MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback

[Stevo]

Is it working without problems to update from beta 2 to 3 or final after beta 2 has been installed?

I updated from MX-16 to MX-17 (live distro with persistent home) and got some grafical problems (e.g fonts and no transparent background in terminal). I'm not completely happy with the visual options, e.g. in FF the current tab isn't looking well (see Attachment) with MediterranianTributeDark Theme, because it is not in one color. These problem might be related because I was keeping my home dir, which is why I'd like to know if I could install MX-17B2 or B3 now, and then update later.

Thanks for the whole work, of course, I wouldn't use it if I wouldn't like. Had some Windows for some days on my new PC, not generally bad but I'll stick with MX which seems even to start much faster.

Updating from beta releases is never good practice, and most Linux distributions won't support it.

It is often the case that you can upgrade from a release candidate to final, but as there is usually only a short time between those releases, there seems little point.

Chris

The Mediterranean themes have been removed from beta 3 along with many others that don't work right on the new platform.

[Stevo]

can you elaborate? Do you mean you don't get an XFCE desktop?

can you post inxi -F for your machine?

I'm running an older intel p4 with 3 g of ram - computer with sis drivers.On boot from dvd Everything works well until it tries to boot the display.Then it stops asking for root login and root password to use the cli-installer and follow instructions.No I can't get to the XFCE desktop.thanks john

Ok.

Please.try the safe or.failsafe options please.

I'm sure the culprit is that SIS graphics. I have to wonder if that antiX sis driver is going to work with the newer xorg stack in MX 17.

[nathan2423]

Is it correct that not even the generic CUPS pdf printer is set up in a default install?

[Paul..]

Is it correct that not even the generic CUPS pdf printer is set up in a default install?

It's there in my install to HDD.

Cups.png

[nathan2423]

Hmm - I went to Print .. Settings.. using the Whisker menu and it was not there on mine (I installed beta 3 to hard disk about two days ago)

[Paul..]

Hmm - I went to Print .. Settings.. using the Whisker menu and it was not there on mine (I installed beta 3 to hard disk about two days ago)

It's installed by default...Just right-click on a web page and select Print...then you will see the preview page with "save as PDF" as the default on left.

[tascoast]

All installed well here. I note that https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/wine may need revision to note that winetricks is included in MX-17 when installed via Package Manager and need not be obtained separately, as the wiki advises in previous versions of MX.

Used MX-17 Grub for MBR amd customised with MX GC without any issues. Conky default looks fine on 1680x1050 display.
Bluetooth functionality checks out good, along with wifi dongle (this can be slow to initialise but networking is activated late in startup services anyway these days I believe).
Google Chrome doesn't import FF settings. Used saved 'bookmark.html ' to import favorites.
Checked/unchecked Power Manager Panel icon in settings to remove.

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System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.13.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: MX-17.b3_x64 Horizon November 29, 2017
Machine:   Device: desktop System: LENOVO product: 7522RU3 v: ThinkCentre A58 serial: N/A
           Mobo: LENOVO model: N/A serial: N/A BIOS: LENOVO v: 5HKT52AUS date: 07/15/2010
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E7300 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2670 MHz 1: 2136 MHz 2: 2136 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1680x1050@59.88hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G41 version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Def. Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-1-amd64
Network:   Card-1: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:01:6c:48:1a:77
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter driver: r8712u
           IF: wlan0 state: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (44.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 49G used: 7.1G (16%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda13
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 170 Uptime: 8 min Memory: 1077.2/3920.8MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.43 

[richb]

tascoast, Thanks for the feedback.

[vamsi]

I can only say one thing MX is improving from version to version the conkys are good and all the features are awesome
1) However i couldn't find anything like themes in MX package installer i think some one in the dev team told me that we will include them

Removed themes in the appearance tab this is actually very good got rid of ugly themes (Thanks for considering my suggestion)
2) My suggestion regarding MX package installer that change the interface as that of settings manager in XFCE as attached in the screenshot so that it will be much easier to access

Thanks when we can expect the Final Version approximately ..

[Jerry3904]

However i couldn't find anything like themes in MX package installer i think some one in the dev team told me that we will include them

Just hasn't happened yet...a lot is going on.