On Friday 03 January 2020 11:26:29 ajh-valmer wrote: > On Friday 03 January 2020 00:51:44 William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > > > On Wednesday 01 January 2020 16:46:32 ajh-valmer wrote: > > > > First, > > > > Happy and best new year 2020 to you ! > > > > Since last upgrade of tdm, > > > > tdm doesn't start automatically as before and why ? > > > > The system starts in konsole mode. > > > > I have to login as root and type : > > > > # killall tdm > > > > and tdm starts. > > > > Even if /etc/rc1.d to /et/rc6.d and rcS.d = K19tdm OR S19tdm : > > > > system starts in konsole mode. > > > > tdm is in /etc/init.d/ > > > > I use "sysv-rc-conf" to put K or S. > > > > What is the difference between tdm and tdm-trinity ? > > > > Thanks and Regards Andre > > 1) you don't send your wish for the new year :-) > Sorry, this was a grave error on my part. Also, I have nobody with whom to celebrate the ancient festival of Saturnalia, as other people seem to gravitate to purely secular activities, and neglect the rites of the old gods. I send out New Year's greetings and best wishes to all sentient beings in all universes and multiverses. We can only hope that this next year is better. If enough of us can work for peace and good will, that would give some hope. > 2) you send me two mails, the number two <andre_debian@...> > is now out of use (numericable.fr has stopped). > Somehow I send out duplicate mails to this list, even though I send out only one email from my machine. As for your email address, changed or not: I only hit "reply" and did not check your address. To my knowledge, everything is sent to and from the Trinity mailing list address; some of our email addresses are blocked (as I was hoping to block mine), in order to avoid email harvesting and spammers. > > There are some packages which have "-trinity" added to the name. > > This seems to > > be an issue only of naming, in order to avoid conflicts due to legacy > > packages left over from the old KDE3. Others may know better. > > I believe that we have been discussing this same issue under the > > heading "tde > > update disaster, helllppppp!!!!!!" (started by Gene Heskett). See those > > posts. > > If your issue sounds similar to what is described in that thread, then > > first I would try this: "sudo apt-get purge tdm-trinity && apt-get > > install tdm-trinity" (from Slavek's recommendation), and after that, > > "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity". > > On reboot, your system ought to be more or less normal. (I did have to > > reconfigure my customized login page, and again had to enable the secure > > authentication feature, but otherwise it's all good now. Bill > > Yes, now it works. > > Thanks, Regards, > > Andre > Even though TDE still has some annoying bugs, it still works 1000 times better than any other desktop! yours Bill