Support for TDE in MX Linux [Solved]

[WlaBo]

I just tried Q4OS with TDE in VM and I am...
It's like arriving back home after a very long journey.
The old KDE3, fast, stable and resource efficient. RAM consumption according to htop just after login only 375MB. Madness.
Is there a possibility to include TDE in MX Linux officially? That would be awesome :-)

[manyroads]

Not that anyone asked me, but I would not recommend a move like that. Too much work for the dev team given that TDE is not at all popular these days.

However, you certainly are free to make a respin. People here will, I'm certain, help you do a credible job.

[Jerry3904]

Manyroads is right: that's just not going to happen. (But take into account that I'm not the Lead Dev...)

[seaken64]

There is a user here who may be able to help you. I think it is @Michael-IDA. He uses TDE. Not sure if he has figured out how to add it to MX or not. Search the forum for Trinity.

BTW, both Fluxbox and LXDE use less RAM than XFCE. They are both here in the repos.

Seaken64

[figueroa]

There is a Wiki for Debian versions, but you should otherwise expect yourself to be on your own.
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_ ... structions

[SwampRabbit]

Yeah I think Michael-IDA has quite a few threads on the subject here.

Biggest issue as already stated is the maintenance part, which would require someone knowledgeable, and willing to put in the work, and for it to be long term.

[WlaBo]

Thanks to all for your answers, I will see what I can do.

[Michael-IDA]

I just tried Q4OS with TDE in VM and I am...
It's like arriving back home after a very long journey.
The old KDE3, fast, stable and resource efficient. RAM consumption according to htop just after login only 375MB. Madness.
Is there a possibility to include TDE in MX Linux officially? That would be awesome :-)

Hi WlaBo,

Here are the MX-19 TDE installation instructions:
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/MX_Linu ... structions

But... After having used MX-19/TDE for a few years now, I don’t recommend that methodology anymore. Xfce (or possibly just the MX install of it?) seems to interfere with TDE such that some of the MX tools don’t work that well. The MXPI [1] specifically, which is pretty much the whole reason to use MX now. (Prior to MX-21 is was also because MX didn’t include systemd.)

I’m still on MX-19, and will be for several months. Systemd is against my religion, which is why I’m not going to MX-21. I used this method with MX-18 and had no issues with anything, so my thoughts on going forward are to:

- Core [2] install antiX-21
- Command line install TDE
- Manually install packageinstaller [2]
- (Unknown if doable) Manually install antiX version of MX-Tools [3]

Here is a recent post from the TDE users’ mailing list on how to do that (kinda a ‘no-duh,’ but change bullseye to antiX):

TDE Mailing List: Re: [tde-users] TDE Installation
Date: 01/20/22 10:39:11
From: Michael

The attached scripts on that post make it so you don’t have to manually type everything into a command line to do the TDE install. (You’ll also need to change them to antiX...)

HTH,
Michael

PS: Apologies for the late reply, I seemed to have borked my forum email notification settings.
PS2: Do join the TDE users’ mailing list!

[1] MX Package Installer
Menu > MX Tools > MX Package Installer

[2] MX Forum: How to install antiX packageinstaller?

[3] I haven’t dug enough to know if there is such a thing, but QSI, MX Live USB Maker, and several other tools are extremely useful.

Other Refs:
TDE Wiki: Distribution Installation List

MX Forum: Thread for fixing tde.pm for MX Package Installer and TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment)

MX Forum: MX-19 Request for existing Trinity solution to be added to MXPI