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[Member ModdIt]

Thanks X Secure,
Sorry, I just gave a forum search term, not a link, (I dont know how)there is plenty of info in the mentioned threads.

Waterfox is 64 bit only and had same hidden extensions, a feature I intensly dislike, as they may be remotely
usable, in my test it was using a lot of memory. That may have changed but it caused me to remove the package.
Palemoon is pretty memory efficient, the privacy policy clear and concise, no hidden extensions, search
is not sent to google as default. Firefox has that feature no matter which search engine you use.

We (Moddit is a group) use tor Browser bundle for many sites, it can in some cases get around geoblocking and thwart ad blocker blocking. I do not consider it very private, often my exit node is in Netherlands, most
likely run by an agency. My IP is Vodafone, Tier 1 Intelligence Provider for UK.

anilkagi: you said
I had thought FF to be the best, privacy protecting, secure, browser out there.
That is the dirty deceiving message, it is not. Others are probably worse though.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/badwolf-a-recent-standards-compliant-minimal-web-browser/
might interest you. hopefuly at some stage there will be a deb package available, at present it is more
a DIY effort. It is fast and efficient but not particularly comfortable, not yet anyway.

Now I know how to add a link 🙂

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[Member anilkagi]

Really Moddit,

You spoke my mind.

A couple of days ago I read this CNET article (A dangerous conflict of interest between Firefox and Google), I was really dumbfounded, since till now I had thought FF to be the best, privacy protecting, secure, browser out there.

I have taken suggestions from the web to make FF more secure. Your link to the thread “How to make Firefox more secure” is not working.

I have used Palemoon but haven’t tweaked it for security. Are there any links that guide over this?

I am going to start a new thread to get more light on this.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by anilkagi.

Hello there,

A couple of days ago I read this CNET article (A dangerous conflict of interest between Firefox and Google), I was really dumbfounded, since till now I had thought FF to be the best, privacy protecting, secure, browser out there.

I then tried to find out which then is a better alternative, but couldn’t get hold on to anything.

What about IceCat from GNUzilla?

Please throw some light over this, so that Noobs like me can shed our ignorance.

Thanks & Regards

• This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by anilkagi.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by anilkagi.

HOWTO: Basic Ratpoison Configuration

This is a basic configuration, I haven’t learned all the tricks to it but i do
know what works for me smile.

Ratpoison (rp) is not for everybody, eye-candy, icons, title/taskbar are absent. It’s
all business, uses every pixel of space and uses 1 MB of RAM. Apps are maximized
by default. If you spend time comparing desktops with your buddies to see which is
prettier, stop reading, this is not for you.

Gamers, devs, and all sort of miscreants love rp.

#apt-get install ratpoison dmenu

BIND KEY
The way it works is: you press a ‘bind’ key plus another letter you
assign to a package you want to launch.

The default keybind (or bind key) is C-t (Control + letter t) but to me, it’s
cumbersome and painful on the wrist or fingers. If you google you’ll find tons
of material on ‘.ratpoisonrc’ or ‘ratpoison configuration’.

Other examples of bind keys are: C-z, C-a, C-d …etc

I found this article by Dion Moult which explains how to change the bind key to
the Caps Lock (the key next to your left pinky finger). It’s a very good
article, you should read it. It explains how to make the Caps Lock key your bind
key.

https://thinkmoult.com/ratpoison-an-efficient-and-minimalist-wm.html

IMHO, the easiest way to configure rp is from another wm/DE you’re using at the moment.

Create the file .xmodmaprc in your /home:

$ touch .xmodmaprc

Once created, enter it with favorite editor:

$ nano .xmodmaprc

And paste this:

remove lock = Caps_Lock
keycode 66 = F13

Put xmodmaprc in your .xinitrc:

$ nano .xinitrc

Paste this:

xmodmap .xmodmaprc

LAUNCHING RP
You can launch rp from your .xinitrc, here is mine:

Example:

#!/bin/sh

setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
xsetroot -solid black
xrdb -merge .Xdefaults
unclutter -idle 2 &
numlockx &
xmodmap .xmodmaprc

exec ratpoison

save/exit/reboot

CONFIGURATION FILE
It’s called .ratpoisonrc, so you create it:

$ touch .ratpoisonrc

Then you enter it:

$ nano .ratpoisonrc

You’ll notice is blank, then paste and post something like this:
Here’s my .ratpoisonrc:

alias term exec lxterminal
escape F13
unbind k
bind j focusdown
bind h focusleft
bind k focusup
bind l focusright

bind J exchangedown
bind H exchangeleft
bind K exchangeup
bind L exchangeright

exec /usr/bin/rpws init 2 -k
exec rpws 1
exec /usr/bin/rpws init 6 -k
bind F1 exec rpws 1
bind F2 exec rpws 2

exec xsetroot -solid black -cursor_name left_ptr
bind semicolon colon
set winname class
set fgcolor yellow
set bgcolor black
set bargravity sw
defborder 0
defpadding 0 0 0 0
defbarpadding 0 0

definekey top M-Tab next
bind space exec lxterminal 
definekey top F2 exec xfe
bind f exec firefox
bind b exec brave-browser-stable
definekey top F4 kill
definekey top F7 exec mirage
definekey top F8 exec hexchat
definekey top F9 exec geany
definekey top Print exec lxterminal -e scrot -cd 10  

SOUND
definekey top C-Down exec amixer -q set Master 5- unmute && ratpoison -c "echo Master Vol Down"
definekey top C-Up exec amixer -q set Master 5+ unmute && ratpoison -c "echo Master Vol Up"

bind d exec dmenu_run
bind r restart
bind w windows
bind Escape abort
bind q only
bind b banish
rudeness 12

#Run box (sudo and apps launching)
definekey top C-space exec

save/exit/reboot

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HOW DOES IT WORK?

