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[Moderator caprea]

Hi BobC, did you create an entry in /etc/fstab for the newly created swap-partition?

eg. part of my /etc/fstab

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
UUID=41fff33b-ef6d-48b4-bfd1-8435c76f3c5a / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
UUID=576eb5a9-c73e-4846-9d66-bc4547026eae swap swap defaults 0 0 
#-> /dev/sda1  label=rootantiX17.2
UUID=55ad088c-da3f-48ef-8cc0-2388762cb664  /media/rootantiX17.2                        ext4       noauto,exec,users               0 0
#-> /dev/sda2  label=rootMX18.1
UUID=3e980b39-be42-461a-b500-760a6c111eb5  /media/rootMX18.1                           ext4       noauto,exec,users               0 0

You can look for the UUID of your swap with

sudo blkid /dev/sdaX

where X is your swap-partition.

I can create a swap partition with gparted, but how do I get the system to use it to suspend and resume? I am running 17.4.1 Full 64 bit on this machine.

Thanks for any help…

• This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by BobC.

[Member Some1]

$ inxi -Fxz -r
System: Host: recycle Kernel: 4.9.87-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 gcc: 6.3.0
Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2
Distro: antiX-17.1_386-full Heather Heyer 17 March 2018
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASRock model: G31M-S. serial: N/A
BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.80 date: 07/08/2009
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-MT-)
arch: Netburst Prescott rev.5 cache: 2048 KB
flags: (lm pae sse sse2 sse3) bmips: 6382
clock speeds: max: 3203 MHz 1: 3203 MHz 2: 3203 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2
drivers: intel (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1440×900
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G33 x86/MMX/SSE2
version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Def. Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.87-antix.1-486-smp
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCIE Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e800 bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 86.1GB (10.8% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD800BD size: 80.0GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Flash_Disk size: 2.1GB
ID-3: USB /dev/sdc model: DataTraveler_2.0 size: 4.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 71G used: 3.3G (5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: None detected – is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/sid sid main nosystemd
deb-src http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/sid sid main nosystemd
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
Info: Processes: 156 Uptime: 10:45 Memory: 325.3/2007.5MB
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 6.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.54

Remember that I wipe out this disk to roll back and use the past version of antiX, the things here runs ok (with the outdate version of firefox and flashplugin); I tried pcsxr but same story as before, stilling picking X driver plugins goes with full enhacements for graphics without configuring it. Gonna try later on making some configurations in the OpenGL plugin of it, or I’ll end playing mathematics the rescue in the DoS box again.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by Some1. Reason: I forgot the firmware of my flash disk got a wrong name to display

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[Member kaye]

skidoo I did not install any file managers.

BobC, here is the output:

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: mydesktop Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17.4.1_x64-full Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: N/A model: Wolfdale1333-D667. serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.40 date: 03/14/2008 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn 
  rev: A L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 11973 
  Speed: 2993 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2993 2: 2993 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics vendor: ASRock driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945G v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASRock 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Device-2: Tenx type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 2-1:3 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASRock RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d800 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Ralink RT5370 Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: rt2800usb bus ID: 1-6:6 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 960.41 GiB used: 21.43 GiB (2.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1SB10C size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DT 101 G2 size: 28.90 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 36.17 GiB used: 3.63 GiB (10.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
  ID-2: /home size: 1.91 GiB used: 353.9 MiB (18.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda9 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 170 Uptime: 1h 18m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 1.24 GiB (42.4%) Init: SysVinit 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.29 

[Member kaye]

Regarding the missing trash folder, I don’t know if I did this correctly so please tell me.

In the terminal, I navigated to the root directory by executing “cd ..” twice.

I executed the command sudo find . -type d -name "Trash"

Nothing happened. The prompt just re-appeared again.

skidoo, I did not install any file manager.

