MX-21 beta 1 feedback thread

[needmorebrains]

Hello Team,
Just a quick note, no technical details needed. When I opened the Thunar File Manager, and searched for the install log, minstall.log, and opened the log in FeatherPad, the system updater ran and presented an update notice for mx full install update.

I may have hit the system while you were working the system archive. Sorry if the case.Terminal came back with a newer version, tried to update, then failed at 404.

The beta os loaded flawlessly in VirtualBox, HP 17z-ca0000 AMD A9-9425 (2C+3G), needed to full update once installed, but is stable. Did notice the efi loader complaining about plymouth system missing, but the shell moved on to the efi loader without intervention. There are some host issues, but those are specific to windows and fTPM/SecureBoot/DataGuard in front of VirtualBox. Will send more if needed, but trying to keep it simple for now. Thank you for all the hard work. I know it is not rocket science, but it does run the rocket, soooo....

[needmorebrains]

Update received (installer for mx)
Just rebooted the system, update completed and installed. Thank you for the quick reply. I will try to be as attentive.

[Smuff]

Checking out MX21 beta. Just a simple note from an old issue. Unable to prevent desktop window from flowing under top horizontal panel. I had the same problem in MX19 but ??? went away. I do not have: Do not save space... checked. It's a little annoying but maybe I missed a setting somewhere. First time posting and I like the xfce4 desktop here.
Thank you!
Smuff

[agnivo007]

I wonder if one of my early reports got lost:

By default, the wallpaper is loaded in tiled mode; so if a custom resolution is set for the monitor and then used normally, we see the tiled wallpaper and then later stretched to fill when full desktop is loaded after each login. Suggestion: default wallpaper load mode: stretched.

[Marek]

Is right now any problem witch repo? Update command, not refresh the repo. I get info:

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Stary:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease
Stary:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Pobieranie:3 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye InRelease [15,1 kB]
Pobieranie:4 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main amd64 Packages [167 kB]
Pobieranie:5 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main i386 Packages [164 kB]
Pobieranie:6 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main i386 Contents (deb) [319 kB]
Pobieranie:6 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main i386 Contents (deb) [319 kB]
Pobieranie:6 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main i386 Contents (deb) [319 kB]
Pobieranie:6 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main i386 Contents (deb) [319 kB]
Ign:6 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main i386 Contents (deb)
Pobieranie:10 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main amd64 Contents (deb) [328 kB]
Ign:10 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main amd64 Contents (deb)
Pobieranie:11 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/non-free i386 Contents (deb) [11,0 kB]
Błąd:6 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main i386 Contents (deb)
  Błąd czytania z serwera: Zdalna strona zamknęła połączenie [IP: 142.137.247.132 80]
Ign:10 http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo bullseye/main amd64 Contents (deb)
Pobrano 134 kB w 4s (37,0 kB/s)
Czytanie list pakietów... Gotowe
E: Nie udało się pobrać http://mirror.cedille.club/mx-linux/mx/repo/dists/bullseye/main/Contents-i386  Błąd czytania z serwera: Zdalna strona zamknęła połączenie [IP: 142.137.247.132 80]
E: Nie udało się pobrać niektórych plików indeksu, zostały one zignorowane lub użyto ich starszej wersji.

And the system very slow. Now Mx work 1d,21h for no reboot.

[Senpai]

HI:
Missing translations es_ES and it is not in the Transifex resources:
In MXTeak, in "Others -> Use Client Side Decorations (CDS) on GTK3 applications that support them (requires session restart)",
it does not appear translated into Spanish.

Greetings from Senpai

[Feuerkl1nge]

One time due to file comparison I occasionally noticed overwriting of my firefox esr bookmarks did not succeed.
I am pretty sure I have overwritten correctly. (No Layer8 issue)

[Adrian]

Trying frugal (don't really have much experience with it), here's what I've noticed:
1. First issue: it gets stuck at "Looking for space", I actually had to press CTRL-ALT-F1 to see the message that it didn't find suitable space and press there "C" to continue or "R" to restart. I think when it didn't find the free space it should have switched to CTRL-ALT-F1 automatically or pop a message at least.
2. Not sure why it didn't find space, on this test laptop I have a GPT NVMe drive with a NTFS and a 30GB free ext4 partition. Does frugal have problem with NVMe drives?
3. Minor issue: the English GRUB menu for Advanced text arrangement is a bit weird, the entries are not aligned in any way and there's seemingly random spacing 1, 2, or 3 blanks between label and explanation. As I see we should either align the second column or use consistent number of blanks between the elements.

[fehlix]

Trying frugal (don't really have much experience with it), here's what I've noticed:
1. First issue: it gets stuck at "Looking for space", I actually had to press CTRL-ALT-F1 to see the message that it didn't find suitable space and press there "C" to continue or "R" to restart. I think when it didn't find the free space it should have switched to CTRL-ALT-F1 automatically or pop a message at least.
2. Not sure why it didn't find space, on this test laptop I have a GPT NVMe drive with a NTFS and a 30GB free ext4 partition. Does frugal have problem with NVMe drives?

Would latest MX-19.4 iso, find the NVMe drive and offer to select the partitions for a frugal install?

3. Minor issue: the English GRUB menu for Advanced text arrangement is a bit weird, the entries are not aligned in any way and there's seemingly random spacing 1, 2, or 3 blanks between label and explanation. As I see we should either align the second column or use consistent number of blanks between the elements.

Probably some spaces not trimmed, which are used to align the list with disabled GRUB theme.

[Adrian]

Would latest MX-19.4 iso, find the NVMe drive and offer to select the partitions for a frugal install?

No difference, so at least we know it's not a regression.