Just a General Question of Curiousity

[Member antixjim]

I first installed antiX19 on a Compaq computer over 20 years old last summer (late July or early August). At that time there was a taskbar and a menu button at the bottom of the Desktop. I then used the Compaq for other things for a while and reinstalled antiX19 and later antiX21 this week. Now there is no taskbar nor a menu button. I am just curious if there has been a change that elimates those items for those of us with limited RAM. My Compaq has about 750 MB of RAM. I access the menu by right clicking on the Desktop. This does not present a problem and I am sure the additional free memory is beneficial, so I am good with how antiX is working now and am not looking to change anything. I am just curious if such a change was made or if it is because I had to use Failsave Boot to install antiX this time.

[Member punranger]

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Sound like you are running Fluxbox. Right click, select “Desktop” – “Other desktops”, and choose the one you want, Rox-IceWm is the default.

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[Member marcelocripe]

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Hello antixjim.

I don’t remember sending you some basic instructions and the excellent tutorials created by @PPC:

What is antiX and how to try it out or install it.
Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie.
How-to install applications – 2020 version.
How to: correctly use antiX forum.

When I first started using antiX, I read the tutorials that PPC created, these readings saved me a lot of time and I think it saves time for any new antiX user. Your time will not be wasted with these readings, everything will seem to be much easier than you could imagine. You won’t waste your time searching the internet or even creating new topics, on the contrary, you will gain a lot of time with these readings.

I recommend you try out desktops that have “zzz” in their name. I usually use zzz-IceWM or zzz-JWM or zzz-Fluxbox (each of these desktops has its own characteristics and consumes more or less resources), zzzFM will be the default file manager for your desktop, it it is very similar to the other file managers of other GNU/Linux distributions and Windows XP. To access other antiX workspaces, click on Menu, Desktop, Other Desktops and click on the workspace name, instantly the workspace will be loaded. In addition to the options with the IceWM, JWM and Fluxbox window managers, there is HerbstluftWM (which I have no idea how to pronounce this word) in antiX.

Whenever you need to ask for help or technical support, post the output of the terminal command $ inxi -Fxz, copy and paste it in the message of the topic you are going to create in this forum.

When you start a topic or participate with a post, remember to check the option “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, by checking this option, you will receive a message in your email box whenever there are replies from topic in question.

As I don’t know how to write in English, I send my texts translated by the internet translator. I hope you can understand everything, if your native language is not English, please translate my original Brazilian Portuguese language text directly into your language with the help of internet translators.

marcelocripe
(Original text in Brazilian Portuguese language)

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Olá antixjim.

Eu não me lembro de ter enviado para você algumas instruções básicas e os excelentes tutoriais criados pelo @PPC:

What is antiX and how to try it out or install it.
Short essential how-to list for the complete Linux newbie.
How-to install applications – 2020 version.
How to: correctly use antiX forum.

Quando eu comecei a utilizar o antiX, eu li os tutoriais que o PPC criou, estas leituras me pouparam muito do meu tempo e acho que poupa o tempo de qualquer novo usuário do antiX. O seu tempo não será perdido com estas leituras, tudo parecerá ser muito mais fácil do que você poderia imaginar. Você não perderá o seu tempo com pesquisas na internet ou até mesmo em criar novos tópicos, ao contrário, você ganhará muito tempo com estas leituras.

Eu recomendo você experimentar as áreas de trabalho que possuem “zzz” em seu nome. Eu costumo utilizar o zzz-IceWM ou zzz-JWM ou zzz-Fluxbox (cada uma destas áreas de trabalho possuem características próprias e consomem mais ou menos recursos), o zzzFM será o gerenciador de arquivos padrão da sua área de trabalho, ele é muito semelhante aos outros gerenciadores de arquivos das outras distribuições GNU/Linux e do Windows XP. Para acessar as outras áreas de trabalho do antiX, clique no Menu, Área de Trabalho, Alternar Entre as Áreas de Trabalho e clique sobre o nome da área de trabalho, instantaneamente a área de trabalho será carregada. Além das opções com os gerenciadores de janelas IceWM, JWM e Fluxbox, existe o HerbstluftWM (que eu não tenho ideia que como se pronuncia esta palavra) no antiX.

Sempre que você precisar solicitar ajuda ou suporte técnico, poste o resultado do comando do terminal $ inxi -Fxz, copie e cole aqui na mensagem do tópico que você for criar neste fórum.

Quando você iniciar algum tópico ou participar com alguma postagem, lembre-se de marcar a opção “Notify me of follow-up replies via email”, marcando esta opção, você receberá uma mensagem na sua caixa de e-mail sempre que houver respostas do tópico em questão.

Como eu não sei escrever em idioma Inglês, eu envio os meus textos traduzidos pelo tradutor da internet. Eu espero que você consiga compreender tudo, caso o seu idioma nativo não seja o Inglês, por favor, traduza o meu texto original em idioma Português do Brasil diretamente para o seu idioma com a ajuda dos tradutores da internet.

marcelocripe
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[Member PPC]

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Hi, Jim

antixjim wrote:

I am just curious if such a change was made or if it is because I had to use Failsave Boot to install antiX this time.

A: No, as far as I know, no change removing the toolbar was made in antiX. antiX comes with 3 floating window managers ( IceWM, Fluxbox and JWM) and they all have, out of the box, a toolbar configured to be displayed, on the bottom of the scree. Fluxbox has a toolbar, but no “menu” button on it (but it can be added). antix also comes with a Tiling window manager, Herbs… that also comes with a toolbar, on the top of the screen…

So there’s is something missing or misconfigured in your system, if you don’t get to see a toolbar… try following the advice to switch Desktops and try another window manager (the default one is Icewm).

You can also try to install the ft10-transformation package, and enable it in antiX menu, it provides a tint2 toolbar, configured with a customized jgmenu…

P.

• This reply was modified 11 months ago by PPC.

[Moderator caprea]

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Please post
inxi -zv7
so we can see your hardware specifically the graphic part.

[Member antixjim]

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Actually, I just discovered today that under Desktop there is an option: RoxPanel on/off. It turned out this was set to off. When I clicked on it the panel showed up at the top of the desktop. I know there are options to configure the panel and move it to the bottom of the Desktop. So that answers my question. It was probably just turned off and had not been configured. For now I plan to leave it off.

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Rox-panel is an additional panel, which as you have already found out, you can switch on and off.
According to your description you are missing the taskbar.

[Member ile]

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sign -in to user.
signining -in to root is different.

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