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[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

the widevine drm plugin does not work on 32 bit systems.

from the help link by the firefox drm settings

Playing DRM-controlled content in Firefox
Note: Google Widevine ended support for 32-bit Linux on May 31, 2021. Only 64-bit Linux is supported.

After an uneventful install of release 22 followed by a general install of preferred packages followed by a general update, and using icewm, I noticed that ungoogled chromium when selected, loads up, briefly shows a window saying it wasn’t shut down properly, then unloads itself.

I am now using Firefox ESR without difficulty. The install preserved the previous $home. I have been trying to convert to other browsers knowing that chromium has many unanswered questions, so I do not regard this problem as a disaster but would like to know if there is a suggested fix?

I was most gratified to note that the troublesome connman appeared and worked without prompting or tinkering, and once told my passphrase has done so ever since! Full marks!

[Member calciumsodium]

For me, who knows very little about computers and programming, I contribute and give back to antiX by testing some of the software and scripts. But I think I gain more by contributing and participating. During my time participating in the forum, I have learned about the difference between sysvinit and runit init systems. I learned about the runit-service-manager and how it manages the different runit services. I learned the difference between slim and slimski. The difference between rox and zzzfm. The difference between icewm and fluxbox. The difference between libre kernel and the antiX kernel. Which then led me to learn about the trisquel kernel. Then I learned about liquorix kernel, then the xanmod kernel, and the debian kernel. Then I learned about the different browsers: links, links2, lynx, falkon, seamonkey, firefox-esr, firefox, chromium, abrowser, librewolf, ungoogled chromium, google-chrome. Then I learned about libreoffice and openoffice. Then I learned about some of the scripting that allows one to choose preferred applications. I learned about and use all the software and scripts that I have mentioned because of direct testing and participation in the forum. Therefore, I participate in the forum to learn. Hopefully others can also participate in a respectful and cooperative spirit.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

ModdIt wrote:

Hi all, please take a look at

https://github.com/imperviousai/imp-browser

Looking at the build instructions
Seems Its a firefox fork with tarty lipstick. No privacy policy, geolocation compiled in

Will definitely stick with serious projects, UngoogledChromiumk and Librewolf.

I’m with you!
I’ll definitely pass on this one.

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Brian Masinick

[Member ModdIt]

Hi all, please take a look at

https://github.com/imperviousai/imp-browser

Looking at the build instructions
Seems Its a firefox fork with tarty lipstick. No privacy policy, geolocation compiled in

Will definitely stick with serious projects, UngoogledChromiumk and Librewolf.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

What is your plan with the NUC? Home theater PC? Seems like it would be a good form factor to attach to a large TV with Kodi or other media software.

I already did that with a Dell 755 Tower running MX 21 Fluxbox . I use my bookmarks and password login for my roku accounts online.
That Dell was free from city hall when they upgraded their servers. Had to upgrade Windows so the Dell was going to the dumpster.
I have the ancient nvidia card working on that box with the nvidia 390 driver. So watching movies is a breeze on that old server.
I watched Hell or High water

Right now. Just concentrating on getting it to display and boot something on it. See what works and what does not. See if efi partition is gone.
Stuff like that. Check bluetooth and stuff. AntiX for sure though. Kodi not needed since wife pays for roku account. External hard drive will be 500 GB.
To makeup for the small ssd. I won’t need it to automount though. Pretty simple stuff at first. Not sure yet what hunt I will sic that dog on. Land line for right now.
Could become wireless and moved to the shop later. Never played with NUC before. Virgin Territory.

Sorry I am hijacking your thread Brian. Bad admin !!!!!!!

Bedtime now. Knowing me. I won’t lose any sleep over it.

