MX-19 Beta 1 Feedback

[Old Giza]

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"

I corrected transaltions for the first two strings requested under MX-Tweak. They will show up in a future beta or final.

I'm not sure where the other strings are located, maybe Xfce or another app.

[Jerry3904]

The desktop file for ARandR is horribly short and has only one translation:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=ARandR
GenericName=Screen Settings
GenericName[de]=Bildschirmeinstellungen
Icon=display
Exec=arandr
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Settings;HardwareSettings;
StartupNotify=true

We could add to it, but it wouldn't survive an upgrade I bet.

[Jerry3904]

Now posting from an installation on my ThinkPad T60, where all seems to be running fine so far. (I love this machine!)

[JayM]

I just installed it to my 20GB ex-frugal partition, installing boot to root and not installing grub, then booting back into 18.3 and running sudo update-grub. It added 19b1 at the end of my (flat) boot menu under memtest and it boots up and runs fine as far as I can tell. No screen garbling or tearing either when booting from my USB stick without persistence or from my SSD.

One thing I noticed that threw me for a while is that the currently-active app's icon gets superimposed over the workspace switcher for the workspace in which the app is running. I thought it was the windows button in the wrong place at first and thought I'd found a bug, but then I noticed that I also had a (small) window button for Firefox, and I remembered that other distros did the same thing re: their workspace switchers. It's just that the one in Xfce 4.12 in MX-18 didn't behave that way and I'd gotten used to that. Xfce now behaves more like the other DEs in that regard.

I also had to run sudo sensors-detect and say yes to everything, let it add them to the proper file in /etc/init.d and start them, then run the sensor viewer and select sensors to display, plus change permissions of /usr/sbin/hddtemp to stop getting the nag notifications before the sensor plugin had anything available other than ACPI. I guess that's normal. It's mentioned in the manual, but I just did it from memory as I recalled having to jump through a couple of hoops to get the sensors working in MX. I'm still keeping an eye on my "new" CPU's temperature.

I'll report back if I encounter any problems. If I don't say anything it's because nothing's wrong.

[JayM]

OK, I found something: I can't decrypt, mount and open encrypted file systems from within Thunar. I've enabled allowing mounting of internal drives by non-root users in MX Tweaks, logged out and back in. When I click on an encrypted drive or partition it prompts me for the passphrase then nothing happens after I enter it, it just sits there in my home directory. I'm able to manually decrypt and mount them in a terminal. I ran Thunar from a terminal but there was no output or text. The various logs contain no entries which seem to be relevant.

[dolphin_oracle]

OK, I found something: I can't decrypt, mount and open encrypted file systems from within Thunar. I've enabled allowing mounting of internal drives by non-root users in MX Tweaks, logged out and back in. When I click on an encrypted drive or partition it prompts me for the passphrase then nothing happens after I enter it, it just sits there in my home directory. I'm able to manually decrypt and mount them in a terminal. I ran Thunar from a terminal but there was no output or text. The various logs contain no entries which seem to be relevant.

does it work without the "mounting internal drives by non-root users" override?

[JayM]

OK, I found something: I can't decrypt, mount and open encrypted file systems from within Thunar. I've enabled allowing mounting of internal drives by non-root users in MX Tweaks, logged out and back in. When I click on an encrypted drive or partition it prompts me for the passphrase then nothing happens after I enter it, it just sits there in my home directory. I'm able to manually decrypt and mount them in a terminal. I ran Thunar from a terminal but there was no output or text. The various logs contain no entries which seem to be relevant.

does it work without the "mounting internal drives by non-root users" override?

No.

[dolphin_oracle]

and that is luks, not encryptfs?

[JayM]

and that is luks, not encryptfs?

Correct.

[richb]

Attempt to install brightness-controller:

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root@mx:/home/richb# apt install brightness-controller
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 brightness-controller : Depends: python-pyside but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.