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[Member arq.baramov]

The installation and the core.
If yuo tray to install some dstro on old hardware, i mean like very very old, you will find out that there is a problem – acpi error.
And you will think – ok, my laptop is for garbage 🗑️ not 🚫 to do staff. if you check acpi – this is a battery problem, bumit is not.
At the end, this men your linux core doesn’t recognize the hardware. Yes the core, because obviously in linus the core is one big all-in driver, and not only this. And to make / prepare / compile the core is not so easy task. I mean to prepare a core that will work on every hardware.
And antiX team did it fantastic.
On my very old 14-15 years laptop, only ANTIX hookup.
On very new Rizen 5625U, half ! 50% of distro fails to install. Some distros recognize the hardware only by one flavor, I meen desktop environment. Other completely don’t install. example :
I’ll start with funniest – PClinux fail on recognize the usb stick 😊😊😊 a 256GB kinston, with rw speed of 500 to 1000 Mb/s – 100%-200% SATA3 speed.
Old daddy DEBIAN fail to install with all his flavors. Yep, non of DEBIAN for Rizen 5625U.
Ubunto fails with 2 flavors , but UBUNTU MATE succeed, and is good.
Alma linux succeed, but with some strange video resolurion, li 1024×756 or something like this. And if you start antix from their grub menu – antix start in same resolution and nothing can be changed.
Fedora succeed. SUSE too.
Manjaro successfully intall, but fail right after this, on very first update, deliting the login manager 😊😊☺️. OK, for 4-5 monts experience I discover the problem, Fixed it. But searching solutions I discovered unpleasant face 😈😈 of manjaro / arch community / forum. A guy was searching obviously solution for the very same problem, and there was so many hate posts for him. How to install on manjaro something, downloaded with no internet connection. In this case SYSTEM-D !! block me to do it, by makin internet connection by old fashion ip ipconfig iw . But made it for me 😜😂😜 “when I asked systemD” to do this for me.
And ARTIX (not antix) successfully installed.
In my list remain slax, i steel want debian kde, so any help in this is highly appreciated 👍😁, and debian with propreatory doesn’t successd.
At the end I should try gento 😊😊 .
That’s for today. Remain to say about installation process, but later.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Thank you for the latest update h2.
I happened to be switching over to Endeavour OS for the purposes of updating my packages there, so I made sure to update my copy of pinxi.
Seems to be working fine. I really don’t need to manage a lot of stuff here, but should I need it, the tool seems to be fine.

pinxi -b
System:
  Host: eos-hp-14fq1025 Kernel: 6.2.8-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.3 Distro: EndeavourOS
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 14-fq1xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 887C v: 59.11 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
    v: F.18 date: 11/26/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh (99.8%) condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100.0%)
CPU:
  Info: 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics [MT MCP] speed (MHz):
    avg: 1586 min/max: 1400/4056
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: modesetting dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.1 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM
    15.0.7 DRM 3.49 6.2.8-arch1-1)
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek driver: rtw89_8852ae
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 16.41 GiB (6.9%)
Info:
  Processes: 289 Uptime: 34m Memory: 7.09 GiB used: 3.1 GiB (43.7%)
  Shell: Bash pinxi: 3.3.26-4

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Brian Masinick

[Member h2]

This feature appears to be working as intended, some of the arch derived distros are shipping with the configuration that caused the original issue, false or wrong reports of server presence and/or status, and incomplete info re server/api helpers running, and are now giving complete reports.

The new ‘tools’ report for -Aa also helps show if the user has not installed any of the util/tools packages, which is actually a good indication that they aren’t actually using the server at all as a user. For example if ALSA …. tools: N/A that suggests ALSA is not being consciously used by the person directly, since you can’t really use alsa without alsamixer.

While I did unfortunately find one newish JACK helper, which is core, and done by the project, new-session-manager daemon (forked from the non-session-mamager daemon, whose dev suffered a sadly typical foss blowup and exit), and its associated gui control tool, so far that’s been the only real thing I found that I missed in 3.3.26, but I found that only when reviewing the inxi-perl/docs-audio.txt file, and checking some of the links I’d added, where that helper/too combo was listed on their news page. Still not packaged by Debian though, which is why I’d missed it, though it’s not particularly new, think it first shipped in 2021. JACK however is something used mainly by serious audio people, studio stuff, etc, it’s not aimed at consumers at all, done by the Ardour DAW author among other serious audio recording types.

