MX-Updater (formerly called apt-notifier) checks the repos to look for package updates. A cronjob (a scheduled task using cron) does a check at a random time between 5 and 35 minutes after bootup if it’s been more than 24 hours since the last check. If the machine is then left running continuously, the cronjob runs … Read more
Sharing files with an Android device. Many phones up to Android 8.xx include mtp capability, and you can use the following procedure. Connect phone, and make sure storage option is set to mtp. Open Thunar. When the upper left pane (Devices) shows your phone’s name (or: Storage), click on it. If you don’t see it, … Read more
Introduction Tralala Installation Installed by default through MX-18x. MX-19 will ship Xfce 14.4 for the first time, which will not include it because it has not been ported to GTK3. It should nonetheless run normally, since the new panel can accommodate both GTK2 and GTK3 apps. Links How to link orage to your Google calendar … Read more
Connection In addition to the standard single connection commonly used, so that the switching is controlled exclusively by the software, it is often possible to make use of two separate connections. Depending on the particular machine and the BIOS, you may be able to connect to two different ports–for instance, one VGA and the other … Read more
In case the user neglected to select system keyboard during installation or from the Login menu, missed setting it up on the Live session, or just needs to make a change, this little app provides an easy way to carry out that operation from the Start menu. It could also be changed in a terminal, … Read more
Introduction On traditional magnetic drives, deleted files are not completely removed from the disk at the time of deletion. This is why you can recover deleted files. Essentially, the filesystem just references the location of a file on the disk, and when a file is deleted, that reference is erased, allowing you to write new … Read more
Screen tearing is a visual artifact in video display where a display device shows information from multiple frames in a single screen draw (Wikipedia). It tends to vary greatly depending on factors that include graphics hardware, particular application and user sensitivity. In MX Linux, a couple of solutions have been made available in MX Tweak: … Read more
Introduction Thunar has a selection of extensions that allows users to create custom actions that can extend its functionality. These actions operate on files and folders found within Thunar and can do anything from bulk-renaming to running specialized scripts. The MX Linux devs created many useful ones that show up in the context menu, but … Read more
ntroduction In Xfce, the overall look of windows and applications is controlled not just by the GTK theme applied, but also by the Window Manager (WM) theme which “is responsible for the placement of windows on the screen, provides the window decorations and allows you for instance to move, resize or close them“ (Link 1) … Read more
It’s not totally obvious how to get rid of Xfce, so user kmathern came up with this single command: When that has finished, then reinstall one package:
