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Thanks to Dolphin_Oracle and Peregrine, we now have some terrific videos available via a link under Help on the MX home page. Check them out!

I understand that more are coming--this is going to be a great addition to the user-friendliness of this non-distro.

Customizing Whisker Menu & Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVd1-8xpYI

Customizing XFCE Desktop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmbD1drf3Cc

Great stuff! Thanks for continuing the series--they'll be up on the MX Video site soon.

(I need some instructions from Peregrine on how to do that myself...)

They are already up. Thanks for doing these tutorials. They are a great addition.

I am curious about one thing. When I open the video in Qupzilla or Opera in youtube the desktop is brown. When I open the video embeded on mepiscommunity.org, it is blue as it should be. It is also blue in firefox on youtube.

Desktop is blue for me in Opera.

that's weird. I've got no problems here with qupzilla, chromium, or firefox.

dolphin_oracle wrote:Customizing Whisker Menu & Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVd1-8xpYI

Customizing XFCE Desktop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmbD1drf3Cc

You're doing a really fantastic job with the videos you're posting. IMO, they'd make the thought of changing to linux far less intimidating to a Windows user thinking of switching to Linux because of XP support from Microsoft ending. I'm seeing more threads like that lately on other forums (XP users asking questions about switching to Linux for use on an old computer that's still running XP).

Your videos are helpful to me, too; even though I've been using Linux for years. That's because I have very little experience with XFCE, and your videos are great for showing the configuration options for the desktop, panel, etc. I've been "test driving" MX-14 in Virtual Machines on my desktop to become more familiar with it, since I plan to install it on some older hardware we still use in our home (for example, my wife's 6+ year old laptop with 1GB of memory, currently running Mepis 11).

I had planned on installing the KDE desktop with it (as I've been testing in Virtual Machines with MX-14). But, the more I look at XFCE, the more I think that may work fine for her, too.

So, thanks for all of the hard work.

JimC wrote:

dolphin_oracle wrote:Customizing Whisker Menu & Panel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVd1-8xpYI

Customizing XFCE Desktop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmbD1drf3Cc

You're doing a really fantastic job with the videos you're posting. IMO, they'd make the thought of changing to linux far less intimidating to a Windows user thinking of switching to Linux because of XP support from Microsoft ending. I'm seeing more threads like that lately on other forums (XP users asking questions about switching to Linux for use on an old computer that's still running XP).

Your videos are helpful to me, too; even though I've been using Linux for years. That's because I have very little experience with XFCE, and your videos are great for showing the configuration options for the desktop, panel, etc. I've been "test driving" MX-14 in Virtual Machines on my desktop to become more familiar with it, since I plan to install it on some older hardware we still use in our home (for example, my wife's 6+ year old laptop with 1GB of memory, currently running Mepis 11).

So, thanks for all of the hard work.

Thanks for the kind words! I always appreciate those!

With AntiX I've tried to split the fence and do some basic stuff as well as some more advanced/neat things like the custom core installs or the persistence setups, as well as things like showing off the file managers and the different apps. I intend a similar series with MX. Planned upcoming vids include setting up liveUSB with persistence, making a liveUSB or liveCD from Windows XP (for the users you mentioned above), and setting up samba shares.

Thanks again!

d.o.

dolphin_oracle wrote:...Planned upcoming vids include setting up liveUSB with persistence, making a liveUSB or liveCD from Windows XP (for the users you mentioned above), and setting up samba shares...

One video you may want to consider is one showing how to install MX-14 in a dual boot configuration with Windows XP (since a number of XP users are looking at Linux alternatives now).

With Ubuntu based distros that I've suggested recently for users wanting to try Linux on old hardware (for example, Linux Lite 1.8 which uses an Ubuntu 12.04 base with XFCE), the installer is pretty easy for a Windows user to understand (since it has an option to install side by side with Windows if it sees XP on a drive, and handles the partitioning for you by resizing the NTFS partition XP is on, then creating an extended partition and putting a swap and ext4 partition inside of it by default).

IOW, if the user sticks to the defaults in that type of installer, he's got a dual boot system without worrying about understanding anything about using partition managers, etc. with the defaults doing a pretty good job, with the option of using a slider if the user wants to give more or less space to XP versus Ubuntu being the only obvious customization using that default option.

But, with a distro like MX-14, the user would need to use GParted or similar to shrink the NTFS partition that Windows is installed to, then create new partitions for Linux (swap partition + another partition for the main linux installation).