I’ve also found some issues with xfce, by good coincidence, again, from checking something re the audio, in Void Linux current release, which ships with a valid and correct possible setup, no xprop installed initially, which then broke the existing xfce detection. This was particularly pressing because xfce 4.20 is expected to ship with reasonably full wayland support, which means that except for xwayland, no x tools can be expected to exist there.

I’ve checked the desktop/wm detections, and now there are I think only Xorg specific wm/desktops that depend on xprop, except enlightenment wayland, which I have not tested yet, the version number there depends on xprop -root data.

To me xfce going to wayland support largely means that for that adult run project, they finally consider it worth the time, plus they are being smart and not rolling YADWC (Yet Another Damned Wayland Compositor), but are using the well run wl-roots project, based in sway wm, but rapidly becoming the defacto non gnome/kde/enlightenment compositor standard.

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inxi system information script (install info) :: inxi git

I’ve posted about this problem before, but I’ve lost track of where that post was. No solution was found. But, the problem still exists, so I’m creating a new post for it.

The problem is, I can’t make links to files. This problem exists in antiX19.4, antiX21, & antiX22. It tells me “operation not permitted”. But, NOTE I can still make links (shortcuts) for these files, in Windows 10, and also in a newly installed MX-21.3 KDE 64bit OS.

I’ve got my Dell Latitude laptop set up as a multiboot hard drive, including Windows 10, Swap, antiX19.4, MX-21.3 KDE 64 bit, and antiX22. However, IMO the best OS is antiX, and within antiX the best DE is IceWM with zzz-fm.

Here’s a description of my method for managing data files:

I keep all my data files on an external hard drive. This makes all my data available for any computer I happen to be using – as long as the current OS has VeraCrypt installed. It also makes sure that if a hard drive or an OS crashes, it will NOT wipe out my data.

The primary external drive get mirrored onto a backup external drive, using LuckyBackup.

The external hard drive is partitioned in a topical manner, so files of similar topic area get filed into the same partition. For example, all of the photos get filed into partition #6 (“p6”).

Each partition on the external hard drive gets encrypted, having its own unique password.

When I first started using this method, I was using TrueCrypt for encrypting the partitions. Eventually, TrueCrypt became obsolete, and the copies I had stashed away were no longer useful. At that point, I had to search for an alternate program. I found & switched to VeraCrypt, because it can manage TrueCrypt files & drives.

Note: zulucrypt wasn’t an option, because it can’t display the characters being typed in as the password – and, I’m not a perfect typist. If you can’t see what you’re typing, you can’t catch your mistakes. That forces the use of very short, and simple passwords – and, what good is that?

My problem of not being able to make links was a consequence of repartitioning the 1TB external hard drive. I needed to shuffle space between partitions, and then each one needed to be re-encrypted in its new size. So, I performed a backup, and repartitioned the drive. One by one, I re-encrypted the 8 partitions. Then, I needed to restock the partitions with data. I did this via a combination of direct copy/paste, and use of LuckyBackup.

I believe my inability to make links is caused by a change in the permissions & perhaps ownership of files on the external drive. I’m attaching screenshots of the info & permissions from one of the files.

Because the filenames & paths are unchanged, I didn’t realize right away that this problem existed. The previously made links on the IceWM desktop were still fully functional. That led to using LuckyBackup to backup files onto the backup external drive – so, the change of attributes got propagated into the backup drive. But then, I restructured my data files, and a vital file (my budgeting spreadsheet) got moved to a new location. That forced me to delete the previous desktop link, and try to replace it with a link using the new path – and, it wouldn’t work.

So, I have a suspicion as to why the inability to make links is happening, but I lack the expertise to fix it.

Here’s the output of inxi -Fxz, in my antiX19.4 OS:
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spirit@antix194:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 4.9.0-264-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.3.1
Distro: antiX-19.4_x64-full Grup Yorum 20 May 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude E6400 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0U692R serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A34
date: 06/04/2013
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 76.4 Wh (102.0%) condition: 74.9/76.4 Wh (98.1%)
volts: 12.2 min: 11.1 model: Panasonic DELL FU44196 status: full
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8600 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Penryn Yorkfield rev: A cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/2401 boost: enabled cores: 1: 800
2: 800 bogomips: 9575
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.4 driver: X: loaded: intel gpu: i915
resolution: 1280×800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-264-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e
v: 3.2.6-k port: efe0 bus-ID: 00:19.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 0c:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 bus-ID: 00:1f.2
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 144.37 GiB (12.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK2561GSYN size: 232.89 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital
model: WD My Passport 0748 size: 931.48 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: TransMemory
size: 892.5 MiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 28.67 GiB used: 11.8 GiB (41.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9.77 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3027
Info:
Processes: 204 Uptime: 4h 25m Memory: 3.82 GiB used: 1.47 GiB (38.5%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Packages: 2163 Shell: Bash
v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.3.19
spirit@antix194:~
$
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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

I’m on my Dell today, going through my systems there; I started with our “cousin”, MX Linux.

