MX-19.2 KDE Beta 2 Feedback Thread

[tony37]

I would be very cautious about updating to the newest Plasma version, even if you could. In Kubuntu I have this wallpaper bug and in Manjaro KDE my system area more or less disappeared with the latest update.

[asqwerth]

... and in Manjaro KDE my system area more or less disappeared with the latest update.

Yep, I've been reading a fair number of posts about Plasma issues after the latest Manjaro updates.

I stick to XFCE in Manjaro for low maintenance.

[Stevo]

Is it possible that kde plasma is more updated?
NORBERT PREINING · PUBLISHED 2020/07/30 · UPDATED 2020/07/30
Only a short update on the current status of my KDE/Plasma package for Debian sid and testing:Frameworks 5.72;plasma 5.19.4;Apps 20.04.3;Digikam 7.0.0;Ark CVE-2020-16116 fixed in version 20.04.3-1~np2 and use opensuse repositories.

https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/07/ ... 020-07-04/

nope.

at the moment, due to the way Qt is supported in the debian repo, we are stuck with what we got.

Since KDE Neon has a backported Qt 5.14 and plasma 5.18 on an Ubuntu 18.04 base, never say never. But it will take a lot of work to see if a port is even possible.

[Gerson]

I had this situation in the beta 1 and also now in the beta 2 but it is also happening to me in XFCE I don't know if this has something to do with the updates of 3 weeks ago. Whenever I open Firefox it asks me to set it as default and I have it. I haven't modified it from the default ISO.

[i_ri]

hello everyone

muon upgradeable
synaptic upgradable

man apt now use upgradeable; still apt messages use upgradable.
both commands list
--upgradable
--upgradeable

[shmu26]

I have Kubuntu 20.04 installed. I want to replace it with MX KDE Beta, and keep my home directory.
1 Is this tantamount to suicide?
2 Will Chrome remember me and my logins?

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shmuel@shmuel-Kubuntu:~$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: shmuel-Kubuntu Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.18.5 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B365M-A v: Rev X.0x 
  serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1203 
  date: 10/10/2019 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: Intel Core i7-9700 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 12.0 MiB 
  Speed: 842 MHz min/max: 800/4700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Device-2: JMTek LLC. type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-42-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: a8:5e:45:e2:87:3c 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.26 TiB used: 635.74 GiB (27.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: HDWD120 size: 1.82 TiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 96.12 GiB used: 26.16 GiB (27.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 289 Uptime: 1h 56m Memory: 15.50 GiB used: 8.42 GiB (54.3%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38

[JayM]

I would wait if I were you, shmu26, until after the official release of MX-KDE. Otherwise you will have to (re)install it again anyway as the beta version won't be supported after the release if you ever have any problems with it. I have a feeling that MX-KDE's release is going to be announced pretty soon now, because I see that a forum for it has already been created and I remember that richb said he wasn't going to do that until it was ready to be released. But that's just a guess on my part.

[shmu26]

I have a feeling that MX-KDE's release is going to be announced pretty soon now

[sunrat]

One of the devs said a few posts back there may be an RC version before the release.

[JayM]

One of the devs said a few posts back there may be an RC version before the release.

If that's the case and if they do it like they did with MX-19.2 those who have installed the RC will be auto-upgraded to the final release version via the daily updates without having to reinstall once MX-KDE is actually officially released.