For those of us that have done it a lot, that's no big deal. But, to a Windows user with no concept of partitioning, that process can be very intimating. I see where you briefly mention that you can create new partitions during your MX-14 installation video. But, it doesn't go into the steps needed for someone that wants to setup a dual boot config with an existing Windows XP installation on a drive (which is what I'd expect to be the most common way a new user is going to want to setup old hardware for using a lighter distro like MX-14)

Yes, there are plenty of videos around showing how to do that kind of thing. But, it may be nicer if one was included in the available videos for MX-14, too; especially since I find you do a terrific job with them, presenting topics in a way that makes it very easy to understand the steps needed (resize NTFS partition, create new partitions for use with MX-14), and could be presented showing how to call Gparted from the MX-14 installer with the steps needed to do that kind of thing before continuing with the rest of the install.

JimC, great idea on the partitioning video...coming soon...

Migrating from Windows XP Part I - Creating Installation Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdGf8QQzVrE
Migrating from Windows XP Part II - Partitioning and Dual Boot Install https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8eXhCKghg

checking out the metapackage-installer & Installing Netflix-Desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFGm6U0j_oQ

new video on setting up dual screens, this time produced by m_pav!

http://youtu.be/KTKYsMSfbtI

Thank you. I just added it to the website.
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/mx14

MX-14 liveUSB w/ Persistence: http://youtu.be/W__qWfacOZs

Enabling thumbnails for images in Thunar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RP1f8MHjKo

Deleted. It was meant to be a PM.

m_pav wrote:Enabling thumbnails for images in Thunar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RP1f8MHjKo

Thanks! I linked this one in from my MX playlist to your channel as well!

Peregrine has both now up on the website--great work, people!

BTW: when you run out of ideas, an "Installing and configuring Skype" one might be useful--we seem to get many questions about that and the config part is not intuitive when multiple sound/video options are present.

Jerry3904 wrote:Peregrine has both now up on the website--great work, people!

BTW: when you run out of ideas, an "Installing and configuring Skype" one might be useful--we seem to get many questions about that and the config part is not intuitive when multiple sound/video options are present.

video on installing skype is live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNIzVXLyJtI

Awesome! Did I ever mention Virtual Box (via Synaptic)...?



EDIT: Peregrine has it up on the site now, giving us an even dozen! Thanks again.

Jerry3904 wrote:Awesome! Did I ever mention Virtual Box (via Synaptic)...?



EDIT: Peregrine has it up on the site now, giving us an even dozen! Thanks again.

virtualbox you say? Your wish is my command.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFI0hzb6t2I

Ha! That's great. Now, about the taxes I have to pay next quarter. ..

Jerry3904 wrote:Ha! That's great. Now, about the taxes I have to pay next quarter. ..

can't help you there. :)

dolphin_oracle wrote:

Jerry3904 wrote:Ha! That's great. Now, about the taxes I have to pay next quarter. ..

can't help you there. :)

Can you with my golf swing?

More seriously: what would you think of one on "MX tools" when the ones in the pipeline are uploaded? Would be neat to see you type "mx" in the Whisker search box and have them all come up!

MX-Apps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spok6l-1zjs
Samba share with the Samba Server Configuration Tool (user share) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIGH2XJ06EI
Samba share by editing smb.conf (wide open share) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3KYukPvP7U

This is great! Thanks a lot.

Just added them to the community site. Thanks dolphin_oracle!

setting up pulseaudio for use with skype 4.3 http://youtu.be/3xo3zDvQSYI

you guys (&gal) are great!

dolphin_oracle wrote:setting up pulseaudio for use with skype 4.3 http://youtu.be/3xo3zDvQSYI

Really well done, and 55,000 views is terrific!

[Watched it from an apartment in Istanbul, felt somehow a bit weird...]

dolphin_oracle wrote:setting up pulseaudio for use with skype 4.3 http://youtu.be/3xo3zDvQSYI

Excellent video. My installation does not show a pulse option in the mixer only HDA Alsa Intel, although pulse functions well. Admittedly my installation is far from fresh, having installed many packages and a lot of other tweaking.

Way to go, D.O. Really, really excellent work!!

More of a Generic VirtualBox configuration video, but I do use an antiX 13.2 host and an mx-14 guest.

Includes installing guest additions and setting up a shared folder between guest and host.

http://youtu.be/adpalUl4LqI

Thank you Dolphin Oracle for another great video

-woof -
mike

dolphin_oracle wrote:setting up pulseaudio for use with skype 4.3 http://youtu.be/3xo3zDvQSYI

Just discovered this one. I had a bad moment when after following all the instructions I still had no sound on Skype, but after a reboot it is all working fine. Thank you soooooo much - my son in on the other side of the world so I really need it. No need now to borrow another computer.

