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For personal snapshots , a checkbox to keep ".bash_history" Toward achieving this level of custom snapshot granularity, users should instead be directed to manually edit /etc/mx-snapshot-exclude.list The default list contains 100+ exclude patterns, and ".bash_history" is actuall...

nathan2423, read these:
MX Linux wiki: MX Save system to ISO (Snapshot)
MX Linux wiki: MX Live-USB Maker
and then you can quickly skim related asked//answered questions by using forum search,
"topic titles only", query=maker (also, query=snapshot)

barnaby, osmo's gtk3 theming might be confusingly "hiding" the scrollbar in preferences dialog unless you hover the mouse at right side. howto: 1) click the _-_ preferences icon in osmo's toolbar 2) in the popup Perferences dialogbox, click the "Calendar" tab 3) scroll down, unti...

cheat sheet of all the flags... The apt v1.4.9 manpage describes the list option as a "work-in-progress" (subject to change, so no docs yet to hang our hat onto) man apt installed-packages.txt ...but some of them come preinstalled with MX . . . how I can determine from that list, which pa...

My quick Q is this: I have many preferences saved on the live USB w persistence that I am currently using. When I install MX to the HDD, will these preferences be automatically installed there or will it be a fresh virgin install? Yes, if installation is performed during a persist-enabled session. ...

Bydo, I questioned the same a while back, but came around to realizing that " dd blahblah && sync " is effective, is safe (command prompt does not return until the full data has safely arrived at the destination), and (depending upon the block size being written) is preferable to m...

Have you considered crafting a solution utilizing SendTo ? https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/send-to ...Thunar also ships the thunar-sendto-email plugin, which adds the entry Mail Recipient to the menu. This feature opens the default mail composer with the selected files attached to a new email. If ...

"Is this intentional?" Yes, the default MX sudoers policy grants a grace period timeout. . To specify a policy requiring password for every sudo invocation, in a terminal type sudo visudo and insert a line stating Defaults timestamp_timeout=0 or (if the file already contains a timestamp_ti...

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Here's an antixforum topic which contains tips//howto reduce memory consumption on antiX17
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic ... ps_mem-py/

awf
I've been using it on antiX 17 (stretch). Should still work with MX/antiX 19 (but I haven't tested)
https://gitlab.com/skidoo/awf/