Questions tagged [mx-linux]
Questions specifically about MX Linux, a distribution based on Debian and Xfce that also draws from antiX and MEPIS.
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fresh install of MX-linux ahs cannot boot the first time
i use a chromebook with mrchromebox's custom firmware, had resorted to installing the ahs version as it is the only way through which i can get sound to work (i only know this because it worked on the ...
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GRUB2 Terminal: Ubuntu 23.10 does not boot, MX Linux 23.2 on Live-USB does not boot, too - commands?
I have some trouble with a "simple" boot or installation procedure.
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I would like to boot my Ubuntu, but I do not find the right command words doing it (hd0, fat or ext*).
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As safety ...
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Fixing bootloader
Grub no longer shows up in the boot list.
The only thing which shows up is the Windows boot manager. Only Windows boot manager is listed when running the efibootmgr command.
The thing is, the grub ...
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thunar custom action to print selected file path and simulate enter key press
I have a file zx-script.mjs
I need to write a thunar custom action that opens the terminal or konsole in the current directory, prints ./zx-script.mjs and emulates the enter key to run the script. How ...
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Calls to all googletagmanger.com URLs fail
I've been updating code on a website that contains calls to googletagmanager.com for a couple of days now, but only just realised that it's wasn't really broken. Turns out my MX Linux desktop simply ...
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how to connect to wpa2/peap/mschapv2 w/no ca certificate without wpa_supplicant
i have followed posts on Network Manager looping to connect to enterprise networks and coming back again and again asking for logon/password. the answer seems to be to use wpa_supplicant.
i did a log ...
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Mate: How to change the default monitor that Chrome (or any app) opens on?
I am currently on MX Linux 21.3 and the desktop is Mate.
I have two monitors: an LCD TV and the laptop's built-in monitor. xrandr output is attached at the end. The LCD TV is at 1360x768 (primary) and ...
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Unable to work with wifi after suspend
I am using MX Linux 21.3 on Thinkpad T440P. I cannot work with wifi after system wakes up from sleep. I have tried the troubleshooting methods listed on Arch Wiki and Gentoo Wiki - that is, ...
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How to change linux audio input from internal microphone to headset?
I'm uisng MX LInux 21 alongside Windows 10 dual boot
But my Linux doesn't detect my headphone my mic as input, it only use my laptop internal mic which is broken and only provide noise. When i connect ...
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Can I install and run pyenv-virtualenv without installing 'python-openssl' and 'tk-dev'
System MX linux 21.3 on Macbook Pro 13 inch mid 2012. I want to install python 2 and python 2 packages alongside python 3. Therefore I proceeded to install and run pyenv-virtualenv. When I try to ...
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Blueman bluetooth manager is not starting in MX Linux 21
I am opening blueman Bluetooth manager however it is not opening, so is the bluetooth adapter software.
I thought that this is probably because the blueman service is stopped, so I ran
systemctl start ...
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MX Linux, Xfce: ibus doesn't work
I installed ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-gtk3.
I also installed ibus-unikey and ibus-bamboo, which are packages required for typing in Vietnamese.
I added the following lines in ~/.bashrc
export GTK_IM_MODULE=...
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How to use snapd with sysVinit?
I want to test anbox on mxlinux to see if it can run some of the android apps I use in a decent way. The problem is that anbox uses snapd, and these two work only with Systemd.
I tried working with ...
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Why does MXLinux/Linux become slow after a while of using it?
Eventually when I'm using Linux this becomes very slow after a while and it prevents me from opening new applications so I have to reboot the system because the swap usage exceeds 2.5gb
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Why xmonad does not see any application included in users $PATH variable?
I have recently installed MX Linux on my laptop XFCE ahs version. Along that I have installed xmonad. The problem is xmonad does not see any scripts or application that are included in my $PATH ...
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How to use whatsapp messenger in androvm?
I am trying to use whatsapp in androvm and when I open the application instead of asking for my mobile number, it shows me the QR code that appears in whatsapp web.
I have tried with older versions of ...
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Megajogos, libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Where do i find libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0, I can't find it on sid or ATP.
I installed the game by following the instructions on the official website.
Thank you
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Why does setting the vm.watermark_scale_factor property increase ram consumption?
When I configure the vm.watermark_scale_factor property in /etc/sysctl.conf which is the property in charge of indicating to the kernel when the kswapd daemon starts to activate for paging from ram to ...
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Last logins during last hour
OK, so basically I'm trying to give a specific date and time and I want to see all the logins that were made during the hour range, e.g. last hour or two last hours from the time and date given. I ...
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How to start Google Chrome in the background before signing in?
I am trying to start chrome in the background before I login like this:
/etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh -e
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# rc.local
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# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the ...
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How to append to system-wide `$PATH` in MX Linux?
I want to append to the system-wide $PATH. How can I do this in MX Linux (MX-22.2.1_x64 ahs)?
To be totally clear:
I want to append to the existing $PATH, not set an entirely new one. (So editing /...
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How can I configure my audio ports on MX-Linux?
A while ago my PC 3.5mm headphone jack broke, but I was able to fix that problem using the Windows setting to switch the tasks of headphone and microphone jack. Basically I switched them, so my ...
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System V init service can't recongnise mongod
I have been following official guide for installing mongodb but it wont run as a service.
When i try
$ whereis mongod
mongod: /usr/bin/mongod /etc/mongod.conf /usr/share/man/man1/mongod.1.gz
but step ...
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Cannot run snap applications on MX Linux
On my MX Linux 21 KDE, I cannot run the snap applications.
This is what happens when I run snap run authy:
/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-3.scope is not a snap cgroup
And this is the output of ...
