MX-19 Beta 1 Feedback

[Jerry3904]

I believe there are no Debian backports yet, so the screen is empty. What you enabled may have been for Stretch maybe?

The Open Root Thunar works fine for me (on a folder that needs it).

[baldyeti]

i thought i'd use frugal persist because i had never tried it and was always intrigued by the feature.
Maybe i did something wrong but it wasn't all smooth sailing.

Note i did not allow the installer to relabel my target partition.

The generated grub.cfg looks for a kernel at antiX/vmlinuz,
but the directory created to host the frugal install is actually called antiX-4.19-amd64 (or somesuch)

After fixing that, i still could not boot with the default grub entry (fails to find antiX/linuxfs, although it exists)
*but* the failsafe option actually proceeds and works. Hooray!

Unfortunately persistence did not actually work, persist-save tells me rootfs persistence is not enabled, although i chose frugal with persistence of both root and home (i had to choose sizes smaller than the default because of space limitations)
I may very well have missed an option, tick-box or whatnot during my rushed install, sorry if that is the case - do not spend too much time trying to educate me on the subject as the focus of this thread is the MX beta.

Otherwise the OS itself looks and acts fine AFAICT.
Very promising,

[fehlix]

And in Thunar, "Open root Thunar here" doesn't work neither.

What folder did you right click to "Open root Thunar here" ?
Just checked it, with a not really useful example by
right-clicking on Documents an selecting "Open root Thunar here".
You might need to enter the root-password, not your own/user password.

Open-Thunar-as-root.png

[timkb4cq]

... I just hope to have Openastro back in the repository.

You got it. The new version works well.

[Adrian]

In the MX Package Installer, Debian Backports didn't work. I enabled them in the repos, and now any MX Tool doesn't work at all! And in Thunar, "Open root Thunar here" doesn't work neither.

Fixed the Backports in Package Installer, for some reason Buster doesn't have .gz Package list, it has only .xz, I changed the code to download that. The other issue is not related to MX Package Installer.

[Dede]

What folder did you right click to "Open root Thunar here" ?
Just checked it, with a not really useful example by
right-clicking on Documents an selecting "Open root Thunar here".
You might need to enter the root-password, not your own/user password.



It doesn't work anywhere... and my password and the root password are the same...

[dolphin_oracle]

Also the new colour profiles settings dialogue seems to be entirely missing (or at least I could not find it).

I don't see it either and, according to the Help file, it does not work automatically yet. We'll be checking that out...

there are "profiles" under Display->advanced, although I don't know how they work. Is that the same as the color profiles?

[Stevo]

I believe there are no Debian backports yet, so the screen is empty. What you enabled may have been for Stretch maybe?

The Open Root Thunar works fine for me (on a folder that needs it).

Buster backports has been up and running for several weeks at least, and does have some packages in it, such as Musescore (which also is in MX 19 main, though): https://lists.debian.org/debian-backpor ... reads.html

We've added some packages that would be in MX 18 test to the main MX 19 repo so we can take advantage of the beta phase to get them tested. If there's something wrong, we can pull or move them easily. One of them is Kdenlive 19.08, for example, in addition to Musescore.

[Stevo]

Well, it looks like Debian is also setting up a "FastTrack" backports repo for packages that haven't already made their way into testing, just to make it more complicated: https://wiki.debian.org/FastTrack

[Dede]

I believe there are no Debian backports yet, so the screen is empty. What you enabled may have been for Stretch maybe?

The Open Root Thunar works fine for me (on a folder that needs it).

Well... after that, I can't open any of the MX Tools...!