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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Barnabyh wrote:

I would definitely vote for Seamonkey. It uses less resources than running a browser and email separately and I like the fact that it appears both modern enough and yet still traditional due to coming as a suite. It’s easy to customize and there are a ton of plugins and light themes to make it look more modern, even if not quite as many as FF and not all that have been written for FF are available and working in SM.

Palemoon has always crashed for me here, except in Puppy. For a stand-alone all-purpose browser, hate it or not, I would always suggest Chromium or even Google-Chrome these days, set up with a menu entry for Private Browsing Mode to launch directly.

I’ve always been a fan of Seamonkey, so I like the idea, too, but there may be other considerations that take priority, and therefore I’m happy to defer to what works best for the development team and their release priorities. We definitely have Seamonkey, Firefox, and many other Web browsers available in the Debian repositories, so this should not become a large issue; hopefully we can satisfy those who need a small system image and ease of use as some of our priorities; again, that’s a leadership choice, not mine. (always interested in what’s best for the overall effort)

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Brian Masinick

This post of mine at Palemoon forum is about a problem of inactive buttons appearing to a yahoo mail account.

No answer came, so I decided to give a try to Seamonkey. But, when trying to log into the yahoo mail account, it gives this message:

Yahoo recommends you upgrade your browser to enjoy all the features in the new Yahoo Mail.

Google Chrome……………………………………………[Upgrade]

Firefox…………………………………………………[Upgrade]

Continue using Classic Mail.
You should plan on upgrading your browser soon………………[Try it later]

I click on the “Try it later” button but, when the loading-bar is full-filled, nothing at all happens.

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

I ran a AntiX 14 beta/rc ? < can't remember > for years as AntiX progressed through version releases and changes. It was my emachine 3507 in the motorcycle shop.

I eventually broke it and bit the bullet and installed a newer version.

Some of my threads and posts are in the below link I will provide. Kinda a shotgun approach I know. But I am busy with re-building my motorcycles.

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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

Don’t know if anyone else is having this pbm. (since I could not find any direct help on Google), but it has been driving me crazy ever since Quantum came out:

When typing text into a text field that I’ve previously entered values into, a (very helpful) dropdown list box popps up showing previous entries that start with what I’ve typed in allowing me to select instead of fully typing it in (IF I want to use a previous entry). This box traditionally popped up just below the text field I’m typing in, but lately it pops up OVER the field preventing me from seeing what I’m typing – GRRRRRRRR! Anyway, with much searching and T&E, I found a SOLUTION to cause these popups to happen where they SHOULD, just BELOW the field:

In a terminal:
1) Go (cd) to your Firefox profile directory: /home/<user-id>/.mozilla/firefox/<profilename>
2) Create the directory “chrome” (mkdir chrome) if it does not already exist.
3) cd to the chrome directory.
4) Edit (or create if it doesn’t exist) the file “userChrome.css”
5) Add the following to it:

#PopupAutoComplete
{margin-top: 2em !important;}

6) Restart Firefox Quantum

Hi.
Congratulations on having tried/installed one of the best Operating Systems that consumes the least resources on your machine. Great for very old computers like mine.
antiX comes loaded with lots of applications. But what happens when you need an application that does not come with antiX out of the box?
Does the fact of using a low specs Operating System like antiX mean that you’r stuck with the applications it comes with? No. I’m not an expert and I’m aware there are several how-to’s on the site and all over the Net, But over the years I wrote down several notes to help me set up new applications. That’s what’s this is about. My aim is that this tutorial may come in handy to ease transition for people coming from Windows.

People, in recent years, got used to having an “AppStore”, Android and IOS devices have it. Some well known linux distros, like Ubuntu have it. Now Windows (since version 8, I guess) has one too (yeah, some Linux users got to have that first, take that MS 🙂 ).
Why not a single “Store” for everything? Beats me, I’m not a techie… But the reason is that there are several different ways that linux distributions (“distros” for short) use to install software, most of them incompatible with each other. So, no single “Appstore” for Linux.
Does antiX has an “AppStore”? Sort of… But not really. Here are your options to installing new software:

1-“Package Installer“- This is what that the most like an “AppStore”. It’s in Menu- Control Center- System- Package Installer (Sorry I’m using a non english system, but I belive that’s the correct english expression).
Yeah, that’s not very intuitive (if it was up to me I would up a link to it on the desktop), but it’s there. Once it opens, you have to type your password (demo is the default password for the live antiX system)
You have software/programs/applications available by type. You have a very good, but basic selection… Browsers like Chrome, Chromium and Opera are there, as is Java, Flash and pulseaudio (stuff that is usually a pain installing and configuring on many linux distros)… even a couple of games. Click the one you want and the system does everything for you and notifies you once it’s done. It opens a terminal windows. Don’t worry it won’t bite and you don’t have to do anything with it except typing y (or the equivalent letter for non english users to Ok the installation process)…
The main problem is that you don’t really have much offer of software/programs/applications here… So where to get more?