Edit. To stay on point

$ inxi -zv8
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 10.2.1 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp
    root=UUID=f8bed57e-e7fa-4754-b8eb-33b70943f063 ro quiet
  Desktop: IceWM v: 3.1.0 vt: 7 dm: slimski v: 1.5.0
    Distro: antiX-21_x64-full Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux
    11 (bullseye)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E4310 v: 0001
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0T6M8G v: A01 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell
    v: A03 date: 07/08/2010
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 33.7/48.8 Wh (68.9%)
    volts: 12.4 min: 11.1 model: Samsung SDI DELL RM6618A type: Li-ion
    serial: N/A status: full
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.7 GiB used: 1.14 GiB (14.8%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
    required.
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5 M 520 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Westmere
    gen: core 1 level: v2 built: 2010-11 process: Intel 32nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 0x7
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2064 high: 2545 min/max: 1199/2400 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 2545 2: 1442
    3: 1766 4: 2503 bogomips: 19151
  Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov
    constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept est
    flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx
    monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs
    pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdtscp rep_good sep smx ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1
    sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx vnmi vpid
    xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode;
    SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915
    v: kernel arch: Gen-5.75 process: Intel 45nm built: 2010 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: intel dri: i965
    gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP1 model: Seiko Epson 0x5441 built: 2010
    res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 118 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red: x: 0.592 y: 0.349
    green: x: 0.322 y: 0.537 blue: x: 0.153 y: 0.114 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329
    size: 293x165mm (11.54x6.5") diag: 336mm (13.2") ratio: 16:9
    modes: 1366x768
  EDID-Warnings: 1: parse_edid: unknown flag 0
  API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (ILK)
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 5
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b57
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound API: ALSA v: k5.10.57-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
  Sound Server-1: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: 6040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:10ea class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    modules: wl pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:422c class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
    driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-1.1:3 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1
    lmp-v: 4.0 sub-v: 22bb hci-v: 4.0 rev: 22bb
  Info: acl-mtu: 310:10 sco-mtu: 64:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
    link-mode: slave accept
  Device-2: Dell DW375 Bluetooth Module type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 2-1.7:4 chip-ID: 413c:8187 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: ID: hci1 rfk-id: 4 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.0
    lmp-v: 3.0 sub-v: 4203 hci-v: 3.0 rev: 205
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:8 sco-mtu: 64:1 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
    link-mode: slave accept
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 55.9 GiB used: 40.81 GiB (73.0%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SV300S37A60G
    size: 55.9 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: BBF0 scheme: MBR
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TSSTcorp model: DVD+-RW TS-U633F rev: D500
    dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
    rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 53.02 GiB size: 51.88 GiB (97.86%) used: 40.81 GiB (78.7%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: rootantiX21
    uuid: f8bed57e-e7fa-4754-b8eb-33b70943f063
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.87 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: swapantiX
    uuid: 1e9cc9ac-922d-4be4-92f4-8de90b7bcd7a
  ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 473.1 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 473.1 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram1
  ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 473.1 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram2
  ID-5: swap-5 type: zram size: 473.1 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram3
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0020 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-1.1:3 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI
    mode) type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
  Device-2: 2-1.7:4 info: Dell DW375 Bluetooth Module type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 413c:8187 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 2-1.8:5 info: Broadcom BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor
    with fingerprint swipe sensor type: Smart Card driver: N/A interfaces: 2
    rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0a5c:5801 class-ID: 0b00
    serial: <filter>
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1664 libs: 789 tools: apt,apt-get,synaptic
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
    1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/bullseye/ bullseye main nosystemd nonfree
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bullseye-backports.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 176
  1: cpu: 11.9% command: firefox-esr pid: 17699 mem: 544.6 MiB (6.9%)
  2: cpu: 9.0% command: firefox-esr pid: 26071 mem: 188.2 MiB (2.3%)
  3: cpu: 2.1% command: xorg pid: 1865 mem: 43.5 MiB (0.5%)
  4: cpu: 0.3% command: conky pid: 2357 mem: 10.0 MiB (0.1%)
  5: cpu: 0.3% command: roxterm pid: 32151 mem: 29.1 MiB (0.3%)
  Memory top: 5 of 176
  1: mem: 544.6 MiB (6.9%) command: firefox-esr pid: 17699 cpu: 11.9%
  2: mem: 188.2 MiB (2.3%) command: firefox-esr pid: 26071 cpu: 9.0%
  3: mem: 156.6 MiB (1.9%) command: firefox-esr pid: 17831 cpu: 0.2%
  4: mem: 84.3 MiB (1.0%) command: firefox-esr pid: 17780 cpu: 0.0%
  5: mem: 65.5 MiB (0.8%) command: firefox-esr pid: 27993 cpu: 0.0%
Info:
  Processes: 176 Uptime: 2h 30m wakeups: 3 Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5
  default: 5 tool: service Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4
  running-in: roxterm inxi: 3.3.23

Chromebook went beddy bye.

• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by rokytnji.

