MX-21 fluxbox beta 2 feedback thread

[dolphin_oracle]

I just installed it on my old netbook. Installation took around 40 minutes due to the slowness of this machine but it boots up and seems to work. I'll need to set it up like I had it before with MX-19.4, preventing unneeded services from starting and installing Falkon then configuring Fluxbox to use it instead of Firefox. Meanwhile it doesn't seem to be any slower than MX-19.4 with Fluxbox.

Quick System Info's not being copied to the clipboard if I close the terminal before pasting for some reason, or it is but won't paste. Not sure what's up with that.

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-686-pae 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 info: tint2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_fluxbox_beta2_386 Wildflower September 04  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Other-vm? System: AVERATEC product: N1130 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: No Enclosure type: 1 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: AVERATEC model: N1130 serial: <filter> BIOS: Phoenix 
           v: NAPA0001.86C.0056.D.0907311757 date: 07/31/09 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 0 Wh condition: N/A/2.1 Wh volts: 12.1/11.1 model: AVERATEC N1130 
           type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Unknown 
CPU:       Topology: Single Core model: Intel Atom N270 bits: 32 type: MT arch: Bonnell 
           family: 6 model-id: 1C (28) stepping: 2 microcode: 218 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
           flags: nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6384 
           Speed: 1199 MHz min/max: 800/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1148 2: 1209 
           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 status: Not affected 
           Type: spectre_v1 status: Not affected 
           Type: spectre_v2 status: Not affected 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:27ae 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1024x600~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:27d8 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-686-pae 
Network:   Device-1: Ralink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 
           port: 18e0 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 1814:3090 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169 v: kernel 
           port: 2000 bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 4.28 GiB (3.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-GSTFS31120GNTD size: 111.79 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: 61.3 
           scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 111.63 GiB size: 109.32 GiB (97.93%) used: 4.28 GiB (3.9%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 128.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 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
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb https://mirror.pregi.net/mx-linux-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
Info:      Processes: 174 Uptime: 8m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 744.7 MiB (37.1%) 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 

Do you still have a clipboard manager running?

The x clipboard in use by fluxbox is pretty basic and when apps close their clipboard data tends to vanish with them.

[i_ri]

hello dolphin_oracle
kernel

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Host: WallE Kernel: 5.13.0-exp-mx2-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
CPU: Dual Core Intel Core i3 530 (-MT MCP-)
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 info: tint2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-21_fluxbox_beta2_x64 Wildflower September 04  2021

Sound was nothing to do with kernel.
Going forward with new kernel and different speakers.
Added peripheral audio speakers using optical output; sound.
(and Amplified. please disregard, we'll ignore, the report about sound. Got big sound. )

[i_ri]

hello dolphin_oracle
/home/demo/.fluxbox/submenus/appearance
Add " [end] " to the end of file.

/home/demo/.fluxbox/submenus/full_menu
Add " [end] " to the end of file.

installed twice today. Great installer.

[kobaian]

I've got a question about default theming. The default theme for qt-apps after fresh install looks like windows 98. Choosing a theme in lxappearance makes it match the default theme for gtk apps. It seems there is no gtk2 theme set by default. Is that intentional or accidental?

[Jerry3904]

Not intentional, being worked on, thanks.

[Jerry3904]

hello dolphin_oracle
/home/demo/.fluxbox/submenus/appearance
Add " [end] " to the end of file.

/home/demo/.fluxbox/submenus/full_menu
Add " [end] " to the end of file.

installed twice today. Great installer.

There is an "[end]" there for each, and each works. So I'm a bit uncertain about this ATM.

[i_ri]

hello dolphin_oracle
MX21_fluxbox has a lot of terminals.
One more, qterminal, somebody might appreciate the settings
has a "Widget style" selector to try.

(I have Qterminal on my mx19kde since day one its install. it's okay for me.)

[JayM]

Is a Raspberry Pi version of MX-21 Fluxbox in the works also?

[Jerry3904]

Not now--where in the world would I find the time?!

[Senpai]

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@Senpai
On the beta 1 thread (wich is now locked) you said:

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Trying the right-click menu entries on the screen:

Between "Run" and "Terminal" there is an empty space, if you press it it launches the "Settings manager", the name is missing to see it and be able to translate it.

I have seen a typo in my Spanish translation, is this menu uploaded to Transifex?

In All App->Accessories (full_menu):
"App Finder" entry is duplicated.
"compton" does nothing and does not show any error, from console it says that it is already running.

In All App->System
Ndivia driver installer, does not work, from MX tools, it works.
MX fix keys, the entry is duplicated and does nothing, from MX tools, it works.

All App->Settings:
Window manager settings, it does nothing...
Window manager, does nothing...

I originally developed the script that generates the "all apps" menu, so I can provide some info about this problems. It basicaly reads all .desktop files in /usr/share/applications, extracting the first "Exec" command it finds, icon and categories, and them sorts everything into the default debian categories- this usually works in a flawless way, but there can be some problematic cases...

*"Window manager"- does nothing because tries to run xfwm4 - wich is incompatible with fluxbox
*the same goes for "Window manager tweaks" (not "settings")
*"compton" - simply launches compton compositor- so, you see no window application open when you run it
*"MX Fix GPG keys" runs the command "xfce4-terminal -e pkexec checkaptgpg --wait-at-end", that reports that "checkaptgpg" is an unknown option- this happens because the first exec line of this .desktop file has this command (although commentend out)- Dev team, please remove the commented Exec line from /usr/share/applications/mx-checkaptgpg.desktop, to fix this problem
*It's supposed to come up twice, because there are 2 .desktop files to fix GPG keys- one is the regular one, the other is for KDE...
*The "nvidia driver installer"- runs su-to-root -c "/usr/local/bin/ddm-mx -i nvidia"- Since this command does not include "xfce4-terminal", this may be the reason why it fails to launch from the menu, I'm not sure on that one...
*App Finder is duplicated- I'm not sure why, I'll try to check it out and get back to you...

Hi @PPC:
Glad it was helpful, I'm on a trip without a PC and can't test anything for a few days, on my return I'll pick it up again.
Best regards