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by tascoast
Mon Dec 25, 2023 6:38 am
Forum: Community Fun
Topic: Common post terms
Replies: 3
Views: 533

Common post terms

Advanced search, words found in post titles: Search found 2 matches: headache Search found 2 matches: drama Search found 7 matches: erratic Search found 14 matches: woes Search found 17 matches: panic Search found 99 matches: broken Search found 166 matches: bug Search found 182 matches: systemd Sea...
by tascoast
Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:41 pm
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: Moodle on MX
Replies: 3
Views: 505

Re: Moodle on MX

I believe there is a wims-moodle in the MX repos's ... is that the same thing? This looks like a plugin for a particular server function. How works the plugin: You must know that the WIMS classroom is created and maintained from the Moodle server. If you log in Moodle as teacher, then you will have...
by tascoast
Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:40 am
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: Moodle on MX
Replies: 3
Views: 505

Moodle on MX

Nobody talks about Moodle, from what a search tells me. I've been tinkering with Moodle on W10 this week, and have no great issue unpacking and setting up via a localhost webpage, with a tiny edit of one file, but without an actual server, setting up anything but Admin as a user is proving frustrati...
by tascoast
Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Why use OpenDocumentFormat over MS Office formats?
Replies: 11
Views: 806

Re: Why use OpenDocumentFormat over MS Office formats?

The other thing that makes PDFs so useful is that any font face you include is embedded, so there is no risk that the recipient might lack that font and have a text document display in unintended ways. PDF format has been a standard for things like media releases and similar documents for quite some...
by tascoast
Wed Aug 30, 2023 7:47 am
Forum: Chat
Topic: Single or Double click?
Replies: 57
Views: 4486

Re: Single or Double click?

I prefer double click as I often work with files and regularly open applications just by clicking the associated file type. However, what about touch screens? They are single tap..... Nobody seems to mention tapping.......or voice commands..... now that would be really painful... if you had to doubl...
by tascoast
Mon Aug 07, 2023 8:01 am
Forum: MX Help
Topic: Creating a data partition before installing MX-23 [Solved]
Replies: 6
Views: 388

Re: Creating a data partition before installing MX-23

Little side note: after clicking the NTFS partition, do check if it is set to ntfs-3g, otherwise it will be read only. Yep, I've had that happen occasionally. The simple solution is to open Disk Manager and change it from ntfs unknown to ntfs-3g. I think a reboot might also be needed to be recognis...
by tascoast
Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:51 am
Forum: Bugs and Non-Package Requests Forum
Topic: User information [Solved]
Replies: 4
Views: 375

Re: User information [Solved]

I still use a .face file for this. One I created ages ago. It's there as a hidden file so I just need to show hidden files to copy it over to my user directory in a new install, for it to appear in the whisker menu. I'm guessing About Me just makes all this easy now and creates something similar. I'...
by tascoast
Sat Aug 05, 2023 3:24 am
Forum: MX KDE Official Release
Topic: MX-23 feedback
Replies: 18
Views: 1432

Re: MX-23 feedback

*****Apologies- I confused this with a generic feedback thread so please delete or move this post as suits. :happy: Just a simple observation here, everything being good so far apart from some recorded video playback (e.g.*.mts from set top box) suffering from a green glitch in VLC Player (Codecs ha...
by tascoast
Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:24 pm
Forum: General
Topic: backing up my system and having it for install on new machine
Replies: 9
Views: 760

Re: backing up my system and having it for install on new machine

... Should I use live usb maker ...? Also, will live usb maker format the usb stick before doing its thing? Yes & Yes . If they want to backup an installed MX, shouldn't they use MX Snapshot to create a personal snapshot ISO before using Live USB maker to "burn" that ISO to the drive?...
by tascoast
Tue Nov 08, 2022 9:40 pm
Forum: Hardware /Configuration
Topic: Inspiron 15 5593 dual boot grub not detecting W10 [Solved]
Replies: 15
Views: 914

Re: Inspiron 15 5593 dual boot grub not detecting W10 [Solved]

I've exhausted the usual approaches and tools to the point I've begun Plan c, copying win user stuff and my Data partition contents, where anything important is, with the view to a factory reset, Dell recovery options otherwise seeming a bit unhelpful in this scenario. That would mean recovering som...

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