I have a dream – antiX 22 Full 64 Bits + Gnome

[Member Wallon]

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Printer installed with antiX tools and direct integration in the Gnome printer panel.

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[Moderator BobC]

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Yes, Gnome is more of a heavyweight desktop environment (800 mb vs 200 mb) compared to the Window manager/File Manager combinations that come standard with antiX. As long as you don’t mind that Gnome takes more memory and runs slower, it’s Ok.

The way I look at this is that for me, I like antiX because it can run on ALL the machines I have, and on my newer machines, it’s ROCKET fast.

I’m not sure this is the best place to get support for a Gnome setup, though. You might be wise to have Gnome running on a distro where it comes standard to test with, and use what you find out on antiX as well.

I’m not sure why you are having windows problems with IceWM. IceWM allows for up to 10 different desktop workspaces, and you can easily switch workspaces, and move windows from one workspace to another, and easily tile or resize them as needed on a workspace. Why not provide a picture showing how you have a screen arranged with Gnome that would be difficult to duplicate with IceWM, and maybe we can suggest a workable solution.

BTW, you can use the same background pic for IceWM if you wanted to. It is a nice pic. There are also nice calendar programs and conky displays with weather available, but admittedly, they aren’t already included with antiX, so would need to be configured.

[Member Wallon]

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Control center

Synaptic (if you open the repository settings in Synaptic, the Gnome panel opens!)

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[Member Wallon]

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I check if the programs work in the control centre.

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[Moderator BobC]

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I think IceWM can be configured to do the snap to edge thing, also, without tiling… Not totally sure, and would need to investigate and experiment.

Pulse Audio… That’s one thing I don’t have that working on antiX yet.

Yes, the Gnome screens look polished. Have you tried using the antiX-Magic-* themes on IceWM?
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[Member PPC]

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@BobC – I think Wallon is so psyched with Gnome that he’s just serial posting the way that D.E. works, without even reading other posts 🙂

BTW- check out DistroTube’s YouTube channel about the latest Ubuntu- it seems that their version with Gnome is way lighter than what Wallon got, using antiX + gnome…

[Moderator BobC]

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PPC, Yes, but what I think it really points to is the ease of setup thing.

Once installed, it is already setup with a look that he likes without him needing to go change everything individually, manually. All he needed to do was install Gnome, pay 700 mb of memory, and be willing to accept it working slower in exchange for working better to his expectations.

Ok, but what about the people than cannot afford 700 mb of memory, or don’t have a fast machine?

[Member Wallon]

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Slim refuses to accompany me on my adventure.

Normally, it is gdm that works with Gnome. Bad luck my friend because gdm does not recognize azerty keyboards. For that, you have to install systemD! Not nice systemD…

Well, I don’t have a neighbour who can help me with this important problem because I don’t know how to launch Gnome.

So, I install Lightdm which recognizes azerty keyboards without installing SystemD. How do I activate the numlock because my password has numbers? On the XFCE forums, they say you have to type a little script in a file… blah, blah, blah.
It’s very simple to do, look at my sreenshoot.

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[Member Wallon]

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APP Select works very well.

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[Member Wallon]

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Connman works also.

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[Member PPC]

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BobC wrote:

Ok, but what about the people than cannot afford 700 mb of memory, or don’t have a fast machine?

sudo apt install ft10-transformation

then Menu > Applications > Enable FT10 > choose Menu layout > tick all extras to be installed > Ok > restart your system > Be happy (and use keyboard shortcuts to tile windows as needed, instead of snapping them into place using the GUI- drag and drop)

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Edit: Of course Gnome has more advantages than just snapping windows to the desired half of the screen… if one can spare the system resources, it’s a great (and beautiful) D.E. (I haven’t really used it for years)

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• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by PPC.
• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by PPC.

[Member Wallon]

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Test Gnome shortcuts… on the left of the screen

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[Member Wallon]

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Gnome logiciel don’t work very well for the updates.

I will install “apt-notifier”. This is a good tool for me. We need to check the integration because there is no systray…

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[Member Wallon]

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apt notifier – installation and update if it’s possible…

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[Member Wallon]

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Firefox ESR with Gnome Theme.

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