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aaronfunk
Hi!
I have an Asus X501A laptop and Antix 19.3 i386
After a fresh installation, Antix starts up without a pretty theme and settings menu. There are only some minimal desktop settings. It looks like fluxbox is starting up. When I select another WM, the system returns the desktop settings after 2 seconds.
How can I run Antix in “full mode”? 🙂
- This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by aaronfunk. Reason: Change topic to solved
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Hi: you told us you have installed antiX 19.3, 32 bits (i386), but which “flavour”? “Full”? “Base”?
If you try booting from live media (the dvd-rom/usb device) that you used to install antiX to your disk, does it look “normal”? that is not a “normal” antiX fluxbox menu, nor a “normal” window manager menu list (Herbsluft showld not appear, and it should also list jwm and combinations like rox-icewm, etc), also, not a regular “conky2 (the window that displays system information)
Try logging off, and, at the log-in menu, pressing “F1” and see if a line of text, showing the name of a desktop (like rox-icewm or rox-fluxbox) appears. If it does, enter your user name and password to try to log in…P.
Anonymous
The key clue, I think, is the sparsely polulated desktop menu shown in the second screenshot.
Looks like sumbuddie has logged into desktop session using the root user account ~~ which is “permitted” (is possible), but is unsupported ~~ most of the desktop amenities will not operate correctly for rootyroot until//unless you wade through editing and customizing various configuration files.Logout. Login as “demo”, or another regular (non-root) user.
Dave
The key clue, I think, is the sparsely polulated desktop menu shown in the second screenshot.
Looks like sumbuddie has logged into desktop session using the root user account ~~ which is “permitted” (is possible), but is unsupported ~~ most of the desktop amenities will not operate correctly for rootyroot until//unless you wade through editing and customizing various configuration files.Logout. Login as “demo”, or another regular (non-root) user.
Yes almost certainly a root desktop. You should use a regular user account.
Though it is strongly advised against… if you would like to use root, copy the contents of /etc/skel/ to /root/.Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown
Xecure
My guess is that you preserved you home partition and are logging in using a previously created user (and not a new user created during/after installing antiX).
Update the system and copy the files in /etc/skel/ to your user home folder (you need .desktop-session folder, .icewm folder, .jwm folder, .fluxbox folder and some folders inside .config, like spacefm folder, rox.sourceforge.net and roxterm.sourceforge.net folder need to move to your .config folder in home).You see, three different answers because the information provided was very limited and incomplete.
At least one of the answers should be “the correct answer”.
I just confirmed that it is probably the root account as the two previous answers suggested. I logged in and it has the same appearance as the screenshots provided.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Xecure. Reason: Probably root
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.Thanks for answers. So, in order:
Hi: you told us you have installed antiX 19.3, 32 bits (i386), but which “flavour”? “Full”? “Base”?
If you try booting from live media (the dvd-rom/usb device) that you used to install antiX to your disk, does it look “normal”? that is not a “normal” antiX fluxbox menu, nor a “normal” window manager menu list (Herbsluft showld not appear, and it should also list jwm and combinations like rox-icewm, etc), also, not a regular “conky2 (the window that displays system information)
Try logging off, and, at the log-in menu, pressing “F1” and see if a line of text, showing the name of a desktop (like rox-icewm or rox-fluxbox) appears. If it does, enter your user name and password to try to log in…
P.I’ve installed both full and base.
When I booted from liveusb, I got a beautiful full desktop version with all menus, settings and the correct conky.
I took your advice and logged out. I want to note right away that during the installation I selected the “auto login” item.
Indeed, on the login screen when I press F1, I see the option to select different wm, but whichever wm I choose, the desktop looks the same. The menu is as simplified as possible, it has no settings. This is what rox-icewm looks like (fig. 1,2)The key clue, I think, is the sparsely polulated desktop menu shown in the second screenshot.
Looks like sumbuddie has logged into desktop session using the root user account ~~ which is “permitted” (is possible), but is unsupported ~~ most of the desktop amenities will not operate correctly for rootyroot until//unless you wade through editing and customizing various configuration files.Logout. Login as “demo”, or another regular (non-root) user.
As you can see from fig.1, I logged in with the user created during the installation. Nevertheless, I tried to log in as the demo and root user, but the desktop does not load, it is suggested to re-enter the login and password.
My guess is that you preserved you home partition and are logging in using a previously created user (and not a new user created during/after installing antiX).
Update the system and copy the files in /etc/skel/ to your user home folder (you need .desktop-session folder, .icewm folder, .jwm folder, .fluxbox folder and some folders inside .config, like spacefm folder, rox.sourceforge.net and roxterm.sourceforge.net folder need to move to your .config folder in home).During the installation, I chose to mount the home folder into the already created partition by another system (lubuntu), but later in the installer I chose that the old home folder was renamed and saved, and the new one was created. Yes, the username is the same on both systems. But I don’t think that this should have any effect on the installation, because the folder is renamed.
I’ve also attached a screenshot of what the .config folder looks like in the home folder.
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What could have gone wrong during installation that the system does not look like it did when booting liveusb?
I tried installing antix on vm and there were no such problems. But there I chose automatic disk partitioning.In my case, it is extremely important to save the old home folder.
anticapitalista
Try copying everything in /etc/skel (lots of hidden files) into your home user directory.
Logout, login as user not root.BTW – What language is that in the menu?
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
Try copying everything in /etc/skel (lots of hidden files) into your home user directory.
Logout, login as user not root.Thank you, your advice helped me!
I think the developers should analyze this issue and fix it in new releases.
BTW – What language is that in the menu?
It is Russian 🙂
anticapitalista
There is nothing to fix.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
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Does it have the scrolling conky? cool huh?
root. and someone dressed it with some color.It shows the work done in the difference to the user account default
details configured for that instantly great user desktop. root is great too, but root.
Thanks for the great desktops.There is nothing to fix.
Are you saying that this is a normal situation where the system will not start normally out of the box? And that the user needs to copy the configuration files from one folder to another?
Xecure
Are you saying that this is a normal situation
If you install from zero, antix will create and modify your home folder/partition. If you reuse a home partition, antiX will nto intrude and modify the config files already there. This si by desing, in case you have a custom configuration for your window manager and other programs.
Linux Mint, Ubuntu, etc, will override that configuration. Thta is their “normal situation”. If you had configured things your way, you will need to reconfigure them.
antiX will NOT modify your configuration, so you don’t have to worry about it deleting your home configuration and having to reconfigure or copy back your dotfiles backup.So, yes, that is by design. To preserve the integrity of your home partition. If you had installed it in a new home folder/partition, or created a new user inside antiX, it would have created the needed configuration folders.
antiX will also not install new antiX kernels that might break your system without permision. You install them manually (or use the Debian kernels that DO install new versions without your input).
The good thing is that you got your antiX system working.
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.Thanks for the clarification. Thanks everyone for help!
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