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i_ri wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:06 am hello dolphin_oracle
hello berlin59, " the gui for packages in synaptic.
It doesn't show the active repos."

requires package <software-properties-gtk>
no stable candidate <software-properties-gtk>

it won't anyway. synaptic does not support the *.sources format deb822 format. and it likely won't.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:07 am ...
it won't anyway. synaptic does not support the *.sources format deb822 format. and it likely won't.

... It is good to know, needs a big warning if someone want install synaptic again.

ceeslans wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 7:46 am

Jerry3904 wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 7:00 am Awesome, thanks--very much appreciate the support. I think you already gave me that but it got buried somewhere since.

@m_pav @dolphin_oracle I would swear that we had this set up in one of the alphas earlier. How do you want to proceed to correct this?

@Jerry3904: one correction to my post: for picom v/12.0 the backend must explicitly be chosen (as declared in your error message too).
For MXFB25 (picom version 12.0) I would suggest to set it to the default value:

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backend = "xrender";

Thanks. I have discovered that in Trixie a separate package (picom.conf) contains that file picom.conf.example but it is still installed in the same location you give. @m_pav That needs to be added to the build list please.

I have now set this all up and will test--back in a minute.

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Hmmm. Apparently do not have setup just right, since after rebooting nothing in Tweak > Compositor is active. I'll leave this alone and let people who actually know what they are doing take a look when possible.

oops wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:12 am

dolphin_oracle wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:07 am ...
it won't anyway. synaptic does not support the *.sources format deb822 format. and it likely won't.

... It is good to know, needs a big warning if someone want install synaptic again.

well, it can uses the sources, it just can't manage them.

@Jerry3904 there is a generic/basic picom.conf file stored in /usr/share/mx-tweak/ that is copied over if enabled from tweak, as well as a zpicom.desktop startup file copied to ~/.config/autostart. the desktop file has a startup line. I did not realize that the compositor tab was enabled on fluxbox. it has not in the past.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:07 am

i_ri wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:06 am hello dolphin_oracle
hello berlin59, " the gui for packages in synaptic.
It doesn't show the active repos."

requires package <software-properties-gtk>
no stable candidate <software-properties-gtk>

it won't anyway. synaptic does not support the *.sources format deb822 format. and it likely won't.

Good opportunity to expand mx repo manager to allow editing or adding of repo sources in general ?

Sorry I can't help with testing of the beta. On holiday (again ) at the moment.

I have two minor points that I though I would address regarding the new MX-25 Xfce sysVinit.


1. The Thunar "File System" icon is barely visible when the Thunar left-pane is set to either 16px or 24px, using either the Tree or Shortcuts view.

• Occurs using either the Tree or Shortcuts view
• Larger icon sizes, e.g. >=32px, show a proper (darker) icon (only the 16px and 24px size has the problem)
• Papirus is the system icon setting (the other Papirus icon settings for light themes do not have this problem)
• The Greybird Application theme and Kokodi Window theme are used
• This does not occur in MX-21 or MX-23

The below image shows a comparison of the "File System" directory in Thunar using the Tree view set to 24px (top Screenshot) and 32px (bottom Screenshot), as noted on the image.


2. Clicking the time ("Clock") in the Panel will launch the Orage calendar. My suggestion is to not stop there but add the option to toggle the Orage calendar open and close. That was how it worked by default in MX-19. (MX-25 retains the method MX-23 uses of only launching the Orage calendar when the time in the Panel is clicked.)

This is done by adding the -t option after the orage command as shown by the red arrow in the below Shapshot.

I have noticed two problems with MX 25 Beta KDE.
1- If the sound volume is changed then Dolphine opened the volume notification slider at the middle of the screen will keep showing up repeatedly. This problem also exists in Debian 13 and Kubuntu 25.04.
2- No power profile in battery system tray widget. I can't change between Power Save/Balanced/Performance.

As requested: Please provide full Quick System Info from the menu, use copy for forum button, no edits.

Stuart_M wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 8:38 am I have two minor points that I though I would address regarding the new MX-25 Xfce sysVinit.


1. The Thunar "File System" icon is barely visible when the Thunar left-pane is set to either 16px or 24px, using either the Tree or Shortcuts view.

• Occurs using either the Tree or Shortcuts view
• Larger icon sizes, e.g. >=32px, show a proper (darker) icon (only the 16px and 24px size has the problem)
• Papirus is the system icon setting (the other Papirus icon settings for light themes do not have this problem)
• The Greybird Application theme and Kokodi Window theme are used
• This does not occur in MX-21 or MX-23

I had this on MX 23.
It doesn't happen with the old Debian repo version of papirus-icon-theme that MX 23 ships with. It does happen with the debian-backports version or the latest version from GitHub.
Last year Papirus changed the color on some symbolic icon sizes and the color they used is the same as the thunar side pane backgound color used in some desktop themes.