MX-23 beta 1 feedback thread

[Gerson]

I like the new MX 23 Plymouth.
My suggestion is to change that black background for a more colourful one, for example a gradient one.
See these examples:
https://store.kde.org/p/1530989
https://store.kde.org/p/2030351

[Jerry3904]

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Hey, that works--great problem solving!

I didn't follow everything you wrote, sorry to say. I just added those two lines to the overlay file, refreshed and now the dock on left center works on autohide. As you mentioned, there is no visible bar.

We will want to investigate slight modifications that might improve it as we go along.

@ceeslans Since your system never had this problem, I would be interested in whether adding those two line to the overlay file affected it in any way.

[ceeslans]

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Hey, that works--great problem solving!

I didn't follow everything you wrote, sorry to say. I just added those two lines to the overlay file, refreshed and now the dock on left center works on autohide. As you mentioned, there is no visible bar.
We will want to investigate slight modifications that might improve it as we go along.

@ceeslans Since your system never had this problem, I would be interested in whether adding those two line to the overlay file affected it in any way.

@Jerry3904: No, the dock will continue to autohide and unhide when the mouse touches the screen edge.
But when running a lightcolored fb-style, I do get a fugly white bevel border with 'slit.bevelWidth' value set at 1 or 2.
No problem though, should you set those slit.borderWidth and slit.bevelWidth values in the overlay. Will simply change back 'bevelWidth' to '0' , since that works fine for me.

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[Melber]

Hello Melber
MX-Comfort.cfg set to zero slit border worked to unhide. suggest bevel.
in every style add.
dock
slit, hide, show
sample trial using /overlay

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slit.borderWidth: 0
slit.bevelWidth: 2

slit.borderWidth zero
slit.bevelWidth zero works it shows no borders but there is available with right-click on slit border or bevel for Slit Menu so with border at zero the bevel can be one or two gives a place for right-click get Slit Menu if you like that. The slit bevel inherits color from toolbar. In MX-Comfort the slit border color is specified, but we just set it to zero wide. (my borders get wider when running a dockapp, but it unhides. how about You? )
slit when not specified, "the slit’s appearance is controlled by the toolbar directives instead."

Hey, that works--great problem solving!

I didn't follow everything you wrote, sorry to say. I just added those two lines to the overlay file, refreshed and now the dock on left center works on autohide. As you mentioned, there is no visible bar.

We will want to investigate slight modifications that might improve it as we go along.

Nice find @i_ri
Looks like the bug does have something to do with the setting slit.borderWidth after all.

I quickly compared some of the working and non-working styles, and the working styles all have toolbar.borderWidth & toolbar.bevelWidth settings whilst the non-working ones do not.

@Jerry3904 if you have time, can you try replacing

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slit.borderWidth: 0
slit.bevelWidth: 2

with

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toolbar.bevelWidth: 0
toolbar.borderWidth: 2

in the overlay file and see if that fixes the dock autohide for MX-comfort or other non-working styles?

(list of working styles here viewtopic.php?p=726873#p726873)

[Jerry3904]

What you posted, changing slit to toolbar and reversing the numbers, does not work on an installed b1.

[Gotta go back to work...]

[siamhie]

What you posted, changing slit to toolbar and reversing the numbers, does not work on an installed b1.

[Gotta go back to work...]

All the styles that won't reappear when hidden (All MX-comfort styles, Flux, Nyz, etc) display after I played around with these values in overlay.

works

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slit.borderWidth: 0
slit.bevelWidth: 2

doesn't work

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slit.borderWidth: 2
slit.bevelWidth: 0

With the bevelwidth set you can now you can access slits right-click menu when at it's edge.
If you don't want to see the border edge either right-click to access the menu or edit the init file and change the slits alpha value to 0.
You will still have access to the menu via right-click and it will still autohide and reappear when moused over.

[siamhie]

@Jerry3904 @Melber You can also set a default color in the overlay file. (bevelWidth is set to 10 just so you can see the color better)

default-color.jpg

[Melber]

What you posted, changing slit to toolbar and reversing the numbers, does not work on an installed b1.

[Gotta go back to work...]

All the styles that won't reappear when hidden (All MX-comfort styles, Flux, Nyz, etc) display after I played around with these values in overlay.

works

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slit.borderWidth: 0
slit.bevelWidth: 2

doesn't work

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slit.borderWidth: 2
slit.bevelWidth: 0

With the bevelwidth set you can now you can access slits right-click menu when at it's edge.
If you don't want to see the border edge either right-click to access the menu or edit the init file and change the slits alpha value to 0.
You will still have access to the menu via right-click and it will still autohide and reappear when moused over.

Reversing the numbers wasn't deliberate, were just the values I copied from a working style.
Thanks both for checking it out. I'll have a closer look tonight when I have time.

[monsieurzik]

Unable to boot on usb, it's written that antix is not able to find the bootloader. On single usb booting key and with Ventoy.

[siamhie]

Unable to boot on usb, it's written that antix is not able to find the bootloader. On single usb booting key and with Ventoy.

@monsieurzik Ventoy flash drives won't work with any current MX-23 test ISO's. Use either Rufus or MX Live USB Maker instead.