MX-18 Feedback

[Jerry3904]

It's not easier on the people that have to answer and then later use the info for development.

Maybe we should set up a Wiki article on "How to report a bug on the MX Bug Manager." I'll look into that.

[Gordon Cooper]

It's not easier on the people that have to answer and then later use the info for development.

Maybe we should set up a Wiki article on "How to report a bug on the MX Bug Manager." I'll look into that.

Yes, a good thought. How to use Bugzilla is not immediately obvious.

[asqwerth]

Only quoting this bit, but replying to both posts.

What I can find are Synaptic, of course, but then two graphical that looks identical when opened but have different icons and different names: The MX one, and one with a red Debian logo on it and called something else. Installed as a separate packagebut looks absolutely identical as the MX one when opened.
And then the text based one, yes. Four in total.

As for bloated: I don't mind wallpapers, I am a wallpaperoholic myself.
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Edit:
I tried Synaptic first. And then the MX one. It was Synaptic that when klicking the check button listed Firefox and four other packages as being held back; I did not try to force the issue, I just noticed that when I did the auto detected updates they suddenly were eligible to be upgraded.

Yup, only 2 gui front-end programs (synaptic and mxpi) that essentially use the apt terminal commands.

The one with the red Debian glyph is actually a program (gdebi) to directly install .deb binary executable files, like double clicking on a .Exe file in Windows.

And visually the gdebi interface does not look like mxpi at all.

By the way I posted a 3rd post, to ask if you had manually refreshed package lists in synaptic. You might have opened synaptic before the behind the scenes auto updater had finished checking for updates or some repo mirrors were not yet synced.

[RichardTS]

Some may remember my wireless issues on my Lenovo Yoga 730 with MX-18 rc1 from last week. Well, that’s all in the rear view mirror now. Downloaded MX-18 Final and installed it the way I used to with Ubuntu back in the days of all the Broadcom wireless issues and everything worked perfectly. The trick? ALWAYS install with an Ethernet network connection. Just always seems to work better. It must be downloading wireless components while installing.

MX-18 works great now!

[TJ Hoye]

Minor problem with FF64 in MX18 not found in MX17.1 fully upgraded.

My MX18 FF64 does not display some html input boxes properly.
My MX18 Chromium doesn't have this same problem, but I'd rather be using FF64.
Only problem I've noticed so far with MX18.

Unlike MX17.1, MX18 FF64 Help says FF updates disabled by sys admin.

[Jerry3904]

It may say that for the first time, but we have been handling FF updates ourselves since the beginning.

[dolphin_oracle]

It may say that for the first time, but we have been handling FF updates ourselves since the beginning.

what he said.

what happened was that firefox settings changed along the way and our custom settings file no longer addressed it. It does not, but existing installs probably won't see the change because of the way things work with settings in the home folder.

[Stevo]

The situation of the high RAM consumption in live cd in mx 18, apparently, is due to the kernel.
The mx 17 that does not give problems and when updating the kernel to 4.19.10-antix1-amd-smp I had the same problems.
Can I put a kernel in mx 18 as under the snapshot mx17 on October 20? Thanks

Yes, that should not be a problem.

[Stevo]

It may say that for the first time, but we have been handling FF updates ourselves since the beginning.

what he said.

what happened was that firefox settings changed along the way and our custom settings file no longer addressed it. It does not, but existing installs probably won't see the change because of the way things work with settings in the home folder.

We just now added a json file to our Firefox install that disabled the update nag and the message that an attempted upgrade failed, so we won't see those any more, thanks to fehlix. It does mean that we now will see that message about updates being disabled. It's not MX 18 specific.

[KBD]

Preparing to install to an SSD and booted up live to check the usb. Just wanted to say this looks freaking awesome, especially Conky. It looks perfect on my 12" laptop. I can see you tweaked and polished it a bit compared to MX 17. Great job folks!