To launch a terminal: press bind key (caps lock) and the spacebar, a white small square will
appear , and the xterm (or whatever terminal you
specify in .ratpoisonrc) will appear. Ditto for all the other apps.

You want to abort in the middle of an operation? Bind key + Escape.
Close an app? F4
Want to know what windows you got open? bind + w
Want to go to one of them? bind + the window #
Want to launch dmenu? bind + d
After every change ‘restart rp’ with: bind + r
What time/date is it? bind + a
Snapshot? press the key Print.
You miss fbrun? Control key + Space bar
If you want to split the screen horizontally: bind + s
Vertically? Bind + S
Go back to normal? Bind + q
alt-tab as usual OR tap the bind key twice

Play with it, it’s addictive.
Happy trails,
macondo

PS: Contrary to common wisdom, you CAN use your mouse as in any other wm.

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antiX Core 64 Bit Runit IceWM

"Sometimes a man finds his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

[Member marcelocripe]

Hello PPC and Xecure,

Anyway I was able to read and test CubeGet, I accessed the site https://cube.camicri.com/#/, with the help of the browser translation, I read everything, every step, yesterday I managed to try to implement it, but unfortunately , was unsuccessful. They are tools like this and the one that Xecure is developing, they are exactly what I need, considering that, I tried to apply the command taught by Xecure to download the sudo packages apt-get download $ (apt-rdepends “$ {package} “| grep -v ^ \), but I couldn’t understand it enough to be able to use it and be able to download the programs to later install on computers without internet access with the command sudo dpkg -i packagename1 dependency1 dependency2 … or with the command sudo dpkg -i *.

Tests I did with CubeGet:

I accessed the site:
https://cube.camicri.com/#/download

With the computer with internet access I downloaded the Linux version program
cube-get 4.3-1.3 (64 bit)
https://launchpad.net/cube-server/4.0/4-0.1/+download/cube-get_4.3-1.3_linux.zip

I copied the file cube-get_4.3-1.3_linux.zip to a pendrive, with SpaceFm, pasted it to the computer without internet access and unzipped the file. Right-click on cube-get, Properties, Permissions, I checked all read, write and execute options for owner, group and others, Ok. Right-click on cube-get, Open, Execute, ROXTerm is opened, are displayed in two commands, then the Firefox ESR 68.6.0 browser opens, but the cube-get menu is not displayed.

I tried it via terminal, according to the instructions on the site https://cube.camicri.com/#/setup-linux, opened the terminal in the cube-get folder and typed the command
User @ antiX: ~ / Download / cube-get_4.3-1.3_linux / cube-get
$ chmod + x cube-get
$. / cube –terminal

As it didn’t show the cube-get menu, I still tried to change the network settings for Firefox ESR 68.6.0, checking the option “No proxy”, but that was not it.

The terminal displays the message:
$. / cube –terminal
[Server] xterm not found! Will use defaut terminal
[Server] Exited

Xecure, I will test the new version, soon I will return with the results of the tests, thank you for your kindness in making this tool available that will be extremely important to me.

I still need to test http://www.penguintutor.com/linux/apt-get-offline and https://askubuntu.com/questions/835655/install-a-program-with-apt-offline, but really, a graphical tool makes Linux beginners’ lives much easier, as it would be good if in Linux distributions it was each program in its respective directory and that each program came complete.

Thankful.
marcelocripe
Original text in Brazilian Portuguese, translated into English by Google translator.

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Olá PPC e Xecure,

Enfim eu consegui ler e testar o CubeGet, eu acessei o site https://cube.camicri.com/#/, com a ajuda da tradução do navegador, eu li tudo, cada passo, ontem eu consegui tentar implementar, mas, infelizmente, foi sem sucesso. São ferramentas como esta e a que o Xecure está desenvolvendo, são exatamente o que eu preciso, haja vista que, eu tentei aplicar o comando ensinado pelo Xecure para baixar os pacotes sudo apt-get download $(apt-rdepends “${package}” | grep -v ^\ ), mas eu não consegui compreendê-lo o suficiente para conseguir usá-lo e poder baixar os programas para posteriormente instalar nos computadores sem acesso a internet com o comando sudo dpkg -i packagename1 dependency1 dependency2 … ou com o comando sudo dpkg -i *.