BobC, here is the output:

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: homet-01 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17.4.1_x64-full Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: N/A model: Wolfdale1333-D667. serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.40 date: 03/14/2008 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn 
  rev: A L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 11973 
  Speed: 2993 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2993 2: 2993 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics vendor: ASRock driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945G v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASRock 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Device-2: Tenx type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 2-1:3 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASRock RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d800 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Ralink RT5370 Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: rt2800usb bus ID: 1-6:6 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 960.41 GiB used: 21.39 GiB (2.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1SB10C size: 931.51 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DT 101 G2 size: 28.90 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 36.17 GiB used: 3.63 GiB (10.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7 
  ID-2: /home size: 1.91 GiB used: 315.9 MiB (16.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda9 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 169 Uptime: 39m Memory: 2.93 GiB used: 1.01 GiB (34.5%) Init: SysVinit 
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.29 

I’m not sure what I loaded after the operating system. I guess the following were what I did after the fresh installation:
1. showed cpu status on the taskbar
2. showed memory status on the taskbar
3. showed acpi temperature on the tooltip of the cpu status
4. downloaded and opened gkrellm
5. moved taskbar on top of screen
6. changed the time format
7. removed the ‘unplug removable device’ button from the toolbar
8. installed vlc player, gimp, freecad
9. installed epson driver and iscan
10. activated the shortcut key of Ctrl-Alt-T to open terminal
11. edited conky to include cpu temperature

That’s about it.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by kaye.

When using Firefox I have noticed that sometimes the page spontaneously starts to scroll fast up or down if I just click on 1 of the 2 arrows on the scroll bar. I tried another browser, Opera, but it does the same. Also, it can happen that the scrolling starts if my finger is close to but not on the trackpad.

So, putting 1 and 1 together I conclude that the trackpad is overly sensitive.
1. am I right?
2. if so, is there a setting to reduce that sensitivity somewhat?

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: Yoga300 Kernel: 4.19.25-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17.2_x64-full Helen Keller 4 October 2018 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80M0 v: Lenovo YOGA 300-11IBY serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: Mini v: SDK0J33995WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: C0CN25WW 
  date: 04/21/2015 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 12.5 Wh condition: 26.3/30.0 Wh (88%) model: SMP L14M2P22 
  status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron N2840 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Silvermont 
  rev: 8 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 8663 
  Speed: 766 MHz min/max: 500/2582 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 746 2: 893 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Bay Trail v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.25-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 1000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 1000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 29.24 GiB used: 4.57 GiB (15.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: BGND3R size: 29.12 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB model: USB NAND FLASH size: 125.0 MiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 7.81 GiB used: 4.56 GiB (58.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 420 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/mmcblk0p3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 149 Uptime: 1d 1h 18m Memory: 1.83 GiB used: 619.8 MiB (33.0%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.29

• This topic was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by Klaas Vaak.

[Member VW]

Just for the record AOK with the 5.09 Kernel.

inxi -Fxz
System:
Host: antix1 Kernel: 5.0.9-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5 Distro: antiX-17.3.1_x64-full Helen Keller 27 December 2018
base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A320M-S2H v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: A320M-S2H-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends
v: F23 date: 08/08/2018
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64
type: MCP arch: Zen L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 27947
Speed: 1510 MHz min/max: 1600/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1690 2: 2661 3: 1717
4: 3153
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 430.14
bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia resolution: 1920×1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 430.14
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.1
Device-2: AMD vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.6
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.0.9-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 07:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 34.98 GiB (15.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-GSTFS31240GNTD size: 223.57 GiB temp: 33 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 216.81 GiB used: 34.98 GiB (16.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 30 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 30%
Info:
Processes: 170 Uptime: 11m Memory: 7.80 GiB used: 610.0 MiB (7.6%) Init: SysVinit
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.34

“These are the times that try men's souls" - Thomas Paine

[Member manyroads]

For those who are interested here’s where I am currently.

Items now included on the antiX setup by default:

From within tint2:
— meteo-qt: weather app (I’m not very excited about this app; other recommendations are welcomed)
— orage calendar (click the date)
— kupfer (semantic launcher search/ function. It is activated by the <Insert> key.

From within autostart script:
— tint2 is started
— feh (wallpaper) is started– it is set to randomly change backgrounds
— jgmenu (it is modified to closely resemble Whiskermenu available on xfce)
— numerous icon application launchers
— date & time (clicking on the text activates ‘orage’
— Volume master (sadly the icon is black)
— tint2 is started & positions itself, currently, at the screen bottom
— compton is started (default settings are established/ set from within compton-conf.)

Current Bugs:
— fluxbox, the non-icon friendly wm (does not display icons for kupfer or meteo-qt) on the toolbar. I think it’s probably a jpg/ png/ svg thing.
— the meteo-qt iconset is itty bitty!

