general antix structure when installing antix sid net

[Member pd]

Excuse me if my question is already treated somehow in this forum, I’ve searched the forum without finding anything but may be my fault.

I’d like to know how is the general structure of an antix distro in order to get a brand new official antix installing from a sid net iso (antiX-19.1-runit-sid_x64-net.iso).

Installing a net iso gives you a really minimal installation and that’s ok, my problem begins when trying to get it into a “normal” antix distro by installing the packages I like (a minimal set).

In order to achive the goal I’ve installed an Xserver (Xorg), a session manager (lightdm), a window manager (jwm), serveral packages I need (debian-essential, gcc, stterm…). That’s pretty good and work ok. I’ve tried installing using classic debian tools (apt) and antix ones (cli-aptIX) are all works.

My problem is to configure my minimal net install to use antix commodities, for example, I’ve installed menu-jwm-antix to install a usual antix menu in jwm and now I have a well looking desktop with a full menu but items in menu don’t work because those items use a .desktop based system that trust in scripts and default files to execute common tools (terminal.desktop to execute the terminal). What I’m looking for is a guide to know how to configure the defaults so my menu items call my installed programs (without having to manually edit every .desktop file). I assume there’s a retionality in this system and so probably there’re tools to manage it.

So the question is how to configure my net install to act and respond as a normal antix system you can get when istalling antix-base for example.

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Search for topics like “antix core fluxbox” “antix core icewm”, etc.

Some pointers:
desktop-session-antix is the package that manages the antiX session and makes it work like a desktop environment.
desktop-menu-antix is the package that generates the Applications menus automatically every time you install a new package.
desktop-defaults-antix is the package needed for setting preferred applications and making it easy to change default edito, browser, file manager, etc.
desktop-defaults-base-antix bring the general program default configurations.
antix-goodies brings lots of antiX scripts that make life easier.
desktop-defaults-jwm-antix is the package with the antiX defaults
papirus-antix/papirus-mini-antix brings the default icon theme in antiX 19/21

Those are the basics. There are some dependencies that you may need to figure out (read the topics that mention this), and experiment and try things out.

Note: Using lightdm, you may have to edit the exec options in /usr/share/xsessions so the window managers launch using desktop-session.

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