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by gimcrack
Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: Things that are GREAT about MX Linux
Replies: 20
Views: 1807

Re: Things that are GREAT about MX Linux

1) The Community
2) Excellent Forum with much developer's involvement
3) All of MX Tools
4) The Manual is awesome
5) Great Default Choices
by gimcrack
Mon Jul 14, 2025 4:55 am
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: Installing Games via Metapackages on MXPI [Solved]
Replies: 12
Views: 171

Re: Installing Games via Metapackages on MXPI [Solved]

I always used Synaptic Package Manager to install all those games in the repositories. On the left choose Games and Amusement, now choose all the games you like to install, Apply; Apply and they all will get installed.
by gimcrack
Sun Jul 13, 2025 5:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: The games people play
Replies: 11
Views: 265

Re: The games people play

About every single game in the repositories. Look, there are many there. The newest game I'm playing is outside the repositories, which there are many third-party Linux games as well.

Fractalus Link inside this forum -
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=83474

Another Gaming Link inside ...
by gimcrack
Sat Jul 05, 2025 7:50 am
Forum: MX Help
Topic: onscreen keyboard does not auto-show
Replies: 2
Views: 176

Re: onscreen keyboard does not auto-show

On my onboard setting in General I can choose hidden or auto show when editing text, but not both. If you're using hidden mode another way. Disable that and make sure auto-show when editing text is setup right in the onboard settings. Because it's acting right for me. on Auto-show settings you can ...
by gimcrack
Wed Jun 25, 2025 4:04 pm
Forum: Package Requests - MX-23
Topic: quodlibet music player
Replies: 5
Views: 348

Re: quodlibet music player

Easy to build, it's just a Python application.

https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development/overview.html

./setup.py build install

The developer just recommend not doing it this way because it doesn’t provide a way to uninstall the application.

I would just build this application in a ...
by gimcrack
Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:55 pm
Forum: Chat
Topic: Distros you tried but didn't like
Replies: 74
Views: 3628

Re: Distros you tried but didn't like



Only one I dislike and that was Elive. Didn't like the default setup or their default applications of choice. I try out 44 Linux distro's in my time. Been using Linux for over 21 years now. I'm stuck with MX and loving it.


Just curious,

Was it Enlightenment that you didn't like or was it ...
by gimcrack
Tue Jun 24, 2025 3:37 pm
Forum: Chat
Topic: Distros you tried but didn't like
Replies: 74
Views: 3628

Re: Distros you tried but didn't like

Only one I dislike and that was Elive. Didn't like the default setup or their default applications of choice. I try out 44 Linux distro's in my time. Been using Linux for over 21 years now. I'm stuck with MX and loving it.
by gimcrack
Mon Jun 02, 2025 9:12 pm
Forum: Hardware /Configuration
Topic: dancing mouse
Replies: 10
Views: 338

Re: dancing mouse

I had this happen to me once. The mouse just rides up to the top and when I try to bring it down. I can move it half way down and then creeps back to the top. I had a joystick plug in, when I unplug the joystick. My mouse was operating just fine. Never found out what causes it. But I just make sure ...
by gimcrack
Thu May 29, 2025 1:38 pm
Forum: MX Help
Topic: can not read a DVD [Solved]
Replies: 6
Views: 119

Re: can not read a DVD [Solved]

To enable DVD playback, you'll need to install specific codecs and libraries, primarily libdvdcss2 or its replacement, libdvd-pkg
by gimcrack
Thu May 29, 2025 7:59 am
Forum: MX Help
Topic: Cannot log in to system - main window [Solved]
Replies: 10
Views: 239

Re: Cannot log in to system - main window [Solved]

j2mcgreg wrote: Thu May 29, 2025 7:48 am What is "agou grub"?
"Agou grub" is not a recognized term. It likely refers to a misspelling of "GNU GRUB,"

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