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by Gaer Boy
Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:59 am
Forum: Community Fun
Topic: Favourite OS's
Replies: 26
Views: 2372

Re: Favourite OS's

MX currently. OS/2 in the past - far superior to the early Windows versions. It also had the best word processor I've used - DeScribe, later ported to Windows and I went on using it until about 2000.
by Gaer Boy
Mon Nov 07, 2022 11:40 am
Forum: Community Fun
Topic: Scott Joplin on a digital accordion
Replies: 2
Views: 808

Scott Joplin on a digital accordion

Another Linus! Linus Akesson plays Scott Joplin on an accordion made from two Commodore 64 computers!
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11 ... -goodness/
by Gaer Boy
Mon Nov 07, 2022 6:32 am
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: Batch Replace All Underscores within Folder with Hyphens [Solved]
Replies: 6
Views: 1081

Re: Batch Replace All Underscores within Folder with Hyphens [Solved]

Thunar has this function. Just select all files in a folder, enter _ in the Search field and - in the Replace field. The right hand pane shows the results before you commit. I've used this to do complex renaming of hundreds of files. It's sensible to have a backup in case of errors.
by Gaer Boy
Mon Oct 17, 2022 1:04 pm
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: pdf not loading [Solved]
Replies: 4
Views: 387

Re: pdf not loading [Solved]

The only program I can find to open it is Master PDF Editor. A couple of versions are in MX Package Installer - I'm using Master PDF Editor 4 (free version).
by Gaer Boy
Mon Oct 10, 2022 7:34 am
Forum: Package Status - MX-21
Topic: MX-21 Repository: The Thunderbird Thread
Replies: 20
Views: 2829

Re: MX-21 Repository: The Thunderbird Thread

Installed and working fine here. Just the one longstanding problem - the calendar will not print in colour.
by Gaer Boy
Sun Oct 02, 2022 10:40 am
Forum: Installation
Topic: Best partition scheme MX Linux
Replies: 33
Views: 3747

Re: Best partition scheme MX Linux

I do not share my /home amongst different distros because of potential conflicting config setups between the distros . That is why I don't have a separate /home PARTITION. Instead, I created [subsequent to installing the first distro on my machine] a separate DATA partition to hold my media, docume...
by Gaer Boy
Sun Oct 02, 2022 5:22 am
Forum: Installation
Topic: Best partition scheme MX Linux
Replies: 33
Views: 3747

Re: Best partition scheme MX Linux

I take the opposite route and have only root & data partitions. All my data folders are symlinked to folders in /home.
by Gaer Boy
Thu Sep 29, 2022 7:52 am
Forum: Package Requests - MX-21
Topic: External floppy drive. [Solved]
Replies: 27
Views: 2187

Re: External floppy drive. [Solved]

I have a simple Sony external USB floppy drive from 2006 an still have my WordPerfect 5.1+ installation disks. MX-21 AHS with the 5.16 kernel mounts and opens text files no problem. A WordPerfect text file opens correctly in LibreOffice. QSI in case there's something special about my 1-year old mach...
by Gaer Boy
Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:34 pm
Forum: Package Requests - MX-21
Topic: Scanner not working, package request simple-scan
Replies: 31
Views: 1874

Re: Scanner not working, package request simple-scan

What is the output of scanimage -L as root?
by Gaer Boy
Fri Sep 09, 2022 12:51 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Mx-snapshot broken now?
Replies: 25
Views: 1866

Re: Mx-snapshot broken now?

@Adrian The latest mx-snapshot I can find is 22.9, updated yesterday from 22.8.03.

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