MX Linux
Midweight Simple Stable Desktop OS
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luckyBackup
luckyBackup is a very user-friendly backup program installed by default in MX. The app luckyBackup uses rsync as a backend and transfers over only changes made rather than all data. Make sure that the destination is routinely mounted and that the permissions are correct. You may…
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MX News Week Ending October 31, 2026
General News: Happy Halloween! Quiet week this week, but the updates keep on coming. MX Tools updates this week: mx-cleanup (26.10) mx; urgency=medium mx-snapshot (26.10.2) mx; urgency=medium uc-tool-mx (26.10.1) mx; urgency=medium mx-packageinstaller-pkglist (26.10.7mx25) mx;…
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Live USB persistence
Preparing the bootable media PRELIMINARY (OCTOBER 2026) A Live USB created with almost all external tools[1] will be read-only and therefore not be compatible with our Persistence modules. The MX Linux persistence works best with a Live USB created with the MX Live USB Maker.…
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MX News Week Ending October 24, 2026
General News: October Snapshots for Xfce and KDE are up on sourceforge. It has been a bumpy week for some MX23 users. Debian’s update to 6.1.0-54 kernel had some change in it that broke dkms for our realtek rtl88 wifi drivers. New drivers are in repo now for those that need…
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Microsoft — Linux Samba file sharing
This article is Windows 11 focused, however Windows 10 and 8.1 will be similar. Enabling Network Sharing Go to Start->Settings-> Network and Internet->Advanced network settings-> Click on Advanced sharing settings->. There are three sections; only the “Private Networks” and “All…
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HELP: Chroot Rescue Scan
Chroot Rescue Scan allow you to get into a system even if its initrd.img is broken. You must boot from a live USB to run a scan! Above is the result of non booting live. Bootup from a live USB At this point you are running as user demo who has a password of demo. ... Read more
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WiFi Troubleshooting How To
This guide attempts to start from the simplest of fixes and then progresses gradually to more complex processes. It will be expanded and updated frequently. There are no ‘by brand’ quick-fix run lists here. When using Google, add “Solved” to the search terms for better results.…
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MX 23 – Debian kernel 6.1.0-54 and realtek usb wifi dkms driver issues
Debian’s latest update to their 6.1 kernels for the debian 12/mx23 series made a change that prevents our realtek dkms drivers from building. These drivers are rtl8812au-dkmsrtl8814au-dkmsrtl8821au-dkmsrtl8821ce-dkmsrtl8821cu-dkms The presence of these packages will cause the…
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MX News Week Ending October 17, 2026
General News: October Snapshots for Xfce and KDE are up on sourceforge. Third-party vpn users may be glad to know that dev team member “fehlix” uncovered an issue when systemd is used as the init system on live media. Basically a missing file, which we exclude by default on our…
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HELP: Papirus Folder Colors
Papirus Folder Colors enables the creation of new icon themes with differently colored folder icons based on the Papirus icon theme. Main Window There are two options to create a new icon theme: Papirus Folder Recolor: Create an icon theme by selecting your preferred colors.…
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MX News Week Ending October 10, 2026
General News: Lite news week this week. Re-spinners might be interested in a new feature that allows a custom set of live-files to be utilized. The files under /usr/share/live-files are files that are reset during remaster and snapshot operations. There is a README under…
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HELP: MX Repo Manager
This tool greatly simplifies the process of changing the package repositories that are use for updating/upgrading and installation. For a general background on repositories, consult Section 5.2 of the relevant Users Manual. The sources are set during installation depending on…
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DEB Installer
GUI program for installing .deb files. Deb Installer is a simple app intended to replace the “install debs” function provided by gdebi. Deb Installer is meant to address the problems about half our users have with gdebi not launching when loaded via a File Manager action. The…
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HELP: Theme Colors
MX Theme Colors enables users to edit the highlight colors of the MX Matcha and MX Ease themes and save these as a new theme. To create a new theme: Notes: 1) Themes are saved in ~/.themes 2) It’s only intended for mx-matcha and mx-ease. Source:…
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Timeshift
Timeshift is just a GUI frontend for rsync and BTRFS but with a few additions. MX Linux and many other distros have Timeshift and rsync installed by default. NOTE: this article focuses solely on the rsync usage of Timeshift. At a future time we may have BTRFS usage detailed…
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Scanners (Brother & Canon)
Though most scanners will work out of the box, there are occasionally problems that arise. This article contains solutions that have been worked out for such problems. Scanners are supported on MX Linux by SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy), which provides a standardized access to…
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Printer drivers aka firmware
MX Linux has the Open Printing printer driver support (openprinting-ppds) installed by default. This covers a LOT of the newer printers. Older models – there are a LOT of older drivers the makers have supplied to Debian also included. On this page: For any printer, make sure it…
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HELP: MX Cleanup
This application offers several easy cleaning actions to help increase/maintain free disk space. Main tab Here you will find specific cleaning tools that all are run on a scheduled time. Free disk space for user – select the user that Cleanup is working on with the Select user:…
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MX News Week Ending October 3, 2026
General News: Adrian has put a lot of work into mx-viewer, which started life as a quick-and-dirty html browser for viewing documents. It had a special trick of ditching elevated privileges when launched from root applications. That part isn’t really needed anymore, but Adrian…