Easy LiveUSB w/ Persistence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKeBwPbxq8c

Very clear, great work (again, yawn)!

Great video!

I got stuck once when upon reboot I did not pick a persistance option thinking a normal boot would give it to me since it was alreday setup. I do not know if a normal user would make the same mistake, as it seems obvious.

EDIT: Also on first go around I picked static persistance. If subsequently booted to one of the other persistance options the system would hang after a couple apps were opened. It ran OK if I agian booted static. I assume this is normal, but users might have an issue if they are not consistent. Or is my experience unique?

I honestly don't know about the "hanging". the system has to load everything into ram. sometimes things hang a little just running of the usb as well. to be honest, I usually use the "static" option as bootup and shutdown are faster (no loading or rsync) and the systems I use it on are a little ram constrained anyway.

good point about selecting an persistence option at bootup to get the persistence files on future bootups.

The hang was consitent through anumber of boots. It seems that if you intially setup static you must continue to use it. I will experiment with various options on another stick. I do have plently of ram, 12 GB, but static seems like a good option.

On my machine the system runs very fast from a USB 2.0 port.

richb wrote:The hang was consitent through anumber of boots. It seems that if you intially setup static you must continue to use it. I will experiment with various options on another stick. I do have plently of ram, 12 GB, but static seems like a good option.

On my machine the system runs very fast from a USB 2.0 port.

the way the rootfs files are made, it shouldn't matter. that said, static persistence has less to go wrong...

richb wrote:Great video!

I got stuck once when upon reboot I did not pick a persistance option thinking a normal boot would give it to me since it was alreday setup. I do not know if a normal user would make the same mistake, as it seems obvious.

I added a notation at the end of the video about that point. Thanks for mentioning it!

Fun with the Whisker Menu http://youtu.be/bgPn68jMqd0

includes some neat search bar actions and an easy way to add custom launchers to the menu.

Great stuff!

very cool, d_o

Fun with the whisker menu Part 2 - adding new search urls http://youtu.be/_0ahVp9TVo8

Excellent (very helpful) Videos .. Thank You!

More of a "showing it off" video than a tutorial, but here is XFCE 4.12. http://youtu.be/08Mp8WqQaWI

Just what the user needs, and just in time to get it into the new Manual!

Very nice! Added to the videos on the website.

LOL: was just writing you an email...

Migrating from MX 14.3 to MX 14.4 w/ XFCE 4.12 http://youtu.be/VwzZaTDssbU

Nice walk-through.

dolphin_oracle wrote:Migrating from MX 14.3 to MX 14.4 w/ XFCE 4.12 http://youtu.be/VwzZaTDssbU

Great aid, I'll put it on the MX home page to replace the intro to 14.3. Thanks for the continued good work and attention to user needs.

DONE: now up on the home page (thanks to Peregrine for fixing up my bungled first attempt).

Fantastic, D_O. These just keep getting better and better.

Great job D.O.

Fun one with the experimental libc6 repo and Netflix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GxwOW-Hb6I

stevo did the heavy lifting on this one really, I just spread the word.

Absolutely, fantastic D_O. Great instructions & Netflix works flawlessly. Woooot!

***edit, see revised video link below***

MX Menu Editor (should be active shortly)

http://youtu.be/i84HR-Xss2Q

New MX-Broadcom Manager video. I removed the previous one due to the audio being too soft for some users.

New link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq23R2bT37M

dolphin_oracle wrote:New MX-Broadcom Manager video. I removed the previous one due to the audio being too soft for some users.

New link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq23R2bT37M

I don't need this tool, but the tutorial was great and the Manager itself looks awesome.

I took a look at both last night on my phone, and thought they were great additions to the "corpus." I especially appreciated that you included the Help file for the Menu Editor, which I had just gotten up before leaving for a week's road trip (this is Day 3). At least I now know that one person has looked at it...

Jerry3904 wrote:I took a look at both last night on my phone, and thought they were great additions to the "corpus." I especially appreciated that you included the Help file for the Menu Editor, which I had just gotten up before leaving for a week's road trip (this is Day 3). At least I now know that one person has looked at it...

Oh, ye of little faith - it's at least two people!

+1

I've appreciated the videos on creating a Live USB with persistence.

A couple of issue come to mind now that such a substantial collection is available.

A text-based index with a brief content summary?

