MX-19.2 KDE Beta 2 Feedback Thread

[i_ri]

Hello dolphin_oracle
Desktop Toolbox Icon

+Add Panel
a menu item included in Desktop Toolbox for +Add Panel ? It is not there.

+Add Panel is in the Desktop right-click menu.

[JayM]

It's there in mine:

but then I haven't changed the theme or look and feel as I'm beta-testing the out-of-the-box version of MX-KDE as we all should be doing. I just checked in the three included themes, Breeze, Breeze Dark and MX, and add panel is present in all of the desktop right-click menus. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're reporting? I don't have any Desktop Toolbox application anywhere in the menu when I search it, I just right-click on the desktop and add panel is one of the selections in all themes and looks-and-feels.

[JayM]

@i_ri: now I see what you're talking about, the "cashew" in the upper-right corner. No, add panel's not among the selections there. I don't know if those menu selections can be changed without actually modifying Debian's KDE Plasma package though, which probably wouldn't be something that the MX devs would want to do if they can avoid it so they can let upstream Debian deal with any future updates to it. But wait until the devs (Dophin etc.) are online and let them decide.

[i_ri]

Excellent., JayM.
hello everyone. additional machine.

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System:    Host: WallE Kernel: 5.6.0-2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 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: Desktop System: HP-Pavilion product: AY022AA-ABA p6330f v: N/A serial: <root required> 
           Chassis: Hewlett-Packard type: 3 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: MSI model: IONA v: 1.0 serial: <root required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 5.15 date: 06/25/2010 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3 530 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 2 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           bogomips: 23407 
           Speed: 1510 MHz min/max: 1200/2933 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1510 2: 1437 3: 1341 4: 1446 
           Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm 
           dts est flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe 
           pdcm pebs pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdtscp rep_good sep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 
           tsc vme xtopology xtpr 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           chip ID: 8086:0042 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.0.7 direct render: Yes 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel 
           port: d800 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter type: USB driver: r8188eu bus ID: 1-1.3:3 
           chip ID: 0bda:8179 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 6.70 GiB (1.4%) 
Info:      Processes: 186 Uptime: 24m Memory: 7.64 GiB used: 621.3 MiB (7.9%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
           Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: konsole inxi: 3.0.36 

Packages: 2326 (dpkg) 
Theme: Breeze [GTK2/3] 
Icons: breeze [GTK2/3] 

adding _mem fresh install upgrade through 7/28. start with auto wlan0.

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[sudo] password for patitok5obb2: 
 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program

 88.0 KiB +  20.5 KiB = 108.5 KiB       start_kdeinit
176.0 KiB +  29.0 KiB = 205.0 KiB       acpid
192.0 KiB +  29.0 KiB = 221.0 KiB       anacron
196.0 KiB +  36.0 KiB = 232.0 KiB       acpi_fakekeyd
220.0 KiB +  27.5 KiB = 247.5 KiB       startkde
280.0 KiB +  51.5 KiB = 331.5 KiB       init
312.0 KiB +  71.0 KiB = 383.0 KiB       cron
376.0 KiB +  24.0 KiB = 400.0 KiB       mdadm
484.0 KiB +  41.0 KiB = 525.0 KiB       rpc.idmapd
588.0 KiB +  47.5 KiB = 635.5 KiB       ksysguardd
612.0 KiB +  67.0 KiB = 679.0 KiB       cgmanager
536.0 KiB + 186.5 KiB = 722.5 KiB       rpcbind
688.0 KiB +  36.0 KiB = 724.0 KiB       ssh-agent
516.0 KiB + 263.0 KiB = 779.0 KiB       kwrapper5
656.0 KiB + 231.5 KiB = 887.5 KiB       dconf-service
764.0 KiB + 205.0 KiB = 969.0 KiB       dbus-launch (2)
284.0 KiB + 730.0 KiB =   1.0 MiB       saned (2)
420.0 KiB + 625.5 KiB =   1.0 MiB       avahi-daemon (2)
876.0 KiB + 178.0 KiB =   1.0 MiB       rpc.statd
792.0 KiB + 374.0 KiB =   1.1 MiB       getty (6)
  1.1 MiB + 265.5 KiB =   1.4 MiB       sudo
848.0 KiB + 568.0 KiB =   1.4 MiB       dbus
  1.3 MiB + 234.0 KiB =   1.5 MiB       ntpd
  1.6 MiB +  65.5 KiB =   1.7 MiB       smartd
324.0 KiB +   1.4 MiB =   1.7 MiB       kdeinit5
  1.5 MiB + 400.5 KiB =   1.9 MiB       gvfsd
  1.7 MiB + 264.0 KiB =   1.9 MiB       obexd
  1.9 MiB + 107.5 KiB =   2.0 MiB       rsyslogd
  1.8 MiB + 603.5 KiB =   2.3 MiB       sddm
  1.7 MiB + 732.5 KiB =   2.4 MiB       sddm-helper
  1.8 MiB + 601.5 KiB =   2.4 MiB       cupsd
920.0 KiB +   1.5 MiB =   2.4 MiB       desktop.so
  1.9 MiB + 591.5 KiB =   2.5 MiB       upowerd
  2.4 MiB + 137.0 KiB =   2.5 MiB       bash
  2.6 MiB + 249.0 KiB =   2.8 MiB       systemd-udevd
  1.8 MiB +   1.0 MiB =   2.8 MiB       cups-browsed
  2.5 MiB + 445.0 KiB =   2.9 MiB       dhclient
  2.1 MiB + 948.0 KiB =   3.0 MiB       kscreen_backend_launcher
  2.1 MiB +   1.0 MiB =   3.1 MiB       xembedsniproxy
  3.2 MiB +  26.0 KiB =   3.2 MiB       haveged
  2.3 MiB +   1.1 MiB =   3.3 MiB       gmenudbusmenuproxy
  3.1 MiB + 468.5 KiB =   3.6 MiB       systemd-logind
  2.9 MiB + 683.5 KiB =   3.6 MiB       dbus-daemon (4)
  3.0 MiB + 589.5 KiB =   3.6 MiB       at-spi-bus-launcher
  3.2 MiB + 526.5 KiB =   3.8 MiB       gvfsd-fuse
  3.4 MiB + 526.0 KiB =   3.9 MiB       polkitd
  3.6 MiB + 780.5 KiB =   4.3 MiB       wpa_supplicant
  1.1 MiB +   3.8 MiB =   4.8 MiB       file.so (3)
  4.3 MiB + 622.0 KiB =   4.9 MiB       ModemManager
  4.3 MiB + 935.5 KiB =   5.2 MiB       colord
  5.5 MiB + 943.0 KiB =   6.4 MiB       udisksd
  4.3 MiB +   2.1 MiB =   6.4 MiB       kaccess
  4.2 MiB +   2.2 MiB =   6.4 MiB       klauncher
  5.3 MiB +   1.3 MiB =   6.7 MiB       NetworkManager
  5.1 MiB +   2.1 MiB =   7.2 MiB       kglobalaccel5
  5.4 MiB +   1.9 MiB =   7.3 MiB       conky
  5.8 MiB +   2.0 MiB =   7.8 MiB       kactivitymanagerd
  5.3 MiB +   3.0 MiB =   8.4 MiB       org_kde_powerdevil
  5.3 MiB +   3.1 MiB =   8.4 MiB       ksmserver
  6.4 MiB +   2.2 MiB =   8.6 MiB       kuiserver5
  6.7 MiB +   2.3 MiB =   9.0 MiB       polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
  8.7 MiB +   3.3 MiB =  12.0 MiB       kdeconnectd
 11.4 MiB +   1.7 MiB =  13.1 MiB       python3.7
  9.0 MiB +   5.6 MiB =  14.6 MiB       kded5
 14.1 MiB +   1.8 MiB =  15.9 MiB       kwalletd
 16.8 MiB +   1.3 MiB =  18.1 MiB       pulseaudio
 13.7 MiB +   7.0 MiB =  20.7 MiB       yakuake
 15.1 MiB +   8.5 MiB =  23.6 MiB       krunner
 20.3 MiB +   3.4 MiB =  23.7 MiB       Xorg
 21.2 MiB +   4.2 MiB =  25.4 MiB       python2.7
 39.1 MiB +   8.1 MiB =  47.2 MiB       kwin_x11
118.3 MiB +  15.1 MiB = 133.3 MiB       plasmashell
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                        529.3 MiB

