MX-21 KDE beta 1 feedback thread

[uncle mark]

on home folders: take a look at the ~/.local/share/users-places.xbel and see if the /home/demo is referenced in there

Kinda hard for a dummy like me to do that if the file manager doesn't work. :-)

Okay....

cd /home/.local/share/users-places
No such file or directory


cd /home/.local/share/users-places.xbel
No such file or directory

[dolphin_oracle]

on home folders: take a look at the ~/.local/share/users-places.xbel and see if the /home/demo is referenced in there

Kinda hard for a dummy like me to do that if the file manager doesn't work. :-)

Okay....

cd /home/.local/share/users-places
No such file or directory


cd /home/.local/share/users-places.xbel
No such file or directory

its a file. it would also be $HOME/.local/share/user-places.xbel

but I was more referencing @richb report.

edit** actually now I crash can dolphin easily. and my file is fine, so its somethine else...

[richb]

I accessed home from root to find it.

[dolphin_oracle]

short workaound on dolphin crashing.


from konsole, trying

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dolphin --new-window

and see if dolphin launches

[uncle mark]

short workaound on dolphin crashing.


from konsole, trying

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dolphin --new-window

and see if dolphin launches

Does here.

[uncle mark]

Here's another oddity: In the main menu, at the bottom of the Favorites, instead of the three buttons/icons for Logout/Reboot/Shutdown, there is only the Logout button/icon.

[agnivo007]

I noticed a couple error lines when booting in systemd mode:

[ +0.000028] systemd[1]: System cannot boot: Missing /etc/machine-id and /etc is mounted read-only.
[ +0.000007] systemd[1]: Booting up is supported only when:
[ +0.000005] systemd[1]: 1) /etc/machine-id exists and is populated.
[ +0.000004] systemd[1]: 2) /etc/machine-id exists and is empty.
[ +0.000004] systemd[1]: 3) /etc/machine-id is missing and /etc is writable.

yet the PC proceeds to boot and everything apparently works as expected

Yes, this seems to be carried forward from MX19...

I think the MX installer should run this in chroot at the end of installation:

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systemd-machine-id-setup --commit

Worth a look for devs.

Questions:
1. Is it OK to install KDE beta1 and update (to get all relevant transient fixes reported in this thread) or wait for beta2 maybe?
2. Does samba sharing work in systemd boot as of now?
3. Is it based on xfce beta base or separate AHS base?

[siamhie]

Installed with no issues. Installed aircrack-ng's rtl8814 drivers to get my Netgear A7000 up and running. Played around with Discovery. Installed and removed packages with no problem. Installed and setup a global theme (Noir-Dark-Global), tweaked some other settings for look and feel. One thing caught my attention...Boot time is cut in half. 19.4 KDE (Plasma 4.19.5) took from grub screen to desktop 2:02 minutes. Now it takes 58 seconds. Haven't really taking it for a run as I'm testing Flux 1.3.7 on this machine also.

Global Theme
Noir-Dark-Global

Plasma Style
Breeze-Noir-Dark

Application Style
MS Windows 9x

Window Decorations
Breeze-Noir-Dark-Color-Aurorae

Colors
Breeze-Noir-Dark-1

Icons
Breeze-Noir-White-Blue

Cursors
Oxygen Black

[davemx]

Another thing: Debian seems to have dropped "Disk Manager", so I'm having to do /etc/fstab by hand. Any advice?

KDE Partition Manager -> Right-click on the partition and select "Edit Mount Point". Isn't that doing what you need?

NICE! That looks good. Bit late now I've got everything done, but for future MX installs, it does look the part. Covers both Disk Manager and GParted but looks far more user friendly for the setting of mount points than Gnome Disk Manager! Thank you!

[mldavis254]

Installed on my old Sun Ultra 27. 48 hours and everything is running smoothly. Installed the full kdepim suite (Kontact) and for the first time in years everything works as it should. I'll be attempting an install on my old HP Notebook later. So far I'm extremely impressed, even Steam loads and runs quicker.