Desktop icons… I’m still trying to figure out what to do with them. I plan to hack around with the antique iDesk code to see what is able to do. I really am not happy with what spaceFM, PCmanFM do to (with?) wallpapers. Ideas here are welcome.

Performance—
— Description of the VBox platform I’m using for this effort may be found at the end of this message.
The base desktop (as described above, according to htop, seems to idle on:
— iceWM at about 360 MB . Conky reads out at under 600M (Somebody -me?- needs to fix conky, I guess).
— fluxbox at about 330 MB (probably because they don’t waste any memory on displaying icons correctly.)
— jwm at about 322MB
— openbox idles at just under 350MB

I am considering creating an optional taskbar that mimics MX’s standard left-side layout. The tint files I develop will be equally usable on antiX and MX. My fees for either are identical. 😉

If you have materials you’d like me to consider adding to this mix of ‘tiny tools’. Please make them available via download (from somewhere easily accessed). Any information you can provide will be helpful. I promise I’ll check them out. I won’t promise to add them to what I’m buiding, but you will be able to add them to your setup soon!

Screenshot (with a lot going on…):
https://ibb.co/0mw6QbD

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System:
Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.170-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: IceWM 1.4.3.0~pre-20181030
Distro: antiX-19.a2_x64-full Marielle Franco 6 May 2019
Machine:
Type: Virtualbox System: innotek product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <root required>
Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <root required> BIOS: innotek
v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 50.0 Wh condition: 50.0/50.0 Wh (100%)
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Core i5-6300U bits: 64 type: MCP
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 2496 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2496
Graphics:
Device-1: InnoTek Systemberatung VirtualBox Graphics Adapter driver: vboxvideo
v: 5.2.24 r128163
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1920×958~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.4
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.170-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 08:00:27:84:bf:22
Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge driver: piix4_smbus
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 10.00 GiB used: 620.73 GiB (6207.3%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK size: 10.00 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 8.76 GiB used: 5.34 GiB (61.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 1024.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured?
Info:
Processes: 134 Uptime: 1h 58m Memory: 7.80 GiB used: 653.3 MiB (8.2%) Shell: bash
inxi: 3.0.33
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Pax vobiscum,
Mark Rabideau - http://many-roads.com
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
dwm & i3wm ~Reg. Linux User #449130
20 Jan 2021 ~ "End of an Error"

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply and for the link.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get any ‘smarter’ then before. 🙁

Following the logic, if I swap the original Devuan XFCE green colored ‘.bashrc’ with a GLL Devuan XFCE blue colored ‘.bashrc’ and if that ‘strange number’ (== color code) is saved only in ‘.bashrc’ file, it should result in a color swap from green to blue but, it doesn’t and it changes the color to white.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

I installed antiX-19-a1-full (64 bit) yesterday, and I also experimented a little with the live version of the USB I used to install.
The installation and initial configuration went smoothly.

My Configuration:

inxi -Fxz
System: Host: antix19 Kernel: 4.9.170-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: JWM 2.3.7
Distro: antiX-19.a1_x64-full Marielle Franco 27 April 2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 5558 v: 01 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 086DKN v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A04 date: 08/06/2015
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 37.7 Wh condition: 37.7/41.4 Wh (91%) model: Samsung SDI DELL 07G07587587 status: Full
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-5500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell rev: 4 L2 cache: 4096 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19155
Speed: 2400 MHz min/max: 500/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2400 2: 2451 3: 2512 4: 2400
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GK208M [GeForce 920M] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366×768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.4 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.170-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f040 bus ID: 06:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI
port: e000 bus ID: 07:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 3.94 GiB (0.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB size: 931.51 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 97.93 GiB used: 3.94 GiB (4.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda11
ID-2: swap-1 size: 7.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: 37.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2200
Info: Processes: 161 Uptime: 54m Memory: 7.71 GiB used: 1.60 GiB (20.7%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0
Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.33

After using the software for a while and trying different window managers and also trying both the live and installed instances, I did encounter a few issues, some of which have been previously noted:

Issues:
1) I had difficulty connecting to the internet after booting (without installing) the USB instance of the a1 image. I did not see this issue when I installed the software to disk.
2) When I installed to disk, initially I used IceWM and it appeared to work well., Later I switched to another desktop (Fluxbox, then JWM, I was not able to see IceWM or switch to it without manual intervention on my part.

