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Any suggestions or pointers on this? 1) Why does the Splash screen/theme sometimes cause the login screen to fail in KDE. I have checked in the forums and there have been some instances of this reported earlier too. 2) Is there a mechanism via which this issue can be traced via logs? Either SDDM ...

What I do every few months is download the latest Ubuntu live USB iso and run fwupd. I don't think Debian/MX ever updates fwupd or if that is important. fwupd will only work for devices that are supported by LVFS (https://fwupd.org) My only LVFS supported device is a Logitech mouse so the other ...

MX Package Installer or KDE Discover do a decent job of keeping the OS and applications updated. But I have not seen them provide firmware for various manufacturers or motherboards or other hardware devices. For example Dell/Acer/Leneovo do provide firmware updates for BIOS/UEFI regularly. But I ...

I am also waiting for MX Linux 25 with KDE 6 and QT6. It seems that it will be based on Kernel 6.12 LTS. Looking forward to that too. My hardware is not the latest but hopefully it will be better utilised with Kernel 6.12.x and QT6.

What Is most surprising is that SDDM does not seem to write to any logs anywhere. If it crashes or has issues. Yes you are right the MX -animation does cause issue. I have faced this issue multiple times. But I have been unable to get to the root cause of it. I have not tried lightdm instead of SDDM ...

While booting or rebooting sometimes the login screen does not appear in KDE, i.e. the dreaded blank/black login screen. If that were to happen to you please try to see if the following troubleshooting steps work for you. Please do note that these are applicable for KDE. Do not know if these will ...

There is a very good alternative to the find command in KDE Dolphin. There is KFind that is integrated inside Dolphin. KFind is very close to the pre Windows 7 find file search box. KFind can be launched from Dolphin or from the KDE Application Menu. It has ability to search for files using ...

Any help guys? How can I find the script file that starts the service obexd ?

Recently I had a strange issue with the Login splash screen during boot. I have a splash theme defined in MX Boot Options utility. My laptop was in sleep mode and my battery had drained completely. So I plugged it into the power and tried to boot it up. Got the dreaded blank screen after the GRUB ...

Got this announcement that Debian 12.10 is slated to be released in Mar-2025. Currently the latest version of MX Linux is 23.5 which corresponds to Debian Bookworm 12.9 . So assuming that 12.10 goes to MX Linux 23.6 and post Debian bookworm 12.10, Debian 13.0 Trixie will be released, then will MX ...