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[Member Xecure]

Wi-Fi device: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 (https://www.qualcomm.com/products/qca9377) supports both 2-4 and 5 GHz channels.

Dave wrote:

My guess would be that the laptop and the unit from the isp both support 5 ghz and 2.4 ghz where the other units only run 2.4 ghz

This is also my guess. New routers come with both 5GHz and 2.4 GHz channels, and most of your wifi receivers only detect one of them (the 2.4GHz one). You could change the name (the ESSID) for the 5GHz signal by accessing the router’s configuration IP (generally 192.168.1.1, look for the user and password on the back of your router) and that way you will be sure WICD or whatever you use will only try to connect to the one you choose.

roland wrote:

Lastly automatic connexion never takes place even though I have these two networks d.efined as such.

If your laptop is only used at home (you only connect to one network), use ceni instead. Try rokytnji’s link for wicd

Edit: Try searching the forum for wicd autoconnect problems or other keywords and hope you can find a similar case and its solution.

roland wrote:

I should add that the logon procedure frequently fails the first attempt with an ‘unknown password’ error, a second attempt usually succeeds.

I use to get that using a different Network manager, and I simply had 2 options: Install a keyring to “securely store” your passwords or edit the file that stores the connection information and add the password there in case it is missing. Maybe you can find out where that file is and check that the password is stored there.

Good luck

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[Member LactoseTolerant]

Brian Masinick wrote:

LactoseTolerant wrote:

Hi all,

Wicd is awful. Half the time it just hangs on “obtaining an IP address” and you have to reset the machine. The other one, Ceni, is no good either. There’s nowhere to put in the login information for my work WiFi.

Is there any way to install the WiFi that comes with Ubuntu? That one autoconnects and works pretty reliably.

While Wicd and Ceni may not suit your needs, I haven’t found either of them to either drop connections or hang connections. That may be an issue with either the local ISP or the system configuration. Wicd was a very effective tool once upon a time, but it hasn’t been regularly maintained or updated recently that I am aware of. Ceni is a simple tool, but it is reliable.

In antiX 19, Connman is another network manager that is available. Another network manager that we don’t include that ought to *work*, but may drag in quite a few extra packages that the developers of antiX wanted to avoid. I haven’t looked at the packages, but my guess is that they may drag in some packages that also bring systemd dependencies; I’m almost certain they contain Gtk dependencies. But if you want to try it anyway, I believe that network manager is one possible alternative. Be forewarned that this choice may alter the overall set of display, networking, and scheduling packages, so look into what it offers before deciding to use it. Also, don’t allow more than one network manager at a time to manage your system. It can adversely affect the behavior of the system (that may accidentally be what has already been happening; investigate before choosing other options).

Thanks Brian, I just saw this. I will give Connman a shot. I technically have AntiX 19, but I upgraded it from 17.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

LactoseTolerant wrote:

Hi all,

Wicd is awful. Half the time it just hangs on “obtaining an IP address” and you have to reset the machine. The other one, Ceni, is no good either. There’s nowhere to put in the login information for my work WiFi.

Is there any way to install the WiFi that comes with Ubuntu? That one autoconnects and works pretty reliably.

While Wicd and Ceni may not suit your needs, I haven’t found either of them to either drop connections or hang connections. That may be an issue with either the local ISP or the system configuration. Wicd was a very effective tool once upon a time, but it hasn’t been regularly maintained or updated recently that I am aware of. Ceni is a simple tool, but it is reliable.

In antiX 19, Connman is another network manager that is available. Another network manager that we don’t include that ought to *work*, but may drag in quite a few extra packages that the developers of antiX wanted to avoid. I haven’t looked at the packages, but my guess is that they may drag in some packages that also bring systemd dependencies; I’m almost certain they contain Gtk dependencies. But if you want to try it anyway, I believe that network manager is one possible alternative. Be forewarned that this choice may alter the overall set of display, networking, and scheduling packages, so look into what it offers before deciding to use it. Also, don’t allow more than one network manager at a time to manage your system. It can adversely affect the behavior of the system (that may accidentally be what has already been happening; investigate before choosing other options).

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Brian Masinick

Hi all,

Wicd is awful. Half the time it just hangs on “obtaining an IP address” and you have to reset the machine. The other one, Ceni, is no good either. There’s nowhere to put in the login information for my work WiFi.