Testes que eu fiz com o CubeGet:

Acessei o site:
https://cube.camicri.com/#/download

Com o computador com acesso a internet baixei o programa versão para Linux
cube-get 4.3-1.3 (64 bit)
https://launchpad.net/cube-server/4.0/4-0.1/+download/cube-get_4.3-1.3_linux.zip

Copiei para um pendrive o arquivo cube-get_4.3-1.3_linux.zip, com o SpaceFm, colei para o computador sem acesso a internet e descompactei o arquivo. Botão direito do mouse sobre cube-get, Properties, Permissions, marquei todas as opções de leitura, escrita e execução para proprietário, grupo e outros, Ok. Botão direito do mouse sobre cube-get, Open, Execute, o ROXTerm é aberto, são exibidos em dois comandos, em seguida abre o navegador Firefox ESR 68.6.0, mas o menu do cube-get não é exibido.

Eu tentei via terminal, conforme as instruções do site https://cube.camicri.com/#/setup-linux, abri o terminal na pasta do cube-get e digitei o comando
Usuario@antiX:~/Download/ cube-get_4.3-1.3_linux/cube-get
$chmod +x cube-get
$./cube –terminal

Como não exibia o menu do cube-get, eu tentei ainda mudar a configurações de rede do Firefox ESR 68.6.0, marcando a opção “Sem proxy”, mas não era isso.

No terminal exibe a mensagem:
$./cube –terminal
[Server] xterm not found! Will use defaut terminal
[Server] Exited

Xecure, eu vou testar a nova versão, em breve eu retorno com o resultado dos testes, agradeço pela gentileza em disponibilizar esta ferramenta que será de extrema importância para mim.

Ainda falta eu testar o http://www.penguintutor.com/linux/apt-get-offline e https://askubuntu.com/questions/835655/install-a-program-with-apt-offline, mas realmente, uma ferramenta em gráfica facilita muito a vida dos novatos em Linux, como seria bom se nas distribuições Linux fosse cada programa no seu respectivo diretório e que cada programa vinhesse completo.

Grato.
marcelocripe
Texto original em idioma português do Brasil, traduzido para o inglês por Google tradutor.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

I used your error message and version number at Debian forums. No hits.

Best I can find Link

I guess you already cruised this Link

Just in case < cuz I don't know what I am doing >
Link
Link2

Good luck.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Yeah. Before we came up with snapshot. I keep a private text file that reminds me on the steps on how to zip up a install and unzip it to hard drive using a live session run.

Have not used it in ages though. I kept it private because I did not wanna deal with clue less usage and being buggered about why it does not work out for them.

We have snap shot now so my text file is kinda moot. Besides. It/snapshot is a lot more elegant. For future questions.
link

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

As far as your original question
link

1st thing mentioned.

First of all, check if your chipset, ROM chip, and mainboard are supported

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Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Member PPC]

@Xecure: you are right, this can be almost trivial to do, but Marcelo gave all these “suggestions” and seems to have abandoned this thread… I won’t even attempt to build a basic script without him saying that he could really use such a thing…
Like I pointed out, there are already some GUI options available out there that do what he needs – and as far as I know, he can use the Debian Isos to install software in antiX, right?
For 64 bits systems I would even advise using appimages (that can be uncompressed, to start faster, specially in slow systems) of LibreOffice, Gimp, audacity, Vlc, Ungoogled Chromium, etc to “install” the latest versions of those apps in many computers. Firefox, like I pointed out, can run be from the official files available from the site, once decompressed- that is a huge chunk of all “essential” software, already easily usable in off-line systems…

I talk about web browsers because I’m betting that part of the problem is not complete lack of connectivity, but rather very slow or unreliable connections, that make downloading large files very difficult…

P.

[Member PPC]

@melodie- I tried the 64 bits version on virtualbox- it uses, out of the box some 260 Mb (way more than my 64 bits antiX full, but drops more than 50 meg after a while).

Pros:
Very nice looking and minimalist.
I liked the language selection popping out during start up…
Includes synaptic, allowing user to easily add any needed applications.
The transparancies look great, sakura could have some transparancy on by default!
Fits into a single cd!

Cons:
The right click menu is partly untranslated to portuguese.
The “applications” near the CAT (:-)) menu icon looks cool, but isn’t translated- and the start menu icon looks cool all by it self…
The browser is fast and minimalist, but also quite limited (I know it’s always a trade off- but Firefox ESR or even Ungoogled Chromium are very capable browsers that don’t particulary each much RAM, compared to Chrome, and allow users to correcly view any web page – UnChromium does not display DRM content tough)
Why does the “install” icon have the Ubuntu logo?

Design choices:
I would have kept SpaceFM as default file manager, I quite like it and it’s been part of antiX for as long I’ve used it, but I would configure it by default to have a trash can (like your file manager has) and also bookmarks. I’m not sure if spacefm uses more or less resources than pcmanfm…
The icons are cute, but look a bit dated, was it a design choice, to make it look a more “classic” system?
eFTE text editor? Never heard of that! That is minimalism!

P.

EDIT: I just noticed I did not download the “antiX” version. Damn! Also, cool, this explains the Ubuntu install logo! 🙂
Also, this was a really great experience- that’s why I didn’t correct this review- it’a the lightest *buntu I ever so, as the pro of allow to install snapd and then snaps! Very cool!
I don’t have time to download and test the antiX version today… Maybe tomorrow?

