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[Member PPC]

I have 2 suggestions:
1- Palemoon
2- Ungoogled-chromium- but this browser is NOT as far as I know on antiX repos, but you don’t have to risk installing it’s Debian 10 .deb file- you can use a .appimage (just download the file, make it executable and then run it, no installation needed) or the “Portable Linux 64-bit” – just download the compressed file, extract the files, run the binary. It’s chromium but a lot lighter!

As far as I know there’s no way to limit firefox RAM usage (maybe a guru here knows how to do that…) also, a very light browser, but ancient: surf (or better yet surf2 – it’s very minimalist- just a window to view webpages. It uses d-menu to enter a new web address… works with gmail, if it has the correct dependencies, also works with youtube) . You can launch the web page directly from a script or the terminal, like this: surf http://www.antixforum.com)

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[Member ModdIt]

For those who wish to use it Firefox 71 is released and has a changed about:config along with other great improvements which should save about , 002 milliseconds of starttime. sarcasm off.
Should you install it, disconnect from internet before first start and do your settings, remove the hidden extensions in browser/features unless you think you need them. Check, they may get autinstalled again, it happened to me.
Do your normal interface settings then abut config. chrome://global/content/config.xul will call the old about:config. It shows far more settings than the new one, likely as not it will soon be gone.
to get sound you will need to go to your firefox installation and do
patchelf –set-rpath /usr/lib/apulse libxul.so that is minus minus before set minus rpath in case the forum software messes that. For users without it install patchelf first.

I am now archiving versions as freshly downloaded packages. Might come in useful one day.

ghacks dot net among others has very good ongoing updated information on Firefox situation.

Mozilla will not care about users unless google stops paying them millions to avoid anti trust charges.

[Member PPC]

Hi! I’m a few days late into this post, so you probably should already have all the solutions to the questions in your Original Post, even so, just because this may be handy for other newbies (it stumped me a bit when I was a bit fresher using antiX):

In case you want to use “Firefox” and not “Firefox ESR” that comes out of the box with antiX full, you can, for example download the latest version from the mozilla website, or install it using the Control Centre. It runs fine but without audio. Like VW said audio in Firefox requires apulse. In antiX full I belive apulse comes installed out of the box. To have audio output you have to start it (from the terminal or a shortcut)

apulse firefox
(in case you installed Firefox from a deb file or from the Control Centre) or something like

apulse /full/path/to/firefox

…in case you just unziped the firefox files from the Mozilla website.

If you dig around the forum, there’s a post about automating running firefox with apulse. Or, if you use the deafault Icewm desktop, you could just add a icon that runs “apulse firefox” to the toolbar (just ask around if you need help with that)

The latest antiX, 19, is great, but I also had many problems mounting other partitions and internal drives, when I updated to that version… I didn’t want to mess with fstab so I just ran “gksudo mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt” (“sdb5” is the partition antiX refused to mount).
Because I use SpaceFm as my default file manager, I added a new menu entry called “Mount MX partition” to SpaceFM, that runs that exact command. (To do this open SpaceFM- Tools … and create the new menu there, it’s not hard… I currently have a couple more commands, one being “mount Google Drive”, the other mounts my android phone. SpaceFm is very flexible that way…

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• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by PPC.

I have recently discovered the extent to which certain companies,
and more companies than you imagine, are tracking us across the web
and joining up their data on us with each other.

After installing firefox I always go through the following routine
By doing these things, I believe that this makes it far more difficult
for any company to track me and make use of my data for free.

