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Maybe a screen shot.

Two issues.

1. Dolphin root actions menu needs Kate or kwrite installed to be able to edit as text in root. Kate is a recommends,
2. The MX Snapshot configuration file has two compression definition lines that conflict and therefore Snapshot will error. Removal of the first line : mksq_opt=-comp lz4 defines the default compression

If the window theme's widget elements (buttons, etc), are still too small for your liking on Plasma, you can go into the Display Settings/Scaling and scale them up in fractional increments (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc) It's more advanced than what XFCE has at the moment.

If you also want to play around with more style themes, install the qt-style-kvantum package, set the Plasma style and colors to use Kvantum, and mess around with those in the Kvantum Manager.

@Stevo. Both Kvantum and scaling very nice features.

richb wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2019 1:33 pm Two issues.

1. Dolphin root actions menu needs Kate or kwrite installed to be able to edit as text in root. Kate is a recommends,
2. The MX Snapshot configuration file has two compression definition lines that conflict and therefore Snapshot will error. Removal of the first line :

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compression = xz will correct the problem.

mksq_opt=-comp lz4 defines the default compression

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[General]
compression=xz
edit_boot_menu=no
force_installer=true
gui_editor=/usr/bin/featherpad
make_isohybrid=yes
make_md5sum=yes
mksq_opt=-comp lz4
snapshot_basename=snapshot
snapshot_dir=/home/snapshot
snapshot_excludes=/usr/local/share/excludes/mx-snapshot-exclude.list
stamp=datetime

ooh that some good correction to take note of....thanks

Newbie to noobie kde respin - how to install?

For those who want to install this to HD as a mult-boot:

When the installer gets to the point of asking if you want to install Grub you can either uncheck it (for "No - do not install grub") or choose to install grub to the "Root" of your install, the PBR. Do not use MBR or ESP.

After the install you won't be able to boot the new install from your existing boot menu. Start your current MX install as usual. Then open MX Tools and start up Boot Repair. Reconfigure your existing grub.cfg file choosing your existing partition - the same partition you already had you MX installed on, not the newly installed version. The boot repair routine will re-write your config file and add your newly installed version (KDE spin or whatever) to your grub menu. Now you can reboot and choose the new spin off your grub menu.

If this is too confusing (and it can get confusing at the point where you choose which partition to write the grub.cfg file to) you should probably use a LiveUSB or a Virtual Machine to check out the new spin.

Seaken64

mikejade wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:56 am here you go....give it a spin and see if it works for you:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cTVw2 ... mZfRU07_fz

Adding this spin to MX Desktop List. Is it 32 or 64-bit?
viewtopic.php?f=100&t=48617

rasat wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2020 4:26 pm

mikejade wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:56 am here you go....give it a spin and see if it works for you:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cTVw2 ... mZfRU07_fz

Adding this spin to MX Desktop List. Is it 32 or 64-bit?
viewtopic.php?f=100&t=48617

it's a 64bit will be updating it to fix the few corrections highlighted from this thread....

I am trying to install the latest snapshot in a Virtualbox VM, however there is no installation icon on desktop.

When going to terminal and launching:
I get this:
What should I do to install it? Thanks.

UPDATE: a simple
did it.