Desktop refreshing problem? [SOLVED].

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I have this weird problem:
My desktop image, don’t seems to get properly refreshed.
Every time I’m closing (or minimizing) the last using application, it shows (instead of the wallpaper) a ghost image of the last used application.
Eg. lets say I’m using the terminal and I’m closing or minimized it. Then, instead of showing the wallpaper, I’m still looking at the terminal’s output.

I uploaded a screenshot. What you can see, is NOT a running terminal. It’s a ghost image of the terminal (which is minimized).

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Is this antiX 19 or 17? What window manager are you using? Are you using spacefm or rox as a desktop handler? Have you changed the desktop background with the antiX wallpaper app? Is your system updated?
As we cannot guess these things, it is always better to give as much information as possible for a fast resolution. Many recommend using
inxi -Fxz
and post the terminal output here to give in a single post as much information as possible.

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Latest version (19), fully updated, no repos change (neither adding, nor removing). Icewm, with Rox.
Maybe it happened because of the update?
Now I can recall, that before updating, I changed my login manager, because I had some problems with Slim and I replaced it with GDM.
Maybe this is the root of the problem (although I didn’t notice it at the time (yesterday, before updating)).
Anyway! I can restore an image (that I made with Clonezilla), to see if this is the case.

>inxi -Fxz
System: Host: PC Kernel: 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.6
Distro: antiX-19.2_x64-full Hannie Schaft 27 March 2020 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: AM1M-A v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1501 date: 04/01/2016
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Athlon 5350 APU with Radeon R3 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Jaguar rev: 1
L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 16369
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/2050 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8400 / R3 Series] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon
v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1360x768_60.00~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.49.0 4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp LLVM 7.0.1) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:01.1
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.212-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI
port: e000 bus ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 18.10 GiB (1.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM010-2EP102 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 30.24 GiB used: 3.78 GiB (12.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
ID-2: swap-1 size: 6.05 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda7
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 25.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 24 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 164 Uptime: 1m Memory: 3.31 GiB used: 280.2 MiB (8.3%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0
Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36
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SliM is very integrated with antiX. With the original slim login manager, all desktop-session options work when launched, but ither login managers don’t. You must have noticed that you no longer have a volume icon in the toolbar (that was managed by antiX’s desktop session). This desktop session even manages the wallpaper, so what you are experiencing is a non working wallpaper.

Fortunetly there is a solution.
You just need to edit the icewm-session file in /usr/share/xsession to launch antiX desktop session
See this answer:

Dave wrote:

I am not sure anymore; it has been a while since I looked. I say this as lightdm is supposed to do session management in a way, which is what desktop-session is trying to do as well.
Perhaps the quickest and easiest way is to make a bunch of files in /usr/share/xsessions similar to what is there but one for each antiX session. In the newly made files you could put on the exec line desktop-session rox-icewm. For example using above.

[code]

[Desktop Entry]
Name=DS Rox-IceWM
Comment=Rox and Icewm with desktop-session
Exec=desktop-session rox-icewm
Terminal=false
TryExec=desktop-session rox-icewm
Type=Application

[X-Window Manager]
SessionManaged=true
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Nope! Didn’t work.
Reverted back to Slim.

Speaking of which, did someone managed to get Slim’s commands “reboot” or “halt” to work?
I uncommented the respective lines at /etc/slim.conf (just below the live cd options), but they doesn’t do something.

I suppose the workaround is rather easy. Exiting (with “exit” command (or switching to VT1 (with Ctrl-Alt-F1)) and issue a Ctrl-Alt-Del for reboot or login as root and issue an “init 0” for poweroff.

I’m just curious, if someone got the above Slim’s commands to work.

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They work out of the box

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Didn’t worked for me at the 1st place, so I uncommented them.
Didn’t work either.

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Let’s see your /etc/slim.conf file

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Here it is:

# Path, X server and arguments (if needed)
# Note: -xauth $authfile is automatically appended
#
default_path        /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
default_xserver     /usr/bin/X11/X
xserver_arguments   -nolisten tcp -background none

# Commands for halt, login, etc. on live antiX
halt_cmd            /usr/local/bin/persist-config --shutdown --command halt 
reboot_cmd          /usr/local/bin/persist-config --shutdown --command reboot 
# Commands for halt, login, etc. on installed antiX
halt_cmd            sudo halt 
reboot_cmd        sudo reboot 
#console_cmd         /usr/bin/urxvt -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue.net; exec /bin/login"
#suspend_cmd        /usr/sbin/suspend

