Wiki – MX Linux

Torrent setup

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 by Paul..

Note: new torrent URLs should be sent to Peregrine for the website MX Linux Torrent Setup Procedure SSH to VPS (l2.mxrepo.com or it.mxrepo.com) Upload .isos to l2.mxrepo.com…and check sha256sum or md5sum wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-linux/files/Final/MX-filename.iso wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-linux/files/Final/antiX-19/antiX-filename.iso Create torrent file with “announce” for both l2.mxrepo.com and it.mxrepo.com mktorrent -a http://l2.mxrepo.com:6969/announce -a http://it.mxrepo.com:6969/announce -n MX-filename.iso MX-filename.iso Change permission … Read more Torrent setup

HELP: MX Dockmaker

March 29, 2020March 4, 2020 by 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

HELP — Dockmaker

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 by Jerry3904

Wmalauncher

April 1, 2020January 25, 2020 by Jerry3904

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

HELP: MX-Fluxbox

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020 by Jerry3904

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

HELP: MX Idesktool

January 20, 2020January 9, 2020 by Jerry3904

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

chroot-rescue-scan

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 by Jerry3904

[[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

Timeshift

October 28, 2019October 27, 2019 by Jerry3904

Firstly Timeshift is just a frontend for rsync but with a few additions. As its developer states: Timeshift provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. Timeshift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to … Read more Timeshift

Repos – MX-19

April 5, 2020October 22, 2019 by Jerry3904

Default repositories Sources of software packages are listed in files contained in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. Note that users may see minor changes due to localization (e.g., http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ instead of http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/) or choice of mirror. mx.list # MX Community Main and Test Repos deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free #deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/ buster test #deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster ahs debian-stable-updates.list # Debian buster Updates deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free … Read more Repos – MX-19

HELP: Bash Config

October 13, 2019October 12, 2019 by dolphin_oracle

Bash Config allows the user to make changes to the aliases and terminal prompt theming in the user’s bashrc file. NOTE: changes only affect the drop-down terminal (by default F4) after exiting it by clicking the little “x” box in the lower right-hand corner to close the tab, or by typing “exit” at the terminal … Read more HELP: Bash Config