antiX-19-a2_x64.iso xdelta patch

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

I have uploaded an xdelta patch here

To use this patch, you will need the antiX-19.a1_x64.iso and the patch in the same directory.

In a user terminal:

xdelta3 -d -s antiX-19.a1_x64-full.iso antiX-19-a1_a2_x64.xdelta antiX-19.a2_x64-full.iso

md5sum for the patched iso should be:

md5sum antiX-19.a2_x64-full.iso
0c5b0755460875c4119b45901e1b8b5e  antiX-19.a2_x64-full.iso

Please test the following.

* fixed slim ‘double’ login bug
* UEFI boot
* connman wired and wireless. If you want to use ceni, you’ll need to remove connman
* New icon theme available (Papirus) (not default) To make the changes -see below.

antiX-papirus theme:

This is particularly useful for fluxbox users, since the default theme looks awful.

In /home/demo/.fluxbox there should be menu-papirus file.
Rename (after saving the other) to menu.
Use lxappearence to set default icon to papirus-antix
Update Menu
Restart fluxbox

Note – the icon theme is not complete, but you should get some idea of how good/bad the icons look in fluxbox.

You can repeat the above steps for IceWM and JWM as well.

To change the control centre icon theme to match, edit (as root) antixcc.sh in /usr/local/bin
Simply #comment the antix-numix line and uncomment the antix-papirus one.

Do the same to the logout menu by editing /usr/local/lib/desktop-session/desktop-session-exit.py

Note that I realise the control centre icons are not all complete.

My opinion is to use the antix-papirus icon theme rather than the numix-bevel one,
which is one of the reasons for this patch. I will not upload the full a2 iso.

Note: This is still alpha quality, there are lots of bugs and not all the reported issues in the a1 feedback thread have been implemented.

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by anticapitalista.
• This topic was modified 4 years ago by anticapitalista.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

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anticapitalista wrote:

Xdelta is a revolutionary way of creating and applying binary patches. It can be used to distribute patches for ISO images, so instead of downloading a 700MB ISO image of the new version of your favorite distro you can download only a 20MB-40MB patch and apply it using the xdelta3 program to the ISO image of the previous version obtaining thus the new ISO image. By using xdelta you can save both bandwidth and time.

Xdelta3 is available in antiX.

Applying the xdelta3 patch (obtaining the final image from initial file + patch)

Download the patch file to the same folder where you have the iso file you want to apply the patch to

Use this syntax.

xdelta3 -d -s fromfile patchname.delta tofile

Creating an xdelta3 patch (for developers and people who want to distribute patches)

Use this syntax.

xdelta3 -e -s fromfile tofile fromisofiletotofile.delta

Links
*xdelta home page
*Wikipedia discussion
*Development blog

[Member eugen-b]

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* New bug: Open LXTerminal press maximize button, press restore button and the window become about double the size of the screen. Doesn’t happen in Fluxbor/JWM, even if you open LXTerminal in JWM and change the desktop to IceWM it won’t happen.
* Conky issue with IceWM taskbar resolved by adding a line to conkyrc: own_window_type desktop OR own_window_type override. Tests needen whether this would introduce other bugs.
* It looks like the old icon theme numix-bevel-antix is still the default. New icon theme papirus-antix looks a bit better in Fluxbox but still suboptimal. A better solution as noClue already wrote would be to use square icons. Maybe a light colour Fluxbox style would make the white pixelated circle around some icons look less weird, but the available styles all look not too good. The easiest improvement would be to disable pseudo-transparency.

[Anonymous]

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We have two lighter themes for Fluxbox if you wanna try them.
Pseudo-transparency MUST be disabled with both of them.

https://www.antixforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/modernflux_3.png
https://www.antixforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/screenshot_fb.png

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/antix-19-a1-full-64-bit-available/page/4/#post-20976

[Member ile]

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hello anticapitalista
spacefm right click preferences window stays behind other windows; in alpha1 it was possible to change desktop wallpaper with it. in 19alpha2 the spacefm right-click>Desktop Settings preferences window >Desktop tab does not change wallpaper.
slim ONE login, connman, Arandr, sound work in 2 here. it did in 1 already on this machine. good slim fix. Applications >Graphics >Screenshot closes some windows upon save the screencapture; feh windows always disappear. (maybe others with more tests.) oh, how synaptic shows repositories has changed. i have seen that style somewhere before. thanks for keeping synaptic running if this is what it takes in buster. I realize that there is cited two things here, Choose Wallpaper and Repo Manager, that the usage access pattern is shifted to Control Centre. spacefm-fluxbox antiX 19alpha2 ; installed.