I make these suggestions so that others may benefit from them,
so others may question their usefulness and others may add to them.
Most of the suggestions are taken from this website
https://proprivacy.com/privacy-service/guides/firefox-privacy-security-guide
If you follow that guide be cautious as some of the suggestions go a little too
far and can diminish the functionality of some websites
Below I will only suggest those options and settings that I found to
be transparent and that will not interfere with the operation of websites

The plugins I install are
canvas Defender – this randomises canvas fingerprinting data
and makes it extremely difficult for trackers
to make use of any canvas fingerprint data

WebRTC leak Shield – an addon that helps to prevent sites obtaining
tracking data from “web storage cookies” that can
contain megabytes of data regarding your online habits

Referer Agent – This spoofs the data that your browser leaks out
it prevents sites putting together personally identifying
data. Instead of every site knowing your LAN IP address, OS
browser type, etc etc etc. It spoofs all that

umatrix — a lot like noscript but better – you have to allow scripts to operate
ublock origin — block adverts

In firefox if you type about:config in the url bar you will get to some settings
(If you have never done this before I suggest you stop here and learn about the about:config pages first)
If you know what you are doing
find these settings
browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled
setting that to false will stop sending data to google
phishing protection servers

browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled
set to false for the same reason as above

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
set this to false, because, if you cut, copy or paste something from a website,
then the website owners can get notified of exactly which part of a webpage you
have cut, copied or pasted.

media.peerconnection.enabled
Set to false, if you dont use P2P or videowebchat etc

That’s it really. I just wanted to share that with you all
Like I say, if you want to see where I got those ideas from it was here
https://proprivacy.com/privacy-service/guides/firefox-privacy-security-guide

It’s just a site I have bookmarked that tells you simply and clearly
some of the techniques tracking companies such as google and amazon
use to gather data on you and how to prevent that
I believe, from the little I know about Antix philosophy
that it fits in nicely with the raison d’etre of Antix

I hope someone finds this useful or can tell me more about this subject or add to it

• This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by nugget.

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[Member ModdIt]

Google Search is not the only problem.
Firefox is becoming a more perverse monetized advertising and tracking machine at a very fast rate and getting worse, maybe not yet on a level with Chrome but catching up fast..
In Mozillazine there are implications that about:config will disappear in the future, in any case the settings are a pain to understand and keep becoming more complicated. User settings are ignored in many cases as monitoring traffic shows. Waterfox and Palemoon along with TOR give the browsing function without the blatant tracking and telemetry plus pocket advertising trash. Monthly updates are in the pipeline which will repair damaged installations. Repair meaning screw up users privacy choices, contrive to trick them in to uploading their data through Pocket and bombard them with crappy ads.
Pocket was conveniently enabled in config on first start of my download which means handing over your data without control or choice. Remote connections were also enabled by default.
I intensely dislike the fact that there are hidden (from the user) extensions including a screenshot tool, usage unknown but as not needed deleted.

I only download versions with updates relevant to linux and disconnect from internet physically before first start, go through the settings to quieten it down best I am able.
Mozilla have been caught scamming users on several occasions, I think their claim to being the most private browser is blatant disinformation.
Maybe they are being forced to give them benefit of doubt, they are in US so can be ordered to do anything certain organizations wish for.

Hello. I just started using antiX19 and it is very nice, but why does every distribution that has a web browser include Google by default as the default search engine?

I like to think that when I am using a distro, that the creators are my kind of people, or at least on my side. In the included Firefox browser there are bookmarks to some radical websites, but Google is still the default search! And there isn’t even any noscript or other extensions to protect your privacy.

Why? It is hard to think that you are on my side, when you include Google, especially on a free and open source distribution. This is a really strange oversight for me. I guess it isn’t that big a deal for most people, but when you think about how easy it is for the developer to use startpage or duckduckgo, and how Google tries to track your identity it kind of is a big deal.

Please stop using Google as default search!

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

1st hit with google search term firefox-esr netflix

https://itsfoss.com/netflix-firefox-linux/

But I got the feeling you have not done a

sudo apt-get update

and

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

yet or even better. You are running live.

My version of firefox on this chromebook is 60.09.0-esr

Forgot to mention to turn on widevine plugin in browser plugins also after updating firefox.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by rokytnji.