Note that I installed a1 and did not patch yet with a2, but I did perform a dist-upgrade following the a1 installation. More than likely when the next improvements are included in the packages, this quirk will get straightened out.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Brian Masinick.

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[Anonymous]

do really frugal people even try to save memory?

Well… I do. When I began messing around with SLiM, the default antiX background.jpg was the “outerspace(?) stars on black field” image. It was already only 28kb or so, but I optimized it (denoised, bumped the saturation, then resaved with higher jpeg compression) and wound up with an 18kb imagefile. Hey, whatif I just replaced it with a solid black image? Result: 14kb. Hmm, howabout a 128x128px solid black image, and set “stretch to fit” in the SLiM config? Yeah, but that’s disk storage space (micro)optimization though.

The buffer to paint a root window, @1920×1080 and 16-bit color depth ~~ its size is fixed, remains unchanged, regardless what image (or array of solid color pixels) occupy the buffer.

one issue I have with slim any graphical login manager is

Yep, and during a live+toram session, the overhead from each overly-large “background” (slim or wm wallpaper) image is multiplied. Example: a copy of a 1.1Mb imagefile file is read from linuxfs and written to /live/aufs-ram/… then is used to populate the SLiM cache, then it is (or another overly-large imagefile is) again read and separately cached by the window manager for use as root window wallpaper. In other words, using a 14kb imagefile, vs a 1.1Mb imagefile can shave 3Mb overhead ~~ on a low resource system, this stands as more than a “micro optimization”. Really though, can such a system run live+toram without bumping into a wall, the need to swap? Per my testing, yes it can; by assessing which apps will be concurrently running I can reasonably calculate the baseline, the minimum RAM requirement.

I rarely use multiple monitors (so not inclined to test this “theory”) but we expect//demand the software support multiple displays, and a cached (resized-to-1920×1080) buffer wouldn’t be reusable for additional, different resolution displays. Does the window manager keep a memory-cached copy of the full, unscaled, image in case hot-plugged additional displays are added? What happens if, mid-session, you attach an additional display? It is just autodetected and immediately works? Or no, but can change the settings immediately via XrandR? Or no, must logout//login for any (re)configuration to take effect? Does SLiM hang (or the displayed screen is not properly scaled) if you change monitors mid-session then logout and return to the SLiM login screen?

Just now, I quickly tested in virtualbox, antix17 live:
login to desktop session, rename /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX/background.jpg
logout and note that SLiM “hangs”

Yeah, begs the question “if SLiM is holding a cached copy of the background image, why the heck does it (re)check files-on-disk each time its login screen is subsequently displayed?

[Member greyowl]

My system is current and up-to-date.

Here is the result of cat /etc/fstab:

user@antix1:~
$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# Created by make-fstab on Fri Nov 24 12:15:52 EST 2017

# <file system>                            <mount point>                               <type>     <options>                       <dump/pass>

#-> /dev/sda1  label=rootantiX
UUID=60b9f454-86f9-47c1-b344-e66b5f74cf50  /                                           ext4       defaults                        1 1
#-> /dev/sda2  label=antiXswap
UUID=74dffca6-bc0b-4893-a6fb-df475148b83b  swap                                        swap       defaults                        0 0
/dev/cdrom                                 /media/cdrom                                iso9660    noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
/dev/sr0                                   /media/sr0                                  auto       noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
user@antix1:~
$

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by rokytnji.

Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)

This is my first post. Hi everyone, I really like how antiX works on my x64 bit laptop, but I still have problem I’d like to fix. I realized my text post was long, sorry, I hope it is readable. Also, I like to add a secondary question: did I install antiX correctly?

I’ll divide it into parts because I don’t really know how to describe it… anyway.

Pre-antix installation:
As a newbie in using Linux, I decided to install Lubuntu as a dual boot on my Lenovo n585 alongside with its pre-installed Windows 8, I did not choose “something else” in the installer hence I don’t know what Lubuntu did to successfully install itself and its grub manager. Its Calamares installer was run through UEFI.

After tinkering Lubuntu, I just decided to replace Lubuntu with antiX because I don’t like how the said OS still lags from time to time.

