MX-19 Beta 1 Feedback

[fehlix]

The HP doesn't have secure boot, but I'm beginning to think that because I already have Debian 10 installed on that machine there might be a quirk in boot up defaulting to Debian instead of allowing me to choose MX 19.

If you would post the grub-menu's config-file /boot/grub/grub.cfg
from the controlling grub (which might be MX Linux or Debian, depending whether you have chosen MBR for grub target within the MX Installer )
and the output of

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lsblk -f

we might spot the issue - or not.

[v17564]

About Spanish translation:
- in home user folder, change "Desktop" to "Escritorio"

- In "MX-Tweak":

• In "Opciones para configurar", change "Restablecer Lightdm (pantalla de inicio) a la predeterminado" to "Restablecer Lightdm (pantalla de inicio) a la predeterminada" or better "Restablecer la pantalla de inicio de Lightdm predeterminada"

• In "Otro", change "Mostrar ventanas de todos los áreas de trabajos en el panel" to "Mostrar ventanas de todas las áreas de trabajo en el panel"

• In "Panel, Preferencias del panel", change "Selector de pupitre" to "Selector de áreas de trabajo"

• Cange the size of the windowv in: "Apariencia, Tipos de letra", is bigger than other windows in the same dialog

- In "Configuración":

• ArandR is a multimonitor configuration tool, perhaps you should add some little explanation like "Multimonitor configuration (ARandR)". Translate: "Configuración de multimonitor (ARandR)"

• "Advance Network Configuration" isn't translate, "Configuración avanzada de red"

[chrispop99]

About Eadwine's problem with Notification Area (System Tray) icons being a bit distorted, I fixed this on mine, by finding a spot on the tray that, when right-clicked, gets you access to its settings and not an individual app's settings. Bring up the Properties icon. Selecting "Square Icons" fixes the problem at the expense of moving the icons too far apart. What you can do is to increase the "Maximum Icon Size" a little. You'll find that the icons don't really get bigger but move a little further apart, fixing the problem! Maybe this default spacing can be changed for the final release.

Thanks, but this was tried during Alpha testing, and didn't work on all machines.

Chris

[Ghost67]

I am still having probs trying to get the panel to be transparent. So far making it transparent makes everything in the panel disappear. Uhm.. I only want the BACKGROUND to disappear.

Has anyone gotten that to work? If so.. how?

'Panel preferences' dialog - 'Appearance' - 'Background' Style = Solid colour, click the colour box, then in the 'Pick a panel colour' dialog, just below where it says 'custom' click the '+' box. There will be shown a colour gradient selector with a slider on the left for the hue, a slider on the bottom for the transparency, and the main square where you pick how bright or dark you want the selected colour by click-dragging.
The slider at the bottom is the one you need. Drag it all the way to the left for a transparent panel.

I show how to do this at the beginning of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqEa0N9DmU :)

[KBD]

If you would post the grub-menu's config-file /boot/grub/grub.cfg
from the controlling grub (which might be MX Linux or Debian, depending whether you have chosen MBR for grub target within the MX Installer )
and the output of

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lsblk -f

we might spot the issue - or not.

Thanks felix!
is this what you want?

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#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  set have_grubenv=true
  load_env
fi
if [ "${next_entry}" ] ; then
   set default="${next_entry}"
   set next_entry=
   save_env next_entry
   set boot_once=true
else
   set default="0"
fi

if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
  menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
  menuentry_id_option=""
fi

export menuentry_id_option

if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
  set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
  save_env saved_entry
  set prev_saved_entry=
  save_env prev_saved_entry
  set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
  if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
    saved_entry="${chosen}"
    save_env saved_entry
  fi
}
function load_video {
  if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
    insmod all_video
  else
    insmod efi_gop
    insmod efi_uga
    insmod ieee1275_fb
    insmod vbe
    insmod vga
    insmod video_bochs
    insmod video_cirrus
  fi
}

if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
   font=unicode
else
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
fi
    font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi

