Mxlinux doesn't have the option to turn on Hotspot (gui) . I need it for kde connect. Is there a way.

When i launch chrome browser i get popup window to insert my password. How to disable that?

Hello,

I have an old HP Pro 408 G1 tablet which I switched to MX Linux recently, since it's Windows 8.1 was starting to get too sluggish. One of the few distros that still work on a device with 64bit CPU and 32bit EFI.
Got it installed, hooked it to the internet, downloaded some updates, great. But now, I have some issues to solve and I'm not good enough with Linux to solve it.

I'd like this tablet to behave like... a tablet, not like a laptop with a touchscreen. So what I need to solve are basically 3 things (maybe they're simple, don't hate on me too much):

1. I can't write anything unless I plug a keyboard to the tablet or pair it with a wireless one. It should pop out an onscreen keyboard whenever I click on a text field.

2. Screen orientation is not working. Sometimes I'd like to watch something rather than read, so a horizontal view is preferred.

3. Power button is shutting down/restarting/hibernating the device rather than just locking he screen and I can't find the setting to change that.

I am using a default MXLinux, didn't do any changes to it since I installed it. Anyone can give me some advice? This tablet is meant for light internet use, watching some videos from my Plex server and reading ebooks or comics, so nothing fancy, but if it can't be of any use with the current OS, I just might switch back to W8.1 and trim it down somehow.

Hey guys I'm trying to make a dual boot system on my laptop, and it's not letting me. I have partitioned my hard drive with more than adequate disk space, but it keeps telling me that I need between 7.7 GBS-8.0GBS it's not making any sense to me.

the root password can be changed during startup without the current password with boot options-> change password. Is this a security feature or a vulnerability? How can I disable this?

Does MX Linux use the 5.27.11 KDE desktop? Or are they still using 5.27.5?

I am using MX Linux Fluxbox. And i always have to start and connect to my bluetooth device manually. So how do i make it autostart on boot and auto connect?

My automatic updates stopped working and I'm not seeing any error messages or log. I tried to update the entire distribution, but that isn't working either.

I'd appreciate any insight! I'm a little worried my system has been taken over...

$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:5 https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all InRelease                                         
Hit:4 https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster InRelease
Reading package lists... Done                
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

$ inxi -F
System:    Host: mymachine-mx Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 
           Distro: MX-19.4_x64 patito feo October 21  2019 

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Thanks for the help!

The tutorial I'm using (https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/create-a-live-usb-w-persist-from-a-windows-desktop/) is telling me to use two USBs, but I only have one. Is there any way I can work around this?

I wanna try and use MX LInux as my daily driver but i have some questions first. How good is it with gaming and driver compabilites? Is it a stable OS thats secure and safe? And since my computer specs are from early 2023 ( nvidia rtx 4050 and intel i7-13620h 13th gen) what .iso file do i download? The normal x64 iso or the x64 iso with advanced harware support? (and btw its a laptop)

I have MX installed on all my machines. You can call me a groupie..If possible can you help with this issue.

I am currently remoting into another machine with MX installed via remmina. It is a XFCE MX install, however I have since installed KDE plasa and use that as the default DE. However, when remoting into that machine from another machine, it displays XFCE. Is there a way to have the DE be plasma upon instead of XFCE or will it always use the DE the OS came with? Also, I have completely given up on sound from host to be "streamed" to the client remoting into host. It would be very much appreciated if you could help resolve these.

Thank you kindly!

Hello community, I need your help, the other day I was doing some work stuff and I noticed that the system is starting to fail. I can't use the shortcuts, I can't open the file manager, I can't I can't open any application and much less can I turn it off or restart it. I let the battery drain so I could charge my computer (which is a Lenovo ideapad), when I turn it on and start it up it appears the message "initramfs". What can I do to solve this error?

I have been using MX for a number of years now. Not alot of drama. I adore the XFCE version as this is the one I started with. A long time ago I installed gnome - the basic one. Will there ever be a supported MX Gnome version on the site?

Thanks for a great distro, keep up the good work!

Sup. I just install MX with saving of my /home partition, so, when i boot into grub menu, i become to screen with blinking cursor only. When i literally switching on tty1 and starting X11 session, it's just works. Maybe i should to do some grub config preparing or add to ~/user directory some settings for fluxbox?

https://preview.redd.it/b23jmnopf72e1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=38e70c168ad6b97fe49d7100040d42ed5f4b6249

Happy with the performance :)

I have USB 2.0 drive thats pretty slow. I would like to move os (2.3GB) into ram and have persistance on usb. Is there a way to do it? OS is painfully slow when its not ran with toram arg

Docklike taskbar on panels does not stack instances on launcher like it normaly do after right clicking it and clicking edit launcher and just saving without changing anything. Not works on default thunar launcher but works on default firefox launcher.

