MX-23 Raspberry Pi comes out of the garage

[rhinomick]

Hi everybody!!! Playing with the alpha version on my rpi4 8GB model...the system is very responsive and i have installed many packages successfully so far. One thing i noticed is that some packages from the test repo don't upgrade. Spesificly tried celuloid, falkon, geany and krita and the first two did not upgrade. Geany and krita did. Talking about the installer , it is a problem the thing it fills the hole screen. On my monitor 1920x1080 resolution does not fit exactly(the screen size of the os is a little bigger that monitor) but managed to install in the end. Then after the installation i changed the resolution to 1680x1050 and now it fits fine. But i have the same with raspberry pi os so its normal, but it would be nice the installer to be smaller so it floats in the middle of the screen.

[chrispop99]

Hi everybody!!! Playing with the alpha version on my rpi4 8GB model...the system is very responsive and i have installed many packages successfully so far. One thing i noticed is that some packages from the test repo don't upgrade. Spesificly tried celuloid, falkon, geany and krita and the first two did not upgrade. Geany and krita did. Talking about the installer , it is a problem the thing it fills the hole screen. On my monitor 1920x1080 resolution does not fit exactly(the screen size of the os is a little bigger that monitor) but managed to install in the end. Then after the installation i changed the resolution to 1680x1050 and now it fits fine. But i have the same with raspberry pi os so its normal, but it would be nice the installer to be smaller so it floats in the middle of the screen.

Thanks for testing. The appearance of the installer is being worked on.

Chris

[rhinomick]

Also tested the new version of the mxpi ... the flatpaks section works fine...

[Jerry3904]

thanks, again!

[Jerry3904]

Running on the Official Display: glad to report that screen inversion works very using Xfce's Display and the change survives logout/reboot. That's only for the desktop, so the login page remains upside down but I seem to remember that can be set with a kernel command at boot--will look it up and revise this post.

[dolphin_oracle]

a new alpha2 img has been uploaded to source forge. same link as in first post.

changes:

all updates through November 19, including flatpak fixes in mx-packageinstaller
more locales at user creation available
user setup on first boot will take up less screen space (this has not be rolled out into the main repos, want to see reaction first, as this will effect some oem users.)
menu entries for pi documentation and raspi-config utility.
conky should autostart now

things that haven't changed: mx-packaeginstaller popular apps entries are untested at the moment. most will likely work fine, some will likely fail. due to changes in mx-packageinstaller's architecture filtering, a few previously working entries might now be missing. Feel free to comment on working/non-working/missing entries.

[chrispop99]

things that haven't changed: mx-packaeginstaller popular apps entries are untested at the moment. most will likely work fine, some will likely fail. due to changes in mx-packageinstaller's architecture filtering, a few previously working entries might now be missing. Feel free to comment on working/non-working/missing entries.

I'm about half way through test installing everything from the Popular Applications tab. (It's pretty tedious!) I will post my notes here when completed.

Chris

[Jerry3904]

This is great, thanks! I'm on the road so won't see it until tomorrow.

Any need for people on Alpha 1 to reinstall or will upgrade take care of it?

Should we start a clean thread?

[dolphin_oracle]

things that haven't changed: mx-packaeginstaller popular apps entries are untested at the moment. most will likely work fine, some will likely fail. due to changes in mx-packageinstaller's architecture filtering, a few previously working entries might now be missing. Feel free to comment on working/non-working/missing entries.

I'm about half way through test installing everything from the Popular Applications tab. (It's pretty tedious!) I will post my notes here when completed.

Chris

it is very tedious, and highly appreciated! I did it for the mainline releases, and still missed some!

[dolphin_oracle]

This is great, thanks! I'm on the road so won't see it until tomorrow.

Any need for people on Alpha 1 to reinstall or will upgrade take care of it?

Should we start a clean thread?

they won't get the user setup screen change quite yet, but they don't need it either. the desktop files for the raspi utilities wont' be there either. there might be one or two missing packages, I would have to check my notes, but no operations wise it would be fine.

alphas will not see their versioning changed. so alpha1 will always say alpha1.