Arch Trinity Repository Installation

2024.04.28: TDE R14.1.2 released!

The Trinity Desktop Environment development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the TDE R14.1.2 release.

TDE is a free/libre lightweight desktop environment intended for computer users preferring a lean and efficient experience. It is available for various Linux distros, BSD and DilOS. Low on system requirements, it is also an ideal choice for dated hardware, while still providing a fully usable desktop.

R14.1.2 is the biggest maintenance release to date, not only for the user-side improvements but also for the large amount of work that went into code cleanup and refinement behind the scenes. The major highlights of this version are:

new graphical styles (Polyester, Fahrenheit, GTK-based Ia Ora) and six new color schemes

fixed resizing issues with various Virtual Terminal based applications, like xfce and mate terminals or gvim

several TQt3 memory leak and bug fixes

an overall of the sftp tdeioslave authentication methods

visual feedback for volume level through new kmix icons

GUI option to allow selecting different shutdown dialogs

notifications for keyboard layout switch

DCOP extension for windows tiling

enhancements or bug fixes for various applications

 Arch Trinity Repository Installation Instructions

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The current latest release (R14.1.1) is available for Arch in the form of prebuilt packages for x86_64, aarch64 and armv7h architectures.

Instructions

1. Add official Trinity ArchLinux repository to /etc/pacman.conf on your system:

 [trinity]

 Server = https://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/archlinux/$arch

2. Fetch GPG key and add to pacman keychain on your system:

cd /etc/pacman.d/gnupg

kate gpg.con

add 

keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com:443 

and 

# pacman-key --recv-key  D6D6FAA25E9A3E4ECD9FBDBEC93AF1698685AD8B

# pacman-key --lsign-key D6D6FAA25E9A3E4ECD9FBDBEC93AF1698685AD8B

3. Synchronize Pacman databases (optionally update your system):

# pacman -Sy

4. Install the necessary packages.

e.g. for a full Trinity installation:

# pacman -S tde-meta