Then I went to another system that’s a descendant of what USED to be one of my favorite distributions (a very long time ago, OpenMandriva, descended from Mandriva and it’s parent, Mandrake. Though all of these are a shadow of what they once were, Mandrake was one of the early distributions that brought at least a little measure of usability to Linux at a time when there was hardly any.

I haven’t been following it much at all until I ran across an update and decided to try it and see how it’s doing. My impression is about the same. It has the lineage of the original, but I’d say it’s more or less stayed the same, though the software is current. Those who like a decent KDE Plasma distribution MIGHT like it. I say it’s OK, but I’m not impressed.

Long ago I wasn’t a fan of the original SUSE at all, and I preferred Mandrake. These days, while I’m really not a big fan of either one, I will say that ever since SUSE added the openSuSE effort, including Tumbleweed, they continued to move forward, whereas descendants of Mandrake were caught in the tension and squabbles with the parent company that led to a split; that has a lot to do with my own distancing of the project because some individuals who were the innovators were cast off once their innovations were acquired; that smells of “corporate nastiness”, hence one of the aspects of my distaste. The other, of course, was my growing interest in distributions with .deb packaging.

I’m now on a respin of our distribution, LegacyOS 2023. As we know, the core of the distribution is all antiX, just like all previous editions were respins of Puppy Linux. It’s a pleasant cosmetic variation of our distribution, and it does give due credit to our work, and even retains the name on the work in all of our software.

I’ll be visiting my antiX 23 update on this system before I finish, and will probably spend most of the remainder of the day on antiX 23.

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Brian Masinick

(this post was moved from https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/todays-antix-upgrades/#post-101397, because it was partly off topic there)

Continuing the analisys of today’s upgrade:

app-select newest version is available. On this particular system it starts in 3 seconds and then in about 2 seconds – not quite at rofi level of start speed, but almost instant. On newer systems, it should start instantly.

Package Installer – it’s still the same version, but it’s contents got a major augmentation, with almost every single application some 90% of users may want to install (I haven’t checked it out in a while, so I’m not sure what’s new):
-Remote access- teamviewer and Remmina…
-Desktops- includes f10-transformation (thanks for that, anticapitalista!) and the most known DE’s in existence: KDE, Gnome, Xfce, LxQT, Budgie, Cinnamon, Mate (some have several versions available)
-Audio includes -MuseScore
-Multimedia centers- kodi and plex
-Office includes Foliate Epub reader (I think this is only missing Onlyoffice now)
-Graphics- includes Blender, Inkscape, darktable, scribus…
-Wallpapers – now you can install your favourite wallpapers from antiX 17-21!!!
-Children- it has almost everything available under Linux. I have a small child, so I know the single thing it’s lacking: a dedicated entry for Gcompris (it’s included in one of the available packs, I just noticed)
-Games – Wow: emulators galore: Mame, retroarch, ScummVM. You had Steam already, now you also have Lutris, to play Linux and Windows Commercial games. You also get some of the very best open source games available under Linux: 0 A.D., flight Gear, Freeciv and FreeCol, SuperTux, SuperTuxKar, Torcs (there’s a newer fork of Torcs available, but I forgot it’s name)
-Messaging: among others you have Zoom, Skype, Ms-Teams, Telegram, Signal
-Browsers – almost every Browser available in our galaxy!!! 20 of them.
-Networking – Megasync, NordVPN, AirVPN, ExpressVPN, Open Drive, Rclone (that allows access to about any cloud service, but it’s a pain to set up) and Tor!
-Torrent: qbittorrent, rtorrent, transmission
-Video- Kdenline, Openshot, Xine Media Player (the best video media player on my very old computers- I can play full HD video on a 32bits, 20 years old laptop, with it!!!)
-Screen recorders: obs, recordmydesktop, simpleScreen_Recorder.

