 

Bill

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