MX-21 fluxbox beta 1 feedback thread.

[chrispop99]

I realise this is personal choice, but it seems a bit odd to me to have a pretty decent music player, but nothing to play video.

On the basis of lightness, what about dropping DeadBeef (sorry Jerry), and including mpv, as it will play both audio and video files.?

Chris

We discussed this at some length, and I am still a fan of using Firefox which on this B1 is very fast and error free for the desktop videos link. Pretty stubborn here...

Okey Dokey!

Perhaps some common video file types could be set to open FF by default to avoid user confusion?

Chris

[oops]

FI: Unfortunatly, the batterie test must be done also for BAT1, not only BAT0 (at least into my eepc)

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battery_low_cmd = bash -c "[[ $(upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1 | grep 'power supply' | cut -d: -f2) == no ]] && { ;} || { notify-send 'battery low'; }"

[dreamer]

The md5 hash value seems incorrect. Sha256 hash value seems correct.

[Jerry3904]

@chrispop99 I think anything on the web should be handled automatically. If you feel like creating entries for downloaded vids for a couple of the most popular formats that we can insert into mimeapps.conf that would be great. I downloaded one of my videos and clicked to open with Firefox, and now this new line is in ~/config/mimeapps.conf:

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video/mp4=firefox.desktop;

I bet you could copy that a few times and just change the video format.
@oops Then I think we should create a small script "lobatcmd" and not clutter up the rc.
@dreamer I think that was reported earlier but will check, thanks.

[Jerry3904]

There must be a way to combine these into a single command. This isn't sophisticated but it is shorter and I trust it will still work;

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#!/bin/bash

#This script corrects a bug that causes a low-battery notification to show on plugged-in machines 

FRONT="battery_low_cmd = bash -c "[[ $(upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery"
BACK="| grep 'power supply' | cut -d: -f2) == no ]] && { ;} || { notify-send 'battery low'; }""

$FRONT BAT0 $BACK && $FRONT BAT1 $BACK

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[chrispop99]

@chrispop99 I think anything on the web should be handled automatically. If you feel like creating entries for downloaded vids for a couple of the most popular formats that we can insert into mimeapps.conf that would be great. I downloaded one of my videos and clicked to open with Firefox, and now this new line is in ~/config/mimeapps.conf:

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video/mp4=firefox.desktop;

I bet you could copy that a few times and just change the video format.

I have a USB stick that holds audio, video, and document files in lots of different formats; I use it when distro testing.

Unfortunately, Firefox won't play .flv, .mpg, or .mkv files. It does play .mp4 and .mov. I didn't test any further.

Chris

[Jerry3904]

Firefox won't play .flv, .mpg, or .mkv files.

How common are those?

[chrispop99]

Would it be possible to tidy up the Common settings panel by capitalising 'mugshot' please? I'm a bit OCD!

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Chris

[wdscharff]

....did you try disabling wmalauncher in startup, and then using a second tint2 panel as the dock? Somewhere Ceeslans showed there is a big difference.

On minimal: like MX Xfce since the beginning, MX-21 Fluxbox is conceived as a "midweight" Fluxbox version, meaning that we try to find a balance between lightness and ease of use.

wmalauncher is not the main culprit, even if it looks like quite a resource hog.

Good news, bad news.

My startup taken over from 19.4, which is also arg optimized. There (19.4) I come to ~310mb after startup.

Bad news: In the 21.beta it is still around 810mb,
But now it comes: this is shown in Conky, in EVERY Conky script that shows the user ram usage (I tried them all)

good news: In the terminal, with free and htop and with LXTask (I like graphical task managers) I get 370-375MB.
This is more than the 19.4, but in relation to the offered nothing that I could further criticize.

not nice : The Conky displays incorrectly at my system

[Jerry3904]

Thanks for testing. I'll focus on the good news, since I have seen DO say that Bullseye runs heavier in the first place.

We'll look at the conkies later...