Extra: I just noticed – now there’s skippy-xd available too- it’s a GUI way to preview all non minized windows in real time- it’s so good I think it should come by default in antiX, with an icon on the toolbar – it adds some (eye candy) functionality, using almost zero system resources!

Basically, P.I. is now a real “App Store”- it allows to install almost any browser, and the best well known image and video apps, the best game emulators, some of the best ways to play commercial games ( two thirds of all the ways I know how to play Windows Games on Linux)

Many thanks, anticapitalista!

[Member Robin]

Interim report antiX 23 (6.1.10-antix.1-amd64-smp kernel):

Works stable, have run it with an uptime of 7 days. No memory leakage, no crashes, no other issues.

Installed now in this alpha release mostly all what I have installed by default on antiX, and all of it works out of the box on antiX 23. No stability issues, no crashes. Many of the programs are noticibly improved:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install samba scsitools lsscsi pwgen dnsdiag dnsutils firefox-esr-l10n-de gaupol gstreamer1.0-x gimp gimp-data gimp-data-extras gimp-gap gimp-gutenprint gimp-help-de gimp-plugin-registry gutenprint-doc gutenprint-locales libtiff-opengl libtiff-tools socat iotop-c pdfarranger wkhtmltopdf traceroute translate-shell tree hexchat-plugins hexchat-python3 gucharmap libreoffice-help-de libreoffice-l10n-de git git-doc imagemagick libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra imagemagick-doc inkscape poedit thunderbird-l10n-de fonts-lyx simplescreenrecorder fonts-campania fonts-oflb-euterpe fonts-rufscript pdftk xournal fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-indic freepats lilypond lilypond-fonts lilypond-data lilypond-doc-pdf-de frescobaldi fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs fluidsynth qsynth rosegarden audacity libasound2-plugins meld ttf-mscorefonts-installer fonts-liberation playonlinux libdrumstick-rt-backends vmpk sfarkxtc musescore-general-soundfont-lossless musescore3 linguist-qt6 qt6-translations-l10n linux-show-player solaar whysynth ghostess jackd qjackctl a2jmidid meterbridge jack-capture ardour ardour-video-timeline mencoder kdenlive breeze-icon-theme frei0r-plugins hydrogen hydrogen-data hydrogen-doc hydrogen-drumkits hydrogen-drumkits-effects

Here the results:

• geany () /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• poedit (3.2.2-1+b2) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• meld (3.22.0-2) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• xournal (1:0.4.8.2016-7+b1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• virtualbox (7.0.6-155176~Debian~bullseye) (installer package from virtualbox-site) / hints: needs two packages from debian bullseye by now / operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• scsitools (0.12-4)/operation: perfect /translation to de: none (English only)
• samba (2:4.17.5+dfsg-2.0nosystemd1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: none (English only)
• firefox (102.7.0esr-1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• claws-mail (4.1.1-2+b1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• thunderbird (1:102.7.1-1) / operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• aCSTV (1.09) /operation: perfect /translation to de: not needed
• antiXscreenshot2 (1.08d) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• ardour (1:7.2.0+ds0-2) /operation: perfect /translation to de: 95%
• musescore3 (3.2.3+dfsg2-16) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• qsynth (0.9.9-1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• fluidsynth (2.3.1-1) /operation: /translation to de: none (English only)
• VMPK (0.8.8-1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• rosegarden (1:22.12.1-1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• frescobaldi (3.2+ds1-2) /operation: perfect /translation to de: 80%
• qjackctl (0.9.9-1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• jack (5+nmu1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• gaupol (1.11-1) /operation: perfect /translation to de: 90%
• gimp (2.10.32-1+b3) /operation: perfect /translation to de: perfect
• Inkscape (1.2.2-2+b1) /operation:perfect /translation to de: perfect

The following packages drew in elogind again:
— fluidsynth (this one was present in a de-eloginded version on antiX 21/22 already)
— poedit
— kdenlive

When trying to purge libelogind0 these programs will get removed from system, which is a pity.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member PPC]

For anyone wanting to localize most of the new entries in zzzfm, mixing all my previous suggestions, the correct (and nearly) final script should be:

#!/bin/bash
#Script to localize antiX Linux File Manager (zzzFM's) "add-ons": Common Bookmarks, Home Bookmark, Recent Files and Trash related entries, by PPC, 7/2/2023, GPL
        TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale
        TEXTDOMAIN=zzzfmlocalize  ###NOTE: this is just an example, the dev team is free to choose how to name this resource, of course

