MX-23 beta 1 feedback thread

[ceeslans]

Here's another suggestion for improvement of mx-dockmaker.
Use the 'fluxbox-remote configure' command instead of 'fluxbox-remote restart'. This will result in a much smoother transition when changing from one dock to another.

[operadude]

Thanks @dolphin_oracle :

I really like the logout sound, so thanks for looking into it.

Please point me in the right direction, if I can help with this!

@dolphin_oracle :
Just remembered:

I think MX-23 Alpha2 (Xfce, x64) has the logout sound.
I'll double-check.

Don't know if that helps you.

Let me know if I can help in any way!

[Melber]

About the dock autohide problem, I think I found a clue: on my screen autohide works fine when the dock is located bottom center or right center, but not when it is top center or left center. Didn't try other locations.
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Not yet sure what that means or how to correct it...

Can't reproduce such autohide failure. That's one of the functions that works well here...

With what screen resolution? Maybe it's just a problem with 1366x768

You could be right, I'm seeing the issue and have a 1366x768 screen too...

[Joseph DeGarmo]

Apparently there is an issue with connected gamepads controlling the desktop cursor, which has been a persistent bug on MX for years. Here's the fix:

1. sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-joystick.conf

2. Copy and paste this, then save the file:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "joystick catchall"
MatchIsJoystick "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "joystick"
Option "StartKeysEnabled" "False" #Disable mouse
Option "StartMouseEnabled" "False" #support
EndSection

3. Logout, then start a new session. Pressing buttons and moving analog sticks on gamepads will no longer mess with the desktop cursor. This fix is for X11. I have yet to find a fix for this on Plasma Wayland. If I do, then I'll post it here.

EDIT: Applying this fix apparently breaks Plasma Wayland. I get kicked back to the SDDM login screen after inputting the password. If anyone could shed some light into this matter, I'd appreciate it.

EDIT 2: Gamepad issue DOES NOT occur on Plasma Wayland by default (without the above fix). So if you are going to use a gamepad on MX-23 KDE for gaming, then you must log into the Wayland session. It will effectively cancel out the above solution unless you intend to use X11 only. To install Wayland session: sudo apt install plasma-workspace-wayland

Log out, then select Plasma Wayland on the session drop-down menu on the lower left corner of SDDM.

[dolphin_oracle]

Thanks @dolphin_oracle :

I really like the logout sound, so thanks for looking into it.

Please point me in the right direction, if I can help with this!

@dolphin_oracle :
Just remembered:

I think MX-23 Alpha2 (Xfce, x64) has the logout sound.
I'll double-check.

Don't know if that helps you.

Let me know if I can help in any way!

the root problem is that Xfce does not actually support the login/logout event sounds. So we work around it.

so the way the original setup worked, the logout sound was played by an "autostart" file that is triggered by logout/reboot/shutdown. The problem as I see it is that with pipewire its very likely teh sound server will be shutdown before the logout sound is played. during alpha we had reports that the logout sound never played despite being configured.

So I removed the feature because I would rather not have it than have it broken.

[Joseph DeGarmo]

@dolphin-oracle Can you install the Wayland session into the build for the KDE version? This will save users the trouble of manually installing the Wayland session on Plasma. You don't have to set Plasma to default to Wayland, but it would be cool if you decide to do that. It will significantly help gamers who use gamepads on MX KDE according to the comment I posted above.

[lordmmx]

I tried posting my own thread but was told to use this thread so I installed mx Linux beta 1 on Mt dual pentium 3 box and everything went well until I tried to update it I get an error that I need sse2 is this a upstream error or is there a way around it?

[asqwerth]

I tried posting my own thread but was told to use this thread so I installed mx Linux beta 1 on Mt dual pentium 3 box and everything went well until I tried to update it I get an error that I need sse2 is this a upstream error or is there a way around it?

Please post your Quick System Info, and the error message.

[siamhie]

...Changing mouse cursors. I installed the oxygen cursor set but couldn't change the cursors from Appearance>Theme and Customize Look and Feel is missing from All Apps>Settings.
I changed it from the terminal but the mouse cursor changes back to DMX-Black when using my browser.

Did you try manually editing these entries in ~/gtkrc-2.0

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gtk-cursor-theme-name="DMZ-Black" 
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0

and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini ?

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gtk-cursor-theme-name=DMZ-Black 
gtk-cursor-theme-size=0

@Melber All I have in the gtk-2.0 directory is this

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siamhie@mxflux23:~/.config/gtk-2.0
$ ls -a
.  ..  gtkfilechooser.ini

I've removed lxappearance and its conf files. The way I now have to setup my mouse theme is to first run "sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme" and select a theme.
I then edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and change the gtk-cursor-theme-name entry to match the x-cursor-theme selection. That way all windows will have the same mouse pointer.


In this screenshot, if I move the mouse pointer into the browser window it will change from yellow to red because the cursor-theme entry is set to oxy-red.




Seems much easier to let lxappearance setup the mouse theme so it carries across all windows. Plus it has a preview of the cursor.

[siamhie]

Yeah, might be. If I'm not mistaken, @siamhie was also running a lower resolution when reporting same issue.
My screen has 1920x1080 resolution...

@ceeslans No issue here. Running a 2560x1440 resolution.

I am having an odd quirk tho. I have the dock auto hidden at the top center and when I mouse over the dock it shows as it should
but whenever I refresh the desktop I get a second dock showing at the top left corner that disappears quickly.

I did changed my Refresh command back to "fluxbox-remote restart" so I'm not sure if that might be the issue.