# Full path to the xauth binary
xauth_path         /usr/bin/X11/xauth

# Xauth file for server
authfile           /var/run/slim.auth

# Activate numlock when slim starts. Valid values: on|off
numlock             on

# Hide the mouse cursor (note: does not work with some WMs).
# Valid values: true|false
hidecursor          false

# This command is executed after a succesful login.
# you can place the %session and %theme variables
# to handle launching of specific commands in .xinitrc
# depending of chosen session and slim theme
#
# NOTE: if your system does not have bash you need
# to adjust the command according to your preferred shell,
# i.e. not using desktop-session-antix:
#login_cmd         exec /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession %session 
#################OLD COMMAND####################
# login_cmd         exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session >~/.xsession-errors$DISPLAY 2>&1
################################################
#LOGIN COMMAND FOR DESKTOP SESSION BELOW#
#############################################################################################
login_cmd   setsid /usr/local/bin/desktop-session %session
#############################################################################################

# login_cmd exec dbus-launch /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session >~/.xsession-errors 2>&1

# Commands executed when starting and exiting a session.
# They can be used for registering a X11 session with
# sessreg. You can use the %user variable
#
# sessionstart_cmd	some command
# sessionstop_cmd	some command

# Start in daemon mode. Valid values: yes | no
# Note that this can be overriden by the command line
# options "-d" and "-nodaemon"
# daemon	yes

# Available sessions (first one is the default).
# The current chosen session name is replaced in the login_cmd
# above, so your login command can handle different sessions.
# see the xinitrc.sample file shipped with slim sources
#sessions rox-fluxbox,space-fluxbox,fluxbox,rox-icewm,space-icewm,icewm,rox-jwm,space-jwm,jwm,herbstluftwm
sessiondir /usr/share/xsessions

# Executed when pressing F11 (requires scrot)
screenshot_cmd      scrot /root/slim.png

# welcome message. Available variables: %host, %domain
welcome_msg         (Press F1 to toggle sessions)

# Session message. Prepended to the session name when pressing F1
# session_msg         Session: 

# shutdown / reboot messages
shutdown_msg 	The system is shutting down...
reboot_msg 		The system is rebooting...

# Focus the password field on start when #default_user is set
# Set to "yes" to enable this feature
focus_password      yes

# Automatically login the default user (without entering
# the password. Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#auto_login          yes

# default user, leave blank or remove this line
# for avoid pre-loading the username.
default_user        giorgos

# current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to 
# randomly choose from
#current_theme 	BlueLines
#current_theme 	BlueLinesLight
current_theme 	antiXIce
#current_theme 	DarkCity#current_theme 	PrettyPink
#current_theme 	SunnyDay

# Lock file
lockfile            /var/run/slim.lock

# Log file
logfile             /var/log/slim.log

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You have

# Commands for halt, login, etc. on live antiX
halt_cmd            /usr/local/bin/persist-config --shutdown --command halt 
reboot_cmd          /usr/local/bin/persist-config --shutdown --command reboot 
# Commands for halt, login, etc. on installed antiX
halt_cmd            sudo halt 
reboot_cmd        sudo reboot 

Change to

# Commands for halt, login, etc. on live antiX
#halt_cmd            /usr/local/bin/persist-config --shutdown --command halt 
#reboot_cmd          /usr/local/bin/persist-config --shutdown --command reboot 
# Commands for halt, login, etc. on installed antiX
halt_cmd            sudo halt 
reboot_cmd        sudo reboot 

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OK! Commented out the live cd options.
Not much of a change.

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Did you reboot after making the changes?

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Yes. No effect.

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Installing gdm3 really played a trick on my system (luckily it is in a VM). I think it is related to defaulting to wayland. Used a live system to reset slim as default display manager. Now, I get this error when using dpkg-reconfigure slim

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure slim
[ ok ] Reloading system message bus config...done.
WARNING: /lib/systemd/system/slim.service is the selected default display manager but does not exist

Could installing gdm3 modify how the antiX system should work? Anyway, I purged it.

Going back to reboot and halting, I got reboot to work with the default
reboot_cmd /usr/local/bin/persist-config --shutdown --command reboot
user: reboot, password: myrootpassword
I had previously uninstalled gdm3, but I don’t think that should be related.

Anyway, if you can test gdm3 again (if you haven’t uninstalled it), you can add an entry to the $HOME/.icewm/startup file as BobC illustrated:

BobC wrote:

Yup, that fixed it. I added code to the beginning of ~/.icewm/startup as follows:

# run desktop-session startup. 
if [ -x "$HOME/.desktop-session/startup" ] ; then
	. $HOME/.desktop-session/desktop-session.conf
	. $HOME/.desktop-session/startup
fi

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current_theme antiXIce

Try using the default BlueLines theme

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