MX-21 beta 2 feedback thread (xfce)

[dreamer]

I'm doing some other work on mx-tweak now so your timing is good.

It would be nice if MX Tweak in Xfce would have feature parity with MX Tweak in Fluxbox. Jerry showcased the input driver selector for touchpads and mice, but it isn't available in MX Tweak for Xfce.
It looked like the MX Tweak version in Xfce was old (spring 2021) so I guess it hasn't been updated in a while.

[dolphin_oracle]

I'm doing some other work on mx-tweak now so your timing is good.

It would be nice if MX Tweak in Xfce has feature parity with MX Tweak in Fluxbox. Jerry showcased the input driver selector for touchpads and mice, but it isn't available in MX Tweak for Xfce.
It looked like the MX Tweak version in Xfce was old (spring 2021) so I guess it hasn't been updated in a while.

the driver selector is present mx-tweak. its the same app. but it only will be present if a touchpad is found. it doesn't touch the mouse drivers.

[SwampRabbit]

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My current feel/preference is to keep to the current docklike settings for indicators, except that we have the focused/active window 's indicator be set to orange, to differentiate it from the other opened but not focused groups/windows, which stays as blue in rectangle style.

Then I still hope to get the hover effect in css though, but that's it, no css for active or opened groups. Though I'm not sure how yet.

Hmmm, I don’t know how to get focused/unfocused piece set in the rc file, but can look at it.

I agree with your thinking though.

Just let me know how you want to proceed, I need to update docklike soon anyway… I’ll hold off until we know what we want in the rc file.

@Eadwine Rose I’d have to look if it’s even possible and patch that change in . Can look though.

@dolphin_oracle I’ll do the big report here in a bit.

[asqwerth]

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My current feel/preference is to keep to the current docklike settings for indicators, except that we have the focused/active window 's indicator be set to orange, to differentiate it from the other opened but not focused groups/windows, which stays as blue in rectangle style.

Then I still hope to get the hover effect in css though, but that's it, no css for active or opened groups. Though I'm not sure how yet.

Hmmm, I don’t know how to get focused/unfocused piece set in the rc file, but can look at it.

I agree with your thinking though.

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Change the colour of active window in the graphical settings window and see how the config file in home changes? That should help establish what to change in rc file in skel?

Don't wait for the css thingy, I'm stumped right now and don't have much time to work on it this coming week.

[SwampRabbit]

Change the colour of active window in the graphical settings window and see how the config file in home changes? That should help establish what to change in rc file in skel?

think I confused myself with what you were asking before with the active, focused, groups, styles, blah, blah, blah

But you're looking for something like this?
https://imgur.com/a/pwJO0Pb

I think that blue is too bright, it might confuse users, I dunno... maybe a subdued blue and a semi-bright orange.

If you have specific color codes you want to use for the theme, please PM me, and I'll prep it tomorrow cause I want to package a newer version sometime then.
And try to get somewhere with that other package we talked about that you wanted.

[asqwerth]

Change the colour of active window in the graphical settings window and see how the config file in home changes? That should help establish what to change in rc file in skel?

think I confused myself with what you were asking before with the active, focused, groups, styles, blah, blah, blah

But you're looking for something like this?
https://imgur.com/a/pwJO0Pb

I think that blue is too bright, it might confuse users, I dunno... maybe a subdued blue and a semi-bright orange.

If you have specific color codes you want to use for the theme, please PM me, and I'll prep it tomorrow cause I want to package a newer version sometime then.
And try to get somewhere with that other package we talked about that you wanted.

Yes. But note the default indicator style in beta2 is rectangles, not bars, and I prefer rectangles as it's more subtle.

ksnip_20210917-135847.png

colour codes, orange is just the 2nd orange from the top of the colour chooser dialogue: #FFA348

ksnip_20210917-135400.png

inactive blue is the default blue for both active and inactive windows in beta2: #4CA6E6


Don't think the blue is too bright, but that's subjective. Ignore the long bar on the left, that's the css active code I was testing.

ksnip_20210917-140129.png

What other package? I can't recall.

