MX-19 RC1 Feedback thread

[dolphin_oracle]

the icon thing well could be due to the mix of gtk2 vs. gtk3 and qt icon settings. there is quite a mix in there at the moment.

[dreamer]

It's easier to trigger tumblerd with root Thunar, because that image cache is probably almost empty. This time tumblerd monitor killed it so I guess it works the same as in MX-17/18. All in all MX-19 feels remarkably similar to MX 17/18 despite different base and new Xfce. This is a good accomplishment. I know there are a few new features too. And LightDM seems to be gone from restart/shut down.

Thanks guys. I good point. Let's wait for MX 19.1, but also support till 2022, is a very good deal. At least, they are my friends and not my babies . I can help them and show the path, but I can not continue for them all the time.

Those that have upgraded xfce 4.12 to 4.14 on MX 18 via my OBS repo, including my test installs, report that it went quite smoothly, so I don't think that will be an issue when saving /home when doing the MX 18 to MX 19 reinstall.

Maybe if you wait a bit after MX 19 is out, we'll have an MX migration app that duplicates many of the functions of aptik-gtk, which is no longer developed as freeware. For now, you can install aptik-gtk and use it to save a list of your installed packages, then reinstall it in MX 19 and use that list to reinstall those packages.

That's good and time-saving info. Is it possible to preserve /home in the installer if /home is located on the root partition?

[Gordon Cooper]

I downloaded MX-19RC1, transferred if to a USB drive, then wasted an hour trying to install it. I found that the installation
was much better when i plugged in the correct USB drive. MX19 was still lying on the desk. Now, it works like a dream. No problems!

[winemaker]

ok so on my x series 201 thinkpad this works great re: showing login screen after suspend. never did on 18.3 - blank black page that you had to start typing blind or else touch trackpad to get login to show that is great news! That was the only glitch i had with the 2 tp's and my wife's dell inspiron. will let you know about the x 220 series when i load it on that laster hopefully.

[Srdjan]

The clock background in the panel has slightly different background color, here
is the image, can this be somehow fixed?

Screenshot-2.png

[winemaker]

in chromium with the rc1 when i tried importing the bookmarks i had in my documents>MX linux folder usually you click on documents, then mxlinux folder which opens and choose the html bookmarks backup file. took me a few attempts but it appears that you have to choose a folder then click open at the bottom right and then click on the respective folder again to open etc. is this an mx thing now or chromium issue? was totally fine and so-called normal in 18.3. just letting you know. i happen to just come around to making it work in an unorthodox way.

Ok maybe the reason was that i turned the double click off to1 MS instead of the 400 or 401 when i retweaked it. i remember that i had to shut the click after shutting down the trackpad while typing to zero so that i did not get a funky lag -so i tweaked the wrong one. all should work fine - and i apologize for anymore gray hairs to the devs.

[winemaker]

ok installed and now tweaking on thinkpad220 x series. updates popeed up even though i updated upon install and i got this error

9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,202 kB of archives.
After this operation, 47.1 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 live-usb-maker all 0.4.1~2 [35.0 kB]
Ign:2 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 apt-notifier all 19.10.17mx19+1
Get:3 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 ddm-mx all 19.10.02 [54.8 kB]
Get:4 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 libmypaint-common all 1.3.0-3mx19+1 [80.4 kB]
Get:5 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 libmypaint-1.3-0 amd64 1.3.0-3mx19+1 [32.1 kB]
Get:6 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 mx-installer amd64 19.10.04 [301 kB]
Get:7 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 mx-live-usb-maker amd64 19.10 [121 kB]
Get:8 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 mx-packageinstaller-pkglist all 19.10.03 [124 kB]
Get:9 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 mx-packageinstaller amd64 19.10.01 [329 kB]
Err:2 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 apt-notifier all 19.10.17mx19+1
404 Not Found [IP: 70.40.214.183 80]
Fetched 1,077 kB in 1s (1,385 kB/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/pool/main/a/a ... +1_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 70.40.214.183 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

full upgrade complete (or was canceled)

[Lupin]

finished installing 19 RC1 on VM couple of hours ago, it's running like a charm, all is good. I appreciate MX's team for the hard work.

i'm not sure it's really gone now or not cause im running it from VM ,but in 18.3 when i play videos on vlc in fullscreen, clicking on seek bar causes the panel to popup on the video and also causes screen flickering, which i'm not seeing it happen anymore on 19 rc1. i hope this is true.

one last minor bug that i encountered is plank's old bug (panel setting window sticks there forever). i wish plank's devs finally do something about that.

[dolphin_oracle]

The clock background in the panel has slightly different background color, here
is the image, can this be somehow fixed?

Screenshot-2.png

yes.

you right click the clock and select a different color.

part of the issue is the default theme has a partially transparent panel and the clock plugin doesn't do transparency very well.

[Srdjan]

Fixed, thanks a lot! :)