Is there any way to install the WiFi that comes with Ubuntu? That one autoconnects and works pretty reliably.

[Member Xecure]

Klaas Vaak wrote:

Is there a way to avoid getting asked for the password?

I have never had a password prompt come up to me, not even when using wicd in the past. I just checked on a live system (after activating wicd) and this doesn’t happen to me. Maybe you need to add your user to a specific group? Check in Control Center > Maintenance > User manager, then move to Group membership Tab, select your user, and make sure it is included in the group netdev (this is just a guess, I really don’t know if this is needed).
Can someone else confirm this, please?

Klaas Vaak wrote:

To get rid of the daemon message boxes, should I do your step 2?

Comment again the line you uncommented in the startup file (so that it is set as before) and try the second method.
A quick search gave me a very good step by step guide by noClue, where one should get wicd to autostart and autoconnect and no password prompt. Hopefully this helps:
Set Wifi automatic – wicd
Step 4 I think is not needed, as setting Daemon to “yes” should make the wicd icon to pop up.

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[Moderator caprea]

dolphin_oracle wrote:

connman mostly connects automatically, but occasionally, on a cold boot, the connection doesn’t happen

I also note an issue with the automatically connection of connman and also thought it perhaps was related to my hardware.

The problem is shown here like this, if already another PC or laptop in the house is connected to the router, connman autoconnects fine on a cold boot and works flawlessly.
If the antiX19 laptop is the first and only PC in the morning connecting to the router on cold boot, connman will not autoconnect and also the connection is then unfortunately not entirely stable.It cuts the connection maybe twice then, I have to reconnect and afterwards it works from then on without problems.

I really like connman, it’s faster than wicd and it has some other advantages, but that’s a problem.

[Anonymous]

I’ll try to answer you a couple of questions … I regrouped your questions so it makes more sense and makes it easier to answer.

15. I noticed that AntiX comes with LibreOffice 5.2.7.2
Is it because it’s more lightweight than newer versions?

It’s because antiX is based on Debian and Debian is renown as ‘very stable’.
Very stable == well tested == testing needs time == the world is on version 12 and you’re still at version 3 (exagerated)
But of course, you can install the newer versions that you’ve downloaded from another sources.

11. In the default panel, is the wifi icon purposely NOT shown? For what reason?
1. Why doesn’t my AntiX autoconnect to my wifi even after checking the box that says ‘Automatically connect to this network’?

WiFi is not shown in taskbar by purpose.
Big majority of people are not changing their WiFi connection couple of times per day but, ‘set it and forget it’.
The status of WiFi (as well as CPU status and some other things) is shown on the dasktop by Conky application.

Regarding the WiFi (Wicd) autoconnection and the icon on the taskbar, you’ll find, easy to follow guide here:

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/set-wifi-automatic/#post-21489

10. Can I edit the default panel to make it look how I want it? Where is it located? And can I do the same thing to other panels?
12. In the default panel, I see the numbers 1 and 2, these are the desktops, correct? How can I delete number 2 and just have 1?
17. Can the time in the default panel be changed to a different format? Like this: %a, %b %d, %Y (%l:%M:%S %p)
18. In my other distro I have put a CPU monitor on the panel, it lets me know the CPU temperature at glance. Can I do the same in AntiX?

You can easily edit your panel and make it look (almost) anything you want.

Regarding ‘deleting Numbers 1 / 2’ (either you’d like to keep both numbers or you’d like to remove the ‘1’ too; what’s the sense of Nr. 1 showing you the ONLY desktop???), setting default time format and CPU monitor on the taskbar, please check the 1st and 2nd screenshot.

1. Go to the Settings (“Control Centre”)

2. Choose “Edit IceWM Settings”

3. A couple of configuration files will open in “Geany” text editor.

Under the “preferences” tab, you’ll find the options to change the clock formating, enable/disable CPU monitor and show/hide ‘Numbers’ (beside some other options) or choose what/how should be displayed.

To ‘turn ON’ –> set to ‘1’ [true]
To ‘turn OFF’ –> set to ‘0’ [false]

13. Can I add a quick launch in the default panel?

Yes, you can edit quick launchers on the toolbar to your liking. (3rd screenshot)

Since you already have the IceWM settings open in Geany, just change to the “toolbar” tab.