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[Member PPC]

Probably the final version of antiX 19 is not very far away, but I installed beta3 on my desktop, with most of the stuff I listed on my OP and:
– BobC’s dynamic recent files menu
– yad-calendar as IceWM default calendar
– I customized SpaceFM and use it as as default FM- but I still have not been able to install and use any of the 2 “trash” plug-ins… 🙁
– Instead of installing GIMP, I just downloaded GIMP’s most recent Appimage, and have it in my Applications folder. because I almost never use it, but it’s a handy app to have, just in case I need it. I did the same with Audacity
– I also use Drill’s appimage for app and file search- it’s almost as fast at starting applications as Dmenu- a bit faster that the veryyyy nice and default App-select tool.
-So, my toolbar has icons for Show Desktop, Search (Drill), Switching applications (skippy-xd with a costume script that un-minimize all windows, so they all appear in the preview window) and volume (yad-volume), file manager, firefox, ungoogled-chromium, scanner and Writer
-Also now I use FreeOffice instead of WPS as my backup office suite – both are proprietary but very compatible with Ms Office – which is always handy.
-I tried out Dunst notification- the most recent version can be configured to show notifications with rounded corners- but I uninstalled it because nothing that I use (except for printing) shows any system notifications…
-Installed Perpermint’s ICE– for creating “webapps” – and I made .desktop files for the more commonly used MS Office on-line applications…
– Also I customized my Icewm menu – I commented out the Help and Desktop menus and some more features I don’t use, adding the highly useful dynamic “Recent files” menu (thanks BobC)…

A bit off topic:
antiX 19, with App-select (or Drill) as application launcher, dynamic (recent files and desktop) menus, skippy-xd, Spacefm as default file manager and Dunst installed has about the same functionality as a full featured Desktop Environment like XFCE – particularly now that antiX has a GUI way of adding icons to the default ICEWM toolbar, a recent files menu, great looking themes and fonts- all fitting together perfectly and in a seamless way!
You just don’t notice antiX runs in about third of the idle RAM of MX’s XFCE – It runs fast and very reliable and I can honestly say I don’t miss any feature from MX Linux (or Windows, for all you windows refugees out there) – they are all there, they may be on a slightly different place- but you can search for apps, easily add application start icons, use office applications and you favorite browser or even steam, without breaking a sweat (pun intended 🙂 )

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[Member PPC]

olsztyn wrote:

. Frugal appeared much faster overall than actually installed

My experience is that, on my very slow netbook, running from live USB had better performance than running from the installed version or frugal- Examples that I noticed: LibreOffice Writer opens up in about 3 seconds running form USB and in about 5 seconds running from Frugal (about the same as the older installed OS). Also noticeable delay running sm-tube- running from USB, the video opens up much faster (a 2 or 3 seconds faster- the video fires up almost instantly – in about 2 seconds when booting via USB). I have not noticed any more such differences. Probably firefox also starts a bit faster on USB, but I didn’t time it (it takes about 10 seconds to finish loading, a couple of seconds there isn’t very easy to notice). Usually I run ungoogled-chromium- on the Frugal I normally use, it takes some 5 seconds to load- I’ve not compared to running it from live USB…

Maybe my hard drive is so crappy that my USB 2 port has faster input/output?

( As always my advice is- if using a very old machine, unless you need a Firefox specific “function”, go for a lighter browser. In the extreme, try Surf browser, from the MX repo, you can’t get any lighter than that- unfortunately also not more barebones- its just a window that displays webpages, no address bar, nothing more- the best way to start it is something like “surf http://www.duckduckgo.com” or “surf http://www.google.com” and navigate your way around from there- I used it specifically like this: “surf http://www.gmail.com”- it acted like a mail “web-app” that takes only about 160Mb of RAM. Palemoon and several other browsers available from the Control Centre can be faster to start than FF!)

