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(Note: Some of this information is for users of the default antiX desktop- IceWM, but all Menu references are common to all antiX desktops IceWM. JWM and Fluxbox)
1- Setting up wi-fi:
â 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, antiXâs network manager (Connman â from âCONnection MANager) automatically pops up.
You can also, at any time, launch connman using IceWMâs system tray (near the clock there should be at least 3 square icons, that show information about your computerâŚ
Left click the third icon, counting from the right to the left. Connman Network Settings pops up.
You can also start âConnmanâ using Menu > Control Centre > Network > Wifi⌠(Connman)
â On Connmanâs main window: on the âStatusâ Tab: by default (maybe to save power) Wi-fi should be set to âDisabledâ- is itâs disabled, make sure to left click the âPoweredâ button (it should be green, not red).
â Hopefully, a list of all detected Wi-fi networks pops up, available on the âWirelessâ tab. Double left click the one you want to connect to and, if needed, enter itâs password (for some reason Connman calls it âPassphraseâ). Click the âokâ button. [Note: if, for some reason you donât see the âOkâ button, use the horizontal slider to âslide the windowâs content, so you can see it, in the lower right of the window OR force the window to full screen, by pressing alt + F11 â a tip that should work in any window)
â To connect to a Wi-fi network, simply left click it and then click the âConnectâ 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 itâs 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 âWiredâ 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 âWiredâ network connection is active and, if so enjoy your Wi-fi internet!2- Accessing your files:
The default File Manager (itâs called âRoxâ) 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) â itâs called ZZZFM (a fork, created by the fĂłrum user Skidoo, of the previous âsecondaryâ 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 (itâs the âyellow starâ icon) > Click the input field to the right of âFile Managerâ and select âzzzfmâ from the list, Click âApplyâ. 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 âDocumentsâ, âDownloadsâ, etc?
Open ZzzFM > Go to you âDownloadsâ folder > SpaceFM âBookmarksâ Menu > Confirm that âShow bookmarksâ is checked > Click âadd bookmarkâ.
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 âHomeâ folder, where your files are stored, navigate to â/home/â, click the folder with your username and then âadd bookmarkâ, etc.
Do you want to see previews of your files ( picture and video files)?
Open ZzzFM > ZzzFM âViewâ Menu > Preferences > Check âShow thumbnailsâ > Click âOkâDo you want to search for a specific file (by file name or file content)?
Menu > Applications> Acessories > SearchMonkeyCan 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 âDevicesâ 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:
â use the file storage web interface or;
â install any available interface (âDropboxâ and âMegaâ can be installed from Package Manager). There are, at the present time, no official interfaces to âGoogle Driveâ or Microsoft Cloud (AKA âOnedriveâ) for Linux, but you can install âOpen Driveâ from Package Manager- that allows access to those services).
â WARNING â THIS PROCEDURE IS RELATIVELY COMPLEX: you can also setup âGoogle Driveâ 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 âft10-transformationâ.
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 âexecutableâ (using ZzzFM/SpaceFM: select the file and press CTRL + P. In the permission window, check the âExecutableâ field, then click the âokâ button.When you have âaccess_cloudâ 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 itâs 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 windowâŚ
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 â just press the âenterâ 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 (itâs not installed by default in current antiX versions because it uses system resources), just click itâs 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 upgradeOR
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgradeEnter 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 âShopping Bagâ icon on the toolbar, right next to the âMenuâ button, to open âPackage Managerâ (or Menu > Control Centre > âSystemâ tab > âPackage Managerâ)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 âenterâ 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 âtabâ 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 âSynaptic package managerâ (Menu > Control Centre > âSystemâ tab > âSynaptic Package Managerâ > 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 thatâ 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 APPLICATIONSâ you may âbrick your systemâ â unlike in other OS, you can do exactly what you want, remove anything, there are no âsacred corporate appsâ- this also means that you can remove stuff that you should not remove, if you want to have a fully working system!
5- Can you install Ubuntu repositories, PPA’s, Snap files or other Ubuntu specific software?
Sure, it’s a free world. Install Ubuntu or any of it’s countless derivative OS’s.
Install .deb files meant for others OS’s on antiX at your own risk, because you can harm your system.P.
