MX-17.1-RC1 Release Candidate Feedback

[Adrian]

I still don't understand what problem we try to fix, "logname" provides the correct username in my experience at least when you run the program from menu or in terminal with sudo. There might be some exotic ways to run the program that don't provide the correct user name but I haven't hit that. Opening links in browser is a different issue, it's not related to the user we get with "logname".

[bfrost]

Works great! Also good translation (to Swedish) now, only have to install Swedish language to Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox and LibreOffice. Also manually download of Canon MG5700 drive to printer. Great job guys and girls!

[Jerry3904]

Welcome to the Forum!

You're going to use MX Package Installer to get those language packs, right? (much easier...)

[bfrost]

Used CLI, but easier with MX Package Installer. Thanks!

[vamsi]

The screen lock for MX -17.1 RC1 is changed?
I mean the default one is pretty old in MX -17
Thanks..

[zebedeeboss]

Hi all

Installed perfectly to my machine, picked up other OS fine and played nicely. Always good to see. Nvidia installed flawlessly as did obs-studio and nvenc encoders.

Installed every thing else I needed with the "MX Package Installer"

Just Awesome, playing nicely with two monitors as well so I can stream ETS2 on 2nd Monitor - full screen 1080p - lovely.

Many Thanks for a Great OS

Regards Zeb...

System Specs

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zebedee@i7-mx17:~
$ inxi -Fz
System:    Host: i7-mx17 Kernel: 4.15.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
           Distro: MX-17.1-RC1_x64 Horizon March 6, 2018
Machine:   Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z170 PRO GAMING v: Rev X.0x serial: N/A
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1601 date: 03/18/2016
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-6700K (-MT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
           clock speeds: max: 4300 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 801 MHz 3: 800 MHz 4: 800 MHz 5: 800 MHz 6: 800 MHz
           7: 800 MHz 8: 800 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.2 ) driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 3840x2160@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.111
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA Device 10f1 driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA v: k4.15.0-1-amd64
           Card-2 Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-3 Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 driver: USB Audio
           Card-4 C-Media driver: USB Audio
Network:   Card: Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V driver: e1000e
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 11468.3GB (3.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: SAMSUNG_MZVLV256HCHP size: 256.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: SanDisk_Ultra_II size: 960.2GB
           ID-3: /dev/sdb model: ST5000DM000 size: 5001.0GB
           ID-4: /dev/sdd model: WDC_WD30EZRX size: 3000.6GB
           ID-5: /dev/sde model: WDC_WD20EZRX size: 2000.4GB
           ID-6: /dev/sdc model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 98G used: 13G (14%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 37C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 221 Uptime: 8 min Memory: 1379.6/32093.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.54 
zebedee@i7-mx17:~

[skidoo]

I still don't understand what problem we try to fix

Here's a working (tested) solution to the "winds up launching a root-permissioned webkit browser" problem.
Diff your current main.cpp with this: https://github.com/antix-skidoo/antix-v ... r/main.cpp
At startup, the viewer program drops elevated privileges and runs as the "nobody" user.

ps: When launched from commandline on an antiX system, console shows a line mentioning
"inotify ... qt5ct ... file not found"
Could check existence of the file and conditionally call inotify (and/or add qt5ct to Recommends:)
In the meantime, I'll chalk it up to "harmless known issue".

[Adrian]

Thanks, that's an interesting approach. I said that I don't understand what the problem is because mx-viewer starts as normal user for me. Only when you click on links it opens a browser with the same permissions as the application that displayed the links but I don't see a way around that other then not displaying the links.