MX Snapshot - 2 features requests [Solved]

[~FLOW~]

Hello my excelent friends,
it would be very usefull for MX Snapshot to have a shutdown option when finished.
And all the output log to be written into a text file in the same place where the snapshot was made.

[Adrian]

I don't think I would use that, but seems like an easy enough to implement feature.

[~FLOW~]

for me it makes perfect sense because the iso takes about 2:50 hours...it's on external HDD.
So I don't touch the keyboard in this time, when I come back I want to be sure that everything went well.

[Adrian]

Do you want to give it a try?
https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-snapshot ... _amd64.deb

There's two ways to trigger the shutdown when done: there's a checkbox in GUI before you start taking the snapshot, or you could use a --shutdown option in the CLI.

[~FLOW~]

PERFECT !!
it works, I can read the log afterwards.
Thank you so so much !!
I think in the future would be even "more" perfect if maybe I, as a user, I could edit the shutdown line, from the GUI.
Thank you for all your work !!

[Adrian]

You are welcome!

What do you mean by this? I'm not sure I understand, how do you want to edit the line?

I think in the future would be even "more" perfect if maybe I, as a user, I could edit the shutdown line, from the GUI.

[~FLOW~]

Instead of a check box, to have a text box, default to be --shutdown

Screenshot_20220824_183704.png

So maybe I want to edit that line with something like :

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--kill firefox &&  shutdown

But now if I don't want to shutdown, I have to delete everything from that text box.
So it would complicate things without a good reason

It's perfect the way it is in this version - 22.8.02

[~FLOW~]

Hello again,
I found a bug ...
I selected Steam and Virtualbox to be excluded,

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yet in the iso I found them both.
I now I have a 82Gb iso instead of ~16Gb.

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~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/

and

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~/VirtualBox/

Yes, I changed the name for the Virtualbox default folder...
So there should be an option to change the paths for some ?
Otherwise part of the selection is useless.

[Eadwine Rose]

If it is not solved, kindly remove all three solveds from the title in the first post

[Adrian]

Yes, I changed the name for the Virtualbox default folder...

For this kind of situation you need to edit the exclusion list.