MX-21 fluxbox beta 1 feedback thread.

[Jerry3904]

No good reason that I know of besides the fact that no one noticed. @m_pav ?

Thanks!

[dolphin_oracle]

what would be the compelling reason to bring in 1.3.7? IIRC, there is a right-click on the fluxbox taskbar issue that is broken in 1.3.7, unless its been fixed.

[Jerry3904]

I have had trouble with wireless reconnecting after waking, logging in, etc. This is on my Lenovo laptop:

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$ inxi -n
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V driver: e1000e 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: xxxxxxxxxx 

I finally went into the Network Manager Connections, double-clicked my SSID, and on the General tab changed the priority to "1". That seems so far to have taken care of the problem, but I have never had to do that with this or any other machine so thought it might be worth a report.

[ceeslans]

what would be the compelling reason to bring in 1.3.7? IIRC, there is a right-click on the fluxbox taskbar issue that is broken in 1.3.7, unless its been fixed.

I read about such issue in an earlier forum post, ie that the fluxbox [config] menu could not be activated by rightclick on the native fluxbox toolbar.
In today's MX-Fluxbox setup this [config] option is now accessible as a cascading menu in the 'settings' submenu. And moreover: now tint2 is the default toolbar in MX21.

I'm not questioning the functionality of the current mx-fluxbox version. But over a period of two years between versions, a number of minor/major bugs were fixed (see http://fluxbox.org/news/all.php). Maybe AntiX upgraded their fluxbox version to 1.3.7-1 for that same reason?

[kobaian]

Finally tested on metal.

1. Strange menu entry in menu-mx_pl

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...
    [exec] (Uruchom) {fbrun}
    [exec] () {custom-toolbox /etc/custom-toolbox/mxfb-settings.list}
    [exec] (Terminal) {roxterm} 
...  
    

There is no such an entry in the non-localized menu-mx.

2. Calendar Wars (YAD vs. gsimplecal).
Episode I: The Localization Strikes Back:





YAD calendar - localized out of the box, gsimplecal only in English.

The old YADa Master says: Perhaps we don't need gsimplecal at all...

[wdscharff]

This is more than strange and odd!
I use Drill for file search, it is significantly faster than Catfish.
There are two functions, right click on file and it is opened in the editor, right click on path and the default file manager is opened in the appropriate directory.

And now it no longer opens the path in the file manager but calls qmplay2, the music player.
When I uninstall it, it calls me the harddisk allocation (baobab) in the directory.

To top it all off, Catfish does it too.

Can someone verify/falsify this on their system.

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 info: tint2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-21_fluxbox_beta1_x64 Wildflower August 20  2021 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550M S2H v: x.x serial: <filter> 
           BIOS: American Megatrends v: F3 date: 08/20/2020 
CPU:       Topology: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 
           family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: N/A microcode: 8701021 
           L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
           bogomips: 182066 
           Speed: 2200 MHz min/max: 2200/3800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2190 
           2: 2196 3: 1995 4: 4100 5: 2196 6: 2189 7: 2191 8: 2192 9: 2190 10: 2195 11: 2195 
           12: 2195 13: 2190 14: 2195 15: 2422 16: 2146 17: 4269 18: 2195 19: 2195 20: 2199 
           21: 2196 22: 2197 23: 2196 24: 2205 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 
           mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nouveau 
           v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c82 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
           compositor: compton v: 1 resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: NV137 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fb9 
           Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 0b:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-8-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 3.18 TiB used: 1.10 TiB (34.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
           block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> 
           rev: 2B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT 
           ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 QVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB 
           block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 0223 scheme: MBR 
           ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500G size: 465.76 GiB 
           block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 0223 scheme: MBR 
           ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 120.32 GiB size: 117.87 GiB (97.97%) used: 18.89 GiB (16.0%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc3 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.44 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 16 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 353 Uptime: 28m Memory: 31.34 GiB used: 3.29 GiB (10.5%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[Jerry3904]

Finally tested on metal.

1. Strange menu entry in menu-mx_pl

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...
    [exec] (Uruchom) {fbrun}
    [exec] () {custom-toolbox /etc/custom-toolbox/mxfb-settings.list}
    [exec] (Terminal) {roxterm} 
...  
    

There is no such an entry in the non-localized menu-mx.

2. Calendar Wars (YAD vs. gsimplecal).
Episode I: The Localization Strikes Back:





YAD calendar - localized out of the box, gsimplecal only in English.

The old YADa Master says: Perhaps we don't need gsimplecal at all...

Thanks for looking at it installed.

1. temporary issue as translations are being updated
2. I had looked at that before but the dialog screen was always to big. No longer a problem now, and I think you're right. I found this command gets a decent look:

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yad --calendar --no-buttons --fixed --height 50

[fehlix]

This is more than strange and odd!
I use Drill for file search, it is significantly faster than Catfish.
There are two functions, right click on file and it is opened in the editor, right click on path and the default file manager is opened in the appropriate directory.

And now it no longer opens the path in the file manager but calls qmplay2, the music player.
When I uninstall it, it calls me the harddisk allocation (baobab) in the directory.

To top it all off, Catfish does it too.

Can someone verify/falsify this on their system.

Yes, it may be advisable to have a default application associated with mime-type "inode/directory", set for the user.
If no default application is set for this mimetype, any app opening inode/directory, would query the mime database , and would fallback to the first one found in one of the mimeinfo.cache files.
( The result may vary depending what applications have been installed / removed and in what order, which are registered to handel inode/directory's)
One way to set the default application of mime-type "inode/directory" on the command line shown by this examples:

set PCmanFM as filemanager for mime-type "inode/directory"

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xdg-mime default pcmanfm-qt.desktop inode/directory

set SpaceFM filemanager for mime-type "inode/directory"

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xdg-mime default spacefm.desktop    inode/directory

set Thunar filemanager for mime-type "inode/directory"

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xdg-mime default thunar.desktop     inode/directory

Alternatively one can use the file managers own way of setting a default app for this mime type:
E.g in Thunar right click on a folder ( = "inode/directory") and select PCmanFM

use-default-filemanager-thunar.png

or in PCmanFM and select PCmanFM
:

use-default-filemanager.png

and by this the selected the File manger becomes the default mimetype association for inode/directory.

[Klare Sache und damit hopp!]

[i_ri]

hello dolphin_oracle
install saving changes
using the modified system to install a modified system /var/log is empty of a log of the changes. log starts empty fresh with the installation. Can the logs of changes in added packages be transferred to the installation along with save changes?

[wdscharff]

@fehlix

Alternatively one can use the file managers own way of setting a default app for this mime type:
E.g in Thunar right click on a folder ( = "inode/directory") and select PCmanFM
...
and by this the selected the File manger becomes the default mimetype association for inode/directory.

Thanks, Works :-)