How to reproduce:
Run multiple instances of firefox by running it from docklike-taskbar. They stack on the launcher. everything ok.
Close all instances. Right click on firefox, edit launcher, just save, no change is needed.
Try again, they no longer stack, now there is two same icons on docklike taskbar. One for launcher and one for instances.

Also tried on librewolf and MX User manager.

I saw there is no offical repo for xfce4-docklike-plugin on debian repos but there is at MX repos. after that I decided to post this here.

Title kinda says it all. MXLinux installed on a Pi 4B.

Normal install. Everything works great. Start it up, shut it down normally. All good. Start it a day or two later and I get the color splash screen of the Pi POST, the activity light blinks on the SD bay for 5-10 seconds, and the keyboard appears to work (numlock lights up) and then the Pi seems to shut off and nothing works.

No boot scroll of system components loading, no cursor, nothing. Blank screen.

I’m about to give up on this distro, it’s the third reinstall I’ve done.

Any suggestions?

I remastered MX Linux and installed it to a USB as a live system using the MX Live USB Creator. When I booted it up for the first time with persistence enabled, I was prompted to create root and home filesystems. However, I accidentally pressed "n" when it asked, "Do you want to copy the files to the home persistence device?" Now, when I boot with persistence, my remastered changes aren't there, but they are present when I boot without persistence. How can I access that setting again or copy the files to my home persistence? What should I do?

I'm trying to install MX Linux or, preferably Antix, on an old Macbook Air 2015. (I don't want to dual boot, just install MX or Antix)

I have managed to install MX fine but on reboot the UEFI patition / boot loader is not recognized so I cannot boot it. I managed to boot by it creating an rEFInd bootable USB. Using refInd from the USB I can then boot.

I tried installing reFIND on MX Linux (using the .deb). Install worked fine but still when I reboot there is no way to boot it.

Any suggestions please?

I own a HP 15-d021ca Touchsmart Notebook and I've recently installed MX Linux on it. I'm having an issue where the touchpad on the laptop is not being detected by the OS. I typed "xinput list" into the terminal and the touchpad was not recognized. I've tried installing Synaptics and libinput as drivers but after restarting, the OS still does not recognize the touchpad. The touchscreen and connected mouse's are being detected.

Edit: I have no idea what happened, I turned on my laptop for the first time today and it just works. Software works in mysterious ways

Hi. I'm stuck!! Please help

I'm trying to install MX linux on my macbook air 2015. I just want to wipe mac osx and only run linux.

I created a MX install (bootable) USB. But the problem is that I cannot seem to get the macbook to recognize the usb and boot from it. When I boot and hold the Alt button the only boot option shown is the Mac HDD to boot to mac os. There is no separate EFI boot option or any other options.

I tried creating a separate EFI bootable usb using rEFI. I can boot to this rEFI menu but (even with MX linux boot drive plugged in to the other USB port) there is still not option to boot the MX linux usb

Not sure what to do next??? Any suggestions?

I have installed nvidia drivers . But for some reason when i click on the nvidia x settings nothing happens . Sometimes it crashes or freezes or it just nothing happens. Anybody else had this peoblem?

I think the drivers are installed and im able to see the gui so the graphics are working but i have zero access to any of the nvidia gpu settings so i have no idea if im getting the most out of my graphics card

. My hardware is an old imac

Im running xfce mx linux

I'm setting up my old laptop (intel Celeron, 2x1.6ghz, 4gb RAM) to use these days while I'm away from home, my job requires me to stay 300km away a few days every month so I would like to have some games with me.

I'm having trouble to install steam, keeps asking me to install AMDx64 packages, what's the correct way to install steam on i386 linux?

I installed MX on a laptop to be discarded by my employer which is 10 years old. I put in an 8gb ram stick so it has 16gb ram and there was an old ssd in it. It works like a charm: playing 1080p videos, browsing using ff. It has a big screen so that is nice.

I used to watch the videos of techhut or the Linux cast to see what to do on install but I can't find anything for the recent version of Mx. Any recommendations? I am using KDE which is great.

I installed dolphin's custom systemd only iso. Made some updates, I have it working how I want, so I decided to create an MX snapshot and create a full feature USB with it.

Everything seems to go fine until I try to boot it on any machine, it goes through the sequences and then when the GUI is supposed to show up it flashes and I get errors about systemctl processes not being found. Onetime was `smd.service` and another time it was `sddm.service`

I've tried:
Creating a new snapshot

Booting on a different machine

Different USB

Formatting the USB manually first

Creating `Full-feature mode` and `Image mode`

I also installed mx workbench iso onto one of the usbs and booted one of the test laptops and it boots and works correctly, so something in my snapshot is missing I guess? Any help appreicated. Thanks!