Edit2:
the antiX version really really runs on abou 90 Meg of RAM, even the 64 bits version. Wow.
Pros:
extremely low resources usage.
Many more applications available out of the box than the “ubuntu” based version.
Cons:
basicaly the same cons as before (minus the “ubuntu icon”).
does not have the boot animation, displays the full text into (that may seem weird to some users)
Package installer would be a great of easily build up the system to have almost anything most regular users could need…
You included some usefull scripts, but did not make them available in the menu, and also included scripts like Icewm Toolbar Icon Manager and fast menu editor that do nothing in your Desktop…

Design choices:
Sames as above, plus: Why the chat icon on the toolbar by default instead of the browser?

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• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by PPC.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by PPC.

HOWTO: IceWM Configuration (Verbose)

Obviously, this is a subjective matter. There are different ways of doing this,
I like to edit the files.

IceWM comes by default with alt-tab to switch windows, alt-F10 to maximize,
alt-F9 to minimize the screen, the Windows key will give you the main menu. In
the main menu click on Settings > Focus and choose your favorite, (i like
“Sloppy”). Do it again, and click on Themes and choose.

NOTE: winkey (Windows key) + space bar will give a ‘run box’ at the taskbar by
default. from where you can launch apps a la gmrun.

If you go to the icewm site: http://www.icewm.org -> IceWM Manual you get all the keybinds
and mouse commands. It’s a very worthwile read, it will teach you how to lock
your screen (xtrlock), move a window to another workspace, screensavers, and so
forth, how to start an app in a different workspace when you enter the X system,
etc.

Congratulations! you’re ready for prime time. Just point and click.

But if you want to increase your speed, if you’re a geek wannabe, if the Windows
way of working bring tears to your eyes, then KEYBINDINGS are for you.

My configuration uses 4 files: preferences, keys, winoptions, and prefoverride.

Preferences deals with the window manager’s behavior.
Keys with keybindings.
Winoptions with options that alter the windows.
Prefoverride changes the default keybinds for the ones you like.

You CANNOT edit the global file, so you have to create them and put them in your /home.

The global file resides in /usr/share/icewm/preferences where all the
preferences for IceWM are, copy/paste the ones relevant to your way of working,
and put them in your ~/.icewm/preferences.

Now create these files in your /home, and edit them as USER. The directory .icewm already exists.

$ touch .icewm/preferences
$ touch .icewm/keys
$ touch .icewm/winoptions
$ touch .icewm/prefoverride


PREFERENCES
So now all you have to do is edit .icewm/preferences as USER.

$ nano .icewm/preferences


Choose the preferences you like from the global file
(/usr/share/icewm/preferences) and copy/paste them into your .icewm/preferences.

Every preference consists of 2 lines, both of which are commented (#), uncomment
(erase the hash mark) on the second line of the preference, and add 1 or 0
(zero) at the end.

1 = enables the preference
0 = disables it.

save/exit and RESTART icewm – Menu >Logout >Restart icewm for it to take
effect.

Clear as mud?

Example:

# Hide title bar when maximized
#HideTitleBarWhenMaximized=0 # 0/1


After editing it, it should look like this if you wanted it enabled:


# Hide title bar when maximized
HideTitleBarWhenMaximized=1


Restart icewm, restart icewm, restart icewm 😀

Me? I copied/pasted my personal preferences I stored
in my web mail. It takes me 5 minutes to config icewm.

Here’s my .icewm/preferences:

OpaqueMove=0
OpaqueResize=0
SmartPlacement=1
MenuMouseTracking=1
ModSuperIsCtrlAlt=1
UseMouseWheel=1
QuickSwitch=1
AutoReloadMenus=1
ShowProgramsMenu=1
ShowThemesMenu=1
ShowHelp=1
TerminalCommand="lxterminal"
ShutdownCommand="sudo poweroff"
RebootCommand="sudo reboot"
WorkspaceNames=" 1 ", " 2 "

TaskBarAutoHide=0
TaskBarShowClock=1
TaskBarShowAPMStatus=0
TaskBarAtTop=0
TaskBarShowAPMStatus=0
TaskBarShowAPMTime=0
TaskBarShowMailboxStatus=0
TaskBarShowWindows=1
TaskBarShowShowDesktopButton=0
TaskBarShowTray=1
TaskBarShowWindowIcons=0
TaskBarShowCPUStatus=1
TaskBarShowNetStatus=0
TaskBarShowCollapseButton=1
TaskBarWorkspacesLeft=1
TimeFormat="%R"
TaskBarShowShowDesktopButton=0
TaskBarShowWindowListMenu=1
TaskBarShowMailboxStatus=0
TaskBarMailboxStatusBeepOnNewMail=0
NormalTaskBarFontName="-*-sans-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*- *"
NormalTaskBarFontNameXft="sans-serif:size=10"
ActiveTaskBarFontName="-*-sans-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*"
ActiveTaskBarFontNameXft="sans-serif:size=10"
HideTitleBarWhenMaximized=0

save/exit your favorite editor.

