MX-17 Beta 2 Feedback

[dolphin_oracle]

Maybe--it looks like it would work OK with Conky Manager but we would need to test it: does it open the right conky, does CM *know* about the open conky, etc.

Would just like to be sure.

yes and yes.

and testing is why I attached the script.

what happens when you uncheck all the conky files in conky-manager is that conky-manager removes the startup script. all the files are still in place (even the ones copied to the fonts folder).

the revised toggle just puts back the default one as shipped if an existing one isn't found. no other changes.

[Jerry3904]

Sure, will test--was responding to Rich, sorry.

[richb]

With default conky loaded ti toggles it off. Running again to toggle on which it does then produces an error:

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conky: no process found
conky: Syntax error (/home/richb/.conky/MX-antiX17:2: unexpected symbol near '#') while reading config file. 
conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion.
conky: desktop window (1c00003) is subwindow of root window (4a7)
conky: window type - normal
conky: drawing to created window (0x4a00001)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: Unknown setting 'mail_spool'
conky: forked to background, pid is 12634

If a different conky is loaded and script run it disables it, toggling on works but gives an error:

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sed: can't read /home/richb/.Xresources: No such file or directory

[dolphin_oracle]

With default conky loaded ti toggles it off. Running again to toggle on which it does then produces an error:

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conky: no process found
conky: Syntax error (/home/richb/.conky/MX-antiX17:2: unexpected symbol near '#') while reading config file. 
conky: Assuming it's in old syntax and attempting conversion.
conky: desktop window (1c00003) is subwindow of root window (4a7)
conky: window type - normal
conky: drawing to created window (0x4a00001)
conky: drawing to double buffer
conky: Unknown setting 'mail_spool'
conky: forked to background, pid is 12634

If a different conky is loaded and script run it disables it, toggling on works but gives an error:

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sed: can't read /home/richb/.Xresources: No such file or directory

those are conky errors. they happen no matter how the conky is launched. you just don't see them outside the terminal, but the messages do show up in ~/.xsession-errors

[richb]

Good. Then the script performed properly.

[kb5050]

Is there a GUI tool that can safely automount my hard drives on startup?
I have Linux on my sdb drive and windows on my sda drive. Just want the drives fully mounted at startup so that applications can use them.
All the gurus say oh just edit your fstab file. Thats fine but how? Attempts to do that in the past, result in failure to boot.
I therefore would like to for now get a GUI or method of how to do that, by simply checking a checkbox.
In fact if you would only include it or automount all local sdx drives, that would surely be a blessing to many.
No the disks (GNOME) utility does not work by unchecking them.
Not even in a GNOME version of linux.

[Jerry3904]

Try MX Tweak, Other tab: "Enable mounting of internal drives by non-root users."

Not sure offhand if that covers Windows partitions...

[dolphin_oracle]

Is there a GUI tool that can safely automount my hard drives on startup?
I have Linux on my sdb drive and windows on my sda drive. Just want the drives fully mounted at startup so that applications can use them.
All the gurus say oh just edit your fstab file. Thats fine but how? Attempts to do that in the past, result in failure to boot.
I therefore would like to for now get a GUI or method of how to do that, by simply checking a checkbox.
In fact if you would only include it or automount all local sdx drives, that would surely be a blessing to many.
No the disks (GNOME) utility does not work by unchecking them.
Not even in a GNOME version of linux.

Checkout "disk manager " in out menu. I think it will do what you want.

[uncle mark]

Is there a GUI tool that can safely automount my hard drives on startup?
I have Linux on my sdb drive and windows on my sda drive. Just want the drives fully mounted at startup so that applications can use them.
All the gurus say oh just edit your fstab file. Thats fine but how? Attempts to do that in the past, result in failure to boot.

You've been pointed at the GUI tools. That said, I have always used fstab, but I'm running an ancient system and those tools weren't readily available at the time. You may have failed to create a mount point prior to editing.

If for some reason you want to try fstab again, start a new topic, post the file here, and I'll try and walk you through it.

[Stevo]

Any thoughts about going to the newer papirus-icon-theme in testing? Visibly changes the Firefox icon to more to of a reddish instead of orangeish color, and needs a few more MB on the ISO for the new papirus-adapta and papirus-adapta-nokto variants. Lots of other icon additions/changes, too.