MX-23 Raspberry Pi comes out of the garage

[dolphin_oracle]

I think we can keep comments here. alpha1 isn't really mentioned in the title, and its easy to track the comments.

might edit the first post to indicate alpha2 is available. I can't do that.

[Jerry3904]

@chrispop99 Really useful work you're doing, thanks a lot!

[Jerry3904]

Installer was perfect on the 7in screen; no BT so borrowed a keyboard at the front desk and was able to complete installation. Will post pics and more tomorrow when I can.

Well done, DO.

[Jerry3904]

Notice how nicely it floats correctly on this miniature screen

[Jerry3904]

And here's a complete screenshot, with oversized conky, undersized wallpaper and reduced systray (screen is inverted)

[Jerry3904]

Sitting in the airport, will start my question list from first look last night

1. Only wired keyboard for Installer?
2. MXPI link on desktop?
3. Change default background to make less imposing, especially on smaller screens?
4. Links on FF bookmark bar to MX and RPi Forums?
5. Short vid link on desktop?

[chrispop99]

Attached are my notes on test-installing everything from the Package Installer.

Chris

[dolphin_oracle]

Attached are my notes on test-installing everything from the Package Installer.

Chris

that will work thanks!!!

[mxlinduhx]

Greetings, Using Pi 4 with 4GB ram, I’m a rookie, but here goes. In summary: video, sound, network, bluetooth, and K400 plus wireless media keyboard all worked OOTB.
Added packages without issue: Epson print driver, system-config-printer, lp-connection-editor, simple-scan, Lollypop music player, keepassxc, menulibre.
Network printer Epson WF-3540 works after adding chrispop99’s suggested packages. Scanner recognized by simple-scan and works too.It’s already about what I need for daily use if I wanted. :)
For reference, I am connected via an hdmi hub to a 55” panasonic dumb tv which is then connected via optical audio cable to a vizio soundbar so I expected something to not work. What a nice surprise that everything did! I did change xrandr scaling to 1.4 for my eyes. Thanks for all the effort on this!

Here are the only two issues I had so far:

1.Panel was too narrow for the clock display by a few pixels. Easily fixed though.
2.This was my biggest hurdle, but may matter little to others: The discovered Guest wifi network was found and connected without issue but I could not find an option to add the regular network(which is hidden) manually. ‘Edit connections’ from the nm-tray icon doesn’t open anything. Solved by installing lp-connection-editor, which didn’t show up in Applications Menu but it ran from terminal. I used menulibre to add to menu.

[Jerry3904]

Thanks for the useful report. Hidden networks can be troublesome for me.ás well sometimes.


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