2-Synaptic– Newbies that are not used to the way many linux distros have to add new software may find Synaptic strange.
Synaptic has thousands of packets available for you to install, but it’s not as user friendly and the previous way. When you look for something there, you won’t only get the packet that corresponds to the application you want. You’ll see all the packets it needs to run or, simply packets that share the name that you searched on synaptic.
You can search for a word or a expression, and synaptic offers you the corresponding packets. The very good thing about it is that, like in an actual “Appstore” you don’t have to enter any command, it’s all done clicking your mouse. Synaptic automates everything for you: it usually downloads everything that the application needs to run (files called dependencies).
How to use Synapic: look for what you want to install on Synaptic. You can use the magnifying glass button for it (click it and type what you are looking for and a list matching that will appear). Select what you want. The system tells you if any what dependencies that app needs and tries to install everything. Mark them for instalation if that’s the case.
Click the “gears” button and confirm what you want to install. Synaptic really wants you to be fully informed about what you are doing, it tells you how many files you’ll download, how much space it’s going to take…
Wait for the install process to finish and when you get notified it’s done, fell free to close the window and exit synaptic. Your application is already installed. Look for it in the menu or run it from the terminal.

You can add new repositories, to add even more applications to the Synaptic database (for example, a VLC repository to have the latest VLC version, etc). Do it knowing that it may be risky and “break” your system. The repositories that come with antiX are the ones guaranteed to be 100% safe.

Example: If you want to install VLC media player with Synaptic click the magnifying glass button and type “VLC”. Loads of packets show up, not just the VLC application. It may be a bit strange if you are not used to it. But it’s really no big deal: scroll down, reading the packets discription if you want to learn a bit about how stuff works. Most times the package you want to install to get your application is just the one with exactly the name you want. In our case, scroll down to the “VLC” package, select it for instalation by left clicking the box next to it and choose “Mark for installation”, allow any dependecies it needs to be marked for installation. Click the “Gears” button and wait for the install process to finish. VLC will show up in your menu…

3-Installing Applications from files– Another way you can get new applications is search for them on-line, download and install them. This may be tricky… because, unlike on Windows or MacOS there are lots of ways of installing new applications (the following is a non compreensive list):

A)- AppImage applications– my prefered choice, after the previous two ways of installing applications. For me, it’s the simplest, more secure, way of adding applications to your system and being sure you don’t harm it (more on that bellow, on the topic about .Deb files)
Ever installed anything on a MacOS? I did it once, for a friend and it was strange. I had one single file. All I had to do was click it and it ran almost instantly, and was added to the system. What magic was this?
Well, using an AppImage it’s almost the same user experience. You can do it without using the terminal. Search on line for the AppImage you want (once again no good “Appstore” 🙁 , but https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages is a good place to start).
Download the application you want. Open it with your file manager. I use SpaceFM. Go to the folder where the file you downloaded is (usually “Downloads” :-)). Right click it. In the context menu that shows up the last option is “properties”. Put your mouse pointer over it and a new sub-menu appears: the second option is “permitions”. Left click it.
A new small window shows up. This identifies what several goups of users are allowed to do with the file, like “Read”, “Write”, “Execute”. It’s self-explanatory. Even if most Windows users don’t mess with that, the same options are available there… For security reasons, by default the “Execute” field is never selected for AppImage files. Select the first “Execute” box and click OK.
Now you can right click the Appimage file again and select Execute (it’s the first option from the menu).
Give it a few moments (depending on the Application size and your computer’s speed it may take a while or be instantaneous and the application starts running. It may even ask if you want to add it to the Menu and if the system should ask you that again, just like in a normal install. It’s up to you.
There are only 2 downsides to using AppImages: one is that, because the file includes almost every dependency it needs it may be veryyyy big… The other is that you have to allow the file to be executed only once, but you have to do it for every single AppĨmage file you download. At least it’s for a good cause: your computer’s security.
Appimage applications usually already come with the right versions of everything your application needs to run (i.e. their dependencies), so there’s no need to install anything else, and they’ll never “break” your system. The worst that can happen is an application refusing to run for some reason.
Most appimages are a bit (or very) old versions of the application (Chromium, for example has a version from 2016 there, it’s very fast and not very much memory hungry, but I’ll bet that’s not very secure now). Some, like LibreOffice include the latest version of the application, localized to your language!
You want to update your AppImage application? Download the new version, run it and feel free to delete the old one (you can have multiple versions of the same apps on your system this way, for example LibreOfficce 5 and 6 at the same time)

