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[Member scruffyeagle]

Hi! I’m not new to Linux, but I’m a new user of AntiX. I’d suffered HD crashes on 3 different machines, using Debian 10, and decided “never again” for D10. I eventually bought a 32/64 “Core Duo” Dell Precision M6300 Windows laptop. A friend recommended AntiX, so I dl’d the AntiX 19.3 ISO’s for both 32 & 64 bit, dl’d Rufus for making bootable ISO USB’s, set up 2 USB’s, and tried them out. (32-bit, also used on my old XP desktop machine.)

I installed 32-bit Antix, & 32-bit Debian 11 onto the new used Precision’s HD in a dual-boot configuration. (I thought, maybe they’d fixed the D10 problems, in issuing D11?) 32-bit AntiX worked beautifully. 32-bit Debian 11 (“Bullseye”) crashed repeatedly, locking up the system. Every time I was forced to do a hard shut down via press & hold of the power button, it also crashed my external TrueCrypt-encrypted HD’s. The lockups were connected with opening text files in Pluma, as a triggering event. The mouse pointer continued to move, but the system didn’t react to mouse clicks, or to the keyboard. I quit using bullseye.

It was only after installing 32-bit AntiX onto the new Precision’s HD, that I discovered via the AntiX system info utility, that the Core Duo could also run in 64-bit mode. So, I replaced the 32-bit AntiX installation with a 64-bit installation – and, so far it hasn’t crashed even once. I also tried the 64-bit version of Bullseye – and, it crashed during the very first usage. Same failure as in the 32-bit version, with mouse pointer mobile, but the system incapable of reacting to clicks or keyboard. I quit using D11 on the spot, and haven’t gone back. AntiX is working beautifully, with only a few glitches.

The currently unresolved glitches in my 64-bit HD AntiX v19.3 installation include:

1) It’s skipping the login screen, during boot-up.

2) It’s not retaining the modified resolution setting, forcing me to reset the resolution during every boot. A side effect of this, is that all my desktop launchers get moved & shuffled every time I reset the resolution. I’ve finally stopped trying to keep them in a rational order…

You see, the Precision’s native mode is 1920×1200 pixels. In that mode, the mouse pointer and text cursor become almost invisible via being so tiny & thin. However, when I switch to 1440×900, the mouse pointer becomes almost easy to find on the screen, and the cursor in LibreOffice Writer becomes wide & tall enough to see. (I think LOW is defining the cursor size as an absolute # of pixels.)

3) All of the launchers I’ve placed on the Space-icewm (my favorite) desktop are either directories or files I use frequently. But, I haven’t figured out how to make a desktop launcher to trigger the VeraCrypt I found on the web, dl’d, & installed.

4) As an alternative to #3, I haven’t figured out yet, how to program the boot sequence to include launching VeraCrypt at startup.

Although it’s got its shortcomings, I’m quite grateful that I have AntiX to work with. Thank you!

• This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by scruffyeagle. Reason: Adding info

[Member Xecure]

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Hi, and welcome!

Some things are easier and work better with antiX (like the live system), and some things aren’t as easy or automatic.

For the problems you listed:

scruffyeagle wrote:

1) It’s skipping the login screen, during boot-up.

You can disable auto-login in the control centre (Session > Set auto-login, and leave blank)

scruffyeagle wrote:

2) It’s not retaining the modified resolution setting,

antiX doesn’t use a “display-daemon” so that it can adapt to the resolution on each different machine it boots in (because of the extensive live options).
But recently (in antiX 19.4), an option was created by the community to load a save display configuration on startup.
As you are running 19.3, you first need to update the system, and then add this line to ~/.desktop-session/startup (close to the top of the file):
autoscale-antix
Then, use arandr to set the desired screen resolution and save it as default.sh, as explained in this topic.

scruffyeagle wrote:

I haven’t figured out how to make a desktop launcher to trigger the VeraCrypt I found on the web, dl’d, & installed.

Copy any .desktop from /usr/share/applications to your Desktop folder and edit the file to include the instructions you need, the icon you need, etc. Doesn’t veracrypt come with a .desktop file already? You mat be better of starting with it.

scruffyeagle wrote:

4) As an alternative to #3, I haven’t figured out yet, how to program the boot sequence to include launching VeraCrypt at startup.

If the command doesn’t require root privileges, then you can add the command to the startup file explained in 1). If it does require root privileges, you need to add the command to /etc/rc.local.

Note: As you compared the Debian Bullseye edition with antiX 19.3, it would be interesting to also compare with antiX 21 once the Release Candidate is out. But that time will come.

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[Member marcelocripe]

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Hello scruffyeagle,

Welcome to antiX Linux and the forum.

Once you are able to run the Xecure tutorials, I recommend that you take the time to read the excellent tutorials created by @PPC, regardless of your level of knowledge about GNU/Linux:

Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie and How-to install applications – 2020 version.

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Olá scruffyeagle,

Seja bem-vindo ao antiX Linux e ao fórum.

Depois que você conseguir executar as explicações do Xecure, eu recomendo que você dedique um tempo ler os excelentes tutoriais criados pelo @PPC, independentemente do seu nível de conhecimento sobre GNU/Linux:

Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie e How-to install applications – 2020 version.

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[Member scruffyeagle]

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Hi, Xecure! Thank you for all your helpful assistance.

* I found help in another thread, which showed me how to fix an error condition in my OS – which let me perform an update followed by a full-upgrade. I think that brings my system up to the v19.4 level, doesn’t it?

* Thanks to you, my system now pauses at the login screen during startup.

* Thanks to you, the OS is now retaining the 1440×900 resolution, from one startup to the next.

* Thanks to you, I now have launchers on my desktop for VeraCrypt, Nautilus, & Evolution. (Yes, there was a veracrypt.desktop file, but only in /usr/share/applications.)

* Thanks to you, my system now starts up VeraCrypt automatically at startup time. That took 2 tries, because simply having “VeraCrypt” as a command didn’t work in the startup file. I needed to use “/usr/bin/veracrypt”.

One more mention re. Debian 11 “Bullseye”: I only tested the Mate desktop ISO’s, so I don’t know if the lockups would happen under other desktops like KDE, etc. (I can’t stand Gnome 3, so I won’t even try it.)

[Member scruffyeagle]

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Hello, marcelocripe! Thank you for your reply. I’ll definitely check out those links.

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