MX 25 Beta 1 Feedback thread

[Senpai]

Hi:
Testing MX25-Fluxbox on a Qemu/Virt-Manager virtual machine, when shutting down from the terminal with “sudo halt,” the system does not shut down completely. It remains on a black screen (in sysvinit) and with the shutdown theme frozen (in SystemD). “sudo poweroff” and “sudo reboot” work without any problems, Image attached.

@Senpai Do the GUI shutdown methods work?

- rootmenu > leave > shutdown
- exit-options button in tint2 panel > shutdown
- appfinder > exit options > shutdown

Yes, everything works fine in the three graphic options you mention.

[Adrian]

Also, the brave browser does not work any more after switching to wayland

I see no issues here, can you elaborate? Is it not starting? What does it say if you type in konsole: brave-browser?
Can you provide QSI, did you install nvidia driver?

[Jerry3904]

I asked that during the development phase, thanks for bringing it up again. If it makes no difference with the other wallpapers I would like to see it enabled. Reading man nitrogen, it seems like this change to ~/.config/nitrogen/nitrogen.cfg might work:

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[geometry]
posx=366
posy=132
sizex=1110
sizey=923

[nitrogen]
view=icon
set-scaled=true
recurse=true
sort=rtime
icon_caps=false
dirs=/usr/share/backgrounds;/home/jb/.fluxbox/backgrounds;

No, that appears to have no effect. Maybe we need to use the flag somewhere else?

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--set-scaled

[fehlix]

Mx 25 xfce ahs, I did try to install on a virtual machine with Proxmox.

I did tried 3 times to install with btrfs.
1) with legacy bios, root and home into btrfs formatted partition
2) uefi without secureboot, root and home into btrfs formatted partotion
3) with legacy bios, only root into btrfs formatted partotion.

The problem with Timeshift is always that of "timeshift cannot write the snapshot" , something like that.

Just in case:
Timeshift needs /@ and /@home subvolume to work with btrfs. It won't use btrfs-snapshotting on a just "plain" btrfs-formatted partittion.
Also swap or /swap file need to be outside the btrfs-volume /@-root is based on, b/c btrfs-snapshotting - timeshift tries to use on btrfs - won't work with swap on the same volume.

[dave]

hello dave, "Brightness ...slider"
for notebook (?)

Desktop pc...works fine in MX 23

[siamhie]

I asked that during the development phase, thanks for bringing it up again. If it makes no difference with the other wallpapers I would like to see it enabled. Reading man nitrogen, it seems like this change to ~/.config/nitrogen/nitrogen.cfg might work:

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[geometry]
posx=366
posy=132
sizex=1110
sizey=923

[nitrogen]
view=icon
set-scaled=true
recurse=true
sort=rtime
icon_caps=false
dirs=/usr/share/backgrounds;/home/jb/.fluxbox/backgrounds;

No, that appears to have no effect. Maybe we need to use the flag somewhere else?

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--set-scaled

I think you need to start nitrogen with the options in the startup file?

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nitrogen --restore --set-scaled

[Jerry3904]

I tried that but perhaps placed the flag in first position. Will look again,, thanks.

[re-user]

Hi everyone,
upgrading from a mx23 to mx25beta1 preserving /home: the "second user" can't login till "chown -R" his home, that after upgrade belongs to "1001".
-- Clipped --
Veryfing the owner of the second user home I find "1001".

I don't see anything out of the ordinary here, just standard first Unix user account UID with Debian based systems. The first is always 1000, the second 1002, the third 1003 and so on.

...and mx25beta1 do the same.

But verifying /etc/passwd of four different mx23 systems, I find that mx23 assigned to "second user" UID 1001, not 1002.

I suspect that everyone upgrading a system with two users will find the difficulty I found.

Maybe an advice on a future document "upgrading from mx23 instructions" can be useful.


(All my systems have two users, the second for normal use without admin rights, a seasoned but safe habit.)

