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stephenbbb
Hola muchachos,
I installed Antix19 full alongside ubuntu and got a desktop that looks awful and does not have the menus I saw in the demo. when I right-click I see fluxbox menu, but connman and CENI are not there, so I cannot even connect to wifi.
How do I get the desktop I saw in the demo? no damage was done to ubuntu, so my laptop is usable, but I had high hopes for antix.
Gracias
anticapitalista
Don’t login as root since it seems like that is what you are doing.
If this is not the case, give us more details.Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
I do not login as root. I login as a user and get into that pretty low resolution desktop with no menu on the bottom left and the system monitor on the top left covering the home folder icon. terrible. how do I get out of it?
Please.
installed antix full on a partition alongside ubuntu and using a separate /home and a separate /swap. never saw any questions about desktop during the install. only strange thing was asking me for domain and I left the default example.com
There are no questions/options during the boot. the boot takes much longer than the boot from the demo usb.- This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by stephenbbb.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by stephenbbb.
Dave
Did you set the separate home partition the same as one used by ubuntu?
If so the antiX stuff will not be copied there and you will have to copy them manually as needed / wanted from /etc/skel/Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown
yes, and I chose the option to re-use whatever is already there. in the fluxbox desktop, I right-click and try to switch the window manager to Ice, but it does not work. it takes me back to the login screen and then back to the fluxbox desktop.
if there are any conflicts with the ubuntu, can you suggest a workaround where I will have /home/stephen/antix for all hidden files and folders needed by antix. I think both are debian systems and many of those folders will be the same name, but different content, so antix will overwrite some of the ubuntu stuff unless I separate them.
Cheers
S.BobC
I don’t think its wise to have antiX and Ubuntu trying to share the same /home directory. What if there is a config file of some kind used by both, but can’t be the same for both? Or a file that is there or not there that controls what each of them do, but incorrectly as a result.
The normal structure it expects by default is /home/stephen and there is not any antix subdirectory under it.
anticapitalista and Dave are the experts, not me.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by BobC.
If you were to add another user, it would create a new directory under /home for that user id and then if you login to it, you will be working from a normal system.
sudo /usr/sbin/antix-user
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It is OK to use the same home partition for multiple linux systems. Most lightweight antiX programs are not used by Mate or Ubuntu in general, so there shouldn’t be any problems with it.
antiX installation is non-destructive when using a separate home partition (to avoid what BobC mentioned, changing some configuration files would create some problems for Desktop Environments like Mate), so in these cases you need to manually copy some files so that everything works as intended.
If you an open a terminal inside antiX (if you can’t, try Control+Alt+F1 to enter tty1, log in with your user, and run the commands below; to return to the desktop, Control+Alt+F7), run this:
cp -r /etc/skel/{.icewm,.jwm,.fluxbox,.desktop-session} $HOME/
For most window manager configuration files.For more program specific files:
cp -r /etc/skel/.config/{herbstluftwm,rox.sourceforge.net,roxterm.sourceforge.net,spacefm} $HOME/.config/Log out, log in and everything should work now.
antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.The files I was thinking about were the dot files processed at login. In general I would look at ones that would be overlaid, but especially the login ones.
I suppose it depends on the person’s ability.
I created an account for my wife and got the Ice desktop. will try the other solution as well.
this laptop has a two core processor and in Mate system monitor it shows both processors and they both get used. Conky just shows CPU.
is antix aware of the second core and can it use it?
Everybody has been very helpful, thank you guys.Yes, the default install would use all of the CPU’s. I think the conky screen shows an average. You could customize the conky to show the CPU’s separately, but if you are worried about CPU usage, turning off the conky would be a good way to reduce the load.
how do i modify the conky? system is so light CPU is under 50% almost always.
I can post comparison between Mate and antiX if there is interest.Menu > Control Centre > Desktop tab > Edit System Monitor (conky)
You can google how it is coded, I just add a line for each CPU is how mine works
caprea
You have to edit the hidden .conkyrc in your home directory
This should work for two cpus
${color}cpu0: ${color}${cpu cpu0}% ${color}cpu1: ${color}${cpu cpu1}%instead of the oneliner
${color}cpu: ${color}${cpu}%anticapitalista
BTW – Which version of antiX re you using? 64 or 32 bit?
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
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