MX-17 Beta 3 Feedback

[chrispop99]

It was brought in when I test-installed LXDE to help someone else - sorry!

I blame the cold meds I'm taking, and the cough that forced me out of bed at 5am today.

Chris

[timkb4cq]

Mugshot has never worked during testing, so we don't include it. Not totally sure it still doesn't work, however, so we should test it now on B3. Thanks.

I installed it, and per feedback in the Arch community discussion, installed accountsservice as well
It shows up in the Settings Menu with the title About Me and it works fine.
In order for it to be picked up by WhiskerMenu you need to right-click on WhiskerMenu -> Properties -> Commands (tab) and check the Edit Profile box.

[spsf64]

Just downloaded Beta 3 and during live usb boot I noticed the intel microcode msg still appears as I reported in beta2 (viewtopic.php?f=94&t=43278&start=160#p427207)

Some suggestions:
1 Add pcmanfm in order to Baobab (disk usage analyzer) be able open directories (it does not work with thunar, at least I can't make it work...)
2 Enable sound events by default (as suggest in a previous post)
3 Consider replacing Clementine by Guayadeque (it has a great online radio support and many other functionalities, also GTK based)
4 Mugshot would be a great addition...
5 Add templates to "Templates" folder; as MX comes with libreoffice installed I think it is good to improve user experince (see attached image)

[skidoo]

I actually don't know if it works on live or not. If someone could try I would be obliged (I don't have any nvidia cards).

I don't think it can; a re-boot is suggested:

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Yes, failure due to reboot (and the script isn't aware of the need to repack live-initramfs).
My most recent attempt (probably sgfxi, back around antiX15-b3) failed, and ingrained a "gun shy" outlook.
At the time, IIRC someone posted to insist "is possible" but I don't recall the details/workaround.
Now am wondering: install driver, immediately followed by live-remaster during the same session, would workaround?

[dolphin_oracle]

I actually don't know if it works on live or not. If someone could try I would be obliged (I don't have any nvidia cards).

I don't think it can; a re-boot is suggested:

Screenshot.png

Yes, failure due to reboot (and the script isn't aware of the need to repack live-initramfs).
My most recent attempt (probably sgfxi, back around antiX15-b3) failed, and ingrained a "gun shy" outlook.
At the time, IIRC someone posted to insist "is possible" but I don't recall the details/workaround.
Now am wondering: install driver, immediately followed by live-remaster during the same session, would workaround?

possibly. the nvidia driver loads as a kms driver module. In most cases, you don't even need the xorg.conf.

maybe we should have some sort of limit, to install only if persistence file is found. If that works. If it doesn't, we can set it to only work in an installed case. Its relatively easy to detect the live system.

[skidoo]

do those graphical problems all result after running mx-viewer? and are they running in a virtual machine or on actual hardware
(I think hardware is what you said but confirming)?

Yes, my testing is always performed on actual hardware.

Yes, launching mx-viewer was the common ingredient across that batch of tests ~~ during that batch of tests, I was assessing the availability of per-item help.
Isn't it easily reproduceable? Both the tool window and the mx-viewer window are positioned, auto-centered. The artifacting appears in parent window as soon as you drag the mx-viewer window (intending to place it side-by-side with its overlapped parent window).

[dolphin_oracle]

do those graphical problems all result after running mx-viewer? and are they running in a virtual machine or on actual hardware
(I think hardware is what you said but confirming)?

Yes, my testing is always performed on actual hardware.

Yes, launching mx-viewer was the common ingredient across that batch of tests ~~ during that batch of tests, I was assessing the availability of per-item help.
Isn't it easily reproduceable? Both the tool window and the mx-viewer window are positioned, auto-centered. The artifacting appears in parent window as soon as you drag the mx-viewer window (intending to place it side-by-side with its overlapped parent window).

Yeah, I can reproduce it here. At the time, I didn't have a mx machine in front of me. I just checked it at lunch.

[Jerry3904]

Mugshot has never worked during testing, so we don't include it. Not totally sure it still doesn't work, however, so we should test it now on B3. Thanks.

I installed it, and per feedback in the Arch community discussion, installed accountsservice as well
It shows up in the Settings Menu with the title About Me and it works fine.
In order for it to be picked up by WhiskerMenu you need to right-click on WhiskerMenu -> Properties -> Commands (tab) and check the Edit Profile box.

Good. I meant to follow up on the Arch discussion, but have been diverted. That works great, and I'm good with putting it in the RC as long as we can bring accountsservice in with it during installation.

[chrispop99]

Mugshot has never worked during testing, so we don't include it. Not totally sure it still doesn't work, however, so we should test it now on B3. Thanks.

I installed it, and per feedback in the Arch community discussion, installed accountsservice as well
It shows up in the Settings Menu with the title About Me and it works fine.
In order for it to be picked up by WhiskerMenu you need to right-click on WhiskerMenu -> Properties -> Commands (tab) and check the Edit Profile box.

Confirmed that procedure worked for me.

Chris

[Jerry3904]

Great--I put a request into Tracker so DO could follow it