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Thanks - I used light-locker as the xscreensaver brought up an ugly login prompt , not the MX themed one that appears when you select log out

No Kester , im not booting from a live-usb ( though perfectly capable of making a mistake like that ). And it seems somehow I have made some sort of mistake :mad: because it now works. I don't know what has happened it appeared to need the session saving to retain changes to the menu .... now i've ...

Yes @Kester that is the way I am doing it. It all appears to be fine until I close down and restart the laptop and I find the favorites are back to as they were on first install of mx23

did this now nothing happens when I lock screen and I cant seem to find the GUI where I actually chose the screensaver to display on lock ( I want to disable it ). It doesn't seem to be in Sessions & Startup or Power management

I have moved from mx19 xfce to mx23.4 recently and noticed that adjustments to whiskermenu favorites ( using mouse , not directly editing the config file) were not saved between reboots. In order to get the changes to be saved I have to enable "automatically save Session on logout" option in ...

I have a recent mx23.4 xfce install and notice that lock screen option - clicked from whiskermenu widget brings up the animated screensaver which runs happily until I mouse click or hit the keyboard when the laptop freezes and is unresponsive to any thing inc alt+sysreq reisub . I have to resort to ...

What version of mariadb is loaded? Have you tried directly shutting it down with the mariadb-admin command? https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-admin/ https://mariadb.com/kb/en/shutdown/ In my installs I have to use mongod or mysql to shut the service down, and have only ever used those. I used ...

Was MariaDB started correctly under SysVinit? I would start the MX system as SystemD and test whether MariaDB then behaves correctly: sudo systemctl stop mariadb MariaDB with SysVinit => https://mariadb.com/kb/en/sysvinit/#interacting-with-the-mariadb-server-process MariaDB with SystemD => https ...

timkb4cq wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 3:55 pm Have you tried using kill instead of pkill? pkill sends a message to the process. kill -9 just terminates it.

Thanks for that, tried it 'kill' does live up to its name, 'pkill' did not