MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback

[chrispop99]

hard-coded in src/polkitgnomeauthenticationdialog.c
It's probably not a package I should try to modify and rebuild

Please do (and post to xfce.org to announce its availability)
It's a several-years-long outstanding bug, and affects all of debian downstream XFCE, Cinnamon, and Unity...

OK, you talked me into it. policykit-1-gnome_0.105-6mx17 is now available in the Testing repository. The suggested patch wasn't quite correct but was very helpful (I really don't know gtk and am not very good at C). In any case it was only 2 lines changed in the dialog window settings so it shouldn't affect anything else.

It looks better here, but I'd like some people to test it (maybe with different locales) before announcing it to XFCE.
It takes a logout/login to take effect.

Excellent work!

This has irritated me for a long time; I think I mentioned it during one of the Alpha rounds.

Tested on 2x64 machines, and 1x32. It's a great improvement on the lo-res 32-bit machine as the original dialogue went off-screen at each end.

Chris

[Jerry3904]

That's much better, thanks a lot!

On my testing machine, I can shrink the length fine, but there is a gap below the password field that limits shrinking the height

[Jerry3904]

A bug and a whine on the Settings screen:

bug: the ADSL/PPPOE entry lacks an icon and does not work, though works fine off the menu << put this in Tracker

whine: the iDevice Mounter is located under System, but really belongs under Hardware where Removable Drives and Media is

[timkb4cq]

...I can shrink the length fine, but there is a gap below the password field that limits shrinking the height

I tried making it shorter but that's as skinny as it would go. I'm pretty sure that space is reserved for those authentication actions where you have to choose between specific users. It's where their icons go. Don't really want to mess with that in case some programs in the repos use that documented functionality.

When there are translations for MX-iDevice Mounter in github, I'll update the .desktop file to use Hardware instead of System.

[asqwerth]

I finally installed B3 on VB as well as on actual hardware, and for the first time in forever, I'm having trouble with the sound in MX Linux. Sound was also non-existent in live mode in VB before installation. I'd installed in the hope the sound would sort itself out but nope.

In both live and installed systems, I tried using MX-select-sound to switch between the HDMI and PCH cards. Neither appear to work - usually PCH is what works on this computer.

I'm wondering if it's a kernel issue because all the earlier versions of MX17 were fine even in VB.

Installation are all old-school MBR/Grub.


inxi below for the real metal install:

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System:    Host: mx17b3 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 Mobo: MSI model: H97M-G43(MS-7924) v: 1.0 serial: N/A
           BIOS: American Megatrends v: V2.4 date: 07/22/2014
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i5-4460 (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3400 MHz 1: 3199 MHz 2: 3199 MHz 3: 3199 MHz 4: 3199 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Desktop version: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card-1 Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-1-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: d8:cb:8a:12:38:3e
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 6129.2GB (0.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ADATA_SP900 size: 128.0GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD30EZRX size: 3000.6GB
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD30EZRX size: 3000.6GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 21G used: 4.5G (24%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 16.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 187 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 721.9/15921.5MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.43

[dolphin_oracle]

Occasionally sound in virtualbox routes thru the surround sound channel instead of the regular master.

There is a link to alsamixer in the xfce settings manager
Make sure the volumes are turned up. I have to do this with antix.

[asqwerth]

Occasionally sound in virtualbox routes thru the surround sound channel instead of the regular master.

There is a link to alsamixer in the xfce settings manager
Make sure the volumes are turned up. I have to do this with antix.

Real metal install also has no sound. But I'll go check on the alsamixer thingy.

After I sort out why the latest Manjaro updates has led to a grub menu with half of my distros missing from the list.

[UPDATED POST]
OK, tried "surround" and PCM (latter of which worked in the past with other distros), no success.

Ran alsamixer and turned vol to 100%. No change.

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Argh.

[Jerry3904]

Still going through Section 4 of the Manual, slow checking validity. Just discovered that indicator-keylock is not in our repos--Stevo needs to move it over from his build that is successful on Debian 9

https://software.opensuse.org//download ... or-keylock

[asqwerth]

The following MX Conkys:
1. geeky tower logo
2. Asq-clock
3. Asq-clock-new

all need to change the line referring to /etc/antix-version file, because in beta 3 the OS details are now in the /etc/mx-version file.

[timkb4cq]

Real metal install also has no sound. But I'll go check on the alsamixer thingy.

Use F6 in AlsaMixer to select your real soundcard and look for the AutoMut setting.
It ends up being enabled on about half my installs & I need to disable it for my sound to work. Once disabled it stays disabled.