- This topic was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Brian Masinick.
- This topic was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Brian Masinick.
- This topic was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by Brian Masinick.
That’s a great story Roki!
As for me, I’m a retired software geek.
Here is my long history story in the business that I have enjoyed:
I have very few mechanical skills so at least I was once blessed with a memory for technical details.I grew up in the Motor City, at least in the ‘burbs of the city. I actually had my first professional job in the GM Building in 1979 on West Grand Blvd. in the “New Center” of midtown Detroit. After six months I worked for another five years at the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan.
In 1985 I moved from motors to machines and joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Merrimack NH, working with computer and telephony companies to establish what we enjoy today as a complete technology infrastructure with the necessary switching, signaling and billing systems to support a truly integrated voice and data communications network.
What was of particular interest to me is that is the precise network that GM and others were pushing for in the late seventies and early eighties. At Digital we wanted it too, as did IBM and many computer and Telco manufacturing companies because it meant a lot of new business.
Today we’re working on new generations of technology and it’s mostly in high speed wireless networking.
Believe it or not, as far back as 1995 Bill Gates and Microsoft could already envision the possibilities along with the concerns and risks. I remember seeing a fictional depiction of what we have today, stuff like using our systems anywhere, and also the criminal community getting more clever and different in the types of crimes they’d commit.
While I am not a Gates or Microsoft fan, they were one of the many forces that helped with the technology and they certainly did bring the nineties and early 2000s technology to everyone but failed to make the right handheld devices until they missed the market.
That is a fortunate historical truth in technology. IBM definitely owned the early mainframe generation of computer systems and still remains the leader in that area, with enough money to at least be a player in many spaces.
Ironically it’s thanks to IBM and their desire to get into PC technology that both Intel and Microsoft became powerful. IBM wanted a fast entry into microcomputer technology. Intel had lost a bid to Texas Instruments for some small circuits and chips. Microsoft had a BASIC (beginner) programming language, but their QDOS OS was losing to CP/M and another DOS operating system.
IBM was able to get the services of Microsoft and Intel to help them build the IBM PC.
Until other companies did it faster and cheaper, IBM initially had the PC market. A few years later they built their own OS and called it OS/2. Actually Microsoft worked on some of it with IBm but the two companies went in different directions.
Microsoft came out with Windows NT and worked with other companies to get into use in business while Windows 95, 98, and ME, and NT/2000 increased in use and popularity.
Meanwhile Intel was the primary PC chip manufacturer while Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard and others sought out other markets.
It was during the nineties that Linus Torvalds came up with his own idea for Linux because he wanted a powerful UNIX-like workstation but he already paid a lot of money for some expensive hardware and didn’t want to purchase a UNIX operating system, nor did he want to use the PC systems of his younger years because they didn’t have the technology we enjoy today.
Add it all up and we have many more choices today.
There are many more things that also took place. Those are just a few highlight events that helped to change the course of computing.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Brian Masinick. Reason: Let's move this one elsewhere
- This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Brian Masinick.
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Brian MasinickThread over at MX forums made me curious if this app would install and run on AntiX 19 < my chromebook >
I have no idea how to run the app. This is just how I installed it.harry@biker:~ $ apt-cache policy teams teams: Installed: 1.3.00.5153 Candidate: 1.3.00.5153 Version table: *** 1.3.00.5153 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status harry@biker:~I google seached Microsoft Teams to find my .deb. I went to microsofts site even to get my .deb file. Figured get it from the source site.
harry@biker:~ $ cd Downloads harry@biker:~/Downloads $ ls teams_1.3.00.5153_amd64.deb harry@biker:~/DownloadsI did not see a 32 bit .deb downloadable file.
I cd into Downloads in root terminal and run the
dpkg -itype in t after that and hit the tab key for auto complete.
No errors on install.
I have not made a menu item yet for it yet. Control Center install menu item does not see the install yet I guess. Maybe a reboot will fix that.
It launched from terminal just fine. I did this out of curiosity . Have no need for the app. Just a extra wrench now.Edit: AntiX version
harry@biker:~ $ inxi -S System: Host: biker Kernel: 5.4.0-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5 Distro: antiX-19_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019- This topic was modified 3 years ago by rokytnji.
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