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

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Yeah, I think some of those reasons were the reasons why I moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice in the first place.

So what I’ll do is keep this App Image of OpenOffice around for antiX, but for any actual needs I may have in the future I’ll either use LibreOffice or I will go to the local library and endure whatever software they have; last I went to the local library, at least they offer Google Chrome and Firefox on their desktop computers; yeah, it’s still not what we prefer but it’s better than being forced into IE or Edge unless we want to use them.

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Brian Masinick

[Member PPC]

Dear moderators (I already talked about this in Mr Masinick)- below is an updated version for the original post of this thread (as far as I know, no perfectly up to date). Feel free to insert the changes in the OP and then delete this post!

####

(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. I’m also assume you are using antiX’s “Full” version)- This version of the Original Post was altered in 4/10/2022

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, and end up needing to reinstall it.

P.

• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by PPC.
• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by PPC.
• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by PPC.

[Member ModdIt]

Works exactly the same way in UngoogledChromium

but, without phoning to starshp one HQ to say you did so.

Move tab to new window is also available in LibreWolf

No Telemetry.
With standard settings Firefox sends a newtab/new window ping to Mommyzilla.
Chromium is as chatty as a spy in your bedroom, total privacy loss.

• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by ModdIt.
• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by ModdIt.

[Member oops]

PPC wrote:

Yes. Palemoon is faster and saves resources, but, on the other hand, in my experience, it breaks some sites (like github, etc)…
-For full web compatibility use: Chromium (only for 64 bits systems, I think) or Firefox / Firefox-esr
-For full web compatibility + some extra privacy: Ungoogled Chromium / Brave (?) / LibreWolf ( all only available only for 64 bits)
-For a lighter browser, try (like Ninos mentioned) Falkon, qutebrowser, palemoon (and I add Min Browser, Otter and Netsurf)
-For reading blogs /news sites/ simple websites- Links (provided out of the box in antiX)

For full web compatibility + some extra privacy: I have just tried Thorium (look like nice too and fast, but not light, for amd64 only)
https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium
https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/releases/tag/M109.0.5361.0
thorium-browser_109.0.5361.0_amd64.deb 147 MB 14 days ago

Thorium is always built with the latest x64 tip-o-tree “Trunk” build of Chromium.
Intended to behave like and have the featureset of Google Chrome, with differences/patches/enhancements listed below.

FEATURES & DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHROMIUM AND THORIUM
Various compiler flags that improve performance and target AVX CPU’s (read PATCHES.md)
Experimental MPEG-DASH support.
HEVC/H.265 support on Linux and Windows.
JPEG XL Image File Format turned on by default.
Enable Live Caption (SODA) on all builds.
Experimental PDF annotation support (called “Ink” on ChromiumOS). # DISABLED FOR NOW BECAUSE OF CRASHES.
Patches from Debian including font rendering patch, VAAPI Patch, Intel HD support patch, native notifications patch, title bar patch, and… the VDPAU Patch!! (Rejoice Nvidia users)
VAAPI on Wayland Patch (Thanks AUR and @pierro78)
Audio Sandbox patch.
DoH (DNS over HTTPS) patches from Bromite.
Enable Do Not Track by default patch from Vanadium.
Show full URLs including trailing slashes in address bar by default.
Disable FLOC patch.
Disable annoying Google API Key Infobar warning (you can still use API Keys to enable sync) from Ungoogled Chromium.
Disable annoying Default Browser Infobar warning.
Adds DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Ecosia, Ask.com, and Yandex.com in US and other locales, along with the normal search engines.
Always use the local NTP (New Tab Page) regardless of search engine.
Fix icons when distilling page content in Reader Mode.
Enable new Menu UI when right clicking the Reload button. (Adds ‘Normal Reload’, ‘Hard Reload’, and ‘Clear Cache and Hard Reload’)
Home button and Chrome Labs shown by Default.
Prefetch settings updated to respect privacy.
Patches for GN and chrome_sandbox when building.
Remove the addition of the Chrome APT sources.list during installation.
Widevine CDM Patch for Linux.
Enable Parallel Downloading by Default.
Inclusion of pak (Linux) and pak_mingw (Windows), a utility for packing and unpacking the *.pak files in Thorium or any other Chromium based browser.
Logo and Branding/Naming changed to the Thorium logo, Thorium name, and “Alex313031” being appended to “The Chromium Authors” in credits, etc.
.desktop file includes useful cmdline flags that enable experimental or useful features. (See PATCHES.md)
Includes installer patches and files to include ChromeDriver and thorium_shell (content_shell), with a .desktop file being provided for thorium_shell (named thorium-shell.desktop and shows in desktop environments as Thorium Content Shell). These are also included in the Windows releases, but it doesn’t make a shorcut, although a .png and .ico is in the install directory for you to make your own shortcut with an icon. You can also run content_shell with the command thorium-shell (custom wrapper for it, located in /usr/bin/). You can run ChromeDriver at /usr/bin/chromedriver or chromedriver.exe on Windows. Also, patches for abseil library and mini_installer when building with AVX on Windows.
Right clicking the launcher after install gives three additional desktop actions, one to open thorium-shell, another to open in Safe Mode which disables any flags one has set in chrome://flags until the next launch, and lastly to open in Dark Mode which appends the –force-dark-mode flag….