B)- FlatPak applications – it’s the same principle has “Appimage”. Your application comes in a single file that includes everything it needs to run.
Unlike Appimage, you have to install flatpak itself so you can install applications that come in flatpak format.
I only tried this out just to check out how it worked, I don’t really use it.
I was not aware of it until anticapitalista’s comment (thanks for that) that you should not use Flatpak under antiX because it depends on systemd that does not come out of the box with antiX. DO NOT INSTALL ANYHING USING FLATPAK.
In the case you are felling adventurous (or just in the future FlatPak ditches systemd), here’s how to use it:
Open Synaptic. Click the magnifying glass button. Type “flapak”. Select the package named… “flatpak” you guess it! Allow for any dependencies to be marked and install everything. You only have, of course, to do this once.
Not quite done. Follow the instructions on https://flatpak.org/setup/Debian/
Now you can install applications on Flatpak format. https://flatpak.org/ is a good place to look for applications. At the time I write this there are over 200 apps there (yeah, no google playstore, I know).
There’s probably an easier way to do this, but for test porpoises I download the Flatpak file I want (the flatpakref, really, it’s a small text file that tells Flatpak to download the correct file and install it with along with any other needed dependencies). Then use the terminal to install it with the command “flatpak install –system NameOfTheApplication.flatpakref”
Sorry, no examples, because you should not install anything with Flatpak 🙁

C) SNAP applications – another single file that usually contains everything the application needs to run. Like flatpak, you have to install Snapd it to be able to install Snap files. It was mainly used in Ubuntu, but some distros also began supporting it. It uses SystemD, something antiX does not, by default come with. There are work arounds to try to use snaps. You should not try installing anything via Snap on antiX. If you want you can read about the problems it has with antiX on https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/installing-and-running-snaps-without-systemd/3949

D)- Tar, Tar.gz or Tar.gz2 files- One way to explain this to a Windows user is like this: this are compressed files, like in ZIP or RAR format. You have to click them, and decompress them. Then, using your file manager, navigate your way trough the it’s folder and click and execute the executable file. Easy.
Do you want an example?
Let’s try geting the latest Firefox version:
-Go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=firefox-com
-Click the download button.
-Download the file. Notice that it’s name is something like FirefoxVersionNumber.tar.bz2
-After the download is done, if you used firefox, close all instances of Firefox running.
-Open your file manager, in my case SpaceFM. Go to the folder to where you downloaded the file, usually “Downloads”.
-Right click you file. this opens two menus- Open and Extract. Left click Extract. Wait for it to extract (usually a progress bar shows up on the bottom of SpaceFM)
-Now on your Downloads folder you have a new folder named something like FirefoxVersionNumber. Click it.
-It may have a new folder inside it with only the application name, “firefox” in our example. Click it again.
-Now you see lots of files and folders. It you are not already using it, switch options SpaceFM to view the file details. Some files are described as “executable”. Those are the ones you want (they are like the .Exe files from Windows). Click the “firefox” executable file. Wait for it to run. There, you can check it, now you have the latest version of firefox running.