KEYS
Same. Choose what you need. I erased everything and pasted my keybinds.
This is my .icewm/keys:

$ nano .icewm/keys


Example:

key "F1" lxterminal
key "F2" xfe
key "Ctrl+f" firefox
key "Ctrl+g" google-chrome-stable
key "F7" mirage
key "F8" hexchat
key "Print" lxterminal -e scrot -cd 10

#Sound
key "Ctrl+Down" amixer -q set Master 9%- # lower volume
key "Ctrl+Up" amixer -q set Master 9%+ # raise volume

Save/exit your editor.

Ctrl+Up arrow increases volume.

Ctrl+Down arrow decreases volume

If you get no sound go to alsamixer as USER and unmute with M key.

<code

$ alsamixer

Needless to say choose your favorite applications and keybinds.

I have no use for the Fn keys, but if you do, just add Alt or Ctrl or Super (winkey) example:

key “Alt+ l” leafpad
key “Ctrl+f” firefox

SOUND
A word about sound. In my case, I haven’t had good luck with Pulseaudio, so I use ALSA.

[code]

$ apt-cache search alsa
[/code]

Installed the alsa packages plus aumix and menu.

# apt-get install aumix menu alsa-lib alsa-plugins alsa-utils


Config the sound volume:

$ alsamixer


Unmute sound with letter M

WINOPTIONS
Go to .icewm/winoptions and paste this, I’m only interested in
maximizing my windows:


$ nano .icewm/winoptions


lxterminal.Lxterminal.startMaximized: 1
hexchat.Hexchat.startMaximized: 1
firefox.Firefox.startMaximized: 1
xfe.Xfe.startMaximized: 1
mirage.Mirage.startMaximized: 1


save/exit

PREFOVERRIDE


$ nano .icewm/prefoverride


And paste this:

KeyWinClose="F4"
KeyWinMaximize="F12"


save/exit

So now I close applications with F4 (boom! gone) and maximize the windows with
one key (F12), instead of the default Alt+F10.

THEMES
I’m not much for themes and eye-candy, my thing is simplicity and speed.

Go to http://www.box-look.org, click on “icewm themes” in the left column, if you know
the name of the theme, click on “alphabetical”. Click on Download. There are
over 400 themes for IceWM in this site. There are a bunch on the right column on
the site.Download the theme file /home/<yourusername>/Downloads (automatic with
Firefox).

I launch xfe (my file manager) as ROOT, I find the theme in Downloads,
right-click on it, and choose “Extract to” in the next screen at the bottom I
type the location where to be extracted, (/usr/share/icewm/themes) press
Enter, and that’s it, the new theme appears in Settings>Themes from the main
menu. Click on it and you’ll have a new theme immediately.

NOTE: Restart icewm every time you do changes on the window manager.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by macondo.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by macondo.

antiX Core 64 Bit Runit IceWM

"Sometimes a man finds his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."

[Member marcelocripe]

PPC,

Thank you for responding and for your explanations. Thank you!

WITH,

I need a graphic mode image editor (or window) to mount ISO, NRG, BIN, CUE and etc., similar to Daemons Tools or gBurner Virtual Drive. Is there a package (or program) for antiX to mount images in graphics mode?

Only after I was able to discover that using the SpaceFM file manager, right-clicking, has the Mount ISO option.

Synaptic Package Manager identified a broken package, I chose to remove it, unaware that it was the gmountiso files in the unzipped folder. After the “removal”, the files remained in their folder, but Gmount-ISO 0.4 stopped working, it doesn’t load anymore! (unfortunately …). I did a little research, as soon as I read your post, I found the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Package_Archive#:~:text=Um%20Personal%20Package%20Archive%20(PPA,um%20reposit % C3% B3rio% 20APT% 20or% 20Launchpad, in the research on what is an Ubuntu PPA, the definition did not help me understand what it is and what is the risk of using it.

I apologize, due to my little knowledge on Linux distributions, so little on antiX, my job opportunities have always been for MS Windows and I am only now able to dedicate myself to learning and studying a Linux distribution, especially antiX.

So I must not use the package provided by Mozilla Linux 64-bit from the link: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=pt-BR or Linux 32-bit from the link: https: //download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=linux&lang=pt-BR? For computers with low memory and internet with bad, slow and unstable connection, using online installation is not safe, I prefer to install it manually, or if it is possible to unzip and use it, life in the Linux world would be much easier if it were so, unzip it on appropriate directory, insert a shortcut icon and you’re done. It would be easier if it were like that, spreading everything through the system does not help me at all.

To make a Linux distribution more and more friendly to former Windows users, due to the programmed obsolescence of the hardware, is a new challenge for me, both from a personal and a professional point of view.

I thank you both for helping me.

marcelocripe

Original text in Brazilian Portuguese, translated into English by the Google translator.

————–

PPC,

Agradeço por responder e por suas explicações. Muito obrigado!

COM,

Eu preciso de um montador de imagens modo gráfico (ou janela) para montar ISO, NRG, BIN, CUE e etc, semelhante ao Daemons Tools ou gBurner Virtual Drive. Existe algum pacote (ou programa) para o antiX para montar imagens no modo gráfico?

