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.

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>
> Bill

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