Jerry3904 Introduction MX-Dockmaker is a GUI application for MX-Fluxbox. It is designed to make the creating and managing of docks–that is, of a series of program launchers–easy for the average user. It makes use of a recent CLI app developed by Sébastien Ballet called wmalauncher. The docks are basically scripts that set the location and list … Read more HELP: MX Dockmaker
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After a lot of hard work by the MX Devs and Community members, MX-Fluxbox 2.0 is ready for beta testing. The list of contributors is too long for me to spell out this early in the morning, but I am very grateful for the fantastic support the project has enjoyed. InstallationURL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bHjyyV … sp=sharing md5sum: 236376ce1cb34c7b028ce6a6506c7113 … Read more MX-Fluxbox 2.0 ready for testing
Introduction Wmalauncher is a CLI app created by Sébastien Ballet in 2018 as “an easy to use and highly configurable application launcher especially designed for fluxbox” (man wmalauncher). The Dev has been very helpful in adapting his app to the MX Linux use environment. This HELP file treats exclusively of the CLI app, ignoring the … Read more Wmalauncher
Basic help for MX-Fluxbox and its components is available in the documents available in ~/.fluxbox/doc/ and in HELP: Mx-idesktool. This Wiki entry covers more advanced topics. Lower memory usage A number of users have worked on lowering memory usage, and there are a couple of threads on that topic in the MX-Fluxbox forum. User seaken64 … Read more HELP: MX-Fluxbox
The gui app mx-idesktool is intended to make common tasks easier. This Wiki entry covers more advanced topics taken for the most part from the README file in the installation folder. Use with caution, as MX-Fluxbox does not follow all defaults. Idesk is program that draws desktop icons. Each icon will execute a shell command … Read more HELP: MX Idesktool
MX Linux has made Desktop Environments and Window Managers available through the Package Installer since the beginning of time (well, since 2014). But those are basic vanilla install packages, essentially unaltered for MX Linux use. That pattern changed with the release on December 12 2019 of MX-fluxbox, a version of fluxbox developed specifically as a … Read more MX-fluxbox released as fully integrated overlay
Jesse Smith published on November 3, 2019, a detailed review of MX-19 in DistroWatch. He appreciates that MX has improved an already good product with lots of little improvements, though he does not look at the new version of Xfce 4.14 being deployed. He found a genuine problem that will need work: the installer was … Read more MX Linux 19
[[Note to contributors: pirate relevant text from the chroot entry ]] [[From BitJam’s GitHub repo, to be edited as needed to fit this context]] Chroot Rescue System These programs are meant to supplement the fehlix live rescue system. The main thing is these allow you to get into a system even if its initrd.img is … Read more chroot-rescue-scan
Video review by Linux Umsteiger on Oct 28, 2019. Good detailed look at MX Tools, from Snapshot to Bash Options, showing how they are used. Ends by saying “I am happy with it” (ich bin zufrieden damit).
