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So I tried installing my Canon printer (see other thread) and apparently I did something wrong.
After a reboot I get the following screen:
“Welcome to Antix. Powered by Debian.
antix1 login:”I have never seen this screen before as I chose during the installation to login to my account automatically.
And when I enter my username fchopin it asks “Password:”
When I give my password and press enter I get the following:Last login: Mon Jun 29 19:33:41 CEST 2020 on tty1
No mail.
fchopin@antix1:~
$And nothing happens after this. How do I login to my account again?
When I try “sudo startx” the following message appears:
[sudo] password for fchopin:
When I give my password and press enter I get the following:
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: 3: exec: /usr/bin/X: not found
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to x server: Connection refused
xinit: server error- This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by HateDogsBarking.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by HateDogsBarking.
(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:
– 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 > 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 “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 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 “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.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.



