MX-19.2 KDE Beta 1 feedback thread

[baldyeti]

If the home folder was kept from a previous MX installation, then probably mime associations have been preserved (e.g. PDF associated with qpdfviewer which is not included in the KDE flavour)

[JuhaT]

There was no PDF-reader, only something called "PDF arranger" that couldnt open PDF files (nothing happened when I tried to open a PDF), so I installed "Evience" document viewer.

Odd - okular is present in my live session and perfectly functional (can open PDFs)

Thanks for info. When I clicked on a PDF file it tried to open it with "PDF arranger" for me.

If the home folder was kept from a previous MX installation, then probably mime associations have been preserved (e.g. PDF associated with qpdfviewer which is not included in the KDE flavour)

That is probably right. Thanks for the explanation.

[seaken64]

I installed the MX-KDE beta with a frugal install. I got it all working but the date and time was off. When I tried using the applet to change the time it kept giving me an error. It would not let me make a change. I read up and it was said I would be asked for the password but I was not asked for a password. I figured this was why I couldn't apply the changes.

I ended up trying to change to London time. I got the error messages and then after I dismissed the errors the password box popped up. The time zone was now set to London. Then I tried setting it back to New York. It would not allow the change and I never got the password prompt.

I figured out that I could set it to UTC and it stuck. No password needed. But setting it to UTC gave me the correct time.

I couldn't figure out how to run the date & time settings from the command line using "sudo". This may be a KDE thing. I don't know if this behavior is normal for KDE or not.

[dolphin_oracle]

Use MX-datetime. The kde one does have issues.

[seaken64]

@d_o - thank you. I missed that app. It did ask me for the password when I launched it. I guess I was trying to learn the KDE way.

Seaken64

[Adrian]

@d_o - thank you. I missed that app. It did ask me for the password when I launched it. I guess I was trying to learn the KDE way.

Seaken64

Yeah, we'd like to fix that, it would be great if somebody could point us to a fix or something, it's hard to believe that KDE is broken like that in Buster...

[andyprough]

Yeah, we'd like to fix that, it would be great if somebody could point us to a fix or something, it's hard to believe that KDE is broken like that in Buster...

Only useful data I've ever seen on fixing this problem is this old Kubuntu forum post: https://askubuntu.com/questions/268073/ ... -kde-clock

Due to KDE clock getting its wrong data that had been fed to /etc/localtime, I would have to run

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

and configure the time zone again.

More of a work-around than an actual fix. Not sure if that still works with the more recent versions.

[shmu26]

Does KDE beta differ significantly from KDE as offered in the MX software manager? I mean, if you are running MX 19.2 AHS.

[asqwerth]

The KDE plasma you get when you install from the package manager is the vanilla version found in Debian buster. The prepackaged list of applications it comes with is also set by the relevant metapackage for KDE Standard or KDE Full.

The MX beta iso has the dev team's own choice of applications. And some fixes to stuff that didn't work that well in Debian's version, eg sddm.

[JayM]

And MX-KDE will be a fully-supported official version just like the current Xfce version is.