#Variables with the text this zzzfm's "add-ons" displays, for easy editing and localization:
trash_label=$"Trash"
trash_menu_entry=$"Send to Trash" 
restore_menu_entry=$"Restore" 
recents_label=$"Recent Files"

#script's variable(s):
targetfile=~/.config/zzzfm/session

#Localize Downloads Bookmark and path:
label=$(echo $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR| cut -d/ -f4)
sed -i "s/cstm_6c99bdd2-label=.*/cstm_6c99bdd2-label=$label/g"  $targetfile
sed -i "s|cstm_6c99bdd2-z=.*|cstm_6c99bdd2-z=$HOME/$label|g"  $targetfile

#Localize Documents Bookmark and path:
label=$(echo $XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR| cut -d/ -f4)
sed -i "s/cstm_1f966a72-label=.*/cstm_6c99bdd2-label=$label/g"  $targetfile
sed -i "s|cstm_1f966a72-z=.*|cstm_6c99bdd2-z=$HOME/$label|g"  $targetfile

#Localize Pictures Bookmark and path:
label=$(echo $XDG_PICTURES_DIR| cut -d/ -f4)
sed -i "s/cstm_23f8698b-label=.*/cstm_6c99bdd2-label=$label/g"  $targetfile
sed -i "s|cstm_23f8698b-z=.*|cstm_6c99bdd2-z=$HOME/$label|g"  $targetfile

#Localize Videos Bookmark and path:
label=$(echo $XDG_VIDEOS_DIR| cut -d/ -f4)
sed -i "s/cstm_3be1d265-label=.*/cstm_3be1d265-label=$label/g"  $targetfile
sed -i "s|cstm_3be1d265-z=.*|cstm_3be1d265-z=$HOME/$label|g"  $targetfile

#Maybe to TODO???: anticapitalista did not insert a "Music" Bookmark. If it's inserted, it will require localization too, using label=$(echo $XDG_MUSIC_DIR| cut -d/ -f4)

#localize Home bookmark:
TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale
TEXTDOMAIN=zzzfm
homie=$"Home"
sed -i "s/cstm_2b7f3cb1-label=.*/cstm_2b7f3cb1-label=$homie/g"  $targetfile

#Localize Recent Files bookmark: 
#NOTE: currently, all lines until the one that starts with "sed" are a workaround, using "geany's localization file, instead of our own 
#Get label localization, from geany's localization file
export TEXTDOMAIN=geany;  recents_label=$(echo "$(gettext "Recent _Files")")
#remove any underscore
recents_label=${recents_label//_/}
sed -i "s/cstm_0f7a0cea-label=.*/cstm_0f7a0cea-label=$recents_label/g"  $targetfile

#Localize Trash related entries: 
#"Trash" bookmark:
sed -i "s/cstm_3ca29516-label=.*/cstm_3ca29516-label=$trash_label/g"  $targetfile
#"Send to Trash" contextual menu entry:
sed -i "s/cstm_25a291d5-label=.*/cstm_25a291d5-label=$trash_menu_entry/g"  $targetfile
#"Restore" (from Trash) contextual menu entry:
sed -i "s/cstm_2b015761-label=.*/cstm_2b015761-label=$restore_menu_entry/g"  $targetfile

How to use this script to localize zzzfm’s new entries:
save the script in your home folder, call it “zzzfmlocalize”
antiX Menu > Terminal
pkill zzzfm

run the script, from the terminal:
bash ~/zzzfmlocalize

If you were using the default zzz-icewm desktop, to re-enable desktop icons:
antiX Menu > Desktops > … select zzzIceWM

Note:
You can open zzzfm and test the localization for yourself. The bookmarks should all work now, in any language and all (except the Trash related ones) should be correctly localized.

Note: you can edit the contents of the variables related to the “Trash” entries, on the start of the script so they show text in your own language, or, as it currently is, those entries will remain in English, until a localization file is created for this script… Adapt the script and repeat the process above, for it to change zzzfm’s config file.

