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Lead Farmer
I’m using the theme “Adwaita-dark” in Antix, but it doesn’t change the folders/files background color to dark, showing the file name as white on white background.
BobC
Open the file manager on one side of the screen (sorry, I’ve never seen Dolphin), and control panel, desktop, customize look and feel on the other, then select each theme, and apply if you need to, in order to see what it will look like, until you find one you like.
The problem is that it doesn’t change the background color in dark theme.
https://ibb.co/RHKrYLn- This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by Lead Farmer.
antiX doesn’t come with Dolphin. Its a KDE file manager. antiX comes with zzzfm, rox-filer and mc. So its not likely that other antiX users are running Dolphin, and that’s why nobody answered. This isn’t a very good place to ask how to configure Dolphin.
With antiX, its ok to add other file managers, but if you do, you need to support your changes.
So that means you need to investigate your problem, find possible solutions, and try them. I put in a post up near the top of the list (and there are others up there) that explains how to go about that. https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-get-help-with-an-antix-problem/
Try using google (or other search engine).
I searched for dolphin file manager change theme. It looks like that is a common complaint about Dolphin. Not everybody likes a bright white background. Look for a similar recent question that was answered and see if it looks easy to try.
- This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by BobC.
- This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by BobC.
I didn’t know Antix don’t support all the apps.
I switch to nemo file manager,it pretty similar.
ThanksPPC
I searched for “dolphin file manager white letters white background” on duckduckgo. I got a fix instantly, it was in the top ten search results:https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/502722/dolphin-background-and-font-color-are-both-white
In short: antiX Menu > Terminal and enter this command:
geany $HOME/.config/kdeglobalsgo on the end of the text document add this and then save the document:
[Colors:View] BackgroundNormal=#31363BProblem solved with less than 1 minute searching the web…
I didn’t know Antix don’t support all the apps.
It’s not an antiX problem, it’s a Dolphin “bug”, is expects KDE to be installed, if it’s not, it has that bug… Basicly speaking, the only Debian “apps” that antiX does not support are the ones that depend on stuff that is not included in antiX: generally speaking systemd dependent packages (like snaps) and, for example, Wayland dependent packages (and even so, an user made antiX work with Wayland). All the rest of the “apps” (some 99% of them) run great.
Merry Christmas
P.
- This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by PPC.
- This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by PPC.
@PPC thanks
Brian Masinick
I will say this: though you can start with antiX and make whatever you want, to be honest, if you prefer to use a desktop environment with your system, you’re probably better off to start with MX Linux or even Debian, or alternatively siduction, if you want a more cutting edge system. All three of those alternatives are solid, though some of them go the “systemD” route with the process scheduling, depending on which choices you make (Debian and siduction DO use systemD; MX Linux provides the hooks to it for those who add software that has systemD dependencies, but does not activate systemD by default.
With antiX, you do NOT get systemD scheduling UNLESS you pull in an environment that requires it; in that case that’s why I suggest that one of those other distributions might make a better starting point for those scenarios, though ALL of these distributions are very good ones, just “different” in their specific approaches.
I use a variety of distributions on a couple of my computers, though I generally either have installed, or have images handy, to physically put or add antiX to any system. I have been a multi-boot user for most of my Linux-history, so different boot loaders, different package managers and different process schedulers are all things I have at least *some* experience with. I use Debian-based software over 75% of most days, unless I’m specifically doing a task that favors something else or I am taking a deep dive with something else. When I come back to my primary stuff, it’s been Debian-based for a long time, and with my current propensity to use older equipment for the most part, I use antiX as my primary driver; I did have to get a newer kernel to adequately support the wireless networking on my HP-14, so I did have to utilize my multi-distributions to properly configure all of them; we no longer have any functional wired networks here, so I have to first find systems that handle wireless networking and hardware support out of the box, copy the stuff I need to each of the remaining systems, so some systems engineering and software management experience is necessary, but the results are well worth it; I have current kernels running here on all of my systems on my newest hardware.
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Brian Masinick@masinick I use Antix on a old laptop, and like how it’s low resources distro that works well on old machines, I tried Mint and it take +20% CPU in idle compere to 3% in Antix, and it was more laggy.
I’m used to Windows file manager, Rox filler is too basic, and I didn’t like zzzFM.
Over all like Antix.Brian Masinick
Hi Lead Farmer! I have a much different orientation because I grew up in the days before Microsoft started to produce consumer software. Therefore in most of my high school and college years I used either mini computer or mainframe systems, and none of them in the seventies were truly geared to “at home” consumers; even the easiest software was still aimed at either computer professionals or trained business users.
The eighties did BEGIN the move toward consumer oriented software, but it was only the late eighties and early nineties that easy to use programs and systems were deliberately built. I took a great deal of personal interest in promoting and advocating easy to use defaults for all programs and systems, except those used ONLY by professionals who without question wanted power and features over simplicity.
By the time that personal computers and hand held devices became easy to use, affordable and readily available, usability HAS become much more readily available, but now we have a much DIFFERENT issue: the majority of people are SO enamored with their devices, games, tools, and entertainment that some people (too many of them, thankfully NOT everyone) uses electronic devices more often than they interact with people.
Though I’ve always used a LOT of electronics, I make it a daily goal to turn them off and/or put them away, and definitely so if a person approaches me or speaks to me.
There is a balance. I encourage all of us to use technology in effective, useful ways, but PLEASE make and keep the relationships around you the number one priority. People DO build these things, but people have brains, lives, feelings, and needs; let’s not forget any of this, especially during holidays when people have traditionally gathered, whether expressing their faith or simply because they care for others. I urge everyone to remember this; technology is valuable and important, but it is still nothing more than a tool; living, breathing animals and people in particular are always infinitely more important!
Holiday greetings to all!
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Brian MasinickThe apps antiX comes with were chosen because they are powerful and efficient in terms of not using too much memory or CPU to get the job done. Nemo is pretty good and comes setup for easy use. zzzfm is also easy, but runs things on a single click, and that is something ex-Windows users are not used to. Its under View >> Preferences >> Single click opens files, and I always turn that off.
and I didn’t like zzzFM.
You can’t argue about taste… But zzzFm can be configured to to look (and act) as you want. If you want to, you can install the ft10-package and then run a script that reconfigures zzzfm and adds a few extra features to it – making it even more powerful than most file managers (adding a Trash can, easy connection to Network shared folders, Many “Favourites” – Like Downloads, Music, Video, etc)- and it’s as light as the default zzzfm. If you like Dolphin and your computer has the resources to run it, then stick with it!
It took longer to make the screenshot of which things to change than it too to setup zzzfm to look and work like Nemo. The things marked in red need to change. You also would also would need to turn on devices and internal volumes.
Basically its all there, like in the Wizard of Oz, you just need to click a bit. Watch a SpaceFM How To video if you are willing to spend 20 minutes learning.
You only get out of things what you are willing to put into them…
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@BobC that it does look better that way, and the double click to open it better, I will give zzzFM a try. thanks.
HisWord1st
Hi BobC and anyone else here willing to offer some constructive help!
I’ve spent the better part of a day looking for ways to drag and drop image files from both the default file manager program in antix 22 and the zzzfm both with no success. I’ve looked at all kinds of videos about antiX, Linux, etc… It seems like it would be such a simple issue to address and yet I’m hearing nothing back at this point, on two forums and in scouring the web.
Is there a way to drag and drop image files within any file manager contained in antiX, from the file manager to a web browser page set to accept such files?
If there is not, can you point me in the right direction to download and set up a file manager that can perform this function? Dolphin looks good and like it would work but I would suspect it would be much more difficult to go that route…
Thank you.
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