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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 ...

I use the built-in onscreen keyboard. I choose to start it in hidden mode and I choose to "auto-show when editing text".
But the keyboard never shows up when I edit text. It stays hidden.
Do other people experience the same problem?
Has anyone fixed it?

System: Kernel: 6.1.0-37-amd64 [6.1.140-1 ...

Solved -it was a monitor problem. Not a software problem

Whenever I start an application or maximize the window of an application the window will go off screen on the right side (it it will be larger than the screen size).
The number of pixel that exceed the screen border seems to be equal to the width of the XFCE panel
Does anyone know how to fix this ...

In the XFCE clock plugin:
- I choose to show the date before the time
- I put a newline before date, to reserve some space on top. This works - I get an empty line above the date.
- BUT for for some weird reason the distance between the date and time also increases.
As you see in the second ...

I've been using mx-linux since version 15 and I am still on MX linux it today.
Just recently I migrated from Mx-21 to MX-23 (without full reinstall, following instruction from the wiki) and my system is stable as ever.
The only things I did, which was not mentioned in the wiki was:
- install gxkb ...

dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:55 am install the pipewire-setup-mx package.

That did it. Thank you.

I followed these instructions, but ended up without sound.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/install- ... ire-linux/
I think pipewire was installed, but I don't know how to start it at boot.

I am using pulseaudio on MX23 (after following forum instructions)
$ pactl info
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 11
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: kris
Host Name: mx
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version ...

Ok, I solved the problem. I think there was something wrong with my specific installation. I am not sure though.
1. I copied kbd.sh and gxkb and gxkb-start and gxkb_start.sh from the squashfs file system of an mx-linux-iso to my file system in /usr/bin
2. I removed the kbd.desktop keyboardswitcher ...