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[Member PPC]

Noman01 wrote:

what is and how do you find an Ungoogled-chromium and install it

That browser is a fork of Chromium, stripped from everything google related. It does not even directly the user to install extensions. It’s much lighter on the RAM than Chrome or Firefox, at least according to my experience…

You can download it from here: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/
the quickest way to take a look at it using the appimage (download it, make it executable and then run it). But the appimage is not up to date. Appimages may take a while longer loading because they have to be uncompressed on the fly…
You can also quickly test this browser using the “Portable Linux 64-bit”- just uncompress that file, navigate to the uncompresse folder and run the executable. It’s faster than the appimage to load, also it’s much more up to date.
You can also install the .deb files (requires you to install a couple of .deb files, not just the main one…, they are also available on the same on-line source)-
Of course you can always compile the latest version of the browser 🙂
In case you try using antiX 19, you can install the deb files for the most recent version of the browser…

Note: my live antiX 19b3, on a non nvidia video card netbook (the nvidia drive takes about 25 Mb of RAM), using only the IceWM desktop (without a file manager managing the desktop icons), with conky turned off, takes less than 100 Mb of idle RAM, and you got yourself a up to date Debian 10 computer, as fast and secure as can be!)

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[Member PPC]

Noman01 wrote:

After posting this question and seeing I wasn’t getting the question answered in a productive manner, I went ahead and gave it a shot and got it to worked. The purpose of doing this was to see if one it could be done, and to see if I could repurpose the machine instead of throwing it out and it worked. It a little slow but it works just fine for my needs and shows me that antix can be put on just about anything.

Hi! I’v never owned a Mac, but, probably would be nice if you explained how you got antiX to work on your machine, just in case any more users want to do the same, if they search tht forum, they’ll know what to do!
Also – about antiX being “slow”- if this has anything to do with RAM usage, you can try not using a file manager to manage your desktop icons, or even try using other desktops (I mean in Menu – Desktop – choose “ICE” or “JWM” or “Fluxbox”).
If you use your computer for internet browsing, Firefox ESR can take a long time to load- try another browser, even Chromium or Ungoogled-chromium- this last one loads in about half the time FF does on my old single core atom netbook, and even runs 720HD youtube videos (running on about 100% usage)…

One final word- I do understand why someone would not recommend installing antiX on a certain machine- maybe it can be said in a more tactful way… for example- if a user comes here saying he/she has a 8 Gb, quad-core computer, with licensed Windows 10 and MS Office 2019 and then say wants to use antiX for Office work, I would probably not recommend installing any other OS- that one just fits like a glove to that particular user… But most people use antiX (or Linux generally) just like Noman01 does- to revive old hardware, to be able to run a safe and updated system, or even for privacy, security or ideological reasons- those are all very good arguments to install antiX.

That being said, I’ve used Linux as my main OS for web browsing, office work, watching DVD’s and other video files, and even some gamming (some years ago).
Using Linux instead Windows/Mac can lead to some unfortunate restrictions on the computer’s use: like the fact that I can’t watch my tv streaming service in Linux (before it used Streamlight, that I never go to work with my service, and now my only option is using a Windows or Mac application – Wine installs that application with an error and then it refuses to run), Fortunately the trend is that software developers and turning more and more to web applications – that run just fine in Linux and in antiX particularly – I even have Ice On-line MS Word- just in case I need it for compatibility reasons).

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[Member PPC]

@BobC – Some feedback:

First thing I did today was testing v5 of your scripts… In my own personal perspective there’s nothing else I know it’s being developed that I believe antiX (IceWM desktop) is lacking on the user interface front, other than this “Recent files” dynamic menu!
In my single core 1800mzh CPU, the Recent files opens up instantly! So, for most users that have a computer with less than 11-12 years, it will be probably “instant” for them too!
“Bug”- I don’t really think this is a bug- because I don’t even think the icons were a essential feature but… I tested this on antiX 19 b3 Live, and when going to Menu- Desktop – Desktop folder – the default file manager .desktop file didn’t present an icon.
Suggestions- it always bugs me when different applications have the same icon… Having the “apps” icon in “Recent files”, “Desktop folder” and the “Applications menu” itself is a bit strange. Nice choice using the “File manager” icon on the “Drives” menu!

