MX-21 beta 1 feedback thread

[asqwerth]

@dolphin_oracle

I finally installed (on VM) the beta, and note that somehow the sharedfolder option doesn't stay permanently enabled.

Previously on the alpha VM, at first it didn't stay enabled, but after I ran the VM from an Arch-based distro (since you said the sharedfolder thing worked better in systemd), it finally stuck.

The beta VM's shared folder thing didn't stick after installation. So I booted into the same Arch distro, ran the VM, ran the command:

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sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$UID,gid=$(id -g) Virtualbox-SharedFolder ~/sharedfolder

And the sharedfolder was enabled, for that session. Once I rebooted the VM, unfortunately it didn't stick.

For both VM I am using VMSVGA. All the settings are the same AFAICT.

However, there is a difference in how the mounted Virtualbox-SharedFolder shows up in Thunar for both VM:



alpha:

ksnip_20210801-225156.png

beta1:

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Has any other change in beta been effected to cause this?


Note: I tried the simpler

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sudo mount -t vboxsf Virtualbox-SharedFolder ~/sharedfolder

first, but had permissions issues for the Virtualbox-SharedFolder directory between my host and VM.

Even with the simpler command, the sharedfolder as mounted in beta VM's Thunar shows up (for that session) as "sharedfolder" rather than "Virtualbox-SharedFolder"

[chrispop99]

@JayM and for anyone else wanting to know about the new dock plugin, as always did you look at any MX documentation?

Seems like we kinda prepared for these questions
https://mxlinux.org/?s=Docklike

I know the MX Manual in the Beta is still for MX-19.2, the manual will be updated at some point.

Already linked to in my post #178.

Chris

[i_ri]

hello asqwerth
double-click title bar.
setting the double-click title bar to Shade
does not have the windows offer roll-up.
the windows only maximize on titlebar double-click.

[dolphin_oracle]

hello asqwerth
double-click title bar.
setting the double-click title bar to Shade
does not have the windows offer roll-up.
the windows only maximize on titlebar double-click.

is there an app example? @i_ri

the action seems to work OK with firefox and thunar.

[chrispop99]

I know what the problem is, a fix will come shortly from the repos.

mx-timedate has updated from 21.3 to 21.7, and the servers are now in the list. However, running 'Update Now' results in the message 'The system clock could not be updated.' A reboot didn't help.


EDIT

The machine I was testing this on has an encrypted install. When testing on other hardware without encryption, Date & Time work as expected.

Chris

I tested the command, you might get this error if one of the debian.pool.ntp.org fails, it runs the command with all of them and if one fails for some reason the command fails, I think I will change that to check in order and return once it gets a good result.

Now works as expected on all machines.

Chris

[Senpai]

Installed MX21 beta1 32/64 bits on my test laptop "Acer Aspire 5715Z", from a USB with Ventoy, the installation occurs without errors on a single partition (/ and /home together and 4GB of swap), I install Grub in the MBR but when booting I get the message "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". I checked that Grub is installed in Sda and in the root partition of MX21, I boot again in the live usb and reinstall Grub with the MX tool, but the result is the same, the option to repair Grub doesn't work either...
I have not been able to continue with the tests because none of the 2 versions installs... In that same partition I had a respin of MX 19.4 without problems.
When I boot again with the live usb, I find that in the installation on disk in /home there is no folder created ???
Any help to continue with the real tests?

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: lang=es_ES quiet splasht nosplash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_beta1_386 Wildflower July 27  2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Other-vm? System: Acer product: Aspire 5715Z v: V1.45 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Acer model: Acadia v: V1.45 serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer v: 1.45 
           date: 11/10/2008 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 34.1 Wh condition: 34.1/48.8 Wh (70%) volts: 12.5/11.1 
           model: SANYO GC86508SAT0 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium Dual T2370 bits: 64 type: MCP 
           arch: Core Merom family: 6 model-id: F (15) stepping: D (13) microcode: A4 
           L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6915 
           Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/1733 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:2a02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM (CL) v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:284b 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-686-pae 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express 
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: tg3 v: kernel port: 5000 bus ID: 05:00.0 
           chip ID: 14e4:1713 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter 
           vendor: AMBIT Microsystem AR5BXB63 802.11bg NIC driver: ath5k v: kernel port: 5000 
           bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 168c:001c 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 524.50 GiB used: 20.27 GiB (3.9%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS547550A9E384 size: 465.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: A60A scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Fit size: 58.73 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 1.53 GiB used: 23.1 MiB (1.5%) fs: overlay 
           source: ERR-102 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 59.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
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 bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/MX-Packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 209 Uptime: 5m Memory: 1.95 GiB used: 515.8 MiB (25.8%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

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[i_ri]

hello dolphin_oracle
double notification.s
startup shows two notifications of updates available

[i_ri]

hello dolphin_oracle
Shade, roll-up,
two that you mentioned, firefox and thunar, xfce-terminal, TaskManager have the roll-up greyed out; they do not Shade. featherpad offers roll-up and double-click titlebar does Shade. mx cleanup does Shade. userManual qpdfview does Shade.
Is that enough examples to create differentiation? categories?

[Jerry3904]

hello dolphin_oracle
double notification.s
startup shows two notifications of updates available

Do you mean 1 in the upper corner and the other attached to the updater icon in the systray?

[asqwerth]

hello dolphin_oracle
Shade, roll-up,
two that you mentioned, firefox and thunar, xfce-terminal, TaskManager have the roll-up greyed out; they do not Shade. featherpad offers roll-up and double-click titlebar does Shade. mx cleanup does Shade. userManual qpdfview does Shade.
Is that enough examples to create differentiation? categories?

Assuming you didn't change the CSD-enabled settings in MX Tweak, probably the reason for the greyed out ones are that they are not Qt apps and thus they aren't using xfwm themes but the inbuilt window decorations in the gtk theme itself.

The option to shade/roll up comes from XFCE Window Manager settings and its xfwm themes.

featherpad, cleanup etc work because they are Qt apps and using xfwm themes.