Tips And Tricks

This page is meant as a container of tips and tricks collected over time, addressing topics and issues brought up by TDE users.

Upgrading from KDE3 or from TDE 3.5.x to R14.0.x

If you are migrating from KDE3 or upgrading from TDE 3.5.x, you can reuse your own settings in TDE R14.0.x. When logging into R14.0.x for the first time, TDE will automatically execute a script which will migrate as many of your KDE3/TDE3.5.x settings as possible. At the end of the process, your KDE3/TDE3.5.x profile will still exist (unchanged) and a new TDE profile will have been created inside the ~/.trinity folder.
NOTE
Please refrain from renaming your .kde into .trinity before running R14.0.x. If you do so, the migration process will not take part and some applications may not run smoothly after that. See here for an example of problems that may arise if you rename your .kde folder manually.

Using sudo and tdesudo

If you use sudo or a sudo-based distribution (such as Ubuntu), it is highly recommended that you install the tdesudo-trinity package as well. This allows to run programs that require root priviledge from the TDE menu using your own password. If tdesudo-trinity is not installed, you will be asked for the root password instead. More details can be found here

Various Tips & Tricks

Removing captions from K-Menu

Add following line into section [menus] in file ~/.trinity/share/config/kickerrc

ShowMenuTitles=false

Adding a separator between windows button in the title bar

Open TDE Control Center -> Appearance & Themes -> Window Decorations and then select the "Buttons" tab.
In the middle of the screen there is a list of possible buttons. Drag a separator (--- spacer ---) on the title bar of the sample window, between the buttons where you want to space to appear.
Check the preview in the bottom part of the screen and modify again as required.
Confirm when done.