[specialk]

(problem beta 1, KDE)

Second time in two days : boot, ok until the MX logo and then it hangs there, nothing more happens (I force a reboot).

Other : I just had a session crash while on Firefox doing nothing special. Black screen, nothings reacts, force back to login, loging in -> black screen again.
Hard to tell from the syslog what happened.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc
    avail: acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12.48+deb13-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro
    quiet
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.6 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.13.0 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1
    dm: SDDM Distro: MX-25_KDE_beta1_x64 Infinity September 21 2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 13
    (trixie)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: Zenbook UM5302TA_UM5302TA v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: UM5302TA v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> uuid: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: UM5302TA.313 date: 09/10/2024
Battery:
  ID-1: BATT charge: 49.4 Wh (79.9%) condition: 61.8/67.1 Wh (92.1%) volts: 15.9 min: 15.9
    model: ASUSTeK UM5302 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: not charging cycles: 642
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 6800U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+ gen: 3
    level: v3 note: check built: 2022 process: TSMC n6 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x44 (68)
    stepping: 1 microcode: 0xA404107
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 8 threads: 16 tpc: 2 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 16 MiB desc: 1x16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2659 min/max: 400/2701 boost: disabled scaling: driver: amd-pstate-epp
    governor: performance cores: 1: 2659 2: 2659 3: 2659 4: 2659 5: 2659 6: 2659 7: 2659 8: 2659
    9: 2659 10: 2659 11: 2659 12: 2659 13: 2659 14: 2659 15: 2659 16: 2659 bogomips: 86244
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: always-on; RSB
    filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsa status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
  Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Rembrandt [Radeon 680M] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu
    v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, DP-7,
    Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1681 class-ID: 0300 temp: 46.0 C
  Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 5-1:2 chip-ID: 13d3:5463 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 compositor: kwin_wayland
    driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Samsung 0x4172 built: 2021 res: mode: 2880x1800 hz: 60 scale: 200% (2)
    to: 1440x900 dpi: 253 gamma: 1.2 size: 289x186mm (11.38x7.32") diag: 344mm (13.5") ratio: 16:10
    modes: max: 2880x1800 min: 640x480
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
    renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi rembrandt LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.61 6.12.48+deb13-amd64)
    device-ID: 1002:1681 memory: 500 MiB unified: no display-ID: :1.0
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio [Rembrandt/Strix]
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Audio Coprocessor vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_pci_acp6x
    v: kernel alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_acp_pci,
    snd_rpl_pci_acp6x, snd_pci_ps, snd_sof_amd_rembrandt pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.6
    chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.48+deb13-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Foxconn
    driver: mt7921e v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 14c3:0616 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, nfsd, smbd, systemd-networkd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Wireless_Device driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.1
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 0489:e0e2 class-ID: e001
    serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11
    sub-v: 2505 hci-v: 11 rev: 2310 class-ID: 6c010c
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 240:8 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
    service-classes: rendering, capturing, audio, telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 11.87 GiB (1.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC SN735 SDBPNHH-1T00-1002
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD
    serial: <filter> fw-rev: 70626000 temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 105.76 GiB size: 103.54 GiB (97.90%) used: 11.87 GiB (11.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p10 maj-min: 259:10
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%) used: 245.3 MiB (95.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.07 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p9
    maj-min: 259:9
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 49.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2893 libs: 1630 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala pm: rpm pkgs: 0
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main  contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main  contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    3: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates  main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.sources
    1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ trixie main  non-free
    2: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ trixie ahs
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.87 GiB used: 2.6 GiB (17.5%)
  Processes: 364 Power: uptime: 13m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle wakeups: 0
    hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 5.89 GiB
    services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 14.2.0 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.37-release inxi: 3.3.38
Boot Mode: UEFI

[Senpai]

Hi:
MX25-Fluxbox, testing mx-boot-options, previewing the “Text” and “Tribar” themes freezes the session and I have to close it with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
Best regards