There are positive and negative points on installing applications this way: on the positive side. It does not ever break your system. The most that could happen is that the application refuses to run because it does not have all the right dependencies. If so, tough luck. Wait for it to be available any other way or risk installing the dependencies using synaptic or any other way…
The negative side: this does not add any entry to the menu or icons to your bar or desktop. If you want to, you have to manually do that. It’s easy adding the application to your desktop. Just drag the executable “firefox” file to the desktop, like people do on Windows. That works an Antix 17.1 with Rox-ICEWM (Antix’s default desktop), it copies the executable file to the desktop, but you get an ugly “Gear” icon that you have to manually change.. 🙁
Sorry, I won’t get into details how to do that here, but i’ll give you a hint: right click the firefox “gear” icon that you just put on your desktop. One option is something like “Firefox File”. Put your mouse pointer over it and you’ll get a option that says something like “Set Icon”.Left click it. A new window shows up. Pay real attention and make sure you select the second option that sets the icon only to this executable file, not all executable files on your computer (I never done that, I have no way of telling you how to revert that). Leave this small window open. Open Spacefm and go to the your Firefox folder. For Firefox 59.x, click your way to browser/chrome/icons/default. There’ll see several icon files. Drag one to the “Set icon” window that’s on your desktop (I choose the default48.pcx file). Done. Yeah, more complex than on Windows but you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to do it… And Ups, I showed you how to set the right icon…Damn!

E)- .Deb applications- Once again I’m assuming that if you are reading this, you do not want to use the terminal/command lin/CLI. No problem. There are ways of installing Deb files using the graphical interface.
What are Deb files? Deb is the format that the Debian and it’s derivative OS’s, like Antix, use to install applications.
It’s the equivalent of a .MSI file on windows. All you have to do is to click the file you want and it should install.
When you use Synaptic, it’s really downloading, installing and configuring deb files related to the application you choosed.
Using Deb files is doing a more “manual” install than using Synaptic. Why risk doing it then? Well, the Deb files Synaptic uses are stored on-line on Repositories (Repo’s for short). Usually people that maintain a linux distro, like antiX try out the new applications to be sure there isn’t anything wrong with them running in their particular OS, that they can’t “break” your system. But this may take a long time or never happen at all.
Installing applications in this “manual” way may “break” your system! [Read anticapitalista’s on that, on his reply below] but usually if it goes wrong the worst than can happen is the application not running because of dependency problems…
So, if you are sure you trust that the application you want to install wont break your system and you need it, download it’s .deb file and install it.
How to do it?
First you have to be sure your Antix system has a graphical application that allows you to install Deb files.
The application you want is called “Gebi”. Look for it on Synaptic. If it’s not already installed, install it. Mark any dependencies it may need to run and wait for it to install.
Now get (example: download) and install the Deb file you want.
Do you want an example how to to it? Let’s try the latest Google Chrome version…
Side note1: My example, Chrome, has dependencies that need to be installed (on antiX 17.1 it needs the fonts-liberation package, but it runs fine without it). My advice is install Chrome from the Control Center first, no problems if that’s an older version. that will solve those dependency problems. Then install from the Deb file you want.
-Go to https://www.google.com/chrome/
-check if the selected version it’s the Deb (and not the rpm) and click the “download chrome” button then click the “Accept and install” button.
-Download the file
-Open your file manager, in my case SpaceFM. Go to the folder to where you downloaded the file, usually “Downloads”.
-Right click you file. Choose Open – Package Installer.
-Gdebi opens up your deb file. Click the “Install Package” button and wait for it to install.
-the latest Google Chrome version is now installed and should show up on the menu!
-Notice this particularity: because there is one dependency missing, Synaptic will warn you that you have one broken package and try to keep your system safe by deleting the Chrome version you installed!

Side note2: do you want to keep your system light and even so install Deb files? Use the terminal.
Open the folder to where you download your deb file with SpaceFM. Press the F4 key. The terminal opens up. It won’t bite you. It’s just a black window with white letters with the power to erase everthing on your hard drive :-).
The command you have to type looks like an alien language: sudo dpkg -i NameOfTheApplication.deb
In our example type the correct command is): sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
You’ll probably have to enter your password. Once again, you may have dependency problems. When it’s done, feel free to close the terminal window.
Neither Gdebi or dpkg will install any dependencies the application needs to run, they just install the application itself. Use the Control Center or Synaptic to be really sure you don’t ever have problems with applications or break your system.

F)- RPM applications. RPM are the equivalent of Deb files, but for other non Debian/Debian derivative Operating Systems. You can install a application called Alien from Synaptic and try to convert/install any Deb file you want to install RPM files. My advice is, don’t do it, unless you really have to.