Edit: Just in case anticapitalista wants a nice multilingual .desktop file, so users can access the Trash Can from the menu (I would advise using it with a variation of GUI scripts to manage the Trash Can, not just direct access to it. Ideally, launching that .desktop file should show users 2 choices: View Trash Can’s contents or Empty Trash Can (with a confirmation dialog before emptying it, of course).

trash.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=System;FileTools;Utility;Core;GTK;FileManager;
Exec=zzzfm ~/.local/share/Trash/files/
Icon=/usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/48x48/status/user-trash.png
MimeType=inode/directory;inode/mount-point;x-scheme-handler/ssh;x-scheme-handler/smb;x-scheme-handler/nfs;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/ptp;x-scheme-handler/mtp;x-scheme-handler/webdav;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
Terminal=false
X-KDE-Protocols=ftp,smb,ssh,ptp,mtp,nfs,webdav,http,https

Name=Trash
Name[fr]=Corbeille
Name[pt]=Reciclagem
Name[pt_BR]=Lixeira
Name[es]=Papelera de reciclaje
Name[it]=Cestino
Name[de]=PapierKorb

Comment=Access Files Moved to Recycle Bin
Comment[fr]=Accès aux fichiers mis à la corbeille
Comment[pt]=Aceder Ficheiros Removidos para a Reciclagem
Comment[pt_BR]=Acessar os Arquivos Movidos para a Lixeira
Comment[es]= Acessar Papelera de reciclaje

Keywords=file;manager;file-manager;
Keywords[fr]=fichier;gestionnaire;gestionnaire de fichiers;
Keywords[pt]=ficheiro;gestor;gestor de ficheiro;
Keywords[pt_BR]=arquivo;gerenciador;gerenciador de arquivos;

P.

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[Member Xunzi_23]

Thank you caprea for below links. Confirms my observations, a 5.18 kernel was in my case
key to the presently running sid system. I did not mention the boot code, tried it but as
the system crashed so early it was not relevant. Assumed you would see that in the screen
pics, had to use phone for those.

PPC many thanks, latest mount phone script works fine.

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/510-39-01-on-5-16-0-kernel-green-screen/200476
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/green-screen-on-kde/62100/3

@calciumsodium, I did try the rtl code, it made and installed ok but kernel or modules
build still failing. Needs some parameter change it seems.

As the issue is going to be widespread it really needs a fix for the distro.
Nvidia was pretty much the gold standard for many years and much of the hardware is still
running well. Core duo reported by sasa is still in daily usage in many thousands of
devices probably hundreds of thousands. With an ssd and memory upgrade fine for daily private
and office usage.

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

seaken64 wrote:

I’m not sure, but I wonder if Gnome requires systemD. Maybe that is causing problems with antiX. I don’t know much about the subject. I figure it wouldn’t be on the list of DE’s in PI if it didn’t work. I’ll try Gnome again from the command line after I finish the re-install of antiX, which is running now.

Seaken64

From the very beginning of the project, I’ve never been a fan of the GNOME desktop environment, but I do enjoy many of the Gtk+ applications, mostly those used in Xfce or available also as standalone applications. My reasons for never developing a fondness for GNOME are that:

1) compared to two of the other DEs, KDE and Xfce in particular, KDE always offered more flexibility and configurability, and Xfce, in both it’s initial form from the nineties and in its rework (quite a long time ago), which adopted many libraries that are common with GNOME, also offers more flexibility in a leaner footprint.

2) with regard to leaner footprint, you have to fully configure practically everything in the current KDE Plasma to approach the size and bloat of GNOME, yet it’s still useful and responsive, though I don’t need the features it offers.

To be honest, I don’t really need Xfce either; at least the overhead incurred in using it isn’t extreme and it’s responsive. A simple window manager like IceWM is all I need, and often, even in systems that default to either KDE or Xfce, I’ll add IceWM and sometimes login that way. I rarely install a distribution with GNOME; perhaps it has improved; I have my doubts, and since I don’t need it, I haven’t re-examined it in years.

Perhaps if someone sings the praises of GNOME I’ll take a short peek, maybe downloading an image to try out live, but other than a mild curiosity to find out if it’s ever become more efficient and flexible, that’d be the only reason I’d check it out because my typical computer use and preferences don’t require a desktop environment, just the copy, cut, and paste conveniences of a GUI and Web browser access.

After that “windbag” response, I did look around, and YES, it IS possible to obtain GNOME without bringing in systemD. I’m not entirely certain of whether our implementation has been carefully crafted to stay systemD or not; I know our core window managers all use NO-systemD components.

The following search brings up a bunch of articles that you may consider if you choose to dig into this further.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Does+the+GNOME+desktop+environment+require+the+use+of+systemD%3F&t=newext&atb=v344-1&ia=web

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Hello all,

I have recently been playing with a new “old computer” I was given (as is my hobby, after all) and I have been wanting to experiment with a desktop environment that is friendly with a touch screen. I had some experience with Gnome after using it on Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian and I figured it would be a good environment for a touch screen (which I usually avoid in my distros since I have never used a touch screen desktop before and I usually want to use the keyboard and mouse only – but this machine has a touch screen).

