MX-19 RC1 Feedback thread

[gimbleguy]

I'm using MXlinux 19-RC1 on Virtualbox. So far it's really good.

[mklym]

Installed MX-19RC1 on my CF-29 this morning. All went well, including setting up an SD card as swap. Will do testing tonight, as time allows. Thanks for all the hard work the Devs have put into MX-19 to get it to this point.

[rasat]

Everything works fine. I have one change I would like. How to change the /boot/grub/themes/linen/theme.txt not to show the few seconds of terminal image when launching the boot. The Debian background maybe from my previous grub setting, so how to skip this stage? See the screenshoot.

http://amurt.ro/download/mx/grub-screen-mx19rc1.jpg

[bpr323]

Now open for business, although sourceforge doens't have many mirrors on it right now, it should be up.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-lin ... ing/MX-19/

Remember:

If posting hardware issues, please post the output of “quick-system-info” from the menu or terminal, at a minimum.

If posting nvidia-installer issues, please post the contents of /var/log/ddm.log.

If posting remaster issues, please include the contents of /var/log/live/live-remaster.log

If posting installer issues, please include the contents of /var/log/minstall.log

If posting issues with MX-PackageInstaller “Popular Apps”, please post contents of /var/log/mxpi.log or /var/log/mxpi.log.old (whichever contains the log of your issue).

I'm happy to confirm that after multiple updates to mx-installer coming through the updater, I could finally LUM and auto-install 19b3 snapshot ISO to bare metal X1 NVMe without a glitch - Woo-hoo!!
Spent about an hour with ArcoLinux, and they have some nasty issue with Thunar which spends like a whole minute before opening smb shares on my Libreelec media server.
5 minutes later, and I'm back on my MX desktop with a snapshot USB!
Hope my testing helped with nailing down the mx-installer issues.

[dolphin_oracle]

Now open for business, although sourceforge doens't have many mirrors on it right now, it should be up.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-lin ... ing/MX-19/

Remember:

If posting hardware issues, please post the output of “quick-system-info” from the menu or terminal, at a minimum.

If posting nvidia-installer issues, please post the contents of /var/log/ddm.log.

If posting remaster issues, please include the contents of /var/log/live/live-remaster.log

If posting installer issues, please include the contents of /var/log/minstall.log

If posting issues with MX-PackageInstaller “Popular Apps”, please post contents of /var/log/mxpi.log or /var/log/mxpi.log.old (whichever contains the log of your issue).

I'm happy to confirm that after multiple updates to mx-install coming through, I could finally auto-install 19b3 snapshot ISO to bare metal on my X1 without a glitch - Woo-hoo!!
Spent about an hour with ArcoLinux, and they have some issue with Thunar which spends like a whole minute before opening smb shares on my Libreelec media server.
5 minutes later, and I'm back on my MX desktop with a snapshot USB!
Hope my testing helped with nailing down the mx-installer issues.

nice! your reports were key. thank you.

[bpr323]

I just made a very quick check. I booted up to a Live instance of MX-19 RC1 from a Flash Drive and put the Panel horizontal on the bottom of the screen. I noticed there is a red line to the right of the unmount icon, but don't remember if that line was there when the panel was vertical before I made it horizontal.

Screenshot.png

This red line disappeared about a minute later, but don't remember if it disappeared before or after I clicked on the unmount icon, which just showed the Flash Drive I used to boot up.

I connected another Flash Drive that Thunar recognized, thinking that the line indicated something was mounted, but no red line appeared.

I booted up again with the same Flash Drive, but this time the red line never appeared.

What is that red line supposed to indicate?

Mate, you've got a bum steer answer on page 1 - it's not a "red line" - it's a duplicate of an icon to the right, which is tucked under your "infected" icon.
It happens to the mx-update panel icon most of the time.

mx panel icon shadowing.png

In my case if you point the tip of your cursor at the little white bit that protrudes on the right side of the mx-updater icon, it actually opens the USB Unmounter - the "full" icon of which is on the right and also functional. I've reported this issue in the 19b3 feedback thread, and ... crickets :) Doesn't happen with the XFCE panel on ArcoLinux though
A work-around "cure" is to move the Updater icon to the right so that it sits next to the Log Out (green) icon on its right - now it's "clean" :)

mx panel icon shadowing2.png

mx panel icon shadowing3.png

[richb]

Not a fix but a temporary solution for me. I have some hidden icons that I do not use. For example the removable device unmounter. That puts a right pointing arrow at the right of the notification ares. Clicking that to display the hidden icons and clicking it again to hide them eliminates any additional overlayed icons. This may be no help for you if you have all the icons displayed. But I throw it out there anyway.

[bpr323]

Not a fix but a temporary solution for me. I have some hidden icons that I do not use. For example the removable device unmounter. That puts a right pointing arrow at the right of the notification ares. Clicking that to display the hidden icons and clicking it again to hide them eliminates any additional overlayed icons. This may be no help for you if you have all the icons displayed. But I throw it out there anyway.

I've just uninstalled clipit rather than hiding it - couldn't figure out how to use it ))
See how the VLC icon gets "infected" by the vlume icon on its right?

mx panel icon shadowing4.png

[Eadwine Rose]

It's a known problem, reported in the betas already. Nothing that we can fix, it's Xfce's issue.


At least.. that is what I understood.

[richb]

And my suggested band aid requires hiding an icon, not deleting one. But as I said it is not a solution. It most likely is an XFCE issue.