MX-19 Beta 1 Feedback

[pato_acevedo]

I m testing MX-19 Beta in my dell Lattitude. I need R &R-Studio for my work.
This resources make the magic!!
https://kevcaz.github.io/notes/r/updatingtor3_6_0/
Add cran repository for most new R vertion.

And for R-studio just a reported dependence. Rstudio wants libssl1.0.2 but Debian 10 have libssl1.1
https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/4670
Solution: Download libssl1.0.2 from stretch.

https://i.postimg.cc/DyPkpTpN/mx.jpg



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[Jerry3904]

Thanks.

[rej]

Hi-

19 looks nice!

When attempting to change the panel opacity to transparent, found that it looks like the "Alpha" slider bar is missing, and it won't function properly without it.

Attachments are Debian 10, antiX 19 B3 [these both work], and MX19 B1.

[Eadwine Rose]

Hi-

19 looks nice!

When attempting to change the panel opacity to transparent, found that it looks like the "Alpha" slider bar is missing, and it won't function properly without it.

Yes, that looks like what I saw.. Alpha is gone. I can change the in and out, but there is no making it transparent just like that.

[asqwerth]

Debian 10 is still using XFCE 4.12. Probably antiX beta as well.

MX19 is using XFCE 4.14. It's the gtk3 toolkit, I think. Just like you no longer get colour droppers to help you choose a colour from anywhere in your desktop.

[gordonthegopher84]

First of all, thanks to the devs for an excellent release! I'm on a real potato, an Acer Cloudbook 14 AO1-431 with a terrible Celeron N3060, 2GB of un-upgradable soldered on RAM and a 32GB soldered on and un-upgradeabe eMMC drive. I tried a minimal installation of Kubuntu 18.04 first, since there was lots of talk of Plasma's low RAM and CPU usage in this thread; in my testing this was also true at first (about 350Mb used and minimal CPU usage), and MX-19 Beta 1 was more like 400-450Mb, but MX-19 seems a lot better at memory management once I open a few tabs of Firefox (I setup zram on both the Kubuntu and MX19 installs - one device per CPU core (so two), each one being about 700Mb, which is using the default SysV /etc/init.d/zram config as detailed in the Debian Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam). Kubuntu just locked up after a while, and I had to force power off as I couldn't even get a tty1 to pkill the session. While MX19 chugs if I really push it, it has a lot more mileage for me compared to Kubuntu.

One problem: when I suspend this machine, it often crashes on wakeup after I've put my password in. As others have noted, the default on MX19 Beta 1 is that "Enable Lock Screen" under "Whisker Menu>XFCE4 Screensaver>Lock Screen tab" is not selected. At first, when suspending and resuming, there was no lock screen at all! I've enabled it, along with "Lock Screen with Screensaver" and "Lock Screen with System Sleep". It doesn't always crash after I put my password in after resuming from suspend, but it does often enough to be a little bit annoying. I have to go to tty1 with Ctrl+Alt+F1, login as my user, then select

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sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm restart

but obviously this creates a new session, meaning anything I had open on suspend is gone. Not a massive issue, as I usually clean everything up and close every running program before suspending as a rule, but it is annoying. There are some upstream bugs open for xfce4-screensaver (which I know is new for XFCE 4.14) on the XFCE Bugzilla, but people request the output of

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journalctl | grep screensaver

which doesn't work as I'm not running systemd. I was under the impression SysV doesn't keep logs in the same way? Happy to pull some out if anyone can give me some pointers...

**EDIT** This actually also happens when the screensaver activates while the machine is still on - I move the mouse, the lock screen (lightdm?) appears, I put my password in, and then everything freezes. Have to tty1 and force a restart of lightdm to get out of it, which starts a new session, losing anything I had open.

[richb]

Hi-

19 looks nice!

When attempting to change the panel opacity to transparent, found that it looks like the "Alpha" slider bar is missing, and it won't function properly without it.

Yes, that looks like what I saw.. Alpha is gone. I can change the in and out, but there is no making it transparent just like that.

You can make it transparent.In panel Preferences>Appearance then solid color. click on the color block. Then click on the custom plus, (right under the word "Custom". It will bring up a color dialogue. Move the slider under the color winow all the way to the left, then click Select.. This will give you a transparent panel.

[Jerry3904]

Keep forgetting to put that in the Manual...thanks.

[Ghost67]

Hi-

19 looks nice!

When attempting to change the panel opacity to transparent, found that it looks like the "Alpha" slider bar is missing, and it won't function properly without it.

Yes, that looks like what I saw.. Alpha is gone. I can change the in and out, but there is no making it transparent just like that.

I show how to change panel alpha in my video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqEa0N9DmU
HTH

[Eadwine Rose]

I'll try this out sometime tomorrow. Thanks Rich!

And thank you too Ghost67


That is quite different from the "old" way.