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The problem is you need xset to run after the X server has started. The /etc/rc.local file is working but it runs before the X server has started and therefore the xset command does nothing. Running xset via the display manager config and early-bg script is the correct solution and not a work-around.

Reducing the buffer size can drastically increase usb writing speeds. I think MX may do this by default already, but in case it doesn't, you can run:
You can find the current value with:

It looks like you did a manual frugal install (which is fine). When the live system does a frugal install the directory it creates that contains all the files includes the word "Frugal" and the kernel version. This helps prevent collisions with older frugal installs that might still be lying around ...

Try running snapshot and when it's squashing the filesystem it creates like 50 mount points. Probably less, I haven't counted but if you open double commander when it's running that's about what it shows. Snapshot calls our installed-to-live script which uses a bunch of bind mounts to make a "copy ...

Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2024 6:28 am Hey, @BitJam -- nice to see you!

Thanks Jerry! This was just a brief cameo appearance.

I was just going through the mount points and found that there are about 17 mount points in a typical MX Linux. Please see the details given below. Why does MX need to have so many mount points in a running system? Can these be reduced? For example the portal, systemd, pstore, devpts, and a few ...

DukeComposed said: MX Snapshot-of-Your-System-That's-an-ISO-Which-Can-Also-Be-Used-as-an-Installer-But-Let's-Be-Reasonable-About-It is a little hard to remember. :number1: Making a bootable live iso from a running installed system is not trivial. There are many special cases. We ended up creating ...

Haven't tried frugal installation in a loooong time, does it add an entry to UEFI? fehlix covered how a frugal install modifies the system, namely it adds a directory to an existing partition and copies files into it. That's it. No partitioning, no creating file systems, no modifications of any ...

Welcome! :party2: I think the problem was I was booting the .iso from a grml-rescueboot folder in Debian. It booted fine and I could have done a regular file directory install, but the frugal installer didn't like whatever parameters I was choosing and I tried a few different options. Yes, a frugal ...