G)- Compiling the application you need- once again, if you are reading this, it’s not for you.
This options is also available on Windows. It uses the source code of the application to build it from the ground up. It may take a long time to do that. I’m not a techie, this is not for me too 🙂

H)- Installing Windows Applications with WINE
This is most Linux’s new users holy grail. People are used to using MS OFFICE or need to use Adobe Premier or whatever.
To some extent you can do this, running Windows applications, I mean. Trying it won’t (to my experience) ever break your system. The worst than can happen is that the application crashes or refuses to run. If it messes up your system, just reboot, no permanent harm done (been there, done that).
This can be done using something called “WINE” (yeah Linux guys love giving applications very strange names, like WINE, Gimp, Gnome MPV, antiX 🙂 ).
WINE is not an emulator, it’s a compatibility layer.
Once again, install “WINE” from Synaptic. Then open up the .EXE file or .MSI file you want to install on your file browser, click it and run it. Some stuff, like very old small games used to run faster on WINE than on my Windows XP copy, on the same hardware. True story!
Most Windows applications won’t run under Wine. Older versions of MS Office seem to be able to install and run fine. I’ve never done that but I used MS’s Powerpoint Viewer and Word Viewer flawlessly. The last time I tried Windows portable apps don’t seem to run under WINE.
Google and read about running stuff on WINE of you want to… There are loads of tutorials about it.

Done!

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Howdy and Welcome. AntiX works well on my chromebook also.

$ pinxi -v8
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 4.15.9-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 dm: slim Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Google product: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: N/A Chassis: type: 3 serial: N/A 
           Mobo: Google model: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: N/A BIOS: coreboot v: 4.0-6588-g4acd8ea-dirty 
           date: 09/04/2014 
Battery:   BAT-X: charge: 31.3 Wh condition: 31.3/37.0 Wh (85%) volts: 17.2/14.8 model: SANYO AL12B32 
           type: Li-ion serial: 0000000000001D0F status: Full 
Memory:    RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Are you root? 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Are you root? 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron 1007U type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 2048 KB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 5985 
           Speed: 1001 MHz min/max: 800/1500 MHz Core speeds: 1: 1354 2: 1160 
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           chip ID: 8086:0156 
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: vesa,fbdev resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile version: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.9-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k v: kernel bus ID: 01:00 
           chip ID: 168c:0034 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 3c:77:e6:26:f5:b5 
           IP v4: 192.168.254.68/24 scope: global broadcast: 192.168.254.255 
           IP v6: fe80::3e77:e6ff:fe26:f5b5/64 scope: link 
           Card-2: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: N/A 
           bus ID: 02:00 chip ID: 14e4:16b5 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 20:1a:06:14:09:d9 
           WAN IP: 98.18.1.55 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 14.91 GB used: 25.78 GB (172.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: SD32G size: 29.72 GB serial: 0x61881eb6 rev: 0x0 
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: SanDisk_SSD_U100 size: 14.91 GB serial: 132553400495 rev: 6.14 
           Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 14.62 GB used: 4.64 GB (31.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 label: rootantiX 
           uuid: ea719934-26e3-4f25-af62-4f54438f456d 
           ID-2: /media/E10C-A032 size: 29.71 GB used: 21.14 GB (71.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/mmcblk0p1 label: N/A 
           uuid: E10C-A032 
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 size: 29.72 GB fs: root required label: N/A uuid: N/A 
USB:       Hub: 1:1 usb: 2.00 type: Full speed (or root) hub chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 1:2 usb: 2.00 type: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub chip ID: 8087:0024 
           Device-1: Chicony Ltd bus ID: 1:4 usb: 2.00 type: Video chip ID: 04f2:b336 
           Device-2: Foxconn / Hon Hai bus ID: 1:5 usb: 1.10 type: Bluetooth chip ID: 0489:e04e 
           Hub: 2:1 usb: 2.00 type: Full speed (or root) hub chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 2:2 usb: 2.00 type: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub chip ID: 8087:0024 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Active apt sources in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch stretch main nosystemd
           Active apt sources 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 sources 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 sources in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           No apt repos found in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
           No apt repos found in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes: CPU  % used - Command - pid - Memory: MB / % used - top: 5 
           1: cpu: 50.6% command: firefox-esr pid: 2198 mem: 751.3MB (26.1%) 
           2: cpu: 3.4% command: [kworker/0:3] pid: 148 mem: 0.00MB (0.0%) 
           3: cpu: 2.6% command: xorg pid: 2232 mem: 64.4MB (2.2%) 
           4: cpu: 1.0% command: lxterminal pid: 4034 mem: 20.3MB (0.7%) 
           5: cpu: 0.6% command: bash pid: 4036 mem: 4.75MB (0.1%) 
           Memory MB/% used - Command - pid - CPU: % used - top: 5 
           1: mem: 751.3 MB (50.6%) command: firefox-esr pid: 2198 cpu: 26.1% 
           2: mem: 64.4 MB (2.6%) command: xorg pid: 2232 cpu: 2.2% 
           3: mem: 36.7 MB (0.0%) command: python pid: 2563 cpu: 1.2% 
           4: mem: 34.0 MB (0.0%) command: spacefm pid: 2517 cpu: 1.1% 
           5: mem: 27.6 MB (0.0%) command: volumeicon pid: 2549 cpu: 0.9% 
Info:      Processes: 133 Uptime: 2:52 Memory: 2.81 GB used: 881.5 MB (30.7%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 
           runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 alt: 6 Shell: bash 4.4.12 running in: lxterminal 
           pinxi: 2.9.00-444-p 