Some form of subtitle/transcript/captioning?

The latter would not only be convenient but serve to enhance accessibility. It might also lend itself to translation down the track.

tascoast wrote:I've appreciated the videos on creating a Live USB with persistence.

A couple of issue come to mind now that such a substantial collection is available.

A text-based index with a brief content summary?

Some form of subtitle/transcript/captioning?

The latter would not only be convenient but serve to enhance accessibility. It might also lend itself to translation down the track.

I would love to get captioning, but its more difficult than it first seems to get set up in youtube. As someone with a little hearing impairment myself, I understand the need. I watch most movies with the CC turned on.

I don't use a script per se, usually an outline. For the more complicated videos I've posted instructions in the show notes under the videos. The netflix and whiskermenu search functions I actually linked to files in the new wiki.

I can appreciate the practical issues of subs, cheers.

I've backdated VLC to enable a television subtitle stream when playing back recorded FTA digital TV. I've found myself relying on them more as time goes on.

I appreciate all your work in putting the videos together.

kindly, mick

tascoast wrote:I can appreciate the practical issues of subs, cheers.

I've backdated VLC to enable a television subtitle stream when playing back recorded FTA digital TV. I've found myself relying on them more as time goes on.

I appreciate all your work in putting the videos together.

kindly, mick

I added CC to the MX Broadcom video as a test. Its rough. I used the "auto CC" that youtube provides, and then had to to substantial edits. Between my voice/accent and all the technical type terminalogy, there was a lot to edit.

Still for the 7 minute video, I've got about 40 minutes of CC work involved, and my punctuation is pretty awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq23R2bT37M

Hi Do. I watched the first two minutes and it looks good to me.

Welcome to the forum Scott(0)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq23R2bT37M

worked well for me too. Nice work again.

MX-15 Intro Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBr69yNqNLk

no CC yet. Will add when Mrs. Oracle isn't staring at me so much.

Many thanks to Mr. Oracle, the tireless bug hunter!

I see with many distributions that someone will often add .. A number of things that you should do after installing X-distro. It might be fun to do a video about doing that. :)

The video tutorials are excellent.
Thanks You guys for doing them!

Installing MX-15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwyzTloPyP4

(starting the MX-15 series of basic usage vids).

The subtitles look great (wonders about potential document integration hence....).


When I'm in a tricky spot, some Dolphin video wisdom can make me feel like I have a black belt in Linux, if only for a moment (lastly the secrets of Samba shares.....)


kind thanks for helping me learn so much.

dolphin_oracle wrote:Installing MX-15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwyzTloPyP4

(starting the MX-15 series of basic usage vids).

This is great, and it makes me wonder if we need some kind of organization on the video page of the MX website.

The mouse-over titles could be applied as captions to each video on that page/as an index, with a compact index under 'Video Tutorials' reflecting this on MX Home perhaps.....? Anyway, Image properties...Crtl-c, Ctrl-V, repeat x 32 gives me the following list so far.....


MX - 14.3: What's NEW! (Dolphin_Oracle)
MX-14 "Symbiosis" - Here's what you Get! (Dolphin_Oracle)
MX - Installing MX-14 (Dolphin_Oracle)
Customizing the Whisker Menu (Dolphin_Oracle)
Customizing the Desktop (Dolphin_Oracle)
Migrating From Windows XP - Part I Create Installation Media (Dolphin_Oracle)
Migrating From Windows XP - Part II Partitioning and Dual Boot Install (Dolphin_Oracle)
Check out the metapackage-installer - Install Netflix-Desktop in One-click! (Dolphin_Oracle)
MX 14 to 14.3 Dual Screen (m_pav)
MX-14 - liveUSB with Persistence - put a system in your pocket! (Dolphin_Oracle)
Enable thumbnail images in Thunar (m_pav)
Installing Skype (Dolphin_Oracle)
Install & Configure VirtualBox (Dolphin_Oracle)
MX Apps (Dolphin_Oracle)
Create a Samba Share with the Samba Server Configuration Tool (Dolphin_Oracle)
Create Samba Shares via Manual Method (Dolphin_Oracle)
MX-14 with KDE Showcase and Tutorial screencast
Chromium FLash (typo)
Install PulseAudio Sound Server (dolphin_oracle)The animated *gif is ideal to me.
VirtualBox - Set up a Shared Folder Between Guest & Host OS
Live USB With Persistence
How to Create a Torrent
Fun with the Whisker Menu (Part 1)
MX-14 Fun with the Whisker Menu (Part 2)
XFCE 4.12
Migrating from MX 14.3 to MX 14.4 w/ XFCE 4.12
Enable Netflix in Chrome Under MX-14
MX BroaInstalling MX 15dcom Manager
MX Menu Editor - Customize Your Menu
MX15 B2
MX-15 "Fusion"
Installing MX 15


The animated *gif (slide widget?) is ideal to me.

