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[Member stevesr0]

[UPDATE: I believe the mechanism involves the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50×11-common_determine-startup, which references a user’s .xsession file. Since I don’t have a .xsession file, I believe openbox-session is used as a .xsession file. I found this info at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/594213/xsession-and-startx-in-debian. Still interested in any comments, as I like to understand when things work in spite of not being built right <g>. (Also, this info might be helpful to people whose xsession DOESN’T work.) stevesr0]

To all respondents, I APOLOGIZE…for not being clear.

Openbox works GREAT!! — BUT it SHOULDN’T!!

because

I don’t have the “exec” calls in xinit or xinitrc. Nothing, NADA!

So, I am “complaining” WHY it WORKS when it SHOULDN’T!!

I type startx from a command line and BOOM – in one second, my (black) Openbox GUI is launched. I right click and I have a box listing a terminal, a browser, a file manager, a text editor.

Super terrific!!

So, as one might ask about a flying carpet – How come it is working??

Appreciate any enlightenment; thanks in advance.

stevesr0

P.S. in response to skidoo – I just looked at man startx and man xinit – I don’t have entries where it says I should. I also just checked man X, but that didn’t have specific configuration data.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by stevesr0.

[Anonymous]

So my question is how does startx use openbox-session to launch openbox?

man startx
^---> SEE ALSO section also steers you read to "man xinit" "man X"...

https://wiki.debian.org/Xinitrc
https://wiki.debian.org/xinit
https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession

.

http://forum.mxlinux.org/search.php?keywords=xinitrc
good stuff, informative, especially the topic titled
“Can’t login to MX linux, possible Xsessions issue after typing ‘startx’ into terminal [SOLVED]”

[Moderator christophe]

@ stevesr0
Unless/Until someone who uses openbox has something “exact” – look at this:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=114602

(When you type startx, .xinitrc is run automatically.) It’s saying to start openbox-session from .xinitrc, then that script starts the “startup” programs.

Here, there is a sample .xinitrc file:

https://wiki.debian.org/Xinitrc

My understanding is to change the exec line in the .xinitrc to exec openbox-session then letting the openbox-session script take you to the desktop.

Again: if someone who actually uses openbox replies, then follow that. Othrwise, give this a go. 😉

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by christophe. Reason: code box

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[Member stevesr0]

I have a NON problem with Openbox. I installed it from the repositories and it works. I boot to a command line and then use startx to launch my GUI.

My reason for posting is that the “exec openbox” that supposedly is needed to make it work doesn’t exist in the xinit or .xinitrc files. All the documentation I have read about launching Openbox point to the need for an entry in xinit or .xinitrc.

I do have an openbox-session file that does have an exec line in it. However, I don’t understand what launches it. When I use htop without launching X, it is not listed.

So my question is how does startx use openbox-session to launch openbox? htop shows dbus as involved with openbox-session, but I am unclear how openbox-session is automagically recognized as a program that should be launched when startx is invoked.

I am aware that this reflects my great ignorance of how things get launched – that is fine if I can gain some enlightenment <g>.

In my “defense”, I have spent the past hour searching for an explanation. If there is some “tag” that identifies openbox-session as a file that should be launched by dbus when startx is invoked, then that would enable me to search in a more focussed fashion.

Thanks in advance.

stevesr0

[Anonymous]

1) In the instructions.
Item 2 could not be completed.
screen: ibb.co/m8xBsb6

2) in the live usb menu, I selected item 1, then added the parameters: xorg=amdgpu amdgpu.cik_support=1 amdgpu.si_support=1 radeon.si_support=0 radeon.cik_support=0.

Then the download started and the screen says “antiX 14.4 (Grub Yorum)”

I went to the console and entered: sudo startx

result on the screen: ibb.co/Rg2gzWy

[Anonymous]

I recorded version 19.4 on a flash drive and started the computer, then the download stopped at the line ” start X”,

then I restarted the system with the splash=v parameter, the result was the same: the boot stopped at the “start X” line, then ( after a couple of minutes ) the yellow dots and the “start X” line disappeared.

I write in the terminal:
sudo startx

then

inxi -Gxxx
the terminal writes: ibb.co/VwdmsvN

[Anonymous]

it turned out to run:
sudo startx

I write in the terminal:
sudo modprobe radeon

terminal:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘radeon’: invalid argument

added lines
# start radeon driver
radeon

the problem remained

[Member Xecure]

Device: AMD Pitcairn XT [Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition] driver: N/A
If you load the radeon driver
sudo modprobe radeon
See if Control+Alt+F6 or F7
starts slim. If it doesn’t, do from Terminal
sudo slim
or
sudo startx

If it finally boots add the radeon module to file the /etc/modules

# start radeon driver
radeon

So that the radeon module loads at boot time.

It is strange it isn’t starting automatically. Does anyone have an idea why?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Xecure.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member stevesr0]

(UPDATE: after rebooting and carefully messing with various files (/etc/network/interfaces, /etc/resolv.conf [thru /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base)and figuring out how to paste my network passphrase into the ceni/wpa_supplicant screen), the SMCWUSB-N3 wifi adapter did connect to my network and I have internet access via wifi on the “afflicted” system. Parenthetically, I realize that rt3070.bin is distinct from the driver rt2800usb.

My remaining issue with this system is to determine if the internal card (combo wifi/bluetooth) is broken. When I have time, I will try other linux distros, since neither of the recent antix ones I tried have worked with the internal card.

I remain open to suggestions for how I might check the integrity of the hardware. When I have stepped away for awhile, I will search online for hardware tests that I might attempt.)

Hi,

Previous posting earlier this morning hasn’t shown up, so I am reposting.