228.0 KiB + 51.0 KiB = 279.0 KiB gpm
296.0 KiB + 47.5 KiB = 343.5 KiB acpid
260.0 KiB + 95.5 KiB = 355.5 KiB cron
284.0 KiB + 82.5 KiB = 366.5 KiB init
332.0 KiB + 164.0 KiB = 496.0 KiB dbus-launch
380.0 KiB + 155.5 KiB = 535.5 KiB irqbalance
488.0 KiB + 59.0 KiB = 547.0 KiB rpc.idmapd
356.0 KiB + 271.5 KiB = 627.5 KiB udevil
452.0 KiB + 195.5 KiB = 647.5 KiB rpcbind
348.0 KiB + 590.0 KiB = 938.0 KiB avahi-daemon (2)
660.0 KiB + 454.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB devmon
880.0 KiB + 242.0 KiB = 1.1 MiB rpc.statd
700.0 KiB + 439.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB desktop-session
356.0 KiB + 790.0 KiB = 1.1 MiB saned (2)
596.0 KiB + 589.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB gconfd-2
744.0 KiB + 472.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB dbus-daemon (2)
820.0 KiB + 521.0 KiB = 1.3 MiB getty (6)
1.4 MiB + 88.0 KiB = 1.5 MiB elogind-daemon
1.2 MiB + 336.0 KiB = 1.5 MiB sudo
1.4 MiB + 232.5 KiB = 1.7 MiB sshd
1.5 MiB + 252.0 KiB = 1.7 MiB connmand
1.5 MiB + 463.0 KiB = 1.9 MiB bash
1.4 MiB + 603.0 KiB = 1.9 MiB gnome-keyring-daemon
1.9 MiB + 89.5 KiB = 2.0 MiB rsyslogd
1.9 MiB + 1.1 MiB = 3.0 MiB cupsd
2.6 MiB + 576.0 KiB = 3.2 MiB wpa_supplicant
1.4 MiB + 1.9 MiB = 3.4 MiB gksu
3.2 MiB + 563.0 KiB = 3.7 MiB udevd
5.1 MiB + 34.5 KiB = 5.1 MiB haveged
4.3 MiB + 1.4 MiB = 5.7 MiB fluxbox
2.7 MiB + 3.5 MiB = 6.2 MiB volumeicon
17.5 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 18.8 MiB slim
20.1 MiB + 8.2 MiB = 28.3 MiB Xorg
24.9 MiB + 5.1 MiB = 30.0 MiB lxterminal
31.9 MiB + 10.6 MiB = 42.6 MiB spacefm
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175.3 MiB

• This reply was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by ile.

[Member koolstofje]

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He doesn’t want to boot after an iso snapshot.

Neither aufs nor overlays is available..

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@ eugen-b

In my recent screenshots, you’ve seen that Fluxbox doesn’t like round icons but, if you give them a second look, you’ll notice that it doesn’t like any diagonal lines, anything that has detail …

The fact is: there are no many square themes around, even less if they should be .png (converting will work though), which will be square-in-square, without diagonals, without details…

At the end of the day, you just have to accept the fact, that it’ll look sh**ty, one way or the other. Either you remove the icons altogether, or you try to cache it with some other theme color.

Using something like (see screenshot) in whole antiX, just to get some outdated WM look better is also not the greatest solution. There are only so many compromises that could be done.

The best way of dealing with problems has always been to avoid the cause of the problem itself. Since Fluxbox is the cause …

[Member eugen-b]

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@noClue, that was probably the reason why I forced myself to like a square icon theme (Nitrux, Square-Beam) when I was using Fluxbox.
antiX used to have no icons in Fluxbox menu several years ago. Maybe it’s time to go back to an iconless menu?
Your screenshot looks like Nitrux icon theme, I remember I used it in Fluxbox, too.

I’ve just checked out Numix-Square icons, they are SVG, but very square and very flat (as in Earth). https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme-square
Anti would just need to convert them to PNG. Maybe they will even look better even in JWM and IceWM than the Numix cirle icons?

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@eugen-b

There are many icons out there and many square ones too, for that matter, it’s just … there are (too) many different things to consider when choosing the default icon theme. Many of those icon sets are absolutely beautiful, as long as they stay on display in some art museum. Once you install them and try to work with your O/S, they turn to be extremely annoying. Either they ‘all look same’ or they have too week or too strong colors, or they’re too flat or … I know the Numix Square from Antergos and I personally, wouldn’t use it. However, it’s not upon me to decide what one want’s to do with ones own product. I can only try to help avoiding the disaster as we saw it once in antiX 17.1 or currently in MX.

Applications icons are only one part, mime-types the other. You want to be able to quickly see the differences between different file types but again, you don’t want them to show you three different types or archives as green, blue and purple. It becomes pretty annoying over time. And then there is again consistency… There is a nice documentation on that topic on Apple, Gnome, Microsoft and some other sites, where is explained how and why exactly so some things should be done. It’s much more than the matter of somebodies personal taste.

If you set some icon type as the default, the theme used should match, the login screen should match, wallpapers should match … many distributions produce utter chaos. The less is more and the computer is a tool to work. It’s not here to be beautiful or to be the ‘object of desire’; it’s here to help you to work more effectively and not to distract you from work and the less is more because, it’s much better to offer only one good theme then to put a dozen of themes and all of them are bad. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ has here nothing to do with personal preferences or taste but with science and empirical values/’experience shows’. The most beautiful image is not the best possible wallpaper, the most creative icon set is not the most suitable for work …

P.S.