A little more editing....

MX - 14.3: What's NEW! (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/introducing-mx14

MX-14 "Symbiosis" - Here's what you Get! (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/mx14-symbiosis

MX - Installing MX-14 (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/installing-mx14

Customizing the Whisker Menu (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/cu ... isker-menu

Customizing the Desktop (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/cu ... ng-desktop

Migrating From Windows XP - Part I Create Installation Media (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/migrating-from-xp

Migrating From Windows XP - Part II Partitioning and Dual Boot Install (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/mi ... -dual-boot

Check out the metapackage-installer - Install Netflix-Desktop in One-click! (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/me ... -installer

MX 14 to 14.3 Dual Screen (m_pav)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/dual-screen

MX-14 - liveUSB with Persistence - put a system in your pocket! (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/li ... ersistence

Enable thumbnail images in Thunar (m_pav)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/th ... ges-thunar

Installing Skype (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/installing-skype

Install & Configure VirtualBox (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/virtualbox

MX Apps (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/mx-apps

Create a Samba Share with the Samba Server Configuration Tool (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/samba-config-tool

Create Samba Shares via Manual Method (Dolphin_Oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/sa ... ual-method

MX-14 with KDE Showcase and Tutorial screencast
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/node/137

Chromium FLash (typo)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/node/138

Install PulseAudio Sound Server (dolphin_oracle)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/node/140

VirtualBox - Set up a Shared Folder Between Guest & Host OS
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/node/141

Live USB With Persistence
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/li ... ersistence

How to Create a Torrent
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/torrent

Fun with the Whisker Menu (Part 1)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/wh ... enu-part-1

MX-14 Fun with the Whisker Menu (Part 2)
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/node/158

XFCE 4.12
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/xfce4.12

Migrating from MX 14.3 to MX 14.4 w/ XFCE 4.12
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/migration14.4

Enable Netflix in Chrome Under MX-14
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/videos/en ... lix-chrome

MX Broadcom Manager
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx-broadcom-manager

MX Menu Editor - Customize Your Menu
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx-menu-editor

MX15 B2
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx15-b2

MX-15 "Fusion"
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx-15-fusion

Installing MX 15
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/installing-mx-15

MX-15 Enabling Adobe Flash DRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_YL51eutJc

wiki entry with instructions (also in show notes) http://www.mepiscommunity.org/wiki/appl ... -and-mx-15

I will pick this series up in the next Manual version in March--thanks!

MX-15 liveUSB w/ Persistence.

legacy boot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC4SmhsG3K0

UEFI boot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJmukS-bSxw

UEFI boot video also contains a method to create a custom boot menu entry so you don't have to go through the menus everytime.

Customizing the XFCE Dropdown Terminal.

Includes fancy prompts options available in antiX and mx.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X4tVjO8uzo

Great tutorials!!! Very informative and helpful! Also cool to put a face to the voice.

v3g4n wrote:Great tutorials!!! Very informative and helpful! Also cool to put a face to the voice.

Thanks.

We will see about my face continuing to appear... I'm undecided. Mrs. Oracle suggested it.

Excellent Video .. Thanks!

Edit: Forgot to add.

I think it would be great to have a video of you installing conky, setting it up
and having it look like the conky on the AntiX desktop. It would be a popular
video I'm sure.

Another video that might be nice, is one of you showing how to
add and remove sources and enabling and disabling the test repo.

Kern...

I think Mrs. Oracle is right, D_O...putting a face to the voice gives the tutorials a human touch...really great!!

Which tool are you using: RecordMyDesktop or SimpleScreenRecorder?

Not sure about the face. I found it distracting as I was looking more at you than the content. Probably because you are so distinguished looking.

I sort of agree with this. What about showing your face speaking directly to the viewer at the beginning to introduce the topic/series/whatever, then disappearing for *the main show*? Would that work?

pcallahan80 wrote:I think Mrs. Oracle is right, D_O...putting a face to the voice gives the tutorials a human touch...really great!!

Which tool are you using: RecordMyDesktop or SimpleScreenRecorder?

simplescreenrecorder (thanks to stevo!). guvcview for the webcam puts my face on screen.