Side remark on your Firefox taking about 60 seconds to load – I use ungoogled-chromium (along with Firefox) – it starts much faster than FF (takes about half the time – so it should take about 30 seconds to load on your PIII) and takes wayyy less idle RAM than FF – it’s also the most “private” browser I know off (in the sense of sharing information with third parties, I don’t know if tor-browser does “phones home” or not – it’s chromium stripped of everything google related, you can’t even easily add extensions).
Also worth a mention is the “surf” browser- it’s a bit peculiar – it lacks even an address bar- it uses dmenu for the user to enter an web address- it’s really just a window that shows up webpages- no favourites, no history, nothing- but it’s as low specs as a modern browser can be- its modern enough to allow access to web mail and even youtube videos- taking almost no RAM in the process!
Also- for a extremely fast app launcher/ file searcher, you can try “Drill”. In my computer the drill.appimage (that has to be decompressed to run) starts in less than a second, and unfortunately app-select here takes almost 3 seconds (about 5 on my netbook) to start. Both are usable, but Drill is a faster way to find and start applications. On the down side, Drill only searches for the app’s name, not the description, like app-select does…

Very side remark/ suggestion – the work you did here, Bob, can be adapted for countless other uses… for example- recently I got to use a Windows 10 desktop (to be honest my computers run antiX and MX mainly because they are too low specs to run a modern Windows OS in a reliable way- I’m not a Open Software zelot- Linux just works for me) and I saw W10 had a “recently installed applications” entry on the menu. It would be a piece of cake to add that (recently installed packages, I mean) to the menu adapting your scripts… but I guess there’s no demand for that… It was just a way to illustrate my point…

@Everyone else:

For those that want to test drive this new menu entries, but are unsure what to do, it’s quite easy, but the fastest way I know implies that you have to open the terminal and paste a command there:
1- to be on the safe side, open a file manager (I use SpaceFM myself), make hidden folders accessible if they are not already ( press ctrl + h keys ) and navigate to /home/USERNAME/.icewm and back up the menu and preferences files (ex: copy them somewhere else).
2- download Bob’s scripts from https://www.antixforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/icewm-menu-5.zip
3- unzip that file and navigate to the uncompressed folder (I use SpaceFM to unzip it and navigate to the folder’s contents and press F4 to open a terminal on that folder’s path)
4- On the terminal, run:
sudo cp *.sh /usr/local/bin && cp menu ~/.icewm && cp preferences ~/.icewm && icewm --restart
5- if asked to, enter your password. After it’s done, you may close the terminal
6- Done! Now, if you click the menu, right below the “personal” entry, you see two new entries – “Recent files” and “Drives”. These entries are self explanatory… The third new entry is available under Menu – Desktop – Desktop folder.
Just in case you are wondering what’s the use of this “Desktop folder” menu, Bob has a compelling argument for it, all over this thread: it’s for users that have very low RAM available and want easy access to stuff on their “Desktop folder” and don’t want to “waste” RAM by using a file manager to “manage” the desktop – because if you are using one of the default antiX desktops ( icewm, jwm or fluxbox ) they don’t show desktop icons by themselves- a file manager is always running, managing those icons…

-If you want to “uninstall” these new menu entries, simply copy the backup copies you made in step 1 to /home/USERNAME/.icewm
If the “dynamic” entries are still in the menu, you may have to: Menu – Logout (right arrow) – Restart IceWM

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Guess I’ll post a example of what I need to move to hardware. I like moving successful antix installs in to the hardware section when I notice a thread .

