MX Tools made available to Debian and Q4OS

[dolphin_oracle]

I found some notes from my experiments.

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wpa_supplicant - disable wpa_supplicant@ services and mask them, try leaving the wpa_supplicant dbus version,needed for wireless

need to remove the systemd-time-wait-sync symlink in /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.wants so that live system finishes boot.  
important since we don't actually change the system clock on live.  need to replace on installed system (live-to-installed modification).
need to remove systemd-networkd-wait-online as well...network-manager takes care of this later.

***things to disable and mask


systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
wpa_supplicant-nl80211@.service
wpa_supplicant@.service
wpa_supplicant-wired@.service
vboxweb.service
systemd-time-wait-sync.service

**things to mask
/etc/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt-auto-generator


***things to mask (via symlink in live-to-installed)
/etc/systemd/system-generators/systemd-fstab-generator

[asqwerth]

My installation of MX tools using the MX Tools installer provided there on the Q4OS page results in the following my observation:
- Special icon to MX Tools folder provided on desktop, appropriately shows MX logo.
- MX Tools app folder is titled with 'These MX applications save time and effort with important tasks'.
The entire kaboodle of MX Tools appears to be installed in sections:
- Live: Live USB Maker and Snapshot
- Maintenance: Chroot, Boot Options, Boot Repair, Cleanup, User Manager
- Setup: Bash Config, nVidia, Conky, etc., etc...
- Software: Fix GPG keys, Package Installer, Repo Manager
- Utilities: Quick system Info, Format USB, iDeviceMounter

I have not tested yet much beyond Live tools with the results I posted above, and it is expected there might be some work to make all this set of MX Tools work correctly. However it seems a great plan and recognition for MX accomplishments...
Regards...

Well, considering Garuda linux (arch based) already incorporates mx boot options and boot repair into their own suite of tools, plus I believe a modified mx network manager - this is open source after all - I appreciate q4os at least giving us recognition and attribution for the mx tools.

But support for their version should surely be sought from q4os team?

[olsztyn]

I find the ones to disable are several of the wpa-supplicant, and the network ones with *-wait in them. you'll need to disable and mask them, or else some depend will also start them up.

Thank you dolphin_oracle... For details from your notes in particular...
Great info...
Best Regards...

[Stevo]

I would imagine that the conky tools and themes will work universally, and Jerry has invested a lot of time and effort into both choosing and customizing many excellent themes, as well as making sure the tools work with them, saving much sweat for the conky novices. (The "Big Desktop Clock" users)

But support for their version should surely be sought from q4os team?

I'm pretty sure their scripts just make it simpler to add the MX repo and key to their Buster-based distro--they are still using the MX packages. "apt policy" should be able to confirm that.

[asqwerth]

Fair enough.