MX-21 beta 1 feedback thread

[LU344928]

* are the live boot menus localised into your language (legacy and UEFI boot)?

to add: Do also check the GRUB menus in legacy boot: last menu entry "Switch to GRUB Bootloader".

Can't help with the non-English setup but everything worked well on this legacy boot system:

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX/vmlinuz 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_x64 Wildflower July 27  2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A315-21 v: V1.12 serial: <filter>
           Mobo: SR model: Squirtle_SR v: V1.12 serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: Insyde v: 1.12
           date: 06/19/2018
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 26.0 Wh condition: 26.0/37.0 Wh (70%) volts: 8.2/7.7
           model: PANASONIC AP16M5J type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: AMD A9-9420e RADEON R5 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G bits: 64
           type: MCP arch: Excavator family: 15 (21) model-id: 70 (112) stepping: N/A
           microcode: 6006705 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 7187
           Speed: 1328 MHz min/max: 1200/1800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2562
           2: 1978
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected
           Type: mds status: Not affected
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected
           Type: spec_store_bypass
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
           Type: spectre_v2
           mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
           Type: srbds status: Not affected
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:98e4
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: amdgpu,ati
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD STONEY (DRM 3.40.0 5.10.0-8-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1)
           v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:     Device-1: AMD vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
           bus ID: 00:01.1 chip ID: 1002:15b3
           Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:09.2 chip ID: 1022:157a
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
           vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 02:00.1
           chip ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On
           driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0042
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-3: Lite-On Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
           bus ID: 1-1.3:4 chip ID: 04ca:3015
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 946.11 GiB used: 1.73 GiB (0.2%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-21Z10T0 size: 931.51 GiB
           block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm
           serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: MBR
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Transcend model: JetFlash Transcend 16GB
           size: 14.60 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1100
           scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 2.93 GiB used: 20.9 MiB (0.7%) fs: overlay
           source: ERR-102
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60)
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 43 C
           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://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:      Processes: 202 Uptime: N/A Memory: 3.72 GiB used: 735.8 MiB (19.3%) 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

[VCR58]

What is the preferred method to share a folder in MX21?

I tried right clicking on a folder in Thunar and selected "Share a folder on your network" but all it does is ask for authentication and quits.

I suppose I can edit etc/samba/smb.conf but that's kind of old fashion. And the system-config-samba app that worked so well in MX19 is not supported :(

Seems like there is a lack of interest in developing easy ways to share folders with the DE.

This issue you are reporting and the whole subject has been covered numerous times in this thread, please go back through it if you want more detail, system-config-samba development stopped and isn't available for newer systems.

There is no 'lack of interest", there is a lack of time and energy to dedicate to this on Xfce right now. Everyone on every Xfce based distro is in the same boat right now.

Anyone is free to tell us of a tool to switch to (if they can find one GL) or develop something.... to many Chiefs not enough Indians it seems.

https://www.pyragraph.com/2013/05/good- ... -pick-two/

I already have a work around solution, but its not simple, requires some extra work, and really isn't a good long term solution so that is on hold... while a better one is being worked.

Thanks for the reply.

I installed the thunar-shares-plugin for mx21 and it seems to work just fine for my purposes.

Sorry for my rant.

[Marek]

Well. Curiosity is a nasty trait, but a natural one xD Forgive the laziness and lack of browsing the entire topic. I would like to ask if there are still problems with having to assign media in fstab? Is there a possibility when migrating to keep my data, in home?The live system, seems to work very well, so I'm tempted to try to migrate xD I'm not using UEFI. Could this be a problem?

[dolphin_oracle]

Well. Curiosity is a nasty trait, but a natural one xD Forgive the laziness and lack of browsing the entire topic. I would like to ask if there are still problems with having to assign media in fstab? Is there a possibility when migrating to keep my data, in home?The live system, seems to work very well, so I'm tempted to try to migrate xD I'm not using UEFI. Could this be a problem?

there are not problems with fstab. and you can keep /home. make sure your installer and gazelle-installer-data-mx is up to date first, as there was a bug adding non-system partitions in the installer on beta 1.

