hello everyone – using antix for over 8 days now….

[Member berghsg]

I am enjoying Antix 19.1 for about 8 days now, and must compliment the developers of this OS. It has made installing and adding new programs quite easy. Even some of the customization was easy.
Many positives, one being no systemD!
I love Conky!
Easy to work with
Easy iso (distro) creator > ISO snapshot
etc etc
The only things that i would caution new users on is:
1) The selection of certain Desktop environments which bring up a very limited WM, I found Space-IceWM where the Window Manger allows forward backward arrows, Ctrl c and Ctrl V, multiple tabs, open in Terminal, Open in Root window, listing available devices etc Very useful. I find that ROX, Minimal and IceWM on their own too limited!

2) I am still struggling with replacing the default grub boot splash screen (see attached below) with my own custom. Yet to find out who can help me with this. My gripe is that there are a number of locations that involve grub in this OS but a few of them are redundant. Would like to know how i can make an iso (using ISO snapshot) that allows me to show my own custom grub splash window.

3) Creating new desktop icons of installed programs where some programs that do not place an icon on the desktop are difficult to add to desktop. Unless they are in the list /usr/share/applications it is extremely difficult to add an icon that executes the new program installed. Ubuntu Cinnamon and Debian allow us to add via ‘create a new launcher’.

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[Member Xecure]

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Welcome!

About your experiences:
1) Yes, I also prefer SpaceFM. It is included in antiX, so any user can use it. The user just needs to explore a bit all desktop options.
2) You can change grub image from the antiX control Center (CC > Session > Set grub Boot Image (png only)
3) Use App Select to see if your app can be found there and note down the Exec command.
You can copy a .desktop file to your home folder and modify it to launch the app you want. If you are using ROX as “desktop manager”, after editing the .desktop file, just drag it to the desktop. You could also create a new file, edit it with geany/leafpad/nano with this info (change to your convenience)

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/path/to/executable
Name=Name of Application
Icon=/path/to/icon

and rename the file name-of-app.desktop

You will have to learn to edit and create files if you want to take full advantage of antiX, or linux in general.

Again, welcome to antiX

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Forum Admin Dave]

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#3 to add to xecure. I think app-select will need to be installed first. Once installed it does have a –select option which spits out the information if you run it from a terminal.

There is also the program add-desktop which you should be able to find in the menu. I do not think that it works fully with Rox but it should with spacefm and the menus. This is planned to be updated sometime in the future.

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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I’m glad you are enjoying antiX and hopefully your questions have been answered to your satisfaction.

Please feel free to ask questions, make constructive suggestions, and if you are able to help anyone else in the future as you gain comfortable experience, or just to communicate you are always welcome to do so.

Welcome to antiX! 😁

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[Member berghsg]

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Thanks guys for the warm welcome and encouraging remarks.

Re: You can change grub image from the antiX control Center
I have already done this for the installed OS, and it worked, HOW EVER I would like to ensure that my own custom grub window pops up when running live session (Before installing the OS). I would like to know where the OS (running live) derives the default splash screen (see my attached on my 2nd Mar 2020 posting). Perhaps I can just over write this png (or jpg) with my own of the same name. ?
In other words: I am using ISO Snapshot > to create a custom iso / distro > to allow end user to run live or install options > in live option I would like to show my custom grub boot splash. Hope my request here makes sense.

Re: using app select…
I will have to try this out sometime later. I already attempted to make an executable desktop icon by adjusting
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/path/to/executable
Name=Name of Application
Icon=/path/to/icon
BUT never came right in earlier attempts.

Re: add-desktop process
(Start menu) > Preferences > Add Menu Item > add-desktop
Attempt:
a) Item name: Popcorn-Time
b) I selected my icon.png from /usr/share/pixmaps
c) Item Category: Desktop Shortcut
d) Item command:
I tried both /home/live/Popcorn-Time/./Popcorn-Time (The path where i have the shared library executable)
and
Popcorn-Time.sh (but this did not work in the add-desktop process)
e) Filename: Popcorn-Time (this is the actual name of the file that executes – shared library executable)

After trial and error
My final setting that worked is as follows:
a) Item name: Popcorn-Time
b) I selected my icon.png from /usr/share/pixmaps
c) Item Category: Desktop Shortcut
d) Item command: /home/live/Popcorn-Time/./Popcorn-Time
e) Filename: Popcorn-Time

Thanks again!!!

Stephen

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