Few questions about panel,folder manager and users

Ensifer · posted: 2009-10-16 14:00

Hello! I installed Antix and i stuck. Can you help me to change my folders open manager? I mean that I want that the folders will be opened by PCMan , but it's default is Rox, and it's drives me crazy. He's not handy.
Well,the second problem - is that I can't configure my panel. I don't know how to get rid of Work Places list, I don't need it, and I don't know how to add new launchers to a panel.
And the last question - how to give user superuser power?

Thanks for your attention. Will wait for any help.

P.S. Sorry for bad english

oldhoghead · posted: 2009-10-16 14:41

Ensifer,

Welcome to antiX,

antiX comes preconfigured with two file managers, home from the favorite applications will open rox filer,
if you click on the blue folder on the task bar, dock, kicker, whatever you want to call it, it opens up pcmanfm

to edit menus, etc open antiX control center, edit icewm settings, or whatever you want to do, all the settings generally needed are within the control center

To get to superuser, open terminal and type sux, then enter your password

cheers,
oldhoghead

secipolla · posted: 2009-10-16 16:28

For you to be superuser you should edit /etc/sudoers. The most proper way to do it is by the command visudo in a root terminal (Applications>Applications>Terminal Emulators>X-Terminal as root (GKsu)). The visudo command checks if it was properly edited and doesn't let you break it.
The commands you see at the botom of the terminal screen are like ^O, which means Ctrl+O (^ means Ctrl).

For you to be able to launch any application as root you should create a line like that

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yourusername ALL=(ALL) ALL

and then you should be able to launch them as root by typing

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sudo application

like in Ubuntu.

You can create lines only for the programs that you want to be able to launch as root, with or without having to type the password. For example

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yourusername ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pcmanfm

enables you to launch (in this example) PCManFM as root by typing

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sudo pcmanfm

and doesn't ask for a password. To have it ask for the password, just remove NOPASSWD: from the line.

To understand how the sudoers file works, type

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man sudoers

Obs.- you'll see that PCManFM, as good as it may be, have some things lacking. For example it doesn't show when a file is only a link to another as Rox does. There are other things and even if you prefer PCManFM, it's good to now that there's an option when it fails to do something.

Ensifer · posted: 2009-10-16 19:20

Thank you veery much) It's good to be part of your society, guys. But my system crashed =| I don't know how it happened. I booted as normal, updated system by using

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>sudo apt-get upgrade

downloaded around 200Mb of new things, and then rebooted.
The boot was unusual: i had a big list of"Warnings" saying something about"/etc/modprobe.d" and that this lines won't be included in future release. After that it shows me gray screen with a cursor and nothing more: no beatifull background image, no"Login" tab,no nothing,only gray screen. So I killed the Xserver by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Then logged in via tty1 and tryed to run xserver by typing

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>startx

And I got black screen and my pc holded or crashed, I don't know. My keyboard wasn't responding when i hitted"Caps Lock" or"Scroll Lock" , those lighters didn't blinked((

Can anyone help?
P.S. sorry for bad English

anticapitalista · posted: 2009-10-16 20:23

Which version of antiX are you using?

Type inxi -F in a terminal

You probably need to reconfigure your xorg

OU812 · posted: 2009-10-17 00:53

For your panel launchers, edit the file ~/.icewm/taskbar

For your workplaces list, edit the file ~/.icewm/preferences

Both are accessible by opening the control center and clicking on the edit icewm preferences button.

john

Ensifer · posted: 2009-10-17 08:04

Thank you for advices) I found out what it was. There was a problem with my nvidia drivers. I removed them and installed again. Worked for me.
So I have a very last question that will solve all my problems: can you advice me a good repositories? I selected base repositories from synaptic,but there is lack of much libraries. I can't install,for example, xfce4 bexause it tells me that there is many dependencies and they are not going to be isnstalled, that I'm asking for impossible. I can't install kshutdown, with same reasons,that the need libraries won't be installed...