This machine is a dual-core at 1.6Ghz and with 2Gb RAM. I installed MX KDE on it and it runs fine but is a little sluggish. I installed antiX-22 and it is better, as to be expected. So, I didn’t want to try a full distro with Gnome like Ubuntu since I figured it would run like a dog in 2Gb of RAM. Instead, I thought I would try installing the Gnome desktop in antiX-22.

But I ran into an issue in the Package Installer and could use some help sorting it out. This is the first time I have attempted to install an actual DE in antiX – I usually use the standard IceWM or Fluxbox window manager “desktops”. So, I am not too familiar with DE’s in antiX.

Here’s the issue:

I opened the “Package Installer” and on the “Manage popular packages” screen there is a section called “Desktop Environment”. On that list are two entries for Gnome. One says “Gnome – Minimal install of gnome shell”. The other says “Gnome-core – Very minimal install of Gnome”.

My first try was the first entry “Gnome”. The package installer ran the update and then started to launch a terminal screen, but the terminal screen disappeared quickly. I was then asked if I wanted to exit the Package Installer. It acted as though it completed the operation but it did not work. I logged out and logged in. There was no sign of Gnome at all.

So, I thought maybe I need to run the “Gnome-core” package first. I went ahead and launched that and this time the terminal stayed open and I was able to complete the install routine. I again logged out and logged in. It tried to start but I got an error box saying the desktop was not part of the Other Desktop and it crashed.

I used Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the console and rebooted. This time I got to the gdm3 desktop manager and I was able to log in. The wallpaper says Debian and the typical “Activities” menu was in the upper left. I clicked on that and I could then see the Gnome desktop. All the antiX programs are on the Gnome menu and I can use the touch screen or the keyboard and mouse.

So, the “Gnome-core” seems to have worked. I went back to try the “Gnome – Minimal install of gnome shell”. It did the same thing. The terminal came up and then quickly closed. This selection was not installed. However, the “Gnome-core” entry was now greyed out, indicating it was installed.

What am I missing by not being able to install the first entry “Gnome”? Do I have enough of Gnome with the second entry “Gnome-core”?

Thanks for any tips you share with me.

Seaken64

• This topic was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by Brian Masinick.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

seaken64 wrote:

Well, I don’t know if this will end up picking a fight with @Andy or not. If it does we should just let Brian close this thread down. In all the tests I have done on old equipment, (and there is a considerable amount that I have shared here should you care to do a search) with Intel and AMD singe core and less 1GB of RAM or less, I have NEVER found LXDE to be superior to any of the desktops curated in antiX. For RAM use, IceWM usually wins, sometimes JWM wins. For a GUI environment that mimics a Windows 2000 type experience antiX desktops has l=always been the most satisfactory on old machines. LXDE is not terrible and is usuable. But it is NOT built in to the antiX system and must be supported by the user.

For Dual Core machines, with 2GB or more of RAM it does not really matter. On those systems I am not usually quite as strapped for space. But if I AM strapped for space, such as 1 GB of RAM or 2GB hard drive, then I stay with antiX ONLY. No need to add LXDE or anything else. In fact more likely to strip some sevices rather than add a DE.

As time moves on it will be less necessary to skimp on features to save memory and disk space. By the time you get to a 64-bit systems with 4GB of RAM you can start playing around with LXDE or KDE or whatever with very little trouble. At that level anticapitalista is right on point – there is no argument to be had. But you’re barking up the wrong tree here if your goal is to brag about how great some Desktop Environment is as compared to antiX desktops. No one here will argue that LXDE is not a good lightweight DE. What they will argue is that it is not needed. antiX already has what we need.

That is not to say we are not interested in what someone who loves LXDE might be able to do with it in antiX. That is perfectly interesting stuff. But don’t get offended if we don’t share your enthusiasm and think it’s rediculous to pick fights about which “desktop” is better.

And I must say, I’ve been around here for a while. No sense in picking a fight with BobC, he can take care of himself and is a straight shooter. It takes quite q bit to ruffle his feathers.

I suggest you, Andy, take a breath and do as the kids say these days, slow your roll. Share, but don’t pick fights.

Seaken64

I don’t want to see any fights nor am I willing to see any.

Moderators and administration please be aware of any other skirmish.

