Core installed in virtualbox and then loaded slim and icewm

[Member bluedxca93]

Hi,
am new to antix but not to linux in genereal.

Downloaded the core to install it inside virtualbox.
First runs crashed. Almost i had given up at that point already but then i tought try failsafe maybe it works. And voila it booted up on virtualbox.
The login and text install was very easy despite being only text also it seemed very clean and the questions where very precise. The reboot to the command prompt worked without errors.
Then i did update the package list as you would do in debian . Installing slim icewm and xterm worked with apt.

What did not work out of the box was setting the xinitrc for slim. That was expected and got it running adter reading the archlinux slim article some times.

Then i was very frustrated again second time after the required failsafe thing on first boot. There are antix packages for icewm that is great. What i don’t get though is why is icewm-menu-fdo binary is missing on antix. Without this using icewm is only a mess imho.
Is there anybody using icewm with antix and did install it from the core variant?

And is there a way to set another application as rox as default file manager?

Despite these flaws that can be fixed trough configuration i m sure it runs very fast. Tomorrow i will test my install again. Maybe its only my fault thinking everything should work as in ubuntu.

kind and best reagrds
bluedxca93

[Anonymous]

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why is icewm-menu-fdo binary is missing on antix

Possibly because antiX (Base and Full editions) uses its own, developed in-house, menu generator mechanism. As someone who has chosen the (hard)Core path, you are well-prepared to meet such challenges, yes?

[Anonymous]

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repo.antixlinux.com/buster/pool/main/i/icewm/icewm_2.0.0-3.0antix1.debian.tar.xz
Within the debian/rules file of the source package, we can notice
-DCONFIG_FDO_MENUS=off
howto:
If you want the fdo menus, grab the source package and compile using dpkg-buildpackage, specifying =on for your custom build.

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is there a way to set another application as rox as default file manager?

man update-alternatives

also (I’m unsure whether it is available in CORE edition) try this:
exec /usr/local/bin/desktop-defaults-set

[Member seaken64]

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bluedxca93 wrote:

Maybe its only my fault thinking everything should work as in ubuntu.

kind and best reagrds
bluedxca93

To my knowledge Ubuntu does not provide a CORE system. Debian has a Base system. TinyCore has a similar version. All of these are for building up your own system, either with or without a GUI. If you want something more like Ubuntu choose the FULL version.

Seaken64

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@skidoo
of course there are workarounds. Am not unprepared ;). Icewm has a nice foolproof github page and compile version from experimental debian versions is also easy.

[Member bluedxca93]

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The script is called desktop-menu.
@skidoo
antix control center preferred application did the trick. For the file manager now it works as i want it too.
And guess what its insanely fast in virtualbox. Faster than ubuntu or normal debian.

@seaken64
just use the net installer than you can still build a system from a minimal base withiout plymouth.

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