MX Modified - Latest MX KDE 5.22 Using MX21 beta

[norbert]

BTW, of topic, pushed by all your positive input I tried to install MXLinux KDE beta2 iso today in a VM (kvm), but selecting a Japanese kbd and removing the US one ended in a hanged system, no response for hours. Will retry ....

[Jerry3904]

This is not only off topic, but will never be seen by the Devs working on that Beta 2. Please post this in the feedback thread:

viewtopic.php?f=94&t=59297

[norbert]

I know, but before I cannot reproduce the issue I will not post and bother them there ;-)
And before that there is weekend with sawanobori (inverse canyoning) and kid's time :-D

[andyprough]

I know, but before I cannot reproduce the issue I will not post and bother them there ;-)
And before that there is weekend with sawanobori (inverse canyoning) and kid's time :-D

Are you mountain climbing up the inside of a waterfall Norbert?

[SwampRabbit]

No issues booting. This system is MX19.2 with everything kept on the Debian Buster and MX repos, except Norbert's KDE packages are pulling their dependencies from Debian Sid. I have to manually update the KDE packages and then disable Sid in order to keep the rest of the system running on packages from Buster and MX. Neither this system nor the antiX Sid system with Norbert's KDE packages has had any trouble booting for me.

Gotcha, I couldn't remember exactly if and what you pulled from Sid. Figured I'd ask if you were running the GRUB from Sid by chance. No worries, thanks.

[andyprough]

Gotcha, I couldn't remember exactly if and what you pulled from Sid. Figured I'd ask if you were running the GRUB from Sid by chance. No worries, thanks.

Dan is running everything from Sid, and I've got my antiX Sid KDE 5.19.4 setup. antiX is running well, no boot problems, but best to ask Dan about his MX experience with Sid.

[MAYBL8]

No real issues from sid here.
I do have an error message that shows up from grub but it doesn't stop it from booting.
I'll try to catch it and post it here.

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$ grub-install --version
grub-install (GRUB) 2.04-9

[SwampRabbit]

thanks Dan, good to know

[andyprough]

Norbert has posted an update: https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/08/ ... 020-08-13/

So there's probably some packages for us to upgrade to now.

[nathan2423]

Andy --

I have a specific goal I want to accomplish by getting an MX installation functioning with the latest KDE:

I use my computers in a business environment where I am constantly working with Microsoft Word and excel documents. My goal has been for years to get a file manager that has a preview pane comparable to what is available in windows. Dolphin allows that but I gather that only in the latest versions of KDE does the dolphin information panel actually display previews of excel and word documents. The PDF preview in the info panel has worked for a while, but I could never get word and excel files to show previews. Apparently even now Calligra must be installed alongside Dolphin in order for all the previews to work, but I have experimented with Manajaro and Kubuntu and I know that it can be made to work in the latest versions. Calligra may be a pale shadow of other competitors, but if it brings with it Word and Excel previews then I'll gladly keep it installed.

I am coming to the realization that flatpaks and appimages will in the future provide upgrade paths forward on major application programs, but I really want Dolphin running to full capacity with all available previews, and perhaps integration with Dropbox, etc. For that I need a base operating system that has the latest updates to KDE working properly, because the Flatpak version of Dolphin has few (if any) working previews. I haven't asked or tested the latest standard MX19.2KDE, but I am thinking that these previews I am talking about are probably not working in new KDE MX, given the older version of KDE that they are working with. I am willing and experienced enough to tweak things and am willing to treat your MXmodified on an "as is" basis with knowledge that it's extremely experimental

So I have two questions:

1 - Do you have Microsoft Word and Excel documents working in your latest version of your MX Modified installation?

2 - If so, do you have the snapshot system working, and do you have a snapshot available anywhere to download that I could test out?

Thanks very much!