KernSpy wrote:Excellent Video .. Thanks!

Edit: Forgot to add.

I think it would be great to have a video of you installing conky, setting it up
and having it look like the conky on the AntiX desktop. It would be a popular
video I'm sure.

Another video that might be nice, is one of you showing how to
add and remove sources and enabling and disabling the test repo.

Kern...

Good suggestion, thanks.

Jerry3904 wrote:I sort of agree with this. What about showing your face speaking directly to the viewer at the beginning to introduce the topic/series/whatever, then disappearing for *the main show*? Would that work?

This sounds like a great compromise. Everyone that likes to see faces will get to and it will also keep richb (and possibly many more) from being distracted by staring into his beautiful eyes. Obviously this is totally up to d_o and whatever is decided is still of great value to the community.

Don't forget that Mrs. D.O. will have a vote.

Things to Do After Installing MX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-wHnOdJSrc

Now for a little fun...supertuxkart (with a nod to mx-packageinstaller of course)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8cezrwAZVw

Good job guys .. Thank You! :)

MX-15: New Utilities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1eUClDbN0

Very nice!

Apt Notifier also has another new feature I like, which is to offer to carry out autoremove, saving a bunch of keystrokes and time.

Great video, d_o.

Information-packed. Nice.

Many thanks d_o going to nominate you for an Oscar

GOOD JOB! Tweeted that as the end of the series.

Well done. I am going to add your link to the detailed announcement.

Also noted is the sneak peek... very tricky.

MX 16 beta 1 - Quick Look

and for something a little fun (thanks Eino).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5VSO-P3_Dk

Finally got to see the first one after 8 hrs of driving home and collapsing into bed. This is terrific. Period. Great combination of general and specific, and I like the way you highlight the importance of antiX contributions.

Thanks for doing this--I know you've been super busy. We'll get it up on the brand spanking new website today!

And now I've seen the second, which is very clever and made me smile.

Hmm, maybe we can get them both up there. How hard would it be to splice the first to the back of the second for website use? Do you think the result would work?

Is that your foot under your chin in the Quick Looks video? Cool and relaxed, I like it.

Jerry3904 wrote:And now I've seen the second, which is very clever and made me smile.

Love it. Ever consider a job as a movie trailer producer?

Jerry3904 wrote:And now I've seen the second, which is very clever and made me smile.

Hmm, maybe we can get them both up there. How hard would it be to splice the first to the back of the second for website use? Do you think the result would work?

not hard. I kept all the editing files this time, because I kinda figured maybe doing another for release. I'll splice them together and link you the result. going to be awhile...

Great to know it's possible. Could you please hold off on doing that until we have a chance to look more closely at the question?

richb wrote:

Jerry3904 wrote:And now I've seen the second, which is very clever and made me smile.

Love it. Ever consider a job as a movie trailer producer?

ha! I so much wanted to do a voice over, but I couldn't do the music justice. Even that 1 minute video took me almost 1.5 hours to put together. Of course, the World Series was on...

richb wrote:Is that your foot under your chin in the Quick Looks video? Cool and relaxed, I like it.

that's my microphone, although at that angle it does look a little like a shoe

Thanks once again d_o
dolphin santa says"hope you get some sleep"
Looking forward to your USB vid.

Daleks!

Great stuff! We will use it to replace the one we have on the Products page, where it will be a great addition. Thanks for getting it out so quickly.

Good one! Added it to the "On the Loose" linked page:

https://mxlinux.org/current-release-fea ... %20LiveUSB

dolphin_oracle wrote:MX-16 MX-Snapshot

Excellent as usual. I learn something new every time even though I think I know it.
One thing I noticed on my system with the fglrx driver installed that requires an xorg.conf file is that you comment out the xorg line in the exclude file to get a successful boot on the same machine. Obviously if porting to other machines you would leave it in not knowing what graphics card it might have.

What a great "real life" intro to this video, D_O!! Hilarious AND real. Yeah, I'm raving about it...and rightly so. Getting a tour of what you have installed and why and how old the darn laptop is and how that relates to the Linux lifestyle is...well...just the best...

Added to the others on the video page
https://mxlinux.org/mx16videos

Love the idea of symlinking folders to the data partition, keeping home partition lean. I have a separate home and it was always pushing its size limit.

pcallahan80 wrote:What a great "real life" intro to this video, D_O!! Hilarious AND real. Yeah, I'm raving about it...and rightly so. Getting a tour of what you have installed and why and how old the darn laptop is and how that relates to the Linux lifestyle is...well...just the best...