harry@biker:~
$ inxi -v8 -z
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 5.2.3-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
           info: icewmtray dm: SLiM 1.3.4 Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Google product: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Google model: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: coreboot v: 4.0-6588-g4acd8ea-dirty date: 09/04/2014 
Battery:   ID-1: BATX charge: 30.3 Wh condition: 30.3/37.0 Wh (82%) volts: 17.2/14.8 model: SANYO AL12B32 type: Li-ion 
           serial: <filter> status: Full 
Memory:    RAM: total: 3.79 GiB used: 1.01 GiB (26.7%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron 1007U bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) 
           stepping: 9 microcode: 17 L2 cache: 2048 KiB bogomips: 5986 
           Speed: 1213 MHz min/max: 800/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1479 2: 1174 
           Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl 
           dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept erms est flexpriority fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr 
           nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp rep_good sep 
           smep ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic 
           xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
           Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0156 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip ID: 8086:1e20 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.2.3-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Foxconn driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 0400 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0034 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: 0400 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:16b5 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           WAN IP: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 14.91 GiB used: 7.15 GiB (48.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SSD U100 16GB size: 14.91 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B 
           speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 6.14 scheme: MBR 
           Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 14.91 GiB size: 14.62 GiB (98.01%) used: 7.15 GiB (48.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           label: rootantiX uuid: ea719934-26e3-4f25-af62-4f54438f456d 
Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:       Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 
           Device-1: 1-1.1:5 info: Foxconn / Hon Hai type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 0489:e04e 
           Device-2: 1-1.3:4 info: Chicony type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 04f2:b336 
           Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/MX.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://mxlinux.unc.edu.ar/mxlinux/antix/stretch stretch main nosystemd nonfree
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes: CPU top: 5 
           1: cpu: 46.0% command: firefox-esr pid: 3244 mem: 328.0 MiB (8.4%) 
           2: cpu: 19.1% command: firefox-esr pid: 3182 mem: 491.7 MiB (12.6%) 
           3: cpu: 4.0% command: xorg pid: 2414 mem: 61.1 MiB (1.5%) 
           4: cpu: 0.5% command: conky pid: 2784 mem: 10.4 MiB (0.2%) 
           5: cpu: 0.5% command: conky pid: 2953 mem: 12.4 MiB (0.3%) 
           Memory top: 5 
           1: mem: 491.7 MiB (12.6%) command: firefox-esr pid: 3182 cpu: 19.1% 
           2: mem: 328.0 MiB (8.4%) command: firefox-esr pid: 3244 cpu: 46.0% 
           3: mem: 76.3 MiB (1.9%) command: firefox-esr pid: 3437 cpu: 0.0% 
           4: mem: 61.1 MiB (1.5%) command: xorg pid: 2414 cpu: 4.0% 
           5: mem: 34.2 MiB (0.8%) command: python pid: 2938 cpu: 0.0% 
Info:      Processes: 134 Uptime: 21m Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 alt: 6 Shell: bash 
           v: 4.4.12 running in: lxterminal inxi: 3.0.33 
harry@biker:~
$ 

See that code box on the tool bar. I hit that first . Looks like nothing happened. But if you look at the button. It switched from code to /code. I paste my inxi -v8 -z readout before I hit the /code button . That is how I keep track of invisible code tags < My eye sight on a chromebook is questionable >

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Hallo BobC, Thanks for the input, maybe not clear enough that we are more than a household, Bit of a slowdown right now though, in winter I will be offering Linux and coffee in the kitchen, maybe in a local restaurant too.

AntiX , MX, Devuan, Manjaro are jewels in the Linux landscape but most of the general public or kids in schools know nothing about them. Yes I do know Manjaro has systemd which I personaly dislike, I like Manjaro though. Great devs too. Its user choice. Bring what you have, For a donation to installed distro will also consider coming to users home. We will install most anything except for pirated software.

One major reason: Im really sick of good hardware going to what here is called a recycling center. Actually they let nobody take anything away from that place, just destroy what is recieved.

Maybe the toolbar should have things everyone uses ALL the time.

Yes set up pretty much that way already, we called regular usage once in two weeks. That has agenda reasoning..

Maybe use the personal menu for things that you load for everyone that are less commonly used than the toolbar items but too much effort to find from the menu.