Trying to follow Xecure’s suggestions, I have used two USB sticks – one with a full Antix 17 and one with a full Antix 19, my two other laptops (a Lenovo Yoga 11e and an Opowered LP-1 [gaming laptop from Walmart])
as “controls” to assure that the distros and the sticks were OK.

On the Lenovo, both sticks worked fine including wifi.

On the Opowered laptop, the 19.4 distro boots to a command line instead of the GUI. I tried “startx”, but received a “server refused connection” error. Just not sure how to follow that up.
The 17.4 distro booted to X directly. The touchpad didn’t work, but a USB mouse did. It connected to the internet after I edited /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base (which was empty) and added a nameserver.

My sense at this time is that the internal wireless is broken and I need to try an external dongle that has linux support. I am having trouble getting this laptop to recognize the one I have which uses the Ralink 2800 driver (rt3070.bin). Maybe only because I haven’t installed it properly (used apt and installed the miscellaneous firmware nonfree package).

I need to work on other stuff for a while and will post again after I get some time to explore further.

stevesr0

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by stevesr0.

I finished setting up my antiX-19.3 64-bit install on my “new” old computer. It is working fine. See the thread here:

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/my-antix-fu-is-not-strong/

I am now trying to do a snapshot and verify it by booting from the Live USB. I used the Snapshot and LiveUSB programs to create the LiveUSB backup of my system. But it won’t boot to a GUI.

In short, I changed the Xorg version to 1.19 and installed the nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver package. So this is not a pure antiX-19.3 setup anymore. I am wondering if this might be the reason that the LiveUSB won’t boot to a GUI desktop.

When I look at the inxi the graphics show the nvidia driver is loaded, then Xorg 1.19 has no driver. So, Xorg is not starting. I tried also both Safevideo and Failsafe options off the boot menu. All initial boots for all three of these choices places me at the console prompt. Slim crashes if I try startx.

I can use the console and look around the file system. All my files are there where they are supposed to be. But I can’t get a GUI yet.

Can I accept this as a “backup” of my system? I could install using the console and then fix the graphics and GUI after install?

seaken64

[Member stephenbbb]

Hola muchachos,
I cannot setup the wifi because it does not see any devices. I still copied the missing Xorg script and the xorg modules, but when I ran startx this time it could not find some fonts in a .so file. so I got tired of these manual copying and decided to re-install. I have a separate /home partition exactly in order to be able to deal with such occasions. the only headache is setting up emacs and R with all their packages and redoing the customizations I had.
will not do “apt upgrade” in antix ever again.
Thanks for everybody’s ideas.
Christ is risen and so is my antix 🙂

[Member stephenbbb]

after logging in to the terminal I try startx and get

/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: 3 exec /usr/bin/X: not found
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

also the output you asked about:

System:    Host: acer-c50 Kernel: 4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Console: tty 1
           Distro: antiX-19.3_x64-full Manolis Glezos 15 October 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:   Type: Laptop Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5250 v: V1.01 serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer v: 1.01 date: 04/21/2011
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: AMD C-50 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Bobcat L2 cache: 512 KiB
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 3989
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/1000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6250] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: N/A
           bus ID: 00:01.0
           Display: server: N/A driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa tty: 128x48
           Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console. Try -G --display
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: N/A bus ID: 00:14.2
Network:   Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: atl1c v: 1.0.1.1-NAPI
           port: 2000 bus ID: 06:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On driver: N/A port: 2000 bus ID: 07:00.0
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 225.41 GiB used: 21.36 GiB (9.5%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Dogfish model: SSD 240GB size: 223.57 GiB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: Multi-Card size: 1.84 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 57.49 GiB used: 6.03 GiB (10.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
           ID-2: /home size: 107.17 GiB used: 15.33 GiB (14.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 3.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured?
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
           1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree nosystemd
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
           1: deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
           1: deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:      Processes: 130 Uptime: 4m Memory: 3.60 GiB used: 71.5 MiB (1.9%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0
           Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36 

how do I setup my wifi from the terminal? or can I just copy some folders from the antix live usb?
cheers

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by stephenbbb.

[Member ex_Koo]

I tried to get it work also with 21a the file names seems to be different from void as they with antiX.

cp -R /etc/sv/agetty-tty1 /etc/sv/agetty-autologin-tty1 (antiX users getty-tty not agetty..) even tried after saving getty-tty1 then renaming agetty-autologin-tty1 to getty-tty1 (No worky)

rm /var/service/agetty-tty1 <<< same here antiX has no var/service file. So I made one /var/service
ln -s /etc/sv/agetty-autologin-tty1 /var/service <<< even after making a symlink ln -s /etc/sv/getty-autologin-tty1 /var/service (No worky)

But I did have one Win got rid of slim and now login with tty. 🙂
Then adding below to my .profile auto start X works. 🙂

 # autologin on tty1
 if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ "$(fgconsole)" -eq 1 ]; then
 exec startx
 fi

I have no intention of ever using auto login. Just wanted to play.

[Member ex_Koo]

Control Panel > Maintenance > User Manager > Options > Modify User Account > YOU > Change Autologin Settings > Log in Automatically.

Open Control Panel from console = antixcc.sh

Also if you make a .bash_profile file and add below it will Automatically startx after logging in.

#
# ~/.bash_profile
#

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

[[ $(fgconsole 2>/dev/null) == 1 ]] && exec startx -- vt1

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by ex_Koo.

I’ve been playing with antiX sid runit. I installed X, but I use startx (xinit) to launch it, so no slim display/login manager. Anyways, I’d like to automatically login. With sysvinit, I’d change /etc/inittab a certin way, but it isn’t working with runit. Web search gives me nothing.
So, how do I login automatically with runit (from console)?

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