@Wallon – I’ try to address some of you points you raised:
“I can’t turn off one screen because the installation is made with two screens. If I turn off one screen, I only get half the picture.!
-That’s a common problem in antiX- once you change anything about concerning your screen (like resolution, and apparently also the number of screens) you have to restart the Window Manager so the changes produce effects as they should- that’s probably due to the fact that Window Managers (at least the ones I have experience with don’t wast resources by constantly monitoring that stuff- that’s why they run lighter…
“Everyone in Belgium has been working with 2 or 3 screens for 10 years in my profession. As we no longer use paper for accounting, we have a bank statement on the left screen, the accounting software on the middle screen, the purchase invoice on the right screen.”
I understand your work setup – if the bank statement and the invoices are in standard A4 paper size or smaller, you can probably work well with 2 screens- tile, side by side the bank stantement and the invoices in one screen and use the accounting software in another screen- IceWM has now menu driven “tiling” features- click the title bar, select “Tile” and then select where you want the window to be placed (much like in Windows 11). In Fluxbox has far as I know you have to do that using keyboard shortcuts…
” But I realise that Mirage with fluxbox does not work well for zooming. The screen shakes when you use the scrollbars at the bottom and side in Mirage and you can’t fix an image.”
My advice is trying out another image viewer- try out “feh”- it’s simpler, but very powerfull, and it’s included out of the box in antiX (right click an image in zzzfm > Open >Open With > feh. Just hold the mouse to grab the image being displayed in feh to drag it around and use the – and + to zoom out/in.
Another option is using Firefox to view images or installing another image viewer- there are plenty out there, search in synaptic an try them out!
-“So, I did purge my previous installation [—] I opened a terminal and typed “ft10-start”.”
OK- you did everything you should have done, except follow my previous advice to activate FT10 using the menu: activate it using the menu entry “FT10 – Activate FT10…” that you can find in FT10’s menu or in antiX’s menu, under “Preferences”- that is the official way to configure FT in antiX- I’ll have to make some changes to the gitlab page… So run that, select the kind of menu you want and, to avoid any problems, run with the default setting on the windows that comes next (disabling the default volumeicon and Conky) Please follow this directions. This will help out with several things I address below…
-“I don’t have quite the same taskbars at the bottom for my two screens.”- that’s to be expected- let me explain how Ft10’s tint2 toolbar works- the white icons you see next to the clock are not the system tray you are used to see in antiX and Windows! I call that “pseudo system tray”- they are just regular icons, placed there because that’s the place where people expect the network manager, volume manager and USB device’s ejector to be- it also includes the clock itself, the Power icon and the “show desktop” options. – Those all are “fixed” icons or functions (as is the CPU and RAM indicator)- not part of the system tray. That very same space, to the left of the clock also includes the system tray icons themselves.
The “system tray” itself is a particular space in toolbars where icons, or info about some running applications is stored- and, much like the “Highlander”, there can be only one- The system tray is shown of the first screen, counting from the left.
That’s where the “country flag” icon and the regular antiX “volumeicon” are displayed.
The invisible icon you talk about? It’s the regular antiX “volumeicon”- it’s not invisible- but it’s default color is black, that’s why you can’t see it against the default dark toolbar. Unless there’s a particular reason you want to have volumeicon running, you can right click it and close it. If you don’t want to have both volumeicon and the FT10’s volume indicator running, run the FT10’s configurer and use the default settings (that completly disable antiX’s volumeicon and also disables conky for the current session- since most info conky displays is shown by FT10 already).
If you want to see the “invisible” volumeicon try this: right click the “+/-” icon and select the option to switch between dark and light mode – then you’ll be able to see it…
-“I closed the terminal and found that the FT10 installation on fluxbox is permanent. Every time I reboot antiX with fluxbox, I find FT10. It was not like this in my first test.”
Like I said- FT10 is the least invasive possible- it’s enabled just for the current and future sessions of the same Window Manager(s) where it’s configured, until you disable it…
-“My opinion about the menu. It is very nice but it is really too small. I can hardly read the lines. I can’t pull the edge of the menu with my mouse. How can I enlarge this menu?”
Thanks for your input- I don’t have very high resolution screens available, so I have no problem reading info on the toolbar or the menu. Unlike in Windows, you can’t “pull the edge of the menu” to enlarge it- FT10 may be sometimes similar to Windows 10 or 11, but it’s impossible to pack every single feature that a Window Manager that uses about 1gig of RAM (like Windows, Kde, etc) has in about on tenth of that RAM usage…
That being said- there’s a “hidden feature” that allow users to change the font, and font size that FT10’s menu and toolbar uses- it’s hidden by default (not shown in the menus because incorrectly used, it can desconfigure the menu…). Try this either open the termina and run:
“/usr/local/lib/ft10/tint2_fonte.sh”
Or using ZZZfm navigate to /usr/local/lib/ft10/ and run “tint2_fonte.sh”
This allows you to select the font that FT10 uses in both the toolbar and in the menu. Something like “Bitstream Vera San” size “9” should be easier to read and not mess up the default menu layout… You can experiment freely- the font selection menu stays open until you choose to close it- change the font, and open the menu to see how it looks- as you see, I tried to think about any possible problem FT10 users could have and still be careful so users can not easly mess the default configuration…
-“I find Russian in the menu and even in zzz-fm. I think we should not use “debinstaller” anymore. What should I use instead of “debinstaller”?”
Choose what ever .deb package installer you want- gdebi is not used because it has many problems installing dependencies.
At first I though you were kidding about possible “russian hackers”…
Please to do not be scared the the “Russian” menu entry- it’s only a small bug on the debinstaller .desktop file- it’s nothing to do with russian hackers 🙂
You can open, in geany the debinstaller script and see, for yourself how simple it is- it’s a front end to running “sudo apt install” in the terminal, using yad menus to present information or to make selections… It’s as reliable as using the terminal, and much faster on slow devices than using gdebi…
If you want, you can delete it’s entry in the zzzfm contextual menu (that saved the info from the original .desktop file), and re-add it, using the corrected .desktop file… In zzzfm right click a .deb file, and right click the “Russian debinstaller” entry and choose to delete it. Then, if you wish, associate .deb files to debinstaller again- it should work without you ever seeing any Russian text again…
I hope you like Ft10 enough to keep using it as the default antiX interface, and, that you may help localize it to french, if possible!
@BobC – thanks for the suggestion- I though about using an icon (something similar to the signal bars in cell phones) but I ended up with a far simpler set up: the current Network info applet displays the Wi-fi network name, a “-” and it’s signal percentage- I think it’s simple yet easily understandable default, don’t you?
If you have not done so, please test the current tint2rc entry and conky config, included in version 1.0c- from your screen grab I think you are working with the previous version…
Thanks for all the suggestions! If not for you, FT10 would not have this handy feature, I already use it a lot!
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