MX Linux

Install VMware Tools

VMware does not provide official support for MX Linux. When trying to install VMware Tools, it displays a generic error message: "Unable to download VMware tools - There was a problem updating a software component."

The official substitution is the open-vm-tools package:

sudo apt-get install -y open-vm-tools-desktop

Install Docker

The vanilla Docker install scripts do not work as lsb_release -cs returns the MX distribution's name (e.g. Continuum), which is unknown by the official Docker/Debian repository and the add-apt-repository tool.

To work around this, edit the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list manually and add the following line:

deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch stable

For the rest of the installation, follow the Docker for Debian guide.

Guake substitute

MX Linux has a dropdown terminal built-in by default, accessible with F4. To bind it to the same key as Guake, go to the Keyboard settings, and change the hotkey for xfce4-terminal --hide-menubar --hide-borders --drop-down command to F12.