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So apparently happens when any of the MX Tools require the root password. I tried every theme including the DarkBlood theme I installed.
Password gets typed (cursor moves to the right) but nothing is shown in the field. I'll check for other programs in the meantime.


*Update: My fluxbox partition doesn't get mounted at boot, so when I select it from Devices, root authentication is required and the password gets typed in but doesn't show the characters.

hello dolphin_oracle
There is a menu item "About Xfce"
the command is <xfce4-about>
It is quite nice. Toplevel.
The first xfce4-about Tab >System is similar to mx-welcome --about page, having machine specifics.

The second xfce4-about Tab >About is a support help page with links to xfce documents.
As a help document it can be useful and featured as a desktop shortcut icon. (?)
As a help document it can be useful and featured in the XFCE version of MX-Tour under the "Get Help" tab where there are other icon links to frequent mx-tour "Get Help" Xfce topic links. (?)

A way to call xfce4-about to open to the second >About Tab to expose Xfce Help. (?)

Jerry3904 wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 8:32 am On that installed (HP) that had no effect, so simply deleted the Power Manager icon altogether and modified the conky to show battery level (thinking we might make that a new variant for MX-23). PA icon looked right with a scale of 0.8, Here's the finished product:revised_systray_2.png

@dolphin_oracle Any interest in adding to Tweak > Display (or somewhere else...) an entry such as

PulseAudio icon scale

with a default value of 0.6 that runs a sed on that css code piece preinstalled? Tooltip: "Adjust the size to fit Panel preferences"

a couple of things on this

1. the update to desktop-defaults-xfce-mx that just went through has a new file, /etc/skel/.config/gtk-3.0/xfce4-panel-tweaks.css which will contain the scale definitions. by default they are set to .8 at the moment. I had tested on a variety of hidPI and low res screens as well as a variety of panel widths and .8 is good compromise that is sane. anything bigger doesn't change much and anything smaller gets really small in some configurations. there is an "includes" statement in /etc/skel/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css that will pull in that file's configurations. current alpha2 users can copy the files into their home folders if they wish.

2. I'm working on the requested function in tweak to allow the user to set the scales. for now it can set the power manager plugin as well as the audio plugin. the settings are hidden if one or the other doesn't exist on the panel. Its a little clunky, mostly because you have to reset the panel to see the change. but folks probably won't deal with it more than once, so I think acceptable. for alpha2 users, the tweak update, which isn't ready quite yet, will include the xfce4-panel-tweaks.css file (scale set to 1 in this case so as not to adjust anything without the user's permission) and will copy it into the appropriate home folder location if it doesn't exist already, and put the includes statement in as well.

Thanks for looking at this--I will enjoy testing once it's released.

dolphin_oracle wrote: Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:43 pm

siamhie wrote: Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:14 pm How can I get the password field to populate the asterisks when authenticating? I loaded XFCE-21.3 live ISO and I can see them there.


(fluxbox example below)

password.jpg

they should have askteriks the only one I know of that has issues is the network-manager wifi password prompt and then only with certain themes, the mx-comfort-dark theme included.

@dolphin_oracle I couldn't figure out which setting I changed to trigger this (I made a lot), so I went ahead and just reset XFCE altogether.
then
password field once again shows the asterisks. I'll takes notes as to which setting triggers this in the future. Back to testing again.

siamhie wrote: Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:14 pm How can I get the password field to populate the asterisks when authenticating? I loaded XFCE-21.3 live ISO and I can see them there.

@dolphin_oracle Turns out it was font issue on my end.

When changing the default font from preferences to 'monoffur", the password field will be empty.

is that a custom font? you might need t rebuild your font cache.

Interesting, now when I enter password in terminal for a sudo command, I get asterisks for each key entry. Just curious why the change.

asqwerth wrote: Sat Apr 15, 2023 12:38 am Interesting, now when I enter password in terminal for a sudo command, I get asterisks for each key entry. Just curious why the change.

I proposed that, it's useful to have feedback when you type a password in terminal otherwise you might type the password in a chat, youtube comment, or other window that might have stolen focus, the downside is that people looking over your shoulder will be able to tell how long is your password but I don't have people looking over my shoulder and the lenght of my password can get them so far... while the possibility of typing the password by mistake in a chat window is more annoying

It's customizable, you can remove /etc/sudoers.d/sudo_password_display

Thanks, @Adrian . I'll keep it for now, see how I get along with it.