Just posting with h2’s new beta version of inxi not available yet to the general public.

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=44328&hilit=pinxi+beta

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[Member rej]

Have to give up on this one, or at least postpone until/if momentum to pursue is regained…

Officially ran out of ideas on this. It seems to be FJ not allowing pulseaudio on both x64 & x86, how it is blocking it remains a mystery.

Google and Duck-duck-Go searched with “how to search” tips recommended on AntiX site, forum searches [tips and tricks, old forum, MX, and searched Ubuntu, Arch, Firefox, Chrome, etc], – tried all suggestions found, to no avail.

Applied WordPress FJ fix offerings, even if remote. Tried any suggestions found out there even if not for the versions installed.

Added Debian backports,testing to Synaptic to get a newer version of FJ, but only the firejail-profiles package was available through that section in Pkg Mngr and not what was found listed on the Debian site. So, tried to add “firejail-profiles”, which is what appears to be missing in the application launcher GUI, and a “broken packages” dialogue emerged. Tried to fix and was a no-go. Probably not compatible with the FJ 9.44 version anyway.

Compared individual folders & files between MX and AntiX relating to FJ and Pulseaudio along with any other config files found connected to them to see what settings might be different.

Tried installing FJ 9.50 from a .tar file and failed in numerous attempts. Viewed very good videos from XPSTECH. I have installed .tar files previously [not specifically in AntiX] with some complications, yet successfully. However, still could have missed something…

Tried new patched kernel and an older one. Lost all audio. Reinstalling package got it back. Pulseaudio seems somewhat unsettled occasionally. Chromium doesn’t need Pulseaudio for sound [with or without FJ] on the 32 bit PCs and the 32 bits have great volume, but Firefox does not have any sound without it [with or without FJ].

Some people having the same issue, have reported installing an updated version of FJ and it did nothing. If there is another way to get this updated version through Synaptic with debian repositories, I would certainly like to try, so that at least that possibility is covered.

Anyway, thank you all for your input and taking the time to help.

[Member rej]

Thanks for your help –

/usr/local/bin -screenshots attached

Could not find what would relate to panel-toggle. Other apps in there seem to function okay – mountbox – menu – wallpaper etc.

rj@antix17:~
$ locate systemd
/etc/apt/preferences.d/00systemd
/lib/systemd
/lib/systemd/system
/lib/systemd/system/geoclue.service
/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke
/usr/lib/systemd
/usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily
/usr/lib/systemd/user
/usr/lib/systemd/user/redshift-gtk.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/redshift.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/xscreensaver.service
/usr/share/man/man1/deb-systemd-helper.1p.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/deb-systemd-invoke.1p.gz
/var/lib/apt/lists/repo.antixlinux.com_stretch_dists_stretch_nosystemd_binary-amd64_Packages
/var/lib/apt/lists/repo.antixlinux.com_stretch_dists_stretch_nosystemd_binary-i386_Packages
rj@antix17:~
$

/home/rj/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/pan_PANEL
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<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<panel side=”Top”>
<options style=”1″ width=”18″ avoid=”1″ xinerama=”0″ monitor=”0″/>
<start>
<icon label=”Home”>~</icon>
<icon label=”Apps”>/usr/share</icon>
<icon label=”file-manager.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/antix/file-manager.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”rox-toggle.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/antix/rox-toggle.desktop</icon>
</start>
<end>
<icon label=”antiX-docs.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/antix/antiX-docs.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”firetools.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/firetools.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”florence.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/florence.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”google-chrome.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”firefox-esr.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/firefox-esr.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”leafpad.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/leafpad.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”libreoffice-writer.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”pinta.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/pinta.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”gimp.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”redshift-gtk.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/redshift-gtk.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”wicd.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/wicd.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”xscreensaver-properties.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/xscreensaver-properties.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”packageinstaller.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/packageinstaller.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”synaptic.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/antix/synaptic.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”screenshot.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/antix/screenshot.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”searchmonkey.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/searchmonkey.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”spacefm.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/spacefm.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”conky-toggle.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/antix/conky-toggle.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”automount.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/antix/automount.desktop</icon>
<icon label=”alsamixer.desktop”>/usr/share/applications/antix/alsamixer.desktop</icon>
</end>
</panel>

