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JLS727
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Last Update Created a second MXTools Category  [Solved]

#1 Post by JLS727 »

I just installed the latest update and my whisker menu now has a second MX Tools Category that shows up. How can that second MX Tools category item be removed? I'm using the latest MX21 XFCE 64 bit. Thanks.

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Snapshot created on: 20220522_1122
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-20-amd64 [5.10.158-2] x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-20-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21.2.1_x64 Wildflower October 20  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: HP product: Dev One Notebook PC v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: HP model: 8A78 v: KBC Version 01.02 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.04 
           date: 04/03/2022 
Battery:   ID-1: BATT charge: 37.1 Wh (71.8%) condition: 51.7/53.2 Wh (97.1%) volts: 11.7 
           min: 11.6 model: HP KC04XL type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Discharging cycles: 5 
           Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse PID:0080 serial: N/A 
           charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Zen 3 family: 19 (25) model-id: 50 (80) stepping: 0 microcode: A50000C cache: 
           L2: 4 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 60687 
           Speed: 1867 MHz min/max: 1600/4641 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1867 
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           12: 3945 13: 1695 14: 1565 15: 2257 16: 2546 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected 
           Type: retbleed status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: always-on, 
           RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Cezanne driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1638 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Quanta HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-4:2 
           chip-ID: 0408:5484 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver: 
           loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1536x864 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 406x229mm (16.0x9.0") 
           s-diag: 466mm (18.4") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1536x864 hz: 60 dpi: 126 size: 309x174mm (12.2x6.9") 
           diag: 355mm (14") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.10.0-20-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Processor driver: N/A 
           alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 
           class-ID: 0480 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-20-amd64 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
           vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce,wl port: 2000 
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-3:3 
           chip-ID: 0bda:b00c class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1 
           sub-v: a0cb hci-v: 5.1 rev: 9a8 
           Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park 
           link-mode: slave accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 21.95 GiB (2.3%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: PC711 HFS001TDE9X073N 
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           type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS0 temp: 27.9 C scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 586 GiB size: 575.71 GiB (98.24%) used: 21.57 GiB (3.7%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 
           ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 508 MiB (99.22%) used: 388.7 MiB (76.5%) 
           fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 14 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: 0.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 52.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 2345 lib: 1218 flatpak: 0 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/protonvpn-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch="all", signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/protonvpn-stable-archive-keyring.gpg] https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
Info:      Processes: 311 Uptime: 1h 22m wakeups: 4 Memory: 15.03 GiB used: 1.82 GiB (12.1%) 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 
           alt: 10 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.1.4-release inxi: 3.3.06 
Boot Mode: UEFI

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Re: Last Update Created a second MXTools Category

#2 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Confirmed. @dolphin_oracle @fehlix @Adrian
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Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 535.247.01 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
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Re: Last Update Created a second MXTools Category

#3 Post by dolphin_oracle »

Delete the mx-tools.menu file under ~/.config/menus/applications-merged
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.

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Re: Last Update Created a second MXTools Category

#4 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Instant fix, now there is only one left :) No need to log out and in or anything.
MX-23.6_x64 July 31 2023 * 6.1.0-37amd64 ext4 Xfce 4.20.0 * 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 2700
Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 535.247.01 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
Samsung 870EVO * Samsung S24D330 & P2250 * HP Envy 5030

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Re: Last Update Created a second MXTools Category

#5 Post by dolphin_oracle »

We made the change ages ago to take the menu file out of the home folder but some long time users may still have it because we don’t mess with home folders during updates
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.

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Re: Last Update Created a second MXTools Category

#6 Post by dolphin_oracle »

I think we can fix this in another update. sorry for the hassle.
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.

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Re: Last Update Created a second MXTools Category

#7 Post by Eadwine Rose »

If removing one file is a hassle.. nah. Thanks for the fix :)

@JLS727 did that fix it for you too?
MX-23.6_x64 July 31 2023 * 6.1.0-37amd64 ext4 Xfce 4.20.0 * 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 2700
Asus TUF B450-Plus Gaming UEFI * Asus GTX 1050 Ti Nvidia 535.247.01 * 2x16Gb DDR4 2666 Kingston HyperX Predator
Samsung 870EVO * Samsung S24D330 & P2250 * HP Envy 5030

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Re: Last Update Created a second MXTools Category

#8 Post by BV206 »

Did this recent update fix this problem?:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 63#p704063
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=692439
Right now I don't have a MX 21 Xfce installation to check this.

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Re: Last Update Created a second MXTools Category

#9 Post by dolphin_oracle »

BV206 wrote: Mon Jan 09, 2023 8:51 am Did this recent update fix this problem?:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 63#p704063
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=692439
Right now I don't have a MX 21 Xfce installation to check this.
it should. we are also planning to ship with menulibre instead of mx-menu-editor on future releases of MX, starting with mx21.3.
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 - MX-23
FYI: mx "test" repo is not the same thing as debian testing repo.

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Re: Last Update Created a second MXTools Category

#10 Post by JLS727 »

Yes that fixed the problem. Thanks for the help.

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