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Why is playing Minecraft on MX linux so smooth
Lately I've been trying to experiment with some linux distributions, then try to play games there such as minecraft.
I tried:
Manjaro - Lag
Drauger OS (It said for game) - Still lag
MX Linux - Really-...
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Restore deleted contents of a text file
Due to this bug, the content of one of my source files was deleted. I searched a lot and found that I can read the raw data on the storage device with the dd command, and I can find the address of ...
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MX Linux: Grub boot taking way long time
I noticed that GRUB gets stuck and tries to load attached external usb hard drive instead of the internal HDD. If I remove external HDD during boot then it loads immediately. Is there a way I can stop ...
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How can I make apt pull an older dependency?
Edit: I never found a solution to my specific issue, but as soon as I hopped onto Linux Mint I was able to install this package. So if you run into this same issue with this particular package/...
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How can I see what DNS requests are being made by a website?
I recently generated a unified hosts file from Steven Black's hosts github project on my MX Linux machine. However, it's preventing cbs.com from loading their sponsored messages. This, in turn, is ...
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System ran out of memory during MX Linux installation
Hardware specs :
Product Name HP ProBook 430 G4
Processor 1 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz (x86)
Memory Size 4096 MB
System BIOS P85 Ver. 01.03 12/05/2016
Serial Number ...
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Set firefox developer edition as the default browser in VS Code on Linux
I have installed firefox developer edition on my MX-Linux. When I tried to configure the live server of VS Code to run it as default, I failed. I followed this link to set up, but ultimately it is not ...
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Call is stuck between exchanging encryption keys on Telegram desktop App
My distro is MX-Linux 21 KDE. I have installed the Telegram desktop from their website.
However, I cannot make or accept new calls on this app. When the receiver or I accept the call, the "...
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PulseAudio occasionally no sound / chipmunk voice regardless of OS and microphone
General problem: I have been using Manjaro Mate 21.2.1 (Arch-based) with kernels 5.4, 5.10 and 5.13 for a while, until I got more and more sound problems using different softwares (Skype, Zoom, ...
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Messenger call does not work in any browser on Linux
I am using MX-Linux 21 KDE. Whenever I try to make a call on messenger, the connection times out automatically after 3 to 4 seconds, this happens even in troubleshooting mode. I have tested this on ...
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Cronjob not working on MX Linux-21
I have set up a cronjob for automatic updates. However, I realized that my cronjob was not functioning. So, this is my cronjob list.
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
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# Each ...
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Enable libvirt using sysvinit
I am trying to install qemu and KVM on my MX-Linux 21, however my system is booted with sysvinit. As all the articles regarding installing and setting KVM use systemctl, I cannot find one to enable ...
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Unable to install anything using snap on MX Linux 21 KDE
Whenever I try to install anything via the snap store, the tasks remain incomplete due to an error.
I tried this command in my terminal:
sudo snap install core.
And it gives me this output: error: ...
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Could not connect to mail server in thunderbird in MX Linux 21
I have installed Thunderbird version 78.13.0 in my MX Linux 21. I am having issues with this app recently because its connection with the server always gets timed out. Whenever I refresh the mails, I ...
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"Could not open dev/vmmon" error - every time I start my VMware workstation starts
I use VMware Workstation 16 on my MX Linux. Each time I start it after starting my machine, I get the following error: "could not open /dev/vmmon". Yesterday and again today, I tried to ...
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MX Linux - Network missing
I did sudo apt get update / upgrade, and installed the rpi-installer. And after that I lost all network connectivity.
After that, it seemed like my network has been disabled. No access to the internet ...
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Problem with running a script as a startup program
I wrote a script and added it to /usr/bin/ with the permission for execution. It works exactly as expected when I run it on terminal. The script is written for updating the TeX-system regularly, add a ...
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Opera is unable to play videos in MX Linux KDE version
I recently installed and started to use the Opera browser as it offers a wide range of functionality and the workspace feature: it seems very viable for me. But when it comes to playing videos, this ...
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installing packages from USB to offline MX Linux system
How to get the required packages on a Windows PC to a USB stick and from there installed to an offline MX Linux system?
MX Linux is derived from Debian and antiX.
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Bengali font not working in Libre-office or any text editor applications in MX-Linux kde
I have installed open-bangla keyboard to type in Bengali in my system. Though I can type in Bengali in the web browsers and also in skype app(which is installed), I cannot do the same in any other ...
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netselect-apt is unable to find the fastest repo in MX-Linux
Recently, I accidently made some changes in /etc/apt/sources.list file in my system. So after performing apt-get update there was output full of warnings. So I googled for the default sources.list and ...
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Installed Ibus-avro, open-keyboard, ibus-daemon is running background but unable to type in Bengali in MX Linux KDE
So for stability issues, I had to switch back to MX Linux, in its KDE version, since I am a KDE lover. But this time, something very unusual happened. I installed ibus-avro properly, added that in ...
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MX 19 won't see an NTFS filesystem
I am running a brand-new install of MX 19.4 Patito Feo on one hard drive and have a second drive plugged in for file storage. The problem is that MX 19 refuses to mount the single ntfs partition on ...
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Failing to update from repository in MX linux
I use MX-Linux KDE version. Today, all on a sudden, when I tried to run apt update, the update process is not done fully. One of the resources man page showing a forbidden IP error. This is the result ...
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Grub has overwritten my main hard drive
I installed MX Linux into my ssd to dual boot it with PopOS but I chose the grub option because it said that I can dual boot easily with it. But that one choice doomed my life. my main hard disk has ...
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lsusb: can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable
I'm unable to get Report Descriptors for my usb device using lsusb -v.
I'm running it as root but I'm still only getting:
Report Descriptors:
** UNAVAILABLE **
My USB devices ...
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