Só depois que eu consegui descobrir que usando o gerenciador de arquivos SpaceFM, clicando com o botão direito do mouse, possui a opção Mount ISO.

O Gerenciador de pacotes Synaptic identificou um pacote quebrado, eu optei por removê-lo, sem saber que se tratava dos arquivos do gmountiso da pasta descompactada. Após a “remoção”, os arquivos permaneceram em sua pasta, mas o Gmount-ISO 0.4 parou de funcionar, não carrega mais! (infelizmente …). Eu pesquisei a pouco, logo que li a sua postagem, encontrei o link: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Package_Archive#:~:text=Um%20Personal%20Package%20Archive%20(PPA,um%20reposit%C3%B3rio%20APT%20ou%20Launchpad, na pesquisa sobre o que é um PPA do Ubuntu, a definição não me ajudou a entender o que é e qual é o risco de usar isso.

Eu peço desculpas, devido ao meu pouco conhecimento em distribuições Linux, muito menos no antiX, as minhas oportunidades de trabalho sempre foram para MS Windows e só agora estou podendo me dedicar a aprender e estudar uma distribuição Linux, em especial o antiX.

Então não devo usar o pacote fornecido pela Mozilla Linux 64-bit do link: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=pt-BR ou Linux 32-bit do link: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=linux&lang=pt-BR? Para computadores com pouca memória e internet com conexão ruim, lenta e instável, usar instalação online não é seguro, eu prefiro instalar manualmente, ou se for possível descompactar e usar, a vida no mundo Linux seria bem mais fácil se fosse assim, descompacta no diretório apropriado, inseri um ícone de atalho e pronto. Seria mais fácil se fosse assim, espalhar tudo pelo sistema não me ajuda em nada.

Para fazer uma distribuição Linux se tornar cada vez mais amigável aos ex usuários de Windows, devido a obsolência programada do hardware, é um novo desafio para mim, tanto do ponto de vista pessoal quanto do ponto de vista profissional.

Agradeço aos dois por me ajudarem.

marcelocripe

Texto original no idioma português do Brasil, traduzido para inglês pelo tradutor do Google.

[Member PPC]

Yes, you can remove unused desktops, but the disk space you would save would be very minimal. Unused desktops do not consume any resources, other than a little bit of disk space (a few dozens Mb).
If you want to use as little RAM possible, try choosing the minimal desktops from the Menu – Desktops -… ( Menu – Area de Trabalho – Alternar entre Ambientes de Trabalho, in portuguese)

General usefull information about antiX’s Desktops:

antiX full version comes with 3 desktops ( IceWM, the default one, Fluxbox and JWM)– they basically use the same amount of resources.
Each of these 3 desktops comes with 4 “modes”, in order of RAM consumption (from the one that uses more RAM to the least RAM:)
– Space…(that uses SpaceFM file Manager to manage the icons you see in the desktop)
– ROX… (that uses Rox file Manager to manage the icons you see in the desktop)
– the versions without any prefix: Fluxbox/JWM/IceWM (that offers no desktop icons, other than that you lose nothing and gain a dozen or so Meg of RAM)
– the MINIMAL … (that not only do not have desktop icons, but also does not start some apps, saving even more RAM)

TIP 1: if you don’t set a wallpaper, you can save about 2 Meg or RAM, but you end up with a very sad looking computer
🙂
TIP 2: if you are running Conky – the resource monitor that comes up on the upper right corner of the desktop, by default, and you don’t need it, you can turn it off in the Menu > Desktop > Conky on/off (Menu > Ambientes de Trabalho > Conky lig./deslig. in portuguese- sim, sou português :-))
TIP 3: you can do most of the stuff you can do in modern computers in antiX running on a 10 years old computer: using “light aplications”- you can use Claws Mail to access your e-mail; Smtube to view youtube videos in a insanely fast way; mpv and celuloid to play video files (it can be a paint to correctly configure them to use the lest resources possible, but you can watch full HD videos even in a single core computer); Dillo web browser can be used to access simple web sites, or you can install, from the Package Manager light browsers, like Palemoon, etc…

You can basically do almost anything someone with a modern computer can, as long as you have about 1 gig of RAM at least a 1.6 single core CPU – my 10 years old netbook has these specks and I use Firefox ESR to navigate the web (no more than 2 or 3 open tabs), Libreoffice, etc, I even wrote a script to use cloud drives (Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc, even on low specs computers, that I’m testing right now).

EDIT:
About your SpaceFM lock ups – I use SpaceFM daily for almost 2 years now, and never experienced that…- It froze about 2 or 3 times, and only when I was doing some experiments… If you use thumbnails, disable those, that can slow SpaceFM to a crawl on a slow computer… Also dragging files sometimes is a bit messed up- I usually just select the files I want to copy/cut and use the keyboard ( ctrl + c or ctrl + X) to copy them, go to the folder where I want to paste them and do a Ctrl+ v)

Try everything Xecure said, and report back (Please note: unless you know exactly what you are doing, DO NOT uninstall applications that come with antiX- it can cause problems!)

P.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by PPC.