I'm glad you like it. there will be more "real" stuff coming soon, as soon as my "new" junker comes in.

richb wrote:Love the idea of symlinking folders to the data partition, keeping home partition lean. I have a separate home and it was always pushing its size limit.

I started doing this when it became apparent that doing testing work (and the videos is some ways) was going to require me to have to reinstall my os pretty often. I wanted those settings entries gone, without having to nuke my data. the symlinks became the easy solution.

dolphin_oracle wrote:

richb wrote:Love the idea of symlinking folders to the data partition, keeping home partition lean. I have a separate home and it was always pushing its size limit.

I started doing this when it became apparent that doing testing work (and the videos is some ways) was going to require me to have to reinstall my os pretty often. I wanted those settings entries gone, without having to nuke my data. the symlinks became the easy solution.

This has also been my solution for a good few years. My data files are on a second drive, symlinked to /home and accessible to all the OSs. /home is in / on all OSs. Great videos, D_O!

quickie on playing a dvd

MX Linux - Play a DVD (mx-codecs)

richb wrote:Love the idea of symlinking folders to the data partition, keeping home partition lean. I have a separate home and it was always pushing its size limit.

Wish that I had thought about doing this earlier, although am about halfway there. Home lives on the second drive and is large enough (200 GB) to cope with umpteen versions of the User Manual in several languages. Installing MX-16 was merely a matter putting the root on to the SSD sda and retaining the existing home on the 1TB sdb. Perhaps this may cause problems? None as yet. Backup is to sdc, another 1TB drive, connected via USB. This still leaves a spare SATA connection from the box, for testing other drives, and for copying partitions with GParted. Old fashioned perhaps, but it works well. Next move will be to try more symlinking.

Mechwarrior 2 in dosbox (and MX-16)

MX-16 Reviews and Interviews

Great output, thanks. Will actually look at later (on phone)

LATER: Nice job! A lot of work... (I added a "Probably MX-15 only" to the Wiki Method B)

I do have those file type search functions in the left pane of dolphin working. As I recall installing strigi will activate them after a database refresh. Don't hold me to it as it has been a long time since I installed dolphin, and forgot to add it to the list.

EDIT: That is the "Search For" file types. Not Recent activity.

richb wrote:I do have those file type search functions in the left pane of dolphin working. As I recall installing strigi will activate them after a database refresh. Don't hold me to it as it has been a long time since I installed dolphin, and forgot to add it to the list.

cool thanks!

Well done Dolphin, a tutorial on a topic that is well deserving of coverage. I will review your video later.

Dolphin, I reviewed your video and hope you can bear with me with these questions:
1. I use the snapshot and live-usb as a backup routine. Is remastering a live usb a superior way to make such backups do you think?
2. Is the primary intention of remastering to just have a "system on the go" as-it-were and therefore used chiefly/only on machines where you don't have/need or want a permanent installation?

linexer2016 wrote:Dolphin, I reviewed your video and hope you can bear with me with these questions:
1. I use the snapshot and live-usb as a backup routine. Is remastering a live usb a superior way to make such backups do you think?
2. Is the primary intention of remastering to just have a "system on the go" as-it-were and therefore used chiefly/only on machines where you don't have/need or want a permanent installation?

I know they were not addressed to me but let me try to give me my understading:
1. remastering is used to move stuff from rootfs to read-only file linuxfs, It doesn't create a backup, it just consolidates your files to one linuxfs file. Like D_O explained you might have same files on linuxfs and rootfs (also if you remove a program if you run the remaster it will resize the linuxfs, otherwise the space will still be used by that program because it's still in linuxfs, only that in rootfs it will be marked as removed). Snapshot tool is used to create an ISO file, it's a different use case. For example you could use snapshot file on your installed system to save it, remastering tool doesn't even show up or run because it needs a Live system.
2. Remastering is a tool for consolidating file systems on your Live system, it won't even run on installed systems as I explained.

Thanks D_O for the video I think it clarifies some things for users because this is complex issue for people who are not used with the internals of the system.

A snapshot can be treated as a Live USB and remastered (as RAM and space demands will be reduced by consolidating recent changes into the linixfs....deleting old and outdated files once satisfied).

This is a good way to modify your system without changing the HDD install.

I like to duplicate my HDD install on a Live USB, in a manual sense, mirroring my HDD install, importing bookmarks etc, so as to have a working replacement and potentially an installer on hand should hardware fail. Some applications could be left out to save space but VirtualBox and Wine installed on a Live USB are examples that work fine for me.

