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Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

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lucky9
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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#71 Post by lucky9 »

During testing I thought there were things that ran better with KDM.
Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
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BitJam
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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#72 Post by BitJam »

If installing KDM gets around the problem then it is by far the easiest solution. It also provides a more complete KDE experience.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool."

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Stevo
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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#73 Post by Stevo »

Exactly what problem is that again?

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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#74 Post by BitJam »

Adrian wrote:First of all it looks great, I think if we make it boot directly into KDE that would be most obvious improvement. I think we need to ping BitJam for this, maybe he can change his installed-to-live script to do an exception for lightdm.conf since that gets "generalized" which means is reverted to the general form no matter how you customize it (but I don't know how that should be handled) Otherwise another solution, and it might be easier, would be to replace lightdm with kdm or another desktop manager.
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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#75 Post by Adrian »

So Steve, if you want KDE default (I think that would be nice) you can either install KDM or you could customize the lighdm.conf file from /usr/local/share/live-files/general-files -- that's the file that gets used to overwrite the one in /etc/lightdm.conf (or wherever that file is, I'm not in front of a MX right now to check). So just set up KDM as default and want to keep lightdm, just copy the lightdm.conf over to the general-files locations (make sure you don't have any personal info there) -- from now on that's going to be the file that gets copied and used in the snapshot.

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eemaestro
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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#76 Post by eemaestro »

Is MX15-x64_KDE_added-18Apr2016.iso a "live medium", so I can try it booting off DVD-R before installing ?

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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#77 Post by Stevo »

eemaestro wrote:Is MX15-x64_KDE_added-18Apr2016.iso a "live medium", so I can try it booting off DVD-R before installing ?
Yes, it's a Live ISO; it currently boots by default to the xfce 4 desktop, but you can log out of that back to the lightdm login screen, choose a KDE plasma session there, and log into KDE as "demo". I don't think you can save any changes you make to the KDE desktop live session for the install like you can for the xfce 4 desktop...just any packages that you install in Live session can be carried over to the install, no matter what the desktop.
MXPI = MX Package Installer
QSI = Quick System Info from menu
The MX Test repository is mostly backports; not the same as Debian testing

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eemaestro
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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#78 Post by eemaestro »

Got the ISO on the third try at downloading and burned it to DVD. Thanks. What username and password will run the demo from the live DVD?

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v3g4n
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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#79 Post by v3g4n »

should be demo and demo from what i remember.

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Re: Unofficial MX 15-64 KDE snapshot

#80 Post by v3g4n »

oops, double post. :frown:

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