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The current Firefox ESR (extended support releases) branch is based on Firefox 52.
Prior to this week’s announcement, the projected end-of-support date for the Firefox52-ESR series was June 2017.

ref: Dec 20, 2017 post https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform

Firefox ESR releases have become increasingly popular among various organizations that aim to offer users a stable, long-term supported, and reliable browsing experience.

Firefox ESR 52.9 will be released on July 3, 2018, and will be the last release which supports use of legacy add-ons.
The support end-of-life for Firefox 52 ESR is set for August 28, 2018 (coinciding with the release of Firefox ESR 60.2.0)

[Anonymous]

toward clarification, some points:

• we, as users of firefox-esr (as shipped in antiX) are unaffected by this

• users of (the few, if any still standing) distros which actually curate and compile firefox (vs rebundling mozilla-issued binaries) are unaffecdted

• screenshot in roky’s post, above, is orthogonal to this latest fiasco.
One would need to be aware of the everchanging (across incremental releases) about:config preferences (prefkeys)…
…and would need to disable (cough… opt-out) “Shield Studies”

• this Mr.Robot thing (injected via mozilla auto-update, as a “system addon”) is just the latest manifestation of Mozilla’s repeated pursuit of dubious “partnerships” (e.g. ghostery-}cliqz , and pocket)

.
copypasted from elsewhere:

People aren’t upset over nothing, they are upset because Mozilla has betrayed their trust (again).

Mozilla states “Firefox is privacy-oriented”, and yet manages to ship it’s browser with bloat- and spyware out-of-the-box:
• Telemetry
• Shield Studies
• Pocket
• Flyweb
• Screenshots
• Google Analytics on about:addons
• Google Safebrowsing with site visits reported to Google

Why are these things being forced on me?
Yes, I can disable it in about:config, but do I really want to go out of my way to tighten up a supposedly privacy-oriented browser?

Then, their actions:
• Cliqz scandal.
• Telling users to switch back to Google default search engine.
• Turning AMO into malware heaven by not requiring reviews.
• And now, this Looking Glass scandal.

Add to that the fact that all privacy-related settings are opt-in.
You have to disable history, have to wrestle with cookies… wrestle to disable WebRTC (can’t fully disable, since back around ff v45) which is enabled by default and leaks your IP if you use VPN or proxy… disable phoning to Mozilla and Google. There are also super cookies (Dom storage) being enabled by default… referer header being sent to sites… speech recognition (yeah, why am I forced to have THAT in my browser?!?)… “camera stuff”, “screen sharing”, web telephony and who knows what else which is enabled by default in Firefox. It is actually pretty terrifying reading all that. Further details about these anti-features are explained in this AirVPN blog article

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

By the way, Firefox 57 really speeds things up and it competes well with the latest versions of Google Chrome and Chromium. At this point NONE of these browsers are “light” when it comes to memory consumption. In that regard, Dillo is a much lighter consumer of resources, but it’s also less capable when it comes to being able to handle the most up-to-date browser capabilities, and that’s where the most current *released* versions of Firefox really shine.
Firefox 52.0esr is reasonable in this regard, though Firefox 57.0.1 is arguably more efficient and capable in just about every other respect (except memory consumption, where all of the truly “capable” browsers are HEAVY memory consumers.

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Brian Masinick

[Member mmmmna]

I use Slimjet, a forked version of Google Chrome, which is stripped of the Google phone-home stuff. https://www.slimjet.com/ if you are interested. I dislike Firefox so much, I uninstalled Firefox before I installed Slimjet.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Tested in Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer on Windows 7 Enterprise.

Also tested on Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Seamonkey on Linux and I see no issues; nice job.

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Brian Masinick

[Forum Admin richb]

Looks OK in Opera, Firefox and Google Chrome.

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