MX-21 KDE/plasma RC1 feedback

[rainfox]

The RC1 looks pretty good. It boots faster than MX19.4 on my Laptop.

The Nvidia Drivers where not working for me on MX19.4. They resulted in a black screen with blinking cursor. On MX21-RC1 there where no problems. That's very nice.

Some minor issues I had are:

• the print key is not working (for taking screenshots), tried different keyboard settings. The key is not even recognized. On MX19.4 all is fine.
• Wifi is not reconnecting automatcally. I have to enter the wifi password every time I log in. In Network Setting it is set to automatic connection and store password, tried encripted and unencripted
• the "Emoji Selector" found in the Utilities has no contens at all
• the Wine (staging) package seams not fully working in the way that if choosing "Open with" on a specific file type the program opens but does not load the file I wanted to open.
  I also tried to install the original wine-stable package like described on winehq.org and had no problem with this. Is something missing in the package? The same is on MX19.4
• I use Evolution as Email Program. One issue I had in the beginning was that Unicode chars where not displayed in the Email Subject, only a broken char was shown. I finally found that I had to install the "fonts-noto-color-emoji" package. Can this be included in the installation package? I found much people had an issue with this.

Here is my configuration:

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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: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: MX-21_KDE_RC1_x64 Wildflower October 5  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude 5580 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
           type: 10 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0FH6CJ v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI [Legacy]: Dell v: 1.20.2 
           date: 06/03/2021 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 68.7 Wh condition: 68.7/92.0 Wh (75%) volts: 12.5/11.4 
           model: SMP DELL WFWKK65 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7820HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
           arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: EA 
           L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 46398 
           Speed: 1599 MHz min/max: 800/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1599 2: 1553 3: 1589 
           4: 1550 5: 1586 6: 1521 7: 1575 8: 1529 
           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 HD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:591b 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce 940MX] vendor: Dell driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:179c 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting,nvidia 
           unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv compositor: kwin_x11 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.1 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a171 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 High Definition Audio [GeForce 940MX] driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fbc 
           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: 8086:15e3 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 
           bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24fd 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 12.87 GiB (2.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0B-00YS70 size: 465.76 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> 
           rev: 20WD scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 266.13 GiB size: 260.89 GiB (98.03%) used: 12.87 GiB (4.9%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 15.63 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
           swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2322 
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://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/MX/Repo/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           2: deb http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/MX/Repo/mx/repo/ bullseye ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list 
           1: deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ bullseye main
Info:      Processes: 242 Uptime: N/A Memory: 15.27 GiB used: 716.4 MiB (4.6%) 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 

[richb]

@rainfox
For auto connecting wifi, in the network settings enable "All users may connect to this network"

[SwampRabbit]

[*] I use Evolution as Email Program. One issue I had in the beginning was that Unicode chars where not displayed in the Email Subject, only a broken char was shown. I finally found that I had to install the "fonts-noto-color-emoji" package. Can this be included in the installation package? I found much people had an issue with this.
[/list]

We don't package Evolution, its coming from Debian, they don't have fonts-noto-color-emoji package listed as a dependency, recommend, or suggest.
I don't think we'll start packaging Evolution either, but maybe Debian will update their stuff, not sure if someone reported this issue to them or not...
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgrepo ... =evolution

[uncle mark]

@rainfox
For auto connecting wifi, in the network settings enable "All users may connect to this network"

This was reported by multiple users in the Beta. Any reason it's not been addressed with the RC?

[SwampRabbit]

This was reported by multiple users in the Beta. Any reason it's not been addressed with the RC?

Maybe it hasn’t been addressed yet since only so many things can get fixed in one month across all MX versions?

Maybe it’s a KDE issue, not an MX issue?

Any reason no one has identified the exact cause and let us know?

[davemx]

A weird one. The first time I ran KDE-RC1, the panels didn't appear on screen, after I re-used my /home/user setup, and I could get no response onscreen from keyboard or mouse. Thinking that it might be a problem with my I went to root by pressing CTRL-ALT-F3 (yes that did work, as did CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE etc.,), logging in as root and running startx. The same thing happened!! No panels, no mouse menus and no onscreen reaction to keys. I exited the root desktop by CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE which returned me to the text screen, and rebooted from there. On reboot, everything worked perfectly! I thought I'd make sure that it wasn't some sort of first run problem by re-installing, using the same settings etc., and this time it worked correctly. Anyway not really a fault, but would love to know why and how it happened! Totally weird!

[davemx]

@rainfox
For auto connecting wifi, in the network settings enable "All users may connect to this network"

This was reported by multiple users in the Beta. Any reason it's not been addressed with the RC?

It's a root setting that works through the KDE Systemsettings5 which, unusually, doesn't require a password. It's also part of KDE rather than MX itself, though, through other distros, I can tell you that the global network manager (as used with the XFCE version) will work instead of the KDE one, and may be more intuitive, though you won't be able to change its settings in Systemsettings5.

The only suggestion I can think of is some sort of message on screen not to forget to set it globally in the Systemsettings5.

[dolphin_oracle]

This was reported by multiple users in the Beta. Any reason it's not been addressed with the RC?

Maybe it hasn’t been addressed yet since only so many things can get fixed in one month across all MX versions?

Maybe it’s a KDE issue, not an MX issue?

Any reason no one has identified the exact cause and let us know?

its not default in debian. we had patched the network-manager clients under mx19, but the same patches don't work this time.

[davemx]

I don't know if this is specific to KDE as it's the only RC I've tried, but Skype won't install from MXPI. It seems to go through the motions but nothing gets installed. I did install Skype under the beta version so I know it was working then.

[davemx]

Flatpaks not working in the KDE RC1. I installed Freetube from there in the Beta version so I know it used to work on my computer.