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Re: [trinity-users] Keyboard in Trinity and K*-trinity applications in LXDE

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:25:20 +0200
On Sunday 07 of October 2012 10:52:47 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> I am running:
> Trinity 3.5.13 updated with Slavek's patches
> Squeeze
> LXDE installed and used when essential
> I have just run aptitude update.  There were no upgrades.  There were
> 2 yesterday.
>
> My keyboard has disappeared in Trinity.  There is obviously nothing
> wrong with the keyboard(s), both PS2 and USB, both of which I have
> tried, or the connection to the motherboard, since keyboards work in
> the BIOS, gdm and LXDE.
>
> This situation is made worse for me by the fact that k*-trinity
> applications, with the exception of Konqueror, will not run in LXDE.
> There is no KWrite, and I do not find Nano a long term acceptable
> substitute, and I can run neither KMail nor Amarok.  Not only are
> these applications not in the menu, they will not run in the console,
> with error message "command not found".
>
> What have I done to upset Trinity??  And how do I persuade it to
> function for me again??  There is obviously a problem with my imported
>  home.  Other people for whom I have installed Trinity, but who had
> little or no previous data, have ridden off into the sunset.  But what
> problem, where?
>
> Lisi
>

Lisi,

your problem with the keyboard reminds me that I once had a broken 
keyboard in Trinity 3.5.12 on the machine my parents. On a text console 
worked without problems. The KDM worked without problems, but after 
logging into their profile did not work.

Probably not comforted you - it was something in the profile. Although 
Trinity 3.5.12 used for more than a year, suddenly "something" happened 
and keyboard just did not work.

When I put away the profile and started with the new, the keyboard works. 
Gradually, I put back to profile important settings (kmail, kopete, 
bookmarks,...) and keyboard still works. Unfortunately, I did not go into 
such detail, and so I not find causes.

Note: Under LXDE TDE programs can not run, because TDE is not set in the 
system PATH. TDE into PATH usually adds startkde. Try:

export PATH=/opt/trinity/bin:$PATH
export KDEDIR=/opt/trinity
export KDEHOME=$HOME/.trinity

...and then run TDE programs.

Slavek
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