empty antixsources.desktop file on the desktop

[Member Richard]

On a fresh (yesterday) install of antiX-17.2, SpaceFM/Fluxbox
there has appeared this empty antixsources.desktop file on the desktop.

It doesn’t appear to cause any problem except to my mind.
Does someone have an idea how to stop it from occurring?

richard@antix172:~
$ inxi -Fxzr
System:
Host: antix172 Kernel: 4.19.4-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5 Distro: antiX-17.2_386-full Helen Keller 4 October 2018
base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine:
Type: Other-vm? System: Acer product: AOA150 v: 1 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Acer model: N/A serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer v: 0.3301 date: 05/09/2008
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 20.2 Wh condition: 20.2/45.5 Wh (44%) model: SIMPLO UM08B74
status: Full
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Atom N270 bits: 32 type: MT arch: Bonnell rev: 2
L2 cache: 512 KiB
flags: pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6384
Speed: 831 MHz min/max: 800/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 837 2: 822
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1024×600~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.4-antix.1-486-smp
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k
v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 150.88 GiB used: 6.15 GiB (4.1%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: SD02G size: 1.83 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS543216L9A300 size: 149.05 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 20.06 GiB used: 4.58 GiB (22.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.59 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/stretch/ stretch main nosystemd nonfree
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
Info:
Processes: 106 Uptime: 23m Memory: 986.0 MiB used: 109.7 MiB (11.1%) Init: SysVinit
runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.25

ASUSTeK 900 EeePC; RAM: 1.96 GiB;
antiX19.3; 4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp;
HDD: Super Talent STT 30.08 GiB
+SD & External HDD.

[Member Richard]

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This is probably one of those things that happens –fat fingers on tiny keys.
Again, it is probably something I did. I’ll keep an eye on it.

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HDD: Super Talent STT 30.08 GiB
+SD & External HDD.

[Anonymous]

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how to stop it from occurring?

Are you saying that after you deleted this item from desktop, it reappears during next login or following reboot?

You might check whether the file was automagically installed by a package
(I doubt that’s the case here, but it’s a general course of investigation)
dpkg-query -S /home/richard/Desktop/antixsources.desktop

another tack:
grep -nr antixsources /usr/local

The only reference I’ve found is within /usr/share/desktop-session/first-run-script
(provided by package “desktop-session-antix”)
cp /usr/share/applications/antix/antixsources.desktop $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
That would explain why the desktop item appeared, but not why it’s empty.
Does the file exist: /usr/share/applications/antix/antixsources.desktop
If so, is it empty also?

[Member Richard]

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Yes, it was just after installation.
I thought it might have been something that got left over
due to my changing the file structure.

It seemed to have stopped appearing,
but I don’t have that installation at hand any more.

Just food for thought if it happens to someone else.

Thanks for your thoughts.
Richard.

ASUSTeK 900 EeePC; RAM: 1.96 GiB;
antiX19.3; 4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp;
HDD: Super Talent STT 30.08 GiB
+SD & External HDD.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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If the files in:
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list

are empty, unless you need any of these lists in order to install the packages you want to use, no harm in removing them.
If you find them continually reappearing, but you still do not need them, then if the file /usr/share/applications/antix/antixsources.desktop exists and is non-empty, then comment out any lists that you do not need. If this results in a file that has no usable lists to be included in your repositories, then I see no harm in removing it. (An update or re-installation of the desktop-session-antix package can certainly get this functionality back, if it is needed in the future).

Does this make any sense to you?

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[Member Richard]

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Yes. I just deleted it and associated annoyances.
I’m positive it was something I did, just no idea what that might have been.
Probably mis-keyed something. 🙁

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antiX19.3; 4.9.235-antix.1-486-smp;
HDD: Super Talent STT 30.08 GiB
+SD & External HDD.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Richard wrote:

Yes. I just deleted it and associated annoyances.
I’m positive it was something I did, just no idea what that might have been.
Probably mis-keyed something.

Since you can get anything you may need in the future back by installing a package (or at MOST) a couple of packages or a packaging group, I cannot foresee any significant risk to doing this, so go for it! Best wishes as you continue to use antiX and get more comfortable with the features and the overall Linux landscape.

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