MX-19.2 KDE Beta 2 Feedback Thread

[tony37]

About the many compress options in Dolphin: with .odt, .docx and .epub files this results in having a context menu with: 'KEC: Compress', 'KEC: Extract', 'Compress' [with Ark] and 'Extract' [with Ark]. A bit too much I think.

[Gerson]

I'm using the same visual preferences and appearance I had in beta 1 but some programs don't look good for example Quiterss looks all white, it doesn't read.

[dolphin_oracle]

we haven't changed anythemes, but its very possible with Qt that some apps won't work with a given theme.

[Sparky]

I just can't get any sound on my laptop through HDMI. I have selected the proper selections from MX select sound and PAVU. One strange behavior is that on youtube, although everything is silent, it plays the content at an unbelievable fast speed when I have selected HDMI output through pavu.

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System:
  Host: mxkde2 Kernel: 5.6.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-2-amd64 
  root=UUID=45f2aad8-0dc6-4603-aeb8-6ba0d7d7f689 ro quiet splash 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: MX-19.2_KDE-beta2_x64 patito feo July 5  2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: PU551LA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PU551LA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends 
  v: PU551LA.207 date: 06/18/2014 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 38.6 Wh condition: 42.7/56.2 Wh (76%) volts: 10.8/10.8 
  model: ASUSTeK PU45052 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Charging cycles: 5 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-4030U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell 
  family: 6 model-id: 45 (69) stepping: 1 microcode: 26 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 15165 
  Speed: 891 MHz min/max: 800/1800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 891 2: 886 3: 897 
  4: 884 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
  STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0a16 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.0.7 
  compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:0a0c 
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:9c20 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.0-2-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: alx 
  v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 1969:10a1 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 04:00.0 
  chip ID: 8086:08b1 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 6.46 GiB (1.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS545050A7E680 size: 465.76 GiB 
  block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm 
  serial: <filter> rev: AF10 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 148.30 GiB size: 144.97 GiB (97.76%) used: 6.46 GiB (4.5%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2200 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mx/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
  2: deb http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mx/mx/repo/ buster ahs
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 195 Uptime: 6m Memory: 3.78 GiB used: 847.4 MiB (21.9%) Init: SysVinit 
  v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 
  running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[Gerson]

we haven't changed anythemes, but its very possible with Qt that some apps won't work with a given theme.

But why did they look good in Beta 1 and now in Beta 2, do they look blank? It's the same theme I'm using.

[dolphin_oracle]

we haven't changed anythemes, but its very possible with Qt that some apps won't work with a given theme.

But why did they look good in Beta 1 and now in Beta 2, do they look blank? It's the same theme I'm using.

I don't know, but we literally did 0 with the themes.

what's the theme you are using?

[kc1di]

Also in Okular the odt backend should be installed by default as many files today are .odt files.

My naive idea would be that there is LibreOffice for those. Plus: when I try to install okular-backend-odt, it needs 7 dependencies, 56,8 MiB needed to install. I don't think it's an option to add this to the iso.

It's no big deal and your right LibreOffice takes care of It.

[chrispop99]

About the many compress options in Dolphin: with .odt, .docx and .epub files this results in having a context menu with: 'KEC: Compress', 'KEC: Extract', 'Compress' [with Ark] and 'Extract' [with Ark]. A bit too much I think.

Dolphin>Control>Services lets you select what the context menu shows.

Chris

[tony37]

About the many compress options in Dolphin: with .odt, .docx and .epub files this results in having a context menu with: 'KEC: Compress', 'KEC: Extract', 'Compress' [with Ark] and 'Extract' [with Ark]. A bit too much I think.

Dolphin>Control>Services lets you select what the context menu shows.

Chris

I know this perfectly, it just seems a bit overkill to have two ways of doing the same thing by default. Sorry if I'm nitpicking here.

[chrispop99]

Sorry if I'm nitpicking here.

Not at all; all suggestions gratefully received!

It's good that there are so few show-stoppers being reported.

Chris