MX-21 beta 2 feedback thread (xfce)

[JayM]

1. Application icons in Docklike Taskbar are broken again. VirtualBox, SDR++ (installed from a .deb file) and VirtualRadarServer (run with mono and launching it using a system-generated launcher on the desktop) all have the grey gear icons again. SDR++ and VirtualBox were working in beta 1 after SwampRabbit packaged the bugfix version of Docklike. Maybe the package got reverted to the older version somehow?

This is a problem that appears on "modern" layouts where the launcher becomes the app icon. It might be related to one or both of these:

1. StartupWMClass in the desktop file
2. StartupNotify in the desktop file

Re: icon always opens new window instead of focus
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... 44#p200804

In regards to desktop launchers and the startup notification protocol
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25497

That gave me an idea: I edited the SDR++ and VirtualRadar .desktop files in Featherpad and removed the Icon= lines. SDR++ now has the correct icon in Docklike but the launcher on the desktop has a gear icon. VirtualRadar has what I assume is a Mono icon in Docklike as it's something different than the gear. Again, its desktop launcher has a gear icon. Docklike doesn't seem to be respecting the "Icon=/path/to/icon/icon.png" line in launchers, is the problem. I'll post this info on Docklike's github page.

[SwampRabbit]

This is a problem that appears on "modern" layouts where the launcher becomes the app icon. It might be related to one or both of these:

1. StartupWMClass in the desktop file
2. StartupNotify in the desktop file

Re: icon always opens new window instead of focus
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.ph ... 44#p200804

In regards to desktop launchers and the startup notification protocol
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25497

I think you're on to something, I remember the StartupWMClass in some desktop files being an issue, I know this was worked upstream a bit at one point at least.

@JayM yes please do share that when you can, right now I'm trying to complete two major things to fix "hopefully" several problems, and time is becoming very limited.

[asqwerth]

It was when clicking on files and directories in Thunar to copy/paste them. Sorry, I should have said that. This is with the mx-comfort theme. Text is white in the Places pane when something's selected but not in the right pane. (Attachment 1.)

Regarding MXPI in mx-comfort-dark, see attachment 2.

I can't reproduce your thunar issues in attachment 1. I see black text in selected items only in MX Tweak and perhaps other qt apps.

See my Thunar screenshot.

ksnip_20210913-133436.png

Attachment 2/comfortdark - I had already confirmed the problem (again, it's with Qt apps) and dolphin has stated that we need to look at the gtk2.0 part of the theme.

[JayM]

@dreamer I was able to get the VirtualRadar icon to display correctly in Docklike. Running xprop WM_CLASS in a terminal showed that it didn't have a WM class associated with it so I added StartupWMClass=VirtualRadar to its launcher, then was finally able to right-click on it in Docklike and get the context menu whih includes Edit Launcher in which I was able to set the icon to the proper one for the app. SDR++ is still being a pain though: there's never a right-click menu for its gear icon no matter what I do. I did get it to work once in Docklike for a few moments by removing the entire Icon= line then it showed the SDR++ app icon, but the desktop launcher icon was a gear. After a few minutes when I was typing that information in Docklike's github issues page it reverted to the gear, unless I did something else that I don't remember, and I can't get its icon to come back. I give up for the day.

BTW:

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$ xprop WM_CLASS
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "SDR++ v1.0.3 (Built at 22:55:19, Aug  9 2021)", "SDR++ v1.0.3 (Built at 22:55:19, Aug  9 2021)"

I tried adding that WM class to the SDR++ launcher but no joy. I also tried it without the quotes, tried just SDR++, and tried all the permutations I could think of.

[JayM]

It was when clicking on files and directories in Thunar to copy/paste them. Sorry, I should have said that. This is with the mx-comfort theme. Text is white in the Places pane when something's selected but not in the right pane. (Attachment 1.)

Regarding MXPI in mx-comfort-dark, see attachment 2.

I can't reproduce your thunar issues in attachment 1. I see black text in selected items only in MX Tweak and perhaps other qt apps.

See my Thunar screenshot.
ksnip_20210913-133436.png



Attachment 2/comfortdark - I had already confirmed the problem (again, it's with Qt apps) and dolphin has stated that we need to look at the gtk2.0 part of the theme.

From the MX-21 beta 2 live USB in Thunar, freshly burned from the ISO:

[asqwerth]

@JayM

I can't reproduce it on my installed beta2 (VB). But testing it live in VB I have just found that it is mainly as you have described, except that at times, it flips to white again, particularly when I switch between icon view and detailed view.

But I just realised that I had uninstalled gtk3-nocsd from my installed beta2, because it isn't supposed to be there anymore and was inadvertently left in beta2. I can tell you still have the noscd, because of your Thunar window decorations. The min/max/close buttons are what's there when the noscd package is still installed (but disabled). You are using gtk3 window decorations, not xfwm theme.

Could you uninstall said package and see if you still have that issue? You'll need to log out and in again.

[JayM]

No change after uninstalling the gtk3-nocsd package and rebooting (which I did for good measure.)

[manyroads]

This is a follow-on thread to another in this topic area (which was written in 2020).

I am running a dwm-i3wm MX21 beta2 setup using Nordic Themes (they are dark). Following the instructions in this thread (viewtopic.php?p=563130#p563130) I am unable to get the following apps to respect any dark themeing (I tested).

virtualbox
mx tools
MXPI

Synaptic works fine as do the other tools I use regularly like geany, calibre, etc.

Any help is appreciated.


Here's my QSI...

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System:
  Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64 
  root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet hush 
  init=/lib/systemd/systemd 
  Desktop: dwm 6.2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
  Distro: MX-21_beta2_x64 Wildflower September 4  2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E5470 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
  type: 9 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: N/A serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.21.6 date: 10/02/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 36.9 Wh condition: 39.7/62.0 Wh (64%) volts: 8.4/7.6 
  model: LGC-LGC4.20 DELL HK6DV type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Unknown 
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M510 serial: <filter> 
  charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-6300U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake 
  family: 6 model-id: 4E (78) stepping: 3 microcode: EA L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19999 
  Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 400/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 499 2: 500 3: 499 4: 500 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  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 generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
  STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1916 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  compositor: xcompmgr resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d70 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f040 
  bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:156f 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell 
  driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: f040 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 168c:003e 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb bus ID: 1-8:5 chip ID: 0cf3:e007 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 978.09 GiB used: 605.60 GiB (61.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT1050MX300SSD4 size: 978.09 GiB block size: 
  physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: R031 temp: 47 C 
  scheme: GPT 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 
  port: f060 bus ID: 00:17.0 chip ID: 8086.282a rev: 21 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 969.81 GiB size: 953.51 GiB (98.32%) used: 605.60 GiB (63.5%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
  cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 48.5 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
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 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onlyoffice.list 
  1: deb https://download.onlyoffice.com/repo/debian squeeze main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
Info:
  Processes: 210 Uptime: 1h 56m Memory: 23.38 GiB used: 2.71 GiB (11.6%) Init: systemd 
  v: 247 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in 
  running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[dolphin_oracle]

well, all of those are Qt apps, so make sure you have something set up for your Qt apps to follow gtk theming. we use the gtk2 plugin, but there are other methods that approximate it, including using qt5ct to manually select Qt themeing that is close.

[imschmeg]

For virtualbox, I am able to get a dark theme by starting it with command line args "-style kvantum", and by having ~/.config/kvantum.kvconfig be:

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[General]
theme=KvSimplicityDark