Let’s consider this topic complete.

Anyone who wants to argue about one DM or WM versus another can find an external place – NOT HERE – In which to argue. The discussion, right, wrong, pro, con is over on this forum. The words and thoughts have already been exhausted.

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[Member seaken64]

Well, I don’t know if this will end up picking a fight with @Andy or not. If it does we should just let Brian close this thread down. In all the tests I have done on old equipment, (and there is a considerable amount that I have shared here should you care to do a search) with Intel and AMD singe core and less 1GB of RAM or less, I have NEVER found LXDE to be superior to any of the desktops curated in antiX. For RAM use, IceWM usually wins, sometimes JWM wins. For a GUI environment that mimics a Windows 2000 type experience antiX desktops has l=always been the most satisfactory on old machines. LXDE is not terrible and is usuable. But it is NOT built in to the antiX system and must be supported by the user.

For Dual Core machines, with 2GB or more of RAM it does not really matter. On those systems I am not usually quite as strapped for space. But if I AM strapped for space, such as 1 GB of RAM or 2GB hard drive, then I stay with antiX ONLY. No need to add LXDE or anything else. In fact more likely to strip some sevices rather than add a DE.

As time moves on it will be less necessary to skimp on features to save memory and disk space. By the time you get to a 64-bit systems with 4GB of RAM you can start playing around with LXDE or KDE or whatever with very little trouble. At that level anticapitalista is right on point – there is no argument to be had. But you’re barking up the wrong tree here if your goal is to brag about how great some Desktop Environment is as compared to antiX desktops. No one here will argue that LXDE is not a good lightweight DE. What they will argue is that it is not needed. antiX already has what we need.

That is not to say we are not interested in what someone who loves LXDE might be able to do with it in antiX. That is perfectly interesting stuff. But don’t get offended if we don’t share your enthusiasm and think it’s rediculous to pick fights about which “desktop” is better.

And I must say, I’ve been around here for a while. No sense in picking a fight with BobC, he can take care of himself and is a straight shooter. It takes quite q bit to ruffle his feathers.

I suggest you, Andy, take a breath and do as the kids say these days, slow your roll. Share, but don’t pick fights.

Seaken64

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

anticapitalista wrote:

You’re beginning to bore me now.
Use whatever linux in any shape or form you want.

If you have a question about antiX, just post it without all the other needless comment about lxde etc

Hurrah! Our founder has spoken! Keep in mind, he can produce WHATEVER he wants, you can use it or you can use something else.
We welcome people here from many walks of life but we’re here primarily to discuss the ways we make antiX work.
You are welcome to create your personal respin of antiX – as long as it is for personal use only – and then you can remake it with LXDE and PCManFM and whatever you want.

A long time ago I took an antiX Core system and made a couple of different creations with antiX Core; one was an Xfce desktop environment; I think I even made a KDE respin of either antiX or one of the MX or MEPIS variants once upon a time; it was an EXERCISE, a personal one at that. I did share the experience, just to demonstrate that it could be done, but I don’t remember twisting anyone’s arm to do anything with it; these days I usually stick pretty close to the stock system, adding only a few personal scripts and alias commands for my own consumption; you’re more than welcome to do the same; just don’t expect many (or any) in the community to come along and take the same ride unless they happen to share a common interest, then, of course, they are welcome to do it with you.

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

After I obtain the information I want to share, I select and copy the region of the output I want to share, paste it into this forum typing area, then I usually select the information (highlight it) and press CODE – one of the options above the text entry box in which we write our content; this puts a box around the information, as opposed to attaching a file; it’s handy for moderate amounts of plain text to include in our replies — example here, even though I happen to be logged into openSUSE Tumbleweed at the moment!

inxi -b
System:
  Host: localhost.localdomain Kernel: 6.0.5-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.26.2 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20221031
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 14-fq1xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 887C v: 59.11 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
    v: F.18 date: 11/26/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.6 Wh (99.8%) condition: 40.7/40.7 Wh (100.0%)
CPU:
  Info: 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics [MT MCP] speed (MHz):
    avg: 1402 min/max: 1400/4056
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-2: Chicony HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.4 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: RENOIR (renoir LLVM 15.0.2 DRM 3.48 6.0.5-1-default)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.2
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek driver: rtw89_8852ae
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 8.89 GiB (3.7%)
Info:
  Processes: 275 Uptime: 0h 24m Memory: 7.09 GiB used: 1.92 GiB (27.0%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.21

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