MX-23 beta 2 feedback thread

[CharlesV]

Thanks to everyone involved in building this great distro. I have been testing Libretto XFCE since beta 1, hereby my issues encountered.

Hardware:
Asus Vivobook Oled 3k 12th gen Intel
24 Ghz Ram

- Scaling issues. It happens frequently that I need to rescale on boot (Display->Scaling->0.5). The system sometimes (not always) forgets my settings during reboots/wakepups.
- Crashes when connecting to an external screen (HDMI). First the option is shown how to use the external screen (mirror, extension, etc). After choosing, the computer reboots
- MX Linux animation on startup and shutdown is extremely slow, it takes almost a minute to run (this was smooth in a VM, not sure why not on metal)
- The notification 'Do not show this message again', for example when a network is found, is ignored. The message keeps on showing up. I had to put the machine in Do not disturb mode
- Telegram Desktop Flatpak cannot be installed using the software installer (Error pulling from repo: GPG verification enabled, but no signatures found)

My MacBook Pro 2013 13inch still has same problem.
And, I saw that In the youtube MX-23-b2 review movie,
boot animation protruding to the screen (too big animation image).

Then, We need to fix boot animation.
I will made 60% shrink animation .png. I will send it to @CharlesV tonight,
I want you to prepare a test machine and review the code. I'm sorry for increase your work.

If you don't have a test machine, you might want something my 2013 MacBook Pro,
or closer to the Asus Vivobook Oled 3k 12th gen Intel.

Cool, thanks. I am closing in on the encrypted password dialog, and *almost* there. ( having to dodge around the image, so 60% may resolve that too. )

Also, going to attempt to dynamically shrink it all tomorrow,based upon user screen size.. not sure about that one, but .. worth a few cycles to try ;-p

[kobaian]

MX-Fluxbox 23beta2 already installed and works fine, but some issues remain:

1. No icon for MXFB-Font and Tint2-Manager in the Appfinder.
2. No descriptions for Polish localization for MXFB-Tour and Configure-Top icons in the Appfinder.
3. In MXFB-Tour there is a chapter, how to use the XFCE-Appfinder but we've got now MXFB-Appfinder.

I've got also another questions:
4. Is it possible to localize the categories script for Appfinder, that all users would have categories tab in their own language?
5. Are there any plans to localize also the help tab?

[fehlix]

MX-Fluxbox 23beta2 already installed and works fine, but some issues remain:

3. In MXFB-Tour there is a chapter, how to use the XFCE-Appfinder but we've got now MXFB-Appfinder.

MX-tour is currently re-worked and we will put those text shown onto transifex for translation.

[megaherz33]

MX Linux 23 Beta 2 won't install.
Writes "Critical error. AntiX/linuxfs file could not be found"

Some more details would be good.
Have you made /selected "Check Integrity of the Live media"?
Also, we use the term "install" for installing MX Linux from a live Booted media
after boot.
The message "AntiX/linuxfs file could not be found" indicates
that the LiveBoot was not performed.
So suggest give more details, how you created the LiveBoot Media from the downloaded ISO.

HI,


Old PC.

Machine: G31TM-P21 (MSI)
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E 6550
Graphics: Intel 82G33/G31
Monitor: Acer AL1619W

MX Linux 21.3 installs without problems.
The only problem is there is no screen resolution of the desired 1440x900

[andy]

(( Why, in the age of surveillance, when attacks on encryption are much easier, and big adversaries have huge resources, we still does not have working LUKS2 (which enables much safer PBKDF)?
What is holding smart programmers from making it working? ))
edit: some rephrasing to better convey what I meant

Just to put more context for other folks:
It is vitally important to choose good password. It is clear from this information:

Dead simple and accessible password attack against LUKS, for EVERYONE!
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/08/brea ... ncryption/

For curious some background around mechanics in LUKS:
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questi ... master-key

G'day. LUKS stores multiple copies of the master key in what it terms key slots. Each key-slot contains an encrypted copy of the master key, and it can vary in its password-based KDF parameters (and even algorithms). The parameters and algorithms can sometimes be wildly different, giving rise to the circumstance where forcing one key-slot may be infeasible, while another is fundamentally weak. (Both will yield the master key.)
For LUKS1, the best option for the password-based KDF is PBKDF2. For LUKS2, an additional option exists to use Argon2, which gives you the potential to make it even harder to force a corresponding key-slot... but in all cases this will depend on the hardness parameters chosen, as well as the relative strength of the password. (In LUKS2 both options can exist in parallel.)

And if you have master key already extracted...
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... master-key

[Melber]

MX-Fluxbox 23beta2 already installed and works fine, but some issues remain:

1. No icon for MXFB-Font and Tint2-Manager in the Appfinder.
2. No descriptions for Polish localization for MXFB-Tour and Configure-Top icons in the Appfinder.
3. In MXFB-Tour there is a chapter, how to use the XFCE-Appfinder but we've got now MXFB-Appfinder.

I've got also another questions:
4. Is it possible to localize the categories script for Appfinder, that all users would have categories tab in their own language?
5. Are there any plans to localize also the help tab?

1. .desktop files need correction. Try following edits
/usr/share/applications/mxfb-font.desktop

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Icon=mxfb-font

/usr/share/applications/mxfb-tint2-manager.desktop

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Icon=systemtray

2. & 3. as fehlix said, we're still working on updating MXFB-Tour
4. & 5. Will look into it. @Jerry3904 ?

[ceeslans]

@Melber @kobaian ... and while you're at it, perhaps also edit 'mxfb-backgrounds.desktop' to show its icon in rofi :

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Icon=background

[Jerry3904]

@kobaian 4: it should be possible one way or another, will ask @fehlix. Which file is that? 5. The help file itself ("Appfinder") contains already 10 DeepL translations, or did you mean something else?
@Melber I'll change those desktop files -- DONE
@ceeslans that one too -- DONE

[Melber]

@kobaian 4: it should be possible one way or another, will ask @fehlix. Which file is that? 5. The help file itself ("Appfinder") contains already 10 DeepL translations, or did you mean something else?

I think kobaian means the text in the app tab itself, ie. Help and Settings.

Hopefully both "Categories" and "Help" tabs just a matter of adding gettext in the relevant scripts and creating po/mo files...

[BV206]

I installed beta 2 in VirtualBox. Everything worked until I tried to remove all the locales I don't need.
In System Locales I unchecked everything except en_US.UTF-8.
Then I set that to be the default.
It fails and gives this error.

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Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.UTF-8...[error] cannot open locale definition file `en_GB': No such file or directory
done
Generation complete.
*** update-locale: Error: invalid locale settings:  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
"Configure System Locales" canceled: exit [255]

I don't know why it's looking for `en_GB'. when that isn't selected.
It seems like this also happend earlier this year when I installed MX 21 but I don't remember how I fixed it.

what would this show:

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cat /etc/default/locale

and

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locale 

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locale -a

I fixed it before I read this reply.
I ran those yesterday but don't remember what was missing.
I do remember that /etc/default/locale only had LANG=en_US.UTF-8 but it was commented out.
I also had the same thing happen on Debian 12. Both installed with US English as the default language but it couldn't find `en_GB' for some reason. I ran sudo apt install --reinstall locales and then sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales on both MX 23 and Debian 12 and it generated the en_US.UTF-8 locale with no errors and without commenting out anything in /etc/default/locale.