We really trimmed our menu down as far as shown items is concerned. Some starters just in the toolbar config only worked after adding to personal, it works now

Icons on the desktop is no, we have decided to keep it without clutter. Linking to important folders is easy enough from the taskbar. Anything else right click on the desktop. Soon my thinking is to assign some shortcuts, maybe like winkey W LO writer, Winkey C, for calc, Winkey M for claws. Thats more about kids learning that this is their system, apart from the core system they can safely change most anything. As long as they keep saving important data that is.

Really important stuff, internal drive, external drive and live stick usb storage which gives a plugin, boot, continue to work solution. One major reason why I promote and support AntiX.

Until I can figure out how to make a headless browser canary Conky will stay. I also found it really useful while stopping Firefox LTS and Quantum sending so much up to Mozilla and Google, maybe elswhere too. Silent updates are blocked. User.js no longer works in the LTS or downloaded quantum bundle. In both experiments were enabled, only place that is mentioned is mozilla zine or privacy notice. Big story, off topic, too big for this thread. For our friend Chrome or chromium is a far worse privacy nightmare. No way.

In case of interest this is one master switch in Firefox current:
datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled Change to disabled.
Crash reporting is dangerous, it saves and sends a memory dump. Can be triggered with default settings.
How Convenient.

Where do I go to change the menu entry Wünsche, gave up trying to find tahat.

Thanks for your good input. Moddit

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BobC wrote:

Yes, I rerecorded the audio portion, and uploaded the revised video.

Great work, once again, Bob. I’m assuming you found a video editor application that works for you!

Side note (off topic)- I commented on the importance of app-select and on the fact that I used dmenu and j4demu- I was not implying that any of those options should be used instead of app-select! They use a interface that most users would not feel confortable with (I did get used to it, because of it’s speed, but I realize that I’m not exactly a average computer user). Rofi has a more “main stream” interface, but I tried it just around the same time I began really using app-select… When I finally install antiX19 final on my netbook, I’ll have to decide if I’ll add a icon for j4-dmenu or just stick with app-select just because of this very particular user case: my netbook is about 10 years old and a single core atom with 1 gig of shared RAM. Opening app-select on that machine takes almost 5 seconds- it’s about the time it takes me to navigate the main menu and click “synaptic”. Using j4-dmenu on that very machine, it opens in less than a second. I just type “syn” and press enter and synaptic launches. I don’t use synaptic enough to have a toolbar quick start icon for it, but when I’m struggling, trying to install some apps and their dependencies, it helps having a lightning way to start synaptic. I usually don’t leave synaptic running because of memory contraints 🙂
Out side this very particular case, I jump at every change to use toolbar desktop icons (I even created a gui script to add icons to IceWM’s toolbar) or run Dave’s app-select. I believe I was one of the first users to try it and offered some initial input.

To the Dev’s– For some reason, yesterday, I lost my cabled connection again- once again, closing the wired connection on connman and starting it again was enough to recover the connection, it just took a few seconds… I’m I the only user on cabled internet that reports this situation? Before it used to happen on wireless (I’ve not been testing wireless on that particular netbook). I also report the same bug already mentioned here- running a19b3 live on USB and selecting JWM leaves me unable to use the menu to change back to IceWM (or any other desktop)- I can only do so on the F1 login menu…
Also the default mouse pointer (black) that turns into a white pointer finger when I over a link, and not the usual black one… (this is a small glitch only, that I got used to).
Other than these problems, smooth sailing all the way… antix 19b3, with JWM with black theme (available out of the box), firefox ESR (plus a old FF ESR version to use with JAVA), ungoogled chromium, gnome mpv, smtube and libreoffice and some little applications (like skippy for window switching) and scripts are *almost* everything I need for my daily computing for work and watching YouTube cartoons with my baby girl 🙂 – I only notice I’m not using a brand new machine when opening the browser or a office program- because of the small delay…
One can never say enough thanks for this wonderful “little” (on resources consuption) amazing OS, that keeps old computers working like they are supposed to!

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