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Superfluous -- a certain redundancy often helps the user, no?

Eadwine Rose wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2019 6:01 am Just installed the beta, the one thing I noticed is that even though I told the liveUSB the timezone, it didn't handle it like it should, it was 2 hours ahead IIRC. Only when I ticked that it should use LOCAL in mx time settings did it jump to the right time. That is the only thing I saw so far that was wonky, but easily sorted. I rebooted back into 18.3 right after the install, just to see that it was still there I am such a wuss.

Me, too. Thanks for the hint.
Now,... about the ghost of logins past that occurs on shut-down....

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:50 am Superfluous -- a certain redundancy often helps the user, no?

I'm not sure how having an icon that doesn't do anything is helpful.

Chris

Just have to change the code behind it, no?

TJ Hoye wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2019 12:57 pm Now,... about the ghost of logins past that occurs on shut-down....

You have to elaborate a bit more on that if you want us to understand what you mean?

TJ Hoye wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2019 12:57 pm Now,... about the ghost of logins past that occurs on shut-down....

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You have to elaborate a bit more on that if you want us to understand what you mean?
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Thanks for your suggestion about answering the local time prompt; that solved one nit I noted.
On my hint about a 'ghost',
I wanted first to revierw 32 pages of posts to see if my complaint was already covered.
I didn't catch any other similar complaints to what I notice peculiar to MX-19.

I've chosen to replace MX-19's original desktop background image with my own.
On shut-down I see, briefly a login screen with the original background image briefly before
things complete an otherwise orderly shutdown. I could just ignore this, but I'd rather get
rid of this 'ghost' if I knew how.

Otherwise, MX-19 beta is functional for all my needs AFAICT.

Oh THAT ghost.. that is seeing the login again after logout, yep same here.

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2019 1:11 pm Just have to change the code behind it, no?

But why? There is already a built-in way to switch user, and the additional icon does nothing at the moment as mx-switchuser is not installed. Should we not just remove the icon by unticking? Or am I missing something obvious here? (Entirely possible!)

Chris

OK, not important

chrispop99 wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2019 1:50 pm

Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Aug 31, 2019 1:11 pm Just have to change the code behind it, no?

But why? There is already a built-in way to switch user, and the additional icon does nothing at the moment as mx-switchuser is not installed. Should we not just remove the icon by unticking? Or am I missing something obvious here?

Switch User Icon in the menu makes sense to me, as it has been there always and does not require to open first the logout popup. The missing mx-switchuser could be replace by "xfce4-session-logout --switch-user".
But the good thing about original "mx-switchuser" is that the user get's a little info-popup , where the user get explained how to switch between the VT's. So I would suggest, we keep the icon in the menu, but also adjust the mx-switch so it still's show the info to the user and use the new "xfce4-session-logout --switch-user".