EDIT:
Installation/Auto-Update
The repo can be used on any distribution that supports .deb packaging.
It is located at https://dl.thorium.rocks/
https://thorium.rocks/

• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by oops.

What you can do with most recent antiX 22 on an 18 years old 32 bit notebook.

Part 1: How to turn your so called “deprecated” device into a Steinway grand piano.

It’s about sound here. About high quality sound, not about some rattling or tinny squawk you might expect when reading 32 bit. It’s about near studio quality synthetisation of sheet music scores using your home equipment.

I’m not going to run a realtime kernel for this, since this would have some drawbacks in everyday usage oft the notebook, while it improves the precision of sound processing. The programs work fine also without RT, at least when we are not talking about true studio quality output (which would require professional sound fonts anyway).
No need to have pulseaudio installed for this, it works perfectly fine on plain alsa (but you can use it if you prefer, and if your system has the power to run pulse without bricking)

First step: Connect the audio “line out” plug of your notebook to your home stereo amplifier equipment. If you have good quality speakers connected to it, you’ll perceive a true Steinway grand piano you can play on in your living room. But you might use earphones of good quality as well in order not to disturb the neighbours, if they are not used to hearing you playing piano through the walls…

sudo apt-get install qsynth fluidsynth libdrumstick-rt-backends vmpk frescobaldi lilypond lilypond-fonts lilypond-data pmidi

Then download e.g. the file “Nice-Steinway-v3.9 (204mb)” from soundfonts4u (ok, that’s a google link, I know.)

Save it to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 system folder. Put all soundfont files you like to try there. (On an antiX live system or in antiX frugal install you’ll need to remaster, so your memory isn’t filled up by this as long it isn’t actually loaded by fluidsynth.

By trying different soundfonts you can compare how a piece sounds differently when played on the different pianos. (This is why great pianists select their instrument when concerting, from a large collection available in the big concert halls usually, these get even trimmed and specially prepared by piano tuner or piano technician to meet precisely the artists needs before each concert.)

Start qsynth from the “antiX → programs → media” menu first.

Press “Configuration” button. From the Config menu for the first sound module you are going to create now, activate in the tab “midi” the Checkbox “Activate Midi input”, and select “alsa_seq” for driver. Default channels setting to “16” is fine for now, you might want to adjust this according to your needs later. Midi bank settings: “gm”. Midi client name ID (ALSA/CoreMidi): “qsynth”.

From tab “Audio” select

Audiodriver: alsa
Resolution : 16bits
Samplingrate: 44100
Buffersize: 64
Buffers: 2
Audiochannels: 2
Audiogroups: 1
Polyphonie: 256

Again, you can adjust later to what you like best, e.g. a Sampling rate of “48000” or resolution “float”.

In tab “Soundfonts” click on the button “open”. Select the downloaded soundfont. You can add multiple soundfonts here and change their sort order of usage, but please be aware these are all loaded into RAM now. So if you have not really much RAM installed, make sure not to load more than a single soundfont at a time. Also make sure the font doesn’t exceed your installed memory, then you’ll get into trouble…

Accept all your changes by clicking “OK”.
Don’t touch anything in the “Settings” tab.

In the qsynth main window deactivate “Corus”, it doesn’t make any sense for Piano solo. But you can decide whether you want to activate “Hall” or not, and play a bit with its settings. Adjust master amplification to what you need.