You might even use a Live USB to open HDD snapshots in VirtualBox, or come up with other strategies that allow for hardware and HDD failure. There are a few ways you can work with a Live USB, apart from just testing the latest MX, once you get your head around things.

I have found Conky is best installed direct to a Live USB, as user paths or the like seem confused, when working from a snapshot of a HDD install. Otherwise, find your own Live USB uses and enjoy.

Dolphin, I reviewed your video and hope you can bear with me with these questions:

(grabbed this quoted bit just to serve as a generic example)

After watching the "dualpane file managers" video, I wanted to comment but, alas, I surf youtube anonymnously so can't post there. D_O's in-video invites already steer folks to the forum, but howabout a creating a separate topic here for each video, with an exact link provided on each YT video page? As is, stuff getting asked/answered winds up buried, and probably asked again later. IMO, a central "announcement" topic here should stand locked, as a Table of Contents.

Adrian wrote:

linexer2016 wrote:Dolphin, I reviewed your video and hope you can bear with me with these questions:
1. I use the snapshot and live-usb as a backup routine. Is remastering a live usb a superior way to make such backups do you think?
2. Is the primary intention of remastering to just have a "system on the go" as-it-were and therefore used chiefly/only on machines where you don't have/need or want a permanent installation?

I know they were not addressed to me but let me try to give me my understading:
1. remastering is used to move stuff from rootfs to read-only file linuxfs, It doesn't create a backup, it just consolidates your files to one linuxfs file. Like D_O explained you might have same files on linuxfs and rootfs (also if you remove a program if you run the remaster it will resize the linuxfs, otherwise the space will still be used by that program because it's still in linuxfs, only that in rootfs it will be marked as removed). Snapshot tool is used to create an ISO file, it's a different use case. For example you could use snapshot file on your installed system to save it, remastering tool doesn't even show up or run because it needs a Live system.
2. Remastering is a tool for consolidating file systems on your Live system, it won't even run on installed systems as I explained.

Thanks D_O for the video I think it clarifies some things for users because this is complex issue for people who are not used with the internals of the system.

Sounds good to me!

I didn't mention it in the video, but remaster also allows some very interesting uses of the "toram" cheatcode, where by you can load the entire customized linuxfs system into ram. This takes alonger to boot (loading a 2gb linuxfs into ram takes time, limited by the io speed of the boot device), but if you've got the ram, its pretty speedy to operate. and it can be more ram friendly than loading both a linuxfs AND a rootfs file into ram.

You can also run a remaster on a live-usb without persistence. say you boot live, then install a app (simplescreenrecorder for instance). The app is installed in the running live filesystem and can be used, but the app won't be saved upon shutdown because without persistence, there is no way to save changes to the file system. but you can remaster this hypothetical live-usb and retain the app, as long as you don't shutdown first.

Its probably clear as mud.

skidoo wrote:

Dolphin, I reviewed your video and hope you can bear with me with these questions:

(grabbed this quoted bit just to serve as a generic example)

After watching the "dualpane file managers" video, I wanted to comment but, alas, I surf youtube anonymnously so can't post there. D_O's in-video invites already steer folks to the forum, but howabout a creating a separate topic here for each video, with an exact link provided on each YT video page? As is, stuff getting asked/answered winds up buried, and probably asked again later. IMO, a central "announcement" topic here should stand locked, as a Table of Contents.

I'm starting to think you are right :)

That's a good idea, skidoo.

It'll be helpful in discussing, for instance, the selection of dual-paned FMs that D_O discussed. After his video, I tried installing Nemo on my Apricity partition (easy to install Arch+modified Gnome3). You're right about it taking over the desktop. When I clicked on the Trash shortcut link on the desktop, Nemo opened instead of Files (the Gnome3 Nautilus). 0_o

Anyway I already had PCManFM and Sunflower installed in Apricity, I was just curious.

Smartphones & MX-16

Thread here: viewtopic.php?f=101&t=41527

UEFI Boot Issues, and some settings to check!

thread here: viewtopic.php?f=101&t=41775#p408722

Custom Application launchers and appimages

forum thread here: viewtopic.php?f=101&t=42107#p412644

Just a quick question, if i have found a good introduction to MX Linux video on youtube, is this the place to post a link?

EDIT: ok Jerry3904, I put it in Chat>General as suggested. Thanks.

Thanks for the question about your find. You may have noticed that this thread is 11 years old with the last post 8 years ago, and it's about MX-produced support--so not the best place. I'd suggest under Chat > General.