(Note: Some of this information is for users of the default antiX desktop- IceWM, but all Menu references are common to all antiX desktops IceWM. JWM and Fluxbox)

1- Setting up wi-fi:
– On current antiX versions (21 and 22) when you start your system, if no cabled internet connection (or an already configured wi-fi connection) is detected, antiX’s network manager (Connman – from “CONnection MANager) automatically pops up.
You can also, at any time, launch connman using IceWM’s system tray (near the clock there should be at least 3 square icons, that show information about your computer…
Left click the third icon, counting from the right to the left. Connman Network Settings pops up.
You can also start “Connman” using Menu > Control Centre > Network > Wifi… (Connman)
– On Connman’s main window: on the “Status” Tab: by default (maybe to save power) Wi-fi should be set to “Disabled”- is it’s disabled, make sure to left click the “Powered” button (it should be green, not red).
– Hopefully, a list of all detected Wi-fi networks pops up, available on the “Wireless” tab. Double left click the one you want to connect to and, if needed, enter it’s password (for some reason Connman calls it “Passphrase”). Click the “ok” button. [Note: if, for some reason you don’t see the “Ok” button, use the horizontal slider to “slide the window’s content, so you can see it, in the lower right of the window OR force the window to full screen, by pressing alt + F11 – a tip that should work in any window)
– To connect to a Wi-fi network, simply left click it and then click the “Connect” button
*TIP 1: Do need internet access in your laptop and have no wi-fi? If you have a mobile data connection on your android phone, and it’s USB cable, you can try to use that to access the Net from your laptop: your on your 3G/4G/5G phone internet connection. Connect your phone to your antiX computer, find and activate, on your phone the data sharing/ USB sharing data option and turn that on. Click Connman and check if, in the “Wired” Connections you get any indication that a USB connection is on-line. It works just like a ethernet internet connection.
*TIP 2: You can do a similar procedure to use your Wi-fi on a computer that does not have a Wi-fi card. Access your Wi-fi network from your android device, connect it to your antiX computer using its USB cable, turn on the data sharing option on your phone and check, in connman, if a “Wired” network connection is active and, if so enjoy your Wi-fi internet!

2- Accessing your files:
The default File Manager (it’s called “Rox”) looks too different from what you are used to? antiX has no shortage of file managers, you can try something that looks more like a mainstream File Manager (similar to Windows File Explorer, for example) – it’s called ZZZFM (a fork, created by the fórum user Skidoo, of the previous “secondary” File Manager that older versions used to ship with- SpaceFM):
Menu > Applications > System > ZzzFM
Do you like ZzzFM/SpaceFM enough to always want to use it to access your files? Make it the default File Manager:
Menu > Control Centre > Default Applications (it’s the “yellow star” icon) > Click the input field to the right of “File Manager” and select “zzzfm” from the list, Click “Apply”. From now on, when you click the File Manager icon on the toolbar or the menu, or plug in and external drive, etc, it will always launch ZzzFM/SpaceFM.
Do you miss having Bookmarks, like “Documents”, “Downloads”, etc?
Open ZzzFM > Go to you “Downloads” folder > SpaceFM “Bookmarks” Menu > Confirm that “Show bookmarks” is checked > Click “add bookmark”.
A bookmark to your Downloads folder instantly appears on the left side bar.
You can create bookmarks to any folder you want to, repeating this process. To create a bookmark to your “Home” folder, where your files are stored, navigate to “/home/”, click the folder with your username and then “add bookmark”, etc.
Do you want to see previews of your files ( picture and video files)?
Open ZzzFM > ZzzFM “View” Menu > Preferences > Check “Show thumbnails” > Click “Ok”

Do you want to search for a specific file (by file name or file content)?
Menu > Applications> Acessories > SearchMonkey

Can I access files from my usb thumbdrive, external drive?
Any external drive should automaticaly come up on your screen, on your default file manager. If it does not, and you are using ZzzFM file manager, open it and check if your drive is listed on the “Devices” list, on the upper left corner of the screen. If it is, left click it to access it.

Can I access files stored on the cloud?
Sure:
– use the file storage web interface or;
– install any available interface (“Dropbox” and “Mega” can be installed from Package Manager). There are, at the present time, no official interfaces to “Google Drive” or Microsoft Cloud (AKA “Onedrive”) for Linux, but you can install “Open Drive” from Package Manager- that allows access to those services).
– WARNING – THIS PROCEDURE IS RELATIVELY COMPLEX: you can also setup “Google Drive” to be accessed from your File Manager just like it was an external drive.
I created a script that allows antiX users to access cloud service drives ( like Google Drive, Ms OneDrive, etc) using rclone. You can get it by installing the package “ft10-transformation”.
You can also manually get the a version of the script here: https://github.com/PPC-scripts/access_cloud
Save the antiX version of the script to your computer. On your File Manager right click the file and make it “executable” (using ZzzFM/SpaceFM: select the file and press CTRL + P. In the permission window, check the “Executable” field, then click the “ok” button.

When you have “access_cloud” installed, before being able to access your cloud drive, First, you have to configure your account (Google Drive can be automatically configured) then just click the name of the account and it’s contents open in your default File Manager. Please note that all other Cloud Drives have to be manually set up, using a menu driven by numbered choices, from a terminal window…

3- Do you want to update your system?

