> Merely replacing the hard drive should not void your warranty. It was a joke. Installing Linux "voids the warranty"; I don't really intend to return the laptop. I'm sure it's a pretty good machine, if I can ever get it running right. But just using it since early December, putting into my bag, taking it out again, that has caused it to look just a bit used. So I don't think it would work, putting the original hard drive back in, then trying to return it for a refund. ;-) > > Have you considered using LibreOffice themes? > > https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-change-themes/4764/2 Will look into it, thanks. > > > the breakage was already happening after a simple > > upgrade from the same system which had been running stable since early > > December. > It is conceivable that an upgrade broke something, but that's not how > your emails set out the chain of events. According to the emails you > sent earlier, you spotted some unexpected entries in top, removed a > bunch of packages until those entries went away, and only then, did the > browsers stop working. I did not remove a "bunch of packages" I tried to find the source of whatever made those unwelcome visitors appear so prominently in top. I didn't actually remove those items. > > Earlier you suggested that the unwelcome entries in top "seem to have > been dragged in when I trying to get tork-trinity working". If those > libraries were dependencies of tork-trinity, why did you remove them? > The items were not dependencies of tork-trinity. I was trying to find tork-trinity dependencies (libevent, geoclue, etc.), but installed some near-namesakes by mistake. It was those extra packages that I removed. > Over the course of these threads, you have said that you have > reinstalled the OS multiple times, "and had already pruned everything > that seemed to be the cause", you have copied over the preferences > from your old desktop, you forcefully removed packages that were > marked as hard dependencies with dpkg --prune --force-all, and who knows > what else you have done. > > You have made so many changes to what *was* a working system, it doesn't > surprise me that things are not working correctly. And I kept track of what was removed. And I reinstalled them, to no effect. And then I did a complete reinstallation. By "pruning" I meant that I did not follow my usual method for installation on a system that is running comfortably well. I have text files saved that have a list of packages to be installed, so that I only have to paste in those names. I kept my old lists from my desktop, which was running Devuan Beowulf. I copied over my home folder to my laptop, tried to follow those lists to install Devuan Chimaera to the laptop. And for the most part, this worked just fine. A few things had changed, and I adapted. And by the way, I've been doing it like this since I started running KDE3, back in about 2006-2008 or so. I've run either KDE3 or TDE since then. I have gone through PC Linux, Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04x, Debian since about 6 or 7, I believe, and then switched to Devuan since Jessie. Never seen anything like this. > > I am not an expert on the detailed internals of how gtk+ libraries are > dynamically linked with applications, but given that your browsers are > working correctly under xfce now, I think it would be worth logging > out, logging back in to TDE, and see if they work again. > > And if they do work now, for pity's sake, stop removing packages! When I put things back to how they were before (because I have all the saved packages, and lists of what I installed when), I am able to reproduce what I did. When I reinstall, and try to put the system back to how it was before, this same problem occurs. It doesn't matter that I tried to put it back the same as before. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