if loadfont $font ; then
  set gfxmode=auto
  load_video
  insmod gfxterm
  set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
  set lang=en_US
  insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ] ; then
  set timeout=30
else
  if [ x$feature_timeout_style = xy ] ; then
    set timeout_style=menu
    set timeout=5
  # Fallback normal timeout code in case the timeout_style feature is
  # unavailable.
  else
    set timeout=5
  fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
fi
insmod png
if background_image /usr/share/desktop-base/futureprototype-theme/grub/grub-4x3.png; then
  set color_normal=white/black
  set color_highlight=black/white
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
function gfxmode {
	set gfxpayload="${1}"
}
set linux_gfx_mode=
export linux_gfx_mode
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc' {
	load_video
	insmod gzio
	if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
	insmod part_msdos
	insmod ext2
	set root='hd0,msdos1'
	if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
	else
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
	fi
	echo	'Loading Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 ...'
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-amd64 root=UUID=be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc ro  quiet
	echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64
}
submenu 'Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc' {
	menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.19.0-5-amd64-advanced-be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
		insmod part_msdos
		insmod ext2
		set root='hd0,msdos1'
		if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
		else
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
		fi
		echo	'Loading Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 ...'
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-amd64 root=UUID=be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc ro  quiet
		echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
		initrd	/boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64
	}
	menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.19.0-5-amd64-recovery-be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
		insmod part_msdos
		insmod ext2
		set root='hd0,msdos1'
		if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
		else
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
		fi
		echo	'Loading Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 ...'
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-amd64 root=UUID=be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc ro single 
		echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
		initrd	/boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64
	}
	menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.19.0-4-amd64-advanced-be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
		insmod part_msdos
		insmod ext2
		set root='hd0,msdos1'
		if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
		else
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
		fi
		echo	'Loading Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 ...'
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc ro  quiet
		echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
		initrd	/boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-4-amd64
	}
	menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-4.19.0-4-amd64-recovery-be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
		insmod part_msdos
		insmod ext2
		set root='hd0,msdos1'
		if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
		else
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc
		fi
		echo	'Loading Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 ...'
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc ro single 
		echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
		initrd	/boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-4-amd64
	}
}

### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f  ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
  source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f  $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
  source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###

and:

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$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                                   
├─sda1
│    ext4         be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc   90.5G     8% /
├─sda2
│                                                                     
└─sda5
     swap         c95b29f6-fbfa-434e-b5b1-b6b1902a64af                [SWAP]

[fehlix]

is this what you want?

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$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                                   
├─sda1
│    ext4         be186784-3f23-4ff4-9df8-855197a418cc   90.5G     8% /
├─sda2
│                                                                     
└─sda5
     swap         c95b29f6-fbfa-434e-b5b1-b6b1902a64af                [SWAP]

Doesn't look like there is any MX Linux installed.
But you wrote:

The HP laptop skips past my selection to boot a full install of MX 19 like it isn't even there and boots into my Debian install instead.

Where do you select MX-19 to boot, their is no menu entry with the Debian Grub-menu?

[bigbenaugust]

I set up AppArmor on MX 19b1, to put it a little more in line with Debian 10. No issues, no surprises as expected!

[KBD]

Doesn't look like there is any MX Linux installed.
But you wrote:

The HP laptop skips past my selection to boot a full install of MX 19 like it isn't even there and boots into my Debian install instead.

Where do you select MX-19 to boot, their is no menu entry with the Debian Grub-menu?

I think we didn't understand each other and I didn't explain it well. I'm testing MX 19 from a full install on a usb stick. I hit F9 on my laptop to choose MX 19 and select it, but it skips right by and loads My regular Debian install instead. I can get a Live USB to load on that machine, but not my full install. I know the install is good because it boots up fine on my X220 and Acer C720 without issue.

[davemx]

System Sounds.

Sorry if this is covered already, but there is a superfluous line at the end of the /usr/bin/logoutsound-mx file. I don't think it's actually causing a problem, but it has the potential to do so if xfce changes its code. That line is xfce4-session-logout. It's already in the process of logging out!

Also, it needs 3 entries in Session & Startup. One, as now for logout, one for restart and one for shutdown.

[fehlix]

Doesn't look like there is any MX Linux installed.
But you wrote:

The HP laptop skips past my selection to boot a full install of MX 19 like it isn't even there and boots into my Debian install instead.

Where do you select MX-19 to boot, their is no menu entry with the Debian Grub-menu?

I think we didn't understand each other and I didn't explain it well. I'm testing MX 19 from a full install on a usb stick. I hit F9 on my laptop to choose MX 19 and select it, but it skips right by and loads My regular Debian install instead.

So you try to boot from an attached USB stick, which has a "hdd" install (not a LiveUSB-install) on it.
OTOH, the lsblk command does not show any attached USBstick?