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sunrat wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:20 pm Booted it live in virt-manager. Seems to work nicely in a quick perusal. Posting now from Firefox in it. RAM use about 350MB after boot, very good. Graphics are a bit blurry in VM.
I have Bodhi installed to metal but never boot it because ubuntu. May try putting this over it instead which should provide better graphics.

Hi sunrat!

Thanks a lot for checking it out, I appreciate it!

I just gave it a quick try in Virtual Box:

Nice grub menu theming - Is there any way to change Debian to MX Moksha?

Neofetch is present but the newer fastfetch is not. Neofetch gives a logo I don't recognize (I'm not a distro hopper). fastfetch gives a lot more (useful) info IMHO.

smbclient, useful for samba troubleshooting is not present.

Taskbar stuff overlaps the system updater icon when the systray is opened. Can a spacer be added? The icon says wireframe in preferences but visually isn't the MX one. Is it supposed to look like a black checkmark on a white circle?

AVLinux wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 6:13 pm Hi,

After many months of testing and consultation with developers ylee and the_waiter from Bodhi Linux I'm very happy to present the first RC1 Testing ISO for the Moksha Desktop Environment on MX Linux; MX Moksha "Out of Bodhi" RC1. As always credit, thanks and great appreciation to the MX Linux developers for the 'build-iso-mx' build system.

You can optionally add and test AV Linux DAW's, NLE's and Plugins from here:

https://bandshed.net/packages/AVL_MXe-23.X/

*DO NOT install packages from the 'SYSTEM_DEV' folder!

Hi AVLinux:
Just 15 days ago I'm playing with a respin of MX-Moksha I hadn't seen anything on the forum... I don't follow your respin very much because I differentiate music from noise and little else... hahahaha

I liked it Moksha, it's nothing like what you are doing, compiling the ISO from the template, not even close, hahaha,
I just tried adding the Bodhi repository, as in my Cinnamon and ParrotOS respin, I installed Moksha, I also tried the Debian script that the Bodhi developers provide at https://github.com/BodhiDev/Distros/blo ... install.sh, I like how it looks, a pity that Moksha doesn't work with the MX system-shim either, but it works fine with systemd.
I have installed your beta, and it looks great, I haven't tested it in depth yet, but I love how it looks and the plugins you have created for Thunar, congratulations , is there any chance you can create some respin for normal MX-Moksha use, without so many audio/video specific programs and plugins....

Best regards

FullScale4Me wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:33 am I just gave it a quick try in Virtual Box:

Nice grub menu theming - Is there any way to change Debian to MX Moksha?

Neofetch is present but the newer fastfetch is not. Neofetch gives a logo I don't recognize (I'm not a distro hopper). fastfetch gives a lot more (useful) info IMHO.

smbclient, useful for samba troubleshooting is not present.

Taskbar stuff overlaps the system updater icon when the systray is opened. Can a spacer be added? The icon says wireframe in preferences but visually isn't the MX one. Is it supposed to look like a black checkmark on a white circle?

Hi, thanks for taking a look!

Yep, the GRUB name is a finishing detail I've missed, will fix for future releases.

I think they are working in an updated fastfetch logo, the leaf of the bodhi tree is the Bodhi Linux logo TBH I don't delve into the 'fetches' a lot, if fastfetch is in MX main I will swap them out

mx-updater; Enlightenment had a weird quirk with some colored Icons in the systray so I made my own and prefer them so I put them in the Moksha spin, Moksha has a different systray than Enlightenment and it seems to only expand so big, will ask them about that.
If you want the OG mx-updater Icons just uninstall my 'apt-notifier-custom-icons' package and you will get the OG Icons back

Any suggestions for networking stuff are welcome, I suck at networking so I'll add smbclient to the installed packages.

@Senpai

Great to hear you were also working on Moksha, you do excellent work with all of your Respins! I had ylee make a few changes to that script you linked because there were a few minor places that Bodhi and MX packages could interfere, I think it is pretty good now so yes it it is easy to get vanilla Moksha on an MX system with the script for sure.

The File Actions are designed to work with any File Manager so they are different than actual Thunar-specific Custom Actions but if you want to go to a default MX setup you can simply uninstall my 'mx-moksha-file-actions' package and then install 'thunar-custom-actions-mx' and my actions will be removed and it will be like default MX

I usually try as much as possible to make my customizations as external Debs so they can be added and removed.

Please don't be discouraged if you want to finish your own Moksha Respin and put it here, I'm not competing with anyone and my Spins are never 'pure' they have my dirty fingerprints all over the place.. as an example @user-green also puts up Enlightenment spins here and I think that is great, the more choice the better!

Perhaps because I started out with Linux with Slackware, I opted for XFCE with a graphical environment many years ago.

As a serial tester, I've installed countless distributions with different graphical environments through Virtualbox, but none (except Void Linux) or any graphical environment has caught my attention.

I must congratulate you on your brilliant development; this MX Linux respin is very nice and looks great.

Just two questions: How do I change the screen size (in Virtualbox, the screen size is awkward, and the horizontal bar may be vertical, just like MX Linux XFCE).

Gabriel_M wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:36 am Perhaps because I started out with Linux with Slackware, I opted for XFCE with a graphical environment many years ago.

As a serial tester, I've installed countless distributions with different graphical environments through Virtualbox, but none (except Void Linux) or any graphical environment has caught my attention.

I must congratulate you on your brilliant development; this MX Linux respin is very nice and looks great.

Just two questions: How do I change the screen size (in Virtualbox, the screen size is awkward, and the horizontal bar may be vertical, just like MX Linux XFCE).

Hi, thanks!

Screen settings are handled by arandr with a patched feature to save it's config in Moksha's startup so;
Menu-->Applications-->Preferences-->Monitor settings.

Right-click on the UI to and select Resolution to change the screen size, leftmost button to apply and rightmost button to save to Moksha startup

To change the Panel position or "shelf' right-click on the panel and a 'shelf' menu item should pop up and take you to a list including 'orientation' where you can change the position.
*Note you will likely want to also go into the shelf Settings menu and in the Size tab uncheck "Shrink to content width" as well

AVLinux wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 6:13 pm Hi,

Hi AVLinux:
Just 15 days ago I'm playing with a respin of MX-Moksha I hadn't seen anything on the forum... I don't follow your respin very much because I differentiate music from noise and little else... hahahaha

I liked it Moksha, it's nothing like what you are doing, compiling the ISO from the template, not even close, hahaha,
I just tried adding the Bodhi repository, as in my Cinnamon and ParrotOS respin, I installed Moksha, I also tried the Debian script that the Bodhi developers provide at https://github.com/BodhiDev/Distros/blo ... install.sh, I like how it looks, a pity that Moksha doesn't work with the MX system-shim either, but it works fine with systemd.
I have installed your beta, and it looks great, I haven't tested it in depth yet, but I love how it looks and the plugins you have created for Thunar, congratulations , is there any chance you can create some respin for normal MX-Moksha use, without so many audio/video specific programs and plugins....

Best regards

Hi:
In the Debian script, I found some typos in lines 64, 98, 105 and 108, just some incorrect spaces, I corrected them and the script worked without problems.
I tried to pass the problem on Github, but I'm a mess and I do not know if I did well the error notice, but well, I have also passed it on the Bodhi forum to see if they can fix it.

Edited:
Just to be clear, the Debian script, works perfectly by cloning the repository.... My mistake .

Best regards

Yes, fastfetch 2.33.0 is in MX 23 main, 2.35.0 in test.

Stevo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 4:45 pm Yes, fastfetch 2.33.0 is in MX 23 main, 2.35.0 in test.

Good to know thanks, will switch..