Setting ‘#’ in front of one line will disable one line (== one launcher); removing it, will unhide the launcher (activate, make visible)

The format of those ‘text lines’ is as folowing:

prog ‘ANY_NAME_YOU_WANT’ ‘/PATH/TO/THE/ICON.png’ ‘COMMAND’

16. I noticed the grub screen has a background that is the default wallpaper of AntiX. Would I be able to change it to another wallpaper? And would I be able to change it to just plain colors (no pictures)?

Settings panel also has different tabs. Check the “Session” tab.

That’s where you’ll find “Set Groob Boot Image (jpg only)”.

For a monochrome background, you can make yourself a JPEG image, 1×1 Px size in any desired color and let it stretch (better) or repeat (works too, but not recomended).

Have fun!

[Forum Admin BitJam]

kaye wrote:

1. Why doesn’t my AntiX autoconnect to my wifi even after checking the box that says ‘Automatically connect to this network’?

Most likely because you are using wicd but did not enable the wicd startup service.

2. On my laptop, why doesn’t AntiX remember the brightness level?

Because that feature does not exist in Debian Stretch. It was added to Debian Buster and will be available in antiX-19. In the meantime, you can edit ~/.desktop-session/startup and add the line:
backlight-brightness --set XX
where XX is the brightness level you want.

11. In the default panel, is the wifi icon purposely NOT shown? For what reason?

Again, this could happen if you use wicd but don’t enable the wicd service.

19. In my liveUSB, why can I boot it with my laptop but not my desktop? In my desktop, I had to first log in to an installed distro in the hard drive, open gparted, then put a boot label on the liveUSB, and then I was able to boot the liveUSB in the desktop computer.

How did you make the antiX live-usb? Also do you mean boot *flag* not boot *label*. Live-usbs made with our live-usb maker have a “boot” flag on the main partition for legacy booting and a “esp” flag on a small fat32 partition for UEFI booting. If your live-usb was not made with live-usb-maker then I suggest you boot it, plug in a 2nd usb stick, run live-usb-maker and select clone made. This will make a copy of your live system on the new stick with all of our groovy features available.

Context is worth 80 IQ points -- Alan Kay

[Member wolfen]

Hi, Kaye.

As someone said, there’s plenty of documentation in the antiX FAQ, this forum and elsewhere related to your questions, try your-default-search-engine-ing some. Anyway, I’ll try to give you some answers based on my own experience.

1. Why doesn’t my AntiX autoconnect to my wifi even after checking the box that says ‘Automatically connect to this network’?

Which network client are you using? Ceni is automatically connecting at each and every boot for me… Try that if Wicd or else is giving you trouble. Ceni seems to be bulletproof and very lightweight, by the way. 🙂

2. On my laptop, why doesn’t AntiX remember the brightness level? I have to always go to Backlight Brightness everytime I log in. Also, pressing the keys Fn and up (or down) doesn’t work for adjusting brightness? And Fn and right (or left) arrow doesn’t work for adjusting sound?

Same here for brightness level. I just added a backlight-brightness icon shortcut in the toolbar, and change brightness when needed from there. Anyway, you can try what is suggested here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backlight. For sound adjusting by Fn+Up or Dwn Keys, try right clicking on the volume icon/Preferences, and check Hotkeys; that did the trick for me.

9. In connection to number 8, is 28Gb enough for root partition? Considering I will install Gimp, kdenlive, and blender, and VLC player.

I dare say it will be more than enough. I do indeed save some heavy files (movies, music, PDFs and so on) in my HD, installed some more stuff (browsers, VLC, even tried a couple DEs)… So my main home is 13 Gb, and the whole partition is about 18 Gb; do the math. 🙂

10. Can I edit the default panel to make it look how I want it? Where is it located? And can I do the same thing to other panels?

Sure you can… It depends on the desktop you will be using, but icewm at least has a rather customizable toolbar. But you’ll have to do that manually, mostly… The config file is located at /home/youruser/.icewm/toolbar . You can access the different desktop custom files by way of Control Center/Desktop, or just locate them via SpaceFM or else; they’re all hidden at the right place in your /home folder.