Here is one example of ‘FLUCHbox’ with square icons that fits Fluxbox archaic concept, makes it less boring, more modern but, still very classic and — still usable.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/antix-screenys-general/page/11/#post-21328

Actually the best solution would be to make two separate antiX editions.

One ‘chaos edition’ as is, for the ‘geeks’ and one ‘ordinary human beings edition’, IceWM only, which could be easier to style properly, with ‘one application per task’, ‘mean and lean’, without all of that live this and that (which does not appeal to a ‘normal user’) — just an ordinary, simple to use for all and stable O/S for your wife, for your children, for your mother … a tool that helps the work gets done. Just a kind of modern times typewriter.

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@ anticapitalista

Is there any way for you to say what’s causing it? (see screenshot)

I’m not talking about those 3 ROX icons or about tiny size differences on round/square!

Paper did a better job here.

Start Menu button. 🙂

[Member manyroads]

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Updates on my testing:

—Conky menubar flashing appears only on my iceWM desktop
—iceWM does not appear as an option on my jwm or flubox Desktops
—When I change desktop wallpaper, the tenerife wallpaper appears as ghost on the jwm desktop and in a compositor transparent background (in tint2) on the fluxbox desktop.

I am able to create the above errors 100% repeatably.

In another vein, I am trying to build a numix like theme for jwm, iceWM and fluxbox wms. (So all wms will have a cohesive appearance.) I’ll share the results if I am able to succeed.

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"

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@ anticapitalista

OK, I found the reason for the ROX/Papirus icon size issue.

All except 3 icons are coming from /usr/share/icons/papirus-antix/24×24/actions

The other 3 icons are coming from /usr/share/rox/images
(See 1st screenshot)

The size difference comes from the empty space around actual drawing of Papirus.
(See 2nd screenshot — ‘Papirus SIZE’ on the left, ‘normal’ right)

Good news:
I can easily fix the size of those 3 icons — this is what it gives.
(See 3rd screenshot and see attachment)

Bad news:
The user can’t change the icon set on any other than Papirus, because otherwise, those 3 icons will be/stay too tiny.
(== I’d have to make another set of larger icons to match Numix Circle.)

With other words, Paper would be a better choice than converted Papirus.

[Member ile]

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hello anticapitalista
antix19-alpha2_x64
rox behavior. rox panel not seen when spacefm is running.
and it does not show on the workspace menues as ROX in icewm or fluxbox,
so even when rox panel is running it cannot be verified as present on the menu.
turn off spacefm and it is there visible, but still not listed in the workspace menu as ROX.
— icewm, fluxbox, jwm same; When rox panel is on it is not listed on any workspace menu or seen in any taskbar workspace view. when spacefm is running the rox panel cannot be seen.

[Member ile]

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hello anticapitalista
It was into fifth day of uptime, but now machine is restarted up with
antiX19-a2_64 running kernel 4.9.176_amd64 and latest intel microcode 3.20190514.1
that connman is the quickest networker ever.

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Hi, I’m just testing with IceWM, since that’s the WM I like. I like the toolbar options for usb, terminal, file manager, screenshot, editor, and browser.

I will not use ceni and wpa_gui anymore, and will only use connman, since i would expect most people would like that better.

When I booted to flashdrive with ethernet cable connected, browser didn’t work because it didn’t want to get an ip address. Then I opened connman, and after a minute, before i did anything, it got an address. Why not make it start on its own if possible, and maybe add a toolbar button for the network, possibly connman-gtk?

prog "Connection Manager" /usr/share/icons/numix-bevel-antix/48x48/apps/nm-device-wireless.png connman-gtk

Would you consider turning on the tray monitor for the CPU with htop or better yet, a gui program like lxtask on click. LxTask is not in the dist already, but is small and because you have other Lx apps it won’t bring other things in.

Would you consider turning on the tray monitor for the Network for eth0 and wlan0 with ip addr instead of netstat, or better yet a gui program like connman-gtk on click

in preferences:

TaskBarShowCPUStatus=1
###CPUStatusCommand="desktop-defaults-run -t htop"
CPUStatusCommand="lxtask"

TaskBarShowNetStatus=1
###NetStatusCommand="desktop-defaults-run -t dsp-ip-addr.sh"
NetStatusCommand="connman-gtk"
NetworkStatusDevice="wlan0 eth0"

Note that I needed a little script to get the screen to pause after showing the network info whin I tried to do it with ip addr. I called it dsp-ip-addr.sh but maybe you already have something better. Personally I like the connman-gtk a lot better:

#!/bin/bash

# BobC 05/19/19 run ip addr to show ip addresses and info, refresh if requested

EXIT=N
while [ "$EXIT" == "N" ]
do
    echo "\$ ip addr"
    echo
    ip addr
    echo
    read -p "Refresh ip addr? (y/n) " -n 1
    echo
    if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Nn]$ ]]; then
        EXIT=Y
    fi
done

I like the bigger icons. I liked your 17.4 bigger icons, too.

I like it a lot so far, thanks…

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by BobC.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by BobC. Reason: removed a dumb idea

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