Can anyone help me? Thank you.
P.S. Sorry for bad English

secipolla · posted: 2009-10-17 10:42

Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list (the repositories)

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# See sources.list(5) for more information

# Note:If you want maximum stability, only use the stable repos.
# If you want to install kde3.5, you MUST only use the stable repos.

# Mepis8
deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main 

# Debian
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free 
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free 
#deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free 
 
# mplayer
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main

# Mepis Community Main, Restricted, and Test Repos
#deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr main non-free
#deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr restricted restricted-non-free
#deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test
#deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test-restricted 

# opera
#deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ lenny non-free

# virtualbox
#deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free

# liquorix kernels
#deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid main

###### Debian Unstable/Sid/sidux ##########
###### Use at your own risk! ########
#deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main
#deb http://sidux.com/debian/ sid main contrib non-free firmware fix.main fix.contrib fix.non-free

It must be edited as root.

In the lines like ...ftp.br.debian...you change the 'br' for your country code.

oldhoghead · posted: 2009-10-17 11:07

you might take a look at the metainstaller , will install xfce

On the toolbar (kicker) click on antiX>System>Meta Installer then input your root pw>WindowManager and you can choose whatever you like

cheers,
oldhoghead

Ensifer · posted: 2009-10-17 13:07

Thank you for repositories and Meta Installer)
But I gave xfce4 as example. I installed repo that gave me secipolla, updated it. So I have the same problem. I tried to update pidgin.
1) I removed the old one
2) I used

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> sudo apt-get install pidgin

And it showed me that pidgin depend from libstartup-notification0
3) Ok, tried to install libstartup-notification0

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 sudo apt-get install libstartup-notification0

And it tells me that he depend from libxcb1
4) Ok,installing libxcb1
5) Installing libstartup-notification0
6) And only now I installed pidgin.

Is there any way to make my apt track those dependences by himself, because it's horrible to track them and install manually.
If I want to install kshutdown it shows me:

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sudo apt-get install kshutdown
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kshutdown: Depends: kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.3.0) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libkworkspace4 (>= 4:4.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

And i have to install manually all packages(
Thank you for any help.
P.S. Sorry for bad English

anticapitalista · posted: 2009-10-17 14:05

Post your /etc/apt/sources.list so we can see if anything is wrong there.

Ensifer · posted: 2009-10-17 14:39

Here you go,my sources.list

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# See sources.list(5) for more information

# Note:If you want maximum stability, only use the stable repos.
# If you want to install kde3.5, you MUST only use the stable repos.

# Mepis8
deb ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/ mepis-8.0 main

# Debian
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

# mplayer
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main

# Mepis Community Main, Restricted, and Test Repos
#deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr main non-free
#deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr restricted restricted-non-free
#deb http://main.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test
#deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/testrepo/ mepis8cr test-restricted

# opera
#deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ lenny non-free

# virtualbox
#deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free

# liquorix kernels
#deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid main

###### Debian Unstable/Sid/sidux ##########
###### Use at your own risk! ########
#deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main
#deb http://sidux.com/debian/ sid main contrib non-free fix.main fix.contrib fix.non-free

OU812 · posted: 2009-10-17 14:58

I was able to install xfce using synaptic. I think if you use the meta-installer, you need to enable the sid repos first.

john

anticapitalista · posted: 2009-10-17 15:37

No need to enable the sid repos for xfce.
It might just be that what you want from kde hasn't hit the testing repos yet. If that is the case, you will have to wait.

Edit: Are you using antiX-M8.2 ?

Ensifer · posted: 2009-10-17 18:42

Thank you all for your help) I understood that Antix - is exactly what i need)) Anyway if those libraries aren't available yet, I will find others ways to run favorite applications. But I still have 2 questions)
1) How to make my ntfs partitions mount automatically? I tried in fstab change key from noauto to auto but it didn't helped. Every time I have to mount them manually by using

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mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2

Or run PCMan by root and selecting partition. This is not difficult,but anyway...
2) And the last one: How to make my media buttons work? I have A4tech keyboard,and here are buttons such as"Play","Stop","Next Song" and others. How to make them work? XMMS or Audacious doesn't want to work with them)

Thanks for any help))
P.S. Sorry for bad English