MX-17 Beta 2 Feedback

[Adrian]

I've complained about this privately in the past. It makes our programs look amateurish.

There's a very simple explanation to that, it's because they are written by amateurs. But if professional people or better coders would bother to contribute we'd gladly accept the contributions.

I forgot the add this->hide() and this->show() to hide the GUI while the foreground app is running. I forgot that because at some point we were trying to use xdg-open and that is not blocking so those commands would be irrelevant because this->show() would run immediately after issuing xdg-open command.

[chrispop99]

Add Antivirus to This release i think no distro is using antivirus in linux if we add one which will be useful to scan pendrives and other small stuff
and is it possible to add our image on whisker menu icon where a person pic is already in default on the whisker menu ?
Is it possible to add Startup screen for mx 17 like lubuntu branding instead of the default text appearing when we boot on the system?
Thanks..

You are asking three things at once; it's generally better to post each item separately.

To answer your first question - it's unlikely that an antivirus program will be added as it's not seen as needed. If you wish to add one for your specialised needs, clamav is available via Synaptic.

To answer your third question, on balance it was decided that the text displayed on boot is useful for bug tracing, so the decision was made to keep that, rather than a splash screen.

Chris

[vamsi]

Add Antivirus to This release i think no distro is using antivirus in linux if we add one which will be useful to scan pendrives and other small stuff
and is it possible to add our image on whisker menu icon where a person pic is already in default on the whisker menu ?
Is it possible to add Startup screen for mx 17 like lubuntu branding instead of the default text appearing when we boot on the system?
Thanks..

You are asking three things at once; it's generally better to post each item separately.

To answer your first question - it's unlikely that an antivirus program will be added as it's not seen as needed. If you wish to add one for your specialised needs, clamav is available via Synaptic.

To answer your third question, on balance it was decided that the text displayed on boot is useful for bug tracing, so the decision was made to keep that, rather than a splash screen.

Chris

Well i was Lazy to ask the questions individually
Okay you answered 2 questions and left 1 question that is it possible to change the default icon as in the image below to whatever pic i like

[richb]

I'm having a memory leakage problem (I think) with the MX-Conky app (or featherpad??). etc .....

Here's a screenshot of MX-conky with bits of various other windows left behind on it.

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Just a point of interest I do not see this when using compiz or the xfce compositor.

[chrispop99]

Well i was Lazy to ask the questions individually
Okay you answered 2 questions and left 1 question that is it possible to change the default icon as in the image below to whatever pic i like

I'm currently testing three different things, on three different machines, other than this one, so I'm certainly not lazy!

Search the Forum; from memory there were too many problems caused when a user icon was added to Whisker, but I can't be sure.

Chris

[dolphin_oracle]

Fails to boot to X after Nvidia install.

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: MX-17.b2_x64 Horizon November 20, 2017
Machine:   Device: desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A serial: N/A
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z77P-D3 v: x.x serial: N/A
           BIOS: American Megatrends v: F8e date: 11/21/2012
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i3-3220 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3300 MHz 1: 3303 MHz 2: 3303 MHz 3: 3303 MHz 4: 3303 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 )
           drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x1024@60.02hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 version: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Def. Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Def. Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 90:2b:34:50:9c:79
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 254.1GB (2.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500AAKX size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Flash_Disk size: 4.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 6.2G used: 15M (1%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 47.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 186 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 442.2/7947.0MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.43 

Note: ddm-mx worked OK on this hardware in b1. Kernel problem perhaps?

Chris

Thanks for posting the log

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Building for 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Building initial module for 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (x86_64)

yep, nvidia-driver failed to build. ( I need to trap those kinds of errors and report them.)

You could try the debian-backports option.

[vamsi]

is it possible to add our image on whisker menu icon where a person pic is already in default on the whisker menu ?

I don't really understand what you mean. You can add any image to the icon that appears in the Panel, if that's what you mean: right-click > Properties, click on the image and navigate to your heart's content. The image will have to be pretty small to look right, I think, so just fool around until it is good for you.

Hello Jerry

is it possible to change the default icon as in the image below to whatever pic i like that is what i am asking

Thanks..

[vamsi]

Please remove some of old xfce themes which are ugly and add some more themes like adapta theme by the way new arc theme is awesome

Thanks..

[chrispop99]

Fails to boot to X after Nvidia install.

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: MX-17.b2_x64 Horizon November 20, 2017
Machine:   Device: desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A serial: N/A
           Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z77P-D3 v: x.x serial: N/A
           BIOS: American Megatrends v: F8e date: 11/21/2012
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core i3-3220 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3300 MHz 1: 3303 MHz 2: 3303 MHz 3: 3303 MHz 4: 3303 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 )
           drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x1024@60.02hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 version: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Def. Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Def. Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 90:2b:34:50:9c:79
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 254.1GB (2.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500AAKX size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Flash_Disk size: 4.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 6.2G used: 15M (1%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 47.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 186 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 442.2/7947.0MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.43 

Note: ddm-mx worked OK on this hardware in b1. Kernel problem perhaps?

Chris

Thanks for posting the log

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Building for 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Building initial module for 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (x86_64)

yep, nvidia-driver failed to build. ( I need to trap those kinds of errors and report them.)

You could try the debian-backports option.

debian-backports version failed also.

Chris

[chrispop99]

Fails to boot to X after Nvidia install.

Chris

I did a fresh install, used the PI to drop the kernel to 4.9, and then used ddm-mx to install the Nvidia driver.

It booted successfully, so I'm guessing it is a problem related to the 4.13 kernel.

Chris