[gour]

Hello,

I apologize for posting my viewtopic.php?f=108&t=66399 topic in a wrong thread.

In the meantime I solved it by manually chroot-ing into degraded raid-1 array and updating grub config file...now everything is OK and MX-21 is happily booting and using all my raid-1 array.

I'm so pleased with this distro...but it deserves another post in "testimonies".

There is one problem I have spotted in beta2 and that's it that changing my 'locale' does not work. Here is the current output:

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$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

although I selected hr_HR.UTF-8 as default locale for my system environment. Moreover, I tried to change it with:

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$ update-locale LANG=hr_HR.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"

and here is the content:

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$ cat /etc/default/locale 
#  File generated by update-locale
LANG=hr_HR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8

but it looks that MX, somehow, does not take it into account?

What do I miss?

Here is my config info:

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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 splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_beta2_x64 Wildflower September 4  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: P55-UD4 v: x.x serial: <filter> BIOS: Award v: F9 
           date: 06/25/2010 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7 860 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem 
           family: 6 model-id: 1E (30) stepping: 5 microcode: A L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 44766 
           Speed: 1865 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1865 2: 1302 3: 1724 4: 2323 
           5: 1875 6: 1446 7: 1494 8: 1466 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds 
           status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; 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 status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD RV730 XT [Radeon HD 4670] vendor: Gigabyte driver: radeon v: kernel 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:9490 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: ati,radeon 
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RV730 (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.0-8-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
           v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3b56 
           Device-2: AMD RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series] vendor: Gigabyte 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 1002:aa38 
           Device-3: Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
           bus ID: 1-1:2 chip ID: 046d:09a6 serial: <filter> 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: de00 bus ID: 06:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 1.08 TiB (29.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0001 scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM008-2FR102 size: 1.82 TiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0001 scheme: GPT 
RAID:      Supported md-raid types: raid1 raid0 linear multipath raid6 raid5 raid4 raid10 
           Device-1: md125 type: mdraid status: active Components: online: sda4~c0 sdb4~c2 
           Info: raid: mirror blocks: 1917728832 report: 2/2 UU chunk size: N/A 
           super blocks: 1.2 
           Device-2: md126 type: mdraid status: active Components: online: sda3~c0 sdb3~c1 
           Info: raid: raid-0 blocks: 8378368 report: N/A chunk size: 512k super blocks: 1.2 
           Device-3: md127 type: mdraid status: active Components: online: sda2~c0 sdb2~c2 
           Info: raid: mirror blocks: 31439872 report: 2/2 UU chunk size: N/A super blocks: 1.2 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 29.98 GiB size: 29.97 GiB (99.95%) used: 21.06 GiB (70.3%) fs: xfs 
           dev: /dev/md127 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 1.79 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (99.95%) used: 1.06 TiB (59.1%) fs: xfs 
           dev: /dev/md125 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 7.99 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/md126 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 59 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/anydesk-stable.list 
           1: deb http://deb.anydesk.com/ all main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://debian.anexia.at/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://debian.anexia.at/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://mirror.easyname.ch/mxlinux-packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial 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: 327 Uptime: 19m Memory: 15.62 GiB used: 2.98 GiB (19.0%) 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 

[Eadwine Rose]

From the menu, system locales. Does that work?

[gour]

From the menu, system locales. Does that work?

Nope, but I launched:

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$ sudo update-locale LANG=hr_HR.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="hr_HR.UTF-8" LC_TIME="hr_HR.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="hr_HR.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="hr_HR.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="hr_HR.UTF-8" LC_NAME="hr_HR.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="hr_HR.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="hr_HR.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="hr_HR.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="hr_HR.UTF-8"

and got:

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$  locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_TIME=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_NAME=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

which means that LANG variable is still not picked/set by the script?

Let me add that on Debian (sid) it was always enough to just use:

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$ update-locale LANG=hr_HR.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"

and get desired result.

[fehlix]

Post /etc/default/locale
If it contains the "desired" result, logoff/login.