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I used Live-usb Maker and created a live-usb of antiX-17.1_386-core.iso (32-bit). I booted into it with static persistence.

I have watched dolphin_oracle’s “Setup up your Desktop Environment!” video.

On this video, d_o runs as root this command:

apt-get install xserver-xorg x11-xserver-utils xfonts-base x11-utils lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter xfce4 xfce4-goodies

Then he reboots into the Desktop Environment.

I don’t want to install xfce4, but icewm. I don’t know which packages are needed. After updating, I tried this:

apt-get install xserver-xorg x11-xserver-utils xfonts-base x11-utils slim xauth scrot icewm desktop-defaults-icewm-antix

Slim gave this error:

Setting up slim (1.3.6.9+nmu1) ...
[....] Reloading system message bus config...
Failed to open connection to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "reload" failed

No GUI after reboot. I tried:

$ icewm
icewm: Can't open display: <none>. X must be running and $DISPLAY set.
$ startx
-bash: startx: command not found

I decided to try with xfce4, as d_o did. I installed lightdm (lightdm-gtk-greeter was also installed automatically) xfce4, xfce4-goodies. Lightdm gave the same error as slim:

Failed to open connection to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "reload" failed

The newest version of dbus appears to be already installed. But there was not a dbus folder in /var/run. I created myself a /var/run/dbus/ folder and a /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket file, but I suppose it doesn’t help.

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dbus may be installed, but is it running? I suspect not.

if you are doing this on a liveUSB, make sure you boot without any disable= cheatcodes. in particular the “d” on the antiX-core iso disables dbus.

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Thank you. That’s it, about dbus. I deleted the “disable=lxd” and booted into a fresh-created live-usb. I installed the packages shown on video (xserver-xorg x11-xserver-utils xfonts-base x11-utils lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter xfce4 xfce4-goodies) and lightdm didn’t give any errors. But still I can’t reboot into the Desktop environment.

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Install dbus-x11

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It appears to be already installed.

dbus-x11 is already the newest version (1.10.26-0+deb9u1.0nosystemd1).
dbus-x11 set to manually installed.

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i would:
apt-get remove dbus-x11
apt-get install dbus-x11

If the above doesn’t fix, and no error messages shown during the “install” operation, try this:
dpkg –configure -a

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How about
apt-get install xserver-xorg-legacy

BTW startx no longer works without this change.

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=134425

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Removing dbus-x11 also removed xfce4-goodies.
No error messages during re-installing dbus-x11, but it didn’t fix the problem.
I also re-installed xfce4-goodies, but still no GUI.

# dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: error processing package a (--configure):
no package named 'a' is installed, cannot configure
Errors were encountered while processing:
a

I’ll try with xserver-xorg-legacy.

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I installed xserver-xorg-legacy and rebooted, but still:

# startx
-bash: startx: command not found

I also added to Xwrapper.config file this line:

needs_root_rights=yes

The problem remains.

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Hey, lookit: a clue !
startx: command not found

The startx command is provided by package “xinit”.

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Thanks, that’s it. I installed xinit, and “startx” works now. But, I have to find out how to boot into gui automatically.

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how to boot into gui automatically

As I understand it, installation of “slim” or other login manager package will place a file in /etc/init.d (e.g. /etc/init.d/slim).
The file provides instruction to init, stating “this should be autostarted for runlevel 5”. That gets ya “automagically booted into gui” (the slim login screen).

For “automatic login”, can hand edit /stc/slim.conf and specify “auto_login yes” (and “default_user suchandsuch”)…
or use the antiX ControlCenter tool which provides a GUI to accomplish this autologin setup.
(or can launch that GUI tool directly from the commandline via sudo slim-login )

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anklebone connected to the shinbone, shinbone connected to the kneebone…

Within /etc/slim.conf is a specified “login_cmd” commandstring which is executed upon successful login.
In antiX, it is “/usr/local/bin/desktop-session %sessionname”
By examining the content of the desktop-session script, you can continue following
the chain of “whatall autostarts whatelse within a given desktop session”.

DISCLAIMER: corrections welcomed ~~ I’m not 100% confident the details of this post are entirely accurate

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Have you removed the 3 in the grub menu?

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It was not autologin I cared about. After having thought it better, I also don’t care about getting into a login manager’s screen anymore. I prefer starting X manually. What I want is to use icewm instead of xfce. I purged xfce4, xfce4-goodies, lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter. I ran “apt autoremove” and I installed icewm. But still, after rebooting, “startx” gets me into the xfce environment.
I don’t delete “3” in the boot options.

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I purged xfce4, xfce4-goodies […] But still, after rebooting, “startx” gets me into the xfce environment.

A good start toward figuring out whatall remnants didn’t get autoremoved:
sudo updatedb
locate xfce
locate xfdesk
locate xfconf

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