MX-19 Beta 3 Feedback

[Eadwine Rose]

Hmm.. how then is it possible that it is transparent for me?

This is from beta2.1:

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See my edit 2 above. You probably selected a solid panel background color (with transparency, it looks like,)

Yes I did. There was no other way to get that thing transparent.

[JayM]

BTW I just tested it with a panel background image and it uses a slightly lighter version of that image for its background. If I set both the enter and leave opacity to 50 I have the regular image as Orage's background with no translucency. So the "onliest" way to have a truly transparent background in Orage is to use a solid color in your panel.

[Eadwine Rose]

Back in 18.3 I just matched the background color to the wallpaper and had the regular transparency going on. Since that transparency option is now gone the only way to get that is with the solid color thing.


It would be nice to get that transparency sorted though.. but yeah.. it's not a major thing.

[JayM]

The only way is to set the enter and leave opacity to the same setting, if you don't want to change to a solid color. That sort of works, except of course for the Orage clock, and the fact that it also affects all panel icons.

[Eadwine Rose]

That only makes it semi transparent I think.. and affects EVERYTHING in the panel indeed.. also the window buttons and all that.

[Zuul]

Hello,
During live session and before installing Mx Linux 19.3 beta, I notice that my bluetooth dock and headphones cannot be paired. They don't appear during the first step of the process.
It worked properly on previous MX Linux versions without any special manipulation.
I hope this problem will be solved.
So sorry if my post is not at the right place...
Best regards.

[Eadwine Rose]

Please post quick system info, thank you.

[bpr323]

You know what the problem is? Most users install mx19b3 on a VM - just to try it out. I guess very few ppl would risk installing a beta on their "main" PC/Laptop.
I've had a few glitches installing 19 b2.1 on 2 bare-metal Thinkpads, 1 NUC and 1 Latitude - both frech installs and snapshot cloning.
Lenovo's BIOS is the worst - totally geared towards Windows UFI and "scure boot".
With 19b2.1 I managed to ignore the "incorrect settings in minstall.conf" error and finish the install.
Now with 19b3 the installation process is completely broken. Even with "custom install" (after manually creating xt4 and fat32 partitions with Gparted) - I can only progress as far as Grub where it fails.
I'm a professional tester, I know this is a major bug Sev-1 which needs to be fixed urgently. Who cares about the transparency/color of the panel if the install doesn't work?
May I suggest the MX Devs grab a spare Lenovo and try to install on an empty NVMe - hope they get as frustrated as dozens of potential MX users this stupid bug is turning away from otherwise excellent distro!

[Zuul]

Please post quick system info, thank you.

Please run MX Tools/Quick System Info, then edit your post above with its pencil icon and paste. (Quick System Info automatically copies the information to your clipboard, already formatted properly for pasting into the forum so all you have to do is a right-click/ paste, not a copy/paste.) Thanks.

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System:    Host: zen Kernel: 4.19.0-5-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_386 Continuum May 26  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: 1000H v: x.x serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 1000H v: x.xx serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2102 
           date: 07/21/2009 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 17.2 Wh condition: 44.5/55.3 Wh (81%) model: ASUS 1000H 
           status: Charging 
CPU:       Topology: Single Core model: Intel Atom N270 bits: 32 type: MT arch: Bonnell rev: 2 
           L2 cache: 512 KiB 
           flags: nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6383 
           Speed: 868 MHz min/max: 800/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1116 2: 816 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK 
           driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1024x600~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 18.2.6 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-5-686-pae 
Network:   Device-1: Ralink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 
           port: ffa0 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet 
           vendor: ASUSTeK driver: ATL1E v: N/A port: ec00 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 178.35 GiB used: 4.97 GiB (2.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9160827AS size: 149.05 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk size: 29.30 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 67.41 GiB used: 4.97 GiB (7.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 23.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 770 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mirror.ibcp.fr/pub/mxlinux/workspace/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 168 Uptime: 2m Memory: 1.90 GiB used: 322.6 MiB (16.6%) Init: SysVinit 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.36 

[JayM]

Please post quick system info, thank you.

With pleasure :

Please run MX Tools/Quick System Info, then edit your post above with its pencil icon and paste. (Quick System Info automatically copies the information to your clipboard, already formatted properly for pasting into the forum so all you have to do is a right-click/ paste, not a copy/paste.) Thanks.