MX 16 unofficial remaster marries KDE to xfce; marital bliss ensues

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Stevo
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MX 16 unofficial remaster marries KDE to xfce; marital bliss ensues

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The unofficial respin of MX 15, which adds a customized KDE Jessie 4.14 desktop, plus keeps their theming from stepping on each other's toes, has been fully updated and migrated to the MX 16 base. All MX 16 homebrewed applications are also present, and the xfce desktop is the default MX 16 dark theme. No changes were made to the customized KDE desktop from the MX 15 respin. Firefox and Thunderbird were updated to the latest releases just before the remaster on March 8, and keepnote was added per a user request.

Known minor issue: the GRUB menu screen after installation refers to "*MX" instead of MX-16. I also had to manually edit /etc/default/grub so it would point to the MX 16 beach background after installation before I did the remaster--otherwise, the live session would show the beach, but it would switch back to 15's Squam Lake after the install.

Unlike the other remasters, this one is in a zip file, which contains the ISO, hash files, and the signature file. The zip archive make the total download a few 10's of megabytes smaller.

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#2 Post by Jerry3904 »

Woot!

:pint: :pint:
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#3 Post by Stevo »

Oh, by the way, I didn't set KDE up with a trendy modern Flat-looking window theme, but the included Kvantum Manager makes it simple to change KDE/Qt 4 apps to one of its included flatties, including a Breeze clone, along many style choices.

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#4 Post by plzd »

how to download this respin???
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http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/Community_Respins/

The name is MX16_KDE_added.zip
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#6 Post by plzd »

thank you
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Runs beautifully. I just made two changes:

1. Installed baloo. This enables the indexing of files and dolphin's "Recently accessed" and "Search For" functions in its left pane. On my AMD A8 7600 FM2+ CPU, fairly capable machine, I do not notice the indexing at all.

2. In Desktop Effects Advanced I changed Render to OpenGL 3.1 to enable more of the effects such as the cube.
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#8 Post by eemaestro »

Thank you, Stevo.

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#9 Post by watsoccurring »

+1
Thanks Stevo ,looking forward to having fun with your new work.

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#10 Post by joejac »

Hello Stevo!

Last night I installed MX-16 Official and today I saw that you did the KDE and with my suggestion, very kind on your part :toast:

I am downloading your respin now. But I have an old Intel SSD and I have to create a partition in the normal Hard Disk (MX-16) to install the SSD Tools only for Windows 7, I thought I could live Windows free, but not yet. But as soon as I prepare the SSD and figure out how to install your KDE in it, I will.

Thanks a lot Stevo! :number1:
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