Login entry fields not visible with two monitors

[Member seaken64]

I’ve had this issue with both antiX-19 64-bit and antiX-17 64-bit. I can’t see the login entry fields when I have two monitors.

I managed to setup my two monitors to work with antiX and my IceWM windows manager config files. I used arandr and saved the settings and added it to the IceWM startup config file. But I can’t figure out how to get Slim to show the login entry box in a place where I can see it.

At one point I could see the sign in box all the way to the right of one of the screens but I could only see a sliver of the entry box. In my current setup I can not see the sign in entry box at all. I can type my username and password blindly and hit enter and I am logged in.

I figured out that I could set auto login and bypass the sign in entry box on the Slim display manager screen. But I would prefer to see my login/sign in entry fields and type in my username and password.

I have another antiX box that I am using to test the latest “testing” version of antiX-19 32-bit. On that box the sign in fields are in the upper left of the screen. How do I make that happen? The standard antiX setup has Slim showing the entry fields in the center of the screen. This is apparently what is causing the trouble when I have two monitors.

I looked around in the configuration files but I cannot figure out where this setting may be to place the sign in fields in the upper left corner, or in the center, or wherever I want. Can someone point me in the right direction for this setting? Is it in the slim.conf file and I am missing it?

Thanks for any tips you can share. My inxi -Fxz follows.
Seaken64

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System:
  Host: antix17464 Kernel: 4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 6.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
  Distro: antiX-17.4.1_x64-full Helen Keller 28 March 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Dimension E521 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: N/A serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: 1.1.6 date: 04/07/2007 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ bits: 64 type: MCP arch: K8 rev.F+ 
  rev: 1 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 svm bogomips: 7215 
  Speed: 1800 MHz min/max: 1000/1900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1800 2: 1800 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV43 [GeForce 6600] driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1360x768~60Hz, 1280x1024~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV43 v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA MCP51 High Definition Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:10.1 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.160-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX vendor: Dell driver: b44 v: 2.0 
  port: cc00 bus ID: 04:07.0 
  IF-ID-1: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 232.83 GiB used: 4.52 GiB (1.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HE253GJ size: 232.83 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 38.20 GiB used: 3.67 GiB (9.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: /home size: 76.40 GiB used: 867.0 MiB (1.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.00 GiB used: 456 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix/stretch stretch main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:
  Processes: 151 Uptime: 7h 08m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 766.8 MiB (38.3%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.36 

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[Moderator BobC]

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If you are able, make a backup and then copy in the slim theme stuff from bullseye. If that’s going to be hard for you, let me know.

I suspect what is happening is the login info is halfway between the two, which is what was happening to me.

[Anonymous]

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sign in fields are in the upper left of the screen. How do I make that happen?

sudo echo "input_panel_x 40"  >> /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX/slim.theme
sudo echo "input_panel_x 40"  >> /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX/slim.theme

The change will take effect upon next launch of SLiM.
(logout/in will probably not reload the changed themefile. Will need to shutdown/restart.)

( FWIW 0,0 would be coordinates of absolute top-left corner )

If you do wish to read the installed (but sparsely-worded) slim theming documentation:
zcat /usr/share/doc/slim/THEMES.gz | less
or
zless /usr/share/doc/slim/THEMES.gz

[Anonymous]

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Is it in the slim.conf file

In this case, “input_panel_x” and “x” are declared within the …themes/antiX/slim.theme file. FWIW, if they were not, declaring them within the slim.conf instead would have been equally effective. The conf file is parsed first, then the theme file. Any later-occurring redundant declaration of of an option will take precedence (will overshadow the earlier declared option value). The pair of “echo append” commands in my previous post guarantee those declarations will be the last read so will take precedence.

[Member seaken64]

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Thank you, those were the clues I was missing. I will read the suggested docs and make the changes in the .theme file instead of the .conf file. And now that I know what file has that setting I’ll look at the file in the “testing” version on the other machine to see what I can learn from that.

Thank you again.
Seaken64

[Member seaken64]

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BobC wrote:

copy in the slim theme stuff from bullseye.

That was good idea. I just didn’t know where the theme files were kept until skidoo cleared that up for me.

Thanks for the help.

Seaken64

P.S. I think there is a command to show me where all the files are kept for a particular package, like slim. But I can’t remember what to do. Is that part of the apt utilities? or dpkg? I remember seeing such a list I just don’t remember how I did it. Synaptic maybe? I’ll look around again. Eventually, maybe I’ll get this stuff into my head.

[Moderator BobC]

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Near the bottom of page 6 of this thread is the theme changes I did…

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/login-manager/page/6/#post-48674

I use apt-file, but not sure if it is part of the standard antiX install. Its in the repos.

apt-file search slim | grep -i ^slim

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[Moderator BobC]

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This might also help:

dpkg -S slim* | sort

[Member seaken64]

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@BobC, thanks for those commands. That helps.

@skidoo, I successfully edited the slim.theme file. I think you had a typo – one of the commands needs to be “input_panel_y”.

I had set auto login so I had to edit the slim.conf file to turn that off. Once I did that, and rebooted, I was able to see my login entry fields near the upper left of the primary display.

Thanks again for the tips.

Seaken64

[Member seaken64]

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BobC wrote:

This might also help:

dpkg -S slim* | sort

Yep, that was the command I was looking for.

The first one, apt-file, did not work. Command not found.

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