Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is a complete software desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems. It is lightweight, a direct fork of KDE 3.5, and continues to find its home on many popular Linux distributions, including Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu.

Version R14.1.5 is out now with improvements to some core components like the twin window manager, the kicker panel, the KRDC remote desktop client, and the tQt toolkit.

Starting with twin, TDE’s window manager, there is now support for tiling when multiple monitors are in use, meaning the tiling now respects each screen’s individual geometry. Kicker, the main panel that holds the application menu and system tray, received various aesthetic improvements and new configuration options.

KRDC, the remote desktop client, now has a paste command that allows you to send clipboard content directly as text. Even Codeine, the audio mixer, got a small update with a new mute toggle button on its volume slider. A new “Flying Konqi” wallpaper also made its debut alongside support for OpenLDAP 2.5.

The latest release now officially supports Debian 13 “Trixie”, while dropping support for the older “Buster” release. For developers and testers using nightly builds, there is now support for “Forky”, the next major Debian release after “Trixie”. On the Ubuntu side of things, support for the upcoming “Questing” release has been added, and support for “Mantic” has been removed.

As for the bug fixes, this release addresses some significant ones. The tqt toolkit, TDE’s fork of Qt3, got a fix for an event loop issue that in some cases could cause 100% CPU usage. Kdesktop, which manages the desktop itself, no longer suffers from a deadlock situation that could make the lock screen unresponsive. Showfoto received some fixes to improve its general usability, and the music player Amarok should no longer crash occasionally when rescanning the music collection.

You can check out the full release notes here.