Now keep this qsynth window open (you might minimise it if you like), while setting up the piano keyboard.

Start “VMPK” from the “antiX → Programs → Media“ menu.

It will probably not stay open, if you have not installed pulseaudio. If this happens, you’ll need to apply a manual workaround to allow it coming up:
Walk in zzzFM into the config folder of vmpk in your home folder, e.g. “/home/demo/.config/vmpk.sourceforge.net” and open the file “Keyboard.conf” either with geany or with leafpad. Enter the following lines right at the beginning of this file, above the existing entries:

[Connections]
AdvancedEnabled=false
InEnabled=false
InPort=
InputDriver=ALSA
OutEnabled=false
OmniEnabled=false
OutPort=
OutputDriver=ALSA
ThruEnabled=false

Save the file and close it.
Then restart VMPK from the “antiX → Programs → media” menu.

This time it should come up properly even without pulseaudio present, on plain alsa. It was set up poorly by the developers or maintainers only, so you can’t even reach the GUI to fix the settings when pulse is not present. Funny thing.
It will consume way less system load when running on plain alsa, so it is feasible even on old 32bit hardware. On my 32bit notebook the fluidsynth/qsynth process consumes around 15 to 20% CPU when playing, and the VMPK or “Frescobaldi” process another 5 to 30% (depending on complexity of score), which makes not more than something between 20 and 60% CPU load when processing and playing sound directly from scores in a really fine sound quality, stereo.

Form the VMPK Menu “Edit” open “MIDI settings”.
Uncheck “MIDI input”
Set MIDI-Out Driver to “ALSA”.
Check “Show Advanced connections”.
From “Connection of MIDI-output” select “FLUID-Synth (qsynth):0”
Accept by clicking “OK”.

Again from the “Settings” menu open “Settings”,

Set Number of keys to 88,
First Key: A
Key assignment: Click "open" button and choose your language.
Check "Activate Play from keyboard"
Check "Activate Play with mouse"
(And if you have a touchscreen you can instead activate Play on touchscreen.)

Keep all the other settings unchanged as the defaults.
Accept by clicking “OK”.

After this the main Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard window should look like the next screenshot, it should show “Acoustic Grand Piano” in “Program”, and “General MIDI” in “Bank”. Possibly you’ll need to adjust its window size a bit by stretching at its borders so the keys have a reasonable size.

Now you are done, ready for a first soundcheck:
Click on one of the keys, or strike over them whit pressed left mouse button.
You should hear the warm and brilliant sound of this grand Piano, which soundfont you have chosen.

To get an impression how the 32bit computed grand piano sounds like when playing real masterpieces, download some of these, which work great for testing, from Midisheetmusic.

You can either directly play them in pmidi on commandline or import them into Frescobaldi to see the scores as well. pmidi has the drawback you can’t regulate its speed, so let’s proceed directly with Frescobaldi instead.

From menu “antiX → Programs → Media” open “Frescobaldi” now. You don’t need to close VMPK before, you can use them together. Qsynth window must stay open, either minimised or in background.
From Frescobaldi’s menu “File” select “Import/Export → MIDI import”.
Select one of the MIDI files you have downloaded from the link above. Let midi2ly import the file by clicking the respective button. Everything should happen automatically, observe the lower left corner of Frescobaldi window to see the progress. You’ll have the score on the right side, and on the upper left corner you’ll see a player. Click on “Play” simply to listen to the score displayed. The sound is generated directly from this sheet music now, using the sound of the grand piano you’ve installed on your PC.
For some pieces you need to adjust the speed. Here e.g. Field’s “Nocturne in B flat” plays way to slow, you need to set the speed to mostly 200% using the vertical regulator at the right edge of the player section of Frescobaldi, to get it right. Other pieces play way to fast, you need to reduce speed. You can do it while it’s playing.

All this works fine in antX 22, without pulseaudio, on plain alsa. Probably it works fine with pulseaudio also, but I can’t check this, since pulseaudio bricks this notebook by excessive CPU load the very moment you start this service. So maybe somebody else might report about his findings in an antiX 22 with pulse installed.

