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EBAL

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Registered: 2024-02-13

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Andromeda and XPQ4

Hi all,

Been testing out the latest release of Q4OS 6 Trinity - overall I like it but encountering an issue when I logout it *always* brings me the to TTY terminal and not the graphical TDE login screen. Seems like this happened after playing around with Lookswitcher and selecting Darkonaire theme.

Is anyone still using XPQ4? I installed the latest Sept 25, 2025 release with Andromeda support. It runs fine and I think it's still the dark theme for me. Just wondering if it's still secure to use with no malware or anything. It's not released in a .DEB package anymore, so really can inspect any source codes. The Source Forge page content hasn't been updated lately either.

Thanks for your inputs,

EBAL

bin

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Registered: 2016-01-28

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Re: Andromeda and XPQ4

XPQ4 is an independent project. If you contact the developers via the link at the top of the web page:-
"Questions or comments ? Contact XPQ4 Team at xpq4@users.sourceforge.net"
I'm sure they will be happy to address your concerns

If it was a deb file you would still be unable to inspect the source code.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Andromeda and XPQ4

You can get .deb files easily:
$ apt-get download <debname>.deb

Trinity themes should contain human readable code as it should comprise from the .ini or .xml formatted configurations. Just extract the debs. All in all, we recommend you to follow @bin advice.

EBAL

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Registered: 2024-02-13

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Re: Andromeda and XPQ4

Thanks for the replies. The issue about logging off Q4OS 6 Trinitiy into TTY1 terminal persists. I just created a fresh QEMU VM with Q4OS Basic install and nothing else, then logged out immediately and ended up in TTY1 terminal. Any suggestions or workaround for this?

I also listed the apt repositories and found the following: http://q4os.org/q4repo q4os-6-0-cn/main

What does the -cn suffix represent?

q4osteam

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Re: Andromeda and XPQ4

I just created a fresh QEMU VM with Q4OS Basic install and nothing else, then logged out immediately and ended up in TTY1 terminal. Any suggestions or workaround for this?

We are not able to reproduce in Virtualbox nor on a real hardware. The very default setup of Q4OS-6 Andromeda Trinity Basic works as expected. Maybe some Qemu specific issue ?

... What does the -cn suffix represent?

We have no idea, maybe some sort of convention? It's inherited from the beginnings of Q4OS and we just follow it as is.

EBAL

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Re: Andromeda and XPQ4

Hi, with your suggestion I think I found the cause of the problem, My QEMU VM is using QXL as the video driver because QXL supports the 1280x800 resolution I need. When I switch to virtio as the video driver, logging-off goes back to the graphical TDE login screen. However, virtio does not support 1280x800 resolution. Is this something that should be reported to the Trinity TDE dev team?

Regarding the -cn suffix, I was curious if this was anything related to being a package or repository from China. Even the XPQ4 packages have the -cn suffix.

Last edited by EBAL (2025-12-01 02:11)

q4osteam

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Re: Andromeda and XPQ4

... I think I found the cause of the problem, My QEMU VM is using QXL as the video driver ... When I switch to virtio as the video driver, logging-off goes back to the graphical TDE login screen. ... Is this something that should be reported to the Trinity TDE dev team?

We would rather report it to the Qemu devteam, as it seems to be QXL driver issue.

Regarding the -cn suffix, I was curious if this was anything related to being a package or repository from China.

Although we love Chinese users, Q4OS development has nothing to do with China. The "-cn" suffix in the repository names also has nothing to do with China. Anyway, we would like to invite Chinese developers to contribute to Q4OS in a proper open source way

Last edited by q4osteam (2025-12-01 10:21)

EBAL

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Re: Andromeda and XPQ4

I have other QEMU VMs running Linux Mint 22 as the guest OS with QXL video driver and resolution of 1280x800 - they don't have any logout issues like TDE. So I guess the problem is with TDE not QEMU.

Another question - using the Darkonaire or XPQ4 Windows Dark theme, is there a built-in Kate theme that will show white text on the default black background? Are people still using the version of Kate shipped with TDE which is quite old? Or using other editors available in Q4OS application center?

Thanks again.

q4osteam

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Re: Andromeda and XPQ4

I have other QEMU VMs running Linux Mint 22 as the guest OS with QXL video driver and resolution of 1280x800 - they don't have any logout issues like TDE. So I guess the problem is with TDE not QEMU.

Since logging out of TDE works fine except for Qemu, it could still be a Qemu bug. Both are possible, Qemu or TDE, we would guess a Qemu bug.

... using the Darkonaire or XPQ4 Windows Dark theme, is there a built-in Kate theme that will show white text on the default black background? Are people still using the version of Kate shipped with TDE which is quite old? Or using other editors available in Q4OS application center?

We are not aware of such a Kate theme, but it may exist. A manual configuration may help > main menu > settings > configure kate > fonts and colors.
Yes, TDE Kate is quite powerful.