now twenty-one minutes into next day
The packagers are dedicating. new upgrades past twenty minutes.
A Great team.

((so yes that was me that might have tapped on the door at the wrong time. nothing crashed. A very well managed system. ))

[Gerson]

By default there is a checkbox in the update MX but there is no legend to know what it is. What does it correspond to?

[Gerson]

Both in KDE beta 1 and beta 2, I have installed a liquorix 5.7 kernel but although it starts and goes to the Login, after writing the password the screen remains black with the cursor active and doesn't advance. I have to turn off with the button and start with the 5.6 kernel and delete the 5.7. It doesn't work even if I start with Systemd.

[chrispop99]

Both in KDE beta 1 and beta 2, I have installed a liquorix 5.7 kernel but although it starts and goes to the Login, after writing the password the screen remains black with the cursor active and doesn't advance. I have to turn off with the button and start with the 5.6 kernel and delete the 5.7. It doesn't work even if I start with Systemd.

That is more likely to be a problem with your hardware not being compatible with the 5.7 kernel.

Can you boot MX Linux AHS version (with Xfce), and successfully use the 5.7 kernel?

Chris

[dolphin_oracle]

Both in KDE beta 1 and beta 2, I have installed a liquorix 5.7 kernel but although it starts and goes to the Login, after writing the password the screen remains black with the cursor active and doesn't advance. I have to turn off with the button and start with the 5.6 kernel and delete the 5.7. It doesn't work even if I start with Systemd.

If you installed nvidia drivers before you changed kernel, depending on method used to install the kernel the drivers might not have rebuilt.

[Gerson]

Both in KDE beta 1 and beta 2, I have installed a liquorix 5.7 kernel but although it starts and goes to the Login, after writing the password the screen remains black with the cursor active and doesn't advance. I have to turn off with the button and start with the 5.6 kernel and delete the 5.7. It doesn't work even if I start with Systemd.

If you installed nvidia drivers before you changed kernel, depending on method used to install the kernel the drivers might not have rebuilt.

I don't use Nvidia, I use Intel and by the way, if I set from Tweak tab other Use Intel driver, when I restart and work the screen starts flashing and blinking, I have to go back to the default driver it has. My computer is from 2018 with solid disk and 4 gb RAM

[Gerson]

Both in KDE beta 1 and beta 2, I have installed a liquorix 5.7 kernel but although it starts and goes to the Login, after writing the password the screen remains black with the cursor active and doesn't advance. I have to turn off with the button and start with the 5.6 kernel and delete the 5.7. It doesn't work even if I start with Systemd.

That is more likely to be a problem with your hardware not being compatible with the 5.7 kernel.

Can you boot MX Linux AHS version (with Xfce), and successfully use the 5.7 kernel?

Chris

I only have MX KDE beta 2 installed as my only operating system.
On another machine but with different features if I have XFCE installed but I don't think it's useful to do the test there.