Btw, firefox and claws mail are running while trying and writing this in leafpad, making the needed screenshots with antiXscreenshot2, and Roger router is also running, waiting for an important incoming FAX message. antiX 22 on this notebook old as the hills won’t let me wait even a second for any task. Everything completely stable now, fast and fluid with the new nouveau driver. Simply great! I want to say thank you to all people who let this happen, Special thanks to anticapitalista for all the work he does for us in the background. And also to the people of nouveau, taking care even for old video cards to run absolutely fine again, after nvidia itself had mostly bricked this notebook by stopping driver updates already in buster. And finally many thanks to the creators of the brilliant free high quality soundfonts, it makes all the difference to the tinny sound of synthsised scores when using the default soundfonts from the repos.

So have fun making music on your new Steinway grand piano!

Best Regards
Robin

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

[Member PPC]

Yes. Palemoon is faster and saves resources, but, on the other hand, in my experience, it breaks some sites (like github, etc)…
-For full web compatibility use: Chromium (only for 64 bits systems, I think) or Firefox / Firefox-esr
-For full web compatibility + some extra privacy: Ungoogled Chromium / Brave (?) / LibreWolf ( all only available only for 64 bits)
-For a lighter browser, try (like Ninos mentioned) Falkon, qutebrowser, palemoon (and I add Min Browser, Otter and Netsurf)
-For reading blogs /news sites/ simple websites- Links (provided out of the box in antiX)

For those wanting to install and update Fox from Mozilla site
below script may be useful.

https://gitlab.com/Linux-Is-Best/Firefox-automatic-install-for-Linux/-/releases

Will try and figure out how to add my shamefuly amateuer and half baked, part working
FF Cleaner script to get rid of unwanted hidden extensions, disable pinging etc and update
arkenfox userjs Before first start sends Telemetry data and fingerprint to Google Mozilla.

Take a read at GHacks Blog for more info on where data goes, much is encrypted, guess why.
No Prizes.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

We only build LibreWolf for Debian 11, Ubuntu 20/21/22 and Mint 20.2/20.3/21. If you don’t use one of those distros, the above commands will install the Ubuntu 20 build for you which may or may not work. If you want to manually choose a different distro’s build, then change the first of the above commands to point at that distro. E.g. to install the Debian 11 build, run distro=bullseye.

Also note that we only build for the amd64 (a.k.a. x86_64) architecture. To determine your architecture, run the uname -m command. Most desktop and laptop computers are x86_64; notable exceptions include M1 Macs and Raspberry Pis, as well as very old computers that don’t support 64-bit operating systems.

Sysysd distros gave up on 32 bit builds. From the looks of things.

So I wonder if current source files are 32 bit
https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source

I actually read in Quora someone bitching about Firefox is still supporting 32 bit gear in this day and age.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Firefox-still-supporting-32-bit-Linux-while-Chrome-has-given-up-32-bit-Linux-long-ago-and-LibreOffice-has-also-dropped-support-for-32-bit-Linux

Edit: Poked around google to see if MX linux even had librewolf as a package. Had no search skill luck with that either.

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by rokytnji.

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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Member PPC]

In my 32 bits HP laptop, Falkon fails to run- it just opens a black window (I think my CPU is not compatible with it).

For 64 bits machines Ungoogled Chromium (Chrome based) and Librewolf (Firefox based) are lightish browsers, because they don’t load so many adds, and also almost 100% compatible with all existing sites (try one or the other, to access all web sites).
Surf browser is extremely lite, but also very slow
Qutebrowser is great, fast and light, but it’s meant to be used mostly via keyboard (you have to type “o” to enter a web address, there’s no “permanent address bar”)- but is minimal, and very compatible with web sites…

If you want just to browse blogs/news sites, probably “Links2” (that comes by default with antiX) is the lightest you can get (but not fully compliant with the modern web)

There are loads of light browsers for antiX, use what works best for you- please note- to view Youtube videos, you can open MPV’s window from the antiX menu and drag, to it’s window the video link. There are tools (a while I contributed to a thread on it) that allow you to select the default resolution that MPV will use to stream youtube videos (360 usually works great on slow hardware). Note that you can also use Xine media player to play youtube videos- even in HD resolutions, on very slow and old hardware.
Probably, to access e-mail, on slow hardware, it’s best to avoid webmail and setup claws/seamonkey/thunderbird).
Also, if your device is 32bits you can’t run DRM (meaning no paid steaming sites, like Netfix, Disney +, etc), other than that, you can use the modern web even on computers that are 20 years old!

Just use what works best for you!

P.