mxfb-2025 development ideas

[Melber]

How do we go about setting that up?

Add the following line to ~/.config/MX-Linux/mxfb-quickshot.conf

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## for mxfb-quickshot_delay 
DELAY="8"

(change the number to however many seconds delay you want)

and add following to your ~/.fluxbox/keys file

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Ctrl Alt q :Exec mxfb-quickshot_delay

(or whatever key combo you want)

[Jerry3904]

Gee, I'm going to post here and on Facebook and do a video when I get a chance--trying to get ready ATM to leave the country for 3 weeks...

The primary key in my thinking was

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Ctrl Print :Exec mxfb-quickshot_delay

since "none Print" alone runs quickshot so it is easy to remember. I only added the other key that Melber gives above for keyboards that do not have a dedicated Print key.

[siamhie]

All sorted.

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OPTION="-s -q 100" 
        ## ==> man scrot
DESTDIR="/home/siamhie/Downloads"
NAME="$(date +'%y%m%d_%H%M%S')"
SUF="png"
PRE="quickshot_"
DELAY="3"

#Help screen text: 
    ## ==>  /usr/share/mxfb-quickshot/quickshot_help

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# take a screen capture, interactive by default
none Print :Exec mxfb-quickshot
## launch mxfb-quickshot_delay
Ctrl Print :Exec mxfb-quickshot_delay
## whole screen capture
Shift Print :Exec mxfb-quickshot -r -png
## active window capture
Mod1 Print :Exec mxfb-quickshot -u -png
## launch quickshot
Alt q :Exec mxfb-quickshot

[Jerry3904]

Looks good.

[i_ri]

Hello Everyone
/usr/share/mxfb-quickshot/mxfb-quickshot.conf
DESTDIR disagreement. (?)

DESTDIR="$(xdg-user-dir PICTURES)/Screenshots/"

mv: cannot move 'quickshot_240915_171629.png' to '/home/clue/Pictures/Screenshots/': Not a directory

The "/Screenshots/" descriptor in DESTDIR does not exist.
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Solved. upgrade corrected 09.02.
Got It.

[i_ri]

Hello Everyone
minstall
The Network page of the installer
houses text boxes for ComputerName and ComputerDomain.
The installer setComputerName now handles setting domain equivalent to name.
Acknowledge Some choice of policy MX magic best practice wisely administered
results in misrepresenting the user input of domain-name on the Installer Network Page. Remove the input box? invisible? It is there as if to be useful again in the future. Connected to the visible input box, There is no remnant of handling textComputerDomain. Did it change with the demands of the network handler?

domain equals ComputerDomain text box is now a false promise, a ghost setting. textComputerDomain is not handled or saved. ((That i can find; did i miss something?))

[siamhie]

Hello Everyone
minstall
The Network page of the installer
houses text boxes for ComputerName and ComputerDomain.
The installer setComputerName now handles setting domain equivalent to name.
Acknowledge Some choice of policy MX magic best practice wisely administered
results in misrepresenting the user input of domain-name on the Installer Network Page. Remove the input box? invisible? It is there as if to be useful again in the future. Connected to the visible input box, There is no remnant of handling textComputerDomain. Did it change with the demands of the network handler?

domain equals ComputerDomain text box is now a false promise, a ghost setting. textComputerDomain is not handled or saved. ((That i can find; did i miss something?))

On the left hand side explains what those fields mean.

ComputerName is the name of the computer that will appear after the username in terminal windows or to identify you on a network.
For example, I like having a unique computer name when I open my terminal.

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siamhie@flux23

DomainName will be the name your administrator will give you to connect to a network.

Both fields can be left as is if you are running a single user computer.

computer-names.png

[i_ri]

hi siamhie
At the Installer Network page looking at Computer domain: example.dom

pencil and paper
"DomainName will be the name your administrator will give you to connect to a network."
Write it on paper.

[siamhie]

hi siamhie
At the Installer Network page looking at Computer domain: example.dom

pencil and paper
"DomainName will be the name your administrator will give you to connect to a network."
Write it on paper.

.dom is not a TLD (top-level domain) so the pre-filled field (example.dom) is showing what it should look like.

MX Linux's web site is found at mxlinux.org and antiX's web site is found at antixlinux.com. Both .org and .com are TLD's.


This network suggestion of the installer really has nothing to do with ideas for the upcoming MXFB-25 as all three desktops use it.

[i_ri]

Hello Everyone
MX Installer is the best installer in the business.

hi siamhie
Running the new MX installation.
Furnish the location path
having the content written on paper,
and it was typed into the Computer domain: textbox.

Good system management, the MX Devs acute response is ahead in the code but behind in the gui change of less impact.
(?) Mark inactive the domain entry box or otherwise indicate no expectation of function.
Leaving box as placeholder for future relevance.
The network flexibility under current circumstances is not controlled from the installer. (?)
The entry box cannot be empty. prefill with, this-will-be-ignored (?)