Installing antiX:
Now, when I installed antiX thru a live-USB, I did not manually clear or reformat the /dev/sda# my former OS is in, instead, I just did these three instructions in the antiX installation thru gparted.

1-Delete ext4 where Lubuntu was
2-New partition for the said ext4
3-New partition from that ext4 for swap

I remember not touching the boot selection and leaving it as it is as “root” with MBR selected.

Post-installation of antiX:
My laptop current starts at a broken grub screen with “grub>_” and “minimal BASH line is supported…” line.

I can’t select which OS to boot with, unless I access the BIOS menu and manually select either the Windows Boot manager or the antiX live-USB. I’d like to take note that there are two options there that are labeled as Ubuntu, wherein if I selected those it just goes back to my broken grun screen.

Other details on what I did:

1- I tried to use the boot-repair app from the live usb, I went on reinstalling grub option and I did not change anything and still selected MBR. There were two locations presented: the drive as a whole in the first option and the /dev/sda#. For the second option, it defaults into the # where I had my antiX was installed so I just went with it. It doesn’t fix my problem, I got a successful confirmation but the problem is still there.

After reading on other forums, it seems like I need to reinstall grub, but often they point out that I need to intall it in /dev/sda. But I can’t find it, even in the gparted app. It just shows /dev/sda#1-10.

2- When installing antiX, I remember indicating that the grub should be installed alongside the root of antiX sda#.

And yes, even if I had the grub manager working on pre-installation, I still selected to install grub.

3- A minor issue, I now hear a distinct scratch from the inside of my laptop, I just want to hear if there’s any problem with that, I think it might damage my laptop’s driver.

That’s all whay I could write, I hope there’s a fix. Thank you.

[Member oops]

Palemoon is not too bad (with plugin; “Lull the Tabs” here to avoid ; “memory hog is probably the ‘infinite scroll‘ feature”)

$ ps aux | awk '{mem[$11]+=int($6/1024)}; {cpuper[$11]+=$3};{memper[$11]+=$4}; END {for (i in mem) {print cpuper"% ",memper"% ",mem" MB ",i}}' | sort -k3nr | head -n 20
71.4%  18.8%  377 MB  palemoon
4.6%  2.5%  51 MB  nemo
0.1%  1.7%  35 MB  /usr/bin/python3
0.2%  1.4%  29 MB  synapse
2.7%  1.4%  29 MB  /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg
0.6%  1%  20 MB  lxterminal
0%  0.9%  19 MB  rox
1.6%  0.9%  18 MB  leafpad
0%  0.7%  15 MB  volumeicon
0.4%  0.7%  14 MB  clipit
0%  0.6%  12 MB  bash
0%  0.6%  12 MB  fbxkb
0.2%  0.5%  11 MB  icewm
0%  0.5%  10 MB  gksu
0%  0.4%  9 MB  /usr/bin/slim
0.9%  0.4%  9 MB  conky
0%  0.4%  8 MB  firejail
0%  0.2%  6 MB  /bin/bash
0%  0.2%  6 MB  /usr/sbin/cupsd
0%  0.3%  6 MB  /usr/bin/dbus-daemon

$ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           2006         395        1222          49         388        1496
Swap:          4556           0        4556

$ inxi -Sxxx
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.170-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 info: icewmtray dm: SLiM 1.3.4 
           Distro: antiX-17.4.1_386-full Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 

Use the 4.9.170.antix.1 kernel (RECOMMENDED) refuses to boot, thus I am sticking with 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 6.3.0 Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5
Distro: antiX-17.3.1_x64-full Helen Keller 27 December 2018
base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: A320M-S2H v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: A320M-S2H-CF v: x.x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends
v: F23 date: 08/08/2018
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64
type: MCP arch: Zen L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 27947
Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 1600/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1600 2: 1600 3: 1600
4: 1600
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 415.23
bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia resolution: 1920×1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 415.23
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.1
Device-2: AMD vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.6
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e000 bus ID: 07:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 223.57 GiB used: 33.50 GiB (15.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Gigabyte model: GP-GSTFS31240GNTD size: 223.57 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 216.81 GiB used: 33.50 GiB (15.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured?
Info:
Processes: 175 Uptime: 12h 40m Memory: 7.81 GiB used: 1.11 GiB (14.2%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33

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