IMPORTANT: by default antiX does not automatically update it self (like most Operating Systems). You have to check for updates and install them!
Menu > antiX > antiX Updater > enter your password if asked to > wait to see if there are any updates, if there are a black window with white letters pops up, listing all available updates – just press the “enter” key (yes, in the keyboard) and the update starts. A warning will pop up when the process is finished- Click its button and you are done.
OR
If you installed and enabled the automatic update checker (it’s not installed by default in current antiX versions because it uses system resources), just click it’s icon on the tray next to the clock
OR
Menu > Terminal and type this commands (or copy and paste them in the terminal):
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

OR
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

Enter your password if asked to, and wait for the update process to finish.

4- Do you want to install an application?

There are so many ways to install stuff in Linux in general and antiX in particular! Read this antiX forum thread: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-install-applications-2020-version/
Quick start: Press the “Shopping Bag” icon on the toolbar, right next to the “Menu” button, to open “Package Manager” (or Menu > Control Centre > “System” tab > “Package Manager”)

Search for what you want to install. A black terminal window pops up during the install process. If it asks you to confirm something, just press the “enter” key to accept the default answer (ex: yes, I want to install all available updates- NB on some very rare occasions, like when updating GRUB or installing Drivers, you may need to answer questions, like choosing where to install Grub, etc.- be very careful selecting the correct option!- I think that you use “tab” to highlight your selection- please do check this!), and wait for the installation to finish.

Note: this is only to install essential software or very used applications: web browsers (Google Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Tor Browser), Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, Java, Wine, Steam, the most recent LibreOffice and GIMP versions, VLC media player, etc.
If you want access to ALL available (Debian and antiX) applications, run “Synaptic package manager” (Menu > Control Centre > “System” tab > “Synaptic Package Manager” > enter your password if asked to > select what you want to install)

In case you want to remove any application from your system, Synaptic is also the graphical way (GUI) to do that– WARNING: as in any system, be very careful when deleting apps- delete only apps that you installed, and, except if you know what you are doing: DO NOT TRY TO REMOVE ANTIX DEFAULT APPLICATIONS– you may “brick your system” – unlike in other OS, you can do exactly what you want, remove anything, there are no “sacred corporate apps”- this also means that you can remove stuff that you should not remove, if you want to have a fully working system!

5- Can you install Ubuntu repositories, PPA’s, Snap files or other Ubuntu specific software?
Sure, it’s a free world. Install Ubuntu or any of it’s countless derivative OS’s.
Install .deb files meant for others OS’s on antiX at your own risk, because you can harm your system.

P.

• This topic was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Brian Masinick.
• This topic was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Brian Masinick.
• This topic was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Brian Masinick.

[Anonymous]

Where have you found me blaming antiX? Up till now I was just asking… and making an attempt to joke (those smiles should imply a joke, you know…)
If my sense of humour is incompatible with this forum’s one, I could switch mine off.
No insult was meant, please excuse me if any.

I appreciate antiX devs’ hard work, otherwise I wouldn’t try this distro, and it is because of my appreciation that I post here.

Xecure wrote:

antiX use to default to startpage.com, but now Mozilla makes all new installations of Firefox reconfigure the default search engine to google.com
NOT antiX’ fault.
anticapitalista and the team already do more than what most people ask for

uxer wrote:

>This has come up before. Search the forum for an answer.
Have not found. Neither by built-in search, nor by external.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/search/firefox+google/page/2/
On the second page, somewhere below:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/why-is-google-the-default-search/
and you will see this:

anticapitalista wrote:

Actually, I just found out that it is firefox-esr 68 (or at least how debian package it) that is ignoring the distribution.ini file (used to set search engines etc).

Firefox newtab advertising

So, not a lot we can do about it except don’t use firefox-esr.

and this:

olsztyn wrote:

I am sort of puzzled why this would be considered a ‘bug’ of antiX distribution and as OS subject to criticism for the reason that producer of a major browser chose certain defaults which are considered targeted or biased.

Exhaustive answer, thank you, Xecure.

ModdIt wrote:

If you just start Firefox Moz and their bedpartner googli will love and laugh at you for falling for their deceit.
BEFORE CONNECTING TO INTERNET AND STARTING FIREFOX: Setup a policies.json in distribution folder, add a user.js, we use one from ghacks. Check all relevant privacy settings in firefox, Remove hidden extensions from browser features folder, Install No Script, any language packs you need. ALL OFFLINE. If that suffices for you connect to internet and use Firefox. Every update you must take action, at least once a month, update user.js, again remove the hidden extensions, do some reading..
Palemoon is much less privacy invasive and memory efficient, we use it as far as possible.

Valuable advices, thank you, ModdIt.
But as you can see, you have either easy-but-unsafe or safe-but-choreful ways… Life is hard…

I do respect Palemoon, but why haven’t you mentioned Basilisk, also by Moonchild?
Basilisk is somewhat more up-to-date, but both are rather obsolete afaik:
https://www.howtogeek.com/335712/update-why-you-shouldnt-use-waterfox-pale-moon-or-basilisk/
Palemoon vs Basilisk is a bit of confusion to me similar to antiX vs MX