MX-19 Beta 1 Feedback

[Dede]

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

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

[Jerry3904]

Take out that repo

[Dede]

Take out that repo

I can't... MX Package Installer (as every MX Tool) doesn't open anymore...
I'll try to reinstall MX 19...

[nathan2423]

In whisker menu, "position search entry next to panel button" does not appear to work for me as it does in 18.3.

[Jerry3904]

Works here, putting the search box at the bottom.

[Jerry3904]

Back to the Color Profiles question: we are apparently missing a package: xfce4-color-settings

No clue where that package is. I posted on the Xfce Forum, and was told it was in the Xubuntu Dev repo, but it isn't there. Then I looked at the Xfce GIT repo, and it's not there either. Looks like maybe they took it down...?

[fehlix]

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!

Not sure: I just done a frugal install. The created grub.entry look as it should be:

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menuentry "MX 19beta-1 (patito feo) Frugal Install" {
    search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid 2635ed5c-9868-48c5-bfd6-55dedc20cc01
    linux /antiX-Frugal-4.19.0-5-amd64/vmlinuz bdir=antiX-Frugal-4.19.0-5-amd64 buuid=2635ed5c-9868-48c5-bfd6-55dedc20cc01 quiet splasht=v kbd=de
    initrd /antiX-Frugal-4.19.0-5-amd64/initrd.gz
}

The frugal-directory is correctly named: "/antiX-Frugal-4.19.0-5-amd64".
The created grub.entry shall work if you copy it into an existing grub-install under /boot/grub/custom.cfg,
which provide an new menuentry with the grub-menu.
If you want to boot from the LiveUSB/ISO and if you not re-label the frugal partition, you need to tell it where to look for the the frugal-files, e.g with boot options flab=xxx, fdev=/dev/sda2 or fuuid=XXXXXXXX
Also I think, the symptoms you describe have nothing to do with MX-19Beta-1, but rather that you need first to find out how frugal booting works.

[nathan2423]

Re: MX-19 Beta 1 Feedback
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Post by Jerry3904 » Mon Aug 26, 2019 7:55 pm
Works here, putting the search box at the bottom.

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Yes it does put it at the bottom, but in 18.3 my Search box is to the left, directly over the startup button, while in 19 the search box is over to the right. Probably not significant enough to worry about, but I noticed it and thought I would report. Maybe it's a change in Whisker.

[Jerry3904]

Not like this?

[Stevo]

Back to the Color Profiles question: we are apparently missing a package: xfce4-color-settings

No clue where that package is. I posted on the Xfce Forum, and was told it was in the Xubuntu Dev repo, but it isn't there. Then I looked at the Xfce GIT repo, and it's not there either. Looks like maybe they took it down...?

It's a program that's supposed to be part of xfce4-settings, but I don't see it as part of our package. Let me rebuild Sid's, since they have it: https://packages.debian.org/search?sear ... e&arch=any