MX-23 beta 1 feedback thread

[gurpreetkapoor]

what is the reason to do that?

kde plasma 5.27.5 has all the functionality by default, which is provided by kde-servicemenu-rootactions, I am not sure whether kde-servicemenu-rootactions package is maintained upstream or not. kio-admin package is available in debian 12, it also enables root menu action in dolphin and other graphical applications on right click.

unless i'm missing something kio-admin provides the "Open as administrator" menu entry in dolphin, but not the other root actions.

I'm OK either way, but they don't appear to be 1-for-1 at first glance. @Adrian

Plasma 5.27.5 already have all that. If you need to edit file in root partition, just go to that file in non-root dolphin and open the file in any editor without root. It will prompt you for sudo password at the time of saving. so no need to open separate root dolphin. @Adrian

[m_pav]

On Lenovo ThinkPad Edge, system cannot wake up from sleep (no hibernation).
It seems frozen, no keystroke is registered, and power button press is ignored. The only way is force power off, holding pwrbtn more seconds.

Check your BIOS settings, if you're using Intel PTT, which is host OS based, try changing it to TPM2.0 which is hardware based.

[andy]

On Lenovo ThinkPad Edge, system cannot wake up from sleep (no hibernation).
It seems frozen, no keystroke is registered, and power button press is ignored. The only way is force power off, holding pwrbtn more seconds.

Check your BIOS settings, if you're using Intel PTT, which is host OS based, try changing it to TPM2.0 which is hardware based.

Indeed. You are spot on.
So it seems no TPM 2.0 functionality for me on this machine. (According to UEFI firmware it supports TPM 2.0 only via Intel PTT.)
Thank you.

[AK-47]

No, that computer is NOT upgrading to Fedora 38. It's moving to MX-23 KDE and/or LMDE 6.

I'm probably going to do the same thing with my machine. Only reason for me to be on Fedora is a usable KDE Wayland session (can't stand the X11 input/output lag), but now that MX Linux has KDE 5.27.5 that advantage may be gone. Even the difference between kernel 6.1.x and 6.3.x isn't that noticeable.
I still use MX Linux for most of my VMs because Fedora hogs up all the memory (4GB) I allocate to them.

[operadude]

For Beta-1, on both Xfce & KDE installs:

1. Applications Menu -> Internet: No Firefox Entry (installed & working)
2. MXPI -> Popular Applications -> Video: VLC Unchecked (installed & working)

[ibm450]

Wow! MX-23 beta got Plasma 5.27.5 and Fedora 37 is stuck on Plasma 5.27.4 forever. How embarrassing.

Upgrade to Fedora KDE 38, there's Plasma 5.27.5 in it. Good Wayland session (on my machine anyway) and sddm 0.20 which can run with native Wayland. Surprised to hear they didn't package 5.27.5 for Fedora 37 though.
And when you do, be sure to install and use dnf5, it's a lot better than the old dnf!

No, that computer is NOT upgrading to Fedora 38. It's moving to MX-23 KDE and/or LMDE 6.

Yes I agree fedora 38 is a total flop. Never had so many issues with a distro release like f38. Might try osblue with nvidia already baked into image or silver blue. Eagerly awaiting lmde6 and mx23.

[OlafD]

xfce 64bit:

MXPI popilar apps: xfce4-appfinder is unchecked but installed and working

[Jerry3904]

Well! I wonder how that snuck in there? I'm a bit confused b/c this is what the script has:

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menupath=~/.fluxbox/submenus/recent_files_menu

Will check--not too late. Thanks.

Now on an installed b1. I see this working as written

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	[submenu] (Recent files) 
			[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/recent_files_menu)
			[separator]
			[exec] (Update) {~/.fluxbox/scripts/recentfiles-fbmenu}
		[end]

The first time the user clicks on "Recent files" the script generates .../submenus/recent_files_menu, and that looks to be populated correctly. Then clicking "Recent files" pops us a list of files that launch correctly. When I tried your method, I got nothing except the script itself and the css file.

EDIT: created a new user, and nothing at all happened after I clicked the "Update." Tried multiple times, nada. Then logged out/in and the file list was correctly displayed. Then opening and closing a file > updating Recent file--and that file is listed at the top. I would consider "fluxbox-remote restart" at the end of the script but not sure I want that firing off after update. But maybe...

[asqwerth]

For Beta-1, on both Xfce & KDE installs:

1. Applications Menu -> Internet: No Firefox Entry (installed & working)...

I can't replicate this issue. FF is present in the whisker menu of my beta1 XFCE install. I haven't tested Plasma version.

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[asqwerth]

Attempt to install Virtualbox 7.0.6-1 (vitualbox vitualbox-ext-pack vitualbox-guest-additions-iso)
....
I manually created the vboxusers group w GUID 1000 checked and added myself to it. The "Internal Error, No file name for virtualbox-guest-additions-iso:amd64" error remained.

VirtualBox 7 is not yet compatible on Debian 12. Oracle will not release it to the Bookworm repositories until after it gets a stable release.

@FullScale4Me

Install Virtualbox via the MXPI Popular Apps tab, and you won't have any issue with VB 7.0.6. No need to manually add your user to the vboxusers group. Everything is done for you.