11. In the default panel, is the wifi icon purposely NOT shown? For what reason?

I dare say there’s no need for that icon… Conky gives you enough info about your connection activity, and once you’re connected, what else do you need? 😉

13. Can I add a quick launch in the default panel?

Of course, all the ones you need. As I said before, check the config files depending on the desktop you’re working at. I think once you see how the ones already visible are written, it’s kind of easy adding new ones. But ask if you can’t figure it out. 🙂

14. In another distro, my quickest way to open terminal is Ctrl-Alt-T. This can’t be done in AntiX?

You can configure a lot of keyboard shortcuts. There’s plenty pre-configured but “commented”, e. g., in ~.icewm/keys . Uncomment (erase the # before that line) in
#key "Ctrl+Alt+t" desktop-defaults-run -t
to open your terminal with that -or change the keys if it suits you- keys.

16. I noticed the grub screen has a background that is the default wallpaper of AntiX. Would I be able to change it to another wallpaper? And would I be able to change it to just plain colors (no pictures)?

I haven’t, but did you try Control Center/Session/Set Grub boot image ? 🙂

I hope some of the above can be useful to you. Anyway, I think this is a really great distro and deserves a try: bulletproof stability, really lightweight and fast. Enjoy, cheers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I’m not sitting on my antiX right now so you get only a partial answer.

1. Open Wicd, make a connection and then check the Wicd settings — there should be an option to let it start automatically.

2. You need to write/add it manually by writing it in a configuration file yourself.

In your home folder, you need to show the ‘hidden files’, go to folder ‘.icewm’ and open a file ‘toolbar’ in some text editor.
You simply add another line in the same manner like the ones already existing.

prog /PATH/TO/THE/ICON/ICON.PNG COMMAND

Command will be ‘firefox’ to start the Firefox and so on. In most cases, it’ll be the same as the application name.

3. The very first thing you do upon starting to use a new operating system is to go through all menues and see what’s around.

Sometimes, one can find things like ‘Settings’, ‘Configuration’, ‘Control Center’ and such and one doesn’t need to ask the obvious.

4. See 3.

Installing, Store, Package Management …

5. Fine.

Remember to check Steam settings. There’s a surprise inside, but I let you to activate the Proton yourself.

All that said, I don’t mind looking for the better answers or making a screenshot little bit later, when I turn on my antiX, but try with this first.
Discovering the things in a new OS yourself is the big part of having fun and — you don’t forget so quick what you discovered it yourself.

P.S.
Welcome aboard.

I
Really thank you for your answer.1) First of all i set Wicd to autoconnect to my WI-Fi , after 2-3 reboots i think its autoconnecting . 2) Where i can find the png file location of mozilla or other apps? 3)Well thats for sure .. I really searched but i didnt manage to find the panel settings except you mean something off iceWM , JMW or Fluxbox settings whick i really cant edit this .(dont know what exaclty to do) 4)Well still i havent manage to see my apps through a “store” or something like this :/ 5)How to check steam settings when i cant open steam? :/

[Moderator caprea]

Did you chose wicd on the live-boot with the F4 key like I said in your first post ?
If not so wicd will not autoconnect on startup.
You could try ceni or you have to make some changes in /etc/default/wicd
So did you use F4 option ?

[Moderator caprea]

Hi,
The message from wpa-gu is normal (even if connected), and it may be better to leave wpa-gui aside unless you know exactly what you are doing.

Have you looked for ceny in the antix-faq? You must enter the preshared key in ceny for your access point. Is that what you did?

Maybe the easiest way for you will be to try wicd (under network in control-centre).
In wicd are only two buttons -connect and -something like preferences for your access point.
In preferences you only have to tick “use encryption” and type your wlan-key.
Then OK and it should be possible for you to connect.
If this workes for you more easy than ceny, then we have to make little changes to make wicd autoconnect after reboot. Please try it first and then report.

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[Moderator caprea]

IIRC the 3 or 4 different programs that tried to bring up the network during boot caused some conflicts on antix17 during the test phase.
So the developers decided to go this way.
On the live iso you can use the F4 option and select wicd on.This will carry over to the installed system and wicd will autoconnect at bootup.
Anyway ceni is the default for wifi on antix.

For someone who is new to linux wicd certainly looks easier.

Some people prefer ceni and some wicd.It’s difficult to make everyone right.
I personally prefer ceni for desktops and wicd for laptops, which I use in different places.

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