[Marek]

But I don't see option, keep data on home. Live is upgrade. Thank you for response

[dolphin_oracle]

But I don't see option, keep data on home. Live is upgrade. Thank you for response

in the drop down menus, in the format drop down, you can select "Preserve".

[Stuart_M]

The Conky MX-ManyRoads/cpufile in MX-21 beta1 does not display the horizontal bargraphs. Everything else in that Conky works. I mention @manyroads here in case he is interested.

The problem is because the lua script that is used for that Conky is using "loadstring()" which has been deprecated to "load()".

When MX-ManyRoads/cpufile is started it will load allcombined.lua which uses the depreciated "loadstring" function.

In ~/.conky/MX-ManyRoads/ edit "allcombined.lua" by changing each instance of "loadstring" to "load". There are six lines to change in that file although only one (line 19) needs to be changed to fix it (the other 5 had no effect on the bargraphs). I changed all six because "loadstring" was depreciated so all of them should be changed. The offending characters are shown in red.

Line 19: local bartab=loadstring("return" .. bartab)()
Line 87: local bgtab=loadstring("return" .. bgtab)()
Line 155: local caltab=loadstring("return" .. caltab)()
Line 280: local imtab=loadstring("return" .. imtab)()
Line 317: local textab=loadstring("return" .. textab)()
Line 381: local txttab=loadstring("return" .. txttab)()

Note that once the Conky appears on the desktop it takes about 12 seconds for the bar-graphs to load so be patient.

This is an image taken from a correctly working MX-ManyRoads/cpufile Conky in MX-21 beta1. Before the fix there was just a black background where the bargraphs should be.

MX-ManyRoadds_cpufile_bargraph.png

Edit: For the sharp-eyed, my CPU is six cores (and six threads) and the reason this image is showing only four cores is because I am showing the default. This Conky was modified to display all 6C/6T on my daily-used MX-19.4 installation.

[dolphin_oracle]

The Conky MX-ManyRoads/cpufile in MX-21 beta1 does not display the horizontal bargraphs. Everything else in that Conky works. I mention @manyroads here in case he is interested.

The problem is because the lua script that is used for that Conky is using "loadstring()" which has been deprecated to "load()".

When MX-ManyRoads/cpufile is started it will load allcombined.lua which uses the depreciated "loadstring" function.

In ~/.conky/MX-ManyRoads/ edit "allcombined.lua" by changing each instance of "loadstring" to "load". There are six lines to change in that file although only one (line 19) needs to be changed to fix it. I changed all six because "loadstring" was depreciated so all of them should be changed. The offending characters are shown in red.

Line 19: local bartab=loadstring("return" .. bartab)()
Line 87: local bgtab=loadstring("return" .. bgtab)()
Line 155: local caltab=loadstring("return" .. caltab)()
Line 280: local imtab=loadstring("return" .. imtab)()
Line 317: local textab=loadstring("return" .. textab)()
Line 381: local txttab=loadstring("return" .. txttab)()

Note that once the Conky appears on the desktop it takes about 12 seconds for the bar-graphs to load so be patient.

This is an image taken from a correctly working MX-ManyRoads/cpufile Conky in MX-21 beta1. Before the fix there was just a black background where the bargraphs should be.
MX-ManyRoadds_cpufile_bargraph.png

@Stuart_M thanks for the report and bonus points for the solution!

[mystic]

Dear Devs,

It would be better if the Thunar sidepanel shortcuts would be arranged alphabetically. I keep clicking the wrong shortcuts due to muscle memory. Thanks!

[fehlix]

Dear Devs,

It would be better if the Thunar sidepanel shortcuts would be arranged alphabetically. I keep clicking the wrong shortcuts due to muscle memory. Thanks!

DIY: drag'n'drop within side pane