Antix

michelmassoud · posted: 2012-10-28 14:36

Greetings,

I just installed Antix 12 on an old Pentium4 with 500M of Rama nd a 40G HD. I used the Basic Iso and the installation when well. I have the following questions:

1- I have installed samba with Metapackage Installer but I am strugling to find ways to"see" a network of some sort to connect to other computers.
2- I am strugling with Flutebox specially in regards to workspaces and pannels. I cannot figure out how to place programs in teh workspace or in a panel I have created. I just managed to drag the Iceweasel icon from the desktop to a panel. Is Flutebox too restricted? Should I install another desktop enviroment?
3- Should I stick to Metapackage Installer or can I use Synaptic instead?

Thanks,

Michel

afab4 · posted: 2012-10-30 00:57

michelmassoud wrote:
1- I have installed samba with Metapackage Installer but I am strugling to find ways to"see" a network of some sort to connect to other computers.

See this post about using smbnetfs to mount your network shares
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2- I am strugling with Flutebox specially in regards to workspaces and pannels. I cannot figure out how to place programs in teh workspace or in a panel I have created. I just managed to drag the Iceweasel icon from the desktop to a panel. Is Flutebox too restricted? Should I install another desktop enviroment?

I use the iceWM window manager so can't help you on this one.

3- Should I stick to Metapackage Installer or can I use Synaptic instead?

You can use Metapackage Installer or Synaptic in antiX. I usually use apt-get but Synaptic is nice to search for programs with.

Dave · posted: 2012-10-30 02:52

for fluxbox, right click on the window title bar and send to the workspace you would like. I think you can also do a left click, hold the click and drag the window t o the screen edge to move it 1 workspace over. for panels in fluxbox i like to install lxpanel and add it to my fluxbox startup (.xfce4-panel works well to) . this way it gives a panel similar to the desktop environments. There are a few tricks to make lxpanel work with fluxbox, the instructions are elsewhere in the forUm.

Alanarchy · posted: 2012-10-30 18:29

If you want to discover exactly what can be done with Fluxbox, try here:

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michelmassoud · posted: 2012-11-01 10:14

Thank you ll for the responses. I am getting the hang of Fluxbox. I want to try to learn it as the machine runing Antix only has 500M of Ram and fluxbox seems to load with around 64M wich is great.

I need help with the following:

- I have a home folder that contains the antix / netlogon / pdf - documents folders and a Home folder that contains the Desktop / Documents / Mcthemes / Walpapers folders. Wich one is my home folder?
- I managed to change, create and delete Menu entries. I save the applications menu file and I reopen it and see the changes are there and the changes can be seen in the actual menu, but when I reboot, I loose all the changes. Why?

Thanks,

Michel

rokytnji · posted: 2012-11-01 12:38

contains the Desktop / Documents / Mcthemes / Walpapers folders. Wich one is my home folder?

That one.

I save the applications menu file and I reopen it and see the changes are there and the changes can be seen in the actual menu, but when I reboot, I loose all the changes. Why?

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Look at Anti's answer below my post.

michelmassoud · posted: 2012-11-02 13:31

So we have no cure for this? The Fluxbox Wiki talks about such an issue with Fedora but nor other distros.

I also saw your personalized desktop with the beefed up conky and desktop folders. It looks great! Can you give me some pointers?

Michel

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-11-02 15:28

michelmassoud

if you want to use your customised fluxbox Applications menu, then you need to 'turn off/comment out' auto-update menu in the fluxbox startup file like this. A logout login should be enough.

# Auto-update menu
#auto-fluxbox-menu.sh &

Note, if you do this, if you install any other app it will not appear in your customised menu.

michelmassoud · posted: 2012-11-03 18:30

Waow what a trip!

It took me a whole week but I am all good and ready!

Fluxbox is great but it's filled with crazy setups and missleading how to's.

I managed to hook up to samba by installing more librairies and using webmin + pyNeighberhood + a thread by chatan etc..

I tried Idesk, Fdesk and xdesk to get icons on the desktop but it was not happening. Idexk created the icon but it soon dissapeared when the desktop was fully loaded. I read about the background problem and was trying to resolve it and FINALLY I managed to get icons on the desktop in the most amazing way.

Open pcmanfm and drag a file to the desktop. Edit the file to start the program you want and change the icon by draging the icon file from pcmanfm.
Should I do a write up for the Wiki? Fluxbox is trully amazing, I run everything on a 500m machine! The only issue is with 5M PDF files that take foreever to load but aside from that it's great and it deserve a clear how to for newcomers.

Thanks,

Michel

michelmassoud · 03 Nov 2012, 19:55 #10 2012-11-03 19:55

OK as I was ready to call it a day, I decided to change the wallpaper. I copied a file to the home/Wallpaper directory and used it. I then made the big mistake of deleting it BEFORE changing wallpapers. The menu entry"Wallpaper" on the menu is not working anymore, and the"Change Wallpaper" button in the controll center is also not working.

I used fbsettbg and I now have an entry in .fluvbox/laswallpaper reading: $full $full|/home/michel/Wallpaper/2007yamahar1.jpg||:0.0

The wallpaper appears for a fraction of a second upon restart but I end up with the same wallpaperless greay background.

Any ideas?

How should the wallpaper entry in .fluxbox/menu look?

Thanks,

Michel

michelmassoud · posted: 2012-11-03 21:53

Fixed it. wallpaper.py was pointing to another directory.

Michel

michelmassoud · posted: 2012-11-03 21:57

What a mix! An uptodate and efficient Antix with a minimalist Fluxbox. I'm really tempted to use this combination on my mainstream machine.

Michel

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-11-03 22:20

Nice to see you work through your issues Michel.

Fluxbox is awesome indeed, once users overcome the initial hurdles. antiX is not just for old boxes, but also
for the latest and greatest for those users that prefer 'mean and mean'!

Enjoy!

michelmassoud · posted: 2012-11-04 18:38

Thanks Anticapitalista. I am! Could you do me a favor and post the contents of .conkyrc pleae. I overwrote the file and I am having problems resetting conky.

Thanks,

Michel

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-11-04 19:54

It should be in / etc/skel.conkyrc